...would I be allowed access to their computer to search for evidence?...
The short answer is yes, its called the discovery phase of the trial. See for example, Wikipedia discussion. Granted the cost of doing all the forensic analysis comes out of your pocket.
While the opening post notes the infamous '18-minute' gap from the Nixon tapes, this happens more often than that, in administrations of all colors. For example, in the Clinton administration there emails that were deleted. That event caused as much uproar on the right as this event is causing on the left. For example, MotherJones notes:
Years later, with the embattled Clinton administration faced with numerous allegations of impropriety, including charges that it had illegally obtained FBI files on prominent Republicans for political purposes--this controversy became known as Filegate--a White House whistleblower came forward claiming that the administration had suppressed 100,000 emails related to ongoing investigations. Sheryl Hall, who helped to supervise the computer system in the Clinton White House, reported being told by a colleague that "if the contents of these e-mails became known, that there would be different outcomes to these scandals, as the e-mails were incriminating and could cause people to go to jail." Congressional Republicans, then in the majority, cast the alleged cover-up as a worse scandal than Watergate, concluding in a report by the House Government Reform Committee that "the e-mail matter can fairly be called the most significant obstruction of congressional investigations in U.S. history."
Democrats and Republicans are they really different?
...What if you move out early because you've had an unexpected change in income, and can no longer afford to live there?...
Bankruptcy can get you out of all sorts of contracts. But I also note, that bankruptcy will not get you out of many (most?) civil court penalties. Once the court accesses the penalty, they can wait years to collect. Look at OJ Simpson, the Goldman's are still hounding him.
It depends on your lease agreement. Most agreements that I have seen, have an early termination penalty. For example, you may forfeit your security deposit. In other agreements, you are liable for a full year of rent. If you move out early, you still have to pay the rent until the year is complete. If don't pay, you can be sued. Watch your favorite afternoon court program (e.g., The People's Court), they have these types of lawsuits all the time.
To quote wikipedia..."The differences between PPP and market exchange rates can be significant. For example, the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2005 estimates that one United States dollar is equivalent to approximately 1.8 Chinese yuan by purchasing power parity in 2003. [1]. However, based on nominal exchange rates, one U.S. dollar is currently equal to 7.9 yuan. This discrepancy has large implications; for instance, GDP per capita in the People's Republic of China is about US$1,800, while on a PPP basis it is about US$7,204. This is frequently misused to assert that China is the world's second largest economy, but such a calculation would be invalid under the PPP theory..."
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...But in reality, I think the US, Canada, and Europe will switch to IPv6 when their counter parts in China and India surpass us economically in 10 to 20 years...
The main problem with your theory is that China and India are unlikely to surpass us economically in 20 years. To illustrate my point, let's compare the US and China. According to wikipedia the US GDP is approx $12.5 Trillion. The Chinese GDP is about $2.2 Trillion. If the US economy had zero growth for 20 years, and the Chinese economy would have to grow at almost 9.1% per year to equal the current US GDP. Zero growth rate for the US is rather unlikely the historic growth rate is a little over 3%. And I do not believe any country has had sustained economic growth of 9% for 20 years.
...Antigua will be allowed to take retaliation - which means ignoring protection on USA goods...
While it is true that they would be allowed to retaliate, my understanding is that the retaliation cannot be arbitrary. That is, they can raise duties on selected US goods, to make them uncompetitive with goods from other countries. It does not give them carte blance to release trade secrets.
...WTO order has been ignored by the USA...
I do not believe ignore is the proper word for describing the situation. Ignore implies the US government did nothing. However, I understand the events were - The WTO said US law was in violation. Congress changed the law with the intent of bringing it into compliance. WTO said not good enough.
In my mind, there is a significant difference between the US government meddling in a country's political processes, and some religious group taking someone to court. You should not equate the US population, its government, US corporations, various religious institutions, and other organizations under one banner of "US meddling." Its not like there is one master brain that controls all of those groups and people.
Many slashdotters seem surprised this is happening, comparing it to any company that sues its customers. They are ignoring the fact that government purchasing is different from a private customer purchasing a product. Whereas, a private customer can make a decision based on any arbritary criteria (heh, that sales lady sure is cute...), government agencies are suppose to be neutral. They define the criteria, and pick the best alternative, i.e., the one that best satisfies the criteria. The criteria must be fully disclosed to all participants, and all participates must be given the same information. Any deviations from this process can lead to a lawsuit. Right or wrong, that is what Diebolt is claiming.
AT&T is between a rock and a hard place. If they continue to say the case should be thrown out, the public will ridicule them. If they actually present evidence in their defense, the government can prosecute them for divulging state secrets. (Anyone who has a security clearance can testify to the penalties for the unauthorized release of classified information.) There really are no good options for AT&T.
Your source explicitly excludes popular media, because it does not support his case. I personally believe in global climate change. HOWEVER, I distinctly recall articles in the popular media during the 70s clearly stating that an ice age was coming. One of the points raised by those articles was whether global warming due to CO2 production would offset the coming ice age.
