ocschwar

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by ocschwar 10y ago
If they consistently decline to ask those questions to your lawyer, and drop the matter within hours of a foreign country giving you a long term resident worker visa, you're right to be concerned.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> The government demanded that government employees get approval for any direct communications with media, etc. FUCK that. If my tax money is going to pay for your research work, and you want to speak to the public, I'm part of the
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Thank you!! Downloading to get my old stuff.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
And from RISKS 29.46: Incidentally, my testimony in the second session that day is at http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann/judiciary.html , along with my answers to subsequent written questions from Senators Thurmond, Grassle
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by ocschwar 11y ago
It means "unlike with the Clipper Chip, we take no responsibility for finding the miraculous back door that will only work for US law enforcement. YOU do it. YOU face the embarrassment when it turns out to be usable by Vladimir Putin.&
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by ocschwar 11y ago
http://www.loc.gov/law/find/hearings/pdf/00140120273.pdf Find Feinstein's comments. Doesn't look like anything changed.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
These people have access to well informed advice. Doesn't mean they make use of it. Feinstein is just plain stubborn.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Wow. Us geezers need to bring you whippersnappers up to speed about how this went 20 years ago, because it's your turn to fight this battle again. Fetch my geritol before you gear up, sonny.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
yet? She was singing this tune 20 years ago.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
The freedom to drill wells both for fossil fuels and for water is regulated for legitimate reasons, and can sometimes be taken away when new concerns arise. (E.g. fracking fluid mishandling incidents, bad well casings, earthquakes, et ceter
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by ocschwar 11y ago
In this country, you can't do that without a drilling permit, because of several concerns: 1. Soil subsidence. 2. The well casing can break, causing migration of oil, gas, and other pollutants to neighboring wells. 3. You over-pumping
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"At least some of the activism is motivated by fear, when people notice this or that smaller problem, get very scared by warnings of much bigger problems to come, and make the not-completely-rational choice to give up freedom for the p
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Try damn-near impossible. And if you do it for a reason like this you can get deported back to the US with "kick me FBI" tattooed on your forehead
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Show up at City Hall and advocate for improved walkability in your area
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"Hope you don't mind giving up seafood" alarmed.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
We're talking about the need to relocate entire cities at this point. Those bleached corals don't just close shipping lanes near Queensland. They protect islands comprising entire nation states that now have to relocate. In the Pa
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by ocschwar 11y ago
If you want to wallow in ignorance about how and why "the climate constantly changes" and what that means for our civilization, that is your prerogative. But don't expect to be treated with respect. You're making a pitif
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by ocschwar 11y ago
The civil liberties crowd scored a good point in calling the UK's version the "snooper's charter."
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by ocschwar 11y ago
No. That is specifically what it means for parliamentary proceedings in the US. Any discussion that's postponed for another time under Robert's Rules of Order is done so with a "motion to table." (BTW: what's the Br
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by ocschwar 11y ago
OMG. If your equations require concurrency to render, you're either a genius or insane. Or both.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
> Busses are a lot more flexible in terms of routing - normal gasoline busses can be rerouted at will, and the cost of changing routes for electric busses (like the ones in Seattle) are much lower than street cars, where you basically ha
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by ocschwar 11y ago
You think permanent resident visas are easy to acquire ?
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by ocschwar 11y ago
It's a pity the reporter doesn't have enough savvy to give us the details we all want. I mean, it's one thing to find the stuff in Downloads, along with browser history indicating it came from, oh /b/ on such and s
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Same issue. QC says they won't collect on CC charges to a Bitcoin trader. It becomes the Bitcoin site's problem to decide whether to sell BC to QC residents or whether to exclude them. That still leaves all 3 gambling-addicted bit
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by ocschwar 11y ago
As opposed to requiring IP-based blacklists? If a resident of Quebec is in debt, it's the province's duty to collect on it. If the province says they will not collect on debts incurred with online gambling, it becomes the gambling
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Idiotic. All they have to do is block payment processing.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
.. at least it's an ethos.
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by ocschwar 11y ago
"Is anyone cited for public intoxication merely drunk while in public, or are they instead drunk while causing a problem in public? " The legal term is usually drunk AND DISORDERLY. Though for some cops, "I don;t want to have
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by ocschwar 11y ago
Now I can go work for Boston Dynamics and be evil!
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by ocschwar 11y ago
That's still only a civil matter in the US. If I quit a job at Apple over this, Apple might have to sue me for appearances sake, but my GoFundMe account would be quite fattened by the experience.

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