Basically they wanted to advise a group of people on how to peacefully resolve a dispute.
It was a bit more than that. They also wanted to provide medical and computer skills training.
I'm surprised that the DOJ even threatened them with enforcement of this in this case.
They didn't. This was a pre-emptive suit designed to prevent prosecution if these groups resumed activities they had suspended after the USA PATRIOT Act was passed.
As someone who's actually READ the decision, I think it's quite a bit ado about nothing. This same group (HLP) brought a similar case before the court in 1998 (after Albright declared certain organizations to be terrorist groups) and was slapped down.
The plantiffs only won one of three arguments in this case; that the phrase "expert advice and assistance" was too vauge and had the possibility of infringing on First Amendement rights. Otherwise, the court upheld the constitutionality of the act.
France had absolutely no interest in the territorial integrity of Poland of else they would have declared war on Soviet Russia at the same time. They simply knew that Hitler was not going to stop with Poland and wanted to stop him before he could mount a blitzkrieg on the French themselves.
Indeed, how can they label Bush as a known weasel, thus indicating his "war on terrorism" is at least in great part a sham, and still bash the french?
Because Bush is a figure on whom liberals can focus their hatred. If you add up all of the "left-leaning" figures on the list (not counting Arafat), the total is approximately 11,000, not too far away from Bush's 14,000, but since there's no clear leader among liberal political figures, the vote is split.
Liberals have difficulty unifying behind an "anti-United States" position but Conservatives have no problem focusing their ire on the French. Thus, France is weaseliest. If a Democrat was president and there was no clear unifying Republican figure, you can bet the president would still find himself (or herself) at the top of the list.
Despite repeated attempts to characterize it as such, Emusic has never been an unlimited download service. An arbitrary limit of 2000 songs per month was established on every account. Of course, Emusic never bothered to tell anyone about this limit until they actually went over, at which point their account was cancelled and money refunded.
With a business strategy like this, it's not hard to see why Emusic is being acquired. Unfortunately, it's hard to see how this new pricing structure will work any better with a music catalog that is decidedly obscure.
Disclaimer: Its not unlimited. 2000 songs a month and you'll get capped or terminated or something, and you won't find the latest and greatest from the RIAA.
Something they conveniently fail to mention until you've actually gone over the limit. Beware the bait and switch.
Most conservatives that I've seen consider the Patriot Act an affront to privacy; an unacceptable encroachment of government on the lives of individual citizens.
Republican != right-wing. The Bush administration's Patriot Act and entitlement spending is designed to attract those in the center and on the left, not to shore up the conservative base who thought Bush was a conservative when he proposed the tax cuts.
>>10 lines of truth
And do you have proof for your little 10 point conspiracy theory? I didn't think so. I guess the lack of any convincing evidence whatsoever is what makes paranoids so endearing.
>>You read/. and can't think of a dozen examples off the top of your head?
The only thing I can think of is the Bush Administration's endorsement of the Supreme Court's racist Affirmative Action decision. If Bush had come out strongly against racial preferences, I'd be hard pressed to think of anything else.
I guess the fact that Iraq was home to numerous (admittedly non-Al Qaeda) terrorist camps and that the regime openly funded the families of suicide bombers in Israel means nothing to you. It's funny how terrorism suddenly becomes "resistance" when it's just Jews being killed.
It's also rather interesting that despite all the cries that the Iraq (and Afghani) war would increase terrorism in the US, there haven't been any attacks since 9-11. I guess killing terrorists actually prevents them from striking. Who'd a thunk?
If anyone needs to read the Constitution of the United States, it's not our elected officials but rather those who have been appointed to the highest court in the land.
Some of the recent majority opinions by the SCOTUS make me wonder how well versed activist judges are in the sacred documents that founded this country.
Actually, in the 20s and 30s, animation was aimed towards all age groups and Walt knew that. While many of the "classic" fairy tales told by Disney were based on children's stories, Walt chose them because they lent themselves well to the animation process.
Ask any child what he or she thinks of Fantasia (and later, Fantasia 2000) and you'll undoubtedly hear that it's "boring" or "too long" or something to that effect. Walt may have been producing children's stories but he was also pushing forward the art of animation.
Your point about modern Disney is well taken, but it's public perception that has typecasted animated films, not Disney.
The Making of documentary is all new but there are also several featurettes which appear to have been made "back in the day". I picked up the DVD tonight and it's great. Well, the movie's just okay, but you know what I mean.
You have a 3 year old G4?? Wow. You're lucky considering Apple didn't announce them until August of 1999. The 500 megahertz machines didn't start shipping until Feb 2000. BTW, my G4 350 is just over two years old and runs RTCW quite acceptably.
Luckily, my drives were named without spaces, etc. and I escaped the wrath of the unquoted "rm -rf" bug.
Drives named with spaces weren't the only victims of the iTunes Installer Bug. My 60 GB Hard Drive has three partitions. I installed iTunes on the first and lost all data on the second, which was a single word "That". Interestingly enough, my third partition, named "The Other Thing" was untouched. The problems with the installer went far beyond those that have already been reported.
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Nothing can beat the original, all plastic(!), Monsanto-sponsored House of the Future. Has Disney ever made anything as cool as that?
Don't call me Tiny.
Interestingly enough, the music from the trailer is the main theme for the Stargate SG-1 television show, not the movie.
Basically they wanted to advise a group of people on how to peacefully resolve a dispute.
