I don't know if you realize this, but every time you trot this (mis)quote out,...
Which part? The part about the most corrupt administration in history? No, I'm pretty confident I used that correctly.
but you also essentially admit to being unable to form a coherent argument on the subject.
Given the asinine tone you took, you're hardly one to teach anyone the concept of a coherent argument.
Every time your idiot ass puts on a seatbelt you trade liberty for security. Every time you lock your fucking door you trade freedom for security.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were about to whip out a coherent argument. Let me help you: George Bush didn't ask the telecom companies to strap me safely into my car or secure my house for me. He instructed them to hand my personal communications over to him. Application of my seatbelt doesn't violate my Fourth Amendment rights. Exposing my communications to the government without just cause or due process does.
You morons...
Yeah, okay, whatever. Have a Coke and a smile, Sparky, and shut the fuck up.
If the telecom companies gave up information -- the minimum necessary that they were required to hand over in order to comply with the law, that could be an justification for immunity.
You start by stating that the telcos should not be granted unlimited immunity for breaking the law. Then in your next statement you basically say, "Unless they only broke it a little bit," and even then only if the government pays its phone bill.
No. Not just no, but hell no. Maybe you're okay with giving up a little of your freedom to the most corrupt administration in history for a little bit of security. I couldn't get enough warm and fuzzy out of that arrangement to allow me to sleep at night. George Bush can stick telco immunity ("if we don't give them a pass, they won't be so willing to break the law next time") right up his ass. I want the FBI out of my business unless they have probably cause and a warrant. Period, end of story.
That would just be the latest Ford insult. They've been building sub-par cars for years. I wonder if they're worried that the flash from the camera might make the paint peel?
From my views: # A constitutional amendment to guarantee government transparency. This should include forcing the government to announce suspension of any civil liberties during war time. (more on this below) Violation of this amendment would be a high crime. Acknowledging that some information may be highly classified, a 12 member bipartison committee would be formed by the Congress and given top clearances. This committee would advise Congress on classified matters. # A constitutional amendment more clearly defining the roles of the members of the executive branch. No more of this crap about the VP claiming to be a member of Congress to avoid executive branch investigations. # A constitutional amendment requiring that the president provide full access to intelligence and an exit strategy to Congress as part of the request to go to war. This exit strategy can be delayed twice, for 2 weeks each time, but must include plans for control of infrastructure, preservation of services, restoration of order, supplies to population, restoration of government, commencement of diplomatic relations, retraction of military presence, all with milestones and acceptable timeframes. This same amendment should require that Congress draft rules for how to handle the case for war, eg. requiring corroborating evidence from outside intelligence bodies, expedited investigations into budget and preparation concerns, failure of authorization if critical data is found to be fraudulent, etc. Requests for war authorization would cause all other legislation to be put on hold, and Congress would have 30 days to consider the case. This would not prevent the president from # By constitutional amendment, the president would have to request the authority to suspend the people's civil liberties, even in times of war. The president would have to specifically state how those liberties would be trespassed, and for how long. He could not deviate from that plan. Violation of this amendment would be a high crime. # The president's power to dissolve Congress shall be moved, by constitutional amendment, to the Supreme Court, and would require a 2/3rds vote of that body, followed by the signature of the president. # By constitutional amendment, executive orders will require immediate review by the Supreme Court before being put into force. If the EO deals with classified information, the Congressional committee that deals with classified information will review the EO and advise the Supreme Court. # By constitutional amendment, signing statements may clarify points in the law but may not redefine the law or negate the law or signify a resistance to enforcing the law. # By constitutional amendment, the Senate shall have the power to subpoena members of the presidential cabinet and advisors, including the president and the vice president. Failure to appear would be a high crime. All appearing persons will be placed under oath. Perjury is already a high crime. # Terminate the domestic wiretapping program. # Terminate the "sneak and peek" program. # Terminate the Iraq war authority. # By law, limit the number of people reached by the media holdings of any one individual or group. # By law, keep the Internet free of taxation on communications. The only tax on the Internet should be sales tax, the only limit on bandwidth should be the physical limits of the infrastructure and the contractual agreements with the consumers.
Ford's business model hasn't matched it's slogans about quality in over a decade. You should check out The Anti-Ford Page, and submit your own story if you're so inclined. The reason Ford is hurting so badly now is that they've gone to such extremes to cut corners in order to save a buck. Over the years their reputation went from one of producing tough vehicles to one of producing cheap, disposable vehicles, and providing lousy customer service.
