It's the right of the university to impose those restrictions.
You have completely ignored the complications that this imposes on public institutions. It does not seem as if you even aware that the linked document exists. Perhaps you should educate yourself.
Requiring the student to obtain approval before the mailing is a form of prior restraint which SCOTUS has said is the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights (Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart).
I have shown you that the Post story you cite has easily identifiable, significant holes. You have chosen to ignore inconvenient facts presented by others and instead attack the messenger. Perhaps you should take a basic course in logic or rhetoric before posting again.
Check the timeline in your Post story. The kidnapping occurred at dawn Iraqi time but the NSA lawyers (likely in D.C., but not specified in the article) did not even meet to discuss the issue until 10 AM EST (6 PM Iraqi time). That means that the NSA didn't even bother to discuss the problem until approximately 10-12 hours after the kidnapping. Why?
BTW, asking Are you saying everyone involved was lying and your partisan talking-points are right instead? is a logical fallacy known as an argumentum ad hominem since you are not attempting to address the facts presented but seek to divert the argument by making spurious claims that I am somehow partisan.
Nor would they have had their rights violated under FISA as it stood before 9/11, which would have allowed eavesdropping on those Blackberries under these circumstances but would also have required the Feds to get a warrant within 72 hours after the fact. This protects individual rights under the 4th Amendment, but allows for emergencies such as happened in Mumbai. The issue here is that Bush Feds made a broad sweep of everyone's phone records after 9/11 with no attempt to obtain warrants as required by law. If the request had been legitimate, then they should have been able to obtain warrants from the FISA court which has approved such retroactive warrants something like 95% of the time. The Bush administration pulled a similar stunt with airline passenger data after 9/11, too, although unlike phone records, there was no specific law requiring warrants in order to obtain that data.
Nat Geo ran a recent TV show that makes the claim that Neanderthals actually invented language. The basis for the claim is that Neanderthals used weapons that required them to get up close to their prey in order to kill it which requires a large amount of cooperation between team members. Homo Sapiens, OTOH, were able to hunt from afar, which did not require similar cooperation. Language genes were then passed to HS from HN via inter-species mating.
Vice President Elect Biden is correct. Article I does indeed define the role of the Vice President:
Article I. Section 2:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Article II merely describes how the Vice President is chosen and the conditions under which the VP may become President (later superseded by Amendment XXV).
As a UTK alumnus who gives money most years, I'm afraid that I am no longer willing to contribute. If the State of TN believes that UTK has enough money to waste chasing file sharers, then they clearly have enough money for teaching and research and don't need the scarce dollars in my own household budget.
#1 - The CRA expansion in 1995, which put 30% more people on the housing market than there should have been, creating an incredible sellers' market in which housing, which previously had roughly paced inflation, spiraled up until people were looking at "house value" increases of over 200%.
The homeownership rate went from 64.2% in 1995 to 69.1% at the peak in 2005. That is barely an 7-8% increase, nowhere close to a 30% increase. The Community Reinvestment Act had little to do with the current mess. See BIS Working Paper #259 or this BW article. Most of the subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA and much of the foreclosure problem lies in the 'burbs where the CRA did not apply.
It is obvious that you did not read that discussion. It was quickly pointed out that the report was completely bogus. Read his plan yourself. It is very good and quite comprehensive. Some highlights:
* Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
* Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership: Barack Obama believes that the nation's rules ensuring diversity of media ownership are critical to the public interest. Unfortunately, over the past several years, the Federal Communications Commission has promoted the concept of consolidation over diversity. As president, Obama will encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum.
* Reform the Patent System: A system that produces timely, high-quality patents is essential for global competitiveness in the 21st century. By improving predictability and clarity in our patent system, we will help foster an environment that encourages innovation. Giving the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) the resources to improve patent quality and opening up the patent process to citizen review will reduce the uncertainty and wasteful litigation that is currently a significant drag on innovation. As president, Barack Obama will ensure that our patent laws protect legitimate rights while not stifling innovation and collaboration.
* Safeguard our Right to Privacy: The open information platforms of the 21st century can also tempt institutions to violate the privacy of citizens. As president, Barack Obama will strengthen privacy protections for the digital age and will harness the power of technology to hold government and business accountable for violations of personal privacy.
* Invest in the Sciences: Barack Obama and Joe Biden support doubling federal funding for basic research over ten years, changing the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. This will foster home-grown innovation, help ensure the competitiveness of US technology-based businesses, and ensure that 21st century jobs can and will grow in America.
