House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last weeks FISA bill took thousands of dollars more from phone companies than Democrats who consistently voted against legislation with an immunity provision, according to an analysis by MAPLight.org.CBS News.
Strange how the U.S. Soldiers have fewer rights then the terrorists we are fighting
No, US soldiers still have more rights in military and civilian US courts than enemy combatants. Oh, you mean, enemy combatants have more rights in US courts than US soldiers would have in an Al Quida court. Probably, but so what. We're supposed to be the good guys here with laws and a constitution that are supposed to work in good times and bad, more importantly in bad times.
'Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.'
I really hesitate to wade into to the crapfest that Mr. Stein is trying to create, but here goes....
One major concern I have is the elevation of Darwinian natural selection as a means of species creation to an unrealistic importance. I just don't see why it's so important in and of itself.
The reason that the theory of evolution is important is because it basis for our current understanding of molecular biology. IAACMB (I am a computational molecular biologist) and when I ply my trade, evolutionary theory is a fundamental tool. Intelligent Design (ID) and Creationism just don't work. It's not a religious conflict like Perl vs. Python, it's simply that evolutionary theory does a good job of explaining what we see in data (in my field, sequence data).
Creationism and ID are not "bad science", they are dead science. In Newton's time most scientists were creationists, but the gradual accumulation of fossil and geological evidence showed that the recent and/or instantaneous creation of life could not explain the evidence. Prior to Darwin and Wallace, a form of special creation of species (ID) was held by many scientists, but Darwin showed that the evidence couldn't support that view and scientists gradually accepted evolution by natural selection. See Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher for the whole story. ID is no more important to modern molecular biology than the phlogistan theory of heat is to thermodynamics. It is just an interesting historical footnote. People who argue for ID are arguing for a notion that was found inadequate over a century ago.
But I certainly don't think that the loss of Darwinism would destroy American education or anything along those lines. So... people... GET A GRIP
It's only a great loss if you think that understanding how science and biology actually work is an important part of education.
Hmmm...I don't think your recall is 100%. Read this description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy. The Bush administration claimed that they were intercepting calls originating outside the US even if that call terminated in the US. It's not unreasonable to assume that some of those calls might have been to US citizens. In any case, without oversight and since the complete details of executive order authorizing this are not known, who can tell what they were up to.
Remember, time is just god's way of keeping everything from happening at once. And space is god's way of keeping everything from happening to you. So now, everything will happen at once, just not to you.
"It's a floor wax. No, it's dessert topping."
Linux is the kernel. Ubuntu is a kernel bundled with a bunch of apps, including a window manager. TFA is FUD masquerading as an article. Some guy, who I have never heard of, says the Dell/Ubuntu notebook is not good and we have an identity crisis? Why, if the desktop is built on a solid kernel, can't we have a good desktop experience? This seems like a case where we can have "both", not an "either/or" situation.
So when they get it wrong, and the police storm my front door instead of my neighbors, will it still be "cool"?
With 95% accuracy, 11.5 billion web pages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#Statistics) gives 575 million errors. If you assume, 1% of those web pages are anonymous, that's still over 5 million errors. It's a little hard to tell from TFA, what they mean by "accuracy" or how they came up with it, but some of those errors will be false positives. So don't worry, they will be so busy kicking down doors for those other false positives that it will be years before they get around to your door.
-- If the website designer has to pay for bits each time you view their website without viewing their banner ads, are you engaged in theft?
Why not extend that argument to the products too? After all, it costs money to advertise and the amount the advertiser pays is related to the page hits. Are you stealing from the company placing the ads if you don't but the product after you view the ad? I thought ads were supposed to entice me to pay attention and to buy things or at least recognize the product. I thought it was supposed to be a temptation not a commandment to shop. I guess I'm not moral enough to be a good consumer.
I don't know why senate.gov doesn't have the vote up yet. It should be 00309, but the list ends at 00308. In the meantime, http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/4/04858/2 9657 lists the Senate democrats who voted for the bill. No republicans voted against it.
A quick google for "dna music" yields 29000 hits. Including http://www.nslij-genetics.org/dnamusic/ and http://www.algoart.com/music.htm. There are lots of samples of music generated by DNA and protein sequences on the web. It's not even much of a trick. I'm off to patent my technique for music made by barking dogs.
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House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last weeks FISA bill took thousands of dollars more from phone companies than Democrats who consistently voted against legislation with an immunity provision, according to an analysis by MAPLight.org. CBS News.
Why am I not surprised?
Strange how the U.S. Soldiers have fewer rights then the terrorists we are fighting
No, US soldiers still have more rights in military and civilian US courts than enemy combatants. Oh, you mean, enemy combatants have more rights in US courts than US soldiers would have in an Al Quida court. Probably, but so what. We're supposed to be the good guys here with laws and a constitution that are supposed to work in good times and bad, more importantly in bad times.
'Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.'
Does this mean they'll ban Bill O'Reilly?
Mothers against distracted driving
Is that you Mitch?
I really hesitate to wade into to the crapfest that Mr. Stein is trying to create, but here goes....
... people... GET A GRIP
One major concern I have is the elevation of Darwinian natural selection as a means of species creation to an unrealistic importance. I just don't see why it's so important in and of itself.
The reason that the theory of evolution is important is because it basis for our current understanding of molecular biology. IAACMB (I am a computational molecular biologist) and when I ply my trade, evolutionary theory is a fundamental tool. Intelligent Design (ID) and Creationism just don't work. It's not a religious conflict like Perl vs. Python, it's simply that evolutionary theory does a good job of explaining what we see in data (in my field, sequence data).
Creationism and ID are not "bad science", they are dead science. In Newton's time most scientists were creationists, but the gradual accumulation of fossil and geological evidence showed that the recent and/or instantaneous creation of life could not explain the evidence. Prior to Darwin and Wallace, a form of special creation of species (ID) was held by many scientists, but Darwin showed that the evidence couldn't support that view and scientists gradually accepted evolution by natural selection. See Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith by Philip Kitcher for the whole story. ID is no more important to modern molecular biology than the phlogistan theory of heat is to thermodynamics. It is just an interesting historical footnote. People who argue for ID are arguing for a notion that was found inadequate over a century ago.
But I certainly don't think that the loss of Darwinism would destroy American education or anything along those lines. So
It's only a great loss if you think that understanding how science and biology actually work is an important part of education.
A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. - Wendy Kaminer
Hmmm...I don't think your recall is 100%. Read this description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy. The Bush administration claimed that they were intercepting calls originating outside the US even if that call terminated in the US. It's not unreasonable to assume that some of those calls might have been to US citizens. In any case, without oversight and since the complete details of executive order authorizing this are not known, who can tell what they were up to.
Remember, time is just god's way of keeping everything from happening at once. And space is god's way of keeping everything from happening to you. So now, everything will happen at once, just not to you.
"It's a floor wax. No, it's dessert topping." Linux is the kernel. Ubuntu is a kernel bundled with a bunch of apps, including a window manager. TFA is FUD masquerading as an article. Some guy, who I have never heard of, says the Dell/Ubuntu notebook is not good and we have an identity crisis? Why, if the desktop is built on a solid kernel, can't we have a good desktop experience? This seems like a case where we can have "both", not an "either/or" situation.
So when they get it wrong, and the police storm my front door instead of my neighbors, will it still be "cool"?
With 95% accuracy, 11.5 billion web pages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web#Statistics) gives 575 million errors. If you assume, 1% of those web pages are anonymous, that's still over 5 million errors. It's a little hard to tell from TFA, what they mean by "accuracy" or how they came up with it, but some of those errors will be false positives. So don't worry, they will be so busy kicking down doors for those other false positives that it will be years before they get around to your door.
-- If the website designer has to pay for bits each time you view their website without viewing their banner ads, are you engaged in theft?
Why not extend that argument to the products too? After all, it costs money to advertise and the amount the advertiser pays is related to the page hits. Are you stealing from the company placing the ads if you don't but the product after you view the ad? I thought ads were supposed to entice me to pay attention and to buy things or at least recognize the product. I thought it was supposed to be a temptation not a commandment to shop. I guess I'm not moral enough to be a good consumer.
I don't know why senate.gov doesn't have the vote up yet. It should be 00309, but the list ends at 00308. In the meantime, http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/4/04858/2 9657 lists the Senate democrats who voted for the bill. No republicans voted against it.
A quick google for "dna music" yields 29000 hits. Including http://www.nslij-genetics.org/dnamusic/ and http://www.algoart.com/music.htm. There are lots of samples of music generated by DNA and protein sequences on the web. It's not even much of a trick. I'm off to patent my technique for music made by barking dogs.
Yes, but Alaska Senator Stevens claims the investigation enhances his role as a US Senator.
You're right. It was just reported out by the Commerce committee, not passed by the senate. http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAc tion=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=248882&M onth=7&Year=2007 Interestingly, the bill is co-sponsored by Ted "Tube" Stevens and one of the Commerce committee members is David Vitter, friend of the working girl. The senate site didn't give any information on how he felt about bad words on the radio.
Well, then TLA (three letter acronym) is an initialism.
You can complain to the CRTC (Canadian Radio-televison and Telecommunications Commission) at this site.
You can find that out right here.
Sheep revolt? It has already begun, comrades SheepAgainstHumans.