According to the US Constitution, American citizens can be trusted with weapons. There is no — and there can not be — any higher authority deciding, whether to allow a particular person to exercise their right and any law to the contrary is just that, unconstitutional.
BTW, no one seeks to "arm people" — just allow people to arm themselves.
New York Times' report about how the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump's successful 2016 bid for the presidency
overpaid lickspittles, they'd do something about Caller ID spoofing
Were Obama-era's FCC-members "disingenuous, overpaid lickspittles" because they've done nothing about that for eight years either?
And just what would you have them do about it? E-mail spammers still spam with fake From-headers in e-mails — despite various attempts to legislate against it. And I mean, properly legislate — as in "write a law, pass it through both chambers, have it signed by the President", not the unelected FCC's usurping the law-making power of Congress.
A private firm used computers and access to social networks to learn about people's opinions on various political matters. What's the crime in that?.. Why would this even be unethical, much less illegal?
Maybe, this violated Facebook's TOS — but that's the most, that can even be alleged here... If that...
Thank you for lifting the suspicion off me having a conflict of interest in the matter.
take your family out of their misery go hunting the wealthy along with the rest of us
99% of Communists give the rest a bad name... Not only do they seek to kill the rich, the sympathizers are also subject to death — along with their families.
Yes, though the Individual — cantankerous and selfish — may feel different, that's the preferable turn of events from the point of view of the Glorious Collective.
The scumbag's explicit reference to guillotine shows, the French terror is what he wants for this country. He may be too stupid to do very much to advance this goal, but he is still a scumbag — just the kind to stand out there masked and shouting "Communism will win".
Adherents of the vilest and deadliest school of thought known to humanity, responsible for millions of deaths and economic devastation of entire countries, these people somehow remain acceptable for the polite society — and even find sympathetic moderators to upvote their murderous rhetoric. All the while, for example, the stupid schmucks of the (relatively) harmless KKK are hunted and persecuted as if they were Satan incarnates.
It is fairly common for/.-ers to not bother reading TFA. But the answers to your "sarcastic" questions are right there in the write-up — you didn't have to click away to read them...
So if I "own" Venezuelan cryptocoin will I be hauled off to jail ???
The executive order bans transactions — not ownership. If you own it, you aren't subject to any punishment until you try to sell it.
If I leave the U.S., say go visit Canada, can I then "buy" Venezuelan cryptocoins?
If you are a US citizen, you will be violating the order — and become subject to whatever punishment prescribed. Not very different from the ban on travel to Cuba, for example — it was illegal, but people did manage to get away with it.
Perhaps more importantly is why would you seek to circumvent this one... Maduro's government is even more stupid and evil than Chavez' was — and Chavez managed to not only destroy Venezuela's economy, the rate of murders and rapes quadrupled during the first 15 years of his rein (even before oil price tanked). Are you just as critical about US sanctions against Russia?..
If, as I suspect, you are motivated simply by the desire to "stick it" to Trump, I urge you to move to Venezuela permanently...
The claims to watch are the official ones of the IPCC
Well, how about you cite any of their claims — made and publicized at least 5 years ago — that have come true by now. Within, say, 20% of any predicted value (if quantifiable).
I regret to warn you, that any future posts in this thread, that do not offer any such citations will be ignored.
Check what the actual supported claims are, not the speculations, and see how those turn out.
The only fair and true arbiter of fairness of a wage is an open market. Government-backed unions are the opposite of that — they are monopolies. Trusts, which unabashedly seek to maintain and raise the prices on what they are selling.
There should be more unions for tech workers, not less.
Instead of glamorizing them, we ought to apply anti-trust laws to them. And, when they commit crimes to further their goals, RICO-laws should apply.
We've got global warming. Looking at the entire globe
Citation needed.
I have no idea how you select which claim from 2000 is "the" claim.
It is not "the" claim. It is a claim. A well-publicized prediction made by a renown Climate Scientist, who is still practicing his Art. Despite the prediction's spectacular failure, no one is asking the man to explain it — and which part of the theory he relied on to make it was wrong.
There's been lots of them, some more accurate and some less accurate
Exactly. Lots of them. I can "reliably" predict, how a coin will drop. As long as you allow me to make two opposing predictions and never ask me to explain the failed ones. That's the "courtesy" you are extending to the Climate Scientists and their predictions:
It will get warmer, our children will never see snow.
Winters will be much colder, there will be lots of snow.
