So he supposedly "martyred" himself for freedom, and yet has no qualms about living in countries that are much more oppressive than the US. Hypocrite, pure and simple.
He applied for Asylum in a few countries that are less oppressive than the US too.
But it's not a hypocritical act to sacrifice yourself so that others may have greater freedom.
Stop talking like everyone shares your privileges.
I honestly had no idea that there were inhabited places on this planet that don't have a market selling vegetables or an equivalent shop within the reach of a long walk. Everywhere I ever lived or visited had either markets, shops, supermarkets, home delivery service, street vendors, or some combination of those. I can understand there being no shops in the wilderness but in an inhabited area it sounds unbelievable.
Next step will be making the cards so they can only be used at certain stores. Welcome to the virtual company town.
That was the way workers used to get paid, with factory credit that could only be used at the official factory shop. Of course this shop was overpriced.
I'm thought there was some law about being paid in local currency now? Because if you are paid by card that comes with fees to get the cash you are not really being paid in local currency.
I believe Linux now runs on far more servers than Windows does, will any hardware manufacturer give up their share of the huge Linux market to their competition?
Well it works more or less the same as the https thing in the web browser. Everything is exploitable, but properly managed can at least minimize the risk.
The CAs behind 'https' can't be trusted one little bit. The only protection in using https instead of http is from casual packet sniffing.
The only way to fix it is to have a trustworthy CA run in a country that doesn't spy on everything and run by incorruptible people. It's not going to happen.
Of course you can suggest whatever you want. Just don't expect them to do something which is impossible to do (well, at least until strong AI is developed).
Can we get that strong AI to write comments too? It would really boost the signal to noise ratio.
The assumption is that any government will fight for its own survival against fundamentalists.
The current Syrian government stands accused of killing extremist nutters whilst fighting for survival. The nutters are being armed because they are being killed because they are trying to destroy the government. The US is arming its own enemies and creating massive problems for its future.
Regardless of the US interventionism, under what perspective is a parliament which has 68% of the seats reserved for a single party considered "legitimate"?
They don't do things the same way as the US two party but really one party system. That doesn't make it right to fund and arm criminal groups to destroy the country.
Not exactly. The Russians are arming a mass murdering dicatator, the Americans are arming the allies of al-Qaeda. The responsible thing would be to do neither.
If some foreign funded and equipped far right or far left group in the US took on the police and military would the US government roll over without a fight? Of course not.
The Syrian government is fighting to stop the terrorists taking over. The US is arming and assisting the terrorists as well as asking others to do the same. Surely that makes the US a state sponsor of terror?
Read a wikipedia article about any subject you really know about. Depending on who's fifedom that article falls under it might be well written, or it may be trash. Either way it's unlikely you will be able to improve it without facing protected edit wars, editors using sockpuppet accounts, flames, accusations of bias, power-tripping administrators, and all other imaginative kinds of abuse. There are exceptions but only on articles that are abandoned fifedoms.
Try adding a well formatted and well written article on a subject that wasn't documented before. It will get deleted as not notible by a power-tripping administrator no matter what. That's hours of work just flushed in seconds by a moron on a power trip.
I have no idea how this compares to Britannica, I've never tried to edit Britannica!
Every major atrocity in history was carried out by people just doing their jobs. Doing what you are told isn't doing what's right.
Laws have far more to do with maintaining the status quo than doing what is morally right. Laws should be ignored, or better changed, where they contradict morality.
Hong Kong isn't engaged in 'wholesale repression of anti-government dissent', it's very free and people openly protest again the Chinese government. Russian and Cuba, I really don't know.
No one on this planet (except perhaps a dwindling minority of US citizens and people of low intelligence in the Anglo-Saxon countries) thinks of the United States as the "good guys" any more.
Congratulations! We almost have the trifecta of traditional European anti-Americanism, because whether it was Bismarck, Hitler, or Marx, that's what they could all agree on. The only thing that's missing from your tirade is a bit of anti-Semitism thrown in.
The US never were the good guys, they were just less bad than most others. Now the US has got worse and a lot of the others have got better. The belief that people in the US are more free than people in the rest of the world no longer has any basis in fact.
Russia powned the US by offering to consider an asylum application from Snowden, a man on the run for telling the truth about US abuses. Russia powned the US by arming the legitimate Syrian government whilst the US tried to topple them by arming terrorist extremists.
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So he supposedly "martyred" himself for freedom, and yet has no qualms about living in countries that are much more oppressive than the US. Hypocrite, pure and simple.
He applied for Asylum in a few countries that are less oppressive than the US too.
But it's not a hypocritical act to sacrifice yourself so that others may have greater freedom.
Sounds like the 'guns make people safe' argument which totally misses the fact that US hospitals are full of people with gun shot wounds.
I find vegetables and fruit from the local market...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Stop talking like everyone shares your privileges.
I honestly had no idea that there were inhabited places on this planet that don't have a market selling vegetables or an equivalent shop within the reach of a long walk. Everywhere I ever lived or visited had either markets, shops, supermarkets, home delivery service, street vendors, or some combination of those. I can understand there being no shops in the wilderness but in an inhabited area it sounds unbelievable.
I find vegetables and fruit from the local market cost less than just about any other kind of food. They definitely count as good food.
