"What I DO have a problem with is government agencies telling citizens that the first, second, and fourth amendments were merely guidelines and they don't matter any more due to case law and unconstitutional executive orders."
Naturally, you can quote a government official making such specific claims. Please do.
>Remember the attacks on 9/11 that took the lives of nearly 3000 americans.
Gee, I almost forgot all about that, until you reminded me just now. What was that other thing I was supposed to remember, "Diamond Harbor" or something like that? Oh, and something about "Alamo Car Rental" I was supposed to remember too, but forgot.
"A memo. Just a memo. Not an approved and voted on and passed law. It's a fucking memo! A nice idea, a thought, a suggestion, not law. "
Administrative memos can have the force of law, if they originate from a position of authority. Administrative authority is delegated by Congress, and laws are made by agencies, subject to executive authority, judicial review, or congressional oversight. In many cases, simply publishing a rule in the Federal Register is sufficient for an agency rule to become law. Internal policies in an organization such as the NSA are in fact, law, and since Congress created that organization and delegated authority to it, it *has* been "approved, voted on, and passed law", as you put it.
If you're unhappy with that status quo, it's something you might take up with your representatives in Congress, but in general, the system enjoys overwhelming support.
"Have you ever seen those car rims that seem to be spinning in the opposite direction than that of the wheel itself?"
Elementary mechanics expresses this very nicely, with the angular rotations in the local and absolute reference frames, the drag and frictional forces on the bearings, drag due to air density, gravitation effects, etc.
But the problems referenced in the article are the result of science's attempt to rationalize observations that can not be described by classical mechanics. It is tempting to want to apply the ideas of spinning wheels and hubcaps to the ideas of spinning subatomic particles. If only that *worked*, we wouldn't need to revise the theories...
>Do you sometimes where all those Watts you consume come from?
About 7.5 million of mine come from solar powered plants. A small amount are from a wind farm. Some of then come from a couple of hydroelectric dams, and there are several conventional turbine generators that use natural gas that cannot be distributed, and would have been wasted. Unless we buy power from a neighboring state, there is no nuclear plant involved, and to my knowledge none of our electricity is generated using foreign oil, which would cost too much in transportation to be economical at all.
I thought the article was talking about the difference between 4MB downloads and 9MB downloads. There's a plateau in there where we've passed a hump of human proportions and the rest is just gravy. The difference between 4MB broadband and 56K is extremely significant, but the difference between 9MB and 4MB really isn't.
Actually, there was quite a bit of debate and significant compromises were made by the Frist/Stevens camp. Stevens declared yesterday to be "the worst day of his life." Worse even, presumably, than the December day in 1978 when a plane crash took the lives of his wife and four close friends.
The Democrats do not have the power to actually accomplish lofty goals like "killing the Patriot Act" or "clamping down Defense spending so much that Bush has to finance the Iraq war from his own pocket." In that perspective, please realize that the sort of compromises being made by the Republican leadership are very embarrassing to the GOP and the President.
These lawmakers are not merely "idiots." They are actually quite masterful practitioners of parliamentary procedure and they do not count coup strictly in the black and white language of news headlines.
Which Senator literally said he or she did not read the Act before voting on it, by the way? That factiod is often repeated on kook sites. I haven't seen it attributed to any individual.
The reality on the ground is that a few dozen lawmakers, extremely loyal to the Bush administration, would have to turn coat entirely, as the first step toward impeachment. This is true, if the crime you want to prosecute is the domestic spying, or if a dead hooker rolled down the stairs of AF1.
Outside of this process, there is only the option of rebellion or coup d'état, and nobody is *that* upset thus far.
With a sufficiently loyal Congress, the President of the United States is effectively above any rule of law, and beyond the reach of any consequences of his actions.
People keep repeating the "I" word as though there is a conceivable scenario under which it could happen. Perhaps Winter 2006 will see a new Congress dominated by opposition party members who are actually willing to press charges against the President, but I would not count on this.
President Bush will end his term in 2009. When he does, the incoming administration will acquire whatever powers the current administration posseses today. Whether that incoming administration will be a Democratic challenger, or whether it will be Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, all remains to be seen.
