If you view this post of his you will see that he apparently thinks Slashdot staff are NSA plants.
If you view this post of his you will see that he thinks various posters on Slashdot are NSA plants, including me. (You may want to read my reply to that post as well.) You may note that my account isn't from last month - his is actually newer than mine. I doubt that he has revealed everyone that he thinks is a plant.
For whatever it is worth to you, I certainly believe that the government can engage in illegal behavior, and various other forms of overreach and abuse. The IRS scandal in which the IRS admits to having engaged in conduct that is in essence the oppression of the ordinary political opposition to the current administration. That is unacceptable. On the other hand, I also think that preventing terrorist attacks against US citizens and those of America's allies, attacks that could kill thousands, is a good thing, as is the NSA surveillance of people in direct communication with terrorist groups. The law isn't necessarily what people think it is, or should be. I understand that leaves room for dispute. In any event, anachragnome can't abide my views, so obviously I must work for the government, not that you could prove that from my bank account.
They don't even need to ignore the FISA court orders; the court will give them practically anything they want, and have rubberstamped sweeping warrants in the past.
Your claim that the FISA court gives the government practically anything it wants is false. The FISA court has been very obstructionist in the past, and it is certainly willing to modify warrant requests, and does reject them on occasion - based on the merits of the application and the law.
...Even later, after the provisions of the Patriot Act had had time to take effect, there were still problems with the FISA court–problems examined by members of the September 11 Commission–and questions about whether the court can deal effectively with the fastest-changing cases in the war on terror.
People familiar with the process say the problem is not so much with the court itself as with the process required to bring a case before the court. “It takes days, sometimes weeks, to get the application for FISA together,” says one source. “It’s not so much that the court doesn’t grant them quickly, it’s that it takes a long time to get to the court. Even after the Patriot Act, it’s still a very cumbersome process. It is not built for speed, it is not built to be efficient. It is built with an eye to keeping [investigators] in check.” And even though the attorney general has the authority in some cases to undertake surveillance immediately, and then seek an emergency warrant, that process is just as cumbersome as the normal way of doing things
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You doubt that they have breached the constitution because you are a pro-government stooge.
I don't recall seeing stooge being used as a synonym for "well informed person" before. Your use of English is quite odd, as are your beliefs.
... Not only could the FISA Court not tell the president how do to his work, the Court of Review said, but the president also had the “inherent authority” under the Constitution to conduct needed surveillance without obtaining any warrant–from the FISA Court or anyone else. Referring to an earlier case, known as Truong, which dealt with surveillance before FISA was passed, the Court of Review wrote: “The Truong court, as did all the other courts to have decided the issue, held that the President did have inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information. . . . We take for granted that the President does have that authority and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President’s constitutional power.”
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You're literally just an object to be ridiculed here. You might as well go somewhere where people are on the fence about issues such as these and try to brainwash them, because most people on Slashdot likely think you're just a joke.
As long as Slashdot continues to be a forum for free discussion I will be content to continue participating as my time and interests allow. I will continue to express my views, state facts, and provide data, even if it is unpopular. You should never confuse being popular with being right. Slashdot is more than the many people that post here, including those who are uninformed or confused,
On topic: The path of least regret would have been single payer system, but we somehow ended up with a Republican profit-utopia called "Obamacare".
Infinity Imaginary mod points to you sir.
Infinity irony points to you, fellow poster.
It is often claimed that Obamacare is a Republican creation by way of the Heritage Foundation. In fact the Heritage plan was substantially different, and they figured out quite some time ago that plan was not a good idea, and they disowned it.
In fact, Obamacare was written by Democrats in Congress with help from a progressive think tank.
So how is a law written by Democrats assisted by progressive think tanks, passed solely by Democrats, and signed into law by a Democrat President a "Republican" plan?
President Barack Obama promised his health-care law would cost approximately $900 billion over ten years when he first proposed it. Since then, the price tag has continued to climb. Total spending under the Affordable Care Act will reach $2.6 trillion over its first full decade, according to a Senate Budget Committee analysis, which was based on Congressional Budget Office estimates and growth rates.
It is said that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. Trying to leave the Obamacare baby in a basket on the Republican's doorstep won't work. The bastard stepchild of Obamacare belongs to the Democrats.
Because it was both professional and efficient, the Spanish Inquisition kept very good records.
These documents are a goldmine for modern historians who have plunged greedily into them. Thus far, the fruits of that research have made one thing abundantly clear – the myth of the Spanish Inquisition has nothing at all to do with the real thing. . . .