If I'm trying to save money I'll buy whatever is in season and going cheap and look up recipes on supercook.com where you can search by ingredient.
Cooking isn't a dead art yet :)
If you don't mind me asking how did you run up debts that take away 50% of your income?
Fortnightly payments are pretty much standard in Australia. I lived for years with the monthly cycle in Europe, and I always found it a struggle.
I've lived with monthly payments all my life. I've not found it a struggle since I started being a bit careful with my money.
My bills are all monthly so it works out nicely. Are your bills weekly?
Next step will be making the cards so they can only be used at certain stores. Welcome to the virtual company town.
That was the way workers used to get paid, with factory credit that could only be used at the official factory shop. Of course this shop was overpriced.
I'm thought there was some law about being paid in local currency now? Because if you are paid by card that comes with fees to get the cash you are not really being paid in local currency.
Weekly? Bi-weekly seems to be the most common in the US.
I've been thin for cash during that second week enough times, I can only imagine how much worse it would be to go a whole month.
If that's the case you are managing your money badly. Unless you are being paid pennies you should not be living hand to mouth.
Audit your spending for a month and see what's going on, it's a really educational experience.
You can install your own keys.
Can I really? Because other people say I can't without running windows first.
The battle is to fix that.
I believe Linux now runs on far more servers than Windows does, will any hardware manufacturer give up their share of the huge Linux market to their competition?
How is revocation handled?
I don't believe it can be. Nothing outside the machine is checked at boot time.
This looks like CSS over again. half baked security that ultimately trusts people who screw up a lot.
Well it works more or less the same as the https thing in the web browser. Everything is exploitable, but properly managed can at least minimize the risk.
The CAs behind 'https' can't be trusted one little bit. The only protection in using https instead of http is from casual packet sniffing.
The only way to fix it is to have a trustworthy CA run in a country that doesn't spy on everything and run by incorruptible people. It's not going to happen.
If the system is rigged in such a way you have to trust any Microsoft code then it's a terrible system.
There is nothing secure about UEFI as implemented. Let me set my own keys without having to trust any vendor and I'll consider it secure.
Of course you can suggest whatever you want. Just don't expect them to do something which is impossible to do (well, at least until strong AI is developed).
Can we get that strong AI to write comments too? It would really boost the signal to noise ratio.
The only requirement for being labled a "good guy" is to oppose every single thing the US does.
You were making sense right up to that last part.
The assumption is that any government will fight for its own survival against fundamentalists.
The current Syrian government stands accused of killing extremist nutters whilst fighting for survival. The nutters are being armed because they are being killed because they are trying to destroy the government. The US is arming its own enemies and creating massive problems for its future.
Regardless of the US interventionism, under what perspective is a parliament which has 68% of the seats reserved for a single party considered "legitimate"?
They don't do things the same way as the US two party but really one party system. That doesn't make it right to fund and arm criminal groups to destroy the country.
"powned'? You need to return to geek school and retake a few courses.
Here is a hint:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=powned
Start at number 3.
Not exactly. The Russians are arming a mass murdering dicatator, the Americans are arming the allies of al-Qaeda. The responsible thing would be to do neither.
If some foreign funded and equipped far right or far left group in the US took on the police and military would the US government roll over without a fight? Of course not.
The Syrian government is fighting to stop the terrorists taking over. The US is arming and assisting the terrorists as well as asking others to do the same. Surely that makes the US a state sponsor of terror?
Read a wikipedia article about any subject you really know about. Depending on who's fifedom that article falls under it might be well written, or it may be trash. Either way it's unlikely you will be able to improve it without facing protected edit wars, editors using sockpuppet accounts, flames, accusations of bias, power-tripping administrators, and all other imaginative kinds of abuse. There are exceptions but only on articles that are abandoned fifedoms.
Try adding a well formatted and well written article on a subject that wasn't documented before. It will get deleted as not notible by a power-tripping administrator no matter what. That's hours of work just flushed in seconds by a moron on a power trip.
I have no idea how this compares to Britannica, I've never tried to edit Britannica!
You mean a show trial like that held for Manning?
No, I think they will go for the Kafka approach just like they do in gitmo.
Whether you think what he did was good aside, he's absolutely guilty of distributing confidential information and has admitted it.
To expose US wrongdoing in the hope of changing it. What he did he did for the greater good.
Every major atrocity in history was carried out by people just doing their jobs. Doing what you are told isn't doing what's right.
Laws have far more to do with maintaining the status quo than doing what is morally right. Laws should be ignored, or better changed, where they contradict morality.
Hong Kong isn't engaged in 'wholesale repression of anti-government dissent', it's very free and people openly protest again the Chinese government.
Russian and Cuba, I really don't know.
Congratulations! We almost have the trifecta of traditional European anti-Americanism, because whether it was Bismarck, Hitler, or Marx, that's what they could all agree on. The only thing that's missing from your tirade is a bit of anti-Semitism thrown in.
The US never were the good guys, they were just less bad than most others. Now the US has got worse and a lot of the others have got better. The belief that people in the US are more free than people in the rest of the world no longer has any basis in fact.
Russia powned the US by offering to consider an asylum application from Snowden, a man on the run for telling the truth about US abuses.
Russia powned the US by arming the legitimate Syrian government whilst the US tried to topple them by arming terrorist extremists.