But there is no chance of impeachment unless evidence comes to light that is so compelling, it turns some of the most stingently aligned and loyal politicians in history, 180 away from thier current position. You will need a great deal more than the phone tapping ideas, something as yet not ruled to be a crime by any judge. The Iraq lies didn't do it. The Plame case might make some headway, but I doubt it.
There's no Impeachment coming, and there is nobody stupid enough, brave enough, or upset enough to worry about a coup or a rebellion. This will remain the status quo until January of 2009.
Everywhere I turn, there's someone saying I should use Lua. Anyway...
My shop is firmly into J2EE, and we get a great deal of service out of the JBoss container and also the relational database object idiom of Hibernate. There are plenty of things to not like about Java, but most of the criticism against it seems to come from a point of view that's not well informed about the power that Java has for certain kinds of applications.
Oh well, the people who participate in this kind of discussion are those who have time for it, I guess.
"Jamie and I have done the research, and figured that the only way to end the debate about the "myth" of the Apollo moon landing is to go there, and bring back something that was left there during one of the Apollo moon landings."
All it would do is renew the debate! It would be even worse, since these guys *do* have the video production capabilities to fake it.
I know, and correspond with, many Europeans and a few Chinese people. News is biased. Polls can be representative, but they rarely detail the research methods used. I see very little evidence to support the idea that European attitudes are openly hostile to Americans. If anything, there is more domestic dissent than there is foreign.
If you are personally a European in opposition to US policy, that's one thing. But I don't see anything that rises to the level of "opposition", in general. Supposedly we've got a junta fighting an illegal war. But no harsh diplomatic actions have been taken, let alone military defense of our supposed illegal targets. I'm just not buying it. Would that it were true, perhaps the Bush regime could diminish more rapidly. But there's so little pressure, it's laughable to imply that there is opposition!
>It doesn't indicate any meaningful degree of "support".
There is no meaningful opposition to the US raised by anyone in a position to do so, period.
>Why is it assumed that the keys being in alphabetical is more ergononomic?
Still going on the typewriter folklore that Christopher Shoals was forced to use the QWERTY layout in order to slow down the mechanism so that his machine would not jam.
"He meant that the US ought to play nice with the rest of the world, not with terrorists, you idiot."
It occurs to me that the rest of the world generally tolerates the US, if not outright supports it. There is a short list of nations that do not:
1. Allow US citizens to enter their borders for both tourism and commerce. 2. Allow their own citizens to travel to the US and allow them to return after visiting the US. 3. Engage in trade with the US. 4. Refrain from raising, or threatening, military opposition to the US.
Until one or more of these conditions changes, I'm not going to be convinced that the "rest of the world" is anything other than adamantly in support of the US, US citizens, and US policies.
You're probably not a politician running for office in 2006, unsure if you are under secret surveillance. (Were I a Congressman, I would assume this, since the President has abridged the authority of Congress, in particular, to do the surveillance.) You're also probably not engaged in any particularly controvesial, but legal, acts or a member of an activist organization that openly opposes any government policy.
"Arrested for modding would be surprising and interesting. Arrested for selling pirated games isn't."
I'd mod you up if I could. Anyone who is doing the mod should be meticulously compliant with regards to media. This case is an outrageous abuse of copyright, and it will only serve to cast the legitimate modding scene in an even worse light.
Perhaps, but it was, like, instantly afterwards that the "WWW" took off. It's like they killed a garter snake and while celebrating, the Hydra sprang up behind.
Slashdot Mirror
>The roof fine is now "up to $500", or it will be in February.
Still a pittance for anyone who otherwise has the kind of resources needed to live in Boston.
"What I DO have a problem with is government agencies telling citizens that the first, second, and fourth amendments were merely guidelines and they don't matter any more due to case law and unconstitutional executive orders."
Naturally, you can quote a government official making such specific claims. Please do.
>Remember the attacks on 9/11 that took the lives of nearly 3000 americans.
Gee, I almost forgot all about that, until you reminded me just now. What was that other thing I was supposed to remember, "Diamond Harbor" or something like that? Oh, and something about "Alamo Car Rental" I was supposed to remember too, but forgot.
