I recommend actually looking hard and who you're defending. Pussy riot girls are epic level attention whores (literally) who have shot orgy porn while pregnant to "protest" the same issue a couple of years ago, among other similar stunts (you'll find photos of the orgy if you look, video is harder to come by).
No one cared about them until they busted into church and violated right to freedom of practicing religion without idiots disturbing them in their church. Rather strange, if they were nailed for political reasons rather then their actual stated crime, surely they would have been nailed much earlier, like when they were shooting the preggo porn orgy against Putin?
There are MANY groups of people in Russia who are worth defending for protecting rights of people. Pussy riot is not one of such groups. You should instead consider people who are trying to dig into human right abuses in Chechnya, journalists who investigate shady regional and federal ties and corruption and so on.
But instead, we (Westerners) are wasting our energy and efforts on a bunch of dumb attention whores who's main accomplishment is breaking into the church and interrupting orthodox service with risque acts. And at the same time, persecution people who are actually investigating real issues goes unnoticed.
Factually false. Neither Russia nor China practice such propaganda on scale anywhere near that which we get in US/UK sourced media.
Source: I'm fluent in russian and follow on some of their more reputable news agencies alongside outlets like al jazeera to offset the bias from following BBC, france24, euronews and reuters. While everyone tends to blame others for wrongdoing, the scale and depth of blame laid on others is massively greater in Western media. I would describe it as the "need to promote the illusion that we have a best country, government, political and economical system them anyone else". China, Russia et al do not have a need to promote this as their citizens are under no such illusion.
But only one nation rides around on a high horse openly accusing others of it all the time. And that nation just got caught doing the exact thing it accuses everyone else of doing, and doing it on the scale that many didn't even think possible.
Problem: this has been done for years. In some cases, it has been used as a way to get live consultation from a specialist over the internet thousands of kilometers away.
As a result, this wouldn't be news, this would be "business as usual". Which isn't going to get advertisement views.
There are some pretty nice helm camera vids of dutch marines taking a vessel from somali pirates somewhere on the internet. No shooting there though. I imagine glass would allow to take those one step further.
Recall the reporter who went all across TV to shout that she was "raped" in Egypt during demonstrations.
When her claims were confirmed, what actually happened was that protestors who were against her crew stripped her and were "nipping" her with fingers. I.e. stretching skin with finger tips all over arms, legs and body. Essentially if she were a male, she'd be brutally beaten, but since she was a female, she got off with a much lighter form of physical assault.
Instead she started screaming "rape" all over television, and media loved the story even though it was exceptionally obvious that this was in no shape or form a rape. Even though anyone with common sense pretty much instantly understood the issue.
Essentially shouting "rape" is often used as a tool to shift blame after getting into a fight and losing it when you're a woman, because it automatically places a much heavier stigma on the male part of the fight then female one.
I don't think it would even have to come to actual execution. A good scare where someone would come close would be more then enough, as it would shatter the illusion of immunity that many of the upper tier of society people tend to get if they are allowed to get away with crimes for a while. This isn't about actual action, but about creating a real, tangible risk that people who consider it would not find worth the potential reward.
But few share the data in the way we know it to be shared between certain Western agencies. In most cases, these agencies are adversaries, not each other's subcontractors to bypass laws.
Propaganda. The current regime in US has invested enormous sums over many decades to plant the thought that US is "just" based on a set of values. One of these values is value of life of its own citizens, especially young, successful, white citizens.
Snuffing the leaker would be so harshly against these values that it would require a significant investment to reinforce the propaganda and inflict significant damage to current status quo. And that is why Snowden is still alive. The damage he planned to do to propaganda regime has already been done, and there's little gain by snuffing him now other then petty vengeance. He likely has already made copies and distributed them, so his death is largely irrelevant to damage done at this point. It's simply not worth the cost.
And it's okay, because many foreigners are equally indifferent to your rights as well.
Which leads to the current situation, where NSA outsources spying on you to foreign entities, who in turn outsource spying on their citizens to NSA. Result: you have NSA have all the spy data on yourself, through this outsourcing. It's awesome just how your selfish assholery comes and bites you square in your face. And you still remain ignorant of it.
These concepts are VERY different, and you used the word "deterrence" to mean "recidivism" which caused your statement to look absurd. The fault lies entirely with you.
