I always assume that all international phone calls are tapped, if not by the U.S. Government, then by foreign governments such as the Chinese, the French and the Israel. The first thing I do on these threads is search for the words "foreign" and "international" to see if anybody has a clue.
Congratulations! You have a clue!
It is amazing how many people think the government is listening to domestic phone calls without warrants.
Governments can search your person, papers, and possessions at the border.
But somehow, international phone calls are supposed to be exempt.
Americans do care about domestic spying. If the Time magazine article is correct, Americans have seen through the intentional conflation, confusion, and crapola spewed by the Dummycrat party.
We, quite properly, believe our government should be able to inspect international traffic.
The earth is a closed eco-system, unless we head for the stars. There have been many studies of population growth in closed systems. They end with a lot of suffering. Good work uniting the creationist understanding of thermodynamics with the socialist understanding of scientific progress!
Gamma adjustment and color correction. Dodging and burning. Red-eye and dust removal. Cropping. JPEG or other data compression. Dynamic range compression.
The only non-manipulated image is the raw data from the sensors. This is actually an improvement over film, where developing techniques can have quite an impact on the negatives - in film photography, there are no un-manipulated images.
Any serious news bureau should provide their raw images to interested parties. Only this way can their customers (us!) tell how much manipulation an image has undergone.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alley, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he bears a hearing. Kaku is a media whore who threw away his science cred by joining the nukophobes. Teller should have strangled him.
Grandparent said,
"As much as I'd like to see a woman or a (excuse the wording) black man in the White House, because it'll do the world as a whole a lot of good The parent put a good question,
How does that follow? The answer is, how could it not follow?
For their entire miseducation, several generations have been taught that white men are evil.
Therefore, a black or woman is automatically and completely good.
It's an easy A in any class, including math and science, to blame anything and everything on white men.
Those who enjoy the game are given PhDs in various fields, but the only thing they really know is how to hate white men.
Global Warming is caused by white men. The climate was perfect before white men. White men cause poverty because they hate people. Yadda yadda.
It is very sad that racial scapegoating is so respectable. We humans are an African species. All Americans are African-Americans.
But how to you start to explain the difference between a priori and a posteriori without people rolling their eyes and walking off? You don't, because professional scientists abuse "a priori" all day long, using it as faux Latin for "by inspection."
They do not abuse, or even use, "a posteriori." Because it is the obvious, the given, the matrix and medium of their endeavors.
The whinging of philosophers is irrelevant to the work of scientists.
Good data led the way out of the ultraviolet catastrophe because induction works.
the job of the press is to maintain an adversarial relationship with the government at all times -the moron we're talking about
This is crap. It is dog crap: cynicism.
The guy has admitted he is prejudiced, and proven it beyond a shadow of doubt with his blog.
Bias can be corrected, but prejudice taints the news enterprise. Write the conclusion, then pick facts that back it up, and ignore the ones that don't. His alleged mind is made up.
Maybe, just maybe, his dismissal from CNN means they are actually trying to get the opinion out of their news stories.
They do have opinion shows, but I don't think "American Morning" is supposed to be one of them.
I see a lot of Castro apologetics here. More faith on display than at an evangelical tent revival. Adulation that few Roman Emperors received.
Most telling, are all the stretched-past-breaking comparisons of Castro's regime to America's Democratic Republic.
Methinks they dost project too much.
Because we have here, in the person of Fidel Castro, the perfect exemplar of Socialism.
And his state really did have death camps. It really had no press. It had the midnight door-knocks that meant torture, real fucking torture, and even worse - whole families tortured to death.
Look at Castro's fanboys here on Slashdot. Not a one of them has an honest brain, else they'd realize under Socialism they would be killed for exercising Freedom of Speech. How brave, how insightful and informative they are so safely bitching about America.
They complain that President Bush liberated Iraq so his cronies could make money.
Under Socialism, nobody has anything - except the rulers. No American President has ever even been able to enact such strict cronyism. Not even LBJ, and certainly not President George W. Bush.
Accusation after accusation they have hurled at President George W. Bush. Each and every single accusation is something they themselves support in the person and policies of Castro.
Only by such massive projection are they able to excuse their own hypocrisy.
Only by such massive projection are they able to excuse the torture, the death camps, the deindustrialization, the poverty, the complete stifling of any and all Human Rights, that their brainless devotion to their religion has brought the world.
Only by such massive projection can they ignore the historical facts.
The rest of us know that today is the brightest day the lovely island of Cuba has seen in five decades!
Sony isn't even the majority patent holder in Blu-ray, they're just the most visible proponent of the format and have sold a few million of the players. But they're in it with the reptilian overlords and George W. Bush!!!
Kevin Bacon is the nexus of the Universe, so I'm only going to post the closest IMDB listing to al-Walid bin Talal, that for King Fahd getting special thanks for Malcolm X,
All these plans would not be that necessary if the USA kept out of other countries' business. What naive horseshit.
