Not really. If you are referring to the FISA court, they only "oversee requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies". The law enforcement agencies in question are the NSA and FBI. Both have other court and congressional oversight.
Stop watching TV. The NSA and government agencies would want to keep the cell phone structure working so that (1) people affected can use their cell phones and not sue the government because the government shut them down, and (2) attempt to find out the perpetrators, which would be hard to do if the perps weren't squawking about their latest "victory".
Really? How about your Social Security number? Can we post that on a web site? Maybe your purchase history, I don't feel that should be confidential. Any arrest history? Please post that so we can all enjoy your discomfit. Any gay marriage? That too should be public just in case you care to visit areas of the U.S. or the world that are not so enlightened.
DoD information? That should be made public so those well-meaning democratic Islamic fighters have the latest. They'd like bio-chem antidote information to plan their strategy.
How about U.S. companies' tax and regulatory information? Foreign competitors should have complete access, eh?
Great, you get to piss off your life doing make files or some such brain dead build script pile of dingos' kidneys. Cook with gas, learn a decent IDE, use your time effectively.
While I'm sympathetic to the carbon tax idea, the U.S. Clean Air Act wasn't aimed at carbon pollution. The pollution it did aim at was much easier to control.
Okay, let's play the budget game and decide what you are going to cut. The discretionary side of the budget is approx. $1.020 Trillion and the non-discretionary side is approx. $2.6 Trillion. Discretionary has already been cut and you'll fail to notice any decrease in taxes. Of discretionary, military is about $570 Billion. Of that, approx. half is salaries and benefits. The personnel side has already been cut and is projected to cut more. No real appreciable saving due to those cuts are apparent. So that leaves training, procurement, etc. Procurement has already been cut. That leaves bases....except they've been cut as well and the Pentagon is floating another BRAC, which is strongly being pushed back against by your congresscritters which don't want a base cut in their district. Similar concerns occur with procurement except that congress is making it worse by demanding the Pentagon buy stuff they don't want. So let's cut all those overseas obligations. Hmmm...Europe, we can feed it back to the Russians, they'll like us for doing that and the Euroweenies cannot find the grit to defend themselves anyhow...except that isn't real expensive. Similarly with the Pacific, you won't mind being pushed around by China which already claims the entire S. China Sea owing to cultural history, blah, blah, blah...whatever excuse they are using to make their egos look bigger this year.
What about the rest of discretionary. You like clean air and water, yes? Don't touch EPA, the Republicans don't believe in it either so maybe you can get a few bill out of them. NIH? Does anyone in your family have a nasty disease? They fund research into those that the drug companies won't because not enough people will die from small ball diseases. The list there goes on.
How about the non-discretionary side. All those promises to the old folks that were made? They believed them even if the promises cannot be kept. So Grandma can come and live with you, yes? By the way, her meds are expensive so better start saving. We could start changing the promises made to younger generation so they'll not have a nasty surprise when they get blue hair. But those won't buy the next election and they won't save current taxes.
How about welfare? We could squeeze all the corruption out of that...except, if we knew how to do that effectively, we'd have already done it.
BTW: Don't forget about global warming and sea level rise. Norfolk, VA. and Miami, FL. won't. They want federal aid to stop the sea from eating their towns. So we could make changes now to mitigate that disaster...except that coal state pols claim that would be bad because it will suck jobs from their states...better to screw the world than they get dis-elected by disgruntled unemployed.
He is outside and, it appears, not going inside. He'll be in the witness protection program. Unless the Russian mob is able to break that, he'll be fine.
The reason is because he was able to get the feds into the inside of LulzSec and Anonymous and help take down some of the members. The U.S. criminal justice system has used cooperation in return for light sentences for a long time, it is one of the reasons they were able to make such a dent in the Mafia.
errr...maybe you'd like to wait a bit and see if the condition is permanent? Or there are some procedures, experimental maybe that could help her?
And even if she is permanently in this state, how about Stephen Hawking? He's not as far gone but surely he must not have much quality of life? Do we kill him?
