@raphjd said in California decides to MANDATE gender-free toy aisles:
Hey, I admitted that Newsome got 1 thing right. That does not mean he can't be criticized on all the shit he fucks up or is that too complicated for your liberal brain?
Go back and re-read your your idiotic, circuitous rant! You weren't praising him for getting something right, you were attempting to roast him - for doing what you (most probably) would have WANTED him to do!
THAT was the point of my reply! Comrade, your English translator is way too old! Try https://translate.google.com - it will do a better job of translating your native Russian into readable, cogent English (assuming it was readable, cogent Russian to start with!)
I won't take any lectures from YOU of all people about straw men.
"Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn... and most fools do."
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- Andrew Carnegie
"There are 2 ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
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- Kierkegaard
You are the person I am "looking for" because you are a liberal, which is why you defend virtually every liberal thing I mention.
Silly Comrade: you again show your unworthiness with the English Language. When I argue against your lies, I do not argue against your position, only the lies you tell!
When you claim that Biden is an old fool and a pedophile, I am not supporting him when I criticize you for calling him a pedophile... and indeed, I wouldn't even dream of denying that he's an old fool! You really need to work on your education. Your communication skills are for SHIT!
More word games to justify your crack whore stance on not giving a fuck about legal and human rights for people but losing your rag when your BFF Newsome passes a law against a business.
I couldn't tell you 3 things about CA Gov Newome... I can tell you that he vetoed a piece of shit liberal monstrosity of a bill recently - because you told me and I confirmed it! I can tell you he survived a recall election: a big surprise in a state that is 65% Democrat!
OK, I was wrong - I DO know a 3rd thing... he's the Governor of California - and that makes him a Democrat! LOL
You are just fucking clueless about privacy rights in the US and the UK, even before Brexit.
I don't know Comrade - I provided actual references to where privacy rights originated in the EU. I also admitted to not knowing (or caring) about privacy rights in the UK post-brexit (that's YOUR chosen hell-hole, not mine!). And I provided AMPLE examples of how "privacy rights" in the US are fluid - and dangerous thing to make assumptions about!
In the US, you generally have no right to privacy in public. However, according to SCOTUS, you have the right to privacy in a public bathroom and other areas that a reasonable person would expect privacy.
That may be as-of one decision. There is also a US Supreme Court decision that says you have a right to same-sex marriage (because of your privacy rights) and another that says a woman has a right to an abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy (because of her privacy rights)... ALL of those can be overturned on a whim by a zealous Federal Judge or by an alternative interpretation by the full Court - which is now packed with "originalists" - and as I pointed out, those jurists are usually pretty adamant about the founders' position that privacy is NOT a right worthy of Constitutional protections!
But where I have references and documentation, you have... your word and your considerable legal experience... I guess you win...
In places like bathrooms (public or private), there is an expectation of privacy. This includes any type of recording (photo, video, audio).
Many (but not all) STATES have these kinds of laws - and I mentioned that in my posting. But there is no FEDERAL or CONSTITUTIONAL protection of those privacy rights! Indeed, the current conservative court could well go WAY-WAY right-wing on this and find that the Constitution, by way of the founders NOT including it, PROHIBITS the Governmental protection of privacy! It'd be a stretch, but such a ruling could wipe out all of those individual State's privacy laws.
Photos and video recordings allow for less privacy than audio recording, in general.
Again, in the US, it all depends on where you are: Florida vs. Texas vs. California vs. Vermont! All VERY different from each other!
You do not have the right to actively record someone else's phone call that you are not a party to, in the general sense. If you accidentally catch some of it as you're walking by, then that wouldn't violate the SCOTUS ruling.
You wouldn't think so... However, according to US Supreme Court 1928: Olmstead vs United States, you are FLAT WRONG: The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 opinion written by former POTUS WH Taft, found that wiretapped conversations - even those made by the Government - were not protected - not under privacy, not under the 4th Amendment (search & siezure), and not under the 5th Amendment (self-incrimination).
The fact that this ruling was overturned by 1967: Katz vs. United States is just evidence of what I'm saying here: Because it's not in our Constitution - anywhere - our right to privacy is NOT GUARANTEED in the US! There may be laws, or even court cases from time to time, but they can be (and often ARE) overturned and/or reversed!
You have to create your expectation of privacy, in public. Say you are at an internet cafe and you walk away from your laptop and someone walks by and looks at the screen, that's on you. If you close the laptop when you walk away, no one has the right to open it to have a look. This came from a case where a cop left his car-mounted laptop was left open and a passerby looked at it through the window and was arrested. If you ever watch "audit" videos, they mention this SCOTUS ruling.
And I can find you dozens of SCOTUS rulings that state that there IS NO right to privacy... again, Comrade, if you could READ ENGLISH you would realize that I'm not saying we don't have any privacy rights at all! I'm saying that what privacy rights we DO have ARE NOT PROTECTED rights! They can be taken away at any time.
Want an example? Look at the 2001 Patriot Act! Tell me THAT monstrosity didn't violate your privacy! And it overrode ALL State laws designed to protect your privacy!
Likewise with conversations in public. If you are being loud and shouty, you can't expect to not be heard and/or recorded.
If you're in a public place, and the Government has a reason to want to, they can use a recording device from across the street and record every word you say. You are in a public place - and even a privacy rights amendment likely wouldn't "solve" that problem - you're in public!
Everything I said, does not apply to warrants and other legal measures.
Everything you said comes from you watching TV shows... notorious for their deep research into legal quagmires! LOL
I don't pretend to be a lawyer - which is why I'm not saying what privacy rights you have and don't have... indeed, all I'm trying to get across is that in the EU, Russia, and 150 other countries around the world (there are only about 192), there is the equivalent of a Constitutional protection for a right to privacy.
There is no Constitutional protection in the US. Instead, we have an ever-shifting landscape of court opinions and different State laws about privacy.
Do you remember, Comrade, when I pointed out the 3 different classifications of different State laws on private wiretapping? In some of those States, you DO NOT NEED a warrant, and you DO NOT NEED consent! Those States hold that you have no privacy on the phone. Period.
In other states, only 1 party needs to know and consent to being recorded. So, the cops can get your ex to sit with them, agree to be recorded, and then call you and talk about all the robberies you've been doing - and you're screwed! They had her consent, so yours didn't matter.
And in still other states, phone conversations are deemed to be, by default, private conversations. You (whether a person or a government) have to have consent from all persons on the call to record it, or a court order permitting it.
We NEED uniformity, and we NEED a Constitutional right to privacy! Written in the typical Constitutional way: short, sweet, to the point, and open to some degree of interpretation.
