Not it is not because this system was put in place by Bill Clinton; now if President Bush had signed the bill into law the USA would be an official police state.
It has been known about for a long time, thing has been in place since the mid-1990s. Heck the FBI even runs a site where you can ask them questions about it and produce a newsletter.
What is new is all the technical information and the advanced state the software is in.
The reason for all the orders in the past few years was because the people in Florida had problems with mechanical machines which caused laws to be passed telling the states to get rid of them if they wanted funding.
The problem with paper ballots is they are terrible for long ballots common in the US, and they never really worked. Paper ballots are prone to extra marks, wrong marks, etc. It was just that this was always accepted and it was known that a percentage of votes would be tossed because they could not be understood.
It could tell alot.
Most of the following is already public information: number of Navy Ships with nuclear reactors, other nuclear reactors used in non-ships, general number of nuclear missiles. Someone with nuclear knowledge could tell you how often you would need to refuel or replace the nuclear material. So a little math and you can tell if the Navy,assuming they are not storing the material, is receiving alot more material then they have a use for, and based on the amount you could make some assumtions on what they are doing with the additional material.
A quick search on Foxnews show they mention that it is about the US only a few times.
Also it does not make 1934,1998 or 2005(what ever of thoses 3 years) the hottest year as the OP says, it makes it the hottest year in recent recorded time, guess we better start a new topic about that.
Logically idea, however if you read most of the complaints here on slashdot and other progressive dominated sites the big worry is that manufacturers are placing code in the computers and changing votes. With that setup you have two places where that can happen.
Meanwhile back in the real world, the problems you had in Florida, and what caused all theses changes, was human based. Bad ballot design and people not following the instructions of the machines such as emptying the punched chat holders. Even the newest cash registers can get the printers easily messed up when people have to replace the ink/ribbons and paper, or when removing of a stray piece of paper that got in the system. You are not going to get any different people working at the poll booths, so beside a nicer user interface with hopfully some input checking, you are not really solving the problems that caused all this mess in the first place.
It would be of interest to see if any states are testing to see how hard it is to change the ink, paper and repairing paper jams.
So you have a problem with the first amendment and freedom of association!
What proof is there that he did anything with the Diebold products to change votes, that idea is just the wet dreams of various nut jobs.
BTW the main news article you saw about problems with the e-voting fiasco during the election were not caused by Diebold but by companies that had members of the Democrate party on thier boards. Spend a few mins on google and you can look that up.
This was not attempted whistle blowing, he did not follow the procedures and laws about how to whistle blow and then when they were all ignored go to the press as a last alternative. This is a person who did not like something and decide he wanted the popularity of talking to the press.
Embassies are considered to be the soil of the country.
Miliary bases are covered over seperate aggreements with the host country, usally called a SOFA. Most of them allow the military to have control over the people on the base and the military enforces laws similiar to the US, so if you robbed the base bank and if the military declined to prosecute, for instance you are a US contractor or local national, you would be turned over to the host country for prossecution.
From what I can understand from the article he was in Germany when the software(Kazaa) was installed and then was used to download the 4000+ songs and porn(how big of hard drive is this).
He then was transfered back to the US where he then plugged his computer back into the internet and started to automaticlly upload the files(I presume Kazaa works this way).
He is not in trouble for downloading the files it is for uploading the files.
Most beaches are free you do some places like this that are run by a city or county where they charge a fee.
When I lived in Florida it was mainly to charge some money from out of towners, if you had a local address you could get a free pass, if you left the area of the town(a few miles) you could find beaches that had free access. The benifit from the standpoint of visitors was the paid area had life guards, they were cleaned in the mornings(raking of sand), toilets, changing rooms w/showers and such.
For Germany it depends on how you define high speed.
Is is for what was West Germany, not sure about what was East Germany
Back when ISDN was the big thing, spend huge amounts on getting every house wired for that. You can go everywhere and get ISDN connections, low end at 64K high end at 128K.
Cable is primarily available in big cities, you do have some penatration in the subburbs but with most people in places that have a line of sight owning satellite dishes there is not alot of call outside of cities.
