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There is no such thing as 'child porn sites' that take any payment.

Really?

Feds: 100 Arrested in Child Porn Bust

One hundred people have been arrested as part of an undercover sting investigation into the largest known commercial child pornography business ever uncovered, U.S. government officials said today.

The two-year investigation began with Landslide Productions Inc., a Fort Worth, Texas, company owned by Thomas and Janice Reedy. Authorities said the company was at the center of an international child pornography business that distributed lewd pictures of children having sex to subscribers over the Internet. . . . .

Landslide grossed as much as $1.4 million in one month alone, the profits coming from monthly fees viewers paid to access child pornography Web sites, authorities said. Called Operation Avalanche, the undercover operation was based on intelligence developed from the Landslide investigation and encompassed 30 federally funded task forces formed to combat Internet crimes against children.

"During an Operation Avalanche search, we found a collection of videotapes produced by a suspect depicting the sexual abuse of several young girls. One of the girls was only 4 years old," said Chief Postal Inspector Kenneth C. Weaver.

The Reedys were convicted last year on charges that included sexual exploitation of minors and distribution of child pornography. A federal judge on Monday sentenced Thomas Reedy, 37, to life in prison and his 32-year-old wife, Janice, to 14 years in prison. . . . .

OMG! OMG! Think of the children

Maybe it's better if you, specifically, didn't. I'm not sure the outcome would be good for anybody.

Pedophiles should be seeking help instead of seeking children or pictures of children.

Obama never said WEEKLY. He said $40 per paycheck for a family that earns 50,000.

Do the math. That's biweekly. Most people get paychecks biweekly. Duh.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/12/obama-40-can-make-all-the-difference-in-the-world/1

All the news stories got it right.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/putting-a-human-face-on-the-payroll-tax-numbers/

Dr. Majid Shahriari, Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi, Dr. Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, Darioush Rezaeinejad, Dr. Ardeshir Hassanpour. Those are just the known ones.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/killing-irans-nuclear-scientists/story?id=14152453
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11860928
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2010/11/201011297228879910.html
http://www.eurasiareview.com/03102011-ahmadinejad-accuses-iaea-of-releasing-list-of-iranian-scientists/

South Korea have free speech

Unless you want to say something nice about North Korea, which is still illegal in South Korea.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/south-korea-praising-north-korea-illegal-15102243

Let's be honest here: which 1st world country even wants U.S. citizens moving there? All of the people I know that routinely travel to Europe and Asia on vacation tell people they're Canadian now, because when they were honest and told them they were from the U.S. they were treated like absolute shit, made fun of, kicked out of pubs and restaurants, and generally just fucked with; not all the time, but often enough that it made them feel totally unwelcome even as tourists. Even people that they were engaged in pleasant conversation with would sometimes simply walk away once they found out they were from the states. Now that they tell them they're Canadian none of that happens anymore.

The "ignorant, brutish American" stereotype has spread across the entire globe, and I can't necessarily even argue against it; the only things many people around the world know about us are totally negative. For every thoughtful, reasonable American citizen there are 10 mouth-breathing retards comparing Islam to Nazism, cheering the deaths of the uninsured and booing one of our own soldiers because he is gay.

Let's be honest here: which 1st world country even wants U.S. citizens moving there? All of the people I know that routinely travel to Europe and Asia on vacation tell people they're Canadian now, because when they were honest and told them they were from the U.S. they were treated like absolute shit, made fun of, kicked out of pubs and restaurants, and generally just fucked with; not all the time, but often enough that it made them feel totally unwelcome even as tourists. Even people that they were engaged in pleasant conversation with would sometimes simply walk away once they found out they were from the states. Now that they tell them they're Canadian none of that happens anymore.

The "ignorant, brutish American" stereotype has spread across the entire globe, and I can't necessarily even argue against it; the only things many people around the world know about us are totally negative. For every thoughtful, reasonable American citizen there are 10 mouth-breathing retards comparing Islam to Nazism, cheering the deaths of the uninsured and booing one of our own soldiers because he is gay.

But even the most conservative candidates (like Ron Paul - who ironically is very isolationist) don't speak much to cutting the US defense budget

"The Department of Defense would see $832 billion disappear from its budget during Paul's first term in office"

(source)

Why is everyone so scared of the probability of an Islamic based party being democratically elected without fraud in the middle east? We should be embracing the fact it's democratic and fraud free and supporting whomever the people choose.

