Nobody with any stature on the right believes any of those things. The fever swamp left thinks that the Military Industrial Complex planned and executed the 9/11 attacks so Bush would have an excuse to steal Iraq's oil. It's not fair to hold that against Democrats in general because most Democrats (and indeed anyone with two brain cells to rub together) recognizes that theory as bullshit.
The Dems have intra-party battles too, the media just chooses not to turn them into shitstorms (because that would hurt the side they are rooting for.)
For example, you know the whole "Obama was born in Kenya" thing? Hillary's 2008 campaign started that during the primary.
Sanders didn't hit Hillary over the emails because he's not serious about running for President.
In 2008, I supported Obama just b'cos I hated both Hilary and McCain. There was no way I was gonna support McCain given how he was throwing Conservatives under the bus.
You don't like how McCain treated conservatives, so you voted for the guy who spent the past decade calling anyone who disagrees with him (normally conservatives) as evil, racist, and supporters of terrorism?
If the Reagan Administration was willing to overthrow a democratically elected government in the United States...
Please stop and think about what you just wrote. The Reagan Administration by definition couldn't overthrow the democratically elected government BECAUSE IT WAS THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT. (For the pedantic, yes, Reagan was part of the government, not the whole thing, but North's plan wasn't to arrest Congressmen.)
That's what stare decisis is for. If a high court rules on something, lower courts deciding future cases are supposed to rule according to how the higher court ruled in the earlier case.
I'm suspicious of your motives, but I have no idea what they are. However, I can't believe you've never heard of precedent.
It's weird that you'd like about this, but your link agrees with what I said. As reported by your link, the Supreme Court struck down state level laws that imposed capital punishment for offenses other than murder.
There's backwards compatibility on the XBox One now, although it was only added within the past few weeks. If you own the original on Xbox 360, you can download the Xbox One version of the title without paying extra.
You're 100% correct in your point about rape investigations, like all criminal investigations, should be a job for actual police and courts with a responsibility to protect the right of the (potentially falsely) accused.
However,
In some states, rape is a capital crime, punishable by death in the US.
is wrong. The only capital crime under any state law is murder. There's a few others at the Federal level (treason and the like), but rape isn't punishable by death anywhere in the United States.
It's worth mentioning that Lessig's goals are NOT the goals of the Democratic Party. Democrats claim to be in favor of "More 'good speech' is the counter to 'bad speech.' The government shouldn't be stopping people from speaking 'bad speech.'" This is a pretty popular position; it's also the stated position of the Republican party.
Lessg's key issue is imposing stricter government restrictions on speech. The party elites don't support his plan, the rank and file don't support his plan, and the broad electorate doesn't support his plan.
It's no wonder those guys don't want Lessig as their candidate.
The State Department has an official Unclassified email system, an official Secret one, and an official Top Secret one. The existence of the three parallel networks isn't itself classified.
Clinton should have used the appropriate official network to send each message she sent. (Secret emails through the Secret email system and etc.)
Instead, Clinton used a private system exclusively. That's 100% wrong. Regardless of the protection on the private server, there's NO SUCH THING as a private system approved for Secret or Top Secret info.
Also, the thing Clinton is being accused of doing is deliberately using the private server to hide embarrassing UNCLASSIFIED emails. The lack of security for Secret and Top Secret emails is bad, but it's incompetence rather than malice. It was her intent to hide from FOIA and Congress, but she got hacked by Russia and China by accident.
SF 86s are not classified. They require special protection because they contain PII, but that's different than classification. You're allowed to work with them on non-classified machines. You're allowed to fill out your own SF 86 on a machine that you personally own.
This isn't the rise of political doxxing, simply because it has been going on forever.
Going through Sarah Palin's emails (either the official ones the judge ordered released and the New York Times attempted to crowdsource finding embarassing stuff OR the ones that the 4chan hacker whose father was an elected Democrat released) was an attempted doxxing.
What Bradley Manning did was a doxxing. Hell, so was the release of the Pentagon Papers.
