I remember my first and last experience at CommyUSA as I named it -- some bastard at the door asking to check my bag against my receipt. I asked him if he had a reasonably articulable suspicion that I was shoplifting. He said no. So I said "no you can't check my bag."
Never went back. Glad they died. This same policy is why I WorstBuy has lost thousands of dollars in sales it could have made to me, and I learned a little patience to boot in waiting for my NewEgg packages.
Screwdrivers have tons of legitimate uses and a few "off label" illegitimate ones, like stabbing somebody. Stingray type devices have one purpose only, and that is to enable someone to perform a man in the middle attack and enable spying.
Obama's appointment of this guy to a committee clearly dealing with domestic surveillance makes sense -- evil CEO for an evil Federal program. In that light, it is a big deal because it highlights one of the small details in the many that foreshadow our future, one where the Feds are essentially concerned only with the well being of a certain subset of the business world (usually the largest corps and banks, but lets not leave out those who make their weapons and equipment), extreme pride in the military and the glorification of those who participate in military action, is repressive toward common people in general, and absolutely brutal to any who would challenge it.
You can see these things playing out: more people in prison than any other nation (per capita and absolute basis), militarization of the police force, rampant domestic surveillance, due process free detention, due process free execution, harsh sentences for the minor crimes of some, ridiculously light treatment for the serious crimes of others (*), privatizing profits and socializing losses (bailouts), and so forth. It is pretty obvious that the greatest threat we face to the liberties our country was founded on, comes from the US Federal Government as controlled by Republicans and Democrats with the aid of enabling creeps like Brown. And rather than suffer the rightful indignation their actions deserve, Brown(nosers) get promoted to presidential committees -- but of course they do, considering what the Feds are.
(*) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213 Wow. So the executives who spent a decade laundering billions of dollars [for terrorists and drug kingpins] will have to partially defer their bonuses during the five-year deferred prosecution agreement? Are you fucking kidding me? That's the punishment? The government's negotiators couldn't hold firm on forcing HSBC officials to completely wait to receive their ill-gotten bonuses? They had to settle on making them "partially" wait?... What was the Justice Department's opening offer -- asking executives to restrict their Caribbean vacation time to nine weeks a year?
Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the picture has changed; in other words, it can detect motion.
The program is written in C and is made for the Linux operating system, (using the video4linux interface). Motion is a command line based tool whose output can be either jpeg, ppm fies or mpeg video sequences. Motion is strictly command line driven and can run as a daemon with a rather small footprint
We are positioned near a local river & lake for cooling needs
You do realize that aquatic organisms are affected by heat? Warming rivers and lakes with your waste heat is not ecofriendly. It may be cheap because you can shift the cost to the commons, but do not confuse cheap with green.
The most common cause is reduced oxygen in the water, which in turn may be due to factors such as drought, algae bloom, overpopulation, or a sustained increase in water temperature.
The warmer the water, the less oxygen it can hold.
Abstract: Better understanding the nature, origin and popularity of varying levels of popular religion versus secularism, and their impact upon socioeconomic conditions and vice versa, requires a cross national comparison of the competing factors in populations where opinions are freely chosen. Utilizing 25 indicators, the uniquely extensive Successful Societies Scale reveals that population diversity and immigration correlate weakly with 1st world socioeconomic conditions, and high levels of income disparity, popular religiosity as measured by differing levels of belief and activity, and rejection of evolutionary science correlate strongly negatively with improving conditions. The historically unprecedented socioeconomic security that results from low levels of progressive government policies appear to suppress popular religiosity and creationist opinion, conservative religious ideology apparently contributes to societal dysfunction, and religious prosociality and charity are less effective at improving societal conditions than are secular government programs. The antagonistic relationship between better socioeconomic conditions and intense popular faith may prevent the existence of nations that combine the two factors. The nonuniversality of strong religious devotion, and the ease with which large populations abandon serious theism when conditions are sufficiently benign, refute hypotheses that religious belief and practice are the normal, deeply set human mental state, whether they are superficial or natural in nature. Instead popular religion is usually a superficial and flexible psychological mechanism for coping with the high levels of stress and anxiety produced by sufficiently dysfunctional social and especially economic environments. Popular nontheism is a similarly casual response to superior conditions
You're rephrasing things incorrectly for atheism and agnosticism.
