I agree to a certain extent, in that laws governing the larger masses of people may be required as they define the role of government administration over those people, but laws that protect rights and define remedies for the violation of those rights need not be any more complex. So all you're saying is that as government grows, so do the laws governing it grow, but the laws the people really need be concerned about - their rights and legal remedies - need not be so complex. There's no reason we need to keep adding thousands of complex new federal and state laws every year instead of refining existing laws to be better and simpler.
Agree - the supreme law of the land (the U.S. Constitution) is only like 4 pages printed. What does it say about something like the tax code that has tens of thousands of pages? Even simple laws and legislation typically requires dozens or hundreds of pages. It's ridiculous.
So that's a good first step - support it and ask for it everywhere instead of justifying the opposition to it because it isn't already happening everywhere. Get past that, and we can move on and support efforts like this everywhere. It's a good thing.
To all the idiots writing about H1-B Visas, they are NON-immigrant Visas; people with H1-B are NOT counted as immigrants. More like non-permanent workers.
The US has over 40 million immigrants - even if you don't count the roughly half that are here illegally, we still have twice as many as the next highest country.
They don't care about the people, it's quite obvious at this point. Our "experiment in democracy" has already lasted longer than predicted; the only way out is to fail and start over again, again with a constitution that tries to limit the power of government which will, over time, be eroded to the same point it is today... it's like living in the matrix.
I notice how people from many of the most homogeneous countries like to point fingers at the U.S. and talk about how racist we are, and how evil the people who want to stop illegal immigration can only be racist, despite the fact that this country takes on more legal immigrants than any other country in the world.... and you don't here people complaining about the legal immigrants.
I agree, and would even suggest people should push for this at local (state) levels without even requiring a U.S. constitutional amendment by having states choose their electors by instant run-off. I suggested this to my state representative and he basically laughed me off.... why would the party in power vote something like that in?
My neighborhood is 40+ years old, and after Comcast came in and upped their max in my area from 25 to 75Mbs, AT&T put in fiber... My house was built in 1970, and, as of last January, I could get 75Mbs from Comcast, of Gb fiber from AT&T. Competition works when there actually is some, I suppose.
The rest of the world plus a lot of the U.S. already.... and for the record, AT&T fiber is available in my neighborhood right now. I don't get it, but I could, and it's only marginally more expensive than the 75Mbs I'm getting from the cable company. If I weren't under contract, I'd be tempted.
I think that's still the point people are making - you don't write a 10k line novel in notepad, you cut and paste things to lose the formatting, or you write 10 line batch files. It's great to have something so simple sometimes.
Agree with the others - nobody suggested using paint for illustration. I work in television graphics and have to do stuff like grab a screen shot, crop it, and send it to clients. Running photoshop or GIMP for that is like running Visual Studio or eclipse to write a 3 line batch file.
Ok, but what do you think this new paint will be like when they add all the features? It'll have big/deep menus and a lot of UI clutter in order to squeeze all the controls in, and it'll take just as long to load as GIMP does. I use paint when I need to do something like take a screenshot and crop it; it's simple and easy. I'm not nay-saying this new paint 3d program, but I imagine it'll be as complex as GIMP. Still not difficult to paste and crop an image, but just as long to load and do what I want as GIMP. It'll be nice to have something on every box by default, though.
Me, too. If I have to do a lot of work on images, or anything remotely complicated, I install something else, but when I need to take a screenshot and crop it, I can be done in paint before GIMP finishes loading. OK, not quite, but yes, for something like that it's simple and fast.
We can get pretty much whatever we want where we work... provided whatever we want runs the software we're required to run. In other words, really not much choice in a lot of cases, and most people with Mac laptops run Windows on them anyway (and thus require just as much support as everyone else).
I understand your position, but unless you have an outstanding warrant, and tried to hide the bag of cards under the seat when the officer came to your vehicle, you probably wouldn't really have a problem, now, would you? There would be no probable cause. Now, if they did want to confiscate them for 72 hours in order to obtain a warrant to scan them, and that was a huge inconvenience to you, then you can grant them permission to do it right away and not have that problem.
