Very few are ever denied. In fact, if pressed they don't even have to go to court first and can just spy and get FISA approval later. Sometimes this retroactive request is denied, but you know. Emergencies. This happens to various presidents.
The running joke is that very few are denied, so this headline is idiotic.
A better headline might, sadly, be, "As with all other presidents, almost every single FISA request is approved."
Europe is well able to defend itself against Russia. America pays 75% of NATO and gets fuck-all in return except a heaping helping of abuse for being fascist warmongers.
And we like it that way. I am nit sure I want any European countries capable of standing up to Russia per se. Not because Russia is good, but because Europe has people living still who were part of a war maching that lead to 30 million dead, or had to fight against it.
Keep their balls cut off. It is better in the long run. This 75-year stretch of peace is becoming longer, and thus more novel, as the decades go by.
You "subsidise" European defense because of your fucking ego. You feel the need to have the biggest military power, and you need some reason to justify it.
Go on, cut your military spending and withdraw your troops from Europe, and go spend it on something useful.
It is far cheaper to keep European countries magnitudes less powerful than they could be, when compared to another continental war every generation or two.
This isn't that big of a stretch. Would Russia have rolled through more during the 60s and 70s? How about now in the Ukrain? Would they have stopped at Crimea if it weren't for efforts led by the US? Crimea re-absorbtion was a militaristic expansion in Europe.
Judges don't have the authority to "usurps the executive powers of the President regarding immigration" but only the legality of how that power is used (hence balance of powers).
Not completely true in the immigration case. In some of the rulings the judge piled on an additional reason that the President's reasoning, on the face of it, was not good enough in the judge's eyes. Not that it was uncostitutional in some way, but that the stated surface reason taken at face value was insufficient.
This definitely is the judicial branch substituting it's weighing for the elected branches', said weighing directly assigned to them by the people by way of the constitution.
There is a special place in hell for those who downmod humor.
See, in Chicago, there's a running joke that the dead continue to vote. So if one was killed by a girder in Chicago, Republican or Democrat, as a dead person they'd continue voting for the DNC for the next few decades.
You think too small. There was an article the other day about attempts to resurrect a mammoth or mastadon.
I dare say in well less than 300 years every species extinct since the last ice age will be resurrected. This includes dodos, sabertooth tigers, that oddball giant bird in that old photograph from Australia, and many more. Tiny horses, maybe even the tiny humans from that island and neanderthals, though those raise greatly increased ethical issues.
I am opposed to recycling for either resource usage, pollution control, or "running out of landfill space", a leftover 1970s innumeracy scare, because in the not too distant future people will bid on the right to rip landfills open and have robots sort everything for profit.
People will wonder why we were so stupid and short-sighted. Don't worry about species extinction.
If facebook actively searches for this stuff, they can't hide behind safe harbor legislation that merely requires removal of stuff when notified.
It'a like having a rustic forest with widowmaker branches hanging up there. Once you start pulling them down, you're screwed, and have to do it repeatedly lest you get sued. If you had left it alone and some idiot wandered through and got killed, that's their problem.
If the patent shouldn't have been granted, then it isn't a taking of property because it was never properly instantiated as IP.
Maybe this addendum to the patent office operation is a bad idea, but that's a different issue. Write to your Congressman.
Here are some ideas;
1. If it is done without computers, migrating a process to computers is not patentable.
2. If it is done locally on a computer, distributing pieces over a network (internal to the computer or external, esp. over the Internet) is not patentable.
3. Doing something already being done, but now "Over the Internet!", is not patentable.
4. Creating a virtual machine similar to a real one is not patentable.
The best political cartoon I've seen on this is a chessboard with Hillary as one king, pinned in the corner, checkmate. She says, "But as you can see, I have more pieces on the board, so in a sense, I won."
Well, dipshit, the most pertinent difference is the fact the law in question and the topic of this Slashdot post is the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and doesn't mention anything about prostitution in any context other than online services.
