You apparently don't know what it is, then. You can't even identify what "enemy" is being comforted. Perhaps the enemy is the American people. There is no war declared that permits the legal definition of an enemy, and not much evidence that the spying has any actual effectiveness at combating terrorism. It is massive surveillance of all forms of electronic communication. Professional terrorists are unlikely to use communication that will be intercepted in this way. The information will almost certainly eventually be used for criminal prosecutions, probably including everything from drug to copyright violations.
Am I the only one who is unwilling to take at face value a news story from "Courthouse News Service" which reports a lawsuit against the IRS that accuses them of seizing millions of private medical records, but does not identify the plaintiff? The story was repeated by the moonie times, and they couldn't use their vast resources to dig up an easily obtainable public record. Without details, it's just a rumor.
If you believe in free will, you have to admit the possibility that the Universe isn't deterministic. It might not be possible to prove that any posited set of laws is ultimate, so that question might remain unsettled for a long time.
Local coverage was abdicated as a business decision of station owners, most of whom are corporations that own multiple stations in different markets. They are not interested in local communities. The economy has dried up revenue for advertising as well, and local news coverage is labor intensive. Policy decisions by the FCC, removing rules such as limitations of station ownership and requirements for news programming content, have gone away along with the Fairness Doctrine, because of ideologies leading to deregulation and the belief that corporations should be free to do whatever the hell they want.
For every need, from education to medical care to communication, there is a natural God-given right for private entities to collect rents to provide for it. This supersedes a presumed right of people to collectively and voluntarily provide it to themselves.
It is obvious to the subject which are the control questions and which are the relevant questions. I have wondered how one can distinguish between responses that represent deception, and responses that represent apprehension that the machine will falsely indicate deception. Some people react more hotly to stress than others, and are prone to produce false positives. Also, people can be trained reduce the likelihood of actual deception being detected.
It is unusual for it to be documented so quickly with respect to an issue that has the level of interest and emotional involvement as does health care reform. Instances of the financial benefactors of Congresscritters getting their sentiments reflected more or less verbatim in the Congressional Record are not novel.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the standard of proof for criminal penalties is reasonable doubt, for civil penalties it is preponderance of evidence. That is the distinction that appears to be made.
I can understand charging for lower latency time, higher bandwidth or other aspects of higher quality of service, and even at reasonable prices for large amounts of data exchange usage. What should not be permitted are corporate level deals that create content favoritism based on the source and nature of the content, whether from direct monetary consideration or corporate partnership or favoring in-house content or services.
Especially offensive is any sort of attempt at frustrating the dissemination of content based on political bias. The cable companies that own most of the broadband ISP's would love to model the Internet after their cable TV business. They have a news product that has done just a terrific job at political neutrality, and they would love to extend that model to Internet services.
The law is written to keep this method of inquiry as secret as possible. While there are occasional instances where this would be warranted, e.g. the hot pursuit of dangerous criminal, the volume of these requests is so large that these cases are most likely comparatively rare. The most common effect of this provision is therefore the concealment of abuse.
Until there are cases where criminal convictions are challenged on Constitutional grounds, we will not learn just how much abuse, for example how often are instances of these letters used to uncover political information about lawful activities. Tools such as this are so dangerous to freedom that severe sanctions should exist for frivolous use.
Are we talking about marginal cost or average cost? Is it about who pays or who benefits? You might as well compare the cost of Hubble data to pancakes unless you are considering life cycle costs and benefits.
The average value of a text message is zero in most cases, and cell phone providers should be grateful that they can con customers into paying more to save their bandwidth.
You can take the New and Old Testaments, particularly the Old and find some pretty bizarre laws. Literally accepted, a menstruating woman might have a difficult time getting medical care if she is in a car accident.
Just because a particular holy text contains certain possibly objectionable phrases, doesn't create a guilt by association with every practitioner of that religion. You can probably even find a Muslim or two with the intelligence to differentiate religious teachings according to historical and modern contexts.