* Restore Scientific Integrity to the White House: Good policy in Washington depends on sound advice from the nation's scientists and engineers and decision-making based on the needs of all Americans. Obama and Biden will restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically-valid evidence and not on the ideological predispositions of agency officials or political appointees.
You really don't think there's much tech-geek to car-geek crossover?
Cars and computers are protected by the same pagan Gods since both demand a blood sacrifice every time you have to stick your hands into them to replace a part.
I've rebuilt several VW engines, too. Once you've done your first, you should be able to rebuild the second one in the living room while the S.O. is out of town for the weekend. Just don't try it that way the first time.
Why wouldn't all the southern states just say "Ok, great, we'll come back to the Union and keep our slaves, just like you said we could." if that was "the cause of the war"?
For the simple reason that there were too many Union abolitionists demanding emancipation. The slave holding states were not going to be allowed to keep their slaves. This does not mean that everyone in the North was in favor of abolition or wanted to go to war to end it. The abolitionists had strong arguments among their factions over the best means to the end (compare the Quakers to John Brown) but overall, the abolitionists were certainly a very large and very vocal majority in the North. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book about the evils of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, for example, sold 300,000 copies in the North before the Civil War and the Republican Party was formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act that would have allowed the expansion of slavery into Kansas. The abolition of slavery was a question of when and how, not a question of if.
I would argue that it is completely revisionist to claim that the war was not about freeing the slaves. I suspect that this revisionism has its roots in modern Southern politicians and historians who are embarrassed by The Peculiar Institution and want to claim some other more noble sounding reason for starting the War of the Southern Rebellion. One has only to look at the reaction in the North to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry to see that a major confrontation was brewing over the issue although Lincoln, ever the politician, later tried to spin the cause of the war as "we were just trying to restrict it's growth." The usual reason given for why the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the border states that allowed slavery was that Lincoln could not afford to alienate them too much since they might also choose to secede.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1865
Some of the tastiest vegans are the ones that like to drink beer and have private masseuses. Personally, though, I prefer the grass fed sort. I bought a whole tenderloin one time ($25/lb) that was the tastiest vegan I've ever tried.
We needed a new car ASAP last week. I'd detected a whiff of gas while driving our last car, a 1996 Nissan Sentra w/ manual trans, and had an appointment with the mechanic whose shop is four whole blocks away. Didn't make it. I was in the center turn lane of a secondary road waiting for the light to change when I heard a loud "POP" from under the hood. This was followed by grey/black smoke. I turned off the car, grabbed the keys and my pack, jumped out, and called 911. I left it in 1st gear, but given how flat the road was, I didn't pull the emergency brake (oops).
While waiting for the fire truck to appear, one of two things happened. Either the fire burned the insulation on just the right wires, or the car became possessed by some supernatural entity because the next thing I know, the starter solenoid has kicked in and the starter motor is running. I now have a car which is on fire and trying to drive itself down the road. The car crossed two lanes of traffic, climbed a curb, and finally hit a light pole, all the while dripping burning napalm-like stuff and shooting flames around the hood. A fire truck finally arrived and put it out. Fortunately no one was injured.
We bought a 2008 Honda Fit base model. U.S. EPA milage est is 28 city, 34 highway. We looked at both the Civic (26/34 MPG) and the Civic Hybrid (40/45 MPG). Based on what I was willing to spend (as little as possible), the Fit had the best benefit/cost ratio. The Fit was ~16K with taxes, delivery, etc. The Civic Hybrid was going to be around 23K. The hybrid has much better gas millage, but the Fit wins hands down in terms of usability. Long term costs are not hugely different for a Fit vs a Prius.
Perhaps only because humans have intervened to prevent a total catastrophe. For a while there, we were routinely killing and carefully disposing of the carcases of any flocks that had any signs of avian flu in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
Birds are not special. Many species that I would guess (IANAPaleontologist) are as closely related to dinosaurs as birds are also survived and thrived (think lizards, snakes, turtles, alligators, crocodiles, and Republicans).
Sigh. I'm not sure it is worth trying to point you toward some references where you might actually learn something since you clearly already consider yourself an expert, but I'll try. Here is a reasonably well written explanation of what is being discussed. The Wiki article is very incomplete, but you can try it too. Any standard freshman undergrad textbook (e.g. Samuelson) will cover this material as well.