Atheism: "I believe, based on a lack of evidence, that gods do not exist."
In fact, this is common even among the religious, most of whom would be perfectly willing to affirm their non-belief in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, etc. and for the same reason -- lack of evidence. Basically, religious people and atheists share a lot of characteristics in this regard, it's just that atheists believe in one less god than the religious people do (or a few dozen if the religious person is polytheist).
Secondly, an atheist would become a theist immediately with proof. It's essentially a proof issue for an extraordinary claim and it is far more reasonable to not believe crazy shit until it's proven true.
Agnosticism: "People are not capable of knowing whether gods exist, thus I take no position on whether they do or don't."
Your characterization of an agnostic is basically that of an atheist. If you believe you are an agnostic based on that definition, sorry to break it to you, but you are an atheist.
I thought the first paragraph was interesting. Then I thought the second paragraph sounded foilhatty. Then I googled "rfid tires" and the first article is almost a decade old:
Michelin hopes manufacturers will pay a little more for tires with RFID transponders, because it makes the tires easier to track. The microchip stores the tire's unique ID, which can be associated with the vehicle identification number.
For the moment, the technology will be used solely to track tire usage in Moto2 and Moto3. Tiny RFID chips will be built into the official Dunlop tires during the manufacturing process, each programmed with a unique identifying code. Sensors in pit lane (shown in the photo here on the Dunlop website) will monitor when each tire leaves pit lane, and when they return. Using the database which maps which tires have been allocated to which riders, Dunlop can keep precise track of which tires have been used when, and for how long.
Anyway, it still feels a bit on the hatter side to think the government is currently monitoring who has what tires, but it is definitely something I could see it becoming interested in and something that could actually be done.
I also took some of these other classes -- keyboarding for example as well as the electrical class which was mostly household wiring but we did get to do some stuff with soldering and resistors and such. During the summer between my junior and senior year, I was allowed to have a key to the dark room so I ended up doing a lot of photography for a while because I could use it any time I wanted to (completely unsupervised) and then used my electives senior year for photography classes. That summer, I dissolved the skin on my fingertips to painful thinness from touching the stop bath (mild acetic acid solution) too much. I had a blast doing it and my fingertips recovered when I went to using tongs.
Anyway, the things people are saying about school now make me think I had a really good HS education.
I think the the HTML reference comes from several links deep, not specifically, but topically:
Of the two classes described, neither teaches computer science. The first teaches keyboarding and use of Microsoft applications, while the second teaches website design. While the website design course claims to teach the use of "HTML programming code," this is a misuse of the term, as HTML is a markup language rather than a programming language and requires no understanding of algorithms or program design.
Teachers often refuse to teach real CS because more often than not they don't understand it. Instead, they end up teaching word processing and website construction, while calling it CS.
So essentially he's saying that US CS curriculum is so bad, students can't even do html, which actually isn't programming anyway, it's just a kind of text formatting.
Hmmm, I'm 44 so it was a while ago I was in HS. I recall there were three tracks when I went: vocational (shop, electricity, etc.,easy math, easy English, basic science, etc.), business (typing and whatever else you might study if your goal was to be a receptionist -- easy classes, essentially shop for girls (we were more sexist then)), or college track (various math classes, literature, foreign language, psychology, etc.).
Now, granting that schools can be different, and maybe not all schools in the 80s did this, I would be really surprised if this has all gone away. I chose to not have kids so I wouldn't know from personal experience, but I could have sworn I heard someone bragging about how well their sprog did in AP something or other recently. The existence of an AP curriculum suggests to me that students are still tiered.
People are dying in wars because of reliance on these devices. He needs to go to jail...or the gas chamber.
This guy is small potatoes compared to real war criminals like Cheney, GWB, Obama, etc. And he obviously didn't study Haliburton's business methods in any depth.
As a long time Linux user, I agree wholeheartedly.... For my main work computer (at home), I don't want drama, and I'm not intent on making any ideological points.
