Comments on: The Year’s Least Surprising Headline http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/04/16/the-years-least-surprising-headline/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:49 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Barry http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/04/16/the-years-least-surprising-headline/comment-page-1/#comment-7202 Barry Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:44:05 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3058#comment-7202 "If the problem is that you’re having trouble telling where communications are coming from and going, how are you going to observe all these nice restrictions? The obvious next ratchet: If location can’t be reliably determined, we have no choice but to apply to all communications the lax standard we’ve already blessed for one-side-foreign exchanges." And if my job in the chain of actions was to determine the location (domestic/overseas/unknown) of both parties, where 'unknown'='overseas' for administrative purposes, I imagine that I could be real, real incapable of determining the location of both parties. If they paid me, that is. There was a passage in the movie 'North Dallas 40', where a private investigator has been hired by team management to find ground for firing a player. The player's best friend is the quarterback, whom management does not want to fire. The PI knew this, not being stupid. His report had man passages such as 'The target and an unidentified male were observed [smoking marijuana, shooting shotguns at road signs while driving, etc.]'. “If the problem is that you’re having trouble telling where communications are coming from and going, how are you going to observe all these nice restrictions? The obvious next ratchet: If location can’t be reliably determined, we have no choice but to apply to all communications the lax standard we’ve already blessed for one-side-foreign exchanges.”

And if my job in the chain of actions was to determine the location (domestic/overseas/unknown) of both parties, where ‘unknown’='overseas’ for administrative purposes, I imagine that I could be real, real incapable of determining the location of both parties. If they paid me, that is.

There was a passage in the movie ‘North Dallas 40′, where a private investigator has been hired by team management to find ground for firing a player. The player’s best friend is the quarterback, whom management does not want to fire.

The PI knew this, not being stupid. His report had man passages such as ‘The target and an unidentified male were observed [smoking marijuana, shooting shotguns at road signs while driving, etc.]‘.

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