Each party participating in the experiment must have all of the following: * a computer capable of running Wireshark, with appropriate privileges to install and run it; * the ability to connect this computer directly to the Internet, with a public IP address, outside of any firewalls (for example, not via a typical home wireless router); * the ability to determine the computer's public IP address; * the ability to disable any firewall software running on the computer itself; * some application to test, and the ability to configure that application to communicate directly with the other party (by IP address).
So you're going to set up a honeypot on the 'net while you're trying to figure out if Comcast is jacking with your packets. How are you going to tell the difference between your system getting hijacked and Comcast slowing your connection?
to mention "Peanuts" is going to get a knock on the door in the middle of the night
I just read on the news that the maiden voyage was off to a great start, but then the main propulsion was jammed up by a gigantic tree that the pilot of the ship failed to see in time...
I don't want to live in a country that have secretive prisons with no applicable rules because of a president who used the same trick than Cole in season one finale.
And thank you for playing, "Really Bad Analogies!" As a parting gift, you'll receive France's answer to the Swiss Army Knife. That's right! It's the French Army Knife (tm)! It includes a cheese slicer, corkscrew, and a white flag!
Okay, seriously: Yes, American has undergone some disturbing changes, all of which we can only hope will be remedied by the next president, regardless of party affiliation. But how this affects you and your ability to use the NBC Direct service, I can't understand. Who cares what the NBC.com page says? If you don't mind downloading and installing a special player, great. If not, I'm sure there are places on the 'net where you can obtain copies of missed episodes in non-DRM AVI and MPEG format. Your call.
You hit it right on the head. Phone companies trying to limit what can be installed on the phone are the gating the issue in merging PDAs with phones. Oh, and the parent message forgot cameras -- I'm shopping around for a fully functional PDA+phone+camera with USB, Bluetooth, and SD slot that runs WinCE. I'm not looking for a full computer -- I have a laptop when I want to get real work done -- and it needs to be highly portable.
True, the current administration is beyond simple brainlessness mixed with darkest evil. Don't you miss the days when the only thing the Zombie In Chief tortured was the English language?
Do you realize that habeas corpus applies to all people, not just citizens? The Constitution of the United States of America makes no distinction between citizen and non-citizen in the Bill of Rights. To argue that non-citizens are lesser people, not worthy of the protections from the power of the government that our founding fathers fought and died to declare and preserve, is to have not just drunk the Koolaid, but gargled with it while the foundation of this country, the very document that guarantees your rights, is eroded right in front of your face.
As an expert on Ford's quality and customer relations record, allow me to offer, for your perusal, the Anti-Ford Page. What started off as my little rant against the 1987 Ford Escort and the service I received during its 7 recalls and innumerable breakdowns quickly turned into a sounding board for people who started sending me emails about their own experiences with the low quality products and horrible treatment they received from Ford.
So now that Ford has created a hydrogen-powered engine for Boeing, I have to wonder if, when the engine fails spectacularly a week after the warranty expires in a Hindenberg-rivaling conflagration, will Ford give Boeing the "up yours" treatment like it's done to so many other customers?
1. The expected lifetime of the probe is pretty short - even if nuclear powered the odds of it surviving the winter are pretty slim.
That doesn't make sense. Voyager is nuclear powered and still running. Battening down the hatches and using the power plant's heat to keep the rover usable is a simple engineering problem.
2. Bringing back samples of a useful size means a pretty good sized rover - which leaves no room on the probe for instruments to analyze the samples.
The probe is working on scoops of dirt. It's not like it has to lug back boulders to be useful.
I'm sorry, I'm just not seeing a good argument against having a mobile component to maximize the usefulness of any lander-based scientific mission we launch. In terms of ROI, the rovers are top of the list.
The surrender was agreed to either way. MacArthur decided on how he would act once he got there and understood fully the reverance the japanese had for the Emperor.
You're making his case for him. He's arguing brains over brawn. You're arguing that brawn created an opportunity for brains to be used. But in the end, the war was finalized successfully and with minimal rancor using intelligent diplomacy, something the current administration has absolutely no experience with or apparent motivation to try (to bring the point home).
