This is so typical of the old skool Socialist morons who are in politics.
The Democrats want to "give" something. OK, fine. "Give" all you want but who PAYS for this?
What they really want is to steal money from producers, pocket a bunch of it then pass on some over-regulated, clunky "benefit" to a few people.
What a desperate attempt to play on people's greed.
The really funny thing about this is broadband is only attractive to people who are mentally active, you know, the ones who earn the money the Dems want to steal.
This reminds me of when the state of Maryland tried to get me to pay unemployment tax for my companies employees. My company doesn't have any employees and I'm the only stock holder. Their office drones actually tried to tell me I should send them money so I could collect unemployment if my company fired me. Hoookay...
Which students do you have in mind? The ones who torched buildings and surrounded the National Guard or the ones who were professional insurrectionists or the ones who threw stones at the National Guardsmen or the runaway girl who was the subject of the famous photo?
40 years ago some idiots did some stupid stuff. BFD.
A 3D view might be helpful to locate landmarks since the world isn't flat and roads aren't bright colors...
For example, visualizing where you are from a flat map is different than knowing you're 15 blocks East of the football stadium. Fiddling with the buttons and looking at a little display takes your eyes off the road. The less time you do that, the safer you are.
GPS things are nice but they're like comptuerized rally helpers. Their scale of reference doesn't cover all the human ways of visualizing space.
The news release even says that it could have help engineers predict 'exactly how much pressure the levees protecting New Orleans could withstand before giving way.'
Come on. That's ridiculous. If only... Pffff!!! Besides the fact that it doesn't matter when those levees would have broken, because they would have anyway, this is nothing more than FUD to drum up money.
The whole idea of left/right brain split has become far less popular among actual brain researchers. Granted, certain brain structures occupy different areas of the entire brain, but it's not a split processor as was promoted in the 1980s (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, for example.)
Beyond that, it sure is refreshing to know that money was spent to "discover" through "research" that people whose language doesn't have words for something find it harder to describe the something than those people whose language does have such words.
I was assigned to an Air Force group at Fort Meade and worked inside the NSA. What I'm typing is based on my personal experience. Things may have changed but I really doubt they are more lax.
When I left the position at NSA, I was required to sign an agreement that I would not discuss the tasks/environment/etc. for the next 70 years. Any publications, speeches, etc. which referenced the NSA were to be vetted by the NSA prior to release.
That agreement, which was a requirement, is part of a whole parcel of laws and regulations concerning what might be termed "official secrets." In essence, there are things which the government does that are not, and should not, be made public knowledge. This applies to almost every level of government. For example, the local police don't tell the public where or how they are going to do investigations, stings, speed traps, etc.
So, this guy is in direct violation of that.
Additionally, the U.S. is in a legal state of war. There is no formal procedure or document required to create this condition and there never has been. That's probably a surprise to a lot of people because they've been exposed to the phrase, "declaration of war" in movies and such. Given there is no such procedure in the laws of the United States, and given that the powers granted to the President by the Congress on multiple occassions after the September 11, 2001 attacks inside the U.S meet and/or exceed the powers granted to President Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and given the U.S. was ina state of war after those attacks on Pearl Harbor, there can be no legal question that the United States is in a state of War.
Where does this put us now? The guy violated national security laws and regulations pertaining to U. S. national security activities during a state of war.
Is this guy a whistleblower in the legal sense of the term? Nope. "Whistleblower" has a very specific legal definition. Public exposure, like this guy did, is not a whistleblower activity. Whistleblowing is an internal procedure involving different "chains of command", if you will, between the person's operational supervision and internal investigators.
This guy most certainly is not a "whistleblower" at all.
So, this is a person who violated his sworn agreement, Federal laws pertaining to release of intelligence matters and has no legal status for protection as a whistleblower.
This is like an ex-cop who points out all the undercover cops to the drug dealers.
There's an old single-frame cartoon where two scientists are looking at some equations on a blackboard and in the middle is the phrase, "a miracle happens" which prompts one scientist to question the other scientist's proof.
People who state the straw man that Intelligent Design is anti-science are guilty of the hypocrisy they say their opponents have.
If anything, belief in Intelligent Design should increase as the complexities and intricacies of the physical realm become more apparent. The more complex, the less the probability of something outside the ruleset happening. The more complex the ruleset, the lower the probability it came into existence spontaneously.