1) By definition: Imports of goods (I) - Exports of goods (X) = trade imbalance. That trade imbalance (Since currently I > X) is then spent on purchases of U.S. assets.
I think your complaint was already correctly handled when the GP said that U.S. imports are higher than U.S. exports. His point is that the difference is capital that has to flow back into purchases of U.S. assets (bonds, stocks, or DFI), not goods for which he has already accounted.
On point 2, you need to look at the distribution of debt rather than the average debt. Most of the real problems are concentrated in about 40% of those households in the lowest 60% of household incomes (pdf). This means that the majority of Americans do not, in fact, have much of a debt problem. 55% of Americans have no credit card debt even though the average household CC debt is about $8500. The problem is that much of the safety net that either government or corporations used to provide has been dumped off on individuals. Most bankruptcies are caused by either a sudden and serious health problem (we used to have corporate sponsored health insurance plans that carried over into retirement) or a divorce. What was Obama's line: "In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own."
On point 3, you need to add that much of our outflows of dollars comes back to us in the form of direct foreign investment. Foreign companies don't need to buy U.S. companies. They can also choose to build factories directly in the U.S. BMW, Honda, and Toyota all have built their own factories in S. Carolina, Ohio, and Kentucky rather than buying U.S. auto manufactures a la Daimler's purchase of Chrysler. These companies have provided a lot of good manufacturing jobs for American workers. At the same time, the U.S. has a very, very large manufacturing presence in other nations. I'm a U.S. citizen, but I also own stock in Honda, Toyota, and Daimler. Much of this is just a side effect of the long term trends toward globalization rather than something we really need to worry about long term since trade imbalances tend to be self-correcting over time.
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It's the right of the university to impose those restrictions.
You have completely ignored the complications that this imposes on public institutions. It does not seem as if you even aware that the linked document exists. Perhaps you should educate yourself.
Requiring the student to obtain approval before the mailing is a form of prior restraint which SCOTUS has said is the most serious and the least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights (Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart).
I have shown you that the Post story you cite has easily identifiable, significant holes. You have chosen to ignore inconvenient facts presented by others and instead attack the messenger. Perhaps you should take a basic course in logic or rhetoric before posting again.
Check the timeline in your Post story. The kidnapping occurred at dawn Iraqi time but the NSA lawyers (likely in D.C., but not specified in the article) did not even meet to discuss the issue until 10 AM EST (6 PM Iraqi time). That means that the NSA didn't even bother to discuss the problem until approximately 10-12 hours after the kidnapping. Why?
BTW, asking Are you saying everyone involved was lying and your partisan talking-points are right instead? is a logical fallacy known as an argumentum ad hominem since you are not attempting to address the facts presented but seek to divert the argument by making spurious claims that I am somehow partisan.
Agents fighting terrorism will tell you they are not always available for those situations. People have died because no warrant was available in time.
Those agents would be lying. FISA allowed for retroactive warrants to be issued 72 hours after the fact.
Nor would they have had their rights violated under FISA as it stood before 9/11, which would have allowed eavesdropping on those Blackberries under these circumstances but would also have required the Feds to get a warrant within 72 hours after the fact. This protects individual rights under the 4th Amendment, but allows for emergencies such as happened in Mumbai. The issue here is that Bush Feds made a broad sweep of everyone's phone records after 9/11 with no attempt to obtain warrants as required by law. If the request had been legitimate, then they should have been able to obtain warrants from the FISA court which has approved such retroactive warrants something like 95% of the time. The Bush administration pulled a similar stunt with airline passenger data after 9/11, too, although unlike phone records, there was no specific law requiring warrants in order to obtain that data.
Nat Geo ran a recent TV show that makes the claim that Neanderthals actually invented language. The basis for the claim is that Neanderthals used weapons that required them to get up close to their prey in order to kill it which requires a large amount of cooperation between team members. Homo Sapiens, OTOH, were able to hunt from afar, which did not require similar cooperation. Language genes were then passed to HS from HN via inter-species mating.
Also, not all mules are sterile.
Vice President Elect Biden is correct. Article I does indeed define the role of the Vice President:
Article I. Section 2:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Article II merely describes how the Vice President is chosen and the conditions under which the VP may become President (later superseded by Amendment XXV).
So that's why Frodo survived.
