The weapon inspectors had done their job. The were no weapons and they said so. The only reason they left is because the Shrub was going to start bombing.
The problem was that there were no WMDs and Bush needed a war. The whole thing was purposely managed so that Iraq could never get out of the sanctions even though they had been complying.
The complaints by the Bush administration that he was not in compliance were 99% lies and the rest, according to the inspectors, were minor issues.
When you take your news from a POTUS, you have to assume that they're lying. Bush the elder and Clinton lied about Iraq as well.
By not expecting email to be private means that your email provider is allowed to do anything it wants with the information. It means that the government or anyone who wishes to pay for it should be allowed to have it.
Being "not technically secure" is not the same thing as "not private".
How is this not newsworthy here? There are two elements that are of interest to many slashdotters.
I. This is about how a corporate shill is attempting to distort reality using the alternative media in relation to a community, not for profit based project.
II. The OLPC is a project that many slashdotters are interested in because it is a technological project which is for the most part not commercially motivated which attempta to change the lives of children in third world nations.
And here we find this joker who works on a competing commercial profit based project denegrating a community based project. Here we have a clown who disses the charty work of others while being paid to work on a project intended to destroy this work.
For any species that we're likely to find, if they have the capability and proclivity to project their power over interstellar distances, then it is far more likely that they'll find us first and probably already have
I don't see how the current political scene has emboldened congress at all. They seem afraid to truly investigate anything under the current administration. Even now that the democrats have control of both houses they are still reluctant. They should be roasting this administration alive.
It does not require power at either track level or overhead. For new systems this is a cost saving (at least as far as the infrastructure goes). It also is safer.
It may allow systems to be installed where the were not previously feasible.
Very nice, blow this out of proportion and associate those you oppose by associating them with true nut cases. Do you work for FOX NEWS?
This is an application of Google's policy which applies to any trademark used in their ads. The policy is too rigid, but this is just like every other large organization which simplifies things. When they get too powerful their arbitrariness becomes a problem.
This is really about how the decisions of large organizations effect our democracy. If you're outraged about this, you must be going insane at the dangerous concentration of media in this country.
This whole controversy over moveon.org is just like most right wing controversies, a smokescreen used to drown debate about real issues with useless piles of unimportant drivel.
According to Nacchio, he was expecting to get some secret government contracts which would have allowed Qwest to make its sales projections. This he would not have been lying when, 8 months (or something like that) before the Qwest debacle, he sold (dumped?) a bunch of stock.
He's probably right in that he was prosecuted because he turned up his nose at the NSA. If he hadn't the justice department probably would have looked away from his "little transgressions".
The prices that ATT charges competitors is profitable to ATT. This is just a big smoke screen. They actually want to eliminate competition so that they can raise prices in a less competitive market. The fact is that ATT has an artificially created monopoly on the last mile. The fact is they manipulated the government in the 30s and 40s to create the monopoly. This is not a market that is easy to make competitive. It requires regulation because we have only two choices (at most) for physical connections to the end user.
If they get what they want, they will eliminate all but the cable company. The US will have the worst (if it doesn't already) broadband of any developed country (including those with lower population density.)
ATT only paid for a portion of the infrastructure that they own, most of it is paid for when new construction while it was put in and the government. It was paid for by high consumer prices made capable by their monopoly position. They government handed it to them. They bribe elected government officials with campaign and other donations. They manipulate, they misrepresent etc.
The real reason they won't effectively compete is because they have dreams of re-realizing the near complete monopoly position they once had. How do you think they got the government to allow all of these mergers and re-mergers. This is not for competition. But they will call say it's for "competition".
Excuse me, but the Progress and Freedom Foundation is just a shill for big business interests. Of course any finding they have will side with deregulation. This is like asking the Tobacco Institute to objectively study the health effects of tobacco.
It may not be necessarily controversial when taken on the small scale, but its says a lot about the level to which covert organizations are controlling our lives. That should be controversial. It shows the increasing lack of respect for our society in academia and its independence from both government and industry. This may have always been just a myth, but that does not mean it shouldn't be controversial and up for debate.
What should be controversial is that due the lack of other funding provided by our government, academics have to go to agencies like the NSA to get funded. Our society becomes ever more beholden to the military-industrial complex.
By the way, university selection process has little to do with free thinking. Universities want staff that gets funding and in this they select those who will not challenge authority. Those who will not question these policies.
the telco has the right to use that information as they wish
Wrong! Just because you agreed to their terms of service does not mean you should not expect privacy from them. This is simply hogwash. They have only the right use that information in the process of billing you.
Whether Clinton's executive order is right or not, is relevant, but in the current circumstances, the current administration is so far over the top in these matters, it is imperative to our survival as a democratic society to know the extent of these violations of privacy. Even if it turns out that all of these instances are not breaking the law, they are certainly violations committed by a government out of control against its own populace.
