Journalists do not have a security clearance. They do not promise to guard classified information.
He brought the information to China, then Russia. He exposed things that weren't even illegal or against the constitution and directly lead to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Russia, because Snowden told them how the NSA monitored their communications switched over to couriers and typewriters because they knew they could not be tracked.
It is rather hard to prosecute the whole of Congress that authorized the collection with the Patriot Act. You really should give up, none of the responsible parties will ever be punished as they don't charge each other.
But if Hillary gets in, she just won't care about classified leaks as "at this point, what difference does it make". She is so corrupt, that she dodged serious prison time for exposing classified information, merely because of who she is. She broke numerous federal laws, but because she is the anointed one, no charges will come.
Hell, the President of the Philippines just said he wants Americans out.
I wish that guy would make up his mind. First they want us out, so we decommission all our bases and exit the country. China starts pushing them around, and they beg us to come back. Now they want us out again? Perhaps he should consider what China might do if we honor his request. Perhaps they will just annex the whole country.
Ireland is a sovern nation. If they set the tax rates on certain entities at whatever they like, they are welcome to do so. Apple paid every bit of tax they were legally required to pay. The EU has issues with Ireland, and they are taking it out on Apple because they are a juicy target. This has nothing to do with unpaid taxes, or they would be going after all of the companies using the Irish tax system to pay less taxes.
You actually contradict yourself repeatedly with what you wrote, do you even realize it?
Shockingly, AOI doesn't pay taxes. Anywhere. The holding company had a net income of $30 billion from 2009 to 2012, but has not declared tax residency in any jurisdiction.
Apple had a tax holiday for the first 10 years in Ireland. They paid no taxes to the Irish government.
So, do they declare themselves stateless, or take advantage of tax laws that are on the books and perfectly legal in the host country? What taxes did they fail to pay? Why do these taxes only apply to Apple and not the thousands of other corporations? Why is the EU dictating the taxes a company should be paying in a country where they paid every cent in required taxes? If the EU cares so much about what each country's tax laws are, why don't they just write the tax laws for the countries? Why is Ikea allowed to benefit from the tax laws of Sweden, while Apple is an evil tax avoider?
An EU ruling, which makes no sense doesn't justify itself. If the US decided that Maryland didn't collect enough taxes from me, why would the US have any authority to tell me to pay more taxes to Maryland if I follow the laws of Maryland and pay every cent of taxes owed to the country.
It seems you are willfully ignorant that this is special treatment for a single company.
Where is the EU ruling that Ikea needs to pay billions of Euros in taxes? There are literally (not figuratively) thousands of companies using tax loopholes in Europe to pay little to no tax, but we are focusing on Apple, why?
I am not saying that what Apple is doing isn't scummy, I am saying that they aren't the only one, but they are being singled out.
You claim willful ignorance on my part, but how do you explain your ignorance of the other companies, and your focus on ONLY Apple in this?
Funny thing, people with ADHD respond in exactly the opposite way to these drugs as people without the drug. If you have ADHD and take a stimulant, it has the effect of calming you, not of improving your performance in any way.
There are tests to determine if someone has ADHD, to claim that someone is just taking the drugs to compete better is a really odd thing to say.
So, how is the weather in Moscow? I see they suggested you create accounts now so that you aren't as easily disbelieved.
Both of my kids, and I have ADHD, I have taken all of these except Adderall, and they had varying effects on my attention issues. Perhaps we should just ban treatment of any issues with athletes, they should just not use any medications?
These people used medications in the course of medical treatment of actual conditions. If Russia wanted to diagnose all their athletes with ADHD to give them all Ritalin, it would be possible within the rules. Instead, they chose a drug that is used only for recovery from major illnesses and used it on most of their athletes, despite it being a banned drug, and without a doctors exemption for treatment.
When rules are made that the methods you mention aren't allowed, then you can get on the USs case if they continue. Until then, how is it any difference than the athletes having access to a good gym vs what might be available to a third world country's athletes?
