I ride a scooter and am constantly seeing people turning right without stopping, speeding up to make the yellow, and otherwise going about their very important lives. There are laws to stop them from shortening the yellow interval to increase revenue. If you can't observe the posted laws, you shouldn't be on the road.
The 5 words which I used in my first post pointed to the hypocrisy present in the prosecutions. I'm sorry that I did not elucidate clearly to prevent any possible misunderstanding. I'm really surprised that you were able to take any other implication from that. What exactly, did you think the implication was?
It is directly related. The Plame incident was a deliberate "leak" to expose a CIA operative who had been supposedly effective in her mission. We will never know how many of her operatives were killed because of the Bush administrations treasonous activity. Yes treasonous. Bush the first signed a law which made it treason to out an operative of the CIA.
I'm not saying that the NSA employee should not be prosecuted. He should be. This administration, instead of "looking forward", should be investigating the malfeasance of the previous administration and implement prosecutions for violations of the law when applicable.
Last I checked, NO ONE in the United States is above the law.
Federal government employees released information on Valerie Plame which decimated on-going operations. That pretty much has everything to do with busting a federal employee for releasing data. The main difference is the guy at the NSA is a lowly underling, and those involved in the Valerie Plame incident were in the executive branch, or acting on their behalf.
They don't seem to be able to transcribe Google Voice messages very well, and they are in English. I am, however, amazed that they can transcribe voice messages at all.
Ok, so they weren't called TSA, but I went through metal detectors, had to turn my laptop on, etc. As far as box cutters... from a USA Today Article.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-11-11-box-cutters.htm>
Pre-9/11 rules barred box cutters
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Airlines failed to enforce existing security guidelines on Sept. 11 that required airport screeners to confiscate box cutters from passengers, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Government rules did not specifically bar the objects before last year's the attacks, but the airlines were in charge of security then, with the Federal Aviation Administration overseeing their performance. The airlines issued a manual in 1994 that listed for screeners items passengers could not carry past airport checkpoints.
The AP obtained a copy of the document, which included box cutters such as those purportedly used by the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers.....
All-in-all, what happened on 9/11 was an epic fail on many, many levels of government security. Now, because of the governments failures, anyone who flies is subject to ridiculous regulations which will never stop anyone but the most stupid perpetrator. Have they even started screening the baggage and freight in the belly of the flights??? No? Didn't think so, but, get ready to pose nekkid for the TSA examiner.
I'm right there with you. Unless it is an overseas trip, I will not set foot in an airport. If the TSA had been doing their job on 9/11 all this airplane crap would have never happened. If TSA had done their job when a person with no luggage, no passport, paid for ticket with cash, etc., was allowed to board a flight, there would have been no Christmas bomber.
So true about the corporatists. The corporation can do no wrong. Look at the suicide gene which has been developed in many food crops developed by Monsanto and other seed giants. "...Through natural pollination, their crop may now become partially pollinated by Monsanto's GM corn through no fault of their own. Now they are selling GM food without their knowledge. Furthermore, the crop seed that they may be holding bad to plant for next years crop may be completely sterile, which would have a devastating effect on the following years crop for that small farmer...."ahref=http://thegldc.com/blog/tag/monsanto/rel=url2html-26299http://thegldc.com/blog/tag/monsanto/>
Corporations like Monsanto are suing small farmers all over: "The odds are clearly stacked against the farmer: Monsanto has an annual budget of $10 million dollars and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers. The largest recorded judgment made thus far in favor of Monsanto as a result of a farmer lawsuit is $3,052,800.00. Total recorded judgments granted to Monsanto for lawsuits amount to $15,253,602.82. Farmers have paid a mean of $412,259.54 for cases with recorded judgments".ahref=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmersrel=url2html-26299http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmers>
Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag and GMO has crossed over into non-gmo strains.
People can go through door 1 into small enclosed hallway with door 2 at other end. If someone enters through door 1 without proper approval, door 1 automatically locks, door 2 remains locked, klaxons and bright red flashing lights go off, a trap door in the floor opens, and the perpetrator drops into a tank of hungry piranhas and there is no more problem.... Well, maybe no trap door with piranhas, but security violator securely detained until proper security arrives to take the perp into custody, oh and they guard that didn't stop the perp in the first place is immediately fired or arrested for endangering mothers, god, and country.
Really though, in 2008, there were 13,000+ deaths directly related to or caused by drunk driving. Why is this not a national priority???
