E4 No More

There use to be a genre of model builders who would build model ships with wooden sides and mount BB guns as if they were the ship's battery. Then they'd float them in a pond and have battles with each side trying to sink the other.

That's because it increases advertising revenue.

When I lived in Lavergne I had a one-story house that was 1,633 SqFt that cost me $175,000 in 2005. When I went to San Francisco in 2007 I took a trolley tour. The tour guide pointed out an apartment that was 1,500 SqFt and bragged that it cost $6,500,000.00! I knew then they were beyond nucking futs!

I went through MCRD San Diego, but we didn't interact with civilians off base so I cannot judge from that. I was stationed at 29 Stumps, and spent time visiting Long Beach & LA. The attitude around those areas were quite prevalent.

And it was even sung about in the movie, Grease.

Ain't that the truth! When I was there in the 80's their attitude was very much against you if you weren't a native Californian. Another area very much like that was Dallas.

I feel ya! I would not have the patience to do all of that hand work.

I can't see a date, but: In 1950 it would be $64.72 In 1955 it would be $64.65 In 1960 it would be $45.94.

Yes, I'm absolutely amazed that this hasn't been challenged all the way to the supreme court by now.

Are you kidding me? It's done all of the time. A lack of secure codes reviews is why there's so many holes for cyber-thieves to use.

They could have broken into it without giving the feds the code. That was just an excuse. You might find this interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law United States[edit] The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves, and there is currently no law regarding key disclosure in the United States.[37] However, the federal case In re Boucher may be influential as case law. In this case, a man's laptop was inspected by customs agents and child pornography was discovered. The device was seized and powered-down, at which point disk encryption technology made the evidence unavailable. The judge held that it was a foregone conclusion that the content exists since it had already been seen by the customs agents, Boucher's encryption password "adds little or nothing to the sum total of the Government's information about the existence and location of files that may contain incriminating information."[38][39] In another case, a district court judge ordered a Colorado woman to decrypt her laptop so prosecutors can use the files against her in a criminal case: "I conclude that the Fifth Amendment is not implicated by requiring production of the unencrypted contents of the Toshiba Satellite M305 laptop computer," Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled on January 23, 2012.[40] In Commonwealth v. Gelfgatt,[41] the court ordered a suspect to decrypt his computer, citing exception to Fifth Amendment can be invoked because "an act of production does not involve testimonial communication where the facts conveyed already are known to the government...".[42] However, in United States v. Doe, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on 24 February 2012 that forcing the decryption of one's laptop violates the Fifth Amendment.[43][44] The Federal Bureau of Investigation may also issue national security letters that require the disclosure of keys for investigative purposes.[45] One company, Lavabit, chose to shut down rather than surrender its master private keys due to the government wanting to spy on Edward Snowden's emails. Since the summer of 2015, cases have been fought between major tech companies such as Apple over the regulation of encryption with government agencies asking for access to private encrypted information for law enforcement purposes. A technical report was written and published by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where Ronald Rivest, an inventor of RSA, and Harold Abelson, a computer science professor at MIT with others, explain the technical difficulties, including security issues that arise from the regulation of encryption or by making a key available to a third party for purposes of decrypting any possible encrypted information. The report lists scenarios and raises questions for policy makers. It also asks for more technical details if the request for regulating encryption is to be pursued further.[46] In 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in a ruling that only controls for that state's law, held that a suspect in a child pornography case could not be compelled to reveal his password, despite telling the police "“We both know what’s on there."[47]

That was under Obama's administration, no? I would think that the feds would have some sort of "Hindering & Interfering" law that they could have enforced. I mean, after all, if lying isn't free speech then surely obstruction follows the same.

Like I said, as long as you vet those 3rd party apps then you're good. Most people aren't that tech savvy.

Well, yeah, they're all about the money like any publicly-traded company. They mostly exist to harvest information from you and sell it to another party. Once my Android Note 8 wears out, I am seriously considering moving to either Apple or Windows. I had an iPhone before and didn't like it because I couldn't hear anything. Big head doesn't use small phones very well.

Also, I forgot to add that you shouldn't download apps from anywhere other than Google Play Store unless you vet them well. Google does some screening of the apps submitted for the store, but 3rd parties do not. A lot of free apps include spyware written by the developer to sell information to another party. The safest phones are Windows and Apple, but they are more restrictive too unless you jailbreak the Apple which defeats security.

1. You have to install another specific app for it to work. 2. If you don't root your Android there isn't much risk.

Well, let's hope this list isn't added to anytime soon.

Sorry to hear that. Kudos that you'd keep a friend that long. When I left high school I wanted to forget everything about it.

That was the SOP for every law enforcement agency that I ever have had experience with including my own department.

Yes, I've seen that before.

Well, as they say, "Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!"

I would say that it's because black on black violence in Chicago is old news, but I can say that I get equally upset when it's children that are killed. Just because I don't start a thread in this forum about it doesn't mean that I don't care.

And if they shoot their car then it's no biggie. Oh, wait!

That would be hotter than hell, but serve the purpose of birth control too.

I couldn't get it past my belly.