It is worth pointing out as well that the Lowell Sun is a rabidly right-wing rag ranking right up there with the Washington Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It doesn't suprise me that they would want to manufacture a scandal out of every single action of Rep. Meehan and his staff however reasonable.
About half of the pages look like press releases. On the other hand, a lot of the pages acquire a lot of unsubstantiated rumor mongering, and I don't have a problem with the Rep's staffs keeping an eye on people making false or unsubstantiated claims on the site.
Hmm. Ron Paul stands for the people of America? He supports the reintroduction of the gold standard for christ sake. If you love Ron Paul, that's great, but don't pretend like you speak for the American people generally.
With global news markets, the prohibitions of publishing a suspect's last name is getting a somewhat pointless. In the Netherlands, you have to say Muhammed B., but you only need to check the BBC website to find out that it's Muhammad Bouyeri. In the Netherlands, you read "Joran van der S.", but every website in the US prints "Joran van der Sloot."
It means they don't have to pay any IE on Mac developers. Sounds like this is good for everybody because IE on Mac users will eventually switch and Microsoft won't have to pay anyone to develop that POS.
There should be an investigations of allegation of misconduct in the Bush administration. If there was no crime then so be it. I'm just pointing out that there have been investigations of the Clinton White House and these many allegations have turned out to be nothing at all.
This is against the law. I have put references to the relevant statute below the fold; the brief version is: the law forbids warrantless surveillance of US citizens, and it provides procedures to be followed in emergencies that do not leave enough time for federal agents to get a warrant. If the NY Times report is correct, the government did not follow these procedures. It therefore acted illegally.
Bush's order is arguably unconstitutional as well: it seems to violate the fourth amendment, and it certainly violates the requirement (Article II, sec. 3) that the President "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Executive Orders are subject to the courts. If they violate the laws, then the Federal Courts will strike them down. This happens all the time.
I recognize the necessity of Executive Orders. We need a way of making policy in the Executive Branch which determines how the laws are implemented. But Executive Orders can't direct government agencies to violate the nation's laws. That's totally illegal, despite what the commenter zardo claims.
ECHELON is a system for foreign electronic surveillance. That's been going on for decades and is a great deal different from domestic electronic surveillance without a warrant.
That's a urban legend. Look at my reply to another person bringing up this baseless charge. The Republican Congress investigated this charge and found no evidence of any such thing.
The Branch Davidians were subject to very serious weapons charges. Possessing a machine gun or IED is a federal crime subject to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. I'm glad that the law was enforced in that case. The only person responsible for the deaths of those people is David Koresh.
Whose rights were violated in the Elian Gonzalez case? Don't you believe that a parent has a right to custody of a child? If your child were held by someone, wouldn't you want the police to get them back?
What scandal? I'll just refer you to the report issued by the Republican Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation.
The Joint Committee staff found no credible evidence that the IRS delayed or accelerated
issuance of determination letters to tax-exempt organizations based on the nature of the
organization's perceived views.
Filegate? The problem with these Republican talking points is that they remember the initial allegations but they never care about the eventual result of the investigation. In 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray determined that there was no credible evidence of criminal activity, and that "there was no substantial and credible evidence that any senior White House official, or first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, was involved" in seeking the files. We should forget Filegate, because there was no scandal there at all. Just a lot of Republican blowhards making something out of nothing.
ECHELON is foreign electronic surveillance. You may object to it, but it is legal and it's the purpose of the NSA.
Carnivore was a system which was still subject to getting a warrant. Come back when you have some real evidence that domestic surveillance without a warrant occurred under Clinton or was condoned.
Um. We're not in an episode of 24, dude. We're a nation of laws. The President cannot legally violate the laws of the United States. There are nutcases like John Yoo who think the President is above the law, but his opinions haven't found favor with any court.
So, he had to occupy a country which wasn't a threat to the US, Iraq, so that he could keep an eye on another country, Iran. That makes a lot of sense, especially considering that the US was already in plenty of other places in the Middle East, e.g. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan,...
It isn't true. Condi is spinning like crazy in order to keep the story from catching hold. I'm not holding my breath waiting for the Congress or the Justice Department to investigate though. This should be an occasion for a special prosecutor.
I'm calling bullshit. It's easy to respond to these outrages by saying that Republicans and Democrats are all the same. But you didn't see any violations of privacy under Clinton. And today, you've got Democrats standing up to oppose the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. Republicans and Democrats aren't the same, and we don't need a third party. We just need a government that gives a shit about civil rights.
This is a good question for GOP fans who claim to be conservatives. Conservatives don't believe in violating the nation's laws. That's what domestic surveillance without a warrant is.
Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies, said the secret order may amount to the president authorizing criminal activity.
The law governing clandestine surveillance in the United States, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, prohibits conducting electronic surveillance not authorized by statute. A government agent can try to avoid prosecution if he can show he was "engaged in the course of his official duties and the electronic surveillance was authorized by and conducted pursuant to a search warrant or court order of a court of competent jurisdiction," according to the law.
"This is as shocking a revelation as we have ever seen from the Bush administration," said Martin, who has been sharply critical of the administration's surveillance and detention policies. "It is, I believe, the first time a president has authorized government agencies to violate a specific criminal prohibition and eavesdrop on Americans."