Denial of that is to deny math.
There are closed-minded irrational people on either "side" of "the debate." Both have their own instances of "a miracle happens." Statements like, "putting a nail in the coffin of ID" don't do anything other than show the speaker is an elitist snob from one "side" of "the debate" and has their own form of closed-minded, biggoted, boorish behavior and thoughts.
Think of string theory of...no, wait, this is even easier...think of Chemistry 101 and Physics 101. Both teach some very elementary ways to model the same physical phenomena. Does that mean one is right and the other wrong? No, it means they are 2 different ways of modeling. Perhaps another way to view it is those are views of the same phenomena from 2 different angles.
Plato has a very famous cave analogy from which we can take another illustration by examining just the starting premise, that the people live their lives seeing only shadows cast on the cave wall. One day, a person turns around and sees the light from the sun then understands the shadows from another point of view.
Intelligent Design, in its simplest form, really means order and complexity don't spontaneously happen. It doesn't mean science is invalid, just the opposite.
The bumblebee bit seems like it became a catchy phrase which had some truth at the beginning (couldn't explain with scientific tools we had) and was then turned into dogma, glommed onto by all sorts of people.
The idea that discovery of a way to model bumblee bee flight lessons the validity of the concept of Intelligent Design is emotional and irrational, not logical.
"Is there still a DVD-by-mail war or has Netflix won?"
That's a dumb question. What major market for any product has only one supplier (besides government)? There's room for both and more. Must be a slow day at Slashdot to put this up front...
Nope. Do some real research on the legal aspects of monitoring non-terrestrial communications.
Court orders are only needed in specific instances. Commonly used instances, yes, but still specific, and not an all-inclusive "any US citizen." That was the post-Watergate stuff that is, quite thankfully, derailed now. Think about it, bin Laden calls a "U.S. citizen" so no records can be kept of who he talked with? How do you define "U.S. citizen"? By phone number? Pffff...
Life without liberty or the ability to pursue happiness is still life. By definition, "life" has dominance in the sentence.
No laws were broken. The NY Times article contains a number of outright lies, including the first couple of hook lines. Do the research, everything done was legal.
Don't overlook the fact the author of that article has a book coming out which, surprise, surprise, contains this topic.
Courts are only needed to authorize surveillance under some circumstances, not all. In this case, Congress granted a specific permission for any actions the President feels are necessary. They did this three times.
The Patriot Act isn't just to grant the President the equivalent of War Powers. There were a lot of structural problems with the restrictions placed on law enforcement and intel. Information sharing was very restricted and frequently prohibited. The most obvious aspect was prohibition between domestic and international intel. There are others, though, like one state being able to talk with another or the Feds. This let a lot of domestic criminals hide much easier. Commit a crime in one state then skip to another, that sort of thing.
First off, the President was granted specific legal permission by the Congress post 9/11. Congress makes the laws, not the court. There is no need for a specific warrant. Additionally, and I know this will shock you, individual people don't have phone numbers exclusively and permanently applied to them. Of course monitoring communications will pick up irrelevant communications, the same way undercover cops seeking specific criminals will look at other people. The "bad guys" don't have floating black skulls over their heads like characters from a Sims game.
Your #1 comment is ludicrous. The absurdity of your comment is exactly what I was mocking. The "bad guys" don't announce themselves, be they terrorists or any form of criminal. The only way to find there communications is by direct knowledge or traffic/content analysis.
Your #2 is just as ridiculous and purely false. Which is it? Direct knowledge or data sifting? You can't have it both ways nor are those the only options. Torture? BS.
You certainly don't understand much about law, especially as it applies to electronic communications. Monitoring communications most certainly is legal, regardless of your lack of knowledge. Apparently, you also don't have the ability to separate sarcasm from obvious statements, even with breaks in the post to show exactly that.
So...the first attempt by the NYT to create panic about supposed "spying" against American citizens turned out to be a total joke (since it was only international calls between known terrorists and people/numbers inside the U.S.) so they're trying again in an attempt to boost book sales. It's not THAT hard to track the author's names, editor's names, etc. and see that.
Do a little research and you'll find there has always been government monitoring of communication. Think about it a little and you'll realize that an essential part of providing security. There's this little blurb in the founding documents of the U.S. which talks about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Life is first in the list, before liberty. You can't have liberty if you don't have life and the only way to have life is to protect against those who wish to take it from others.
