Eliminate #4. Much like your housing in retirement, your health care is not a burden to be carried by the rest of us. Take responsibility for yourself.
Post again non-anonymously so we can watch you make good on your plans to forgo Social Security and Medicare.
There's another option that everyone seems to forget. We could put our tax rates back where they were in 1980. Or 1970. Or 1960. (Brackets adjusted for inflation of course). But no one has the courage to do what it will take to steer the ship aright.
You're right, it's just Wikileaks. Every other violation (suspension of habeas corpus comes to mind, among many others)
You do realize in just about every war time scenario, habeas corpus is suspended and most people don't seem to mind. But yeah, the sky is falling.
The problem is that this isn't a war time scenario.
Given that few humans would choose three squares in exchange for captivity in one room, I think dolphins that understand what their living conditions would be would make similar decisions.
I want to know who is making secret plea bargains and settlements and evaluate whether they were appropriate decisions or not by the district attorney.
Damn straight. But it's worse than that. You need access to the files to figure out who the DA or Attorney General isn't processing for political reasons. At least one state Attorney General elected in November will be choosing not to prosecute himself and some friends for fraud.
The reason we have politicians is because it is their full time job to read through legislation and decide if it is in their own best interest.
FTFY. The only reason a politician votes in their constituent's best interest is if it aligns with their own. Since the money and the power no longer come from the constituents, that's not very often.
Instead, it's on Wikileaks. Why was this a secret?
It was a secret because if it was reported (and it really hasn't been), the US might need to stop doing business with Dynacorp, and the owners and officers of Dynacorp would lose money. If they lose money, they might not make campaign contributions.
The media is conspiring not to report the embarrassing wikileaks stories. It's far better for their purposes to make a big deal out of what is happening to Assange and hide the real stories.
And completely misses the fact that several seconds before the first stage goes up in a fireball, the top of the rocket falls off and collides with the first stage.
It fell off because the rocket started pitching over . . . likely due to the engine.
Maybe. It's hard to tell from the video. Another possibility is a structural or airframe failure near max-Q. The vehicle is noticeably bent. Whether it is bent because it is not heading into the relative airflow, or if the bend it what is causing it to pitch away from the direction of motion, it's hard to say.
I'm not sure I government control of corporations implied. Corporate control of government seem as likely a result. But neither is implied. The operation of both the government bureaucracy in concert with corporations for the benefit of the state (read leader and his cronies/party) is a more succinct way of putting it. Transferring businesses to the government is a hallmark of communism. Transferring businesses that are not already controlled by loyal party members to loyal party members is more typical of fascism. But that does not result in government control. The businesses remain in private ownership. But it results in heavy party influence on the corporations, and corporate influence on the government through the party.
You know, if Assange or Wikileaks was being accused of copyright infringement, your position would make sense.
Thus far Assange and Wikileaks aren't being accused of anything, just threatened and hampered. But you may notice that the GPP was talking about receiving stolen property. I was just pointing out that government data isn't property, because the government can't own it. Only intellectual property laws would make it into property.
I don't see anything in the GPP about the rights of businesses to determine what products they produce.
Maybe the laws are different over there, but the last I check here, knowingly accepting stolen property is still a crime.
Why do people keep bringing this one up? The data in the stolen cables is not property because the US government can not have copyright to anything, and data is not property if it is not under copyright. Transferring classified materials is usually only a crime if you had clearance to receive the materials in the first place. The exceptions to that rule probably don't apply to Assange.
Do I need to say this on every Wikileaks thread?
The bigger picture is that this is just another step on the road towards fascism, where all the corporations line up to show that they are on the side of the government. In return the corporations hope to get greater influence over government regulations, government policy and the flow of government dollars.
At some point, the decision has to be made whether or not Wikileaks is defined as 'the press', or if it's just some guy who has obtained a large number of classified documents.
Of course Wikileaks is the press. What definition of press could you use that excludes them? You can't have an "and we like them" in the definition. "some guy who has obtained a large number of classified documents and publishes them" fits within any acceptable definition of press.
If you still fail to understand the damage that governments do when they try to run the economy, you need a remedial history course.
If you don't understand how much more stable the economy has been since the great depression due to reasonable management of the Federal Reserve system, it is you who needs the remedial course.
all current marriages should be considered civil unions (legally) and marriage should be relegated to the church
Leaving the definition of the word marriage to churches when for a couple centuries it has been a public policy.... Don't you think that falls into the definition of "respecting an establishment of religion". If bigoted churches need a new word for marriage, let them find one.
How much money do you think this code? I don't think "all this money" really applies when it's a tiny fraction of the money we spend on corn genomics or god forbid, pointless and unwinnable wars.
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Eliminate #4. Much like your housing in retirement, your health care is not a burden to be carried by the rest of us. Take responsibility for yourself.
Post again non-anonymously so we can watch you make good on your plans to forgo Social Security and Medicare.
I thought so.
There's another option that everyone seems to forget. We could put our tax rates back where they were in 1980. Or 1970. Or 1960. (Brackets adjusted for inflation of course). But no one has the courage to do what it will take to steer the ship aright.
