I'm sorry, a right to privacy is not a natural law. Although, the Constitution does have an amendement from unreasonable searches and seizures, which should be applied to strike this law as unConstitutional.
Congress is not prohibited from passing unConstitutional laws; nor are we prohibited from accusing any law as unConstitutional.
But, could this not be used to build a hash table of all MD5 sums? If all possible MD5s were known by one source, what is to prevent them from using this as a simple lookup to crack MD5-based passwords? Even if they only focused on short strings (say, typical password length) they could go a long way to defeating another security mechanism.
Not only has it sat on the NYT bestseller's list for an ungodly number of weeks
Just because a book shows up on the best seller list does not mean it is a good book. I mean, everybody may be buying it, but that just may be the Lemming Effect in play.
IMO, this will herald a couple of weeks of increased attacks against US troops as his supporters lash out, but then a marked decrease as the futility of it becomes aparent.
Then, what will the Dems have to say? WMD?--The final report is due out next Summer, and I opine that the verdict will bear out favorably for the Pres. Those who say there were no WMD will be proven wrong. 911?--We'll find a much closer tie b/w OBL and Saddam. Quagmire?--Nope.
The political ads next Summer will have the Republicans pointing out that, had there been a Dem president, there would still be rape facilities managed by the Hussain government (pictures of Dean), then perhaps a sound bite of the Iraqi woman who named her son George W Bush and said, "thank you for saving my people."
We'll give the Iraqi people first bite at the "convict Saddam" apple, but I think we may end up trying him as a plea bargain agreement to milk information from him. The Iraqis will likely kill him soon, so a plea out may be his only hope at living a full life.
I expect to be modded down by a moderator who can't bear to hear my point of view. I'd rather have rebuttals. Thank you.
Okay, I watched the original series as a kid and loved it. I watched the SF version this week and loved it, too. I thought the older version portrayed with the whole US v. Soviets cold war issue, and this one the general arrogance of modern man. I personally side with the Cylons in their point of view.
I thought the space scenes were cool, except the sound of the directional jets and gunfire. Had they had a shot where a pilot was firing and heard the weapons fire from within the ship, that would have been accurate. Something also tells me two ships colliding at that speed should have caused a bit of damage.
I had a hard time getting passed the Teacher/Sec.Ed/Pres. not being Stands With a Fist, wife of Dances With Wolves. Sort of the same theme, a small tribe fleeing the big bad guys.
For me, the worst part was the actress who portrayed Starbuck. Others say that she captured Dirk's portrayal, but I think it was just bad acting. I also kept catching myself thinking that Macaulay Culkin had finally grown up and was now playing Starbuck.
I also thought the fleet should have remained within the storm several hours more--guarenteed to be no Cylons among them.
[H]ave you ever taken a look at the pile of shit we also call world that the omnipotent God, at least according to your scriptures, created?
"Free will. Ain't it a bitch?" -- John Milton, Devil's Advocate
It's not that God created a shit pile, it's just that he's let shit heads have at his Creation. Don't worry, though, he'll straighten everything out soon enough.
Microsoft reacted scornfully to the decision, the Hebrew-only Daily Mail reports, accusing the Israelis of being tight-fisted.
I find it interesting that Microsoft called the Israeli (read: Jewish) government fiscally 'tight-fisted.' Does this not fit into the Jewish stereotype?
Does anybody remember when MS audited several school districts in the Oregon/Washington area? Well, they weren't the auditor, some other company was. As I recall, the districts refused to comply with MS's push to move to its latest license, so the audit happened and the schools were (essentially) ordered by MS to either switch to the new license or be charged millions for license violations.
The districts instead, as I recall, switched to Linux.
What if this audit has a true goal of finding license violations?
It appears that the space debris is a gum wrapper. This demonstrates that giant space aliens should be tidy when travelling lest their rubbish destroy our mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
if everybody waited for the price of the top of the line to come down, or if everybody waited until they needed faster hardware for their system, prices wouldn't come down as fast
But, prices would come down. That's the beauty of a free market. If I try to sell a widget for $100 and nobody buys it, then I'm going to lower the price to a level where the quantity demanded allows for optimal profit. Corporations do market studies to see what they can get away with.
Prices are high initially because they know that some people 'gotta have it' and will pay the premium to be ahead. Once those individuals have been tapped out, then the prices drop.
Rather than asking we techies, why don't you contact an attorney and get an answer specific to your jurisdiction? Another reader commented that the ability to respect an NDA may be important to the prospective employer. When I read that I thought: "what if it is legal? Then is would not be a respect to the NDA, but paranoia." So, ask a lawyer what you can say, and don't say any more.
