Conspiracy charges in the USA never cover simply talking, they must include some sort of "overt action" towards that goal by someone taking part in the conspiracy and the actions must be known to the co-conspirators. In this case the actions were known to all and it appears, (from the logs), that Assange willingly took the hash then passed it on to someone else.
While it would be hard to argue that any nation is the most free the USA is placed at 20th-10th most free by every major list, (like the Cato institute's list), that has ever come out. In nations that score better than the USA the far-left leaning bias of the lists is immediately apparent. If you aren't politically a far leftist then those above the USA in that list are less free. In nearly every one of those marked as more free you have severely limited economic freedom if you make more than $100,000, laws that can imprison you for saying the wrong words and/or entire industries that are ran by the equivalent of a thought police. Since nearly everything else in those top twenty is mostly equal/equivalent if you value freedom to spend what you earn or freedom to speak your mind the USA is arguably among the top most free nations.
Many Linux users want freedom in the same way many radical leftists want freedom. The disdain and angry mocking that comes from most in those communities against even the mention of someone feeling free to choose something the community has elected to hate immediately shows that community's near religious fanaticism that is about anything but freedom. Freedom is generally the smaller part of the equation with hatred of all opposing views being the a much larger part. I'm not saying all in those communities but there's a reason we have so many different flavors of Linux pulling in so many different directions with each having near militant levels of adherence.
We already have UBI in the form of welfare, SNAP and HUD. Travel to our inner cities and rural areas and you'll find a significant number of people that are just fine living at the bottom. Literally every government handout available to them they grab while jobs nearby sit empty. Of course free makes many people happier. The USA even has a number of people that willingly give up their freedom to spend their entire lives in prison, when they get out they smash something or attack someone and just wait for the cops.
Strange that whenever I hear that term and "consensus" it always refers to coal fired powerplants and only to automobiles when used by some moron talking about mass transit. If you removed every single auto from the planet it would only account for 25-28% of carbon emissions world wide. Calling this an issue in the US when our emission standards are the strictest on the planet is just petty politicking. Asian nations that don't have these standards have just as many vehicles as the US and removing every single vehicle from our nation would result in about 1.8% reduction in the world's total emissions. And that's in the nation with highest total number of vehicles and the third highest per capita usage of vehicles. The expense of creating a mass transit system that could service the entire nation would eclipse any rational reason for doing so. And all of that isn't even considering the personal impact, (in time wasted), for a nation where just as many people live more than 10 miles from urban centers than live inside them. We're far too spread out and far too independent minded of a people to allow such waste of our daily lives in exchange for such an imperceptible benefit.
I think I got really lucky that the guy that taught me flooring was a perfectionist with a lot of experience. He pretty much showed me how to do things as efficiently as possible and how to make every job look amazing. After three months he offered me a position as a full time installer running my own jobs so I bought the tools and a small truck instead of going back to school at the end of that summer. I can't say that that particular path is a good one for everyone but in my original comment the idea that I could find something I love doing and make a lot of money doing it without a college degree was completely foreign to me. I was taught in HS that a degree was literally the only option if I wanted to make 50k a year. Now, though, nearly everyone I know that is in a building trade makes between 50k and 100k a year and most have a diploma at best.
The transition happened because I realized I would hate life if I was forced to work for 40 years in a cubicle or behind a keyboard. I wasn't sure at all what I was going to do but I wasn't interested in accumulating more debt for a job that I would hate. At first I took a job as an electrician's helper on weekends to pay for my books and started looking at what sorts of degrees I could use my credits on. Pretty much every single path through college, (that wouldn't require starting from scratch on major courses), was something that interested me on a subject level but would lead to positions that were mostly dead-end jobs instead of a career.
Six months into doing the helper job for $10/hr, on a rather large building project, some guy came up to me and asked how long I had been doing electrical. He complimented my work and said he was looking for a helper doing flooring installs on weekend side jobs that paid $15/hr if I could prove that I could pick up the job quickly. That was the beginning of summer break after my sophomore year. I had already talked to the guy, seen what he was making and what amount of work he was putting in realized I could be making the about the same amount as I would if I had graduated with a cs degree but without any more debt. At the time I figured it would be temporary and that I would eventually go back to get some degree after I found something I liked more than CS. The more time that passed the more I liked flooring installs, the more money I was making and I just went with it instead of looking back.