As long as you tout the "successful" predictions without demanding explanations for the failed ones, anyone can have a wonderful track-record. It is as if a casino allowed you to bet for free on every number, rewarding the winning bets but not charging for all the losing ones...
Yes, they can. But they haven't. And neither have you — despite posting here several times. I'm now convinced, you are unable to make a coherent accusation and am unlikely to respond to your future posts.
South Koreans enjoy the highest suicide rate in the world
A demonstrable lie. South Korea has the 10th suicide rate in the world, not the 1st.
That the millions of North Koreans who died to American bombing campaigns
Another demonstrable lie. The total number of North Korean military casualties (dead and wounded combined) was well under 1 million, plus 1.5 million of perished civilians. Can't blame all of those deaths on Americans either. We should've finished that job, however — with nukes, if necessary. By "giving peace a chance", we robbed actual millions of North Koreans — several entire generations and counting — of the same prosperity and freedoms, that the South now takes for granted.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Koreans — had they not been divided by the frozen conflict, they could've been as rich as Japan (which we did nuke into surrender)...
Are you claiming, the earlier efforts were not coordinated? That citizens of USSR could afford to spend millions of dollars on their own, without government providing the funds and coordinating the expenditures?
not to propagandize or support their ideology, but to spread hatred and division through deception
They've been doing that. Do you honestly think, USSR gave a rat's ass about the rights of Blacks in the USA? Of course, not. They sponsored "Black liberation" to spread hatred and division.
There are Russian trolls posing as Trump supporters, posing as diehard Hillary supporters
Yes, I do agree, that, whereas USSR of old was primarily supporting foreign Leftists, today's Russia is "omnivorous" — feeding German Leftists and France's Le Penn from the same purse.
It does tell us a few things about Russian leadership today (and their lack of principles), but my point was not about them, but about us here.
If collusion — such as coordinating one's political efforts with a foreign power, receiving money from same, promising the enemy quid pro quo — is wrong, then why is not "Black Panther" a dirty label, and Senator Kennedy's memory not a disgrace?
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According to the US Constitution, American citizens can be trusted with weapons. There is no — and there can not be — any higher authority deciding, whether to allow a particular person to exercise their right and any law to the contrary is just that, unconstitutional.
BTW, no one seeks to "arm people" — just allow people to arm themselves.
But an AT4 would do nicely...
See, how Trump destroyed the innocent company? In 2012 Obama's campaign did the same thing with Facebook data about millions of users, and it was all fine — a testament to Obama's genius, in fact.
Had Hillary won, Facebook would've been just peachy as well. Damn Trump!! #Impeach!!
You can take your datacenter out of Russia, but taking Russia our of your datacenter is much harder.
And harder still is to flush the FSB-agents and collaborators out of your personnel.
The same can be said about e-mail headers and e-mail carriers — indeed, the problems are very similar in the digital age.
From whom would the company CEO (and the biggest share-holder) need a leave to skip a meeting?
Maybe, the term "AWOL" is not entirely appropriate here, editorial wordsmiths?
You seem to forget, that FCC Commissionaires are appointed by the President, which makes you entire comment irrelevant to the discussion.
Were Obama-era's FCC-members "disingenuous, overpaid lickspittles" because they've done nothing about that for eight years either?
And just what would you have them do about it? E-mail spammers still spam with fake From-headers in e-mails — despite various attempts to legislate against it. And I mean, properly legislate — as in "write a law, pass it through both chambers, have it signed by the President", not the unelected FCC's usurping the law-making power of Congress.
So, planting a provocateur is illegal now? There goes the Democratic Party...
A private firm used computers and access to social networks to learn about people's opinions on various political matters. What's the crime in that?.. Why would this even be unethical, much less illegal?
Maybe, this violated Facebook's TOS — but that's the most, that can even be alleged here... If that...
Thank you for lifting the suspicion off me having a conflict of interest in the matter.
99% of Communists give the rest a bad name... Not only do they seek to kill the rich, the sympathizers are also subject to death — along with their families.
Yes, though the Individual — cantankerous and selfish — may feel different, that's the preferable turn of events from the point of view of the Glorious Collective.
At 64 you'll stop getting the subsidy and living beyond 75 is unethical — end of life counseling is all the health care you should be getting then.
The scumbag's explicit reference to guillotine shows, the French terror is what he wants for this country. He may be too stupid to do very much to advance this goal, but he is still a scumbag — just the kind to stand out there masked and shouting "Communism will win".
