The sole reason for them is good photo-ops for the sponsors. Nothing more.
NY sees a flood of these "named laws" on pretty much a yearly basis. NY politicians have gotten better at the game than the above example, though. They take an existing law, copy it word for word, then title it "Somekids Law" and pass it.
Same happens when a cop gets killed, even if it's by their own stupidity - we had one a few years ago with an ever-changing story until they passed a "new" law named after a dead officer that made it... illegal to flee the scene.
First story, the cop tried catching a guy riding a motorcycle with his Tahoe cruiser, missed a turn and rolled it. When it was pointed out that high speed chases were illegal in NY, the claim changed to him chasing a speeding motorcycle at 35 mph. The immediate reaction of the public was to ask if he'd passed the basic driving test.
It went on for months, and then, in the midst of it all, the politicians said "screw it" and passed it anyway, since it had no actual effect on the existing laws it mirrored - just "honored" a cop who died "in the line of duty".
Are you living in a cave? With a Warrant, any law enforcement can get an itemized list of every call to and from any phone number, including the length of the connection.
And the carriers are required to hold such records for years.
Want to know what calls were made to and from your phone on July 3rd, 2013? Request it from your carrier and pay for the hard copy - they've got those records.
The argument is really that he's gaming the patent system.
If I used enough obfuscatory language in a patent application and it landed on the right clerk, I could get a patent for the concept of "chair".
That should obviously be vacated the first time I try to enforce it.
So I don't enforce it. I wait a few years then file for satellite patents based on my existing chair patent to cover chairs with arms, extra wide chairs, backless chairs, etc.
Now I've got a huge array of legal patents I can use to file suit against everyone who makes chairs. Or takes a picture that has a chair in it.
Yes, this should lead to wholesale invalidation of my patent cluster.
But a Court has to decide that, and if I'm charging you ten grand a year (less than a minimum wage worker) to License use, it's at least a hundred times cheaper than taking it to court and fighting it.
So, do you pay the ten grand, or do you think it's worth a million to fight it?
They re-tape them and put a "Damaged in Handling" sticker on the box.
If you want to be SURE they'll open a package, insure it for more than $5,000. I've shipped several with that much or more on them, and not one of them arrived without having been re-sealed. Thankfully, the "inspectors" were having an off day, so they didn't steal any contents. Which also meant I couldn't file a claim for them "damaging" the boxes.
Governments, ANY government, works only so long as the threat of force is believable, and that the force it can bring to bear is greater than that "anyone else" may have.
"In total, there's a $108,000 being forfeited as suspected drug proceeds"
Federal agencies, State Police, dogs, halting FedEX hubs from shipping...
They crow that they grabbed a hundred thousand. But what did the taxpayer PAY for that hundred thousand? Three million? Five?
Can't stand these types of "successes". See it all the time - "after a seven month investigation, thirty thousand dollars of drug money was seized!" NYC Detectives make over a hundred grand a year - and there's usually a minimum of three of them on any such "investigation", along with however many street cops and SWAT they get involved.
That thirty grand paid for about half a day's worth of their combined salaries.
Same story here, just a slightly larger amount "saved"...
Re: Since when did Government Databases become a Sweetie Shop?
The government contracts out this kind of work, and gets the data under that contract.
It's not the government selling the data off, it's the companies the government hired to collect it and build the databases in the first place.
Look at the original obamacare website. Millions of dollars for what was essentially a broken geocities page. Aside from it crashing constantly, I rather doubt it was secure in any sense of the word.
Wouldn't work, because Copyrights can be sold or otherwise transferred.
If my original music video was on youtube for the last ten years and I sold the rights to someone masochistic enough to listen to me sing last month, if/when they posted their copyrighted video including my vid they now own, your range check would bounce it.
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Nah...
...they don't think it's against the law.
What they DO think, correctly is that by paying the what, $35 filing fee for a lawsuit, they'll get a ton of free publicity.
Good thing nobody is playing into their hands by reporting on it...
/s
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You've missed...
...the point of these type of laws.
They're not to protect anyone.
The sole reason for them is good photo-ops for the sponsors. Nothing more.
NY sees a flood of these "named laws" on pretty much a yearly basis. NY politicians have gotten better at the game than the above example, though. They take an existing law, copy it word for word, then title it "Somekids Law" and pass it.
Same happens when a cop gets killed, even if it's by their own stupidity - we had one a few years ago with an ever-changing story until they passed a "new" law named after a dead officer that made it... illegal to flee the scene.
First story, the cop tried catching a guy riding a motorcycle with his Tahoe cruiser, missed a turn and rolled it. When it was pointed out that high speed chases were illegal in NY, the claim changed to him chasing a speeding motorcycle at 35 mph. The immediate reaction of the public was to ask if he'd passed the basic driving test.
It went on for months, and then, in the midst of it all, the politicians said "screw it" and passed it anyway, since it had no actual effect on the existing laws it mirrored - just "honored" a cop who died "in the line of duty".
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Re: Re: Frankly....
Please point me to a dictionary or legal treatise that defines "unlimited" as "5gb per month or less".
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If they're...