Marquette is a Catholic school. Free speech has never been a priority in the Catholic Church. They've silenced Galileo, Oscar Romero, whistleblowers of sexual abuse,...
What retailer is going stop selling something that they can make money selling? And if they did, wouldn't that just drive business to their competitors who will keep selling the game. Who cares what the ESRB does? Not the people buying the games and not the people selling the games.
On the other side of things, Rockstar just got a week of free publicity. They're probably just gave the guy who wrote the content a raise.
It's a server-processor. Sun sells servers. Servers tend to run software that either spawn a lot of processes (like apache 1.3, postgresql) or run a lot of threads (MySQL, etc...). These programs do no or almost no FP. Niagara was designed to be a server processor. It would probably suck for other things, but that's beside the point.
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It is worth pointing out as well that the Lowell Sun is a rabidly right-wing rag ranking right up there with the Washington Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It doesn't suprise me that they would want to manufacture a scandal out of every single action of Rep. Meehan and his staff however reasonable.
About half of the pages look like press releases. On the other hand, a lot of the pages acquire a lot of unsubstantiated rumor mongering, and I don't have a problem with the Rep's staffs keeping an eye on people making false or unsubstantiated claims on the site.
Hmm. Ron Paul stands for the people of America? He supports the reintroduction of the gold standard for christ sake. If you love Ron Paul, that's great, but don't pretend like you speak for the American people generally.
With global news markets, the prohibitions of publishing a suspect's last name is getting a somewhat pointless. In the Netherlands, you have to say Muhammed B., but you only need to check the BBC website to find out that it's Muhammad Bouyeri. In the Netherlands, you read "Joran van der S.", but every website in the US prints "Joran van der Sloot."
It means they don't have to pay any IE on Mac developers. Sounds like this is good for everybody because IE on Mac users will eventually switch and Microsoft won't have to pay anyone to develop that POS.
There should be an investigations of allegation of misconduct in the Bush administration. If there was no crime then so be it. I'm just pointing out that there have been investigations of the Clinton White House and these many allegations have turned out to be nothing at all.
Executive orders cannot overturn statutes. If the President violates the law, then that is illegal, period.
Executive Orders are subject to the courts. If they violate the laws, then the Federal Courts will strike them down. This happens all the time. I recognize the necessity of Executive Orders. We need a way of making policy in the Executive Branch which determines how the laws are implemented. But Executive Orders can't direct government agencies to violate the nation's laws. That's totally illegal, despite what the commenter zardo claims.
What was domestic spying? The Barrett Report hasn't been published so you must be clairvoyant to know what's in it.
ECHELON is a system for foreign electronic surveillance. That's been going on for decades and is a great deal different from domestic electronic surveillance without a warrant.
Clipper was a bad idea but it never went anywhere. Clinton did also repeal the export restrictions on strong crypto.
That's a urban legend. Look at my reply to another person bringing up this baseless charge. The Republican Congress investigated this charge and found no evidence of any such thing.
The Branch Davidians were subject to very serious weapons charges. Possessing a machine gun or IED is a federal crime subject to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. I'm glad that the law was enforced in that case. The only person responsible for the deaths of those people is David Koresh.
Whose rights were violated in the Elian Gonzalez case? Don't you believe that a parent has a right to custody of a child? If your child were held by someone, wouldn't you want the police to get them back?
ECHELON is foreign electronic surveillance. You may object to it, but it is legal and it's the purpose of the NSA. Carnivore was a system which was still subject to getting a warrant. Come back when you have some real evidence that domestic surveillance without a warrant occurred under Clinton or was condoned.
Um. We're not in an episode of 24, dude. We're a nation of laws. The President cannot legally violate the laws of the United States. There are nutcases like John Yoo who think the President is above the law, but his opinions haven't found favor with any court.
So, he had to occupy a country which wasn't a threat to the US, Iraq, so that he could keep an eye on another country, Iran. That makes a lot of sense, especially considering that the US was already in plenty of other places in the Middle East, e.g. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Afghanistan, ...
It isn't true. Condi is spinning like crazy in order to keep the story from catching hold. I'm not holding my breath waiting for the Congress or the Justice Department to investigate though. This should be an occasion for a special prosecutor.
I'm calling bullshit. It's easy to respond to these outrages by saying that Republicans and Democrats are all the same. But you didn't see any violations of privacy under Clinton. And today, you've got Democrats standing up to oppose the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act. Republicans and Democrats aren't the same, and we don't need a third party. We just need a government that gives a shit about civil rights.
Marquette is a Catholic school. Free speech has never been a priority in the Catholic Church. They've silenced Galileo, Oscar Romero, whistleblowers of sexual abuse, ...
It's The Register. They hate everything as a matter of principle. Cynicism is their bread and butter.
What retailer is going stop selling something that they can make money selling? And if they did, wouldn't that just drive business to their competitors who will keep selling the game. Who cares what the ESRB does? Not the people buying the games and not the people selling the games. On the other side of things, Rockstar just got a week of free publicity. They're probably just gave the guy who wrote the content a raise.
It's a server-processor. Sun sells servers. Servers tend to run software that either spawn a lot of processes (like apache 1.3, postgresql) or run a lot of threads (MySQL, etc...). These programs do no or almost no FP. Niagara was designed to be a server processor. It would probably suck for other things, but that's beside the point.