What's next? They will discover that cell "phones" are actually radios so monitoring isn't that difficult nor subject to the laws which apply to land line telephones? They'll discover it's possible to read the contents of a sealed envelope without reading it? They'll discover most email is non-encrypted?
No, wait, I've got it. They'll "discover" frequent buyer discount cards are actually used to gather customer demographics. Yeah, and Diebold is part of the plot to "spy" on every person in the world.
Oh, yeah, that's a start. Let's also claim the large banks of the world are involved because they monitor credit card use under the guise of looking for fraudulent behavior. (Let's ignore how the Patriot Act allows real-time tracking and reporting of credit card fruad as it happens which has lead to many arrests of the thieves while they're on their shopping sprees.) Yeah, that's good, too.
OK, we've got the leftwing cooks, let's do something to bring in the rightwing cooks. Uh...we'll claim all this data is stored in a giant computer in Switzerland (built by IBM for the Nazis) called The Beast. We can't pull off the number trick which gave the numeric value of 666 to the names Reagan and Hitler this time so we'll claim GWB = 666. Yeah, that's good. Oh, and he drinks raw goat's blood during the full moon while burning black candles. All that churchy stuff is just a cover-up.
Yeah, that about covers it.
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Honestly, this is just a bunch of stupid FUD. Of course, the American intel monitors communication. So does every other country and intel/security force. This is the real world, not cartoons. The "bad guys" don't stand out and identify themselves.
That's absolute junk and you're just parroting what the leftwing websites claim.
The U.S. law required any surveillance of foreign nationals which led to American citizens could not record the information about that citizen. IOW, known bad guys could be working with an American citizen and the law enforcement of the U.S. couldn't do anything about this. They couldn't even "connect the dots" to find the common association with the American citizen.
THAT is what has been changed and it was long overdue.
All this would do is tag a particulat computing device. It's got about as much legal relevance as delivery confirmation on an envelope. (The envelope was delivered, nothign about the contents or lack thereof are verified.)
'mileage-based road user fees' aare already in place. They're the 40-60 cents per gallon tax for fuel. The more you use, the more you pay. There are also toll roads which continue to collect tolls well after the project has been completely reimbursed. This is just more bs tax.
"at least $450 extra on each student's tuition bill."
Bullshit.
The equipment doesn't have to be purchased and installed every semester.
They had 10 years to do this, didn't say anything while the law has been on the books for that long and ocntinued to take moeny from the federal government. "It's inconvenient" won't fly. "Right to privacy" above that of any citizen who is in a home or office won't fly.
The law is the law and nothing was said for 10 years. Complaining about the cost won't change the law. What will their response be when questioned as to why they did nothing while taking Federal funding (ahem, money taken from my wallet and that of every other taxpayer)? They won't have anything to support their complaints. Personally, I went to the University of Illinois, home of the NCSA. What are they going to say, they can't figure out how to make this work efficiently? Pfff. The schools who are complaining about this don't comprehend they are telling the world their IT departments are worthless.
It should be very obvious why that is related. The comment was about not remembering Bill Clinton "pushing" school prayer. Pronography and prayer don't go together, they're opposites. The Justice Department is part of the Executive branch which takes it's direction and instructions from the President. Of course the poster doesn't remember Bill Clinton "pushing" school prayer, Bill Clinton was "pushing" the opposite. The poster may as well say they don't remember Osama bin Laden ever eating a barbecue pork sandwich or Adolf Hitler throwing bar mitzvahs.
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This is so typical of the old skool Socialist morons who are in politics.
The Democrats want to "give" something. OK, fine. "Give" all you want but who PAYS for this?
What they really want is to steal money from producers, pocket a bunch of it then pass on some over-regulated, clunky "benefit" to a few people.
What a desperate attempt to play on people's greed.
The really funny thing about this is broadband is only attractive to people who are mentally active, you know, the ones who earn the money the Dems want to steal.
This reminds me of when the state of Maryland tried to get me to pay unemployment tax for my companies employees. My company doesn't have any employees and I'm the only stock holder. Their office drones actually tried to tell me I should send them money so I could collect unemployment if my company fired me. Hoookay...
Which students do you have in mind? The ones who torched buildings and surrounded the National Guard or the ones who were professional insurrectionists or the ones who threw stones at the National Guardsmen or the runaway girl who was the subject of the famous photo?