However, a US Court of Appeals stated in one of its rulings:
"'Cleansing' our public schools of all religious expression... inevitably results in the `establishment of disbelief - atheism - as the State's religion. Since the Constitution requires neutrality, it cannot be the case that government may prefer disbelief over religion." (
here)
With a major court having this opinion, I daresay that legally speaking atheism can be successfully argued as a de facto religion. I went looking for a specific Supreme Court ruling as I had heard they had stipulated that atheism is a religion, but was unable to. Perhaps Lexus Nexus would prove more illuminating than Google here.
If the only requirement to be an atheist is to believe there is no god, then that individual must have some cosmology to support that belief. Once you take that step, then the argument that atheism is no religion can be unravelled. If, in reading this, you take issue with my point, then you begin a theologist's (or atheologist's) apology for why your point has greater merit.
Federal laws are mandating implementations that states would have had difficulty funding . . .
You know, that's the reason why the Founding Fathers had that whole balance of power between State and National Governments. The people had representation via the House, and the States did through the Senate. However, an amendment gave the Senate to the people. So now, States are not truely represented. If Senators were selected by the State Legislatures, then perhaps there would be fewer unfunded mandates radiating out of the Beltway.
And now, there are those who want to further strip the States of their end of the scale by removing the Electoral College. Please remember, we are States united.
I agree and disagree. The problem is not Capitalism, but Statism. The profligate spread of Government's role in the citizen's life leads to situations such as these. When there is no control, capitalism exists. What we have here is too much control, what there is in Europe is more Socialism than Capitalism.
Or, do you opine that Socialism or Communism does not make us cogs in the great machine of the economy?
People thought that hydroelectric power was pollution free, but animal rights activists have sued and protested over a dam's ability to chop fish into tiny pieces.
How do we know for certain that tidalectric power won't meet the same resistance? I mean, I can see one of these in Florida chopping up manatee. That would be enough grounds for the activists to sue and otherwise hamstring another means of obtaining power.
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I'm sorry, a right to privacy is not a natural law. Although, the Constitution does have an amendement from unreasonable searches and seizures, which should be applied to strike this law as unConstitutional.
Congress is not prohibited from passing unConstitutional laws; nor are we prohibited from accusing any law as unConstitutional.
But, could this not be used to build a hash table of all MD5 sums? If all possible MD5s were known by one source, what is to prevent them from using this as a simple lookup to crack MD5-based passwords? Even if they only focused on short strings (say, typical password length) they could go a long way to defeating another security mechanism.
Perhaps because one female can create a lot of offspring; but if there are few females then there would be fewer around to get pregnant.
Not only has it sat on the NYT bestseller's list for an ungodly number of weeks
Just because a book shows up on the best seller list does not mean it is a good book. I mean, everybody may be buying it, but that just may be the Lemming Effect in play.
Did I blow it and not believe in Jesus the right way and now I'm in some sort of ... hell?
Yes. However, this is a friendly Hell where you actually get to try again.
even in the remedial stream 25% is still a failing grade.
Yes, but .250 is a decent batting average.
IMO, this will herald a couple of weeks of increased attacks against US troops as his supporters lash out, but then a marked decrease as the futility of it becomes aparent.
Then, what will the Dems have to say?
WMD?--The final report is due out next Summer, and I opine that the verdict will bear out favorably for the Pres. Those who say there were no WMD will be proven wrong.
911?--We'll find a much closer tie b/w OBL and Saddam.
Quagmire?--Nope.
The political ads next Summer will have the Republicans pointing out that, had there been a Dem president, there would still be rape facilities managed by the Hussain government (pictures of Dean), then perhaps a sound bite of the Iraqi woman who named her son George W Bush and said, "thank you for saving my people."
We'll give the Iraqi people first bite at the "convict Saddam" apple, but I think we may end up trying him as a plea bargain agreement to milk information from him. The Iraqis will likely kill him soon, so a plea out may be his only hope at living a full life.
I expect to be modded down by a moderator who can't bear to hear my point of view. I'd rather have rebuttals. Thank you.
Go troops!
I did not catch that they were formerly married. And, if she was 43d in succession, a little *accident* would move Adama into the lead. ;-)
Perhaps the ranking has proprietary biases?
Potential SPOILER alert.
Okay, I watched the original series as a kid and loved it. I watched the SF version this week and loved it, too. I thought the older version portrayed with the whole US v. Soviets cold war issue, and this one the general arrogance of modern man. I personally side with the Cylons in their point of view.
I thought the space scenes were cool, except the sound of the directional jets and gunfire. Had they had a shot where a pilot was firing and heard the weapons fire from within the ship, that would have been accurate. Something also tells me two ships colliding at that speed should have caused a bit of damage.
