Kill Switch (Devil's Night Book 3)

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Of course this couldn’t happen without large rivers of opaque money pouring in after Citizens United, and ranks of selfish, racist ideologues marching through such “think tanks” as the John Birch Society and the Federalist Society, the Tea Party being bankrolled by Koch Industries, and of course the rise of demagogic Trump who, supported by so many duplicitous sycophants, toyed with clown-car authoritarianism. When Jentleson says the future of this country is grim, I painfully agree. Trumpism isn’t going away quietly, and the delusional GOP has been undermined by its own power-mad mania, desperately grasping for any scheme that will keep them in power. The entire political system needs restructuring. Jentleson gives his advice, which seems naively optimistic (a parliamentary system of open debate?), so I’ll jump aboard his train of thought and offer my own wish list: In the twenty-first century, Senate Republicans have represented a minority of the population every year, despite holding as many as fifty-five seats, as they did from 2005 to 2006 These days, the author hangs his hat at Democracy Forward, a political non-profit chaired by a Democratic super-lawyer, Marc Elias, which includes on its board John Podesta, a veteran of the Clinton and Obama White Houses. Ron Klain, now Joe Biden’s chief of staff, was once treasurer. The group’s targets have included Ivanka Trump and her alleged ethics violations. Jentleson draws a line from Calhoun to McConnell via Richard Russell, a segregationist Georgia senator and Democrat who served from 1933 to 1971. Russell once said: “Any southern white man worth a pinch of salt would give his all to maintain white supremacy.” One of the Senate’s three office buildings is named after him.

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Williams, Martyn (June 24, 2014). "10 things to know about the smartphone kill switch". PCWorld . Retrieved May 10, 2017. Spotting a group of white, I see my friends, all similarly dressed, since we’d just performed in our recital earlier today, run behind some hedges. They’re huddled together, giggling, and my sister, three years older than me, is in the middle of them. I only hesitate a moment before I take a step, following them. Isn't that how a "republic" is supposed to work? The Framers understand democracy to mean direct democracy as in Athens. They understood republic to mean what we call a democracy today, where people elect representatives who make the laws. Google started to work on a hardware kill switch for AI in 2016. [13] Industrial machinery [ edit ] The arrows indicate that the stop button must be turned to reset the switch before the equipment can be restarted. I clench my jaw harder with every step away from the party I take. The lights, voices, and music fade, and the silent darkness of the hallway slowly swallows me up.Sending him to prison was the worst thing I could’ve done. It didn’t matter that he did the crime or that I wished he was dead. Perhaps I thought I’d have time to disappear before he got out or he’d cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was. I take off down the small slope and toward the maze, stopping only briefly at the entrance and flashing my gaze to both of the hedges on either side. The path is only visible for several more feet before I’m forced to make a turn, and I didn’t see where they went. What if I get lost? The house is so big that I don’t think I’ll ever see all of it, and it’s filled with things that everyone is always gushing over and whispering about, but it makes me nervous. I feel like I’ll break something every time I turn around.

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The smell of earth fills my lungs as I breathe in, and even though the ground is covered with grass, dirt scuffs my slippers, and I shift uncomfortably. They’re going to be ruined now. I know it. A 54-day filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act refocused the nation on the jagged legacy of slavery, a full 101 years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In a century and a half, so much and so little had changed.

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My ballet slipper brushes the hardwood floor as I slowly step down the long hallway. The glow of the candles on their pedestals line the dark walls, and I fidget with my fingers as I glance left to right at every closed door I pass. A kill switch is also used for gasoline pumps or any other device that pumps large amounts of explosive or flammable chemicals. There is commonly a single kill switch for all pumps at a pumping station. Some kill switches feature a removable, protective barrier against accidental activation (e.g. a plastic cover that must be lifted or glass that must be broken), known as a mollyguard. Kill switches are features of mechanisms whose normal operation or foreseeable misuse might cause injury or death; industrial designers include kill switches because damage to or the destruction of the machinery is less important than preventing workplace injuries and deaths. By contrast, emergency stop requires a deliberate action on the part of a person who must first recognize that some hazardous condition is about to arise or is arising, and who then must activate the emergency stop function by pressing the emergency stop button or activating another emergency stop device such as a pull-cord switch.

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Adam Jentleson explains in Kill Switch how the use of the filibuster has evolved to paralyze the legislative process in the Senate. The filibuster in principle is not the problem; it is the use of the filibuster as an obstruction tactic and the supermajority required by Rule 22 to approve cloture that prevents legislation from moving forward. She’ll be so scared, she won’t even be safe in her own head by the time I’m done with her. And the best part is I won’t have to break into her home to do it. ANSI B11.0-2020 Safety Of Machinery". ansi.org. American National Standards Institute . Retrieved April 14, 2022.