This isn't about littering. This is about high level leadership making choices for quick profit over sustainable methods. Historically and criminologically the only place that severe punishments ever worked has been at that level, because at that level people spend significant amount of consideration about risk/reward ratio.
It's the same reason why tough penalties don't work for petty crime or desperate people - they do not perform same evaluations with anywhere near the same seriousness or effort.
They didn't lie as they didn't promise "perpetual support". The solution offered to those who wanted another OS was "do not update". I.e. it would work absolutely fine as advertised, as long as you didn't update and ask for further support for that feature. They didn't force updates and they were very upfront about the issue, so if you needed the other OS and updated, it was your mistake.
It sucked hard that they chose to remove the feature in updates but they did not lie about it. That claim is a hyperbole.
It's a bit too long for a troll document, and a just sufficiently corporate-speakish to be real. Teen trolls don't have the language skills to produce a document like that, while adult trolls don't have the time and patience to get over that many points.
It also doesn't look like a collaboration because the writing style stays the same throughout the document.
All in all, it has a very good chance of being a real thing.
It's a well known biological fact that both men and women objectify women. That is because evolutionary path for our race has been that men are selected by women for their wealth and prosperity, while women are selected on their fertility, which is deducted by how woman looks. As a result, both men looking for a mate and women who are looking for a mate objectify women in terms of looks, and men in terms of wealth, as they look at potential mates and potential competitors for said mates.
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I recommend actually looking hard and who you're defending. Pussy riot girls are epic level attention whores (literally) who have shot orgy porn while pregnant to "protest" the same issue a couple of years ago, among other similar stunts (you'll find photos of the orgy if you look, video is harder to come by).
No one cared about them until they busted into church and violated right to freedom of practicing religion without idiots disturbing them in their church. Rather strange, if they were nailed for political reasons rather then their actual stated crime, surely they would have been nailed much earlier, like when they were shooting the preggo porn orgy against Putin?
There are MANY groups of people in Russia who are worth defending for protecting rights of people. Pussy riot is not one of such groups. You should instead consider people who are trying to dig into human right abuses in Chechnya, journalists who investigate shady regional and federal ties and corruption and so on.
But instead, we (Westerners) are wasting our energy and efforts on a bunch of dumb attention whores who's main accomplishment is breaking into the church and interrupting orthodox service with risque acts. And at the same time, persecution people who are actually investigating real issues goes unnoticed.
Because US version of IP rights are just as universally accepted and completely comparable to human rights.
Is that like the "corporations are citizens"?
For the record, draconian IP regime of US is widely criticized and rejected worldwide, including inside US itself.
Factually false. Neither Russia nor China practice such propaganda on scale anywhere near that which we get in US/UK sourced media.
Source: I'm fluent in russian and follow on some of their more reputable news agencies alongside outlets like al jazeera to offset the bias from following BBC, france24, euronews and reuters. While everyone tends to blame others for wrongdoing, the scale and depth of blame laid on others is massively greater in Western media. I would describe it as the "need to promote the illusion that we have a best country, government, political and economical system them anyone else". China, Russia et al do not have a need to promote this as their citizens are under no such illusion.
Smart weapons that can hit within meters of intended target, but human error margin is in thousands of kilometers.
I suppose that gets points for being both poetic and scientific way to express reality.
Sure. Let's talk about Stasi and how they could only pull spying on much lesser scale. Surely that was also justified?
You almost make it sound like US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn't make sense. They got attacked by guys from Saudi-Arabia, not afghans or iraqis.
But only one nation rides around on a high horse openly accusing others of it all the time. And that nation just got caught doing the exact thing it accuses everyone else of doing, and doing it on the scale that many didn't even think possible.
So you ignored their actual work performance and threw them out because they didn't speak english that you found to be "good enough".
Then you proceeded to complain about immigrants being on welfare.
So, does the word "hypocrisy" ring any bells? Or is that part of the "bad english" you don't want to understand too?
Problem: this has been done for years. In some cases, it has been used as a way to get live consultation from a specialist over the internet thousands of kilometers away.
As a result, this wouldn't be news, this would be "business as usual". Which isn't going to get advertisement views.
