My issue here is that the FBI only determined there wasn't a "clear and present danger" after being forced to re-assess the situation. Shouldn't they have reached this conclusion *before* they took action? It seems to me that if the FBI is going to search through a boatload of private e-mails, they better have a damn good reason for looking at each and every one. In this situation they only needed to look at a few. What bothers me is that their first reaction was to be granted access to look at them all.
I think the issue here is that the FBI's first course of action should have been to assess the threat and determine a legal course of action, rather than immediately going with the "let's take all the computers and hope nobody asks for a warrant" route. As a citizen, you should be looking out for your rights, but I think it is also reasonable for a citizen to expect the government also look out for them as well instead of trying to cut corners every time they get.
This story just strikes me as a "let's see if we can get away with this...oh well they got us we'll do it the legal way then".
Realistically speaking, this is a necessary belief if you accept a deity as a real--that deity must then be able to manipulate the universe
That's not necessarily true. Just because someone believes another being created the universe, doesn't mean that this being has to still be alive or be omnipotent or whatever. The creator / creators may have died a long time ago or simply grown bored with the project and left us to fend for ourselves.
The high end content in WoW requires a massive amount of teamwork, strategy, and most of all, practice, to conquer. I don't know how a "hardcore" server like the one you proposed would work in this context. There are certain fights that guarantee at least a few fatalities during the course of the battle. Not to mention the amount of "wipes" that happen when groups are experiencing a battle for the first time. Also, griefers pulling trains of mobs to you or getting disconnected in the middle of a fight would mean all your work went down the drain. Maybe a lesser penalty like losing experience or items or something along those lines would work. But seriously, starting over? Unreasonable in my opinion unless they changed the way PvE in WoW worked.
Consider: Even if you make it up to LEO for free, you have to get to the item and match your position and velocity in the direction the space salvage is traveling to a degree where you (or your robot, whatever) can grab it. Of course you have to abide by the ideal rocket equation http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/r ktpow.html. Great. You got your first piece. Now you have to change heading and velocity to intercept piece #2. These vectors aren't all heading in the same direction at the same location. And they are only tracking about 13,000 pieces in NEO... that's not very many pieces given the vast area of space there is! Consider 13,000 random objects on the surface of the earth, now extend it upwards a hundred meters, and add a volume of 1000m in the vertical direction. Long story short, you can't turn a profit given the fact that you need fuel to power the robot to collect this stuff. And given the fact that commercial ventures are starting to break the price point barrier - check out spaceX - 10k a kg will drop an order of magnitude in the next 10 years, easy.
Don't forget you have to be careful to dodge the amount of space trash out there when looking for new pieces. Probably costs a decent amount of time and money to maneuver around that garbage. Someone should really do something about it.:\
People need to stop with the whole "if you're innocent, you shouldn't have to worry" when defending the Bush administration. Listen. It just isn't that simple. Considering the history of powerful governments, you'd think people would be a little more sceptic about the amount of corruption and abuse that goes on. Innocent people have been brought down before in systems that actually had checks and balances on power. Far more have been brought down in systems that didn't (see Stalin, Hitler, etc. etc. etc.). I find it strange that a nation full of people trying to spread "freedom" to other nations are naive enough to give up their own in exchange for empty promises that their government will not abuse it.
Just waiting for the first person to secretly install this "myware" on all his coworkers / servers / friends / family's machines and reap a massive profit.
The last time I bought a ticket via TM I was charged somewhere about 8 USD for a "convience fee".
I had the same experience with Ticketmaster, except the fee was 20 USD instead of 8. My first thoughts were, "convenience fee? that's not convenient at all!".:(
America may be falling apart, but it's because of people like you. Oh how quickly we forget that our country was founded on the questioning of authority. Balance of powers, representation, freedom...those words ring a bell? Why are the ones that are so adament about spreading "freedom" to other countries (at least, those we have an economic interest in...oh, and aren't strong enough to fight back) so willing to give up their own?
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=11054&c =130
Do those look like rights that the government already has? Or maybe we should be asking, do those look like rights the government SHOULD have? I'm really getting sick of Republicans using FUD to scare the ignorant masses into sacraficing their civil liberties in the name of security and the war on terror.
