You make it sound so innocent but here's the facts:
- 3 years of Mr. Levant's life wasted trying to defend himself - $50,000 of " " money wasted " " - $600,000 of taxpayer dollars wasted on the investigation, interrogation, and later backpedaling by the government - hours of video of interrogations on youtube - priceless
Ditto. So I installed SeaMonkey 4. Not only does it render the frakkin' article perfectly, but it loads about five times faster. I can't believe our employers are still forcing us to IE6. They should at least upgrade to IE7 (like my last employer did).
I'm sure there's a video floating-around to back-up the website..... if not that specific event, then another one where a citizen is having his/her computer scanned for nudie pics. Doesn't Australia have a similar law that carrying even one photo of a topless woman across international border is a crime? I wouldn't be surprised if Canada has the same restriction.
Just now I heard on the radio that an American is being punished $11,000 by the U.S.G. because he refused to be scanned, or prodded, and they told him, "You cannot fly." So he canceled his ticket, got a refund, left the airport, and was arrested.
Apparently once you enter an air terminal, you no longer have any rights... except to submit to the US Gestapo.
I got caught-up in a conversation with two "friends" who believe TSA patdowns of breasts and groins, or interrogating a passenger "Why are you carrying 4000 in cash?", is necessary and proper and the officers are doing a good job! I tried to explain this violates their 4th amendment rights (no search w/o warrant or articulable suspicion.). I cannot fathom why these people so willingly give-away their constitutional legal protections.
Nope. I cant access youtube at the moment, but there's a video of Canadian Ezra Levant being interrogated by his own government. His crime: He published a cartoon with a Muslim.
So much for free speech. Looks like Canada is becoming even more tyrannical than Australia.
Apparently "deep packet inspection" is just one piece of a major crackdown by the Canadian government.
Recent rules require customs officials to scan your computer or phone (if they think you are suspicious) when you carry it across the border, either by car or plane, and if it has a single photo of pornography, you will be charged with "trafficking" and sent to jail. It doesn't matter if it's just some photo from a topless beach (which is legal), you'll still be spending several months inspecting the inside of a Canadian jail cell.
Sounds like Canada has turned even more puritan than the Puritan U.S. - source: infowars.com
>>>Paul Chambers, 26, said he acted in frustration after Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire was closed by snow.
Unbelievable. He's not a criminal - just a person who was angry. But of course this isn't about Mr.Chambers or protection of other citizens. This is about *setting an example* to demonstrate by the leaders to the commoners that free speech will not be tolerated. They are training us to be sheep! To be submissive and silent and well-behaved "or else you could end up like Paul Chambers" you worthless scum.
>>>Or do we only read it literally and out of context when it's to the advantage of the [government]?
Fixed that for you. This is about leaders wanting control over the commoners..... no different than how it was in 1500. Different society of course but still the same root motivation - tyranny.
----- BTW a bomb threat in the US is not a crime. It's protected speech. However if your basement is filled with explosive material, then yes you'd be in jail. Since this Twitter Guy did not have a basement filled with bomb-making material, he would have been found "not guilty".
Choice is valuable. For example I told Comcast to fuck off, and used an antenna instead. If the Healthcare Reform Bill were applied to the CATV market, the government would fine me $950 for not buying the product.
Yes but that's a positive thing.... just like the death of the slow, inefficient dinosaurs was a positive even that led to dominance by mammals. A depression kills the poor businesses (like GM) and opens room for better companies (like Ford) to fill-in the vacuum.
Noe the Depression of 1921 lasted less than a year, mainly because the government didn't do anything. Various businesses died but were replaced by better businesses.
Communists? Corporatists? Some variant thereof? Yeah I know what the word "liberals" means. Totalitarianism and the illusion of individual freedom, where none actually exits.
After all he's the one who, when Bush called to send troops to help, refused to allow them entrance: "It's okay. Louisiana can handle this alone." A president is powerful, but per the constitution still not allowed to overrule a Governor during peacetime. I think we sometimes forget the US is a lot like the EU..... the EU president would not be able to send help either if, for example, Greece's PM refused entrance.
>>>Had we pushed for alternative energy in the 70s
We'd still be in the same spot, because alternative energy doesn't work. Correction: It works but doesn't produce anywhere near the energy oil/coal does. For example if we switched to Solar energy, we'd need to pave over Nevada with light-sensitive silicon. And that still wouldn't provide a way to fuel cars or freight trucks.
This was actually reported ~4 months ago, when the oil spill was still happening, and one of the White House staff admitted they didn't like the recommendations so they "massaged" it to provide the answer they wanted. They then apologized for it. Kinda similar to how Cigarette companies produce studies showing smoking is good for you.
>>>you do realize that you're comparing things which aren't of similar magnitude, right?
