I don't think we can throw people in jail for getting 0wned, as much as I would like to see it.
A better solution might be fines sufficient to pay for their prosecution and probation with the condition that they not live in a household with a networked computer until they (at their expense) complete a network security adult-education class offered by a local community college or some such. Assuming that their machine being compromised was something that was easilly preventable and they failed - through ignorance or apathy - to correct a problem.
...in this 1.3 MB PDF, which includes timelines for both the release and Titan encounter, and some pretty in-depth discussion of the science instruments on Huygens.
True, Joe sixpack shares the blame for not taking the time to educate himself to vote intelligently, and not being concerned with the "greater good" but rather having a "what's in it for me?" attitude.
By "semi" elected I meant that some are elected, some are appointed by elected officials, and some are career bureaucrats. On re-reading my post today, it seems that I was ambiguous on that...
Much of that $100K will probably be collected from Democrats who would have otherwise donated it to Kerry, had he contested the results... so it's not completely a matter of diverting funds into a recount effort.
It could also be related to maintaining ballot status, which exempts a party from needing to collect massive numbers of signatures if they got X% in the previous election.
If you're going to lump bloggers together in one homogenous group, you need to include Weekly World News and The National Enquirer along with the WP and NYT.
Each medium ranges from utter garbage to something at least rather good. The "best" of the bloggers are not up to the standards of the NYT, but they're pretty new.
The terrorists will not scare the United States as it did Spain
This is a common misperception. The attack itself had far less impact on the Spanish election than the incumbent party - without evidence - attempting to pin it on the Basque seperatist ETA... to whom the opposition party was seen as somewhat sympathetic.
The Spanish people were angered at being lied to for political purposes, and it backfired on the liars.
The number of soldiers in Afghanistan has never approached the number we've had in Iraq. Had we not (needlessly, in my view) gone into Iraq before finishing what we (appropriately) started in Afghanistan, vastly more troops would have been available.
Bush had started planning Iraq well before 9/11, as evidenced by some of the reports that leaked about Cheney's energy task force as well as PNAC's policy statements, which Jeb Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolowitz signed off on in the late 1990's. Apparently George W. at that time wasn't considered part of the key group, while his brother was.
Kerry has been pushing the argument that Bush 'outsourced' the capture of bin Laden in Tora Bora, though, so the spin on his side of the issue is sort of already out there...
He seems to claim he doesn't care, but adds a few digs at Bush. He claims his gripe goes back to the US support of Israel against Lebanon in 1981(?) under Reagan, but seems to assert it's a matter of US support for Israel in general - something pretty bipartisan.
Funny, I thought his big problem was US presence near holy sites in Saudi Arabia. Damned flip-flopper...
Unfortunately the impact will almost certainly benefit the Bushites.
Actually given the content of the message, I don't think it'll have much impact except to remind people that bin Laden is still alive in spite of Bush promising to 'get him dead or alive' then later saying 'I'm not that concerned with him'. Folks will naturally wonder if we would have gotten him if Bush didn't detour us into Iraq.
Yeah, it's just a sales gimmick for 7/11 above all.
...and if the graphics on the linked page reflect the cups, there's a bias in the designs; the "Bush" cup is "louder" and more visually grabbing. Things that I'd think those wanting a cup of coffee would gravitate toward.
I wonder what the Third Party/No Opinion cup looked like? Apparently invisible; they're not reflected in the posted result. Dribble cups?
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SOLUTION: 2 MT airburst over Lindon, UT
Oh, with UNIX, not for UNIX. Never mind.
As you were.
Have they ruled out using witchcraft as well?
For a second offense, boiling oil.
...Triton looks like it has some pretty interesting and poorly understood stuff going on as well... Methane(?) geysers?
...Miranda - some of the most bizarre topology in the solar system.
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Yeah, after Cassini/Huygens we may as well disband JPL and ESA, at least as far as planetary missions go...
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...in this 1.3 MB PDF, which includes timelines for both the release and Titan encounter, and some pretty in-depth discussion of the science instruments on Huygens.
So now we can hear the fat lady sing?
again...
Oh, wait...
Perhaps it's time to open another "free!" AOL account?
Or is this right now just limited to Corporations?
...I must have missed how this was different from Fascism
Sounds like the biggest security risk here is the administrator...
By "semi" elected I meant that some are elected, some are appointed by elected officials, and some are career bureaucrats. On re-reading my post today, it seems that I was ambiguous on that...
..where Ed Meese went.
It's not a lack of talent in the US that's the issue; it's a lack of will on the part of our semi-elected officials.
Much of that $100K will probably be collected from Democrats who would have otherwise donated it to Kerry, had he contested the results... so it's not completely a matter of diverting funds into a recount effort.
It could also be related to maintaining ballot status, which exempts a party from needing to collect massive numbers of signatures if they got X% in the previous election.
Each medium ranges from utter garbage to something at least rather good. The "best" of the bloggers are not up to the standards of the NYT, but they're pretty new.
The Spanish people were angered at being lied to for political purposes, and it backfired on the liars.
Bush had started planning Iraq well before 9/11, as evidenced by some of the reports that leaked about Cheney's energy task force as well as PNAC's policy statements, which Jeb Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolowitz signed off on in the late 1990's. Apparently George W. at that time wasn't considered part of the key group, while his brother was.
Kerry has been pushing the argument that Bush 'outsourced' the capture of bin Laden in Tora Bora, though, so the spin on his side of the issue is sort of already out there...
Funny, I thought his big problem was US presence near holy sites in Saudi Arabia. Damned flip-flopper...
...and if the graphics on the linked page reflect the cups, there's a bias in the designs; the "Bush" cup is "louder" and more visually grabbing. Things that I'd think those wanting a cup of coffee would gravitate toward.
I wonder what the Third Party/No Opinion cup looked like? Apparently invisible; they're not reflected in the posted result. Dribble cups?