Yeah, and right up until that line the summary was one of the best, informative summaries I've seen here. I suspect they were trying to be cute but it just revealed there complete lack of understanding of what science actually is.
Whoever came up with that title had read 1984
Yep, it does appear that 1984 is the manual they're using. That's what that book was for, right? A manual for the government to use?
the target of wiretaps does not have to be linked to a foreign power or terrorism.
I thought the point of the NSA was that they were meant to protect domestic communications from external threats. If the target is not linked to external threats, how can it be justified?
It doesn't have to be justified. That's the whole point of the Patriot Act and USA Freedom Act. If it were justified, that means they had probable cause and could get a normal warrant and wouldn't need the USA Freedom Act.
It gives the NSA the freedom to violate the constitution and do whatever the fuck they want.
Yes--Tesla has become a giant vaporware producer.
Vaporware? So those Tesla vehicles I see driving down the road aren't actually functional or driving? That's quite an impressive illusion. Just because production is low doesn't mean it's vaporware.
At least it becomes a new bill rather than a reauthorization. The stink that sticks to the yes voters is far worse for passing a new bill rather than just reauthorizing someones elses dirty work.
Like how the stink stuck with those who voted for the original PATRIOT act? Oh wait, no it didn't.
Who do you recommend as an alternative? (And did they, by any chance, support the Patriot act?)
Bernie Sanders, who voted against the PATRIOT act and its reauthorization.
If the parents of the students participating in the game haven't signed a release to have their pictures taken, and someone is taking them, then the school could have major legal issues. At our school, staff and volunteers are banned from taking anything home that has children's names on it like seating charts, absent logs, or even track schedules. It has something to do with the kids being minors.
No, it has nothing to do with the kids being minors, it has to do with FERPA, the law that is the education analog to HIPAA. It protects education information. It does not affect playing sports in a place anyone can see. Similar to how HIPAA protects a doctor disclosing your medical information, but it doesn't protect somebody else seeing your car in the parking lot of the doctor's office, or exercising in a public park even if it's because the doctor advised exercise, or even another patient posting on Facebook that they saw you in the office. Photographs of students participating in athletic events in view of the public is most certainly not FERPA protected information.
Who'd you side with? Your paying customer or some shady business that does nothing for you except cause you work without compensation?
Most companies will side with whoever has the most lawyers, which generally means the shady business.
What other job do you know of where a person can keep getting paid long after they quit the job
-CEO of a large company
-Politician
It needs to be a forumula that is based on miles driven AND weight of the car... unless Oregon actually believes that a Civic and a Big Rig cause the same amount of long term damage to a road.
But they they would either have to charge a semi a lot, or not collect anything from the Civic, in order for it to actually be based on how much road damage the vehicle causes. According to this GAO study: http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/1... a semi causes 9,600 times the road damage of a car. The article says the tax is 1.5 cents per mile. That means if the Civic is getting charged 1.5 cents per mile, then a semi should be charged $144 per mile. Or, if the semi were charged 1.5 cents per mile, then the Civic would be charged
In reality, this "fee" is just a workaround for people whining about raising the gas tax. Just raise the fucking gas tax. If it makes you feel better, call it the "fuel usage fe.e" Either way it's largely a subsidy for truck transportation.
The odometer can't tell when you've left Oregon.
So does this device simply have a flag "these miles were in Oregon" and "these miles were outside Oregon" or does it actually store more specific location data? If this is really the only reason (and not just an "opportunity") then there is no reason to store any data more specific than that, yet I am willing to bet that it does.
Although TFA also says this:
Drivers will be able to install an odometer device without GPS tracking.
So if you want to, you don't have to be tracked but then you'll be charged for any miles driven outside Oregon.
When you drive your car, I don't benefit.
But what if the "you" is the person making your food, or stocking the store that you're buying products from, or an engineer designing those products? That's just as likely as any given semi carrying the specific product you're going to buy. Also, cars cause several orders of magnitude less damage than a semi.
Ok, since you have such a great understanding of economics, please explain to me how it's a good thing that the Walton family has more wealth than 40% of Americans (that's 129 Million Americans) combined, yet pays their full-time workers so little that they can't afford food or a place to live without welfare and foodstamps? How does it help me that my tax dollars have to subsidize Walmart employees (we're not talking about lazy drug addicts, we're talking about hardworking fulltime employees) when the company makes such huge profits? How does it help the economy when those employees can't afford to buy products that other companies manufacture and sell?
Or does it just benefit the 6 Waltons that are on Forbe's list of billionaires?
(While you're at it, also explain why businesses would pay $15/h for a worker who doesn't increase revenue by significantly more than $15 for each hour he works.)
If your business requires paying wages that are so low that your workers can't make a living and to survive are still welfare and foodstamps (that my tax dollars pay for) despite working full time then your business plan is broken.
Or in many cases, the worker does increase the company's revenue by by more than $15 for each hour he/she works but they pay them less and pocket the difference (e.g. Walmart and other big box stores) and by paying lower wages and making other taxpayers make up the difference the owners of the company just get richer. That's why the Walton family has more wealth than 40% of Americans combined (that's 129 MILLION Americans). We're talking about a company whose executives take separate private jets to the same meeting just for fun to see who can get there faster. A company whose chairman (Sam Walton's oldest son) is only in the office a few times a month, and spends the rest of his time taking his private jet from his home in the Colorado mountains to go cycling in France, or hunting geese in Canada, or bio-safaris in South America, yet pays his workers so little that even though they work full time they can't afford rent and food. Are you still going to tell me that company can't afford to pay its workers a wage they can live off of?
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