If you read the originally referenced article, it documents excerpts from the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that clearly show the act does not always limit itself to "Alien' combatants. From the Article:
Under the new law, Bush can declare any non-citizen an "unlawful enemy combatant" and put the person into a system of military tribunals that give defendants only limited rights. Critics have called the tribunals "kangaroo courts" because the rules are heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution.
Some language in the new law also suggests that "any person," presumably including American citizens, could be swept up into indefinite detention if they are suspected of having aided and abetted terrorists.
"Any person is punishable as a principal under this chapter who commits an offense punishable by this chapter, or aids, abets, counsels, commands, or procures its commission," according to the law, passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in September and signed by Bush on Oct. 17, 2006.
Another provision in the law seems to target American citizens by stating that "any person subject to this chapter who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States... shall be punished as a military commission... may direct."
Who has "an allegiance or duty to the United States" if not an American citizen? That provision would not presumably apply to Osama bin Laden or al-Qaeda, nor would it apply generally to foreign citizens. This section of the law appears to be singling out American citizens.
Besides allowing "any person" to be swallowed up by Bush's system, the law prohibits detainees once inside from appealing to the traditional American courts until after prosecution and sentencing, which could translate into an indefinite imprisonment since there are no timetables for Bush's tribunal process to play out.
The law states that once a person is detained, "no court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider any claim or cause of action whatsoever... relating to the prosecution, trial, or judgment of a military commission under this chapter, including challenges to the lawfulness of procedures of military commissions."
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Here Here... Other than the last two elections, where is the evidense for the original poster's claim that "They are often wildly innacurate". A person conducting the poll has no basis to make a statement like this no matter how much cooperation they think they are or are not getting during the polling. The only measure of accuracy is 'did the real results match the results predicted by the polls?' Where are the examples of the results being "wildly inaccurate" in other elections?
Just because Rove didn't cause the hurricane doesn't mean he didn't have a hand in the manipulation of the election! How is your arguement relevent?
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George isn't creative enough to do anything of the sort. I know it just sounds like more conspiracy theories, but the Republican party latched on to GW back in 99 and has loved him ever since. This is because, no matter what he says about foreign policy or socail issues, when it comes down to it George ALWAYS takes a direction that supports business interests over individual interests, period! There is not a single issue or decision he has ever made that contradicts this. When the supreme court slots opened up, even with all the hype about abortion and socal issues, GW appoijhnted Corporate Layers for his first 3 arttempts at nominees. Even the religious right got on him about that! Corporate America always comes first with George. This is why the republican party wanted him to stay in for aother 4 years. They saw the race slipping away on Iraq fallout and took steps to insure that he would get a leg up in key battleground regions. The RNC has tremendous power and influence.
If you want a completely unrelated example of this power look at John McCain. He has been an incredibly 'Independant' republican throught his career, and the RNC torpedoed him in favor of Bush in 99'. Now, however, it looks like he is the one Republican independant enough to have a shot at holding the presidency for the republicans in '08. So, what does the RNC do?... If youlook at McCain's recent public statements, he had a major shift about 9-12 months ago where suddenly everything he says supports the president. Why is he still supporting GW when almost no-one else outside the whitehouse is?.... Because the RNC sat him down and gave him a talking to. Basically, they want John to tow the party line for a while in exchange for throwing party support behind him for '08. If he doesn't, he can expect the same kind of support he got in '99-'00.
Sounds crazy I'm sure, but really it makes perfect sense. Reing in the moderate loose cannon in exchange for the best shot at holding the presidency.
Anyway, George couldn't steal an election on his best day, but the RNC can and did. Read the other research on the elections!
The original question was... If programmers are crappy at designing user interfaces (which they are) and most end users are crappy at knowing what they really need the software to do (which they also are) WHO should be specing the software?
The answer is quite simple: There are plenty of savvy computer users who don't happen to be programmers who can act as middle men between the two camps. Most organizations used to have these people, but as programming has become more of a commodity ("my kid can write a webpage") and development budgets tighten, many operations have done away with this layer and have programmers work directly with end users on the specs
Plus the specs only get you half way there! It is the FLOW of the functionality that really gets you a good or bad interface. We just need to recognize this again and expend the resources to include a knowledgeable person who understands enough about both sides to facilitate the best result.
