Du Pont says Franklin was on the Continental Congress' Foreign Affairs Committee, called the Committee for Secret Correspondence, in 1776 and he and his colleagues agreed that they could not tell the Congress about covert assistance from France during the Revolution because it would hurt the country if the information leaked and quote "we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets."
Of course, the existence of federal surveillance was never a secret. Does it matter from a "secrecy" perspective whether the President worked through the FISC or around it? Not even one tiny bit. Instead of explaining how du Pont's analogy is consistent or in any way relevant, Gibson takes that above statement and sweepingly concludes:
So much for alerting Congress to the secret wiretapping program if Ben Franklin were alive today.
Just goes to show you can misrepresent anyone, if you try hard enough.
I did a search for "recuse" and this is the first thread that came up, and if this is the first poster who raised it, that person should get some recognition for bringing up an excellent point. She'll have to recuse herself from any future case in which MS is a party brought before the S.Ct. Not that it happens very often, but it is IMO the most interesting thing about this thread. Pretty much all the stuff about Bush is OT, all the stuff about her representing MS as if it reflects her personal views is intensely, purposefully ignorant as to the practice of law (which didn't seem to stop people from trying it against Roberts), and the dissection of the MS case itself was . . . well, ok, that was interesting too. Someone find some thread about that and mod a good post in there up, too.
I couldn't give two craps about Firefly getting back onto TV, but if Serenity does well in the theater--shows that a dedicated cult TV audience can influence a movie to profitability--then maybe someone is more willing to get Farscape onto the Big Screen, if for no other reason than I would love to see what they would do if not constrained by the content bounds of television.
That being said, the mini was a nice send-off. Not sure where they would go from there in an interesting way.
I'd be a lot happier with the S.Ct.'s refusal to hear the Lexmark case (for as meaningless a gesture as it is), if it hadn't just yesterday taken a crap all over the principles of federalism in their Gonzales vs. Raich decision.
I also believe that while they declined to hear Lexmark today, they will take a similar case sometime in the next decade, likely after multiple Appellate courts establish inconsistent positions on the subject.
I thought we were done with that crap.
Seriously.
Flame away, I thought Hayden did a fine job displaying the hate and venom, even if the fall shown was too hard, too fast. I had flashbacks in the theater to VI when Vader practically spat out "Now his failure is complete."
I had quibbles with III, but at the end of the day, it did it's job--to give us a (mostly) seamless transition to IV. Well done, George.
It was a great one. Some computer game blew up his monitor. If that article still exists anywhere, and someone has a link to it, I would love to get it. That was a great site.
"The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world"
That is simply not true. The scientist's job is to either disprove a statement, or find evidence to support that statement. Proving things, or finding so-called truths about the world is absolutely NOT what a scientist does.
If you find a truth or an irrefutable fact or absolutely prove something, then you're a priest, not a scientist.
You're being nitpicky. By finding evidence supporting or disproving a statement, a scientist helps reveal to us the consistent principles of the universe we inhabit, information that has the potential to help us improve our lives by an understanding of how things work. Perhaps the initial author's statement was a bit simplistic and not techincally exacting, but it does convey the spirit in which scientists pursue their craft.
Is this an upgrade that will be detected and downloaded through the update system from within Firefox PR or do I have to download the whole thing again? Also will I have to re-do extensions [i]again[/i] between PR and 1.0 Final?
Thanks for any information provided.
How is this different from what I had weeks ago?
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I'm asking because I honestly don't know--I'm at work, and we only use IE here, but at home I could swear I downloaded Firefox 1.0 quite a while ago. What is new with this one that the last one I downloaded doesn't have? I know that when I upgraded to 1.0 way back when, yes, all my extensions had to be re-installed . . . what the heck am I missing?
announcing they would be pulling their 300 troops (serving in a non-combat transportation role) out of Iraq by March!
So my immediate recollection is that at least Hungary and Poland have announced they are getting out. And the coalition gets smaller.
Congratulations, President Bush.
These twelve steps are guidelines for members of On-Line Gamers Anonymous to live by. Regardless of which step you are about to enter, the support of the twelve step program will help you recognize and conquer on-line gaming addiction.
1. We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure, them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive on-line gamers and to practice these principles in all our affairs. ___
And compulsive online gamers aren't in touch with reality?
If Google is supporting the Chinese government by doing business with them, what are we doing when we purchase goods made in China?
You might think there is a difference, but not really. Happy goldfish bowl to you.
If she's got no kids living with her I'll bet she's got some form of broadband and an unsecure wireless router. Someone has been accessing it to share files, knowing they couldn't be tracked.
If I had broadband and I lived in an apartment building and I was dumb enough not to secure my wireless router, that'd be my defense.
IT looks pretty coherent, but if true would leave a lot to be desired as far as tying all of the subtleties and mystic 'clues' dropped in the prior movies.
Any thought as to the source of the summary?
