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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Yes, but provincial government have other laws regarding privacy, beside the federal law. So the legality may depend.
Generally at the federal level, it's legal to record if you're party of the conversation.
In NY, at least back in the day, it was legal to record phone conversations as long as at least one party knew they were being recorded. So you couldn't put a bug on your partner's phone to listen in on conversations between them and their friends, but you could record your phone conversations with your partner without them being aware of the recording.
Again, this is from back in the day knowledge, (as in from almost 20 years ago and my first job) so I have no idea if the law has changed in the interim.
Revisting a conversation from earlier in the day, after we learned Trump was trying to get the country back into TPP:
Ok, I went back to that hellhole site out of curiosity, and found a new article on the subject. The prior one was a dry, just reporting the facts sort of thing, but not this one, which was bashing everyone else in the room as globalist this, internationalist that, Never Trumper here, job killer there, etc. It went on to call a speech where Trump compared TPP to the country being raped historic, (fuck you very much, Breitbart, and all your writers) and all but begged him not to do it.
The comments, meanwhile, were divided between 5 groups: 1) the despairing right wingers slowly accepting that they've been duped all along, 2) the angry ones who are up in arms, 3) the hopeful ones in denial who think it's all some kind of ploy or negotiating tactic and everyone just needs to have faith, (and refuse to believe that, in fact, the modified form of TPP was finalized among the remaining countries back in March) and 4) the true cultists who will never turn away from him, and figure everything is worthwhile because Trump *did stuff on immigration* or *trolled the libs* or *insert your own answer here*
The last portion of the comments is made up of non-believers either enjoying the schadenfreude or marveling at the gullibility of the other posters, often with some variation of "I told you so!"
Btw, speaking of Trump and the right wing media, on Wednesday he urged his followers specifically to watch Hannity's show that night, and on the show Hannity likened the Clintons, Comey, and Mueller all to being crime families, creating fake connections and conspiracies among them and their goals of destroying the President and America and probably some other drivel
.
The fact that Trump seemed to know this in advance just goes to show that the connection and symbiosis between Trump and right wing media is complete. Trump directs himself by watching Fox, and tries to get his followers to do the same to brainwash them further and prime them for his moves. Fox both directs Trump and reinforces his cult among the right wing masses, trying to shore up support and get people to follow wherever he leads... which is wherever Fox leads him.
Combine it with the chairman of Sinclar supposedly saying in 2016 that his company is there to spread Trump's message
and you get a truly nasty picture of right-wing media turning into state tv/information.
Kevin McCarthy appears to be lined up to be the next Speaker
. Some of the Tea Party/Freedom Caucus types want it to be Steve Scalise, but Scalise has publicly declined to run against McCarthy, and between McCarthy's cozy relationship with Trump and his reach among the House Republicans, it's hard to see who else could be a serious candidate.
Trump, Having Denounced Amazon’s Shipping Deal, Orders Review of Postal Service
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In the executive order, issued just before 9 p.m., Mr. Trump created a task force to examine the service’s “unsustainable financial path” and directed the new panel to “conduct a thorough evaluation of the operations and finances of the U.S.P.S.”
The president does not mention Amazon in the order, but it is clear that he intends for the panel to substantiate his repeated claim that the financial arrangement between the Postal Service and Amazon, its biggest shipper of packages, is a money loser.
In December, Mr. Trump railed against the service on Twitter for being “dumber and poorer” by losing billions of dollars and not “charging MUCH MORE” to Amazon and other shippers. His Twitter attacks date back as far as 2013, when he scoffed at the service for planning to eliminate Saturday mail delivery — “our poor, poor Country,” he wrote — and raising the cost of stamps.
Postal Service experts and even Mr. Trump’s own advisers have privately urged him to back off the accusations, noting that the huge number of packages shipped by Amazon is actually helping to keep the Postal Service financially solvent.
While the service has consistently reported net losses for a decade, much of its financial woes are the result of a prolonged decline in the volume of marketing mail and first-class mail. The service makes money on packages, and Amazon is the service’s biggest single shipper of packages.
But the president has refused to believe those arguments, insisting in a tweet as recently as March 31 that “the U.S. Post Office will lose $1.50 on average for each package it delivers for Amazon.”
