Given your title, I'm guessing that you're a fellow Michigander. If so, I should tell you that our state's unemployment questionnaire asks if you're refusing work due to an unsafe work environment due to COVID-19 and accepts it as a valid reason for unemployment. The state of Ohio doesn't have to be an asshole about this, they just choose to be.
If I remember correctly, you aren't from the US so I'll help out a bit. Here in the US you are eligible for unemployment benefits for any week where you, for reasons outside of your control, aren't being paid. If you get fired (for a non-disciplinary reason), you get unemployment benefits. If you get temporarily laid off, you get unemployment benefits. If your hours are cut to less than full-time, you get benefits for the difference between your actual hours and full-time pay.
However, as most programs here are, this is managed by the states. So, some states, (like my state of Michigan) specifically say that if you feel that your workplace is dangerous due to COVID-19 you can claim unemployment benefits. However other states, like our southern neighbor Ohio, literally set up a tip line for employers to snitch on people who are claiming unemployment because of unsafe conditions.
Before anyone decides to say that this only affects children I'll point out that FINRA is testing methods to perform remote exams and some states are trying the same thing out for insurance licensing exams. Their systems are just as invasive as the ones mentioned here and for those exams, everyone is already an adult.
Do you believe that the situation would be better without any regulation? Regardless of how bad they are at dealing with this, without the fear of the FCC showing up at their doors, I know quite a few people who would be having a field day drowning out everyone's cellular calls with HAM equipment.
OK, while I believe that Thad did a much more thorough job, I'll name one. The US federal government created the interstate freeway system which shortened travel times across the country. We had a transportation problem and the government fixed it.
Radio jamming is illegal in the United States. The building may be designed as a Faraday cage and, if so, would block cellular signals but, active jamming isn't something that a business owner can do.
I think those areas are, as far as COVID-19 is concerned, roughly equally bad. Although, I think that most of the western governments that considered the Herd Immunity plan were ignorant rather than evil (see the UK's turn-around on this once they saw the numbers).
Don't forget that County Sheriff is an elected position. If the Sheriff is corrupt and/or incompetent it's on the citizens of the county to remove them at the next election.
Re: Re: 'Who cares about lives, the rules are the rules!'
It is against federal law to break a quarantine (42 U.S. Code § 271). However, the nation at large isn't under quarantine, we're under self-isolation, social distancing, and/or stay-at-home orders.
A person is placed in quarantine if they either have or are believed to have been exposed to some contagion. The current orders are attempting to keep people from being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) but I don't think that any state has attempted to use their powers to issue an actual quarantine yet.
Google doesn't actually monetize Google News. There simply aren't any ads there at all. Now the snippets that appear in Google Search are clearly monetized (ads appear on the search page) but, that's just a search engine being a search engine. It returns results based on what the user requests.
That's what the French "solution" requires. It requires Google to "not make any changes to how information is displayed pending required negotiations between Google and the publishers".
I think the last part of his comment was saying that "you" (as in all of us Americans) deserve to have Trump as President (assuming that the theory posited earlier in the sentence is true). I don't believe that it was saying that the commenter personally deserved a rapist.
Maybe if we used a voting system other than first past the post, people other than Democrats and Republicans would be elected with greater regularity. Also, some states have passed laws that make a municipal setup like the one your town has illegal.
Let me provide you with an example of my first point, a not insignificant number of Michiganders voted for the Green Party candidate in 2016. Another not insignificant number of voters chose the Libertarian candidate that year. Trump won the state by less than either of those vote totals. Unless the system changes, voting for someone other than D or R will cause your second preferred candidate to lose. Even in my local races, although they're technically non-partisan, everyone knows which party the township clerks are in based on who endorses them and their own endorsements for other elected positions.
In short, you seem to live in a nice area with good broadband and reasonable local governance. Excellent! Not everyone lives in a place with a population density low enough to force everyone to care about each other.
That's actually a good question. I wonder if posting information about Goolnik with links in random places on the internet would get them delisted. I'm tempted to add an unlinked page with that information to a random website I control and wait for Google to crawl it to see what happens.
Unfortunately, no there doesn't. Even if the internet didn't exist, if your brother's arrest or trial was covered in the local newspapers at all, someone would be able to go through the archives and find it.
The amount of information we have access to today requires us to be sensible consumers of information. If I'm looking someone up on Google and I see that they have a drug conviction from twenty years ago, that's not going to be a problem for me because, assuming that they haven't been in trouble since then, I know that they're on the straight and narrow now. It might come up in the interview but, in that case, they just need to have a good answer for the question.
In general, we shouldn't blame the indexers of information for how people may use that information. Don't forget that the EU's "Right to be Forgotten" only targets indexers and not the original articles. In fact, for this reason, it might be a better idea to use google.com rather than Google homepages local to the EU to search for people.
Have you ever tried to aim a shot at a living being's leg? Police officers (and everyone who's taken a CPL class) are trained to aim for the center mass of their target.
This is because the various branches of government are considered co-equal. Nothing that a member of a state legislature or a governor does in the process of executing their duties (short of an abuse of power which would have to be proven separately) can be charged in a court of law. This protection exists so that the executive can't simply have his opposition in the legislature tossed in jail for speaking out against him.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that this guy is retiring at the end of his current term (as mentioned in the article above). Why grandstand like this when you aren't running for re-election?
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Re: Boo, Ohio on general principles, but...
Given your title, I'm guessing that you're a fellow Michigander. If so, I should tell you that our state's unemployment questionnaire asks if you're refusing work due to an unsafe work environment due to COVID-19 and accepts it as a valid reason for unemployment. The state of Ohio doesn't have to be an asshole about this, they just choose to be.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
If I remember correctly, you aren't from the US so I'll help out a bit. Here in the US you are eligible for unemployment benefits for any week where you, for reasons outside of your control, aren't being paid. If you get fired (for a non-disciplinary reason), you get unemployment benefits. If you get temporarily laid off, you get unemployment benefits. If your hours are cut to less than full-time, you get benefits for the difference between your actual hours and full-time pay.
