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The Real Ramadi Joe: "I should never have made pita bread at the mosque with that woman. Her weak-minded brother always tags along on the patrols, and spoils everything. Every time we shoot up an unarmed refugee column, and start yelling "Allahu Akbar," he runs for cover because he thinks it's a trap."

Darryl's subscription to Ladies' Home Journal expired.

1. Four pages in, and nobody has suggested that you blame the breach on the hated Patriots****** ? If the Patriot*********** Act comes up, it could be the perfect Segway to transport Belicheat under the bus, and put the Patriots******** long history of cheating into the Congressional record. 2. Blame it on the aliens in the underwater UFO.

To the mods: There have been some developments that in my view would make it appropriate to re-open the archived thread found at the link below. Would you please re-open the archived original thread, and merge it with the one I just started? Thanks. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/168485-us-patent-office-cancels-redskins-trademark/page-19?hl=redskins%20trademark _______________________________________________________ There is a case, not directly involving the NFL, that is now on appeal in the Federal Circuit that may ultimately impact whether or not the "Redskins" trademark remains canceled or gets re-instated by the courts: http://www.ipintelligencereport.com/2015/06/16/in-re-tam-federal-circuit-orders-en-banc-review-of-trademark-acts-ban-against-registration-of-disparaging-marks/#more-2186 Here's an update (now a few months old) about the court case that directly involves the "Redskins" trademark: http://www.richmond.com/redskins-xtra/article_221cd139-ae84-5ffc-8018-6e1fdd878dc2.html

http://fortune.com/2015/04/15/nfl-players-bankrupt/

That's generally a good question, but not the first one I'd like OC to answer.

If you ignore privacy concerns, there are many types of data that could potentially be useful to analyze to establish patterns or correlations that would enable the analyzer to identify "bad guys," whether those "bad guys" are overseas or hiding in the US. Serious question, OC: Are there ANY types of data collection about US citizens that you would be willing to put off limits, because of how intrusive the collected information would be? From reading your posts, my guess is that your answer will be "no," because the "bad guy" hunters shouldn't simply assume that they know what types of data will be important to the process of identifying the "bad guys." It's entirely possible that the most intrusive information imaginable just happens to be the key variable that allows the analyzer to find a pattern that allows the hunters to identify the "bad guys" with a high degree of confidence. You have to let the data tell you what's important to the analysis, rather than making assumptions up-front about what data will help the hunters. I get that. So stated a different way, my question for you is - - is absolutely every type of data imaginable about US citizens fair game to be collected by the hunters because that makes for a better hunt? If your answer is yes, that's not irrational from the perspective of empowering the hunters. I think most people would put some types of data collection off-limits to the hunters, though, even if they understood (most probably don't) that doing so might make the hunt less efficient/successful. I'm in that camp. Check back with me, though, when somebody sneaks a shielded backpack nuke past the radiation detectors that I assume are secretly in use at our borders, and the first mushroom cloud goes up.

Yeah, but Hugh Laurie could spell. Go with "antidates?"

Ayman: "I just don't get it, Salih. If I told Osama once I must have told him a thousand times. Target the Eiffel Tower, Osama, not the Twin Towers. The French would have simply surrendered, and their women would not care how we smell."

Worth a look: http://io9.com/rare-color-film-and-photos-cast-d-day-in-a-completely-n-1586726901

Ramadi Tom: "The Crusaders get my dandruff up, Fazul. They are such idiots. American Pharoah? Really? In a momentary reprieve from there degravity, they give a horse that can run like the wind an excellent name, but spell it wrong? Perhaps the moon landing really was staged after all!"

Making fun of the sexual habits of terrorists is a good idea, and your reply has potential, but all you get is a participation trophy. Did you ever watch the TV show "Jeopardy?" This thread is intended to be kind of like that - - the form of the answer matters. There needs to be a "pet peeve" from the terrorist's perspective, or at least something that the terrorist finds annoying. Maybe you could recast the reply to something like: Khalid: "Why must it be so lonely fighting in the desert, Mustafa? Osama took more than his share of wives to Pakistan, the cowardly American drone strike has killed my favorite goat, and my adult sheep run from me. But praise to the prophet, I still have a friendly lamb. Here he comes now. Lamb: "Daaa--aa---aa-----aad?"

