Eating is an effect, not a cause. Much of of the cause is subconscious regulatory systems in the brain, which function like magic to a person consciously trying to eat less.
> People against universal healthcare are just good people who are confused and/or deluded.
The U.S. has universal healthcare. The Affordable Care Act guarantees everybody can sign up for new, better insurance, or keep their old insurance if they want. We know it's good because it was designed with extensive public collaboration and debate. Thank God the folks from Washington, D.C. are here to help.
SSDI is heavily means tested. Almost no one under the age of 55 is eligible. Almost no one with a university degree is covered. Making $750 in any calendar month disqualifies.
> I think we are going to see a major showdown over legality of encryption generally within the next few years with a push for legally required back-doors ...
<boggle> History, people. History. This showdown already happened and the intelligence services lost.
Bro, do you even logic? These comments remind me of those fundamentalist pamphlets with Jesus riding a dinosaur.
The whole premise of network neutrality is that ISPs should be forced to provide the same capacity connection to each peer network. The government should smite them down if the favor any company over another.
That is exactly what Comcast is doing! They are staunchly providing equal treatment to everyone. Netflix is getting the same treatment as Google Play.
And then a mob of idiots marches out to say "But my Netflix is slooooow! Treat Netflix the same harder!" They will pretend to be shocked when nothing happens.
The simple fact is that quality of service costs money. If you want Netflix to be popular and fast, somebody will have to pay to light all those fiber channels and install all those core routers. Passing a law that says nobody can pay will make the Internet into a Soviet store: free nonexistent bread for everybody.
Investigations are about gathering evidence quickly. The trail grows cold very, very fast. Hours, and even minutes, count a lot. By being fast you get inside the other side's decision loop, which is the surest road to victory.
The actions were not a pointless waste of resources. If you see a smoking building, you cann the fire department and they haul ass. If it turns out to be dust from renovations, the call out is not a waste. False alarms are the necessary cost of true alarms.
I will continue to call a spade a spade. If a worthless political shill posts their insane, childish conspiracy theory, they need to be told to take that shit elsewhere in clear terms. Saying that one mistake means everyone everywhere is in grave danger ranks up there with chemtrails and grassy knolls.
The alternative to a flawed law enforcement system is not a good one.
The alternative is rule by violence. We can have rather a lot of corrupt child-enslaving Louisiana judges and still be a thousand times better off than being under the thumb of the local strongman.
And that is exactly the decision we face. If somebody does not stop rapists and bombers, then within days they will be running our lives, like they do in so many "developing" countries.
You need to believe I am trolling because you have childish political theories that if we just try harder we can get perfect justice for all. But the actual world has no stable outside context that organizes and perfects justice. The actual world has to self-organize using flawed tools. In that context, we are immensely fortunate to have secret police who respond to an atrocity by inconveniencing a single person for a few days. Most today do not have such a wonderful justice system, and more than a few hundred years ago no one did.
Indeed. That's why he was also protected by the FBI internal reviews that freed him, the prosecutors who know just how silly a bad fingerprint match will look in court, the compulsory defense lawyer and defense investigation budget, the judge with whom the admissibility of evidence is negotiated before trial, the trial judge, the more or less fairly selected jurors, the observers and free press in the trial courtroom, the appellate.
Please, please, stop wallowing in this idiotic paranoia or persecution fantasy or whatever it is. This guy looked suspicious as hell during a period of raving government paranoia, in a case involving a public safety emergency, and got interviewed for two weeks.
Yes, that is scary and obnoxious for him, but what more do you want? Investigate mad bombers slowly, carefully, like a stolen car case? Invest $500 billion to raise the false positive rate to one in 10 billion?
The article claims they deduced he was an international spy. But the article is a political hatchet job. It is entirely likely that "we put a lot of effort into investigating how he could have traveled" was ninja translated to "we knew he was flying under false papers".
His awareness was not used as evidence of guilt, silly. Not even that idiotic article said that. It was used as evidence that he was a flight risk.
Excellent means that they went from a tiny sliver of evidence to someone who raised pretty much every red flag there is.
