Especially he has the right to complain. He got in prison for doing what others now do to him. So either his sentence was injustice (because others are allowed for what he serves time in prison), or what the others are doing to him now is injustice and should be punished with prison time.
And that's exactly the problem the NSA faces: Hindsight is 20/20. After you know who actually staged an attack, you recognize the pattern that might have raised the alarm. The NSA seems to believe that they can spot the pattern before the actual attack, but so far it didn't happen. At least that's what we know. The NSA seems to believe that more data will help spot the patterns more easily, but to me, it looks as if all it spots is noise and signals indistinguishible from noise.
Sometimes I am reminded of the Bible code. If you look at any, even random, data long enough, you find enough seemingly meaningfull patterns, but in the end it's impossible to make a difference between signal and noise.
Then the NSA does a hell of a non-job. It wasn't able to find the nadle named "Tsarnaev brothers", though there were warnings about them. Same with "Abdulmutallab", which seems to have turned up nothing despite even his own father was warning about him.
You rightly quote Wikipedia, and you know what's (according to Wikipedia) missing in socialism? Right, private ownership! All ownership is collective, co-operative or state based. And that's what real socialism is. Not what you use the swearword "socialism" for.
Repeat after me: No private ownership or private control of production means. As long as most of the production means ownership and control is private, you simply don't have Socialism. You can call me Euroweenie or Hans or whatever, but you still are wrong. Swearwords don't change that.
Choose a new swearword for the situation you don't like in the U.S. or be prepared to further be called for misunderstanding and misusing the word Socialism.
Socialism is, when the means of production are socialized, that means owned or at least controlled by the society and not private owners.
And no, you don't still have a clue. You come across like the american jews in the 1930ies and 1940ies, who told their European brethren who could barely flee: "we also had hard times." Yes, there are regulations in the U.S. and there are taxes. That doesn't make the U.S. in any way socialist. The municipal appartement administration has no comparable counterpart in the U.S.. The owner of a house under the municipal administration can't enter any contracts anymore. Not even necessary repairs. He can apply for repairs at the office, but the administration will determine the time, allocate the money, will hire the craftsmen (or send their own), and oversee the execution.
You still have no clue about capitalism vs. socialism. In a socialist country, you have a strong state sector in the economy, private ownership of companies, of resources and even of tools is frowned upon. Call me back when more than 80% of the economic output of the U.S. economy comes from the state owned sector. Call me again, when the house you are living in is state owned or at least state administered, like 95% of all other housing. Call me back when taxes on privately owned enterprises like a pub or a bakery are 90%. Call me back when all mining is a state owned monopoly. Call me back when every trade and every shop has to be member of a state controlled society.
You just don't know how it is when a farmer is blackmailed to join a farmer's collective by having a truck outside his house all night with a running engine, shining the beams into the bedroom. When his son is put in jail for trumped up traffic violation charges, and the charges will only be dropped if his father joins the collective. You don't know how it is when a private owned print shop just doesn't get any paper, because the order for new paper was put back and back and postponed again by the state owned papermill. You don't know how it is when you can't rent out your house anymore, but you are required to report all available appartements to the municipal appartement administration which then will send you whoever people they allocated the appartments to.
Stop your clueless musings about how socialist the U.S. would be. It just isn't true.
No. A programmer is a programmer, and an engineer is an engineer. There are programmers who are engineers, and there are engineers who know how to code. Engineering is about design, programming is about putting down code. In an ideal world, an engineer's design for a program can be coded by one programmer in C++, in Fortran by another one, and in LISP by a third one.
We are full on socialists, have been for many many years and the socialists in charge seek only to confiscate more and more of the wealth of the citizens.
You have no clue what it means to live in a socialist society. So stop putting completely inapprobriate labels everywhere just to appear alarmist. The U.S. is capitalist. Pure and simple. With a very small amount of socialist icing on top. I've grown up in a socialist state. To call the U.S. socialist is akin to calling snow black.
How many kernels do you need to be written? How many Windows-8-machines do you need installed? "Shortage" does not mean "there are only a few of them", shortage means "there are not enough of them". This is quite different. We only have a single Mt. McKinley, but to go around and tell everybody that there is a shortage of Mt. McKinleys is just crazy.
With the same argument you could state that the government has little to no hesitation to limit the ways we can go by protecting the properties and rights of landowners. Or that the government has little to no hesitation to limit the places we can put our knifes by making stabbing someone illegal.
But neither magic mushrooms nor marihuana were ever banned with the argument they would be natural cures and thus should be banned. Their positive health effects didn't play any role when banning them.
If livestock gets some illness like B.S.E. or foot and mouth disease, often the whole flock is culled. It's an effective, natural remedy against the further propagation of the illness. But culling of people because of an illness is forbidden - and not because it's a natural cure.
