I was in fact thinking of Ford/Nixon & of Clinton's last-minute pardons as precedents.
Bush will be able to cut the heart out of any future investigations by issuing pardons to the top people in the telecom companies that assisted in the wiretaps... When the top people are pardoned, the flunkies can all bail by placing all the blame on those who were pardoned & the republicans would make hay of any procedures (with some justification) as witch hunts to convict "blameless people who served their country to protect us from terrorism". With an easy out like this there's no way to get meaningful convictions.
I see that you're so convinced that you're right that you allow yourself to insult those any who dares to question you. Follow MY creed or be DAMNED... No different from the religious kooks on the far right & no more deserving of respect. Fool, you weaken the positions you espouse.
Personally, I feel it's all election year politics like the senator who tried to add a 3 trillion dollar bill to pay for all of Obama's initiatives that got voted down 97-0 the other day.
What's to stop Bush from issuing a blanket pardon after the elections just before leaving office, hmmm?
The question he asked, given the loaded context of this entire flamebait subject, needs to be answered with more than a pirouette. If you "Thank you for asking the question, Next question" it you deserve as much scorn as the dregs in Washington.
Not neccesarily false nor weak. Do a little cogitive followthrough & you'll see that anti-competitive behavior which does not tend to market domination or even tends to open up a market dominated by other companies is thus permitted. The major turning point on whether Apple's behavior concerning the iPhone is lawful is "is Apple reasonably likely of forming a dominant position".
In the context of the smartphone market in the USA, I can see it extremely unlikely yet concievably happening. Even so, it would be due more to RIM/Nokia/SE/Samsung/Microsoft/... repeated failings than Apple's anti-competitive behavior. Elsewhere the iPhone has not had nearly as much success & any anti-competitive behavior would only serve to further marginalize it.
A Shuttle's protection from re-entry ony works within very narrow parameters. Once the wing spars burnt through, Columbia's break-up was violent & all protection dissapeared. Once Columbia broke up, the hydrazine tanks were much less protected than the one on the satellite from the information I have read.
A similarly constructed hydrazine tank from Columbia made it back intact & containing some hydrazine so it's not so far fetched as many want to make it.
Using the sat to test the SM-3 anti-missile saves millions as the sat is useless & an target platform will not need to be expended.
Yes, yay. You would prefer the chinese method of rendering what used to be a useful orbit unusable for hundreds of years for absolutely no better reason than "we can do it"?
Your assurances that no hydrazine can survive to poison people on the ground are worthless as a hydrazine tank from Challenger made it with some hydrazine still in it.
Ah, so the UAS has now created a strewn thousands of hazards into orbit that will last for over a millenium, just like the Chinese did? Or perhaps the debris from the US intercept will be gone within weeks & you're just a ignorant little troll...
How many were imprisoned for years after criticizing their government? You confuse making the government do whatever the majority (or a minority) wants with being able to criticize the government. The "NOTHING" you foolishly denigrate allows you to show your ignorance here on/. instead of spending it in prison.
Many of the people in Gitmo are not afghanis either. Afghans or not, had they worn the uniform of a state while warring with the USA they would have been treated as POWs, as all members of the the Iraqi army under Sadaam were treated. Read the Geneva accords sometime, you'll discover that not anyone who picks up a gun during a war qualifies. Study the history of warfare & you'll discover that combatants such as those held in Gitmo were usually shot out of hand as spies.
I could care less about the continued existence of a Cuban communist party. Communists can & have played valuable roles in democracies. It's the Cuban one party state & its oppression of any who dispute it that I oppose. Burma's ruling junta is no better.
People who claim that Cuba & the USA are the same because they both have faults are fools.
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Ah, someone who can reason. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance...
The millions of german POWs that were help by Stalin for up to 10 years qualify by that definition. It's also kind of touchy for separatists as you mentioned & often expanded much wider which dilutes the term into meaninglesness. Were all catholic NI prisoners in British jails political prisoners? Are the Basques in Spanish/French jails for committing bank robbery political prisoners? The Black Panthers? Do Tax evaders qualify? According to some, Wesley Snipes have been a political prisoner had he been convicted & sentenced to hard time.
Having chosen to war upon the USA outside all conventions of war, I'll call them illegal combatants as I still find that term to be more apt than political prisoner which implies that they are innocent of acts which would merit the incarceration they are undergoing.
Fact is, I don't need ad-hominems as you're a idiot too lazy to figure out that I don't have to use my US passport to visit Cuba.