This is totally valid after you've put in your dues. Let's face it though, even the most noob friendly distro occasionally requires mucking around with the command line and some other basic knowledge. For example, if you need to enable extended attributes in your fstab file, you'll get that done in no time flat because you know what fstab is, you know where to find it, and you know how to edit it either locally or by sshing in from another machine and using nano or vi or X forwarding a graphical text editor. These types of simple skills and many others are ones you built up years ago and rely on now probably without even noticing, which is why a fancy distro seems so foolproof. Secondly, when you run into a command you need to learn, you know how to go about learning what you need to know. These things seem obvious and easy once you "get it" but before you get it, they're major roadblocks.
I'm using Fedora 17 on my desktop right now and subjectively, it feels totally easy -- like everything works out of the box -- except to install the nVidia drivers directly from nVidia there's this whole process involving changing runlevels and running nVidia's install script (even "./" can be a major learning hurdle for a newbie). Or getting multimedia to run -- it isn't hard if you know what you're looking for. So to me, Fedora 17 feels brain dead easy because I only had to do a few things manually, and I compare that to first time I tried to get X going on a 486DX (vague recollection of having to open my computer to figure out what stuff was in there so I could get it configured). Anyway, I install a modern distro and I'm blown away. Just boot up from a USB stick and wow -- "it just works." In reality, that is comparatively true, but not actually totally true.
So, I can see some value in this guy who is just starting out, learning to do things the hard way. Eventually he'll get sick of the hard way like everyone does, but by that time, the noob distros he'll be using will feel totally easy because he won't even notice the one or two things he needs to do manually that don't automagically come out right.
I watched it. All I learned is that there would anarchy without the IRS. They of course failed to mention that for every dollar spent on doing something useful for the country, three or four get spent on cronies or war.
Iraq: Iraq ended because the Iraqi government refused to extend the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) which was set to expire in December 2011 (date ring a bell?). Obama tried in the time period before SOFA expired to get the Iraqis to extend it. That was politically impossible for the Iraqi government partly as a result of war crimes confirmed by the information Bradley Manning released through Wikileaks. That's who you should thank for ending Iraq because if Obama had had his way, we'd still be there. But when Democrats get a hold of the FACT that what Obama did was fail to extend the war, they say "Iraq over: Check!" As if Obama is some peacenik. By that same logic, you should be lauding as a hero any person who intends to shoot a bunch of people on campus, but gets arrested before he can go on a rampage. Obviously, the guy is a humanitarian -- look at how many people he saved by failing to do what he wanted to. THAT is exactly the logic used to commend Obama on the end of the Iraq war.
As for the second war -- which was that? Afghanistan is still going (and remember, Obama tripled the troops there, GWB's max was about 35k, we're still at around 65K troops, so still almost double) and Libya is spilling over into Mali. Of course Libya is a thing in itself -- even GWB had congressional approval for the Iraq debacle, but Libya was prosecuted without that token congressional acknowledgment required by the War Powers Act (a law designed in the post Viet Nam error to prevent future Viet Nams) because our constitution says that wars are not declared by the president, but by congress. So next time we have a Dick Cheney type in the office and he decides he's going to war with anyone and everyone, Congress be damned, remember to send Obama a "thank you" note.
And how is that even after Iraq ended, Obama can't figure out how to spend less on the offense budget than GWB did in his worst (i.e., highest spending) year?
Obama is up 200 billion over GWB in military spending and he cries big sad tears about the sequester which is what, 80B? Even if the entire sequester came out of the military budget, we'd still be paying 120B more than we were when the Iraq war that Obama failed to extend, was hot.
Wise up and quit being an apologist for the worst president ever -- which is an amazing feat considering the depths GWB plumbed.
Worse than Nixon according to the attorney who worked for the NY Times during the Nixon administration and was involved in the decision to publish the Pentagon Papers.
Well, he did side with (5/4) majority that murders under the age of 18 can't face life in prison without parole which in the ultra-conservative political climate we live in (I'm including the DNC in this characterization) coupled with the public's thirst for ever harsher prison sentences, it seems enough to call him liberalish. But yeah, I get your point. And agree with it.
There is no evidence Al Alwaki gave aid or comfort. None at all. There is conjecture and accusation, but only a total idiot would consider that to be "evidence". Here's an example:
I accuse you of being a child molester.
There. You are a child molester because I accused you of it. QED.
I'm pretty liberal, voted for Jill Stein and all that. I would love to see a constitutional amendment that authorizes unilateral secession by the states because the Federal government is corrupt beyond repair and evil beyond reckoning. Yeah -- some states in the South would go Christian Taliban or whatever. Let 'em. They just suck up my tax dollars anyway.
