Andrew Johnson was not impeached for firing Stanton. The first bill of impeachment against Johnson practically read as "We think you really, really suck. Get out of our clubhouse. Sincerely, Congress."
Notwithstanding, the Supreme Court has since ruled many times over that control of decisions taken within the Executive Branch falls exclusively within the domain of the President.
If push comes to shove, Congress can't do shit. Worse, they won't do shit. The political will simply isn't there.
It's not an accident that the only two impeachments of Presidents in American history were essentially efforts to get rid of guys Congress just plain disliked. Impeachment is rarely wielded for good reasons. Even Nixon had to go so far over the line that Congress had to either act or cease to be taken seriously.
2. All things being equal (and they're not, but I'm just saying) in any other western society Obama would be a European-style socialist. In America, we settle for less in the name of maintaining the center.
As for Bob Gates, I believe the man is sincere. I just don't particularly find any talk of defense spending cuts impressive until I see results. I'm not convinced that anyone in Congress wants to cut military spending. And I'm not convinced that anyone in the executive branch won't spend the cash if it is allocated.
I think it is a front by Obama, so some day when he's facing a ballooning deficit he can point to those efforts and say, "well, I tried!"
The truth is the MIC is more a welfare system than anything else. It's a means for Congress to vote for welfare without being called out.
Picking a guy who says he's going to do it isn't the first salvo of anything. By that standard, electing Barrack Obama was the first salvo in our march toward European socialism.
Trust me. I support cutting military spending. I support moving NASA to a secondary role now that big business is finding its way into space. Hell, I support moving toward European socialism.
The first salvo isn't talking the talk. The first salvo is destroying the leaders of the opposition. When Jack Murtha's in jail, I'll say the first salvo has been fired. When John McCain retires, maybe that will count.
You wanna know what the first salvo of anything looks like?
Look at Eliot Spitzer and the financial crisis. Everyone on Wall Street knew the crisis was coming. No one wanted him in office when it hit. They knew his weaknesses -- hell, Jim Cramer used to live with the man! But, they kept hoping they wouldn't need to pull the trigger. One day the situation demanded it, and that salv was fired.
When you start destroying the opposition, that's the first salvo. Defunding the MIC, while pretty fuckin wimpy, is a first salvo. Maybe Obama and company will find some of that vaunted Chicago Way and fire a real salvo next. Watch Jack Murtha's legal troubles if you want to see whether this is a war or just political lip service.
Please tell me you did not type that with a straight face? Impeachment? If condoning the kidnapping and torture of people is not a high crime or misdemeanor, I'm pretty sure that exercising the Executive's rights within checks and balances isn't either.
Congress can't compel the president to spend money. They went through a round of this under Nixon. While Congress can allocate funds, nothing compels the executive branch to spend them.
The one thing the MIC does incredibly well is fight for every last penny. Odds are, the aerospace companies view this as only the first salvo before the big fight over defense spending cuts hits.
Because I think the big flaw with the methodology behind the 30+% figure for Linux netbooks is that it ignores the fact that Microsoft Wish Granting Pony.NET 2008 is an inustry gold standard application for measuring market penetration.
Just saying that such a statement seems like a quiet -- yet deniable -- way to ask folks to tear down the secrecy. If he really wanted it to survive, you'd assume he'd be a tiny bit more subtle than, "If this shit is known, this treaty is fucked."
At this stage, we're about where the FCC was at in deciding what format DTV was going to be. We're around 1992 if we're comparing the VOIP timeline against the DTV timeline. It's gonna be a few years.
While in principle it is a good method for snooping a single monitor, it would take a ton of disentangling signals to read every monitor consistently at a polling place from any distance. It is not a practical way to screw with an election, considering that any party willing to snoop this aggressively is probably willing to do a lot more than just snoop.
Frankly, it shows just how effective Brazil's security measures are that hackers have to go this deep into the playbook to get even one sort of result.
To do it right, you need: OTA, Hulu, Netflix, Boxee and uTorrent.
While for the average geek that's a nothing proposition, for the average mom that's like taking an engine and rebuilding the carburetor, alternator and transmission plus machining the heads.
No manufacturer is going to build all of that into a single box. Can you ever see Sony doing much more than heavily pimping Blu-Ray? It's just too many competing interests.
That's why your average media center geek builds their own.
Even a moderate understanding of economics begins with this: wealth is made in the margins of what people don't know.
To claim that the problem is a lack of good information is to basically claim that markets desire efficiency. That's not even close to true. A good market is inefficient to a certain degree. If it isn't, it will eventually run out of profit because everything will be priced accurately.
I have to side with the folks who consider it an exceedingly complicated vector of attack. Especially in a world where people click emails that say "You're on3 the Walmart lottery! email bank account routing number to collect yor prize."
The stock of prey for spammers is going to have to smarten up a lot before such a vector is worth the extra effort. Look how many downright brilliant proofs of concepts for various attack go largely unused simply because spammer don't whack flies with steam shovels.
There's a distinction between the use of a font as an absurdist statement about -- well, whatever it is that art people have against particular fonts -- and the clear religious imperative to destroy Comic Sans, aka the PTO Flier Font.
Slashdot Mirror
When you start hearing about "cyber" anything it's time to worry. Misappropriated prefixes are never fun.
Andrew Johnson was not impeached for firing Stanton. The first bill of impeachment against Johnson practically read as "We think you really, really suck. Get out of our clubhouse. Sincerely, Congress."
Notwithstanding, the Supreme Court has since ruled many times over that control of decisions taken within the Executive Branch falls exclusively within the domain of the President.
If push comes to shove, Congress can't do shit. Worse, they won't do shit. The political will simply isn't there.
