Comment Re:Good news (Score 1) 391
I take it that you think that it is possible to stop government abuse of power with automatic rifles?
Cliven Bundy...
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Comment Re:Lower Receiver? (Score 1) 391
The easy way out of this for the feds is to serialized the barrel.
You're not correct. Not only are you not correct, you don't know enough to understand how this will be skirted.
Let me explain.
This kind of idiotic thing would lead to sympathetic manufacturers making and selling 36-48 inch barrels that people will cut and re-crown at home to make their own unserialized barrels at home.
LK
Comment Re:Fabricating an assualt rifle in California... (Score 1) 391
You don't know enough about this subject to opine intelligently. You are not even close to being correct.
LK
Comment Re:Structured transactions are illegal (Score 3, Informative) 510
It is a lot broader than that. The Houston Chronicle has a decent article summarizing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
Then there is that question about taking more than $10,000 in cash out of the country when traveling.
And, of course, seizures of suspicious amounts of cash when stopped by a law enforcement officer anywhere for anything.
(Suspicious being anything the local LEO decides it is. How fucked up is that?)
Comment Re: Tesla Is Good For All (Score 2) 356
I'm all for that "fancy cat" invention. Bring it on.
Comment Re:Mainly the retailer (Score 2) 90
The problem with that is that if the coupon is good enough, people will take their business elsewhere.
This can only be effective if a critical mass of retailers do it.
LK
Comment God Thing it Was Diptheria (Score 1) 134
Can you imagine if it had been on Small Pox?
Hmmm...we actually cured that in the mean time, so... how would they handle that? Brushing up on the new research could be fairly quick.
A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years 134
Taco Cowboy writes: A story about a 102-year old lady doing her PhD thesis defense is not that common, but when the thesis defense was delayed by a whopping 77 years, that gotta raise some eyebrows. Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport studied diphtheria at the University of Hamburg in Germany and in 1938, the 25-year old Protestant-raised, German-born Ingeborg submitted for her doctorate thesis defense. She was denied her chance for her defense because her mother was of the Jewish ancestry, making her an official "cross-breed". As such the Nazi regime forbid the university from proceeding with her defense, for "racial reasons".
She became one of the thousands of scholars and researchers banished from German academe, which at the time included many of the world's most prestigious research institutions, because of Jewish ancestry or opposition to Nazi policies. Many of them ended up suffering or dying in concentration camps. Rudolf Degkwitz, Syllm's professor, was imprisoned for objecting to euthanizing children. Syllm, however, was able to reach the United States and earned her medical degree from the old Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Eventually she married a fellow physician named Samuel Mitja Rapoport, had a family, and moved back to Germany in the 1950s, where she achieved prominence in neonatology. Syllm-Rapoport, who is now 102 years old, might have remained just a doctor (if a very accomplished one) had not the present dean of the Hamburg medical school, Uwe Koch-Gromus, heard her story from a colleague of her son, Tom Rapoport, a Harvard cell biologist.
Determined to do what he could to mitigate this wrong, Koch-Gromus arranged Syllm-Rapoport's long-delayed defense. Despite failing eyesight, she brushed up on decades of developments in diphtheria research with the help of friends and the Internet. Koch-Gromus called the 45-minute oral exam given by him and two colleagues on 13 May in her Berlin living room "a very good test. Frau Rapoport has gathered notable knowledge about what's happened since then. Particularly given her age, she was brilliant."
She became one of the thousands of scholars and researchers banished from German academe, which at the time included many of the world's most prestigious research institutions, because of Jewish ancestry or opposition to Nazi policies. Many of them ended up suffering or dying in concentration camps. Rudolf Degkwitz, Syllm's professor, was imprisoned for objecting to euthanizing children. Syllm, however, was able to reach the United States and earned her medical degree from the old Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Eventually she married a fellow physician named Samuel Mitja Rapoport, had a family, and moved back to Germany in the 1950s, where she achieved prominence in neonatology. Syllm-Rapoport, who is now 102 years old, might have remained just a doctor (if a very accomplished one) had not the present dean of the Hamburg medical school, Uwe Koch-Gromus, heard her story from a colleague of her son, Tom Rapoport, a Harvard cell biologist.
Determined to do what he could to mitigate this wrong, Koch-Gromus arranged Syllm-Rapoport's long-delayed defense. Despite failing eyesight, she brushed up on decades of developments in diphtheria research with the help of friends and the Internet. Koch-Gromus called the 45-minute oral exam given by him and two colleagues on 13 May in her Berlin living room "a very good test. Frau Rapoport has gathered notable knowledge about what's happened since then. Particularly given her age, she was brilliant."
Comment Retention Period (Score 1) 161
Part of the problem is this:
Q. How long are the videos kept?
A: Current policy is to indefinitely keep video recordings dealing with crimes. The Seattle Police Department is working with Department of Justice monitor Merrick Bobb to finalize policies for the body-worn cameras.
Are they deleting videos that DON'T deal with crimes after a set period? And why in God's name are they kept indefinitely? Anything the DA doesn't elect to prosecute should be deleted fairly quickly. Anything that hints at police misconduct or a criminal charge against an office is kept for the duration of the State Statute of Limitations.
Comment Re: It's not a networking issue. (Score 1) 384
While an interesting solution, it only addresses the network part of the problem.
I think he might be limited by the software doing the updating. If he can't run multiple copies then how will the software understand responses from the pumps? Send one command get 8 responses? That probably won't work.
The whole multiple VMs may be his only hope depending on the client software.
Comment Re:ENOUGH with the politics! (Score 5, Insightful) 1094
Or you're still working your way through school.
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Comment drug delivery? (Score 4, Interesting) 71
A better use would be narcotics delivery service. Place the online order, pay with bitcoin, drone flies over with little packet within 30 minutes and drops it off.
The cheaper drones become, the less people will worry about losing one. Simple ROI calculation.
Comment Re:Affirmative Action (Score 1) 529
Because even if Affirmative Action is their "policy" that doesn't necessarily mean that every implementation is in compliance with the law.
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Comment Re:Common sense prevails! (Score 1) 545
THIS!
I feel the exact same way. I was vaccinated. I had my children vaccinated.
I am completely opposed to the idea that the government can compel anyone to inject their child with anything as a preventative measure.
LK
Comment Re:Not really about lie detectors per se (Score 1) 246
You're about to be refuted by someone who not only despises William Jefferson Clinton but was also paying close attention during the the time of impeachment.
The other thing is that it was not a Material Matter and it was not a criminal case. Having sex or not with Monica Lewinsky had beans to do with whether he forced himself on Jennifer Flowers (her own sister said she was trying to climb that pole for months).
Bill Clinton was deposed in a suit about his having allegedly sexually harassed Paula Jones, not Ginnifer Flowers.
Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act into law, a law that was principally written by Joe Biden(which is a part of why he was chosen to be Obama's VP over Hillary Clinton) that permitted the exploration of a defendant's sexual history during a sexual harassment lawsuit.
Wonderful irony right?
It's certainly materiel if he had engaged in a pattern of seeking oral sex from subordinates when he was accused of requesting oral sex from a subordinate.
He was impeached, but he did not perjure himself.
If that's the case, why did he work out a plea deal to only be denied his license to practice law for 10 years?
He committed perjury. His supporters in the Senate and the broadcast media did their best to make it about his infidelity.
During a civil lawsuit, one had three choices. 1. Tell the truth. 2. Lie. 3. Refuse to answer.
Bill Clinton chose the one of those three options that was illegal. He was rightfully impeached and he was acquitted for political concerns, not for legal ones.
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