I would. I think we'll find life where we find water -- near the poles. What irritates me is that we're still sending probes that aren't mobile or don't at least have a mobile component. The Phoenix Mars Lander that blasted off last month (this month?) is a static probe. Why couldn't they at least have a smaller version of the rovers that could run out and bring back samples to be worked on by the probe? Anything that just sits there seems not just boring but underutilized to me. What if the lander continued to function for, say, three years beyond it's life expectancy? What would we do with it? Dig up more of the same dirt and run the same tests over and over?
You can stop at "electable". I actually like and respect McCain, but Guiliani is a liar and a fraud, plain and simple. The more Guiliani claims to be the 9/11 mayor, the more his lies are going to come back and bite him in the ass. McCain would have to have switched parties about 6 months ago to get elected now. Neither are in truly in favor a competitive markets so much as they are in favor of the tired old trickle down economics theory. McCain's strength is his military experience and his moral fiber, things Guiliani lacks. McCain's weakness is his centrist views in a party that has been hijacked by religious fundies and neo-con PNAC fans.
In fact, what I'd like to see is a candidate with the cojones to come right out and declare that the Bush administration has attacked the constitutional limits on the executive branch and violated the Constitution repeatedly. Our Constitution needs to be amended to clearly delineate what the executive branch can and can't do, shore up our Bill of Rights, force the president to more clearly describe how he intends to wage war along with an exit strategy before he's given permission to officially go to war, and while we're at it, define exactly what branch the Vice President is a part of......
Chaining everybody up in their homes in straightjackets all day probably helps against terrorist plots too, but that doesn't make it right.
I completely agree with that sentiment, when applied correctly. FISA is not the problem. Bush telling the NSA to ignore FISA and wiretap communications without any judicial review was the problem. FISA simply enacts a special court to review warrants that use sensitive information to justify the search. Bush ordered the NSA to skip the FISA court, and that's when he ran smack into, or rather over, the Constitution.
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I don't know if you realize this, but every time you trot this (mis)quote out,...
Which part? The part about the most corrupt administration in history? No, I'm pretty confident I used that correctly.
but you also essentially admit to being unable to form a coherent argument on the subject.
Given the asinine tone you took, you're hardly one to teach anyone the concept of a coherent argument.
Every time your idiot ass puts on a seatbelt you trade liberty for security. Every time you lock your fucking door you trade freedom for security.
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were about to whip out a coherent argument. Let me help you: George Bush didn't ask the telecom companies to strap me safely into my car or secure my house for me. He instructed them to hand my personal communications over to him. Application of my seatbelt doesn't violate my Fourth Amendment rights. Exposing my communications to the government without just cause or due process does.
You morons...
Yeah, okay, whatever. Have a Coke and a smile, Sparky, and shut the fuck up.
If the telecom companies gave up information -- the minimum necessary that they were required to hand over in order to comply with the law, that could be an justification for immunity.
You start by stating that the telcos should not be granted unlimited immunity for breaking the law. Then in your next statement you basically say, "Unless they only broke it a little bit," and even then only if the government pays its phone bill.
No. Not just no, but hell no. Maybe you're okay with giving up a little of your freedom to the most corrupt administration in history for a little bit of security. I couldn't get enough warm and fuzzy out of that arrangement to allow me to sleep at night. George Bush can stick telco immunity ("if we don't give them a pass, they won't be so willing to break the law next time") right up his ass. I want the FBI out of my business unless they have probably cause and a warrant. Period, end of story.
It would make it heavier and fly a bit lower, leaving you open to Dog in the Middle attacks.
Okay, *that* was funny!
Warmest wishes,
D. Cheney
Funniest part of the whole message. +5.
Dude, your dad totally sucks. I thought mine was harsh....
That would just be the latest Ford insult. They've been building sub-par cars for years. I wonder if they're worried that the flash from the camera might make the paint peel?
From my views:
# A constitutional amendment to guarantee government transparency. This should include forcing the government to announce suspension of any civil liberties during war time. (more on this below) Violation of this amendment would be a high crime. Acknowledging that some information may be highly classified, a 12 member bipartison committee would be formed by the Congress and given top clearances. This committee would advise Congress on classified matters.
# A constitutional amendment more clearly defining the roles of the members of the executive branch. No more of this crap about the VP claiming to be a member of Congress to avoid executive branch investigations.
