The wiretap program was approved by Congress this year after being leaked.
The administration also commissioned a classified domestic eavesdropping plan for monitoring international calls that dispensed with legal requirements for obtaining warrants. When that plan came to light, the administration pushed legislation through Congress this year that granted it much of the surveillance authority it sought, along with providing immunity for telecom companies that had allegedly cooperated in the secret program.
The article also refers to whether the new President will keep the programs that so offend the Constitution. The President-Elect has said he needs the "flexibility" offered:
"
From wiretaps to Gitmo, he faces pressure to overhaul Bush framework without sacrificing gains made in the name of security"
Let's see how fast the newly-elected Constitutional Law lecturer dismantles the "gains made in the name of security". That will tell us volumes, whether they are immediately discarded, changed to put a nice face on them, or continued for an indefinite period.
I won't let my daughter play outside by herself like I did when I was a kid. Who do I blame for that?
McCarthy wasn't wrong, however, curlish as he might have been. There really were Communists in the State department, unfortunately now they can just saunter in through the front door.
I agree with you that the law=enforcement tools should not be used for any jerk you can find, however I suggest looking to whoever wrote it so broadly and had it enforced. I don't think that RICO should be used to prosecute ACORN's vote fraud division.
I'd love the US to focus more closely on the specific Rule of Law, but on the other hand I'm sure you'd agree that the Constitution is not a suicide pact either.
A comparatively free society such as ours is incredibly open to opportunistic attacks from ideological enemies of any kind. So many targets are in plain sight, unguarded and vulnerable. So I don't see it as feeding some bureaucrat's power trip, rather keeping our society as open as we can while keeping us relatively safe as well.
I think it was Kruschchev who observed, not idly, that the US will sell the rope that could be used to hang it later. That is the double-edged blade of a free society.
The customer (remember, the dupes who pay your salary) perceives that there's something they want that you aren't giving them. This is either
1. An opportunity to charge them for their new feature extension, or
2. You evidently don't know exactly what the customers are doing with the data.
When the multinational 3M company was much smaller, they sold their Scotch-brite green non-scratch pads in various sizes. Once a customer asked if they can get a 2-foot width uncut. The salesman asked why, and the customer replied that they used the pads on their custodial floor strippers. The salesman said "We make those already, ready to stick to your floor polishers!" Then the salesman immediately calls R&D and says, "Can we make these?" The answer was yes, and the entire janitorial division of 3M was born.
That's why you want to find out what the customer wants to do with your, errr, *their* data.
I used to have to search the huge Medline medical database. If you used the wrong search term, you got very few searches. The most interesting thing? They didn't index under the term "cancer", but under "neoplasm".
And "Neoplasm" literally means made from Keanu Reeves. You've been warned.
No, so many people that are into "Art" sound like pompous asses because of the increasingly divide between Art and the general public. There are a variety of reasons for this, but the biggest is a the loss of widely shared culture and iconography over the last century-and-some.
Unfortunately, Art is largely driven by "Art Criticism", which is a curiously insular institution. Take an Art Criticism class at the college level and you will very quickly
find out how much they value *your* opinion
on *their* art: Not at all.
"Criticism" means
comparing the comments of two different writers, not in the merits or demerits of the art
itself.
What the plebs like or don't like makes exactly zero difference to them.
You aren't asked to find personal meaning, you are told that the artist's intent is much
more important that what you get out of it.
So IMHO it's hardly due to a "loss of widely shared culture and iconography", whatever that means.
Rather, Art Criticism has ruined Art for lay people by
turning Art into a fascia of inside jokes, obscure references and commentary from people without anything meaningful to say.
I'm in a moderately populated urban area. There's a lot of dark patches, but I can make out some areas where I can see localized lights. Not enough to be stars, they seem to be... hmmm... they look something like slightly organized dots. However I also do see some sort of borders between what I assume are the stars. It's like a sort of grid of white lines, about 2 feet square, with the stars in between.
Wait, maybe I'll get better results outside the office, and at night.
I'll never forget the first time I arrived (by train) in Cologne Germany some years ago. It was a very dark night, and as I left the main train station, about 40 feet from the doors I felt this huge ominous presence on my left side. It scared me spitless. I stopped and looked and there was this huge black wall, which was the side of the huge Cologne Cathedral towering over the station. I'm convinced it wasn't due to seeing anything, since I don't recall the Cathedral being lit up that evening, rather it felt like this huge mass about to fall on me from the left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
It's not tinnitus if you can really hear something....
Or I could be out of my freakin' mind and about to go deaf.
That does sound cruel, subjecting adult literacy learners to this! Word games like the one I suggested are only fun for people fluent in written and spoken forms of the language.
People whose first language isn't English frequently view Scrabble as a severe sort of punishment...
It's my own manipulation of an interesting paragraph I read while doing some amateur research on the ridiculous Cambridge 'study'.
The only problem with "research" like that is when such memes acquire huge impact by incessant repetition. In part, that's how Whole Language became foisted on unsuspecting schoolchildren: Education policy wonks figured that since proficient adult readers can "read" whole words at once, let's be all frikkin' clever and skip the (obviously unnecessary) "phonics" part.
Putting the cart before the course, so to speak, which had the effect of crowding out effective reading methodologies in schools. Only recently have phonics and other evidence-based programs regained traction in schools.
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Right after they took away an entire week of vacation.
>snort<
I wrote "re-read" (re-RED), not "re-read" (re-READ) But yeah, it brings teh lolz.
