Posts by ChrisM 169 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2009
Nice old school troll there, made me reflexively twitch towards the keyboard.
It's an overused word that has lost its original meaning and now is used for disagreement, people with an agenda (whilst also being an asshat) like Holborn all the way to those who send rape threats.
Aaaaaaand rinse and repeat. Usual 'lessons will be learnt' guff.
From the outside it looks like yet another poorly defined project with no KPI's and function creep from the outset. Tie that in with the fact that it looks like Raytheon's lawyers were better than the governments and I am crying on the step next to Frank.
The fact that it gives Keith Vazeline chance to pontificate and sound important is the icing on the turd.
So not a strict liability (happy to be corrected) but the bar seems rather high... if the recipient is not an expert then the defence fails. One of the examples is that the guy deleted the photo but it remained on the camera roll and they didn't realise. Ignorance of the law is no excuse but it seems that ignorance of your phone's OS is
There is a massive difference between maintaining distance with someone who is engine braking as opposed to someone with no brake lights. I followed a van with no brake lights and despite increasing distance markedly in ordinary urban driving I was almost caught out a couple of times as I was having to watch for the van 'nodding'.
It's amazing how much we rely on the cues for action and the horrors that can occur if they are absent.
These things should be a source of amusement about the differences between us denizens of Sol 3 rather than offence... For example I would like to be a fly on the wall when someone tries to 'Bum a fag'!
You have however made me think of bacon and we have none in the house and THAT offends me!
Its tye policy of the vulture central team (Team Vulture?) to follow the spelling/grammar/idom of the journo involved. Therefore we get the differentbspelling from RIk etc from the west coast as opposed to what hapens on the south bank; or in Lesters case we get articles with a straw hat on top after a siesta.
As any fule no butane has an unpressurised boiling point of way below room temperature so all he needed to do was leave it until all the dangerous stuff had naturally gone away in a well ventilated room...
After that you can roll some dry cigarette type tobacco in the oil and it ends up resembling the damper rolling type tobacco...
Apparently...
An Automated Calling System (to use the name preferred by OFCOM) works by taking a list of numbers anmng them in sequence. The assumption you quote above is the pacing algorithm, a known amount of people will not pick up (usually 30%) and along with the average call length this allows the algorithm to 'over dial' for the number of agents. If all goes well there will be, as stated above, no more than a 15 second gap between contacts. If it goes badly you have people on the other end of the phone listening to silence.
In cases where there is a nuisance call created there are things that have to happen, an information message and callback criteria (within 72 hours must guarantee a live operator).
The lists they dial have to be checked against TPS unless you have an existing relationship with the company and you have opted in, the call is service and not marketing or they are pursuing for debt.
Linus knows his faults (he has been up front with them in interviews) so he uses them to get people on side... no problem for me.
Admittedly when he goes off on a rant he can come across as unprofessional but you can't doubt his track record... delivering a stable kernel that runs a large percentage of the world-facing web servers (86% comes to mind but happy to be corrected).
Article one, section eight has two parts which are key to the argument. These are the fact that Congress has a duty to promote the 'general welfare' along with the power to bring bills containing 'necessary and proper' legislation.
That is where the issues come into play with unenumerated powers, the argument from congress is that the legislation promotes general welfare so is lawful under that power.
As for the fourth amendment, it should be rewritten to take into account the changes that have taken place... surely emails and documents on the computer fall under the 'papers' provision, but does your history not also count? And monitoring of metadata, doesn't that sound like a 'writ of assistance' fishing expedition?
The tenth amendment clearly states that all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved to the people or the states, there is however tension between that and the 'necessary and proper' clause which is where the arguments you ate talking about come from (/with the exception of Lincoln's Habeus Corpu which was a wrong decision then and is now)
The constitution as a living document is clear from article five where it sets out the process (and has been used multiple times) as you have said.
You seem to be an adherent of the doctrine of states rights but that meaning is tested once or twice a year I the supreme court and its usually the states who lose.
That being said the supreme court has defined corporations as people for legal purposes, so shouldn't they be paying taxes on income rather than profit like all the rest of the people?
And the bill of rights along with the declaration of independence.
They are beautiful documents showing some of the highest ideals, there are some outliers of poor judgement like the three fifths compromise.
What most people forget is that it was intended to be a living document rather than a fly caught in amber.
If you read the debates during the time of the ratification of this and the bill of rights, you will see that even the most arch-federalist would not recognize the current governental model as true to those high ideals.
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