Your making the fallacy that ALL muslims think like that. Right-wing muslims, christians and jews are all the same, and they all spread fear and hatred toward the other religions because it helps them make money and keep power. Right now, a Muslim and a Jew are both writing the same thing you just wrote but with some religion names switched around, because they have the same money and power controlled media as we do and the same asses that believe every dumb simplification that gets repeated on that media.
Yes, I acknowledge that and agree it's a shame, but, optimistically speaking, a work in progress. Either way, it's nice to see a population standing up for itself under a corrupt regime and I would never say they shouldn't have tried.
As a Manning supporter, I agree that in all fairness he should be punished if found guilty, but the punishment he's endured so far is beyond the law as we know it, and I should hope it's given it's day in court as well. And you're right that it's ridiculous to contend that he did nothing illegal. There's no way around that. However, the issue, for me, is whether what he did was for the greater good. I happen to believe that it was.
Also, we here on slashdot know a collective thing or two about security. Security by intimidation is not good security. If the information was THAT secret, it should've been more secure. We blame website developers for creating potential SQL injection attacks, but we don't blame the gov't for allowing what they believe to be top-secret information to be retrieved and disseminated so easily?
I wonder if the treatment he received in prison will play into the trial at all? I agree he should of course be punished, as the law is the law, but let's not forget these leaks were a catalyst for the Tunisian uprising, which lead to the revolts in Egypt and Libya, which is leading to the ongoing riots in Syria, etc. Some would argue the Arab Spring was furthermore a catalyst for OWS and the earlier protests in Wisconsin.
Of course, by the looks of it, he leaked everything he could get his hands on and so had no particular motive in mind except to undermine the classification system, but wittingly or not, the man's a hero. I wish him the best of luck.
The great work they're doing now will help ensure they'll be able to look back happily on these times. It's better than sitting on your hands in ignorance, mocking people who are trying to improve our country.
Egypt? Tunisia? March on Washington '63? Someone with more time on there hands could dig up a thousand examples.
It works if it goes far enough, and usually indirectly. Oftentimes, it's the only way people can show an overwhelming support in favor of a cause when the media isn't playing the voice of the people.
The cops are actually doing an enormous favor for the occupy wall street protestors by beating them senseless, as now the media is reporting on it. It couldn't be better if it was scripted. In that sense, go NYPD!
All apparently true, ignoring the middle paragraph, but you could add that Obama's most costly legislation in 2009 was in trying to prop up the economy after the banking fiasco. The total figure for this was about $800 billion. Whether you agree with this or not, it was a reaction that either party would've had in 2009, one which Bush had already started in 2008.
give almost all of what I make in large part to support those that never tried.
This argument has always bothered me. In a sense, it's perfectly reasonable, however:
* in order for you to have become successful, it's likely you once relied on the services that others' tax dollars once funded.. in-state tuition, public school, infrastructure, etc.
*perhaps more importantly, in order for you to maintain your success, your business needs to exist in a healthy economy. Keeping the economy healthy SHOULD be what tax dollars are used for (while I know this is not often the case) and this is a team effort, in a way. We all have to pitch in. Not to mention we have societal obligations toward those who cannot work for a living.
The second point is how I justify my view that the wealthy ought to pay much more in taxes. So much of their success comes from the strength of the economy that fostered them. It's an illusion that someone with a billion dollars has done 10,000 times the amount of work of someone with a 100,000 dollars. What makes this point so often overlooked is that while it's obviously true, it introduces so many variables that it's impossible to measure how much a wealthy person owes to the society that gave them their wealth.
You might as well also mention AIPAC and the NCAA which are just as 'openly racist.' They don't have an exclusive motto, but point to one piece of legislation promoted by AIPAC or the NCAA that benefits other races to the exclusion of their own. There isn't one! This is because in their capacity of lobbying groups that's just what they do, lobby on behalf of their represented race! Sheesh.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'm about as progressive as it comes. I get nothing but massive amounts of coupons in the mail, catalogues and bills addressed to previous occupants, and an occasional birthday card. I transport my mail to the trash every couple weeks. If I could cancel my USPS service (Kramer-style) I would. That said, I'm all for minorities (i.e. the poor) getting privileged access to services that would make their lives easier and keep them on their feet. If I could be convinced that there weren't better alternatives to the USPS, I'd be more supportive of it's continued existence.
It couldn't be essential, because that implies it's impossible to learn any other way. However, IMO, while the book is fascinating and amazingly ambitious, it rips through large topics so quickly I think it would be very difficult to actually try to learn the mathmatics behind modern physics through it alone. It does function well as a road map and a series of introductions to the things an aspiring physicist would want to understand, so I believe it is a great resource in this regard. While I did originally review this book for slashdot long long ago in my silly youth, I am not a physicist or anywhere close. Reviewers elsewhere may have more nuanced opinions, but I don't doubt it'd be a nice tome for a physics student or just an interested party to have lying around.
Personally I'll wait until the end of this term to see how much of Bush's damage he can undo.
