Except for the ones who didn't think it was worth the time to vote on this.
Or do they not hold a majority anymore?
The Republicans filibustered it, which is why a cloture vote is mentioned in the summary. It takes 60 votes to end discussion, while the Democratic majority is 51, IIRC. Incidentally, the Republicans are well on track to triple the previous filibustering, only one Congress after whining about obstructionism. Now, the roles are reversed, and it's the Democrats whining about obstructionism.;)
MCA already does not apply to US citizens apprehended on US soil. You do not need a court to affirm what is already known.
I'm not quite clear on what you're saying. The Act does apply within the US borders, and how are the authorities going to "know" for a fact you're a US citizen? Are you saying they will, in every instance, act to verify that someone's documents and background are indeed valid after detaining them? Suppose there's a group roundup, of sorts, in which the identities of the suspects are not all known. Are you that sure they'll go to the extra effort to make sure that, say, their driver's license isn't based on forged information? The detainee has no recourse (save for the flawed Status Review tribunals, if they get one); they're relying entirely on the good will of the detainers.
Even if we pretend these situations can never occur, there are plenty of other problems with the act. For example, it redefines the definition of war crime so that government officials can't be prosecuted for "light" torture. Also, the act is not always talking about aliens (making it at some points unclear), and legal aliens are subject to the act.
Can someone explain why the IP addresses are showing up as belonging in weird countries such as Algeria and the Philippines?
So they aren't as easily identified. If you read through their emails, you find a lot of talk about them getting hold of a lot of different IPs from all around the world.
I'm using Firefox 2 and running Windows 98SE right now. Why? Because I like it better than Windows XP (it's a lot faster, I can more easily tell what's going on, I prefer the way it looks and acts, it actually acts more stable for me than XP, among other reasons), which I do have the option of using, and it runs everything I need it to run (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice/Word, a few games, mIRC, MSN, AIM, Gaim, VLC, and most importantly, Notepad). Is it horrendously insecure and unsupported? Yes. Are there very many worms running around that work on 98SE? No. Is a knowledgeable user behind a router likely to get hit by anything? Apparently not. I haven't yet.
Maybe I'm just crazy, but I think those are fine reasons.
Stock Firefox needs at least half a dozen extensions just to get the basic functionality it should come with by default.
And then people whine about unnecessary bloat.;)
I agree with you to a certain extent, though (I would argue Firefox comes with more features out of the box than many other browsers to begin with, though), and it seems to me like the problem is getting worse. For example, in 2.0, the option to disable third-party cookies is removed. You'll now have to either install an extension or muck through about:config, neither of which are terribly great ideas to me.
And for the record, close button on tabs (or even the single one on the tab bar that Firefox has been shipping with) is a needless waste of space. When I ran the Firefox2 Beta I didn't even see an option to turn it off, and there definitely wasn't one built into Firefox 1.x.
Opera 9 passes the Acid2 test - that means firefox is not tied for the lead.
The Acid2 test is not the be all and end all of CSS compliance. It tests a limited portion of the standard, including some error handling issues, as I recall. It would be quite possible to support more of CSS than any browser today and fail the Acid2 test miserably. Conversely, you can pass the test and be horrible at rendering CSS. It's just like the Acid2 page says: passing the test doesn't guarantee conformance with any specification.
IMHO, people need to focus less on Acid2 and more on the standards as a whole. Bother Firefox and Opera are doing well, but they can and should do better.
If the Firefox team decides to de-prioritize the standards that people care about and instead work on fluff, then they deserve all the criticism they get for it. To gain your popularity from standards and then consciously choose to allow yourself to fall into dead last among modern browsers in standards support is, to say the least, disturbingly hypocritical.
Well, Firefox is still not "dead last" among other browsers. It's still well ahead of IE7 and roughly equal to Opera 9 (iirc Opera has a slight lead, but not much.) Tied for the lead is not the same as dead last. Not only that, but Firefox 3 should put Firefox way ahead, and it's due out May 2007, not exactly the distant future.
They did find 500 WMD's in Iraq [foxnews.com] and announced it just last week. CNN refused to cover the story along with other liberal outlets. It's pretty funny that someone in the senate could hold a press conference, annouce something like that, and it doesn't get covered by the US press.
