It's ethically okay for the party himself to communicate directly with the other party. Only lawyers are precluded from communicating with parties they know to be represented by counsel.
Well, that and law enforcement. But yes, parties may communicate directly with other parties without involving counsel. It is smarter to talk through the lawyers, since anything you say can and will be used by the other party, but you can.
So...you'd need a tourist visa, or similar, to get to the ship that, once there, you cannot leave without risking immediately becoming a criminal, or illegal alien (if the two are distinct)?
Depends, if you travel through the US and get your passport stamped to and from the US, you should be fine. I've landed by plane in another country, then jumped on a boat from one country and off a boat in another country, and then left through the other country by plane and had no problem. You just need to make sure that you get stamped in and out through customs each time.
Of course, I have one country where I didn't stamp out of, and I might have a real problem when I go back there in the future, but it should just require me to explain why I didn't stamp out at customs.
The Nazis had strange definitions for a lot of things. When your existence depends entirely on making up crap to justify your existence, you make up a lot of crap. The sad thing is that they used the religious symbols and religious stories of many religions, including Jewish religious traditions, to justify their existence. I suspect if you look back at the history of religion, you'll find a lot of folks making crap up to justify their existence. FSM excepted, of course.
I would suggest that she likes the free body cavity searches Provided by the TSA, (probably the only attention she gets). So she thought more people would enjoy it too.
She is in Congress. I don't believe she is subject to the free body cavity searches the rest of us get.
Ok...that's still a kind of putting the cart before the horse worst case scenario, but I find it to be pretty compelling. It's a more plausible slippery slope than the one that first popped into my mind.
Overreacting...it is just one of the many services I provide.
Actually, I doubt it will do anything, because most of the TSA folks are just too lazy to actually do anything with it unless Congress mandates it. I suspect they will just send an email out to all the local police stations saying "the information we provide is here, feel free to do what you want with it." It might actually make things easier for the rest of us though, since it will be a lot easier to find a leak of the data to see if you are actually on the no-fly-list because right now, you don't really have any way to do so other than show up at the airport and be denied access to the plane.
And now the cable companies can complain about their customers cutting the cords, and the government will tell everyone they have to buy cable too.
With the "tax" on blank media in Canada we basically do turn over a portion of our paycheque each time we buy a blank CD or DVD or any reason. It doesn't matter what we're going to do with the media all that matters is that the "content industry" gets paid as, apparently, so to (some) artists.
At least we have the stupid "music cds" here, where we can decide if we want to pay the tax or not. I suspect you are right...the industry seems to take every "good" law for itself it introduces in one place and spread it out everywhere. I suspect you're right though...it is coming.
I know...i know...slippery slope and all, but isn't this just talking about local mass transit authorities getting more information from the TSA?
Great, so being on the no-fly list means you cannot ride the bus or train either.
Instead of the TSA telling me directly that I cannot ride the BART, the BART security will just shoot me because I am on the no-fly list. Sounds fair to me.
I look forward to a bright future of more copyright restrictions.
I know this was tongue in cheek, but I wonder what will happen when the actors who feel slated by the industry latch on to this and outlaw the distribution of their movies until they are better paid? How long before the industry secretly tries to change the law like they did with the sunset law on copyright where the author/artist got their copyright back after 35 years? Since the MPAA had their hands in it, I doubt it will be anything like that...probably just another law they can use to beat up technology companies.
Not to derail the conversation, but now that Universal Mandate has been found to be constitutional, how long before the "copyright industry" pushes Congress/President Obama to pass a law which mandates consumers only by their movies on shiny metal discs? Or even better, just turn over a portion of your paycheck each month to the entertainment industry whether or not you consume their services?
Calling Mike Masnick a coward while hiding behind an Anonymous Coward tag shows who the real coward is. Enjoy your self righteous indignation while it lasts.
What is so funny is that these "copyright industries" are trying so hard to remove the anonymous nature of the internet because "people can use the anonymity to file share." If they are successful at removing anonymity, what is going to happen to their anonymous shills? Will they finally be exposed or will there be a get-out-of-jail card for them?
Simple question: what does any of this have to do with getting a warrant? Getting a warrant is not a difficult process.
I don't understand this concern either, as there is already exigent circumstances, but also because the phone doesn't belong to the person who currently possesses it, and therefore has no right to privacy with it. I can call my phone company and tell them that I have a police report for my stolen phone, and they can contact the police department with the current location of the phone without a warrant.
There is no reason, beyond evidence being in plain sight and exigent circumstances, why a warrant should never not be required. And a warrant should be required to obtain location information from a phone as much as it should be required for a police officer to search a phone.
