Progressives and Democrats claim outrage that the government is shut down, but continue to resist efforts to open it - take targeted actions to magnify the pain. Film at 11.
Your disbelief is a different issue than the reports being wrong. But, I can understand your stance. Some people prefer to only drink from the approved water carriers, especially if news from other sources might cause uncomfortable facts and thoughts to creep into one’s mind. Rest easy with your approved news, citizen.
A Canadian tech firm that has provided service to that country's single-payer health care system is behind the glitch-ridden United States national health care exchange site healthcare.gov.
CGI Federal is a subsidiary of Montreal-based CGI Group. With offices in Fairfax, Va., the subsidiary has been a darling of the Obama administration, which since 2009 has bestowed it with $1.4 billion in federal contracts, according to USAspending.gov.
The "CGI" in the parent company's name stands for "Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique" in French, which roughly translates to "Information Systems and Management Consultants." However, the firm offers another translation: "Consultants to Government and Industry."
The company is deeply embedded in Canada’s single-payer system. CGI has provided IT services to the Canadian Ministries of Health in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Saskatchewan, as well as to the national health provider, Health Canada, according to CGI's Canadian website.
Re provide the metadata? Under telecoms laws in say Australia or UK...that would/could have been done.
It could have been done in this case as well. The metadata is all the investigators wanted. I believe this or another article indicated that they had complied with such requests in the past. It was Lavabit's refusal to comply with the initial limited request that generated the much more general request for the keys.
Thankfully in the US the wider legal/tech aspect to get the keys part seems to have been understood in time. Now the press, lawyers, law reform groups, politicians, academics and future coders can discuss aspects of the case:)
There would be no case for the keys if Lavabit had complied with the initial limited request. Now there is likely to be a precedent generated, and there is a good chance it will not be one you like. Lavabit was engaged in a pattern of willful noncompliance and obstruction. I doubt that will make a good case for them.
The overall number of vehicles burned was in line with the 1,147 on the night of Dec. 31, 2009, the last time the government announced the figures. More than 40,000 vehicles are burned each year in France, Mr. Valls said Monday on RTL radio, calling it “an intolerable form of violence against property.”...
During the autumn 2005 riots that rocked some of Paris’s more volatile suburbs, more than 8,800 cars were burned. At the time, French television censored images of the car-burning so as not to encourage the practice
Large percentages of immigrants to Europe reject traditional European values even though they share the land which may eventually be theirs. Native European are on the self-chosen path to extinction, and they will take their values with them.
In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate. Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002 study by Italian, German and Spanish social scientists focused the data and gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder. The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the “replacement rate” — the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country’s current population level. At various times in modern history — during war or famine — birthrates have fallen below the replacement rate, to “low” or “very low” levels. But Hans-Peter Kohler, José Antonio Ortega and Francesco Billari — the authors of the 2002 report — saw something new in the data. For the first time on record, birthrates in southern and Eastern Europe had dropped below 1.3. For the demographers, this number had a special mathematical portent. At that rate, a country’s population would be cut in half in 45 years, creating a falling-off-a-cliff effect from which it would be nearly impossible to recover. Kohler and his colleagues invented an ominous new term for the phenomenon: “lowest-low fertility.”...
In Germany, where the births-to-deaths ratio now results in an annual population loss of roughly 100,000, Ursula von der Leyen, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s family minister (and a mother of seven), declared two years ago that if her country didn’t reverse its plummeting birthrate, “We will have to turn out the light.” Last March, André Rouvoet, the leader of the Christian Union Party in the Netherlands (and a father of five), urged the government to get proactive and spur Dutch women to have more babies. The Canadian conservative Mark Steyn, author of the 2006 best seller “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It,” has warned his fellow North Americans, whose birthrates are relatively high, that, regarding their European allies, “These countries are going out of business,” and that while at the end of the 21st century there may “still be a geographical area on t
When I was growing up (70s and early 80s), all the US propaganda about how bad the Soviet Union was, how bad East Germany was, in terms of privacy, citizen rights, and being police states.