"A memo. Just a memo. Not an approved and voted on and passed law. It's a fucking memo! A nice idea, a thought, a suggestion, not law.
"
Administrative memos can have the force of law, if they originate from a position of authority. Administrative authority is delegated by Congress, and laws are made by agencies, subject to executive authority, judicial review, or congressional oversight. In many cases, simply publishing a rule in the Federal Register is sufficient for an agency rule to become law. Internal policies in an organization such as the NSA are in fact, law, and since Congress created that organization and delegated authority to it, it *has* been "approved, voted on, and passed law", as you put it.
If you're unhappy with that status quo, it's something you might take up with your representatives in Congress, but in general, the system enjoys overwhelming support.
>they also discipline any students involved harshly
Harshly?
A $50 fine? Is that even as high as the average on-campus parking ticket?
"Have you ever seen those car rims that seem to be spinning in the opposite direction than that of the wheel itself?"
Elementary mechanics expresses this very nicely, with the angular rotations in the local and absolute reference frames, the drag and frictional forces on the bearings, drag due to air density, gravitation effects, etc.
But the problems referenced in the article are the result of science's attempt to rationalize observations that can not be described by classical mechanics. It is tempting to want to apply the ideas of spinning wheels and hubcaps to the ideas of spinning subatomic particles. If only that *worked*, we wouldn't need to revise the theories...
>Do you sometimes where all those Watts you consume come from?
About 7.5 million of mine come from solar powered plants. A small amount are from a wind farm. Some of then come from a couple of hydroelectric dams, and there are several conventional turbine generators that use natural gas that cannot be distributed, and would have been wasted. Unless we buy power from a neighboring state, there is no nuclear plant involved, and to my knowledge none of our electricity is generated using foreign oil, which would cost too much in transportation to be economical at all.
So, where do your Watts come from?
>CLEARLY you're not an EE. Your answer is simply WRONG.
It was sarcasm, Mr. Trump, but it wasn't intelligent enough sarcasm to sufficiently contrast the original post.
>What I want to know is: How much power my machine actually uses.
You just need an inductive ammeter and you can measure it directly. Or you can observe the consumption in kw/h by watching your service meter.
I thought the article was talking about the difference between 4MB downloads and 9MB downloads. There's a plateau in there where we've passed a hump of human proportions and the rest is just gravy. The difference between 4MB broadband and 56K is extremely significant, but the difference between 9MB and 4MB really isn't.
>and not a peep from the gutless idiots.
Actually, there was quite a bit of debate and significant compromises were made by the Frist/Stevens camp. Stevens declared yesterday to be "the worst day of his life." Worse even, presumably, than the December day in 1978 when a plane crash took the lives of his wife and four close friends.
The Democrats do not have the power to actually accomplish lofty goals like "killing the Patriot Act" or "clamping down Defense spending so much that Bush has to finance the Iraq war from his own pocket." In that perspective, please realize that the sort of compromises being made by the Republican leadership are very embarrassing to the GOP and the President.
These lawmakers are not merely "idiots." They are actually quite masterful practitioners of parliamentary procedure and they do not count coup strictly in the black and white language of news headlines.
Which Senator literally said he or she did not read the Act before voting on it, by the way? That factiod is often repeated on kook sites. I haven't seen it attributed to any individual.
The reality on the ground is that a few dozen lawmakers, extremely loyal to the Bush administration, would have to turn coat entirely, as the first step toward impeachment. This is true, if the crime you want to prosecute is the domestic spying, or if a dead hooker rolled down the stairs of AF1.
Outside of this process, there is only the option of rebellion or coup d'état, and nobody is *that* upset thus far.
With a sufficiently loyal Congress, the President of the United States is effectively above any rule of law, and beyond the reach of any consequences of his actions.
People keep repeating the "I" word as though there is a conceivable scenario under which it could happen. Perhaps Winter 2006 will see a new Congress dominated by opposition party members who are actually willing to press charges against the President, but I would not count on this.
President Bush will end his term in 2009. When he does, the incoming administration will acquire whatever powers the current administration posseses today. Whether that incoming administration will be a Democratic challenger, or whether it will be Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, all remains to be seen.