Yes and no. Professors and graduate students have their resources provided by the Universities. You could argue they were the ones that got the research grant. However, they wouldn't have gotten those research grants had they not been working for the Unis. No one is going to fund I.M. DipStick in his garage. And funding is only part of the game, facilities, payroll, insurance, healthcare, etc. are all handled by the Unis. The Professors and grad students are employees. This is no different from working in government or the private sector. Even the government has title to your inventions when you work for it.
"How you make people aware of slow, hard to notice small changes in global trends?"
Ans: pay attention to Miami. The city administration is making plans for sea level rise. It isn't because they expect it, it is because it is already happening and costing them money. There are similar problems in Norfolk, but there the county Republicans have passed resolutions saying it isn't happening, so they don't have to do anything. The Navy, however, with a big base there, is making plans. Hmmm...the Navy? Those clear-eyed sailors of the ocean blue...whose job it is to understand the seas...who spend a lot of money on oceanography and just about everything that effects their operation...them? Yup. It seems they have no problems with assessing climate change and are even attempting to do their part and develop propulsion systems that do not add carbon to the atmosphere. And who would oppose that? Why those scientists who are masquerading as Republicans in Congress. It seems they are upset at the Navy for not declaring carbon is not a problem and they should sit on their arses while the basis of their operation is changing.
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"sufficiently experimented" I give up, why do you value people who have been experimented upon?
Not really. If you are referring to the FISA court, they only "oversee requests for surveillance warrants against suspected foreign intelligence agents inside the United States by federal law enforcement agencies". The law enforcement agencies in question are the NSA and FBI. Both have other court and congressional oversight.
Stop inventing shit.
With AGILE development methods you will wind up with a dirty snowball of a system that has zero ability to be extended without a complete rewrite.
Stop watching TV. The NSA and government agencies would want to keep the cell phone structure working so that (1) people affected can use their cell phones and not sue the government because the government shut them down, and (2) attempt to find out the perpetrators, which would be hard to do if the perps weren't squawking about their latest "victory".
No, a communist country where the state is a big player in the marketplace through state owned companies. Think of it as Fascism without a conscience.
Really? How about your Social Security number? Can we post that on a web site? Maybe your purchase history, I don't feel that should be confidential. Any arrest history? Please post that so we can all enjoy your discomfit. Any gay marriage? That too should be public just in case you care to visit areas of the U.S. or the world that are not so enlightened.
DoD information? That should be made public so those well-meaning democratic Islamic fighters have the latest. They'd like bio-chem antidote information to plan their strategy.
How about U.S. companies' tax and regulatory information? Foreign competitors should have complete access, eh?
Great, you get to piss off your life doing make files or some such brain dead build script pile of dingos' kidneys. Cook with gas, learn a decent IDE, use your time effectively.
While I'm sympathetic to the carbon tax idea, the U.S. Clean Air Act wasn't aimed at carbon pollution. The pollution it did aim at was much easier to control.
No, we get technogeeks that cannot write anything approaching English and have the social skills of gnats.
Can I license Intel's designs, modify them, and get my own chips made? No. Game over.
Okay, let's play the budget game and decide what you are going to cut. The discretionary side of the budget is approx. $1.020 Trillion and the non-discretionary side is approx. $2.6 Trillion. Discretionary has already been cut and you'll fail to notice any decrease in taxes. Of discretionary, military is about $570 Billion. Of that, approx. half is salaries and benefits. The personnel side has already been cut and is projected to cut more. No real appreciable saving due to those cuts are apparent. So that leaves training, procurement, etc. Procurement has already been cut. That leaves bases....except they've been cut as well and the Pentagon is floating another BRAC, which is strongly being pushed back against by your congresscritters which don't want a base cut in their district. Similar concerns occur with procurement except that congress is making it worse by demanding the Pentagon buy stuff they don't want. So let's cut all those overseas obligations. Hmmm...Europe, we can feed it back to the Russians, they'll like us for doing that and the Euroweenies cannot find the grit to defend themselves anyhow...except that isn't real expensive. Similarly with the Pacific, you won't mind being pushed around by China which already claims the entire S. China Sea owing to cultural history, blah, blah, blah...whatever excuse they are using to make their egos look bigger this year.
