"...study how the rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada."
$40,000 was saved from being wasted on a useless study. Too bad that doesn't happen more often.
The reason Cisco and Google and others only got a slap on the wrist when censoring the Chinese nets, is that the US republicans want to see how well it works first and then start putting it in here under the guide of the Patriot Act.
Haha...your post should have been modded funny....that's so rediculous.
Don't confuse the incompetence of the current party in power with the idea that government is neccessarily incompetent. That's exactly what they want you to do anyways.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that government has the answer. That's exactly what they want you to do anyways.
I really dislike the idea of national healthcare. I don't trust the govt to manage something that important. I think a better idea would be govt (state or federal) mandated limits to how much various medical procedures can cost. Also, limiting the max awards (mostly punitive) on malpractice suits would help too.
"As an American, I don't want lower taxes, better public transportation, or *gasp* national health care. No, I want to connect to sharks with VNC. What a fucking country."
Haha, you want "lower taxes" AND "national healthcare". HAHAHAA. Talk to the Canadians about how great national healthcare is...they love waiting 1-2 years for treatment.
This has nothing to do with your rights online. It's an opt in service. No one is being forced to do anything. If you don't like the TOS, don't use it.
It doesn't say that that AV and Firewall are optimization, it says that the program is going to come with AV, Firewall AND optimization software. Think Norton System Works blended with Norton Internet Security.
You'd be surpised. I work for an AV company and the amount of calls we get from IT guys who have had "outbreaks" of this worm on their networks is astounding.
Like the guy in the article said, "There's no patch for user ignorance."
You could look at this from the point of view that the govt is listening on phone calls that terror suspects are making if it makes you feel better.
And if he's breaking the law, and Congress knows about it, and the newspapers know about it, and everyone in the US knows about it....why hasn't he been indicted eh? Because they all know that he ISN'T breaking any law. OMG.
You didn't answer my questions, you posted a bunch of hypothetical nonsense.
I can be arrested and detained without cause, indefinitely, if the government decides to label me a "terrorist".
You have not been arrested, nor detained without cause. Nor have you been labeled a terrorist. However, being a terrorist to me would justify being detained and arrested.
Due process is gone.... if the government decides that by posting this message, I am indeed a "terrorist", I can be locked up... without due process, without being allowed to contact my lawyer, without access to my family, and without the ability to post bail... indefinitely.
Once again, you have not been locked up. Your civil rights have not been violated.
There's one civil right gone. 5th Amendment... blown to bits.
So you've been forced to testify against yourself in a trial? I think not.
How about this one: My phone can be tapped, without probably cause, simply because the other end of the phone call is overseas (or not, we don't know for sure since Bush/NSA isn't letting the FISA court see what calls they're tapping). 4th Amendment.. ripped to shreds.
Has your phone been tapped? No, because you have not been in touch with suspected/known terrorists overseas...like the people who are being tapped.
Quit drinking the Limbaugh koolaid. If this was happening under a Democrat President, you and your buddies in the Michigan militia would be storming Washington. You got impeachment proceedings started for far less.
If a dem was doing this, for hte same reasons, I would have no problem with it because I agree with the POLICY, not necessarily the President.
This "Bush is violating my civil rights" nonsense is getting pretty damn old. Any lib would be very hard pressed to name a single "civil right" that they have lost since Bush was elected. You can still have any religion you want, you can still say anything you want, you can own a gun, you don't have to testify against yourself, you can own land, you can vote for whoever you like, you can hang out with whoever you like, you can talk crap about the govt everyday...and you can do all this without fear of retaliation from the govt.
So please, stop promoting the left wing dogma that your rights are somehow being violated...unless you have some kind of proof that specifally YOUR rights have been violated.
From what I understand, these aren't calls involving Americans calling Americans. They are watching for Americans calling or getting calls from terrorist suspects. I wouldn't even call this "domestic spying" since these are international calls.
Definition of authoritarian
adj 1: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical] 2: likened to a dictator in severity [syn: dictatorial] 3: expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: dictatorial, overbearing] n : a person behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: dictator]
I understand that Abramoff gave money to Republicans, and some of his clients gave money to Democrats. Now what I don't understand is what the big deal is. Why are his contributions any different than any other lobbyist? I thought this stuff went on all the time with all kinds of lobbyists...?
Not that I'm saying that something wrong wasn't done...but I just don't understand what was wrong, or why this particular case is such a big deal. Could someone explain?
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"...study how the rising popularity in the United States of 'intelligent design' - a controversial creationist theory of life - is eroding acceptance of evolutionary science in Canada."
$40,000 was saved from being wasted on a useless study. Too bad that doesn't happen more often.
The reason Cisco and Google and others only got a slap on the wrist when censoring the Chinese nets, is that the US republicans want to see how well it works first and then start putting it in here under the guide of the Patriot Act.
Haha...your post should have been modded funny....that's so rediculous.
Don't confuse the incompetence of the current party in power with the idea that government is neccessarily incompetent. That's exactly what they want you to do anyways.
Don't fool yourself into thinking that government has the answer. That's exactly what they want you to do anyways.
