The House does a lot of weird stuff, let's not confuse that with Republicans getting shit done, okay?
Defense-only sequestration exemption House bills passed in House by Republicans are unlikely to survive in the Senate. Just as budgets with medicare cuts are unlikely to be passed and put into effect by the Senate. Hey, look, the House just voted to repeal Obamacare!
Millions endeavor each day to keep it open and free. Since its early days as a government creation, it has migrated away from government regulation.
If ISPs aren't required to keep the internet open and free, then they can work in collaboration to charge for access, slow down or block access, and in short destroy the Internet as we know it. It's great if your idea of the Internet is a medium dominated by corporate interests. If so, than you can lap up this latest from lobbyist cum chairman McDowell, and sit back eagerly as he and others work to turn the Internet into a version of television. Corporations want profits and control of content, officials want funds and control of content, everybody wins (or at least those who matter).
We are a decade or so past where we can just say, let the engineers decide, and trust that some PHB isn't going to step in and make a bad policy. The importance of the Internet as alternative mass media is too vital to not protect through a little bit of regulation. McDowell tries to make his regulation = death to innovation FUD pitch, but net neutrality would spur innovation.
You can prioritize traffic in a neutral fashion, that's all many of us are asking, and that's all the regulating that is required.
reverts to the 30-year old FISA rules. How many times has FISA been amended? The argument that FISA was cumbersome hasn't held up in court, but you are trotting it out here? What about 2001, come on, that had to have meant something for FISA.
It does not matter in the least if the other end of the conversation is a US person on US soil, as long as they are not the target of such collection. For domestic international interception it does matter.
Such collection is always legal and allowable without a warrant if the collection occurs outside of the United States and the US person is not the target of such surveillance. Special and very extensive measures are undertaken to conceal the identity of US persons in such collection. The collection itself is unconstitutional. See lower court rulings, Taylor's or Gilman's. The NSA program was ruled illegal in both.
If someone could point out the warrantless surveillance program that is known to exist today, I'd appreciate it. There's plenty of evidence that it existed at one time, and the intent in the lawsuit is not to just stop a crime that may be ongoing, but to learn the extent of that crime, after the fact.
That's the "Intel Gap" we wanted to close. What you mean "We", Kemo Sabe?
Torture is only effective as a means of intimidation against the population, not as a tool for information. Other occupying powers have used torture in that way. It not only leads to largely worthless intelligence, it confirms suspicions, hardens resolve and leads to extremism, as can be seen in use of torture against Qtub, Zawahiri, et al.
I encourage you to read Suskind's book on torture, or at least this article. Or at least think beyond what you see on 24.
The reasons for us going to war weren't correct, but you can be sure that oil had very little to do with it.
The oil privatizing measures being forced upon Iraq by the US, for the benefit of outside access to the oil and to the detriment of a nationalized access, a historic in the region, indicates differently. This would not have happened without US involvement.
I'm perplexed by your logic....because oil prices have gone up, the Iraq war could not be about oil. Leaving aside the questionable case of the Iraq war being the cause of high gas prices in the US, high oil prices can be a benefit to the US, or at least those who have an interest in the oil conglomerates, i.e. the people behind the move into Iraq, so I would in no way say that this presumed result of the war is an argument against it being a war over oil.
And at any rate, the Australians and British were just involved in this as we were, but yet we are the ones that take all of the heat for it. You forgot Poland.
The way that technology becomes available is that it is first offered to the rich. The rich pay huge prices to get the latest and greatest technology, which of course signals how rich they are. For example, the Tesla Roadster. The company uses those high prices to pay back the R&D.
R&D costs, especially in technology, are largely socialized in the US, which leads the world in state supported research, of which the profitable results are handed over to private enterprise, for private profit.
There's nothing like the proper delivery of tons of bombs to stabilize it. Or democratize it.
Your version of history is fanciful, and you need only be aware of recent events to note a parallel...
This is all familiar. The US and the west bring an abomination to power, support it during the worst of times, and once it has filled its purpose, work belatedly and hypocritically for something like frontier justice. Well Pol Pot, he died relatively peacefully in his bed, no justice there, but otherwise the parallel holds.
The great powers, including the US, supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge! The US gave the Khmer Rouge millions, reportedly amounting to 85 million in direct aid, more in indirect aid.
Perhaps Microsoft now wants SCO to go bankrupt so that clean bill of health never comes.