In 1483 Ferdinand appointed Tomás de Torquemada as inquistor-general for most of Spain. It was Torquemada's job to establish rules of evidence and procedure for the Inquisition as well as to set up branches in major cities. Sixtus confirmed the appointment, hoping that it would bring some order to the situation.
Unfortunately, the problem only snowballed. This was a direct result of the methods employed by the early Spanish Inquisition, which strayed significantly from Church standards. When the inquisitors arrived in a particular area, they would announce an Edict of Grace. This was a 30-day period in which secret Jews could voluntarily come forward, confess their sin, and do penance. This was also a time for others with information about Christians practicing Judaism in secret to make it known to the tribunal. Those found guilty after the 30 days elapsed could be burned at the stake.
For conversos, then, the arrival of the Inquisition certainly focused the mind. They generally had plenty of enemies, any one of whom might decide to bear false witness. Or perhaps their cultural practices were sufficient for condemnation? Who knew? Most conversos, therefore, either fled or lined up to confess. Those who did neither risked an inquiry in which any kind of hearsay or evidence, no matter how old or suspicious, was acceptable.
Opposition in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to the Spanish Inquisition only increased. Many churchmen pointed out that it was contrary to all accepted practices for heretics to be burned without instruction in the Faith. If the conversos were guilty at all, it was merely of ignorance, not willful heresy. Numerous clergy at the highest levels complained to Ferdinand. Opposition to the Spanish Inquisition also continued in Rome. Sixtus's successor, Innocent VIII, wrote twice to the king asking for greater compassion, mercy, and leniency for the conversos – but to no avail. --- more
2.6 Right to Confidentiality All necessary measures shall be taken to protect the privacy and identity of child victims to ensure the safety and security of the victim and his or her family. The name, address and all other information that could lead to the identification of the child victim or his or her family members shall not be revealed to the public or media. Exceptions may be made in circumstances such as to facilitate the tracing of family members or otherwise secure the well-being and protection of the child, with the informed consent of the child. Information about a child victim that could endanger the child or the child’s family members shall not be disclosed in any case.20
The bulk of the Vatican's penal code is based on the 1889 Italian code. Many of the new provisions were necessary to bring the city state's legal system up to date after the Holy See signed international treaties, such as the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
I wonder if there is something about the last Pope they don't want leaked. Could it be he stepped down to avoid a standing pope being shown to have committed some horrible crime against children?
There are several innocent reasons why this could be occurring now.
New bosses often like to put their stamp on an organization. The new Pope has been updating a lot of policies. The old Pope wasn't well, so he probably had a limited work schedule. There has probably been a backlog of business to catch up on. It is often easier to do multiple updates at once instead of piecemeal.
The bulk of the Vatican's penal code is based on the 1889 Italian code. Many of the new provisions were necessary to bring the city state's legal system up to date after the Holy See signed international treaties, such as the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Others were necessary to comply with international norms to fight money-laundering, part of the Vatican's push toward financial transparency.
One new crime stands out, though, as an obvious response to the leaks of papal documents last year that represented one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times.
Now I'm suspicious. Since this information is pretty close to the beginning of the article, I have to wonder if your post isn't just a clever way to libel not just a priest, but a Pope, without evidence and without being quite so obvious?
I fully expect "Cold Fjord" to be spewing his disinformation--with earnest--after the latest Prism revelations. If Microsoft is fucked, so is the NSA.
What a pity. I was hoping that you had put aside the crackpot theories involving me and other people that have different views from you. Since you continue down this path, it looks like I'll need to see what other nonsense you've posted. You kind of have a Senator Joseph McCarthy vibe going: "I hold in my hand a list of NSA plants on Slashdot!" I think it is time to ask the question raised by Army counsel Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy:
" Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
Somehow I doubt it. There probably isn't room in the crankcase.
You should brace yourself - if you disagree with him, he may start accusing you of being an NSA plant as well, calling you a "shill" and "forum breaker." He tries to manipulate people with fear. Read the posts I linked above.
If this continues I may need do some follow up posts.
Notice a pattern? Apparently, the Zimmerman trial is all we Americans care about. The media is as complicit as Microsoft, et al. I start with the foreign news outlets, then head to CNN and other mainstream US media for comparison--what is missing from mainstream US media is the real news.
As I check those four media outlets an 8:38 AM GMT, on July7, 2013, they all have Snowden / NSA related stories on the front page, as well as various other stories.
