We already have a Bill of Rights. Now, where is my right to keep and bear weapons, huh? No Democrat shall do much talking about "rights", unless they wholly and unequivocally support the Bill of Rights — especially, the first two Amendments.
I should have expected that you take opinion pieces as fact.
The "opinion pieces" quoted actual numbers. For someone, who offers no of any kind, harping at the quality of the opponent's is ridiculous.
I said they have been threatened over their domestic policies. Mostly these were about copyright law.
Which is completely irrelevant to the topic. The topic being, whether a country's willingness to wage and win a war pushes its friends to arm themselves. You've asserted earlier, that such willingness causes one's friends to arm themselves against you:
This encourages your friends to invest in defenses against you specifically.
Are you still defending the above line? If yes, please, cite actual examples (I cited counterexamples). If not, and you'd like to discuss some other topic — like copyrights — then I shall accept your surrender.
Go ahead, build your own motherboards — for servers, and other computers you use (including your cellphone). At least, in the US there is no law against that.
Wasn't the NSA found to be acting outside of its charter by intercepting US Citizens communications, like all of them.
Of course. Since the times of Alan Turing, to intercept the bad guys' communications, you have to intercept all communications — and then sift through them. Of course, some of that can also be used for internal needs, such as to sabotage political enemies.
That is the NSA working for someone's interest, but certainly not ours.
That usage of NSA-intercepted traffic to help the entitled one was done by Obama, not by the NSA themselves.
Wherever your political preferences lie, the major difference between us and China are that we consider privacy a right and any invasion of it — scandalous and possibly criminal. In China (or even in India) these would hardly raise an eyebrow...
In fact, several have been threatened by the US over their own domestic policies.
Your citations? Who's been threatened by the US for spending too much on defense?
Except they have been. In World War 2, China was you ally against Japan, Russia was you ally against Germany.
They have been allies — out of necessity. They've never been friends. USSR in particular was allied with Hitler up until June 22, 1941 — German fighters strafing British ships evacuating Dunkirk were burning Soviet-provided oil, for example...
I would like to be sent back in time, I put a stop to TRUMP
What if I told you, your kind will go back to stop Trump? But fail to achieve the goal, forced to relive his presidency — and go through puberty — again?
But I remember seeing virtualization-related commit-messages in FreeBSD, that indicated being sponsored by Microsoft. There are even official FreeBSD images for the cloud.
I think, the company would like to have alternatives to Linux work well on Azure. If only to keep Linux from becoming a monopoly — a monopoly, Microsoft will be unable to control...
The LICENSE file bundled inside the source tarball seems BSD (3-clause).
Why not open source Vivaldi also.
Source is available — at least, for the earlier versions.
How can yet another proprietary browser really compete against Chrome/Chromium or Firefox?
One of the subdirectories inside the vivaldi-source_1.15.1147.tar.xz is vivaldi-source/chromium... It is also the only directory of any size. Maybe, version 2.0 — for which there is no source code (yet?) — is different, but the 1.x branch is Chromium. With some add-ons/extensions, of course.
And honestly pay for the software you want to use... Seriously, for all the abundance of comments here, no one mentioned the inherent dishonesty of his trying to crack Microsoft Office — and getting burned by the "free" tool he used to do it...
The victory — which you earlier renounced as hollow and worthless — increases the trust, you'll win too.
This encourages your friends to invest in defenses against you specifically.
Except, it does not happen. To a fault — for many years many European countries did not invest in their defenses, counting on the US to help them. You may have heard about it from the press criticizing Trump for "endangering NATO". For example, France, Germany, and Czechia have fewer tanks (combined!) than the Russia-supplied separatists in Eastern Ukraine... For another example, Germany's entire submarine fleet (6 ships) was grounded last year.
Israel — another friend — does keep their defenses top notch, but not against the US. China and Russia also try to improve their militaries, but they aren't — and never have been — our friends.
Why would you even post such bullshit to begin with?..
You absolutely can be trusted — to wage and win a war, if crossed. Such reputation discourages others from crossing you, which reduces the need for expenses and bloodshed in the future.
My norms are based on the English language — where the word "rape" has a particular definition. Declaring other things equivalent to it does not make them so — meatless meatballs aren't magically turned into meatballs by a declaration.
Breaking the partner's trust, as Assange is alleged to have done, is wrong. And it may be illegal. But it does not make him a rapist.
And that's all assuming, these things have rally happened too...
"If"? You brought that into the conversation with zero evidence. Just dropped it in like nobody was going to notice?