We also need to remove the stigma of going through trade schools. So many people graduating college have no business being there in the first place. I've hired people with 4 year degrees, (and 10's of thousands of loan debt), to work along side high school grads with no debt. They learn a trade and make the same money in jobs both of them were suited for to begin with. I went to college for a CS degree but now own a small flooring installation company. People convinced me to take on debt to learn a career that was based solely on my test scores and a basic, hobby level interest in a subject. After two years I left college and spent $1500 on some tools and three months learning a trade that was paying me 50k my first year and 100k within three years. My guys average 80k a year and work 25-30 hours a week doing fairly easy work and it's completely insane how many people would turn their noses up at an opportunity like that because it doesn't require a college degree.
Trump might an idiot but he's certainly not evil. Nearly the entire DNC platform has been pushing stupidity as science and screaming NAZI! for 2 years. This is exactly the kind of dumb shit people went after over Charlottsville. Both sides are filled with fanatic morons but only one side has been moving our economy in the correct direction. All we hear from the DNC policy makers is that we shouldn't have a border and that all other nation's but our own deserve good trade deals. There was supposed to be a massive blue wave that, so far, has been nothing but dems pushing back towards the center as hard as they can to even come close in most races.
Trump's calls of fake news have made his supporters some of the most scrutinizing news readers in the world. We know he talks shit. We know most of his tweets are propaganda, but so long as the fanatics on the left keep losing their minds over it we get to keep moving forward without you assholes. The fact that you think we believe those tweets is hilarious.
An AC getting 5:Insightful who has somehow completely missed the entire point of Trump's support from his base is exactly the idiotic mindset that is keeping the left from evolving. Either recognize that you lost, come back to the center or watch the near-left, center and entire right just keep pushing further right until you have nothing left on your side but delusional fanatics.
All public streams that are for commerical/financial gain are illegal, (without consent), in every US state. The chances of a random person on the street finding themselves in a monetized stream is low enough that the number of them that do who also care enough to make a big deal about it is virtually non-existent. And, on top of that, wiretapping laws include recording even one side of a conversation if at least one of the people in the conversation don't know they are being recorded. In some states both parties must know that they are being recorded and it doesn't matter if it's for financial gain or not. No wonder you posted as an AC.
For making a supporting comment on a Trump tweet I have been called a bot, Russian bot, fascist and Nazi on different occasions. It's like chicken little took over the entire left and screaming stupid catch phrases and buzzwords is the entire party platform.
While I was playing Detroit Become Human I kept thinking of them as appliances. Then I thought if I ever find any of my appliances attempting, on their own, to communicate with each other or even worse, to my network, it would be time to replace them with something else. Far too many potential vectors for someone to mess with things versus nearly no real benefits.
Hey AC, care to share some links where Trump has imprisoned peaceful rights activists or given a free pass to a group of people throwing a gay guy off a roof? I get that you need to hide your stupidity behind anonymity in the Age of Information but something so easily disprovable is getting sad from Trump haters. Stop grasping at straws and update your tired beliefs.
So "folks" are having a problem not being able to import cheaply from nations that use next to slave labor and this is a problem for you? If a company can't compete in the USA without using these things they have a bad business model and bad ethics. Are you suggesting that this distant neighbor that you don't even know lost their house because of Chinese tariffs? I have to assume that's the logic train in your mind as foreclosures hit a 12 year low just last year and were already nearly 20% down in the first half of 2018. "Folks" aren't really struggling nearly as bad as they were just three years ago.
Considering that NAFTA has allowed places like China to avoid tariffs by selling cheaply to Mexican or Canadian companies who then sell to the USA something needs to be done. These items aren't being modified they are just being passed through to screw the government and neither Mexico nor Canada is wanting to change NAFTA in a way that stops this from happening. Both of those governments have known that entities in their nations have been used as pawns to take advantage of the USA so I'm all for scrapping it until they agree to something that sets EQUAL terms for everyone involved.
"Leaving us to our own devices leaves open the chance that in another 10,000 years we'd be competing with them." I don't buy this logic. If, in 10,000 years, homo sapiens are flying through space at.9 the speed of light, would they even care that chimpanzees had started making and using fire for food preparation? Your assumption is that one of these groups will stop advancing while the other catches up and that doesn't make sense unless some catastrophe occurs.
I used to report on the happenings in our district court and heard this fallacious argument literally every day, sometimes more than once a day. A defense attorney would argue that the crime should be ignored because the person committing the crime had children, the person committing the crime was only doing it to feed their children, etc. I can't remember a single time in eight years that the judge allowed that as an excuse because it isn't an acceptable excuse unless you're willing to believe that not a single other, legal option was available.
