Idiot. Why do you fools keep buying into that nonsense? There is only one party in Washington, the money party. It shows two faces to make foolish morons like you think they have a choice.
If you have two equally qualified candidates then you use the one that is most advantageous to your organization. Considering the pressure companies are under for the lack of women in STEM positions you'd be a fool not to take the opportunity to even things up as much as possible thus taking pressure off you and your organization. I'd go so far as to say if the minority or female candidate was nearly as qualified they would most likely be snapped up. The only way I'd hire a white male would be if he was unquestionably better than the other applicants. Business is business.
They've been doing this same stuff for decades. Before the Islamic nutcases it was other groups like the so called home grown "militia" groups. They infiltrated one local group of idiots here that just got together to shoot guns, drink beer and bitch about the government. Impatient with the fact that the pussies weren't ever going to do shit they got their inside guy to show them how to make a bomb, then he helped them get the stuff to make one and then after that he helped them make it. Since they were too big a bunch of pussies (or just not really that crazy) to use the thing they only got to prosecute for "conspiracy." I didn't feel much pity for them as they were a sad group of morons but what a waste of money.
Exactly what should have happened here. Look what the idiots made it into. They turned a kids prank into a terror alert. The people responsible should never be allowed anywhere near education of children again.
The school over reacted and it became a mess. Time to put the Principal on the unemployment line. The voters there need to take back their schools from the idiots they've left in charge.
Maybe they could just have the punishment fit the crime? When I was in school this would have meant bending over the Principal's desk and getting 5 swats with a piece of wood called a paddle. Now we're so much more civilized. Instead of bruising his ass cheeks we'll just ruin his entire fucking life. So much better.
You know, all governments are evil. They are however considered a necessary evil to maintain some kind of civilization. The problem is of course in the balance between freedom and regulation. I personally, as a libertarian, lean toward much more freedom and much less government. Alas, when the choice is the savages composing Al Qaeda and ISIS and the current crop of idiots running the US I have to choose the idiots running the US. As bad as they may be when it comes to oppression they can't hold a candle to the monsters currently on the rise in the world of Islam. Sometimes we have to make bad choices to avoid worse. I'm certainly open to a better choice of president but it appears it's going to be tweedle dee and tweedle dum again.
It's an open forum here. Maybe he's an ISIS member for all we know. From his perspective it would be fine to rape and kill women and slaughter children while their parents scream in agony. Don't be so fucking judgmental.
Never happen. They're probably grateful the motherfucker is hiding in Russia. It makes him look like a traitor. If he came back he'd be the hero standing up against oppression. The media loves that shit. If he caught a cold and died there would be a shit storm.
Juries are made up of people. It takes a unanimous jury to convict so just one person can cause a hung jury. Given that at least 3 out of every 10 persons thinks he did the right thing by outing the NSA it could be nearly impossible to get a conviction. Out of the other 7 people many are "not sure" how they feel. I think he could come back and after 2 or 3 years waiting for trial he'd be a free man.
Yes. It might get twisted and bent but ultimately it is still necessary to make a case in court to keep people in prison. After all they put Wen Ho Lee through in the end they had to let him free and the judge who ordered him put in solitary apologized to him for the treatment. The judge also had some harsh words for the government's actions in the case and Lee was awarded 1.9 million dollars in compensation. Were we not under the rule of law, Lee would still be rotting in solitary. As bad as you may perceive things to be it could be much, much worse. We still have freedom in this country but we don't exercise it. We return the same people to office over and over knowing they aren't any good. We are at fault, as a people, for failing to take charge of our government.
The one thing playing in Snowden's favor is that he is famous. Unlike Lee who was relatively unknown Snowden is a household name and everyone has an opinion about him. If they treat him too harshly that'll play out in the media which will only cause more sympathy for him. I really think Snowden returning for trial could only be a huge nightmare for the government.
