The FBI and the DOJ have already demonstrated that they have no concept of what a lawful warrant is.
The FBI agents are under investigation again for coverup in the shooting deaths of LaVoy Finicum. Finicum may have been a wretch, and his behavior may have been traitorous. But that does not give the FBI the right to possibly have killed an unarmed Finicum, lied about their actions, attempted to coverup what happened, and may have falsely accused Oregon State Police for the killing of Finicum.
I don't have the time to list all the lies, prevarications, perjuries, subterfuges and crimes committed by the FBI and the DOJ. But suffice it to say, the FBI and the DOJ are no box of dots.
I will agree that most things are merely highly improbable, but there are things that are impossible.
Perpetual motion A good half of all starting positions in the Fifteen puzzle are unsolvable. Constructing a triangle from its angle bisectors is in general impossible Creating a machine that would tell for every statement whether it's true or false. Deriving Euclid's fifth postulate from the other four. Doubling a cube Finding the center of a given circle with the straightedge alone An Impossible Frame An Impossible Fork An Impossible Page Impossible to optimize the ratio Area/Price by a combination of two pizzas of different sizes. Moving pegs five places in one direction Representing √2 as a rational fraction p/q. Solving the general quintic equation in radicals. Squaring a circle Structural Constellation Trisecting an angle (in general) Emptying Prisons with Simple Shapes It is impossible to find four consecutive integers whose product is a square.
Feinstein and the rest of the Senators just loved being spied on by the CIA. It made them feel just so important that the CIA would actually break the law to find out what the Senate was thinking about.
Without even considering the issue involved, I have fired people for lying the way that Comey does.
And with consideration given to the Constitution destroying nature of Comey, I can only agree with @ThatOneGuy that silence is assent on an incredibly important issue. The President, and all those under him who speak to the press, have an obligation to make their position known. Failure to do so is rank cowardice.
I don't care if a site locks me out for using the adblocker. Most likely such a site has ads that are repugnant and obnoxious. There are more valuable sites than I can read in a day.
Let them watch their traffic go down, and their revenue per view will follow. This is a market of abundance.
No, I never said cops weren't murderers from the beginning. I said that shooting people in the back, laughing about it, posing for pictures high fiving the corpse would have been unacceptable -- there is a difference. The cops needed to pretend that things were other than they were.
The FBI's forensic labs are so incompetent that nothing that comes out of them has any meaning. Their test results are often contradictory to known physical laws, and/or to the demonstrated evidence at hand.
It would be better if the FBI didn't have so much information. There have been any number of spies in the FBI that have fed data to "allies" and enemies alike. How many are operating there now?
Hansen was an exemplar. He should have been caught dozens of times over, but was let go repeatedly.
What has the FBI done for us lately? Capture our personal phone calls? Lie about what it is doing? Lie about the risks that we face? Hype fear? Entrap morons and imbeciles as terrorists, when they don't know what the word means? Fail to substitute a dummy explosive in the first WTC bombing when it knew what was happening, and had the opportunity? Invent laboratory tests that a 9th grader has the knowledge to shred as unworkable? And ever so much more.
If it was just the Baltimore police, then it would be a solvable problem. But it is a pandemic meme. There was a time when a cop shooting a man in the back, claiming it was an incredible rush, and then posing for pictures high fiving the corpse, would have resulted in a massive outrage. Now it doesn't even make the news cycle. Unfortunately this is not an isolated incident, but rather an exemplar of "cop culture."
That is a very nice ideal. But it has been demonstrated repeatedly not to be effective. And the problems are getting worse, not better.
Fifty years ago there were labor limits on how many wiretaps could be performed, and what information could be extracted from them. Today every electronic communication is swept up illegally. The head of the FBI prevaricates to Congress and SCOTUS, and brags about it. Refuses to answer questions to a Congressional inquirey committee, and gets away with it.
Police shoot people in the back, destroy evidence of same, hide other evidence of same, and nothing happens.
What makes you think that things are going to get better?
This is happy news, but rather useless. Technology moves more rapidly than the law, and the divergence is increasing exponentially.
The only solution is to provide culpability when law enforcement steps over the line. No lawyer in their right mind would believe that an NDA signed with a private company provides a legal basis for committing perjury to a judge.
Some heavy jail time in genpop would do wonders for these problems, but nothing else will.
The financial community either does not care, or is oblivious to cyber crime. The chip tech put being put into use has been broken for at least six years, and possibly ten in other parts of the world. Multiple techniques, from the trivial to the sophisticated are known.
My banks security is a joke, the saving grace is that I am known by face. Every brokerage is a laughingstock that depends upon ignorance rather than safety.
Very few people have a concept of numbers as high as 14. To them the death of 14 in San Bernadino is infinitely more horrible than 14 murders on the streets of any city.
Yet we expect these same people to deal with risks that are on the order of one in a billion or one in a trillion. As a scientist who used to work with incredibly large and small numbers, I can not truly grasp a billion. I will still count pennies by twos and threes like almost everybody else.
I seem to remember a War Game before the Iraq war, in which the commander of the forces playing Iraq won. The military decided his tactics were not "fair" because they were unexpected. And the win was given to the commander of the American forces.