I totally missed where the federal government threw that football player in prison for not standing with hand over heart, can you show me that news story?
But, the warrant doesn't get them around illegal use of cellular spectrum that is only authorized to certain companies by the FCC. There is no loophole in the law for police misuse.
You might want to check out SevenEves, Stephenson did a pretty good job in taking today's technology, and expanding it a bit to write a great story.
Some of his other books though can be pretty hard to get through, such as the Baroque Cycle, but I really enjoy Cryptonomicon and Diamond Age.
The Martian movie was pretty good when put next to the book. There of course isn't as much explanation of what is going on, but they get it pretty right. I would recommend seeing it, it was worth the cost to me, and my kids enjoyed it too.
The author (Andy Weir) acknowledged that the dust storm wouldn't have had the effects it did. He said he had to have a way to strand Watney, and chose a dust storm as the only plausible way to do so. Also, the ending scene you mention actually did have issues with too much atmosphere, that was the whole reason that the MAV didn't reach the right speed and missed the rendezvous.
What group would that be that hasn't historically been discriminated against? I haven't heard of any of these mythical groups that escaped discrimination.
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Journalists do not have a security clearance. They do not promise to guard classified information.
He brought the information to China, then Russia. He exposed things that weren't even illegal or against the constitution and directly lead to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. Russia, because Snowden told them how the NSA monitored their communications switched over to couriers and typewriters because they knew they could not be tracked.
It is rather hard to prosecute the whole of Congress that authorized the collection with the Patriot Act. You really should give up, none of the responsible parties will ever be punished as they don't charge each other.
But if Hillary gets in, she just won't care about classified leaks as "at this point, what difference does it make". She is so corrupt, that she dodged serious prison time for exposing classified information, merely because of who she is. She broke numerous federal laws, but because she is the anointed one, no charges will come.
Hell, the President of the Philippines just said he wants Americans out.
I wish that guy would make up his mind. First they want us out, so we decommission all our bases and exit the country. China starts pushing them around, and they beg us to come back. Now they want us out again? Perhaps he should consider what China might do if we honor his request. Perhaps they will just annex the whole country.
For any curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I personally never watched wrestling, so I had to Google that to verify, and apparently the AC is not trolling.
Ireland is a sovern nation. If they set the tax rates on certain entities at whatever they like, they are welcome to do so. Apple paid every bit of tax they were legally required to pay. The EU has issues with Ireland, and they are taking it out on Apple because they are a juicy target. This has nothing to do with unpaid taxes, or they would be going after all of the companies using the Irish tax system to pay less taxes.
You actually contradict yourself repeatedly with what you wrote, do you even realize it?
Shockingly, AOI doesn't pay taxes. Anywhere. The holding company had a net income of $30 billion from 2009 to 2012, but has not declared tax residency in any jurisdiction.
Apple had a tax holiday for the first 10 years in Ireland. They paid no taxes to the Irish government.
So, do they declare themselves stateless, or take advantage of tax laws that are on the books and perfectly legal in the host country? What taxes did they fail to pay? Why do these taxes only apply to Apple and not the thousands of other corporations? Why is the EU dictating the taxes a company should be paying in a country where they paid every cent in required taxes? If the EU cares so much about what each country's tax laws are, why don't they just write the tax laws for the countries? Why is Ikea allowed to benefit from the tax laws of Sweden, while Apple is an evil tax avoider?
An EU ruling, which makes no sense doesn't justify itself. If the US decided that Maryland didn't collect enough taxes from me, why would the US have any authority to tell me to pay more taxes to Maryland if I follow the laws of Maryland and pay every cent of taxes owed to the country.
It seems you are willfully ignorant that this is special treatment for a single company.
https://www.google.com/search?...
