The president losing the launch codes is a little harder for the reds to exploit then possibly a systematic failure
Unless it was the reds that "founf" the biscuit. They don't actually have to use it, all they have to do is put it into play. The time necessary to disregard, authenticate a new code is longer than a missle launch. Which is why the US nuclear threat is three pronged, land, sea, and air. The only missles that do not need a Permissive Action Link are sea launched, surface or sub-surface.
This sure sounds like electronic insider trading. As soon as the numbers are posted on the exchange computers, Goldman-Sachs buys,sells or whatever before anyone else can. It will remain legal until it isn't.
Normally, I'd nitpick about how the Federal Prosecutors asked for this and not Goldman's lawyers. However, with the political and economic landscape being what they are, federal prosecutors have really become Goldman's lawyers.
but something seems unexpected about this level of concern by the Justice Department.
I don't know why you'd think that. The DoJ has an interest in removing obstacles to progress of the trial. The defense could use this issue to delay the trial significantly.
It can also speed up the trial thereby allowing importyant, though minute issues to be overlooked.
I am pretty sure Goldman have some lawyers there as they are an interested party.
So is the government. Time to jump into the kangaroo car on the railroad express. This trial will over and done with before any side issues can even be raised.
I don't understand why trade secrets shoud be protected.
Because it can cause billions of dollars worth of harm to Goldman. It's reasonable to make this request.
As if Goldman-Sachs didn't make enough money on the first round of TARP
Wasn't patent law allowed under the Constitution to prevent just this sort of thing?
No. Patent law was designed to encourage companies to reveal their relevant trade secrets in exchange for a temporary monopoly.
Patent law gives the government sovereign jurisdiction over the allowing or disallowing of a patentable process or device, considering all the national security clamps on patents in recent years.
Also, you ignore that our court system NEEDS to be open except for very specific reasons. Keeping "source code" secret isn't one of them. Especially if the source code is part of the prosecution for whatever "crime" was committed.
Preserving trade secrets is one of those "very specific reasons".
I could see the closed doors. If the guy says he didn't, and then they start pulling up source code, then I would personally not be happy if that source code was just shown to the world if I was working on a closed source project
Especially if that source code screws over the people it is being hidden from.
I'd want to be sure I have some pretty good filtering... otherwise BOOBIES stray thoughts BOOBIES are going to be injecting BOOBIES themselves into BOOBIES what I'm doing and really BOOBIES mess things up.
Humans are SQUIRREL easily distracted, so if you're not BOOBIES careful, you're going to get MMMM... CAKE some random activity.
The real acid test is to let G. Bush (either one) use it. If george can use it, destroy the damn thing. The thought pad not George, but on the other hand...
Maybe, just maybe the shows were getting so close to the truth that TPTB decided to cancel the show(s) before anyone caught on. Most sci-fi shows are not much more that an indoctrination of the future yet to be. There, fixed that for ya. Long live Firefly, shiny.
A bigger story would be...Why did CIA agents die in Afghanistan? The biggest producer of opium and hashish. A drug deal gone wrong? When's the last time that happened?
How about the CIA/NSA/FBI invest in a company that further protects the interests of the *U.S. Constitution*?
How about the CIA/NSA/FBI/KBR/DHS/KFC/TGIF/ABC/DO-RE-ME/1-2-3 invest in themselves that further protects themselves and damn the constitution. The DEA is the strong-arm of the drug-dealing CIA, which is the supplying agency of the DEA. How black does a black project have to be?
Since when does the CIA care what is legal or illegal?
Was it legal when they sprayed a small town in France with LSD? Was it legal when they dosed men in NYC without their knowledge? Was it legal when they worked out deals to sell arms in contravention of congressional decisions? Maybe when they were helping import cocaine as part of those same deals? Oh wait... maybe they cared about the legality of torturing prisoners or kidnapping people?
The CIA is about doing what the CIA wants to do. Legal or not. If they cared about the law, you might become deluded into thinking that they work for us. You would be wrong.