# A constitutional amendment requiring that the president provide full access to intelligence and an exit strategy to Congress as part of the request to go to war. This exit strategy can be delayed twice, for 2 weeks each time, but must include plans for control of infrastructure, preservation of services, restoration of order, supplies to population, restoration of government, commencement of diplomatic relations, retraction of military presence, all with milestones and acceptable timeframes. This same amendment should require that Congress draft rules for how to handle the case for war, eg. requiring corroborating evidence from outside intelligence bodies, expedited investigations into budget and preparation concerns, failure of authorization if critical data is found to be fraudulent, etc. Requests for war authorization would cause all other legislation to be put on hold, and Congress would have 30 days to consider the case. This would not prevent the president from
# By constitutional amendment, the president would have to request the authority to suspend the people's civil liberties, even in times of war. The president would have to specifically state how those liberties would be trespassed, and for how long. He could not deviate from that plan. Violation of this amendment would be a high crime.
# The president's power to dissolve Congress shall be moved, by constitutional amendment, to the Supreme Court, and would require a 2/3rds vote of that body, followed by the signature of the president.
# By constitutional amendment, executive orders will require immediate review by the Supreme Court before being put into force. If the EO deals with classified information, the Congressional committee that deals with classified information will review the EO and advise the Supreme Court.
# By constitutional amendment, signing statements may clarify points in the law but may not redefine the law or negate the law or signify a resistance to enforcing the law.
# By constitutional amendment, the Senate shall have the power to subpoena members of the presidential cabinet and advisors, including the president and the vice president. Failure to appear would be a high crime. All appearing persons will be placed under oath. Perjury is already a high crime.
# Terminate the domestic wiretapping program.
# Terminate the "sneak and peek" program.
# Terminate the Iraq war authority.
# By law, limit the number of people reached by the media holdings of any one individual or group.
# By law, keep the Internet free of taxation on communications. The only tax on the Internet should be sales tax, the only limit on bandwidth should be the physical limits of the infrastructure and the contractual agreements with the consumers.
Ford's business model hasn't matched it's slogans about quality in over a decade. You should check out The Anti-Ford Page, and submit your own story if you're so inclined. The reason Ford is hurting so badly now is that they've gone to such extremes to cut corners in order to save a buck. Over the years their reputation went from one of producing tough vehicles to one of producing cheap, disposable vehicles, and providing lousy customer service.
Good luck with the Toyota.
I thought the Church originally believed that the world was flat based on the "four corners" spoken of the in the Bible.
Each party participating in the experiment must have all of the following:
* a computer capable of running Wireshark, with appropriate privileges to install and run it;
* the ability to connect this computer directly to the Internet, with a public IP address, outside of any firewalls (for example, not via a typical home wireless router);
* the ability to determine the computer's public IP address;
* the ability to disable any firewall software running on the computer itself;
* some application to test, and the ability to configure that application to communicate directly with the other party (by IP address).
So you're going to set up a honeypot on the 'net while you're trying to figure out if Comcast is jacking with your packets. How are you going to tell the difference between your system getting hijacked and Comcast slowing your connection?
to mention "Peanuts" is going to get a knock on the door in the middle of the night
I just read on the news that the maiden voyage was off to a great start, but then the main propulsion was jammed up by a gigantic tree that the pilot of the ship failed to see in time...
Uh, hang on, someone's knocking... brb...
I don't want to live in a country that have secretive prisons with no applicable rules because of a president who used the same trick than Cole in season one finale.
And thank you for playing, "Really Bad Analogies!" As a parting gift, you'll receive France's answer to the Swiss Army Knife. That's right! It's the French Army Knife (tm)! It includes a cheese slicer, corkscrew, and a white flag!
Okay, seriously: Yes, American has undergone some disturbing changes, all of which we can only hope will be remedied by the next president, regardless of party affiliation. But how this affects you and your ability to use the NBC Direct service, I can't understand. Who cares what the NBC.com page says? If you don't mind downloading and installing a special player, great. If not, I'm sure there are places on the 'net where you can obtain copies of missed episodes in non-DRM AVI and MPEG format. Your call.
In reference to the pen and the sword:
Neither is mightier, just different tools for different situations which can be used together for greater effect.
Wrong answer. It would depend entirely on which one Chuck Norris was holding.
You hit it right on the head. Phone companies trying to limit what can be installed on the phone are the gating the issue in merging PDAs with phones. Oh, and the parent message forgot cameras -- I'm shopping around for a fully functional PDA+phone+camera with USB, Bluetooth, and SD slot that runs WinCE. I'm not looking for a full computer -- I have a laptop when I want to get real work done -- and it needs to be highly portable.
