Yes, I too hope the next president will be from the Green party and postpone implementation of Obamacare in favor of implementing single payer. It's not going to happen, but it's nice to hope.
Presidents can be impeached for "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". This is a technical term which basically means abuse of power. While discussing the power of the Senate to try impeachments, Hamilton said:
The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be denominated POLITICAL, as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself.
So the violation of public trust is within the jurisdiction of the senate. Would not a violation of the oath of office be a violation of the public trust? Since the president is sworn to uphold the constitution, wouldn't exceeding constitutional limits be an impeachable offense?
If you're still with me, all we need are examples of when Obama has failed to defend the constitution. Allowing blanket surveillance without specifically describing the places to be searched and the things to be found is just one. Assassinating a US citizen without due process is another.
Duck Tales on the NES was fun because it was made by Capcom, when they were making Mega Man, Bionic Commando, and tons of other great games. Warren Spector, having a similar history of awesomeness should have been able to produce something awesome with Epic Mickey. He's smart enough to see when something is trite, and he's a master at mixing genres. He should have been able to do something to make it better.
Might it be a case of Seinfeld is no longer funny because platforming itself had become old hat?
If that were the case, it wouldn't be fun to go back and play Duck Tales.
Obama runs the DOJ. He sets the priorities. He is responsible.
If a law has been broken, its the duty of the DoJ to file those charges.
Deciding what constitutes a law being broken is a large part of the responsibility of the executive. In previous administrations the vast majority of leaks were not interpreted as espionage. Now the DOJ interprets every leak as espionage. That's a change in policy that will harm this country by crippling journalism, and Obama is 100% responsible for that.
BTW, where's all the prosecutions for the illegal behavior uncovered by these whistle blowers? Or the white collar criminals who caused the 2008 financial crisis? It seems like "the law is the law" only applies when it benefits the powerful. When the law protects the people, they have discretion.
c) Sticking a label of "whistleblower" on someone who broke the law doesn't magically make them innocent.
It's not "sticking a label" it's "accurately describing" the behavior. Does it make them innocent in the eyes of the law? No, but it does make their act a public service. A good leader would offer pardons, not federal prison.
which far outweigh the few bad things you indirectly referred to
You directly referred to several "good things", which I directly refuted.
Yes Obama wanted single payer, he tried and failed to get that
He didn't try. Single payer advocates never even got a chance to make their case to Congress.
Killing Bin Laden did not just fulfill America's need for closure, but it established a reputation to protect the US for the next decade.
Sorry, sabre rattling does not count as a 'good thing'.
Your basic assumption is that Bush would have fulfilled his promise, and therefore gets no credit. So let me ask you if he had failed to do so, would you not blame him?
My basic assumption is that the US needs a status of forces agrement with Iraq to have troops there. Iraq was unwilling to extend that agreement with Obama, and I don't see any reason they'd be kinder to Bush. Obama gets no credit because the decision was the Iraqi's, he was trying to extend the SOFA.
Obama gets the credit for what he succeeded in doing
Again, what good has Obama done? Bush did great things for AIDS programs in Africa, and established the largest marine wildlife preserve in the world. I try to give credit where credit is due, but Obama doesn't make it easy.
Are you seriously arguing that there are more whistleblowers in this adminstration than in all previous administrations combined? It's just a coincidence that all the whistle blowers decided to get together and leak during the Obama administration?
Besides the wikileaks kid and Snowden what whistleblowers has he charged with espionage?
It is a lot easier to accuse your opponents of having some super-strong fanatical lunatics following them as opposed to admitting that they are intelligent and disagree with you for valid reasons.
Lets hear some of those reasons. So far all Obama has offered us is "but terrorism!", "you can trust us!", and "we can't comment on potential litigation".
Similarly Obama's series of half-scandals (none by themselves are anywhere near as big as stuff Bush did - they just all hit at the same time) has seriously weakened the incredible high moral status he had earned by passing healthcare, killing Bin Ladin, and ending Bush's Iraq war.
Obama's scandals don't even measure on the richter scale. His policies are why he is a detestable president. That high moral standing you refer to is entirely illusory:
He campaigned with single payer advocates, and when it came time to implement policy he shut them out, preferring to give the insurance industry mandatory customers.
Bin Laden he killed, but it was an empty victory against a powerless figurehead. The US is no better off for Bin Laden being dead.
He ended Bush's Iraq war, on the date that Bush agreed the war would end. And he was trying to negotiate an extension. Thank the Iraqis and Bush for ending the war, Obama deserves zero credit.