I assume you expect that people won't check your links?
One of the most horrific things that the Bush Administration did post 9/11 was declare that, in effect, you cease to be an American Citizen once you leave the confines of the USA.
If you would, please expand on that. I don't think that is correct, at least not at face value.
But whether or not literally American law extends beyond the borders of the USA, there is no doubt that effectively it does so. You can see that in the influence that the USA has had on shaping foreign copyright laws, as a prime example.
Countries negotiate all sorts of treaties, defense, trade, human rights. I don't think there is much special about that.
If you look at the post I was responding to you will see that I was providing information on events specifically referenced in it.
As to the law, many people here comment on it, but are unhampered by any meaningful knowledge of it, even in layman's terms. They tend to focus on just a couple of amendments to the Constitution, inflate their meaning beyond recognition, ignore other major parts of it, and banish any court decisions or inconvenient legal doctrines with a wave of the hand. Only the Constitution with still wet ink will do, no messy 224 years of Constitutional jurisprudence and experience in applying it to real situations.
What is more amusing is that many of the people objecting to the government trying to keep them from being blown up are totally in favor of government run healthcare and the massive privacy implications of that. They don't want the possibility of the government even knowing of an email they've sent with the latest sports joke, but are perfectly OK with sharing the names of their sex partners with their doctor, and letting a government doctor cut them open, move bits around, take some things out, put some things in, pump them full of toxic chemicals and irradiate them.
campaign against Google, attacking Google for "reading your email" for putting ads on the screen.
If the reports about Outlook.com are true, it seems almost certain that Google faces the same situation. In that case it is a wash between Microsoft and Google for national security purposes, but Google is still scanning for commercial purposes.. Google's scan results are likely to be shared with other corporate entities. Microsoft does have a point.
Morality, no, it doesn't lose its meaning. Legal rights are another question. As many Europeans, and others around the world, are so fond of reminding Americans - the reach of American law does not extend beyond its borders. But that is a two way street. The power to label action as criminal and prosecute may end at the border (to varying degrees*), but so does the power to protect, and the legal protections of the US Constitution.
*Some international law is considered to have in essence universal jurisdiction.
If a president allowed it to be created, a president almost certainly can order it dismantled. Apparently Obama thinks there is a good reason to continue it.
I think Barbara Lee would be an interesting candidate for the Democrats. Of course she will need a running mate. I think one of the "Pauls" might make an interesting choice. I had long thought a R (Paul (P)/Paul (VP) ) ticket would blend the mutual gravitas and seriousness of the ticket and make it approachable by more voters. With Ron getting too old to run that frees someone to run with Barbara. There might be someone better, but it would be an interesting choice.
If you can't think of ways by which you could derive indicators of the nationality of a sender, and maybe a recipient, of a piece of email you aren't really trying.
I seem to recall that the revealed procedure for accidently accessing information from an American is that they have to file a report which is the basis for tracking incidents. I doubt that they have breached the Constitution since it is bigger than you probably think, and includes this entire section called Article II. You only arrest people if there is reasonable suspicion they have committed a crime for which there is no mitigating circumstance. You haven't proved that to be the case.
It seems pretty clear that they don't think "they can get away with anything," otherwise they wouldn't bother going to the courts, and ignore the FISA courts orders.
I guess you haven't heard about the emphasis on "diversity" in hiring, the way that can play out day to day, and the prevalence of ageism in IT fields. Good luck with that.
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If you view this post of his you will see that he apparently thinks Slashdot staff are NSA plants.
If you view this post of his you will see that he thinks various posters on Slashdot are NSA plants, including me. (You may want to read my reply to that post as well.) You may note that my account isn't from last month - his is actually newer than mine. I doubt that he has revealed everyone that he thinks is a plant.
For whatever it is worth to you, I certainly believe that the government can engage in illegal behavior, and various other forms of overreach and abuse. The IRS scandal in which the IRS admits to having engaged in conduct that is in essence the oppression of the ordinary political opposition to the current administration. That is unacceptable. On the other hand, I also think that preventing terrorist attacks against US citizens and those of America's allies, attacks that could kill thousands, is a good thing, as is the NSA surveillance of people in direct communication with terrorist groups. The law isn't necessarily what people think it is, or should be. I understand that leaves room for dispute. In any event, anachragnome can't abide my views, so obviously I must work for the government, not that you could prove that from my bank account.
