Once again. Ask a republican or a few hundred of them and see if they would trade scalia or another judge. Ask the same number of democrats and see if you get the same answer.
Scalia is a republican who believes in republican causes. He is hostile towards democrats and democrat causes.
"I gave you two examples where he went agaisnt the Republican party line."
OK. What is his batting average though?
Ask any republican if they would like to trade scalia or thomas for a new judge and I will bet you any money they will say no. Ask any democrat and they will say yes. Scalia has been and continues to be very hostile towards democrats and continues to be on the side of the republicans on virtually every issue. Sure once or twice he may go against the grain but it's rare.
Have you seen the movies? Apparently they are dime a dozen and can be made very small. I think it was in the last one that a guy hung on to while flying all over the city.
In the mean time the people making a robot army make them with legs and make them roll like wheels.
I agree with you that sometimes the president does not know enough about his nominees positions and mistakenly appoints a republican or a democrat when they meant to go the other way.
This hasn't happened recently though, these days they do a lot more reasearch.
When bush appoints his judge(s) you can be sure they will go strictly by the republican party line.
For corporations I think a slow release cycle is a plus. Look at MS they don't come out with a new version of windows every year do they? Especially in the server realm.
"If you wish to have an informed and intelligent discussion about the law, then it matters to describe the law accurately, yes."
It seems to me you are making a distinction without a difference. It's a mere technicality easily subverted by law enforcement. It's as if it was never there in the first place.
"And your assertion that "republican" judges are more likely to be favorable to this sort of warrant is quite naive."
You can think that if it makes you feel better being a republican.
"These are civil rights issues where the far left and right agree with each other, and disagree with the moderates."
I would consider Ashcroft, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzales about as right wing as you can get and they seem to have a severe distaste for civil liberties. Was there some person you were thinking of that is more right wing then ashcroft or bush?
'That is, should it go to the Supreme Court, Scalia is more likely to agree with Stevens, and to disagree with Kennedy and Souter."
Nope, the court will decide like they always do. The democrats on one side, the republicans on the other. To scalia it's more important to help the republican president and the republican party then to follow some silly idealogy or the constitution.
Has any judge ever refused such a warrant? More importantly does it matter if the FBI can ask every single judge in the US until it finds a republican judge and gets it approved?
When I was in school we were thought that liberty was an invention of English philosphical tradition. Whereas the Germans were concerned about absolute freedom the english were concerned more about freedom from govt (liberty).
Our founding fathers were very much influenced by the english philosphers and liberty was foremost on their minds. Although they never conceived of a govt that could keep a database on every single one of it's subjects they definately were aware of the power of govt to destroy individual liberty.
It depends on your definition of need. In this country we *need* constant and increasing consumer spending to prop up the economy. The only reason the last recession was not a full blown depression was because the consumers kept borrowing money and spending.
Take away cheap chinese goods the consumer will spend less, this will collapse the economy. So yes we *need* to have that crap. If the US consumer would ever wake up and start saving money instead of buying the latest shiny object this economy would grind to halt.
You can find out. It's not that hard. Even if you don't know you don't think the CEO of coke will not notice that coke sales are down in europe and the the coke brand is being associated with US foreign policy and war?
Yes boycott, convince your friends to boycott, organize, be vocal, vote with your money.
Think about it. If there is enough of a public outcry will investors keep buying coke stock?
Trust me the CEO of coke will pick up the phone and ream GW a new one if the coke brand and reputation get sullied.
More importantly they stole technology, made tons of money off of it, and paid a miniscule portion of it back as "punishment". With punishment like that who needs rewards.
That's an ecellent idea. Although if there was a visible and vocal worldwide of American products and services the investor class would shift their capital away from companies effected. A boycott would achieve the same thing indirectly.
You live in a democaracy (of sorts). What this means is that you are partially responsible for everything your govt does. No not 100% responsible but somewhat responsible.
What does that mean? Well it means that all those years when US was supporintg saddam, giving him intelligence on the kurds and iranians, teaching him how to make chemical weapons, giving him chemicals, shielding him from US resoultions and helping commit massacres against the iranians and kurds are a little bit your fault.
I know you don't want that responsibility but it's yours anyway. You have to be a man and take responsibility for your actions.
When you walk into a grocery store and open up a fridge how much harder is it reach for a local brand of soda then coke? Or a local beer instead of bud? To see a locally mad emovie instead of the latest bruce willis piece of crap?
Right. And if the rest of the world stops buying american products you will care and so will GW.
US is already running a tremendous budget and trade deficit. It won't take much more to push it over the edge. If the arabs had balls they would insist on euro for payments and that would be enough to push it over the edge but they would be killed instantly so it's a big gamble.
the chances of US dropping bombs on european white people are much less. Europe has to effect a massive boycott to achieve the same thing.
Those are only in the movies. Your average american chick is not that hot. Most americans are overweight (men and women) so right there the hot-o-meter trends lower.
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" Is the company that person works for going to try and claim they own stolen property?"
Well of course they are. Especially if the company is unethical and greedy er I mean trying to deliver maximal shareholder value.
Once again. Ask a republican or a few hundred of them and see if they would trade scalia or another judge. Ask the same number of democrats and see if you get the same answer.
Scalia is a republican who believes in republican causes. He is hostile towards democrats and democrat causes.
"I gave you two examples where he went agaisnt the Republican party line."
OK. What is his batting average though?
Ask any republican if they would like to trade scalia or thomas for a new judge and I will bet you any money they will say no. Ask any democrat and they will say yes. Scalia has been and continues to be very hostile towards democrats and continues to be on the side of the republicans on virtually every issue. Sure once or twice he may go against the grain but it's rare.
