You would think that would be true but another approach that is working out well for the Administration over time is stacking the court (literally) in their favor. Get enough judges together who decide that A is no longer the valid interpretation of the Constitution or any of its amendments and B is now the officially recognized standard, all of a sudden you are living in the grand ole U.S. of today.
I'll never understand there being variations of interruption on ANYTHING when it comes to the U.S. Constitution. They fucking wrote it simple enough even a Kindergartener can understand it, I assume precisely so shit like this couldn't happen.
I already hear the thousands of complaints that come streaming in on day one. Just because you are downloading a copyrighted work doesn't mean you are doing something illegal or shady because I'm not downloading it from the "official" source. I've already fought with my cable provider over this when I was served a notice over a year ago and they admitted to being wrong.
Since the only time I am hailing a cab is if I'm smashed, based on past experiences the last thing I should be doing then is using an App on a smartphone.
It's a bogus name given to bogus laws that flies right in the face of everything patriotic. Whenever that damn name is invoked (Patriot Act) it means we are having something taken from us be it rights or privacy.
If it ends up being the case that what they are doing is unconstitutional and illegal they don't deserve the right to keep it classified as it is engaging in illegal activity. Tired of reading the headlines daily and seeing stuff going on that if the average citizen took part in would land them in prison the rest of their days. Still to be determined if that is the case however but it seems pretty obvious.
Except for the issue of costs. Those hours spent contacting everyone, filling out paperwork and digging around for ways to fire someone cost far more than a few photos in costumes paid for by an art grant earmarked specifically for this kind of thing. It really could have been as simple as 3 phone calls.
Call 1: Head of the department the participants work in - "Nope, wasn't during scheduled meeting times, cost us none of our money and I'm a freakin space viking! One guy made us sound cooler than anything you guys have done since the moon missions".
Call 2: Photographer - "No, I didn't interfere with their work and it cost you nothing. I have a grant to make NASA look awesome and sound freakin badass! Space Vikings! Just in case here is the number to verify freakin vikings in freakin space money"
Call 3: Grant people - "Yes we gave photographer a grant to take pictures of space vikings, glad to see you aren't living up to your reputation as one of the biggest wasters in congress with your sensible approach to verifying the facts and not ordering a full blown investigation into the space viking thing".
It was only a success in that it did better than their previous offerings but that doesn't make it a success to the bottom line. Writing off nearly $1 Billion worth of unsold inventory and drastically cutting prices is a complete and utter failure. They failed miserably in listening to their customers and this is the predictable result. Microsoft is constantly playing catch-up due to their own ignorant decisions. They eventually get it right but only after they fail miserably. They would be much better off if they just skipped their first offerings and led with what is always a much better second offering. Windows 8.1 for example, despite its flaws that should have been what they led with. XBox One, at least they didn't release what they had planned but they could have avoided the uproar if they had just paid attention even a LITTLE to what their customers really want. Time after time it's the same thing.
I took a large portion of my classes online several years ago back when online classes were still going through their growing pains so naturally there was all kinds of technical issues that arose. As long as it was on the online class end be it software or servers or any other cause you always got an extra day extension even way back then so I find it ridiculous that a technical problem that was on their end and not yours would just cost you your grade. If I couldn't connect and it was on my end than that was obviously on me to find a solution either buy fixing my damn connection or going to the computer lab or library.
I would never take a course anywhere that had that as their policy and if it really is a "if we screw up on our end you still pay" policy they have then shame on anyone giving money to that kind of scummy organization.
Of course members of congress are "Angry"TM, so "Angry"TM that they will make sure they let everyone that matters to their election know how "Angry"TM they are. They will even get all huffy and yell and tell the room they are so "Angry"TM and it isn't acceptable. Maybe even pound their fist and wag a finger all for the "Angry"TM dramatic flair....then go out for coffee and do absolutely nothing about it.
Welp...there goes EVERY U.S. President in history then. Find me one that hasn't sold weapons to one group that were ultimately used to kill another group and I'll buy all your bridges and beach front property.
Oh god....that is exactly the definition government workers want the good sheeple to go by. "You elected me so I have your consent to do whatever I want without your approval, for your security and protection of course...so bah like a good boy".
You are a true/.'er my friend...commenting without bothering to know what the hell you are talking about. I know, I know...first post and all, can't be bothered to read links.
It's not illegal because the NSA and company have convinced congress they aren't able to understand what they are doing and, being the good lap dogs they are, the big wigs in congress pretty much said "Sounds good, do what you have to but don't get caught" and here we are.
This isn't the Land of the Free my grandfather and great-grandfather fought for and that isn't me saying it, straight from the horses mouth. He has been dead a decade and he, along with all his old WWII buddies that were still around, talked about it enough to know where they stood on the subject. In his finally couple years he would say the US has become a glass cage, you could look around and look like you are free and maybe feel like it but a cage is a cage and you get to close you will see its just an illusion. 10 years later, I agree with the old guy.