You're right, it's just Wikileaks. Every other violation (suspension of habeas corpus comes to mind, among many others) You do realize in just about every war time scenario, habeas corpus is suspended and most people don't seem to mind. But yeah, the sky is falling.
The problem is that this isn't a war time scenario.
It's hard to escape when you can't survive in the environment that surrounds you.
Given that few humans would choose three squares in exchange for captivity in one room, I think dolphins that understand what their living conditions would be would make similar decisions.
More like "he had consensual sex with me, and then a couple weeks later I decided to withdraw my consent".
So did I, and I think you should be hunted down and tortured for making that comment. In secret.
I want to know who is making secret plea bargains and settlements and evaluate whether they were appropriate decisions or not by the district attorney.
Damn straight. But it's worse than that. You need access to the files to figure out who the DA or Attorney General isn't processing for political reasons. At least one state Attorney General elected in November will be choosing not to prosecute himself and some friends for fraud.
In theory, that's what the press is for. In practice, not so much.
The reason we have politicians is because it is their full time job to read through legislation and decide if it is in their own best interest.
FTFY. The only reason a politician votes in their constituent's best interest is if it aligns with their own. Since the money and the power no longer come from the constituents, that's not very often.
Instead, it's on Wikileaks. Why was this a secret?
It was a secret because if it was reported (and it really hasn't been), the US might need to stop doing business with Dynacorp, and the owners and officers of Dynacorp would lose money. If they lose money, they might not make campaign contributions.
The media is conspiring not to report the embarrassing wikileaks stories. It's far better for their purposes to make a big deal out of what is happening to Assange and hide the real stories.
Unfortunately those boys aren't there to dance. They are there to be ass raped by the highest bidder.
Yep, but with 2.5M people having access to these cables, anyone who really wanted them already had them.
And completely misses the fact that several seconds before the first stage goes up in a fireball, the top of the rocket falls off and collides with the first stage.
It fell off because the rocket started pitching over . . . likely due to the engine.
Maybe. It's hard to tell from the video. Another possibility is a structural or airframe failure near max-Q. The vehicle is noticeably bent. Whether it is bent because it is not heading into the relative airflow, or if the bend it what is causing it to pitch away from the direction of motion, it's hard to say.
Do you think I would be wasting my time with SETI if we had already been visited?
You'll hear the answer if funds transfer doesn't hit my account in the next 8 minutes
I'm not sure I government control of corporations implied. Corporate control of government seem as likely a result. But neither is implied. The operation of both the government bureaucracy in concert with corporations for the benefit of the state (read leader and his cronies/party) is a more succinct way of putting it. Transferring businesses to the government is a hallmark of communism. Transferring businesses that are not already controlled by loyal party members to loyal party members is more typical of fascism. But that does not result in government control. The businesses remain in private ownership. But it results in heavy party influence on the corporations, and corporate influence on the government through the party.
You know, if Assange or Wikileaks was being accused of copyright infringement, your position would make sense.
Thus far Assange and Wikileaks aren't being accused of anything, just threatened and hampered. But you may notice that the GPP was talking about receiving stolen property. I was just pointing out that government data isn't property, because the government can't own it. Only intellectual property laws would make it into property.
I don't see anything in the GPP about the rights of businesses to determine what products they produce.
Maybe the laws are different over there, but the last I check here, knowingly accepting stolen property is still a crime.
Why do people keep bringing this one up? The data in the stolen cables is not property because the US government can not have copyright to anything, and data is not property if it is not under copyright. Transferring classified materials is usually only a crime if you had clearance to receive the materials in the first place. The exceptions to that rule probably don't apply to Assange.
Do I need to say this on every Wikileaks thread?
The bigger picture is that this is just another step on the road towards fascism, where all the corporations line up to show that they are on the side of the government. In return the corporations hope to get greater influence over government regulations, government policy and the flow of government dollars.
Retaliation for what?
At some point, the decision has to be made whether or not Wikileaks is defined as 'the press', or if it's just some guy who has obtained a large number of classified documents.
Of course Wikileaks is the press. What definition of press could you use that excludes them? You can't have an "and we like them" in the definition. "some guy who has obtained a large number of classified documents and publishes them" fits within any acceptable definition of press.
Fascism is very clearly defined as "government-run corporations"
I think you might need to reread your dictionary. You might have that a little backwards. Or maybe you are watching Fox News.
If you still fail to understand the damage that governments do when they try to run the economy, you need a remedial history course.
If you don't understand how much more stable the economy has been since the great depression due to reasonable management of the Federal Reserve system, it is you who needs the remedial course.
all current marriages should be considered civil unions (legally) and marriage should be relegated to the church
Leaving the definition of the word marriage to churches when for a couple centuries it has been a public policy.... Don't you think that falls into the definition of "respecting an establishment of religion". If bigoted churches need a new word for marriage, let them find one.
How much money do you think this code? I don't think "all this money" really applies when it's a tiny fraction of the money we spend on corn genomics or god forbid, pointless and unwinnable wars.
Good points