Have you seen the movies? Apparently they are dime a dozen and can be made very small. I think it was in the last one that a guy hung on to while flying all over the city.
In the mean time the people making a robot army make them with legs and make them roll like wheels.
Crazy.
I agree with you that sometimes the president does not know enough about his nominees positions and mistakenly appoints a republican or a democrat when they meant to go the other way.
This hasn't happened recently though, these days they do a lot more reasearch.
When bush appoints his judge(s) you can be sure they will go strictly by the republican party line.
For corporations I think a slow release cycle is a plus. Look at MS they don't come out with a new version of windows every year do they? Especially in the server realm.
"If you wish to have an informed and intelligent discussion about the law, then it matters to describe the law accurately, yes."
It seems to me you are making a distinction without a difference. It's a mere technicality easily subverted by law enforcement. It's as if it was never there in the first place.
"And your assertion that "republican" judges are more likely to be favorable to this sort of warrant is quite naive."
You can think that if it makes you feel better being a republican.
"These are civil rights issues where the far left and right agree with each other, and disagree with the moderates."
I would consider Ashcroft, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzales about as right wing as you can get and they seem to have a severe distaste for civil liberties. Was there some person you were thinking of that is more right wing then ashcroft or bush?
'That is, should it go to the Supreme Court, Scalia is more likely to agree with Stevens, and to disagree with Kennedy and Souter."
Nope, the court will decide like they always do. The democrats on one side, the republicans on the other. To scalia it's more important to help the republican president and the republican party then to follow some silly idealogy or the constitution.
In the far distant galaxy mankind has the technology to make virtually anything fly. Whether it be spaceships the size of states or tiny little orbs.
And yet they continue to make robots of all shapes and sizes that roll on wheels, walk or stumble around trying to get up stairs.
Has any judge ever refused such a warrant? More importantly does it matter if the FBI can ask every single judge in the US until it finds a republican judge and gets it approved?
look at Xandros too. They have a great way to manage all your PCs, pricey but good.
Well if the article was not a blatant troll I might agree with you. But it was trolling so I think the RTFM was a perfectly valid response.
Ask not what open source can do for you, ask what you can do for open source.
When I was in school we were thought that liberty was an invention of English philosphical tradition. Whereas the Germans were concerned about absolute freedom the english were concerned more about freedom from govt (liberty).
Our founding fathers were very much influenced by the english philosphers and liberty was foremost on their minds. Although they never conceived of a govt that could keep a database on every single one of it's subjects they definately were aware of the power of govt to destroy individual liberty.
It depends on your definition of need. In this country we *need* constant and increasing consumer spending to prop up the economy. The only reason the last recession was not a full blown depression was because the consumers kept borrowing money and spending.
Take away cheap chinese goods the consumer will spend less, this will collapse the economy. So yes we *need* to have that crap. If the US consumer would ever wake up and start saving money instead of buying the latest shiny object this economy would grind to halt.
I have friends who are MS admins, they hate SMS. Maybe their experience is not typical but they really really hate it.
Also vintella is a canopy company. If you can avoid it you should boycott canopy companies.
You could not be more wrong. There is a reason why we are running record deficits.
You can find out. It's not that hard. Even if you don't know you don't think the CEO of coke will not notice that coke sales are down in europe and the the coke brand is being associated with US foreign policy and war?
Yes boycott, convince your friends to boycott, organize, be vocal, vote with your money.
Think about it. If there is enough of a public outcry will investors keep buying coke stock?
Trust me the CEO of coke will pick up the phone and ream GW a new one if the coke brand and reputation get sullied.
It will never happen. MS has too much political clout to have anybody that works for them be tried for crimes.
More importantly they stole technology, made tons of money off of it, and paid a miniscule portion of it back as "punishment". With punishment like that who needs rewards.
Crime pays that's for sure.
That's an ecellent idea. Although if there was a visible and vocal worldwide of American products and services the investor class would shift their capital away from companies effected. A boycott would achieve the same thing indirectly.
Google it some. I remember it, I remember it being reported on TV and reading about it newspapers. It's not a secret.
You live in a democaracy (of sorts). What this means is that you are partially responsible for everything your govt does. No not 100% responsible but somewhat responsible.
What does that mean? Well it means that all those years when US was supporintg saddam, giving him intelligence on the kurds and iranians, teaching him how to make chemical weapons, giving him chemicals, shielding him from US resoultions and helping commit massacres against the iranians and kurds are a little bit your fault.
I know you don't want that responsibility but it's yours anyway. You have to be a man and take responsibility for your actions.
When you walk into a grocery store and open up a fridge how much harder is it reach for a local brand of soda then coke? Or a local beer instead of bud? To see a locally mad emovie instead of the latest bruce willis piece of crap?
How hard is that really?
Right. And if the rest of the world stops buying american products you will care and so will GW.
US is already running a tremendous budget and trade deficit. It won't take much more to push it over the edge. If the arabs had balls they would insist on euro for payments and that would be enough to push it over the edge but they would be killed instantly so it's a big gamble.
the chances of US dropping bombs on european white people are much less. Europe has to effect a massive boycott to achieve the same thing.
That'a right it would. All american products and brands should be boycotted.
Until that happens the rest of the world will have no influence whatsoever on american policy. It's the only weapon they have left.
"Duh! Access to hot American chicks of course!"
Those are only in the movies. Your average american chick is not that hot. Most americans are overweight (men and women) so right there the hot-o-meter trends lower.