Which illustrates that neither you nor Landay can read. 'Probable cause' applies to warrants; 'unreasonable' applies to searches and seizures. Your point might be valid if a warrant were required for every search and seizure, but there are 200 years of judicial opinions which state that a warrant is not necessarily needed.
The Amendment guarantees two things: first of all, that all searches and seizures must be reasonable; secondly, that if a warrant is required then it will be issued with probable cause and supported by oath or affirmation, and that it will specifically describe what's to be searched and seized.
The question is whether or not recording who-calls-whom is unreasonable. A great deal of people would argue that it's not. There's a secondary question of whether or not a warrant is required, but my feeling is that given current jurisprudence one would not be so long as every call's metadata is recorded, not just some.
You don't get it, do you? Offshoring manufacturing has led to more people being able to afford goods: that is, it has improved the quality of life of the poor. Free markets have done more to alleviate human suffering than any welfare program in existence.
One of the few well-proven things in economics is Ricardo's law of comparative advantage. If the Brazilians can produce ethanol more cheaply than we can, then it is better for us to concentrate on what we do best and for them to concentrate on what they do best--in that way we all end up with more ethanol, more gasoline, more energy, more food, more computers and so forth. If an American invests in an inefficient ethanol operation, that's capital which could be put to better use elsewhere. Tariffs simply add inefficiency--which means that they decrease the amount of goods to go around, thus making the poor poorer (and the rich poorer as well).
It's not screwing their employees--they are quite free to work somewhere else. If anything, unions screw employers because they provide (or attempt to provide) a monopoly on labour.
Now, if I had wanted to do some serious trolling, I would have pointed out that most western countries, with the notable exception of the US, consider state-provided basic health care a universal human right.
Which is not just irrelevant but also stupid. Rights are things one must be allowed to do because they don't hurt others: one has a right to speak, to worship as one chooses, to ingest whatever substances one enjoys, to associate with whomever one pleases, in public or in private. One doesn't have a right to punch others, or to steal from them--or to hire thugs to steal from them so one can buy Prozac.
Bush, Cheney & company seem to desperately want to track/datamine people.
Well, give that we are now in an age when a single man--or a small group of men--can kill thousands of others and destroy billions of dollars easily, I can see why they'd want to track people. I'm not saying that they're necessarily right to do so, or that if right they've gone about it in the proper way--but the impetus for their actions is quite clear.
'Native American' is also a stupid phrase, because most of us who live in this country are native Americans. What most of us are not is aborigines, which is the proper term for the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent.
Intoxication's not unpleasant; overintoxication is. Intoxication is a pleasant feeling, hence the reason man has been doing it forever. And yes, one can feel pretty rotten afterwards--but one feels pretty rotten after a marathon, too. Running a marathon and getting drunk are similarly pointless--and yet many folks enjoy one or both.
One of the FSF's software freedoms is the freedom to use for any purpose. Just as the peacenik and the warrior use feet and inches, so too they use Linux.
Sure, but in the context of academia it's what matters. In the context of a football camp privileges would go to the fellow with the most yards or touchdowns or whatever--but in academics the perks should go to those who have achieved academically.
Even better, given that it's a university, sort candidates by seniority, then by GPA, or by GPA * total credits. Reward achievers!
A market rate is economically efficient, but in this case inefficiency might be a good thing. One could ask why a rich senior with a 4.0 GPA should get a subsidised place while a poor freshman with a 2.0 gets doesn't--but I think the answer's pretty obvious: it's a school, and school is about achievement; 4.0 >> 2.0
Yesterday's wrong answers do not discount today's correct ones, and painting "scientists" in such an overly-broad manner serves no one but the gods of rhetoric.
Of course, yesterday your sort were claiming that your answers then were correct; today you're claiming that your answers now are correct. Forgive those of us on the outside for doubting the whole thing.
Global warming is a fact. It is dangerous. It is happening right now.
It appears to be happening, yes. Is it dangerous? That's hard to say: the Romans grew wine in England, and thus it was considerably warmer then than now, and yet that wasn't particularly dangerous. Now, it may be the case that the less-livable continents (the New World, essentially) will have problems, but I daresay that Europe will be as pleasant as ever. And since the European population will have halved in a generation, we Americans can move over there:-)
Heck, Antarctica was tropical during the time of the dinosaurs IIRC. Life will go on, as it ever has.
