All these articles about this, but I've never seen anyone mention whether or not a pardon has been requested.. which is arguably the most important thing in determining whether or not a pardon will be granted.
I went from a note 3 to an s7. Like you I never really utilized the stylus, and even though I had 3 extra batteries for my note, I'm still mostly ok with the tradeoff.
The size of the phones is nearly identical.
As you mention, the only thing that I dislike is not having a hardware menu key.. but it's worth looking into as a decent replacement phone.
The one thing I want to replace my Note 3 is a Note 3 that I can put custom roms on (like Cyan).
The problem with the S7 is Samsung isn't as friendly for the ROM tools. The S3 doesn't let me use TWRP so I have to either use Stock or CWM. I've never really liked CWM for some reason.
I'd pay good money for an upgraded Note 3 with TWRP capability.
In this particular case you're comparing apples to oranges.
Shotguns are very different from a standard .38
First is the obvious difference in projectiles, which can make a huge difference.
Second the .38 (in all likelihood) was a pistol, whereas a shotgun is the length of a rifle. A pistol you can hold it to the side of your head and pull the trigger.. you can't really do this well with a shotgun, which means you're more than likely going to put the gun under your chin and try to get to your brain the long way.
It's somewhat logical that someone might need to shoot themselves twice with a shotgun, not so much with a .38.
> If you were born before 1989, your SSN can be guessed with 44% accuracy by an algorithm.
The actual situation is quite a bit less dire than your quote.
What that linked article says is that for people born AFTER 1989, the first five digits could be guessed with 44% accuracy. (There's a very real sense that the "last 4 of your social" are less guessable than the first five, so it's no surprise that the last 4 is what is often used/misused.)
I've seen multiple databases that have the results of asking the user to enter the "last 4 of your SSN"
If you have those last 4 digits, and you can guess the first 5 digits with nearly 50% accuracy, then you have a very good chance on getting legitimate SSN's for mass numbers of people with a DB dump.
While this makes perfect sense and works great in the rest of the world, ID numbers in the US have been talked about, but have faced resistance from two groups.. those that think that this is somehow an invasion of privacy, and those that think that this somehow correlates with the 'mark of the beast' and signals the end of humanity according to the bible. (not joking)
Individual states already issue identification cards, and people use that all the time for this purpose.
In a system like the US, I think it's better for the states to handle identification cards, not the federal government. There's a lot of details that go into identifying someone, and your local state is best equipped to handle that.
To give a few examples:
What's the procedure for changing your name? A lot of people change their name after marriage or divorce. Those are usually handled by the states, so adding a federal government in there raises the net complexity.
Should people in Alabama be able to force the residents of California to put their original sex on a federal id card? I don't care, but other people do. It could be one of those pointless political distractions that's better left unanswered.
If the federal government runs it, now they have to own or rent a bunch of land in every major city in every state so they can service id card requests. So it gives them a larger presence. I guess they could reuse social security offices, but they couldn't reuse state DMV offices which are the more natural choice.
> What's the procedure for changing your name? A lot of people change their name after marriage or divorce. Those are usually handled by the states, so adding a federal government in there raises the net complexity.
To be clear, the federal government is already involved with name changes-- in fact, though my name change was issued by a state court, I had to get it changed with Social Security before I could get a new driver's license.
Similarly, passports do have a sex listed, so that's already something with federal jurisdiction. The passport system is also handled through post offices, solving the problem of needing more offices.
> If the federal government runs it, now they have to own or rent a bunch of land in every major city in every state so they can service id card requests.
Don't we already have that with the post offices and the passport system?
Couldn't they expand passports into a Federal ID system?
Sure. You could require every American to get at least a passport card. Maybe even waive fees for those below a certain income level.
I'm not qualified to comment on constitutional issues so I won't.
I will say that, even if it's mostly an emotional issue (people already need at least some sort of state government-issued ID to do lots of things), there's a huge resistance in the US to anything that smells like "papers, please" or universal ID that people are required to carry and present upon request.
Which is how a lot of people view the idea of a Federal ID system. That may seem silly to a lot of people outside the US but it's how things are.
> there's a huge resistance in the US to anything that smells like "papers, please" or universal ID that people are required to carry and present upon request.
And yet, you are, under certain circumstances, already required to ID yourself to a police officer upon request.[0] The most common form of ID? Your driver's license.
Shared-secret numbers and physical cards are not enough. We need a cryptographic API that lets citizens sign requests to authenticate themselves, such that the signature they emit is only useful for one relying party at one time (not useful if stolen).
Fifty cryptographic APIs, on the other hand, would be a nightmare. We'd at least need the federal government to force states to implement one conforming to some open standard so that the integrations aren't intractable.
Lock down the growth first, then charge when it's too painful to give up the attention. If they charge too early, then the little to moderate traffic from FB is easier to give up.
Free promotion in the sense that you could create a page for a product or company, and be promoted significantly solely by the likes and shares you get.
So you read the part where it said he does many speeches for free yet decided it worthwhile to create an estimate that you know doesn't align with reality and draw conclusions from it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_Pardon_Attorney