Naw - had a cell phone for years - never have liked Verizon. They are probably one of the most expensive around. I sell Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and more. We have lots of people coming in dumping Verizon. Around here the main complaint is coverage and dropped calls. Believe it or not, T-Mobile has some of the best coverage in the area.
Who, in their right mind, would want to read anything Rupert Murdoch publishes?? IMHO, the world would be a far better place if Rupert wasn't in the nuz business.
I was working for a small aerospace startup. We had a project to test molecular beam epitaxy on a project to fly on the shuttle. I built most of their PC,s, ran the network, provided support, etc. Our platform, at the time, was the 486 processor. This new-fangled processor the 586, came out, and the lil PhD that did the orbital dynamics of the project just had to have one. Having been the victim of several arrows in the back, I had a rather adamant aversion to using version 1.0 of anything. I argued, and won, we would not use the 586 yet.
Welllllll, they snuck one past me as a piece of "test" equipment.
The project was placed on the shuttle, and when it came time to fly, it was lifted from the payload bay by the arm, and activated. It could not lock guidance. It would only wobble. Long story short, after several attempts, re-uploading flight software, and a second flight on the shuttle. The project was scrapped.
Several weeks after the second flight, I made sure that the articles about the Intel 586 floating point error were in everyones' in-box. About two years later, the company went under. Doubt it was because of the problem with the 586.... it was more because the company was a threat to the traditional way NASA does business.
I have read several reliable sources that when T-Bone sought leases to place his wind turbines, buried in the agreement was a clause that granted him all surface and subsurface water rights and all mineral rights which weren't already under contract. He's now facing a pretty good sized class action suit against him. This is one of the reasons he dumped all of the turbines he was going to put up.
Oh yea, also the lack of any planning for an infrastructure to distribute the power generated by the wind farm.
I think all this talk is just that - talk. We could make the turbines here with $20.00+ labor, or in China with $2.50/day labor. Hell, even Harley Davidson, the stalwart of "Built in 'Merica", is moving it's manufacturing to China.
We ain't gonna win. We're owned by the WTO and don't even know it.
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Wanna bet that nothing happens 'cause Google was mapping WIFI for the NSA?
And this gets me modded "troll" - it is a very scary world we are living in.
I ride a scooter and am constantly seeing people turning right without stopping, speeding up to make the yellow, and otherwise going about their very important lives. There are laws to stop them from shortening the yellow interval to increase revenue. If you can't observe the posted laws, you shouldn't be on the road.
If people wouldn't speed or run red lights, there wouldn't be any speed or red light cameras. I have no pity for those who get caught.
Whatever you think. Sure doesn't matter to me.
The 5 words which I used in my first post pointed to the hypocrisy present in the prosecutions. I'm sorry that I did not elucidate clearly to prevent any possible misunderstanding. I'm really surprised that you were able to take any other implication from that. What exactly, did you think the implication was?
Not saying two wrongs make a right. Saying that both should be pursued to the fullest extent of the law.
It is directly related. The Plame incident was a deliberate "leak" to expose a CIA operative who had been supposedly effective in her mission. We will never know how many of her operatives were killed because of the Bush administrations treasonous activity. Yes treasonous. Bush the first signed a law which made it treason to out an operative of the CIA.
I'm not saying that the NSA employee should not be prosecuted. He should be. This administration, instead of "looking forward", should be investigating the malfeasance of the previous administration and implement prosecutions for violations of the law when applicable.
Last I checked, NO ONE in the United States is above the law.
Federal government employees released information on Valerie Plame which decimated on-going operations. That pretty much has everything to do with busting a federal employee for releasing data. The main difference is the guy at the NSA is a lowly underling, and those involved in the Valerie Plame incident were in the executive branch, or acting on their behalf.
Can anyone say Valerie Plame?
The dumbing of America continues. I'm actually ashamed of being a 4th generation Texas.
They don't seem to be able to transcribe Google Voice messages very well, and they are in English. I am, however, amazed that they can transcribe voice messages at all.
Ok, so they weren't called TSA, but I went through metal detectors, had to turn my laptop on, etc. As far as box cutters... from a USA Today Article.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-11-11-box-cutters.htm>
Pre-9/11 rules barred box cutters
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Airlines failed to enforce existing security guidelines on Sept. 11 that required airport screeners to confiscate box cutters from passengers, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Government rules did not specifically bar the objects before last year's the attacks, but the airlines were in charge of security then, with the Federal Aviation Administration overseeing their performance. The airlines issued a manual in 1994 that listed for screeners items passengers could not carry past airport checkpoints.