He simply has not done anything worse than most presidents.
That's flat out wrong. He has charged more whistleblowers with espionage than all previous administrations combined. There's more, but I only need one example to prove you wrong.
Undue respect for "superiors" is why 500,000 people died in Iraq. Why Edward Snowden is indicted for espionage while Obama remains unimpeached. Why we imprison more people than any other country in the world. Why we allow tens of thousands of our own citizens to die each year because they can't get insurance. Why we shut down an entire city for someone who caused an explosion that killed 3 people while someone who the very same week caused an explosion that killed 14 walks free. etc. etc.
America is not the bastion of independent thought we'd like it to be. It's better than Korea by a long shot, but there's much more progress we still need to make.
Is this his explanation for why Epic Mickey sucked? He was beholden to the "metrics guys" at Disney? I've loved everything Spector has done, but Epic Mickey is just the blandest platform gameplay with high production value Disney art.
There are meaningful differences between the beliefs of Democrats and Republicans
I don't know about their beliefs, but their policies are indistinguishable.
Do they both have good guys and bad guys?
No, they are all bad guys.
But tell me, what is the bipartisan consensus on women's rights?
The bipartisan consensus is that womens rights is a great issue to distract the populace so that they don't realize the entire system is a scam. e.g. Obama can give the finance industry anything he wants, exactly what Romney would have done, no progressive is going to complain as long birth control is covered by Obamacare. Republicans throw a completely disproportional shitfit, in order to make it look like there's actual debate in Congress, and either way the actual decision goes the rich win.
Separation of church and state?
Same thing as womens rights, just a ploy to distract the people. Christianity teaches us to take care of the less fortunate. But we can't have that, so they invent a controversy stemming from some forgotten passage in the old testament, and literally make a federal case out of it.
Immigration?
The bipartisan consensus on immigration is that immigrants are a pawn to be used in political games.
Taxes?
Yet another issue that's overinflated to create a percieved difference where there is no honest difference. Boehner damn well knows that you can't balance the budget without both tax increases and spending cuts. His only complaint is that he would have to cooperate with Obama, which would appear to be weakness on his part. He figures the Republicans will get more votes by looking strong and being wrong than looking weak and being right. He's probably right, but it's not an honest disagreement on what constitutes good policy.
This gets all the more frightening when you look at the issues on which there is broad bipartisan consensus. There is no debate on NSA surveillance. There is no debate on the war on drug users. There is no debate on the criminal prosecutions of banking executives. On all the most important policies, there is bipartisan consensus for the most harmful position. On all the most trivial policies, there is feigned debate.
Easy solution. Configure grub to automatically boot an unencrypted OS that has tracking enabled. Use the hiddenmenu command to make it less obvious that there are other systems available.
You really need an unencrypted decoy OS to get through customs unmolested anyway. Might as well install Prey on it.
The fact is Weev "stole" it (copied without permission) and then stupidly publicized it.
The fact is Weev submitted an HTTP request and got data back. Just like every other HTTP request ever.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone calling their group Goatse Security needs to be punished anyway. I'm not interested in trying to explain to my 6yo what the fuck that means.
Apparently you're not interested in trying to explain to your 6yo what freedom of speech or proportional justice means either.
Comparing the 2010s to the 1990s isn't fair. The economy was booming, and we still had a middle class. We just went through the biggest recession since the great depression, and the benefits of recovery have accrued entirely to the rich. There's a reason why they call it a "jobless recovery".
Kids may or may not be softer than they were when we were their age. But it's definitely harder out there.
There was no reason for the US to attack Iraq other than to provide for a distraction in the hunt for bin Laden.
And yet you support the US, not just in words but with your life's work. How do you figure using hundreds of thousands of innocent lives as a distraction makes us any better than the jihadists?
What did he potentially have access to that's so damning to the government that it's strong-arming the entire world over the possibility that he could release it?
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Yes, I too hope the next president will be from the Green party and postpone implementation of Obamacare in favor of implementing single payer. It's not going to happen, but it's nice to hope.
Why don't these places ever use revolving doors?
Presidents can be impeached for "High Crimes and Misdemeanors". This is a technical term which basically means abuse of power. While discussing the power of the Senate to try impeachments, Hamilton said:
So the violation of public trust is within the jurisdiction of the senate. Would not a violation of the oath of office be a violation of the public trust? Since the president is sworn to uphold the constitution, wouldn't exceeding constitutional limits be an impeachable offense?