In this case its even worse because you're indirectly claiming that the entire nation of Mexico is corrupt and without opportunity. These people have already displayed the ability to earn enough money to travel thousands of miles. They have already displayed the tenacity required to move towards and accomplish a goal. For these arguments to be valid there must not be anywhere inside of Mexico that is safe or has jobs. My mother in law's parents are legal immigrants but my wife's extended family still lives in Mexico. They aren't criminals, they aren't homeless and they have no desire to leave. Therefore I must assume that this entire uproar is yet another political attempt to derail conversations in our nation away from something that the people doing the derailing don't want to talk about.
You seem to be confused as to what was in TFA. They subpoenaed a blanket list of contacts and didn't get anything that was actually sent inside any emails. They have a list of people that had access to that classified information and used the contact list to compare including her personal relationship with someone they must think is a likely source of the leaks. They haven't yet released yet what the scope of the investigation was nor any pending charges that they are gathering information on. Governmental leaks is a big enough issue that Obama launched more investigations than any previous president and Trump is following that lead by launching even more. When information is classified its illegal to release it and I disagree that a reporter has a right to help a criminal commit crime. We're far beyond whistleblowing and into treason territory with as much classified material that a person or persons are leaking from the Senate Intelligence Committee and the capitol in general.
This is exactly the type of stupidity that lead us to this point. Adobe knew their software was being pirated by many people so they felt forced into their current situation. I wonder what further fucked up decisions they will feel forced to make in response to people like you?
Way to ignore the one relevant question in this entire discussion. Come back when you have a relevant answer. Thank you for the astronomy information by the way. It still doesn't absolve your complete lack of ability to see why your argument is irrelevant but thank you all the same.
If a plant broke up the rock below it, then how will that rock get free? The plant's roots broke the rock apart, and the plant's decaying body, (after it dies), will decompose over top of the rock. How, on a 'geologic time scale', would tons of dead plant matter, which then turns to dirt and eventually to rock/coal/etc, which in turn goes even further to geographically lock that small rock where it started, not prevent erosion? The irony forming between your sig and your actual post is delicious. Erosion is the process whereby some form of motion/energy removes dirt/rock from one location and allows it to settle in another location. Plant roots help to stop this from happening so they hinder erosion on the small scale time-wise as you even noted in your post. Its amazing that you have the balls to have that signature yet seem to be oblivious to how this world works. A partial truth doesn't make you smart if its specifically designed to cover your ignorance everywhere else that one fact doesn't cover. Who cares what might happen 40 million years after all the plants in an area have died? Why not just go full retard and claim that plants can't possibly hinder erosion because eventually, the sun will explode, blowing apart our planet and freeing all those small pieces of rock? The problem with trying to use an eventuality in your argument is that you can't skip to the 'eventual' conclusion without covering everything that might possibly happen in between or at least having an answer when questions arise. You are absolutely correct that given enough time, a rock formed by a plant root breaking apart bedrock COULD break free. Between now and the time the sun explodes, however, can you tell us how many of these rocks will break free? All of them? Three of them? What is their combined mass? Is it greater than the theoretical mass of every particle of bedrock that Earth's wind and water would have eroded across it's entire surface if there wasn't any plant life to begin with? Either we're saying plants prevent erosion on the small scale, (which you already agree is the case), or we're talking 'eventual' scale where we can only answer the question if we have more information than is physically possible to have. Perhaps the idiots who marked that post as insightful were at least intelligent enough to understand that some questions do not have concrete answers and sometimes intelligence is reflected not in what you know, but the questions you find valid for asking.
