Over 2,500 dogs are already enjoying a better life at Dog Island. Separated from the anxieties of urban life, dogs on Dog Island are healthy dogs who live a natural, healthy and happy life, free from the stress and hardship associated with daily live among humans.

They live with almost limitless space, and tens of thousands of rabbits, rodents, fish and other natural prey. Surrounded by thousands of other dogs, this is the only place for them to be truly social and create healthy families.

Dogs at Dog Island have another chance.

They should make one of these for babies.

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Spychotic (spy-kot-ik) : Characterized or afflicted with irrational, malicious, intrusive behavior.

See also : Homeland Security.

Please use as opportunity arises.

If the Ninth Circuit does agree with Judge Pregerson that computer searches are "non routine," there's a decent chance that this case would be the first computer search and seizure case to get to the Supreme Court.

Sweet! I find the prospect of random laptop searches at borders to be offensive to the idea of a free society on many levels. Finally, someone has argued, and a court has accepted the arguement, that this isn't Constitutional. Now, we'll get to find out if the higher courts agree. Its on!

The Volokh Conspiracy - District Court Holds That Border Searches of Computers Require Reasonable Suspicion:

It's just a misplaced letter, but what a misplaced letter: Swapping a "D" for an "R" last night, Fox News and "The O'Reilly Factor" labeled disgraced pedophile Congressman Mark Foley, longtime Republican, as a Democrat.

Thanks Faux News. Why don't you just mislead people more.

Eat The Press |

The Public Expression of Religion Act - H.R. 2679 - provides that attorneys who successfully challenge government actions as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment shall not be entitled to recover attorneys fees.

Erwin Chemerinsky - Legislating Violations of the Constitution - washingtonpost.com

Decius wrote:
Name this quote:

"I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether
it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether
he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right
that matters, but victory."

and...

Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally. Eighty million people must obtain what is their right. Their existence must be made secure. The stronger man is right. The greatest harshness.

RE: Godwin's Guffaw

(CNN) -- Police Monday responded to reports that a gunman opened fire at an Amish school, shooting several people, a state police spokesman told CNN.

No other details were available.

Lancaster County's 911 Web site reported dozens of emergency vehicles -- including at least nine ambulances -- were dispatched to Bart Township shortly before 11 a.m. for a "medical emergency."

Video of the scene showed several Amish young men wearing hats and suspenders sitting outside the school, surrounded by dirt roads.

At least one person was taken to a medical helicopter on a stretcher.

As rattle put it, not one to get pinned on videogames.

About the only thing these events seem to have in common is repressive religious climates.

CNN.com - Police respond to Amish school shooting - Oct 2, 2006

BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights.

Oh Fuck...

Hard To Do Any Worse

This is truly choice.

It's a song called "The Drugs I Need" and features a little pill, smiling and waving. The artwork looks like maybe the SpumCo guys had something to do with it (which would be appropriate).

Video: 'The Drugs I Need'

Decius wrote:

Does encrypting Internet communications create a reasonable expectation of privacy in their contents, triggering Fourth Amendment protection? At first blush, it seems that the answer must be yes: A reasonable person would surely expect that encrypted communications will remain private. In this paper, Professor Kerr explains why this intuitive answer is entirely wrong: Encrypting communications cannot create a reasonable expectation of privacy. The reason is that the Fourth Amendment regulates access, not understanding: no matter how unlikely it is that the government will successfully decrypt ciphertext, the Fourth Amendment offers no protection if it succeeds. As a result, the government does not need a search warrant to decrypt encrypted communications.

If you put an encrypted file in a password protected stuffit file, would that give the file fourth ammenment protection from the access needed to open the stuffit file and actual protection from the encryption? If you are handed a warrant demanding "access" to some file, you should not be required to surrender your encrypted key as well because "understanding" is not required by law, right? Somehow I think that the analogy doesn't hold water. Because "understanding" requires forging an algorithmic key to break apart an encrypted framework, I think that access is required for understanding. If you wrote a message on a piece of paper and folded it in on itself and sealed it with glue, this would qualify as an envelope. Encryption mathmatically "folds" communication and seals it with a key. There is no closer digitaly secure envelope analogy one can make. If one were to contend that digital communications should be a valid and useful method to communicate, the envelope is needed to assure viability for most important uses. If you can't count on encryption for this, what can you count on?

RE: The Volokh Conspiracy - Can Encryption create an expectation of privacy