If you're referring to 9/11, I think the problem people have is that intelligence gathering services DID their job, and discovered what was going to happen, and reported it to the higher ups, and the higher ups ignored it.
That fact, combined with the massive vacations of a certain sitting president, and a certain video of "My Pet Goat" taking precidence over jetliners running into skyscrapers, certainly should give anybody a moments pause.
However, that's a red herring beyond the scope of the current discussion.
To be frank, I'm disgusted by the entire western world for acting like such cowards during all of this. Terrorists are nothing. They're lamentable human trash with next to no resources and a whole lot of anger. Big deal. We deal with religious wackjobs on a daily basis. Treating these guys like they're special, and more importantly, fearing these guys like they're special, is to fail. They're not special, nor are they particularly impressive. The only thing they can actually do to us is scare us, and if we're afraid, then they've won and we've lost.
You're absolutely right. I didn't think about it until after I'd posted, but the issue at stake is that the law was broken because the searches were done without a court order, not because of any particular constitutional right.
My post still stands on it's own, however, because this isn't at all an isolated incident.
We're talking about Americans here. They're much better at rhetoric about how great and free they are than actually getting upset when their leaders turn out to be blatantly trampling rights enshrined in the constitution.
The ideal would probably be a hack to turn a quad processor system running asynchronous processors into a voting system. One underclocked CPU would act as the mediator between the three overclocked CPUs.,
Of course, that kind of redundancy is damned stupid if all you want is a faster machine -- the quad machine would work faster by itself!!
"Google says that if I route their traffic through your service they're going to go with another provider and we're not about to lose a multi-million dollar contract over you".
No man is an island, but pay internet backbones would be.
If you limit critisism to it's use as a media device (in which case, the fact that it runs linux and a slew of applications is an awfully strange dillution), you're stuck looking at an overpriced, overpowered piece of hardware with a pathetic battery life.
If someone tried to sell me a digital media player with 2 hours of battery life, I'd cockpunch them. If they tried to sell it to me for 800 dollars, I'd cockpunch them and steal their wallet.
I would, but somehow, I don't think "THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL AND IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THE PAUL MARTIN LIBERALS" is going to help me document my actuators well.:P
Would you like to see what happens if you heat up a boiler then quickly add cold water? Want to see what happens if your nuclear reactor doesn't have the proper fail-to-safe design? What to see what will happen if your polystyrenes are allowed to heat up beyond that crucial point?
The effect is more or less the same. You wouldn't want to see it.
I dunno, I enjoy the fluffy courses. It's not as if they're difficult or anything. I find that you can have a bit more fun in the useless courses than in the deadly serious math, science, and engineering courses.
I don't know -- most of the papers put out in the city I'm in right now are trash. They're written at about the fourth grade level and have lots of pretty pictures. To top things off, they've got lots of loudmouthed buffoons to tell you exactly what's wrong with the world today and how the people in power are soley to blame.
I don't hate kids enough to subject them to that tripe.
You'd die out there in the darkness of the world. You should see the sort of incomprehensible pseudoscript that passes itself off as the english language among laymen using the Internet. It's scary.
Remember kids: The queen cries every time someone refers to 'ne1' as 'ur' '3>'.
If there are server appliances in the same form factor as the pda, then yes. If I'm not looking for toothpaste, but shampoo, then yes.
In this case, we're talking about a device which is in a certain form factor, and that form factor requires it to be capable of doing certain things, or it's not useful. Just like a unicycle is useless compared to a bicycle, if this device is incapable of meeting the standard set by similar devices in functionality, then it is forced to be judged similarly.
Sure, a unicycle is a great vehicle for clowns to look silly on, but the bicycle is similar, but better. In this case, people are looking at other similar devices and entirely appropriately pointing out deficiencies. "If I want smaller, there's a PDA that can do almost as much, and if I want more powerful, there are similarly sized laptops that I can get for virtually half the price. Where is the usefulness of this device in terms of what *I* want to do?"
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a winner is you becuz ur speeling si so gud.
The fact that this is an issue implies that the people who know the laws disagree with you.
If you're referring to 9/11, I think the problem people have is that intelligence gathering services DID their job, and discovered what was going to happen, and reported it to the higher ups, and the higher ups ignored it.
That fact, combined with the massive vacations of a certain sitting president, and a certain video of "My Pet Goat" taking precidence over jetliners running into skyscrapers, certainly should give anybody a moments pause.
However, that's a red herring beyond the scope of the current discussion.
