It's not obvious how to deal with situations like that - especially when there are international, defense-related entanglements that would require the disclosure of intel methods in a standard criminal trial.
Because the hundreds of espionage trials that have taken place in our judicial system throughout our nation's history didn't work?
That, and the fact that there actually is a hole where the WTC used to be, and guys sitting in jail that were trying really hard to take down a bunch of UK->US planes a month ago
You're leaving out the part where the lack of warrantless wiretaps and torture don't seem to have been an obstacle to investigating those crimes. The brits have infiltrated the liquid-bomber cell with an undercover agent, and bureaucratic infighting got in the way of stopping 9/11.
I consider stopping terrorism to be extremely important, but the clear successes seem to have stemmed from regular police work, not comic-book fantasies of unrestrained secret agent men saving the world at any cost.
I also think that torture, extrajudicial prisons, and other highly public rolls in the moral slime make great propaganda for recruiting more terrorists.
longer we stayed on the beach in Normandy, the worse it got.
That's funny, I could have sworn that by a couple of days into the Normandy invasion, the Germans were gone, the mines were cleared, and the beaches were a pretty safe place to be. And this far out from D-Day, the allies had utterly defeated the Nazis, and were not hemmoraging daily reports of appaling incompetence, cronyism, and nearsightedness Over There. Furthemore, the Marshall Plan was being drawn up to revive Europe's economy and infrastructure, and unqualified cronies and no-bid contracts to American war profiteers did not figure greatly in the plan.
Since Godwin's already out of the bag in this thread, I submit that a different WWII parallel to draw with Iraq is between Rumsfeld and Göring. Both pursued ideologically-driven war strategies (the feasibility of low troop strengths in Iraq and whistling past the graveyard on what to do after the shooting stopped vs. the feasibility of resupplying Stalingrad solely by air) in flagrant disregard of both the reality on the ground and the advice of their best military professionals.
We would arrest a few masterminds, then go about our merry way. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda would just recruit more people in their place and attack us again.
Funny, I recall widespread ridicule from the right when Clinton lobbed cruise missiles at Osama in Sudan and barely missed him. Saber-rattling to distract us from the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I believe was the talking point. Oh, and using a million dollar missile to destry a $29.99 tent. I also recall that the people captured in the WTC, Cole, and Embassy bombing investigations continue to be some of our best intelligence sources about Al-Qaeda (and since they've been interviewed instead of tortured, we get information from them more than once, and about things we haven't directly asked them about, and can be reasonably sure they didn't make it up to make the bad man stop.)
we could not let this dictator remain in power after 9/11. He was a thorn in our side.And how's that working out? It sure is a relief not to have Iraq as a thorn in America's side. Makes Iran/Hezbollah, North Korea, Sudan, FARC, etc. really tremble in fear to see our military no longer tied down in Iraq.
You don't seem to mind the fact that the government examines your luggage before you get on an airplane, do you? Your luggage might have your freedom of expressions in it. Letters to your wife, artwork, etc.
If the TSA reads documents in my luggage, I sure as hell do mind, as should you. Their responsibility is to keep weapons and explosives from endangering aircraft, not to be thought police.
The FISA process with its retroactive warrants wasn't broken. The only reason Bush would need to go around it that makes any sense is that he's using wiretaps on political enemies, journalists, or others he has absolutely no business eavesdropping on. And pointing to the internment camps, one of the ugliest episodes in our nation's history, to defend Bush isn't doing him or your position any favors.
There are a number of perfectly reasonable scenarios for wanting a shared itunes library that many users would expect to work. Like a husband and wife who share a home computer, for example.
Right, because in proportional systems, fringe parties never hold the mainstream hostage when it's time to form a government or elect a PM.
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If you make people afraid of the germs in their surroundings, you can sell them soap. Advertising for soap is one of the major sources of revenue for television networks (e.g. "soap operas").
The older I get, the better Marxist theories of history ("follow the money") sound.
It fails two of the four pillars of fair use on its face - Commercial use (yes) and Substantiality (all of it). That having been said, if it's OK for turnitin.com, it's OK for a lot of personal private uses that media companies would really not like us to have and that would be nice to have.
Actually, that's for "Economics Teachers." "Secondary School Teachers" is #59 on that list, and "Teachers n.e.c." is #76.
Also, I don't know enough stats to see where that list is flawed, but it certainly is - Librarians and Dental Hygeinists make more than Accountants, for example. Mean pay for lawyers, is listed at $38.76/hr (ha!), and the mean weekly hours aren't terribly different from the surrounding jobs, while the mean annual hours are nearly double.
