DISQUS

Just because a one-page pdf says it's legal doesn't mean every parent and beat-cop will agree. While it my not mean you get a criminal record, the cop may decide it's easiest to take you downtown and let someone else figure out who's right and who's wrong. I have read about incidences in the UK and Canada. I have not read of any here in the US involving children, but I have read of ones here where people get in trouble for taking photos of the outsides of buildings. It's not right, but it could really ruin your day ven if you are in the right.

Careful there Pauley....in some places taking a picture of someone else's kid like that will get you a lot of unwanted attention (and possibly even arrested!).

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I would have much preferred to see a Saturn V.

He didn't aim center-of-mass and empty the clip?

Ken agrees with Yvonne here. Both about the comment system and about the joys of reffering to one's self in the third person. Ken liked the old system better.

I miss M.U.L.E. on the C-64!

Love icewines. I agree that late harvest are a good substitute. Icewines are one of the things I miss about upstate new york. I can get them here in CA, but very few are local. Usually I buy them at Beverages and more. Being in New York, in can have wine shipped these days, but there are limits on how much and the winery has to jump throught a ton of hoops, which limits a lot of really good places. Personally I also drink quite a bit of port. If you like late harvets try and find a good bottle of Zin Port, or Barbara Port. One of the nice things about where I live now is i'm right between Gold Country, Lodi, and Napa/Sonoma. I can get a ton of really good local wines here. I have been told recently that there are some places up the hill that do make an ice wine, but I have yet to track them down.

I watched (and really liked the show). The first 4 seasons were great! After that it was just good. When Sorkin left the show shifted from a fast paced very conversationally intense show (where I often found my self rewinding an rewatching sections, to a more conventional drama. I liked the early set up better.

O.K. I will resist the urge to answer next time.....but let me tell you it's a very strong urge!

Since our host is apparently not answering I will answer for him:

Yes, you are too late. For that I am going to stop watching tv for the rest of this TV season so I can honestly give you no answer and not be lying.

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Because I know if I am lazy that you will do it for me!

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We have decided that money is over rated. We are moving to a Canadian commune.

Since our host is apparently not answering I will answer for him:

I think the midnight runs for garbage plates and cheep hookers are not nearly as important as they were before. I used too look forward to those all week and now I realize that I am only looking forward to them on the day of! They are so less important now. I think I care more about not forgetting those key dates (birthday, anniversary, etc) now; after all before if I missed one and the woman hated me it was not a huge deal, now if I forget one I'll never hear the end of it until death do us part!

Why do an ask me weekend if your not going to answer? ;)

So now that you are married, who's going to control the finances? :)

When are you going to get tired of the frozen north and take the soon-to-be-spouce of yours to live in a nice warm climate?

Can I suggest that you read this . Richard Feynman was asked to be on the Presidential commission investigating the Challenger's fatal mission. It talks in parts about why it's flawed, why we still fly, and why many people mistake past success and safety for an indicator of future performance. You know me, I'm a space junkie, but i also don't like the fact that currently the Space Shuttle is our only vehicle. I am appalled by what Speaker Pelosi has been, and continues to do to NASA. I would love to see Constellation and Orion get a LOT more funding. However let's not over-estimate how safe te space shuttle is to fly. Is it more dangerous in 2013 then in 2010? No. If the first 5 times you played Russian roulette you won does that make playing it 5 more times a good idea? Some of this is made clear much better by the late Dr. Feynman in that Presidential Commission Report Appendix then I ever could. Please read his report and know that he spent 6 months on this commission looking into NASA and that accident and found that there were some major flaws in their safety protocols and culture.

I feel like I'm talking to my self again.

First off: Regardless of the legality or not of their actions lawsuits are expensive and bad PR. The telecoms do not want that.

Secondly the Senate Bill clarifies language to make something that was previously a gray area expressly legal and says that it was always legal so no-on can be held liable for acting so. Yes one could have waited for the judicial branch of the government to have a case and then rule on it, but it is also the prerogative of congress to pass another bill (which the executive branch can sign into law) that clarifies an earlier law without waiting for congress. Remember that the judicial branch only interprets that laws that congress wrote and the executive branch made into laws. Even if the judicial branch interprets a law one ay, congress is free to take another pass at it. and make the new law retroactive. In this case the Senate is trying prevent the telcos from paying lawyers a LOT of money to have a judge rule. Unless a law is unconstitutional, which is a whole other ball game, congress can presents to the president pretty much any law they want (the can present those too, but it's usually not a good idea).

Thirdly: This passed because the Senators in opposition to it believed that the best course of action at present was to obtain from voting, and to let the house or representative, which is still looking at this, to make the decisions. Remember that the way congress is organized, by design, is that the house is more in touch with the people and the senate is more of the long-term looking body. This is in part decided by the size of the two groups ans well as the term lengths. The House, in which you need to be reelected every two years is MUCH more sensitive to the people they represent then those in the senate who are there for 6 ears. The Senate members who have been fighting this issue believed that they could not sustain a filibuster and that it would be counterproductive to try. At present the FISA act will expire Saturday night. This leave the house with 3 options. 1) Pass a bill that matches the Senate's 2) Pass a bill that only differs from the Senates in the retroactive immunity part (which the president has already said he would veto) or 3) allow the FISA to expire. Having nothing passed in the Senate would mean that it would be impossible to even present the President with a low before this weekend. If the huse act's now they can make it the President's fault the current law expires ("We gave the president most of what he asked for and he vito'ed it. Who's fault is that?!?").

Fourth. Remember that not all courts make the right call. If a JURY decides against the telcos it could then go to the appeals court, and then the SC, and as it stands now this practice is STILL in a legal gray area because the law, as written, does not specify. This takes a lot of time in courst that are already over worked, if Congress and the Executive branch want this to be legal why waste court time, especially if they might make it legal even after the court rules.

I think the REAL moral here is not what the telcos did, but how congress can pass bill and the president can pass laws that are so ambiguous. They really need to make it clear what they mean the first time and avoid this whole thing.

Also note that Hillary, who has spoken against this, decided to skip the vote, where she could have made a difference, so that she could be campaigning.

You forgot one: Robert Lawrence, who also has the distinction of being the first black astronaut. He also was not a part of the public "Cover of Time Magazine" group of astronauts. He was the "For the good of my country" kind. Also an American hero.

I'm just about equal parts Geordi (75%0 and Scotty (70%) with Data a close (60%) third. I suspect had it not been for the Glasses I would not have gotten the blind guy. :P

'...and not PC hardware"

Meaning what you want to go get a Power chip or something? Unless you mean mean a Mac....which is of course on "PC Hardware' these days.

No. It would have to be Geeks Smack.....else you risk getting smacked rather then doing the smacking!

Suggestions:

Godsmack "Shine Down" off of the new album IV.
The Wreckers "Leave the Pieces"
Paramore "Misery Business"
Morningwod "Easy"
Angels & Ariwaves "The Adventure"

Also: It's simple armed robbery. There's no dead wife. There's no slow speed car chase. When a guy has already fallen from grace watching him do it again. When a guy has beaten the Murder rap who cars about the robbery?!? If he killed someone (think Scott Peterson ) it would be wall to wall all over again.