What about the rest of discretionary. You like clean air and water, yes? Don't touch EPA, the Republicans don't believe in it either so maybe you can get a few bill out of them. NIH? Does anyone in your family have a nasty disease? They fund research into those that the drug companies won't because not enough people will die from small ball diseases. The list there goes on.
How about the non-discretionary side. All those promises to the old folks that were made? They believed them even if the promises cannot be kept. So Grandma can come and live with you, yes? By the way, her meds are expensive so better start saving. We could start changing the promises made to younger generation so they'll not have a nasty surprise when they get blue hair. But those won't buy the next election and they won't save current taxes.
How about welfare? We could squeeze all the corruption out of that...except, if we knew how to do that effectively, we'd have already done it.
BTW: Don't forget about global warming and sea level rise. Norfolk, VA. and Miami, FL. won't. They want federal aid to stop the sea from eating their towns. So we could make changes now to mitigate that disaster...except that coal state pols claim that would be bad because it will suck jobs from their states...better to screw the world than they get dis-elected by disgruntled unemployed.
So, what's yer plan?
Jim Wright, Tom Delay, William Jefferson.
He is outside and, it appears, not going inside. He'll be in the witness protection program. Unless the Russian mob is able to break that, he'll be fine.
The reason is because he was able to get the feds into the inside of LulzSec and Anonymous and help take down some of the members. The U.S. criminal justice system has used cooperation in return for light sentences for a long time, it is one of the reasons they were able to make such a dent in the Mafia.
Would you consider someone who rats out the Italian mafia a snitch? Suppose he rats out a number of murders? Is he a good snitch or a bad snitch?
errr...maybe you'd like to wait a bit and see if the condition is permanent? Or there are some procedures, experimental maybe that could help her?
And even if she is permanently in this state, how about Stephen Hawking? He's not as far gone but surely he must not have much quality of life? Do we kill him?
Yes and no. Professors and graduate students have their resources provided by the Universities. You could argue they were the ones that got the research grant. However, they wouldn't have gotten those research grants had they not been working for the Unis. No one is going to fund I.M. DipStick in his garage. And funding is only part of the game, facilities, payroll, insurance, healthcare, etc. are all handled by the Unis. The Professors and grad students are employees. This is no different from working in government or the private sector. Even the government has title to your inventions when you work for it.
no, people just didn't want to happen to their infotainment what MS did to their desktop.
"Microsoft is more laissez-faire." Uh, then how come MS has to have Winders everywhere stomping on anything perceived as competition?
According the article, the increase in icecap in those parts of Antarctica has stopped.
Maybe. See Venus. It has a runaway greenhouse effect. Systems theory is really neat.
Really? Do you have any evidence this has actually occurred or is this just another one of those "There is nothing the NSA cannot do" stories?
The Conservatives and Libertarians get to eat crow?
"How you make people aware of slow, hard to notice small changes in global trends?"
Ans: pay attention to Miami. The city administration is making plans for sea level rise. It isn't because they expect it, it is because it is already happening and costing them money. There are similar problems in Norfolk, but there the county Republicans have passed resolutions saying it isn't happening, so they don't have to do anything. The Navy, however, with a big base there, is making plans. Hmmm...the Navy? Those clear-eyed sailors of the ocean blue...whose job it is to understand the seas...who spend a lot of money on oceanography and just about everything that effects their operation...them? Yup. It seems they have no problems with assessing climate change and are even attempting to do their part and develop propulsion systems that do not add carbon to the atmosphere. And who would oppose that? Why those scientists who are masquerading as Republicans in Congress. It seems they are upset at the Navy for not declaring carbon is not a problem and they should sit on their arses while the basis of their operation is changing.
Yes, well, when it comes to the Sahara, it's been marching south for awhile, and faster more recently.