The weapons were a clear violation of the peace treaty Hussain signed in 1991. The war was justified.
I know I shouldn't bite, but...
Actually, CNN and other so-called "liberal outlets" did cover the story, along with the fact that it's a very old story and the old, unusable weapons had nothing to do with the justification for going to war. FOX News mentioned that too. Maybe you forgot to read the whole article?
Here's what the FOX News article says, genius.
Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.
"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."
3. I have yet to see anything in these 'leaks' (I'd dare call it treason) that have advanced the cause of Freedom. Yes we bug the terrorists, even when they dial into or take a call from the US. And do you think we didn't bug German agents during WWII? Hell yes, inside and outside the US. That is War. Spying between nation states isn't the same as police work. Few also have a problem with the notion that the NSA might have done some interesting pattern analysis on calling records looking for stuff worth poking further into. If they went further without passing by a judge for a warrant I'd have a problem, but there isn't an accusation of that.
Bullshit. The programs under the NSA do not solely tap the phones of terrorists. This administration has explicitly violated both Constitutional and federal law with regard to wiretaps, and they have no excuse; FISA even allows you to wiretap and then get a warrant 72 hours later. Nearly every "tip" in the administration's "terrorist surveillance program" had led to dead ends and innocent Americans.
The government is legally required to get a warrant even to just check out what numbers people have been calling, without a wiretap, as mentioned in the previous linked article. The administration ignored that law and the judgements of the judges that held it up. Depending on what polls you subscribe to, anywhere from 30%-60% of Americans do have a problem with the NSA program collecting phone records. I definitely have a problem with it. Not everyone is a coward like you that would have complete safety from the Big Bad Terrorists in exchange for their privacy and their freedom.
Neither war nor terrorists give the government an excuse to trample on the law and the freedoms we are guaranteed.
There shouldn't be a body enforcing browser makers to follow the standards, it should be up to the browser makers.
The W3C is a consortium. Maybe you should take a look at the list of members. You'll notice that Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera are all present and accounted for. It is up to the browser makers, as well as a few other interested parties.
of them being deployed? Even if all the tests go as planned, what are the chances the government is going buy one for every member of the military in Iraq?
Fansubbers usually get their "raw" files (unsubbed Japanese episodes) from Japanese pirates anyway. Many, many fansubs are created from a TV rip of an episode.
Good. You have no idea how annoying many fansubbers are. They consider themselves morally superior to all other pirates, because they only sub and download unlicensed anime, which they generally claim is legal (ignoring all evidence to the contrary, of course.)Maybe this will help beat into their heads what they are doing is still illegal.
That said, I don't think it's wrong. It's not like the Japanese are losing a huge market and massive revenue and little Japanese schoolgirls are starving in the streets, having to sell their panties for money (oh, wait...)
I'll save you from the endless, oft-repeated attack in IP law, though.
-Celebi
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The Republicans filibustered it, which is why a cloture vote is mentioned in the summary. It takes 60 votes to end discussion, while the Democratic majority is 51, IIRC. Incidentally, the Republicans are well on track to triple the previous filibustering, only one Congress after whining about obstructionism. Now, the roles are reversed, and it's the Democrats whining about obstructionism. ;)
I'm not quite clear on what you're saying. The Act does apply within the US borders, and how are the authorities going to "know" for a fact you're a US citizen? Are you saying they will, in every instance, act to verify that someone's documents and background are indeed valid after detaining them? Suppose there's a group roundup, of sorts, in which the identities of the suspects are not all known. Are you that sure they'll go to the extra effort to make sure that, say, their driver's license isn't based on forged information? The detainee has no recourse (save for the flawed Status Review tribunals, if they get one); they're relying entirely on the good will of the detainers.
Even if we pretend these situations can never occur, there are plenty of other problems with the act. For example, it redefines the definition of war crime so that government officials can't be prosecuted for "light" torture. Also, the act is not always talking about aliens (making it at some points unclear), and legal aliens are subject to the act.
So they aren't as easily identified. If you read through their emails, you find a lot of talk about them getting hold of a lot of different IPs from all around the world.
Tools > Options > Main
Startup: When Firefox starts:
Choose "show my windows and tabs from last time" from the dropdown menu.