I realize the following is an extreme case but it is a real case and it occurred this week, not in the distant past. It may help you understand some of the concern and why people are less fearful of governments heading in the secular direction.

"Saudi Woman Beheaded for 'Witchcraft'"
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/saudi-woman-beheaded-witchcraft/story?id=15145041

Is that you, Dick Cheney?

"E-ZPass Makes It Easy to Catch Cheaters" -- ABC News 8/13/2007

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3472823#.TuT-BVZqDgc

I've already lived this with iTunes. I bought iFitness (more here. During an iOS upgrade there was some sort of issue and PC backup turned out to be corrupt and couldn't restore the apps. "No problem," I thought, "I downloaded all of these apps from the store, I can just re-download everything."

Nope, despite being one of the five best fitness apps it was pulled from the market for unknown reasons. Some claim it was banned for posting fake positive reviews, but that seems completely unnecessary considering how much praise iFitness received.

Because of that I no longer trust my phone or the "cloud" to keep my data safe.

According to this story http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-rq-170-sentinel-stealth-drone-shown-iran/t/story?id=15115781 the drone shown on Iranian tv is, according to officials, a fake.

They claim inconsistencies in the design and with pictures of the crash site (like how it probably was demolished when it crashed at several hundred miles per hour).

I thought it looked like a fiberglass mockup. Anyway, good to know this, I read that to get any real use out of the drone, it would have to be almost completely undamaged because tolerances are very important when it comes to aerodynamics and stealth (I guess that's why those air force guys don't like it when I go about measuring their F-117s with my calipers at various air shows!)

The aircraft shown on Iranian television today was not the American stealth drone that crashed in Iran last week, as the Iranian government claimed, but was likely just a model, U.S. officials told ABC News.

Minutes after a Pentagon spokesperson said that military personnel and others were examining the footage broadcast today of what appeared to be an undamaged stealth RQ-170 Sentinel, multiple U.S. officials said that based on inconsistencies with the design of the drone, along with clues from imagery of the actual drone's crash site, the drone shown was not the Sentinel. U.S. officials previously confirmed that an RQ-170 did, in fact, crash land somewhere in Iran.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-rq-170-sentinel-stealth-drone-shown-iran/story?id=15115781#.TuEsofJbeV0

I know it's offtopic, but Aptera went defunct a few days ago and they're the ones with the better design. How does a 200 mpg diesel (Gen0) sound or a 120-mile range EV for under $27000 (Nissan Leaf MSRP - $35200) with the lowest drag coefficient of any production vehicle and a top speed of 100+mph? It was a commuter car for the masses.

GM's bailout cost over $20B while Aptera was seeking $0.15B in funding. Aptera was denied and closed last week.

Aptera Employees Destroy Futuristic Vehicles After Shutdown.

WTF guys?

Someone should buy Aptera's assets and reboot the company. It goes up for sale on Dec 20th-21st.

Also, President Michelle Bachmann has closed it.

I actually thought this was telling the real story. The REAL story is, the fed loaned 7.77 TRILLION DOLLARS without telling congress. That's not a misprint. And you might wonder where that money came from? The fed's created it on demand, devaluing the dollar to save fraudulent loans and poor lending practices. Think about that for a minute. The fed loaned, without oversight and denial to Congress they did so, several times the government's total annual budget to proper up criminals and failing companies.

I would say the OP is being sarcastic and implying no civilized country would allow this to happen. So how the fuck can a professedly Christian dominated country allow this to happen, never mind the proposed law from TFA. You know, Christians whose Lord said, "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me'." Amazing how they constantly remember to selectively forget that teaching. For the record I am not religious; I believe in a higher power, I just find religions to get in the way of the relationship... And besides, they're mostly full of hypocrites, poltroons, and fanatics who don't even understand their own religion; like what Charles Barkley calls the fake Christians. Those people who jam into American churches once a week, and think by hollering praying and singing that for the rest of the week they can ignore the teachings of their savior, are good enough to do their God's job and judge everyone, and say things like poor uninsured cancer patients should just die . Something I've heard republicans where I worked in the U.S. say years before the debate in the link. You know, fake Christians.

Islamic terrorists are by far the most common sort in the modern world

Most terrorist acts in Europe are still carried out by Christian Europeans, like the Catalonian separatists in Spain, or the Catholic separatists on Northern Ireland. The most recent major act of terrorism, Anders Breivik's bombing of the Norwegian parliament with 8 dead and subsequent shooting of another 77 people, was...