Of course it's not worth it to them, they probably knew about it already, may have participated in it and are beholden (at least the director) to the current administration. Congress should not be delegating it to them as they cannot be trusted to perform properly. This should be performed by an independent committee outside of administration control.
They better fight it on all fronts, including the court of public opinion because the public should be outraged whether or not this is technically illegal. If not it should be.
This complacency is the problem. We have the right to expect privacy to be the default. We have the right that it is respected except in the most grave of situations. Lots of things will still happen, people will be mugged. Should we just say, "you shouldn't have been out that late." You should have been fired and prosecuted for your "amusement." Your "amusement" is a lack of respect for others.
This is neo-liberal economic bullshit. These policies do not work. They have not worked in the third world. Western economies and smart third world ones, never allow this to happen.
I think this is just a misconception. Japan become very good at imitation and then improving better than the West after World War II because the economy and infrastructure was in shambles. They are very accepting of new technology, much more than the US. Their economy caught up to the US in a very short period of time. In order to do this there were many innovations at all levels, especially industrial which you cannot see. Plus, their culture is different, so some of the things that they have innovated may have little initial interest in the US or Europe. They, however, will be very much in a good position to compete in Asia where the US can't sell squat except weapons. But even here this will change as China and India are rapidly developing high-tech weapon systems whose costs are a fraction of US products.
Japan lost to the US in World War II for many reasons, size being a large factor. Over-extension throughout Asia was also a big factor (you can't get away with try to conqueror and control populations far larger than your own, even with "high tech"). They simply did not have the population and material resources to do what their military junta was trying to do.
They're not going to attack the US, they're afraid of being attacked by the US. As US administrations have no qualms about using any sort of lies and deceit in order to justify war or covert intervention, most countries, even some of our allies, are very concerned about US military capability. China is rapidly developing high technology and will probably catch up within 25 years. Japan knows that it cannot rely on the US unless it suits them. The only reason Japan canceled programs in the past is due to massive pressure by the US government.
We are that behind. 8 million users already have it Japan, whereas 3.9 million have it "available" from Verizon. The fastest rate Verizon offers is 50Mbs in only a very select number of locations as opposed to 100Mbs which is common in Japan. In Japan, they are making this a priority. In the US, it's mainly up to the telcos and the cable companies and the only large one employing the network on anything but a small or test scale is Verizon.
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The US government doesn't want the border closed. It provides a huge source of cheap labor that keeps US labor costs down and that's what big business wants.
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If you perform an action that knowingly will kill innocents, even if it kills a terrorist as well, you yourself are a terrorist.
The weapon inspectors had done their job. The were no weapons and they said so. The only reason they left is because the Shrub was going to start bombing. The problem was that there were no WMDs and Bush needed a war. The whole thing was purposely managed so that Iraq could never get out of the sanctions even though they had been complying. The complaints by the Bush administration that he was not in compliance were 99% lies and the rest, according to the inspectors, were minor issues. When you take your news from a POTUS, you have to assume that they're lying. Bush the elder and Clinton lied about Iraq as well.
Being "not technically secure" is not the same thing as "not private".
If you think that this is funny, you should apply for a job at gitmo.
How is this not newsworthy here? There are two elements that are of interest to many slashdotters.
I. This is about how a corporate shill is attempting to distort reality using the alternative media in relation to a community, not for profit based project.
II. The OLPC is a project that many slashdotters are interested in because it is a technological project which is for the most part not commercially motivated which attempta to change the lives of children in third world nations.
And here we find this joker who works on a competing commercial profit based project denegrating a community based project. Here we have a clown who disses the charty work of others while being paid to work on a project intended to destroy this work.
For any species that we're likely to find, if they have the capability and proclivity to project their power over interstellar distances, then it is far more likely that they'll find us first and probably already have
I suppose you would prefer that only pieces from the "Fair and Balanced" Fox News site be allowed.
I don't see how the current political scene has emboldened congress at all. They seem afraid to truly investigate anything under the current administration. Even now that the democrats have control of both houses they are still reluctant. They should be roasting this administration alive.
It does not require power at either track level or overhead. For new systems this is a cost saving (at least as far as the infrastructure goes). It also is safer.
It may allow systems to be installed where the were not previously feasible.
I think that you mean digital to analog conversion.
Very nice, blow this out of proportion and associate those you oppose by associating them with true nut cases. Do you work for FOX NEWS?
This is an application of Google's policy which applies to any trademark used in their ads. The policy is too rigid, but this is just like every other large organization which simplifies things. When they get too powerful their arbitrariness becomes a problem.
This is really about how the decisions of large organizations effect our democracy. If you're outraged about this, you must be going insane at the dangerous concentration of media in this country.