Nor was Al Alwaki, accused of exercising his free speech rights in ways the Feds didn't like. Or his son, accused of being his son. They're dead at the hands of the Feds.
It's funny -- there are all kinds of incentives for big business to move jobs offshore, or import cheap labor, but when the general public makes use of the same process, they complain. And they got 3 judges on their side, including a "liberal" judge (Ginsburg) and a lieralish judge (Kenedy) and of course Scalia. Expect a legislative solution to be purchased soon so that this "egregious" decision can be fixed and we can go back to falling wages and increasing corporate profits.
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I remember my first and last experience at CommyUSA as I named it -- some bastard at the door asking to check my bag against my receipt. I asked him if he had a reasonably articulable suspicion that I was shoplifting. He said no. So I said "no you can't check my bag."
Never went back. Glad they died. This same policy is why I WorstBuy has lost thousands of dollars in sales it could have made to me, and I learned a little patience to boot in waiting for my NewEgg packages.
What the hell is a popup museum. It could have been explained in the summary.
Yep -- just keep ignoring things and pretending nothing is going on. Be sure to insult anyone who points out the obvious.
Screwdrivers have tons of legitimate uses and a few "off label" illegitimate ones, like stabbing somebody. Stingray type devices have one purpose only, and that is to enable someone to perform a man in the middle attack and enable spying.
Obama's appointment of this guy to a committee clearly dealing with domestic surveillance makes sense -- evil CEO for an evil Federal program. In that light, it is a big deal because it highlights one of the small details in the many that foreshadow our future, one where the Feds are essentially concerned only with the well being of a certain subset of the business world (usually the largest corps and banks, but lets not leave out those who make their weapons and equipment), extreme pride in the military and the glorification of those who participate in military action, is repressive toward common people in general, and absolutely brutal to any who would challenge it.
You can see these things playing out: more people in prison than any other nation (per capita and absolute basis), militarization of the police force, rampant domestic surveillance, due process free detention, due process free execution, harsh sentences for the minor crimes of some, ridiculously light treatment for the serious crimes of others (*), privatizing profits and socializing losses (bailouts), and so forth. It is pretty obvious that the greatest threat we face to the liberties our country was founded on, comes from the US Federal Government as controlled by Republicans and Democrats with the aid of enabling creeps like Brown. And rather than suffer the rightful indignation their actions deserve, Brown(nosers) get promoted to presidential committees -- but of course they do, considering what the Feds are.
(*) http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213 ... What was the Justice Department's opening offer -- asking executives to restrict their Caribbean vacation time to nine weeks a year?
Wow. So the executives who spent a decade laundering billions of dollars [for terrorists and drug kingpins] will have to partially defer their bonuses during the five-year deferred prosecution agreement? Are you fucking kidding me? That's the punishment? The government's negotiators couldn't hold firm on forcing HSBC officials to completely wait to receive their ill-gotten bonuses? They had to settle on making them "partially" wait?
There's an app for that, scriptable too:
Motion: http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
Features: Features: http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionFeatureList
You do realize that aquatic organisms are affected by heat? Warming rivers and lakes with your waste heat is not ecofriendly. It may be cheap because you can shift the cost to the commons, but do not confuse cheap with green.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_kill
The warmer the water, the less oxygen it can hold.
http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP07398441_c.pdf
Table of data of PDF page 11.
Charts starting on PDF page page 13
You're rephrasing things incorrectly for atheism and agnosticism.
Atheism: "I believe, based on a lack of evidence, that gods do not exist."
In fact, this is common even among the religious, most of whom would be perfectly willing to affirm their non-belief in the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, etc. and for the same reason -- lack of evidence. Basically, religious people and atheists share a lot of characteristics in this regard, it's just that atheists believe in one less god than the religious people do (or a few dozen if the religious person is polytheist).
Secondly, an atheist would become a theist immediately with proof. It's essentially a proof issue for an extraordinary claim and it is far more reasonable to not believe crazy shit until it's proven true.
Agnosticism: "People are not capable of knowing whether gods exist, thus I take no position on whether they do or don't."
