So AT&T can listen to your phone conversations and read your text messages?
Back in the old days, with human operators making phone connections, one naturally assumed that an operator might still be listening in to the call. (Not to mention others who shared the same party line)
Only after automated switching equipment became ubiquitous did people assume that a right to privacy existed for telephone conversations.
Amidst all the cheers and applause for Jefferson, I dare to offer my opposing view.
As governor of Virginia, he failed to properly defend the state's armory and then fled in a cowardly fashion when the redcoats showed up. In effect, he handed over the weapons and ammunition needed for his state's defense to the enemy, without offering any resistance.
As secretary of state, he was utterly disloyal to President Washington and sided with France against the government of which he was a part. Fortunately, Washington, Hamilton, and Adams prevented Jefferson from doing too much damage to American foreign policy.
As president, Jefferson stripped the Navy of its capital ships at a time when Britain and France were most threatening. Then he paid off the Barbary pirates and set free those which his naval captains had captured... even ordering pirate ships to be returned. Later, the country was so poorly defended that his successor had to flee the capital to avoid capture during the War of 1812.
As president, his policy of shutting off trade with Britain and creating an economic depression did more damage than what the British had attempted to do. During his second term, he so totally lost interest in performing the duties of the presidency that he effectively turned over the operations of the government to James Madison; Madison was the de facto president in 1807 and 1808, before he was elected in 1808.
Jefferson may have had some private virtues, though I cannot name them. But he was cowardly in battle, disloyal to the president to whom he'd sworn allegiance, unwilling or unable to perform the essential duties of his office, and so ignorant of economic principles that he did more damage to the nation's economy than did our mortal enemies.
Didn't the sea level rise by about 30 cm during the 20th century? I think it did, even though this was not on the front pages of every newspaper published between 1901 and 2000. Somehow humans were able to adapt, and we can probably adapt to another rise of 30 cm this century.
Since last year, about the time of Steve Jobs' death, the New York Times has been on an anti-Apple kick. First with the allegations about labor conditions at the factories in China, now about the labor conditions in the Apple Stores. It is almost as if someone on the editorial staff decided that Apple was too big and too successful and it was the duty of the NYT to take them down.
Or maybe someone in management at the Times decided to short Apple stock.
They cannot start with an empty lot and construct such a tall building in 90 days. The foundation must be broad and deep and the reinforced concrete must be fully cured before any construction can begin. Of course, even in the US we discover instances where contractors cut corners on the quality of the concrete, such as the recently disclosed problems with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, it was the far right that saw a threat in US membership in the United Nations.
Today, that threat ought to be apparent to everyone, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
The United Nations is the greatest criminal organization in the history of the world. Already it collects tens of billions of dollars annually from taxpayers in the more-productive countries; but it has plans that would allow it to steal hundreds of billions, mainly through carbon trading and taxes on financial transactions.
Letting the UN do its thing while we ignore it and go our own way, is not a positive longterm strategy. Right now the Senate is debating the Law of the Sea Treaty, which should have been killed off once and for all back in the 1980s. But instead we ignored it and now it's back; if ratified, then the UN would collect royalties on undersea mining, etc., and the bureaucrats would keep 50% or 90% before redistributing the remainder to the corrupt governments of "underdeveloped" countries.
Today the president and the mainstream media share the same enemies' list. Woodward and Bernstein would be welcome on Fox News but nowhere else. Watergate would get 11 seconds of mention on Good Morning America, but be totally ignored on all the evening newscasts.
Stonewalling works the same in 2012 as it did in 1973.
I have never played long enough into the future to allow any other civilizations to develop nuclear weapons. I have never allowed other civilizations to retain enough assets to threaten me or my cities. If you establish the United Nations, other civilizations must make peace with you, if you wish.
I suppose there are scenarios where the game turns out very differently.
The UN is a bureaucracy constantly searching for new revenues so it can further enrich itself.
"Oil for Food" worked okay, and was good for several tens of billions of dollars.
The climate change scam, with the UN siphoning off trillions from the trading of carbon credits, was an ambitious goal. But it required the cooperation of too many people.
Taxing the Internet? Same objection as the climate change scam.
My favorite idea? Move the UN headquarters to South Georgia Island, or maybe Spitzbergen, and insist that all UN bureaucrats move there as well.
Maybe after Hugo Chavez passes on to the Great Socialist Utopia in the Sky, Venezuela can again become what you say it is. But right now, one man makes all the decisions, including which opposition candidates to allow on the ballot and which ones to throw in prison. That makes it a dictatorship.
Until very recently, the NRA endorsed Democrats in roughly the same percentages as Republicans. It only looks at voting records and campaign statements made regarding gun ownership. It does not care about any other political opinion.
Over the last ten years or so, however, more and more pro-gun Democrats have retired from office or been defeated by pro-gun Republicans. The NRA has not changed and has not become more rightwing.
