Really? The same 911 perpetrated by mostly Saudi's? Starting a war in Afghanistan for harboring Bin Laden is a bit like bombing a neighborhood that won't co-operate with police. I'm sure a SWAT raid that resulted in 20,000 civilian and almost 3,000 friendly casualties would be viewed as an abject failure. That's before you even consider that Bin Laden was eventually killed in Pakistan!!

You have the meaning of the expression wrong. It doesn't mean snow that has been driven over but snow driven by the wind. It means clean/pure/uncorrupted/moral etc.

While I don't support jailing people for this type of speech where no direct threat or incitement to violence was made, the US, in spite of the 1st amendment, has jailed people for producing material judged obscene.

Never heard of José Padilla?

Are you asking the Europeans or the Americans?

There are a few modern cordless units that have a function whereby a handset can be used to charge the base station during an outage. Then you can either place a call from the base station or use another handset. Panasonic does this on some of their higher end models. No need for a separate UPS.

If passed, this law could be challenged on constitutional grounds as a bill of attainder.

Er...killing US citizens with drone missile strikes outside of any judicial review or trial process for one. Pre-emptive wars of aggression for another.

That made me laugh but I have no mod points I'm afraid. Well played!

So what's your point? It was still a territory under US jurisdiction and the naval base that was attacked was a US military asset and the people killed were US citizens. Attacking an overseas embassy is an act of war even though they're not states,

Ah I suppose Pearl Harbour doesn't really count as the homeland then. It is pretty far away...

I dont think thats what the diagram is showing. It has the private key stored on the phone and on the Blackberry Enterprise Server sitting behind the company's firewall, not RIMs. Importantly, those servers can be located in jurisdictions where there are legal protections from the government's demands for data. Obviously if the US govt produces a warrant to get the key from your US based IT dept they are going to be successful but not so with Saudi or India govts. Also the duplicate key is a necessary evil as stuff does occasionally go wrong with handsets...