1. Al Qaeda is not from Iraq. In fact, Al Qaeda is probably a creation of the US, whose actual existence has been exaggerated.
Nazi's werent from Egypt but we found quite a few of them there. Where they are from isnt as important as where they are now. As for Al Qaeda, were they created or only exaggerated by the US? Make up your mind.
2. Normal Iraqi people are not members of Al Qaeda. But they are the people being detained.
Well all of them arent being detained so something must make them stand out. Id love to see your sources on their criminal standing. Exactly how do you know that none of the Iraqi detainees are Al Qaeda?
3. The idea of a "war" against such an amorphous and vague group is ridiculous. They should be targets of law enforcement. War is about nation-states and armies fighting one another. "War on Terror" is a misnomer.
Two specific wars into the 'war against terror' and war is now an incorrect label? Perhaps 'War against nations harboring or sponsoring internation terrorists' is a bit long to repeat 30 times in a speach.
4. If we are at war with Al Qaeda, then why doesn't the US treat them by Geneva conventions, and other standards for treating POWs? But the administration has denied that they are prisoners of war - they are "enemy combatants" - therefore, there must be no war, if they are not POWs.
The geneva conventions specifically exclude protections for soldiers fighting without a uniform. In effect the other side has no standing forces and are fighting a covert (spy) campaign. We are actually dealing with the prisoners very humanely considering how spies have been dealt with in the past.
What you are describing is thomas.loc.gov. This information is publically available. As soon as you start to summarize the bills you are subjecting your bias by describing your opinion of what the bill does. If the teachers union wants a 10% increase but you sign a law implementing only 3%, is that an increase or a cut? If a bill has a multi-million dollar bridge in Alaska added on, is it a "pork" bill or necessary infrastructure? If a bill is signed but unfunded should the politician get credit for passing the bill or criticism for their lack of effectiveness? If a senator is the sponsor for billions of dollars of new programs does he deserve respect as a social engineer or criticism for increasing the load on an already strained national deficit?
All of these summaries remove the ability of the reader to make an informed decision. Full access every opinion (even those in the government) is the only way to maintain transparency.
The courts have decided that probable cause and time restraints are rational and reasonable considerations to allow a search without a warrant document. The FBI knew they would get a warrant. The judge apparently had no problem with their tactics.
The fact is, her moral stand only delayed the investigation a few hours. The agents werent critised for their actions. The judge found no reason to deny the warrant. She tried to impede a fully legal investigation. A computer used in the commission of a crime is just as searchable as a vehicle use in the commission of a crime, and police have the authority to investigate if there is reasonable cause to assume the computer has been used to commit a crime.
Since the judge found nothing unreasonable doesnt this disable your argument?
Her grand moral stand was to resist a criminal investigation. The agents knew they had cause. The judge agreed and awarded the warrant. She is being lauded for impeding an investigation and protecting the guilty.
Why would Microsoft be afraid of dropping access for old Windows users? They have been trying to force users of 95 and 98 to upgrade for years with no success. If they had a reason as good as this one they would fall all over themselves to use it. "It isnt our fault fellas, due to circumstances beyond our control, the internet wont connect to any previous Windows products anymore. But we have Windows Vista, which is being granted full access. Vista is priced at only $99.99 for the next 30 days."
Exactly. The article states that the FBI began over 1700 new cases last year. Those 1700 plus the already existing cases resulted in around 150 POTENTIAL breeches in protocol that justified investigation. Assuming these numbers are the average for the FBI it looks good that only 13 cases in three years of investigations are deemed to be illegal actions. Roughly that amounts to one illegal action per every thirty investigations or one for every three hundred cases.
Apparently the FBI is investigating and finding agents who violate the law, then report their findings to the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Once those investigations are over the details are available via the freedom of information act. This is a good thing isnt it?
