Comment Re:Over to you, SCOTUS (Score 1) 379
"Legal" is not always the same as "legitimate".
"Legal" is not always the same as "legitimate".
So? Crypto will be allowed, but heavily regulated, with only certified users allowed to maintain servers that can be connected to over encrypted protocols. All keys used in such connections will be shared with NSA etc.
There is a big difference between a system of law and a system of justice in criminal matters. The former concentrates on precisely following codified rules and precedent; the latter seeks to convict the guilty, free the innocent, and be extremely reasonable with the accused who are not clearly guilty or not guilty (but who are apparently not innocent). Canadian criminal courts are not where you want to rely upon a technicality if you have committed a crime; this is one of many appeals cases where someone convicted on the totality of evidence failed to get the conviction quashed on a technicality. Very few people in Canada would consider what is known of the case would do anything other than convict and let the conviction stand, and most would be shocked if Fearon were set free because the police were not precisely perfect during a search incident to arrest.
The reason behind American evidence rules are not to "precisely follow the codified rules" for the rules' sake. It has a purely utilitarian purpose - it is supposed to be a powerful deterrent law enforcement from conducting illegal searches in hope that they will produce evidence that can be used to convict, by rendering such evidence useless.
Of course they subcontract the actual BTC processing to someone else. That's not the point. The point is that they deemed the demand sufficient to warrant doing something like that in the first place, and to make a public announcement about it.
Secondly do you find it really good to send human to the meat grinder like the russian did ? Personally I think people like you which think sending millions of people to the meat grinder is a valid tactic disgusts me. It is neither courageous to send people to their death that way, nor is it cowardice to admit defeat when your position cannot be maintained.
Thing is, distasteful as you may find it, it's ultimately what won the war. Were USSR to surrender the same as France did, unwilling to pay that high a price, that would mark the complete dominance of Germany in Europe. Given that USSR is ultimately responsible for 2/3 of total Axis casualties (including Japanese; if you only count Europe, that proportion is even more skewed), you can imagine the likelihood of Allied victory if Soviets were knocked out, and their territory - including natural resources such as oil, as well as heavy industry, all far removed from the front lines - would all become German strategic assets. Even if that was doable - which I find dubious - the cost would've been insane. Just as it was, for the country that ended up bearing it, because it could (being a totalitarian state).
Let's settle at 10-20% of the prewar population, then.
Allowing non-intrusive ads is an option in Adblock Plus, that you can set as you see fit during the initial configuration step (it's all explicitly spelled out). And my understanding is that the money they're asking for that categorization is basically a fee for the service of verifying that the ad is, indeed, "non-intrusive" under their established criteria.
I suggest you actually read the decision in Quirin. That constitution applies doesn't mean that they get all the rights that civilians do.
Ex parte Quirin, stating that military tribunals for POWs are constitutional, implies that constitution does apply. That Geneva also applies is orthogonal to that.
If I were to get a H1B visa, I might want to do the work you currently do for a much lower wage than yours (since I come from an allegedly poor country or something like that).
But you'd also be living in US while working in US, and your cost of living would be the same as for a local worker.
They already pay - there are a bunch of costs associated with filing. Then again, the company that hired me also paid my relocation in full... and trust me, for a family moving across the ocean, that is an expensive proposition - yet they were willing to pay. So no, the count wouldn't be reduced to almost zero. An order of magnitude down would be more likely.
Not all H-1Bs prefer temp work. In fact, every single one I know is either in the process of applying for a green card, or waiting to be eligible.
It's largely the same thing in US. People think about Facebook, Google, Apple, MS etc when they think H1-B, but in reality those account for something like 5% of the quota last I checked - and they actually pay the people they hire really well, and sponsor them for green cards to get them off H1-B as soon as they're eligible. OTOH, the remaining 95% are by "consultancy businesses" like Tata, and these do run sweatshops and pay as little as they can get away with, and use all the sticks that come with the status (threatening to fire if person doesn't work unpaid overtime etc).
Russia may need the income, but their debt is miniscule compared to every single first world country
Their public debt is, yes.
Their private debt is not. This includes several of the major banks, which the govt now has to bail out because they cannot service their outstanding debts in the face of the sanctions.
When Japanese did the same thing to Americans during WW2, the soldiers doing that, and officers issuing orders to do that, were found guilty of war crimes and hanged after the war. Funny, that.
No, it's not allowed. Not by US law, not by half a dozen treaties that US has signed, and not by the international laws and customs of war.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