From Wackypedia,
In 1783 the United States made peace with, and gained recognition from, the British monarchy, and in 1784 the first American ship was seized by pirates from Morocco. Emphasis added, and in case the math is too hard for you, it only took them, at most, two years to attack.
These jackasses will attack anyone, anytime, for any reason.
Continuing,
The Americans asked Adja why his government was hostile to American ships, even though there had been no provocation. The ambassador's response was reported to the Continental Congress:
That it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur'an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise. Again, I've added emphasis to the pertinent facts.
Now, consider that half the residents of this country spread shit and lies about this country. It makes them popular with the Eurotrash and Comintern crowds.
Even if the United States were to completely isolate, this lying by our own residents will prompt attacks. "The United States created AIDS." Should AIDS become rampant around Makkah, the liars will have provided a perfect pretense for an attack.
Just think, if stupid bitch Clinton is selected and Maddy Halfwit is again Secretary of State. "The United States killed a billion Iraqis," or whatever crap she'll make up. Another excuse.
I am afraid it will take another Sept. 11th before we get serious. And after that happens, it will be very unhealthy to be a Defeatocrat.
The issue in the US is that taking up cropland here means plowing up marginal land elsewhere. This disturbs soils which hold carbon and thus that carbon is released. With your firewood, this is not the case. The soil is not disturbed and your use of the wood is not causing others to be hungry. You mean, "thus some of that carbon is released." And the stump will decompose, releasing as much or more greenhouse gas as disturbed soil. So will the little branches that don't go in the woodpile.
And deprived of the trunk and larger branches, whole generations of bugs and worms will be deprived of life. Where are our hearts in this? Oh the poor millipedes and billipedes....
You should mention the benefits of excercise in splitting and hauling wood as well. Plus the medical costs incurred by the inevitable accidents. Which is why I've sworn off firewood (except mesquite for cooking).
The cost of tire repair after aforementioned mesquite punctures it.
The costs of medicine to treat the fire ant blitzkriegs. However, since the fire ants have killed off the scorpions and snakes, they may be a net benefit w.r.t. firewood.
Cactus. Or whatever those little hell-plants with the inch-long segments bristling with poisoned spikes are (succulent + spiny = cactus, no matter what the botanists say). Prickly pear I can deal with. These little hell-plants need to die, all of them. I mean genocide!
Since I'll not be using the trees for firewood, does anybody want to buy some carbon credits? Deep discount: $220 per unfelled cord!
They only thing that they all have in common (that I'm aware of) is that they don't want to fuck up the planet. Green is Red. Their idiotic socialism is the glue that binds them together, not any goodwill for "the planet."
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Congratulations! You have a clue!
It is amazing how many people think the government is listening to domestic phone calls without warrants.
Governments can search your person, papers, and possessions at the border.
But somehow, international phone calls are supposed to be exempt.
Americans do care about domestic spying. If the Time magazine article is correct, Americans have seen through the intentional conflation, confusion, and crapola spewed by the Dummycrat party.
We, quite properly, believe our government should be able to inspect international traffic.
How are we to define "manipulation?"
Gamma adjustment and color correction. Dodging and burning. Red-eye and dust removal. Cropping. JPEG or other data compression. Dynamic range compression.
The only non-manipulated image is the raw data from the sensors. This is actually an improvement over film, where developing techniques can have quite an impact on the negatives - in film photography, there are no un-manipulated images.
Any serious news bureau should provide their raw images to interested parties. Only this way can their customers (us!) tell how much manipulation an image has undergone.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alley, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
For their entire miseducation, several generations have been taught that white men are evil.
Therefore, a black or woman is automatically and completely good.
It's an easy A in any class, including math and science, to blame anything and everything on white men.
Those who enjoy the game are given PhDs in various fields, but the only thing they really know is how to hate white men.
Global Warming is caused by white men. The climate was perfect before white men. White men cause poverty because they hate people. Yadda yadda.
It is very sad that racial scapegoating is so respectable. We humans are an African species. All Americans are African-Americans.
They do not abuse, or even use, "a posteriori." Because it is the obvious, the given, the matrix and medium of their endeavors.
The whinging of philosophers is irrelevant to the work of scientists.
Good data led the way out of the ultraviolet catastrophe because induction works.
I think a major barrier to science education in America is our refusal to adopt (what is here called) the metric system.
"Gram" and "millimeter" may as well be Martian.
There's an advantage to reporting your mass in kilograms - the numbers are smaller so you feel better about them!
This is crap. It is dog crap: cynicism.
The guy has admitted he is prejudiced, and proven it beyond a shadow of doubt with his blog.
Bias can be corrected, but prejudice taints the news enterprise. Write the conclusion, then pick facts that back it up, and ignore the ones that don't. His alleged mind is made up.
Maybe, just maybe, his dismissal from CNN means they are actually trying to get the opinion out of their news stories.
