That would be an even worse argument to make. If they're on American soil and they're being abused then that undermines the entire argument about civil rights in this country. Bear in mind, no where in the Constitution does it say that these people should be excluded. So they have just as much right to Constitutional protections as anyone else.
They arrest people in the US who have been a part of the community for over 25 years without problems. This has lead to 5100 children being sent to foster homes.
When you are arrested and a woman, you have a very high chance of being sexually assaulted. The GAO has only just stepped in to investigate. ICE was intentionally interfering with people reporting these allegations of assault.
Communities are LESS secure from the Secure communities programs. Officials have less help from the Latino community, who have a fear that the police are coming in to arrest them.
People in detention are eating rotten food, leading to less weight gain. Quite frankly, ICE is damn near torturing these people as they wait for a court date. The Secure Communities program is woefully inept at what it's supposed to do.
ICE's mandates are all over the place. First, let's look at immigration
First, ICE has decided to take a few pages out of the IRS '80s hand book and audit then arrest employers. The issue here is if a company allows illegal immigrants or not. Then you have the number of deportations annually for Congress apportionment money. If they get 400,000 people illegally deported, they get more money from Congress. Then you have the massive number of abuses occurring in the detention centers. And they've raided immigrants for years violating constitutional rights. With the massive abuses, it's any surprise that ICE has let up on certain tools that they've abused. Although, I would suggest that there's political motivations behind the deal.
But I for one am not surprised that ICE is a terrible place to work for. It was formed as a merger between U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It has competing and conflicting objectives which force it to be an agency with dual agendas. And that unfortunately came to a head with the recent February shootout which exposes the problem of how competitive this rivalry has gotten. What concerns me all the more is that the field agents are angry about not being able to catch more immigrants. Even though John Morton is saying there needs to be restraint, the agents seem angry at being railed in. It seems that the agents have a perverse incentive to try to prove their lot in the industry and move up out of being a field agent. In a sense, it's the same as crack dealers living with their mothers. They either don't make enough money or they are in a very dangerous situation where actual thinking is banned.
Now, let's get into the domain seizures...
You have a company with low morale...
--where the leader is ineffective...
--where you've turned into a horrid parody of the IRS...
--where your rival might actually be your supervisor...
--where the entire world hates you for doing your job...
--where civil rights seems to be more an afterthought than a first concern...
Is it any wonder that ICE can't figure out how clueless they are about seizures? How violating rights aren't that big of a deal to them? Is it any wonder that officers move on to places like the MPAA who give them lucrative salaries?
ICE is just trying to kid themselves if they believe that they'll fix their problems any time soon.
And they've just "shared" the ill-gotten gains with law enforcement in Texas. The entire system is ripe with abuse in being able to afford such extravagances without any rhyme or reason.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike did a story about Civil Asset Forfeiture to update people on what they've been up to.
The better option might be to focus it all on the FCC. They shouldn't be selling spectrum anyway. They should be making sure the market is competitive and allow everyone to fight it out. If not, we should get rid of them.
What I find disappointing is that the argument for the FCC ignores the reality of radio's history. The innovation came at the cost of disrupting business models. RCA should know that better than anyone with the FM radio. Sadly, that's not going to happen here until the FCC is gone.
I'd love to hear about a follow up to this, focused on the GPS community. Perhaps the notion of actual competition would have caused them to shield their products much better at the frequency they were using.
7 years ago we got a child pornography filter on the Internet in Denmark. Some people said that it was a bad idea, but others said these people were just paedophiles, or trying to help paedophiles. Some people said that it was against our constitution, which it was. So the censorship was implemented in a way so it was formally (but not in reality) voluntary, which ensured that it was not formally a violation of our constitution.
Some people warned that once the censorship infrastructure was in place, it would most likely be used to censor other things. But they were told "Never! This is ONLY to prevent this horrible crime, and will never be used for other censorship."
It started with just infringement. Then they come for your children, stating they'll protect through censorship. Then, they come to take away your property through eminent domain seizures. And the government tries to leave you with nothing to your name. No way to make money, plenty of ways to abuse the system with bad laws and low standards of proving crimes.