However, as most programs here are, this is managed by the states. So, some states, (like my state of Michigan) specifically say that if you feel that your workplace is dangerous due to COVID-19 you can claim unemployment benefits. However other states, like our southern neighbor Ohio, literally set up a tip line for employers to snitch on people who are claiming unemployment because of unsafe conditions.
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Not Just Kids
Before anyone decides to say that this only affects children I'll point out that FINRA is testing methods to perform remote exams and some states are trying the same thing out for insurance licensing exams. Their systems are just as invasive as the ones mentioned here and for those exams, everyone is already an adult.
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Re: "Feckless regulators"
Do you believe that the situation would be better without any regulation? Regardless of how bad they are at dealing with this, without the fear of the FCC showing up at their doors, I know quite a few people who would be having a field day drowning out everyone's cellular calls with HAM equipment.
On the post: No, Congress Can't Fix The Broken US Broadband Market In A Mad Dash During A Pandemic
Re:
OK, while I believe that Thad did a much more thorough job, I'll name one. The US federal government created the interstate freeway system which shortened travel times across the country. We had a transportation problem and the government fixed it.
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Re:
Radio jamming is illegal in the United States. The building may be designed as a Faraday cage and, if so, would block cellular signals but, active jamming isn't something that a business owner can do.
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Re: Human Rights Records Compared
I think those areas are, as far as COVID-19 is concerned, roughly equally bad. Although, I think that most of the western governments that considered the Herd Immunity plan were ignorant rather than evil (see the UK's turn-around on this once they saw the numbers).
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Re: Re: Scary Devil Monastery
Unfortunately, China is actually good at what it does.
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Re: Re:
Don't forget that County Sheriff is an elected position. If the Sheriff is corrupt and/or incompetent it's on the citizens of the county to remove them at the next election.
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Re: Re: 'Who cares about lives, the rules are the rules!'
It is against federal law to break a quarantine (42 U.S. Code § 271). However, the nation at large isn't under quarantine, we're under self-isolation, social distancing, and/or stay-at-home orders.
A person is placed in quarantine if they either have or are believed to have been exposed to some contagion. The current orders are attempting to keep people from being exposed to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) but I don't think that any state has attempted to use their powers to issue an actual quarantine yet.
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Re: Re:
Google doesn't actually monetize Google News. There simply aren't any ads there at all. Now the snippets that appear in Google Search are clearly monetized (ads appear on the search page) but, that's just a search engine being a search engine. It returns results based on what the user requests.
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Re: Re: Re:
That's what the French "solution" requires. It requires Google to "not make any changes to how information is displayed pending required negotiations between Google and the publishers".
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Losing Meaning
I think the last part of his comment was saying that "you" (as in all of us Americans) deserve to have Trump as President (assuming that the theory posited earlier in the sentence is true). I don't believe that it was saying that the commenter personally deserved a rapist.
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Re: Elected corrupt feckless governments...
Maybe if we used a voting system other than first past the post, people other than Democrats and Republicans would be elected with greater regularity. Also, some states have passed laws that make a municipal setup like the one your town has illegal.
Let me provide you with an example of my first point, a not insignificant number of Michiganders voted for the Green Party candidate in 2016. Another not insignificant number of voters chose the Libertarian candidate that year. Trump won the state by less than either of those vote totals. Unless the system changes, voting for someone other than D or R will cause your second preferred candidate to lose. Even in my local races, although they're technically non-partisan, everyone knows which party the township clerks are in based on who endorses them and their own endorsements for other elected positions.
In short, you seem to live in a nice area with good broadband and reasonable local governance. Excellent! Not everyone lives in a place with a population density low enough to force everyone to care about each other.
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Re: Re: Re:
Many libraries have had to disable their wi-fi since they'd lose access to the special rates they pay by making it available when they're closed.
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Re: The right to abuse GDPR in comments
That's actually a good question. I wonder if posting information about Goolnik with links in random places on the internet would get them delisted. I'm tempted to add an unlinked page with that information to a random website I control and wait for Google to crawl it to see what happens.
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Re: Boundaries of private and public???
Unfortunately, no there doesn't. Even if the internet didn't exist, if your brother's arrest or trial was covered in the local newspapers at all, someone would be able to go through the archives and find it.
The amount of information we have access to today requires us to be sensible consumers of information. If I'm looking someone up on Google and I see that they have a drug conviction from twenty years ago, that's not going to be a problem for me because, assuming that they haven't been in trouble since then, I know that they're on the straight and narrow now. It might come up in the interview but, in that case, they just need to have a good answer for the question.
In general, we shouldn't blame the indexers of information for how people may use that information. Don't forget that the EU's "Right to be Forgotten" only targets indexers and not the original articles. In fact, for this reason, it might be a better idea to use google.com rather than Google homepages local to the EU to search for people.
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Re:
Have you ever tried to aim a shot at a living being's leg? Police officers (and everyone who's taken a CPL class) are trained to aim for the center mass of their target.
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Re: Rulers are unaccountable
This is because the various branches of government are considered co-equal. Nothing that a member of a state legislature or a governor does in the process of executing their duties (short of an abuse of power which would have to be proven separately) can be charged in a court of law. This protection exists so that the executive can't simply have his opposition in the legislature tossed in jail for speaking out against him.
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Re: Re: Re:
The problem with this line of reasoning is that this guy is retiring at the end of his current term (as mentioned in the article above). Why grandstand like this when you aren't running for re-election?
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