There should also be educational tracks that specifically teach this skill!
So what... Pollution is still bad, and we should limit our impact on the environment even if global warming is not taken into account! Global warming has just become the poster issue of the debate between those who want to protect the environment and those who don't want to because it would cost them money. (There is only ONE reasson NOT to want to protect the environment, and money is it!)
The bad side effect is that since GW has become the main issue, debunking GW has been an effective strategy to delay real talks about environmental reform. Somehow people have been convinced that, if there is no GW, we don't need environmental reform, and that's just not true, so lets move on to the next step and figure out how to impilement real environmental reform that everyone can live with!
Be skeptical of Global Warming all you want. The larger point that everyone seems to miss is this. Pollution is BAD. We should be taking steps to reduce pollution. Global warming is just the most visible symptom of where pollution is having a large impact, so it has become the focal point of the debate. Unfortunitely, this actually makes it easier for those who wish to avoid tougher environmental regulations to put all their eggs in one basket and spend lots of effort to de-bunk global warming. As long as they keep plenty of FUD around global warming, the discussion won't get to the next level, which is what are we going to do about it. But remember, any steps that we take to slow global warming will have plenty of other non-climate benefits. We should reduce polution no matter what , but that costs money, and influential people don't want to spend that money, so they spend less money to de-bunk global warming and stall the debate.
Here's the thing. I doesn't matter if you are skeptical of the particular facts of a particular study. Even if you completely ignore global warming, the fact is that pollution is bad no matter how you slice it, and reducing it is a good thing no matter what your motivation is.
You are buying into the Corporate PR machine that is actually keeping the focus on debating how real global warmimg may or may not be so they can continue to delay the costly adjustments that they will eventually need to make to protect the environment. The problem is that the continued delay as we continue to spend time rebuffing their continual denials and half truths about global warming will make it less and less likely that we can do anything about it.
Global warming is real, and the only reason anyone expends energy denying it is because they don't want to pay to fix it. Do you think all these scientists from all these different countries are making up all this data just so they can stick it to the corporations? They have better things to do!
Right, but notice that neither article had a single quote from the study or linked to it so an intelligent reader could look at the facts for themselves. If you don't believe that FOX news might be spinning one line from the report that has a different meaning in the greater context of the report than you really need a reality check.
Why do vendors keep pushing this type of stuff as some great advancement??? Is it really so inconvenient to slide your card through the little slot and key in a PIN#?
Why can't people be satisfied with a very good system. It's not like a new faster checkout method gives anyone a competitive advantage for very long, because everyone will adapt the same technology pretty quickly. Why can't they get it through their heads that a contactless data transfer with no external control (PIN) is just flat out not going to be as secure?
And No this isn't a troll towards republicans. The MAIN (of many) problems with GW is his emphasis on one and only one basic principal, which is: "Whatever is good for corporate America is good for ALL America no matter what the circumstances, be it the environment, individual rights, consumer rights, etc. etc. Bill G would be exactly the same, though his humanitarian side may help him be slightly more well rounded and he is probably a lot more able to analyse the consequences of his decisions.
A successful president, however, needs more than one, or even two dimentions.
Some might argue that GW was also 'religious' but only idiots believe that is anything but lip service to keep the conservative religious votes comming in.
While there are certainly many power users out there, I don't believe that a majority of cell phone users are doing anything but making phone calls and an occasional text message. Is this based on some type of survey, or are we just filling space on a slow Monday morning?
It takes like 15 minutes per candidtae or issue to get educated enough to make an informed voting decision, so try pulling yourself away from Halo long enough to participate in a process many people have died to bring you.
Also, anyone who says your vote has no effect doesn't understand group and mob dynamics. If your peers all get invloved, which has a cascading effect, you can certainly effect the outcome of elections n your region, and the balance of congress will certainly impact how much of George's aganda is acted on in his lame duck years.
