(apart from the fact that he's running scared from a buoyant & surprisingly competent opposition with a better broadband plan)
For all that I want to see the back of Howard and also want FTTH, giving more taxpayers' money to Telstra to further tighten their monopoly grip is not good policy. If Labor can work out a way to force Telstra to wholesale at reasonable prices, I'm all ears...
Ah, OK, the interjection of the date of the 7th in that text misled me. Still, I'm not sure what the point of the original poster was with the "US wasn't at war until 1943" comment -- and with two anons posting I thought the second post was by the same person as the first.
Yes, but the idea is that we Australians introduce our own versions of the US laws, we Australians break them here and then we get tried in Australian courts. All of Drink or Die's crimes would have happened before the FTA was signed, anyway.
I'd presume that's because people viewing the article can also go back and view historical versions, which would be continuing the publication of defamatory statements. I'm sure whoever did this will have kept an archived copy to be produced on demand.
The so-called torture tactics that the media makes up are bullshit.
Really? This is for a guy who would most likely be found guilty if he ever saw the inside of a courtroom, if the tactics that have been used hadn't made that impossible. Remember, the transcript they're talking about (which I read at the time, but can't find now) was released by the Government, not written by the media.
most of these people are actually guilty
Some of us out here in the real world would prefer things like evidence before making claims like that. If I were locked up for five years without trial, without charges and without evidence, hell yeah I'd be throwing my wastes over people -- what other recourse would I have?
You just don't walk into a random town and grab people of the streets and mail them to Cuba.
If you look at the bounties the Northern Alliance were getting, some of the people who have already been released from Gitmo had exactly that happen to them.
If these people aren't POWs, and aren't criminals, we can't invent some special new category for them that disqualifies them from any judicial protection whatsoever -- democracies don't work like that.
"My name is Ray Ozziemandias, king of kings: Look on my document formats, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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Iraq has been mishandled at times
The single greatest understatement I've ever seen.
(apart from the fact that he's running scared from a buoyant & surprisingly competent opposition with a better broadband plan)
For all that I want to see the back of Howard and also want FTTH, giving more taxpayers' money to Telstra to further tighten their monopoly grip is not good policy. If Labor can work out a way to force Telstra to wholesale at reasonable prices, I'm all ears...
Ah, OK, the interjection of the date of the 7th in that text misled me. Still, I'm not sure what the point of the original poster was with the "US wasn't at war until 1943" comment -- and with two anons posting I thought the second post was by the same person as the first.
Obviously I'm living in some sort of alternate world or something.
The US declared war on Japan on 7 December 1941.
If you want to find the faithful throngs, go right to the developers.
Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers. DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
The moment that really confirmed for me that Microsoft was, indeed, a cult.
Yes, but the idea is that we Australians introduce our own versions of the US laws, we Australians break them here and then we get tried in Australian courts. All of Drink or Die's crimes would have happened before the FTA was signed, anyway.
Cedega Emulates Direct Ex Games (Almost)?
[ok, so I had to cheat a bit...]
Sure, but politicians are cheap.
Do people not believe that figure?
Trust? Sony? Wikipedia? Bwahahahahahahahahaha.
I can't imagine you're counting places like Monaco or Switzerland among that...
Let's prove Bakunin right, in other words.
You can preempt that by running the country for the benefit of the people in general rather than for the billionaires.
Name one state that has ever worked that way.
For some people, maybe it's already enough.
Microsoft has been evil for its entire corporate life, but that seems to be working out for them OK.
Screamers was, but Second Variety, the story it was based on, was pretty much action-flick material anyway, unusually for PKD.
I'd presume that's because people viewing the article can also go back and view historical versions, which would be continuing the publication of defamatory statements. I'm sure whoever did this will have kept an archived copy to be produced on demand.
Most of what you read over seas is way blown over hyperbole of small isolated events.
What, like the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent descent into civil war?
And while some of you say you'd rather die than have to put up with this paranoia, I say fuck you, you narcissistic pricks.
Better to die on our feet than live on our knees. (Or, to put it another way, better to die like lions than live like sheep.)
My God, it's full of bugs!
That's probably true in any gathering of three people or more.
The so-called torture tactics that the media makes up are bullshit.
Really? This is for a guy who would most likely be found guilty if he ever saw the inside of a courtroom, if the tactics that have been used hadn't made that impossible. Remember, the transcript they're talking about (which I read at the time, but can't find now) was released by the Government, not written by the media.
most of these people are actually guilty
Some of us out here in the real world would prefer things like evidence before making claims like that. If I were locked up for five years without trial, without charges and without evidence, hell yeah I'd be throwing my wastes over people -- what other recourse would I have?
You just don't walk into a random town and grab people of the streets and mail them to Cuba.
If you look at the bounties the Northern Alliance were getting, some of the people who have already been released from Gitmo had exactly that happen to them.
If these people aren't POWs, and aren't criminals, we can't invent some special new category for them that disqualifies them from any judicial protection whatsoever -- democracies don't work like that.
We're not legally at war.
'there are a few guilty people in Gitmo'
Innocent unless proven guilty, remember? One of those democratic principles we're supposed to be fighting for?
So the US soldiers who raped that Iraqi woman should be subject to Iraqi law and not US military law?
They should be subject to both, I think.