Let's use the secret wiretaps as an example here. Are there terrorist threats in the world today? Yes. Would allowing secret wiretaps of American citizens help monitor them? Yes. Do these two facts justify the use of allowing secret wiretaps of American citizens? NO! Jesus tapdancing Christ people, why not have a camera in every household monitoring your actions while we're at it? Maybe a CIA officer handcuffed to you at all times? Hell, why not just station each of us in some massive jail with no outside contact? At least we'd be safe right? No terrorist going to get us that way!
Sacraficing liberty and freedom in the name of security is anti-American and the way Bush and his administration is spinning it off is terrorism. Don't forget your roots and don't forget how quickly one bad dictator can ruin a powerful nation. Countries with seemingly unlimited power have fallen before, we are no different. You ever wonder how all those great empires fell and think "how in the hell did they let that madman drive their nation into the ground?". That's what's happening now. And if we aren't careful, we're going to end up becoming a footnote in history as another world power that toppled because of poor leadership that drew way too many enemies. That's when the terrorist will have won, when we start living in fear and sacraficing the freedom we tout. Hell, I'm not all that convinced they haven't already won. Time will tell.
P.S. The bill was passed by an overwhelming majority because it was thrown together at the last minute because they needed to do something to prevent mass hysteria in the wake of 9/11.
I fail to see the big difference between allowing the NSA to monitor all international communications and allowing the NSA to monitor all communications. Sure they restrict it to a certain degree, but the bottom line is they're still listening to conversations they have no right to be listening to. I like how every time this administration chips away at our civil liberties, their supporters chime in with "well at least they didn't (insert even more atrocious unconstitutional act)". For an administration so eager to spread "freedom" to other nations (that is, those that we have an economic interest in and aren't powerful enough to do anything about it), it certainly seems ok with the destruction of our own.
We aren't just going to wake up one day without any rights, it's going to be a slow and gradual process. Each time something like this happens and people choose to ignore it, a little piece of America dies. Sticking a "God Bless America" and "Support Our Troops" bumper sticker on your car does nothing to curtail this.
Doesn't this explanation just take things an extra step? Ok, so we don't know what created all this matter. Saying that an all-powerful being came along and created it doesn't really help much. The next logical question would be, "well, where did this creator come from?". One way or another you're going to have to assume something has existed for eternity (whether it be the matter that makes up the universe of the creator) for this all to work. I fail to see how the religious argument is any more helpful than the non-religious one.
"My question is, what are they going to do about black trenchcoats?"
I propose enacting a new law that makes wearing trenchcoats that are too black illegal.
Damage to the Earth's ecosystem shouldn't be taken lightly. Like it or not, we're stuck on this planet for the foreseeable future. And, in case you haven't noticed, we aren't exactly invincible against the whims of Mother Nature. While this device may initially save some people's lives (well, the people who have the device at least. the attackers will most likely die), it may also endanger plant life, sea life, and ultimately, human life. Damage to the Earth's ecosystem will ultimately come back and affect us in some way or another. Personally, I'd like to see some analysis on the effect of this device before getting too excited about it.
If they've proved that the brain is still evolving then I think I just discovered the scientific proof for reincarnation. Bush couldn't have gotten *this* stupid in one lifetime.
You honestly can't think of a reasonable answer to "why do you like music"? In the 30 seconds I've sat here and thought about it, I've come up with:
It allows me to express myself
I enjoy singing / dancing along to it
It can sooth and relax me or energize and pump me up
It allows me to see how another person perceives the world
I'm sure you could think of something better than "it's background noise".
The ONLY thing I want EA to do in Madden 2006 is take out the ridiculous feature they put in Madden 2005 where Peyton Manning audibles about 10,000 times before the snap (and god forbid you decide to audible along with him, he'll run the snap count all the way down to 0, shifting his wide receivers to play fullback and running backs into the slot). It got to the point where I would simply sim the game whenever I was playing the Colts (or whatever team Manning ended up being traded to) and eventually I picked him up via free agency so I could bench his ass out of spite and watch his stats (and hall of fame chances) nosedive until he finally retired.