I think most of that is highly unlikely. I do think you're correct about him being in prison for several years while all this played out in the courts but there is no way they can refuse him a trial under any interpretation of the law. If they take away the right to a trial by a jury of his peers then basically we are no longer under the rule of law. It would be the equivalent of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. The lid would come off then for sure.
I have to wonder what would happen if Snowden returned home to stand trial. Would they be able to convict him? I think they'd have to try him many times to get past a hung jury. In the end I think he'd walk free. At least a third of the population support him in some way.
To convict requires a unanimous jury and I really don't think that's possible. My father is a 90 year old WWII Navy vet who supported the war in Vietnam and even he, who watches Fox news every day and by the standards of today is heavily conservative, thinks Snowden is a hero. I personally disagree but I doubt they'd ever be able to panel a jury to convict him.
He obviously doesn't feel that way because he's hanging out here. The people that really hate it aren't here. Some people just live to bitch about anything and everything.
No one fixes beaters, that's insane. You buy a 500 dollar beater and drive it for 6 months and after that it's just gravy. When it dies you tow it to the crusher and buy another one. It's so much cheaper than driving a real car that there is no comparison. I've seen them last two or three years. One friend of mine bought an ancient Plymouth Valiant with a slant six engine that looked like hell but ran. He drove it 3 years and never did anything but fill the tank. It got about 22 miles per gallon until it slung a rod through the side of the block on I-75 one day and off to the crusher it went. He had an old Ford Maverick withing 3 hours of dropping the Val off at the crusher.
For 10K I can replace the engine in a Ford Mustang with a major upgrade. For 17K I can get supercar power that'll boil the rubber off the rims. Hell for less than 7K I can get this baby.....
If someone leaves the country and aides and abets the enemy of the country and actively participates in planning, training and recruitment of an armed force to fight and kill his countrymen then he is an enemy combatant. He wasn't in Yemin on fucking vacation.
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Idiot. Why do you fools keep buying into that nonsense? There is only one party in Washington, the money party. It shows two faces to make foolish morons like you think they have a choice.
If you have two equally qualified candidates then you use the one that is most advantageous to your organization. Considering the pressure companies are under for the lack of women in STEM positions you'd be a fool not to take the opportunity to even things up as much as possible thus taking pressure off you and your organization. I'd go so far as to say if the minority or female candidate was nearly as qualified they would most likely be snapped up. The only way I'd hire a white male would be if he was unquestionably better than the other applicants. Business is business.
How about they just hire eunuchs? Problem solved.
They've been doing this same stuff for decades. Before the Islamic nutcases it was other groups like the so called home grown "militia" groups. They infiltrated one local group of idiots here that just got together to shoot guns, drink beer and bitch about the government. Impatient with the fact that the pussies weren't ever going to do shit they got their inside guy to show them how to make a bomb, then he helped them get the stuff to make one and then after that he helped them make it. Since they were too big a bunch of pussies (or just not really that crazy) to use the thing they only got to prosecute for "conspiracy." I didn't feel much pity for them as they were a sad group of morons but what a waste of money.
Exactly what should have happened here. Look what the idiots made it into. They turned a kids prank into a terror alert. The people responsible should never be allowed anywhere near education of children again.
This is where "the end justifies the means" eventually winds up. It starts with good intentions and winds up a corrupt mess.
The school over reacted and it became a mess. Time to put the Principal on the unemployment line. The voters there need to take back their schools from the idiots they've left in charge.
Maybe they could just have the punishment fit the crime? When I was in school this would have meant bending over the Principal's desk and getting 5 swats with a piece of wood called a paddle. Now we're so much more civilized. Instead of bruising his ass cheeks we'll just ruin his entire fucking life. So much better.
This would be fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You know, all governments are evil. They are however considered a necessary evil to maintain some kind of civilization. The problem is of course in the balance between freedom and regulation. I personally, as a libertarian, lean toward much more freedom and much less government. Alas, when the choice is the savages composing Al Qaeda and ISIS and the current crop of idiots running the US I have to choose the idiots running the US. As bad as they may be when it comes to oppression they can't hold a candle to the monsters currently on the rise in the world of Islam. Sometimes we have to make bad choices to avoid worse. I'm certainly open to a better choice of president but it appears it's going to be tweedle dee and tweedle dum again.
