Just so we're clear: just because I don't want the government in my safe doesn't mean I'm right-wing. Based on your shitpost, I'm kinda curious where you were on Jan 6th...
BanditMcDougal
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The safe being subject to a search warrant isn't what concerns me.
How/Why the manufacturer of the safe got involved is what concerns me and is the context here we're missing. If they volunteered to open the safe, I have ideological difference from the company and wouldn't trust them with my belongings. If they were issued a warrant/court order to open the safe and complied, now we're in a gray area for me. If it isn't publish they'll comply with warrants and cooperate with court orders, then people didn't get what they thought they were buying.
Without knowing the details of their involvement, we're just speculating and tossing out hypotheticals as to how we feel about it.
There are a couple of issues here.
- Unless there was a warrant issued to the company, they've overstepped. If I buy a product to keep unauthorized people out, I have a reasonable expectation that means everyone.
- In some states, you are liable for the crimes committed with your stolen firearms between the time of being stolen and when they are reported stolen. This is meant to cut down on the false claim something was stolen as well as encouraging people to secure their firearms. If a safe has a backdoor, it becomes a liability in this situation.
- Unless the company had disclosed they had backdoors and would comply with warrants, then they sold a false sense of security.
My guess is they've been advised by lawyers not to share the video. They're probably preparing for defending themselves from a wrongful death suit.
Can't. He was born in South Africa.
(Getting this out of the way first: I'm not a Trump supporter.)
Convicted felons can and have run for President in the past. Some campaigns have even been run from prison. Disqualifying somebody from running for office because of a conviction is extremely easy to weaponize. It's the next step in removing somebody's right to vote because of a conviction (a thing we do/have done and shouldn't).
I agree with you on the age thing, though. If you can vote, you should be able to hold office.
I'm extremely pro-WFH for professions that can. I've been doing it for 10 years and it has only gotten better since others started to experience it and have empathy for what it means to be a remote worker. Just getting that out of the way before chatting more about hidden difficulties of converting buildings to residential use...
I can't speak for European office buildings (your use of "flats" has me assuming you're on the other side of the pond from me), but a large number of US buildings would either have to be 100% gutted back to the main supporting beams OR pulled down and rebuilt. Issue here is a combo of proper placement of utility lines (mostly plumbing) within the building and the added weight residential use brings rather than business use.
Large office leases here have a lot of control over how their floors are laid out, but floor planning normally takes electrical runs into consideration and will leave spaces like kitchens and bathrooms unmoved. Executive offices and other private interior spaces can be created/adjusted by making interior walls and tying into electrical connections already in a floor or drop ceiling.
Plumbing is a whole other monster and takes a lot more work. Not an insurmountable consideration, just harder.
The weight of residential living is one I hadn't considered until someone pointed it out to me. In addition to all the additional plumbing needed (whose pipes add tonnage by the time you've converted a building), you also have to consider water within those pipes, and if a lot of people run their kid's evening bath around 7 PM, that's even more tonnage, normally all in a similar vertical line because of repeated floor plans. A lot of corporate buildings here, esp older ones, just weren't engineered for that and a lot would need significant remediation to support it.
I have way less to say about the super cancers... We did use a LOT of asbestos as we built up urban areas, though.
Gdi... That means the Han Solo basic bitches are coming soon, too...
I'm shocked how that portion of the article was delivered as a positive. The amount offered per employee is insultingly low. When my kid was in full time care, that $800 wouldn't even cover a month. I can only imagine costs have gone up since then.
Ah, so very similar to what Amazon did with Sidewalk a few years back. I shocked people are ok with allowing this data through their devices. Sidewalk caused a massive backlash because of privacy and data rate concerns.
I'm not a big Apple person, so I've not really cared about Airtags, so I'm probably missing something. If I don't allow them to connect to my device, how are they a concern?
Edit: I realized I asked my question poorly. I get they're a tracking device. My understanding is they're a Bluetooth device that do not have direct Internet access on their own; how is their location being updated if you're not pairing with them to allow them access to your device?
Shit. I 100% missed the company's Twitter post in OP's post. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm not even sure how; it's like one of the first things there...
Youre right; going by their statement, they agreed to help open a safe for a property that had a search warrant. However, they were not under a court order to open the safe. That's the part I disagree with.
For me, this is like if the FBI has a search warrant for your phone and the phone manufacturer agrees to help unlock your phone. In the US, the 5th protects you from being compelled to unlock your phone. If the manufacturer unlocked the phone without a court order compelling then to, I'd be upset with that company. (I'd rather not get in the weeds about what is going on with Customs and Boarder Guards. It's a whole overreaching shit show...)
Similarly, if a the police had a warrant to collect a blood sample and a medical facility proactively helped collect that sample without a court order compelling them to, that facility is assaulting a patient.
I have issues with a locksmith helping gain access to a property, safe, car, whatever, too, if they're not compelled to.
The warrant doesn't force people/companies to help the police with their search of the named people/locations. That'd come from a court order.
People/Companies are free to set their own policies for how they'll respond to law enforcement's request for help, and people are free to agree or disagree with that policy. If they disagree with the policy, they're free to spend their money elsewhere.