But there is no chance of impeachment unless evidence comes to light that is so compelling, it turns some of the most stingently aligned and loyal politicians in history, 180 away from thier current position. You will need a great deal more than the phone tapping ideas, something as yet not ruled to be a crime by any judge. The Iraq lies didn't do it. The Plame case might make some headway, but I doubt it.
There's no Impeachment coming, and there is nobody stupid enough, brave enough, or upset enough to worry about a coup or a rebellion. This will remain the status quo until January of 2009.
Let me know when the UK goes out of lock-step with the US.
Everywhere I turn, there's someone saying I should use Lua. Anyway...
My shop is firmly into J2EE, and we get a great deal of service out of the JBoss container and also the relational database object idiom of Hibernate. There are plenty of things to not like about Java, but most of the criticism against it seems to come from a point of view that's not well informed about the power that Java has for certain kinds of applications.
Oh well, the people who participate in this kind of discussion are those who have time for it, I guess.
"Jamie and I have done the research, and figured that the only way to end the debate about the "myth" of the Apollo moon landing is to go there, and bring back something that was left there during one of the Apollo moon landings."
All it would do is renew the debate! It would be even worse, since these guys *do* have the video production capabilities to fake it.
>Do you have your eyes and ears sealed shut?
I know, and correspond with, many Europeans and a few Chinese people. News is biased. Polls can be representative, but they rarely detail the research methods used. I see very little evidence to support the idea that European attitudes are openly hostile to Americans. If anything, there is more domestic dissent than there is foreign.
If you are personally a European in opposition to US policy, that's one thing. But I don't see anything that rises to the level of "opposition", in general. Supposedly we've got a junta fighting an illegal war. But no harsh diplomatic actions have been taken, let alone military defense of our supposed illegal targets. I'm just not buying it. Would that it were true, perhaps the Bush regime could diminish more rapidly. But there's so little pressure, it's laughable to imply that there is opposition!
>It doesn't indicate any meaningful degree of "support".
There is no meaningful opposition to the US raised by anyone in a position to do so, period.
>Why is it assumed that the keys being in alphabetical is more ergononomic?
Still going on the typewriter folklore that Christopher Shoals was forced to use the QWERTY layout in order to slow down the mechanism so that his machine would not jam.
>America is very unpopular with people
Evidence of this?
"Does that mean that the rest of the world is "adamantly in support of China, Chinese citizens, and Chinese policies?"
Indeed, it does.
"He meant that the US ought to play nice with the rest of the world, not with terrorists, you idiot."
It occurs to me that the rest of the world generally tolerates the US, if not outright supports it. There is a short list of nations that do not:
1. Allow US citizens to enter their borders for both tourism and commerce.
2. Allow their own citizens to travel to the US and allow them to return after visiting the US.
3. Engage in trade with the US.
4. Refrain from raising, or threatening, military opposition to the US.
Until one or more of these conditions changes, I'm not going to be convinced that the "rest of the world" is anything other than adamantly in support of the US, US citizens, and US policies.
>Yeah, that's a really tough decision to make.
You're probably not a politician running for office in 2006, unsure if you are under secret surveillance. (Were I a Congressman, I would assume this, since the President has abridged the authority of Congress, in particular, to do the surveillance.) You're also probably not engaged in any particularly controvesial, but legal, acts or a member of an activist organization that openly opposes any government policy.
Ok, you go after Clinton, and we who live in the present will focus on Bush.
"Arrested for modding would be surprising and interesting. Arrested for selling pirated games isn't."
I'd mod you up if I could. Anyone who is doing the mod should be meticulously compliant with regards to media. This case is an outrageous abuse of copyright, and it will only serve to cast the legitimate modding scene in an even worse light.
>How many people have NOT gotten scammed on ebay?
I've no problems, as both buyer and seller, with either ebay or paypal. I've been using both since the very beginning.
Margin's already too thin to give anyone else a cut.
>I dont remember archie, but wow.... sad
Perhaps, but it was, like, instantly afterwards that the "WWW" took off. It's like they killed a garter snake and while celebrating, the Hydra sprang up behind.