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Judge Denies Administration Request To Delay ACLU Metadata Lawsuit

Posted by Unknown on from the let-the-battle-begin dept.

sl4shd0rk writes "Federal Judge William Pauley has dismissed an Obama Administration request to delay a hearing on Verizon/NSA data sifting. The ACLU has argued that the sifting is not authorized by statute and even if it were it would still be unconstitutional. The Obama Administration requested the delay on the grounds it needed more time to search through its classified material to determine what was suitable for disclosure." See also the case docket. Motions must be filed by August 26th, and oral arguments begin on November 1st.

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  1. Re:That may be true, but the judge couldn't delay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this first fucking post

    First Post for Jesus! Let Him into your heart, Slashdotters.

    WWJD

    What does that mean?

    I see that all the time "Believe in Jesus!"

    "Let him in your heart!"

    etc ....

    There is no evidence that Jesus even existed. There is no evidence for God or any god or gods. Aside from the names of cities, the Bible has no evidence for its stories. It's a Fairy Tale..

    I stopped believing in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny when I was around 7 years of age.

    When I asked my dear kind priest (fuck you! to whoever insinuates he molested me!) about this, and he just said it's "Faith". Faith is belief without evidence. BTWI have none.

    And as one physicists pointed out (can't remember for cites) and to paraphrase, "By this time there SHOULD be evidence for the existence of God. Since there isn't, then that's 'proof' God doesn't exist."

    I see Michael Shermer's argument that being atheist is just as dogmatic as "knowing" God exists. But does anyone say the same thing about not believing in Zeus or the Tooth Fairy? By his reasoning, I am being dogmatic about NOT believing in the Tooth Fairy. She COULD exist because there's no proof - and I wish because I think she's hot and I want to do a fairy!

    Wait, wait, not the 'fairy' part - nohomo - just the hot chick with wings - wait, not hot wings bu t a HOT CHICK with Wings...OK?

  2. Re:That may be true, but the judge couldn't delay by swan5566 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There is no evidence that Jesus even existed.

    Using this same historical burden of proof, you must also say that most other historical figures have no evidence of existence either. Otherwise you're trying to have it both ways.

    --
    In debates about Christianity, there are two groups: those looking for answers, and those looking to just ask questions.
  3. Re:That may be true, but the judge couldn't delay by Kielistic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's not true at all. Historical figures are usually corroborated by other societies they came in contact with. Otherwise anything "known" about them is taken with a grain of salt.