Having both side points of view is interesting but you can say "fair, you found me !" :) You're definitely government paid.
Your lips say yes, but my bank account says no. ;)
They don't even need to ignore the FISA court orders; the court will give them practically anything they want, and have rubberstamped sweeping warrants in the past.
Your claim that the FISA court gives the government practically anything it wants is false. The FISA court has been very obstructionist in the past, and it is certainly willing to modify warrant requests, and does reject them on occasion - based on the merits of the application and the law.
It’S Legal - The solid legal basis for the administration's surveillance program. (Well worth the read.)
Why Bush Approved The Wiretaps - Not long ago, both parties agreed the FISA court was a problem
...Even later, after the provisions of the Patriot Act had had time to take effect, there were still problems with the FISA court–problems examined by members of the September 11 Commission–and questions about whether the court can deal effectively with the fastest-changing cases in the war on terror.
People familiar with the process say the problem is not so much with the court itself as with the process required to bring a case before the court. “It takes days, sometimes weeks, to get the application for FISA together,” says one source. “It’s not so much that the court doesn’t grant them quickly, it’s that it takes a long time to get to the court. Even after the Patriot Act, it’s still a very cumbersome process. It is not built for speed, it is not built to be efficient. It is built with an eye to keeping [investigators] in check.” And even though the attorney general has the authority in some cases to undertake surveillance immediately, and then seek an emergency warrant, that process is just as cumbersome as the normal way of doing things
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You doubt that they have breached the constitution because you are a pro-government stooge.
I don't recall seeing stooge being used as a synonym for "well informed person" before. Your use of English is quite odd, as are your beliefs.
It’S Legal - The solid legal basis for the administration's surveillance program. (Well worth the read.)
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You're literally just an object to be ridiculed here. You might as well go somewhere where people are on the fence about issues such as these and try to brainwash them, because most people on Slashdot likely think you're just a joke.
As long as Slashdot continues to be a forum for free discussion I will be content to continue participating as my time and interests allow. I will continue to express my views, state facts, and provide data, even if it is unpopular. You should never confuse being popular with being right. Slashdot is more than the many people that post here, including those who are uninformed or confused,
On topic: The path of least regret would have been single payer system, but we somehow ended up with a Republican profit-utopia called "Obamacare".
Infinity Imaginary mod points to you sir.
Infinity irony points to you, fellow poster.
It is often claimed that Obamacare is a Republican creation by way of the Heritage Foundation. In fact the Heritage plan was substantially different, and they figured out quite some time ago that plan was not a good idea, and they disowned it.
In fact, Obamacare was written by Democrats in Congress with help from a progressive think tank.
Center For American Progress President Shares Part In Obamacare: "I Helped Write The Bill"
Obamacare was passed in Congress on a straight party line vote.
House passes health-care reform bill without Republican votes
Obamacare was signed into law by President Obama.
So how is a law written by Democrats assisted by progressive think tanks, passed solely by Democrats, and signed into law by a Democrat President a "Republican" plan?
PRUDEN: Obamacare called ‘The fiasco for the ages’
Democrats' New Argument: It's A Good Thing That Obamacare Doubles Individual Health Insurance Premiums
Analysis: Obamacare to cost $2.6 trillion over first full decade
President Barack Obama promised his health-care law would cost approximately $900 billion over ten years when he first proposed it. Since then, the price tag has continued to climb. Total spending under the Affordable Care Act will reach $2.6 trillion over its first full decade, according to a Senate Budget Committee analysis, which was based on Congressional Budget Office estimates and growth rates.
It is said that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan. Trying to leave the Obamacare baby in a basket on the Republican's doorstep won't work. The bastard stepchild of Obamacare belongs to the Democrats.
Interesting article. After 1483 the Spanish Inquisition was at the command of the King of Spain.
The Truth About the Spanish Inquisition
Because it was both professional and efficient, the Spanish Inquisition kept very good records.
These documents are a goldmine for modern historians who have plunged greedily into them. Thus far, the fruits of that research have made one thing abundantly clear – the myth of the Spanish Inquisition has nothing at all to do with the real thing. . . .
In 1483 Ferdinand appointed Tomás de Torquemada as inquistor-general for most of Spain. It was Torquemada's job to establish rules of evidence and procedure for the Inquisition as well as to set up branches in major cities. Sixtus confirmed the appointment, hoping that it would bring some order to the situation.