-Steve
To paraphrase...I have a bad feeling about this Obi-Wan, that's no website, it's a trap!
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding?
Search on "contracts by adhesion"
By not opting out you implicitly agree to the said contract. Which is why automatic opting in should be banned where there is money involved. But we all know that if opting in were the modus operandi, then not many people would opt in. Hence, the forced agreement to pay, just by visiting the site.
Oh... by the way...everyone who reads this post owes me $100, since you did not opt out before reading this post. There, fixed that for ya.
(I won't respond to the rest of what you say, since that kind of thing doesn't happen here anyway.)
The only thing free in the "Land of the Free", is where you can be buried...for a price. On the other hand, unions receive union dues from the competent as well as the incompetent. A truly no lose situation.
Can anyone explain it to me in simple terms? I'm not a physicist.
Sure...wherever you go, there you are..
May I pass along my congratulations for your great inter-dimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
All that is, I hope not. The greatest remembrance is to be forgotten.
Time was invented by the Swiss so they could sell watches, very expensive watches. Space was invented by the businessman so you would have someplace to put what they sold you. There is no time nor space. There is only here and now. But where is here? My here and your here are not the same here, or are they? There is no past or future only now. Everything is made of vibration. Different vibrations for different things. Change the vibration and you change the thing. ALL IS LIGHT
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The president losing the launch codes is a little harder for the reds to exploit then possibly a systematic failure
Unless it was the reds that "founf" the biscuit. They don't actually have to use it, all they have to do is put it into play. The time necessary to disregard, authenticate a new code is longer than a missle launch. Which is why the US nuclear threat is three pronged, land, sea, and air. The only missles that do not need a Permissive Action Link are sea launched, surface or sub-surface.
This sure sounds like electronic insider trading. As soon as the numbers are posted on the exchange computers, Goldman-Sachs buys,sells or whatever before anyone else can. It will remain legal until it isn't.
Nothing is stopping you from buying the access besides not having the money.
If my angel was printing money 24/7/365 I'd have access too.
Disregard that. High-frequency trading is legal. I must be thinking of something else.
So was Enron's book keeping, too bad we disregarded that too.
Normally, I'd nitpick about how the Federal Prosecutors asked for this and not Goldman's lawyers. However, with the political and economic landscape being what they are, federal prosecutors have really become Goldman's lawyers.
The proper term is "bought dogs".
but something seems unexpected about this level of concern by the Justice Department.
I don't know why you'd think that. The DoJ has an interest in removing obstacles to progress of the trial. The defense could use this issue to delay the trial significantly.
It can also speed up the trial thereby allowing importyant, though minute issues to be overlooked.
I am pretty sure Goldman have some lawyers there as they are an interested party.
So is the government. Time to jump into the kangaroo car on the railroad express. This trial will over and done with before any side issues can even be raised.
I don't understand why trade secrets shoud be protected.
Because it can cause billions of dollars worth of harm to Goldman. It's reasonable to make this request.
As if Goldman-Sachs didn't make enough money on the first round of TARP
Wasn't patent law allowed under the Constitution to prevent just this sort of thing?
No. Patent law was designed to encourage companies to reveal their relevant trade secrets in exchange for a temporary monopoly.
Patent law gives the government sovereign jurisdiction over the allowing or disallowing of a patentable process or device, considering all the national security clamps on patents in recent years.
Also, you ignore that our court system NEEDS to be open except for very specific reasons. Keeping "source code" secret isn't one of them. Especially if the source code is part of the prosecution for whatever "crime" was committed.
Preserving trade secrets is one of those "very specific reasons".
The shill speaks. So much for transparency.
I could see the closed doors. If the guy says he didn't, and then they start pulling up source code, then I would personally not be happy if that source code was just shown to the world if I was working on a closed source project
Especially if that source code screws over the people it is being hidden from.
