The Police State was built by GOP Administrations, not by the Democrats.
The NSA and other alphabet agencies LONG predate Obush. You are making the horrid mistake, which they want you to do, of thinking there is any difference other than Second Amendment support between the Parties.
"That's why all the Baby Boomers are now a BURDEN on our medical system: all that work and no play made them obese, diabetic, and with heart attacks."
That would be due to their non-exercising lifestyles and spectacularly shitty diet. Exercise and diet weren't cool when Boomers were growing up, and it shows. They played plenty, but it wasn't particularly healthy.
I was delighted to escape my public school and attend an excellent private boarding school. Good riddance to a Hellmouth and the bottom-feeder shitbags who infested it. It was a well-funded Hellmouth, BTW.
Before there were computers, we got along just fine crossing borders without them.
The secure way to bring data across borders is not to do it. The secure way to communicate over the internet is not to send data that matters over the internet.
If you must move data, hide it in a popular porn torrent hosted offshore, wait until there are many downloaders, then grab it while grabbing innocent porn torrents before and afterwards.
"And the US is in a position to be talking about "fundamental freedoms"?" to a country whose people it slaughtered while fighting to impose a neo-colonial government?
As a philosopher and not a scientist, he should be ignored. We don't ask vodou witch doctors for scientific advice either. The proper way to deal with such people is scorn and contempt, not giving them an audience.
Deterring Communism (Stalinism/Maoism) was reasonable given that it was a credible global threat.
Communism, like Nazism, clearly justified anything up to and including murder of its adherents. As a result of harsh policies and practice against it, Communism in the US faded away. (The Foxtards hallucinating that Obama is Communist know nothing about Communism.)
Laws are for use between friends. That's why revolutionaries and serious counter-revolutionaries aren't overly concerned with it.
If he'd been smart enough to send the war crime data, and ONLY that, to the Hague etc then he'd likely have fared better than by doing a bulk data dump which included so much material he couldn't have checked it all.
Reactions to Manning seem to be dictated by the ideology of the beholder rather than what he actually did.
I don't find him either a hero or a villian, just a young troop with serious personal issues who went attention-whoring without thinking it through despite his training.
I'm also not sure that what he released wasn't salted with items which allowed those doing the salting to further their own agenda. Hammering Manning would confirm everything he dumped in the eyes of the world. He'd have been easy to exploit.
The problem is the MB superstition demands theocracy.
I find the willingness of other Egyptians to kill such people impressive. They know extreme Superstitionists cannot be reasoned with, but they can be shot. Bravo and keep shooting.
In my CNC class I sit up front and photograph the whiteboard using my phone.
Other students began doing it too and it's worked well for them.
I'm also politely vocal about finding hand-written "anything" an abomination and point out the instructor could simply do one set of "notes" in PowerPoint for class use and student download. He has started doing that amid much rejoicing. Handwriting is righly obsolete elsewhere and the sooner it's replaced by printed text the better. Text offers faster visual recognition and there is no reason to write again what has once been written when it could as easily be transcribed into text.
An example I cite against handwriting is medical prescription error. How DARE anyone want handwriting when important information must be conveyed precisely? I grew up with the usual classes devoted to making pretty cursive writing and was never impressed. Calligraphy is for hobbyists, text is for communication.
"They might be paying for the bus, but they sure as hell aren't paying for the roads, police, traffic signals, air quality and services they need to run them."
Commercial vehicles are taxed as is the fuel they burn. Not even a good troll.
No one not stuck in a ghetto wants to mingle with ghetto dwellers.
There are many "realities", one of which is that you are free to associate with those you prefer. Money helps make that happen.
"Why subject your employees to the outer-world that is - let's face it - such a nuisance and an eye-sore. Who wants to deal with the unpleasantness of ghetto-fabulous Oakland or South San Francisco? "
Damn skippy. LIke ghettos? Live in one. I'll pass.
If you "take over" a community by buying it, it's yours.
Communities change. People compete for desirable areas. If there is no use for the poor in a given area they will eventually be displaced.
I "order stuff online rather than go shopping at local places" because it serves me, but I make exceptions when local businesses serve me better. Driving to buy a item from a brick-and-mortar outfit burns time, money, and petroleum.
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The Police State was built by GOP Administrations, not by the Democrats.
The NSA and other alphabet agencies LONG predate Obush. You are making the horrid mistake, which they want you to do, of thinking there is any difference other than Second Amendment support between the Parties.
"That's why all the Baby Boomers are now a BURDEN on our medical system: all that work and no play made them obese, diabetic, and with heart attacks."
That would be due to their non-exercising lifestyles and spectacularly shitty diet. Exercise and diet weren't cool when Boomers were growing up, and it shows. They played plenty, but it wasn't particularly healthy.
I was delighted to escape my public school and attend an excellent private boarding school.
Good riddance to a Hellmouth and the bottom-feeder shitbags who infested it. It was a well-funded Hellmouth, BTW.
Before there were computers, we got along just fine crossing borders without them.