...on the 22nd of July. Five months ago.

The most recent incident of Islamic terrorism was today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8931171/Suicide-bomb-attack-on-Afghan-Nato-base.html

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lebanese-media-idf-bombed-espionage-devices-uncovered-by-hezbollah-1.399257

...and yesterday:

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/343369/bomb-gunmen-kill-18-iraq-marks-us-withdrawal

...and the day before:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/somali-soldiers-killed-suicide-bomb-attack-15054747

...and the day before that:

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=247407

There were probably more, but that was just a cursory search. I could go back further - but the point is the word "common" in my statement. By far the vast majority of attacks are committed by islamic terrorists. Do other terrorists exist? Sure. ...but they're not committing attacks every day.

"There are whole areas of medicine we only know because evil regimes like the Nazi Germany conducted experiments without care."

Tragically that includes the US Government, three years _after_ it had beaten the evil Nazis:

"President Obama this afternoon spoke with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to “express his deep regret” and “extend an apology to all those infected” following the revelation that the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study from 1946 to 1948 in which near 700 prisoners, soldiers and patients with emotional and mental problems were purposefully infected with syphilis. The study also was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, a forerunner of the Pan American Health Organization, and the Guatemalan government."

From http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/10/president-obama-apologizes-to-guatemalan-president-for-shocking-tragic-reprehensible-syphilis-study/

So much for high horses...

Unless it rose 50% since April, gas price in Germany is around $8.30.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/shocking-gas-prices-globe/story?id=13349235#.TtcsvXM4MUM

Yeah yeah, tinfoil hat "Big Pharma is evil!" conspiracies.

Yeah, yeah, call something a "conspiracy" an we're all right again!

At least they can provide paid reviewed "studies" and clinical trials regarding their treatments, which is a fuckload more than these quack assholes can do.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028194_Scott_Reuben_research_fraud.html
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/
http://classic.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55671/
http://classic.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55679/
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Drugs/story?id=7577646&page=1#.TtV4Xzg6e-M
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=2066
http://www.medcitynews.com/2011/07/fda-says-cro-cetero-faked-trial-data-pharmas-may-need-to-redo-tests/
http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/2011/11/01/lessons-from-a-fake-study/
http://www.rense.com/general66/newhigh.htm

In short - "clinical trials" and "peer-reviewed" in pharmacology are mainly just buzzwords to make shit look legit.

even though china has a larger standing army then the US....

That's nice. According to [1], the Buffalo Bills offence has the highest average mass per player of any team in the AFC, and are getting their arses kicked. Most battles aren't won or lost by the Zapp Brannigan "wave after wave of men" strategy.

More to the point, China's navy is all but useless. Granted it is gaining power in leaps, but any competent strategic assessment will conclude that it can't hold its own in any deep water engagement with... well, anyone major really. Even Russia's navy (at least the part that managed to bob to the surface) outclasses China's in any meaningful metric. China's force projection ability is really limited to annoying its neighbors.

[1] http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=merron/041124_rankings

The authorities have found the way to stop this already. Just make recording police a felony.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/special_segments&id=8370540

http://bit.ly/tS2ZvF

Of course, Obama has promised to veto any bill that attempts to avoid those spending cuts. Congress will need 66% of it's members to vote to override the veto.

Duh.. mispasted the link. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3642673

Funny you should mention that, according to this there's no woman oppresion either.

They certainly have little problem nailing people for child porn, for example.

So little problem, in fact, that parents have been prosecuted for innocent pictures of their naked children.

Or to put it another way: it's not as simple as you think it is.

I didn't say there was a clear line -- the line is quite fuzzy.

But there's definitely a line. It's exact location is determined in courtrooms, and this location can vary from case to case, but the line is certainly there.

As for people being prosecuted, I'm aware of a few cases such as this one -- but even this one was thrown out before going to trial. (Though being forced to register as sex offenders before being convicted? That sounds like a violation of one's rights to due process.)

But again -- my point is that don't think that just because a line is hard to draw that nobody in power will draw one. The lines are already drawn. Simple, complicated, whatever -- the lines have been drawn.

Said video is an animation of the Falcon HTV-2 which was tested several weeks ago.

Am I the only one that noticed that the animation on the abc news article linked to in the original posting IS FOR THE WRONG WEAPON?

