From what I can see based on latitude and longitude, a great circle route is only 1.5K miles between the two cities anyway... This means everyone here is using rhumb lines. You know who else uses rhumb lines? Pirates. Oh my god, blue's been right all along!
(20) whether there is intelligence available that suggests that smuggling will occur in the area
Isn't this really kind of a wildcard/catchall that could be used for everything? Wouldn't this let the CBP argue that their presence in an area, by its very nature, means that they believe smuggling will/may occur?
The CBP has studied every Fourth Amendment-related legal decision to compile a long list of things officers can use to predicate a warrantless search.
Gotta admit that LEAs have a pretty tough balancing act to perform here: it must be hard to train agents & officers to know every little legal pretext to perform a search while, at the same time, making sure that they're so ignorant of the law that good-faith exceptions and qualified immunity will always kick in when needed.
If you want to prove to us that you aren't a liar, a troll, and a fraud show us a comprehensive manifesto.
I've always thought of him as the epitome of someone who does have a manifesto -- in the sense of "700 volumes, written in crayon, covering Google mind-control, a comparison of Reynolds Wrap vs. generic aluminum foil, the best sources for buying 70s-era Testors model paint, random grocery lists, and Zdzisław Beksiński/Care Bears fanfic".
Thanks to $1 trillion in tax breaks and government windfalls, we're proud to announce that we've managed to fire everyone. In fact, to meet our target we had to re-hire 10,000 former employees just so that we could double-fire them.
It gets mentioned almost every day now on TD, but I'll mention it again: humor is getting to be either impossible or redundant when it comes to the government. I mean, how the hell is someone supposed to satirize We need to reject more FOIA requests because it costs too much to reject FOIA requests?
The sad thing is that as stupid as the Sri Lankan cops look for arresting people over a little joke, that "Not willing to risk it" group has probably grown larger. Even bad publicity achieves their goal.
I'd attribute a lot of that to the 'How am I supposed to compete with that?!' problem
I'm just waiting for comedy writers and stand-ups to file some sort of class-action tortious interferece lawsuit against the US government. (The funny thing is, I can't even tell if I'm joking about this...)
That assumes that the AC has a native language, which implies a living, breathing human being behind the comment. Given its tone, I'm putting my money on a weirdly clever attempt to pass the Turing test.
The lawsuit suggests that Gura-Eini’s voice is “widely identified and associated” with her own live persona.
If your voice is a vital part of your public identity and primary career, maybe you shouldn't be doing voice acting gigs on the side. (Or does being a voice "artist" sidestep this criticism?)
Those promises have come true: over the years, I've known plenty of people who've managed to score four-day work week jobs. Sure, they usually needed to work at least two at a time, but, you know, details... ;)
Re: Re: Re: Sheriff Greg Bean is a certified weenie
It shifted in the seventies. ... They're SUPPOSED to be out-gunned by the citizenry - they're cops, NOT soldiers.
The seventies also brought us the War on Drugs, which conditioned us to the reclassification of "the citizenry" as "the indigenous population" and "enemy combatants." Presto, cops became soldiers.
At least we learned our lesson and never fell for that sort of overhyped "War on ..." nonsense again.
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Re:
From what I can see based on latitude and longitude, a great circle route is only 1.5K miles between the two cities anyway... This means everyone here is using rhumb lines. You know who else uses rhumb lines? Pirates. Oh my god, blue's been right all along!
On the post: Appeals Court: First Amendment Violation To Ban Members Of The Public From Gov't Officials' Facebook Pages
Re: Not a difficult concept(you'd think)
Keep your personal stuff and business stuff separate unless you want the restrictions from the latter imposed on the former.
Or, when it comes to email, Public Records Act rules governing the latter imposed on the former.
On the post: CBP Will Search You And Your Property If You're Paying Too Much Attention To An Agent. Or Too Little.
Re:
(20) whether there is intelligence available that suggests that smuggling will occur in the area
Isn't this really kind of a wildcard/catchall that could be used for everything? Wouldn't this let the CBP argue that their presence in an area, by its very nature, means that they believe smuggling will/may occur?
On the post: CBP Will Search You And Your Property If You're Paying Too Much Attention To An Agent. Or Too Little.
The CBP has studied every Fourth Amendment-related legal decision to compile a long list of things officers can use to predicate a warrantless search.
Gotta admit that LEAs have a pretty tough balancing act to perform here: it must be hard to train agents & officers to know every little legal pretext to perform a search while, at the same time, making sure that they're so ignorant of the law that good-faith exceptions and qualified immunity will always kick in when needed.