OTOH, creation just is. Your belief in it, or lack thereof, makes no difference whatsoever to its reality. And one of the most incredibly frustrating aspects of the evolution vs. creationism argument (and in general, the never-ending struggle between science and pseudoscience) which often makes religiously-minded sorts come across as arrogant and short-tempered, is that we get really, really tired of dealing with people who just can't seem to get their heads around this distinction.
Well, Lisp is the second-oldest language; the oldest is Fortran; Fortran doesn't have garbage collection; thus I would guess that Lisp does qualify as the oldest language with garbage collection.
OTOH, I don't know if Lisp had garbage collection from the beginning or not; it may be the case that Lisp was not the first language to use it. But I'm pretty sure it was.
Ummm...NRO is its own creature. It's anti-drug-war, which is hardly the Republican party line. Although the vast majority of its writers oppose infanticide, a few regulars do not. There are those who are religious Christians, irreligious vaguely-Christians, Jews and atheists. On the whole, its perspective is right-libertarian.
But he's right. In this matter, Linus Torvalds essentially agrees with Microsoft. Of course, RMS also wants software licenses to be obeyed--violate the GPL and see how happy he is. So RMS's views are like unto Microsoft's in this particular too:-)
The point is not whether an end-user considers a system usable or not--the point is whether it can actually be used. A system with the Linux kernel and GNU utilities but without KDE or GNOME is a perfectly usable Unix-like operating environment; a Linux kernel without the GNU tools can't do anything. The GNU project wrote rm, cp, mv, ls, find and so forth; it wrote gcc, ar, ld and friends; it wrote bash. Without these nothing can work!
I used to disagree with RMS, but the more I think about it, the more I think that he has a point. I keep on hearing people talk about things like Cygwin as 'Linux for Windows'--no, it's GNU for Windows. I hear folks in my line of work (I'm a Unix sysadmin) talk about how nice the Linux tools are--no, it's the GNU tools which are nice (there are also some nice Linux tools, but these folks are talking about GNU stuff). There are a large number of people who just don't realise that it's not so much Linux which is great as the GNU system which lives atop the Linux kernel.
Wow, an Oklahoman patriot. I didn't realise that those existed.
I went to school in Sherman, Tx.--about half an hour from the Oklahoma border--and the greatest bit about visiting Oklahoma was returning to Texas: seeing the river up ahead, pressing the accelerator to the floor, ejecting useless weight from the car in order to Get Back to Texas Now...
Oklahoma: only place I've ever been with 'Minimum Speed: 25 MPH' signs on 55 MPH highways--and the only one which needs them. I never figured out what it was with rural Oklahomans (out by Durant and that town whose name begins with B--Bingham?) and doing 30 in a 55 or 65.
There are lots of us who suspect that if Kerry's crowd had offered Diebold a better deal, Kerry would have won.
And there are lots of us who think that Vince Foster's death was suspicious--but conspiracy theories, on both sides of the aisle, are typically foolish.
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The Amendment guarantees two things: first of all, that all searches and seizures must be reasonable; secondly, that if a warrant is required then it will be issued with probable cause and supported by oath or affirmation, and that it will specifically describe what's to be searched and seized.
The question is whether or not recording who-calls-whom is unreasonable. A great deal of people would argue that it's not. There's a secondary question of whether or not a warrant is required, but my feeling is that given current jurisprudence one would not be so long as every call's metadata is recorded, not just some.
You don't get it, do you? Offshoring manufacturing has led to more people being able to afford goods: that is, it has improved the quality of life of the poor. Free markets have done more to alleviate human suffering than any welfare program in existence.
One of the few well-proven things in economics is Ricardo's law of comparative advantage. If the Brazilians can produce ethanol more cheaply than we can, then it is better for us to concentrate on what we do best and for them to concentrate on what they do best--in that way we all end up with more ethanol, more gasoline, more energy, more food, more computers and so forth. If an American invests in an inefficient ethanol operation, that's capital which could be put to better use elsewhere. Tariffs simply add inefficiency--which means that they decrease the amount of goods to go around, thus making the poor poorer (and the rich poorer as well).
It's not screwing their employees--they are quite free to work somewhere else. If anything, unions screw employers because they provide (or attempt to provide) a monopoly on labour.
Is it really ethical to have that same decision made by a unionised government employee?
I don't think those two are compatible:-)
But then, I am in my twenties...
Which is not just irrelevant but also stupid. Rights are things one must be allowed to do because they don't hurt others: one has a right to speak, to worship as one chooses, to ingest whatever substances one enjoys, to associate with whomever one pleases, in public or in private. One doesn't have a right to punch others, or to steal from them--or to hire thugs to steal from them so one can buy Prozac.
