The scandal makes complete sense, unless you are a hyper-partisan who thinks it's OK when your side breaks the law. If any other federal government employee tried to hide her official correspondence with a hidden server, that person would now be on year 3 of a prison sentence. But, it's Hillary Clinton, so she didn't even get her security clearance revoked. You really don't get how outrageous the whole thing is? And if she does get away with it, it's just going to embolden thousands more government apparatchiks to take even more liberties with our already-overstretched laws?
"You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we can not use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."
The whole traitor thing came from him blowing up the legitimate NSA spying, of which there was a shitload, along with the illegal spying, which people should be in jail for. It harmed a lot of legitimate spying and people died. Now you know! And can shut up about it.
What, the No True Scotsman fallacy again? Seriously, when is the Left going to start owning their ideology's problems, instead of every single time using No True Scotsman to dodge responsibility again and again?
China DOES have a regulatory agency. Why on Earth did you assume they don't? Oh, right, so you can change the subject to America and bitch and moan. The topic's not always about you, narcissist.
It's because all the UX experience people working on Google Maps are 20ish and can easily read small print. They have made the amazing discovery that if you make text smaller, you can fit more of it on a small screen. This is more efficient, and I'm sure whoever came up with this got highly praised.
My beef is that you can't even see some street names, no matter how you zoom in or out. They just won't appear, even if you're standing on them. This makes it quite frustrating trying to walk around in an unfamiliar city. Once again, the UX experience people I'm sure have weighed in and said you're supposed to input your destination and just follow the directions, not worry about which silly street you're on.
What ever happened to that low-budget Filipino horror movie in NYC? After so much hype, I want to finally see it, or at least read the film snobs reviews on IMDB.
This site was never a big deal...it had promise, but very quickly devolved into an insiders site. Whenever that happens, you stop growing and begin decaying. It was the same 30 people talking to each other, and they didn't like outsiders. Since the genius that ran it blocked archive.org, now that it's offline the whole thing is gone forever.
This is like browsing the front page of yahoo.com or something. WTF? Why is this even here? And it's not like China is the topic either, as comments will immediately change the subject to America.
They really should have picked a less retarded name. It's caused them no end of trouble. It's confusing and no wonder people can't understand how they consider themselves to work.
One socialist is talking to another. She says, "I think my neighbors are secretly capitalists!" Her neighbor replies, "Why's that?" She says, "I can hear them eating every night!"
Socialism is just a way point on the road to full communism. Don't believe me, ask Karl Marx. Once people are dependent on their government, how are they going to resist?
How do you double the value of a Trabant? Fill the gas tank!
Socialism is powerful, powerful stuff. So powerful it managed to spread laziness, poverty, and hideously poor engineering in a country populated entirely by Germans.
I can't wait until they get to experience for themselves the alternatives. Let's put the workers in charge of the country. I can imagine the conversations now: Clem and Tyrone discussing the future of hipsters like Breah and Sebastian. Because that's what happens when you put the workers in charge. Real revolution, real change! You won't get university Marxists making decisions, it's going to be Britney and Tawanna deciding how to best utilize society's resource in order to make their own lives better. NASCAR will have races twice a week and we will have publicly subsidized hair weaves for anyone who wants them. Avant-garde film festivals and dog-friendly restaurants? A waste of society's scarce resources. And scarce those resources will be, too. The future's so bright, we'll all have to wear shades.
A government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have.
Your reaction is a common "poison pill" fallacy committed by government agencies ordered to cut their bloated budgets. They immediately cut the things that will hurt while keeping the fat safe. Small government conservatives don't want to get rid of the fire departments or the police departments (but a lot of leftists want this one) nor the environmental departments (admittedly this one has become a nest of far-left hate). They want an out-of-control federal government to be reined in, and the best way to do that is the same way you get rid of a cancer, i.e. stop its blood flow.
Well, it's a good thing that 40% of American university students don't agree with free speech and don't understand why we have it. "Free speech" is just a cover for bigots to broadcast hate speech. It needs to go away along with all the other crazy right-wing ideas like the Constitution and separation of powers.
Well, they're preventatively collecting information on everyone because they don't know in the future who will and won't become a terrorist. So, hoover up everyone's data just in case. Then, when you catch a terrorist you can work backwards and see who their associations were, and who are likely their accomplices. The only scenario in which this makes any kind of sense is a future in which the government becomes more and more oppressive and begins spontaneously generating armed resistance. But certainly, a government that gets larger and larger every year would never do something like that. Government exists to serve the people, government IS the people. It's crazy to think that it would grow so large that it begins serving its own interests instead.
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
Yeah I hear you on the fake Hitler quotes. Why do people feel the need to make things up, when the real words are far more damning than any propaganda?
"True socialism is the welfare of all the people, and not of one class at the expense of others. Therefore we oppose class warfare."
