Accidents, while unfortunate, do not leave the grieving yearning for revenge. Grieving is bad enough, but adding the rage that comes from knowing that ones who killed your loved one still live and breathe just makes it that much worse.
Many accidents do leave the grieving yearning for mountains of cash, especially if it looks like there any sort of deep pocket even very remotely involved in the accident.
Maybe you should just sue the terrorists out of existence? Seems about as constructive as all this crap your government is pulling, and wouldn't erode your rights nearly as much.
So make any unreported leaks fined by a considerably greater amount, once uncovered.
This will just turn into another exercise in cost/benefits analysis for them. If they figure they'll get caught one time out of twenty and that the fine for non-disclosure is ten times larger than the normal fine, they'll opt for being sneaky bastards every single time.
Such as, the FISA process is slow, and actionable intelligence might require real-time speed. What if bin Laden is on the phone right now, with a throw-away cell? By the time you can get a FISA warrant, he's hung up and thrown the phone away. Opportunity lost.
Considering that you can apply for a FISA warrant retroactively, I don't see how it can ever be called "slow". Time-traveling warrants are never late.
Actually, talking to your passenger is usually a fairly good thing. It keeps you alert and awake. The passenger is also usually smart enough to know to shut up when you're changing lanes or making a turn.
Another thing that a passenger can do for a driver is act as another pair of eyes. When I'm in someone's front passenger seat, I very much see myself as "co-pilot" and try to spot hazards that the driver might have missed because they're easier to see from my side of the car.
Frankly, I want my lawyers ready and willing to sue their own mothers if that's what I want them to do.
I regard lawyers (mine or not) as instruments of the client's will. It is the RIAA that is the scumbags, because they're the ones asking for, or at least not blocking, their tactics. Lawyers are not guns that a client simply points at a target. They're human beings with all the rights and duties that implies, including accepting responsibility for their actions. "Doing what the client wants" certainly doesn't excuse acting like complete bastards.
The tacit acceptance of the "ruthless mother-selling bastard" culture among lawyers seems extremely careless to me. Have we forgotten that a large number of people in high positions of power in pretty much all western countries are lawyers or former lawyers?
And then we're surprised when they pull stuff like the DMCA or the USAPATRIOT Act.
And the Quebecois all speak English fluently, the pompous gits just won't If you'd seen the ludicrous state of ESL education in Quebec, you wouldn't make such broad (and inflammatory) generalizations. I've often told my anglophone friends that if I had to get by on the English I learned in school, I wouldn't be able have half the conversions I've had with them.
Most Quebecois can probably understand enough English to give a simple appropriate answer to a simple question and a fair number of them are fluently bilingual, but that's a far cry from being able to claim that they're all fluent.
You'll notice that a large majority of the bilingual Quebecois have learned more or less on their own, and live in regions (such as Montreal or the NCR) where it's easy to practice one's English.
Personally, I nominate for deletion the entire novel-within-the-novel of the shipwrecked castaway. Every time that came up, I found myself flipping forward, looking for the main story to pick up again. The Black Freighter segments are very interesting, actually, because they're a direct parallel to the actions Ozymandias takes to "save" the world. The sailor, just like Veidt, damns himself eternally through his actions even though he has the best intentions.
In fact, it seemed all the extra characters who we saw passing by the newsstand in New York were just "whales" (q.v. Douglas Adams). Their role is simple: establishing the "real" world that Veidt blows to sh*t at the end of the series. All of the non-superhero secondary characters (even the psychologist bites it, I believe) are used so that we get a feeling of knowing the neighbourhood and the regulars, of *belonging* there, so that the shock of Veidt obliterating it in the name of saving it hits harder. This goes hand in hand with the damnation theme above. It's no surprise that one of the victims is the kid reading the comic book.