Jumping even further back, the XYZ Affair was revealed by a doxxer leaking details to the (partisan) press.
Releasing your opponent's embarrassing documents has probably been going on for as long as we've had written language.
It's my understanding that to catch crooks (in this case, the IRS) with a Stingray, you need to set it up near the crooks. It's not a bug that you plant in their phone and give the phone back to them.
If you're a serious terrorist or a member of $criminal_organization, carrying a cell phone seems to have more risks than benefits. So why do it ?
Lois Lerner sent enough incriminating email from her government provided BlackBerry that she had to destroy it. Are we sure that her replacement in the targeting program is any smarter?
Republicans pioneered the use of the IRS to go after "enemies" too, but they only complain about it whenever there's a Democrat in office as well.
This is a lie, by the way. Nixon tried to use the IRS as his attack dog, but his IRS Commissioner refused the order. It took until Obama for a President to actually surround themselves with enough yes-men to get the job done. Unlike Nixon, Obama actually got the cover up right as well.
You're missing the point, Rat. I don't trust the EPA, because the EPA pretty consistently comes down on the side of green kooks who think fracking causes earthquakes. The science is 100% against that position, so the EPA parted ways with the green kooks on this and says that fracking does not cause earthquakes.
Slashdot should stop pretending that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is, you know, a group of scientists. They're not, they're an anti-nuclear special interest group whose key symbol was appropriated by the graphic novel Watchmen. (That's their only link to either "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters.")
The summary should probably mention the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since that's where the link goes and that's who is making the claim.
In Europe, we talk much more of Hitler, as an argument against a new world war, than nuclear weapons. "We have to remember how terrible this war was, to never make the same mistakes again".
There is general humanism, social programs, rejection of extremes, education, rights and laws to protect them, pacifism, the European Union, etc.
In the US, it's like "hell yeah, we nuked 'em good, 'don't nobody mess with us now, fuck these jap chinks, fuck these red commies, fuck herr hitler and his nazi boyfriends, we're the kings of the world, and we'll send back our boys to war and beyond whenever needs be for us! we're supermen!".
You're starting your argument for Europe being less warlike than the US at the conclusion of WWII. Fine. Since the end of World War II, the US has nuked exactly the same number of "jap chinks," red commies, and "Hitler's Nazi boyfriends" as the combined forces of the EU Member Nations, so I'm not sure what your problem is.
I'd check your facts on relative pluralism and "rejection of extremism" on either side of the Atlantic as well.
This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade.
This isn't true. Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.
What does that even mean? Look at this Slashdot post. There's people from all over the world commenting on an article that they all theoretically read. (Yeah, I know.) This is available in part because there IS NO central control over the Internet (which was created in the US to be a shared resource) or over the Web (which was created in Europe as a shared resource to make the Internet more useful.)
Putin's plan was to take over the Internet and censor it. That is unequivocally a bad thing, and opposition to it shouldn't be dismissed as bickering or "not sharing." Dope.
There are records of every "official" email to and from her in the State Department servers. They have all been reviewed. Not a single one was found out of place. Not a single one was found to not be on the "released" emails Hillary disclosed. Not a single one contained classified documents. Not a single problem was found, and every single one was scoured.
Every single sentence in this paragraph is a lie. People won't trust you if you keep lying to them. Hillary is finding this out now. You should be finding it out shortly, because you have been all over this story on Slashdot spewing the same talking points as Hillary's campaign. As their defenses have narrowed, so have yours.
In Chicago, people love their public transit. They've been voting for it for 100 years.
Note: Plenty of those people have been dead for 50 years, but Chicago leads the nation in granting voting rights to the deceased.
I was replying to someone who was trying to assert that public transit is bad because he doesn't like public transit.
No you weren't. The guy you were replying to opposes expanding mass transit into areas where it does't work. This is what mass transit advocates are advocating for. It kind of works* in densely populated areas like Chicago or New York City, but outside the most major of cities, it will never work for anything close to a majority of the people.
Then you responded with your non-sequitur that privileges the will of government above the will of the citizens, and I called you out on that.