Where is the EU ruling that Ikea needs to pay billions of Euros in taxes? There are literally (not figuratively) thousands of companies using tax loopholes in Europe to pay little to no tax, but we are focusing on Apple, why?
I am not saying that what Apple is doing isn't scummy, I am saying that they aren't the only one, but they are being singled out.
You claim willful ignorance on my part, but how do you explain your ignorance of the other companies, and your focus on ONLY Apple in this?
Capitalism in the US requires silencing dissent and anti-free speech when it comes to a sport player sitting for the national anthem,
It isn't so hard to see. Since the football player isn't in prison, and no one silenced him, it just follows that you are making shit up.
Funny thing, people with ADHD respond in exactly the opposite way to these drugs as people without the drug. If you have ADHD and take a stimulant, it has the effect of calming you, not of improving your performance in any way.
There are tests to determine if someone has ADHD, to claim that someone is just taking the drugs to compete better is a really odd thing to say.
So, how is the weather in Moscow? I see they suggested you create accounts now so that you aren't as easily disbelieved.
All of those drugs are amphetamine analogs used to treat ADHD, or are you going to try and say that her ADHD diagnosis was faked?
https://www.drugs.com/ritalin....
https://www.drugs.com/adderall...
https://www.drugs.com/cdi/dexe...
Both of my kids, and I have ADHD, I have taken all of these except Adderall, and they had varying effects on my attention issues. Perhaps we should just ban treatment of any issues with athletes, they should just not use any medications?
These people used medications in the course of medical treatment of actual conditions. If Russia wanted to diagnose all their athletes with ADHD to give them all Ritalin, it would be possible within the rules. Instead, they chose a drug that is used only for recovery from major illnesses and used it on most of their athletes, despite it being a banned drug, and without a doctors exemption for treatment.
When rules are made that the methods you mention aren't allowed, then you can get on the USs case if they continue. Until then, how is it any difference than the athletes having access to a good gym vs what might be available to a third world country's athletes?
I totally missed where the federal government threw that football player in prison for not standing with hand over heart, can you show me that news story?
That was (less than) 40 cases. Slashdot doesn't like the less than symbol.
It only showed up in 40 cases out of millions of units so far. How much testing is enough in your world?
But, the warrant doesn't get them around illegal use of cellular spectrum that is only authorized to certain companies by the FCC. There is no loophole in the law for police misuse.
SeveneveS just recently came out, it is a pretty good read as well.
You might want to check out SevenEves, Stephenson did a pretty good job in taking today's technology, and expanding it a bit to write a great story.
Some of his other books though can be pretty hard to get through, such as the Baroque Cycle, but I really enjoy Cryptonomicon and Diamond Age.
The Martian movie was pretty good when put next to the book. There of course isn't as much explanation of what is going on, but they get it pretty right. I would recommend seeing it, it was worth the cost to me, and my kids enjoyed it too.
When I read Starship Troopers, I took it as mostly a parody. I don't think that he was seriously glorifying the military mindset offered in the book.
The author (Andy Weir) acknowledged that the dust storm wouldn't have had the effects it did. He said he had to have a way to strand Watney, and chose a dust storm as the only plausible way to do so. Also, the ending scene you mention actually did have issues with too much atmosphere, that was the whole reason that the MAV didn't reach the right speed and missed the rendezvous.
Why don't they just have Siri do they keynotes?
It was good enough to get TFS posted to the front page.
The whole above summary and the mic.com story behind it are extremely sexist.
Gold watch too...women love gold ;)
The apologies too, they have to apologize for everything. ;)
What group would that be that hasn't historically been discriminated against? I haven't heard of any of these mythical groups that escaped discrimination.
When a takedown happens, the owner of the item is supposed to be contacted to be able to refute the request, if at all possible.
What bridges to nowhere would those be?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That bridge was never a bridge to nowhere.
Or perhaps you mean one of these bridges?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Please, name one of these that was a waste given the expectations at the time the bridge was started.