The video is for the recent test of the Falcon HTV-2 test flight which took place several weeks ago.

(Having the patience to sit through the same commercials you see on TV is worth it if you get to embarrass a major news network ;)

A hydro dam that breaks will NOT cause the water to shoot up stream. Sure it sucks for the people down stream and there might be a lot of people downstream but the risk is calculable and limited.

The Banqiao Reservoir Dam killed an estimated 171,000 people
The Vajont Dam caused around 2,000 deaths
The St. Francis Dam killed more than 450 people
The Johnstown Dam killed 2,200 people

This incomplete list lists 23 dam failures between Chernobyl and Fukushima. (Well, one of them was caused by the same tsunami/earthquake and killed more than the nuclear incident.)

So yes the risk is calculable and limited, it just happens to be that it fails more often and kills more people than nuclear power. I guess we are still gong to build more dams, because you know, it's not nuclear.

I haven't seen it mentioned that PETA is putting up these billboards next to elementary schools:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/11/peta-to-kids-would-you-eat-your-dog-for-thanksgiving/

Because, you know, the way to get people to agree with you is to be a complete asshole about it. After all, it worked for Al-Qaeda.

Maybe he means just type in Occupy and rape and get something like this.

Just curious, what else do you believe society owes you besides a job, free housing, free healthcare and free (mass) transportation?

Is there nothing you have to provide yourself.

Recently there was a plot by Iranians to kill the ambassador of Saudi Arabia, and they hired a Mexican gangster to do it. Iran claims it was a dissident group that did it, but.....

There is plenty of evidence of opposing groups helping each other out. The 2001 Indian Parliament Attack used weapons smuggled by a famous Indian smuggler, despite it being a Pakistani plot. During the Bosnia-Kosovo fighting in the late 90s, there was cooperation on both sides of the war to smuggle cigarettes (they are highly taxed in many parts of Europe, making black market cigarettes lucrative). There are even rumors that some Russian gangs are making a franchise out of there name, loaning it out to other gangs in exchange for money (because their name is so feared).

So yeah, criminals don't mind working together.

If you ban "corporations" from spending money on political campaigns, you will only create a very special group (the media corporations) that will be the only corporations whose viewpoints will matter. You can't stop them from reporting the news, of course; that would violate the First Amendment. But if they become the sole gatekeepers of information, then you're just saying you'd rather that the only free speech belong to people who own newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations.

We talk about how Bush had a DUI when he was young, or Obama admitted to smoking weed and doing cocaine. But those are peccadilloes compared to what, e.g., JFK was using while in office - heavy doses of all kinds of stuff. Why didn't the American people hear about that? Or about his call girl habits? Because the press decided to stay quiet.

Hey, I'm in favor of legalization myself (although I don't and wouldn't use) but I can't blame the administration too much for carrying out the will of the people. A referendum on legalization failed in California - and that was California.

• Imperial presidency: judge jury and executioner.
• Unconstitutional detention.
• Unconstitutional wiretapping.
• Unconstitutionally waging war and not even bothering with the War Powers Act.
• Taking credit for Iraq ending when it was Iraq that kicked us out on Bush II's timetable and Obama was trying to stay longer. Assange has a much bigger claim for the removal of troops from Iraq.
• Cut deal with insurance industry while touting the public option. In the end, we get the No Insurance Company Left Behind Act. Lobbyists got their money's worth.
• Recent financial reform legislation so weak it would not have even slowed the meltdown had it already been in place. Lobbyists got their money's worth.
• Forgiving torturers Excusing them makes him complicit.
• Not even a show-attempt to prosecute fraud in the meltdown. Instead its bailouts and bonuses.
• Made deepwater horizon more likely.
• And the famous "hire the lobbyists for the industry you bow to" tactic. Good for what I don't know.
• Whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing should not be treated as Manning has been, and we don't even know if manning was responsible. He'll probably just get indefinite detention because the president says so. Welcome to Napoleonic America.