Adherents of the vilest and deadliest school of thought known to humanity, responsible for millions of deaths and economic devastation of entire countries, these people somehow remain acceptable for the polite society — and even find sympathetic moderators to upvote their murderous rhetoric. All the while, for example, the stupid schmucks of the (relatively) harmless KKK are hunted and persecuted as if they were Satan incarnates.
It is fairly common for /.-ers to not bother reading TFA. But the answers to your "sarcastic" questions are right there in the write-up — you didn't have to click away to read them...
The executive order bans transactions — not ownership. If you own it, you aren't subject to any punishment until you try to sell it.
If you are a US citizen, you will be violating the order — and become subject to whatever punishment prescribed. Not very different from the ban on travel to Cuba, for example — it was illegal, but people did manage to get away with it.
Perhaps more importantly is why would you seek to circumvent this one... Maduro's government is even more stupid and evil than Chavez' was — and Chavez managed to not only destroy Venezuela's economy, the rate of murders and rapes quadrupled during the first 15 years of his rein (even before oil price tanked). Are you just as critical about US sanctions against Russia?..
If, as I suspect, you are motivated simply by the desire to "stick it" to Trump, I urge you to move to Venezuela permanently...
So, when a Libertarian announces his candidacy, they'll also be featured on the /. front page?
No, no bias here at all...
Just in case someone wonders, why you need a high-capacity magazine for your pistol and rifle, show them the above quote.
The scum are asking for it, and you'll need to double-tap each one of them, just to make sure...
Please, cite the law — the article and the verse — you allege has been violated. I'll wait.
Oh, wow... Would hiring a British spy, who then engaged his contacts among Russians, qualify?
There is no crime described in TFA... At the most, there is a violation of Facebook's TOS...
Well, how about you cite any of their claims — made and publicized at least 5 years ago — that have come true by now. Within, say, 20% of any predicted value (if quantifiable).
I regret to warn you, that any future posts in this thread, that do not offer any such citations will be ignored.
I'll check anything you present, how is that?
The only fair and true arbiter of fairness of a wage is an open market. Government-backed unions are the opposite of that — they are monopolies. Trusts, which unabashedly seek to maintain and raise the prices on what they are selling.
Instead of glamorizing them, we ought to apply anti-trust laws to them. And, when they commit crimes to further their goals, RICO-laws should apply.
Citation needed.
It is not "the" claim. It is a claim. A well-publicized prediction made by a renown Climate Scientist, who is still practicing his Art. Despite the prediction's spectacular failure, no one is asking the man to explain it — and which part of the theory he relied on to make it was wrong.
Exactly. Lots of them. I can "reliably" predict, how a coin will drop. As long as you allow me to make two opposing predictions and never ask me to explain the failed ones. That's the "courtesy" you are extending to the Climate Scientists and their predictions:
As long as you tout the "successful" predictions without demanding explanations for the failed ones, anyone can have a wonderful track-record. It is as if a casino allowed you to bet for free on every number, rewarding the winning bets but not charging for all the losing ones...
Yes, they can. But they haven't. And neither have you — despite posting here several times. I'm now convinced, you are unable to make a coherent accusation and am unlikely to respond to your future posts.
I'm not even sure, what "carnage" he was talking about... The burden of proof is on the one making the accusation.
A demonstrable lie. South Korea has the 10th suicide rate in the world, not the 1st.
Another demonstrable lie. The total number of North Korean military casualties (dead and wounded combined) was well under 1 million, plus 1.5 million of perished civilians. Can't blame all of those deaths on Americans either. We should've finished that job, however — with nukes, if necessary. By "giving peace a chance", we robbed actual millions of North Koreans — several entire generations and counting — of the same prosperity and freedoms, that the South now takes for granted.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Koreans — had they not been divided by the frozen conflict, they could've been as rich as Japan (which we did nuke into surrender)...
Are you claiming, the earlier efforts were not coordinated? That citizens of USSR could afford to spend millions of dollars on their own, without government providing the funds and coordinating the expenditures?
They've been doing that. Do you honestly think, USSR gave a rat's ass about the rights of Blacks in the USA? Of course, not. They sponsored "Black liberation" to spread hatred and division.
Yes, I do agree, that, whereas USSR of old was primarily supporting foreign Leftists, today's Russia is "omnivorous" — feeding German Leftists and France's Le Penn from the same purse.
It does tell us a few things about Russian leadership today (and their lack of principles), but my point was not about them, but about us here.
If collusion — such as coordinating one's political efforts with a foreign power, receiving money from same, promising the enemy quid pro quo — is wrong, then why is not "Black Panther" a dirty label, and Senator Kennedy's memory not a disgrace?