So...the free newspapers stacked on the window sills at supermarket exits, the ones with prostitution ads on their back pages, which is what Backpage modeled itself after, are still free? Those rags with their relentless Industrial Workers of the World Unite! attitudes that make Nancy Pelosi look like a knuckle-dragging gorilla named Adolf?
Certain political factions like to tussle with the rich to get in their way, to get paid to get back out of the way. Class warfare rhetoric sufficed for 70 years, then fell on hard times. Environmental issues, then called ecology, rose up to take the rhetorical place of why politicians should control.
The error both sides make is not realizing the veracity of the claim is irrelevant. And that this corruption is an unfortunate side effect. It is in fact the main driving force. The surface arguments are the irrelevant, coincidental side effects.
This cynicism brought to you by decades of observation.
Food and clothes are cheaper than ever before. More things and newer things are available to buy than ever before. So why are we spending and borrowing ln a per capita rate greater than the dead middle of WWII when we were engaged in a major war on two fronts, and were churning out one major naval ship a week?
There is no god damned emergency in good times. This is just bread and circuses screetching by politicians for politicians to get power.
Any balanced budget, as with the unexpected Internet boom, will quickly unbalance because they can always borrow some more to spend for votes.
Slashdot Mirror
GOD DAMN IT!! Can't someone hack fatboy's Warcraft account and delete all his phat loot?
Fight fire with fire!
Very few are ever denied. In fact, if pressed they don't even have to go to court first and can just spy and get FISA approval later. Sometimes this retroactive request is denied, but you know. Emergencies. This happens to various presidents.
The running joke is that very few are denied, so this headline is idiotic.
A better headline might, sadly, be, "As with all other presidents, almost every single FISA request is approved."
Yes. Before then, left to your own devices, you killed 30 million.
I'm fine occupying Europe for ever and ever. It's cheap compared to the alternative.
Do Europeans fancy themselves the enlightened peaceful? So do the Japanese.
Good.
Europe is well able to defend itself against Russia. America pays 75% of NATO and gets fuck-all in return except a heaping helping of abuse for being fascist warmongers.
And we like it that way. I am nit sure I want any European countries capable of standing up to Russia per se. Not because Russia is good, but because Europe has people living still who were part of a war maching that lead to 30 million dead, or had to fight against it.
Keep their balls cut off. It is better in the long run. This 75-year stretch of peace is becoming longer, and thus more novel, as the decades go by.
You "subsidise" European defense because of your fucking ego. You feel the need to have the biggest military power, and you need some reason to justify it.
Go on, cut your military spending and withdraw your troops from Europe, and go spend it on something useful.
It is far cheaper to keep European countries magnitudes less powerful than they could be, when compared to another continental war every generation or two.
The Pax Americana in Europe is a good thing.
This isn't that big of a stretch. Would Russia have rolled through more during the 60s and 70s? How about now in the Ukrain? Would they have stopped at Crimea if it weren't for efforts led by the US? Crimea re-absorbtion was a militaristic expansion in Europe.
Judges don't have the authority to "usurps the executive powers of the President regarding immigration" but only the legality of how that power is used (hence balance of powers).
Not completely true in the immigration case. In some of the rulings the judge piled on an additional reason that the President's reasoning, on the face of it, was not good enough in the judge's eyes. Not that it was uncostitutional in some way, but that the stated surface reason taken at face value was insufficient.
This definitely is the judicial branch substituting it's weighing for the elected branches', said weighing directly assigned to them by the people by way of the constitution.
There is a special place in hell for those who downmod humor.
See, in Chicago, there's a running joke that the dead continue to vote. So if one was killed by a girder in Chicago, Republican or Democrat, as a dead person they'd continue voting for the DNC for the next few decades.
You think too small. There was an article the other day about attempts to resurrect a mammoth or mastadon.