I understand the knee jerk reaction to resist police - I like the fourth amendment a lot, and think it's abused at other levels of government, not just by the police, but without getting into that discussion, while I don't like the thought have having to prove your innocence instead of the government proving your guilt, you would have your two options: wait the (possibly) 72 hours for the warrant, or acquiesce to request. At some point you're not proving anything except that you can be belligerent and waste everybody's time and tax payer dollars. If, on the other hand, time wasn't an issue, and you want to make your point, you're free to make them do the legwork. Sorry - sometimes life is inconvenient. You don't like getting hassled by the police, but I'm sure you like when they catch bad people.
The problem here is one of the Chicken and the Egg. How do you know the cards are counterfeit without first searching them? How do you search them without first knowing they are counterfeit?
You search them because it's not only out of the ordinary (which isn't illegal, of course), but ALSO because the passenger had an outstanding warrant. Combine the two, and you clearly have probable cause.
And a lawful gun owner having a single gun in the car vs. a trunk full of weapons are entirely two different things. Amount certainly matters, and amount certainly raises suspicions - and especially when combined with an outstanding warrant = probable cause. It's really quite simple.
Because of probably cause because of an outstanding warrant. Additionally, you can't say it's OK for one or two cards, just not all of them - then it become arbitrary and capricious. There is a disconnect between the letter of the law and the intent of the law, and in this case if there was no probably cause, there should be NO cards scanned. However, there WAS probably cause, so there's really not much to discuss, here.
There's a reason there's a notion of probable cause; if you're talking about you and me (assuming you don't have an outstanding warrant), then you're argument is mine, we agree completely. But this case was not throwing out the fourth amendment - the passenger in the car had a warrant, and the driver handed the bag to the officers instead of saying "no."
There was an outstanding warrant for the passenger, so I think you're mistaken in this case. If they pulled you over (assuming you're not a criminal) and grabbed the bag and started scanning, I'd say you'd have a point.
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I agree to a certain extent, in that laws governing the larger masses of people may be required as they define the role of government administration over those people, but laws that protect rights and define remedies for the violation of those rights need not be any more complex. So all you're saying is that as government grows, so do the laws governing it grow, but the laws the people really need be concerned about - their rights and legal remedies - need not be so complex. There's no reason we need to keep adding thousands of complex new federal and state laws every year instead of refining existing laws to be better and simpler.
Agree - the supreme law of the land (the U.S. Constitution) is only like 4 pages printed. What does it say about something like the tax code that has tens of thousands of pages? Even simple laws and legislation typically requires dozens or hundreds of pages. It's ridiculous.
But the legislation is a good thing. Now get on your democrat representatives in red states to propose the same kind of legislation. It's all good.
So that's a good first step - support it and ask for it everywhere instead of justifying the opposition to it because it isn't already happening everywhere. Get past that, and we can move on and support efforts like this everywhere. It's a good thing.
To all the idiots writing about H1-B Visas, they are NON-immigrant Visas; people with H1-B are NOT counted as immigrants. More like non-permanent workers.
The US has over 40 million immigrants - even if you don't count the roughly half that are here illegally, we still have twice as many as the next highest country.
They don't care about the people, it's quite obvious at this point. Our "experiment in democracy" has already lasted longer than predicted; the only way out is to fail and start over again, again with a constitution that tries to limit the power of government which will, over time, be eroded to the same point it is today... it's like living in the matrix.
I notice how people from many of the most homogeneous countries like to point fingers at the U.S. and talk about how racist we are, and how evil the people who want to stop illegal immigration can only be racist, despite the fact that this country takes on more legal immigrants than any other country in the world.... and you don't here people complaining about the legal immigrants.
I agree, and would even suggest people should push for this at local (state) levels without even requiring a U.S. constitutional amendment by having states choose their electors by instant run-off. I suggested this to my state representative and he basically laughed me off.... why would the party in power vote something like that in?
My neighborhood is 40+ years old, and after Comcast came in and upped their max in my area from 25 to 75Mbs, AT&T put in fiber... My house was built in 1970, and, as of last January, I could get 75Mbs from Comcast, of Gb fiber from AT&T. Competition works when there actually is some, I suppose.