Are you living in a cave? With a Warrant, any law enforcement can get an itemized list of every call to and from any phone number, including the length of the connection.
And the carriers are required to hold such records for years.
Want to know what calls were made to and from your phone on July 3rd, 2013? Request it from your carrier and pay for the hard copy - they've got those records.
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Re: Is this real or just bullshit?
Obviously, what he's doing is legal.
The argument is really that he's gaming the patent system.
If I used enough obfuscatory language in a patent application and it landed on the right clerk, I could get a patent for the concept of "chair".
That should obviously be vacated the first time I try to enforce it.
So I don't enforce it. I wait a few years then file for satellite patents based on my existing chair patent to cover chairs with arms, extra wide chairs, backless chairs, etc.
Now I've got a huge array of legal patents I can use to file suit against everyone who makes chairs. Or takes a picture that has a chair in it.
Yes, this should lead to wholesale invalidation of my patent cluster.
But a Court has to decide that, and if I'm charging you ten grand a year (less than a minimum wage worker) to License use, it's at least a hundred times cheaper than taking it to court and fighting it.
So, do you pay the ten grand, or do you think it's worth a million to fight it?
On the post: Federal Agent: Using A Taped Box To Send Stuff Overnight Via FedEx Is Suspicious Behavior
Re:
They re-tape them and put a "Damaged in Handling" sticker on the box.
If you want to be SURE they'll open a package, insure it for more than $5,000. I've shipped several with that much or more on them, and not one of them arrived without having been re-sealed. Thankfully, the "inspectors" were having an off day, so they didn't steal any contents. Which also meant I couldn't file a claim for them "damaging" the boxes.
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Re: You don't get consent with government
Not exactly.
Governments, ANY government, works only so long as the threat of force is believable, and that the force it can bring to bear is greater than that "anyone else" may have.
It's generally referred to as Force Majure.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Sigh. You don't like the Fox network. Got it.
But CNN, formerly known as the Clinton News Network, is no better - they just cater to a different crowd of gullibles.
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Re: Enforcement
Exclude them from the State Right of Way for pole and tunnel access, forcing them to tear it all back down again.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: If they're...
No, I did not. I said "if they're anything like my phone RECORDS..."
Doesn't your cellphone keep a record of calls in, out, and missed?
BTW, your provider, cell or landline, CAN send you itemized call lists. If you're willing to pay for them.
On the post: Federal Agent: Using A Taped Box To Send Stuff Overnight Via FedEx Is Suspicious Behavior
At what...
...cost?
"In total, there's a $108,000 being forfeited as suspected drug proceeds"
Federal agencies, State Police, dogs, halting FedEX hubs from shipping...
They crow that they grabbed a hundred thousand. But what did the taxpayer PAY for that hundred thousand? Three million? Five?
Can't stand these types of "successes". See it all the time - "after a seven month investigation, thirty thousand dollars of drug money was seized!" NYC Detectives make over a hundred grand a year - and there's usually a minimum of three of them on any such "investigation", along with however many street cops and SWAT they get involved.
That thirty grand paid for about half a day's worth of their combined salaries.
Same story here, just a slightly larger amount "saved"...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"even if he accidentally told the truth (unusual for the network he hosts on, but even a stopped clock can be right occasionally)"
Hannity is on CNN?
People believe talking heads who spew what they want to hear. It's not unique to the right side of the aisle.
Believing something because it's on your favorite network doesn't make it true.
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If they're...
...anything like my phone records, it's more a game of find the three calls out of fifty eight pages of scams and telemarketers.
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Re: Since when did Government Databases become a Sweetie Shop?
The government contracts out this kind of work, and gets the data under that contract.
It's not the government selling the data off, it's the companies the government hired to collect it and build the databases in the first place.
Look at the original obamacare website. Millions of dollars for what was essentially a broken geocities page. Aside from it crashing constantly, I rather doubt it was secure in any sense of the word.
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Re:
The problem with "just present my ID" if the facial scanner says you're not you is WHICH ONE takes priority?
I wouldn't be surprised if you pulled out your ID and they arrested you for having a false ID - "the computer says so".
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Re: Re:
REAL computer science people know that January first, 1980 was a Tuesday....
On the post: Emilio Estevez Uses Some Public Domain Footage In Film, So Universal Studios Forces Original Public Domain Footage Offline
Re:
Wouldn't work, because Copyrights can be sold or otherwise transferred.
If my original music video was on youtube for the last ten years and I sold the rights to someone masochistic enough to listen to me sing last month, if/when they posted their copyrighted video including my vid they now own, your range check would bounce it.
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Re: Ownership
Nonsense! An AI could do it. Microsoft and IBM both claim to have AI's, let them handle it.
Oh, wait... they've just hijacked the phrase AI, they don't have actual AI's....
Never mind...
On the post: Watchdog Says Australia's Traffic Enforcement System Has Hits Hundreds Of Drivers With Bogus Fines
Sounds like...
...Australia has hired the company that runs the red light cameras in Chicago we've read about here multiple times.
On the post: Reverse Warrant For Cell Site Location Info Results In Wrong Man Being Jailed
Re:
Same way CCTV footage does.
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