They do have opinion shows, but I don't think "American Morning" is supposed to be one of them.
I see a lot of Castro apologetics here. More faith on display than at an evangelical tent revival. Adulation that few Roman Emperors received.
Most telling, are all the stretched-past-breaking comparisons of Castro's regime to America's Democratic Republic.
Methinks they dost project too much.
Because we have here, in the person of Fidel Castro, the perfect exemplar of Socialism.
And his state really did have death camps. It really had no press. It had the midnight door-knocks that meant torture, real fucking torture, and even worse - whole families tortured to death.
Look at Castro's fanboys here on Slashdot. Not a one of them has an honest brain, else they'd realize under Socialism they would be killed for exercising Freedom of Speech. How brave, how insightful and informative they are so safely bitching about America.
They complain that President Bush liberated Iraq so his cronies could make money.
Under Socialism, nobody has anything - except the rulers. No American President has ever even been able to enact such strict cronyism. Not even LBJ, and certainly not President George W. Bush.
Accusation after accusation they have hurled at President George W. Bush. Each and every single accusation is something they themselves support in the person and policies of Castro.
Only by such massive projection are they able to excuse their own hypocrisy.
Only by such massive projection are they able to excuse the torture, the death camps, the deindustrialization, the poverty, the complete stifling of any and all Human Rights, that their brainless devotion to their religion has brought the world.
Only by such massive projection can they ignore the historical facts.
The rest of us know that today is the brightest day the lovely island of Cuba has seen in five decades!
Everything that starts with "social" is a huge load of shit.
Socialism. Social Security. Sociology. Social diseases.
The only "social" things that don't suck are the social insects, and they don't want us calling them that!
It is a good (but not sure) bet that anything a teacher says is bullshit.
Students know this.
Teaching anthropogenic climate change will create a whole generation of skeptics.
Everybody knows who outed Valerie Plame Wilson.
Valerie Plame Wilson outed Valerie Plame Wilson.
She cannot make a hugely public move, sending her husband to Niger, and then hide behind some imagined secret protection.
The Wilsons should be shot.
Kevin Bacon is the nexus of the Universe, so I'm only going to post the closest IMDB listing to al-Walid bin Talal, that for King Fahd getting special thanks for Malcolm X,
http://imdb.com/name/nm1145255/
Y'all take it from here. I too busy computing my Elvis Number.
He's also the guy who got seriously dissed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
They might have been "ground floor" investors who were there before Xenix/SCO Unix.
Even Satan sang for God before He fell.
From Wackypedia, In 1783 the United States made peace with, and gained recognition from, the British monarchy, and in 1784 the first American ship was seized by pirates from Morocco. Emphasis added, and in case the math is too hard for you, it only took them, at most, two years to attack.
These jackasses will attack anyone, anytime, for any reason.
Continuing, The Americans asked Adja why his government was hostile to American ships, even though there had been no provocation. The ambassador's response was reported to the Continental Congress:
That it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Qur'an, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise. Again, I've added emphasis to the pertinent facts.
Now, consider that half the residents of this country spread shit and lies about this country. It makes them popular with the Eurotrash and Comintern crowds.
Even if the United States were to completely isolate, this lying by our own residents will prompt attacks. "The United States created AIDS." Should AIDS become rampant around Makkah, the liars will have provided a perfect pretense for an attack.
Just think, if stupid bitch Clinton is selected and Maddy Halfwit is again Secretary of State. "The United States killed a billion Iraqis," or whatever crap she'll make up. Another excuse.
I am afraid it will take another Sept. 11th before we get serious. And after that happens, it will be very unhealthy to be a Defeatocrat.
Hooray Jimithing yours is the only contribution that actually contributes.
The rest have fallen for the al-Qaeda interpretation.
the telecoms are claiming that they only actually spied on communications with at least one foreign endpoint
Exactly correct.
If you cross the border, you can be searched. If your communications cross the border, they can be monitored.
All of this "spying on U.S. citizens" is a crock of shit from imbeciles.
And deprived of the trunk and larger branches, whole generations of bugs and worms will be deprived of life. Where are our hearts in this? Oh the poor millipedes and billipedes.... You should mention the benefits of excercise in splitting and hauling wood as well. Plus the medical costs incurred by the inevitable accidents. Which is why I've sworn off firewood (except mesquite for cooking).
The cost of tire repair after aforementioned mesquite punctures it.
The costs of medicine to treat the fire ant blitzkriegs. However, since the fire ants have killed off the scorpions and snakes, they may be a net benefit w.r.t. firewood.
Cactus. Or whatever those little hell-plants with the inch-long segments bristling with poisoned spikes are (succulent + spiny = cactus, no matter what the botanists say). Prickly pear I can deal with. These little hell-plants need to die, all of them. I mean genocide!
Since I'll not be using the trees for firewood, does anybody want to buy some carbon credits? Deep discount: $220 per unfelled cord!