Disregarding the fact that all that you are saying isn't entirely correct once you scratch the surface and find out that some of those foiled plots weren't obtained from spying on Americans, the fact that they are spying on (in one form or another) a hundred million US citizens to get leads on a couple dozen cases just doesn't fly.
I use to scoff at those who made references to such things being possible in this country. We are pretty much there however and history is rewritten just in a slower manner through schools one generation at a time. The history I was taught when young and the history that is taught today is different enough to achieve the goals sought. My kids and I are growing up and older respectively in two very different expectations of what we should be allowed, at least if the educational process has it's way. That's a very sad thing to realize.
It wasn't very long ago that all this massive spying on U.S. citizens would have caused an outrage and demonstrations of epic proportions....now I see all these "so what? I have nothing to hide" comments or other similar rubbish. It doesn't matter if we have nothing to hide, it's one small (or significant depending on point of view) step at a time to slowly gain your indifference until our kids and grandkids live in a total surveillance state with no expectation or right to privacy in anything they do. That is the ultimate goal, in the name of our safety of course...because obviously somewhere over the last 60 years Americans became completely incapable of not feeling safe if our Government isn't holding onto our hand while we cross the street. It's suppose to be the other way around.
I won't buy either console, pc gamer at heart and have been since around 90 when there wasn't much to write home about in terms of games. Everything about the route consoles have started taking the last 2 generations is just silly. I have home entertainment equipment that does a better job than a jack of all trades "gaming" console could do, definitely don't need to duplicate what I already have to fire up some poorly configured gamepad controlled version of a pc game and as for exclusives..they can keep em.
Until we reach a saturation level and high speed internet for everyone, requiring a machine to be connected to the internet makes no sense even if it is just to check in with it's mommy.
When compared to the crapfest of MMO's that have been thrown in our faces over the last 15+ years now some of the MUD's, with only their text based representations, are more detailed and well thought out than their multi-million dollar flashy 3d grandchildren. In the world of MMO's (not all, but most), a picture definitely isn't worth a thousand words. More detail can be presented to the player in a well written sentence than 5k polygon. Imagination is great like that.
...so little content. How does something that has NOTHING to do with Google Glass actually accepted? This just in, No corporation allows recording of shareholder meetings without explicit authorization. That is really how silly this whole post is.
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You would think that would be true but another approach that is working out well for the Administration over time is stacking the court (literally) in their favor. Get enough judges together who decide that A is no longer the valid interpretation of the Constitution or any of its amendments and B is now the officially recognized standard, all of a sudden you are living in the grand ole U.S. of today. I'll never understand there being variations of interruption on ANYTHING when it comes to the U.S. Constitution. They fucking wrote it simple enough even a Kindergartener can understand it, I assume precisely so shit like this couldn't happen.
I already hear the thousands of complaints that come streaming in on day one. Just because you are downloading a copyrighted work doesn't mean you are doing something illegal or shady because I'm not downloading it from the "official" source. I've already fought with my cable provider over this when I was served a notice over a year ago and they admitted to being wrong.
Except that means she is qualified for the job, hence the issue with the H1-B visa thus making your point completely invalid.
Since the only time I am hailing a cab is if I'm smashed, based on past experiences the last thing I should be doing then is using an App on a smartphone.
It's a bogus name given to bogus laws that flies right in the face of everything patriotic. Whenever that damn name is invoked (Patriot Act) it means we are having something taken from us be it rights or privacy.
Exactly the amount needed to keep the show on the air coincidently
If it ends up being the case that what they are doing is unconstitutional and illegal they don't deserve the right to keep it classified as it is engaging in illegal activity. Tired of reading the headlines daily and seeing stuff going on that if the average citizen took part in would land them in prison the rest of their days. Still to be determined if that is the case however but it seems pretty obvious.
Call 1: Head of the department the participants work in - "Nope, wasn't during scheduled meeting times, cost us none of our money and I'm a freakin space viking! One guy made us sound cooler than anything you guys have done since the moon missions".
Call 2: Photographer - "No, I didn't interfere with their work and it cost you nothing. I have a grant to make NASA look awesome and sound freakin badass! Space Vikings! Just in case here is the number to verify freakin vikings in freakin space money"
Call 3: Grant people - "Yes we gave photographer a grant to take pictures of space vikings, glad to see you aren't living up to your reputation as one of the biggest wasters in congress with your sensible approach to verifying the facts and not ordering a full blown investigation into the space viking thing".