There are some pretty nice helm camera vids of dutch marines taking a vessel from somali pirates somewhere on the internet. No shooting there though. I imagine glass would allow to take those one step further.
Powerful incumbents against competition. Laws are working as intended.
Recall the reporter who went all across TV to shout that she was "raped" in Egypt during demonstrations.
When her claims were confirmed, what actually happened was that protestors who were against her crew stripped her and were "nipping" her with fingers. I.e. stretching skin with finger tips all over arms, legs and body. Essentially if she were a male, she'd be brutally beaten, but since she was a female, she got off with a much lighter form of physical assault.
Instead she started screaming "rape" all over television, and media loved the story even though it was exceptionally obvious that this was in no shape or form a rape. Even though anyone with common sense pretty much instantly understood the issue.
Essentially shouting "rape" is often used as a tool to shift blame after getting into a fight and losing it when you're a woman, because it automatically places a much heavier stigma on the male part of the fight then female one.
I don't think it would even have to come to actual execution. A good scare where someone would come close would be more then enough, as it would shatter the illusion of immunity that many of the upper tier of society people tend to get if they are allowed to get away with crimes for a while. This isn't about actual action, but about creating a real, tangible risk that people who consider it would not find worth the potential reward.
But few share the data in the way we know it to be shared between certain Western agencies. In most cases, these agencies are adversaries, not each other's subcontractors to bypass laws.
Propaganda. The current regime in US has invested enormous sums over many decades to plant the thought that US is "just" based on a set of values. One of these values is value of life of its own citizens, especially young, successful, white citizens.
Snuffing the leaker would be so harshly against these values that it would require a significant investment to reinforce the propaganda and inflict significant damage to current status quo. And that is why Snowden is still alive. The damage he planned to do to propaganda regime has already been done, and there's little gain by snuffing him now other then petty vengeance. He likely has already made copies and distributed them, so his death is largely irrelevant to damage done at this point. It's simply not worth the cost.
And it's okay, because many foreigners are equally indifferent to your rights as well.
Which leads to the current situation, where NSA outsources spying on you to foreign entities, who in turn outsource spying on their citizens to NSA. Result: you have NSA have all the spy data on yourself, through this outsourcing. It's awesome just how your selfish assholery comes and bites you square in your face. And you still remain ignorant of it.
You do not know the meanings of the words you're using, which resulted in absurdity in your statements. Allow me to help you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(legal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism
These concepts are VERY different, and you used the word "deterrence" to mean "recidivism" which caused your statement to look absurd. The fault lies entirely with you.
This isn't about littering. This is about high level leadership making choices for quick profit over sustainable methods. Historically and criminologically the only place that severe punishments ever worked has been at that level, because at that level people spend significant amount of consideration about risk/reward ratio.
It's the same reason why tough penalties don't work for petty crime or desperate people - they do not perform same evaluations with anywhere near the same seriousness or effort.
Don't buy apple. Most other manufacturers offer everything from top of the line to the very bottom with swappable batteries.
They didn't lie as they didn't promise "perpetual support". The solution offered to those who wanted another OS was "do not update". I.e. it would work absolutely fine as advertised, as long as you didn't update and ask for further support for that feature. They didn't force updates and they were very upfront about the issue, so if you needed the other OS and updated, it was your mistake.
It sucked hard that they chose to remove the feature in updates but they did not lie about it. That claim is a hyperbole.
Crack the game before running it then. DRM removal tools are freely available.
You mean like WP7/8? They are burning about a billion yearly on nokia fees alone with actual marketing costs on top of that.
It's a bit too long for a troll document, and a just sufficiently corporate-speakish to be real. Teen trolls don't have the language skills to produce a document like that, while adult trolls don't have the time and patience to get over that many points.
It also doesn't look like a collaboration because the writing style stays the same throughout the document.
All in all, it has a very good chance of being a real thing.
You should be looking at the PC version then, as it is known to be far superior to console versions if you're in it for just one game.
It's a well known biological fact that both men and women objectify women. That is because evolutionary path for our race has been that men are selected by women for their wealth and prosperity, while women are selected on their fertility, which is deducted by how woman looks. As a result, both men looking for a mate and women who are looking for a mate objectify women in terms of looks, and men in terms of wealth, as they look at potential mates and potential competitors for said mates.