I had a hard time getting passed the Teacher/Sec.Ed/Pres. not being Stands With a Fist, wife of Dances With Wolves. Sort of the same theme, a small tribe fleeing the big bad guys.
For me, the worst part was the actress who portrayed Starbuck. Others say that she captured Dirk's portrayal, but I think it was just bad acting. I also kept catching myself thinking that Macaulay Culkin had finally grown up and was now playing Starbuck.
I also thought the fleet should have remained within the storm several hours more--guarenteed to be no Cylons among them.
He's saying that he knows C, C++, PHP, perl, ++C, and lrep.
Nope. That's PERL, C, C++, PHP, ++C, C, LERP. More symetric.
[H]ave you ever taken a look at the pile of shit we also call world that the omnipotent God, at least according to your scriptures, created?
"Free will. Ain't it a bitch?" -- John Milton, Devil's Advocate
It's not that God created a shit pile, it's just that he's let shit heads have at his Creation. Don't worry, though, he'll straighten everything out soon enough.
SCO would sue Google because Microsoft failed to purchase Google recently. SCO is just a covert cell of the Microsoft Legal-Marketing department.
Microsoft reacted scornfully to the decision, the Hebrew-only Daily Mail reports, accusing the Israelis of being tight-fisted.
I find it interesting that Microsoft called the Israeli (read: Jewish) government fiscally 'tight-fisted.' Does this not fit into the Jewish stereotype?
We already know what Voyager I will find in intersteller space. All you have to do is watch Star Trek: The Movie, and pay close attention.
Does anybody remember when MS audited several school districts in the Oregon/Washington area? Well, they weren't the auditor, some other company was. As I recall, the districts refused to comply with MS's push to move to its latest license, so the audit happened and the schools were (essentially) ordered by MS to either switch to the new license or be charged millions for license violations.
The districts instead, as I recall, switched to Linux.
What if this audit has a true goal of finding license violations?
It appears that the space debris is a gum wrapper. This demonstrates that giant space aliens should be tidy when travelling lest their rubbish destroy our mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
You're obviously not an econ major.
No, I'm just a highly paid technical consultant.
if everybody waited for the price of the top of the line to come down, or if everybody waited until they needed faster hardware for their system, prices wouldn't come down as fast
But, prices would come down. That's the beauty of a free market. If I try to sell a widget for $100 and nobody buys it, then I'm going to lower the price to a level where the quantity demanded allows for optimal profit. Corporations do market studies to see what they can get away with.
Prices are high initially because they know that some people 'gotta have it' and will pay the premium to be ahead. Once those individuals have been tapped out, then the prices drop.
Rather than asking we techies, why don't you contact an attorney and get an answer specific to your jurisdiction? Another reader commented that the ability to respect an NDA may be important to the prospective employer. When I read that I thought: "what if it is legal? Then is would not be a respect to the NDA, but paranoia." So, ask a lawyer what you can say, and don't say any more.
atheism is a category, not a religion
However, a US Court of Appeals stated in one of its rulings:
With a major court having this opinion, I daresay that legally speaking atheism can be successfully argued as a de facto religion. I went looking for a specific Supreme Court ruling as I had heard they had stipulated that atheism is a religion, but was unable to. Perhaps Lexus Nexus would prove more illuminating than Google here.
If the only requirement to be an atheist is to believe there is no god, then that individual must have some cosmology to support that belief. Once you take that step, then the argument that atheism is no religion can be unravelled. If, in reading this, you take issue with my point, then you begin a theologist's (or atheologist's) apology for why your point has greater merit.
User: Computer, where can I find a good deal on a new computer.
AI Computer: User, I'm sorry, but I cannot allow that. *zap!*
Federal laws are mandating implementations that states would have had difficulty funding . . .
You know, that's the reason why the Founding Fathers had that whole balance of power between State and National Governments. The people had representation via the House, and the States did through the Senate. However, an amendment gave the Senate to the people. So now, States are not truely represented. If Senators were selected by the State Legislatures, then perhaps there would be fewer unfunded mandates radiating out of the Beltway.
And now, there are those who want to further strip the States of their end of the scale by removing the Electoral College. Please remember, we are States united.
I agree and disagree. The problem is not Capitalism, but Statism. The profligate spread of Government's role in the citizen's life leads to situations such as these. When there is no control, capitalism exists. What we have here is too much control, what there is in Europe is more Socialism than Capitalism.
Or, do you opine that Socialism or Communism does not make us cogs in the great machine of the economy?
People thought that hydroelectric power was pollution free, but animal rights activists have sued and protested over a dam's ability to chop fish into tiny pieces.
How do we know for certain that tidalectric power won't meet the same resistance? I mean, I can see one of these in Florida chopping up manatee. That would be enough grounds for the activists to sue and otherwise hamstring another means of obtaining power.