As currently structured, the Bills lack top-end talent at the most expensive position, which is QB. If you cap individual salaries at some level, the teams with top end QBs would benefit more than us, because they could keep those QBs and divert some of the money that would otherwise go to those QBs to salaries for players at other positions. Even if it wasn't anti-American, why would you want to put the Bills at a bigger competitive disadvantage to the teams that already have top end QBs? Common, man!

Abdul: "Obama can only serve 2 terms? May an infected camel defecate on your sister"

Achmed: "It off-pisses me that we are no longer allowed to take selfies in front of HQ." I'm sure there are others.

Fair enough. My general point of view is that we have to guard against giving up civil liberties in the name of seeking more security. That's how you eventually wind up with things like the Japanese internment camps in WWII. Not a good trade-off if the increased security winds up being illusory. Debatable if it's a good trade-off even if the increased security is real but the avoided danger would not have been fatal to the nation. OTOH, there's clearly a place for N$A monitoring of the activities of foreigners in the name of national security, and I don't have any easy answers for how to handle the issues that arise when data on American citizens who are minding their own business gets scooped up in the process of trying to identify and protect against foreign hackers, some of whom are agents of foreign governments. I follow this thread in part because I want to be more informed about how to evaluate the civil liberties/security trade-offs that we face as a nation. I suspect that the country is strong enough so that if we initially err on the side of too little security, we can go blow the *!%@ out of our enemies if need be. But if we err on the side of giving up too many civil liberties, we risk never getting them back, especially if the government encroachment on those liberties occurs in secret. If that's bias, then I'm biased. How do you feel about the current balance between civil liberties and security, and where the biggest dangers lie?

TBD moderators will edit down posts if you quote too much of a copyrighted source, so I picked a few that seemed most pertinent to this thread (which focuses mainly on N$A collection of data on US citizens). I did however, bold the word "international" in one paragraph to emphasize that in this instance, the data collection on US citizens was an indirect consequence of N$A activity. The link allowed you and others to read the entire article if you wished.

I'm dubious about the legality of this and whether it will be around very long, but FWIW (haven't tried it): https://bgr.com/2015/06/05/free-streaming-tv-ccloud-tv-dvr-features/

Even for TRBJ, "central bulge mass" correlates with "hole mass:" Doesn't mean he can find the hole, though.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=Multimedia&_r=0

Since we're pondering highway mysteries of the universe - - there's a "Chicken Dinner Road" in Idaho that I once drove. Why wasn't it named after breakfast or lunch instead?

Start with #1 below, and work your way up to #5 if necessary: 1. Tell him his next-door neighbor (in your direction) mentioned to you that he/she (or better yet his/her young child) has mild asthma, and wishes he would smoke in the back yard rather than out front, but he/she was too nice to confront him about it. Do this on a day when the wind actually would blow less smoke in that neighbor's direction if the guy smoked in his back yard rather than out front. Close by telling him you think he should be able to smoke wherever he wants. 2. Tell him you are tentatively planning a trip with uncertain dates, and need somebody to watch your dog/cat/snake/whatever. Ask him what his schedule looks like, but don't actually ask him to do anything. Give him the impression that is likely to happen the next time you talk to him. Because your travel plans were only tentative, you never need to actually go anywhere, but the future trip is always on the horizon. 3. Every time you see him, invite him to "your" local kooky religious sect's services. This may require some research to find out what kooky sect is close enough to make the invitation seem credible. He ain't gonna go, so you never need to set foot in the place. But after a fairly short time, he is likely to avoid you. 4. Tell him you are having a plumbing problem at your house, and ask if you can use his bathroom. "Forget" to flush. Repeat daily for as long as necessary. 5. Only go outside at night.

Republic Wireless Moto X smartphone - - engineered to switch calls seamlessly between WiFi when available to Sprint cell towers when WiFi is not available $11.82/month all in including all taxes unlimited talk and and unlimited text unlimited data, but on my nominal $10/month plan, data is only accessible via Wi-Fi (Data via cell towers is available with a more expensive monthly plan - - no charge to switch plans up to twice per month - - I'm fine with data by only WiFi so I never switch monthly plans) no roaming charges customer service only available online (can never talk to a customer service rep), but haven't ever needed it WiFi is available in more and more places these days - - if you can live with data access that's WiFi only then you can't beat this plan for the price! Some fairly recently announced future changes on the way (including access to an as yet unspecified non-Sprint network): http://www.cnet.com/news/republic-wireless-to-credit-customers-for-unused-data/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Wireless

Just when I thought the story couldn't get any more weird:

So what did Ko Simpson do with the buck?