What are you talking about? This isn't about hacking and neither is the law. The law is about unauthorized use of computer systems and what you do with that access. Instead of wasting your time with irrelevant analogies, maybe say why you feel what he did was not what the law indicated as illegal activity? Unless you know of paper grade books in use that require a login id and password as well as having laws covering its use. Whether or not its a shitty law is irrelevant. While I committed nearly the same act in the late '90s and only received three days suspension, I did so when there wasn't a law covering what I did. Same goes for a guy I had to fire for not showing up to work. He was just like that kid in the fact that he thought his bad action was only kind of bad before the legal system pointed out that there are in fact laws that cover this action and it is in fact, very bad. My ex-employee stole two 2X4's worth less than ten dollars and is now serving a sixteen year prison sentence for it. Was it his fault that he didn't know just having an unsecured firearm in his truck would make his petty theft a felony? It doesn't matter what he thought because the law says otherwise. Is it his fault that he didn't know our state has PFO laws that add mandatory sentences for what he didn't know would be a felony to begin with? It doesn't matter what he thought because the law says otherwise. Saying he deserves a break means you think that some people should be allowed to break the law if they are ignorant of it. While that sounds good on paper, the Romans found thousands of years ago that people will always claim ignorance when given a chance and having a zero tolerance policy on that topic means your citizens either educate themselves on the relevant laws regarding their lives or they suffer the consequences. His intent was clearly malicious but pointing out that it wasn't nearly as malicious as the worst case scenarios of what that law covers is also irrelevant. The fact that he used a picture of two men kissing, and any random jury of 12 will likely have a homosexual citizen among those 12 people means that this kid will likely not find a friendly jury. If his charges stick and it goes to trial he's fucked and deservedly so. I personally find no sympathy with bullies and find no reason to support them when they find themselves in the low end of the criminal pool regardless of their intent.
Amazon Campus? You mean the corporate offices? I could imagine you would find a lot of smiling faces in an office. Try walking through one of their fulfillment centers and try to come back with how many people you think are happy. When I worked for one I came in with a 'class' of fifteen people and after two days there were ten of us. After two weeks there were two of us left. In a building with 500 people I think I met five or six who I would say were happy people. I was going to quit because the environment was so toxic and transferred to another building. That lasted two weeks before I gave up. Coming into work at a job where nearly every single person you work with are extremely angry in everything they talk about got old fast. Even Amazon knows this so your training is barely able to be considered basic. Safety training consisted of someone giving us a pair of gloves, a bright safety vest and telling us things like, "MSDS? Oh, those are the giant boards up by the entrance that let you know how well the building is doing safety-wise". After working there I've chosen to do my shopping elsewhere.
We have a local paper that's free and has a list of reported crimes in the last 24 hours for the neighborhoods the paper covers. Pretty scary sometimes when you realize how many of your neighbors are victims/criminals on a daily basis.
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Conspiracy charges in the USA never cover simply talking, they must include some sort of "overt action" towards that goal by someone taking part in the conspiracy and the actions must be known to the co-conspirators. In this case the actions were known to all and it appears, (from the logs), that Assange willingly took the hash then passed it on to someone else.
What a moronic set of standards for what makes a valid opinion of a person's behavior.
While it would be hard to argue that any nation is the most free the USA is placed at 20th-10th most free by every major list, (like the Cato institute's list), that has ever come out. In nations that score better than the USA the far-left leaning bias of the lists is immediately apparent. If you aren't politically a far leftist then those above the USA in that list are less free. In nearly every one of those marked as more free you have severely limited economic freedom if you make more than $100,000, laws that can imprison you for saying the wrong words and/or entire industries that are ran by the equivalent of a thought police. Since nearly everything else in those top twenty is mostly equal/equivalent if you value freedom to spend what you earn or freedom to speak your mind the USA is arguably among the top most free nations.
Many Linux users want freedom in the same way many radical leftists want freedom. The disdain and angry mocking that comes from most in those communities against even the mention of someone feeling free to choose something the community has elected to hate immediately shows that community's near religious fanaticism that is about anything but freedom. Freedom is generally the smaller part of the equation with hatred of all opposing views being the a much larger part. I'm not saying all in those communities but there's a reason we have so many different flavors of Linux pulling in so many different directions with each having near militant levels of adherence.
We already have UBI in the form of welfare, SNAP and HUD. Travel to our inner cities and rural areas and you'll find a significant number of people that are just fine living at the bottom. Literally every government handout available to them they grab while jobs nearby sit empty. Of course free makes many people happier. The USA even has a number of people that willingly give up their freedom to spend their entire lives in prison, when they get out they smash something or attack someone and just wait for the cops.
Strange that whenever I hear that term and "consensus" it always refers to coal fired powerplants and only to automobiles when used by some moron talking about mass transit.