I realize this was an Australian court decision... However, I am more familiar with U.S. law, and aiding and abetting a crime is a crime. See for example this U.S. tax code.
21.01 STATUTORY LANGUAGE: 18 U.S.C. 2
2. Principals
(a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets,
counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a
principal.
(b) Whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly
performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is
punishable as a principal.
I am not a lawyer, but I believe similar laws exist for other criminal violations. And it seems to me creating a search engine for illegal mp3s could be consider aiding and abetting.
I know you were trying to be funny. But I seriously doubt this will kill this wiretap program. Criminals are idiots. Most people are idiots. Take for example, this journalist who bought an unencrypted al qaeda laptop. Or how about the regular stories of criminals using yee old delete command to delete incriminating evidence. The world will continue to turn, criminals will continue to use cellphones, and the FBI will continue to bug them.
I disagree on the issue of physical media versus a file, and the costs associated with them. I believe many people underestimate the cost of bandwidth, servers, etc. in distributing electronic files. Particularly, in a situation where people are downloading large movie files. Look at the estimates for YouTube bandwidth costs.. Add to that servers, admins, etc. For a large movie store, the costs rapidly exceed 10s of millions per year.
While there are benefits to working in virtual space, distribution costs are not ZERO, or even close to it.
... I'll remember that next time they increase the video resolution and force me to buy the video again if I want that new resolution...
I understand what you mean. I remember the joyous free upgrades from 8-tracks to cassettes and finally with CDs when the music industry changed formats. And oh remember all of those free upgrades from Betamax to VHS to DVD. I can't wait for my free Blueray upgrades.
In the US, the tax burden is well under 50 percent. Local taxes of all kinds - income tax, property tax, sales tax (aka VAT), etc. - are around 10 percent, max of about 13 percent. It varies from state to state. The average federal tax rate is under 12 percent. The average tax burden is around 22 percent in the US.
...If anything US airline security has been shown to be so poor we should be the one imposing the ridiculous restrictions on them coming here....
I don't think any country or group has a monopoly on airport and/or airline security. See for example, this wikipedia list of airline hijackings, the hijackings seem distributed all over the world. Or consider the number of terrorist acts over the last couple of decades at various airports around the world. These include terrorist events in Germany and Italy. By no means do I think that US airport security is very good, but according to the historical evidence neither is EU airport security.
Your response overlooks the complexity of the problem. The volume of data that must be searched is immense. A simple search for terms would provide too much information for translaters to read and understand. You need more complex AI to prune the number of articles further. Go to new.google.com and search "iraq" and it returns 154,000 articles. Undoubtedly, many of these are duplicates, but more complex AI to prune this list is a reasonable thing to do.
... but to say that it would be difficult to transfer files "without loss" is disingenuous at best...
I assume that Austrian law requires some sort of chain of custody for evidence similar to that required under American law. Thus, the transfer is probably difficult because they do not have "certified tools" for the transfer. In the US, it is my understanding that simply copying the files with the copy command is not sufficient. That defense lawyers can question how the transfer was made, whether the copy is an accurate representation of the original, etc. I presume similar problems under Austrian law.
...So the best examples you could come up for what made Carter one of the two worst presidents in history is one speech and staying late at work...
You are underestimating the impact of Carter's actions, particularly with your choice of words - staying late at work. He locked himself in the Whitehouse for months, refusing to leave for any reason. At the time, there were many complaints that because he refused to leave the Whitehouse, that Carter was ignoring the economy and other issues . There also complaints that Carter was holding entire country hostage by doing so. He also instituted poor economic policy, granted he didn't inherit a good economy, but he did little to improve it.
...I don't remember feeling like the government was actively trying to destroy everything that made the country worth living in during that period...
Let me start off by saying that GW Bush and Carter are without a doubt the two worst presidents of my lifetime. In my mind, they are running neck and neck for the overall title of worst ever. Thus, I think you are painting a rosy picture of Carter. His actions such as the "Malaise Speech," locking himself up in the Whitehouse because of the Iranian hostage crisis, and other acts convinced me that he was doing his best to destroy the country. GW Bush and Carter have their own unique approaches to destroying a country, but without question they're running neck and neck for worst President ever.
Historically, Windows and Mac versions of Office are released in alternating years. In addition, the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft has announced that they will "provide free converters to allow users of current versions of Office for Mac to read the new Microsoft Office Open XML formats following the availability of Office 2007 for Windows next year."
I seriously doubt you can back up this statement with any examples. First of all, I doubt that the example that you gave would really happen, specifically that the two proposals would differ by a factor of two in cost. When the government buys a system, it typically buy the system with life-cycle maintenance. That means the manpower, spares, and other items required to maintain the system over its life. And those items aren't free just because you use Linux (or other open source). And those items tend to be the bulk of the system costs.