It was only a success in that it did better than their previous offerings but that doesn't make it a success to the bottom line. Writing off nearly $1 Billion worth of unsold inventory and drastically cutting prices is a complete and utter failure. They failed miserably in listening to their customers and this is the predictable result. Microsoft is constantly playing catch-up due to their own ignorant decisions. They eventually get it right but only after they fail miserably. They would be much better off if they just skipped their first offerings and led with what is always a much better second offering. Windows 8.1 for example, despite its flaws that should have been what they led with. XBox One, at least they didn't release what they had planned but they could have avoided the uproar if they had just paid attention even a LITTLE to what their customers really want. Time after time it's the same thing.
I took a large portion of my classes online several years ago back when online classes were still going through their growing pains so naturally there was all kinds of technical issues that arose. As long as it was on the online class end be it software or servers or any other cause you always got an extra day extension even way back then so I find it ridiculous that a technical problem that was on their end and not yours would just cost you your grade. If I couldn't connect and it was on my end than that was obviously on me to find a solution either buy fixing my damn connection or going to the computer lab or library.
I would never take a course anywhere that had that as their policy and if it really is a "if we screw up on our end you still pay" policy they have then shame on anyone giving money to that kind of scummy organization.
Of course members of congress are "Angry"TM, so "Angry"TM that they will make sure they let everyone that matters to their election know how "Angry"TM they are. They will even get all huffy and yell and tell the room they are so "Angry"TM and it isn't acceptable. Maybe even pound their fist and wag a finger all for the "Angry"TM dramatic flair....then go out for coffee and do absolutely nothing about it.
Welp...there goes EVERY U.S. President in history then. Find me one that hasn't sold weapons to one group that were ultimately used to kill another group and I'll buy all your bridges and beach front property.
Oh god....that is exactly the definition government workers want the good sheeple to go by. "You elected me so I have your consent to do whatever I want without your approval, for your security and protection of course...so bah like a good boy".
You are a true /.'er my friend...commenting without bothering to know what the hell you are talking about. I know, I know...first post and all, can't be bothered to read links.
Everything is scare tactics and threats...
It's not illegal because the NSA and company have convinced congress they aren't able to understand what they are doing and, being the good lap dogs they are, the big wigs in congress pretty much said "Sounds good, do what you have to but don't get caught" and here we are.
This isn't the Land of the Free my grandfather and great-grandfather fought for and that isn't me saying it, straight from the horses mouth. He has been dead a decade and he, along with all his old WWII buddies that were still around, talked about it enough to know where they stood on the subject. In his finally couple years he would say the US has become a glass cage, you could look around and look like you are free and maybe feel like it but a cage is a cage and you get to close you will see its just an illusion. 10 years later, I agree with the old guy.
Disregarding the fact that all that you are saying isn't entirely correct once you scratch the surface and find out that some of those foiled plots weren't obtained from spying on Americans, the fact that they are spying on (in one form or another) a hundred million US citizens to get leads on a couple dozen cases just doesn't fly.
I use to scoff at those who made references to such things being possible in this country. We are pretty much there however and history is rewritten just in a slower manner through schools one generation at a time. The history I was taught when young and the history that is taught today is different enough to achieve the goals sought. My kids and I are growing up and older respectively in two very different expectations of what we should be allowed, at least if the educational process has it's way. That's a very sad thing to realize.
It wasn't very long ago that all this massive spying on U.S. citizens would have caused an outrage and demonstrations of epic proportions....now I see all these "so what? I have nothing to hide" comments or other similar rubbish. It doesn't matter if we have nothing to hide, it's one small (or significant depending on point of view) step at a time to slowly gain your indifference until our kids and grandkids live in a total surveillance state with no expectation or right to privacy in anything they do. That is the ultimate goal, in the name of our safety of course...because obviously somewhere over the last 60 years Americans became completely incapable of not feeling safe if our Government isn't holding onto our hand while we cross the street. It's suppose to be the other way around.
I won't buy either console, pc gamer at heart and have been since around 90 when there wasn't much to write home about in terms of games. Everything about the route consoles have started taking the last 2 generations is just silly. I have home entertainment equipment that does a better job than a jack of all trades "gaming" console could do, definitely don't need to duplicate what I already have to fire up some poorly configured gamepad controlled version of a pc game and as for exclusives..they can keep em.
Until we reach a saturation level and high speed internet for everyone, requiring a machine to be connected to the internet makes no sense even if it is just to check in with it's mommy.
When compared to the crapfest of MMO's that have been thrown in our faces over the last 15+ years now some of the MUD's, with only their text based representations, are more detailed and well thought out than their multi-million dollar flashy 3d grandchildren. In the world of MMO's (not all, but most), a picture definitely isn't worth a thousand words. More detail can be presented to the player in a well written sentence than 5k polygon. Imagination is great like that.
...so little content. How does something that has NOTHING to do with Google Glass actually accepted? This just in, No corporation allows recording of shareholder meetings without explicit authorization. That is really how silly this whole post is.
Don't worry, I'm sure every user is as responsible as our government with the data they collect...ba-da-boom