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
"We have backed the wrong horse in Spain. We would have done better to back the Republicans. They represent the people. We could always have converted these socialists into good National Socialists later. The people around Franco are all reactionary clerics, aristocrats, and moneybags - they've nothing in common with us Nazis at all!"
Prince was not his "stage name". Prince was his REAL NAME. His mother named him that and it was on his birth certificate. He went by that name his entire life. That's why it was such bullshit that his record company tried to claim copyright. It wasn't some silly made-up stage name like Madonna or Jon Stewart. It was his real name.
If Brexit happens, which there is a good chance of, the entire European Union is in peril. And a lot of the reason that is is because people just like you look down on others who disagree with their political opinions, and consider them beyond stupid.
Many of us are insulted by the ruling class's dismissal of opposition as mere "anger and frustration" -- an imputation of stupidity -- while other of us just scoff at the claim that the ruling class's bureaucratic language demonstrates superior intelligence. A few of us ask the fundamental question: Since when and by what right does intelligence trump human equality? Moreover, if the politicians are so smart, why have they made life worse?
They already have little or no power to influence these decisions. The EU does whatever it wants without considering if the people will like it or not. And frankly, who can blame them? They are the smartest, best educated people in Europe and they are best-suited to lead. People aren't educated and can't lead themselves out of a paper bag.
I can't even imagine why the EU is soliciting advice on this cookie issue, what can the Great Unwashed tell them that their experts don't know already? My guess is, they're scared and fear their own power decreasing. So, they're going to make a few attempts at showing that they will change their stripes if only people will vote in the EU's interest instead of their own interests. Then they can dispense with these silly polls and referenda and get down to the business of ruling.
America above all nations is highly dependent on satellites. LEO contamination by a space war would be disastrous for America, much less so for every other nation on the planet. Nice despite my saying this explicitly, you immediately went for the "blame America" angle while failing to mention the Chinese at all.
It's for proving infidelity in a divorce scenario. This sort of thing can get a man off the hook for massive damage to his wealth and is worth any purchase price.
When the Chinese used their ASAT weapon to destroy their own satellite, sending a huge cloud of debris in orbit, they were sending a message. Did anyone get it? What do you think the message was? I didn't see any discussion of this but it came through loud and clear.
The message was, don't fuck with us or we'll destroy your satellites and we don't give a shit how much space debris it creates. Since you are far more dependent on your satellites than we are on ours, you suffer much more in this scenario. If giving China an advantage means screwing up low earth orbit for hundreds of years, then so be it. You have the power to avoid this scenario by not putting us in a position where we feel threatened enough to use our ASAT weapons.
It's just weird seeing a government do things like this, in its own interest. Being an American, I just assume that my own government is going to regard its own country as best as an annoyance and at worst the enemy, and its real goals are global and trans-national. I assume a lot of Europeans feel the same way. It baffles me, seeing a government pursue goals that benefit its own country and not everyone else. I just don't have any frame of reference to compare it to.
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The scandal makes complete sense, unless you are a hyper-partisan who thinks it's OK when your side breaks the law. If any other federal government employee tried to hide her official correspondence with a hidden server, that person would now be on year 3 of a prison sentence. But, it's Hillary Clinton, so she didn't even get her security clearance revoked. You really don't get how outrageous the whole thing is? And if she does get away with it, it's just going to embolden thousands more government apparatchiks to take even more liberties with our already-overstretched laws?
"You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we can not use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself."
-- George Bernard Shaw, socialist
The whole traitor thing came from him blowing up the legitimate NSA spying, of which there was a shitload, along with the illegal spying, which people should be in jail for. It harmed a lot of legitimate spying and people died. Now you know! And can shut up about it.
What, the No True Scotsman fallacy again? Seriously, when is the Left going to start owning their ideology's problems, instead of every single time using No True Scotsman to dodge responsibility again and again?
China DOES have a regulatory agency. Why on Earth did you assume they don't? Oh, right, so you can change the subject to America and bitch and moan. The topic's not always about you, narcissist.
It's because all the UX experience people working on Google Maps are 20ish and can easily read small print. They have made the amazing discovery that if you make text smaller, you can fit more of it on a small screen. This is more efficient, and I'm sure whoever came up with this got highly praised.
My beef is that you can't even see some street names, no matter how you zoom in or out. They just won't appear, even if you're standing on them. This makes it quite frustrating trying to walk around in an unfamiliar city. Once again, the UX experience people I'm sure have weighed in and said you're supposed to input your destination and just follow the directions, not worry about which silly street you're on.
What ever happened to that low-budget Filipino horror movie in NYC? After so much hype, I want to finally see it, or at least read the film snobs reviews on IMDB.
This site was never a big deal...it had promise, but very quickly devolved into an insiders site. Whenever that happens, you stop growing and begin decaying. It was the same 30 people talking to each other, and they didn't like outsiders. Since the genius that ran it blocked archive.org, now that it's offline the whole thing is gone forever.
