This is an interesting science fiction story. Do you think the villains at Sony twirl their mustaches and laugh maniacally while they push a big red button to send out the software update?
Yeah, the summary basically says that Apple was against jailbreaking 5 years ago because they were planning this feature. For 5 years. Instead of implementing the feature 4 or 5 years ago. Because.... ?
So no. That's not why Apple was against jailbreaking.
That you want "right" to mean "small government" and "left" to mean "large government", and they fail along those lines doesn't mean they have no information, they just don't align with your personal definition, a completely different problem.
Socialism is a left of center philosophy in the US. A socialist government can not be a small government (relative to GDP or population size). Therefore, "left" means large government. Period.
I mentioned what they do align on, personal liberty vs economic liberty (left and right, respectively)...
Personal liberty is not aligned with the left in the US unless you're talking exclusively about sex-related issues. The left in the US opposes personal liberty on guns, tobacco, speed limits, contracts, regulations, schools, medical care, religious expression, and a host of other items.
Again, the misapplicaiton of the term with regards to a single person doesn't mean it's meaningless.
No. It is meaningless. Not as applied to Obama, but as part of the whole package of half-truths you seem to be trying to advance. Maybe you're talking about left vs. right in some 18th century historical context, in some theoretically ideal academic context, or as it applies in Europe? That is not the reality in the US. I have defined my context: present day, US, real world occurrences. Please define yours.
In 100 years...
it won't be present day. So who cares how they define left vs. right? We are here. It is now. The words mean what they mean here and now, not there and then.
... I look at the GOP and it's fixation on introducing bills to ban abortions...
Please provide a short list of some of these bills. To keep it on topic, please just list bills in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
I suspect you can't list 3 bills. Zero passed.
Please stop making up stories about abortion-banning bills. The country doesn't need any more liars making false excuses for bad leadership. We have enough of those already.
Also, you did say Obama is thoroughly "right-wing". Which is beyond silly. And everyone knows it -- even you, I suspect. (If not, please look up thoroughly in the dictionary.)
So, again, your use of the term "right-wing" provides zero information. The former Communist East Germany had a police state. I guess you'd call them "right-wing".
I suggest thinking rather than rallying around "left-wing" or "right-wing" or any other silly political product branding strategy.
We have to make poor people pay more for energy, deepening their everyday poverty, so rich people with beachfront houses don't have to worry about quite as much flooding from a storm once every 25 years.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11/PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) today named Michael A. Mason, currently the executive assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to be the company's new chief security officer....
I will provide our intelligence and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our Constitution and our freedom.
That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.
but that was in 2007. So obviously it was just a charade to trick the rubes in the press.
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I've never been a Sony fan, and I still don't know if I can trust the company that pulled the rootkit scandal.
You mean Sony BMG, the record company? It got bought by Sony Corporation of America in 2008.
This is an interesting science fiction story. Do you think the villains at Sony twirl their mustaches and laugh maniacally while they push a big red button to send out the software update?
Yeah, the summary basically says that Apple was against jailbreaking 5 years ago because they were planning this feature. For 5 years. Instead of implementing the feature 4 or 5 years ago. Because .... ?
So no. That's not why Apple was against jailbreaking.
I provided facts and reasoning behind what I said. You are trolling.
That you want "right" to mean "small government" and "left" to mean "large government", and they fail along those lines doesn't mean they have no information, they just don't align with your personal definition, a completely different problem.
Socialism is a left of center philosophy in the US. A socialist government can not be a small government (relative to GDP or population size). Therefore, "left" means large government. Period.
I mentioned what they do align on, personal liberty vs economic liberty (left and right, respectively)...
Personal liberty is not aligned with the left in the US unless you're talking exclusively about sex-related issues. The left in the US opposes personal liberty on guns, tobacco, speed limits, contracts, regulations, schools, medical care, religious expression, and a host of other items.
Again, the misapplicaiton of the term with regards to a single person doesn't mean it's meaningless.
No. It is meaningless. Not as applied to Obama, but as part of the whole package of half-truths you seem to be trying to advance. Maybe you're talking about left vs. right in some 18th century historical context, in some theoretically ideal academic context, or as it applies in Europe? That is not the reality in the US. I have defined my context: present day, US, real world occurrences. Please define yours.
In 100 years...
it won't be present day. So who cares how they define left vs. right? We are here. It is now. The words mean what they mean here and now, not there and then.
European political factions and definitions differ from those in the US. The terms don't mean the same things. Maybe that's why you are confused.
... I look at the GOP and it's fixation on introducing bills to ban abortions ...
Please provide a short list of some of these bills. To keep it on topic, please just list bills in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
I suspect you can't list 3 bills. Zero passed.
Please stop making up stories about abortion-banning bills. The country doesn't need any more liars making false excuses for bad leadership. We have enough of those already.
Both parties are happily taking our liberties away.
So don't be a partisan. Support pro-liberty, small government individuals.
So, again, the "left" and "right" labels have zero information content. Or less. Because definitions vary and are applied with dubious honesty.
Also, you did say Obama is thoroughly "right-wing". Which is beyond silly. And everyone knows it -- even you, I suspect. (If not, please look up thoroughly in the dictionary.)
So, again, your use of the term "right-wing" provides zero information. The former Communist East Germany had a police state. I guess you'd call them "right-wing".
I suggest thinking rather than rallying around "left-wing" or "right-wing" or any other silly political product branding strategy.
No. You clearly don't understand the rules of the race card.
You know who else committed treason? George Washington.
Which just proves that labeling people "right wing" provides zero information. (Or actually less than zero, in the case of your post.)
Can we support Rand Paul? He wants to massively shrink government and shut PRISM down. I'm sure you'd call him "right wing" though.
if you don't want to get slurred as a denier you do.
Support smaller government.
At least he doesn't need to worry about Guantanamo. President Obama promised to shut that place down.
No one is safe from President Romney's drones.
We have to make poor people pay more for energy, deepening their everyday poverty, so rich people with beachfront houses don't have to worry about quite as much flooding from a storm once every 25 years.
we just get audited by the IRS.
we have Media Matters Action Network, NBC, NPR, the Washington Post, the AP, and the New York Times for this.
your contributions are tax deductible.
Any other contributions get you audited by the IRS. Those are the only rules that matter these days.
They will protect you from all the usual bogeymen, just like they protect us in the US.
Plus, free stuff !! (Do you really want upper-class white Georgetown students to have to pay for their own birth control? What is this? Somalia?)
Verizon referred it to their Chief Security Officer:
So don't worry.
Obama said:
but that was in 2007. So obviously it was just a charade to trick the rubes in the press.