Bankruptcy of SCO would not have that result, the lawsuit would continue until it reaches some resolution, say a negotiated surrender by a bankrupt SCO. SCO has already secured representation in this eventuality, but even without that, there would be counterclaims by IBM and Novell.
To sum it up, shelf collapse has been an ongoing natural change (we have been on a warming trend, with the 1930s and 40s seeing high global temperatures) quite possibly augmented by human activities.
Lemme tel you something. I'm an iconoclast. I push boundaries by accident. An iconoclast pushes boundaries, but not by accident.
But I have never been tazed by the police. This jackass could have prevented this EASILY. Yes, and if the cops had shot him, you could make the same bullshit statement. You are missing the point....but then, you don't even know what you are.
The U.N. orders its weapons inspectors to leave Iraq after the chief inspector reports Baghdad is not fully cooperating with them.
-- Sheila MacVicar, ABC World News This Morning, 12/16/98
To bolster its claim, Iraq let reporters see one laboratory U.N. inspectors once visited before they were kicked out four years ago.
--John McWethy, ABC World News Tonight, 8/12/02
Butler ordered his inspectors to evacuate Baghdad, in anticipation of a military attack, on Tuesday night--at a time when most members of the Security Council had yet to receive his report.
--Washington Post, 12/18/98
Since 1998, when U.N. inspectors were expelled, Iraq has almost certainly been working to build more chemical and biological weapons,
From the patent office rejection statement: "...patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains."
And while I'm at it: Israel. Bush is the first president to call for a completely autonomous, sovereign Palestine. Short of exterminating Israel as a whole, that's the most dramatic position in FAVOR of the Israel-opponents' cause any US president has ever taken. Don't confuse pronouncements with policy. Judging by his actions towards Israel and Palestine, a bantustan is more likely.
No, it's true. There have been even worse blunders.
"Got milk" was tried in Mexico, except that it meant "Are you lactating?"
My personal favorite is Purdue's slogan - "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" - the spanish translation actually meant "It takes a hard man to arouse a chicken"
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The House does a lot of weird stuff, let's not confuse that with Republicans getting shit done, okay?
Defense-only sequestration exemption House bills passed in House by Republicans are unlikely to survive in the Senate. Just as budgets with medicare cuts are unlikely to be passed and put into effect by the Senate. Hey, look, the House just voted to repeal Obamacare!
If ISPs aren't required to keep the internet open and free, then they can work in collaboration to charge for access, slow down or block access, and in short destroy the Internet as we know it. It's great if your idea of the Internet is a medium dominated by corporate interests. If so, than you can lap up this latest from lobbyist cum chairman McDowell, and sit back eagerly as he and others work to turn the Internet into a version of television. Corporations want profits and control of content, officials want funds and control of content, everybody wins (or at least those who matter).
We are a decade or so past where we can just say, let the engineers decide, and trust that some PHB isn't going to step in and make a bad policy. The importance of the Internet as alternative mass media is too vital to not protect through a little bit of regulation. McDowell tries to make his regulation = death to innovation FUD pitch, but net neutrality would spur innovation.
You can prioritize traffic in a neutral fashion, that's all many of us are asking, and that's all the regulating that is required.
Torture is only effective as a means of intimidation against the population, not as a tool for information. Other occupying powers have used torture in that way. It not only leads to largely worthless intelligence, it confirms suspicions, hardens resolve and leads to extremism, as can be seen in use of torture against Qtub, Zawahiri, et al.
I encourage you to read Suskind's book on torture, or at least this article. Or at least think beyond what you see on 24.
The reasons for us going to war weren't correct, but you can be sure that oil had very little to do with it.
The oil privatizing measures being forced upon Iraq by the US, for the benefit of outside access to the oil and to the detriment of a nationalized access, a historic in the region, indicates differently. This would not have happened without US involvement.
I'm perplexed by your logic....because oil prices have gone up, the Iraq war could not be about oil. Leaving aside the questionable case of the Iraq war being the cause of high gas prices in the US, high oil prices can be a benefit to the US, or at least those who have an interest in the oil conglomerates, i.e. the people behind the move into Iraq, so I would in no way say that this presumed result of the war is an argument against it being a war over oil.
And at any rate, the Australians and British were just involved in this as we were, but yet we are the ones that take all of the heat for it.
You forgot Poland.
The way that technology becomes available is that it is first offered to the rich. The rich pay huge prices to get the latest and greatest technology, which of course signals how rich they are. For example, the Tesla Roadster. The company uses those high prices to pay back the R&D.