In the '50s, if you didn't understand how TV, radio and the telephone worked, then at least you knew someone who did.
Now knowledge in the sciences has become so vertical that it takes a lifetime to understand what is half way to the hemorrhaging edge. Fifty years ago I did investigatory work in Quantum Mechanics. Today I don't have a clue as to what is going on. Quantum entanglement, quantum computing, qubits, and more?
My dad went to NYU for engineering. One of his chemistry labs was beating flour and water in a cloth sack to demonstrate the formation of gluten. I laughed at this. When my daughter was in 9th grade she was being taught concepts I didn't hit until grad school (minus the math.) An interesting question is just how much can the mind hold?
People fear what they do not understand. The Salem witch trials are repeating. Italian scientists went to jail for "failing" to predict an earthquake. Now tech execs are going to jail. How long before they are dragged into the streets for lynching?
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The FBI agents are under investigation again for coverup in the shooting deaths of LaVoy Finicum. Finicum may have been a wretch, and his behavior may have been traitorous. But that does not give the FBI the right to possibly have killed an unarmed Finicum, lied about their actions, attempted to coverup what happened, and may have falsely accused Oregon State Police for the killing of Finicum.
I don't have the time to list all the lies, prevarications, perjuries, subterfuges and crimes committed by the FBI and the DOJ. But suffice it to say, the FBI and the DOJ are no box of dots.
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Perpetual motion
A good half of all starting positions in the Fifteen puzzle are unsolvable.
Constructing a triangle from its angle bisectors is in general impossible
Creating a machine that would tell for every statement whether it's true or false.
Deriving Euclid's fifth postulate from the other four.
Doubling a cube
Finding the center of a given circle with the straightedge alone
An Impossible Frame
An Impossible Fork
An Impossible Page
Impossible to optimize the ratio Area/Price by a combination of two pizzas of different sizes.
Moving pegs five places in one direction
Representing √2 as a rational fraction p/q.
Solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
Squaring a circle
Structural Constellation
Trisecting an angle (in general)
Emptying Prisons with Simple Shapes
It is impossible to find four consecutive integers whose product is a square.
And ever so many more
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And with consideration given to the Constitution destroying nature of Comey, I can only agree with @ThatOneGuy that silence is assent on an incredibly important issue. The President, and all those under him who speak to the press, have an obligation to make their position known. Failure to do so is rank cowardice.
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I don't care if a site locks me out for using the adblocker. Most likely such a site has ads that are repugnant and obnoxious. There are more valuable sites than I can read in a day.
Let them watch their traffic go down, and their revenue per view will follow. This is a market of abundance.
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True or not
Hansen was an exemplar. He should have been caught dozens of times over, but was let go repeatedly.
What has the FBI done for us lately? Capture our personal phone calls? Lie about what it is doing? Lie about the risks that we face? Hype fear? Entrap morons and imbeciles as terrorists, when they don't know what the word means? Fail to substitute a dummy explosive in the first WTC bombing when it knew what was happening, and had the opportunity? Invent laboratory tests that a 9th grader has the knowledge to shred as unworkable? And ever so much more.
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Fifty years ago there were labor limits on how many wiretaps could be performed, and what information could be extracted from them. Today every electronic communication is swept up illegally. The head of the FBI prevaricates to Congress and SCOTUS, and brags about it. Refuses to answer questions to a Congressional inquirey committee, and gets away with it.
Police shoot people in the back, destroy evidence of same, hide other evidence of same, and nothing happens.
What makes you think that things are going to get better?
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The only solution is to provide culpability when law enforcement steps over the line. No lawyer in their right mind would believe that an NDA signed with a private company provides a legal basis for committing perjury to a judge.
Some heavy jail time in genpop would do wonders for these problems, but nothing else will.
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My banks security is a joke, the saving grace is that I am known by face. Every brokerage is a laughingstock that depends upon ignorance rather than safety.
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Very few people have a concept of numbers as high as 14. To them the death of 14 in San Bernadino is infinitely more horrible than 14 murders on the streets of any city.
Yet we expect these same people to deal with risks that are on the order of one in a billion or one in a trillion. As a scientist who used to work with incredibly large and small numbers, I can not truly grasp a billion. I will still count pennies by twos and threes like almost everybody else.
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I can only assume that the same rules will apply.
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Now knowledge in the sciences has become so vertical that it takes a lifetime to understand what is half way to the hemorrhaging edge. Fifty years ago I did investigatory work in Quantum Mechanics. Today I don't have a clue as to what is going on. Quantum entanglement, quantum computing, qubits, and more?
My dad went to NYU for engineering. One of his chemistry labs was beating flour and water in a cloth sack to demonstrate the formation of gluten. I laughed at this. When my daughter was in 9th grade she was being taught concepts I didn't hit until grad school (minus the math.) An interesting question is just how much can the mind hold?
People fear what they do not understand. The Salem witch trials are repeating. Italian scientists went to jail for "failing" to predict an earthquake. Now tech execs are going to jail. How long before they are dragged into the streets for lynching?
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