No, not "this". He still doesn't understand, and is actually wrong in multiple respects. Besides, it has nothing to do with pleas, or buddies, or TV shows. It is a question of law.
Wow... next time I end up in court, I sure hope the judge sits down with me and lets me re-word my plea over and over until I win. That'd be great.
I'm not sure that you understand what is going on there. The warrant modifications are generally additional restrictions on the warrant, or splitting them to make them more specific, not greater freedom. Is that "winning"? Maybe if you're Charlie Sheen and have tiger blood.
... There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts, and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."...
In rare public remarks 10 years ago, a former presiding FISA judge, Royce Lamberth, described the process: "I ask questions. I get into the nitty-gritty. I know exactly what is going to be done and why. And my questions are answered, in every case, before I approve an application."
Syracuse University College of Law professor William C. Banks, who follows the FISA court closely, said he suspects that warrants are "modified" when judges request more information about a warrant or decide to split a warrant with multiple suspects, phone numbers and locations into several, more specific ones.
Since they are operating in a foreign country in what is almost certainly a covert manner they probably didn't have their weapons out and at the ready. Since the police / internal security / army probably did the advantage would be with the Ukrainians, not the Russians. Surrender or get shot. Simple.
As to who they are, there seems to be precedent for Russian troops in Ukraine lately, doesn't there?
Linux is now big enough with all the Android deployments on top of the server infrastructure that there is going to be increasing amounts of effort aimed at exploits. Unfortunately there is a lot of pressure to hurry applications to market and make upgrades to the OS. That means more pressure and opportunities to create exploitable errors. Unless both the Linux community and the application developers up their game we're going to be in the era of owned Linux handhelds and boxes.
If you're so sure that you're fighting the next Hitler, than let me say it again: GO BUY A PLANE TICKET AND GO FIGHT!
The threat of the Axis powers was stopped by concerted action by nation states, not a few individuals that took a plane trip. The same thing goes for the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact. If you think a few guys getting on a plane is the proper way to counter Russian aggression involving special forces brigades, airborne divisions, and 60,000 troops, you don't really have a useful perspective.
Absolutely no one is stopping you, and I'm pretty sure Ukraine will be happy to have you on board.
Many (most?) countries have prohibitions against joining foreign armies without permission, and that is seldom given. So yes, there is something stopping people, even if that was the appropriate response, which it isn't.
It also doesn't appear to occur to you that Ukraine would want people that spoke the language.
You want THE REST OF US to fight and pay *for you*, while you sit back here at home and shoot off your fucking mouths, right?
The method of payment is called "taxes." I'm sure you've both heard of them, and pay them. Besides that, I don't think I would count on you to do any fighting. Your heart doesn't seem to be in it.
If there is anyone shooting off their mouth it is you, with your repeated howling that amounts to acquiesce to aggression.
You seem to be pretty well conditioned to accept whatever new overlords come your way.
I guess I'll take that as a compliment since you acknowledge my comments have something to do with intelligence. I regret that I can't return the favor.
The relationship between the US and Europe is better described as co-dependent, not abusive. And the US wasn't "beating the wife," it was saving the old phone bills in case it wanted to see who was called when.
Question for you: If you think the US relationship with Europe is "abusive," how do you describe Russia's relationship? Russia has just invaded another European country, threatened to do the same to others, and threatened still others with nuclear weapons over the last several years. I assume you might describe that as more than just "abusive."
I wonder how comfortable "Ed" is in imperialist Russia these days?
NSA will probably claim they only use their power to create rainbows and heal sick puppies.
I doubt it. That power is already claimed by Russia for use in Crimea, and soon Ukraine. You should be able to tell how successful the rainbows and puppy healing are from the voting the other day since 97% of the voters decided to join Russia. That is only down 2% from Soviet levels, and only 3% down from North Korean leader levels.
The NSA will probably claim they were doing their job. Go figure.
That isn't really a suitable response to this particular foreign policy problem. If the problem was a loose moose eating up all of the flower beds in Crimea's capital it might work, but not for the actual problem we have.
In living memory both Ukrainians and Tartars have suffered terribly at the hands of foreigners inflicting crimes against humanity on them resulting in a death toll of many millions.
"If you think Bush is stopping at Iraq, you're a fucking moron," said many a Russian citizen in 2003.