I dare say in well less than 300 years every species extinct since the last ice age will be resurrected. This includes dodos, sabertooth tigers, that oddball giant bird in that old photograph from Australia, and many more. Tiny horses, maybe even the tiny humans from that island and neanderthals, though those raise greatly increased ethical issues.
I am opposed to recycling for either resource usage, pollution control, or "running out of landfill space", a leftover 1970s innumeracy scare, because in the not too distant future people will bid on the right to rip landfills open and have robots sort everything for profit.
People will wonder why we were so stupid and short-sighted. Don't worry about species extinction.
Good and bad guys both do the same thing but for different reasons. Let's just leave it at "White Hat Hackers" amd "Assholes".
If facebook actively searches for this stuff, they can't hide behind safe harbor legislation that merely requires removal of stuff when notified.
It'a like having a rustic forest with widowmaker branches hanging up there. Once you start pulling them down, you're screwed, and have to do it repeatedly lest you get sued. If you had left it alone and some idiot wandered through and got killed, that's their problem.
If the patent shouldn't have been granted, then it isn't a taking of property because it was never properly instantiated as IP.
Maybe this addendum to the patent office operation is a bad idea, but that's a different issue. Write to your Congressman.
Here are some ideas;
1. If it is done without computers, migrating a process to computers is not patentable.
2. If it is done locally on a computer, distributing pieces over a network (internal to the computer or external, esp. over the Internet) is not patentable.
3. Doing something already being done, but now "Over the Internet!", is not patentable.
4. Creating a virtual machine similar to a real one is not patentable.
The best political cartoon I've seen on this is a chessboard with Hillary as one king, pinned in the corner, checkmate. She says, "But as you can see, I have more pieces on the board, so in a sense, I won."
Work faster! I want to retire while self-duplicating robots serve me.
Well, dipshit, the most pertinent difference is the fact the law in question and the topic of this Slashdot post is the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and doesn't mention anything about prostitution in any context other than online services.
So...the free newspapers stacked on the window sills at supermarket exits, the ones with prostitution ads on their back pages, which is what Backpage modeled itself after, are still free? Those rags with their relentless Industrial Workers of the World Unite! attitudes that make Nancy Pelosi look like a knuckle-dragging gorilla named Adolf?
It's one of the primary tools of dictators.
It works, that's why it is used. It is also wrong.
If you want to stop a behavior, don't just punish those who do it. Punish those who allow it to happen.
Government doesn't have to adapt. They just mandate and woe be to you if you don't listen.
Certain political factions like to tussle with the rich to get in their way, to get paid to get back out of the way. Class warfare rhetoric sufficed for 70 years, then fell on hard times. Environmental issues, then called ecology, rose up to take the rhetorical place of why politicians should control.
The error both sides make is not realizing the veracity of the claim is irrelevant. And that this corruption is an unfortunate side effect. It is in fact the main driving force. The surface arguments are the irrelevant, coincidental side effects.
This cynicism brought to you by decades of observation.
Food and clothes are cheaper than ever before. More things and newer things are available to buy than ever before. So why are we spending and borrowing ln a per capita rate greater than the dead middle of WWII when we were engaged in a major war on two fronts, and were churning out one major naval ship a week?
There is no god damned emergency in good times. This is just bread and circuses screetching by politicians for politicians to get power.
Any balanced budget, as with the unexpected Internet boom, will quickly unbalance because they can always borrow some more to spend for votes.
Do people ever realize how neat and novel, historically, that our main problem is, of too much nutritious, energetic cheap food?
That's the kind of BS up with which we should not put.
"Turn right at the White Castle with the prostitute sitting on the big rock out front." -- Two-Fisted Tales of Robot Cars
The government must keep it running regardless of its financial woes. It's not Sears losing to Walmart.
We don't need no stinking First Amendment! Vlad knows what we should be permitted to see!
Er, I mean Ayatollah knows!
This is getting tiresome.