Re: DHS Head Jeh Johnson Recognizes The Privacy/Security Tradeoff, But Seems Unlikely To Make The First Concession
Prisons are run by the inmates, not the putative guards and wardens. They are notoriously porous to contraband such as guns, drugs, cell phones and sex. As well as "home" built weapons like shivs, crossbows and more.
Laws are meant to control the law abiding, not the criminals.
The OMP just shared the files on 21.5 million people with the rest of the world. There is no reason the NYPD shouldn't have access to this information -- otherwise they would just make it up. /s
I never claimed the judge was taking anything in return. Nor did I make any statement with regard to this particular case. Only that gag orders in general are becoming rather excessive. They are being used to hide behavior on the part of the dependent and/or the prosecutor.
The Judicial branch above all others must be transparent. Yet there are apparently secret courts, secret laws, secret trials, secret punishments in secret prisons. Claims of missing docket numbers. These are not acceptable in a free society.
It would seem that gag orders are proliferating far more quickly that rabbits. Indeed, the creators of such orders may be likely to suffer the fate of the brown antechinus -- but without the pleasure.
I don't think that is a concern of the cops. They are more likely to be interested in trying to determine just how much of the loot they can keep for themselves without attracting attention, or the wrath of the DA.
Yes, as a propaganda tactic it is a dilution of rights. When real rights, such as the freedom of speech, are equated to and ethically classed with a "right" to the 'net, the meaning and value of real rights are reduced and diminished.
Speech is a powerful thing. Effacing the symbol erodes reality in the minds of many people.
Our forefathers fought, suffered and died for those rights. But now, much, if not most of the population believes that civil liberties are the bane of society -- until they are personally arrested, beaten or shot by the blue gang.
I don't understand why anyone would carry that kind of cash, but even more so why anyone would have a conversation with a detaining or arresting officer.
The only topic of discussion involved in a traffic stop is the traffic stop. Not where you are going or why. Not what your job is, or how much money you have with your. Nor how much you make.
All of these and more, are cops fishing for a reason to search, seize, and or arrest the person they have stopped. This guy set himself up when he said he had $2K with him. Stupidity may not be a crime on the books, but cops will make it one on the street, and be enforcement, prosecutor and judge all rolled into one.
The more "rights" there are, the less any of them matter. There is a right to the safety of life and limb from one's government. There is a right to the freedom of speech.
There is no right to have a road built in front of one's house. Having a general agreement amongst the populace and elected officials that a road is probably a good idea, is a privilege, not a right. This I discovered through trying to have a road built in front of my driveway as well as that of others.
The NSA does not engage in economic espionage. The NSA does not spy on foreign leaders. The NSA does not spy on Americans. The NSA does not collect mass data. The NSA doesn't ....
He is a Luddite. Terrified of what he can not comprehend.
He is not the problem. A political system which propagandizes one thing, and then creates a power structure to do the opposite is the problem. That along with a populace which doesn't seem to remember promises made and broken from one second to the next.
In the US the media has no legal responsibility to tell the truth, and can lie as they wish -- so says SCOTUS.
There is an ethical imperative for journalists to tell the truth, just as there are many occupations which have critical, though not legal obligations to tell the truth.
Do you really want to live in a world where there is no reasonable ability to depend on the word of others?
I wrote a system that was still running after three decades (ca 1980,) and for all I know may be celebrating its 35th bday. It did everything the enduser wanted, was flexible, and was built to feed SAS (Statistical Analysis System) as well as produce the reports and graphs needed. The last I heard the only difficult was in getting parts and 5 1/4" diskettes.
There were mainframe systems built in the '60s 1999 whose only problem was that they had to undergo Y2K remediation.
The cost of replacing the software just to keep up with the hardware would be incredible, would stall progress where needed, and would stultify programmer analysts. It is far more cost efficient to write emulators so the old software will run.
This is true for a lot of fields as well as computing. My father told me that many locomotive lathes that had been built during the civil war were still running. These things were so big that a man could had to stand in the lathe pan to adjust the machine.
Why replace something that is working well when that capital can be spent on something worth improving. And yes, there are Amiga OS emulators so that even if the hardware can't be directly replaced, an Amiga environment can be substituted to run the old software.
Google (and the net in general) really have little choice before they aew subject to an untold number of foolish laws.
If the French want the right to be forgotten, then the whole country should be forgotten from every search engine. This kind of thing worked with a special tax in Germany, and it will work everywhere else.
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Re: DHS Head Jeh Johnson Recognizes The Privacy/Security Tradeoff, But Seems Unlikely To Make The First Concession
Laws are meant to control the law abiding, not the criminals.
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It already pretty much is. The NYPD has offices all over the world.
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Why not?
On the post: DOJ's Gag Order Request On Reason Was As Ridiculous As You'd Expect
The Judicial branch above all others must be transparent. Yet there are apparently secret courts, secret laws, secret trials, secret punishments in secret prisons. Claims of missing docket numbers. These are not acceptable in a free society.
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Re: Lying thieving cops
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Re: Re: Dilution of rights
Speech is a powerful thing. Effacing the symbol erodes reality in the minds of many people.
Our forefathers fought, suffered and died for those rights. But now, much, if not most of the population believes that civil liberties are the bane of society -- until they are personally arrested, beaten or shot by the blue gang.
On the post: Judge Orders Lying, Cheating Government To Return $167,000 To The Man They Stole It From
The only topic of discussion involved in a traffic stop is the traffic stop. Not where you are going or why. Not what your job is, or how much money you have with your. Nor how much you make.
All of these and more, are cops fishing for a reason to search, seize, and or arrest the person they have stopped. This guy set himself up when he said he had $2K with him. Stupidity may not be a crime on the books, but cops will make it one on the street, and be enforcement, prosecutor and judge all rolled into one.
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Dilution of rights
There is no right to have a road built in front of one's house. Having a general agreement amongst the populace and elected officials that a road is probably a good idea, is a privilege, not a right. This I discovered through trying to have a road built in front of my driveway as well as that of others.
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He is not the problem. A political system which propagandizes one thing, and then creates a power structure to do the opposite is the problem. That along with a populace which doesn't seem to remember promises made and broken from one second to the next.
Note that O'Rielly was appointed by Obama.
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Re: Truth and Duty
There is an ethical imperative for journalists to tell the truth, just as there are many occupations which have critical, though not legal obligations to tell the truth.
Do you really want to live in a world where there is no reasonable ability to depend on the word of others?
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There were mainframe systems built in the '60s 1999 whose only problem was that they had to undergo Y2K remediation.
The cost of replacing the software just to keep up with the hardware would be incredible, would stall progress where needed, and would stultify programmer analysts. It is far more cost efficient to write emulators so the old software will run.
This is true for a lot of fields as well as computing. My father told me that many locomotive lathes that had been built during the civil war were still running. These things were so big that a man could had to stand in the lathe pan to adjust the machine.
Why replace something that is working well when that capital can be spent on something worth improving. And yes, there are Amiga OS emulators so that even if the hardware can't be directly replaced, an Amiga environment can be substituted to run the old software.
On the post: French Privacy Regulator Says Google Should Censor Global Internet Over EU Right To Be Forgotten Requests
If the French want the right to be forgotten, then the whole country should be forgotten from every search engine. This kind of thing worked with a special tax in Germany, and it will work everywhere else.
On the post: City Of Inglewood Allotted $50,000 To Hire A Lawyer Flagrantly Abuse Copyright Law To Try To Silence A Citizen
I suspect that disbarment would be appropriate. But even suspension for a year would be a good lesson.
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