Now all we need is 25K signatures and the government will have to confirm that our alien overlords are here to stay.

I for one welcome our remotely viewed alien overlords!

Except that Senators don't really like to have their rights violated. Makes for serious problems with budgetary concerns, especially if Mr. Paul identified himself during the procedure.

In the case of physical theft, the punishment is waged by the state in stead of the property owner. Maybe some statutory device should be used in this case, with lost revenue due to the property owner, in this case the copyright holder, equivalent to the property's value at first sale.

I'm pretty sure that Congress authorized the president to conduct military operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. At the time both Hilary Clinton and John Kerry voted "Yes" to authorize the president to take action. Then Clinton and Obama both voted yes to continue funding the war efforts. So in these cases, as well as Gulf War II (a.k.a. Desert Storm) the POTUS received prior authorization. The War Powers Act was in direct response to Viet Nam, where it was believed that Kennedy involved us there w/o authorization.

They are also required to be enclosed in lead lined rooms, with leaded glass, and use lead lined doors and door frames. This is to protect the radiologic technologist, the radiologist, and patients in surrounding corridors and rooms. When anyone must be present in a room when the HE photon gun is activated, they are required to wear full body leaded gowns, and neck collars to protect the thyroid. Patients are also provided shields to cover the torso or thyroid when that region is not being scanned. This is particularly important for women, as female zygotes 100% present from birth, unlike male zygotes which are fully regenerated about every 15 days. Hospital workers are required to be licensed by the state health board in order to operate the machinery, as it is up to the operator to ensure that overexposure does not occur. Many boards require yearly continuing education to maintain the license as well.

In the airport the machines are in open air rooms, with the majority of the TSA staff standing with in 10 meters of the system. There is no shielding for the TSA employees or other airport workers near by. Compare that to the baggage scanner that is completely enclosed in lead, and has leaded curtains at both the entry and exit of the machine. I'm fairly certain that none of the TSA FBS operators are licensed by state health boards.

Every TSA pat-down, especially those outside an air terminal, are illegal searches. There is no probable cause for agents of the government to initiate a search, even in air terminals, hence is a violation of 4th Amendment Rights. Every time Pistole is questioned about this by Congress, he insists that Air Travelers (and all travelers, by VIPR assumptions) are guilty until proven innocent, and that American children are all bomb carrying agents of Terrorism, because terrorists have used children and women in other parts of the world.

And with probation comes random drug testing, and usually an order to not drink any alcohol as well. Makes for a slow year.

AFIK, there is no expectation in statutory or common law that requires an establishment to retain abandoned items. In fact, there's this huge store ( http://unclaimedbaggage.com/ ) in Alabama, that sells all the stuff people leave behind in airports. I don't think that they routinely get charges of theft applied to them...

What ever happened to finders keepers? I thought that there was something about abandoning property that made it a free-for-all.

It's like insurance. Do you really need it? Probably not. But my bank won't give me a house loan without a homeowners policy. Same goes with director's boards, and other oversight of IT, a CIO must be failing at his call if he doesn't have proper support agreements in place. Because, you know, your own employees can't solve those kinds of issues, even if you paid them $250,000 per annum.

The biggest problem is that non-propritary languages have no one selling them to corporate executives, with promises of ubiquitous support and completely reliable offerings, with speedy bug resolution.

And they have to pay for it, otherwise there's no value. Look at Red Hat. Reports today are that they are going gang busters. They're selling something that has it's basis in "free," but they add a service, which I'm sure is very profitable for Red Hat, and puts a value on the software purchase for the "decision makers."

Basically, if you don't have to pay for it, and there isn't someone with a cheesy smile, and a talking list of the day's techno-sales babel, how's a decider to know when he has something of value. I mean with out a measure tape, how's he to compare when golfing at the course with his fraternity brothers.

Basically, yes. The supposed part is that there's traceability through the CA to the signing party, footsteps if you will to find the trojan originator, and someone to then assign liability to.

Thanks! TMYK

And it worked in the US for a long time as well. The only thing that was added to security in US Air Travel, is that door that can be locked from the inside by the pilots, and is to remain closed for the entire flight. That's it. Every other aspect of the 9/11 attacks could be carried out again today, except that passengers have become familiar with the fact that personal security requires personal action, and cannot be delegated completely to the government.

It definitely will bring about competition. Smaller airport's won't want to utilize a single huge company that overcharges for locally obtainable resources.

That's one of the biggest complaints about government employees. They are paid relatively equally no matter where they are. So the folks in NYC suffer, but the people in Little Rock are "makin' bank."