Unfortunately, losing your security clearance isn't considered to be a criminal punishment, but merely the discretionary action of a government agency.
You can't expect to win a chicken contest if you're driving a pinto and staring down a freight train.
The feds, rightly, called their bluff, not because they were morally right to do so, but because they had more leverage and couldn't give two shits about what texas thought.
If you or I or anyone else in the 99 percent tried to pull a stunt like that, we wouldn't get two words out of our mouths in the time it would take the bailiff to throw us in jail for contempt of court.
Hell, even a 1 percenter might have exhausted a court's patience by then.
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Unfortunately, losing your security clearance isn't considered to be a criminal punishment, but merely the discretionary action of a government agency.
It's more like getting fired.
Because ours actually promised not to when it passed the Bill of Rights.
There are no complete morons in politics.
Which is sad because I'd take them over corruptocrats any day.
I would rather be a Mormon than a Scientologist, then.
Some have said that the republicans are so hell bent on making Obama fail that they are ok with flushing the country down the tubes to do it.
No, but using religious influence to pressure a business is.
I'm saying that if business pushed back because someone pissed off the mormons, that would be intimidation.
The "don't piss us off or we will hurt you" bit that peple are afraid the mormons would bring to bear.
Bright or not, that would be caving to alleged mormon influence, as in "don't piss us off or we will hurt you"
Which smacks of intimidation.
Texas lost because it was outmatched.
You can't expect to win a chicken contest if you're driving a pinto and staring down a freight train.
The feds, rightly, called their bluff, not because they were morally right to do so, but because they had more leverage and couldn't give two shits about what texas thought.
I don't care how you slice it.
12 months late is 12 months late.
If you or I or anyone else in the 99 percent tried to pull a stunt like that, we wouldn't get two words out of our mouths in the time it would take the bailiff to throw us in jail for contempt of court.
Hell, even a 1 percenter might have exhausted a court's patience by then.
Even if flying is a privilege, it's not a government granted privilege.
It's a privilege granted in the private sector by an airline company.
Flying is a privilege, but it is doled out by the airline industry, not the government.
The government still has no right to deprive us of our civil rights whether or NOT flying is a privilege.
Driving is likewise a privilege but it's still a violation of our rights to have our cars searched as a condition of driving.
Of all the ways to typo the word "boycott"...
Someone doing a false flag operation to discredit linux.
Just put a floor under their electric bill.
X fee to connect, Y per kwh with a minimum of Z
Bracketing them into a higher rate for using less power creates a sawtooth in the pricing graph.
World war three can only be triggered by other sovereign entities.
The PRC has nothing to fear from its citizens.
China is not communist.
And never will be, because people suck and will abuse power if given the chance.
There is no such thing as a benevolent dictator.
Lust for power is such that the bullies will win in a competition for the race to the top.
Personally I think it's a racket from politicians that were bought off by fluorescent bulb and switch manufacturers.
Tax cuts for the rich are a sacred cow too.
They'll stay that way though, since the 1 percent has already bought the government.
So is it magically ok to avoid taxing the rich just because they'll take their ball and go home if we try?
Because going to the USPTO prevents you from using prior art as a defense in court if you get sued later.
The system is rigged.
The cookie baker doesn't have to put a gun to your head to stop you from buying muffins in the market.
All they have to do is put a gun to the muffin man.
I challenge the contemporary definition of patent troll.
At least they are being humble enough to admit that they are fucking up.
That gets them brownie points in my book. They are asking for help period.
Whether they deserve it or not this is definitely a step in the right direction. The more bogus patents that get flushed out, the better for everyone.
This "beg the public for help" is better than "rubber stamp everything"
I plan to help them if I can spare the time, it's the right thing to do.
Never minding the fact that cleaning up the patent mess is in my own interest as a consumer that would hope to get better innovation in the future.
Bags of money towards campaign expenses tend to blind people to common sense.
And for people allergic to carrots, there's always the stick of threatening to offer that money to your opponent instead of you.
We have a system that rewards crooked politicians by pitting them against honest politicians who don't stand a chance.