The Chinese Communist government has been at war with its own citizens since 1949. Nothing new here. There's Xinjiang separatists, but those are no big potatoes. China doesn't need an excuse, they govern by executive order. The biggest threat to the government is from its own people, so one can see why they would spy in this way.
Selection bias. Only the restless care to leave their homes and support networks behind to try to navigate an alien, racist culture where people are measured by how much money they make.
I'm concerned about the dog-whistle racism in your post. It sounds like you're bitching about a certain group that was recently the victim of police violence.
How are eight year old boys going to go to school when they're awake at 4am? What are the parents doing, and why aren't they in trouble for child abuse?
Dubiously to areas like dating? Nice guys really do finish last. A nice guy might get a girlfriend and eventually a wife, but that hardly compares to the scoundrel who got laid every weekend.
Are you totally unaware of the fact that intellectuals have a really bad track record of totally despising the common folk? It's not that intellectuals don't take commoners' interests to heart when making decisions, it's more like they make decisions deliberately to harm out of genuine malice or depraved heartlessness.
If you don't believe me, ask around the next time you're at a cocktail party. You'll get some really ugly responses.
I love how the left-wing narrative on the subject completely leaves out the fact that nerds are regarded as freaks by mainstream society and that the left has long hated them specifically, going back way before they manufactured gamergate. As a prominent leftist said, maybe it's time to go back to bullying them, and the post above is just a confirmation of that attitude.
That's also where you turn an ordinary traffic stop into an arrest for yourself. Good luck getting your car out of impound, or proving that they stole your phone from the front seat and scraped the side of the car while towing it.
Among characteristics of captured terrorists, what are things that they had in common? Gosh, one of those is use of encryption. You think it's a coincidence that encryption is regarded as a weapon?
"it's a ridiculous notion that using secure email implies criminal activities" Yes, true. However, criminal activities are frequently found using encryption. How can I explain this...hmm. OK, you know how Millenials consider you automatically suspicious unless they can look you up on facebook or linkedin? Yeah, it's like that. You might be a great person, but having this characteristic is associated with reprehensibility of some kind.
Sure, they allow you to adjust - for now. The idea is to get you to give control, and once that happens we get the following:
"It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledged that it will be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the outset."
-- Times editorial, published on August 28, 2002
Taa-daa! Here it is folks, the left-wing justification of terrorism for their friends, the Islamists. Oh wait, Obama himself said they weren't real Muslims. So forget what I said. And the fact that he deliberately snubbed the free speech march in France.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Let's not forget environmentalists and other anti-free market activists who oppose ANY development on principle. They'll do their best, spend cash, whatever it takes, to stop whatever you're doing.
Well let's get things straight here. When we do that to Christianity, it is an important exercise of free speech. When we do that to Muslims, suddenly religion should be off limits for mockery or criticism without realising it's almost the most deserving thing of both!
So, let me get this straight: the entire Western world (less Obama) just marched racist, disgusting cartoons? Do you live in Bizarro World?
The French magazine spent most of its time ridiculing the Right. No, seriously, Le Pen was its main target. Muslims were a target of opportunity. I guess you've never cracked an issue of Charlie Hebdo, ever. Sad.
Do you really think that juries composed of the common folk, in 2015, really desire to implement Obama's faith? Because the whole damn thing is too hard to understand, and what we should really do is trust the government? Really? REALLY?
I have two questions: what are you smoking, and where can I get some?
UPS isn't really supposed to be a battery backup for long outages. For that you'd want a generator. The purpose of a UPS is to give you enough time to shut the system down in an orderly fashion. Also to gloss over momentary outages.
That must be why he snubbed the largest demonstration in French history, refusing to attend, refusing to even send the vice-President (isn't that what he's for?) Je suis Charlie indeed.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
It's a good thing that not all the world is that crazy. The USA is solidly NOT Charlie. Nobody of any importance showed up at the "world leaders link arms" show of force, and this was no accident. It is consistent with US policy.
Was this really an attack on free speech, or the predictable result of pointless provocation? Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile. Baiting extremists isn't bravely defiant when your manner of doing so is more significant in offending millions of moderate people as well. And within a climate where violent response however illegitimate is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: its pointlessly all about you. USA condemns those heinous killings, but IS NOT CHARLIE.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Because that would give information to a potential attacker! You don't make security problems easy to diagnose! Just give the user enough information to know that permission was denied, and that's quite enough already. We don't need to help the crackers do their job.
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That one is about stomping out all the world's other languages and making us all speak the same. What a loss of culture.
If we had a hundred bucks to spare, we wouldn't be using free solutions in the first place.
The Chinese Communist government has been at war with its own citizens since 1949. Nothing new here. There's Xinjiang separatists, but those are no big potatoes. China doesn't need an excuse, they govern by executive order. The biggest threat to the government is from its own people, so one can see why they would spy in this way.
Selection bias. Only the restless care to leave their homes and support networks behind to try to navigate an alien, racist culture where people are measured by how much money they make.
I'm concerned about the dog-whistle racism in your post. It sounds like you're bitching about a certain group that was recently the victim of police violence.