• Stop unconstitutional execution of the American citizenry.
• Stop unconstitutional detention.
• Stop unconstitutional wiretapping and prosectue AT&T's complicity (and that of any other carrier).
• Stop unconstitutionally waging war. From Korea onward, all our wars have been illegal, but Obama doesn't even feel constrained by the weak tea requirements of the war powers act. Our founding fathers never intended for the president to be a Napoleon.
• End the wars we are in. And please don't cite Iraq. The ONLY reason we are pulling out troops is because Iraq would not succumb to Obama's lobbying for a longer stay with immunity from war crimes. Thanks to wikipedia for that.
• Quit sucking insurance industry cock, i.e., real nice move touting the public option while secretly cutting a deal for the No Insurance Company Left Behind Act. I guess they got their money's worth.
• Quit sucking Wall Street cock, and don't pretend that the financial reform legislation would have even been a mild hindrance to the meltdown had it already been in place.
• Prosecute torturers rather than let them off the hook. Excusing them makes him complicit.
• At least make a show of investigating fraud on Street. The S&L crisis was 1/40th the size and 1000 bankers went to jail. This meltdown isn't even being investigated, instead, their handing out bonuses. A big "Fuck You Very Much Mr. Obama" for that.
• Thanks for helping to enable Deepwater horizon, it was exactly the gift I wanted!
• Quit hiring Keystone Pipeline lobbyists for your campaign.
• Bradley Manning. We know you have a hardon for anyone that might stand in the way of relentless war, but Christ, grow a soul and a sense of morality.

You and your attitude is the reason the rest of the world has been able to watch the rise and fall of the USA over the last 40 years.

His attitude is what made America great. The increasing entitlements are what have been draining the American work ethic.

When you realise the wealth of a nation is in how it cares for the worst off there may be some hope for the USA.

America takes care of its worst off very well, thank you very much. Then it takes care of its "not quite as worse off". Then it takes care of its "not bad off at all, but only have one flat screen TV and two game consoles, how am I supposed to eat?". In the latest RedBox article, there was this tidbit:
"Douchebags in the suburbs who can afford the 4 DVD plan from Netflix wouldn't know any redboxers but low income areas are all over these things. Reserving Blu rays from an iPhone app at one of the many kiosks means you don't even have to chance it anymore and waste time in these lines. A twenty cent increase != a twenty dollar increase."
Notice that? Low income, but using iPhone apps to rent movies.

But if you remain narrow-minded uncharitable xenophobes you will reap what you have sown.

Just because one gets taxed out the wazoo and that money is then given to someone else doesn't make one charitable. What makes one charitable is having the individual choice to give to someone else. I would advise you not to pay attention to sites like this which list charitable countries by how much their governments contribute, and instead check sites like http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/08/charitable-giving-country or http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682100&page=1 which discuss individual charity. Americans might be slightly xenophobic (although not really; we're the f-ing melting pot!), but we are charitable.

Story of the stolen liver, it looks like he did use the UNOS (and abuse).

SEC. 3.
ENHANCING ENFORCEMENT AGAINST ROGUE WEBSITES OPERATED AND REGISTERED OVERSEAS.

(a) COMMENCEMENT OF AN ACTION.â"
(1) IN
PERSONAM.â"The Attorney General may commence an in personam action againstâ"

7 (A) a registrant of a nondomestic domain name used by an Internet site dedicated to in-fringing activities; or
10 (B) an owner or operator of an Internet site dedicated to infringing activities accessed through a nondomestic domain name.

13 (2) IN REM.â"If through due diligence the At-torney General is unable to find a person described in subparagraphs (A) or (B) of paragraph (1), or no such person found has an address within a judicial district of the United States, the Attorney General may commence an in rem action against a non- domestic domain name used by an Internet site dedicated to infringing activities.

- etc.etc.etc.

I love it. Not only this bill (like EVERY government bill) is going to destroy more freedoms and jobs everywhere, I just LOVE IT how they call anything they don't like 'ROGUE' nowadays.

It's only one step away from being labeled a TERRORIST and then of-course, what are all those unmanned killer drones for, right?

The US government just murdered a 16 year old US citizen - the son of Anwar Awlaki, killed just a little while ago by another drone strike.

Be warned, the USA has long ceased to be a nation of laws, it is now a nation of terrorists.

This is a "Solyndra" for the pharmaceutical industry!

