Every person in this country has reason to fear this.
ICE now, all LEO later.
The scariest part in all of the stories that come out is how so many people quit because of ethical reasons. I can't say I blame them - for each it's a personal decision. But in sum, it's a lot of decent workers that are leaving this stuff to the indecent workers to continue.
Flag code isn't enforceable due to SCOTUS in 1989, but I could see that changing.
But I get the point and agree - most mouth breathers don't make that distinction and lose their shit if someone puts the flag upside down or lower than another flag, etc.
but change the colors so it looks like a cliche mirror-universe evil flag, that's fine. apparently.
that Nintendo only does this sort of thing so they have some plausible showing that they offer old games (and now old music) in some form and are insulating themselves from any sort of crying that there's no "legal" way to access this stuff.
Of course, there still isn't a legal way for 90% of it, but it doesn't really matter when it comes to legal threats.
...I would think he already has made sure he has super-god-mode powers of viewing anything he wants.
But maybe he's doing it for his friends so they stop asking him to look it up for them.
how do we fight this sort of thing as consumers?
It's hard to vote with your wallet when the only things for sale are trash.
An irony is that this drive to protect corporate ownership completely undermines the concept of personal ownership (cars and software aren't owned by ME anymore, I lease property from THEM.)
wth are you talking about? From the post:
"The first trademark for Crab Fries was registered in 1998 when Chickie’s & Pete’s expanded to Veterans Stadium. "
I think it's more like, "While I'm not going to go through the process of showing all my steps so you can see this meets the technical definition of ice cream, you can eat it at the end and see if it tastes like ice cream because this is a blog post and not a math book"
Even if she had a "professional" email account, what's to say she would use it regarding anything that was shady/embarrassing/etc?
Sure, it would be better if she had it - you can't always predict what emails are going to look bad later on - but the idea underlying the whole news-freakout on this is that if she had a different email account, nothing shady or insecure would be possible.
Which is just silly.
Also, has anyone asked NSA to fill in the blanks for us?
Good points. In addition: * you can shop at whatever time is convenient to you.
* many many many of the things you buy through Amazon come from small merchants all over the country. Amazon doesn't stock everything themselves
* for my rural self, the convenience of having something shipped to me in 3 or 4 days trumps having to drive 45 min each way to a large store to get a single item in many cases
In short, there are a number of valuable thing, other than pure cost, that lead me to buy many things online.
This is not what a free country feels like
Every person in this country has reason to fear this. ICE now, all LEO later. The scariest part in all of the stories that come out is how so many people quit because of ethical reasons. I can't say I blame them - for each it's a personal decision. But in sum, it's a lot of decent workers that are leaving this stuff to the indecent workers to continue.
Flag code isn't enforceable due to SCOTUS in 1989, but I could see that changing. But I get the point and agree - most mouth breathers don't make that distinction and lose their shit if someone puts the flag upside down or lower than another flag, etc. but change the colors so it looks like a cliche mirror-universe evil flag, that's fine. apparently.
in his defence
it's getting awfully confusing these days figuring out the differences between what the govt can do vs a private business...
Seems clear
that Nintendo only does this sort of thing so they have some plausible showing that they offer old games (and now old music) in some form and are insulating themselves from any sort of crying that there's no "legal" way to access this stuff. Of course, there still isn't a legal way for 90% of it, but it doesn't really matter when it comes to legal threats.
As much as I like the idea of it
...I would think he already has made sure he has super-god-mode powers of viewing anything he wants. But maybe he's doing it for his friends so they stop asking him to look it up for them.
Other than not buying a Mazda
how do we fight this sort of thing as consumers? It's hard to vote with your wallet when the only things for sale are trash. An irony is that this drive to protect corporate ownership completely undermines the concept of personal ownership (cars and software aren't owned by ME anymore, I lease property from THEM.)
if only. I am going to have a nice daydream later where this sort of thing is used on churches
wth are you talking about? From the post: "The first trademark for Crab Fries was registered in 1998 when Chickie’s & Pete’s expanded to Veterans Stadium. "
I think it's more like, "While I'm not going to go through the process of showing all my steps so you can see this meets the technical definition of ice cream, you can eat it at the end and see if it tastes like ice cream because this is a blog post and not a math book"
On the other hand
Even if she had a "professional" email account, what's to say she would use it regarding anything that was shady/embarrassing/etc?
Sure, it would be better if she had it - you can't always predict what emails are going to look bad later on - but the idea underlying the whole news-freakout on this is that if she had a different email account, nothing shady or insecure would be possible.
Which is just silly.
Also, has anyone asked NSA to fill in the blanks for us?
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As a not-too-happy Time Warner customer, I pray I can stay simply not-too-happy.
Next up: MADD is upset about how the name implies it's a beer for those 17 and up.
Re: Re: Efficiency isn't always the most valuable thing in the world
I assume they will send us all free Hypno Toads and we will become the Amazon Army.
Because, Evil. It only makes sense.
Re: Re: Efficiency isn't always the most valuable thing in the world
Good points. In addition:
* you can shop at whatever time is convenient to you.
* many many many of the things you buy through Amazon come from small merchants all over the country. Amazon doesn't stock everything themselves
* for my rural self, the convenience of having something shipped to me in 3 or 4 days trumps having to drive 45 min each way to a large store to get a single item in many cases
In short, there are a number of valuable thing, other than pure cost, that lead me to buy many things online.
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Although it seems like a "gotcha!" sort of thing, government and Law is not beyond working in contradiction. It's one of its defining features.
They'll come up with some ruling somewhere that will tease apart the SCOTUS ruling and manage to do exactly as you say.
Re: An Awkward Question
I think you answered your own question.
The threat of force is not insignificant.
Obviously he's never read Snow Crash...
Re: Re: singular or not
In a perfect world, the onus would still be on the police to get a warrant to connect the private data to the DMV database.
Of course, if anyone believes that would happen without abuse then they aren't paying attention. I get your point.
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Sounds like On Demand with Time Warner Cable right now.
Man that thing sucks. I'd almost rather pirate a show than watch it on that horrible box.
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This.
I still haven't caught up with Justified because I missed 1 episode 2 years ago, and I don't have Amazon Prime.
I know there are other ways of watching it, but there are other shows that I can get on demand or on Netflix without any extra effort.
So... someday. Maybe.