Ghost of BiB

And you bought that? I need to buy a blonde wig.

Yeah. Everyone's always blaming me.

(rifles through spreadsheet) No...no, I don't think so. You're not scheduled to be around anymore after Thursday.

And this is where it gets muddy. Are domestic terror suspects going to be handled in the courts? Or as enemy combatants? In my layman's view, it still seems very legally sticky if the original probable cause for a specific warrant comes from a blanket search of cell phone traffic, or mining chat boards.

If one wants to be an ass, keep with it. If one wants to talk about anything, forget it. She's never been a factor in your life, and never will. If she's changed your life, enlighten me. Better to go see King Kong. Now THAT's important. I'd buy Naomi Watts dinner, and a martini. Hopefully, three. Four, I'd fall asleep, after four, though... Sorry, I'm old.

Yeah, but we'd both do her just to tell funny stories and brag later. It will only work for about six more months, though. She'll be obscure history then. Can't say that about the has been media dead kid queen. Ashley at least has a sister who used to be famous. Jokes aside, has anyone ever heard of dignity? Unless one simply wants to be a pointless, instigating prick, from either side, drop the Cindy talk.

I'm talking purely in the hypothetical, and I'm not a lawyer. I do suppose that methods and technology outstrip the intents of the laws. We see it to an extent with copyright laws, and the new mediums being invented to record movies and music. From a legal perspective - how justifiable or currently legally defensible is a warrant to interecept virtually every cell phone conversation in a 1,000 mile radius, in order to sort them for certain phrases, or names? Then, once those are found, go back for specific warrants against certain people? Is that sufficient, or legal to establish probable cause? A corallary might be, you live in a neighborhood where someone sells drugs. Can someone search your house because drugs are known to be in the neighborhood, and if they find a pack of zig zags, use that to get a further warrant? The administration has a valid point if one is looking at this as a national security issue, being done under a wartime footing. It's another issue entirely if it's being viewed as domestic law enforcement. Once again, what is going on in the world is outpacing the intents of the laws. Then, toss in the political posturing of both sides, and it's a recipe for disaster. This is the same group crying about intelligence agencies not sharing information. Well, where does one think the information comes from? When trying to connect the dots to form a picture in terms of situational awareness, one can't do it by picking and choosing the medium that gets sifted. So, the laws need to be re-written. Looking at what is going on with the Patriot Act, I don't know if that is likely to happen. In my view, a lot of this definitely is driven by the technology, and once again the methods. I assure you, no one is interested in your conversations with the neighbors wife. No one has the time. The big issue to me here, is that a lot of people don't seem to realize there is a war going on, beyond the nightly Iraq news.

Just a thought...but there MAY be communications mediums out there where one has to fish with a big net, and then sort through the fish to get the tuna in question. In other words, whatever warrant everyone is talking about might well require the intercept of thousands of communications, to enable the software to identify the ones of interest, which in themselves might be fairly vague in description.

How the hell did I get drug into this?

Somewhere, a disposable cell phone maker just ordered a new car.

(rifles through spreadsheets) No...no your not. But since TPS is listed twice, we might be able to open some room.

I think I'm in love with Naomi Watts. Much better film than I expected, but I still think some scenes drug on a little too long. Just a minute here, and a couple minutes there, but all in all well worth seeing.

You actually care at this point? Join in on the frivolous banter. You'll feel better.

Damn Glenn...how did you come up with that so fast? But one has to admit, though any crime is bad...just picture it. Attack of the Killer Santas. Funny.

Yeah...it's the knees. Thighs and calves look pretty good, but the knees mess it all up.

I actually figured them for 13. I also figured Denver for a lot more. Have a feeling that Shanahan is going to quit his cute crap in the second half, knowing Buffalo has no concept of "adjust". BTW, anyone covering Smith?

No Jills? I want more Santa Suits, dammit.

Yup. Opening drive TD. Nice, but scary drive. Too bad that's it for the night. But it is nice to see them play a lot looser, as they have nothing to lose. Last home game for Moulds, hope to see him get showcased.

I thought you killed Ghandi. That wasn't you? Maybe it was me. I forget. BTW, was that drivel insight?

Wow.

Understood.

It's also a racket. When I ran the dirt burning plant, I had to hedge gas through HESS out of the Henry Hub. There's just about no way for the utility folks to ever lose money. I had to actually pay for gas I had hedged, that I didn't burn, plus about 4$ per decatherm penalty.

You either want to go, or you don't.

Right.

It's so gratifying to have your expert insight. I'm one of the MANY people involved in trying to get this fixed, and I have nothing approaching your knowledge level of the situation. Perhaps you should drop in sometime, and let us all know how this should get done.