And they turned out to be wrong, didn't they?
You do realize that the reason for the conflict does make a difference, right?
Russia is practically asserting the right to invade and annex lands with ethnic Russians in them. There are a lot of those in countries currently outside the borders of Russia. How do you think that is going to go? Does that meet your approval?
What the peninsula is today is part of Ukraine, and Russia is going to annex it following military occupation and an "election" that had only two different "yes" options, and for which outside monitors were not allowed.
Crimea may have a majority Russian population today, but it hasn't always been that way.
The peninsula's dark history of ethnic cleansing is visible in the following chart from Reuters.
The chart shows a collapse in the population of native Crimean Tatars from 34.1% in 1897 to zero in 1959, marking brutal harassment leading up to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deportation of the entire population in 1944, with nearly half dying in the process. It took decades for the population to climb back to 12% by 2001.
While the population of Ukrainians and especially Russians rose, the percentage of the population falling into an unlisted category also fell from more than 20% in 1921 to around 5% in 1959. This was a consequence of the deportation of Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and other groups.
Whatever the Tatar grievances against the Ukrainian state may be, when faced with the choice of being under either Russian or Ukrainian control, the Crimean Tatar leadership has consistently and unequivocally chosen Ukraine. Since the Soviet period, attempts to split the Crimean Tatar movement and persuade some of the Tatars to support a pro-Soviet, and later pro-Russian, agenda has not borne fruit.
Crimean Tatars living in Turkey said Monday they worry of a return to the terrible oppression they suffered in the Ukraine province the last time it belonged to Russia and the Soviet Union.
"We've seen this movie before and we don't want to see it again," said Celal Icten, 59, head of Crimean Tatar Association of Istanbul, whose parents were born in Istanbul and Romania but both draw direct lines to the ancient city of Bakhchisaray, the pre-Tsarist capital of Crimea.
The rest of us "we" have no interest in starting a World War over some pissy little region in the Ukraine whose citizens clearly want to be part of Russia more than Ukraine anyway.
So you are an advocate of Peace for our time? Splendid. I'm sure it will work out just as well now as it did then, just like the pacifist movement in Europe helped.... to keep the various nations from rearmament and at the mercy of the fascist powers.
Did you know that a number of countries in Europe, some of which are NATO allies of the US, also have ethnically Russian populations? The echo of "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" hasn't died out, and now seems to have a Russian accent.
Andrei Illarionov, formerly Vladimir Putin’s top economic advisor (and personal envoy to the G8) , has warned in an interview with Ukrainian television that Putin has already declared war on Kiev. Putin’s war is being conducted by Russian Spetsnaz (special operations) forces and KGB (now called FSB) agents and is aimed at toppling the pro-Western government in Kiev. The Spetsnaz forces’ orders include the sowing of civil unrest throughout Ukraine via strikes, demonstrations, staged incidents, and street battles. Putin’s subversive forces will also gin up neo-Nazi incidents with Nazi regalia and Swastikas on full display. Their orders include as well the deliberate killing of Russian soldiers and of ethnic Russian civilians to prove the hatred and extremism of radical Ukrainian nationalists. These orders come from Putin himself. Their goal is to create an image of intolerable chaos and loss of civil authority to justify a Russian takeover of all Ukraine. Putin’s goal is the destruction of pro-Western authority in Ukraine, the total humiliation of the West, and a makeover of the geopolitical balance.
I don't know how you missed that one slick. Simply trolling?
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You have the events wrong. The USS Maddox was attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in international waters.
Just that one attack by the North Vietnamese would have been sufficient as a casus belli.
The Dalek Bug Death Ray?
The problem with your claim is that there was an actual attack in that series of incidents.
Water freezes at 273K. That is pretty warm.
No, not "this". He still doesn't understand, and is actually wrong in multiple respects. Besides, it has nothing to do with pleas, or buddies, or TV shows. It is a question of law.
Wow... next time I end up in court, I sure hope the judge sits down with me and lets me re-word my plea over and over until I win. That'd be great.
I'm not sure that you understand what is going on there. The warrant modifications are generally additional restrictions on the warrant, or splitting them to make them more specific, not greater freedom. Is that "winning"? Maybe if you're Charlie Sheen and have tiger blood.
