Agree. In fact, I really wish Snowden has limited his revelations to domestic programs. The foreign intelligence is the direct mission of the NSA, and while they might've done too much in some cases you can hardly blame them for being successful at it.
She's 80, and her current term doesn't run out until 2016. So she probably couldn't care less as to how the public opinion swings by these types of coverup attempts.
Why exactly do they get to have a say in this? Why are we even listening to them? Feinstein and Rogers are the two key figures responsible for most of these violations in the first place. They are the ones who tacitly sanctioned wholesale violation of the constitutional right against unreasonable searches. Yet their opinion on Snowden's guilt is somehow all over the news. It's amazing that the press is quoting Rogers' preaches on how Snowden has broken the law and needs to be persecuted, when both of these bozos voted to grant retroactive immunity for warrantless wiretaps they've sanctioned under earlier administration. As far as I am concerned, asking for their opinion is like asking a robber on what to do with a good Samaritan who stopped the robbery.
Actually, the second one is "site", not "sale". The ludicrous thing is that neither word is actually russian - they are simply transliterations of the english "online" and "site" words in cyrillic.
You're missing the aim here - it's not to pick one, two or three "best" comments, it's to discount things that are not worth reading. In a article, you end up with hundreds of posts that are moderated as high as they can be (+5). As long as you have that minimal number of moderators who appreciated that comment, it will rise. That's as much input from the moderators as one should want - reduce noise, but don't shape the conversation.
The fraction of government-employed workers is not that high in US, relative to other countries. And it has been dropping consistently, currently down to the lowest levels in the past few decades. So you're barking up the wrong tree.
Why would you want to strike any kind of a deal with this dirtbag!? The guy has done a terrible deed, admitted so to multiple witnesses, wrote a confession note. Plus they have a boatload of forensic evidence.
You get an america that isn't divided into economic disparites like fucking china,... That's what assholes.
Actually, China's doing pretty well right now, with a shitload of cheap labour coming from the rural communities... ah just pulling you leg man - I know it sucks. Immediate infrastructure needs are clearly different for some freewheeling artist seeking 'inspiration' in an East Village studio in NYC and a rural farmer who needs to move a boatload of product in and out every day.
But on a more serious note. One thing I've encountered is a resistance on a part of telcos to go into built-up old cities in US. They would circle all the suburbs with fiber, but wouldn't go into the inner areas that had large apartment blocks. The excuse was that it was much easier to run fiber to a house than wire a large building itself. To this day I don't know if this is true. It sort of makes sense, but on the other hand I've been to some very old cities in Europe where you have a choice of several fiber optic providers per each building.
I'd go further and say that this type of bellicose nonsense is really detrimental. We don't have a tyrannical government that's oppressing its own populace - we have a rotten political system where that very populace continuously re-elects ineffective and corrupt politicians. If, as you say, most of us were on the same page, the problem would have already been solved. And none of your firearms will be necessary.
It's easy if you state the problem correctly: how to reach the income level the local municipality expects from the speeding tickets, while minimizing the number of tickets (processing fees) and potential court challenges.
Dark matter is not an invented concept, it is a name for something we observe.
Precisely the opposite - it's a name for something we haven't observed. And instead of appropriately referring to it as a paradox, inconsistency, etc. a concept of an entirely new "matter" was conjured up. I might agree with you that it's more likely that something is missing in the estimates of galaxy masses as opposed to physical laws breaking down, but gp is perfectly correct in saying that at this point it's a theoretical (i.e. invented) concept.
This is yet another surcharge which, in time, will likely be hidden just like a ton of other special taxes and fees that are commonly being added to the advertised price. Most of the time I can't tell how much the purchase will actually cost me. Where is the push for requiring retailers to advertise a complete price?
Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial, it's just a bit easier to do unit conversions with them.
Sure, but the point is that the rest of the world has been able to unify behind a reasonable unit system, and we're the weird kid in the corner that insists on calling everyone by a different name.
That's right, drop it. Because $20 billion per year in tax breaks to oil companies is money well spent, but using $20 billion dollars to learn how to build a real fusion reactor is a total waste. Why try to go after a technology that can bring virtually unlimited locally-sourced energy when we've got such bright prospects in oil trade?
Indeed! I found it very helpful not having to worry about cops trying to catch me for speeding when driving on autobahn in Germany. It's amazing how much more attention I could afford to pay to the right things - the road, cars around you, etc. instead of trying to spot a speedtrap around each corner.
I was just thinking about this the other day! This would be great for these modern bathroom scales to id the user - the impedance measure only needs enough accuracy to distinguish between the family members whose weight is close enough. They already measure impedance for body fat anyhow. But I also wondered how much your signatures would change if you, let's say, drank a bottle of beer, or ate something salty.
This type of research will also be subject to a strict legal and ethical framework which will not permit the researchers to act as providers of genetic tests to named individuals.
This is indeed the case currently, but I think that's wrong. If you're expecting donors to go out on a limb and sign a blanket consent form allowing their samples to be used for honest research purposes, there should be a reciprocal way for us to provide data back to them. It will require yet another consent form or other legal framework, but putting in effort to make that possible seems only fair.
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That's because you have a populace that gives a shit.
Agree. In fact, I really wish Snowden has limited his revelations to domestic programs. The foreign intelligence is the direct mission of the NSA, and while they might've done too much in some cases you can hardly blame them for being successful at it.