40 years ago some idiots did some stupid stuff. BFD.
Oh, puhhhlease. That's the old Nazi/Imperial Japan justification.
You're claiming your hoped-for results justify the means, whatever those may be. That's intellectually and moraly bankrupt.
Your statement is the same line of thought that would promote "growing" human beings as unwilling test subjects for medical testing.
Right-click on a link and look at the menu. Isn't there a selection titled, "Open link in new tab"?
I don't have any "virgin" Firefox installations so maybe that option was part of an extension I've loaded. I'm using:
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A 3D view might be helpful to locate landmarks since the world isn't flat and roads aren't bright colors...
For example, visualizing where you are from a flat map is different than knowing you're 15 blocks East of the football stadium. Fiddling with the buttons and looking at a little display takes your eyes off the road. The less time you do that, the safer you are.
GPS things are nice but they're like comptuerized rally helpers. Their scale of reference doesn't cover all the human ways of visualizing space.
Gimme a break (pun intended):
The news release even says that it could have help engineers predict 'exactly how much pressure the levees protecting New Orleans could withstand before giving way.'
Come on. That's ridiculous. If only... Pffff!!! Besides the fact that it doesn't matter when those levees would have broken, because they would have anyway, this is nothing more than FUD to drum up money.
The whole idea of left/right brain split has become far less popular among actual brain researchers. Granted, certain brain structures occupy different areas of the entire brain, but it's not a split processor as was promoted in the 1980s (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, for example.)
Beyond that, it sure is refreshing to know that money was spent to "discover" through "research" that people whose language doesn't have words for something find it harder to describe the something than those people whose language does have such words.
Brilliant! Amazing!
...you're arrogantly dogmatic.
Yup, this is a bunch of FUD, poorly constructed FUD at that.
It's real simple. Chinese labor is about $70/week.
That's about all you need to know. RFID allows automation, fewer people, tighter control and fewer processing steps.
The options are automation, including lots of remote sensing/identifying technologies like RFID or total economic collapse.
I, for one, don't care to be a dirt farmer. RFID is about the same "privacy concern" as a phone book.
Let's clear up the FUD, shall we?
I was assigned to an Air Force group at Fort Meade and worked inside the NSA. What I'm typing is based on my personal experience. Things may have changed but I really doubt they are more lax.
When I left the position at NSA, I was required to sign an agreement that I would not discuss the tasks/environment/etc. for the next 70 years. Any publications, speeches, etc. which referenced the NSA were to be vetted by the NSA prior to release.
That agreement, which was a requirement, is part of a whole parcel of laws and regulations concerning what might be termed "official secrets." In essence, there are things which the government does that are not, and should not, be made public knowledge. This applies to almost every level of government. For example, the local police don't tell the public where or how they are going to do investigations, stings, speed traps, etc.
So, this guy is in direct violation of that.
Additionally, the U.S. is in a legal state of war. There is no formal procedure or document required to create this condition and there never has been. That's probably a surprise to a lot of people because they've been exposed to the phrase, "declaration of war" in movies and such. Given there is no such procedure in the laws of the United States, and given that the powers granted to the President by the Congress on multiple occassions after the September 11, 2001 attacks inside the U.S meet and/or exceed the powers granted to President Roosevelt after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and given the U.S. was ina state of war after those attacks on Pearl Harbor, there can be no legal question that the United States is in a state of War.
Where does this put us now? The guy violated national security laws and regulations pertaining to U. S. national security activities during a state of war.
Is this guy a whistleblower in the legal sense of the term? Nope. "Whistleblower" has a very specific legal definition. Public exposure, like this guy did, is not a whistleblower activity. Whistleblowing is an internal procedure involving different "chains of command", if you will, between the person's operational supervision and internal investigators.
This guy most certainly is not a "whistleblower" at all.
So, this is a person who violated his sworn agreement, Federal laws pertaining to release of intelligence matters and has no legal status for protection as a whistleblower.
This is like an ex-cop who points out all the undercover cops to the drug dealers.
Let's get something straight, OK?
/= anti-science.
Intelligent design
There's an old single-frame cartoon where two scientists are looking at some equations on a blackboard and in the middle is the phrase, "a miracle happens" which prompts one scientist to question the other scientist's proof.