??? I said "if" several times in this thread. Of course, I have no proof, NSA (or DEA) has been involved. But there are too many hints at them being behind it — the biggest being, why him? (Or why only him?)
Make no mistake: It's rape.
It may be "rape" legally — because that's how Texas legislators chose to write the law. It is not rape by a normal human's definition — that is, it is not "having sex with someone against their will".
Are undocumented immigrants criminals?
Crossing a country's border without the country's permission is Malum in Se. Having sex with with a fully-developed 16 y/o woman is merely Malum Prohibitum.
Making up conspiracies out of thin air is no way to live.
There are too many similarities with the bizarre accusations against Assange's for this to pass the smell-test.
Because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, remember that annoying ditty, professor? If NSA were illegally surveilling his phone, they broke the law. He ought to walk just to teach them a lesson. Does the name Ernesto Miranda ring any bells? He was far worse that Cody Wilson — his crime was not a pseudo "assault", but a real kidnapping and rape. Yet, he walked, because his Constitutional rights were violated by police — and now his name is immortalized in the term "Miranda Rights"...
So, the Trump administration is pushing the prosecution of this guy? Is that your assertion?
The same swamp, that leaned on Norway to go after Assange, who now push Trump's own prosecution, is after this guy, that's my conspiracy theory.
Sometimes, the simplest explanation is the best one: he bought a prostitute from a website that specializes in extra-young girls and he committed rape.
He is not even accused of rape — the charges are "sexual assault". In Arkansas — across the border — 16 is old enough, for example, stop trying to vilify him over a Malum Prohibitum transgression.
Now, that site, which you claim is specializing in the "extra young" — I'll take your word for it — they must have a substantial customer-base, don't you think? Just to stay in business, uhm? And this one can not possibly be the only girl, who's a tad too young to be legal. Why is Cody Wilson the only one prosecuted? Shouldn't the site be busted open — as "Backpage" were — if they "profit from rape"? Or, if this girl is an anomaly, how could Wilson have suspected her age? As the OP said, this case does not smell right at all...
What should worry you is the threat to our privacy — but, of course, it does not. It is only important, when Communist terrorists need to get off the hook. When it is about a guy who defends the Bill of Rights, you jeer and wish him to burn.
The technique is called "Parallel Construction", professor. Read up on it. He, probably, did do it — but the evidence, likely, stems from surveillance placed on him illegally. To avoid having to reveal the surveillance, and the danger of having the suit thrown out because the entire investigation was a Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, the feds hinted to local police, who've built their own evidence from scratch.
It is still a Fruit of Poisoned Tree and he should walk on those grounds alone.
to go to a website that specializes in extra-young prostitutes
I rather doubt, the site specializes in underage prostitutes — that's just bad for business...
Yes. Yet, these are things, that are only wrong, because they are illegal (Malum Prohibitum). Wilson could've met the same girl in Arkansas or in Coahuila — both bordering Texas — and it would've been very different.
Just because something doesn't fit your definition doesn't make it legal.
Sure. The point was, the actual actions do not rise — in their gravity, danger to society, and other infamy — to what's normally understood by the terms used.
In case you hadn't noticed the government is run by Reppublicans
Does not stop them from persecuting Trump, for example, does it? Whatever the moniker, the swamp-creatures feel threatened by the very thought of citizens taking care of themselves — and doing without the swamp's benevolent and omniscient officials.
Secondly this came from Texas where the governer is [...]
The Governor in Texas is not a particularly powerful figure. More importantly, it could've bypassed him completely — the good old parallel construction could've been used, with the feds who've tracked Wilson's phone, for example, tipping off the local police to his encounter.
That the prosecutions originate from places unlikely to prosecute the two people is another similarity between Wilson and Assange.
You expend lots of resources to win exactly nothing.
The resources are cheap — once designed (that's the expensive part), making ammunition is not expensive. You win your objective. You also win reputation — the next bunch of assholes may choose to accept your terms (like what happened to Qaddafi, when he saw Hussein dug out from his hole).
You aren't even able to recoup your expenses.
Contrary to what some raging anti-Americans would have you believe, we don't wage war for profit...
Yep, it smells like the "rape" accusations against Julian Assange... Neither Wilson's "assault", which allegedly consisted of a consensual sex with a 16 y/o prostitute, nor Assange's "rape", which was alleged to have consisted of not using protection in an otherwise consensual encounter — were anything close to what's normally associated with the highly loaded terms used to describe the actions ("sexual assault", "rape").
Both men have greatly inconvenienced the US government shortly before these allegations came to light, however...