R&D costs, especially in technology, are largely socialized in the US, which leads the world in state supported research, of which the profitable results are handed over to private enterprise, for private profit.
Yes, and Linus was irate because the gnome sequencing didn't allow for modifications.
There's nothing like the proper delivery of tons of bombs to stabilize it. Or democratize it.
Your version of history is fanciful, and you need only be aware of recent events to note a parallel...
This is all familiar. The US and the west bring an abomination to power, support it during the worst of times, and once it has filled its purpose, work belatedly and hypocritically for something like frontier justice. Well Pol Pot, he died relatively peacefully in his bed, no justice there, but otherwise the parallel holds.
The great powers, including the US, supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge! The US gave the Khmer Rouge millions, reportedly amounting to 85 million in direct aid, more in indirect aid.
Perhaps Microsoft now wants SCO to go bankrupt so that clean bill of health never comes.
Bankruptcy of SCO would not have that result, the lawsuit would continue until it reaches some resolution, say a negotiated surrender by a bankrupt SCO. SCO has already secured representation in this eventuality, but even without that, there would be counterclaims by IBM and Novell.
Here's an interesting paper (pdf) that goes into more details about ice shelves and their collapse and/or calving significance - http://www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca/pdf/asm04_Mueller.p df
To sum it up, shelf collapse has been an ongoing natural change (we have been on a warming trend, with the 1930s and 40s seeing high global temperatures) quite possibly augmented by human activities.
Lemme tel you something. I'm an iconoclast. I push boundaries by accident.
An iconoclast pushes boundaries, but not by accident.
But I have never been tazed by the police. This jackass could have prevented this EASILY.
Yes, and if the cops had shot him, you could make the same bullshit statement. You are missing the point....but then, you don't even know what you are.
Hurray, USA is better than the third world!
The NYT sat on the story for a year at the urging of the white house...so you should thank them, heartily, for acquiescing to a rogue executive.
So the last ones standing are AT&T and SBC. And they will merge very soon, so here we are again, with one monopoly dictating terms.
AT&T and SBC have already merged - happened in November.
I'm sure our esteemed leader will put it in proper perspective just like he did with CO2 levels.
"We expel methane all the time...well, Laura and I do"
SCO OpenServer!
gcc 3.3.x? Then pentium3.
More recent gcc (3.4.x) has explicit support for centrino, with cpu-type pentium-m
It's redundant, but could use repeating.
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From Fair
What a Difference Four Years Makes
Why U.N. inspectors left Iraq--then and now
The U.N. orders its weapons inspectors to leave Iraq after the chief inspector reports Baghdad is not fully cooperating with them.
-- Sheila MacVicar, ABC World News This Morning, 12/16/98
To bolster its claim, Iraq let reporters see one laboratory U.N. inspectors once visited before they were kicked out four years ago.
--John McWethy, ABC World News Tonight, 8/12/02
Butler ordered his inspectors to evacuate Baghdad, in anticipation of a military attack, on Tuesday night--at a time when most members of the Security Council had yet to receive his report.
--Washington Post, 12/18/98
Since 1998, when U.N. inspectors were expelled, Iraq has almost certainly been working to build more chemical and biological weapons,
--Washington Post editorial, 8/4/02
It's a combination of prior art and the patent being, well, obvious.
The patent was rejected based on prior art.
From the patent office rejection statement:
"...patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains."
And while I'm at it: Israel. Bush is the first president to call for a completely autonomous, sovereign Palestine. Short of exterminating Israel as a whole, that's the most dramatic position in FAVOR of the Israel-opponents' cause any US president has ever taken.
Don't confuse pronouncements with policy. Judging by his actions towards Israel and Palestine, a bantustan is more likely.
Nice trollery! Or do you just honestly misunderstand the intricacies of unix security?
Mod parent DOWN!!
Lucas also depended on Joseph Campbell for the appropriate mythic elements.
No, it's true. There have been even worse blunders.
"Got milk" was tried in Mexico, except that it meant "Are you lactating?"
My personal favorite is Purdue's slogan - "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" - the spanish translation actually meant "It takes a hard man to arouse a chicken"
I'm in Montana, you insensive clod!
6k feet up in the wilderness, in fact - look, there's a moose! Oh, I have electricity and a T1.
Nearest town (pop. 800) is 30 miles away. Has DSL access too.
So there!