I used to buy ATI All in Wonder cards, but as of my last one, which I think was a 9600, I just couldn't take the crappy performance and poor implementation anymore, and I was working on Windows. Since then, I haven't even bothered with ATI.
I had to get a spinal tap done when I was younger. I was hospitalized for a little while and I thought I felt fucked up because of the drugs or the illness. When I got sent home from the hospital I still couldn't move around very well and was stuck in bed. But no, years later I had another bout of whatever it was I had, and this time I didn't get a spinal tap, and was up and about in a couple of days after the illness had past. The most horrendous part is that they lost the results of the test for which the spinal tap was taken.
Of course, given the choice between getting Alzheimer's treated early on and being laid up for a week, I think I'd rather avoid the Alzheimer's. My friend's grandmother had it and my grandfather had it. For me, there's hardly anything worse.
Since the whole organism converts sunlight into oil, algae can produce more oil in an area the size of a two-car garage than an entire football field of soybeans.
So are football fields of soybeans going to be the standardized measurement for biofuels? I'd prefer hockey rinks of alfalfa sprouts.
Thank you for contacting my office regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2007 (S. 2248). I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and concerns with me.
As you know, the FISA Amendments Act would amend current law by expanding the intelligence community's authority to collect foreign intelligence through electronic means. Having served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and as Assistant Secretary of Defense, I relied on decades of experience in dealing with national security matters and classified intelligence when I voted in favor of final passage of this bill on February 12, 2008. I also met with a wide variety of people who were both supportive of, and opposed to, these changes.
During the Senate debate, I supported a number of amendments that were designed to improve the constitutional protections of our citizens. Further, Senators Russell Feingold, Jon Tester, and I introduced an amendment that would have added additional checks and balances with respect to assessing the appropriate use of surveillance. Unfortunately, this amendment was not passed by the full Senate. After passage of the Senate bill, I sent a letter urging Members who sit on the Senate-House Conference Committee to strike a more appropriate balance between protecting constitutional rights and providing the intelligence community with the tools needed to monitor terrorists.
Regarding retroactive immunity for telecommunication companies that participated in the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program, I do not support full immunity for companies who aided Government surveillance. I prefer a middle-ground solution that would allow court cases to proceed under appropriate circumstances. For example, I supported an amendment offered by Senators Arlen Specter and Sheldon Whitehouse, which would have allowed the U.S. government to be substituted for telecommunication companies in certain civil actions. I also supported an amendment offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein, which would have allowed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to determine whether telecommunication companies acted in good faith when complying with government surveillance request. If the FISC determined a telecommunication company did not act in good faith, the company would not be immune from consumers' legal actions.
As the U.S. Senate continues to debate matters pertaining to electronic surveillance, please be assured I will keep your views in mind.
Warner:
Thank you for writing to share your views on surveillance activities conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) and oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance CourtAct (FISA) court. I appreciate your thoughtful inquiry.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provides a statutory framework for the federal government to engage in electronic surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence. Under current law, the FISA court, an eleven-member court created by Congress in 1978, reviews government requests to conduct certain domestic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. If the court finds probable cause to believe that the target of the proposed surveillance is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power, the court may issue an order authorizing surveillance.
As you know, citing his authority under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the President authorized the NSA to collect signals intelligence from communications involving foreign persons who were reasonably believed to be al-Qaida members and who called into the United States or someone in the United States. The President's program was intended to fill a gap in intelligence collection for those calls that were not purely domestic and not purely foreign.
On August 17, 2006, a federal district judge ruled court ruling in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union determined that the NSA surveillance program was unconstitutional and ordered that t
The big advantage to them doing 1 film every 3-4 years is they might put a bit more thought into the script, and not churn out the same load of cheap gags and unorigional shit all the time.
But then why don't they just this phenomenal script on their, apparently, moneymaking 3D endeavors?
I've not read anywhere near a significant amount about dealing with Scientology, but has it ever been suggested that intellectual property and tax-exempt status of a church be linked?
It seems to me that any tax-exempt organization is given that status on the presumption that they benefit society in some way. It seems like it should be a basic requirement for tax exemption status to have completely and utterly transparent accounting.
On top of that, tho, I think any literature and beliefs should also be open, and public domain. I think that'd be a good rule to apply to all churches. Any church not willing to comply can always forfeit their tax exempt status.
Perhaps if they wanted to curb the resale of their devices, they should offer some sort of buy back program? They'll still turn around and sell them again and make a profit. I'm surprised it's not on some kind of leasing program, since it's their view that people who buy them can't do with them as they wish. To boot, I'm sure the ongoing revenuestream seems right up their alley.
Because what I reject is the limitation imposed by atheistic scientists that the answer to that first argued question must be presupposed towards randomness, not design.
From one perspective at least, randomness is the failure of a human to appreciate the confluence of events that led to that state. Design, conversely, may be the supposition or understanding of those same events. I suppose that's probably what chaos theory is about.
Either way, it's more or less an anthropic principle. Whether there is a god(s) or not, things certainly are, aren't they?
I have a friend who finds such sync'd songs on youtube purely for the purpose of listening to the song. He keeps the window in the background. If you believe that my friend would've bought that song otherwise, then I suppose the originator was deprived.