My guess in the case of teachers is that with dozens of sub-categories, more salary outliers responded with specifics.
That site mentions "remarkably successful brain surgery" in neolithic times. I don't know if you could call trepanation "sucessful brain surgery." And given that the Egyptians' understanding of the brain's function was laughably wrong, I don't know that I'd trust that source's take on things, especially with no citations.
unbridled attempts to blame Bush for everything that goes wrong - rather than just the things that he's responsible for - only serve to marginalize valid opposition opinions on things like illegal surveillance, deficit spending, the Iraq war, etc.
OK, then, how do you think the:
Abandonment of the MS antitrust verdict
Shortlisting of Ken Lay for Treasury
Double secret energy task force
Abramoff scandal
no-bid contracts to Halliburton
Gutting of the EPA, FDA, FTC, etc.
appointments of well-connected, unqualified cronies to key positions
Profligate giveaways of public property to logging, mining, and petroleum concerns
Unabashed disregard for the rule of law when it counters the administration's interests
has affected impressions of what is and is not acceptable behavior in the boardrooms of America? Who outside the administration is responsible for those things happening?
The real problem is that so many deeply disturbing things are happening at once that it's becoming impossible to keep track.
i buy a beethoven cd, can i then copy and pass it around? not according to them.
That's because there's an existing valid copyright on that recording of that orchestra's performance of the piece. If you rip an out-of-copyright 78 or wax cylinder recording, or record your own performance on kazoo, you can share to your heart's content.
All true, but off the mark. The last of the debris was hauled out quite a while ago. The reason is the mexican standoff between:
Larry Silverman (WTC leaseholder),
his insurers (who would love not to pay billions),
George Pataki (who would love to be president),
Mayor Bloomeberg (who would love to have a viable project under way during his tenure, but who has no authority over the site),
the survivors' organizations (who would love a memorial and nothing else on some of the most valuable real estate on Earth),
SOM (freedom tower architects),
the Transit Authority (who would love to be able to modernize the spaghetti of subway lines under the site),
and The Port Authority (landowner).
All have wildly differing interests, all have some claim to legitimacy in determining the direction of the project, and none have a coherent vision or the individual clout to make something happen at the site.
Add to that 3 scrapped freedom tower plans, a memorial that can't be built, and no real pressing need for a large office building there, and you have a Big Mess.
If we're talking about gameplay advancements, how about Thief, or Quakeworld/TF/CS? I haven't really seen anything that new under the sun since then, with the exception of Half-Life introducing storytelling into the mix.
That's the address of Comcast's corporate HQ, a 30-ish story building they occupy (almost?) entirely. Good luck getting past reception. Funnily enough, it's about a block from a building owned entirely by Verizon, and both are right next to City Hall.
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Because the hundreds of espionage trials that have taken place in our judicial system throughout our nation's history didn't work?
You're leaving out the part where the lack of warrantless wiretaps and torture don't seem to have been an obstacle to investigating those crimes. The brits have infiltrated the liquid-bomber cell with an undercover agent, and bureaucratic infighting got in the way of stopping 9/11.
I consider stopping terrorism to be extremely important, but the clear successes seem to have stemmed from regular police work, not comic-book fantasies of unrestrained secret agent men saving the world at any cost.
I also think that torture, extrajudicial prisons, and other highly public rolls in the moral slime make great propaganda for recruiting more terrorists.
That's funny, I could have sworn that by a couple of days into the Normandy invasion, the Germans were gone, the mines were cleared, and the beaches were a pretty safe place to be. And this far out from D-Day, the allies had utterly defeated the Nazis, and were not hemmoraging daily reports of appaling incompetence, cronyism, and nearsightedness Over There. Furthemore, the Marshall Plan was being drawn up to revive Europe's economy and infrastructure, and unqualified cronies and no-bid contracts to American war profiteers did not figure greatly in the plan.
Since Godwin's already out of the bag in this thread, I submit that a different WWII parallel to draw with Iraq is between Rumsfeld and Göring. Both pursued ideologically-driven war strategies (the feasibility of low troop strengths in Iraq and whistling past the graveyard on what to do after the shooting stopped vs. the feasibility of resupplying Stalingrad solely by air) in flagrant disregard of both the reality on the ground and the advice of their best military professionals.
We would arrest a few masterminds, then go about our merry way. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda would just recruit more people in their place and attack us again.
