Apparently, depending on the author, the falling tone at the end of a sentence is called a "terminal fall" (sounds like a coroner's statement of cause of death), "falling terminal" (sounds like a terrorist act), or a "terminal contour". I'm couldn't find a official universal term for it.
I thought the Wikipedia article might have something in the article on intonation, but I was unable to find it.
I recall this actually happening to someone, except it was the phone company that was sending him the bill.
After making multiple attempts to get it cleared up, and starting to receive threatening letters regarding his phone service, he mailed in a check for $0.00.
My dad got out of the navy after WWII. Several years later he was informed that an audit had revealed that he had been underpaid, and they sent him a check. The check was for twelve cents.
Similar sound waves are used by dentists to remove plaque from teeth.
Um, I hear those sound waves just fine (high frequency sensitive). My dentist had to give up using it on me.
If this sounds anything like that horrid sonic plaque cleaner, I'm going to have to move to my zombie apocalypse survival compound in Montana. Too bad, I was saving it for the actual zombie apocalypse.
No eavesdropping is done. All we need is the metadata. That's something that any law enforcement agency can obtain without a warrant.
What does it prove? It could prove to be a huge embarrassment to the target, which is why the target needs to be someone who claims that the metadata doesn't tell anyone anything about your personal life.
I'm not just talking about, "You made 32 calls last year to a phone sex line, each lasting approximately 35 minutes". How about, "I see you made a couple of short calls to a gynecologist. Setting up appointments, perhaps? Then, about 4 weeks later, I see that you spoke with an oncologist for 20 minutes, followed by a 45 minute call to an attorney specializing in wills and probate. Is there something we should know, Senator Feinstein?"
What we really need is for someone to get a hold of some pro-dragnet surveillance politico's, like Diane Feinstein's, metadata and publish a nice analysis of that.
Then she could get up there and tell us how innocent the collection is.
I would say that a paraphrasing of that bit of legalese would be "The Nice Classification of goods shall not be used to determine the similarity, or lack thereof, of the goods in question."
Several Congressmen were rushed to the hospital after suffering severe cases of acronym overdose.
Acronym abuse has been on the rise in Washington lately. Many researchers attribute the problem to inflated egos, which most politicians also suffer from.
Warrants have to be specific as to what they are searching for, but any evidence found during a legal search, whether named in the warrant or not, is fair game.
I can never remember to run the encryption software on my dead tree files, either.
But it looks like investigative journalism of government activities in this country is pretty much dead. It was a good run of 200+ years, but now it's over.
That Samsung received the information is the lawyer's fault. But then Samsung, knowing fully well that they had information they were not supposed to have, distributed it further and utilized it in negotiations with Nokia.
It's obvious that Samsung knew they had information they weren't supposed to have, from the statement alleged to have been made to Nokia by a Samsung executive: "All information leaks."
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Apparently, depending on the author, the falling tone at the end of a sentence is called a "terminal fall" (sounds like a coroner's statement of cause of death), "falling terminal" (sounds like a terrorist act), or a "terminal contour". I'm couldn't find a official universal term for it.
I thought the Wikipedia article might have something in the article on intonation, but I was unable to find it.
I recall this actually happening to someone, except it was the phone company that was sending him the bill.
After making multiple attempts to get it cleared up, and starting to receive threatening letters regarding his phone service, he mailed in a check for $0.00.
The problem was cleared up immediately.
My dad got out of the navy after WWII. Several years later he was informed that an audit had revealed that he had been underpaid, and they sent him a check. The check was for twelve cents.
My mom still has that check.
That's what always happens to my cars.
I've lost 5 wives that way so far.
"An armed society is a polite society."
You may want to carve it or press it with a cookie cutter to make it look like it came from the animal - McDonald's does this all the time.
I tried that, but I couldn't get anyone at the table to believe that spotted owl meat looks like little Santa Clauses.
No, your windshield just explodes.
But then you still don't need any windshield wipers!
Similar sound waves are used by dentists to remove plaque from teeth.
Um, I hear those sound waves just fine (high frequency sensitive). My dentist had to give up using it on me.
If this sounds anything like that horrid sonic plaque cleaner, I'm going to have to move to my zombie apocalypse survival compound in Montana. Too bad, I was saving it for the actual zombie apocalypse.
They would certainly have better ethics.
I wonder if Alsup himself could file an amicus brief in the appeal.
So now we know. Senator Feinstein must have terabytes of porn on her hard drive and the NSA has told her they know about it.
So, next up: A law that makes it a felony for using encryption to conceal evidence of terrorism.
Now they can nail you just for using encryption with your email.
It's the six-pack theory of economics: the price of a six-pack of beer will always remain at approximately one hour's worth of minimum wage.
No eavesdropping is done. All we need is the metadata. That's something that any law enforcement agency can obtain without a warrant.
What does it prove? It could prove to be a huge embarrassment to the target, which is why the target needs to be someone who claims that the metadata doesn't tell anyone anything about your personal life.
I'm not just talking about, "You made 32 calls last year to a phone sex line, each lasting approximately 35 minutes". How about, "I see you made a couple of short calls to a gynecologist. Setting up appointments, perhaps? Then, about 4 weeks later, I see that you spoke with an oncologist for 20 minutes, followed by a 45 minute call to an attorney specializing in wills and probate. Is there something we should know, Senator Feinstein?"
What we really need is for someone to get a hold of some pro-dragnet surveillance politico's, like Diane Feinstein's, metadata and publish a nice analysis of that.
Then she could get up there and tell us how innocent the collection is.
Ejector seat with the control mounted on the turn signal.
I would say that a paraphrasing of that bit of legalese would be "The Nice Classification of goods shall not be used to determine the similarity, or lack thereof, of the goods in question."
I knew this would happen! This continued emphasis on solar power has doomed us. We've used up the sun.
Research into how to avoid dragnet surveillance by domestic intelligence agencies.
I would say that squelching climate change research is probably one of the primary purposes of this proposal.
Several Congressmen were rushed to the hospital after suffering severe cases of acronym overdose.
Acronym abuse has been on the rise in Washington lately. Many researchers attribute the problem to inflated egos, which most politicians also suffer from.
Warrants have to be specific as to what they are searching for, but any evidence found during a legal search, whether named in the warrant or not, is fair game.
I can never remember to run the encryption software on my dead tree files, either.
But it looks like investigative journalism of government activities in this country is pretty much dead. It was a good run of 200+ years, but now it's over.
It could be almost as much fun as mixing beer and guns.
"Hey, guys! Watch this..."
That Samsung received the information is the lawyer's fault. But then Samsung, knowing fully well that they had information they were not supposed to have, distributed it further and utilized it in negotiations with Nokia.
It's obvious that Samsung knew they had information they weren't supposed to have, from the statement alleged to have been made to Nokia by a Samsung executive: "All information leaks."