The Communist Party USA would beg to differ with you. They aren't successful in winning office, but they exist.
Obama is well to the right of most first world politicians, and in American context is somewhere around Reagan or Nixon.
Based on what? That he is fighting wars that were occurring when he came into office and that he governs with the existing government structure? Even communist nations fight to protect their people, and the US's NATO allies are fighting with it in Afghanistan. President Obama won an election, not a revolution. He is stuck governing with the government that exists. He is neither a Reagan or Nixon. He is clearly far left of Reagan. Functionally you may have an argument with Nixon, but Obama lacks many of Nixon's finer points with still keeping enemies lists woven in action with the Chicago way.
The extreme left of American politics, represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizibeth Warren would be centrists in any sane country.
Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed socialist. If socialist is the center, than you must be in at least Marxist-Leninist or Maoist territory for the left. Given the massive carnage such government have caused, and how few remain, I don't think "sane country" would do well if such a left were powerful.
Support for that was withdrawn after they thought more about it. It also differed in important ways from what is now proposed. So, there needs to be a bit more to the statement than that. Something like: A vaguely similar proposal was floated by a conservative think tank, but after rethinking it they dropped it. There were meaningful differences.
There was very little in terms of negotiation for the passage of the ACA except among Democrats. There wasn't Republican support for it, and it was passed with bribes of pork and all manner of political maneuvering of a very low sort. The Republicans aren't terrorists, they are legislators. They are using legislative maneuvers as has happened at least 16 times in the past when shutdowns occurred.
They are trying to pass budgets, but the Senate and President wont' negotiate. You seemed to find negotiation desirable when the ACA passed, why not now? You may recall that Nancy Pelosi said that we would have to pass the bill to see what was in it. We, now we know, and it isn't looking good. It is costing many people their jobs, or being forced to part-time. Many companies have dropped insurance. Many insurance companies have dropped coverage for children. The medical device tax has cost thousands of jobs and threatens the industry due to the poorly considered nature of the tax - one which the Senate majority leader Harry Reid is unwilling to reconsider despite bipartisan support to do so.
The Democratic Senate took four years to pass a budget, something that should be an annual event. Even then it was useless. The House, on the other hand, has passed their budgets. You may be confused as to where the problem is.
There is in fact a genuine left in American politics, here is one example. The Left in the US regularly engages in various marches and protests. The hard Left in the US isn't very successful at the ballot box. Few Americans will vote for communists if they understand that is who is running. As a result it isn't that uncommon for the far left to mute their rhetoric and run as Democrats or otherwise engage with the Democratic party where "progressive" ideas are generally welcome.
Read this passage, written in the 1930s by a Marine Corps General,...
Written by Smedley Butler, two time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was among the bravest of US Marines when in uniform, and a political crank after he left the Marines. If he had his way, the US would not have taken part in WW2. The consequences of that would have been highly unfortunate. Quoting him is quite a racket.
I doubt that Lavabit has a case over commerce. It was the owner's decision to shut down.
Lavabit didn't comply with the initial, specific and limited request which appears to be pretty well settled in law as to the right of the government to ask for it. Some laws indeed should be changed, but Lavabit made some very poor choices here, including not complying with a demand that they apparently had complied with in previous instances. I wouldn't count on a favorable outcome from the appeal, but I suppose anything is possible.
No, Lavabit didn't win. It appears they handed over the keys as demanded, and then shut down, so the FBI must have received the data it was looking for. It only came to the point that it did because he didn't cooperate with the initial, much more limited demand. There is little collateral damage there except to Lavabit. I'll be surprised if he can win much of anything on appeal, which they are pursuing. Given his repeated non-compliance it might even turn into what you may view as a bad precedent, at least for that court.
The FISA court is accountable ultimately to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review and the Supreme court for its decisions, and Congress can remove the judges for misconduct. Anyone receiving an order from the court can appeal it to the court or the review court. An appeal would go from the Court of Review to the Supreme Court. There is little mystery there, you are just uninformed, and apparently making things up as you go.
