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Comment What about 2-party states? (Score 1) 420

I live in Illinois, which is a 2-party state when it comes to AUDIO recording. Which means both the recorder AND the recordee must be aware a recording is taking place.

Let's say these cameras have microphones. And since these cameras are placed WITHOUT a warrant, the police get no special protection (ability to wiretap). So would the cops be guilty of wiretapping by recording audio without my consent without a warrant?

Comment The infamous SF86 (Score 4, Informative) 314

If you're going to get a Fed security clearance of any kind, you're going to *start* the process by filling out this form (127 pages, although large parts are skipped for most people):

http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf

Just so you know the kinds of questions they start with. It gets more invasive from there. They generally only care about the last 7 years of your life, however.

Oh, and skip to page 96 if you want to get to the "what drugs have you done?" part.

Comment Re:Slightly (Score 2) 461

http://www.economist.com/blogs/lexington/2010/10/estate_tax_and_founding_fathers

With Thomas Jefferson taking the lead in the Virginia legislature in 1777, every Revolutionary state government abolished the laws of primogeniture and entail that had served to perpetuate the concentration of inherited property.

Jefferson cited Adam Smith, the hero of free market capitalists everywhere, as the source of his conviction that (as Smith wrote, and Jefferson closely echoed in his own words), "A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural."

Smith said: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."

Comment Re:Last sentence (Score 1) 420

Um, you are aware that Apple didn't actually invent the smartphone? They produced a particularly well refined model of smartphone, but the term smartphone itself wasn't even new when the iPhone came out.

How many people have you ever known with a Rio mp3 player? Now how about an iPod?

Ever heard of Charles Duryea? No? But you're heard of Henry Ford? yes?

Apple

Submission + - Steve Jobs Joins House of Wax

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The LA Times reports that Steve Jobs is about to join Barack Obama, Jackie Chan, Nicole Kidman and Mozart at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, the tourist attraction famous for creating hauntingly lifelike sculptures of famous people. The model of Jobs, to be unveiled to mark the first anniversary of Jobs' death, is based on pictures taken of the tech innovator during a 2006 Fortune magazine shoot and shows the Apple Inc. cofounder in a relaxed position, arms crossed loosely over his chest, with a pair of silver-rimmed Lunor glasses perched on his face and wearing a black cotton turtle neck, Levi 501 jeans and New Balance trainers. The company says a team of artists spent three months working on the wax figure, inserting each strand of hair one by one into the wax head using a forked needle, and using fine silk threads to recreate the subtle veining in the whites of his eyes. The figure will remain at the Historical and National Heroes attraction of Madame Tussauds Hong Kong through November 26, before travelling on to Madame Tussauds Bangkok and then Madame Tussauds Shanghai."

Comment Re:Fiber in Québec city (Score 1) 241

Now I have 50/50 Internet (50 Mbps downlink, 50 Mbps uplink with a 250 GB/month cap) for 63$ per month and I'm really enjoying it!

Woah woah woah, 250GB cap with those speeds??

You could use up your entire monthly allotment by maxing out JUST download speeds for 11 hours.

What the hell is the point of speed like that if you can't use it to move lots of data? It's like getting a Ferrari and only being to drive it for 5 hours a month...

Comment Re:So what's the big deal? (Score 1) 836

And, exactly...what is wrong with that? Are we against success these days? Isn't that the American dream...success....as much as you can attain?

Oh, nothing at all, but the post I responded to basically said "they're both wealthy", which I think is a bit of a false equivalence.

It's like saying that New York and Tokyo are both far from Washington DC, for varying values of far.

Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 836

And it brought in less revenue. Capital gains cannot be increased without REDUCING revenue. Every economist recognizes this, but the collectivists keep claiming that it doesn't matter "it's an issue of fairness." Well, life ain't fair, and raising taxes to DECREASE revenue and capital seems pretty asinine.

Yeah, what side of the Laffer Curve are we on again? Thought so...

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