I'm using Firefox 2 and running Windows 98SE right now. Why? Because I like it better than Windows XP (it's a lot faster, I can more easily tell what's going on, I prefer the way it looks and acts, it actually acts more stable for me than XP, among other reasons), which I do have the option of using, and it runs everything I need it to run (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice/Word, a few games, mIRC, MSN, AIM, Gaim, VLC, and most importantly, Notepad). Is it horrendously insecure and unsupported? Yes. Are there very many worms running around that work on 98SE? No. Is a knowledgeable user behind a router likely to get hit by anything? Apparently not. I haven't yet.
Maybe I'm just crazy, but I think those are fine reasons.
And then people whine about unnecessary bloat. ;)
I agree with you to a certain extent, though (I would argue Firefox comes with more features out of the box than many other browsers to begin with, though), and it seems to me like the problem is getting worse. For example, in 2.0, the option to disable third-party cookies is removed. You'll now have to either install an extension or muck through about:config, neither of which are terribly great ideas to me.
Here's your option. It's squirreled away in about:config, but oh well.
The Acid2 test is not the be all and end all of CSS compliance. It tests a limited portion of the standard, including some error handling issues, as I recall. It would be quite possible to support more of CSS than any browser today and fail the Acid2 test miserably. Conversely, you can pass the test and be horrible at rendering CSS. It's just like the Acid2 page says: passing the test doesn't guarantee conformance with any specification.
IMHO, people need to focus less on Acid2 and more on the standards as a whole. Bother Firefox and Opera are doing well, but they can and should do better.
Well, Firefox is still not "dead last" among other browsers. It's still well ahead of IE7 and roughly equal to Opera 9 (iirc Opera has a slight lead, but not much.) Tied for the lead is not the same as dead last. Not only that, but Firefox 3 should put Firefox way ahead, and it's due out May 2007, not exactly the distant future.
Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, and Apple are all members of the W3C according to its members page.
I know I shouldn't bite, but...
Actually, CNN and other so-called "liberal outlets" did cover the story, along with the fact that it's a very old story and the old, unusable weapons had nothing to do with the justification for going to war. FOX News mentioned that too. Maybe you forgot to read the whole article?
Here's what the FOX News article says, genius.
Yeah, so have a nice day.
Bullshit. The programs under the NSA do not solely tap the phones of terrorists. This administration has explicitly violated both Constitutional and federal law with regard to wiretaps, and they have no excuse; FISA even allows you to wiretap and then get a warrant 72 hours later. Nearly every "tip" in the administration's "terrorist surveillance program" had led to dead ends and innocent Americans.
The government is legally required to get a warrant even to just check out what numbers people have been calling, without a wiretap, as mentioned in the previous linked article. The administration ignored that law and the judgements of the judges that held it up. Depending on what polls you subscribe to, anywhere from 30%-60% of Americans do have a problem with the NSA program collecting phone records. I definitely have a problem with it. Not everyone is a coward like you that would have complete safety from the Big Bad Terrorists in exchange for their privacy and their freedom.
Neither war nor terrorists give the government an excuse to trample on the law and the freedoms we are guaranteed.There shouldn't be a body enforcing browser makers to follow the standards, it should be up to the browser makers.
The W3C is a consortium. Maybe you should take a look at the list of members. You'll notice that Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera are all present and accounted for. It is up to the browser makers, as well as a few other interested parties.
of them being deployed? Even if all the tests go as planned, what are the chances the government is going buy one for every member of the military in Iraq?
Of course, now we have to wait for all our favorite BT clients tp be updated.
Music companies sure do know how to put a stop to piracy!
Fansubbers usually get their "raw" files (unsubbed Japanese episodes) from Japanese pirates anyway. Many, many fansubs are created from a TV rip of an episode.
Good. You have no idea how annoying many fansubbers are. They consider themselves morally superior to all other pirates, because they only sub and download unlicensed anime, which they generally claim is legal (ignoring all evidence to the contrary, of course.)Maybe this will help beat into their heads what they are doing is still illegal. That said, I don't think it's wrong. It's not like the Japanese are losing a huge market and massive revenue and little Japanese schoolgirls are starving in the streets, having to sell their panties for money (oh, wait...) I'll save you from the endless, oft-repeated attack in IP law, though. -Celebi