It was a bit more than that. They also wanted to provide medical and computer skills training.
I'm surprised that the DOJ even threatened them with enforcement of this in this case.
They didn't. This was a pre-emptive suit designed to prevent prosecution if these groups resumed activities they had suspended after the USA PATRIOT Act was passed.
As someone who's actually READ the decision, I think it's quite a bit ado about nothing. This same group (HLP) brought a similar case before the court in 1998 (after Albright declared certain organizations to be terrorist groups) and was slapped down.
The plantiffs only won one of three arguments in this case; that the phrase "expert advice and assistance" was too vauge and had the possibility of infringing on First Amendement rights. Otherwise, the court upheld the constitutionality of the act.
France had absolutely no interest in the territorial integrity of Poland of else they would have declared war on Soviet Russia at the same time. They simply knew that Hitler was not going to stop with Poland and wanted to stop him before he could mount a blitzkrieg on the French themselves.
Indeed, how can they label Bush as a known weasel, thus indicating his "war on terrorism" is at least in great part a sham, and still bash the french?
Because Bush is a figure on whom liberals can focus their hatred. If you add up all of the "left-leaning" figures on the list (not counting Arafat), the total is approximately 11,000, not too far away from Bush's 14,000, but since there's no clear leader among liberal political figures, the vote is split.
Liberals have difficulty unifying behind an "anti-United States" position but Conservatives have no problem focusing their ire on the French. Thus, France is weaseliest. If a Democrat was president and there was no clear unifying Republican figure, you can bet the president would still find himself (or herself) at the top of the list.
Despite repeated attempts to characterize it as such, Emusic has never been an unlimited download service. An arbitrary limit of 2000 songs per month was established on every account. Of course, Emusic never bothered to tell anyone about this limit until they actually went over, at which point their account was cancelled and money refunded.
With a business strategy like this, it's not hard to see why Emusic is being acquired. Unfortunately, it's hard to see how this new pricing structure will work any better with a music catalog that is decidedly obscure.
Disclaimer: Its not unlimited. 2000 songs a month and you'll get capped or terminated or something, and you won't find the latest and greatest from the RIAA.
Something they conveniently fail to mention until you've actually gone over the limit. Beware the bait and switch.
Most conservatives that I've seen consider the Patriot Act an affront to privacy; an unacceptable encroachment of government on the lives of individual citizens.
Republican != right-wing. The Bush administration's Patriot Act and entitlement spending is designed to attract those in the center and on the left, not to shore up the conservative base who thought Bush was a conservative when he proposed the tax cuts.
For a fascinating look at time travel paradoxes in all sorts of movies, check out this site.
The above was originally posted at OpinionJournal.com.
>>10 lines of truth And do you have proof for your little 10 point conspiracy theory? I didn't think so. I guess the lack of any convincing evidence whatsoever is what makes paranoids so endearing.
>>You read /. and can't think of a dozen examples off the top of your head?
The only thing I can think of is the Bush Administration's endorsement of the Supreme Court's racist Affirmative Action decision. If Bush had come out strongly against racial preferences, I'd be hard pressed to think of anything else.
That survey is obviously skewed. How'd can the number one spot be given to a group of people who don't even change their underwear!
I guess the fact that Iraq was home to numerous (admittedly non-Al Qaeda) terrorist camps and that the regime openly funded the families of suicide bombers in Israel means nothing to you. It's funny how terrorism suddenly becomes "resistance" when it's just Jews being killed. It's also rather interesting that despite all the cries that the Iraq (and Afghani) war would increase terrorism in the US, there haven't been any attacks since 9-11. I guess killing terrorists actually prevents them from striking. Who'd a thunk?
Don't tell me you Forgot About Dre... and the rest of NWA who originally created the song.
If anyone needs to read the Constitution of the United States, it's not our elected officials but rather those who have been appointed to the highest court in the land. Some of the recent majority opinions by the SCOTUS make me wonder how well versed activist judges are in the sacred documents that founded this country.
Actually, in the 20s and 30s, animation was aimed towards all age groups and Walt knew that. While many of the "classic" fairy tales told by Disney were based on children's stories, Walt chose them because they lent themselves well to the animation process.
Ask any child what he or she thinks of Fantasia (and later, Fantasia 2000) and you'll undoubtedly hear that it's "boring" or "too long" or something to that effect. Walt may have been producing children's stories but he was also pushing forward the art of animation.
Your point about modern Disney is well taken, but it's public perception that has typecasted animated films, not Disney.
And what, exactly, is "Slashdotahol"?
The Making of documentary is all new but there are also several featurettes which appear to have been made "back in the day". I picked up the DVD tonight and it's great. Well, the movie's just okay, but you know what I mean.
You have a 3 year old G4?? Wow. You're lucky considering Apple didn't announce them until August of 1999. The 500 megahertz machines didn't start shipping until Feb 2000. BTW, my G4 350 is just over two years old and runs RTCW quite acceptably.
Luckily, my drives were named without spaces, etc. and I escaped the wrath of the unquoted "rm -rf" bug. Drives named with spaces weren't the only victims of the iTunes Installer Bug. My 60 GB Hard Drive has three partitions. I installed iTunes on the first and lost all data on the second, which was a single word "That". Interestingly enough, my third partition, named "The Other Thing" was untouched. The problems with the installer went far beyond those that have already been reported.