As a UTK alumnus who gives money most years, I'm afraid that I am no longer willing to contribute. If the State of TN believes that UTK has enough money to waste chasing file sharers, then they clearly have enough money for teaching and research and don't need the scarce dollars in my own household budget.
Yes it is!
#1 - The CRA expansion in 1995, which put 30% more people on the housing market than there should have been, creating an incredible sellers' market in which housing, which previously had roughly paced inflation, spiraled up until people were looking at "house value" increases of over 200%.
The homeownership rate went from 64.2% in 1995 to 69.1% at the peak in 2005. That is barely an 7-8% increase, nowhere close to a 30% increase. The Community Reinvestment Act had little to do with the current mess. See BIS Working Paper #259 or this BW article. Most of the subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA and much of the foreclosure problem lies in the 'burbs where the CRA did not apply.
It isn't really that helpful to use real data to back up your arguments when talking with conservatives. They rarely understand why actual measurement of phenomena is important for making sound public policy.
It is obvious that you did not read that discussion. It was quickly pointed out that the report was completely bogus. Read his plan yourself. It is very good and quite comprehensive. Some highlights:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan
* Protect the Openness of the Internet: A key reason the Internet has been such a success is because it is the most open network in history. It needs to stay that way. Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
* Encourage Diversity in Media Ownership: Barack Obama believes that the nation's rules ensuring diversity of media ownership are critical to the public interest. Unfortunately, over the past several years, the Federal Communications Commission has promoted the concept of consolidation over diversity. As president, Obama will encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum.
* Reform the Patent System: A system that produces timely, high-quality patents is essential for global competitiveness in the 21st century. By improving predictability and clarity in our patent system, we will help foster an environment that encourages innovation. Giving the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) the resources to improve patent quality and opening up the patent process to citizen review will reduce the uncertainty and wasteful litigation that is currently a significant drag on innovation. As president, Barack Obama will ensure that our patent laws protect legitimate rights while not stifling innovation and collaboration.
* Safeguard our Right to Privacy: The open information platforms of the 21st century can also tempt institutions to violate the privacy of citizens. As president, Barack Obama will strengthen privacy protections for the digital age and will harness the power of technology to hold government and business accountable for violations of personal privacy.
* Invest in the Sciences: Barack Obama and Joe Biden support doubling federal funding for basic research over ten years, changing the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology. This will foster home-grown innovation, help ensure the competitiveness of US technology-based businesses, and ensure that 21st century jobs can and will grow in America.
* Restore Scientific Integrity to the White House: Good policy in Washington depends on sound advice from the nation's scientists and engineers and decision-making based on the needs of all Americans. Obama and Biden will restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically-valid evidence and not on the ideological predispositions of agency officials or political appointees.
You really don't think there's much tech-geek to car-geek crossover?
Cars and computers are protected by the same pagan Gods since both demand a blood sacrifice every time you have to stick your hands into them to replace a part.
I've rebuilt several VW engines, too. Once you've done your first, you should be able to rebuild the second one in the living room while the S.O. is out of town for the weekend. Just don't try it that way the first time.
Why wouldn't all the southern states just say "Ok, great, we'll come back to the Union and keep our slaves, just like you said we could." if that was "the cause of the war"?
For the simple reason that there were too many Union abolitionists demanding emancipation. The slave holding states were not going to be allowed to keep their slaves. This does not mean that everyone in the North was in favor of abolition or wanted to go to war to end it. The abolitionists had strong arguments among their factions over the best means to the end (compare the Quakers to John Brown) but overall, the abolitionists were certainly a very large and very vocal majority in the North. Harriet Beecher Stowe's book about the evils of slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, for example, sold 300,000 copies in the North before the Civil War and the Republican Party was formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act that would have allowed the expansion of slavery into Kansas. The abolition of slavery was a question of when and how, not a question of if.
The fact is, the winners write the history books.
There are too many Southern histories of the Civil War for that statement to have any meaning.
I would argue that it is completely revisionist to claim that the war was not about freeing the slaves. I suspect that this revisionism has its roots in modern Southern politicians and historians who are embarrassed by The Peculiar Institution and want to claim some other more noble sounding reason for starting the War of the Southern Rebellion. One has only to look at the reaction in the North to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry to see that a major confrontation was brewing over the issue although Lincoln, ever the politician, later tried to spin the cause of the war as "we were just trying to restrict it's growth." The usual reason given for why the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the border states that allowed slavery was that Lincoln could not afford to alienate them too much since they might also choose to secede.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1865
the judge concluded that the Lexicon did a little too much 'verbatim copying,'...