I'd love to see a mapping feature. When I buy something I can see how far I have to drive to pick it up.
It would also be nice to have houses or people you shouldn't do business with mapped out too. Such as the areas with a large number of reported robberies, scams, etc. Seems like the criminals have latched on to craigslist as a great place to go to work their scams, resulting in robberies and quite a few murders.
Not that Craigslist is to blame, these guys used to use the classifieds for the same purpose.
In retrospect, I suppose the whole spending money to support something given away freely has Microsoft's algorithm crying in a corner.
So what you're saying is Microsoft is gambling on people not realizing that the reason they are blocking donate.fsf.org is because they suck at CTF:RTB and hope that nobody will catch them?
I suspect you are right, given their previous actions in the anti-trust front.
Not sure why you jumped on that guy. It could easily happen if there was no video. How is it that you think you would be so all-knowing of what actually happened?
I am not sure why that guy comes in here and has nothing to add other than slamming the "Techdirt community".
Besides, if there was no video, I certainly wouldn't be accusing the woman/school of overreacting by calling the police. I wasn't there, and I don't know what happened. I do know that no matter what happened, unless I knew what happened, I wouldn't be jumping on them for overreacting, thus nullifying his statement that the entire "Techdirt community" would complain about the school overreacting.
And what is the job of a bus monitor, and what rights does she have to tell parents their children are little monsters?
This. I have a relative that is a bus driver for a school district, and they are told that their job is to drive the bus. If anything interferes with that job, they are only to pull the bus over and contact the police department. Anything disciplinary is handled by the school's administration. They merely report the incident to the school and the school takes care of it. I suspect monitors do the same. In this day and age, to do anything else will likely land them, and the school district, in a lawsuit that removes them from their job and the money from their wallets. Thank the lawyers for that.
Just take a similar case here: Kid spits from a school bus, spittle lands on head of driver and daughter, mother says battery charge on kid is wrong. The details have yet to come out, but the story sounds really suspicious from the mother/kid's point, he didn't like gum so he spit it out the window. He had previously said to police, and others had confirmed it, that he was spitting at cars. The mother of the angel says the cops should be out getting the bad guys and leave her kid alone.
Most parents would discipline the hell out of their kids...if I was there, my father would kill me, if my mother didn't first. But in this day-and-age, some parents just want to be friends of their children and will let the kids get away with anything.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure if you use those cards and then use a credit card on the same purchase,
I believe you are right. However, I've only used cash with one of the cards and have had no problems. The other card I have used with my credit cards, and checked at one point, using their computer, to see what information they had on the card, and it didn't show any data. Now whether they still associated it with my credit card in a super sekrit database somewhere, I have no idea. I've never seen any email (associated with my credit card) or phone traffic as a result of the card itself.
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Re: Re: Confusion
Well, that and law enforcement. But yes, parties may communicate directly with other parties without involving counsel. It is smarter to talk through the lawyers, since anything you say can and will be used by the other party, but you can.
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Depends, if you travel through the US and get your passport stamped to and from the US, you should be fine. I've landed by plane in another country, then jumped on a boat from one country and off a boat in another country, and then left through the other country by plane and had no problem. You just need to make sure that you get stamped in and out through customs each time.
Of course, I have one country where I didn't stamp out of, and I might have a real problem when I go back there in the future, but it should just require me to explain why I didn't stamp out at customs.
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Re: Re: Re:
The Nazis had strange definitions for a lot of things. When your existence depends entirely on making up crap to justify your existence, you make up a lot of crap. The sad thing is that they used the religious symbols and religious stories of many religions, including Jewish religious traditions, to justify their existence. I suspect if you look back at the history of religion, you'll find a lot of folks making crap up to justify their existence. FSM excepted, of course.
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She is in Congress. I don't believe she is subject to the free body cavity searches the rest of us get.
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Re: Re: Overreacting?
Well, at least it doesn't give you jiggawatts worth of power. My flux capacitor needs jiggawatts, not gigawatts.
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Re: Re: Re: Overreacting?
Overreacting...it is just one of the many services I provide.
Actually, I doubt it will do anything, because most of the TSA folks are just too lazy to actually do anything with it unless Congress mandates it. I suspect they will just send an email out to all the local police stations saying "the information we provide is here, feel free to do what you want with it." It might actually make things easier for the rest of us though, since it will be a lot easier to find a leak of the data to see if you are actually on the no-fly-list because right now, you don't really have any way to do so other than show up at the airport and be denied access to the plane.
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Re: Re: Some of us already do that
And now the cable companies can complain about their customers cutting the cords, and the government will tell everyone they have to buy cable too.