Presumably if God created the universe, and set the start location and position of everything in the universe, understands quantum mechanics, and have a grand unified theory tattooed on it's arm, then he is directly responsible for every action in the universe Launching class-action lawsuit against God in the name of all humans past, present and future in...3...2...1
I went to his desk grabbed the book he got the questions out of, turned to the answer key and wrote them on the board. Everyone in my class got a B, I got a A Good thing you had a lazy prof. One of my computer science profs would make up an exam by pulling "neat" questions out of thin air. He wouldn't even have an answer key until a week later, when he worked through his own exam himself. I know he did this, because I later marked exams and assignments for him, and the answer keys were scribbled bits of paper.
Similarly, keeping the Hubble alive because we've already sunk billions is just trying to justify sunk costs despite the fact that we aren't getting a positive marginal return on our investments. The hole just keeps getting deeper, because we won't stop digging. If one kept looking for the immediate, short term ROI, most pure science projects would never get funded at all. Increasing the knowledge of humanity is never (alright, almost never) a waste of money. There's no telling what practical applications the next discovery might have.
I'm sure Max Planck would be quite amazed at what we've gotten done using the concept of quantum, even though it seemed to be little more than a mathematical trick when he first thought of it.
I meant 57 decisions. That sounds goddamn excessive. Every time I hear the "we have to vote on multiple things at once" argument, it makes me wonder whether all those decisions are brought together for the sake of efficiency, or to spread your attention so thinly that you won't notice when a candidate or a party pulls a fast one.
It's not that I'm going to sit there and watch you 24/7, but I should have the option. If my boss and my IT department can watch where I go on the internet and walk into my cube at anytime, why is it unreasonable to think that the person who pays your paycheck can do the same? Paying for part of a government employee's paycheck doesn't make you special. Since government employees aren't exempted from paying taxes, a given public servant probably pays as much of his own salary as you do.
Also, the average public servant has no power whatsoever. Keeping an eye on all the peons that are just cogs in the machinery (and in fact aren't even replaced when a new President takes power) won't do much except perhaps cut down on some waste. It'll probably be a toss up whether the money saved would pay for all that bandwidth and all those cameras. And it certainly won't do anything to cut down on all those shenanigans the higher-ups in power get accused of all the time, because they'll be able to claim "National Security" prevents you from watching them.
"OzoneLad" == Al Gore? Dude, you lost the election. Give it up. Enjoy the fame and money from the movie and just relax with your Nobel Prize. Now you've hurt my feelings. I've never been accused of being a disguised politician before.
For the record, I just happened to be processing ground ozone data at work when I signed up for the account.
Why shouldn't you be allowed to vote? Because youve proven to society that you make bad descisions. I guess now we need a list of people who voted for Bush twice.
The article is about why people are so incredibly concerned that their firm might be exposed to major legal liability and loss of public trust due to unintended disclosure of dirty little secrets via corporate email. If they have dirty little secrets, then maybe they just don't deserve any public trust. It sure would be nice if corporations (well, the people that make them up) worried about actually breaching the public trust rather than worrying about being caught doing so.
There's a bridge near here that's got an impressive collection of scrapes and dents from truckers taking the tops off their vehicles. It happens once in a while with overpasses in Montréal. It's probably happening at the same rate as it used to, but now that we've become infamous for having overpasses that fall down on their own, every single instance is reported by the panicky media.
I flew to Atlanta from Montréal for a week-long stay this summer and all they asked for, aside from my passport, was the address where I'd be staying while I was there. They did x-ray my open-toed sandals, though.
I'm not the grandparent, but I can remember being puzzled by all the acronymns and tech-jargon. But then again, that was back in the 80s, and now it's 2007. Googling for "datacenter" brings up a Wikipedia article on the second link. The article also mentions "colocation", and Googling for that also brings up a Wikipedia article. People really shouldn't be on Slashdot asking such basic questions with comprehensive Wikipedia articles a few seconds away. Ah yes, "Google it", the RTFM for a new millenium.
The candidate isn't always the best for the job, but it's always what the people ask for (which may not be much). There's a subtle difference between what the people want and what the people pick, especially when the choices are limited. If the people are starving and want steak, but all that's available are a couple of chunks of moldy cheese and a whole bunch of crumbs, they'll pick one of the cheeses. That doesn't mean that they actually *wanted* cheese, though.