They appear to be similar magnitude to me. Let's count the ways that I hate BOTH the republicans and democrats
- Democrats - Clinton's White House created a "no person shall be turned down" policy in 1997 which directly led to the housing boom - Republicans - passed the damnable Patriot Act - Democrats - passed the Patriot Renewal Act when they should have killed it - Republicans - started a damn war - Democrats - won congress and could have ended the war, but instead expanded its scope - Republicans - Failed to clean-up the mess caused by Katrina - Democrats - Failed to clean-up the mess caused by BP oil spill - Democrats - passed that damn Banker Bailout Bill of 2008, despite 80% opposition by americans - Democrats - passed the Healthcare NON-reform Bill of 2010, despite 70% opposition by americans - Democrats - passed a 800 billion stimulus that has done anything but; in fact ~100 billion of that cash was mailed overseas - Republicans - Won back the house, and now they want to go to war against Iran (rumor)
>>>In the USA said person could go to jail for life if somebody read the request and actually granted it.
No they wouldn't. Look at members of the KKK who routinely say blacks should be lynched, but they never get arrested for it, even after the act happens. The speech remains protected, and the KKK person would only be arrested if he assisted in the crime.
>>>Your freedom to swing your words stops at deathtreats.
Not in the US where the supreme court has ruled again-and-again that speech is fully protected. The only exception is if the person issuing the death-threat is holding a gun or knife at the time, and the victim is in immediatee danger. This politician clearly wasn't endangering anybody since he was nowhere near the victim.
Now see, that topless girl just does nothing for me.
Yes of course I think she's cute and even attractive, but until she starts playing with her vibrator, she's just another naked animal. Not particularly exciting.
Maybe if you posted under your USERID instead of hiding, I'd show you some respect. But since you choose to be a cowardly lion, hiding behind AC, I show about the same respect I show for someone like Glenn Beck.
The United States can do ANYTHING it wants, including rounding-up people it doesn't like (jews, japanese, fox news fans, whatever), and forcing them into gas chambers for "showers". Oh and YOU might as well take that Constitution in the Archives, and shred it with your own hands, since you think it has zero meaning.
>>>uploads kill the network - once the upstream channel is flooded, everyone's service suffers.
I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about? Most people DON'T upload very much. They don't run bittorrent but instead watch TV/movies (downstream). Netflix is now the #1 bandwidth user.
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You make it sound so innocent but here's the facts:
- 3 years of Mr. Levant's life wasted trying to defend himself
- $50,000 of " " money wasted " "
- $600,000 of taxpayer dollars wasted on the investigation, interrogation, and later backpedaling by the government
- hours of video of interrogations on youtube - priceless
>>>at work on IE6, and there was no FA
Ditto. So I installed SeaMonkey 4. Not only does it render the frakkin' article perfectly, but it loads about five times faster. I can't believe our employers are still forcing us to IE6. They should at least upgrade to IE7 (like my last employer did).
I'm sure there's a video floating-around to back-up the website..... if not that specific event, then another one where a citizen is having his/her computer scanned for nudie pics. Doesn't Australia have a similar law that carrying even one photo of a topless woman across international border is a crime? I wouldn't be surprised if Canada has the same restriction.
Just now I heard on the radio that an American is being punished $11,000 by the U.S.G. because he refused to be scanned, or prodded, and they told him, "You cannot fly." So he canceled his ticket, got a refund, left the airport, and was arrested.
Apparently once you enter an air terminal, you no longer have any rights... except to submit to the US Gestapo.
The million-dollar question.
I got caught-up in a conversation with two "friends" who believe TSA patdowns of breasts and groins, or interrogating a passenger "Why are you carrying 4000 in cash?", is necessary and proper and the officers are doing a good job! I tried to explain this violates their 4th amendment rights (no search w/o warrant or articulable suspicion.). I cannot fathom why these people so willingly give-away their constitutional legal protections.
>>>Strong encryption
Tell me how to implement it on Firefox and Utorrent. Please and thank you.
Nope. I cant access youtube at the moment, but there's a video of Canadian Ezra Levant being interrogated by his own government. His crime: He published a cartoon with a Muslim.
So much for free speech. Looks like Canada is becoming even more tyrannical than Australia.
Apparently "deep packet inspection" is just one piece of a major crackdown by the Canadian government.
Recent rules require customs officials to scan your computer or phone (if they think you are suspicious) when you carry it across the border, either by car or plane, and if it has a single photo of pornography, you will be charged with "trafficking" and sent to jail. It doesn't matter if it's just some photo from a topless beach (which is legal), you'll still be spending several months inspecting the inside of a Canadian jail cell.
Sounds like Canada has turned even more puritan than the Puritan U.S.
- source: infowars.com
>>>Paul Chambers, 26, said he acted in frustration after Robin Hood Airport in South Yorkshire was closed by snow.
Unbelievable. He's not a criminal - just a person who was angry. But of course this isn't about Mr.Chambers or protection of other citizens. This is about *setting an example* to demonstrate by the leaders to the commoners that free speech will not be tolerated. They are training us to be sheep! To be submissive and silent and well-behaved "or else you could end up like Paul Chambers" you worthless scum.
My God.
I sound like Alex Jones.
>>>Or do we only read it literally and out of context when it's to the advantage of the [government]?