In addition, the Court of Review has jurisdiction over petitions for review of a decision under section 501(f)(2) of FISA, 50 U.S.C. 1861(f)(2), to affirm, modify, or set aside a production order or nondisclosure order filed by the government or any person receiving such an order.35 Upon the request of the government, any order setting aside a nondisclosure order shall be stayed pending such review.36
The Court of Review shall provide for the record a written statement of the reasons for its decision and, on petition by the government or any person receiving such order for writ of certiorari, the record shall be transmitted under seal to the Supreme Court of the United States, which shall have jurisdiction to review such decision.
The FISA court has modified hundreds of warrants, and the government has withdrawn many times the number of warrant requests that were turned down. There should be little surprise that most warrants are granted since that is a routine legal mechanism with well known and not especially onerous requirements, and the Department of Justice lawyers are expected to be skilled professionals with oversight.
It isn't that I'm dishonest, you are simply uninformed and ill mannered. If you become better informed you will probably be less troubled. Your post is nonsense.
Ya code 16 k-lines and whaddya get? A thousand bug reports and a schedule slip PM just told me vacation's a no I have no life till there's shipping code
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The military isn't shut down.
Progressives and Democrats claim outrage that the government is shut down, but continue to resist efforts to open it - take targeted actions to magnify the pain. Film at 11.
Your disbelief is a different issue than the reports being wrong. But, I can understand your stance. Some people prefer to only drink from the approved water carriers, especially if news from other sources might cause uncomfortable facts and thoughts to creep into one’s mind. Rest easy with your approved news, citizen.
s/launched/lurched/g
Or, if you prefer: a car analogy (You can either jump to 1:07, or watch the whole thing.)
It's not arbitrary, it's calculated to cause pain as a political move.
Obama Forcing Shut Down of Parks the Feds Don't Even Fund
Private Air Show Stopped Due to Government Shutdown
Obama Illegally Furloughing Civilian Defense Employees at STRATCOM
PRUDEN: The cheap tricks of the game
Monuments and memorials remained open during previous shutdown
Republicans press Obama to back FEMA funding bill as storm nears
There is plenty more.
The Senate isn't being useful, but at least they did vote on something today: "... the Senate also unanimously approved a measure deeming next week as National Chess Week."
Canadian firm hired to build troubled Obamacare exchanges
A Canadian tech firm that has provided service to that country's single-payer health care system is behind the glitch-ridden United States national health care exchange site healthcare.gov.
CGI Federal is a subsidiary of Montreal-based CGI Group. With offices in Fairfax, Va., the subsidiary has been a darling of the Obama administration, which since 2009 has bestowed it with $1.4 billion in federal contracts, according to USAspending.gov.
The "CGI" in the parent company's name stands for "Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique" in French, which roughly translates to "Information Systems and Management Consultants." However, the firm offers another translation: "Consultants to Government and Industry."
The company is deeply embedded in Canada’s single-payer system. CGI has provided IT services to the Canadian Ministries of Health in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Saskatchewan, as well as to the national health provider, Health Canada, according to CGI's Canadian website.
In other words, you have no facts to contradict that? Fine then.
Re provide the metadata? Under telecoms laws in say Australia or UK...that would/could have been done.
It could have been done in this case as well. The metadata is all the investigators wanted. I believe this or another article indicated that they had complied with such requests in the past. It was Lavabit's refusal to comply with the initial limited request that generated the much more general request for the keys.
Thankfully in the US the wider legal/tech aspect to get the keys part seems to have been understood in time. Now the press, lawyers, law reform groups, politicians, academics and future coders can discuss aspects of the case :)
There would be no case for the keys if Lavabit had complied with the initial limited request. Now there is likely to be a precedent generated, and there is a good chance it will not be one you like. Lavabit was engaged in a pattern of willful noncompliance and obstruction. I doubt that will make a good case for them.
so will this result in a theocratic christian government run by the bible belt?
Europe is in a much bigger danger of something like that than the US. It might take 50 years, but trouble is brewing.