This whole controversy over moveon.org is just like most right wing controversies, a smokescreen used to drown debate about real issues with useless piles of unimportant drivel.
According to Nacchio, he was expecting to get some secret government contracts which would have allowed Qwest to make its sales projections. This he would not have been lying when, 8 months (or something like that) before the Qwest debacle, he sold (dumped?) a bunch of stock.
He's probably right in that he was prosecuted because he turned up his nose at the NSA. If he hadn't the justice department probably would have looked away from his "little transgressions".
The prices that ATT charges competitors is profitable to ATT. This is just a big smoke screen. They actually want to eliminate competition so that they can raise prices in a less competitive market. The fact is that ATT has an artificially created monopoly on the last mile. The fact is they manipulated the government in the 30s and 40s to create the monopoly. This is not a market that is easy to make competitive. It requires regulation because we have only two choices (at most) for physical connections to the end user.
If they get what they want, they will eliminate all but the cable company. The US will have the worst (if it doesn't already) broadband of any developed country (including those with lower population density.)
ATT only paid for a portion of the infrastructure that they own, most of it is paid for when new construction while it was put in and the government. It was paid for by high consumer prices made capable by their monopoly position. They government handed it to them. They bribe elected government officials with campaign and other donations. They manipulate, they misrepresent etc.
The real reason they won't effectively compete is because they have dreams of re-realizing the near complete monopoly position they once had. How do you think they got the government to allow all of these mergers and re-mergers. This is not for competition. But they will call say it's for "competition".
Excuse me, but the Progress and Freedom Foundation is just a shill for big business interests. Of course any finding they have will side with deregulation. This is like asking the Tobacco Institute to objectively study the health effects of tobacco.
I thinks it's "Ma Bell, the Phantom Menace"
It may not be necessarily controversial when taken on the small scale, but its says a lot about the level to which covert organizations are controlling our lives. That should be controversial. It shows the increasing lack of respect for our society in academia and its independence from both government and industry. This may have always been just a myth, but that does not mean it shouldn't be controversial and up for debate.
What should be controversial is that due the lack of other funding provided by our government, academics have to go to agencies like the NSA to get funded. Our society becomes ever more beholden to the military-industrial complex.
By the way, university selection process has little to do with free thinking. Universities want staff that gets funding and in this they select those who will not challenge authority. Those who will not question these policies.
the telco has the right to use that information as they wish
Wrong! Just because you agreed to their terms of service does not mean you should not expect privacy from them. This is simply hogwash. They have only the right use that information in the process of billing you.
Whether Clinton's executive order is right or not, is relevant, but in the current circumstances, the current administration is so far over the top in these matters, it is imperative to our survival as a democratic society to know the extent of these violations of privacy. Even if it turns out that all of these instances are not breaking the law, they are certainly violations committed by a government out of control against its own populace.
Of course it's not worth it to them, they probably knew about it already, may have participated in it and are beholden (at least the director) to the current administration. Congress should not be delegating it to them as they cannot be trusted to perform properly. This should be performed by an independent committee outside of administration control.
They better fight it on all fronts, including the court of public opinion because the public should be outraged whether or not this is technically illegal. If not it should be.
This complacency is the problem. We have the right to expect privacy to be the default. We have the right that it is respected except in the most grave of situations. Lots of things will still happen, people will be mugged. Should we just say, "you shouldn't have been out that late." You should have been fired and prosecuted for your "amusement." Your "amusement" is a lack of respect for others.
Impeach the imbecile who appointed him.
They developed the F-1 prior to the F-2.
Just forclose it all, take the hit, and recover
This is neo-liberal economic bullshit. These policies do not work. They have not worked in the third world. Western economies and smart third world ones, never allow this to happen.
Japan lost to the US in World War II for many reasons, size being a large factor. Over-extension throughout Asia was also a big factor (you can't get away with try to conqueror and control populations far larger than your own, even with "high tech"). They simply did not have the population and material resources to do what their military junta was trying to do.
They're not going to attack the US, they're afraid of being attacked by the US. As US administrations have no qualms about using any sort of lies and deceit in order to justify war or covert intervention, most countries, even some of our allies, are very concerned about US military capability. China is rapidly developing high technology and will probably catch up within 25 years. Japan knows that it cannot rely on the US unless it suits them. The only reason Japan canceled programs in the past is due to massive pressure by the US government.
We are that behind. 8 million users already have it Japan, whereas 3.9 million have it "available" from Verizon. The fastest rate Verizon offers is 50Mbs in only a very select number of locations as opposed to 100Mbs which is common in Japan. In Japan, they are making this a priority. In the US, it's mainly up to the telcos and the cable companies and the only large one employing the network on anything but a small or test scale is Verizon.
The US government doesn't want the border closed. It provides a huge source of cheap labor that keeps US labor costs down and that's what big business wants.