Japan has a history of blaming everything other than themselves for their shortage of favorite seafood.
Well, so do most people in general, but Japan relies on (read: overfishes) the ocean quite a bit and makes rather a dramatic fuss when they can't get as much as they want. Basically, yes there's a problem worldwide, but as usual Japan is pointing fingers in the wrong direction for their depleted fish populations.
One of my favorite stories was from when the House Un-American Activities Committee was investigating alleged Communist infiltration of Hollywood after WW2. Peter Lorre was one of those interviewed by investigators, and asked to name anyone he thought might be suspicious. True to his character, he started listing every person he'd ever met until the Committee'd finally had enough and dismissed him.
Unfortunately, I doubt current investigators would have enough sense of humor to respond as mildly to a similar stunt.
>We have not done any wrong to the French, for example, but they hate us more than the Germans, whom we crushed (or helped crush) in two wars.
No, "we" didn't. The USA of the 1940s did.
>I'm getting pretty fed up with people excusing fucked up behavior by claiming, 'waaah, but morals are hard!'
He didn't say "hard," he said "not universal." I know, the words look pretty similar, it's an easy mistake to make.
>Remember one rule: treat every other person the way you want to be treated.
That always gets me slapped.:/
Your eyes might not gain much benefit, but your dog's flicker fusion threshold is somewhere up to 80Hz. How's Fido supposed to enjoy TF2 at your paltry 60Hz refresh?
>The problem is the long settled law invariably deals with (a) border searches or (b) searching of individuals outside the US.
You seem to be forgetting the "I smell marijuana" clause.
I think you mean spin doctors. I doubt elderly unmarried women will figure particularly strongly in this.
On your last point though, if you really think there's nothing left to lose after your job, you haven't thought things through very well. Maybe when all their loved ones are already dead and the whistleblowers themselves are on death row, you can have that argument.
Remember back in school when you didn't want the teacher to call on you to answer a question? I suspect a lot more people are hunched down like that these days, and will stay that way as long as everyone is comfortably supplied with food and shelter and tv and Internet.
Drinking wasn't illegal. People who saw Prohibition coming and could afford it stocked up on booze, and as long as they weren't making/selling/distributing it, they were legal.
I'm having trouble following your logic. If the guy was calling "friends in Minnesota" then he's obviously entitled to his Constitutional rights, but once he looks a little shady it's OK to retroactively allow any sort of surveillance he happened to get caught in as evidence, whether it conforms to the letter or spirit of the 4th Amendment or not?
A phone conversation between a caller in the US and one in a foreign nation still involves one of "the people," to use the Constitution's preferred phrasing.
I was just about to suggest that everyone change their profile pics to gore or offensive porn. Yeah, use that in your ads! Hell, I don't even want to be on Google+, but there doesn't seem to be any way of opting out except deleting any google-related accounts you might have, since they're going to force you to join sooner or later.
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At least American bill acronyms are pronounceable. PCFIPA?
Seriously? You need me to hold your hand all the way through the quoted statement? OK, here:
>the Germans, whom we crushed (or helped crush)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/197316 Very relevant. Set aside an hour to watch this. Free to watch, though you have to put up with ad breaks.
Japan has a history of blaming everything other than themselves for their shortage of favorite seafood.
Well, so do most people in general, but Japan relies on (read: overfishes) the ocean quite a bit and makes rather a dramatic fuss when they can't get as much as they want. Basically, yes there's a problem worldwide, but as usual Japan is pointing fingers in the wrong direction for their depleted fish populations.
One of my favorite stories was from when the House Un-American Activities Committee was investigating alleged Communist infiltration of Hollywood after WW2. Peter Lorre was one of those interviewed by investigators, and asked to name anyone he thought might be suspicious. True to his character, he started listing every person he'd ever met until the Committee'd finally had enough and dismissed him. Unfortunately, I doubt current investigators would have enough sense of humor to respond as mildly to a similar stunt.
>We have not done any wrong to the French, for example, but they hate us more than the Germans, whom we crushed (or helped crush) in two wars.
No, "we" didn't. The USA of the 1940s did.
Not to mention that you'll be required to use Google products if you plan to ever get hired anywhere.
Yep, they now have multiple sheep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZth7t--hd4
>I'm getting pretty fed up with people excusing fucked up behavior by claiming, 'waaah, but morals are hard!'
:/
He didn't say "hard," he said "not universal." I know, the words look pretty similar, it's an easy mistake to make.
>Remember one rule: treat every other person the way you want to be treated.
That always gets me slapped.
Your eyes might not gain much benefit, but your dog's flicker fusion threshold is somewhere up to 80Hz. How's Fido supposed to enjoy TF2 at your paltry 60Hz refresh?
This is why I keep the back of my car coated in vaseline. Checkmate, Johnny Law!
OK. How?
>The problem is the long settled law invariably deals with (a) border searches or (b) searching of individuals outside the US.
You seem to be forgetting the "I smell marijuana" clause.
>Next they will start to shoot journalists
That's so last century. There are more exciting high-tech to dispose of pesky journalists.
It can't be legal seizure of notes if the search warrant was for weapons.
Oh snap. And now that various gummint officials have read those notes, they're no longer private. Abracadabra!
>pleasure always comes with pain.
We have all eternity to know your flesh.
I think you mean spin doctors. I doubt elderly unmarried women will figure particularly strongly in this. On your last point though, if you really think there's nothing left to lose after your job, you haven't thought things through very well. Maybe when all their loved ones are already dead and the whistleblowers themselves are on death row, you can have that argument.
Remember back in school when you didn't want the teacher to call on you to answer a question? I suspect a lot more people are hunched down like that these days, and will stay that way as long as everyone is comfortably supplied with food and shelter and tv and Internet.
Slip a glove over the end of one of the rockets. Was that really so hard?
Drinking wasn't illegal. People who saw Prohibition coming and could afford it stocked up on booze, and as long as they weren't making/selling/distributing it, they were legal.
I'm having trouble following your logic. If the guy was calling "friends in Minnesota" then he's obviously entitled to his Constitutional rights, but once he looks a little shady it's OK to retroactively allow any sort of surveillance he happened to get caught in as evidence, whether it conforms to the letter or spirit of the 4th Amendment or not?
A phone conversation between a caller in the US and one in a foreign nation still involves one of "the people," to use the Constitution's preferred phrasing.
And this is a classic case of omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina.
I was just about to suggest that everyone change their profile pics to gore or offensive porn. Yeah, use that in your ads! Hell, I don't even want to be on Google+, but there doesn't seem to be any way of opting out except deleting any google-related accounts you might have, since they're going to force you to join sooner or later.
Scientists refuse to comment on reports of what appears to be a fox and a cat aboard a sailing vessel crossing one of the expanses of liquid diamond.
I've erected a "Terrorism-Free Zone" sign in front of my building.