The rest of the world plus a lot of the U.S. already.... and for the record, AT&T fiber is available in my neighborhood right now. I don't get it, but I could, and it's only marginally more expensive than the 75Mbs I'm getting from the cable company. If I weren't under contract, I'd be tempted.
I think that's still the point people are making - you don't write a 10k line novel in notepad, you cut and paste things to lose the formatting, or you write 10 line batch files. It's great to have something so simple sometimes.
Agree with the others - nobody suggested using paint for illustration. I work in television graphics and have to do stuff like grab a screen shot, crop it, and send it to clients. Running photoshop or GIMP for that is like running Visual Studio or eclipse to write a 3 line batch file.
Ok, but what do you think this new paint will be like when they add all the features? It'll have big/deep menus and a lot of UI clutter in order to squeeze all the controls in, and it'll take just as long to load as GIMP does. I use paint when I need to do something like take a screenshot and crop it; it's simple and easy. I'm not nay-saying this new paint 3d program, but I imagine it'll be as complex as GIMP. Still not difficult to paste and crop an image, but just as long to load and do what I want as GIMP. It'll be nice to have something on every box by default, though.
Me, too. If I have to do a lot of work on images, or anything remotely complicated, I install something else, but when I need to take a screenshot and crop it, I can be done in paint before GIMP finishes loading. OK, not quite, but yes, for something like that it's simple and fast.
We can get pretty much whatever we want where we work... provided whatever we want runs the software we're required to run. In other words, really not much choice in a lot of cases, and most people with Mac laptops run Windows on them anyway (and thus require just as much support as everyone else).
... and the court sides with the ignorant. It's always been quite clear to me, and it's not just T-Mobile.
I understand your position, but unless you have an outstanding warrant, and tried to hide the bag of cards under the seat when the officer came to your vehicle, you probably wouldn't really have a problem, now, would you? There would be no probable cause. Now, if they did want to confiscate them for 72 hours in order to obtain a warrant to scan them, and that was a huge inconvenience to you, then you can grant them permission to do it right away and not have that problem.
I understand the knee jerk reaction to resist police - I like the fourth amendment a lot, and think it's abused at other levels of government, not just by the police, but without getting into that discussion, while I don't like the thought have having to prove your innocence instead of the government proving your guilt, you would have your two options: wait the (possibly) 72 hours for the warrant, or acquiesce to request. At some point you're not proving anything except that you can be belligerent and waste everybody's time and tax payer dollars. If, on the other hand, time wasn't an issue, and you want to make your point, you're free to make them do the legwork. Sorry - sometimes life is inconvenient. You don't like getting hassled by the police, but I'm sure you like when they catch bad people.
I am offering an opinion - when combined with an outstanding warrant, there's no uncertainty about it.
The problem here is one of the Chicken and the Egg. How do you know the cards are counterfeit without first searching them? How do you search them without first knowing they are counterfeit?
You search them because it's not only out of the ordinary (which isn't illegal, of course), but ALSO because the passenger had an outstanding warrant. Combine the two, and you clearly have probable cause.
And a lawful gun owner having a single gun in the car vs. a trunk full of weapons are entirely two different things. Amount certainly matters, and amount certainly raises suspicions - and especially when combined with an outstanding warrant = probable cause. It's really quite simple.
Because of probably cause because of an outstanding warrant. Additionally, you can't say it's OK for one or two cards, just not all of them - then it become arbitrary and capricious. There is a disconnect between the letter of the law and the intent of the law, and in this case if there was no probably cause, there should be NO cards scanned. However, there WAS probably cause, so there's really not much to discuss, here.
There's a reason there's a notion of probable cause; if you're talking about you and me (assuming you don't have an outstanding warrant), then you're argument is mine, we agree completely. But this case was not throwing out the fourth amendment - the passenger in the car had a warrant, and the driver handed the bag to the officers instead of saying "no."
No, but maybe people with outstanding warrants do.
There was an outstanding warrant for the passenger, so I think you're mistaken in this case. If they pulled you over (assuming you're not a criminal) and grabbed the bag and started scanning, I'd say you'd have a point.