I'd want to be sure I have some pretty good filtering ... otherwise BOOBIES stray thoughts BOOBIES are going to be injecting BOOBIES themselves into BOOBIES what I'm doing and really BOOBIES mess things up.
Humans are SQUIRREL easily distracted, so if you're not BOOBIES careful, you're going to get MMMM ... CAKE some random activity.
The real acid test is to let G. Bush (either one) use it. If george can use it, destroy the damn thing. The thought pad not George, but on the other hand...
He did say "girlfriend hand". I can only expect he's already holding "something else" in it.
Yeah, his brainless head.
Maybe, just maybe the shows were getting so close to the truth that TPTB decided to cancel the show(s) before anyone caught on. Most sci-fi shows are not much more that an indoctrination of the future yet to be. There, fixed that for ya.
Long live Firefly, shiny.
This is the "big story" about what the CIA is investing in!: http://www.silvertailsystems.com/images/forensics_a.jpg CUTTING EDGE! /downsrim
A bigger story would be...Why did CIA agents die in Afghanistan? The biggest producer of opium and hashish. A drug deal gone wrong? When's the last time that happened?
The internet isn't limited to the U.S.
But it started here, just ask Al Gore.
How about the CIA/NSA/FBI invest in a company that further protects the interests of the *U.S. Constitution*?
How about the CIA/NSA/FBI/KBR/DHS/KFC/TGIF/ABC/DO-RE-ME/1-2-3 invest in themselves that further protects themselves and damn the constitution.
The DEA is the strong-arm of the drug-dealing CIA, which is the supplying agency of the DEA. How black does a black project have to be?
Since when does the CIA care what is legal or illegal?
Was it legal when they sprayed a small town in France with LSD? Was it legal when they dosed men in NYC without their knowledge? Was it legal when they worked out deals to sell arms in contravention of congressional decisions? Maybe when they were helping import cocaine as part of those same deals? Oh wait... maybe they cared about the legality of torturing prisoners or kidnapping people?
The CIA is about doing what the CIA wants to do. Legal or not. If they cared about the law, you might become deluded into thinking that they work for us. You would be wrong.
-Steve
To paraphrase...I have a bad feeling about this Obi-Wan, that's no website, it's a trap!
Bonk bonk! Bonk on the head! Grup! Bonk bonk!
Sweet ST:TOS reference.
Correct me if I am wrong, but don't both parties have to agree to a contract to make it binding?
Search on "contracts by adhesion"
By not opting out you implicitly agree to the said contract. Which is why automatic opting in should be banned where there is money involved. But we all know that if opting in were the modus operandi, then not many people would opt in. Hence, the forced agreement to pay, just by visiting the site.
Oh... by the way...everyone who reads this post owes me $100, since you did not opt out before reading this post.
There, fixed that for ya.
670million...for the Hobbit? Is Smog a transformer?
Smaug is a dragon.
as one who works in a forced union environment
So much for Land of the Free...
(I won't respond to the rest of what you say, since that kind of thing doesn't happen here anyway.)
The only thing free in the "Land of the Free", is where you can be buried...for a price. On the other hand, unions receive union dues from the competent as well as the incompetent. A truly no lose situation.
Government auctions have the habit of turning into fire sales on public investment.
And the two leading contenders in the ever increasing bidding war...Skynet and China.
Can anyone explain it to me in simple terms? I'm not a physicist.
Sure...wherever you go, there you are..
May I pass along my congratulations for your great inter-dimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
All that is, I hope not.
The greatest remembrance is to be forgotten.
Time was invented by the Swiss so they could sell watches, very expensive watches. Space was invented by the businessman so you would have someplace to put what they sold you.
There is no time nor space. There is only here and now. But where is here? My here and your here are not the same here, or are they? There is no past or future only now.
Everything is made of vibration. Different vibrations for different things. Change the vibration and you change the thing.
ALL IS LIGHT
A time machine is supposed to travel in the time dimension only, and not in our 3 spatial dimensions.
Hence the DeLorean, silly rabbit.