Not a worthy argument. Say that you hold the database of all addresses on all letters held by all residents. Sender and reciver. You see patterns, these patterns are all that is then needed to build a case to then conduct surveillance. The metadata is the tool used to create a reason to pursue. Without it they actually have to go out and do their jobs. Sure as a bystander one can see an envelope here or there. In actual fact it's a ferderal offense to mess with people's letterboxes. So unless someone leaves a bundle of letters out and unless your rude enough to sift through their mail you're only going to see the first address anyway. And that is the recipients address anyway. Further I could leave my wifi password stuck to the back of my router, if someone is rude enough to steal it and think nothing of it ... well it sucks to be that person too. First they convince common respect is misplaced, now I'm hearing being a sneaky prick is okay too... what's next NSA employees allowed to help themselves to beers in my fridge?

Dont get me wrong. I practically live on home made juices. But for the life of me, I need solids. So many people are in the same boat with these new wonder diets that are out there, detox or whatever. Many eventually drop the wonder diet because of IBS. I see this no different, sure treat it as a partial suppliment. Like I said cant get enough juice but atleat 1 solid per day ... otherwise the stomach gets lazy because it doesnt need to break anything down, from there it only goes down hill.

Hardly see how. Religion offers the incentive that if you're to kill someone you might go to hell over it. Atheism lends itself to the fact that there is nothing after death so we might as well do whatever we like.

Careful, your neighbour might be an Atheist and at any point jump the fence and fuck your wife while you're out ...

See same old prejudices, same only rhetoric. Atheism is just the new black in the sphere of religion.

So, if you feel that Atheism gives you a sense of responsibility and place in your community. Then I guess it's the appropriate Religion for you after all. Ha! Atheism a religion! you gotta be crazy right?

Religion = a pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.
Atheism = disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.

A Religious Atheist. Someone who has a great devotion to the lack of belief of God [or gods].

As for Science destroying Religion. I buy that as being an issue but I see the same problems that Religion has simply to be traversed over to Science. Not be abolished by Science.

Consider the Big Bang as the Atheists' version of Genesis. Consider the way many scholars have begun to explain the Bible to the general public such as Reza Aslan. Look at TV shows such as "Spartacus" and the way their language is contrived in the show. And classically look at Shakespeare's plays in Elizabethan.

Scientists which take the standpoint that the Bible has been disproved is an undereducated view. The growth / evolution of the human psyche has simply evolved and Science has paved the way in the last couple of hundred years or so, by changing our methods of story telling and explaining situations.

We have grown as a collective and created language mechanisms that allow us to explain the very definition of a story or situation directly.

E.G "Joe is a good guy he is very kind and likes to help the homeless". The old school way of telling the story would be "Joe is so kind he gave his own shirt to a homeless person".

Whether Joe actually did give his shirt to a homeless person is not at all relevant. But the story transmutes Joe's character. The entire bible is built based on this comparative process. It is not false. It wasn't created by a bunch of nutters back in the "day" so-to-speak. No, it was created by the people of that time to tell stories in the way they knew how to.

The Big Bang is the direct version. Genesis the medieval version which is example driven using the examples of that time to define its very meaning. In any case, Reza Aslan explains it quite well in one of his interviews.

Come'on really. How reliable would this be anyway? News? Move on. Next!

Were 3 millions accounts were "almost" compromised or does the poster mean "close to" 3 million accounts compromised.

Ohhhh ... I give up :/

Minix rather ... or for the real pedantic type MINUX

Kind of. 1996 was the days of OS2 Warp and Windows 95 which notably wasn't free but easily pirated. Linux helped more in the server space and with the emergence of the BSDs. Open/FreeBSD was kind of the bad boys on the block. Linux was already pretty mainstream by 96, we used to use it to drive our 20 node dial up ISP at the time feeding data from a ISDN line.

It was the earlier parts of the 90's where Linux made its ground. Minux was the best that was out there until Linux came along.

I know what PCI is you daffy duck! I was trying to make a nerd joke and i didn't even get 1 mod point for it *frown*

Does this mean that the NSA is PCI Compliant?

*eyeroll* again with the unrealistic socilaist view.

The reason why surpluses are 'bad' (coining the very definition of bad to mean not bad) is only because inflation which is _caused_ by deficit spending economies can devalue that surplus longterm. If you create inflation (which is really just fiat currency deflation) then using the excuse to spend only becomes valid if the juice is worth the squeeze or the asset that Govt money translates into increases in value in to the future.

Spending into the red is simply evidence of this not taking place. IE not having a surplus ...

Look at QLD's power grid for example. Poor / over Govt spending resulting in ridiculous costs of power because they baught the wrong assets and have to maintain and upkeep systems that are under utilisised, couple that with the abomination that's the Carbon Tax. Labor not only needed to go 4 years ago but we need to start issuing laws in Australia which hold these incompetent crooks responsible.

My second QUOTE was supposed to be

I wasn't addressing the same sentence. Sorry. Just picked up on it then.

My point exactly. There are too many sensibilities that can be triggered amongst various people that in most cases will end badly for the "insulter" based on the "insultee's" reaction.

Well don't accuse people for working for the NSA. Especially a Finnish man who writes software that's supposed to trump "the man" so-to-speak. It's all how you see it right?

If being accused of ignorance is the worst they endured, they didn't endure enough!

Oh John Kerry you really botched that one didn't you LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJTarxfZ6M