A while back I read China would limit online access by making time limits for online characters in games. For games with no registration details wouldnt this make it much more likely that chinese citizens are just using multiple accounts? It would also partially explain why only 1/40th of the accounts are online at once.
Did you read your sources? One is a measure of IQ's which is not an accurate measure of an education system. The other is a measure of the overall population but does not address the fact that a significant portion of the population was not participating in the education system at the time.
from Wikipedia: "by 1910, 72% of American children attended school"
Around 30% of your literacy sample never attended school in the first place. They might have chosen not to, or had just recently immigrated but they never used the system in the first place.
He created a patent that specifically defines copying tables and cells, in their native proprietary format, and pasting them into a new program with a different proprietary format (along with all the necessary math crunching and video representations necessary to complete the transaction.
However, the breakdown of the specifics of the software do not seem to describe the methods MS uses to convert Excel to Access. If this case is not appealed it could be used to sue anyone who makes a script that converts one type of databate table to another type, including internal mechanisms.
I should file a patent that describes an on the fly emulator for all previous gaming machines.
"These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true."
I personally like only paying one monthly access bill. Even more so if that bill offers a discount for multiple services. Competition in web access has not had a history of reducing rates. In fact rates increased regularly and still continue. I had free unlimited acess to the web until ~2000
The fundamental concept of Libertarianism in the form of laissez faire was the controlling idealogy for around a hundred years. In libertarianism there arent any "essential services" to maintain.
Innovation:The concept that microsoft lacks innovation is a blind man's argument. In the 10 years MS has implemented or innovated: a graphic interface, a web browser, new high speed data standards, media editing software, internal CD burning, multiple processor support, wireless connectivity and a High-Def audio video player. Whenever a new technology gains MASS APPEAL, MS releases patches or add-ons to create basic compatibility. For ten years MS has maintained as many as nine unique or variant Operating Systems at near universal compatibility (excepting devices designed for other OS' or for furure Os' such as USB on Win 95). I dont know another company that is so exhaustive in it's tech support.
Every MS based computer ive worked on that has had major bugs or problems has been caused by hardware problems. Cheap CDROMS, disfunctional motherboards, bad power supplies etc.
There are thousands of companies making hundreds of thouseands of PC and Server attachments and programs that on a daily basis work soundly with Windows and Windows subsystems. Alternately, add on software programs tend to interfere with each other more than they interfer or are interfered with by windows. I am negotiating a juggling act between ACT, Quickbooks and a program called EstiMate at work.
Im not arguing that Windows has no bugs or failings... I just can't believe that is denounced in favor of proven failed PC companies IBM and Apple specifically. Linux is a unique case though not completely different. It is a pro designed system for pro's to use. It's own supporters are saying it is not now nor will ever be a desktop system.
I dont support the antitrust laws... but despite that MS can only be a monopoly if monopoly meant big company.. it doesnt it isnt, it has direct competitors and always has. It takes in new ideas that are helpful to the market and provides a compatible platform for competitors to demonstrate their products.
So, MS has to pay a fine and thats ok hunh? How does that improve the situation? MS loses it's financial reserve (10b last time i checked) and it stops focusing on updates/patches for 95/98/98SE/ME/NT$/2000/XP and instead throws its weight into Longhorn and moves the release date to 2005. This helps who? The only limitation MS places on their competition is that the users have to seek the product. If users are comfortable with IE they dont care that mozilla(a program that functions alongside it's windows counterpart) is out there.