Re-read that sentence a couple of times.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-terror_oliphantnov20,0,522164.story
The article also refers to whether the new President will keep the programs that so offend the Constitution. The President-Elect has said he needs the "flexibility" offered: "
Let's see how fast the newly-elected Constitutional Law lecturer dismantles the "gains made in the name of security". That will tell us volumes, whether they are immediately discarded, changed to put a nice face on them, or continued for an indefinite period.
We aren't interested in statistical studies of colored balls in a jar.
Real-world techniques are being used to effectively deter the attacks. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
McCarthy wasn't wrong, however, curlish as he might have been. There really were Communists in the State department, unfortunately now they can just saunter in through the front door.
I agree with you that the law=enforcement tools should not be used for any jerk you can find, however I suggest looking to whoever wrote it so broadly and had it enforced. I don't think that RICO should be used to prosecute ACORN's vote fraud division.
I'd love the US to focus more closely on the specific Rule of Law, but on the other hand I'm sure you'd agree that the Constitution is not a suicide pact either.
Thanks
I think it was Kruschchev who observed, not idly, that the US will sell the rope that could be used to hang it later. That is the double-edged blade of a free society.
Let's count.
Uh.
I guess it's just really hard to concretely state when deterrence works, but it's easy to see when it fails.
The customer (remember, the dupes who pay your salary) perceives that there's something they want that you aren't giving them. This is either 1. An opportunity to charge them for their new feature extension, or 2. You evidently don't know exactly what the customers are doing with the data. When the multinational 3M company was much smaller, they sold their Scotch-brite green non-scratch pads in various sizes. Once a customer asked if they can get a 2-foot width uncut. The salesman asked why, and the customer replied that they used the pads on their custodial floor strippers. The salesman said "We make those already, ready to stick to your floor polishers!" Then the salesman immediately calls R&D and says, "Can we make these?" The answer was yes, and the entire janitorial division of 3M was born. That's why you want to find out what the customer wants to do with your, errr, *their* data.
Is there no honor among vile mass-murderers any more?
I used to have to search the huge Medline medical database. If you used the wrong search term, you got very few searches. The most interesting thing? They didn't index under the term "cancer", but under "neoplasm".
And "Neoplasm" literally means made from Keanu Reeves. You've been warned.
This article is from 2007, and these figures were originally released in 2006.
But go ahead and watch the video, if you can. See if they'll at least throw in a time-share condo.
What part of "unauthorized reproduction or USE" don't you understand?
Regardless how bad an organization you think the owner is, it's still wrong.
Unfortunately, Art is largely driven by "Art Criticism", which is a curiously insular institution. Take an Art Criticism class at the college level and you will very quickly find out how much they value *your* opinion on *their* art: Not at all.
"Criticism" means comparing the comments of two different writers, not in the merits or demerits of the art itself. What the plebs like or don't like makes exactly zero difference to them. You aren't asked to find personal meaning, you are told that the artist's intent is much more important that what you get out of it.
So IMHO it's hardly due to a "loss of widely shared culture and iconography", whatever that means.
Rather, Art Criticism has ruined Art for lay people by turning Art into a fascia of inside jokes, obscure references and commentary from people without anything meaningful to say.
Other than that it's not so bad...
The only thing worse than training an employee and having them leave ...
...is not training them and having them stay..
And what will you do when Microsoft decides that your VB bath-time is over and drains your tub?
Already they've abandoned VBA on the Mac, but as a paying customer I'm sure your chosen niche will *always* be in Microsoft's gentle embrace.
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I'm afraid you are too late
is a networking site for anti-social people.
Oh, right. Where did I post this? Duh.
I'm in a moderately populated urban area. There's a lot of dark patches, but I can make out some areas where I can see localized lights. Not enough to be stars, they seem to be... hmmm... they look something like slightly organized dots. However I also do see some sort of borders between what I assume are the stars. It's like a sort of grid of white lines, about 2 feet square, with the stars in between.
Wait, maybe I'll get better results outside the office, and at night.
Never mind.
Sometimes it seems like I don't need *anything* for this.
...
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~husn/BRAIN/vol1/echo.html
I'll never forget the first time I arrived (by train) in Cologne Germany some years ago. It was a very dark night, and as I left the main train station, about 40 feet from the doors I felt this huge ominous presence on my left side. It scared me spitless. I stopped and looked and there was this huge black wall, which was the side of the huge Cologne Cathedral towering over the station. I'm convinced it wasn't due to seeing anything, since I don't recall the Cathedral being lit up that evening, rather it felt like this huge mass about to fall on me from the left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
It's not tinnitus if you can really hear something.
Or I could be out of my freakin' mind and about to go deaf.
One or the other.
That does sound cruel, subjecting adult literacy learners to this! Word games like the one I suggested are only fun for people fluent in written and spoken forms of the language.
People whose first language isn't English frequently view Scrabble as a severe sort of punishment...
It's my own manipulation of an interesting paragraph I read while doing some amateur research on the ridiculous Cambridge 'study'.
The only problem with "research" like that is when such memes acquire huge impact by incessant repetition. In part, that's how Whole Language became foisted on unsuspecting schoolchildren: Education policy wonks figured that since proficient adult readers can "read" whole words at once, let's be all frikkin' clever and skip the (obviously unnecessary) "phonics" part.
Putting the cart before the course, so to speak, which had the effect of crowding out effective reading methodologies in schools. Only recently have phonics and other evidence-based programs regained traction in schools.