It's amazing to me... How the hell did we get here? We have a system actively supporting dying industries over the people it's supposed to protect. And there's very little that can be done until more people can step in the system and tell others to knock it off. It's a frustrating battle, this idea of copyright. The larger battles for privacy, liberty, and justice seem to go unheeded so long as the government seems to think that it can do anything it wants.
And let's take this a bit further. They sued for $16 million, and got $391,000 back. That isn't piracy, that's the RIAA being stupid.
Piracy didn't cause their problems. Their problems were caused when they decided that relying on copyright is better than figuring out that the time of CDs came to an end.
How in hell did you get that no jobs were lost at record labels when I said they caused their own downfall?
They sued people for years, culminating into the massive layoffs in '09.
Stop setting up those strawmen and actually pay attention to what people say. You might gain more respect even if your argument is wrong in its assumptions.
Amen. That's exactly what I was thinking about this.
But just to drive another nail in this "tragedy" issue...
First and foremost, spectrum is immediately returned to be used again. I'm aware that microwaves and wifi used the same spectrum but found a solution to the issue (microwaves went to a higher frequency of 5.8Ghz with a shorter range but more powerful waves) while 2.8 was wifi.
What I would have liked is how the industry found solutions to this, to which we all benefit. We could have better broadband if not for the FCC selling out to AT&T a long time ago. All of the rules are utterly ridiculous from my standpoint. Basically, AT&T doesn't have to share their lines, so they are able to sit on forcing higher prices to people instead of making their own network better.
I believe the same thing happened here. LightSquared could be a great competitor that would have gotten other companies to get them off their butts and innovate.
Now, we have to wait for someone else to challenge the system.
You're saying 60% is incorrect. It isn't in the least. It's actually likely underestimated.
No, what the RIAA was saying with Cary Sherman was that their jobs were at under 10,000. But that's all because it was their own damn fault. Seriously, the RIAA caused all their own problems when they decided to sue all innovators in the music field. While the chart in the link shows sales, it also shows that the RIAA had a massive layoff in 2009. Further, EMI is going bankrupt. Don't you think that's going to cause quite a few jobs to go out of business?
What's interesting is how you fail to see how the music industry has done quite well even though the RIAA is struggling.
What I find amazing about this article is how much everyone feels that the government is in the right here. It's quite telling that so many people feel that the government should tell us how to build a machine instead of allowing companies to figure it out for themselves and improve the commons.
Last I checked, spectrum and radio signals shouldn't be bought in the first place. But we're free to allow the government to allocate spectrum for legacy industries instead of Lightsquared finding new uses and forcing others to make better products.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Focus on morale? Ha!
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When you are arrested and a woman, you have a very high chance of being sexually assaulted. The GAO has only just stepped in to investigate. ICE was intentionally interfering with people reporting these allegations of assault.
Communities are LESS secure from the Secure communities programs. Officials have less help from the Latino community, who have a fear that the police are coming in to arrest them.
People in detention are eating rotten food, leading to less weight gain. Quite frankly, ICE is damn near torturing these people as they wait for a court date. The Secure Communities program is woefully inept at what it's supposed to do.
On the post: ICE Considered One Of The Worst Places To Work In The Federal Government
Focus on morale? Ha!
First, ICE has decided to take a few pages out of the IRS '80s hand book and audit then arrest employers. The issue here is if a company allows illegal immigrants or not. Then you have the number of deportations annually for Congress apportionment money. If they get 400,000 people illegally deported, they get more money from Congress. Then you have the massive number of abuses occurring in the detention centers. And they've raided immigrants for years violating constitutional rights. With the massive abuses, it's any surprise that ICE has let up on certain tools that they've abused. Although, I would suggest that there's political motivations behind the deal.
But I for one am not surprised that ICE is a terrible place to work for. It was formed as a merger between U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It has competing and conflicting objectives which force it to be an agency with dual agendas. And that unfortunately came to a head with the recent February shootout which exposes the problem of how competitive this rivalry has gotten. What concerns me all the more is that the field agents are angry about not being able to catch more immigrants. Even though John Morton is saying there needs to be restraint, the agents seem angry at being railed in. It seems that the agents have a perverse incentive to try to prove their lot in the industry and move up out of being a field agent. In a sense, it's the same as crack dealers living with their mothers. They either don't make enough money or they are in a very dangerous situation where actual thinking is banned.
Now, let's get into the domain seizures...
You have a company with low morale...