Your characterization of an agnostic is basically that of an atheist. If you believe you are an agnostic based on that definition, sorry to break it to you, but you are an atheist.
I thought the first paragraph was interesting. Then I thought the second paragraph sounded foilhatty. Then I googled "rfid tires" and the first article is almost a decade old:
http://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?269
And more recently:
http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/dunlop-rfid-tires-moto2-moto3/
Anyway, it still feels a bit on the hatter side to think the government is currently monitoring who has what tires, but it is definitely something I could see it becoming interested in and something that could actually be done.
I also took some of these other classes -- keyboarding for example as well as the electrical class which was mostly household wiring but we did get to do some stuff with soldering and resistors and such. During the summer between my junior and senior year, I was allowed to have a key to the dark room so I ended up doing a lot of photography for a while because I could use it any time I wanted to (completely unsupervised) and then used my electives senior year for photography classes. That summer, I dissolved the skin on my fingertips to painful thinness from touching the stop bath (mild acetic acid solution) too much. I had a blast doing it and my fingertips recovered when I went to using tongs.
Anyway, the things people are saying about school now make me think I had a really good HS education.
I think the the HTML reference comes from several links deep, not specifically, but topically:
http://blog.carolynworks.com/?p=572
Which was summarized in the article like this:
http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/
So essentially he's saying that US CS curriculum is so bad, students can't even do html, which actually isn't programming anyway, it's just a kind of text formatting.
Hmmm, I'm 44 so it was a while ago I was in HS. I recall there were three tracks when I went: vocational (shop, electricity, etc.,easy math, easy English, basic science, etc.), business (typing and whatever else you might study if your goal was to be a receptionist -- easy classes, essentially shop for girls (we were more sexist then)), or college track (various math classes, literature, foreign language, psychology, etc.).
Now, granting that schools can be different, and maybe not all schools in the 80s did this, I would be really surprised if this has all gone away. I chose to not have kids so I wouldn't know from personal experience, but I could have sworn I heard someone bragging about how well their sprog did in AP something or other recently. The existence of an AP curriculum suggests to me that students are still tiered.
This guy is small potatoes compared to real war criminals like Cheney, GWB, Obama, etc. And he obviously didn't study Haliburton's business methods in any depth.
This is totally valid after you've put in your dues. Let's face it though, even the most noob friendly distro occasionally requires mucking around with the command line and some other basic knowledge. For example, if you need to enable extended attributes in your fstab file, you'll get that done in no time flat because you know what fstab is, you know where to find it, and you know how to edit it either locally or by sshing in from another machine and using nano or vi or X forwarding a graphical text editor. These types of simple skills and many others are ones you built up years ago and rely on now probably without even noticing, which is why a fancy distro seems so foolproof. Secondly, when you run into a command you need to learn, you know how to go about learning what you need to know. These things seem obvious and easy once you "get it" but before you get it, they're major roadblocks.
I'm using Fedora 17 on my desktop right now and subjectively, it feels totally easy -- like everything works out of the box -- except to install the nVidia drivers directly from nVidia there's this whole process involving changing runlevels and running nVidia's install script (even "./" can be a major learning hurdle for a newbie). Or getting multimedia to run -- it isn't hard if you know what you're looking for. So to me, Fedora 17 feels brain dead easy because I only had to do a few things manually, and I compare that to first time I tried to get X going on a 486DX (vague recollection of having to open my computer to figure out what stuff was in there so I could get it configured). Anyway, I install a modern distro and I'm blown away. Just boot up from a USB stick and wow -- "it just works." In reality, that is comparatively true, but not actually totally true.
So, I can see some value in this guy who is just starting out, learning to do things the hard way. Eventually he'll get sick of the hard way like everyone does, but by that time, the noob distros he'll be using will feel totally easy because he won't even notice the one or two things he needs to do manually that don't automagically come out right.
I watched it. All I learned is that there would anarchy without the IRS. They of course failed to mention that for every dollar spent on doing something useful for the country, three or four get spent on cronies or war.
Jesus Christ you Obama lovers are so far up his ass it's ridiculous.
HE DID NOT TRY TO END IRAQ -- HE TRIED TO EXTEND IT AND FAILED.
What the fuck is hard to understand about that. He wasn't trying to stop the car, he was trying to gas it up.
Fuck. You're a shill or a retard.