March 27, 2006, GAIN becomes self aware......
Might Google be under some sort of secret agreement with the gov't to hold on to emails Dude...no. Take the tinfoil off.
Actually, just consider your average govt employee and it all makes sense.
I really dislike the idea of national healthcare. I don't trust the govt to manage something that important. I think a better idea would be govt (state or federal) mandated limits to how much various medical procedures can cost. Also, limiting the max awards (mostly punitive) on malpractice suits would help too.
"As an American, I don't want lower taxes, better public transportation, or *gasp* national health care. No, I want to connect to sharks with VNC. What a fucking country."
Haha, you want "lower taxes" AND "national healthcare". HAHAHAA.
Talk to the Canadians about how great national healthcare is...they love waiting 1-2 years for treatment.
I agree with the parent.
I saw a movie last night (Yours, Mine, and Ours) and they used the term "googled' in the movie, refering to googling for information.
Google's more than a website, it's becoming a common household word.
PLEASE think of the children!
Yeah, like their parents should for once. It's not Uncle Sam's job to make sure that kids aren't looking at porn.
Large AV companies don't make their money from the average joe. Selling corporate software is where the dinero is.
*Which is why tech support for consumer products sucks in general.
Where are these "Christian" extremists exactly, and whose embassies are they burning?
Like most Christians, they're all talk.
I can rip my CD's to my iPod. Why? Because the technology is there and the courts have granted me Fair Use rights.
And why do I want to own CD's instead of songs from iTMS? Several reasons. One, its a physical copy that can be resold.
If you sell your CD, do you delete your ripped music?
I assumed that the article was referring to accessing the physical equipment, not the actual data on the drives.
This has nothing to do with your rights online. It's an opt in service. No one is being forced to do anything. If you don't like the TOS, don't use it.
It doesn't say that that AV and Firewall are optimization, it says that the program is going to come with AV, Firewall AND optimization software. Think Norton System Works blended with Norton Internet Security.
What could possibly go wrong? /rhetorical question
Do people really get hit with these anymore?
You'd be surpised. I work for an AV company and the amount of calls we get from IT guys who have had "outbreaks" of this worm on their networks is astounding.
Like the guy in the article said, "There's no patch for user ignorance."
You could look at this from the point of view that the govt is listening on phone calls that terror suspects are making if it makes you feel better.
And if he's breaking the law, and Congress knows about it, and the newspapers know about it, and everyone in the US knows about it....why hasn't he been indicted eh? Because they all know that he ISN'T breaking any law. OMG.
You didn't answer my questions, you posted a bunch of hypothetical nonsense.
I can be arrested and detained without cause, indefinitely, if the government decides to label me a "terrorist".
You have not been arrested, nor detained without cause. Nor have you been labeled a terrorist. However, being a terrorist to me would justify being detained and arrested.
Due process is gone.... if the government decides that by posting this message, I am indeed a "terrorist", I can be locked up... without due process, without being allowed to contact my lawyer, without access to my family, and without the ability to post bail... indefinitely.
Once again, you have not been locked up. Your civil rights have not been violated.
There's one civil right gone. 5th Amendment... blown to bits.
So you've been forced to testify against yourself in a trial? I think not.
How about this one: My phone can be tapped, without probably cause, simply because the other end of the phone call is overseas (or not, we don't know for sure since Bush/NSA isn't letting the FISA court see what calls they're tapping). 4th Amendment.. ripped to shreds.
Has your phone been tapped? No, because you have not been in touch with suspected/known terrorists overseas...like the people who are being tapped.
Quit drinking the Limbaugh koolaid. If this was happening under a Democrat President, you and your buddies in the Michigan militia would be storming Washington. You got impeachment proceedings started for far less.
If a dem was doing this, for hte same reasons, I would have no problem with it because I agree with the POLICY, not necessarily the President.
This "Bush is violating my civil rights" nonsense is getting pretty damn old. Any lib would be very hard pressed to name a single "civil right" that they have lost since Bush was elected. You can still have any religion you want, you can still say anything you want, you can own a gun, you don't have to testify against yourself, you can own land, you can vote for whoever you like, you can hang out with whoever you like, you can talk crap about the govt everyday...and you can do all this without fear of retaliation from the govt.
So please, stop promoting the left wing dogma that your rights are somehow being violated...unless you have some kind of proof that specifally YOUR rights have been violated.
From what I understand, these aren't calls involving Americans calling Americans. They are watching for Americans calling or getting calls from terrorist suspects. I wouldn't even call this "domestic spying" since these are international calls.
Definition of authoritarian adj 1: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical] 2: likened to a dictator in severity [syn: dictatorial] 3: expecting unquestioning obedience; "he was imperious and dictatorial"; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: dictatorial, overbearing] n : a person behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: dictator]
I understand that Abramoff gave money to Republicans, and some of his clients gave money to Democrats. Now what I don't understand is what the big deal is. Why are his contributions any different than any other lobbyist? I thought this stuff went on all the time with all kinds of lobbyists...?
Not that I'm saying that something wrong wasn't done...but I just don't understand what was wrong, or why this particular case is such a big deal. Could someone explain?