If you are a native of any kind, just start yelling that something is sacred, and nobody will be able to fight back against you.
Hate stuff being built near you? Just claim you can't build there because it is sacred ground.
Want something built, like a casino or giant housing development? Just claim the land is sacred and demand it back as 'sovereign' territory... so that you can build your casino.
You get to have it both ways!
Instead, the department would only use the power if it was acting on "some intelligence or observation of abnormal behaviour", she said
And that 'intelligence' or 'observation' will be totally classified (you know, because of national security and stuff), so there will be no way to verify if there was actually a valid reason to break into your iPhone. But don't worry, we won't abuse this new power.
Why? Because you think a guy with millions per year cannot afford a lawyer if he's victim of crooks?
No, because right now there is no financial incentive for cops to go after more expensive cars in the hopes of getting a big payday for their department. You make the fines income based and guess who they will go after the most?
Depending on the amount of fines, people would get good or very very bad surprise
Can you explain what the 'very very bad surprise' would be?
If you thought it was bad how cops were targeting/ticketing poor people, wait until the police realize they can fund their whole budget if they can ticket a guy like Zuckerberg once or twice!
Before a system like this is in place, the financial incentive for cops to ticket people needs to be removed. Any fines need to be given back to the community via some type of property/income/sales tax rebate, rather than back to the city (which in essence goes back to the cops that are handing out the fines). For example, if $1,000,000 in fines were collected for a town with 10,000 property tax assessments, they could knock $100 off of each tax bill.
The same needs to be done with civil asset forfeitures. If there was ever a clearer case of conflict of interest, I haven't seen it.
Swedish prosecutors are arranging to come to London and question Assange within the embassy
Sweden still needs to be granted permission from both the UK and Ecuador.
The phone, motherfuckers, pick it up and CALL HIM WITH YOUR QUESTIONS!!! I am constantly amazed at how people in charge of important things can make simple tasks so convoluted.
... they hadn't given me the shares in the company that they had been promising for the previous 9 years.
NINE YEARS?!?!??! You went without a written contract for your work for nine years? How many years were you going to work like this? Twenty? Thirty?
He wanted to bring attention to the future problems of GPS. Fine. But I think he went about it in the worst way possible:
Grab an ax and start banging it on the side of a satellite.
Yeah, that will work great, because people generally think highly of people wildly swinging an ax around while destroying public property.
With your bare hands?!?