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This is like browsing the front page of yahoo.com or something. WTF? Why is this even here? And it's not like China is the topic either, as comments will immediately change the subject to America.
...so you are just making shit up now? Seriously, this passes for an argument? How does this shit get modded up? It's pure fabrication.
They really should have picked a less retarded name. It's caused them no end of trouble. It's confusing and no wonder people can't understand how they consider themselves to work.
One socialist is talking to another. She says, "I think my neighbors are secretly capitalists!" Her neighbor replies, "Why's that?" She says, "I can hear them eating every night!"
Socialism is just a way point on the road to full communism. Don't believe me, ask Karl Marx. Once people are dependent on their government, how are they going to resist?
How do you double the value of a Trabant? Fill the gas tank!
Socialism is powerful, powerful stuff. So powerful it managed to spread laziness, poverty, and hideously poor engineering in a country populated entirely by Germans.
I can't wait until they get to experience for themselves the alternatives. Let's put the workers in charge of the country. I can imagine the conversations now: Clem and Tyrone discussing the future of hipsters like Breah and Sebastian. Because that's what happens when you put the workers in charge. Real revolution, real change! You won't get university Marxists making decisions, it's going to be Britney and Tawanna deciding how to best utilize society's resource in order to make their own lives better. NASCAR will have races twice a week and we will have publicly subsidized hair weaves for anyone who wants them. Avant-garde film festivals and dog-friendly restaurants? A waste of society's scarce resources. And scarce those resources will be, too. The future's so bright, we'll all have to wear shades.
A government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have.
Your reaction is a common "poison pill" fallacy committed by government agencies ordered to cut their bloated budgets. They immediately cut the things that will hurt while keeping the fat safe. Small government conservatives don't want to get rid of the fire departments or the police departments (but a lot of leftists want this one) nor the environmental departments (admittedly this one has become a nest of far-left hate). They want an out-of-control federal government to be reined in, and the best way to do that is the same way you get rid of a cancer, i.e. stop its blood flow.
Well, it's a good thing that 40% of American university students don't agree with free speech and don't understand why we have it. "Free speech" is just a cover for bigots to broadcast hate speech. It needs to go away along with all the other crazy right-wing ideas like the Constitution and separation of powers.
"No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
-- George Orwell, "Animal Farm"
Prince was not his "stage name". Prince was his REAL NAME. His mother named him that and it was on his birth certificate. He went by that name his entire life. That's why it was such bullshit that his record company tried to claim copyright. It wasn't some silly made-up stage name like Madonna or Jon Stewart. It was his real name.
If Brexit happens, which there is a good chance of, the entire European Union is in peril. And a lot of the reason that is is because people just like you look down on others who disagree with their political opinions, and consider them beyond stupid.
Many of us are insulted by the ruling class's dismissal of opposition as mere "anger and frustration" -- an imputation of stupidity -- while other of us just scoff at the claim that the ruling class's bureaucratic language demonstrates superior intelligence. A few of us ask the fundamental question: Since when and by what right does intelligence trump human equality? Moreover, if the politicians are so smart, why have they made life worse?
They already have little or no power to influence these decisions. The EU does whatever it wants without considering if the people will like it or not. And frankly, who can blame them? They are the smartest, best educated people in Europe and they are best-suited to lead. People aren't educated and can't lead themselves out of a paper bag.
I can't even imagine why the EU is soliciting advice on this cookie issue, what can the Great Unwashed tell them that their experts don't know already? My guess is, they're scared and fear their own power decreasing. So, they're going to make a few attempts at showing that they will change their stripes if only people will vote in the EU's interest instead of their own interests. Then they can dispense with these silly polls and referenda and get down to the business of ruling.
America above all nations is highly dependent on satellites. LEO contamination by a space war would be disastrous for America, much less so for every other nation on the planet. Nice despite my saying this explicitly, you immediately went for the "blame America" angle while failing to mention the Chinese at all.
It's for proving infidelity in a divorce scenario. This sort of thing can get a man off the hook for massive damage to his wealth and is worth any purchase price.
When the Chinese used their ASAT weapon to destroy their own satellite, sending a huge cloud of debris in orbit, they were sending a message. Did anyone get it? What do you think the message was? I didn't see any discussion of this but it came through loud and clear.
The message was, don't fuck with us or we'll destroy your satellites and we don't give a shit how much space debris it creates. Since you are far more dependent on your satellites than we are on ours, you suffer much more in this scenario. If giving China an advantage means screwing up low earth orbit for hundreds of years, then so be it. You have the power to avoid this scenario by not putting us in a position where we feel threatened enough to use our ASAT weapons.
It's just weird seeing a government do things like this, in its own interest. Being an American, I just assume that my own government is going to regard its own country as best as an annoyance and at worst the enemy, and its real goals are global and trans-national. I assume a lot of Europeans feel the same way. It baffles me, seeing a government pursue goals that benefit its own country and not everyone else. I just don't have any frame of reference to compare it to.