European 'No-Go' Zones for Non-Muslims Proliferating - "Occupation Without Tanks or Soldiers"
Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London
France's Less Joyous New Year's Tradition
The overall number of vehicles burned was in line with the 1,147 on the night of Dec. 31, 2009, the last time the government announced the figures. More than 40,000 vehicles are burned each year in France, Mr. Valls said Monday on RTL radio, calling it “an intolerable form of violence against property.” ...
During the autumn 2005 riots that rocked some of Paris’s more volatile suburbs, more than 8,800 cars were burned. At the time, French television censored images of the car-burning so as not to encourage the practice
Losing Malmo
Large percentages of immigrants to Europe reject traditional European values even though they share the land which may eventually be theirs. Native European are on the self-chosen path to extinction, and they will take their values with them.
No Babies?
In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate. Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002 study by Italian, German and Spanish social scientists focused the data and gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder. The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the “replacement rate” — the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country’s current population level. At various times in modern history — during war or famine — birthrates have fallen below the replacement rate, to “low” or “very low” levels. But Hans-Peter Kohler, José Antonio Ortega and Francesco Billari — the authors of the 2002 report — saw something new in the data. For the first time on record, birthrates in southern and Eastern Europe had dropped below 1.3. For the demographers, this number had a special mathematical portent. At that rate, a country’s population would be cut in half in 45 years, creating a falling-off-a-cliff effect from which it would be nearly impossible to recover. Kohler and his colleagues invented an ominous new term for the phenomenon: “lowest-low fertility.” ...
In Germany, where the births-to-deaths ratio now results in an annual population loss of roughly 100,000, Ursula von der Leyen, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s family minister (and a mother of seven), declared two years ago that if her country didn’t reverse its plummeting birthrate, “We will have to turn out the light.” Last March, André Rouvoet, the leader of the Christian Union Party in the Netherlands (and a father of five), urged the government to get proactive and spur Dutch women to have more babies. The Canadian conservative Mark Steyn, author of the 2006 best seller “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It,” has warned his fellow North Americans, whose birthrates are relatively high, that, regarding their European allies, “These countries are going out of business,” and that while at the end of the 21st century there may “still be a geographical area on t
Not so much, it appears. Analysis: Despite fears, NSA revelations helping U.S. tech industry
I wouldn't get too worked up about it. Analysis: Despite fears, NSA revelations helping U.S. tech industry
When I was growing up (70s and early 80s), all the US propaganda about how bad the Soviet Union was, how bad East Germany was, in terms of privacy, citizen rights, and being police states.
I suggest you take 10 minutes and watch this trailer for this documentary. Watch the whole thing some time.
A Portrait of Stalin: Secret Police - By Russian historians and film makers.
And that magic number is why a variety of business have closed locations and fired workers - to stay below the threshold.
There is no far left in American politics.
The Communist Party USA would beg to differ with you. They aren't successful in winning office, but they exist.
Obama is well to the right of most first world politicians, and in American context is somewhere around Reagan or Nixon.
Based on what? That he is fighting wars that were occurring when he came into office and that he governs with the existing government structure? Even communist nations fight to protect their people, and the US's NATO allies are fighting with it in Afghanistan. President Obama won an election, not a revolution. He is stuck governing with the government that exists. He is neither a Reagan or Nixon. He is clearly far left of Reagan. Functionally you may have an argument with Nixon, but Obama lacks many of Nixon's finer points with still keeping enemies lists woven in action with the Chicago way.
The extreme left of American politics, represented by Bernie Sanders and Elizibeth Warren would be centrists in any sane country.
Bernie Sanders is a self-proclaimed socialist. If socialist is the center, than you must be in at least Marxist-Leninist or Maoist territory for the left. Given the massive carnage such government have caused, and how few remain, I don't think "sane country" would do well if such a left were powerful.
Support for that was withdrawn after they thought more about it. It also differed in important ways from what is now proposed. So, there needs to be a bit more to the statement than that. Something like: A vaguely similar proposal was floated by a conservative think tank, but after rethinking it they dropped it. There were meaningful differences.
Details matter.