That is new to me. Must be a dyslexic server process. Anybody in a position of responsibility who falls for any kind of phishing ought to look into getting a chauffeurs license, or if they are artistically inclined they can go to barber school.
We can trade out the ass with Red China, and cozy up to Uzbekistan, but Cuba, no es posible. Why? Because Cubans who fled Cuba after the revolution because they wanted their comfort and money more than they wanted to stay and fight, now control a lot more political power in America than they should. We can ask if Cuba really has it that bad. Its major export is educated people. Doctors, mostly. Can we acknowledge that maybe individual greed doesn't steer everything in the right direction all the time? Sure Cuba has poor folks. Do we care about poor folks in Cuba more than we care about the Americans that were left stranded in New Orleans after Katrina for political reasons? Not this year. The US has more people in prison than any other country in the world. Yes, and that is not by percentage. Cut the bullshit, we need to get over our sense of exceptionalism.
I don't know. The University of Wisconsin doesn't have the resources to manufacture microprocessors, but does Intel not have the capability of solving the associated problems independently? Are the issues at stake in the patent non-obvious to a highly skilled microprocessor designer? The only thing certain at this point is that some lawyers on both sides are going to enjoy a good payday. I suppose Intel could afford to just pay them off.
There was an attempt to outlaw i and it's use in mathematical equations. Lawmakers who objected to its use complained that it wasn't real and their constituents required too much imagination to accept it.
If Microsoft is campaigning to have it's so-called "open" specifications accepted as standards by the ISO, then it is ostensibly committed to interoperability with other office products. Let's face it, word processors and spreadsheets are very mature applications. There would be no damage to Microsoft if they were to release accurate specifications of "legacy" formats into the public domain. And yes, that would permit their robust implementation by other vendors. So what.
Anybody remember what happened to Office 95 users when they upgraded to Office 97? How about the Office 2003 Service Pack. They remedied that, at least for comparatively sophisticated users, but the arrogance speaks volumes.
I would expect that somebody as gross and belligerent as I would be in that situation would get his damn drive back or end up in lockup. It might be failed, but still have recoverable data. There is no legal claim to that property that I think should ever prevail in court. If they are offering an exchange price, fine. If they are refusing a full price sale with return of the old drive, they are out of line.
That is because in your case you chose to not to consider the anecdotal evidence, which is abundant. Of course the telecommunications industry is not likely to fund a comprehensive statistical study, or any study that shows that cell phones are dangerous if used almost constantly. I can hear you, you don't have to shout.
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You apparently don't know what it is, then. You can't even identify what "enemy" is being comforted. Perhaps the enemy is the American people. There is no war declared that permits the legal definition of an enemy, and not much evidence that the spying has any actual effectiveness at combating terrorism. It is massive surveillance of all forms of electronic communication. Professional terrorists are unlikely to use communication that will be intercepted in this way. The information will almost certainly eventually be used for criminal prosecutions, probably including everything from drug to copyright violations.
Am I the only one who is unwilling to take at face value a news story from "Courthouse News Service" which reports a lawsuit against the IRS that accuses them of seizing millions of private medical records, but does not identify the plaintiff? The story was repeated by the moonie times, and they couldn't use their vast resources to dig up an easily obtainable public record. Without details, it's just a rumor.
If you believe in free will, you have to admit the possibility that the Universe isn't deterministic. It might not be possible to prove that any posited set of laws is ultimate, so that question might remain unsettled for a long time.
Local coverage was abdicated as a business decision of station owners, most of whom are corporations that own multiple stations in different markets. They are not interested in local communities. The economy has dried up revenue for advertising as well, and local news coverage is labor intensive. Policy decisions by the FCC, removing rules such as limitations of station ownership and requirements for news programming content, have gone away along with the Fairness Doctrine, because of ideologies leading to deregulation and the belief that corporations should be free to do whatever the hell they want.
This is not something that ought to be eligible for patent coverage. Aren't there some ambulances that need chasing?
For every need, from education to medical care to communication, there is a natural God-given right for private entities to collect rents to provide for it. This supersedes a presumed right of people to collectively and voluntarily provide it to themselves.
