genwin

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by genwin 13y ago
The point could be private prisons and the lobbying $$$$ they funnel to politicians.
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by genwin 13y ago
You should expect the US to spy on foreign governments, because they'll certainly try, but you should not wish it or support it, because history shows that millions of innocent lives have been made miserable by US spying. If we spied o
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes, if a factory is legally ordered to make a weapon to be used against innocents, of course they should both make it and get paid for that. The law is the law, and it costs money to make the weapon.
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by genwin 13y ago
If it walks like a duck... The NSA's Bluffdale UT facility is obviously built to handle more than a few thousand FISA requests. More like it could handle a quadrillion such "requests".
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by genwin 13y ago
> Why not cut the owners of the patents in on a % of revenues? If you do this, you'll be labelled a sucker and get bombarded by more patent trolls. Unless you're an Apple or Google, your business is sunk then. Most every busine
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by genwin 13y ago
Yes, you lose, but less than you'd lose if you fight it.
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by genwin 13y ago
It's not the dumbest thing you can do when acting on it costs more. They cannot come after your personal assets in the case I described, and the business is not worth much. They are smart enough to not spend more money than they can se
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by genwin 13y ago
Beware, IANAL. Yes, incorporate. Then, if the business isn't worth much and it's just you, ignore any patent trolls. In the unlikely event any take you to court, don't show up or otherwise waste your money on the suit, and if
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by genwin 13y ago
You get to pay out the nose for that treatment too. College is hardly worth it nowadays, and certainly won't be worth it in another decade when it has again doubled in cost in today's dollars.
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by genwin 13y ago
Is there a reason why the groundbreaking crypto-cracking could not be a quantum computer that tries all possible passwords/keys simultaneously? (I'm no expert on this subject.)
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by genwin 13y ago
The same person who ruined the lives of many people who previously believed him when he told them he wouldn't ruin their lives, is now telling us he won't ruin more lives. So I don't think I'm overstating the odds of fur
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by genwin 13y ago
And let's be clear that the attack ruined a lot of people and took parents away from their kids for ten or more years.
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by genwin 13y ago
Seems like the feds are reserving the right to swoop in and put a lot of people in prison for a decade+, perhaps after enough lobbying $$$$ from the privately-run prison companies. Sickening.
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by genwin 13y ago
For #2 I keep the truecrypt file size more like 500MB. Fortunately my projects don't have big files. For old tax returns and the like I have archived truecrypt files that no longer change. #1 is indeed a PITA. I don't know of a be
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by genwin 13y ago
Beyond the online tutorials and e-books, I've found the book Programming in Go (by Mark Summerfield) to be an excellent reference.
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by genwin 13y ago
You could have a restaurant like that if you could get the customers to agree up front to pay whatever you decide to charge after service is rendered, as hospitals do. It would probably work if there were only a few other food sources in th
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by genwin 13y ago
That makes perfect sense, thanks.
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by genwin 13y ago
It's not illegal price fixing or anything like that. The hospital charges $10K for simple procedure, and then the insurance company reduces it (per contract between them and the hospital) to the "reasonable and customary" $20
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by genwin 13y ago
> The official hospital bill is a worst case that roughly nobody actually pays. If someone has no insurance but does have enough assets to cover the lofty bill, I'd expect the hospital to seek to seize assets for the full amount. It
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by genwin 13y ago
Why an FBI background check for residency in Paraguay? Is this Paraguay's version of FBI? Just curious.
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by genwin 13y ago
I'm confident that Google's legal counsel has advised that lying has little risk, when the gov't has made it illegal to tell the truth.
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As prisons overflow, Attorney General Holder calls for new approaches(startribune.com)
4 points by genwin 13y ago|9 comments
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The perils at Great Falls(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by genwin 13y ago|0 comments
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by genwin 13y ago
Well, police get jobs and pensions from the law industry, like marijuana laws. Doctors in the US promote unnecessary procedures. (I was a potential victim of that just last week.) No shenanigans I'm aware of in weather forecasting, tho
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by genwin 13y ago
> Law is complicated and filled with ambiguity because the world is complicated and filled with ambiguity. True, yet I'm convinced by obvious ambiguity that it's on purpose, to feed the legal industry. That conviction is bolste
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by genwin 13y ago
When a the gov't forbids something that seems victimless it's usually for the the benefit of the few, against the general public. Thais should now have more interest in bitcoin like Americans did for gold when that was illegal to
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by genwin 13y ago
It will surely be illegal for the citizens to have their own drones. It will be gov't-only airspace at that altitude. (The people won't object in sufficient numbers either, giving gov't the mandate.) I doubt an Anon could lau
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by genwin 13y ago
I used to live in a city with cops everywhere, where you'd get pulled over for doing 38 mph in a 35 zone. This city is surely intent on using drones to auto-fine all such criminals, making the place even safer by narrowing it to 35.01
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by genwin 13y ago
May be best to focus all boycotting energy on one company, like was done for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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by genwin 13y ago
Hopefully in your thinking there's some limits to what the company would do when asked of it by the gov't. For me it would be anything obviously against the spirit of the Constitution.

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