*Mass Transit in NYC and Chicago don't actually "work" in that both cities are HEAVILY subsidized the rest of their respective states. This turns into people in Syracuse (5 hours from NYC by car), Rochester (6 hours), and Buffalo (7 hours) subsidizing mass transit systems that they can never use because it services a city that is too far away from them. As someone who lives out of state, but closer than those cities, I've never had a problem with the NYC mass transit system. However, I don't use it enough that pouring my tax money into it would improve my quality of life.
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Nobody with any stature on the right believes any of those things. The fever swamp left thinks that the Military Industrial Complex planned and executed the 9/11 attacks so Bush would have an excuse to steal Iraq's oil. It's not fair to hold that against Democrats in general because most Democrats (and indeed anyone with two brain cells to rub together) recognizes that theory as bullshit.
For example, you know the whole "Obama was born in Kenya" thing? Hillary's 2008 campaign started that during the primary.
Sanders didn't hit Hillary over the emails because he's not serious about running for President.
In 2008, I supported Obama just b'cos I hated both Hilary and McCain. There was no way I was gonna support McCain given how he was throwing Conservatives under the bus.
You don't like how McCain treated conservatives, so you voted for the guy who spent the past decade calling anyone who disagrees with him (normally conservatives) as evil, racist, and supporters of terrorism?
If the Reagan Administration was willing to overthrow a democratically elected government in the United States...
Please stop and think about what you just wrote. The Reagan Administration by definition couldn't overthrow the democratically elected government BECAUSE IT WAS THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT. (For the pedantic, yes, Reagan was part of the government, not the whole thing, but North's plan wasn't to arrest Congressmen.)
I'm suspicious of your motives, but I have no idea what they are. However, I can't believe you've never heard of precedent.
It's weird that you'd like about this, but your link agrees with what I said. As reported by your link, the Supreme Court struck down state level laws that imposed capital punishment for offenses other than murder.
There's backwards compatibility on the XBox One now, although it was only added within the past few weeks. If you own the original on Xbox 360, you can download the Xbox One version of the title without paying extra.
However,
In some states, rape is a capital crime, punishable by death in the US.
is wrong. The only capital crime under any state law is murder. There's a few others at the Federal level (treason and the like), but rape isn't punishable by death anywhere in the United States.
I appreciate Slashdot has standards
Good one.
Lessg's key issue is imposing stricter government restrictions on speech. The party elites don't support his plan, the rank and file don't support his plan, and the broad electorate doesn't support his plan.
It's no wonder those guys don't want Lessig as their candidate.
Clinton should have used the appropriate official network to send each message she sent. (Secret emails through the Secret email system and etc.)
Instead, Clinton used a private system exclusively. That's 100% wrong. Regardless of the protection on the private server, there's NO SUCH THING as a private system approved for Secret or Top Secret info.
Also, the thing Clinton is being accused of doing is deliberately using the private server to hide embarrassing UNCLASSIFIED emails. The lack of security for Secret and Top Secret emails is bad, but it's incompetence rather than malice. It was her intent to hide from FOIA and Congress, but she got hacked by Russia and China by accident.
SF 86s are not classified. They require special protection because they contain PII, but that's different than classification. You're allowed to work with them on non-classified machines. You're allowed to fill out your own SF 86 on a machine that you personally own.
Going through Sarah Palin's emails (either the official ones the judge ordered released and the New York Times attempted to crowdsource finding embarassing stuff OR the ones that the 4chan hacker whose father was an elected Democrat released) was an attempted doxxing.
What Bradley Manning did was a doxxing. Hell, so was the release of the Pentagon Papers.
Jumping even further back, the XYZ Affair was revealed by a doxxer leaking details to the (partisan) press.
Releasing your opponent's embarrassing documents has probably been going on for as long as we've had written language.
It's my understanding that to catch crooks (in this case, the IRS) with a Stingray, you need to set it up near the crooks. It's not a bug that you plant in their phone and give the phone back to them.
