Comment Re:Fear of guns (Score 1) 535
.30-30 lever action Marlin is a popular choice where I grew up, but a semi-auto or bolt action in
.30-30 lever action Marlin is a popular choice where I grew up, but a semi-auto or bolt action in
Only if Happy Gilmore calls it in.
There are generally three or four *main* strains going around each year, and a bunch of other less common ones. That's why flu shots are way less effective than would be hoped. This year the US is saying about 19% effective because they picked the strains they thought would be the most common threats.
The "we" I speak of is the geek movement in the large. It's obviously not all-inclusive.
Many, many people have been arguing that today's electronic documents are equivalent to paper documents. This is especially true when we're arguing that they should have the same constitutional protections under the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution.
Well, if we ask for the exact same treatment during search and seizure, we shouldn't be surprised when the same requirements for those documents fall on us during an investigation.
Feel free to shred your papers and delete your computer files so long as you're not obliged to keep them. If you're regulated to keep them (Sarbanes Oxley, perhaps, or another law) or if you know you're being investigated and your documents are subject to legal search then destroy them at your own risk.
We've asked, lobbied, and begged for actions taken on a computer or across a network to be taken the same way by law enforcement and the courts as if they were taken offline with non-virtual items. This is a double-edged sword. It's okay to shred paper documents, but not if you're doing so with intent to destroy evidence of a crime. Well, now, they're just treating computer users the same as paper users. We asked. They answered.
Like many jobs that are best done with judgment and experience, a good human CEO will do a better job than a script. An average CEO, though, who just follows simple numbers gamed or made up by middle management? The script is probably a big savings in salary there. A poor CEO could probably be improved upon by software.
That's actually about what it costs to add HBO or Showtime to a cable subscription if you add a "premium channel package" rather than upgrading to X number of channels. That's probably the market they want right now. Why get two or three Showtime channels at $10 a month on top of a cable bill when you can get Showtime on demand without the cable bill?
It should be noted that some cable companies have on-demand options for the channels to which you subscribe.
Also, streaming apps allow you to use your cable subscription information to stream. I've got an HBO Go account at no charge because I'm a Comcast subscriber. So I use that app and cast to my Chromecast rather than actually paying Comcast for HBO because I only care about a couple of their shows.
Thankfully knowing isn't the legal standard. For criminal proceedings it's beyond reasonable doubt.
I'm all for abolishing prolonged segregated housing AKA solitary confinement. Enforced solitude is torture.
" intentionally or unintentionally" is the key here. Intent is a huge matter in criminal proceedings.
This is actually somewhat topical, albeit apparently by chance.
If Silk Road specifically allowed users of its infrastructure to break laws using it, then they are culpable at least as accessories if not as conspirators. Apparently the jury was convinced this fellow was in charge of that, and he's getting punished. I would say "duly punished", but I do think life in prison for what he was convicted of doing is harsh.
You want to know who else is propping up illegal drug cartels? The governments who make it vastly more profitable to sell illegal goods with a high demand than to get those goods legalized and quality controlled.
Shouldn't it be, though?
Are you looking for someone to destroy one tenth of your ass for being and anonymous coward, or do you not understand that etymology and current definition can be not completely the same?
Google "mitigation of damages". You're supposed to stop the violation as soon as it has caused you harm. A party can't wait for greater harm to come to them in hopes of a bigger payout. That's not what the courts are for.
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.