If your work is the Texas House of Representatives, the House sergeant at arms or his designee can actually arrest you and drag you back to work. This is authorized in the Texas Constitution, and in the rules of the House.

This power does not extend beyond the territory of Texas. The US Constitution specifically only allows extradition between states for crimes, which this is definitely not. The FBI enforces federal laws, and it has no authority to enforce the rules of a state legislature.

That number is at the high end of what I usually see for consulting work. The high hourly rate has to cover all of the HR and accounting overhead, invoicing, marketing, business development, and the opportunity cost of short term engagement vs. long term engagements.

But when you do shoot yourself in the foot, it blows your whole leg off.

They add both sugar and acid, what else ya want?

MSG? Oh wait…

I bet their free energy machine even has a secret plug into the wall!

What that actually looked like:

1. Trump’s in the files, but they probably don’t have the stuff from the wildest conspiracy theories. So there’s going to be a let down no matter what.
2. There’s a lot of victims in those files who deserve some protection and privacy. Redactions take a lot of manpower, as we’ve seen with this 1000 agent effort. That manpower could be spent on going after live criminals.
3. Dems in the files too.

One time I did this thing with an internal calibration program where the user had to type floats into a text box. I set it up so that every key stroke was validated so that the string in the box had to parse as a valid number within the assigned range at all intermediate steps.

Everyone hated that.

NCD is leaking again.

As a more concrete example for people out there. C is an example of a “high level” programming language. In C you might write a statement like “int x = 3;”.

“Assembly language” is a “human readable” representation of the instructions that are actually executed by your CPUs*. There is a different assembly language for each processor or processor family. Your desktop or laptop computer with an Intel or AMD chip, and in all likelihood execute the “x86_64” language. Meanwhile, your phone is probably on the “AArch64” language. An example of assembly language is “mov rax, #3”, which loads register rax with the value 3. Notice that we have dispensed with the niceties of variable names.

Assembly language is “assembled” into the “machine language.”. To do this, the “human readable” mnemonics like “mov” are replaced with numbers called opcodes. The sequence of opcodes and arguments, like the number 3, are called the “machine code”, because the CPU silicon can read those numbers from memory and follow the instructions with no additional translation steps*.

*Microcode throws a wrench here. Folks like Intel realized they could run things more efficiently if they translated each machine language instruction into simpler microcode instructions onboard the chip.

As a country, we made a law that the ER has to treat you no matter what regardless of your financial status. That is an ultimate backstop: if people are about to die, as a society we decided that they should not if there is a means to prevent it.

Medicaid is there to allow some people to go to regular doctors to save a couple of bucks vs. the ER. And it also pays for a lot of nursing homes.

I guess what I’m saying here, is the headline is kinda misleading. ICE wants the data, true, so they can find deportation targets. But it’s probably more about inflicting additional cruelty, forcing people to ERs instead of clinics; or cutting funding to health care providers and forcing rural hospitals to close.

I always thought apple pie was a Dutch invention.

He probably wants to read your mail.

At least they didn’t make you do it the original way, with the Bellamy salute:

Doesn’t a Google Pixel device come with its own OS image by default, independent of Graphene OS? Is there some kind of step that we’re missing here?

Clearly not, because $country did all this shit, and capitalism did not collapse, somehow…this time.

Fun fact: the Big Three US American credit unions have a time horizon of seven years. This is set by law. This fucks me, because all my credit accounts are older than that. But the seven year horizon is good for this guy and folks who have declared bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, Nintendo positioned this method to compete with Aladdin, which simply hired Walt Disney animators to do the sprites.

When this country was founded, tariff revenue was enough to fund the entire federal government. Those days are long gone, and they’re not coming back.

Nowadays, there are basically two reasons to play the tariff game. 1. Extract tariff concessions from your trading partners, and 2. Encourage domestic production. The problem is, if you’re going for #1, you have to be willing to drop your tariffs at the drop off a hat to make a deal. If you’re playing #2, the people that build factories and whatnot want assurances that the tariff supports will be in place for years and years.

So you can see that there’s an inherent trade-off between #1 and #2. To some extent, you cannot serve both masters. But Trump has been playing both strategies at the same time without a care in the world. There are… consequences… to doing that, which I am sure we will all get to experience.

Edit: okay, okay. This Bolsonaro thing is a brand new strategy #3 which I’m calling… Oh geez… I gotta go buy some more beer.

Encrypted data channels can still be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Like when you connect to an unknown host with SSH, and the client pops up a big warning.

In this case, ICE or whomever sets up a “valid” cell tower that your phone connects to, and they (law enforcement) route your packets onto the rest of the Internet. They can decrypt the 5G data, and see all of the IP headers. They can’t necessarily read the TLS traffic, such as https. But most important of all, they can log all of the IMEIs that connect, which effectively gives them a database of all of the protestors.