If you're a serious terrorist or a member of $criminal_organization, carrying a cell phone seems to have more risks than benefits. So why do it ?
Lois Lerner sent enough incriminating email from her government provided BlackBerry that she had to destroy it. Are we sure that her replacement in the targeting program is any smarter?
Republicans pioneered the use of the IRS to go after "enemies" too, but they only complain about it whenever there's a Democrat in office as well.
This is a lie, by the way. Nixon tried to use the IRS as his attack dog, but his IRS Commissioner refused the order. It took until Obama for a President to actually surround themselves with enough yes-men to get the job done. Unlike Nixon, Obama actually got the cover up right as well.
You're missing the point, Rat. I don't trust the EPA, because the EPA pretty consistently comes down on the side of green kooks who think fracking causes earthquakes. The science is 100% against that position, so the EPA parted ways with the green kooks on this and says that fracking does not cause earthquakes.
The summary should probably mention the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists since that's where the link goes and that's who is making the claim.
In Europe, we talk much more of Hitler, as an argument against a new world war, than nuclear weapons. "We have to remember how terrible this war was, to never make the same mistakes again".
There is general humanism, social programs, rejection of extremes, education, rights and laws to protect them, pacifism, the European Union, etc.
In the US, it's like "hell yeah, we nuked 'em good, 'don't nobody mess with us now, fuck these jap chinks, fuck these red commies, fuck herr hitler and his nazi boyfriends, we're the kings of the world, and we'll send back our boys to war and beyond whenever needs be for us! we're supermen!".
You're starting your argument for Europe being less warlike than the US at the conclusion of WWII. Fine. Since the end of World War II, the US has nuked exactly the same number of "jap chinks," red commies, and "Hitler's Nazi boyfriends" as the combined forces of the EU Member Nations, so I'm not sure what your problem is.
I'd check your facts on relative pluralism and "rejection of extremism" on either side of the Atlantic as well.
This raises major questions for the legality of fracking, which has been linked to the increased number of earthquakes striking Oklahoma over the past decade.
This isn't true. Even the EPA has been forced to admit that freaking is safe.
Argue whether it was "hacking" or "cracking" if you want to. But it's unquestioned that at least the guy's father was a Democrat operative.
Putin's plan was to take over the Internet and censor it. That is unequivocally a bad thing, and opposition to it shouldn't be dismissed as bickering or "not sharing." Dope.
There are records of every "official" email to and from her in the State Department servers. They have all been reviewed. Not a single one was found out of place. Not a single one was found to not be on the "released" emails Hillary disclosed. Not a single one contained classified documents. Not a single problem was found, and every single one was scoured.
Every single sentence in this paragraph is a lie. People won't trust you if you keep lying to them. Hillary is finding this out now. You should be finding it out shortly, because you have been all over this story on Slashdot spewing the same talking points as Hillary's campaign. As their defenses have narrowed, so have yours.
The dude who hacked Palin's email was the son of a state-level congressman. I'll let you guess which party they were.
In Chicago, people love their public transit. They've been voting for it for 100 years.
Note: Plenty of those people have been dead for 50 years, but Chicago leads the nation in granting voting rights to the deceased.
I was replying to someone who was trying to assert that public transit is bad because he doesn't like public transit.
No you weren't. The guy you were replying to opposes expanding mass transit into areas where it does't work. This is what mass transit advocates are advocating for. It kind of works* in densely populated areas like Chicago or New York City, but outside the most major of cities, it will never work for anything close to a majority of the people.
Then you responded with your non-sequitur that privileges the will of government above the will of the citizens, and I called you out on that.
*Mass Transit in NYC and Chicago don't actually "work" in that both cities are HEAVILY subsidized the rest of their respective states. This turns into people in Syracuse (5 hours from NYC by car), Rochester (6 hours), and Buffalo (7 hours) subsidizing mass transit systems that they can never use because it services a city that is too far away from them. As someone who lives out of state, but closer than those cities, I've never had a problem with the NYC mass transit system. However, I don't use it enough that pouring my tax money into it would improve my quality of life.