It's not an accident that the only two impeachments of Presidents in American history were essentially efforts to get rid of guys Congress just plain disliked. Impeachment is rarely wielded for good reasons. Even Nixon had to go so far over the line that Congress had to either act or cease to be taken seriously.
1. I said I support Obama.
2. All things being equal (and they're not, but I'm just saying) in any other western society Obama would be a European-style socialist. In America, we settle for less in the name of maintaining the center.
As for Bob Gates, I believe the man is sincere. I just don't particularly find any talk of defense spending cuts impressive until I see results. I'm not convinced that anyone in Congress wants to cut military spending. And I'm not convinced that anyone in the executive branch won't spend the cash if it is allocated.
I think it is a front by Obama, so some day when he's facing a ballooning deficit he can point to those efforts and say, "well, I tried!"
The truth is the MIC is more a welfare system than anything else. It's a means for Congress to vote for welfare without being called out.
At least we can finally quantify and sell it the right way. Frankly, politicians and MBAs were always half-assed.
Every supremely dumb idea is just a new opportunity for arbitrage.
Picking a guy who says he's going to do it isn't the first salvo of anything. By that standard, electing Barrack Obama was the first salvo in our march toward European socialism.
Trust me. I support cutting military spending. I support moving NASA to a secondary role now that big business is finding its way into space. Hell, I support moving toward European socialism.
The first salvo isn't talking the talk. The first salvo is destroying the leaders of the opposition. When Jack Murtha's in jail, I'll say the first salvo has been fired. When John McCain retires, maybe that will count.
You wanna know what the first salvo of anything looks like?
Look at Eliot Spitzer and the financial crisis. Everyone on Wall Street knew the crisis was coming. No one wanted him in office when it hit. They knew his weaknesses -- hell, Jim Cramer used to live with the man! But, they kept hoping they wouldn't need to pull the trigger. One day the situation demanded it, and that salv was fired.
When you start destroying the opposition, that's the first salvo. Defunding the MIC, while pretty fuckin wimpy, is a first salvo. Maybe Obama and company will find some of that vaunted Chicago Way and fire a real salvo next. Watch Jack Murtha's legal troubles if you want to see whether this is a war or just political lip service.
Please tell me you did not type that with a straight face? Impeachment? If condoning the kidnapping and torture of people is not a high crime or misdemeanor, I'm pretty sure that exercising the Executive's rights within checks and balances isn't either.
Congress can't compel the president to spend money. They went through a round of this under Nixon. While Congress can allocate funds, nothing compels the executive branch to spend them.
Nerd gets beaten. Idiots doing the beating (some of those guys on the Canadian border are really bored and stupid - I've known a couple).
Not really. They look more like poorly tweened objects in Flash. Which is actually worse.
The one thing the MIC does incredibly well is fight for every last penny. Odds are, the aerospace companies view this as only the first salvo before the big fight over defense spending cuts hits.
Because I think the big flaw with the methodology behind the 30+% figure for Linux netbooks is that it ignores the fact that Microsoft Wish Granting Pony .NET 2008 is an inustry gold standard application for measuring market penetration.
This is very true. My mom is the nicest old lady on the planet, and in a crisis she'd also be the first motherfucker to pull a knife.
Just saying that such a statement seems like a quiet -- yet deniable -- way to ask folks to tear down the secrecy. If he really wanted it to survive, you'd assume he'd be a tiny bit more subtle than, "If this shit is known, this treaty is fucked."
Why isn't anyone raving about the Twitter feed called Shit My Mom Says?
Or it may end up being like digital radio and float out there indefinitely as an aspirational goal.
At this stage, we're about where the FCC was at in deciding what format DTV was going to be. We're around 1992 if we're comparing the VOIP timeline against the DTV timeline. It's gonna be a few years.
While in principle it is a good method for snooping a single monitor, it would take a ton of disentangling signals to read every monitor consistently at a polling place from any distance. It is not a practical way to screw with an election, considering that any party willing to snoop this aggressively is probably willing to do a lot more than just snoop.
Frankly, it shows just how effective Brazil's security measures are that hackers have to go this deep into the playbook to get even one sort of result.
Until something tragic happens because of a piece of space junk, no one will do anything.
To do it right, you need: OTA, Hulu, Netflix, Boxee and uTorrent.
While for the average geek that's a nothing proposition, for the average mom that's like taking an engine and rebuilding the carburetor, alternator and transmission plus machining the heads.
No manufacturer is going to build all of that into a single box. Can you ever see Sony doing much more than heavily pimping Blu-Ray? It's just too many competing interests.
That's why your average media center geek builds their own.
This sounds like a case for . . . Modified Newtonian Dynamics!
And global cooling. And killer bees.
Even a moderate understanding of economics begins with this: wealth is made in the margins of what people don't know.
To claim that the problem is a lack of good information is to basically claim that markets desire efficiency. That's not even close to true. A good market is inefficient to a certain degree. If it isn't, it will eventually run out of profit because everything will be priced accurately.
The sales pitch: "How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?"
1. If this sales pitch were any dumber, I'd assume it was a quote from a Simpsons episode I had somehow missed.
2. Getting rid of fruit labels is a bad marketing idea. Kids freakin love them.
3. Any sales pitch like this is indicative of a solution in search of a problem. It sounds like a pitch from a bad infomercial.
I have to side with the folks who consider it an exceedingly complicated vector of attack. Especially in a world where people click emails that say "You're on3 the Walmart lottery! email bank account routing number to collect yor prize."
The stock of prey for spammers is going to have to smarten up a lot before such a vector is worth the extra effort. Look how many downright brilliant proofs of concepts for various attack go largely unused simply because spammer don't whack flies with steam shovels.
There's a distinction between the use of a font as an absurdist statement about -- well, whatever it is that art people have against particular fonts -- and the clear religious imperative to destroy Comic Sans, aka the PTO Flier Font.