So it's not supressed. You can get all the homeopathy you want, all the chiropractics and all the bach flower remedies. No one will supress it. As they are no medication (they have no proven health effect), you can't get them in an Obamacare plan.
Weed was not supressed because it's a natural cure. Thus it's irrelevant in this case. Weed has been supressed for completely different reasons. Same with Heroin. Heroin is a wonderful medication for the common cold. But it is not supressed because it's a possible cure for the common cold.
But the theory that the government is "suppressing access to natural cures" is very likely to be true.
Actually, that's very likely to be false. If they are "natural cures", everyone could get them, they wouldn't be medication in a legal sense and thus not regulated by the government.
In a natural forrest (we don't have many of them left), you seldom have the same species of trees close together, and a natural forrest never consists only of trees, there are shrubs and herbs, mushrooms and grass. The shrubs often provide the space for birds to nest, and they in turn keep beetles at bay. Actually, you can kill a forrest by removing all shrubs because then insects take over and they or their larvae kill off the trees.
The same is valid for grasslands. There are shrubs and trees inbetween (not close together though), and lots of flowering plants. Grasslands usually only stay open if there are large grazing animals living there, stomping out the seeds of other plants, otherwise shrubs and trees would take over and turn the grassland into a forrest.
In a natural world, plants defend against pests by producing toxins themselves that keep enough of the pests away for survival. But in a natural world, you don't have the big feast of hundreds of acres of food for a single species (ok, for two species, one being Homo sapiens sapiens L.) without anything else getting in the way. Corn rootworms have a literal field day in a corn field, and anything the corn plant has evolved itself to keep rootworms at bay is outnumbered by the sheer amount of rootworms. The easiest way to get the number of rootworms down is to get the number of corn plants down, and that means fruit change. If there is a generation of rootworms which doesn't find a single corn plant to feed on, the population will simply die out.
And what's about the actual inhabitants of Crimea, the Crimean Tartars, whose right to autonomy and to their own language and culture were just removed by the new government of the Ukraine and only reinstated when they announced they would go for secession because of the ongoing threads of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists? The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954, until it was given to the Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev, who grew up in the Ukraine himself. Native Ukrainians are an actual minority there, the majority is native Russian or Crimean Tartars.
Because it's his software you are installing, and there might be a reason not disclosed to you why he doesn't want his old code running on your device?
Mimas is much smaller than Ceres and it is spherical. The only reason Mimas is not a planet is, because it's a moon. So it would be quite possible that we discover spherical objects (or at least objects in hydrostatical equilibrum, as even Jupiter or Saturn are not spherical) which are much smaller than Ceres and not orbiting a planet.
Because there wasn't a definition of "planet" before (except member of the {Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto} set), there was no definition that could have changed.
By the way, there was a time, when it was the {Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus} set, as Ceres was discovered in 1801, and Neptune in 1846. Ceres got thrown out, and Neptune was included. And no one was complaining about arbitrarily changing a non-existant definition.
But then you discover a group of objects of which half of them barely meet your criterion, and the others just don't. And then one half are planets, and the others which don't differ in anything from the first ones except not meeting an arbitrary limit, aren't planets.
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Especially he has the right to complain. He got in prison for doing what others now do to him. So either his sentence was injustice (because others are allowed for what he serves time in prison), or what the others are doing to him now is injustice and should be punished with prison time.
This is a clear case of "blinded by data".
Sometimes I am reminded of the Bible code. If you look at any, even random, data long enough, you find enough seemingly meaningfull patterns, but in the end it's impossible to make a difference between signal and noise.
Then the NSA does a hell of a non-job. It wasn't able to find the nadle named "Tsarnaev brothers", though there were warnings about them. Same with "Abdulmutallab", which seems to have turned up nothing despite even his own father was warning about him.
No, there are Special Creationists (concerned with space and time) and General Creationists (which also include mass into their prayers).
Repeat after me: No private ownership or private control of production means. As long as most of the production means ownership and control is private, you simply don't have Socialism. You can call me Euroweenie or Hans or whatever, but you still are wrong. Swearwords don't change that.
Choose a new swearword for the situation you don't like in the U.S. or be prepared to further be called for misunderstanding and misusing the word Socialism.
And no, you don't still have a clue. You come across like the american jews in the 1930ies and 1940ies, who told their European brethren who could barely flee: "we also had hard times." Yes, there are regulations in the U.S. and there are taxes. That doesn't make the U.S. in any way socialist. The municipal appartement administration has no comparable counterpart in the U.S.. The owner of a house under the municipal administration can't enter any contracts anymore. Not even necessary repairs. He can apply for repairs at the office, but the administration will determine the time, allocate the money, will hire the craftsmen (or send their own), and oversee the execution.