I personally would like to see MS refund every (legitimate) copy of Windows ME and XP in the EU and then shut down every copy in europe. If they they dont like windows.. let em make their own software...but thats my frustration speaking
I would like to see one solution in Longhorn.. make everything run in RAM... no slow swapdrives..require 2-4GB... make a false swapdrive in ram for older programs
and yes I buy my copies of Windows
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1. Al Qaeda is not from Iraq. In fact, Al Qaeda is probably a creation of the US, whose actual existence has been exaggerated. Nazi's werent from Egypt but we found quite a few of them there. Where they are from isnt as important as where they are now. As for Al Qaeda, were they created or only exaggerated by the US? Make up your mind. 2. Normal Iraqi people are not members of Al Qaeda. But they are the people being detained. Well all of them arent being detained so something must make them stand out. Id love to see your sources on their criminal standing. Exactly how do you know that none of the Iraqi detainees are Al Qaeda? 3. The idea of a "war" against such an amorphous and vague group is ridiculous. They should be targets of law enforcement. War is about nation-states and armies fighting one another. "War on Terror" is a misnomer. Two specific wars into the 'war against terror' and war is now an incorrect label? Perhaps 'War against nations harboring or sponsoring internation terrorists' is a bit long to repeat 30 times in a speach. 4. If we are at war with Al Qaeda, then why doesn't the US treat them by Geneva conventions, and other standards for treating POWs? But the administration has denied that they are prisoners of war - they are "enemy combatants" - therefore, there must be no war, if they are not POWs. The geneva conventions specifically exclude protections for soldiers fighting without a uniform. In effect the other side has no standing forces and are fighting a covert (spy) campaign. We are actually dealing with the prisoners very humanely considering how spies have been dealt with in the past.
I cried once while playing FF6. It was when I went to load my save game and it was gone.
What you are describing is thomas.loc.gov. This information is publically available. As soon as you start to summarize the bills you are subjecting your bias by describing your opinion of what the bill does. If the teachers union wants a 10% increase but you sign a law implementing only 3%, is that an increase or a cut? If a bill has a multi-million dollar bridge in Alaska added on, is it a "pork" bill or necessary infrastructure? If a bill is signed but unfunded should the politician get credit for passing the bill or criticism for their lack of effectiveness? If a senator is the sponsor for billions of dollars of new programs does he deserve respect as a social engineer or criticism for increasing the load on an already strained national deficit? All of these summaries remove the ability of the reader to make an informed decision. Full access every opinion (even those in the government) is the only way to maintain transparency.
The courts have decided that probable cause and time restraints are rational and reasonable considerations to allow a search without a warrant document. The FBI knew they would get a warrant. The judge apparently had no problem with their tactics. The fact is, her moral stand only delayed the investigation a few hours. The agents werent critised for their actions. The judge found no reason to deny the warrant. She tried to impede a fully legal investigation. A computer used in the commission of a crime is just as searchable as a vehicle use in the commission of a crime, and police have the authority to investigate if there is reasonable cause to assume the computer has been used to commit a crime. Since the judge found nothing unreasonable doesnt this disable your argument?
Her grand moral stand was to resist a criminal investigation. The agents knew they had cause. The judge agreed and awarded the warrant. She is being lauded for impeding an investigation and protecting the guilty.
Why would Microsoft be afraid of dropping access for old Windows users? They have been trying to force users of 95 and 98 to upgrade for years with no success. If they had a reason as good as this one they would fall all over themselves to use it. "It isnt our fault fellas, due to circumstances beyond our control, the internet wont connect to any previous Windows products anymore. But we have Windows Vista, which is being granted full access. Vista is priced at only $99.99 for the next 30 days."
Exactly. The article states that the FBI began over 1700 new cases last year. Those 1700 plus the already existing cases resulted in around 150 POTENTIAL breeches in protocol that justified investigation. Assuming these numbers are the average for the FBI it looks good that only 13 cases in three years of investigations are deemed to be illegal actions. Roughly that amounts to one illegal action per every thirty investigations or one for every three hundred cases. Apparently the FBI is investigating and finding agents who violate the law, then report their findings to the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Once those investigations are over the details are available via the freedom of information act. This is a good thing isnt it?
A while back I read China would limit online access by making time limits for online characters in games. For games with no registration details wouldnt this make it much more likely that chinese citizens are just using multiple accounts? It would also partially explain why only 1/40th of the accounts are online at once.