I'm sure, based on your praise for Bill, that you won't even pick it up and try to learn something, but in Al Franken's book, a team of 14 Harvard types spent months pouring over political and media claims trying to find the true source of info. O'Reilly is one of the worst offenders! Unlike Bill's role as a 'Forum for his views' Al's book actually reports the facts as best as they can be documented. It's one thing to have a forum to spout off about your views. It's another thing to make up and distort facts in support of your views with the sole intent of influencing the masses. This is why Bill is the worst type of 'analyst'.
How could anyone be so stupid as to reccomend Bill O'Reily as a candidate for President??? He is nothing but a blowhard mouthpiece for the conservative right. As a 'journalist' he has never worried about somethings as mundane as actually getting his facts correct, even about his own career. He says exactly what he thinks needs to be said to get people to believe his point, even if it's an out and out lie. This pretty much makes him exactly like George W., who you claim is not 'worth a hoot'.
Why is Bill better than George? They are both lying sacks of s*%!.
Since around the time Win98 came out, the OEM installed OS version is actually tied to the hardware, so if you transfer the Hardware, the software stays with it.
I work for a school district, so we are in the position to accept donated gear, and we have been around and around with donated Microsoft OS's. If there is a Windows OS sticker on the unit, you can send the laptop with that OS intact and it will be legal! That is, of course, unless you purchased the LT without an OS and bought a retail OS off the shelf, in which case you still would own the OS, or actually just have the rights to borrow it from MS since that is the way most licenses are worded anyway.
Does anyone else find it suspect that, in their quest to reach the mythical 100KM altitude, and using the now very accurate conversion factor, they basically made it by 125 meters??? That's cutting it pretty close don't you think? Do you think that with all the hoopla they might have felt compelled to fudge the numbers a bit? Maybee a little evil rubbed off of Bill onto Paul!
The weightless effect isn't simply a 'result' of the free-fall, but is a perceived effect by the pilot because the space ship and the pilot are traveling at the same rate. Basically if there is no (or minimal) drag slowing the ship down, and no thrust speeding it up, the ship and the pilot will float along at the same trajectory which is basically only being signifigantly modified by gravity, which acts the same on both.
This can be seen by the fact that the free-'fall' actually starts while the ship is still going up as soon as the thrusters are turned off. Once it starts to hit signifigant atmosphere on the way down the ship slows down faster than the pilot in it, and the pilot again feels weight on his seat.
So far the barrier has been that MS's base solution was not flexible enough, and Citrix's offering costs an arm and a leg to impliment (including Bill's cut of TSCAL's). A Novell supported linux based TS platform would be a welcome relief.
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You can get a 'discount' card at almost all of the chains that utilize them even if you give them NO personal info. They just track your habits as a single anonomous purchaser, which is still valuable data. This is no different than the AB tracking that started this whole thing.
I believe that, in most markets, DIGITAL cable is more than Digital sattelite for the most basic packages. You can still get Analog cable for less, again in mosts markets.
Another Advantage of the Dish DVR (they call it PVR) system is this. Their receiver has a standard modulated (channel 3 or 4)output as well as the component, S-Video & other outputs. So, If you are wired correctly you can watch the DVR output from any TV in the house, not just the one by the dish receiver.
As a Bonus the remote is RF as well as IR, so you CAN control the receiver from other rooms. I can control the downstairs receiver from my upstairs bedroom. It seems to work best if I hold it against my head (Not sure why) but only my wife see's how stupid I look!
I lived in Asia for 6 years and was constantly amazed/shocked at the state of the outside wiring. You can't imagine the scope of work that would be necessary to sort out what is in use and what isn't. As another poster said, it's not like they have utility police making sure everyone who hangs wire works for an appropriate agency and does things to spec. Hell, the utility workers themselves do just as bad a job. It WILL only get worse, so be thankful if you don't need to maintain a business there.
I can't believe that in all the little corrections , no one picked up that 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' really is a Restaurant, not a ship. The 'Ship' in question was the 'Heart Of Gold'!
The computer spending all it's cycles working out how to make tea was actually on the 'Heart Of Gold', the main ship for Arthur and the gang in most of the 'trilogy', Not the RATEOTU as mentioned in the main post.
So... How does pouring boiling water into a small amount of milk at the bottom of the cup scald it less than pouring the milk into boiling water?