--where the leader is ineffective...
--where you've turned into a horrid parody of the IRS...
--where your rival might actually be your supervisor...
--where the entire world hates you for doing your job...
--where civil rights seems to be more an afterthought than a first concern...
Is it any wonder that ICE can't figure out how clueless they are about seizures? How violating rights aren't that big of a deal to them? Is it any wonder that officers move on to places like the MPAA who give them lucrative salaries?
ICE is just trying to kid themselves if they believe that they'll fix their problems any time soon.
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Re: Gone, gone, gone...
So if you want to update the story with this, you're free to do so. And yes, I'm taking snapshots so others can see.
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Police get whatever they want
And they've just "shared" the ill-gotten gains with law enforcement in Texas. The entire system is ripe with abuse in being able to afford such extravagances without any rhyme or reason.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mike did a story about Civil Asset Forfeiture to update people on what they've been up to.
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We do. It's a part of the Citizens United ruling that 501(c)(3) is arguably unconstitutional.
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What I find disappointing is that the argument for the FCC ignores the reality of radio's history. The innovation came at the cost of disrupting business models. RCA should know that better than anyone with the FM radio. Sadly, that's not going to happen here until the FCC is gone.
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Re: mike, seriously....
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Time to bring this back up...
7 years ago we got a child pornography filter on the Internet in Denmark. Some people said that it was a bad idea, but others said these people were just paedophiles, or trying to help paedophiles. Some people said that it was against our constitution, which it was. So the censorship was implemented in a way so it was formally (but not in reality) voluntary, which ensured that it was not formally a violation of our constitution.
Some people warned that once the censorship infrastructure was in place, it would most likely be used to censor other things. But they were told "Never! This is ONLY to prevent this horrible crime, and will never be used for other censorship."
It started with just infringement. Then they come for your children, stating they'll protect through censorship. Then, they come to take away your property through eminent domain seizures. And the government tries to leave you with nothing to your name. No way to make money, plenty of ways to abuse the system with bad laws and low standards of proving crimes.
It's amazing to me... How the hell did we get here? We have a system actively supporting dying industries over the people it's supposed to protect. And there's very little that can be done until more people can step in the system and tell others to knock it off. It's a frustrating battle, this idea of copyright. The larger battles for privacy, liberty, and justice seem to go unheeded so long as the government seems to think that it can do anything it wants.
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Re: digeridiot.
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Piracy didn't cause their problems. Their problems were caused when they decided that relying on copyright is better than figuring out that the time of CDs came to an end.
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How about backing up an argument instead of ad homs?
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They sued people for years, culminating into the massive layoffs in '09.
Stop setting up those strawmen and actually pay attention to what people say. You might gain more respect even if your argument is wrong in its assumptions.
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But just to drive another nail in this "tragedy" issue...
First and foremost, spectrum is immediately returned to be used again. I'm aware that microwaves and wifi used the same spectrum but found a solution to the issue (microwaves went to a higher frequency of 5.8Ghz with a shorter range but more powerful waves) while 2.8 was wifi.
What I would have liked is how the industry found solutions to this, to which we all benefit. We could have better broadband if not for the FCC selling out to AT&T a long time ago. All of the rules are utterly ridiculous from my standpoint. Basically, AT&T doesn't have to share their lines, so they are able to sit on forcing higher prices to people instead of making their own network better.
I believe the same thing happened here. LightSquared could be a great competitor that would have gotten other companies to get them off their butts and innovate.
Now, we have to wait for someone else to challenge the system.
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No, what the RIAA was saying with Cary Sherman was that their jobs were at under 10,000. But that's all because it was their own damn fault. Seriously, the RIAA caused all their own problems when they decided to sue all innovators in the music field. While the chart in the link shows sales, it also shows that the RIAA had a massive layoff in 2009. Further, EMI is going bankrupt. Don't you think that's going to cause quite a few jobs to go out of business?
What's interesting is how you fail to see how the music industry has done quite well even though the RIAA is struggling.
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*sigh*
Last I checked, spectrum and radio signals shouldn't be bought in the first place. But we're free to allow the government to allocate spectrum for legacy industries instead of Lightsquared finding new uses and forcing others to make better products.
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Meanwhile, the fact that they can't give other countries cheap movies to watch equates to theft?
Great logic.
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