Now if you want DSL you really have to take your chances, if you are in a rich city and close to center part of town you can probably get DSL at 1000K, 2000K or 6000K(1000K with basic phone will cost around $60US, 6000K around $80US).
As for availabitity I live in a small village between two fairly large ones, and close to the town center, I can get 1000K speed and it is close to the max, other in towns 4 miles from me, and out toward farm land have no access; one of the large towns on in that direct is slowly getting DSL and should have total access by 2009. Place I previously lived in was right across the street from the street phone distribution switch the people on that side of the street had DSL my side of the street had ISDN. Friends in a different village have right 1 block from the town hall, they can get 6000K, 3 blocks over and most of the rest of the village you can only get 1000K.
There is no real mapping of where it is available, base on past performace the main phone company can give you a idea if the place you are moving into has access but if they don't have a recording of previous use you are out of luck. For instance I had the phone number of the place I live in now and before I went to take a look at it I went to the phone company and checked, they have a web site where you can enter a phone number and see what you can get, they said I could get a 2000K line, I checked with the old tenant and they said they had DSL of some speed. I get the place and signup, they come to hook up the DSL and find I can only get 1000K.
Yea it is rated funny but whats really funny about it is the truth.
The majority of people of people who believe that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 are not Rebuplicans. The number of people who believe that is now at a low. It's believe followed the release of the Michael Moore film Farhenheit 9/11 it increased as the film gained popularity dropped when the film left the theathers then regained popularity when the film was released on DVD and TV.
As for WMD they were found, however the large quantities and variety of types that almost all the worlds' countries believed he had, Iran said he didn't, were not found. So the real question is did he not have them and all the communications by Iraq scietists and military was fake and all the research and intel work by all the major countries in the world was just wrong or he had them and and hide them.
The idea with the terrorist dirty bomb would not be to get it to explode it would be to wrap the radioactive material around a conventional explosive get around helicopter height in a city with skyscapers and then explode it. The material would be embedded in the walls of the building or shatter glass and be enbedded in the floors and interior walls of the building; and possibly people.
Then based on the anthrax attacks it would require that the building be destroied. It would be the perfect terrorist attack, fiarly easiy to do provided you have the materials, and huge amount of destruction.
You can make the case all you want that with proper shielding and the low radioactivity of the materials would case harm to future users of the building but with the trial lawyers in the US would you as the owner of the building be willing to take that risk? If anyone in that that building gets any form of cancer you are going to paying millions in lawsuit protection even if the science says you had nothing to do with it.
The NYT article glances over the story and with alot off the information that has come out afterwards has come off as being wrong, BBC has a good article showing what happened and can easily be compared to what the NYT wrote.
The people who installed the equipment were permitted to speak by the NAS, with anything at that level you sign a away all rights to comment about it without approval and so far no one in on trial for speaking. Others people were given to Congress before and after it became public and we get the information from them.
Not sure what features you use, but have you tried winamp. With the various add-ins winamp can duplicate almost everything listed in the original post.
You also descibed communism, socialism and a few democratic/republic/capitalistic countries while your definition ignores a bunch of rulerships which have historicly been termed as various forms of fascism.
However it is alot better then most definition of fascism you see on slashdot, most of thoses say fasicism is identified by a rulership where the citizens love the country and attack communism.
This lawsuit was not about a program to listen to US citizens.
It was a program that tapped non-US suspected terrorists. Those suspected terrorists made phone calls to people in the US or someone in the US called them. Those phone calls were automatically record, and that is what this law suit and the complains are about. People also forget that the way this all came into the news was that the correct chains of command were informed(executive and legislative branches) and it came from that. BTW the program has been changed.
Also once it was identified that the person was a US citizen they were passed on to legal methods. There were no US citizen directly wiretapped under this program.
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Not it is not because this system was put in place by Bill Clinton; now if President Bush had signed the bill into law the USA would be an official police state.
It has been known about for a long time, thing has been in place since the mid-1990s. Heck the FBI even runs a site where you can ask them questions about it and produce a newsletter.