I think an anti-evolution question is important, and perhaps even more so than all your exemplary questions. The reason is that someone who is anti-evolution is anti-science. Someone who is anti-science would impede the progress of science and technology in America, that is, the way we better ourselves and come up with things to sell. In other words, I view it as a canary in the coal mine.
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But we all let Apple get away with murder. Apple is like the hot girl that gets pulled over for speeding. The cops let her go because she's pretty.
Wait, I'm confused. Is Apple getting away with murder or speeding?
> Personally, I'd never trust a lightbulb test done by the blind.
And the doubly blind, doubly so.
>And where do you put it?
People keep bringing up Texas...
I used to buy ATI All in Wonder cards, but as of my last one, which I think was a 9600, I just couldn't take the crappy performance and poor implementation anymore, and I was working on Windows. Since then, I haven't even bothered with ATI.
I had to get a spinal tap done when I was younger. I was hospitalized for a little while and I thought I felt fucked up because of the drugs or the illness. When I got sent home from the hospital I still couldn't move around very well and was stuck in bed. But no, years later I had another bout of whatever it was I had, and this time I didn't get a spinal tap, and was up and about in a couple of days after the illness had past. The most horrendous part is that they lost the results of the test for which the spinal tap was taken. Of course, given the choice between getting Alzheimer's treated early on and being laid up for a week, I think I'd rather avoid the Alzheimer's. My friend's grandmother had it and my grandfather had it. For me, there's hardly anything worse.
So are football fields of soybeans going to be the standardized measurement for biofuels? I'd prefer hockey rinks of alfalfa sprouts.
Well... It's a tool like any other tool. A shovel could be used to plant a tree, or it could be used to bash someone's face in.
Thank you for contacting my office regarding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2007 (S. 2248). I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and concerns with me. As you know, the FISA Amendments Act would amend current law by expanding the intelligence community's authority to collect foreign intelligence through electronic means. Having served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy and as Assistant Secretary of Defense, I relied on decades of experience in dealing with national security matters and classified intelligence when I voted in favor of final passage of this bill on February 12, 2008. I also met with a wide variety of people who were both supportive of, and opposed to, these changes. During the Senate debate, I supported a number of amendments that were designed to improve the constitutional protections of our citizens. Further, Senators Russell Feingold, Jon Tester, and I introduced an amendment that would have added additional checks and balances with respect to assessing the appropriate use of surveillance. Unfortunately, this amendment was not passed by the full Senate. After passage of the Senate bill, I sent a letter urging Members who sit on the Senate-House Conference Committee to strike a more appropriate balance between protecting constitutional rights and providing the intelligence community with the tools needed to monitor terrorists. Regarding retroactive immunity for telecommunication companies that participated in the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program, I do not support full immunity for companies who aided Government surveillance. I prefer a middle-ground solution that would allow court cases to proceed under appropriate circumstances. For example, I supported an amendment offered by Senators Arlen Specter and Sheldon Whitehouse, which would have allowed the U.S. government to be substituted for telecommunication companies in certain civil actions. I also supported an amendment offered by Senator Dianne Feinstein, which would have allowed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to determine whether telecommunication companies acted in good faith when complying with government surveillance request. If the FISC determined a telecommunication company did not act in good faith, the company would not be immune from consumers' legal actions. As the U.S. Senate continues to debate matters pertaining to electronic surveillance, please be assured I will keep your views in mind.
Warner:
Thank you for writing to share your views on surveillance activities conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) and oversight by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance CourtAct (FISA) court. I appreciate your thoughtful inquiry. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) provides a statutory framework for the federal government to engage in electronic surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence. Under current law, the FISA court, an eleven-member court created by Congress in 1978, reviews government requests to conduct certain domestic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. If the court finds probable cause to believe that the target of the proposed surveillance is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power, the court may issue an order authorizing surveillance. As you know, citing his authority under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, the President authorized the NSA to collect signals intelligence from communications involving foreign persons who were reasonably believed to be al-Qaida members and who called into the United States or someone in the United States. The President's program was intended to fill a gap in intelligence collection for those calls that were not purely domestic and not purely foreign. On August 17, 2006, a federal district judge ruled court ruling in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union determined that the NSA surveillance program was unconstitutional and ordered that t
See, the cost of gasoline is human lives. So you're saying soil-ent gas is made out of people? IT'S PEOPLE???
I've not read anywhere near a significant amount about dealing with Scientology, but has it ever been suggested that intellectual property and tax-exempt status of a church be linked? It seems to me that any tax-exempt organization is given that status on the presumption that they benefit society in some way. It seems like it should be a basic requirement for tax exemption status to have completely and utterly transparent accounting. On top of that, tho, I think any literature and beliefs should also be open, and public domain. I think that'd be a good rule to apply to all churches. Any church not willing to comply can always forfeit their tax exempt status.
"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel." -Horace Walpole
of a recording of the world's smallest man playing on the world's smallest violin plays the world's saddest song...
That's fine and all, but I thought one of the things they were tracking was the connection itself, between who/what.
I have a friend who finds such sync'd songs on youtube purely for the purpose of listening to the song. He keeps the window in the background. If you believe that my friend would've bought that song otherwise, then I suppose the originator was deprived.
I think an anti-evolution question is important, and perhaps even more so than all your exemplary questions. The reason is that someone who is anti-evolution is anti-science. Someone who is anti-science would impede the progress of science and technology in America, that is, the way we better ourselves and come up with things to sell. In other words, I view it as a canary in the coal mine.