We don't have a discussion about universal cell phone access or universal groceries access either. That's because private companies are providing it just fine. Just about everyone in the US has access to at least basic level of broadband service if they want it.
Cry me a river. Here is a top on how to avoid watching youtube videos of cats when you should be working: don't go to youtube and don't search for videos of cats. I bet you somehow manage not to go to a porn site when at work and jerk off in your cubicle without help of any software, so just do it the same way when it comes to other distractions. I hate it when supposedly sane people act like they are not in control of their own behavior.
No need for me to prove that the information was worth anything to the enemy. Maybe our military was able to act in a way that reduced its usefulness, maybe the enemy was so dumb they didn't know how to exploit it. Who cares! You are the one who needs to conclusively prove that he wasn't attempting to aid the enemy by releasing volumes of military secrets in time of war.
Your argument makes as much sense as claiming that you are not guilty of theft because the diamonds that you thought were stealing ended up being worthless glass.
He most certainly was aiding the enemy, and I don't see how going to NYT first changes that? Manning indiscriminately leaked an enormous amount of classified materials including details of our military tactics, names of our Iraqi and Afghan allies and spies, classified diplomatic cables revealing our diplomatic strategies etc etc. Wikileaks tried to erase some of the names etc but most of it still came out. That's not what being a "whistleblower" is about.
Kinda but it is slightly different when its online. The issue is use of another company's trademark as a keyword by the Amazon's search engine. So you search for Pepsi and it says all we have is Coke, which means that somewhere in Amazon's database there is a record that Pepsi is a fizzy cola based drink, which is being used to generate search results and this is what the lawsuit objected to. Amazon is still way right to do so of course.
That only happens with companies that are failing anyway. Its in nobody's interest to destroy a thriving business, or at least one that is worth more alive than dead. What people fail to understand (hence Obama's ads about Romney at Bain) is that capitalism is as much about failure and loss as it is about success and profit, and that's a good thing.
You are either European or, if you are American, you have managed to go through life so far completely misunderstanding the political system you live in. The basic rights are not subject to popular vote. That's the whole point of the US constitution: to prevent the oppression of 49% by 51%.
Btw, I simply commented on the false assumption many people make that the government is so powerful that any notion that freedom to own guns is useless and might as well abandon it. We are still very far from doing what Europeans do on a regular basis due to their system of unlimited government elect a dictatorship for ourselves, and the reason for that is the US constitution, which limits the power of government, including, among other things, specifically denying the government the power to disarm the population.
It's different when protesters are serious people than when they are a bunch of dumb kids demanding the "right" that somebody else pays for their college.
You hear this nonsense a lot. First of all, there are about 100 million armed citizens in the US, but well under 1 million combat troops. Secondly, those combat troops would be more likely to join in overthrowing the government than they would be to shoot at American people. Widespread gun ownership is just is an important safeguard against potential tyrannical government today as it was in 1776. Freedoms of speech, association, religion and other rights are ultimately just words on paper that can be easily erased. But, as history shows, you don't fuck with an armed population.
All areas are profitable for the right price. Plus mail companies will average the cost out. Last I checked USP and FedEx will deliver packages anywhere in the country, not just in profitable areas.
So if I understand correctly the rules are: 1. you have to pay above market rate for salaries/benefits and you are not allowed to fire anybody 2. you have to charge less than a market rate for mail delivery 3. even though the government sets the rules that force you to fail, it is not allowed to bail you out. Oh but don't worry we'll set up some arbitrary rules that give you monopoly on certain types of mail so everything should be fine. Isn't it great how we have geniuses in charge in Washington who work everything out so perfectly for our benefit.
Just privatize the stupid thing. Apart from accident of history here is no reason for the government to be in charge of mail delivery any more than pizza delivery.
Because everything Apple does is super important! Even a rumor about them possibly thinking about making a gadget that 100 other companies are also working on is important enough to get an immediate front page on Slashdot.
I can sort of get banning animal porn as the animal is not able to consent, but I would be interested in hearing why is it ok to kill them but not ok to fuck them? As for "violent" sex, please define it and we can talk. If all the the actors involved are consenting adults then why would you ban it?
The difference was that in the 50s the black family was as strong as white family (as measured by the number of children raised by single parents). Since the "sexual liberation" in the 60s the black family has basically disintegrated. The number of black kids raised by single matter went up from 20s% to >70%. White kids also started from around 20% but only went up to 35%. It corresponds very nicely with the difference in incarceration rates.
The different response to the breakup of traditional family values can be explained by the fact that white families had greater roots in those traditions that were harder to break. It is the poorest who are always most vulnerable to great social change.
Maybe centuries old traditions of religion and family life are not based on stupid superstitions as many people educated beyond the level of their intelligence seem to think these days, but on the experience of what works and what doesn't that evolved over many centuries?
Seems reasonable. License, permit and databases aren't infringement as the supreme court has found.
And if you want to criticize the government it is no problem. You will just have to apply for a license for a reasonable fee of $200 (like current class 3 gun permit), and be photographed, fingerprinted and entered into a database (as per Feinstein's bill). No infringement of the 1st amendment there, right?
