'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
The power of investigating certain financial records (such as credit reports) without a warrent was around before PATRIOT, most notably for suspected drug dealers.
It would be silly for the government not to exercise that same power against potential terrorists as long as the power was legal.
Notice a pattern here, citizen?
So don't thank PATRIOT, thank precedent set by the older drug-fighting legislation.
Oh, you mean the unconstitutional illegal-search-and-seizure RICO redefinition dreamed up by Bush #1 to fight the terrible horrible drug merchants?
Say, didn't we invade Panama, (to take out a foriegn leader we didn't like) too?
While I agree that Neal doing the screenplay is really important, the director (and the special effects guys/budget) are going to be much more so. It's going to take some really good visuals for the operation of the Source/Feed, the Book, toner wars, and, to a lesser extent (but really important for exposition), the bespoke engineering lab. Actually (visually) explaining the nano-tech is going to be really difficult. Then there's the problem of the Drummers exchanging information and nano-tech via *ahem* bodily fluids - on SciFi. Sadly, I doubt Castle Turing, the chevaline, the dog-pod grid, the birthday party island or the nano surgical implants will make it into the final story.
The Star Trek universe always hand-waved the social and economic importance of matter replicators, yet it's central to this story. How they're going to explain the Seed vs Feed is beyond me. I think we'll probably end up with a social drama, heavy with conversations about the Victorians (Finkle-McGraw), their moral code and control over the Source, versus the Han (Doctor X) and the Seed. Centralisation vs decentralisation. Expect the Seed to come out way earlier in the story, probably when Finkle-McGraw sends Hackworth "undercover". I'm guessing the story will be more about Hackworth, and less about Nell.
Oh - and I want to nominate Harry Anderson to play Judge Fang (assuming the Fang subplot remains) - but only if he plays it real straight.
PBS manages to do pledge drives without completely losing their identity. Granted, they're also running commercials, but certainly less than regular broadcast TV. Could Wikipedia run ads maybe two weeks a quarter, or something similar? The question really is, what would they do with it if they had (theoretically) unlimited funds?
Beacuse this would be a new use of the technology, rather than "hippies in Seattle march with signs, corporation issues press release denying charges"?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
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Except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
Wow, that sure sounds like "spooky action at a distance" to me.
> Sorry but I'm a firm believer that bias should be declared or implicit in all political speech.
Sorry but I'm a firm believer that bias is implicit in all political speech.
There, fixed that for you.
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See, that'll teach you to go around manipulating the truth. FAUX News is nothing if not fair and balanced.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Notice a pattern here, citizen?
Oh, you mean the unconstitutional illegal-search-and-seizure RICO redefinition dreamed up by Bush #1 to fight the terrible horrible drug merchants?
Say, didn't we invade Panama, (to take out a foriegn leader we didn't like) too?
Again, notice a pattern here, citizen?
He would never spy on American citizens unless he had a really really good reason to.
Self delusion?
While I agree that Neal doing the screenplay is really important, the director (and the special effects guys/budget) are going to be much more so. It's going to take some really good visuals for the operation of the Source/Feed, the Book, toner wars, and, to a lesser extent (but really important for exposition), the bespoke engineering lab. Actually (visually) explaining the nano-tech is going to be really difficult. Then there's the problem of the Drummers exchanging information and nano-tech via *ahem* bodily fluids - on SciFi. Sadly, I doubt Castle Turing, the chevaline, the dog-pod grid, the birthday party island or the nano surgical implants will make it into the final story.
The Star Trek universe always hand-waved the social and economic importance of matter replicators, yet it's central to this story. How they're going to explain the Seed vs Feed is beyond me. I think we'll probably end up with a social drama, heavy with conversations about the Victorians (Finkle-McGraw), their moral code and control over the Source, versus the Han (Doctor X) and the Seed. Centralisation vs decentralisation. Expect the Seed to come out way earlier in the story, probably when Finkle-McGraw sends Hackworth "undercover". I'm guessing the story will be more about Hackworth, and less about Nell.
Oh - and I want to nominate Harry Anderson to play Judge Fang (assuming the Fang subplot remains) - but only if he plays it real straight.
Ooooh Balmer Lightning - it bounces up and down, shouting "Developers! Developers!"
I think there's some ball lightning coming out of that server.
> but what about us DOS users?
Just put "time" and "date" commands in your autoexec.bat.
That's Metrification.
The DRM is end-to-end, so this will only receive the "degraded" signal. Still no different than TV-out.
Ah, the irony of your sig...
That is simply not the case. From TFA which you clearly didn't read:
Nice troll, though. I'll expect to be hearing this kind of ignorant FUD from Pat Robertson Real Soon Now(tm).
I guess you haven't been reading the papers. It's the "Department of D'oh!".
PBS manages to do pledge drives without completely losing their identity. Granted, they're also running commercials, but certainly less than regular broadcast TV. Could Wikipedia run ads maybe two weeks a quarter, or something similar? The question really is, what would they do with it if they had (theoretically) unlimited funds?
Beacuse this would be a new use of the technology, rather than "hippies in Seattle march with signs, corporation issues press release denying charges"?
And then there's all the years where "infermayshun" was every third word out of Gates' mouth.
> It seems like such a poor idea that I have trouble believing that someone actually seriously entertained it.
Meesa thinksa yousa not paying attention...
> Year o' the Laptop -- long overdue, but 20% for Macs is optimistic
Not really, as most other laptops will only come with Vista by mid-year.
Why? They'll take much better care of it than you do. (RAID, daily backups, off-site storage, regular hardware upgrades...)