You just don't know how it is when a farmer is blackmailed to join a farmer's collective by having a truck outside his house all night with a running engine, shining the beams into the bedroom. When his son is put in jail for trumped up traffic violation charges, and the charges will only be dropped if his father joins the collective. You don't know how it is when a private owned print shop just doesn't get any paper, because the order for new paper was put back and back and postponed again by the state owned papermill. You don't know how it is when you can't rent out your house anymore, but you are required to report all available appartements to the municipal appartement administration which then will send you whoever people they allocated the appartments to.
Stop your clueless musings about how socialist the U.S. would be. It just isn't true.
No. A programmer is a programmer, and an engineer is an engineer. There are programmers who are engineers, and there are engineers who know how to code. Engineering is about design, programming is about putting down code. In an ideal world, an engineer's design for a program can be coded by one programmer in C++, in Fortran by another one, and in LISP by a third one.
A programmer.
We are full on socialists, have been for many many years and the socialists in charge seek only to confiscate more and more of the wealth of the citizens.
You have no clue what it means to live in a socialist society. So stop putting completely inapprobriate labels everywhere just to appear alarmist. The U.S. is capitalist. Pure and simple. With a very small amount of socialist icing on top. I've grown up in a socialist state. To call the U.S. socialist is akin to calling snow black.
How many kernels do you need to be written? How many Windows-8-machines do you need installed? "Shortage" does not mean "there are only a few of them", shortage means "there are not enough of them". This is quite different. We only have a single Mt. McKinley, but to go around and tell everybody that there is a shortage of Mt. McKinleys is just crazy.
This is pure rabulism and not a "grain of truth".
If livestock gets some illness like B.S.E. or foot and mouth disease, often the whole flock is culled. It's an effective, natural remedy against the further propagation of the illness. But culling of people because of an illness is forbidden - and not because it's a natural cure.
So it's not supressed. You can get all the homeopathy you want, all the chiropractics and all the bach flower remedies. No one will supress it. As they are no medication (they have no proven health effect), you can't get them in an Obamacare plan.
Weed was not supressed because it's a natural cure. Thus it's irrelevant in this case. Weed has been supressed for completely different reasons. Same with Heroin. Heroin is a wonderful medication for the common cold. But it is not supressed because it's a possible cure for the common cold.
But the theory that the government is "suppressing access to natural cures" is very likely to be true.
Actually, that's very likely to be false. If they are "natural cures", everyone could get them, they wouldn't be medication in a legal sense and thus not regulated by the government.
The same is valid for grasslands. There are shrubs and trees inbetween (not close together though), and lots of flowering plants. Grasslands usually only stay open if there are large grazing animals living there, stomping out the seeds of other plants, otherwise shrubs and trees would take over and turn the grassland into a forrest.
In a natural world, plants defend against pests by producing toxins themselves that keep enough of the pests away for survival. But in a natural world, you don't have the big feast of hundreds of acres of food for a single species (ok, for two species, one being Homo sapiens sapiens L.) without anything else getting in the way. Corn rootworms have a literal field day in a corn field, and anything the corn plant has evolved itself to keep rootworms at bay is outnumbered by the sheer amount of rootworms. The easiest way to get the number of rootworms down is to get the number of corn plants down, and that means fruit change. If there is a generation of rootworms which doesn't find a single corn plant to feed on, the population will simply die out.
And what's about the actual inhabitants of Crimea, the Crimean Tartars, whose right to autonomy and to their own language and culture were just removed by the new government of the Ukraine and only reinstated when they announced they would go for secession because of the ongoing threads of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists? The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954, until it was given to the Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev, who grew up in the Ukraine himself. Native Ukrainians are an actual minority there, the majority is native Russian or Crimean Tartars.
Because it's his software you are installing, and there might be a reason not disclosed to you why he doesn't want his old code running on your device?
Mimas is much smaller than Ceres and it is spherical. The only reason Mimas is not a planet is, because it's a moon. So it would be quite possible that we discover spherical objects (or at least objects in hydrostatical equilibrum, as even Jupiter or Saturn are not spherical) which are much smaller than Ceres and not orbiting a planet.
By the way, there was a time, when it was the {Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus} set, as Ceres was discovered in 1801, and Neptune in 1846. Ceres got thrown out, and Neptune was included. And no one was complaining about arbitrarily changing a non-existant definition.
But then you discover a group of objects of which half of them barely meet your criterion, and the others just don't. And then one half are planets, and the others which don't differ in anything from the first ones except not meeting an arbitrary limit, aren't planets.
Hm... What have Mars and Pluto in common?