If they are anything like regular police, they carry handguns with 15-17 round magazines, and an Ar-15 with 30 round magazine as a backup, like police carries in almost every squad car. Exactly the things they are trying to ban. Happy now, dumbass?
This, obviously, calls for more security, than your average Joe Schmo needs.
I'm glad you are accepting that having armed guards means more security. I mean it's just common sense but for a while there anti-gun crowd (including Obama and mainstream media) were trying to convince us that presence of guns always means less security. I'm hope that, like you, they abandon that stupid argument and agree to abolishing the "gun free zones" and allow schools to have more security as well if they feel they need it.
Not only renewed it but made it permanent so he doesn't have to renew it every year, and have go through the inconvenience of hiding that fact from his followers again.
The information we get from the US looks more and more like stories normally associated with developing countries not a first world country.
Then the information Europeans get from the US is ridiculously inaccurate. The living standard in the US is significantly higher than in Germany according to the United Nations HDI rankings. Health care quality in the USA is miles ahead of Germany or any place in Europe for the 86% of the population who have it (though I'll admit that the other 14% have a problem). A typical neighborhood in the USA is not a bombed out ghetto with bullets flying daily (as you might think from news or Hollywood movies, although such areas exist) but a safe and well maintained rows of large (huge by European standards) houses with soccer mums rushing between Starbucks and their kids 26 weekly activities in ridiculously large, tank-like SUVs. It has its problems but they are definitely first-world problems. It is a shame that you have to settle for inferior salaries, inferior housing, inferior personal liberty, inferior healthcare when you, due to geography and demographics, should have it a lot better than we do.
Private company's power rests on pleasing their customers by providing real products that the customers voluntarily choose to buy.. If Starbucks makes a loss this quarter because not enough people want to buy their coffee it doesn't have the power to send armed people to my house and demand that I pay them more money. The government does. I can't believe you don't see the difference.
In which article and section exactly does it say that the Congress has the power to create a central bank? Back then "creating money" meant real money, backed by gold or silver. It is irrational to believe that founders would have wanted to see a private unsupervised agency printing arbitrary quantities of paper and calling it money.
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I don't want innovation from my ISP. All I want from them is an unfiltered, public modem access at the baud rate they advertised.
We don't have a discussion about universal cell phone access or universal groceries access either. That's because private companies are providing it just fine. Just about everyone in the US has access to at least basic level of broadband service if they want it.
Yea cause heavily regulated utilities are such a great example of efficient operation as well as champions of innovation.
Cry me a river. Here is a top on how to avoid watching youtube videos of cats when you should be working: don't go to youtube and don't search for videos of cats. I bet you somehow manage not to go to a porn site when at work and jerk off in your cubicle without help of any software, so just do it the same way when it comes to other distractions. I hate it when supposedly sane people act like they are not in control of their own behavior.
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Article 104 - Aiding the enemy
"Any person who--"
(1) aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy....."
No need for me to prove that the information was worth anything to the enemy. Maybe our military was able to act in a way that reduced its usefulness, maybe the enemy was so dumb they didn't know how to exploit it. Who cares! You are the one who needs to conclusively prove that he wasn't attempting to aid the enemy by releasing volumes of military secrets in time of war.
Your argument makes as much sense as claiming that you are not guilty of theft because the diamonds that you thought were stealing ended up being worthless glass.
He most certainly was aiding the enemy, and I don't see how going to NYT first changes that? Manning indiscriminately leaked an enormous amount of classified materials including details of our military tactics, names of our Iraqi and Afghan allies and spies, classified diplomatic cables revealing our diplomatic strategies etc etc. Wikileaks tried to erase some of the names etc but most of it still came out. That's not what being a "whistleblower" is about.
Kinda but it is slightly different when its online. The issue is use of another company's trademark as a keyword by the Amazon's search engine. So you search for Pepsi and it says all we have is Coke, which means that somewhere in Amazon's database there is a record that Pepsi is a fizzy cola based drink, which is being used to generate search results and this is what the lawsuit objected to. Amazon is still way right to do so of course.
new technology that could reduce the prices of tantalum and titanium ten-fold.
Noooooo, my huge cache of veldspar will become worthless! Oh titanium, not tritanium..... never mind.
That only happens with companies that are failing anyway. Its in nobody's interest to destroy a thriving business, or at least one that is worth more alive than dead. What people fail to understand (hence Obama's ads about Romney at Bain) is that capitalism is as much about failure and loss as it is about success and profit, and that's a good thing.
You are either European or, if you are American, you have managed to go through life so far completely misunderstanding the political system you live in. The basic rights are not subject to popular vote. That's the whole point of the US constitution: to prevent the oppression of 49% by 51%.
Btw, I simply commented on the false assumption many people make that the government is so powerful that any notion that freedom to own guns is useless and might as well abandon it. We are still very far from doing what Europeans do on a regular basis due to their system of unlimited government elect a dictatorship for ourselves, and the reason for that is the US constitution, which limits the power of government, including, among other things, specifically denying the government the power to disarm the population.