If you removed every single auto from the planet it would only account for 25-28% of carbon emissions world wide. Calling this an issue in the US when our emission standards are the strictest on the planet is just petty politicking. Asian nations that don't have these standards have just as many vehicles as the US and removing every single vehicle from our nation would result in about 1.8% reduction in the world's total emissions. And that's in the nation with highest total number of vehicles and the third highest per capita usage of vehicles. The expense of creating a mass transit system that could service the entire nation would eclipse any rational reason for doing so. And all of that isn't even considering the personal impact, (in time wasted), for a nation where just as many people live more than 10 miles from urban centers than live inside them. We're far too spread out and far too independent minded of a people to allow such waste of our daily lives in exchange for such an imperceptible benefit.
I think I got really lucky that the guy that taught me flooring was a perfectionist with a lot of experience. He pretty much showed me how to do things as efficiently as possible and how to make every job look amazing. After three months he offered me a position as a full time installer running my own jobs so I bought the tools and a small truck instead of going back to school at the end of that summer. I can't say that that particular path is a good one for everyone but in my original comment the idea that I could find something I love doing and make a lot of money doing it without a college degree was completely foreign to me. I was taught in HS that a degree was literally the only option if I wanted to make 50k a year. Now, though, nearly everyone I know that is in a building trade makes between 50k and 100k a year and most have a diploma at best.
The transition happened because I realized I would hate life if I was forced to work for 40 years in a cubicle or behind a keyboard. I wasn't sure at all what I was going to do but I wasn't interested in accumulating more debt for a job that I would hate. At first I took a job as an electrician's helper on weekends to pay for my books and started looking at what sorts of degrees I could use my credits on. Pretty much every single path through college, (that wouldn't require starting from scratch on major courses), was something that interested me on a subject level but would lead to positions that were mostly dead-end jobs instead of a career.
Six months into doing the helper job for $10/hr, on a rather large building project, some guy came up to me and asked how long I had been doing electrical. He complimented my work and said he was looking for a helper doing flooring installs on weekend side jobs that paid $15/hr if I could prove that I could pick up the job quickly. That was the beginning of summer break after my sophomore year. I had already talked to the guy, seen what he was making and what amount of work he was putting in realized I could be making the about the same amount as I would if I had graduated with a cs degree but without any more debt. At the time I figured it would be temporary and that I would eventually go back to get some degree after I found something I liked more than CS. The more time that passed the more I liked flooring installs, the more money I was making and I just went with it instead of looking back.
We also need to remove the stigma of going through trade schools. So many people graduating college have no business being there in the first place. I've hired people with 4 year degrees, (and 10's of thousands of loan debt), to work along side high school grads with no debt. They learn a trade and make the same money in jobs both of them were suited for to begin with. I went to college for a CS degree but now own a small flooring installation company. People convinced me to take on debt to learn a career that was based solely on my test scores and a basic, hobby level interest in a subject. After two years I left college and spent $1500 on some tools and three months learning a trade that was paying me 50k my first year and 100k within three years. My guys average 80k a year and work 25-30 hours a week doing fairly easy work and it's completely insane how many people would turn their noses up at an opportunity like that because it doesn't require a college degree.
Trump might an idiot but he's certainly not evil. Nearly the entire DNC platform has been pushing stupidity as science and screaming NAZI! for 2 years. This is exactly the kind of dumb shit people went after over Charlottsville. Both sides are filled with fanatic morons but only one side has been moving our economy in the correct direction. All we hear from the DNC policy makers is that we shouldn't have a border and that all other nation's but our own deserve good trade deals. There was supposed to be a massive blue wave that, so far, has been nothing but dems pushing back towards the center as hard as they can to even come close in most races.
Trump's calls of fake news have made his supporters some of the most scrutinizing news readers in the world. We know he talks shit. We know most of his tweets are propaganda, but so long as the fanatics on the left keep losing their minds over it we get to keep moving forward without you assholes. The fact that you think we believe those tweets is hilarious.
An AC getting 5:Insightful who has somehow completely missed the entire point of Trump's support from his base is exactly the idiotic mindset that is keeping the left from evolving. Either recognize that you lost, come back to the center or watch the near-left, center and entire right just keep pushing further right until you have nothing left on your side but delusional fanatics.
All public streams that are for commerical/financial gain are illegal, (without consent), in every US state. The chances of a random person on the street finding themselves in a monetized stream is low enough that the number of them that do who also care enough to make a big deal about it is virtually non-existent. And, on top of that, wiretapping laws include recording even one side of a conversation if at least one of the people in the conversation don't know they are being recorded. In some states both parties must know that they are being recorded and it doesn't matter if it's for financial gain or not.
No wonder you posted as an AC.