According to Stephen Colbert, the postal services' only sources of business nowadays are package deliveries, love letters, ransom notes and "magazines that people cut up to make ransom notes".
It possible they could make more money by charging Amazon more, but if they rose their prices too much Amazon would switch to other delivery services...
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Eh, maybe...question is, how good is the US postal service? Amazon went with alternatives over here too for a while, but while they still send some stuff with other companies, a lot goes over the more expensive but more reliable delivery services again. Because, well, it is not really good for business if the customer is angry because whatever what orders arrives damaged or not at all.
Awful, the US postal service is bloody awful.
I am told it is because they are under funded, but it takes about 14-20USD to ship a standard box package, inside the country, and it wont get there for a week.
Back home, I could pay under 800yen to ship it any where in the world in about a week, maybe two if customs was particularly picky.... or any where within the country in under a day.
....
As for alternatives though, Fed-Ex is even worse with a high rate of breaking your stuff, higher prices.... and I am not sure about the delivery times, but given what Garcon has told me about working there I cant imagine they are any better either.
edited 13th Apr '18 2:16:14 AM by Imca
... The us postal service has a bad reputation, but this is mostly a historical artifact - it had a bad stretch. On actual service delivered today it is generally reckoned to be flat out better than both fed-ex and ups. (that does not mean flawless, because, well, those competitors are frequently shit).
but it is a whole lot better than its reputation.
The republicans keep trying to sabotage it, which is insane, it is in the US constitution, they literally cannot privatize it, the provision of a mail service is mandatory.
edited 13th Apr '18 2:35:33 AM by Izeinsummer
Thats not reputation, I have used it, and I have used postal services outside of the US..... the speeds are slower, the prices are higher, and sure it gets your stuff there in one peice, but so do other national postal services....
Overall the Amercian one doesn't even hold a candle to them, that it outdoes services like Fed-Ex isn't a plus to the postal service, its a strike agianst Fed-Ex....
Which makes the attempts to sabotage it even dumber, if any thing it really needs extra funding and aide.
Edit: And yes, I do realize how much biger amercia is, but they could at least match the international shipping price for domestic shiping.... not charge 3 times more if they aren't even going to ship it for the better part of a week.
Or if they charge that much more at least match the speed, not fail at both.
edited 13th Apr '18 3:11:13 AM by Imca
For small businesses though the Postal Service is actually a lot cheaper and more reliable than Fedex or UPS. It isn't until you get up a couple steps in scale that using private shipping services becomes more cost effective.
Which means damaging the USPS is going to hurt small businesses immensely.
Oh really when?Newt Gingrich compares the FBI raid on Cohen with the Gestapo.
note
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) tore into the FBI after its raid of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, likening agents' actions to those of the secret police during the Nazi era.
Gingrich said during an interview on Fox News that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has "not done his job" and has not supervised special counsel Robert Mueller.
"This whole thing is an absurdity. We've now had Paul Manafort and his wife in their pajamas at 3 in the morning having the FBI break down the door," he said on Wednesday, referring to an FBI raid last year at the home of Trump's former campaign manager.
"Cohen, the lawyer, had the door taken off of the hinges at 6 in the morning." He also tore into the Justice Department and said the country is supposed to have the "rule of law."
"It ain't the rule of law when they kick in your door at 3 in the morning and you're faced with armed men. And you have had no reason to be told you're going to have that kind of treatment," he continued.
"That's Stalin. That's the Gestapo in Germany. That shouldn't be the American FBI."
The FBI earlier this week raided the office of Cohen and seized emails, tax documents and records related to his payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
In case you thought they'd hit rock bottom yet.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.![]()
Ok that's going way too far. I'm not the biggest fan of the FBI or the NSA or the CIA, but they aren't the damn Gestapo. Not by a long shot.
But what else can we expect from Gingrich, the slimeball who is directly responsible for making American politics even more partisan.
edited 13th Apr '18 4:10:41 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedThey don't have the financial means to be the Gestapo to be begin with. During the "great" days of the GDR, there were approximately two stasi informants for each non-stasi citizen (yeah, I know - let's just say that when the wall went down, most people just decided to NOT want to know who was part of their network, because they still wanted to be able to look their relatives in the eyes).
Also, aren't those the same politicians who played down the NSA affair?

I see what you did there.
(Alternatively, no he's not if the hush money rumors is true)