It's different when protesters are serious people than when they are a bunch of dumb kids demanding the "right" that somebody else pays for their college.
You hear this nonsense a lot. First of all, there are about 100 million armed citizens in the US, but well under 1 million combat troops. Secondly, those combat troops would be more likely to join in overthrowing the government than they would be to shoot at American people. Widespread gun ownership is just is an important safeguard against potential tyrannical government today as it was in 1776. Freedoms of speech, association, religion and other rights are ultimately just words on paper that can be easily erased. But, as history shows, you don't fuck with an armed population.
All areas are profitable for the right price. Plus mail companies will average the cost out. Last I checked USP and FedEx will deliver packages anywhere in the country, not just in profitable areas.
So if I understand correctly the rules are: 1. you have to pay above market rate for salaries/benefits and you are not allowed to fire anybody 2. you have to charge less than a market rate for mail delivery 3. even though the government sets the rules that force you to fail, it is not allowed to bail you out. Oh but don't worry we'll set up some arbitrary rules that give you monopoly on certain types of mail so everything should be fine. Isn't it great how we have geniuses in charge in Washington who work everything out so perfectly for our benefit.
Just privatize the stupid thing. Apart from accident of history here is no reason for the government to be in charge of mail delivery any more than pizza delivery.
Because everything Apple does is super important! Even a rumor about them possibly thinking about making a gadget that 100 other companies are also working on is important enough to get an immediate front page on Slashdot.
Not to mention that there are roughly 100 million armed citizens in the USA, and there are less than 1 million combat troops in the US military.
I can sort of get banning animal porn as the animal is not able to consent, but I would be interested in hearing why is it ok to kill them but not ok to fuck them? As for "violent" sex, please define it and we can talk. If all the the actors involved are consenting adults then why would you ban it?
Blacks were poor in the 50s but had the same rate of incarceration as whites even though they faced much greater discrimination than today: http://spiritofcontradiction.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/incarceration.jpg
The difference was that in the 50s the black family was as strong as white family (as measured by the number of children raised by single parents). Since the "sexual liberation" in the 60s the black family has basically disintegrated. The number of black kids raised by single matter went up from 20s% to >70%. White kids also started from around 20% but only went up to 35%. It corresponds very nicely with the difference in incarceration rates.
The different response to the breakup of traditional family values can be explained by the fact that white families had greater roots in those traditions that were harder to break. It is the poorest who are always most vulnerable to great social change.
Maybe centuries old traditions of religion and family life are not based on stupid superstitions as many people educated beyond the level of their intelligence seem to think these days, but on the experience of what works and what doesn't that evolved over many centuries?
Seems reasonable. License, permit and databases aren't infringement as the supreme court has found.
And if you want to criticize the government it is no problem. You will just have to apply for a license for a reasonable fee of $200 (like current class 3 gun permit), and be photographed, fingerprinted and entered into a database (as per Feinstein's bill). No infringement of the 1st amendment there, right?
If they are anything like regular police, they carry handguns with 15-17 round magazines, and an Ar-15 with 30 round magazine as a backup, like police carries in almost every squad car. Exactly the things they are trying to ban. Happy now, dumbass?
This, obviously, calls for more security, than your average Joe Schmo needs.
I'm glad you are accepting that having armed guards means more security. I mean it's just common sense but for a while there anti-gun crowd (including Obama and mainstream media) were trying to convince us that presence of guns always means less security. I'm hope that, like you, they abandon that stupid argument and agree to abolishing the "gun free zones" and allow schools to have more security as well if they feel they need it.
Not only renewed it but made it permanent so he doesn't have to renew it every year, and have go through the inconvenience of hiding that fact from his followers again.
The information we get from the US looks more and more like stories normally associated with developing countries not a first world country.
Then the information Europeans get from the US is ridiculously inaccurate. The living standard in the US is significantly higher than in Germany according to the United Nations HDI rankings. Health care quality in the USA is miles ahead of Germany or any place in Europe for the 86% of the population who have it (though I'll admit that the other 14% have a problem). A typical neighborhood in the USA is not a bombed out ghetto with bullets flying daily (as you might think from news or Hollywood movies, although such areas exist) but a safe and well maintained rows of large (huge by European standards) houses with soccer mums rushing between Starbucks and their kids 26 weekly activities in ridiculously large, tank-like SUVs. It has its problems but they are definitely first-world problems. It is a shame that you have to settle for inferior salaries, inferior housing, inferior personal liberty, inferior healthcare when you, due to geography and demographics, should have it a lot better than we do.
Private company's power rests on pleasing their customers by providing real products that the customers voluntarily choose to buy.. If Starbucks makes a loss this quarter because not enough people want to buy their coffee it doesn't have the power to send armed people to my house and demand that I pay them more money. The government does. I can't believe you don't see the difference.
In which article and section exactly does it say that the Congress has the power to create a central bank? Back then "creating money" meant real money, backed by gold or silver. It is irrational to believe that founders would have wanted to see a private unsupervised agency printing arbitrary quantities of paper and calling it money.