People who state the straw man that Intelligent Design is anti-science are guilty of the hypocrisy they say their opponents have.
If anything, belief in Intelligent Design should increase as the complexities and intricacies of the physical realm become more apparent. The more complex, the less the probability of something outside the ruleset happening. The more complex the ruleset, the lower the probability it came into existence spontaneously.
Denial of that is to deny math.
There are closed-minded irrational people on either "side" of "the debate." Both have their own instances of "a miracle happens." Statements like, "putting a nail in the coffin of ID" don't do anything other than show the speaker is an elitist snob from one "side" of "the debate" and has their own form of closed-minded, biggoted, boorish behavior and thoughts.
Think of string theory of...no, wait, this is even easier...think of Chemistry 101 and Physics 101. Both teach some very elementary ways to model the same physical phenomena. Does that mean one is right and the other wrong? No, it means they are 2 different ways of modeling. Perhaps another way to view it is those are views of the same phenomena from 2 different angles.
Plato has a very famous cave analogy from which we can take another illustration by examining just the starting premise, that the people live their lives seeing only shadows cast on the cave wall. One day, a person turns around and sees the light from the sun then understands the shadows from another point of view.
Intelligent Design, in its simplest form, really means order and complexity don't spontaneously happen. It doesn't mean science is invalid, just the opposite.
The bumblebee bit seems like it became a catchy phrase which had some truth at the beginning (couldn't explain with scientific tools we had) and was then turned into dogma, glommed onto by all sorts of people.
The idea that discovery of a way to model bumblee bee flight lessons the validity of the concept of Intelligent Design is emotional and irrational, not logical.
Uh...just what good is it to "legalize" VCR recording given the equipment has reached the end of it's lifetime?
"Is there still a DVD-by-mail war or has Netflix won?"
That's a dumb question. What major market for any product has only one supplier (besides government)? There's room for both and more. Must be a slow day at Slashdot to put this up front...
Nope. Do some real research on the legal aspects of monitoring non-terrestrial communications.
Court orders are only needed in specific instances. Commonly used instances, yes, but still specific, and not an all-inclusive "any US citizen." That was the post-Watergate stuff that is, quite thankfully, derailed now. Think about it, bin Laden calls a "U.S. citizen" so no records can be kept of who he talked with? How do you define "U.S. citizen"? By phone number? Pffff...
Life without liberty or the ability to pursue happiness is still life. By definition, "life" has dominance in the sentence.
Nope.
No laws were broken. The NY Times article contains a number of outright lies, including the first couple of hook lines. Do the research, everything done was legal.
Don't overlook the fact the author of that article has a book coming out which, surprise, surprise, contains this topic.
Courts are only needed to authorize surveillance under some circumstances, not all. In this case, Congress granted a specific permission for any actions the President feels are necessary. They did this three times.
The Patriot Act isn't just to grant the President the equivalent of War Powers. There were a lot of structural problems with the restrictions placed on law enforcement and intel. Information sharing was very restricted and frequently prohibited. The most obvious aspect was prohibition between domestic and international intel. There are others, though, like one state being able to talk with another or the Feds. This let a lot of domestic criminals hide much easier. Commit a crime in one state then skip to another, that sort of thing.
Wrongo.
First off, the President was granted specific legal permission by the Congress post 9/11. Congress makes the laws, not the court. There is no need for a specific warrant. Additionally, and I know this will shock you, individual people don't have phone numbers exclusively and permanently applied to them. Of course monitoring communications will pick up irrelevant communications, the same way undercover cops seeking specific criminals will look at other people. The "bad guys" don't have floating black skulls over their heads like characters from a Sims game.
Your #1 comment is ludicrous. The absurdity of your comment is exactly what I was mocking. The "bad guys" don't announce themselves, be they terrorists or any form of criminal. The only way to find there communications is by direct knowledge or traffic/content analysis.
Your #2 is just as ridiculous and purely false. Which is it? Direct knowledge or data sifting? You can't have it both ways nor are those the only options. Torture? BS.
You certainly don't understand much about law, especially as it applies to electronic communications. Monitoring communications most certainly is legal, regardless of your lack of knowledge. Apparently, you also don't have the ability to separate sarcasm from obvious statements, even with breaks in the post to show exactly that.