Funny, I recall widespread ridicule from the right when Clinton lobbed cruise missiles at Osama in Sudan and barely missed him. Saber-rattling to distract us from the Monica Lewinsky scandal, I believe was the talking point. Oh, and using a million dollar missile to destry a $29.99 tent. I also recall that the people captured in the WTC, Cole, and Embassy bombing investigations continue to be some of our best intelligence sources about Al-Qaeda (and since they've been interviewed instead of tortured, we get information from them more than once, and about things we haven't directly asked them about, and can be reasonably sure they didn't make it up to make the bad man stop.)
we could not let this dictator remain in power after 9/11. He was a thorn in our side.And how's that working out? It sure is a relief not to have Iraq as a thorn in America's side. Makes Iran/Hezbollah, North Korea, Sudan, FARC, etc. really tremble in fear to see our military no longer tied down in Iraq.
You don't seem to mind the fact that the government examines your luggage before you get on an airplane, do you? Your luggage might have your freedom of expressions in it. Letters to your wife, artwork, etc.
If the TSA reads documents in my luggage, I sure as hell do mind, as should you. Their responsibility is to keep weapons and explosives from endangering aircraft, not to be thought police.
The FISA process with its retroactive warrants wasn't broken. The only reason Bush would need to go around it that makes any sense is that he's using wiretaps on political enemies, journalists, or others he has absolutely no business eavesdropping on. And pointing to the internment camps, one of the ugliest episodes in our nation's history, to defend Bush isn't doing him or your position any favors.
Remember, it's not the content of the youthful fad that's important, it's the fact that it pisses off your parents.
What other media? Is Vivendi going to get upset if WoW in-game advertising takes revenue from Universal Pictures product placement?
No, an appeal to the phenomenon that societies seem to function better with fewer angry hopeless starving masses.
There are a number of perfectly reasonable scenarios for wanting a shared itunes library that many users would expect to work. Like a husband and wife who share a home computer, for example.
Or nail you to the wall when the revolution comes.
Right, because in proportional systems, fringe parties never hold the mainstream hostage when it's time to form a government or elect a PM.
The older I get, the better Marxist theories of history ("follow the money") sound.
Well, there's the discreet/SGI turnkey Linux editing systems, but perhaps that's a bit out of your price range.
It fails two of the four pillars of fair use on its face - Commercial use (yes) and Substantiality (all of it). That having been said, if it's OK for turnitin.com, it's OK for a lot of personal private uses that media companies would really not like us to have and that would be nice to have.
"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
English -> Russian -> English
"I desire the vodka but the meat is rotten."
I read it as him saying your son will never get into Harvard Ninja Academy with a weak training regimen like that.
Also, I don't know enough stats to see where that list is flawed, but it certainly is - Librarians and Dental Hygeinists make more than Accountants, for example. Mean pay for lawyers, is listed at $38.76/hr (ha!), and the mean weekly hours aren't terribly different from the surrounding jobs, while the mean annual hours are nearly double.
My guess in the case of teachers is that with dozens of sub-categories, more salary outliers responded with specifics.
That site mentions "remarkably successful brain surgery" in neolithic times. I don't know if you could call trepanation "sucessful brain surgery." And given that the Egyptians' understanding of the brain's function was laughably wrong, I don't know that I'd trust that source's take on things, especially with no citations.
640 GB should be enough for anyone.
OK, then, how do you think the:
has affected impressions of what is and is not acceptable behavior in the boardrooms of America? Who outside the administration is responsible for those things happening?
The real problem is that so many deeply disturbing things are happening at once that it's becoming impossible to keep track.
That's because there's an existing valid copyright on that recording of that orchestra's performance of the piece. If you rip an out-of-copyright 78 or wax cylinder recording, or record your own performance on kazoo, you can share to your heart's content.
All have wildly differing interests, all have some claim to legitimacy in determining the direction of the project, and none have a coherent vision or the individual clout to make something happen at the site.
Add to that 3 scrapped freedom tower plans, a memorial that can't be built, and no real pressing need for a large office building there, and you have a Big Mess.
If we're talking about gameplay advancements, how about Thief, or Quakeworld/TF/CS? I haven't really seen anything that new under the sun since then, with the exception of Half-Life introducing storytelling into the mix.
That's the address of Comcast's corporate HQ, a 30-ish story building they occupy (almost?) entirely. Good luck getting past reception. Funnily enough, it's about a block from a building owned entirely by Verizon, and both are right next to City Hall.
Good to hear.
You could just as easily argue that Samuel L. Jackson doesn't put asses in seats.
I thought "running the exe straight from the site" was something we were all trying to avoid.