It is hard to imagine a considerable leftwing contingent within the NRA membership, however they probably exist in numbers that would surprise both of us.
The survey sample was of adults, not registered voters or likely voters. Samples like this tend to be skewed toward the less-educated and toward those who vote Democrat.
Why do you say they are ruining things for the rest of us? What does it matter to you? Do you need unanimous agreement with your beliefs, in order to feel good about yourself?
In the article I read, it was reported that the most likely method of infecting computers with this malware was through the use of a USB flash drive.
So it would require the use of moles or agents.
Also, the report said the total number of such infected computers was less than 300. Even so, the amount of data being collected from each would require considerable resources to sift and process... which a nation-state would have.
Or for Barack Obama, until we find out who he's speaking of when he refers to "my sons". As he did recently in Des Moines, and in Redwood City, California.
Does he have another wife somewhere, besides Michelle, or a concubine?
Wozniak was a very good engineer who happened to be at the right place at the right time. Jobs is the one who changed entire industries: computers, telecoms, music, movies, maybe television.
So, in 2007 the National Research Council recommended that annual spending on these satellites should be increased from $1.5 billion to $2.0 billion... but this never happened.
Which political party controlled both houses of Congress in 2007, and 2008, and 2009, and 2010? And still controls the Senate?
So, which party of slack-jawed yokels should be blamed for this deficiency?
Protesting is legal, but when illegal activities happen at a protest, it is helpful to the police and beneficial to the cause for which everyone was assembled if the police can identify the ones who are breaking the laws.
If the protesters are wearing masks, then everyone present must be assumed to be guilty of the violent or destructive activities.
Personally, I don't care what reason is used to justify the arrest of masked protesters. They are the "Anonymous Cowards" of the physical world.
One, states with lots of migrants often have a higher percentage of school kids for whom English is a second language. This results in lower average test scores.
Two, public school teachers have, in many districts, practically given up on teaching. They show up for work and they receive a paycheck, and if they are lucky then they get to teach a few bright students each year.
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So AT&T can listen to your phone conversations and read your text messages?
Back in the old days, with human operators making phone connections, one naturally assumed that an operator might still be listening in to the call. (Not to mention others who shared the same party line)
Only after automated switching equipment became ubiquitous did people assume that a right to privacy existed for telephone conversations.
Amidst all the cheers and applause for Jefferson, I dare to offer my opposing view.
As governor of Virginia, he failed to properly defend the state's armory and then fled in a cowardly fashion when the redcoats showed up. In effect, he handed over the weapons and ammunition needed for his state's defense to the enemy, without offering any resistance.
As secretary of state, he was utterly disloyal to President Washington and sided with France against the government of which he was a part. Fortunately, Washington, Hamilton, and Adams prevented Jefferson from doing too much damage to American foreign policy.
As president, Jefferson stripped the Navy of its capital ships at a time when Britain and France were most threatening. Then he paid off the Barbary pirates and set free those which his naval captains had captured... even ordering pirate ships to be returned. Later, the country was so poorly defended that his successor had to flee the capital to avoid capture during the War of 1812.
As president, his policy of shutting off trade with Britain and creating an economic depression did more damage than what the British had attempted to do. During his second term, he so totally lost interest in performing the duties of the presidency that he effectively turned over the operations of the government to James Madison; Madison was the de facto president in 1807 and 1808, before he was elected in 1808.
Jefferson may have had some private virtues, though I cannot name them. But he was cowardly in battle, disloyal to the president to whom he'd sworn allegiance, unwilling or unable to perform the essential duties of his office, and so ignorant of economic principles that he did more damage to the nation's economy than did our mortal enemies.
Didn't the sea level rise by about 30 cm during the 20th century? I think it did, even though this was not on the front pages of every newspaper published between 1901 and 2000. Somehow humans were able to adapt, and we can probably adapt to another rise of 30 cm this century.
Since last year, about the time of Steve Jobs' death, the New York Times has been on an anti-Apple kick. First with the allegations about labor conditions at the factories in China, now about the labor conditions in the Apple Stores. It is almost as if someone on the editorial staff decided that Apple was too big and too successful and it was the duty of the NYT to take them down.
Or maybe someone in management at the Times decided to short Apple stock.
They cannot start with an empty lot and construct such a tall building in 90 days. The foundation must be broad and deep and the reinforced concrete must be fully cured before any construction can begin. Of course, even in the US we discover instances where contractors cut corners on the quality of the concrete, such as the recently disclosed problems with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, it was the far right that saw a threat in US membership in the United Nations.
Today, that threat ought to be apparent to everyone, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
The United Nations is the greatest criminal organization in the history of the world. Already it collects tens of billions of dollars annually from taxpayers in the more-productive countries; but it has plans that would allow it to steal hundreds of billions, mainly through carbon trading and taxes on financial transactions.
