Since you seem to have absolutely no problem with your racist rhetoric I'll refute it.
Negroes score a full standard deviation lower than other races on standard intelligence measuring tests.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this statement is effectively useless. First, intellegence measuring tests are notoriaous for their inability to measure performance in the real world, generally. Second, there is no such group as "Negroes." In fact, I'm quite suprised that one would posit that there is. How exactly do you define a "Negro"? I bet you can't.
In 1960, the United States was approximately 96% white. Today, it is less than 70%, and will be less than 50% by 2050.
Liar. This is an outright lie. The United States has almost always had at least a 15% population of blacks, or african-americans if you prefer. On this point alone your post is completely and totally wrong.
In fact, that's enough for me, I can't believe I didn't notice your idiocy earlier.
Wireless? These don't appear to be 802.11... you mean cellular.
Wow, if you have a cellular carrier that still uses wires I would definitely consider switching. It is terribly convenient to not have to carry around them large spools of wire.
I don't know, anyone who can use a mac to write a virus that will take down the energy shields of a previously unknown alien race counts as a damn fine computer scientist to me.
If the information is top secret then it must be assumed that said procedures are top secret, so how exactly would I be able to know if the procedures had been followed?
And I have absolutely no problem with Qwest demanding a warrant or refusing to join in the program without one. What I do have a problem with is the leaking by the unnamed sources, to the press without at least first going through proper channels.
And why do you assume that they did not try proper channels first?
I don't care what the procedures are, people need to know about these things. You also assume that those procedures weren't followed.
Let me put this simply, I don't trust my government, Bush or otherwise, and if these people don't leak this stuff then it will never get out. Who exactly do expect to fix it? The bought congressfolk?
Didn't know about the military leadership during Carter. That'll teach me to not do my homework.
Both of those instances were rural, the only successful possible American insurgency would neccessarily be urban.
And look how well the army is dealing with urban insurgency in Iraq; just imaging that combined with possibly sympathetic factions in the armed forces.
I think the bigger story here is that there's been yet another leak of classified information without proper authorization. If these leakers who are sharing classified information with non-credentialed sources for their own personal reasons or political gain (there is a clear mechanism in place if they truly believed that a program was violating American law and leaking to a reporter is not it) continue to do this with such regularity, then they may as well just shut down the CIA and NSA and military intelligence agencies and just throw in the towel.
The people leaking this stuff need to be given medals. What we are seeing now is the intelligence communities response to the Bush administration's attempted takeover of the civilian agencies by the military. (see: nomination of a general to lead the CIA)
I have to say, I am not a fan of all these secret police agencies operating in the US; I think we need to abolish all of them and reconstitute them with real oversight. But, I am overjoyed at the responsibility that these leakers are taking for informing Americans about these horrible programs.
Remember, all, or most, of these people have taken oaths to uphold the constitution; and, it's good to see some people take their oeth seriously.
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Since you seem to have absolutely no problem with your racist rhetoric I'll refute it.
Negroes score a full standard deviation lower than other races on standard intelligence measuring tests.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this statement is effectively useless. First, intellegence measuring tests are notoriaous for their inability to measure performance in the real world, generally. Second, there is no such group as "Negroes." In fact, I'm quite suprised that one would posit that there is. How exactly do you define a "Negro"? I bet you can't.
In 1960, the United States was approximately 96% white. Today, it is less than 70%, and will be less than 50% by 2050.
Liar. This is an outright lie. The United States has almost always had at least a 15% population of blacks, or african-americans if you prefer. On this point alone your post is completely and totally wrong.
In fact, that's enough for me, I can't believe I didn't notice your idiocy earlier.
But that isn't the way copyright law works, whatever your view of how it *should* work.
If you quote a large enough section of any writing it can be considered infringment and not fair use.
All fiction is noise?
Like Candide?
Or Invisible Man, by Ellison?
Come now, you just aren't reading the right fiction.
Oh shit, you did not just say "Negroes."
What century are we in again?
Well worth the extra $200, I'm sure.
Helium atom: But I know where I am!
And I thought it was getting bad here in the U.S.
I guess a written constitution does have some utility.
That's why it's *cellular*.
When you reach the 1000ft limit you just unplug the cable and switch to the next cell.
Duh!
Wireless? These don't appear to be 802.11... you mean cellular.
Wow, if you have a cellular carrier that still uses wires I would definitely consider switching. It is terribly convenient to not have to carry around them large spools of wire.
I assume they give away the information on your wireless activities as well?
Sign me up.
I was merely making the point that the PS3 will definitely not have problems with its price point, especially in the beginning.
The fanboys will line up to buy it even at $600.
And it will hit $1000 on Ebay.
No suprises here.
Hells yeah!
Feynman'll get all Tuvan on your ass.
Don't make me throat sing, don't even try me.
Man, are you trying to start a holy war?
"When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!"
Advice to live by.
I don't know, anyone who can use a mac to write a virus that will take down the energy shields of a previously unknown alien race counts as a damn fine computer scientist to me.
Jeff Goldblum, no contest.
If the information is top secret then it must be assumed that said procedures are top secret, so how exactly would I be able to know if the procedures had been followed?
And I have absolutely no problem with Qwest demanding a warrant or refusing to join in the program without one. What I do have a problem with is the leaking by the unnamed sources, to the press without at least first going through proper channels.
And why do you assume that they did not try proper channels first?
Would we know if they had?
I don't care what the procedures are, people need to know about these things. You also assume that those procedures weren't followed.
Let me put this simply, I don't trust my government, Bush or otherwise, and if these people don't leak this stuff then it will never get out. Who exactly do expect to fix it? The bought congressfolk?
Didn't know about the military leadership during Carter. That'll teach me to not do my homework.
Right, and we can't prove that there are no unicorns, so it must follow that it is logical to believe that there might exist one or more unicorns?
Both of those instances were rural, the only successful possible American insurgency would neccessarily be urban.
And look how well the army is dealing with urban insurgency in Iraq; just imaging that combined with possibly sympathetic factions in the armed forces.
I think the bigger story here is that there's been yet another leak of classified information without proper authorization. If these leakers who are sharing classified information with non-credentialed sources for their own personal reasons or political gain (there is a clear mechanism in place if they truly believed that a program was violating American law and leaking to a reporter is not it) continue to do this with such regularity, then they may as well just shut down the CIA and NSA and military intelligence agencies and just throw in the towel.
The people leaking this stuff need to be given medals. What we are seeing now is the intelligence communities response to the Bush administration's attempted takeover of the civilian agencies by the military. (see: nomination of a general to lead the CIA)
I have to say, I am not a fan of all these secret police agencies operating in the US; I think we need to abolish all of them and reconstitute them with real oversight. But, I am overjoyed at the responsibility that these leakers are taking for informing Americans about these horrible programs.
Remember, all, or most, of these people have taken oaths to uphold the constitution; and, it's good to see some people take their oeth seriously.
Online polls are a horrible measure of opinion, even more self selecting than telephone polls.
Damn likely that some partisan site posted the poll then a web swarm ensued.
Also, those polls are posted next to an article and, depending on the exact content of the article, the poll can be even more skewed.
Not that this mean Americans accept this, I haven't talked to anyone who does.
Yeah, that shit always confuses me, too ;)