What really gets you, on the island of Montréal, is the humidity. It's humid all year round out here. It makes the cold worse, and man does it make the heat worse! The summer of '05 (my first one here) was quite nasty.
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You could even add a few from Spider Jerusalem's bowel disruptor:
-Loose
-Prolapse
-Hideous Anal Volcano
-Fatal Intestinal Maelstrom
Are you my mummy?
That was a really weird-ass episode...
It will be back to the drawing board and the Bush administration will not have enough time to put new ones into effect.
Meaning that they don't even need to look like they're trying anymore.
Accidents, while unfortunate, do not leave the grieving yearning for revenge. Grieving is bad enough, but adding the rage that comes from knowing that ones who killed your loved one still live and breathe just makes it that much worse.
Many accidents do leave the grieving yearning for mountains of cash, especially if it looks like there any sort of deep pocket even very remotely involved in the accident.
Maybe you should just sue the terrorists out of existence? Seems about as constructive as all this crap your government is pulling, and wouldn't erode your rights nearly as much.
So make any unreported leaks fined by a considerably greater amount, once uncovered.
This will just turn into another exercise in cost/benefits analysis for them. If they figure they'll get caught one time out of twenty and that the fine for non-disclosure is ten times larger than the normal fine, they'll opt for being sneaky bastards every single time.
Such as, the FISA process is slow, and actionable intelligence might require real-time speed. What if bin Laden is on the phone right now, with a throw-away cell? By the time you can get a FISA warrant, he's hung up and thrown the phone away. Opportunity lost.
Considering that you can apply for a FISA warrant retroactively, I don't see how it can ever be called "slow". Time-traveling warrants are never late.
Actually, talking to your passenger is usually a fairly good thing. It keeps you alert and awake. The passenger is also usually smart enough to know to shut up when you're changing lanes or making a turn.
Another thing that a passenger can do for a driver is act as another pair of eyes. When I'm in someone's front passenger seat, I very much see myself as "co-pilot" and try to spot hazards that the driver might have missed because they're easier to see from my side of the car.
They executive branch was using legislation like the original FISA, passed by congress, to justify their spying.
They weren't following any kind of law at all, which is why this is a big deal.
The tacit acceptance of the "ruthless mother-selling bastard" culture among lawyers seems extremely careless to me. Have we forgotten that a large number of people in high positions of power in pretty much all western countries are lawyers or former lawyers?
And then we're surprised when they pull stuff like the DMCA or the USAPATRIOT Act.
Most Quebecois can probably understand enough English to give a simple appropriate answer to a simple question and a fair number of them are fluently bilingual, but that's a far cry from being able to claim that they're all fluent.
You'll notice that a large majority of the bilingual Quebecois have learned more or less on their own, and live in regions (such as Montreal or the NCR) where it's easy to practice one's English.
I'm sure Max Planck would be quite amazed at what we've gotten done using the concept of quantum, even though it seemed to be little more than a mathematical trick when he first thought of it.
Also, the average public servant has no power whatsoever. Keeping an eye on all the peons that are just cogs in the machinery (and in fact aren't even replaced when a new President takes power) won't do much except perhaps cut down on some waste. It'll probably be a toss up whether the money saved would pay for all that bandwidth and all those cameras. And it certainly won't do anything to cut down on all those shenanigans the higher-ups in power get accused of all the time, because they'll be able to claim "National Security" prevents you from watching them.
For the record, I just happened to be processing ground ozone data at work when I signed up for the account.
I flew to Atlanta from Montréal for a week-long stay this summer and all they asked for, aside from my passport, was the address where I'd be staying while I was there. They did x-ray my open-toed sandals, though.
Funny how often those two overlap...
What really gets you, on the island of Montréal, is the humidity. It's humid all year round out here. It makes the cold worse, and man does it make the heat worse! The summer of '05 (my first one here) was quite nasty.