Letting the UN do its thing while we ignore it and go our own way, is not a positive longterm strategy. Right now the Senate is debating the Law of the Sea Treaty, which should have been killed off once and for all back in the 1980s. But instead we ignored it and now it's back; if ratified, then the UN would collect royalties on undersea mining, etc., and the bureaucrats would keep 50% or 90% before redistributing the remainder to the corrupt governments of "underdeveloped" countries.
Today the president and the mainstream media share the same enemies' list. Woodward and Bernstein would be welcome on Fox News but nowhere else. Watergate would get 11 seconds of mention on Good Morning America, but be totally ignored on all the evening newscasts.
Stonewalling works the same in 2012 as it did in 1973.
I have never played long enough into the future to allow any other civilizations to develop nuclear weapons. I have never allowed other civilizations to retain enough assets to threaten me or my cities. If you establish the United Nations, other civilizations must make peace with you, if you wish.
I suppose there are scenarios where the game turns out very differently.
The UN is a bureaucracy constantly searching for new revenues so it can further enrich itself.
"Oil for Food" worked okay, and was good for several tens of billions of dollars.
The climate change scam, with the UN siphoning off trillions from the trading of carbon credits, was an ambitious goal. But it required the cooperation of too many people.
Taxing the Internet? Same objection as the climate change scam.
My favorite idea? Move the UN headquarters to South Georgia Island, or maybe Spitzbergen, and insist that all UN bureaucrats move there as well.
I'm old enough to remember Paul Erlicht and the Club of Rome. Total BS and this sounds like more of the same.
"world ending, women and minorities most affected"
Maybe after Hugo Chavez passes on to the Great Socialist Utopia in the Sky, Venezuela can again become what you say it is. But right now, one man makes all the decisions, including which opposition candidates to allow on the ballot and which ones to throw in prison. That makes it a dictatorship.
I hate environmental groups, I really do. Pretty much every one of them. They are Luddites.
Until very recently, the NRA endorsed Democrats in roughly the same percentages as Republicans. It only looks at voting records and campaign statements made regarding gun ownership. It does not care about any other political opinion.
Over the last ten years or so, however, more and more pro-gun Democrats have retired from office or been defeated by pro-gun Republicans. The NRA has not changed and has not become more rightwing.
It is hard to imagine a considerable leftwing contingent within the NRA membership, however they probably exist in numbers that would surprise both of us.
It sure looks like a dictatorship. Are there any important differences between Venezuela and a dictatorship?
The survey sample was of adults, not registered voters or likely voters. Samples like this tend to be skewed toward the less-educated and toward those who vote Democrat.
Why do you say they are ruining things for the rest of us? What does it matter to you? Do you need unanimous agreement with your beliefs, in order to feel good about yourself?
And what have you done, except to post anonymously? We know what Wozniak has accomplished? Have you done 1/100th as much?
In the article I read, it was reported that the most likely method of infecting computers with this malware was through the use of a USB flash drive.
So it would require the use of moles or agents.
Also, the report said the total number of such infected computers was less than 300. Even so, the amount of data being collected from each would require considerable resources to sift and process... which a nation-state would have.
Or for Barack Obama, until we find out who he's speaking of when he refers to "my sons". As he did recently in Des Moines, and in Redwood City, California.
Does he have another wife somewhere, besides Michelle, or a concubine?
I've observed my nephew and his friends (8-9 years old) using Macintosh computers, and I'll wager not a single one of them has ever read a manual.
If they can figure it out, then Entropius should be able to figure it out.
Wozniak was a very good engineer who happened to be at the right place at the right time. Jobs is the one who changed entire industries: computers, telecoms, music, movies, maybe television.
Hanson is the sham.
He's a fraud and appears to be mentally deranged... suffering from the same malady as Al Gore.
I do not know why he still draws a paycheck from the US Treasury each month.
So, in 2007 the National Research Council recommended that annual spending on these satellites should be increased from $1.5 billion to $2.0 billion... but this never happened.
Which political party controlled both houses of Congress in 2007, and 2008, and 2009, and 2010? And still controls the Senate?
So, which party of slack-jawed yokels should be blamed for this deficiency?
Protesting is legal, but when illegal activities happen at a protest, it is helpful to the police and beneficial to the cause for which everyone was assembled if the police can identify the ones who are breaking the laws.
If the protesters are wearing masks, then everyone present must be assumed to be guilty of the violent or destructive activities.
Personally, I don't care what reason is used to justify the arrest of masked protesters. They are the "Anonymous Cowards" of the physical world.
A few points...
One, states with lots of migrants often have a higher percentage of school kids for whom English is a second language. This results in lower average test scores.
Two, public school teachers have, in many districts, practically given up on teaching. They show up for work and they receive a paycheck, and if they are lucky then they get to teach a few bright students each year.