If you're still with me, all we need are examples of when Obama has failed to defend the constitution. Allowing blanket surveillance without specifically describing the places to be searched and the things to be found is just one. Assassinating a US citizen without due process is another.
DuckTales on the NES was fun
Duck Tales on the NES was fun because it was made by Capcom, when they were making Mega Man, Bionic Commando, and tons of other great games. Warren Spector, having a similar history of awesomeness should have been able to produce something awesome with Epic Mickey. He's smart enough to see when something is trite, and he's a master at mixing genres. He should have been able to do something to make it better.
Might it be a case of Seinfeld is no longer funny because platforming itself had become old hat?
If that were the case, it wouldn't be fun to go back and play Duck Tales.
a) Obama doesn't charge anyone
Obama runs the DOJ. He sets the priorities. He is responsible.
If a law has been broken, its the duty of the DoJ to file those charges.
Deciding what constitutes a law being broken is a large part of the responsibility of the executive. In previous administrations the vast majority of leaks were not interpreted as espionage. Now the DOJ interprets every leak as espionage. That's a change in policy that will harm this country by crippling journalism, and Obama is 100% responsible for that.
BTW, where's all the prosecutions for the illegal behavior uncovered by these whistle blowers? Or the white collar criminals who caused the 2008 financial crisis? It seems like "the law is the law" only applies when it benefits the powerful. When the law protects the people, they have discretion.
c) Sticking a label of "whistleblower" on someone who broke the law doesn't magically make them innocent.
It's not "sticking a label" it's "accurately describing" the behavior. Does it make them innocent in the eyes of the law? No, but it does make their act a public service. A good leader would offer pardons, not federal prison.
Three, in a period of 90 years, to six in a period of 3 years. That's 60 times the prosecutions per unit time. Do you not understand rates?
We support Obama for the good things has done
Such as?
which far outweigh the few bad things you indirectly referred to
You directly referred to several "good things", which I directly refuted.
Yes Obama wanted single payer, he tried and failed to get that
He didn't try. Single payer advocates never even got a chance to make their case to Congress.
Killing Bin Laden did not just fulfill America's need for closure, but it established a reputation to protect the US for the next decade.
Sorry, sabre rattling does not count as a 'good thing'.
Your basic assumption is that Bush would have fulfilled his promise, and therefore gets no credit. So let me ask you if he had failed to do so, would you not blame him?
My basic assumption is that the US needs a status of forces agrement with Iraq to have troops there. Iraq was unwilling to extend that agreement with Obama, and I don't see any reason they'd be kinder to Bush. Obama gets no credit because the decision was the Iraqi's, he was trying to extend the SOFA.
Obama gets the credit for what he succeeded in doing
Again, what good has Obama done? Bush did great things for AIDS programs in Africa, and established the largest marine wildlife preserve in the world. I try to give credit where credit is due, but Obama doesn't make it easy.
How many whistleblowers were there before?
Are you seriously arguing that there are more whistleblowers in this adminstration than in all previous administrations combined? It's just a coincidence that all the whistle blowers decided to get together and leak during the Obama administration?
Besides the wikileaks kid and Snowden what whistleblowers has he charged with espionage?
Here is a list from a year ago.
It is a lot easier to accuse your opponents of having some super-strong fanatical lunatics following them as opposed to admitting that they are intelligent and disagree with you for valid reasons.
Lets hear some of those reasons. So far all Obama has offered us is "but terrorism!", "you can trust us!", and "we can't comment on potential litigation".
Similarly Obama's series of half-scandals (none by themselves are anywhere near as big as stuff Bush did - they just all hit at the same time) has seriously weakened the incredible high moral status he had earned by passing healthcare, killing Bin Ladin, and ending Bush's Iraq war.
Obama's scandals don't even measure on the richter scale. His policies are why he is a detestable president. That high moral standing you refer to is entirely illusory:
He campaigned with single payer advocates, and when it came time to implement policy he shut them out, preferring to give the insurance industry mandatory customers.
Bin Laden he killed, but it was an empty victory against a powerless figurehead. The US is no better off for Bin Laden being dead.
He ended Bush's Iraq war, on the date that Bush agreed the war would end. And he was trying to negotiate an extension. Thank the Iraqis and Bush for ending the war, Obama deserves zero credit.
He simply has not done anything worse than most presidents.
That's flat out wrong. He has charged more whistleblowers with espionage than all previous administrations combined. There's more, but I only need one example to prove you wrong.
Obama has such a political following and fanatical supporters that he could literally get away with murder
He already has.