For making a supporting comment on a Trump tweet I have been called a bot, Russian bot, fascist and Nazi on different occasions. It's like chicken little took over the entire left and screaming stupid catch phrases and buzzwords is the entire party platform.
While I was playing Detroit Become Human I kept thinking of them as appliances. Then I thought if I ever find any of my appliances attempting, on their own, to communicate with each other or even worse, to my network, it would be time to replace them with something else. Far too many potential vectors for someone to mess with things versus nearly no real benefits.
Hey AC, care to share some links where Trump has imprisoned peaceful rights activists or given a free pass to a group of people throwing a gay guy off a roof? I get that you need to hide your stupidity behind anonymity in the Age of Information but something so easily disprovable is getting sad from Trump haters. Stop grasping at straws and update your tired beliefs.
So "folks" are having a problem not being able to import cheaply from nations that use next to slave labor and this is a problem for you? If a company can't compete in the USA without using these things they have a bad business model and bad ethics. Are you suggesting that this distant neighbor that you don't even know lost their house because of Chinese tariffs? I have to assume that's the logic train in your mind as foreclosures hit a 12 year low just last year and were already nearly 20% down in the first half of 2018. "Folks" aren't really struggling nearly as bad as they were just three years ago.
Considering that NAFTA has allowed places like China to avoid tariffs by selling cheaply to Mexican or Canadian companies who then sell to the USA something needs to be done. These items aren't being modified they are just being passed through to screw the government and neither Mexico nor Canada is wanting to change NAFTA in a way that stops this from happening. Both of those governments have known that entities in their nations have been used as pawns to take advantage of the USA so I'm all for scrapping it until they agree to something that sets EQUAL terms for everyone involved.
"Leaving us to our own devices leaves open the chance that in another 10,000 years we'd be competing with them." .9 the speed of light, would they even care that chimpanzees had started making and using fire for food preparation? Your assumption is that one of these groups will stop advancing while the other catches up and that doesn't make sense unless some catastrophe occurs.
I don't buy this logic. If, in 10,000 years, homo sapiens are flying through space at
I used to report on the happenings in our district court and heard this fallacious argument literally every day, sometimes more than once a day. A defense attorney would argue that the crime should be ignored because the person committing the crime had children, the person committing the crime was only doing it to feed their children, etc. I can't remember a single time in eight years that the judge allowed that as an excuse because it isn't an acceptable excuse unless you're willing to believe that not a single other, legal option was available.
In this case its even worse because you're indirectly claiming that the entire nation of Mexico is corrupt and without opportunity. These people have already displayed the ability to earn enough money to travel thousands of miles. They have already displayed the tenacity required to move towards and accomplish a goal. For these arguments to be valid there must not be anywhere inside of Mexico that is safe or has jobs. My mother in law's parents are legal immigrants but my wife's extended family still lives in Mexico. They aren't criminals, they aren't homeless and they have no desire to leave. Therefore I must assume that this entire uproar is yet another political attempt to derail conversations in our nation away from something that the people doing the derailing don't want to talk about.
You seem to be confused as to what was in TFA. They subpoenaed a blanket list of contacts and didn't get anything that was actually sent inside any emails. They have a list of people that had access to that classified information and used the contact list to compare including her personal relationship with someone they must think is a likely source of the leaks. They haven't yet released yet what the scope of the investigation was nor any pending charges that they are gathering information on.
Governmental leaks is a big enough issue that Obama launched more investigations than any previous president and Trump is following that lead by launching even more. When information is classified its illegal to release it and I disagree that a reporter has a right to help a criminal commit crime. We're far beyond whistleblowing and into treason territory with as much classified material that a person or persons are leaking from the Senate Intelligence Committee and the capitol in general.
This is exactly the type of stupidity that lead us to this point. Adobe knew their software was being pirated by many people so they felt forced into their current situation. I wonder what further fucked up decisions they will feel forced to make in response to people like you?
Way to ignore the one relevant question in this entire discussion. Come back when you have a relevant answer. Thank you for the astronomy information by the way. It still doesn't absolve your complete lack of ability to see why your argument is irrelevant but thank you all the same.