Which, of course, means that it's like totally real and 100% accurate.
It was proudly reported by Ukraine's own sites — including a Tweet by Ukraine's President. But none of it was in English, which is why I posted the link to RT — after personally verifying the text and concluding, it does not include anything I haven't already read on the other sides.
Because it tells you things you want to believe
RT's owners hate Ukraine with passion. This makes the site a very reliable source of good news about Ukraine: if even they report this, it really must be true — because if they could've disproved/contradicted it somehow, they would have.
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We already have a Bill of Rights. Now, where is my right to keep and bear weapons, huh? No Democrat shall do much talking about "rights", unless they wholly and unequivocally support the Bill of Rights — especially, the first two Amendments.
The "opinion pieces" quoted actual numbers. For someone, who offers no of any kind, harping at the quality of the opponent's is ridiculous.
Which is completely irrelevant to the topic. The topic being, whether a country's willingness to wage and win a war pushes its friends to arm themselves. You've asserted earlier, that such willingness causes one's friends to arm themselves against you:
Are you still defending the above line? If yes, please, cite actual examples (I cited counterexamples). If not, and you'd like to discuss some other topic — like copyrights — then I shall accept your surrender.
Go ahead, build your own motherboards — for servers, and other computers you use (including your cellphone). At least, in the US there is no law against that.
Of course. Since the times of Alan Turing, to intercept the bad guys' communications, you have to intercept all communications — and then sift through them. Of course, some of that can also be used for internal needs, such as to sabotage political enemies.
That usage of NSA-intercepted traffic to help the entitled one was done by Obama, not by the NSA themselves.
Wherever your political preferences lie, the major difference between us and China are that we consider privacy a right and any invasion of it — scandalous and possibly criminal. In China (or even in India) these would hardly raise an eyebrow...
NSA, generally, works for the US interests. Chinese work for China — against US interests.
Pick your side — and stick to it.
I offered citations.
Your citations? Who's been threatened by the US for spending too much on defense?
They have been allies — out of necessity. They've never been friends. USSR in particular was allied with Hitler up until June 22, 1941 — German fighters strafing British ships evacuating Dunkirk were burning Soviet-provided oil, for example...
You certainly don't...
What if I told you, your kind will go back to stop Trump? But fail to achieve the goal, forced to relive his presidency — and go through puberty — again?
Mark Twain would certainly agree, yes.
But I remember seeing virtualization-related commit-messages in FreeBSD, that indicated being sponsored by Microsoft. There are even official FreeBSD images for the cloud.
I think, the company would like to have alternatives to Linux work well on Azure. If only to keep Linux from becoming a monopoly — a monopoly, Microsoft will be unable to control...
The LICENSE file bundled inside the source tarball seems BSD (3-clause).
Source is available — at least, for the earlier versions.
One of the subdirectories inside the vivaldi-source_1.15.1147.tar.xz is vivaldi-source/chromium... It is also the only directory of any size. Maybe, version 2.0 — for which there is no source code (yet?) — is different, but the 1.x branch is Chromium. With some add-ons/extensions, of course.
The most recent version available there is 1.15.1147 — not the 2.x being discussed... Maybe, it is just the site-maintainer's oversight, of course.
He is advocating for the requirement to be "American by birth" — as a presidential candidates must be, for example — rather than by naturalization.
And honestly pay for the software you want to use... Seriously, for all the abundance of comments here, no one mentioned the inherent dishonesty of his trying to crack Microsoft Office — and getting burned by the "free" tool he used to do it...
The victory — which you earlier renounced as hollow and worthless — increases the trust, you'll win too.
Except, it does not happen. To a fault — for many years many European countries did not invest in their defenses, counting on the US to help them. You may have heard about it from the press criticizing Trump for "endangering NATO". For example, France, Germany, and Czechia have fewer tanks (combined!) than the Russia-supplied separatists in Eastern Ukraine... For another example, Germany's entire submarine fleet (6 ships) was grounded last year.
Israel — another friend — does keep their defenses top notch, but not against the US. China and Russia also try to improve their militaries, but they aren't — and never have been — our friends.
Why would you even post such bullshit to begin with?..
You absolutely can be trusted — to wage and win a war, if crossed. Such reputation discourages others from crossing you, which reduces the need for expenses and bloodshed in the future.
My norms are based on the English language — where the word "rape" has a particular definition. Declaring other things equivalent to it does not make them so — meatless meatballs aren't magically turned into meatballs by a declaration.
Breaking the partner's trust, as Assange is alleged to have done, is wrong. And it may be illegal. But it does not make him a rapist.
