nobody's saying dropping a bomb from a drone isn't 'hostile'. they're saying it doesn't rise to the level of 'putting US Armed Forces into hostilities' as the WPR states.
if you think an unmanned drone is a member of the armed forces, or that a dude sitting in an office in utah piloting the thing is 'in hostilities' even though the guy is in absolutely no danger of anything more than a papercut, then you have a basis to be pissed.
yes i did, and yes they basically did. the fact that corporate entities are considered by the scotus to be 'individuals' is central to the overall scope of the decision.
congress isn't going to be very interested in closing these loopholes you mention, as they rely heavily on corporate donations to win elections. besides which, there's a good likelihood that any such law will be enjoined at the federal level until the scotus takes a look at it which could take years.
that would sound a lot better if the same supreme court hadn't also decided that corporations count as 'individuals'. this decision is one where the rights of corporations were of more concern than the good of the general population.
actually, about 30% of the country are crazy dudes who like to divide the country into simple bins according to their own political ideology, picking the noblest-sounding words like 'patriot' to describe their own side of course.
personally i've never found the word 'patriot' to apply to people who cast wide-ass judgements on a religion with 1.5 billion followers, but i live in a country that's supposed to be about religious freedom so what do i know.
Western world: "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
lol, you have a romantic notion of the 'western world'. protip: get out of the philosophy section of the library and walk around america sometime, you'll find this country is much more the latter than the former.
yeah, you know it's japan when " selling Love Plus-themed souvenirs, from good-luck charms to steamed buns and fish sausages" is the sanest part of the story.
methinks the fuel that went into the growing, processing and shipping of all the extra food obese americans stuff down their pieholes is gonna account for a more substantive share than this.
seriously? are you telling the rest of us how to deal with the death of some ex-politician?
i HATE it when people tell the rest of the world what to say or what type of decorum to have.
GET
OFF
YOUR
HIGH
HORSE
MISS
FUCKING
MANNERS
you're the problem with this country. you and all the other pearl-clutching nutbags who post all kinds of over-the-top garbage in ALL CAPS and then turn around and tell others to 'take it easy'.
depends on what they did in their life. this guy was a politician, a senator, and his votes and his decisions impacted a lot of people. he voted to go to war in iraq, and if someone wants to excoriate him after his untimely death for that, i aint gonna argue. maybe it's a bit uncouth to us, but if i were an iraqi civilian who lost half my family in that war i'd be ready to spit on his grave.
i don't understand when people get all wacky when a celebrity dies tho. i mean, maybe they made some dumb songs or movies, but that hardly made peoples' lives measurably worse, at least enough to dance on their grave.
problem is, since every other large-scale HFT algorithm does the same thing the benefits are lost. of course, they all have to keep doing it to keep the new equilibrium going.
When the only example you cite is a well known one from sixty years ago... all that does is make you look like a loon.
he posted a link to a list of 50.
Doubly so when it lists "Iraq 1991" as an attempt to replace a democratically elected government
you didn't actually read the linked page. it didn't say every one on the list was democratic. it said most were. the rest of your argument is based on this faulty understanding.
it isn't about due diligence, it's about the state taking the proper respect for what should be considered an awesome power.
having the privilege of killing your own citizens is a big deal to me. it should be applied by serious and sober men in power, people who understand the scope of what they're doing.
tweeting it just makes it seem like a joke to these guys. all too often the state takes it lightly and hides behind the fact that the accused is a scumbag (like bush with karla faye tucker).
this should be worrisome. of all the things government reserves the right to do, taking its citizens' lives should be about the most sobering.