The AP obtained a copy of the document, which included box cutters such as those purportedly used by the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers.....
All-in-all, what happened on 9/11 was an epic fail on many, many levels of government security. Now, because of the governments failures, anyone who flies is subject to ridiculous regulations which will never stop anyone but the most stupid perpetrator. Have they even started screening the baggage and freight in the belly of the flights??? No? Didn't think so, but, get ready to pose nekkid for the TSA examiner.
I'm right there with you. Unless it is an overseas trip, I will not set foot in an airport. If the TSA had been doing their job on 9/11 all this airplane crap would have never happened. If TSA had done their job when a person with no luggage, no passport, paid for ticket with cash, etc., was allowed to board a flight, there would have been no Christmas bomber.
This is all a very sick, sad joke.
If you were to sell powdered sugar to an undercover agent as "cocaine", you would be charged with the sale of cocaine. Period. End of story.
This employee should be charged with terrorism. Put yourself in the victims shoes. I'm sure that she was fully terrorized.
So true about the corporatists. The corporation can do no wrong. Look at the suicide gene which has been developed in many food crops developed by Monsanto and other seed giants. "...Through natural pollination, their crop may now become partially pollinated by Monsanto's GM corn through no fault of their own. Now they are selling GM food without their knowledge. Furthermore, the crop seed that they may be holding bad to plant for next years crop may be completely sterile, which would have a devastating effect on the following years crop for that small farmer...." ahref=http://thegldc.com/blog/tag/monsanto/rel=url2html-26299http://thegldc.com/blog/tag/monsanto/>
Corporations like Monsanto are suing small farmers all over: "The odds are clearly stacked against the farmer: Monsanto has an annual budget of $10 million dollars and a staff of 75 devoted solely to investigating and prosecuting farmers. The largest recorded judgment made thus far in favor of Monsanto as a result of a farmer lawsuit is $3,052,800.00. Total recorded judgments granted to Monsanto for lawsuits amount to $15,253,602.82. Farmers have paid a mean of $412,259.54 for cases with recorded judgments". ahref=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmersrel=url2html-26299http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto's_Legal_Battles_against_Farmers>
Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag and GMO has crossed over into non-gmo strains.
People can go through door 1 into small enclosed hallway with door 2 at other end. If someone enters through door 1 without proper approval, door 1 automatically locks, door 2 remains locked, klaxons and bright red flashing lights go off, a trap door in the floor opens, and the perpetrator drops into a tank of hungry piranhas and there is no more problem.... Well, maybe no trap door with piranhas, but security violator securely detained until proper security arrives to take the perp into custody, oh and they guard that didn't stop the perp in the first place is immediately fired or arrested for endangering mothers, god, and country. Really though, in 2008, there were 13,000+ deaths directly related to or caused by drunk driving. Why is this not a national priority???
Naw - had a cell phone for years - never have liked Verizon. They are probably one of the most expensive around. I sell Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and more. We have lots of people coming in dumping Verizon. Around here the main complaint is coverage and dropped calls. Believe it or not, T-Mobile has some of the best coverage in the area.
Not gonna do it.
Who, in their right mind, would want to read anything Rupert Murdoch publishes?? IMHO, the world would be a far better place if Rupert wasn't in the nuz business.
Welllllll, they snuck one past me as a piece of "test" equipment.
The project was placed on the shuttle, and when it came time to fly, it was lifted from the payload bay by the arm, and activated. It could not lock guidance. It would only wobble. Long story short, after several attempts, re-uploading flight software, and a second flight on the shuttle. The project was scrapped.
Several weeks after the second flight, I made sure that the articles about the Intel 586 floating point error were in everyones' in-box. About two years later, the company went under. Doubt it was because of the problem with the 586.... it was more because the company was a threat to the traditional way NASA does business.
Oh yea, also the lack of any planning for an infrastructure to distribute the power generated by the wind farm.
I think all this talk is just that - talk. We could make the turbines here with $20.00+ labor, or in China with $2.50/day labor. Hell, even Harley Davidson, the stalwart of "Built in 'Merica", is moving it's manufacturing to China.
We ain't gonna win. We're owned by the WTO and don't even know it.
Watchout /. people are saying disparaging things about this nut case here!
Also on the new MyTouch from T-Mobile. Android will be showing up all over the place soon.