If you compare the trailer that came at the end of the video game (I don't know if it was the same as the one at the end of the movie) to the new trailer, it's obvious where Agent Smith says "Mr. Anderson, welcome back, we missed you" that his inflection is totally different. The first one was so much better. Given that it's going to be one of the memorable lines from the movie, I can't figure why they changed it.
You don't see any philosophical difference between contacts/glasses and hardwired interfaces with our brains?
I'm not sure there's anything that needs to be said in response to that, or anything else in your post; it demonstrates the level to which you seem to be able to comprehend or imagine--nothing beyond conceptualizing other intelligence as some gigantic extension of C. I know that's a personal attack, but can't your imagination spread itself a little farther than that?
Visualizing it in your head that way makes it seem like you're actually threatened, as if somehow if a computer using such simple designs could understand the 'human condition', if what we feel could actually be interpreted in a computational expression, that we would be somehow be less than we are, less special, without wondering how someone from 100 a.d. would see the things we are able to do today.
It's like this mental image of you, waving your hands around frantically, calling on consciousness and 'integral processes' as if it was some kind of voodoo or witchcraft only understandable in a single state.
Such a limited view of the possibilities of 'computers', if that would even be an accurate term to describe what they could be or become in 100 years, or further ahead. That seems to me to be the greatest philosophical failing.
That's stupid, you're talking about using words as the basis for trying to describe something our language is not capable of describing.
Right now we are making strong inroads regarding input into the brain--truly artificial eyes and ears hardwired straight into our nervous system.
Do you really think science in the end will fail to be able to read as well as write? Is consciousness such an etherial state that it is disconnected from the wiring of our grey matter? If not, it *will* eventually be possible to share a feeling, to share a sensation, as the cumulative mental a physiological response we have to input.
It could be the last step computers take before they decide whether individuality has value, or whether we should be exterminated.
Is that a world of intelligent computers who have replaced humans, or who live cooperatively with humans, or who have enslaved humans, whatever, would almost certainly have to deal with the phenomena we describe as telepathy. After all, we can only assume that such creatures would be outfitted with the capacity to transmit data in a wireless fashion. Therefore, accessing the 'thought patterns' of another computer would simply be a matter of wireless hacking, if such could be accomplished without the host being aware of it.
In the future all of mankind will eventually migrate their consciousness to computers. What path we take now is merely choosing what path is taken to the inevitable conclusion --
which is that at some point before or after this happens a cosmic event will wipe out everything in our solar system, and as an entire species we will have meant less than a blip on the universal radar screen.
Let's face it folks, if there isn't an afterlife of some kind we might as well blow ourselves up anytime.
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Why?
Of course, the existence of federal surveillance was never a secret. Does it matter from a "secrecy" perspective whether the President worked through the FISC or around it? Not even one tiny bit. Instead of explaining how du Pont's analogy is consistent or in any way relevant, Gibson takes that above statement and sweepingly concludes:
Just goes to show you can misrepresent anyone, if you try hard enough.
How many freaking "funny" mods can the same joke get? Hey, if you abbreviate the bill, it's "A Hole"!!! Doesn't anyone know what "Redundant" means?
I did a search for "recuse" and this is the first thread that came up, and if this is the first poster who raised it, that person should get some recognition for bringing up an excellent point. She'll have to recuse herself from any future case in which MS is a party brought before the S.Ct. Not that it happens very often, but it is IMO the most interesting thing about this thread. Pretty much all the stuff about Bush is OT, all the stuff about her representing MS as if it reflects her personal views is intensely, purposefully ignorant as to the practice of law (which didn't seem to stop people from trying it against Roberts), and the dissection of the MS case itself was . . . well, ok, that was interesting too. Someone find some thread about that and mod a good post in there up, too.
that one fucking muppet has more character than the entire Firefly cast.
Change your diaper and try again, Anonymous Coward.
I couldn't give two craps about Firefly getting back onto TV, but if Serenity does well in the theater--shows that a dedicated cult TV audience can influence a movie to profitability--then maybe someone is more willing to get Farscape onto the Big Screen, if for no other reason than I would love to see what they would do if not constrained by the content bounds of television. That being said, the mini was a nice send-off. Not sure where they would go from there in an interesting way.
I also believe that while they declined to hear Lexmark today, they will take a similar case sometime in the next decade, likely after multiple Appellate courts establish inconsistent positions on the subject.
I thought we were done with that crap. Seriously. Flame away, I thought Hayden did a fine job displaying the hate and venom, even if the fall shown was too hard, too fast. I had flashbacks in the theater to VI when Vader practically spat out "Now his failure is complete." I had quibbles with III, but at the end of the day, it did it's job--to give us a (mostly) seamless transition to IV. Well done, George.
It was a great one. Some computer game blew up his monitor. If that article still exists anywhere, and someone has a link to it, I would love to get it. That was a great site.
I don't remember where Jesus petitioned Ceasar to enforce his morality on the nation, much less the world.
AC writes:
You're being nitpicky. By finding evidence supporting or disproving a statement, a scientist helps reveal to us the consistent principles of the universe we inhabit, information that has the potential to help us improve our lives by an understanding of how things work. Perhaps the initial author's statement was a bit simplistic and not techincally exacting, but it does convey the spirit in which scientists pursue their craft.
