No, it's "okay" because the Chinese people are better with Foxconn than without it, and they're better off if you buy from Foxconn than if you don't.
You don't help the developing world by not buying from them. Your purchases help make sure that tomorrow is a tiny bit better. Don't think for a minute than the U.S wasn't a mirror image of this 120 years ago. We got HERE because we went through this phase. If you try to stop China from going through the same phase, you're taking away their better tomorrow, just to make yourself feel better. And that makes you a dick.
It's not just that "the terrorists won", it's that they won in a specific way that will undoubtedly turn more people into terrorists. This time however, lots of those people will be Americans, living on American soil. Since you can't combat this with border checks and immigration scrutiny, you go after anyone being "suspicious".
Of course, this is unwinnable. It's a last gasp from a dying empire. We might have died after the red scare, but we were still shitting money. It's easy to keep a ruling power in place when everyone is eating. Now that the money's gone and people are getting angry, it's a different story.
Sounds great until you realize that everyone they consider suspicious just happens to be black. And even though they weren't doing anything wrong, they end up arrested for resisting arrest (and no other charge).
If Google were to be awesome and join the blackout, everyone would get the message. Wikipedia and Reddit get a lot of traffic, but Google gets pretty much everyone else.
Piracy is good because we don't live in a world where people create something, and then through copyright get to make some money off of it. We DO live in a world where rights to large numbers of works are bought up by a very small number of corporations, who pay governments to be able to keep those rights forever. They collude together to fix prices, and make sure that only their entertainment can ever reach the shelves of your local bookstore or video store.
Piracy hasn't gone far enough. This system they've created is something I will fight against will all my being. They are stealing and controlling our culture. My hope is that piracy is so pervasive and easy that even currently released blockbuster movies or bestseller books make no money. Yes, there will be collateral damage in terms of artists not being able to support themselves entirely through their art, and a drop in new entertainment produced in the near future. This is an acceptable price.
Maybe you should read the NDAA, because you're wrong. It specifies that military detention is required for non-citizens, but not required for citizens. Not required. They can still do it, they just aren't required to.
No one's forcing them to do any of those things. I think we need to get past the idea that if you invest money that you deserve a profit, and any laws that protect that profit are good ones.
That's the point. The government wants everyone to be felons. It gives them license to pick on whoever they want, any time they want. This is of course perfectly fine for most Americans who are so stupid as to think that selective enforcement will never apply to them. Everyone is in such denial about our government being evil, that they're happy to continue pretending that it's not. In less than 10 years we'll be in another war where we'll kill another 100,000 non-combatants and call it freedom.
"I'm just waiting for the day a leak shows them going to bat for Chinese interests."
Why wait? Corporations are international. All you need is one satellite office in Wisconsin and you can funnel money into the U.S. to pay politicians to do things.
And of course that's fair, right? I mean, the U.S. pressures everyone else, it's not unreasonable that other places pressure the U.S.
This is what I'm hoping for. The rest of the world finally says "enough" and puts the U.S. on a trade blacklist. We face the possibility of 100 million deaths because we don't produce any food anymore. We go to war to secure stations in food-producing countries. Both the EU and China join forces to stop us. The U.S. military is completely destroyed. The U.S. signs treaties. We go back to a "normal" country again and start putting money into infrastructure and education instead of bombing the shit out of the backwoods tiny nation du jour.
Handicap stalls in bathrooms aren't limited to handicap people, they're just accessible to handicap people. Just like the handicap line at my grocery store is used by everyone, but it's extra-wide for wheelchairs.
15" seems to be around the same size as an actual notebook, so it fits in with other stuff people are likely to be carrying, and fits nicely in a backpack. Anything between 15" and a cell phone needs special carrying anyway. By that I mean you need some kind of pack or case or some way to carry it, it's too big for pocket ot belt clip. So I see very little reason for almost anyone to like something that's say, 11". The drop from 15" to 11" offers no advantage, and it cuts the screen small enough to be uncomfortable to use in a normal computer way.
That's bad logic. 14 year olds can be tried as adults for murder. 16 year olds can marry 30 year olds (in most U.S. states and in most of the world as well). The only thing a 16 year old can't do is drink, vote, and fuck on camera.
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No, it's "okay" because the Chinese people are better with Foxconn than without it, and they're better off if you buy from Foxconn than if you don't.
You don't help the developing world by not buying from them. Your purchases help make sure that tomorrow is a tiny bit better. Don't think for a minute than the U.S wasn't a mirror image of this 120 years ago. We got HERE because we went through this phase. If you try to stop China from going through the same phase, you're taking away their better tomorrow, just to make yourself feel better. And that makes you a dick.