She's 80, and her current term doesn't run out until 2016. So she probably couldn't care less as to how the public opinion swings by these types of coverup attempts.
Why exactly do they get to have a say in this? Why are we even listening to them?
Feinstein and Rogers are the two key figures responsible for most of these violations in the first place. They are the ones who tacitly sanctioned wholesale violation of the constitutional right against unreasonable searches. Yet their opinion on Snowden's guilt is somehow all over the news. It's amazing that the press is quoting Rogers' preaches on how Snowden has broken the law and needs to be persecuted, when both of these bozos voted to grant retroactive immunity for warrantless wiretaps they've sanctioned under earlier administration. As far as I am concerned, asking for their opinion is like asking a robber on what to do with a good Samaritan who stopped the robbery.
Sure, but my point is that they had a chance to add two top-level domains in cyrillic and they chose to transliterate two english words.
Actually, the second one is "site", not "sale". The ludicrous thing is that neither word is actually russian - they are simply transliterations of the english "online" and "site" words in cyrillic.
You're missing the aim here - it's not to pick one, two or three "best" comments, it's to discount things that are not worth reading. In a article, you end up with hundreds of posts that are moderated as high as they can be (+5). As long as you have that minimal number of moderators who appreciated that comment, it will rise. That's as much input from the moderators as one should want - reduce noise, but don't shape the conversation.
Speaking of that, can it run Netflix and Skype (through Android or otherwise) ?
Thanks for making me RTFA, at least partially!
The fraction of government-employed workers is not that high in US, relative to other countries. And it has been dropping consistently, currently down to the lowest levels in the past few decades. So you're barking up the wrong tree.
Why would you want to strike any kind of a deal with this dirtbag!? The guy has done a terrible deed, admitted so to multiple witnesses, wrote a confession note. Plus they have a boatload of forensic evidence.
You get an america that isn't divided into economic disparites like fucking china, ... That's what assholes.
Actually, China's doing pretty well right now, with a shitload of cheap labour coming from the rural communities ... ah just pulling you leg man - I know it sucks. Immediate infrastructure needs are clearly different for some freewheeling artist seeking 'inspiration' in an East Village studio in NYC and a rural farmer who needs to move a boatload of product in and out every day.
But on a more serious note. One thing I've encountered is a resistance on a part of telcos to go into built-up old cities in US. They would circle all the suburbs with fiber, but wouldn't go into the inner areas that had large apartment blocks. The excuse was that it was much easier to run fiber to a house than wire a large building itself. To this day I don't know if this is true. It sort of makes sense, but on the other hand I've been to some very old cities in Europe where you have a choice of several fiber optic providers per each building.
I'd go further and say that this type of bellicose nonsense is really detrimental. We don't have a tyrannical government that's oppressing its own populace - we have a rotten political system where that very populace continuously re-elects ineffective and corrupt politicians. If, as you say, most of us were on the same page, the problem would have already been solved. And none of your firearms will be necessary.
I hear PRISM works pretty well ...
It's easy if you state the problem correctly: how to reach the income level the local municipality expects from the speeding tickets, while minimizing the number of tickets (processing fees) and potential court challenges.
Dark matter is not an invented concept, it is a name for something we observe.
Precisely the opposite - it's a name for something we haven't observed. And instead of appropriately referring to it as a paradox, inconsistency, etc. a concept of an entirely new "matter" was conjured up. I might agree with you that it's more likely that something is missing in the estimates of galaxy masses as opposed to physical laws breaking down, but gp is perfectly correct in saying that at this point it's a theoretical (i.e. invented) concept.
This is yet another surcharge which, in time, will likely be hidden just like a ton of other special taxes and fees that are commonly being added to the advertised price. Most of the time I can't tell how much the purchase will actually cost me. Where is the push for requiring retailers to advertise a complete price?
Metric is every bit as arbitrary as imperial, it's just a bit easier to do unit conversions with them.
Sure, but the point is that the rest of the world has been able to unify behind a reasonable unit system, and we're the weird kid in the corner that insists on calling everyone by a different name.
Try to exhale more often than allowed and we'll charge you extra!
That's right, drop it. Because $20 billion per year in tax breaks to oil companies is money well spent, but using $20 billion dollars to learn how to build a real fusion reactor is a total waste. Why try to go after a technology that can bring virtually unlimited locally-sourced energy when we've got such bright prospects in oil trade?
There must be a special subsystem on the die that checks if the OS ID is linux-gnu and annihilates itself in a puff of smoke if it is so.
Indeed! I found it very helpful not having to worry about cops trying to catch me for speeding when driving on autobahn in Germany. It's amazing how much more attention I could afford to pay to the right things - the road, cars around you, etc. instead of trying to spot a speedtrap around each corner.
I was just thinking about this the other day! This would be great for these modern bathroom scales to id the user - the impedance measure only needs enough accuracy to distinguish between the family members whose weight is close enough. They already measure impedance for body fat anyhow.
But I also wondered how much your signatures would change if you, let's say, drank a bottle of beer, or ate something salty.
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This type of research will also be subject to a strict legal and ethical framework which will not permit the researchers to act as providers of genetic tests to named individuals.
This is indeed the case currently, but I think that's wrong. If you're expecting donors to go out on a limb and sign a blanket consent form allowing their samples to be used for honest research purposes, there should be a reciprocal way for us to provide data back to them. It will require yet another consent form or other legal framework, but putting in effort to make that possible seems only fair.