I'd call you a sane man. The starter of the thread is obviously not quite so sane. Pitching the discussion as something Bushish is the first clue. You can bet that any administration would have asked for the same sort of look at the situation, but giving it as "Bush Administration officials" just taints the discussion which is already tainted enough by the gun-meme.
The story, if you read it, states that the report was prepared at the behest of Bush and you can bet that career Washington types (Not Bushites) looked at it and prepared the report at the request of the president. This would be the same in any administration and the results would have been the same.
The article states: "It calls for new federal guidelines to clarify how information can be shared legally under federal privacy laws, and for the Department of Homeland Security to finance joint training exercises among state, local, and campus law enforcement agencies."
It seems to me that a little more clarity is exactly what's called for in this situation. It doesn't call, from what I read, for NEW and more restrictive laws, but for a process to be initiated and for some sort of co-ordination to take place.
This constant paranoid glancing over the shoulder to see what the evil Boosh is doing to "liberties" is almost as tedious as casting every action by the government as somehow snatching liberty away.
This "gift of equity" is the fly in the ointment. My money is on a programming type, since Craig can barely tell 1 from 0 and his history of programming for such a low level software package as The Well is spotty at best.
I don't think it was a gift at all. I think the 'secret' early employee was probably a person with real coding chops who decided he didn't want to work for free and said, 'Craig, my boy, I am not your av-er-age latter day hippy with a jones for community. I am a coder and if I'm not getting the ready cash, I WILL get some equity.
"No equity and you're little list will not have software that can scale. So fork it over and I'll write the code. If not, just port picospan and hope for the best. Oh, and make it 25% minimum or this coder is out of here."
I'm sorry but I find the somewhat common reaction of "everything we do in space is good... barring of course bring in the damn military..." to be somewhat uninformed. Not everything military is "bad."
To begin with, the "damn military" already is in space and has been since, well, shortly after Sputnik. The fact that there is a military element to space is something that won't go away and, actually, is a benefit to the United States in both the near and the short term.
For an extended and highly informative article on this, I would direct your attention toBarry Posen's Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony. Published in International Security, the text is to be found at:
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edupublication.cfm?ctype= article&item_id=619
The short form is that it is currently the case that the US holds the high ground in space and this is not a bad thing. It helps, in some sense, to make the continuation of all the "good" things possible, both now and for a long time to come.
As long as the RIAA is exercising its right to make people miserable at random, I figure I might as well exercise my right not to buy any of the "product" they are protecting as gifts this holiday season.
A small thing, but mine own.
There's more about why if you're interested:
here.
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I'd call you a sane man. The starter of the thread is obviously not quite so sane. Pitching the discussion as something Bushish is the first clue. You can bet that any administration would have asked for the same sort of look at the situation, but giving it as "Bush Administration officials" just taints the discussion which is already tainted enough by the gun-meme. The story, if you read it, states that the report was prepared at the behest of Bush and you can bet that career Washington types (Not Bushites) looked at it and prepared the report at the request of the president. This would be the same in any administration and the results would have been the same. The article states: "It calls for new federal guidelines to clarify how information can be shared legally under federal privacy laws, and for the Department of Homeland Security to finance joint training exercises among state, local, and campus law enforcement agencies." It seems to me that a little more clarity is exactly what's called for in this situation. It doesn't call, from what I read, for NEW and more restrictive laws, but for a process to be initiated and for some sort of co-ordination to take place. This constant paranoid glancing over the shoulder to see what the evil Boosh is doing to "liberties" is almost as tedious as casting every action by the government as somehow snatching liberty away.
That of the 800 million messages half were signed by kibo and the other half written by mnemonic.
This "gift of equity" is the fly in the ointment. My money is on a programming type, since Craig can barely tell 1 from 0 and his history of programming for such a low level software package as The Well is spotty at best. I don't think it was a gift at all. I think the 'secret' early employee was probably a person with real coding chops who decided he didn't want to work for free and said, 'Craig, my boy, I am not your av-er-age latter day hippy with a jones for community. I am a coder and if I'm not getting the ready cash, I WILL get some equity. "No equity and you're little list will not have software that can scale. So fork it over and I'll write the code. If not, just port picospan and hope for the best. Oh, and make it 25% minimum or this coder is out of here."
I'm sorry but I find the somewhat common reaction of "everything we do in space is good... barring of course bring in the damn military ..." to be somewhat uninformed. Not everything military is "bad."
To begin with, the "damn military" already is in space and has been since, well, shortly after Sputnik. The fact that there is a military element to space is something that won't go away and, actually, is a benefit to the United States in both the near and the short term.
For an extended and highly informative article on this, I would direct your attention toBarry Posen's Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony. Published in International Security, the text is to be found at:
http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edupublication.cfm?ctype= article&item_id=619
The short form is that it is currently the case that the US holds the high ground in space and this is not a bad thing. It helps, in some sense, to make the continuation of all the "good" things possible, both now and for a long time to come.
As long as the RIAA is exercising its right to make people miserable at random, I figure I might as well exercise my right not to buy any of the "product" they are protecting as gifts this holiday season. A small thing, but mine own. There's more about why if you're interested: here.