Undue respect for "superiors" is why 500,000 people died in Iraq. Why Edward Snowden is indicted for espionage while Obama remains unimpeached. Why we imprison more people than any other country in the world. Why we allow tens of thousands of our own citizens to die each year because they can't get insurance. Why we shut down an entire city for someone who caused an explosion that killed 3 people while someone who the very same week caused an explosion that killed 14 walks free. etc. etc.
America is not the bastion of independent thought we'd like it to be. It's better than Korea by a long shot, but there's much more progress we still need to make.
Is this his explanation for why Epic Mickey sucked? He was beholden to the "metrics guys" at Disney? I've loved everything Spector has done, but Epic Mickey is just the blandest platform gameplay with high production value Disney art.
There are meaningful differences between the beliefs of Democrats and Republicans
I don't know about their beliefs, but their policies are indistinguishable.
Do they both have good guys and bad guys?
No, they are all bad guys.
But tell me, what is the bipartisan consensus on women's rights?
The bipartisan consensus is that womens rights is a great issue to distract the populace so that they don't realize the entire system is a scam. e.g. Obama can give the finance industry anything he wants, exactly what Romney would have done, no progressive is going to complain as long birth control is covered by Obamacare. Republicans throw a completely disproportional shitfit, in order to make it look like there's actual debate in Congress, and either way the actual decision goes the rich win.
Separation of church and state?
Same thing as womens rights, just a ploy to distract the people. Christianity teaches us to take care of the less fortunate. But we can't have that, so they invent a controversy stemming from some forgotten passage in the old testament, and literally make a federal case out of it.
Immigration?
The bipartisan consensus on immigration is that immigrants are a pawn to be used in political games.
Taxes?
Yet another issue that's overinflated to create a percieved difference where there is no honest difference. Boehner damn well knows that you can't balance the budget without both tax increases and spending cuts. His only complaint is that he would have to cooperate with Obama, which would appear to be weakness on his part. He figures the Republicans will get more votes by looking strong and being wrong than looking weak and being right. He's probably right, but it's not an honest disagreement on what constitutes good policy.
This gets all the more frightening when you look at the issues on which there is broad bipartisan consensus. There is no debate on NSA surveillance. There is no debate on the war on drug users. There is no debate on the criminal prosecutions of banking executives. On all the most important policies, there is bipartisan consensus for the most harmful position. On all the most trivial policies, there is feigned debate.
And, temp can mean anything
Temp only means one thing, "we're cheating you out of benefits".
Or, did you seriously fucking think I really mean for him (Weev) to be punished solely on the name of the company?
Why would I not believe that, based on what you said? People believe far stupider things. Many of them are even federal prosecutors.
Easy solution. Configure grub to automatically boot an unencrypted OS that has tracking enabled. Use the hiddenmenu command to make it less obvious that there are other systems available.
You really need an unencrypted decoy OS to get through customs unmolested anyway. Might as well install Prey on it.
The fact is Weev "stole" it (copied without permission) and then stupidly publicized it.
The fact is Weev submitted an HTTP request and got data back. Just like every other HTTP request ever.
As far as I'm concerned, anyone calling their group Goatse Security needs to be punished anyway. I'm not interested in trying to explain to my 6yo what the fuck that means.
Apparently you're not interested in trying to explain to your 6yo what freedom of speech or proportional justice means either.
Over half the population fails to vote in any election. So at least 50% of us know it's not worth participating in a rigged system run by criminals.
To be fair, most of the time, no one knows they are criminals when they elect them, even if they are.
Candidate Obama came out in favor of warrantless wiretapping in the summer of 2008. Everyone knew he was a criminal then and still voted for him.
Or sports. How many riots have there been after sporting events? How many riots have there been due to violent video games?
Comparing the 2010s to the 1990s isn't fair. The economy was booming, and we still had a middle class. We just went through the biggest recession since the great depression, and the benefits of recovery have accrued entirely to the rich. There's a reason why they call it a "jobless recovery".
Kids may or may not be softer than they were when we were their age. But it's definitely harder out there.
Are you a genuinely nice North American dude with a real job? If so, it really is remarkably easy to meet wonderful women in Japan.
If you're a genuinely nice North American dude with a real job, it is remarkably easy to meet wonderful women anywhere.
There was no reason for the US to attack Iraq other than to provide for a distraction in the hunt for bin Laden.
And yet you support the US, not just in words but with your life's work. How do you figure using hundreds of thousands of innocent lives as a distraction makes us any better than the jihadists?
What did he potentially have access to that's so damning to the government that it's strong-arming the entire world over the possibility that he could release it?
A conscience.