Fixed that for you. This is about leaders wanting control over the commoners..... no different than how it was in 1500. Different society of course but still the same root motivation - tyranny.
----- BTW a bomb threat in the US is not a crime. It's protected speech. However if your basement is filled with explosive material, then yes you'd be in jail. Since this Twitter Guy did not have a basement filled with bomb-making material, he would have been found "not guilty".
Choice is valuable. For example I told Comcast to fuck off, and used an antenna instead. If the Healthcare Reform Bill were applied to the CATV market, the government would fine me $950 for not buying the product.
Yes but that's a positive thing.... just like the death of the slow, inefficient dinosaurs was a positive even that led to dominance by mammals. A depression kills the poor businesses (like GM) and opens room for better companies (like Ford) to fill-in the vacuum.
Noe the Depression of 1921 lasted less than a year, mainly because the government didn't do anything. Various businesses died but were replaced by better businesses.
Communists? Corporatists? Some variant thereof? Yeah I know what the word "liberals" means. Totalitarianism and the illusion of individual freedom, where none actually exits.
Shouldn't the blame be placed on the Governor?
After all he's the one who, when Bush called to send troops to help, refused to allow them entrance: "It's okay. Louisiana can handle this alone." A president is powerful, but per the constitution still not allowed to overrule a Governor during peacetime. I think we sometimes forget the US is a lot like the EU..... the EU president would not be able to send help either if, for example, Greece's PM refused entrance.
>>>Had we pushed for alternative energy in the 70s
We'd still be in the same spot, because alternative energy doesn't work. Correction: It works but doesn't produce anywhere near the energy oil/coal does. For example if we switched to Solar energy, we'd need to pave over Nevada with light-sensitive silicon. And that still wouldn't provide a way to fuel cars or freight trucks.
This was actually reported ~4 months ago, when the oil spill was still happening, and one of the White House staff admitted they didn't like the recommendations so they "massaged" it to provide the answer they wanted. They then apologized for it. Kinda similar to how Cigarette companies produce studies showing smoking is good for you.
>>>you do realize that you're comparing things which aren't of similar magnitude, right?
They appear to be similar magnitude to me. Let's count the ways that I hate BOTH the republicans and democrats
- Democrats - Clinton's White House created a "no person shall be turned down" policy in 1997 which directly led to the housing boom
- Republicans - passed the damnable Patriot Act
- Democrats - passed the Patriot Renewal Act when they should have killed it
- Republicans - started a damn war
- Democrats - won congress and could have ended the war, but instead expanded its scope
- Republicans - Failed to clean-up the mess caused by Katrina
- Democrats - Failed to clean-up the mess caused by BP oil spill
- Democrats - passed that damn Banker Bailout Bill of 2008, despite 80% opposition by americans
- Democrats - passed the Healthcare NON-reform Bill of 2010, despite 70% opposition by americans
- Democrats - passed a 800 billion stimulus that has done anything but; in fact ~100 billion of that cash was mailed overseas
- Republicans - Won back the house, and now they want to go to war against Iran (rumor)
Only a fool trusts either of these two parties.
>>>In the USA said person could go to jail for life if somebody read the request and actually granted it.
No they wouldn't. Look at members of the KKK who routinely say blacks should be lynched, but they never get arrested for it, even after the act happens. The speech remains protected, and the KKK person would only be arrested if he assisted in the crime.
>>>Your freedom to swing your words stops at deathtreats.
Not in the US where the supreme court has ruled again-and-again that speech is fully protected. The only exception is if the person issuing the death-threat is holding a gun or knife at the time, and the victim is in immediatee danger. This politician clearly wasn't endangering anybody since he was nowhere near the victim.
Now see, that topless girl just does nothing for me.
Yes of course I think she's cute and even attractive, but until she starts playing with her vibrator, she's just another naked animal. Not particularly exciting.
In other mammals breasts only exist for one purpose: Feeding the baby. Once the baby is grown, they shrivel and all-but-disappear.
It is only in humans that permanent breasts have developed, as a way to entice men ("Yes dummy I'm a woman - you can tell by my chest.").
(which of course are not meat, but skin-covered fat.) Much more calming.
No.
I still drive a 1987 car. Don't see any reason to upgrade from 1987 quoting either, since it still works and is a LOT faster to use.
>>>Nice quote-mining there, Troll64.
Maybe if you posted under your USERID instead of hiding, I'd show you some respect. But since you choose to be a cowardly lion, hiding behind AC, I show about the same respect I show for someone like Glenn Beck.
You're right.
I'm wrong.
The United States can do ANYTHING it wants, including rounding-up people it doesn't like (jews, japanese, fox news fans, whatever), and forcing them into gas chambers for "showers". Oh and YOU might as well take that Constitution in the Archives, and shred it with your own hands, since you think it has zero meaning.
>>>uploads kill the network - once the upstream channel is flooded, everyone's service suffers.
I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about? Most people DON'T upload very much. They don't run bittorrent but instead watch TV/movies (downstream). Netflix is now the #1 bandwidth user.