in plain sight in a bar in front of hundreds of people
I don't know what bars you're going to...unless you count those "dance hall" things, I suppose. There's a difference between "a few dozen people" and "on the Internet for the entire western world to see."
If you wanted to say that other countries don't guaranteecompletely free speech, you should have just said so. As it is, your original comment is unambiguously and demonstrably false as I can guarantee you at least one other country has some sort of law regarding not being arrested for saying some kind of thing they don't like. I don't even need to actually look because it's so obvious. Hell, even in the U.S. free speech is qualified (yelling fire in a movie theater).
Either you were talking about other countries not having an absolute constitutional guarantee of free speech (which may be a fair point, although I bet France has some language in there concerning free speech), or you were talking about gradations of "free" that I argue even the U.S. has.
You saying I lack reading comprehension is a blatant case of the pot calling the (non-black) kettle black.
I translated your weasel words into straightforward language, which incidentally revealed that what you were saying was total crap. And yes, English is my first language.
GEMA tells YouTube to block the videos, YouTube does, and GEMA complains that YouTube is actually telling the users why they're blocked instead of telling them how awesome GEMA is(n't). This seems about as reasonable to me as Breivik complaining that he isn't getting blowjobs in that cushy Norwegian jail he's in for 2 years or whatever.
I have not been shown any evidence of absolute constitutional guarantee of free speech outside the U.S., ergo no speech protection whatsoever can exist anywhere except the U.S.
FTFY. There are maybe 196 sovereign nations in the world. I am sure that at least one of them somewhere has some amount of free speech protection.
(Don't make huge blanket statements that are trivial to disprove. It makes you look like an idiot.)
When North Korea starts putting the nukes on the launch pads, I don't think South Korea is going to sit around and debate whether they'll be offended by a cyber attack.
because people who spend their entire income on a place to live and a meal don't have anything to spare on your ideas and abstinence doesn't EXIST in the real world.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy condoms than it is to raise another child...
Well, except for the part where they kill you if you believe but then leave (apostasy)...and they're not too hot on people who believe the wrong branch (Sunni vs. Shia) or people who choose other religions, either.
Yeah...why should an abbreviation of a word with no other alteration be considered offensive? Cf. "Jap", "homo"...oh, it's because of *how* we say the word, not the word itself? But apparently my habit of shortening people's names down to 1 or 2 syllables is bigoted.
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in plain sight in a bar in front of hundreds of people
I don't know what bars you're going to...unless you count those "dance hall" things, I suppose. There's a difference between "a few dozen people" and "on the Internet for the entire western world to see."
Only if your an idiot.
Heh.
If you wanted to say that other countries don't guarantee completely free speech, you should have just said so. As it is, your original comment is unambiguously and demonstrably false as I can guarantee you at least one other country has some sort of law regarding not being arrested for saying some kind of thing they don't like. I don't even need to actually look because it's so obvious. Hell, even in the U.S. free speech is qualified (yelling fire in a movie theater).
Either you were talking about other countries not having an absolute constitutional guarantee of free speech (which may be a fair point, although I bet France has some language in there concerning free speech), or you were talking about gradations of "free" that I argue even the U.S. has.
You saying I lack reading comprehension is a blatant case of the pot calling the (non-black) kettle black.
I translated your weasel words into straightforward language, which incidentally revealed that what you were saying was total crap. And yes, English is my first language.
Yeah, because we're totally sure that FTL will never ever ever be possible.
We'll just keep appreciating the (deteriorating) beauty of nature until we all get wiped out by the next Extinction-Level Event, then.
Say, has anybody checked on the Yellowstone Supervolcano lately?
GEMA tells YouTube to block the videos, YouTube does, and GEMA complains that YouTube is actually telling the users why they're blocked instead of telling them how awesome GEMA is(n't). This seems about as reasonable to me as Breivik complaining that he isn't getting blowjobs in that cushy Norwegian jail he's in for 2 years or whatever.
I have not been shown any evidence of absolute constitutional guarantee of free speech outside the U.S., ergo no speech protection whatsoever can exist anywhere except the U.S.
FTFY. There are maybe 196 sovereign nations in the world. I am sure that at least one of them somewhere has some amount of free speech protection.
(Don't make huge blanket statements that are trivial to disprove. It makes you look like an idiot.)
You mean that guy that got (mostly) democratically and legally elected and *became* the government?
I'd be interested to see the phrasing in German if somebody could post it. It would be informative.
99.9999% of people are stupid to begin with. I don't agree that this correlates to religiousness.
So we should be intolerant of religion in order to be tolerant of ethnicity/race/gender? Hmm.
Admittedly. Redundancy is good, too.
When North Korea starts putting the nukes on the launch pads, I don't think South Korea is going to sit around and debate whether they'll be offended by a cyber attack.
No no no, the government only takes out Bad People! That Schneider guy was one of those Linux freaks that hack our precious bodily fluids!
prohibited from collecting foreign intelligence concerning the domestic activities of US citizens
Er...isn't that linguistically impossible anyway?
Everything else was along the lines of win or get bored and go home.
So we just "got bored" of kicking their asses in Vietnam and decided to let the communists have the country right after we left?
No one can stand toe-to-toe with the USA and win an all-out war.
Other countries have noticed this (they're not as dumb as they look), which is why they DON'T fight traditional symmetric wars against the U.S.
If this WhatsApp thing already had 10% of the likely population penetration, explain to me how they could expand by 1000x.
If everybody has apps and Internet on their phones, why not just email?
because people who spend their entire income on a place to live and a meal don't have anything to spare on your ideas and abstinence doesn't EXIST in the real world.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper to buy condoms than it is to raise another child...
Why is this modded troll?
The term "Oriental" originally meant "of the East" (as compared to Europe, obviously). What do you say it means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
Last time I checked it was a religious choice
Well, except for the part where they kill you if you believe but then leave (apostasy)...and they're not too hot on people who believe the wrong branch (Sunni vs. Shia) or people who choose other religions, either.
Yeah...why should an abbreviation of a word with no other alteration be considered offensive? Cf. "Jap", "homo"...oh, it's because of *how* we say the word, not the word itself? But apparently my habit of shortening people's names down to 1 or 2 syllables is bigoted.
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