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Re: Re: Re: Either corporations are Trolls
If you want to prove to us that you aren't a liar, a troll, and a fraud show us a comprehensive manifesto.
I've always thought of him as the epitome of someone who does have a manifesto -- in the sense of "700 volumes, written in crayon, covering Google mind-control, a comparison of Reynolds Wrap vs. generic aluminum foil, the best sources for buying 70s-era Testors model paint, random grocery lists, and Zdzisław Beksiński/Care Bears fanfic".
On the post: AT&T's Planning Yet More Layoffs Despite Tens Of Billions In Tax Breaks And Government Favors
Re:
AT&T in 2020:
Thanks to $1 trillion in tax breaks and government windfalls, we're proud to announce that we've managed to fire everyone. In fact, to meet our target we had to re-hire 10,000 former employees just so that we could double-fire them.
On the post: Dept. Of Interior Wants To Rewrite FOIA Law To Make It Easier To Reject Requests
It gets mentioned almost every day now on TD, but I'll mention it again: humor is getting to be either impossible or redundant when it comes to the government. I mean, how the hell is someone supposed to satirize We need to reject more FOIA requests because it costs too much to reject FOIA requests?
On the post: Notoriously Corrupt Sri Lanka Police Force Arrests Citizens For Pretending To Bribe A Cardboard Cutout Cop
Re: Re:
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Re:
On the post: Cable Industry Hypes Phony '10G' When 5G Isn't Even Available Yet
Re: '5/10G: Now you can hit your monthly cap even faster!'
On the post: Techdirt 2018: The Stats.
Re: The Poe Problem
I'd attribute a lot of that to the 'How am I supposed to compete with that?!' problem
I'm just waiting for comedy writers and stand-ups to file some sort of class-action tortious interferece lawsuit against the US government. (The funny thing is, I can't even tell if I'm joking about this...)
On the post: FCC Shuttered, Ajit Pai Forced To Cancel CES Trip Because The US Government Is a Hot Mess
Re: Re: Re: work?
Why does every US department and commission want to become part of the security services?
They don't have to tell us, as it's a matter of national security.
On the post: Copyright, Culture, Sharing, Remix... And A Congresswoman Dancing As A College Student
Re: Re:
I presume you're ESL?
That assumes that the AC has a native language, which implies a living, breathing human being behind the comment. Given its tone, I'm putting my money on a weirdly clever attempt to pass the Turing test.
On the post: Techdirt 2018: The Stats.
Once again, it appears to be much, much, much more difficult to get the "funny" icon, so folks need to pick up their game on that one.
I sure I can manage to be funnier this year... starting, oh, I dunno, around 11:30PM Sunday, February 17.
On the post: The Internet Giant's Dilemma: Preventing Suicide Is Good; Invading People's Private Lives... Not So Much
Re:
... and whoever happens to be the Chief Engineering Officer of the Enterprise
On the post: Siri's Hebrew Voice Sues Apple Because She Doesn't Like The Way IPhone Owners Are Using Siri
The lawsuit suggests that Gura-Eini’s voice is “widely identified and associated” with her own live persona.
If your voice is a vital part of your public identity and primary career, maybe you shouldn't be doing voice acting gigs on the side. (Or does being a voice "artist" sidestep this criticism?)
On the post: AT&T Attempts A Head Fake With 'Fake 5G'
Re: Four-day work week
Those promises have come true: over the years, I've known plenty of people who've managed to score four-day work week jobs. Sure, they usually needed to work at least two at a time, but, you know, details... ;)
On the post: Creators Of Dance Moves Suing Creators Of Fortnite Over Copyright Infringement That Can't Possibly Have Happened
Re: Is it just me or...
If I were Ribiero, I'd be happy to go out on the relatively high note of "that guy who didn't actually endorse Roca Labs".
On the post: County Pays $90,000 Settlement To Man After Seizing $80,000 Judgment From Him Using 24 Deputies And An Armored Vehicle
Re: Re: Re: Sheriff Greg Bean is a certified weenie
It shifted in the seventies. ... They're SUPPOSED to be out-gunned by the citizenry - they're cops, NOT soldiers.
The seventies also brought us the War on Drugs, which conditioned us to the reclassification of "the citizenry" as "the indigenous population" and "enemy combatants." Presto, cops became soldiers.
At least we learned our lesson and never fell for that sort of overhyped "War on ..." nonsense again.
On the post: California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public
Re:
Produce a list of all such requests and approvals made in the last 10 years...
I'm sure their records of routine records destruction were destroyed, as is routine.
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