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My issue here is that the FBI only determined there wasn't a "clear and present danger" after being forced to re-assess the situation. Shouldn't they have reached this conclusion *before* they took action? It seems to me that if the FBI is going to search through a boatload of private e-mails, they better have a damn good reason for looking at each and every one. In this situation they only needed to look at a few. What bothers me is that their first reaction was to be granted access to look at them all.
I think the issue here is that the FBI's first course of action should have been to assess the threat and determine a legal course of action, rather than immediately going with the "let's take all the computers and hope nobody asks for a warrant" route. As a citizen, you should be looking out for your rights, but I think it is also reasonable for a citizen to expect the government also look out for them as well instead of trying to cut corners every time they get.
This story just strikes me as a "let's see if we can get away with this...oh well they got us we'll do it the legal way then".
Porn would be a good choice too.
Realistically speaking, this is a necessary belief if you accept a deity as a real--that deity must then be able to manipulate the universe
That's not necessarily true. Just because someone believes another being created the universe, doesn't mean that this being has to still be alive or be omnipotent or whatever. The creator / creators may have died a long time ago or simply grown bored with the project and left us to fend for ourselves.
The high end content in WoW requires a massive amount of teamwork, strategy, and most of all, practice, to conquer. I don't know how a "hardcore" server like the one you proposed would work in this context. There are certain fights that guarantee at least a few fatalities during the course of the battle. Not to mention the amount of "wipes" that happen when groups are experiencing a battle for the first time. Also, griefers pulling trains of mobs to you or getting disconnected in the middle of a fight would mean all your work went down the drain. Maybe a lesser penalty like losing experience or items or something along those lines would work. But seriously, starting over? Unreasonable in my opinion unless they changed the way PvE in WoW worked.
Consider: Even if you make it up to LEO for free, you have to get to the item and match your position and velocity in the direction the space salvage is traveling to a degree where you (or your robot, whatever) can grab it. Of course you have to abide by the ideal rocket equation http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/education/rocket/r ktpow.html. Great. You got your first piece. Now you have to change heading and velocity to intercept piece #2. These vectors aren't all heading in the same direction at the same location. And they are only tracking about 13,000 pieces in NEO ... that's not very many pieces given the vast area of space there is! Consider 13,000 random objects on the surface of the earth, now extend it upwards a hundred meters, and add a volume of 1000m in the vertical direction. Long story short, you can't turn a profit given the fact that you need fuel to power the robot to collect this stuff. And given the fact that commercial ventures are starting to break the price point barrier - check out spaceX - 10k a kg will drop an order of magnitude in the next 10 years, easy.
:\
Don't forget you have to be careful to dodge the amount of space trash out there when looking for new pieces. Probably costs a decent amount of time and money to maneuver around that garbage. Someone should really do something about it.
People need to stop with the whole "if you're innocent, you shouldn't have to worry" when defending the Bush administration. Listen. It just isn't that simple. Considering the history of powerful governments, you'd think people would be a little more sceptic about the amount of corruption and abuse that goes on. Innocent people have been brought down before in systems that actually had checks and balances on power. Far more have been brought down in systems that didn't (see Stalin, Hitler, etc. etc. etc.). I find it strange that a nation full of people trying to spread "freedom" to other nations are naive enough to give up their own in exchange for empty promises that their government will not abuse it.
Just waiting for the first person to secretly install this "myware" on all his coworkers / servers / friends / family's machines and reap a massive profit.
The last time I bought a ticket via TM I was charged somewhere about 8 USD for a "convience fee".
:(
I had the same experience with Ticketmaster, except the fee was 20 USD instead of 8. My first thoughts were, "convenience fee? that's not convenient at all!".
It's stupid in that it doesn't take into account user stupidity.
Gimme purpless plz!!11one1!
America may be falling apart, but it's because of people like you. Oh how quickly we forget that our country was founded on the questioning of authority. Balance of powers, representation, freedom...those words ring a bell? Why are the ones that are so adament about spreading "freedom" to other countries (at least, those we have an economic interest in...oh, and aren't strong enough to fight back) so willing to give up their own? http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=11054&c =130
Do those look like rights that the government already has? Or maybe we should be asking, do those look like rights the government SHOULD have? I'm really getting sick of Republicans using FUD to scare the ignorant masses into sacraficing their civil liberties in the name of security and the war on terror.