The judges who preside over America's secret court
... There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts, and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize." ...
In rare public remarks 10 years ago, a former presiding FISA judge, Royce Lamberth, described the process: "I ask questions. I get into the nitty-gritty. I know exactly what is going to be done and why. And my questions are answered, in every case, before I approve an application."
Syracuse University College of Law professor William C. Banks, who follows the FISA court closely, said he suspects that warrants are "modified" when judges request more information about a warrant or decide to split a warrant with multiple suspects, phone numbers and locations into several, more specific ones.
Not only is it a moral imperative to explore these seas, but there's probably seafront property we can sell to dot-com billionaires.
Maybe, but I think skinny dipping is right out.
For those with a taste for low level and retro:
Corewars
FAQ
Not much new there.
Warrant requests are modified regularly.
Since they are operating in a foreign country in what is almost certainly a covert manner they probably didn't have their weapons out and at the ready. Since the police / internal security / army probably did the advantage would be with the Ukrainians, not the Russians. Surrender or get shot. Simple.
As to who they are, there seems to be precedent for Russian troops in Ukraine lately, doesn't there?
Linux is now big enough with all the Android deployments on top of the server infrastructure that there is going to be increasing amounts of effort aimed at exploits. Unfortunately there is a lot of pressure to hurry applications to market and make upgrades to the OS. That means more pressure and opportunities to create exploitable errors. Unless both the Linux community and the application developers up their game we're going to be in the era of owned Linux handhelds and boxes.
If you're so sure that you're fighting the next Hitler, than let me say it again: GO BUY A PLANE TICKET AND GO FIGHT!
The threat of the Axis powers was stopped by concerted action by nation states, not a few individuals that took a plane trip. The same thing goes for the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact. If you think a few guys getting on a plane is the proper way to counter Russian aggression involving special forces brigades, airborne divisions, and 60,000 troops, you don't really have a useful perspective.
Absolutely no one is stopping you, and I'm pretty sure Ukraine will be happy to have you on board.
Many (most?) countries have prohibitions against joining foreign armies without permission, and that is seldom given. So yes, there is something stopping people, even if that was the appropriate response, which it isn't.
It also doesn't appear to occur to you that Ukraine would want people that spoke the language.
You want THE REST OF US to fight and pay *for you*, while you sit back here at home and shoot off your fucking mouths, right?
The method of payment is called "taxes." I'm sure you've both heard of them, and pay them. Besides that, I don't think I would count on you to do any fighting. Your heart doesn't seem to be in it.
If there is anyone shooting off their mouth it is you, with your repeated howling that amounts to acquiesce to aggression.
You seem to be pretty well conditioned to accept whatever new overlords come your way.
I guess I'll take that as a compliment since you acknowledge my comments have something to do with intelligence. I regret that I can't return the favor.
If they're Spetsnaz, and they allowed themselves to be arrested, they clearly had orders to not kill anybody, especially cops.
Ukraine has its own Spetsnaz, army, and internal security units, not just traffic cops.
The relationship between the US and Europe is better described as co-dependent, not abusive. And the US wasn't "beating the wife," it was saving the old phone bills in case it wanted to see who was called when.
Question for you: If you think the US relationship with Europe is "abusive," how do you describe Russia's relationship? Russia has just invaded another European country, threatened to do the same to others, and threatened still others with nuclear weapons over the last several years. I assume you might describe that as more than just "abusive."
I wonder how comfortable "Ed" is in imperialist Russia these days?
NSA will probably claim they only use their power to create rainbows and heal sick puppies.
I doubt it. That power is already claimed by Russia for use in Crimea, and soon Ukraine. You should be able to tell how successful the rainbows and puppy healing are from the voting the other day since 97% of the voters decided to join Russia. That is only down 2% from Soviet levels, and only 3% down from North Korean leader levels.
The NSA will probably claim they were doing their job. Go figure.
That isn't really a suitable response to this particular foreign policy problem. If the problem was a loose moose eating up all of the flower beds in Crimea's capital it might work, but not for the actual problem we have.
In living memory both Ukrainians and Tartars have suffered terribly at the hands of foreigners inflicting crimes against humanity on them resulting in a death toll of many millions.