How are eight year old boys going to go to school when they're awake at 4am? What are the parents doing, and why aren't they in trouble for child abuse?
Is it really annoying when you start your
Dubiously to areas like dating? Nice guys really do finish last. A nice guy might get a girlfriend and eventually a wife, but that hardly compares to the scoundrel who got laid every weekend.
Are you totally unaware of the fact that intellectuals have a really bad track record of totally despising the common folk? It's not that intellectuals don't take commoners' interests to heart when making decisions, it's more like they make decisions deliberately to harm out of genuine malice or depraved heartlessness.
If you don't believe me, ask around the next time you're at a cocktail party. You'll get some really ugly responses.
I love how the left-wing narrative on the subject completely leaves out the fact that nerds are regarded as freaks by mainstream society and that the left has long hated them specifically, going back way before they manufactured gamergate. As a prominent leftist said, maybe it's time to go back to bullying them, and the post above is just a confirmation of that attitude.
That's also where you turn an ordinary traffic stop into an arrest for yourself. Good luck getting your car out of impound, or proving that they stole your phone from the front seat and scraped the side of the car while towing it.
Among characteristics of captured terrorists, what are things that they had in common? Gosh, one of those is use of encryption. You think it's a coincidence that encryption is regarded as a weapon?
"it's a ridiculous notion that using secure email implies criminal activities"
Yes, true. However, criminal activities are frequently found using encryption. How can I explain this...hmm. OK, you know how Millenials consider you automatically suspicious unless they can look you up on facebook or linkedin? Yeah, it's like that. You might be a great person, but having this characteristic is associated with reprehensibility of some kind.
Sure, they allow you to adjust - for now. The idea is to get you to give control, and once that happens we get the following:
"It is at first denied that any radical new plan exists; it is then conceded that it exists but ministers swear blind that it is not even on the political agenda; it is then noted that it might well be on the agenda but is not a serious proposition; it is later conceded that it is a serious proposition but that it will never be implemented; after that it is acknowledged that it will be implemented but in such a diluted form that it will make no difference to the lives of ordinary people; at some point it is finally recognised that it has made such a difference, but it was always known that it would and voters were told so from the outset."
-- Times editorial, published on August 28, 2002
No amount of affirmative action or social policy is going to change basic human biology.
That won't stop them from trying.
Taa-daa! Here it is folks, the left-wing justification of terrorism for their friends, the Islamists. Oh wait, Obama himself said they weren't real Muslims. So forget what I said. And the fact that he deliberately snubbed the free speech march in France.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Let's not forget environmentalists and other anti-free market activists who oppose ANY development on principle. They'll do their best, spend cash, whatever it takes, to stop whatever you're doing.
Yeah, that's why they were supportive of The Satanic Verses when it was published..
Oh, shit, they weren't? Damn that sucks being on the wrong side, doesn't it?
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Have we considered that the Casey Anthony jurors were total fucking idiots? To have perverted justice in this way?
(obviously I don't mean this if they were people of color
Well let's get things straight here. When we do that to Christianity, it is an important exercise of free speech. When we do that to Muslims, suddenly religion should be off limits for mockery or criticism without realising it's almost the most deserving thing of both!
So, let me get this straight: the entire Western world (less Obama) just marched racist, disgusting cartoons? Do you live in Bizarro World?
The French magazine spent most of its time ridiculing the Right. No, seriously, Le Pen was its main target. Muslims were a target of opportunity. I guess you've never cracked an issue of Charlie Hebdo, ever. Sad.
Do you really think that juries composed of the common folk, in 2015, really desire to implement Obama's faith? Because the whole damn thing is too hard to understand, and what we should really do is trust the government? Really? REALLY?
I have two questions: what are you smoking, and where can I get some?
Give up the girl offering easy sex now, have a self-respecting partner for the rest of your life.
Why are these exclusive? You can have both.
Also, I don't like the moralizing tone of your post, it smacks of dog whistle racism.
UPS isn't really supposed to be a battery backup for long outages. For that you'd want a generator. The purpose of a UPS is to give you enough time to shut the system down in an orderly fashion. Also to gloss over momentary outages.
That must be why he snubbed the largest demonstration in French history, refusing to attend, refusing to even send the vice-President (isn't that what he's for?) Je suis Charlie indeed.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
It's a good thing that not all the world is that crazy. The USA is solidly NOT Charlie. Nobody of any importance showed up at the "world leaders link arms" show of force, and this was no accident. It is consistent with US policy.
Was this really an attack on free speech, or the predictable result of pointless provocation? Defending freedom of expression in the face of oppression is one thing; insisting on the right to be obnoxious and offensive just because you can is infantile. Baiting extremists isn't bravely defiant when your manner of doing so is more significant in offending millions of moderate people as well. And within a climate where violent response however illegitimate is a real risk, taking a goading stand on a principle virtually no one contests is worse than pointless: its pointlessly all about you. USA condemns those heinous killings, but IS NOT CHARLIE.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
-- President Obama, addressing the United Nations General Assembly
Because that would give information to a potential attacker! You don't make security problems easy to diagnose! Just give the user enough information to know that permission was denied, and that's quite enough already. We don't need to help the crackers do their job.