Convergence is what I'm counting on.
Okay, I'll ask the obvious next question: What happened to her? Surely the company litigated?
True, the current administration is beyond simple brainlessness mixed with darkest evil. Don't you miss the days when the only thing the Zombie In Chief tortured was the English language?
Your momma's nose is so big, she's got bats living in it.
Do you realize that habeas corpus applies to all people, not just citizens? The Constitution of the United States of America makes no distinction between citizen and non-citizen in the Bill of Rights. To argue that non-citizens are lesser people, not worthy of the protections from the power of the government that our founding fathers fought and died to declare and preserve, is to have not just drunk the Koolaid, but gargled with it while the foundation of this country, the very document that guarantees your rights, is eroded right in front of your face.
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As an expert on Ford's quality and customer relations record, allow me to offer, for your perusal, the Anti-Ford Page. What started off as my little rant against the 1987 Ford Escort and the service I received during its 7 recalls and innumerable breakdowns quickly turned into a sounding board for people who started sending me emails about their own experiences with the low quality products and horrible treatment they received from Ford.
So now that Ford has created a hydrogen-powered engine for Boeing, I have to wonder if, when the engine fails spectacularly a week after the warranty expires in a Hindenberg-rivaling conflagration, will Ford give Boeing the "up yours" treatment like it's done to so many other customers?
Just ignore him. Derek is used to taking snarky little potshots at people. I think his mother didn't hug him enough as a child or something.
1. The expected lifetime of the probe is pretty short - even if nuclear powered the odds of it surviving the winter are pretty slim.
That doesn't make sense. Voyager is nuclear powered and still running. Battening down the hatches and using the power plant's heat to keep the rover usable is a simple engineering problem.
2. Bringing back samples of a useful size means a pretty good sized rover - which leaves no room on the probe for instruments to analyze the samples.
The probe is working on scoops of dirt. It's not like it has to lug back boulders to be useful.
I'm sorry, I'm just not seeing a good argument against having a mobile component to maximize the usefulness of any lander-based scientific mission we launch. In terms of ROI, the rovers are top of the list.
The surrender was agreed to either way. MacArthur decided on how he would act once he got there and understood fully the reverance the japanese had for the Emperor.
You're making his case for him. He's arguing brains over brawn. You're arguing that brawn created an opportunity for brains to be used. But in the end, the war was finalized successfully and with minimal rancor using intelligent diplomacy, something the current administration has absolutely no experience with or apparent motivation to try (to bring the point home).
I would. I think we'll find life where we find water -- near the poles. What irritates me is that we're still sending probes that aren't mobile or don't at least have a mobile component. The Phoenix Mars Lander that blasted off last month (this month?) is a static probe. Why couldn't they at least have a smaller version of the rovers that could run out and bring back samples to be worked on by the probe? Anything that just sits there seems not just boring but underutilized to me. What if the lander continued to function for, say, three years beyond it's life expectancy? What would we do with it? Dig up more of the same dirt and run the same tests over and over?
You can stop at "electable". I actually like and respect McCain, but Guiliani is a liar and a fraud, plain and simple. The more Guiliani claims to be the 9/11 mayor, the more his lies are going to come back and bite him in the ass. McCain would have to have switched parties about 6 months ago to get elected now. Neither are in truly in favor a competitive markets so much as they are in favor of the tired old trickle down economics theory. McCain's strength is his military experience and his moral fiber, things Guiliani lacks. McCain's weakness is his centrist views in a party that has been hijacked by religious fundies and neo-con PNAC fans.
In fact, what I'd like to see is a candidate with the cojones to come right out and declare that the Bush administration has attacked the constitutional limits on the executive branch and violated the Constitution repeatedly. Our Constitution needs to be amended to clearly delineate what the executive branch can and can't do, shore up our Bill of Rights, force the president to more clearly describe how he intends to wage war along with an exit strategy before he's given permission to officially go to war, and while we're at it, define exactly what branch the Vice President is a part of......
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Chaining everybody up in their homes in straightjackets all day probably helps against terrorist plots too, but that doesn't make it right.
I completely agree with that sentiment, when applied correctly. FISA is not the problem. Bush telling the NSA to ignore FISA and wiretap communications without any judicial review was the problem. FISA simply enacts a special court to review warrants that use sensitive information to justify the search. Bush ordered the NSA to skip the FISA court, and that's when he ran smack into, or rather over, the Constitution.
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