It's pretty clear that Guarasil kills people,
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/gardasil-hpv-vaccine-faces-safety-questions/story?id=8356717

And that any health benefit is dubious:

1. According to the National Cancer Society, mortality rates have declined 75% since the Pap test was widely implemented 50 years ago.
2. There is less than a 1% lifetime risk of developing cervical cancer and less than one quarter of 1% lifetime risk of dying of cervical cancer. That means 3 per 100,000 women die from cervical cancer in the US annually.
3. There are dozens of HPVs that can cause cervical cancer. In 90% of women, HPVs clear up on their own within two years. Of the remaining 10% of HPV infections, only half will develop into cervical cancer. It is only when the HPV virus lingers for many years that abnormal cells could turn into cancer.
4. The length of time required to develop invasive cervical cancer after identification of precursor lesions averages between 8.1 and 12.6 years and may require up to 40 years.
5. Nearly all cervical cancer deaths are preventable by a simple Pap screening and appropriate follow up.

Yet this is to become compulsory? And parental refusal is to be made impossible?

I don't think you want this established as precedent.

Breaking that cycle requires real money to recruit better teachers, and the shitty schools usually have the LEAST money.

I agree with the rest of your post, but you miss the point entirely here. The problem isn't that poor schools aren't being funded. In fact, per-student costs in poorer districts is actually multiple times what it is in more affluent areas (if you want a citation, watch the documentary Cartel and count the luxary cars found in school admin parking lots in the "poor" school districts of NJ). The problem is that a tiny fraction of that function actually makes it into the classroom. Most of it goes to pensions and unions.

And Chrysler and GM. More recent analysis here.

Um, Ron Paul is one of the most vocal critics of inflated defense spending.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/06/ron-paul-joins-house-lawmakers-in-push-for-military-spending-cuts/
http://www.ronpaul.com/2010-07-08/ron-paul-and-barney-frank-cut-military-spending/
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/02/balanced-budget-or-empire-you-cant-have-both/

He also voted against sending troops to Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Iraq

Our $$$ at risk with Tesla and another $0.5 Billion at risk with Fisker supporting offshore jobs in Finland.

He does talk about it to the tune of 15%

Like IR cameras, it would soon be banned from doing illegal searches.

Thought I'd follow up with this little tidbit, from a story about the SCOTUS case you're referring to:

Detective Larry Wilson of the Plano, Texas, police force, said it has been common for police to use thermal imaging on houses without first obtaining a warrant, and that will change.

But he says the police in his department and others he's trained around the country have been instructed not to use the devices without having first obtained probable cause through other means. So he says the ruling should not greatly affect current police use of infrared cameras on homes.

"Whenever we're doing an indoor grow operation investigation we've already established the necessary probable cause prior to doing the thermal imaging," said Wilson. "Now the only step that's going to be added is to get an affidavit and get a judge to do that and issue a warrant."

So, far from being banned, they're using them as much as they always have.

The nfl offered it to cable systems but they did not put the funds to buy it But also the NFL wanted to be open to as much as the USA as they can so cable only would of been a no go more so back when it came up lot's of systems / in demand did not have a lot of room and some cable systems did not even have to room to fit in all of the MLB EI/ NHL CI / MLS DK/ and NBA LP channels. Also fox, nbc (before fox had NFL games) and cbs had say when it got started and they did not like it as NFL broadcasts are the ratings drivers for the networks' local affiliates.

But in Canada the law says you can't have exclusive stuff like NFL ticket so it's open to any system.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/071030

It also turned out that before digital cable, most cable carriers lacked the bandwidth to show multiple viewer-elected channels simultaneously, so in the 1990s, Sunday Ticket probably couldn't have gone on cable anyway.

In 2002, the DirecTV exclusive on Sunday Ticket expired. By then, digital cable was on the horizon and Sunday Ticket was widely expected to shift to cable. The cable carriers wanted games sold individually, pay-per-view. The league wanted an all-encompassing package,

A power struggle ensued, with the big egos in the executive suites of the cable carriers essentially saying, "We'll decide how to market your games." This not only offended the big egos in the executive suites of the NFL but was totally different from the league's traditional partnership relationships with the broadcast networks and ESPN. In the background, the cable carriers were jockeying against each other to start their own sports networks and were angered by rumors the NFL would found what became NFL Network. In December 2002, the league gave the cable carriers a deadline for an offer for Sunday Ticket; the deadline passed, so the league re-upped with DirecTV; the cable carriers then presented a too-late offer and issued press releases denouncing the league for not waiting.

Facebook? What about the government? They are upset when Amazon is doing exactly what they have been doing since 9/11.

"Usually?" It's happened once.

At least twice: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/08/apple-iphone-5-prototype-lost-in-san-francisco-bar/