"Really? What are they doing in Yeamen then? Shopping trip?"
Well, considering that the FBI has one of the best crime labs in the world, some of the best trained investigators, scads of resources, and their mandate allows them to investigate terrorist acts against Americans, I would say that the FBI has authority to be in Yemen. Now, if this bombing had not happened and the FBI tried to start in investigation, they would be outside the bounds of their charter.
"if we had every open source programmer drop everything for a week, they could put together an excellent english language semantic checker. then we'd be able to block specific ideas, instead of just vaguely censoring host names and pages containing certain words."
I doubt this. Having done work within the field, albeit as a college project, the sheer size and scope of the project would be immense. Not to mention outdated by the time it was implemented. What you really need is some non-partial 'user' with no political views to rate the sites. But until you can teach cats to type and keep their interest long enough in the project, don't expect it to happen.
"Surprised? Nor am I, little doggie. And yet when I read your words I find no example of a shepherd - all I see are complaints from a sheep who is not getting their way."
I think that the title says it all. Can you imagine what marvelous ways the government can manage to mess this up. I mean private industry and corporations do it all the time and they make so many mistakes it would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Eric Gearman,
Who once again got stuff from the AARP the other day.
(I'm not old. I'm only 28.)
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"...most people can just do enough math to balance their checkbooks."
Here is where I disagree with you. Most people don't know enough math to balance their checkbooks. I have several friends in the banking industry, and their stories make you want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Eric Gearman
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"The fact that they didn't vote doesn't imply that the election results would have been any different or that there were suddenly viable outcomes that did not involve a rich business-friendly white man winning."
However, if you don't like any of the major candidates, you should still vote. If a 'fringe' candidate gets 5% of the vote, he/she/it/that party gets federal funds for that party. So if you live in a state where the candidate you 'dislike' most has got a lock, vote for a 'firnge' candidate so that they can get federal funding. This way we can get away from this messed up two-party system.
Not really. There are several companies that would still want domain names secured for their products. I seem to recall some small nation getting the.TV domain, and immediately begin to start selling space to the networks.
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"Really? What are they doing in Yeamen then? Shopping trip?"
Well, considering that the FBI has one of the best crime labs in the world, some of the best trained investigators, scads of resources, and their mandate allows them to investigate terrorist acts against Americans, I would say that the FBI has authority to be in Yemen. Now, if this bombing had not happened and the FBI tried to start in investigation, they would be outside the bounds of their charter.
Eric Gearman
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"if we had every open source programmer drop everything for a week, they could put together an excellent english language semantic checker. then we'd be able to block specific ideas, instead of just vaguely censoring host names and pages containing certain words."
I doubt this. Having done work within the field, albeit as a college project, the sheer size and scope of the project would be immense. Not to mention outdated by the time it was implemented. What you really need is some non-partial 'user' with no political views to rate the sites. But until you can teach cats to type and keep their interest long enough in the project, don't expect it to happen.
Eric Gearman
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"Surprised? Nor am I, little doggie. And yet when I read your words I find no example of a shepherd - all I see are complaints from a sheep who is not getting their way."
I don't know... at least he signs his name.
Eric Gearman
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I think that the title says it all. Can you imagine what marvelous ways the government can manage to mess this up. I mean private industry and corporations do it all the time and they make so many mistakes it would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Eric Gearman,
Who once again got stuff from the AARP the other day.
(I'm not old. I'm only 28.)
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"...most people can just do enough math to balance their checkbooks."
Here is where I disagree with you. Most people don't know enough math to balance their checkbooks. I have several friends in the banking industry, and their stories make you want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Eric Gearman
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"The fact that they didn't vote doesn't imply that the election results would have been any different or that there were suddenly viable outcomes that did not involve a rich business-friendly white man winning."
However, if you don't like any of the major candidates, you should still vote. If a 'fringe' candidate gets 5% of the vote, he/she/it/that party gets federal funds for that party. So if you live in a state where the candidate you 'dislike' most has got a lock, vote for a 'firnge' candidate so that they can get federal funding. This way we can get away from this messed up two-party system.
Eric Gearman
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Not really. There are several companies that would still want domain names secured for their products. I seem to recall some small nation getting the .TV domain, and immediately begin to start selling space to the networks.
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Yes, but which version? Or is this yet another testing ground to find the correct answer?
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