The secure way to bring data across borders is not to do it. The secure way to communicate over the internet is not to send data that matters over the internet.
If you must move data, hide it in a popular porn torrent hosted offshore, wait until there are many downloaders, then grab it while grabbing innocent porn torrents before and afterwards.
"And the US is in a position to be talking about "fundamental freedoms"?" to a country whose people it slaughtered while fighting to impose a neo-colonial government?
"You don't need to be able to perform the calculations with the proficiency of a professional mathematician to realise the benefits."
Of course not.
That's why I keep one chained in the basement.
Fewer sysadmins with more responsibility is a loss multiplier if one of them goes rogue.
Don't give the Air Force any more manning reduction ideas!
Is MJ safer than jail?
The laws don't have their intended effect.
As a philosopher and not a scientist, he should be ignored. We don't ask vodou witch doctors for scientific advice either. The proper way to deal with such people is scorn and contempt, not giving them an audience.
"Turkey is definitely proving the smarter of the two NATO members here."
Turkey has to live with the results of its actions.
The US takes near zero casualties in modern war so "it's only money" and the government can borrow or confiscate all of that it wants.
A wounded enemy is still an enemy.
"With 10,000 Baby Boomers hitting retirement and putting their hands out for social security" which they paid into for decades....
When you become the paid obstacle, we shall see how fast you renounce your job to make way for new blood.
Everyone is your competition. Work is war.
Deterring Communism (Stalinism/Maoism) was reasonable given that it was a credible global threat.
Communism, like Nazism, clearly justified anything up to and including murder of its adherents. As a result of harsh policies and practice against it, Communism in the US faded away. (The Foxtards hallucinating that Obama is Communist know nothing about Communism.)
Laws are for use between friends. That's why revolutionaries and serious counter-revolutionaries aren't overly concerned with it.
"Because every life is precious."
In a nation of over 300 million people, 10 deaths isn't even background noise.
The ONLY reason it's here is towery falls are DRAMATIC.
If we rank by fucking "preciousness", where's the publicity about the hundreds of thousands killed by medical mistakes? Not dramatic, so not news.
If he'd been smart enough to send the war crime data, and ONLY that, to the Hague etc then he'd likely have fared better than by doing a bulk data dump which included so much material he couldn't have checked it all.
Reactions to Manning seem to be dictated by the ideology of the beholder rather than what he actually did.
I don't find him either a hero or a villian, just a young troop with serious personal issues who went attention-whoring without thinking it through despite his training.
I'm also not sure that what he released wasn't salted with items which allowed those doing the salting to further their own agenda. Hammering Manning would confirm everything he dumped in the eyes of the world. He'd have been easy to exploit.
The dispersed casualties of coal and other fossil fuels are EASY TO PROCESS using existing medical systems.
They sicken and die quietly without making the news.
"Why would you even want that?"
Not I!
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
The problem is the MB superstition demands theocracy.
I find the willingness of other Egyptians to kill such people impressive. They know extreme Superstitionists cannot be reasoned with, but they can be shot. Bravo and keep shooting.
The Egyptians who oppose Jihadism understand the threat.
Morsi and the IB are hardcore Islamists. The only reasonable response from those not wanting to be slaves to theocracy is to kill such people.
If the US had a "Muslim Brotherhood" problem (from any superstition) I'd support the government exterminating them.
"âoeMan will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.â
Denis Diderot
In my CNC class I sit up front and photograph the whiteboard using my phone.
Other students began doing it too and it's worked well for them.
I'm also politely vocal about finding hand-written "anything" an abomination and point out the instructor could simply do one set of "notes" in PowerPoint for class use and student download. He has started doing that amid much rejoicing. Handwriting is righly obsolete elsewhere and the sooner it's replaced by printed text the better. Text offers faster visual recognition and there is no reason to write again what has once been written when it could as easily be transcribed into text.
An example I cite against handwriting is medical prescription error. How DARE anyone want handwriting when important information must be conveyed precisely? I grew up with the usual classes devoted to making pretty cursive writing and was never impressed. Calligraphy is for hobbyists, text is for communication.
"They might be paying for the bus, but they sure as hell aren't paying for the roads, police, traffic signals, air quality and services they need to run them."
Commercial vehicles are taxed as is the fuel they burn. Not even a good troll.
No one not stuck in a ghetto wants to mingle with ghetto dwellers.
There are many "realities", one of which is that you are free to associate with those you prefer. Money helps make that happen.
"Why subject your employees to the outer-world that is - let's face it - such a nuisance and an eye-sore. Who wants to deal with the unpleasantness of ghetto-fabulous Oakland or South San Francisco? "
Damn skippy. LIke ghettos? Live in one. I'll pass.
If you "take over" a community by buying it, it's yours.
Communities change. People compete for desirable areas. If there is no use for the poor in a given area they will eventually be displaced.
I "order stuff online rather than go shopping at local places" because it serves me, but I make exceptions when local businesses serve me better. Driving to buy a item from a brick-and-mortar outfit burns time, money, and petroleum.