It's not just that "the terrorists won", it's that they won in a specific way that will undoubtedly turn more people into terrorists. This time however, lots of those people will be Americans, living on American soil. Since you can't combat this with border checks and immigration scrutiny, you go after anyone being "suspicious".
Of course, this is unwinnable. It's a last gasp from a dying empire. We might have died after the red scare, but we were still shitting money. It's easy to keep a ruling power in place when everyone is eating. Now that the money's gone and people are getting angry, it's a different story.
Well, any one of us can only stop voting for 3 of them. And to be honest, there's a lot of people out there who are totally okay with corruption.
Reasonable compromise? That sure worked well for Obama vs the Republicans.
Sounds great until you realize that everyone they consider suspicious just happens to be black. And even though they weren't doing anything wrong, they end up arrested for resisting arrest (and no other charge).
Random stops are NOT okay.
If Google were to be awesome and join the blackout, everyone would get the message. Wikipedia and Reddit get a lot of traffic, but Google gets pretty much everyone else.
Piracy is good because we don't live in a world where people create something, and then through copyright get to make some money off of it. We DO live in a world where rights to large numbers of works are bought up by a very small number of corporations, who pay governments to be able to keep those rights forever. They collude together to fix prices, and make sure that only their entertainment can ever reach the shelves of your local bookstore or video store.
Piracy hasn't gone far enough. This system they've created is something I will fight against will all my being. They are stealing and controlling our culture. My hope is that piracy is so pervasive and easy that even currently released blockbuster movies or bestseller books make no money. Yes, there will be collateral damage in terms of artists not being able to support themselves entirely through their art, and a drop in new entertainment produced in the near future. This is an acceptable price.
Genocides have happened every few years since WWII, and no one did anything to stop them. Yes, the entire world will stand by wand watch.
Maybe you should read the NDAA, because you're wrong. It specifies that military detention is required for non-citizens, but not required for citizens. Not required. They can still do it, they just aren't required to.
No one's forcing them to do any of those things. I think we need to get past the idea that if you invest money that you deserve a profit, and any laws that protect that profit are good ones.
That's the point. The government wants everyone to be felons. It gives them license to pick on whoever they want, any time they want. This is of course perfectly fine for most Americans who are so stupid as to think that selective enforcement will never apply to them. Everyone is in such denial about our government being evil, that they're happy to continue pretending that it's not. In less than 10 years we'll be in another war where we'll kill another 100,000 non-combatants and call it freedom.
You assume your elected officials care what people want.
"I'm just waiting for the day a leak shows them going to bat for Chinese interests."
Why wait? Corporations are international. All you need is one satellite office in Wisconsin and you can funnel money into the U.S. to pay politicians to do things.
And of course that's fair, right? I mean, the U.S. pressures everyone else, it's not unreasonable that other places pressure the U.S.
This is what I'm hoping for. The rest of the world finally says "enough" and puts the U.S. on a trade blacklist. We face the possibility of 100 million deaths because we don't produce any food anymore. We go to war to secure stations in food-producing countries. Both the EU and China join forces to stop us. The U.S. military is completely destroyed. The U.S. signs treaties. We go back to a "normal" country again and start putting money into infrastructure and education instead of bombing the shit out of the backwoods tiny nation du jour.
Handicap stalls in bathrooms aren't limited to handicap people, they're just accessible to handicap people. Just like the handicap line at my grocery store is used by everyone, but it's extra-wide for wheelchairs.
Blame the people who keep electing them. Maybe it's you. Maybe it's people you know.
15" seems to be around the same size as an actual notebook, so it fits in with other stuff people are likely to be carrying, and fits nicely in a backpack. Anything between 15" and a cell phone needs special carrying anyway. By that I mean you need some kind of pack or case or some way to carry it, it's too big for pocket ot belt clip. So I see very little reason for almost anyone to like something that's say, 11". The drop from 15" to 11" offers no advantage, and it cuts the screen small enough to be uncomfortable to use in a normal computer way.
This may be why they want the DVD business eventually gone. DVD rips are easy.
That's bad logic. 14 year olds can be tried as adults for murder. 16 year olds can marry 30 year olds (in most U.S. states and in most of the world as well). The only thing a 16 year old can't do is drink, vote, and fuck on camera.
By "stoners", do you mean "people"? It's clear by your tone that you don't.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people did the opposite. After all the streaming plan doesn't include almost all new releases.
Youtube is Google.
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Right. Until they release someone's personal info who made the mistake of not securing his wifi.
What is the point of small guilds if you need 40 to do something? I'm in a big guild, it's fun, and not because of raids.