Did you read your sources? One is a measure of IQ's which is not an accurate measure of an education system. The other is a measure of the overall population but does not address the fact that a significant portion of the population was not participating in the education system at the time.
from Wikipedia:
"by 1910, 72% of American children attended school"
Around 30% of your literacy sample never attended school in the first place. They might have chosen not to, or had just recently immigrated but they never used the system in the first place.
Isn's Sony claiming to go "underground" with PS3 info until near the release date next year? Whatever happened to that idea? Here is the link to that /. story. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/ 1346221&tid=212&tid=98&tid=187&tid=233
He created a patent that specifically defines copying tables and cells, in their native proprietary format, and pasting them into a new program with a different proprietary format (along with all the necessary math crunching and video representations necessary to complete the transaction.
However, the breakdown of the specifics of the software do not seem to describe the methods MS uses to convert Excel to Access. If this case is not appealed it could be used to sue anyone who makes a script that converts one type of databate table to another type, including internal mechanisms.
I should file a patent that describes an on the fly emulator for all previous gaming machines.
"These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true."
no bias here
he reports, he decides.
I personally like only paying one monthly access bill. Even more so if that bill offers a discount for multiple services. Competition in web access has not had a history of reducing rates. In fact rates increased regularly and still continue. I had free unlimited acess to the web until ~2000
The fundamental concept of Libertarianism in the form of laissez faire was the controlling idealogy for around a hundred years. In libertarianism there arent any "essential services" to maintain.
Innovation:The concept that microsoft lacks innovation is a blind man's argument. In the 10 years MS has implemented or innovated: a graphic interface, a web browser, new high speed data standards, media editing software, internal CD burning, multiple processor support, wireless connectivity and a High-Def audio video player. Whenever a new technology gains MASS APPEAL, MS releases patches or add-ons to create basic compatibility. For ten years MS has maintained as many as nine unique or variant Operating Systems at near universal compatibility (excepting devices designed for other OS' or for furure Os' such as USB on Win 95). I dont know another company that is so exhaustive in it's tech support. Every MS based computer ive worked on that has had major bugs or problems has been caused by hardware problems. Cheap CDROMS, disfunctional motherboards, bad power supplies etc. There are thousands of companies making hundreds of thouseands of PC and Server attachments and programs that on a daily basis work soundly with Windows and Windows subsystems. Alternately, add on software programs tend to interfere with each other more than they interfer or are interfered with by windows. I am negotiating a juggling act between ACT, Quickbooks and a program called EstiMate at work. Im not arguing that Windows has no bugs or failings ... I just can't believe that is denounced in favor of proven failed PC companies IBM and Apple specifically. Linux is a unique case though not completely different. It is a pro designed system for pro's to use. It's own supporters are saying it is not now nor will ever be a desktop system.
I dont support the antitrust laws ... but despite that MS can only be a monopoly if monopoly meant big company.. it doesnt it isnt, it has direct competitors and always has. It takes in new ideas that are helpful to the market and provides a compatible platform for competitors to demonstrate their products.
So, MS has to pay a fine and thats ok hunh? How does that improve the situation? MS loses it's financial reserve (10b last time i checked) and it stops focusing on updates/patches for 95/98/98SE/ME/NT$/2000/XP and instead throws its weight into Longhorn and moves the release date to 2005. This helps who? The only limitation MS places on their competition is that the users have to seek the product. If users are comfortable with IE they dont care that mozilla(a program that functions alongside it's windows counterpart) is out there.
I personally would like to see MS refund every (legitimate) copy of Windows ME and XP in the EU and then shut down every copy in europe. If they they dont like windows .. let em make their own software...but thats my frustration speaking
I would like to see one solution in Longhorn.. make everything run in RAM ... no slow swapdrives..require 2-4GB ... make a false swapdrive in ram for older programs
and yes I buy my copies of Windows