Unfortunately, the problem only snowballed. This was a direct result of the methods employed by the early Spanish Inquisition, which strayed significantly from Church standards. When the inquisitors arrived in a particular area, they would announce an Edict of Grace. This was a 30-day period in which secret Jews could voluntarily come forward, confess their sin, and do penance. This was also a time for others with information about Christians practicing Judaism in secret to make it known to the tribunal. Those found guilty after the 30 days elapsed could be burned at the stake.
For conversos, then, the arrival of the Inquisition certainly focused the mind. They generally had plenty of enemies, any one of whom might decide to bear false witness. Or perhaps their cultural practices were sufficient for condemnation? Who knew? Most conversos, therefore, either fled or lined up to confess. Those who did neither risked an inquiry in which any kind of hearsay or evidence, no matter how old or suspicious, was acceptable.
Opposition in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to the Spanish Inquisition only increased. Many churchmen pointed out that it was contrary to all accepted practices for heretics to be burned without instruction in the Faith. If the conversos were guilty at all, it was merely of ignorance, not willful heresy. Numerous clergy at the highest levels complained to Ferdinand. Opposition to the Spanish Inquisition also continued in Rome. Sixtus's successor, Innocent VIII, wrote twice to the king asking for greater compassion, mercy, and leniency for the conversos – but to no avail. --- more
You might be overlooking the existence of victim protection laws similar to this guideline:
GUIDELINES ON THE PROTECTION OF CHILD VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING
2.6 Right to Confidentiality
All necessary measures shall be taken to protect the privacy and identity of child victims to ensure the safety and security of the victim and his or her family. The name, address and all other information that could lead to the identification of the child victim or his or her family members shall not be revealed to the public or media. Exceptions may be made in circumstances such as to facilitate the tracing of family members or otherwise secure the well-being and protection of the child, with the informed consent of the child. Information about a child victim that could endanger the child or the child’s family members shall not be disclosed in any case.20
Note what is in the fine article:
The bulk of the Vatican's penal code is based on the 1889 Italian code. Many of the new provisions were necessary to bring the city state's legal system up to date after the Holy See signed international treaties, such as the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
That's not achieving "immortality," that is achieving immorality. Big difference.
I wonder if there is something about the last Pope they don't want leaked. Could it be he stepped down to avoid a standing pope being shown to have committed some horrible crime against children?
There are several innocent reasons why this could be occurring now.
New bosses often like to put their stamp on an organization. The new Pope has been updating a lot of policies.
The old Pope wasn't well, so he probably had a limited work schedule. There has probably been a backlog of business to catch up on.
It is often easier to do multiple updates at once instead of piecemeal.
Then there is the information in the fine article :
The bulk of the Vatican's penal code is based on the 1889 Italian code. Many of the new provisions were necessary to bring the city state's legal system up to date after the Holy See signed international treaties, such as the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Others were necessary to comply with international norms to fight money-laundering, part of the Vatican's push toward financial transparency.
One new crime stands out, though, as an obvious response to the leaks of papal documents last year that represented one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times.
Now I'm suspicious. Since this information is pretty close to the beginning of the article, I have to wonder if your post isn't just a clever way to libel not just a priest, but a Pope, without evidence and without being quite so obvious?
I fully expect "Cold Fjord" to be spewing his disinformation--with earnest--after the latest Prism revelations. If Microsoft is fucked, so is the NSA.
What a pity. I was hoping that you had put aside the crackpot theories involving me and other people that have different views from you. Since you continue down this path, it looks like I'll need to see what other nonsense you've posted. You kind of have a Senator Joseph McCarthy vibe going: "I hold in my hand a list of NSA plants on Slashdot!" I think it is time to ask the question raised by Army counsel Joseph Welch to Senator Joseph McCarthy:
" Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
Somehow I doubt it. There probably isn't room in the crankcase.
In this post I have previous replied to the crackpot conspiracy theories that Anachragnome has regarding me and other people on Slashdot being NSA plants because we have a viewpoint he disagrees with.
He also apparently believes the Slashdot staff to be NSA puppets as well.
You should brace yourself - if you disagree with him, he may start accusing you of being an NSA plant as well, calling you a "shill" and "forum breaker." He tries to manipulate people with fear. Read the posts I linked above.
If this continues I may need do some follow up posts.
Notice a pattern? Apparently, the Zimmerman trial is all we Americans care about. The media is as complicit as Microsoft, et al. I start with the foreign news outlets, then head to CNN and other mainstream US media for comparison--what is missing from mainstream US media is the real news.