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Under the new law, Bush can declare any non-citizen an "unlawful enemy combatant" and put the person into a system of military tribunals that give defendants only limited rights. Critics have called the tribunals "kangaroo courts" because the rules are heavily weighted in favor of the prosecution.
Some language in the new law also suggests that "any person," presumably including American citizens, could be swept up into indefinite detention if they are suspected of having aided and abetted terrorists.
"Any person is punishable as a principal under this chapter who commits an offense punishable by this chapter, or aids, abets, counsels, commands, or procures its commission," according to the law, passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in September and signed by Bush on Oct. 17, 2006.
Another provision in the law seems to target American citizens by stating that "any person subject to this chapter who, in breach of an allegiance or duty to the United States, knowingly and intentionally aids an enemy of the United States ... shall be punished as a military commission ... may direct."
Who has "an allegiance or duty to the United States" if not an American citizen? That provision would not presumably apply to Osama bin Laden or al-Qaeda, nor would it apply generally to foreign citizens. This section of the law appears to be singling out American citizens.
Besides allowing "any person" to be swallowed up by Bush's system, the law prohibits detainees once inside from appealing to the traditional American courts until after prosecution and sentencing, which could translate into an indefinite imprisonment since there are no timetables for Bush's tribunal process to play out.
The law states that once a person is detained, "no court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider any claim or cause of action whatsoever ... relating to the prosecution, trial, or judgment of a military commission under this chapter, including challenges to the lawfulness of procedures of military commissions."
Here Here... Other than the last two elections, where is the evidense for the original poster's claim that "They are often wildly innacurate". A person conducting the poll has no basis to make a statement like this no matter how much cooperation they think they are or are not getting during the polling. The only measure of accuracy is 'did the real results match the results predicted by the polls?' Where are the examples of the results being "wildly inaccurate" in other elections?
Just because Rove didn't cause the hurricane doesn't mean he didn't have a hand in the manipulation of the election! How is your arguement relevent?
If you want a completely unrelated example of this power look at John McCain. He has been an incredibly 'Independant' republican throught his career, and the RNC torpedoed him in favor of Bush in 99'. Now, however, it looks like he is the one Republican independant enough to have a shot at holding the presidency for the republicans in '08. So, what does the RNC do?... If youlook at McCain's recent public statements, he had a major shift about 9-12 months ago where suddenly everything he says supports the president. Why is he still supporting GW when almost no-one else outside the whitehouse is?.... Because the RNC sat him down and gave him a talking to. Basically, they want John to tow the party line for a while in exchange for throwing party support behind him for '08. If he doesn't, he can expect the same kind of support he got in '99-'00.
Sounds crazy I'm sure, but really it makes perfect sense. Reing in the moderate loose cannon in exchange for the best shot at holding the presidency.
Anyway, George couldn't steal an election on his best day, but the RNC can and did. Read the other research on the elections!
The answer is quite simple: There are plenty of savvy computer users who don't happen to be programmers who can act as middle men between the two camps. Most organizations used to have these people, but as programming has become more of a commodity ("my kid can write a webpage") and development budgets tighten, many operations have done away with this layer and have programmers work directly with end users on the specs
Plus the specs only get you half way there! It is the FLOW of the functionality that really gets you a good or bad interface. We just need to recognize this again and expend the resources to include a knowledgeable person who understands enough about both sides to facilitate the best result.
There should also be educational tracks that specifically teach this skill!
The bad side effect is that since GW has become the main issue, debunking GW has been an effective strategy to delay real talks about environmental reform. Somehow people have been convinced that, if there is no GW, we don't need environmental reform, and that's just not true, so lets move on to the next step and figure out how to impilement real environmental reform that everyone can live with!
Be skeptical of Global Warming all you want. The larger point that everyone seems to miss is this. Pollution is BAD. We should be taking steps to reduce pollution. Global warming is just the most visible symptom of where pollution is having a large impact, so it has become the focal point of the debate. Unfortunitely, this actually makes it easier for those who wish to avoid tougher environmental regulations to put all their eggs in one basket and spend lots of effort to de-bunk global warming. As long as they keep plenty of FUD around global warming, the discussion won't get to the next level, which is what are we going to do about it. But remember, any steps that we take to slow global warming will have plenty of other non-climate benefits. We should reduce polution no matter what , but that costs money, and influential people don't want to spend that money, so they spend less money to de-bunk global warming and stall the debate.
