Who decides what those national security interests are? Did the United States have a security interest in bombing Vietnam that was so important it transcended the rights of the people to express their opinion on it through the political system? What about murdering El Salvadorian peasants, bombing the harbors of Nicaragua, assassinating exiles on the streets of DC? Was that so important that the people of the United States should not have been allowed to decide if this was how their country would behave? Politics is the only alternative to violence. We should not lightly silence it.

But you can't avoid the attack. Do you seriously think that terrorists will use any communications medium that can be intercepted now that they know wiretaps exist? Do you seriously think they would need to have the fact that they themselves are being wiretapped known to avoid the wiretap? And if they are this dumb why do you think we should be afraid? The only people who can destroy the US Constitution are the Americans. And they are doing one good job of it.

But will they defend the right to tinker against large corporations with interests in curtailing it? I think not. They are anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, and have a regressive view of liberty. They do not understand the Enlightenment philosophy from which the US Constitution springs. They are not interested in further realizing emancipatory possibilities. A vote for them will be a victory for the forces of evil that seek to make this country into something like Ireland.

He's a rightist. Of course he's opportunistic, that's what the right is!

Three umpires were asked about their jobs. One said "There are balls and there are strikes, and I call them as they are." The second said "There are balls and there are strikes, and I call them as I see them." The third said "There are balls and there are strikes, but they ain't nothing 'till I call them". There are plenty of court cases decided on opinion, like the ending of discrimination in DC schools. This is a case we should all be happy with, but it wasn't decided on any word of the Constitution, just an argument that the Constitution should bind the federal government more then the states.

Maybe you should run a secure system at your endpoints.

It's because latinum is liquid and so sloshes around.

This unholy abomination called System V will have to be sliced out ipcrm by ipcrm from the body of the penguin before any merger can be contemplated!

Which can be fixed by having your own CA and disabling trust of the sent out list.

In fact Phil did just that to bring the code to Canada.

Well, that's not how it works. The FCC is told to regulate the spectrum for a variety of uses, and Congress tells it to decide how best to do that. The FCC can make rules that relate only to that purpose. This way we avoid needing acts of congress for each licensing change etc.

Yes, math education in the US needs to better get across the beauty and importance of experimentation in mathematics. But mathematics itself is determined. Take the Intermediate Value Theorem for functions on \mathbb{R}. Some take it as an axiom, others as the result of a construction, some more as a theorem following from continuity and Least-Upper Bounds, and a few crazy people as a trivial theorem following from applying the transfer principle to a simple calculation. But we all know that it's true. What's more, no one with alternate axioms seriously proposes them as True unless they actually agree with ZFC. In fact, working mathematicians happily use all sorts of informal but still rigorous reasoning.

You know what we don't understand at all? turbulence. Anyone can see it, and no one has the slightest clue how it works. And for a ten year old anything they haven't seen is cool. How about the oxidization states of manganese, each one a different color, or the synthesis of aspirin?

The tenure system is what made German research universities dominate science, and Germany dominate Europe from 1870-1918.

Ham radio is still around. There are lots of new ideas in low power communication. In the 2003 ARRL handbook there is a project where you build a direct conversion quadrature receiver, and so can hear the frequency spectrum from left to right. That's actually a new idea, and well within a weekend.