And the excellent response was ... investigate harder. They did not drag him into a jail and torture a confession out of him, Japanese style. They did not torture him and his wife for anything they could get, Russian style. They did not disappear his entire family and business partners, Columbian style.
While waiting for the next few hundred people to be blown up, they ... investigated quietly. When the whole thing fell apart, they sent in a team of trained assassins to, well, actually there were no assassins or torture chambers, just a couple weeks in Club Fed as a material wotness. You know, like all the other witnesses locked up for a few days when they are trying to sort out who is the deranged killer and who can be safely released.
> That's not very good, and that's horrifying as that could literally happen to any of us by nothing more than some bad luck.
Try reading my comment again, you fucking dumbass. EVERY DETECTION METHOD HAS A FALSE POSITIVE RATE, AND THE FBI'S FOR COUNTERTERRORISM APPEARS TO BE ABOUT 0.5 PER YEAR.
It could not "literally happen to any of us with a little bad luck". You are several orders of magnitude more likely to be struck by lightning. More people have won $100,000,000 in a lottery than have been held in non-criminal custody by the FBI due to investigation mistakes.
That's an error rate so low it would make jetliner engineers faint with envy. (You are orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by such an engineer than inconvenienced for a few days by the FBI.)
Stop regurgutating that idiotic political spew. Start thinking for yourself or shut the fuck up.
The FBI has no jurisdiction. Courts have jurisdiction.
A single partial fingerprint would have been laughed out of the prosecutor's office. If the prosecutor was idiotic or careless, the judge would have thrown it out. If by some reverse miracle the judge had believed it, the jury, defense lawyer, and expert witnesses would have stopped it.
There are dozens of layers of reviews and protections, not the ignorant "FBI has sole jurisdiction" theory you are spouting.
Honestly, have you never in you life watched a single episode of a police procedural TV show? Even an episode of Cops?
There is also the matter of the DNA that goes along with every fingerprint, which would have definitively exonerated the suspect.
The FBI was simply doing their job: vacuum up as much information as possible and look for patterns. Their only legal obligation to the suspect is to get search warrants before searching and not torture him. Period. Cops incriminate, the rest of the system sorts it out.
You want an investigator that analyzes the value of evidence and lays criminal charges too, you convene a grand jury. But not the FBI, not cops of any kind.
What, exactly, is terrifying? The FBI did an excellent job of making connections between suspicious facts, the sort of connections that should have been made to prevent the 9-11 attacks.
It is absurd to claim that this should not have happened. All detection methods have a false positive rate. Judging by what has shown up in the media, the FBI has a counterterrorism false positive rate of one person every few years. That is a stupendously low rate for such a rare yet politically-charged task.
Let's not forget their other famous false positive terrorism case: the anthrax case. Their needle in a haystack search turned up a false positive, but it also turned up the true positive.
The only terrifying thing here is that they suspected him of being a serial mass murderer, and then proceeded to apply such poor spycraft that a false positive was spooked. There are going to have a hard time catching real baddies being that sloppy.
> What I take from this story is that the financial law is so complex and unapproachable one can not reliably navigate it without landing in jail, even being a seasoned professional.
Because this story was written by a liar and/or idiot.
Option accounting law is simple and clear. Market value – exercise price = loss taken by shareholders. This goes in the quarterly report so the shareholders know how much they spent on employee compensation.
The financial planner "Michelle" was trying to simply not report the cost, to fraudently make the numbers look better. This is one of the oldest frauds in the book. Frankly I am amazed she did not get multiple life sentences for her crimes.
The story author falsely tried to make it look like some sort of terrifying subtlety, an accounting landmine that nearly blew off his leg. It is not. Every responsible accountant would start shitting kittens if confronted with this fraud in their company.
Edit: From other comments, the story was not even about the actual crimes. So the author is not an idiot, but manufacturing a scare story Daily Mail style.
No, and it does not matter who you trust. Analog circuitry simply has too much inbound and outbound information leakage to be trustworthy. You must round it out with a mixing algorithm.