To be frank, I'm disgusted by the entire western world for acting like such cowards during all of this. Terrorists are nothing. They're lamentable human trash with next to no resources and a whole lot of anger. Big deal. We deal with religious wackjobs on a daily basis. Treating these guys like they're special, and more importantly, fearing these guys like they're special, is to fail. They're not special, nor are they particularly impressive. The only thing they can actually do to us is scare us, and if we're afraid, then they've won and we've lost.
It's never "take away my guns!", it's always "Take away HIS guns!".
:P
Duh.
The man discovered that lighning was electricity. He's already at Karma Kap.
You're absolutely right. I didn't think about it until after I'd posted, but the issue at stake is that the law was broken because the searches were done without a court order, not because of any particular constitutional right.
My post still stands on it's own, however, because this isn't at all an isolated incident.
By the way, what country do you live in? Shall we talk about your glass house?
If I say "Swtizerland", will you bake me a cake?
We're talking about Americans here. They're much better at rhetoric about how great and free they are than actually getting upset when their leaders turn out to be blatantly trampling rights enshrined in the constitution.
The ideal would probably be a hack to turn a quad processor system running asynchronous processors into a voting system. One underclocked CPU would act as the mediator between the three overclocked CPUs.,
Of course, that kind of redundancy is damned stupid if all you want is a faster machine -- the quad machine would work faster by itself!!
You know, you're right.
"Google says that if I route their traffic through your service they're going to go with another provider and we're not about to lose a multi-million dollar contract over you".
No man is an island, but pay internet backbones would be.
To say much more, I'll have to wait until I grab a 20-30gb card for my palm, which I intend to use as a media center.
That's not the near future though, so You could be correct with regards to the processing requirement.
If you limit critisism to it's use as a media device (in which case, the fact that it runs linux and a slew of applications is an awfully strange dillution), you're stuck looking at an overpriced, overpowered piece of hardware with a pathetic battery life.
If someone tried to sell me a digital media player with 2 hours of battery life, I'd cockpunch them. If they tried to sell it to me for 800 dollars, I'd cockpunch them and steal their wallet.
Easy killer. We're impressed that you can use all those words, but were they realy needed to get your point across?
I would, but somehow, I don't think "THE COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL AND IT'S ALL THE FAULT OF THE PAUL MARTIN LIBERALS" is going to help me document my actuators well. :P
That's not arrogance, that's reality, poet boy.
Would you like to see what happens if you heat up a boiler then quickly add cold water? Want to see what happens if your nuclear reactor doesn't have the proper fail-to-safe design? What to see what will happen if your polystyrenes are allowed to heat up beyond that crucial point?
The effect is more or less the same. You wouldn't want to see it.
That program was wholly inappropriate for me. I am a scientist and an engineer, and my writing needs focus exclusively on non-fiction.
Oh yeah? What if you're doing a report for the Bush Administration? (rimshot)
I dunno, I enjoy the fluffy courses. It's not as if they're difficult or anything. I find that you can have a bit more fun in the useless courses than in the deadly serious math, science, and engineering courses.
I don't know -- most of the papers put out in the city I'm in right now are trash. They're written at about the fourth grade level and have lots of pretty pictures. To top things off, they've got lots of loudmouthed buffoons to tell you exactly what's wrong with the world today and how the people in power are soley to blame.
I don't hate kids enough to subject them to that tripe.
He was just ugly, you insensitive clod!
is calling a metaphor "stale" itself a stale metaphor?
The world has changed. What made for good advice in the past generation no longer applies.
This is my belief, as I head into the future without any promises.
I love how many people bring out their 'good' english for debates like these.
"More crumpets, Geoffery?"
"Indeed, says I."
"Verily, this day is quite astounding, is it not?"
"Steak."
"Quite."
You'd die out there in the darkness of the world. You should see the sort of incomprehensible pseudoscript that passes itself off as the english language among laymen using the Internet. It's scary.
Remember kids: The queen cries every time someone refers to 'ne1' as 'ur' '3>'.
Yoo fergot aboot err fenney accents, eh?
If there are server appliances in the same form factor as the pda, then yes. If I'm not looking for toothpaste, but shampoo, then yes.
In this case, we're talking about a device which is in a certain form factor, and that form factor requires it to be capable of doing certain things, or it's not useful. Just like a unicycle is useless compared to a bicycle, if this device is incapable of meeting the standard set by similar devices in functionality, then it is forced to be judged similarly.
Sure, a unicycle is a great vehicle for clowns to look silly on, but the bicycle is similar, but better. In this case, people are looking at other similar devices and entirely appropriately pointing out deficiencies. "If I want smaller, there's a PDA that can do almost as much, and if I want more powerful, there are similarly sized laptops that I can get for virtually half the price. Where is the usefulness of this device in terms of what *I* want to do?"