Assange faces rape-after-the-fact charges in one of the most misandrous countries on the planet. Where the fuck does a drone strike against the latter even become a topic open for discussion?
Maybe the hypothetical drone strike is suitable punishment for jumping bail in the UK?
The WP broke it down for you. 2776 cases includes incidence over 4 years.
Over one year. That was the 2012 audit. What previous audits (if any) show, is not the subject of the article.
Note also that each case in question does NOT imply the violation of ONE person's privacy. From TFA: "The most serious incidents included a violation of a court order and unauthorized use of data about more than 3,000 Americans and green-card holders."
Which implies, if not a single instance that totalled 3000 Americans, a small number of instances that totalled 3000 Americans.
And that's not even counting the "we meant to spy on Country-code 20 (Egypt), but we accidently typed in "202" (Washington's Area Code), and swept up basically every phone call made in Washington before we realized our boo-boo...."
This AC is completely wrong. All public debts are matched by an equal private asset. "Paying off" public debt consists of asset swaps between reserve accounts and securities accounts held at the Federal Reserve. There will never be a need to levy higher taxes to conduct such swaps, let alone a need for private individuals to "work harder."
If this were true, there'd be no real problem with the Federal Reserve buying up all the Public Debt in the USA, and then doing so again whenever more money is needed (next month, and every month after, basically).
Hell, they could abolish income taxes and corporate taxes too, while they're at it.
And using the miracle of accounting, we'd all get something for nothing, right?
Name another President that started with a budget surplus
Bush did NOT start with a budget surplus.
Contrary to whatever you have heard about Clinton, the National Debt went UP EVERY SINGLE YEAR he was in office. Note that the last time the National Debt went down was in the '50s.
Roosevelt? he was the first and only president to be elected 3 times breaking the tradition since Washington of only two terms.
Four times (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944). He died early in his fourth term, leaving Truman (whom he disliked so much that the existence of the A-Bomb came as a surprise to Truman after he became President) in charge.
It can have curves, no problem. They'll just have to be about 10 times longer then the USA's highway curves (for the same comfort level as highway driving).
Umm, no.
Lateral acceleration is proportional to speed squared, among other things. For ten times the speed, you need 100 times the radius of curvature.
I remember reading an article showing that based on the descriptions of those actually committing crimes, visible minorities were significantly under-represented in the people frisked.
Seems to me the numbers I saw were about 4.4 million "stop & frisk" since Bloomberg got to be mayor (no, it didn't start with him, but the numbers I saw referred to his reign), of which 89% were "people of color".
Since New York City has more than 11% whites, it looks pretty clearly like the people being stopped were "walking while black"....
via a Constitutional Amendment approved by 2/3 of all state legislatures
Three-quarters. It takes 3/4 of the States to approve an Amendment.
Two-thirds of the States are required to call for a Constitutional Convention to propose Amendments (which still require 3/4 of the States to approve them).
Their demanding to stick with lead shells, despite the demonstrated environmental harm that lead causes and the proof that copper jacketed bullets deliver superior stopping power at longer ranges seems a bit suspicious...
I've got a lot of different kinds of ammo at home. Except for the shotgun shells and the.22LR, they're ALL copper (well, cupro-nickel alloy) jacketed.
Hint: noone uses pure lead bullets anymore - it deforms too much in the barrel, won't hold the rifling, and just generally doesn't work for anything more modern than black-powder firearms.
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You're paying for a space to park your car, the space isn't going to be cheaper because your car is only 1.65m long, so it's pretty much irrelevant.
Except as a cute party trick - "Hey guys, watch this!"
"potential" crimes are not within the FBI's purview, really.
And bringing people "to justice" for doing something that is "potentially" a crime is, well, not a place we really need to be going....
That would be the Tenth Amendment.
Yes, it's been pretty much ignored since the FDR administration, but it's still the law of the land.
And in your taxes, where you don't see them.
Do keep in mind that Federal Tax Credits for Solar are a subsidy.
So are State Tax Credits for Solar.
And we have both where I live. So I can buy solar and get my neighbors to pay 80% of the price.
Which is a pretty nice subsidy. Until everyone does it, of course, then it becomes a fiscal disaster....
If his local recycling was anything like the one where I live, they started the program by touting how much money it was going to save everyone.
Then, once everything was in place, they added a fee to our monthly bill to cover the recycling costs.
If it "saves money", why does it "cost more"?
Nah, you're not the person GETTING the piggyback ride, you're the person carrying someone piggyback....
Project Gutenburg.
Or, for more modern ebooks, consider the Baen Free Library.
Maybe the hypothetical drone strike is suitable punishment for jumping bail in the UK?
Coke is a significant jolt of caffeine and sugar. If that's what you want, buy it.
If, on the other hand, you prefer your caffeine hot, buy coffee or tea, and sugar it to taste....
Over one year. That was the 2012 audit. What previous audits (if any) show, is not the subject of the article.
Note also that each case in question does NOT imply the violation of ONE person's privacy. From TFA: "The most serious incidents included a violation of a court order and unauthorized use of data about more than 3,000 Americans and green-card holders."
Which implies, if not a single instance that totalled 3000 Americans, a small number of instances that totalled 3000 Americans.
And that's not even counting the "we meant to spy on Country-code 20 (Egypt), but we accidently typed in "202" (Washington's Area Code), and swept up basically every phone call made in Washington before we realized our boo-boo...."
I'm curious - what world did you grow up in? Governments have spied on their allies since there were governments.
If this were true, there'd be no real problem with the Federal Reserve buying up all the Public Debt in the USA, and then doing so again whenever more money is needed (next month, and every month after, basically).
Hell, they could abolish income taxes and corporate taxes too, while they're at it.
And using the miracle of accounting, we'd all get something for nothing, right?
Bush did NOT start with a budget surplus.
Contrary to whatever you have heard about Clinton, the National Debt went UP EVERY SINGLE YEAR he was in office. Note that the last time the National Debt went down was in the '50s.
Yes. There are more than enough people in the world who do things because "everyone who is anyone is doing it".
Four times (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944). He died early in his fourth term, leaving Truman (whom he disliked so much that the existence of the A-Bomb came as a surprise to Truman after he became President) in charge.
Umm, no.
100 Senators, 435 Representatives.
Umm, no.
Lateral acceleration is proportional to speed squared, among other things. For ten times the speed, you need 100 times the radius of curvature.
Seems to me the numbers I saw were about 4.4 million "stop & frisk" since Bloomberg got to be mayor (no, it didn't start with him, but the numbers I saw referred to his reign), of which 89% were "people of color".
Since New York City has more than 11% whites, it looks pretty clearly like the people being stopped were "walking while black"....
Citation?
What?! When did this happen?
What the hell happened to the other billion???
Calibre.
It can change your eBook format from pretty much any format to any other. I buy them, change the to ePub (unencrypted), and I'm good, forever.
You're much more polite than I am. I just tune them out, then ask them to repeat after I can give them some attention.
Three-quarters. It takes 3/4 of the States to approve an Amendment.
Two-thirds of the States are required to call for a Constitutional Convention to propose Amendments (which still require 3/4 of the States to approve them).
I've got a lot of different kinds of ammo at home. Except for the shotgun shells and the .22LR, they're ALL copper (well, cupro-nickel alloy) jacketed.
Hint: noone uses pure lead bullets anymore - it deforms too much in the barrel, won't hold the rifling, and just generally doesn't work for anything more modern than black-powder firearms.
"For all intents and purposes"...
I understand a lot of the illiteracy in the world, that one has always puzzled me...