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i know. it's misleading.
nobody's saying dropping a bomb from a drone isn't 'hostile'. they're saying it doesn't rise to the level of 'putting US Armed Forces into hostilities' as the WPR states.
if you think an unmanned drone is a member of the armed forces, or that a dude sitting in an office in utah piloting the thing is 'in hostilities' even though the guy is in absolutely no danger of anything more than a papercut, then you have a basis to be pissed.
do you work for the department of redundancy department?
you prove that negative! prove it!
just cause they used a scalpel to cut the cancer out that would have killed my grandmother doesn't mean i want to get slashed with one on the street.
yes i did, and yes they basically did. the fact that corporate entities are considered by the scotus to be 'individuals' is central to the overall scope of the decision.
congress isn't going to be very interested in closing these loopholes you mention, as they rely heavily on corporate donations to win elections. besides which, there's a good likelihood that any such law will be enjoined at the federal level until the scotus takes a look at it which could take years.
we're pretty much boned.
that would sound a lot better if the same supreme court hadn't also decided that corporations count as 'individuals'. this decision is one where the rights of corporations were of more concern than the good of the general population.
funny thing is, if medicare did in fact cover these purchases people would be bitching up and down about 'the gummint handing out free ipads'.
you just can't win.
lol, the guy mentioned obama in the list (and krugman), and you're all 'you forgot obama, you partisan hack'.
someone's a partisan hack here, and it aint the guy you were replying to.
is it ironic that you got the musician wrong?
actually, about 30% of the country are crazy dudes who like to divide the country into simple bins according to their own political ideology, picking the noblest-sounding words like 'patriot' to describe their own side of course.
personally i've never found the word 'patriot' to apply to people who cast wide-ass judgements on a religion with 1.5 billion followers, but i live in a country that's supposed to be about religious freedom so what do i know.
Western world: "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
lol, you have a romantic notion of the 'western world'. protip: get out of the philosophy section of the library and walk around america sometime, you'll find this country is much more the latter than the former.
yeah, you know it's japan when " selling Love Plus-themed souvenirs, from good-luck charms to steamed buns and fish sausages" is the sanest part of the story.
looks pretty much the same as when the stakes are low.
and some giant fritos...
Let's hear it for two-fisting
yeah, let's...hear it.
YOU HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
(blows a .000)
YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
(machine guns pop out)
oh shiiiiiiiiit
(that's right, both robocop and achewood, bitches)
methinks the fuel that went into the growing, processing and shipping of all the extra food obese americans stuff down their pieholes is gonna account for a more substantive share than this.
unless it's an ancient indian burial ground.
are you kidding?
ARE. YOU. KIDDING.
seriously? are you telling the rest of us how to deal with the death of some ex-politician?
i HATE it when people tell the rest of the world what to say or what type of decorum to have.
GET
OFF
YOUR
HIGH
HORSE
MISS
FUCKING
MANNERS
you're the problem with this country. you and all the other pearl-clutching nutbags who post all kinds of over-the-top garbage in ALL CAPS and then turn around and tell others to 'take it easy'.
YOU. TAKE. IT. EASY. SERIOUSLY. DO IT.
depends on what they did in their life. this guy was a politician, a senator, and his votes and his decisions impacted a lot of people. he voted to go to war in iraq, and if someone wants to excoriate him after his untimely death for that, i aint gonna argue. maybe it's a bit uncouth to us, but if i were an iraqi civilian who lost half my family in that war i'd be ready to spit on his grave.
i don't understand when people get all wacky when a celebrity dies tho. i mean, maybe they made some dumb songs or movies, but that hardly made peoples' lives measurably worse, at least enough to dance on their grave.
problem is, since every other large-scale HFT algorithm does the same thing the benefits are lost. of course, they all have to keep doing it to keep the new equilibrium going.
why hasn't this whole market fallen apart yet?
When the only example you cite is a well known one from sixty years ago... all that does is make you look like a loon.
he posted a link to a list of 50.
Doubly so when it lists "Iraq 1991" as an attempt to replace a democratically elected government
you didn't actually read the linked page. it didn't say every one on the list was democratic. it said most were. the rest of your argument is based on this faulty understanding.
and you call him a 'loon'. yikes.
you forgot to mention al gore. please turn in your AGW denier card on the way out the door.
it isn't about due diligence, it's about the state taking the proper respect for what should be considered an awesome power.
having the privilege of killing your own citizens is a big deal to me. it should be applied by serious and sober men in power, people who understand the scope of what they're doing.
tweeting it just makes it seem like a joke to these guys. all too often the state takes it lightly and hides behind the fact that the accused is a scumbag (like bush with karla faye tucker).
this should be worrisome. of all the things government reserves the right to do, taking its citizens' lives should be about the most sobering.