> What exactly do they need to do that couldn't be done with a staff of two or
> three hundred good people and a $150-$200 million budget? WTF

create jobs. That is really all it has been about for a while. Shit go all the way back to prohibition and we got beginings of the drug war partially from efforts made by people who were basically looking to lose their jobs with nothing to do now that alcohol was legal.

Their role is to create jobs and use as much budget as possible because the more they spread around the cake, the more support they will get from the people they spend that money on.

You have to realize, that for every few people who took Eisenhower's speech as a warning, there were others writing it down as a proven strategy that is working and should be used elsewhere. The more jobs you create, the more cake you hand out, the more secure your job is.

It doesn't even hardly matter if what you do works, its almost better if it doesn't because that will just be because you need to do more of it.

> Because, parallel construction in itself is not necessarily about illegally obtained evidence

Except it is a blatant attempt to hide the truth of where evidence is obtained from the court, which means it is about not allowing the court to make that determination based on the truth. So saying its not about illegally obtained evidence is.... not supported by anything but the claims of the very people who are perjuring themselves in court.

This particular term does deserve to have its awareness raised, and quite frankly, every person involved in it should, by all rights, be charged criminally. Their job is to make a case, not lie to the court.

True but, unlike you he actually used the words parallel construction and linked to the wiki article. Since those two words and what they mean really do need to be spread as far and wide as possible, and are evidence that the law really isn't, and the people who are most highly charged with following it (ie the people who enforce it themselevs) actually don't bother.

Its almost like, we don't really have a system of laws so much as a theater troupe who plays "legal system" for real stakes.

Actually it has been implemented already, and there was even a slashdot article about it a few days ago:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

That said, my phone doesn't support it and it seems few do, but, its a start and somebody is trying.

> AM and PM mean "anti-meridian" and "post-meridian",

Total nitpick, its ante not anti.

ante- prefix meaning before
anti - prefix meaning against

You see it in words like "antediluvian" (before the flood).

Hit it? why? The earth is already being slowed down by tidal interactions with the moon. we just need to slow the moon down until it drops under geosynchronous orbit, then its tidal bulge will move faster than our rotation and rotational energy will transfer from the moons new orbit to earth's rotation.

There are a couple of minor downsides....like massive increases in the amplitude of the tidal bulge, but moon missions will require a lot less delta v...... of course, it also means the moons orbit will progressively shrink.

Maybe put it in geosync and just try to keep the day length where it is?

Please explain why this is relevant. The 2nd explicitly states that is it because of the need for a militia that the right will not be infringed. I don't see where there is any requirement that gun bearers be members of the militia or that the militia itself even must exist, just that because of the need for one, the right wont be.

It is a clause in support of the declaration that the right will not be infringed, I see no dependency on it.

However your list will in no way actually change the fact that the common expectation at the time. The most you can prove with your list is that people's perceptions were skewed from reality.

Simple fact is, On September 10th, 2001 if you asked people what they would expect to happen if they were on a hijacked plane, the tarmac hostage situation scenario was what the majority of people would have expected. The entire plan hinged on it.

On September 11, 2001 by about 11am, this entire plan was burned and was never going to work again, even without a single change to security.

> The copper-cables running from my house cross plenty of public spaces. Still, tapping them requires (or used to require) a warrant.

Are we sure about that? Perhaps the FBI would like to let us know what "exceptions" exist? Perhaps because the copper cables run over public spaces that makes for an exception in their book? They certainly wouldn't want to tell us unless they had to.

We engineer our space craft to come down within 15 inches of our chosen return point.... with an acceptable margin of the entire earth. It hits within the acceptable range every time!

Well yes and no. The main thing that 9/11 hijackers exploited was NOT the fact that passengers were disarmed but, the fact that previous hijackings all resulted in hostage situations. Seriously, you are sitting in a seat, on an airplane, going somewhere.

In a pre-9/11 world (ugh i can't believe I said that), what is your expectation when a hijacking happens? You expect the plane will be grounded, the hijackers will make demands. Eventually they will either be killed and arrested, but you are going to be released within a couple of days, unharmed.

A small crowd can easily overpower a couple of hijackers with knives. The reason they didn't was simply that everyone expected they were going to be walking out alive and well within a few days.

Actually to be honest the size of that pisses me off as....too big.

Now don't get me wrong, I would love a bigger space program. Hell, if they spent 20% of the military money on the space program I wouldn't mind, but 20% of the non-military discretionary? No wonder this country is so fucked up.....everything including the space program has to fight for the scraps left over after our ridiculously oversized military?

No way 20% of whats left over should go to NASA. Cut the military and give it to NASA...tripple the size of NASA....but take 100% of that increase away from our super sized military.

> You realize, of course, that for anyone following your logic, the CIA can get

You realize, of course, that ..... It's a joke son, youre supposed to laugh.

> You realize, of course, that for anyone following your logic, the CIA can get

I prefer making fun of it and attacking their credibility humorously.

Standard procedure for making a new post on slashdot is to criticize wildly based on the summary so someone else explains the article to you.

but in the end you just can't expect to reason with the guy who is still rescuing the thin-net terminators from the scrap heap. Just give him your old token ring port activator and wish him a happy new year.