If a plant broke up the rock below it, then how will that rock get free? The plant's roots broke the rock apart, and the plant's decaying body, (after it dies), will decompose over top of the rock. How, on a 'geologic time scale', would tons of dead plant matter, which then turns to dirt and eventually to rock/coal/etc, which in turn goes even further to geographically lock that small rock where it started, not prevent erosion? The irony forming between your sig and your actual post is delicious. Erosion is the process whereby some form of motion/energy removes dirt/rock from one location and allows it to settle in another location. Plant roots help to stop this from happening so they hinder erosion on the small scale time-wise as you even noted in your post. Its amazing that you have the balls to have that signature yet seem to be oblivious to how this world works. A partial truth doesn't make you smart if its specifically designed to cover your ignorance everywhere else that one fact doesn't cover. Who cares what might happen 40 million years after all the plants in an area have died? Why not just go full retard and claim that plants can't possibly hinder erosion because eventually, the sun will explode, blowing apart our planet and freeing all those small pieces of rock? The problem with trying to use an eventuality in your argument is that you can't skip to the 'eventual' conclusion without covering everything that might possibly happen in between or at least having an answer when questions arise. You are absolutely correct that given enough time, a rock formed by a plant root breaking apart bedrock COULD break free. Between now and the time the sun explodes, however, can you tell us how many of these rocks will break free? All of them? Three of them? What is their combined mass? Is it greater than the theoretical mass of every particle of bedrock that Earth's wind and water would have eroded across it's entire surface if there wasn't any plant life to begin with? Either we're saying plants prevent erosion on the small scale, (which you already agree is the case), or we're talking 'eventual' scale where we can only answer the question if we have more information than is physically possible to have. Perhaps the idiots who marked that post as insightful were at least intelligent enough to understand that some questions do not have concrete answers and sometimes intelligence is reflected not in what you know, but the questions you find valid for asking.
What are you talking about? This isn't about hacking and neither is the law. The law is about unauthorized use of computer systems and what you do with that access. Instead of wasting your time with irrelevant analogies, maybe say why you feel what he did was not what the law indicated as illegal activity? Unless you know of paper grade books in use that require a login id and password as well as having laws covering its use. Whether or not its a shitty law is irrelevant. While I committed nearly the same act in the late '90s and only received three days suspension, I did so when there wasn't a law covering what I did. Same goes for a guy I had to fire for not showing up to work. He was just like that kid in the fact that he thought his bad action was only kind of bad before the legal system pointed out that there are in fact laws that cover this action and it is in fact, very bad. My ex-employee stole two 2X4's worth less than ten dollars and is now serving a sixteen year prison sentence for it. Was it his fault that he didn't know just having an unsecured firearm in his truck would make his petty theft a felony? It doesn't matter what he thought because the law says otherwise. Is it his fault that he didn't know our state has PFO laws that add mandatory sentences for what he didn't know would be a felony to begin with? It doesn't matter what he thought because the law says otherwise. Saying he deserves a break means you think that some people should be allowed to break the law if they are ignorant of it. While that sounds good on paper, the Romans found thousands of years ago that people will always claim ignorance when given a chance and having a zero tolerance policy on that topic means your citizens either educate themselves on the relevant laws regarding their lives or they suffer the consequences. His intent was clearly malicious but pointing out that it wasn't nearly as malicious as the worst case scenarios of what that law covers is also irrelevant. The fact that he used a picture of two men kissing, and any random jury of 12 will likely have a homosexual citizen among those 12 people means that this kid will likely not find a friendly jury. If his charges stick and it goes to trial he's fucked and deservedly so. I personally find no sympathy with bullies and find no reason to support them when they find themselves in the low end of the criminal pool regardless of their intent.
Amazon Campus? You mean the corporate offices? I could imagine you would find a lot of smiling faces in an office. Try walking through one of their fulfillment centers and try to come back with how many people you think are happy. When I worked for one I came in with a 'class' of fifteen people and after two days there were ten of us. After two weeks there were two of us left. In a building with 500 people I think I met five or six who I would say were happy people. I was going to quit because the environment was so toxic and transferred to another building. That lasted two weeks before I gave up. Coming into work at a job where nearly every single person you work with are extremely angry in everything they talk about got old fast. Even Amazon knows this so your training is barely able to be considered basic. Safety training consisted of someone giving us a pair of gloves, a bright safety vest and telling us things like, "MSDS? Oh, those are the giant boards up by the entrance that let you know how well the building is doing safety-wise". After working there I've chosen to do my shopping elsewhere.
We have a local paper that's free and has a list of reported crimes in the last 24 hours for the neighborhoods the paper covers. Pretty scary sometimes when you realize how many of your neighbors are victims/criminals on a daily basis.