What is new is all the technical information and the advanced state the software is in.
The reason for all the orders in the past few years was because the people in Florida had problems with mechanical machines which caused laws to be passed telling the states to get rid of them if they wanted funding.
The problem with paper ballots is they are terrible for long ballots common in the US, and they never really worked. Paper ballots are prone to extra marks, wrong marks, etc. It was just that this was always accepted and it was known that a percentage of votes would be tossed because they could not be understood.
It could tell alot.
Most of the following is already public information: number of Navy Ships with nuclear reactors, other nuclear reactors used in non-ships, general number of nuclear missiles. Someone with nuclear knowledge could tell you how often you would need to refuel or replace the nuclear material. So a little math and you can tell if the Navy,assuming they are not storing the material, is receiving alot more material then they have a use for, and based on the amount you could make some assumtions on what they are doing with the additional material.
And Canada looses out yet again.
A quick search on Foxnews show they mention that it is about the US only a few times.
Also it does not make 1934,1998 or 2005(what ever of thoses 3 years) the hottest year as the OP says, it makes it the hottest year in recent recorded time, guess we better start a new topic about that.
Logically idea, however if you read most of the complaints here on slashdot and other progressive dominated sites the big worry is that manufacturers are placing code in the computers and changing votes. With that setup you have two places where that can happen.
Meanwhile back in the real world, the problems you had in Florida, and what caused all theses changes, was human based. Bad ballot design and people not following the instructions of the machines such as emptying the punched chat holders. Even the newest cash registers can get the printers easily messed up when people have to replace the ink/ribbons and paper, or when removing of a stray piece of paper that got in the system. You are not going to get any different people working at the poll booths, so beside a nicer user interface with hopfully some input checking, you are not really solving the problems that caused all this mess in the first place.
It would be of interest to see if any states are testing to see how hard it is to change the ink, paper and repairing paper jams.
So you have a problem with the first amendment and freedom of association!
What proof is there that he did anything with the Diebold products to change votes, that idea is just the wet dreams of various nut jobs.
BTW the main news article you saw about problems with the e-voting fiasco during the election were not caused by Diebold but by companies that had members of the Democrate party on thier boards. Spend a few mins on google and you can look that up.
This was not attempted whistle blowing, he did not follow the procedures and laws about how to whistle blow and then when they were all ignored go to the press as a last alternative. This is a person who did not like something and decide he wanted the popularity of talking to the press.
The correct term is preconsentual sex.
Who needs Al-Qaeda when we already have Reuters and the New York Times??
Embassies are considered to be the soil of the country.
Miliary bases are covered over seperate aggreements with the host country, usally called a SOFA. Most of them allow the military to have control over the people on the base and the military enforces laws similiar to the US, so if you robbed the base bank and if the military declined to prosecute, for instance you are a US contractor or local national, you would be turned over to the host country for prossecution.
From what I can understand from the article he was in Germany when the software(Kazaa) was installed and then was used to download the 4000+ songs and porn(how big of hard drive is this).
He then was transfered back to the US where he then plugged his computer back into the internet and started to automaticlly upload the files(I presume Kazaa works this way).
He is not in trouble for downloading the files it is for uploading the files.
Most beaches are free you do some places like this that are run by a city or county where they charge a fee.
When I lived in Florida it was mainly to charge some money from out of towners, if you had a local address you could get a free pass, if you left the area of the town(a few miles) you could find beaches that had free access. The benifit from the standpoint of visitors was the paid area had life guards, they were cleaned in the mornings(raking of sand), toilets, changing rooms w/showers and such.
For Germany it depends on how you define high speed.
Is is for what was West Germany, not sure about what was East Germany Back when ISDN was the big thing, spend huge amounts on getting every house wired for that. You can go everywhere and get ISDN connections, low end at 64K high end at 128K.
Cable is primarily available in big cities, you do have some penatration in the subburbs but with most people in places that have a line of sight owning satellite dishes there is not alot of call outside of cities.