It's an open forum here. Maybe he's an ISIS member for all we know. From his perspective it would be fine to rape and kill women and slaughter children while their parents scream in agony. Don't be so fucking judgmental.
Up is now down didn't you know?
Never happen. They're probably grateful the motherfucker is hiding in Russia. It makes him look like a traitor. If he came back he'd be the hero standing up against oppression. The media loves that shit. If he caught a cold and died there would be a shit storm.
Juries are made up of people. It takes a unanimous jury to convict so just one person can cause a hung jury. Given that at least 3 out of every 10 persons thinks he did the right thing by outing the NSA it could be nearly impossible to get a conviction. Out of the other 7 people many are "not sure" how they feel. I think he could come back and after 2 or 3 years waiting for trial he'd be a free man.
Yes. It might get twisted and bent but ultimately it is still necessary to make a case in court to keep people in prison. After all they put Wen Ho Lee through in the end they had to let him free and the judge who ordered him put in solitary apologized to him for the treatment. The judge also had some harsh words for the government's actions in the case and Lee was awarded 1.9 million dollars in compensation. Were we not under the rule of law, Lee would still be rotting in solitary. As bad as you may perceive things to be it could be much, much worse. We still have freedom in this country but we don't exercise it. We return the same people to office over and over knowing they aren't any good. We are at fault, as a people, for failing to take charge of our government.
The one thing playing in Snowden's favor is that he is famous. Unlike Lee who was relatively unknown Snowden is a household name and everyone has an opinion about him. If they treat him too harshly that'll play out in the media which will only cause more sympathy for him. I really think Snowden returning for trial could only be a huge nightmare for the government.
I think most of that is highly unlikely. I do think you're correct about him being in prison for several years while all this played out in the courts but there is no way they can refuse him a trial under any interpretation of the law. If they take away the right to a trial by a jury of his peers then basically we are no longer under the rule of law. It would be the equivalent of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. The lid would come off then for sure.
It fits the definition. Greedy short sighted people make for greedy short sighted politicians.
I have to wonder what would happen if Snowden returned home to stand trial. Would they be able to convict him? I think they'd have to try him many times to get past a hung jury. In the end I think he'd walk free. At least a third of the population support him in some way.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
To convict requires a unanimous jury and I really don't think that's possible. My father is a 90 year old WWII Navy vet who supported the war in Vietnam and even he, who watches Fox news every day and by the standards of today is heavily conservative, thinks Snowden is a hero. I personally disagree but I doubt they'd ever be able to panel a jury to convict him.
He obviously doesn't feel that way because he's hanging out here. The people that really hate it aren't here. Some people just live to bitch about anything and everything.
German engineering?
No one fixes beaters, that's insane. You buy a 500 dollar beater and drive it for 6 months and after that it's just gravy. When it dies you tow it to the crusher and buy another one. It's so much cheaper than driving a real car that there is no comparison. I've seen them last two or three years. One friend of mine bought an ancient Plymouth Valiant with a slant six engine that looked like hell but ran. He drove it 3 years and never did anything but fill the tank. It got about 22 miles per gallon until it slung a rod through the side of the block on I-75 one day and off to the crusher it went. He had an old Ford Maverick withing 3 hours of dropping the Val off at the crusher.
For 10K I can replace the engine in a Ford Mustang with a major upgrade. For 17K I can get supercar power that'll boil the rubber off the rims. Hell for less than 7K I can get this baby.....
http://www.americanmuscle.com/...
I bet China might disagree with you. I know Putin does.
If someone leaves the country and aides and abets the enemy of the country and actively participates in planning, training and recruitment of an armed force to fight and kill his countrymen then he is an enemy combatant. He wasn't in Yemin on fucking vacation.