"If you think Bush is stopping at Iraq, you're a fucking moron," said many a Russian citizen in 2003.
And they turned out to be wrong, didn't they?
You do realize that the reason for the conflict does make a difference, right?
Russia is practically asserting the right to invade and annex lands with ethnic Russians in them. There are a lot of those in countries currently outside the borders of Russia. How do you think that is going to go? Does that meet your approval?
What the peninsula is today is part of Ukraine, and Russia is going to annex it following military occupation and an "election" that had only two different "yes" options, and for which outside monitors were not allowed.
And what law will you invoke to keep Russia from invading and annexing areas of other countries that have Russian populations?
Crimea has been autonomous within the Ukraine precisely because it is more ethnically Russian than Ukrainian,
How Russians Became Crimea's Largest Ethnic Group, In One Haunting Chart
Crimea may have a majority Russian population today, but it hasn't always been that way.
The peninsula's dark history of ethnic cleansing is visible in the following chart from Reuters.
The chart shows a collapse in the population of native Crimean Tatars from 34.1% in 1897 to zero in 1959, marking brutal harassment leading up to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's forcible deportation of the entire population in 1944, with nearly half dying in the process. It took decades for the population to climb back to 12% by 2001.
While the population of Ukrainians and especially Russians rose, the percentage of the population falling into an unlisted category also fell from more than 20% in 1921 to around 5% in 1959. This was a consequence of the deportation of Armenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, and other groups.
Who are the Crimean Tatars, and why are they important?
Whatever the Tatar grievances against the Ukrainian state may be, when faced with the choice of being under either Russian or Ukrainian control, the Crimean Tatar leadership has consistently and unequivocally chosen Ukraine. Since the Soviet period, attempts to split the Crimean Tatar movement and persuade some of the Tatars to support a pro-Soviet, and later pro-Russian, agenda has not borne fruit.
Crimean Tatars fret over Russian domination again
Crimean Tatars living in Turkey said Monday they worry of a return to the terrible oppression they suffered in the Ukraine province the last time it belonged to Russia and the Soviet Union.
"We've seen this movie before and we don't want to see it again," said Celal Icten, 59, head of Crimean Tatar Association of Istanbul, whose parents were born in Istanbul and Romania but both draw direct lines to the ancient city of Bakhchisaray, the pre-Tsarist capital of Crimea.
Once Victims Of Stalin, Ukraine's Tatars Reassert Themselves
In Soviet Russia, borders move to include you.
The rest of us "we" have no interest in starting a World War over some pissy little region in the Ukraine whose citizens clearly want to be part of Russia more than Ukraine anyway.
So you are an advocate of Peace for our time? Splendid. I'm sure it will work out just as well now as it did then, just like the pacifist movement in Europe helped .... to keep the various nations from rearmament and at the mercy of the fascist powers.
Did you know that a number of countries in Europe, some of which are NATO allies of the US, also have ethnically Russian populations? The echo of "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" hasn't died out, and now seems to have a Russian accent.
Nothing at the link to Forbes says anything even remotely similar to what the post is alleging (I didn't even bother to check the other ones).
I don't think you bothered to check any of them.
Former Top Putin Advisor Sounds The Alarm: Putin Has Already Declared War On Kiev
Andrei Illarionov, formerly Vladimir Putin’s top economic advisor (and personal envoy to the G8) , has warned in an interview with Ukrainian television that Putin has already declared war on Kiev. Putin’s war is being conducted by Russian Spetsnaz (special operations) forces and KGB (now called FSB) agents and is aimed at toppling the pro-Western government in Kiev. The Spetsnaz forces’ orders include the sowing of civil unrest throughout Ukraine via strikes, demonstrations, staged incidents, and street battles. Putin’s subversive forces will also gin up neo-Nazi incidents with Nazi regalia and Swastikas on full display. Their orders include as well the deliberate killing of Russian soldiers and of ethnic Russian civilians to prove the hatred and extremism of radical Ukrainian nationalists. These orders come from Putin himself. Their goal is to create an image of intolerable chaos and loss of civil authority to justify a Russian takeover of all Ukraine. Putin’s goal is the destruction of pro-Western authority in Ukraine, the total humiliation of the West, and a makeover of the geopolitical balance.
I don't know how you missed that one slick. Simply trolling?