Tout le monde n'a pas qu'une seule passeporte et je me servirais de mon passeporte Français petit con.
Presumably, you know how to look up a/. users profile to see where I live & know how to find my comments elsewhere in this thread.
Oh, sorry, I forgot that this is slashdot where people like you post before expending any effort...
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The big time sleazeball son of my mother's third husband (yeah, my family is complicated) went to Cuba for that very reason. "Fortunately", he took pictures which were found on his way out of Cuba & he got to spend 5 years as a guest of the state (he could have rotted there for all I care). The mothers offering their kids is almost always an exageration but has happened. The organized child prostitution by other members of the extended family isn't (unfortunately).
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You mean the kind where the government is awash in petrodollers yet pisses most of it all away on foreign political projects without maintaining the means of production & where it crashes down around their ears? Call us back in a few years & we'll judge how successful really Chavez was...
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The high level of heath care in Cuba is the revolution's greatest achievement. My issues with Cuba are elsewhere in the governments denial of basic liberties.
Show me a documented example of what happens to a cuban who criticizes the state online.
How about you do the work. Try to find instances where cuban citizens residing in Cuba have tried to set up their own political party & pushed for free elections online without being prosecuted by the state. Please close the door on your way out as we don't expect your return for a while...
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Ah, A tourist who presumes "to have seen the real cuba". I'll believe the Cuban expats I've met who grew up there then spent time in jail for asking for free elections over a tourist who saw what he was allowed to see.
Have you lost your job/Been imprisioned/had to go live in another country because you asked for free elections in your own country? Nope.
Do you post redundant comments to slashdot? Yep.
I won't presume to say that Mexico's freedoms are 100% as they should be, but they are worlds better than Cuba's.
Having visited your beautiful country many times with my Mexican friends living here in Paris, I usually get ribbed as the Yanqui, but after all we are all Estados Unidos & have much more in common than with the Cubans. I wish it wasn't so, but in Cuba, Free doesn't yet mean what it should.
It's nice to see that "Free" as in beer is well understood in Cuba (seriously). Too bad "Free" as in Free to criticize the government or hold Free elections, etc isn't (even more seriously).
1: Illegal combattants if a term which describes the people in Guantanamo quite well to me. POW doesn't apply because it's clearly defined in the Geneva & other accords & they don't fit & as I said earlier PP doesn't either. If the term IC doesn't have enough negative connotations to please you, then that's your problem.
2: Cuba's status wrt the US is in large part their own (Castro's) choice. When Krushchev considers you to be a loose cannon because you try to push him unto a nuclear war with the US, don't complain when the USA freezes you out every way they can. The USA & Cuba haven't been "friendy" since before that point & once Krushchev let the USA know just how nuts he is the door closed forever on "friendly" as long as Castro was in power. Read Krushchev's memoires for what should have been a complimentary picture of Castro, but was anything but.
3: The Good guys are those that do everything I stated in my initial post. It doesn't have to be the USA or even US allies, but as it turns out, Good guys usually are, whereas if you take the time to look, Cuba under Castro hasn't been.
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I was in fact thinking of Ford/Nixon & of Clinton's last-minute pardons as precedents.
Bush will be able to cut the heart out of any future investigations by issuing pardons to the top people in the telecom companies that assisted in the wiretaps... When the top people are pardoned, the flunkies can all bail by placing all the blame on those who were pardoned & the republicans would make hay of any procedures (with some justification) as witch hunts to convict "blameless people who served their country to protect us from terrorism". With an easy out like this there's no way to get meaningful convictions.
I see that you're so convinced that you're right that you allow yourself to insult those any who dares to question you. Follow MY creed or be DAMNED... No different from the religious kooks on the far right & no more deserving of respect. Fool, you weaken the positions you espouse.
What's to stop Bush from issuing a blanket pardon after the elections just before leaving office, hmmm?
The question he asked, given the loaded context of this entire flamebait subject, needs to be answered with more than a pirouette. If you "Thank you for asking the question, Next question" it you deserve as much scorn as the dregs in Washington.
Oh come on, think a little, will you? If you don't agree, argue your point but don't expect others to explain everything for you.
In the context of the smartphone market in the USA, I can see it extremely unlikely yet concievably happening. Even so, it would be due more to RIM/Nokia/SE/Samsung/Microsoft/... repeated failings than Apple's anti-competitive behavior. Elsewhere the iPhone has not had nearly as much success & any anti-competitive behavior would only serve to further marginalize it.