And if he is ever called to task for it, congress will just retroactively immunize him, or the president will pull a Ford and pardon him.
OMFG. "Obama Stopped Two Wars"
You have to be fucking joking or retarded.
Iraq: Iraq ended because the Iraqi government refused to extend the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) which was set to expire in December 2011 (date ring a bell?). Obama tried in the time period before SOFA expired to get the Iraqis to extend it. That was politically impossible for the Iraqi government partly as a result of war crimes confirmed by the information Bradley Manning released through Wikileaks. That's who you should thank for ending Iraq because if Obama had had his way, we'd still be there. But when Democrats get a hold of the FACT that what Obama did was fail to extend the war, they say "Iraq over: Check!" As if Obama is some peacenik. By that same logic, you should be lauding as a hero any person who intends to shoot a bunch of people on campus, but gets arrested before he can go on a rampage. Obviously, the guy is a humanitarian -- look at how many people he saved by failing to do what he wanted to. THAT is exactly the logic used to commend Obama on the end of the Iraq war.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/obama-iraq_n_1032507.html
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/23/wikileaks_cables_and_the_iraq_war/singleton/
As for the second war -- which was that? Afghanistan is still going (and remember, Obama tripled the troops there, GWB's max was about 35k, we're still at around 65K troops, so still almost double) and Libya is spilling over into Mali. Of course Libya is a thing in itself -- even GWB had congressional approval for the Iraq debacle, but Libya was prosecuted without that token congressional acknowledgment required by the War Powers Act (a law designed in the post Viet Nam error to prevent future Viet Nams) because our constitution says that wars are not declared by the president, but by congress. So next time we have a Dick Cheney type in the office and he decides he's going to war with anyone and everyone, Congress be damned, remember to send Obama a "thank you" note.
And how is that even after Iraq ended, Obama can't figure out how to spend less on the offense budget than GWB did in his worst (i.e., highest spending) year?
offense spending (Trillions)
2007: 0.7T
2008: 0.7T
2009: 0.8T
2010: 0.8T
2011: 0.9T
2012: 0.9T
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/breakdown_2012USrt_13rs5n
Obama is up 200 billion over GWB in military spending and he cries big sad tears about the sequester which is what, 80B? Even if the entire sequester came out of the military budget, we'd still be paying 120B more than we were when the Iraq war that Obama failed to extend, was hot.
Wise up and quit being an apologist for the worst president ever -- which is an amazing feat considering the depths GWB plumbed.
Worse than Nixon according to the attorney who worked for the NY Times during the Nixon administration and was involved in the decision to publish the Pentagon Papers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/19/goodale-obama-press-freedoms-secrecy-nixon
... by-standards ...
I'm not standard. I'm a special unique snowflake no matter where I stand!
Well, he did side with (5/4) majority that murders under the age of 18 can't face life in prison without parole which in the ultra-conservative political climate we live in (I'm including the DNC in this characterization) coupled with the public's thirst for ever harsher prison sentences, it seems enough to call him liberalish. But yeah, I get your point. And agree with it.
There is no evidence Al Alwaki gave aid or comfort. None at all. There is conjecture and accusation, but only a total idiot would consider that to be "evidence". Here's an example:
I accuse you of being a child molester.
There. You are a child molester because I accused you of it. QED.
As for the son, the Obama administration's position was that he should have had a better dad. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/robert-gibbs-anwar-al-awlaki_n_2012438.html
I'm pretty liberal, voted for Jill Stein and all that. I would love to see a constitutional amendment that authorizes unilateral secession by the states because the Federal government is corrupt beyond repair and evil beyond reckoning. Yeah -- some states in the South would go Christian Taliban or whatever. Let 'em. They just suck up my tax dollars anyway.
Nor was Al Alwaki, accused of exercising his free speech rights in ways the Feds didn't like. Or his son, accused of being his son. They're dead at the hands of the Feds.
It's funny -- there are all kinds of incentives for big business to move jobs offshore, or import cheap labor, but when the general public makes use of the same process, they complain. And they got 3 judges on their side, including a "liberal" judge (Ginsburg) and a lieralish judge (Kenedy) and of course Scalia. Expect a legislative solution to be purchased soon so that this "egregious" decision can be fixed and we can go back to falling wages and increasing corporate profits.