...Dams contribute to evaporation of fresh water before it is used...
Do you have a source for this? I would guess the opposite. Putting the water in a deep lake behind a dam versus having it spread out over a longer, shallower river should reduce the surface area exposed to the atmosphere. With less surface area, I would presume less evaporation.
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Democrats and Republicans are they really different?
It depends on your lease agreement. Most agreements that I have seen, have an early termination penalty. For example, you may forfeit your security deposit. In other agreements, you are liable for a full year of rent. If you move out early, you still have to pay the rent until the year is complete. If don't pay, you can be sued. Watch your favorite afternoon court program (e.g., The People's Court), they have these types of lawsuits all the time.
To quote wikipedia ..."The differences between PPP and market exchange rates can be significant. For example, the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2005 estimates that one United States dollar is equivalent to approximately 1.8 Chinese yuan by purchasing power parity in 2003. [1]. However, based on nominal exchange rates, one U.S. dollar is currently equal to 7.9 yuan. This discrepancy has large implications; for instance, GDP per capita in the People's Republic of China is about US$1,800, while on a PPP basis it is about US$7,204. This is frequently misused to assert that China is the world's second largest economy, but such a calculation would be invalid under the PPP theory..."
In my mind, there is a significant difference between the US government meddling in a country's political processes, and some religious group taking someone to court. You should not equate the US population, its government, US corporations, various religious institutions, and other organizations under one banner of "US meddling." Its not like there is one master brain that controls all of those groups and people.
Many slashdotters seem surprised this is happening, comparing it to any company that sues its customers. They are ignoring the fact that government purchasing is different from a private customer purchasing a product. Whereas, a private customer can make a decision based on any arbritary criteria (heh, that sales lady sure is cute...), government agencies are suppose to be neutral. They define the criteria, and pick the best alternative, i.e., the one that best satisfies the criteria. The criteria must be fully disclosed to all participants, and all participates must be given the same information. Any deviations from this process can lead to a lawsuit. Right or wrong, that is what Diebolt is claiming.
AT&T is between a rock and a hard place. If they continue to say the case should be thrown out, the public will ridicule them. If they actually present evidence in their defense, the government can prosecute them for divulging state secrets. (Anyone who has a security clearance can testify to the penalties for the unauthorized release of classified information.) There really are no good options for AT&T.
Your source explicitly excludes popular media, because it does not support his case. I personally believe in global climate change. HOWEVER, I distinctly recall articles in the popular media during the 70s clearly stating that an ice age was coming. One of the points raised by those articles was whether global warming due to CO2 production would offset the coming ice age.
I disagree on the issue of physical media versus a file, and the costs associated with them. I believe many people underestimate the cost of bandwidth, servers, etc. in distributing electronic files. Particularly, in a situation where people are downloading large movie files. Look at the estimates for YouTube bandwidth costs.. Add to that servers, admins, etc. For a large movie store, the costs rapidly exceed 10s of millions per year. While there are benefits to working in virtual space, distribution costs are not ZERO, or even close to it.
Oh those bastards at Apple.
In the US, the tax burden is well under 50 percent. Local taxes of all kinds - income tax, property tax, sales tax (aka VAT), etc. - are around 10 percent, max of about 13 percent. It varies from state to state. The average federal tax rate is under 12 percent. The average tax burden is around 22 percent in the US.
Your response overlooks the complexity of the problem. The volume of data that must be searched is immense. A simple search for terms would provide too much information for translaters to read and understand. You need more complex AI to prune the number of articles further. Go to new.google.com and search "iraq" and it returns 154,000 articles. Undoubtedly, many of these are duplicates, but more complex AI to prune this list is a reasonable thing to do.
I assumed that the police are looking at this to see if he had an accomplice and/or other victims.
...So the best examples you could come up for what made Carter one of the two worst presidents in history is one speech and staying late at work... You are underestimating the impact of Carter's actions, particularly with your choice of words - staying late at work. He locked himself in the Whitehouse for months, refusing to leave for any reason. At the time, there were many complaints that because he refused to leave the Whitehouse, that Carter was ignoring the economy and other issues . There also complaints that Carter was holding entire country hostage by doing so. He also instituted poor economic policy, granted he didn't inherit a good economy, but he did little to improve it.
Historically, Windows and Mac versions of Office are released in alternating years. In addition, the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft has announced that they will "provide free converters to allow users of current versions of Office for Mac to read the new Microsoft Office Open XML formats following the availability of Office 2007 for Windows next year."
I seriously doubt you can back up this statement with any examples. First of all, I doubt that the example that you gave would really happen, specifically that the two proposals would differ by a factor of two in cost. When the government buys a system, it typically buy the system with life-cycle maintenance. That means the manpower, spares, and other items required to maintain the system over its life. And those items aren't free just because you use Linux (or other open source). And those items tend to be the bulk of the system costs.