Let's use the secret wiretaps as an example here. Are there terrorist threats in the world today? Yes. Would allowing secret wiretaps of American citizens help monitor them? Yes. Do these two facts justify the use of allowing secret wiretaps of American citizens? NO! Jesus tapdancing Christ people, why not have a camera in every household monitoring your actions while we're at it? Maybe a CIA officer handcuffed to you at all times? Hell, why not just station each of us in some massive jail with no outside contact? At least we'd be safe right? No terrorist going to get us that way!
Sacraficing liberty and freedom in the name of security is anti-American and the way Bush and his administration is spinning it off is terrorism. Don't forget your roots and don't forget how quickly one bad dictator can ruin a powerful nation. Countries with seemingly unlimited power have fallen before, we are no different. You ever wonder how all those great empires fell and think "how in the hell did they let that madman drive their nation into the ground?". That's what's happening now. And if we aren't careful, we're going to end up becoming a footnote in history as another world power that toppled because of poor leadership that drew way too many enemies. That's when the terrorist will have won, when we start living in fear and sacraficing the freedom we tout. Hell, I'm not all that convinced they haven't already won. Time will tell.
P.S. The bill was passed by an overwhelming majority because it was thrown together at the last minute because they needed to do something to prevent mass hysteria in the wake of 9/11.
I fail to see the big difference between allowing the NSA to monitor all international communications and allowing the NSA to monitor all communications. Sure they restrict it to a certain degree, but the bottom line is they're still listening to conversations they have no right to be listening to. I like how every time this administration chips away at our civil liberties, their supporters chime in with "well at least they didn't (insert even more atrocious unconstitutional act)". For an administration so eager to spread "freedom" to other nations (that is, those that we have an economic interest in and aren't powerful enough to do anything about it), it certainly seems ok with the destruction of our own. We aren't just going to wake up one day without any rights, it's going to be a slow and gradual process. Each time something like this happens and people choose to ignore it, a little piece of America dies. Sticking a "God Bless America" and "Support Our Troops" bumper sticker on your car does nothing to curtail this.
I've determined that this research experiment was a 100% waste of time. :P
"It's not a lemuhr"
welcome our new near-immortal, fearless mouse overlords!
Doesn't this explanation just take things an extra step? Ok, so we don't know what created all this matter. Saying that an all-powerful being came along and created it doesn't really help much. The next logical question would be, "well, where did this creator come from?". One way or another you're going to have to assume something has existed for eternity (whether it be the matter that makes up the universe of the creator) for this all to work. I fail to see how the religious argument is any more helpful than the non-religious one.
"My question is, what are they going to do about black trenchcoats?" I propose enacting a new law that makes wearing trenchcoats that are too black illegal.
Damage to the Earth's ecosystem shouldn't be taken lightly. Like it or not, we're stuck on this planet for the foreseeable future. And, in case you haven't noticed, we aren't exactly invincible against the whims of Mother Nature. While this device may initially save some people's lives (well, the people who have the device at least. the attackers will most likely die), it may also endanger plant life, sea life, and ultimately, human life. Damage to the Earth's ecosystem will ultimately come back and affect us in some way or another. Personally, I'd like to see some analysis on the effect of this device before getting too excited about it.
If they've proved that the brain is still evolving then I think I just discovered the scientific proof for reincarnation. Bush couldn't have gotten *this* stupid in one lifetime.
You honestly can't think of a reasonable answer to "why do you like music"? In the 30 seconds I've sat here and thought about it, I've come up with: It allows me to express myself I enjoy singing / dancing along to it It can sooth and relax me or energize and pump me up It allows me to see how another person perceives the world I'm sure you could think of something better than "it's background noise".
The ONLY thing I want EA to do in Madden 2006 is take out the ridiculous feature they put in Madden 2005 where Peyton Manning audibles about 10,000 times before the snap (and god forbid you decide to audible along with him, he'll run the snap count all the way down to 0, shifting his wide receivers to play fullback and running backs into the slot). It got to the point where I would simply sim the game whenever I was playing the Colts (or whatever team Manning ended up being traded to) and eventually I picked him up via free agency so I could bench his ass out of spite and watch his stats (and hall of fame chances) nosedive until he finally retired.
Now I won't even have to alt-tab from Slashdot when my boss walks by.