Which form of government is preferable -- rule by the majority or by the minority? Most Americans would say the former, so long as there were protections for minority rights. Most contemporary Republicans, however, prefer the later -- and they get it. As Adam Jentleson puts it, "Minority rule is a defining feature of our era." Everybody who knows me, or follows me on social media, knows that I am a political nerd. Probably, to a fault, I could be described as a political hobbyist. Likewise, anyone who knows me or follows me on social media knows that my political leanings are no secret - raised in a Conservative household, I adopted the Republican points of view when I wasn't engaged, but evolved over the years as I started paying attention more to become a hardcore progressive, supporting candidates such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the already iconic AOC. In the European Union, most types of machinery are required to be equipped with an emergency stop according to the Directive 2006/42/EC. Exceptions apply for machinery in which an emergency stop would not lessen the risk as well as for portable hand-held/hand-guided machinery.

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At first, all I can make out is gold. The golden glow of the golden lamp shining onto the golden desk set. But then I shift to the left, my pulse hammering in my chest, as I see Madame’s husband, Mr. Torrance, cross into my view from behind his desk. He stands, breathing hard with his jaw set, as he looks down at whoever is on the other side. Flash forward to LBJ and Jesse Helm. These two men greatly contributed to what would become the modern use of the filibuster. The super minority draws its strength from conflict, not broad appeal. These senators figured out that as long as they don't piss off their base, they can become political heroes simply by filibustering and to require a super majority to even vote on bills. But requiring a super majority does not encourage debate and consensus, it only obstructs and creates false political martyrs who stoke culture wars and bring in campaign dollars. Harry Reid also radically changed filibustering when he "went nuclear" and made it so presidential appointments didn't have to have a super majority (except Supreme Court appointments). Enter Mitch McConnell who ironically early in his career was an enormous voice for campaign finance reform. McConnell then tried to get corruption denied only as explicit exchange and quid pro quo. This was obviously before Citizens United ruling which made all this moot and completely destroyed US elections in my opinion. It is thought that some electronic chips used in equipment, particularly military, have a secret "kill" function that disables the equipment. It has been reported that French and Israeli electronic warfare units have used kill switches to disable opponents' military systems. [27] And systems have been infected with malware specifically designed to damage them. [28] The modern Senate can be boiled down to McConnell's obstruction. And he had help. For his first senate campaign With his prospects looking grim, McConnell decided to put himself in the hands of Roger Ailes. At the time, Ailes was a TV consultant, making ads for Republican candidates. McConnell wanted an ad that would shake up the race, he told Ailes, and suggested positive ones that would introduce him to voters. Ailes shot them down. “Do you want to look nice, or do you want to take out your opponent and win this thing?” Ailes asked. “I want to do what it takes,” McConnell replied.Vile. Later, before the tragedy of what would be the results of the 2016 election, McConnell said “I want the American people to be comfortable with the fact that the Republican House and Senate is a responsible, right-of-center, governing majority.” Now that is laughable. On healthcare, he directed that no Republicans support the bill so as to prevent any claim to "bipartisan" - "In what was once the 'world’s greatest deliberative body,' a complex policy issue governing 15 percent of America’s economy was boiled down to a binary political calculation. 'If he [Obama] was for it,' as former Republican senator George Voinovich said, 'we had to be against it.'"

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Thankfully, I did finish the book and found the recommended remedies satisfying. Let's hope our Senate leadership takes Mr. Jentleson's counsel to heart because the way the Senate has been functioning for years doesn't serve the American people. Jentleson hits the proverbial nail on the head and identifies the source of the cancer: The tool that white supremacist senators honed in the Jim Crow era to defy the majority is the filibuster, as we know it today. [...] From John Calhoun, the antebellum father of nullification who argued, on the Senate floor, that slavery was a “positive good,” to Richard Russell, the post–World War II puppet master of the Senate who swore that “any southern white man worth a pinch of salt would give his all to maintain white supremacy,” to Mitch McConnell in our own time, who declared that “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,” southern senators invented the filibuster, strengthened it, and developed alternative histories to justify it.Alternative histories to justify it. Yeah. They're good at that. "Benjamin Franklin wrote that a system where 'the minority overpowers the majority' would be 'contrary to the Common Practice of Assemblies in all Countries and Ages.'” And yet, here we are. In 2018, furthermore, reports surfaced of Watt being investigated for sexual harassment. More than a year later, the FHFA reached a settlement. The silent filibuster is also a result of leaders coming to rely on what are known as “unanimous consent” agreements, or UCs. … Facing enormous workloads and reliant on UCs, leaders got in the habit of canvassing their caucuses ahead of time to see if anyone objected to a bill or nomination they were considering bringing to the floor. Again, this had a benefit to the leader: it was an early-warning system that alerted them to a senator’s intent to filibuster. But again, it damaged the institution: to deter a leader from moving forward, all a senator had to do was signal their intent to filibuster. This is what is now known as placing a “hold.”