So...the first attempt by the NYT to create panic about supposed "spying" against American citizens turned out to be a total joke (since it was only international calls between known terrorists and people/numbers inside the U.S.) so they're trying again in an attempt to boost book sales. It's not THAT hard to track the author's names, editor's names, etc. and see that.
Do a little research and you'll find there has always been government monitoring of communication. Think about it a little and you'll realize that an essential part of providing security. There's this little blurb in the founding documents of the U.S. which talks about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Life is first in the list, before liberty. You can't have liberty if you don't have life and the only way to have life is to protect against those who wish to take it from others.
What's next? They will discover that cell "phones" are actually radios so monitoring isn't that difficult nor subject to the laws which apply to land line telephones? They'll discover it's possible to read the contents of a sealed envelope without reading it? They'll discover most email is non-encrypted?
No, wait, I've got it. They'll "discover" frequent buyer discount cards are actually used to gather customer demographics. Yeah, and Diebold is part of the plot to "spy" on every person in the world.
Oh, yeah, that's a start. Let's also claim the large banks of the world are involved because they monitor credit card use under the guise of looking for fraudulent behavior. (Let's ignore how the Patriot Act allows real-time tracking and reporting of credit card fruad as it happens which has lead to many arrests of the thieves while they're on their shopping sprees.) Yeah, that's good, too.
OK, we've got the leftwing cooks, let's do something to bring in the rightwing cooks. Uh...we'll claim all this data is stored in a giant computer in Switzerland (built by IBM for the Nazis) called The Beast. We can't pull off the number trick which gave the numeric value of 666 to the names Reagan and Hitler this time so we'll claim GWB = 666. Yeah, that's good. Oh, and he drinks raw goat's blood during the full moon while burning black candles. All that churchy stuff is just a cover-up.
Yeah, that about covers it.
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Honestly, this is just a bunch of stupid FUD. Of course, the American intel monitors communication. So does every other country and intel/security force. This is the real world, not cartoons. The "bad guys" don't stand out and identify themselves.
C'mon, people, do you really think "Hollywood" has more power than the electronics industry? Pffff.
This is just conyers acting like a kook to "earn" his pay from the lobbyists.
"Hollywood", like any other content creator, wouldn't have much of anything to worry about if their content was desired by the public.
That's absolute junk and you're just parroting what the leftwing websites claim.
The U.S. law required any surveillance of foreign nationals which led to American citizens could not record the information about that citizen. IOW, known bad guys could be working with an American citizen and the law enforcement of the U.S. couldn't do anything about this. They couldn't even "connect the dots" to find the common association with the American citizen.
THAT is what has been changed and it was long overdue.
The rest of your post is pure troll.
...unless you consider the cost, size and weight of the steam engine...
Will these come with a cow catcher? How about slotted wheels? Dining car?
All this would do is tag a particulat computing device. It's got about as much legal relevance as delivery confirmation on an envelope. (The envelope was delivered, nothign about the contents or lack thereof are verified.)
'mileage-based road user fees' aare already in place. They're the 40-60 cents per gallon tax for fuel. The more you use, the more you pay. There are also toll roads which continue to collect tolls well after the project has been completely reimbursed. This is just more bs tax.
"at least $450 extra on each student's tuition bill."
Bullshit.
The equipment doesn't have to be purchased and installed every semester.
They had 10 years to do this, didn't say anything while the law has been on the books for that long and ocntinued to take moeny from the federal government. "It's inconvenient" won't fly. "Right to privacy" above that of any citizen who is in a home or office won't fly.
The law is the law and nothing was said for 10 years. Complaining about the cost won't change the law. What will their response be when questioned as to why they did nothing while taking Federal funding (ahem, money taken from my wallet and that of every other taxpayer)? They won't have anything to support their complaints. Personally, I went to the University of Illinois, home of the NCSA. What are they going to say, they can't figure out how to make this work efficiently? Pfff. The schools who are complaining about this don't comprehend they are telling the world their IT departments are worthless.
It should be very obvious why that is related. The comment was about not remembering Bill Clinton "pushing" school prayer. Pronography and prayer don't go together, they're opposites. The Justice Department is part of the Executive branch which takes it's direction and instructions from the President. Of course the poster doesn't remember Bill Clinton "pushing" school prayer, Bill Clinton was "pushing" the opposite. The poster may as well say they don't remember Osama bin Laden ever eating a barbecue pork sandwich or Adolf Hitler throwing bar mitzvahs.