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from the dont-like-the-rules?-change-the-game dept.
An appeals court ruled the NSA's bulk collection was illegal. Rand Paul prevented the controversially named Patriot Act from being renewed, even if it was replaced a couple days later by the equally contentiously named "USA Freedom Act".
Mission accomplished? Not so fast:
The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months. The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he asks the secret court to approve, also suggests that the administration may not necessarily comply with any potential court order demanding that the collection stop.
Maybe some branches of the government are more equal than others?
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:18AM
Thats the problem with you pedants, you fail to understand when the speaker's statement is understood to have certain implications. In this case, anubi's statement was based on the implication that he was only talking about the overwhelming majority - people who voted for Rs and Ds. There's also the fact that there are exceptions for every rule, so even the statement "All water is wet" could be proven factually false, because of a single counterexample, but everyone understands that when the word "all" is used the speaker is generally disregarding the rare exceptions because of the overwhelming number of cases where its true. You pedants always insist on making a big deal out of what are basically error bars or 'rounding errors'.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday June 10 2015, @01:46PM
Thats the problem with you pedants, you fail to understand when the speaker's statement is understood to have certain implications. In this case, anubi's statement was based on the implication that he was only talking about the overwhelming majority - people who voted for Rs and Ds.
Then simply use the word "most" or something such as that, instead of making incorrect statements.