You are buying into the Corporate PR machine that is actually keeping the focus on debating how real global warmimg may or may not be so they can continue to delay the costly adjustments that they will eventually need to make to protect the environment. The problem is that the continued delay as we continue to spend time rebuffing their continual denials and half truths about global warming will make it less and less likely that we can do anything about it.
Global warming is real, and the only reason anyone expends energy denying it is because they don't want to pay to fix it. Do you think all these scientists from all these different countries are making up all this data just so they can stick it to the corporations? They have better things to do!
Oh, that's right, Fox News is fair and balanced!
Why can't people be satisfied with a very good system. It's not like a new faster checkout method gives anyone a competitive advantage for very long, because everyone will adapt the same technology pretty quickly. Why can't they get it through their heads that a contactless data transfer with no external control (PIN) is just flat out not going to be as secure?
And No this isn't a troll towards republicans. The MAIN (of many) problems with GW is his emphasis on one and only one basic principal, which is: "Whatever is good for corporate America is good for ALL America no matter what the circumstances, be it the environment, individual rights, consumer rights, etc. etc. Bill G would be exactly the same, though his humanitarian side may help him be slightly more well rounded and he is probably a lot more able to analyse the consequences of his decisions.
A successful president, however, needs more than one, or even two dimentions.
Some might argue that GW was also 'religious' but only idiots believe that is anything but lip service to keep the conservative religious votes comming in.
While there are certainly many power users out there, I don't believe that a majority of cell phone users are doing anything but making phone calls and an occasional text message. Is this based on some type of survey, or are we just filling space on a slow Monday morning?
Also, anyone who says your vote has no effect doesn't understand group and mob dynamics. If your peers all get invloved, which has a cascading effect, you can certainly effect the outcome of elections n your region, and the balance of congress will certainly impact how much of George's aganda is acted on in his lame duck years.
So... get your head out of your butt and go vote!
I'm sure, based on your praise for Bill, that you won't even pick it up and try to learn something, but in Al Franken's book, a team of 14 Harvard types spent months pouring over political and media claims trying to find the true source of info. O'Reilly is one of the worst offenders! Unlike Bill's role as a 'Forum for his views' Al's book actually reports the facts as best as they can be documented. It's one thing to have a forum to spout off about your views. It's another thing to make up and distort facts in support of your views with the sole intent of influencing the masses. This is why Bill is the worst type of 'analyst'.
Bill as President??? I don't think so.
Why is Bill better than George? They are both lying sacks of s*%!.
I work for a school district, so we are in the position to accept donated gear, and we have been around and around with donated Microsoft OS's. If there is a Windows OS sticker on the unit, you can send the laptop with that OS intact and it will be legal! That is, of course, unless you purchased the LT without an OS and bought a retail OS off the shelf, in which case you still would own the OS, or actually just have the rights to borrow it from MS since that is the way most licenses are worded anyway.
The weightless effect isn't simply a 'result' of the free-fall, but is a perceived effect by the pilot because the space ship and the pilot are traveling at the same rate. Basically if there is no (or minimal) drag slowing the ship down, and no thrust speeding it up, the ship and the pilot will float along at the same trajectory which is basically only being signifigantly modified by gravity, which acts the same on both.
This can be seen by the fact that the free-'fall' actually starts while the ship is still going up as soon as the thrusters are turned off. Once it starts to hit signifigant atmosphere on the way down the ship slows down faster than the pilot in it, and the pilot again feels weight on his seat.
As a Bonus the remote is RF as well as IR, so you CAN control the receiver from other rooms. I can control the downstairs receiver from my upstairs bedroom. It seems to work best if I hold it against my head (Not sure why) but only my wife see's how stupid I look!
I would defenitely go with digital sattelite!!!
So... How does pouring boiling water into a small amount of milk at the bottom of the cup scald it less than pouring the milk into boiling water?