As I check those four media outlets an 8:38 AM GMT, on July7, 2013, they all have Snowden / NSA related stories on the front page, as well as various other stories.
I assume you expect that people won't check your links?
One of the most horrific things that the Bush Administration did post 9/11 was declare that, in effect, you cease to be an American Citizen once you leave the confines of the USA.
If you would, please expand on that. I don't think that is correct, at least not at face value.
But whether or not literally American law extends beyond the borders of the USA, there is no doubt that effectively it does so. You can see that in the influence that the USA has had on shaping foreign copyright laws, as a prime example.
Countries negotiate all sorts of treaties, defense, trade, human rights. I don't think there is much special about that.
If you look at the post I was responding to you will see that I was providing information on events specifically referenced in it.
As to the law, many people here comment on it, but are unhampered by any meaningful knowledge of it, even in layman's terms. They tend to focus on just a couple of amendments to the Constitution, inflate their meaning beyond recognition, ignore other major parts of it, and banish any court decisions or inconvenient legal doctrines with a wave of the hand. Only the Constitution with still wet ink will do, no messy 224 years of Constitutional jurisprudence and experience in applying it to real situations.
What is more amusing is that many of the people objecting to the government trying to keep them from being blown up are totally in favor of government run healthcare and the massive privacy implications of that. They don't want the possibility of the government even knowing of an email they've sent with the latest sports joke, but are perfectly OK with sharing the names of their sex partners with their doctor, and letting a government doctor cut them open, move bits around, take some things out, put some things in, pump them full of toxic chemicals and irradiate them.
What evidence do we have that they do?
We have reports on the number of warrants that the FISA court issues, as well as various reports of other matters and controversies involving it.
campaign against Google, attacking Google for "reading your email" for putting ads on the screen.
If the reports about Outlook.com are true, it seems almost certain that Google faces the same situation. In that case it is a wash between Microsoft and Google for national security purposes, but Google is still scanning for commercial purposes.. Google's scan results are likely to be shared with other corporate entities. Microsoft does have a point.
Morality, no, it doesn't lose its meaning. Legal rights are another question. As many Europeans, and others around the world, are so fond of reminding Americans - the reach of American law does not extend beyond its borders. But that is a two way street. The power to label action as criminal and prosecute may end at the border (to varying degrees*), but so does the power to protect, and the legal protections of the US Constitution.
*Some international law is considered to have in essence universal jurisdiction.
I consider this an improvement, and have no further comment at this time.
The Articles of Confederation had enough of a run to see that doesn't work. It wasn't viable in the 1780s, it is far less viable now.
If a president allowed it to be created, a president almost certainly can order it dismantled. Apparently Obama thinks there is a good reason to continue it.
Same thing goes for the drones.
I think this might be what you are looking for.
Why We Spy on Our Allies
Boeing Called A Target Of French Spy Effort
I think Barbara Lee would be an interesting candidate for the Democrats. Of course she will need a running mate. I think one of the "Pauls" might make an interesting choice. I had long thought a R (Paul (P) /Paul (VP) ) ticket would blend the mutual gravitas and seriousness of the ticket and make it approachable by more voters. With Ron getting too old to run that frees someone to run with Barbara. There might be someone better, but it would be an interesting choice.
Stick figures? Well that's a relief. Now we don't need to worry about lectures from Sexual Harassment Panda.
If you can't think of ways by which you could derive indicators of the nationality of a sender, and maybe a recipient, of a piece of email you aren't really trying.
I seem to recall that the revealed procedure for accidently accessing information from an American is that they have to file a report which is the basis for tracking incidents. I doubt that they have breached the Constitution since it is bigger than you probably think, and includes this entire section called Article II. You only arrest people if there is reasonable suspicion they have committed a crime for which there is no mitigating circumstance. You haven't proved that to be the case.
It seems pretty clear that they don't think "they can get away with anything," otherwise they wouldn't bother going to the courts, and ignore the FISA courts orders.
...which passes the Turing test.
Maybe for the purposes of these bots it should be referred to as the "Cruising" test.
Apparently not enough money is being provided to the literacy programs. What a waste.
We also don't have a Congress organized under the Articles of Confederation and lacking meaningful authority to levy taxes to cause such a situation.
I guess you haven't heard about the emphasis on "diversity" in hiring, the way that can play out day to day, and the prevalence of ageism in IT fields. Good luck with that.