With the "tax" on blank media in Canada we basically do turn over a portion of our paycheque each time we buy a blank CD or DVD or any reason. It doesn't matter what we're going to do with the media all that matters is that the "content industry" gets paid as, apparently, so to (some) artists.
At least we have the stupid "music cds" here, where we can decide if we want to pay the tax or not. I suspect you are right...the industry seems to take every "good" law for itself it introduces in one place and spread it out everywhere. I suspect you're right though...it is coming.
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Re: Re: Get ready for...
Something tells me it would go something like this:
Dark Helmet: Well done, son. Well done.
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Re: Overreacting?
Great, so being on the no-fly list means you cannot ride the bus or train either.
Instead of the TSA telling me directly that I cannot ride the BART, the BART security will just shoot me because I am on the no-fly list. Sounds fair to me.
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I know this was tongue in cheek, but I wonder what will happen when the actors who feel slated by the industry latch on to this and outlaw the distribution of their movies until they are better paid? How long before the industry secretly tries to change the law like they did with the sunset law on copyright where the author/artist got their copyright back after 35 years? Since the MPAA had their hands in it, I doubt it will be anything like that...probably just another law they can use to beat up technology companies.
Wonder if David Prowse will finally get paid?
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What is so funny is that these "copyright industries" are trying so hard to remove the anonymous nature of the internet because "people can use the anonymity to file share." If they are successful at removing anonymity, what is going to happen to their anonymous shills? Will they finally be exposed or will there be a get-out-of-jail card for them?
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I don't understand this concern either, as there is already exigent circumstances, but also because the phone doesn't belong to the person who currently possesses it, and therefore has no right to privacy with it. I can call my phone company and tell them that I have a police report for my stolen phone, and they can contact the police department with the current location of the phone without a warrant.
There is no reason, beyond evidence being in plain sight and exigent circumstances, why a warrant should never not be required. And a warrant should be required to obtain location information from a phone as much as it should be required for a police officer to search a phone.
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Re: Re: Craigslist
It would also be nice to have houses or people you shouldn't do business with mapped out too. Such as the areas with a large number of reported robberies, scams, etc. Seems like the criminals have latched on to craigslist as a great place to go to work their scams, resulting in robberies and quite a few murders.
Not that Craigslist is to blame, these guys used to use the classifieds for the same purpose.
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Re: Re: Give Them Credit
So what you're saying is Microsoft is gambling on people not realizing that the reason they are blocking donate.fsf.org is because they suck at CTF:RTB and hope that nobody will catch them?
I suspect you are right, given their previous actions in the anti-trust front.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Out of Control
I am not sure why that guy comes in here and has nothing to add other than slamming the "Techdirt community".
Besides, if there was no video, I certainly wouldn't be accusing the woman/school of overreacting by calling the police. I wasn't there, and I don't know what happened. I do know that no matter what happened, unless I knew what happened, I wouldn't be jumping on them for overreacting, thus nullifying his statement that the entire "Techdirt community" would complain about the school overreacting.
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Re: Re: Re: Out of Control
I wouldn't have, thus blowing your whole argument and personal slam of yourself out of the water.
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Re: Re: Out of Control
This. I have a relative that is a bus driver for a school district, and they are told that their job is to drive the bus. If anything interferes with that job, they are only to pull the bus over and contact the police department. Anything disciplinary is handled by the school's administration. They merely report the incident to the school and the school takes care of it. I suspect monitors do the same. In this day and age, to do anything else will likely land them, and the school district, in a lawsuit that removes them from their job and the money from their wallets. Thank the lawyers for that.
Just take a similar case here: Kid spits from a school bus, spittle lands on head of driver and daughter, mother says battery charge on kid is wrong. The details have yet to come out, but the story sounds really suspicious from the mother/kid's point, he didn't like gum so he spit it out the window. He had previously said to police, and others had confirmed it, that he was spitting at cars. The mother of the angel says the cops should be out getting the bad guys and leave her kid alone.
Most parents would discipline the hell out of their kids...if I was there, my father would kill me, if my mother didn't first. But in this day-and-age, some parents just want to be friends of their children and will let the kids get away with anything.
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I believe you are right. However, I've only used cash with one of the cards and have had no problems. The other card I have used with my credit cards, and checked at one point, using their computer, to see what information they had on the card, and it didn't show any data. Now whether they still associated it with my credit card in a super sekrit database somewhere, I have no idea. I've never seen any email (associated with my credit card) or phone traffic as a result of the card itself.
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Re: Definition of stupidity
I thought that was the definition of insanity...though with a twist, "doing something over and over again and expecting different results."
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