The real question should be: "Can television actors survive on realistic wages?" The commercials are there to support the outragously over-paid actors, directors and producers. The cast of Friends makes 1 million per episodewhile the cast of the Simpsons will makes $100,000 per episode (the highest paid voice actors ever.) Does that seem a little out of whack to anyone but me? Television stations will not go bankrupt without commercial advertising, they will simply have to find people who will work for less and I for one can't wait.
Don't get me started on calculators! I am working on a graduate degree in engineering and occasionally tutor local high school kids. They routinely reach for calculators to multiply or divide by 10, 100, 2, etc. They have no concept of the meaing behind sines and cosines...etc...
I sometimes volunteer tutoring high-school and middle-school children. I have, no kidding, seen kids use a calculator to multiply by powers of 10. Sure they know how to do it (I hope), but they INSTINCTUALLY reach for the calculator instead of taking the.5 sec it takes to do it in their head. And don't even get me started on their inability to understand the CONCEPTS of trig.
Who cares if non-suspects conversations are caught? It is NOT ADMISSIBLE IN A COURT and thus no civil liberties are lost. As with all search warrants, the judge signs off on some very specific restrictions as to what type of information can be harvested. For instance, if I had been wiretapped for suspicion of drugs, and you called me and discussed YOUR drug issues (or for that matter if I discussed some crime OTHER than drugs) it is NOT ADMISSIBLE!
I seriiously doubt that this was entirely or even largely a domestic matter. True, the crime occurred in the US and therefore that criminal investigation will be conducted by the FBI, however, foreign intelligence is allocated to the CIA and NSA. If this operation was organized, trained or funded overseas it would be out of FBI juristiction and fall into CIA/NSA area of responsibility. More than likely it was a combination of both. Of course there was a failure in intelligence, and I agree with analysis that we need more HUMINT (human intelligence i.e. CIA). At the same time I strongly beleive that the NSA should have whatever funding is necessary to listen in on any communications outside the borders of the United States.
A few days ago there was an article posted here discussing claims made by the NSA that they were underfunded and that the NSA's ability perform its mission (FOREIGN signals intelligence) was being compromised. Sure enough, there were countless of/.er's eager to contribute their ignorance and chime in with their idiotic views that the NSA was essentially full of it. I apologize for not being able to post the original story, as the search page is currently down. However, I would be curious to see if they still feel that the United States is out of line in its foreign intelligence collection efforts. On a similiar note, how about all those posts back during the EP-3 incident chiding the US for having the gall to fly off of foreign nations and listening to their communications... indeed, how dare they!
Sadly, the same people who make these comments likely beleive that the NSA/CIA/Massad(sp?)/Trilateral Commision/Elvis were behind this whole thing or at the very least knew of it and decided not to do anything.
Is it only me or do/.ers seem to be an amazing mix of intellectual idiots?
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Damn, where is my grammar checker?
The real question should be: "Can television actors survive on realistic wages?" The commercials are there to support the outragously over-paid actors, directors and producers. The cast of Friends makes 1 million per episodewhile the cast of the Simpsons will makes $100,000 per episode (the highest paid voice actors ever.) Does that seem a little out of whack to anyone but me? Television stations will not go bankrupt without commercial advertising, they will simply have to find people who will work for less and I for one can't wait.
Ever hear of the Apollo-Soyuz mission? Picture
Well, the horizontal rockets just didn't seem to be doing much, which really just left telekinisis as another option.
Don't get me started on calculators! I am working on a graduate degree in engineering and occasionally tutor local high school kids. They routinely reach for calculators to multiply or divide by 10, 100, 2, etc. They have no concept of the meaing behind sines and cosines...etc...
I sometimes volunteer tutoring high-school and middle-school children. I have, no kidding, seen kids use a calculator to multiply by powers of 10. Sure they know how to do it (I hope), but they INSTINCTUALLY reach for the calculator instead of taking the .5 sec it takes to do it in their head. And don't even get me started on their inability to understand the CONCEPTS of trig.
Here is the reference you are looking for. Read the first few responses.... the other 600 all say the same thing.
Here is the old story. Unfortunately the link is down.
Here is the google cache for his site.
Who cares if non-suspects conversations are caught? It is NOT ADMISSIBLE IN A COURT and thus no civil liberties are lost. As with all search warrants, the judge signs off on some very specific restrictions as to what type of information can be harvested. For instance, if I had been wiretapped for suspicion of drugs, and you called me and discussed YOUR drug issues (or for that matter if I discussed some crime OTHER than drugs) it is NOT ADMISSIBLE!
I seriiously doubt that this was entirely or even largely a domestic matter. True, the crime occurred in the US and therefore that criminal investigation will be conducted by the FBI, however, foreign intelligence is allocated to the CIA and NSA. If this operation was organized, trained or funded overseas it would be out of FBI juristiction and fall into CIA/NSA area of responsibility. More than likely it was a combination of both. Of course there was a failure in intelligence, and I agree with analysis that we need more HUMINT (human intelligence i.e. CIA). At the same time I strongly beleive that the NSA should have whatever funding is necessary to listen in on any communications outside the borders of the United States.
A few days ago there was an article posted here discussing claims made by the NSA that they were underfunded and that the NSA's ability perform its mission (FOREIGN signals intelligence) was being compromised. Sure enough, there were countless of /.er's eager to contribute their ignorance and chime in with their idiotic views that the NSA was essentially full of it. I apologize for not being able to post the original story, as the search page is currently down. However, I would be curious to see if they still feel that the United States is out of line in its foreign intelligence collection efforts. On a similiar note, how about all those posts back during the EP-3 incident chiding the US for having the gall to fly off of foreign nations and listening to their communications... indeed, how dare they!
Sadly, the same people who make these comments likely beleive that the NSA/CIA/Massad(sp?)/Trilateral Commision/Elvis were behind this whole thing or at the very least knew of it and decided not to do anything.
Is it only me or do /.ers seem to be an amazing mix of intellectual idiots?
God Bless America