Well, give that we are now in an age when a single man--or a small group of men--can kill thousands of others and destroy billions of dollars easily, I can see why they'd want to track people. I'm not saying that they're necessarily right to do so, or that if right they've gone about it in the proper way--but the impetus for their actions is quite clear.
'Native American' is also a stupid phrase, because most of us who live in this country are native Americans. What most of us are not is aborigines, which is the proper term for the aboriginal inhabitants of this continent.
Intoxication's not unpleasant; overintoxication is. Intoxication is a pleasant feeling, hence the reason man has been doing it forever. And yes, one can feel pretty rotten afterwards--but one feels pretty rotten after a marathon, too. Running a marathon and getting drunk are similarly pointless--and yet many folks enjoy one or both.
One of the FSF's software freedoms is the freedom to use for any purpose. Just as the peacenik and the warrior use feet and inches, so too they use Linux.
Sure, but in the context of academia it's what matters. In the context of a football camp privileges would go to the fellow with the most yards or touchdowns or whatever--but in academics the perks should go to those who have achieved academically.
A market rate is economically efficient, but in this case inefficiency might be a good thing. One could ask why a rich senior with a 4.0 GPA should get a subsidised place while a poor freshman with a 2.0 gets doesn't--but I think the answer's pretty obvious: it's a school, and school is about achievement; 4.0 >> 2.0
Arab science mostly living off of the Byzantines whom they had conquered--once they exhausted those ideas, they began a long slow decline.
And as for Bush, he appears to be a level-headed fellow.
Of course, yesterday your sort were claiming that your answers then were correct; today you're claiming that your answers now are correct. Forgive those of us on the outside for doubting the whole thing.
Global warming is a fact. It is dangerous. It is happening right now.
It appears to be happening, yes. Is it dangerous? That's hard to say: the Romans grew wine in England, and thus it was considerably warmer then than now, and yet that wasn't particularly dangerous. Now, it may be the case that the less-livable continents (the New World, essentially) will have problems, but I daresay that Europe will be as pleasant as ever. And since the European population will have halved in a generation, we Americans can move over there:-)
Heck, Antarctica was tropical during the time of the dinosaurs IIRC. Life will go on, as it ever has.
OTOH, creation just is. Your belief in it, or lack thereof, makes no difference whatsoever to its reality. And one of the most incredibly frustrating aspects of the evolution vs. creationism argument (and in general, the never-ending struggle between science and pseudoscience) which often makes religiously-minded sorts come across as arrogant and short-tempered, is that we get really, really tired of dealing with people who just can't seem to get their heads around this distinction.
The Republican Party's original goal was the abolition of slavery; I'm pretty certain that they've continued acting in line with that goal...
OTOH, I don't know if Lisp had garbage collection from the beginning or not; it may be the case that Lisp was not the first language to use it. But I'm pretty sure it was.
Ummm...NRO is its own creature. It's anti-drug-war, which is hardly the Republican party line. Although the vast majority of its writers oppose infanticide, a few regulars do not. There are those who are religious Christians, irreligious vaguely-Christians, Jews and atheists. On the whole, its perspective is right-libertarian.
But he's right. In this matter, Linus Torvalds essentially agrees with Microsoft. Of course, RMS also wants software licenses to be obeyed--violate the GPL and see how happy he is. So RMS's views are like unto Microsoft's in this particular too:-)
I used to disagree with RMS, but the more I think about it, the more I think that he has a point. I keep on hearing people talk about things like Cygwin as 'Linux for Windows'--no, it's GNU for Windows. I hear folks in my line of work (I'm a Unix sysadmin) talk about how nice the Linux tools are--no, it's the GNU tools which are nice (there are also some nice Linux tools, but these folks are talking about GNU stuff). There are a large number of people who just don't realise that it's not so much Linux which is great as the GNU system which lives atop the Linux kernel.
I went to school in Sherman, Tx.--about half an hour from the Oklahoma border--and the greatest bit about visiting Oklahoma was returning to Texas: seeing the river up ahead, pressing the accelerator to the floor, ejecting useless weight from the car in order to Get Back to Texas Now...
Oklahoma: only place I've ever been with 'Minimum Speed: 25 MPH' signs on 55 MPH highways--and the only one which needs them. I never figured out what it was with rural Oklahomans (out by Durant and that town whose name begins with B--Bingham?) and doing 30 in a 55 or 65.
And there are lots of us who think that Vince Foster's death was suspicious--but conspiracy theories, on both sides of the aisle, are typically foolish.