Is this an upgrade that will be detected and downloaded through the update system from within Firefox PR or do I have to download the whole thing again? Also will I have to re-do extensions [i]again[/i] between PR and 1.0 Final?
Thanks for any information provided.
I'm asking because I honestly don't know--I'm at work, and we only use IE here, but at home I could swear I downloaded Firefox 1.0 quite a while ago. What is new with this one that the last one I downloaded doesn't have? I know that when I upgraded to 1.0 way back when, yes, all my extensions had to be re-installed . . . what the heck am I missing?
AC writes:
/usr/Bin/Laden."
"Yeah, there is a new coalition in works to replace the "coalition of willings": the "coalition of finishing".
The first goal of this new coalition is to finish up the unfinished job: to take care of
How can you finish a job you never really started?
announcing they would be pulling their 300 troops (serving in a non-combat transportation role) out of Iraq by March! So my immediate recollection is that at least Hungary and Poland have announced they are getting out. And the coalition gets smaller. Congratulations, President Bush.
Not for me . . . WebSense filters all.
This organization was referenced in the story:
Here's a sample:
The Twelve Steps of On-Line Gamers Anonymous
These twelve steps are guidelines for members of On-Line Gamers Anonymous to live by. Regardless of which step you are about to enter, the support of the twelve step program will help you recognize and conquer on-line gaming addiction.
1. We admitted we were powerless over on-line gaming, and that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure, them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive on-line gamers and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
___
And compulsive online gamers aren't in touch with reality?
If Google is supporting the Chinese government by doing business with them, what are we doing when we purchase goods made in China? You might think there is a difference, but not really. Happy goldfish bowl to you.
If she's got no kids living with her I'll bet she's got some form of broadband and an unsecure wireless router. Someone has been accessing it to share files, knowing they couldn't be tracked. If I had broadband and I lived in an apartment building and I was dumb enough not to secure my wireless router, that'd be my defense.
IT looks pretty coherent, but if true would leave a lot to be desired as far as tying all of the subtleties and mystic 'clues' dropped in the prior movies. Any thought as to the source of the summary?
If you compare the trailer that came at the end of the video game (I don't know if it was the same as the one at the end of the movie) to the new trailer, it's obvious where Agent Smith says "Mr. Anderson, welcome back, we missed you" that his inflection is totally different. The first one was so much better. Given that it's going to be one of the memorable lines from the movie, I can't figure why they changed it.
kid: g1bb0r m3 my m0n3y b4ck, f4gg0rz. My k-r4d Xb0x0r 15 fux0r3d.
clerk: uh, ok. You got your receipt?
Receipts are all powerful. Clerks are dumb.
You don't see any philosophical difference between contacts/glasses and hardwired interfaces with our brains?
I'm not sure there's anything that needs to be said in response to that, or anything else in your post; it demonstrates the level to which you seem to be able to comprehend or imagine--nothing beyond conceptualizing other intelligence as some gigantic extension of C. I know that's a personal attack, but can't your imagination spread itself a little farther than that?
Visualizing it in your head that way makes it seem like you're actually threatened, as if somehow if a computer using such simple designs could understand the 'human condition', if what we feel could actually be interpreted in a computational expression, that we would be somehow be less than we are, less special, without wondering how someone from 100 a.d. would see the things we are able to do today.
It's like this mental image of you, waving your hands around frantically, calling on consciousness and 'integral processes' as if it was some kind of voodoo or witchcraft only understandable in a single state.
Such a limited view of the possibilities of 'computers', if that would even be an accurate term to describe what they could be or become in 100 years, or further ahead. That seems to me to be the greatest philosophical failing.
That's stupid, you're talking about using words as the basis for trying to describe something our language is not capable of describing. Right now we are making strong inroads regarding input into the brain--truly artificial eyes and ears hardwired straight into our nervous system. Do you really think science in the end will fail to be able to read as well as write? Is consciousness such an etherial state that it is disconnected from the wiring of our grey matter? If not, it *will* eventually be possible to share a feeling, to share a sensation, as the cumulative mental a physiological response we have to input. It could be the last step computers take before they decide whether individuality has value, or whether we should be exterminated.
Is that a world of intelligent computers who have replaced humans, or who live cooperatively with humans, or who have enslaved humans, whatever, would almost certainly have to deal with the phenomena we describe as telepathy. After all, we can only assume that such creatures would be outfitted with the capacity to transmit data in a wireless fashion. Therefore, accessing the 'thought patterns' of another computer would simply be a matter of wireless hacking, if such could be accomplished without the host being aware of it.
In the future all of mankind will eventually migrate their consciousness to computers. What path we take now is merely choosing what path is taken to the inevitable conclusion -- which is that at some point before or after this happens a cosmic event will wipe out everything in our solar system, and as an entire species we will have meant less than a blip on the universal radar screen. Let's face it folks, if there isn't an afterlife of some kind we might as well blow ourselves up anytime.