Now if you want DSL you really have to take your chances, if you are in a rich city and close to center part of town you can probably get DSL at 1000K, 2000K or 6000K(1000K with basic phone will cost around $60US, 6000K around $80US).
As for availabitity I live in a small village between two fairly large ones, and close to the town center, I can get 1000K speed and it is close to the max, other in towns 4 miles from me, and out toward farm land have no access; one of the large towns on in that direct is slowly getting DSL and should have total access by 2009. Place I previously lived in was right across the street from the street phone distribution switch the people on that side of the street had DSL my side of the street had ISDN. Friends in a different village have right 1 block from the town hall, they can get 6000K, 3 blocks over and most of the rest of the village you can only get 1000K.
There is no real mapping of where it is available, base on past performace the main phone company can give you a idea if the place you are moving into has access but if they don't have a recording of previous use you are out of luck. For instance I had the phone number of the place I live in now and before I went to take a look at it I went to the phone company and checked, they have a web site where you can enter a phone number and see what you can get, they said I could get a 2000K line, I checked with the old tenant and they said they had DSL of some speed. I get the place and signup, they come to hook up the DSL and find I can only get 1000K.
And if you listen to what Mrs. Bill Clinton and other Democrats have said they did not read thoses reports.
Yea it is rated funny but whats really funny about it is the truth.
The majority of people of people who believe that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 are not Rebuplicans. The number of people who believe that is now at a low. It's believe followed the release of the Michael Moore film Farhenheit 9/11 it increased as the film gained popularity dropped when the film left the theathers then regained popularity when the film was released on DVD and TV.
As for WMD they were found, however the large quantities and variety of types that almost all the worlds' countries believed he had, Iran said he didn't, were not found. So the real question is did he not have them and all the communications by Iraq scietists and military was fake and all the research and intel work by all the major countries in the world was just wrong or he had them and and hide them.
Not erasers ammonia.
Any of the large squid are filled with ammonia, scientist thinks it is there to help them float.
The idea with the terrorist dirty bomb would not be to get it to explode it would be to wrap the radioactive material around a conventional explosive get around helicopter height in a city with skyscapers and then explode it. The material would be embedded in the walls of the building or shatter glass and be enbedded in the floors and interior walls of the building; and possibly people.
Then based on the anthrax attacks it would require that the building be destroied. It would be the perfect terrorist attack, fiarly easiy to do provided you have the materials, and huge amount of destruction.
You can make the case all you want that with proper shielding and the low radioactivity of the materials would case harm to future users of the building but with the trial lawyers in the US would you as the owner of the building be willing to take that risk? If anyone in that that building gets any form of cancer you are going to paying millions in lawsuit protection even if the science says you had nothing to do with it.
From what someone else said the size of the decompress program has to be included into the overall size of the compressed data.
The NYT article glances over the story and with alot off the information that has come out afterwards has come off as being wrong, BBC has a good article showing what happened and can easily be compared to what the NYT wrote.
The people who installed the equipment were permitted to speak by the NAS, with anything at that level you sign a away all rights to comment about it without approval and so far no one in on trial for speaking. Others people were given to Congress before and after it became public and we get the information from them.
Not sure what features you use, but have you tried winamp. With the various add-ins winamp can duplicate almost everything listed in the original post.
You also descibed communism, socialism and a few democratic/republic/capitalistic countries while your definition ignores a bunch of rulerships which have historicly been termed as various forms of fascism.
However it is alot better then most definition of fascism you see on slashdot, most of thoses say fasicism is identified by a rulership where the citizens love the country and attack communism.
Since most of what we know came from from the administration based on your thinking how do you even know if the program existed?
This lawsuit was not about a program to listen to US citizens.
It was a program that tapped non-US suspected terrorists. Those suspected terrorists made phone calls to people in the US or someone in the US called them. Those phone calls were automatically record, and that is what this law suit and the complains are about. People also forget that the way this all came into the news was that the correct chains of command were informed(executive and legislative branches) and it came from that. BTW the program has been changed.
Also once it was identified that the person was a US citizen they were passed on to legal methods. There were no US citizen directly wiretapped under this program.