Perhaps the author of the lexicon needs to write something original and limit their verbatim copying.
Some of the tastiest vegans are the ones that like to drink beer and have private masseuses. Personally, though, I prefer the grass fed sort. I bought a whole tenderloin one time ($25/lb) that was the tastiest vegan I've ever tried.
We needed a new car ASAP last week. I'd detected a whiff of gas while driving our last car, a 1996 Nissan Sentra w/ manual trans, and had an appointment with the mechanic whose shop is four whole blocks away. Didn't make it. I was in the center turn lane of a secondary road waiting for the light to change when I heard a loud "POP" from under the hood. This was followed by grey/black smoke. I turned off the car, grabbed the keys and my pack, jumped out, and called 911. I left it in 1st gear, but given how flat the road was, I didn't pull the emergency brake (oops).
While waiting for the fire truck to appear, one of two things happened. Either the fire burned the insulation on just the right wires, or the car became possessed by some supernatural entity because the next thing I know, the starter solenoid has kicked in and the starter motor is running. I now have a car which is on fire and trying to drive itself down the road. The car crossed two lanes of traffic, climbed a curb, and finally hit a light pole, all the while dripping burning napalm-like stuff and shooting flames around the hood. A fire truck finally arrived and put it out. Fortunately no one was injured.
We bought a 2008 Honda Fit base model. U.S. EPA milage est is 28 city, 34 highway. We looked at both the Civic (26/34 MPG) and the Civic Hybrid (40/45 MPG). Based on what I was willing to spend (as little as possible), the Fit had the best benefit/cost ratio. The Fit was ~16K with taxes, delivery, etc. The Civic Hybrid was going to be around 23K. The hybrid has much better gas millage, but the Fit wins hands down in terms of usability. Long term costs are not hugely different for a Fit vs a Prius.
Perhaps only because humans have intervened to prevent a total catastrophe. For a while there, we were routinely killing and carefully disposing of the carcases of any flocks that had any signs of avian flu in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
Birds are not special. Many species that I would guess (IANAPaleontologist) are as closely related to dinosaurs as birds are also survived and thrived (think lizards, snakes, turtles, alligators, crocodiles, and Republicans).
I take it you've never heard of avian flu or West Nile virus?
Sigh. I'm not sure it is worth trying to point you toward some references where you might actually learn something since you clearly already consider yourself an expert, but I'll try. Here is a reasonably well written explanation of what is being discussed. The Wiki article is very incomplete, but you can try it too. Any standard freshman undergrad textbook (e.g. Samuelson) will cover this material as well.
1) By definition: Imports of goods (I) - Exports of goods (X) = trade imbalance. That trade imbalance (Since currently I > X) is then spent on purchases of U.S. assets.
2) My Ph.D. was in economics.
I think your complaint was already correctly handled when the GP said that U.S. imports are higher than U.S. exports. His point is that the difference is capital that has to flow back into purchases of U.S. assets (bonds, stocks, or DFI), not goods for which he has already accounted.
On point 2, you need to look at the distribution of debt rather than the average debt. Most of the real problems are concentrated in about 40% of those households in the lowest 60% of household incomes (pdf). This means that the majority of Americans do not, in fact, have much of a debt problem. 55% of Americans have no credit card debt even though the average household CC debt is about $8500. The problem is that much of the safety net that either government or corporations used to provide has been dumped off on individuals. Most bankruptcies are caused by either a sudden and serious health problem (we used to have corporate sponsored health insurance plans that carried over into retirement) or a divorce. What was Obama's line: "In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own."
On point 3, you need to add that much of our outflows of dollars comes back to us in the form of direct foreign investment. Foreign companies don't need to buy U.S. companies. They can also choose to build factories directly in the U.S. BMW, Honda, and Toyota all have built their own factories in S. Carolina, Ohio, and Kentucky rather than buying U.S. auto manufactures a la Daimler's purchase of Chrysler. These companies have provided a lot of good manufacturing jobs for American workers. At the same time, the U.S. has a very, very large manufacturing presence in other nations. I'm a U.S. citizen, but I also own stock in Honda, Toyota, and Daimler. Much of this is just a side effect of the long term trends toward globalization rather than something we really need to worry about long term since trade imbalances tend to be self-correcting over time.