Color me disillusioned. I doubt the USTR has any need to fear large demonstrations in the street.
I used to wonder just what it would take to get hundreds of thousands to turn out in the streets in the US; this year, living in Seattle, I learned the answer :(
"except and until we're scared shitless that you're going to expose how ridiculous, useless and illegal our torture program was."
I disagree on your interpretation of:
"I can assure the Committee that the CIA follows the letter and spirit of the law in terms of what CIA’s authorities are"
It seems clear to me that "in terms of what CIA's authorities are" means "the preceding statement only addresses things the CIA is legally authorized to do". In short, the statement literally means "The CIA follows the law when it follows the law" and does not say anything about when they don't.
Did the officer (pretending to be attractive, or pretending to be a woman, one can't help but wonder) violate Facebook's TOS in their effort at pretense? Lock 'em up!
Re: Re: "Mainly used for legal or illegal purposes"
I don't think that was seeing a restriction where there isn't one. "Mainly used for legal purposes" is a very much higher bar than "has substantial non-infringing uses".
Case in point: my daughter is a freshman in a private US college; their terms for connecting to their network are that no bittorrent software may even be installed on the student's computer, something violated by her laptop with a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Doesn't matter that there are legitimate uses for bittorrent; what matters is what they expect a majority of student use to be. This is clearly overreach.
a conference named Buffalo, the second year being Buffalo buffalo, and every year thereafter adding a new buffalo. And if it forks, they can keep identical names but have different parse trees to avoid dilution.
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Re: Hundreds of Billions of Years?!
Maybe it's an oblique reference to 7 proxies?
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the USTR and European Commission?
I used to wonder just what it would take to get hundreds of thousands to turn out in the streets in the US; this year, living in Seattle, I learned the answer :(
Just hope the Europeans rescue us from our folly.
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cross-fertilization of ideas
Wonder to what degree that played a role in motivating the collusion.
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Dear Senators,
Thank you for your submission. We note that it does not disclose any possible financial conflict of interest and will weigh it accordingly.
kthxbye
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"few have been willing to claim (at least not publicly)"
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Can we get this man on the Supreme Court?
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"except and until we're scared shitless that you're going to expose how ridiculous, useless and illegal our torture program was."
"I can assure the Committee that the CIA follows the letter and spirit of the law in terms of what CIA’s authorities are"
It seems clear to me that "in terms of what CIA's authorities are" means "the preceding statement only addresses things the CIA is legally authorized to do". In short, the statement literally means "The CIA follows the law when it follows the law" and does not say anything about when they don't.
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First Sale Doctrine
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Where's the CFAA when you need it?
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Thank you
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trying to re-enter the US.
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if you must cover up the logos
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You've been listening to too much right-wing radio
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Go Seahawks!
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not shocking at all
Because FISC is an exception, it is broken. But this should be no surprise.
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Re: Re:
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Re: Re: "Mainly used for legal or illegal purposes"
Case in point: my daughter is a freshman in a private US college; their terms for connecting to their network are that no bittorrent software may even be installed on the student's computer, something violated by her laptop with a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Doesn't matter that there are legitimate uses for bittorrent; what matters is what they expect a majority of student use to be. This is clearly overreach.
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More seriously, open source their products? What have you been smoking?
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I propose
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Re: Thank god!
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