And that's all assuming, these things have rally happened too...
??? I said "if" several times in this thread. Of course, I have no proof, NSA (or DEA) has been involved. But there are too many hints at them being behind it — the biggest being, why him? (Or why only him?)
It may be "rape" legally — because that's how Texas legislators chose to write the law. It is not rape by a normal human's definition — that is, it is not "having sex with someone against their will".
Crossing a country's border without the country's permission is Malum in Se. Having sex with with a fully-developed 16 y/o woman is merely Malum Prohibitum.
There are too many similarities with the bizarre accusations against Assange's for this to pass the smell-test.
Because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, remember that annoying ditty, professor? If NSA were illegally surveilling his phone, they broke the law. He ought to walk just to teach them a lesson. Does the name Ernesto Miranda ring any bells? He was far worse that Cody Wilson — his crime was not a pseudo "assault", but a real kidnapping and rape. Yet, he walked, because his Constitutional rights were violated by police — and now his name is immortalized in the term "Miranda Rights"...
The same swamp, that leaned on Norway to go after Assange, who now push Trump's own prosecution, is after this guy, that's my conspiracy theory.
He is not even accused of rape — the charges are "sexual assault". In Arkansas — across the border — 16 is old enough, for example, stop trying to vilify him over a Malum Prohibitum transgression.
Now, that site, which you claim is specializing in the "extra young" — I'll take your word for it — they must have a substantial customer-base, don't you think? Just to stay in business, uhm? And this one can not possibly be the only girl, who's a tad too young to be legal. Why is Cody Wilson the only one prosecuted? Shouldn't the site be busted open — as "Backpage" were — if they "profit from rape"? Or, if this girl is an anomaly, how could Wilson have suspected her age? As the OP said, this case does not smell right at all...
What should worry you is the threat to our privacy — but, of course, it does not. It is only important, when Communist terrorists need to get off the hook. When it is about a guy who defends the Bill of Rights, you jeer and wish him to burn.
The technique is called "Parallel Construction", professor. Read up on it. He, probably, did do it — but the evidence, likely, stems from surveillance placed on him illegally. To avoid having to reveal the surveillance, and the danger of having the suit thrown out because the entire investigation was a Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, the feds hinted to local police, who've built their own evidence from scratch.
It is still a Fruit of Poisoned Tree and he should walk on those grounds alone.
I rather doubt, the site specializes in underage prostitutes — that's just bad for business...
Yes. Yet, these are things, that are only wrong, because they are illegal (Malum Prohibitum). Wilson could've met the same girl in Arkansas or in Coahuila — both bordering Texas — and it would've been very different.
Sure. The point was, the actual actions do not rise — in their gravity, danger to society, and other infamy — to what's normally understood by the terms used.
Does not stop them from persecuting Trump, for example, does it? Whatever the moniker, the swamp-creatures feel threatened by the very thought of citizens taking care of themselves — and doing without the swamp's benevolent and omniscient officials.
The Governor in Texas is not a particularly powerful figure. More importantly, it could've bypassed him completely — the good old parallel construction could've been used, with the feds who've tracked Wilson's phone, for example, tipping off the local police to his encounter.
That the prosecutions originate from places unlikely to prosecute the two people is another similarity between Wilson and Assange.
The resources are cheap — once designed (that's the expensive part), making ammunition is not expensive. You win your objective. You also win reputation — the next bunch of assholes may choose to accept your terms (like what happened to Qaddafi, when he saw Hussein dug out from his hole).
Contrary to what some raging anti-Americans would have you believe, we don't wage war for profit...
Like failure, victory is its own reward.
Yep, it smells like the "rape" accusations against Julian Assange... Neither Wilson's "assault", which allegedly consisted of a consensual sex with a 16 y/o prostitute, nor Assange's "rape", which was alleged to have consisted of not using protection in an otherwise consensual encounter — were anything close to what's normally associated with the highly loaded terms used to describe the actions ("sexual assault", "rape").
Both men have greatly inconvenienced the US government shortly before these allegations came to light, however...
It was proudly reported by Ukraine's own sites — including a Tweet by Ukraine's President. But none of it was in English, which is why I posted the link to RT — after personally verifying the text and concluding, it does not include anything I haven't already read on the other sides.
RT's owners hate Ukraine with passion. This makes the site a very reliable source of good news about Ukraine: if even they report this, it really must be true — because if they could've disproved/contradicted it somehow, they would have.
Let's not venture off topic — neither side was fighting for its country during the joint exercises in Germany...