It is obvious to the subject which are the control questions and which are the relevant questions. I have wondered how one can distinguish between responses that represent deception, and responses that represent apprehension that the machine will falsely indicate deception. Some people react more hotly to stress than others, and are prone to produce false positives. Also, people can be trained reduce the likelihood of actual deception being detected.
It is unusual for it to be documented so quickly with respect to an issue that has the level of interest and emotional involvement as does health care reform. Instances of the financial benefactors of Congresscritters getting their sentiments reflected more or less verbatim in the Congressional Record are not novel.
This is your second notice that the warranty on your annoying telephone scam is about to expire.
IANAL, but it seems to me that the standard of proof for criminal penalties is reasonable doubt, for civil penalties it is preponderance of evidence. That is the distinction that appears to be made.
Especially offensive is any sort of attempt at frustrating the dissemination of content based on political bias. The cable companies that own most of the broadband ISP's would love to model the Internet after their cable TV business. They have a news product that has done just a terrific job at political neutrality, and they would love to extend that model to Internet services.
Does this mean that I have to be rude to avoid paying M$ a royalty?
So you want a king hell DDOS attack to test your new servers? Slashdot Slashdot. Let's roll.
Until there are cases where criminal convictions are challenged on Constitutional grounds, we will not learn just how much abuse, for example how often are instances of these letters used to uncover political information about lawful activities. Tools such as this are so dangerous to freedom that severe sanctions should exist for frivolous use.
Are we talking about marginal cost or average cost? Is it about who pays or who benefits? You might as well compare the cost of Hubble data to pancakes unless you are considering life cycle costs and benefits. The average value of a text message is zero in most cases, and cell phone providers should be grateful that they can con customers into paying more to save their bandwidth.
You can take the New and Old Testaments, particularly the Old and find some pretty bizarre laws. Literally accepted, a menstruating woman might have a difficult time getting medical care if she is in a car accident. Just because a particular holy text contains certain possibly objectionable phrases, doesn't create a guilt by association with every practitioner of that religion. You can probably even find a Muslim or two with the intelligence to differentiate religious teachings according to historical and modern contexts.
That is new to me. Must be a dyslexic server process. Anybody in a position of responsibility who falls for any kind of phishing ought to look into getting a chauffeurs license, or if they are artistically inclined they can go to barber school.
We can trade out the ass with Red China, and cozy up to Uzbekistan, but Cuba, no es posible. Why? Because Cubans who fled Cuba after the revolution because they wanted their comfort and money more than they wanted to stay and fight, now control a lot more political power in America than they should. We can ask if Cuba really has it that bad. Its major export is educated people. Doctors, mostly. Can we acknowledge that maybe individual greed doesn't steer everything in the right direction all the time? Sure Cuba has poor folks. Do we care about poor folks in Cuba more than we care about the Americans that were left stranded in New Orleans after Katrina for political reasons? Not this year. The US has more people in prison than any other country in the world. Yes, and that is not by percentage. Cut the bullshit, we need to get over our sense of exceptionalism.
I don't know. The University of Wisconsin doesn't have the resources to manufacture microprocessors, but does Intel not have the capability of solving the associated problems independently? Are the issues at stake in the patent non-obvious to a highly skilled microprocessor designer? The only thing certain at this point is that some lawyers on both sides are going to enjoy a good payday. I suppose Intel could afford to just pay them off.
There was an attempt to outlaw i and it's use in mathematical equations. Lawmakers who objected to its use complained that it wasn't real and their constituents required too much imagination to accept it.
Anybody remember what happened to Office 95 users when they upgraded to Office 97? How about the Office 2003 Service Pack. They remedied that, at least for comparatively sophisticated users, but the arrogance speaks volumes.
Your point is well taken, but I think you might be talking about a depression.
That is because in your case you chose to not to consider the anecdotal evidence, which is abundant. Of course the telecommunications industry is not likely to fund a comprehensive statistical study, or any study that shows that cell phones are dangerous if used almost constantly. I can hear you, you don't have to shout.