A Shuttle's protection from re-entry ony works within very narrow parameters. Once the wing spars burnt through, Columbia's break-up was violent & all protection dissapeared. Once Columbia broke up, the hydrazine tanks were much less protected than the one on the satellite from the information I have read.
I'll take that bet, monkey boy. A similar hydrazine tank has already survived reentry from Columbia.
Using the sat to test the SM-3 anti-missile saves millions as the sat is useless & an target platform will not need to be expended.
Yes, yay. You would prefer the chinese method of rendering what used to be a useful orbit unusable for hundreds of years for absolutely no better reason than "we can do it"?
Your assurances that no hydrazine can survive to poison people on the ground are worthless as a hydrazine tank from Challenger made it with some hydrazine still in it.
Ah, so the UAS has now created a strewn thousands of hazards into orbit that will last for over a millenium, just like the Chinese did? Or perhaps the debris from the US intercept will be gone within weeks & you're just a ignorant little troll...
How many were imprisoned for years after criticizing their government? You confuse making the government do whatever the majority (or a minority) wants with being able to criticize the government. The "NOTHING" you foolishly denigrate allows you to show your ignorance here on /. instead of spending it in prison.
I could care less about the continued existence of a Cuban communist party. Communists can & have played valuable roles in democracies. It's the Cuban one party state & its oppression of any who dispute it that I oppose. Burma's ruling junta is no better.
People who claim that Cuba & the USA are the same because they both have faults are fools.
The millions of german POWs that were help by Stalin for up to 10 years qualify by that definition. It's also kind of touchy for separatists as you mentioned & often expanded much wider which dilutes the term into meaninglesness. Were all catholic NI prisoners in British jails political prisoners? Are the Basques in Spanish/French jails for committing bank robbery political prisoners? The Black Panthers? Do Tax evaders qualify? According to some, Wesley Snipes have been a political prisoner had he been convicted & sentenced to hard time.
Having chosen to war upon the USA outside all conventions of war, I'll call them illegal combatants as I still find that term to be more apt than political prisoner which implies that they are innocent of acts which would merit the incarceration they are undergoing.
Tout le monde n'a pas qu'une seule passeporte et je me servirais de mon passeporte Français petit con.
Now go away before I taunt you again...
Oh, sorry, I forgot that this is slashdot where people like you post before expending any effort...
The big time sleazeball son of my mother's third husband (yeah, my family is complicated) went to Cuba for that very reason. "Fortunately", he took pictures which were found on his way out of Cuba & he got to spend 5 years as a guest of the state (he could have rotted there for all I care). The mothers offering their kids is almost always an exageration but has happened. The organized child prostitution by other members of the extended family isn't (unfortunately).
You mean the kind where the government is awash in petrodollers yet pisses most of it all away on foreign political projects without maintaining the means of production & where it crashes down around their ears? Call us back in a few years & we'll judge how successful really Chavez was...
The high level of heath care in Cuba is the revolution's greatest achievement. My issues with Cuba are elsewhere in the governments denial of basic liberties.
Ah, A tourist who presumes "to have seen the real cuba". I'll believe the Cuban expats I've met who grew up there then spent time in jail for asking for free elections over a tourist who saw what he was allowed to see.
Do you post redundant comments to slashdot? Yep.
I won't presume to say that Mexico's freedoms are 100% as they should be, but they are worlds better than Cuba's.
Having visited your beautiful country many times with my Mexican friends living here in Paris, I usually get ribbed as the Yanqui, but after all we are all Estados Unidos & have much more in common than with the Cubans. I wish it wasn't so, but in Cuba, Free doesn't yet mean what it should.
It's nice to see that "Free" as in beer is well understood in Cuba (seriously). Too bad "Free" as in Free to criticize the government or hold Free elections, etc isn't (even more seriously).
2: Cuba's status wrt the US is in large part their own (Castro's) choice. When Krushchev considers you to be a loose cannon because you try to push him unto a nuclear war with the US, don't complain when the USA freezes you out every way they can. The USA & Cuba haven't been "friendy" since before that point & once Krushchev let the USA know just how nuts he is the door closed forever on "friendly" as long as Castro was in power. Read Krushchev's memoires for what should have been a complimentary picture of Castro, but was anything but.
3: The Good guys are those that do everything I stated in my initial post. It doesn't have to be the USA or even US allies, but as it turns out, Good guys usually are, whereas if you take the time to look, Cuba under Castro hasn't been.