There was very little in terms of negotiation for the passage of the ACA except among Democrats. There wasn't Republican support for it, and it was passed with bribes of pork and all manner of political maneuvering of a very low sort. The Republicans aren't terrorists, they are legislators. They are using legislative maneuvers as has happened at least 16 times in the past when shutdowns occurred.
They are trying to pass budgets, but the Senate and President wont' negotiate. You seemed to find negotiation desirable when the ACA passed, why not now? You may recall that Nancy Pelosi said that we would have to pass the bill to see what was in it. We, now we know, and it isn't looking good. It is costing many people their jobs, or being forced to part-time. Many companies have dropped insurance. Many insurance companies have dropped coverage for children. The medical device tax has cost thousands of jobs and threatens the industry due to the poorly considered nature of the tax - one which the Senate majority leader Harry Reid is unwilling to reconsider despite bipartisan support to do so.
The Democratic Senate took four years to pass a budget, something that should be an annual event. Even then it was useless. The House, on the other hand, has passed their budgets. You may be confused as to where the problem is.
There is in fact a genuine left in American politics, here is one example. The Left in the US regularly engages in various marches and protests. The hard Left in the US isn't very successful at the ballot box. Few Americans will vote for communists if they understand that is who is running. As a result it isn't that uncommon for the far left to mute their rhetoric and run as Democrats or otherwise engage with the Democratic party where "progressive" ideas are generally welcome.
The only way the two US main parties could be considered "far right" is if you consider anything to the right of outright communism to be "far right."
Read this passage, written in the 1930s by a Marine Corps General, ...
Written by Smedley Butler, two time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was among the bravest of US Marines when in uniform, and a political crank after he left the Marines. If he had his way, the US would not have taken part in WW2. The consequences of that would have been highly unfortunate. Quoting him is quite a racket.
I doubt that Lavabit has a case over commerce. It was the owner's decision to shut down.
Lavabit didn't comply with the initial, specific and limited request which appears to be pretty well settled in law as to the right of the government to ask for it. Some laws indeed should be changed, but Lavabit made some very poor choices here, including not complying with a demand that they apparently had complied with in previous instances. I wouldn't count on a favorable outcome from the appeal, but I suppose anything is possible.
No, Lavabit didn't win. It appears they handed over the keys as demanded, and then shut down, so the FBI must have received the data it was looking for. It only came to the point that it did because he didn't cooperate with the initial, much more limited demand. There is little collateral damage there except to Lavabit. I'll be surprised if he can win much of anything on appeal, which they are pursuing. Given his repeated non-compliance it might even turn into what you may view as a bad precedent, at least for that court.
Why don't you spend time reading this document: The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview
The FISA court is accountable ultimately to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review and the Supreme court for its decisions, and Congress can remove the judges for misconduct. Anyone receiving an order from the court can appeal it to the court or the review court. An appeal would go from the Court of Review to the Supreme Court. There is little mystery there, you are just uninformed, and apparently making things up as you go.
The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review: An Overview
In addition, the Court of Review has jurisdiction over petitions for review of a decision under section 501(f)(2) of FISA, 50 U.S.C. 1861(f)(2), to affirm, modify, or set aside a production order or nondisclosure order filed by the government or any person receiving such an order.35 Upon the request of the government, any order setting aside a nondisclosure order shall be stayed pending such review.36
The Court of Review shall provide for the record a written statement of the reasons for its decision and, on petition by the government or any person receiving such order for writ of certiorari, the record shall be transmitted under seal to the Supreme Court of the United States, which shall have jurisdiction to review such decision.
The FISA court has modified hundreds of warrants, and the government has withdrawn many times the number of warrant requests that were turned down. There should be little surprise that most warrants are granted since that is a routine legal mechanism with well known and not especially onerous requirements, and the Department of Justice lawyers are expected to be skilled professionals with oversight.
It isn't that I'm dishonest, you are simply uninformed and ill mannered. If you become better informed you will probably be less troubled. Your post is nonsense.
Ya code 16 k-lines and whaddya get?
A thousand bug reports and a schedule slip
PM just told me vacation's a no
I have no life till there's shipping code
No, Lavabit is appealing.