As we've seen, he's not interested in undo-ing Bush's damage: nominating Geitner, et al, who got us into the mess in the first place, giving massive subsidies (a.ka. bailouts) to the banks who funded his 2008 campaign with no strings attached, re-instating the Bush tax cuts, cutting social entitlement programs that could spur our economy, the tax holiday, banking de-regulations, etc, etc, etc. All of these things have been counter to the advice of the great majority of economists and not coincidently benefit his major campaign donors or potential donors. Without campaign finance reform, this is going to go on forever.
putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not evil, but the free market is not perfect. Take a look at How Markets Fail. We've seen over the past ten years (or actually since 1980) that as the wealthy accumulate a greater and greater share of the wealth, average wages and employment figures do not improve. Also, there's no requirement that they invest or loan the money in the U.S. Whenever we given money to an investor, a lot of that money will end up overseas.
All of those problems can be resolved by more revenue. Except for the DMV, who are a bunch of useless, waste-of-space fuck-faces, schools and roads can't be efficiently operated by private enterprise (yeah, yeah, I've heard all the arguments). Sales tax alone is not the answer, but it would certainly help.
California needs money because, as is often said, a deficit is built into the state constitution. Much is decided through propositions, and guess what? People like to vote for services, but won't vote to pay for them (even though props are supposed to be budget neutral). The result is that they choke their public services to the point where they're largely ineffective (schools, jails, etc). Corruption is a different issue which can be resolved through campaign finance reform.
... exactly, and mail order companies also have been collecting state taxes for years when they have a presence in the state. You'll see that on many mail-order forms, for example "Residents of $STATE please add $N. sales tax."
I think so many people haven't bothered even looking at a mail-order coupon in ages (blame the Innert00bs:^) that they've forgotten this.
This case in particular is an example of policy needing to evolve to accommodate a massive change in the way people consume. The bottom line is that California sorely needs money and Amazon is helping to deplete their tax revenue by competing against California business on a scale that mail-order never could. Arguing about technicalities like the affiliate program is not helping anybody in this case, either the consumer or web site owners. It amounts to a weak legal ploy to try to trap Amazon into paying sales taxes and it hurts California business even more because website owners can no longer make use of Amazon's affiliate program.
It's a more difficult case to make, but California ought to pass a law, saying, if you want to do business in this state, you need to pay our sales tax, and then let it go to the supreme court. A strong case could be made that a website is no different than 'brick and mortar' in today's world.
Defendant respectfully urges the Court to visit Plaintiff’s website, www.mytrumanshow.com, to which
the Plaintiff refers both the Court and Defendant. Therein Plaintiff makes the following claims including:
Plaintiff is running for President of the United States in 2008 with Bill Gates as his running mate.
Plaintiff claims he is Jesus Christ.
Plaintiff claims he is God.
Plaintiff claims that Katie Couric and Celine Dion are his wives and are going to have his
children.
Plaintiff claims there is a movie coming out soon about his life that stars Tom Hanks.
Plaintiff claims he has killed all of his enemies.
Plaintiff Christopher Roller (“Roller”) has commenced an action for a purported
labor dispute against David Copperfield’s Disappearing, Inc. (“Copperfield”) under
Minnesota Statute 179.06. This statute relates to the notice required to negotiate or
make changes to a collective bargaining agreement. Seeing as how Roller has never
worked for Copperfield in any capacity anywhere ever and has no relation to Copperfield
whatsoever, he has no claim currently nor could he ever have any employment or labor
claim against Copperfield. Plaintiff’s Complaint is best described as a claim for
usurpation of Godly powers, which as this Court is aware, is beyond the jurisdiction of
this Court or any court of this earth.
Plaintiff Christopher Anthony Roller claims that defendant David Copperfield has
been wrongfully using plaintiff’s godly powers to perform defendant’s magic. Plaintiff
asserts one cause of action in his complaint, that David Copperfield’s use of his
plaintiff’s go dly powers constitutes a labor dispute under Minn. Stat. 179.06. Plaintiff
added in his response to defendant’s motion to dismiss the assertion that defendant’s use
of plaintiff’s magic powers also constitutes a wrongful “usurpation of Godly powers.”
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Your making the fallacy that ALL muslims think like that. Right-wing muslims, christians and jews are all the same, and they all spread fear and hatred toward the other religions because it helps them make money and keep power. Right now, a Muslim and a Jew are both writing the same thing you just wrote but with some religion names switched around, because they have the same money and power controlled media as we do and the same asses that believe every dumb simplification that gets repeated on that media.
BTW:
They are the new nazi's.
Godwin's law. You lose.
Or how many consumers stopped consuming because of the sales tax :)
Yes, I acknowledge that and agree it's a shame, but, optimistically speaking, a work in progress. Either way, it's nice to see a population standing up for itself under a corrupt regime and I would never say they shouldn't have tried.
As a Manning supporter, I agree that in all fairness he should be punished if found guilty, but the punishment he's endured so far is beyond the law as we know it, and I should hope it's given it's day in court as well. And you're right that it's ridiculous to contend that he did nothing illegal. There's no way around that. However, the issue, for me, is whether what he did was for the greater good. I happen to believe that it was.
Also, we here on slashdot know a collective thing or two about security. Security by intimidation is not good security. If the information was THAT secret, it should've been more secure. We blame website developers for creating potential SQL injection attacks, but we don't blame the gov't for allowing what they believe to be top-secret information to be retrieved and disseminated so easily?
I wonder if the treatment he received in prison will play into the trial at all? I agree he should of course be punished, as the law is the law, but let's not forget these leaks were a catalyst for the Tunisian uprising, which lead to the revolts in Egypt and Libya, which is leading to the ongoing riots in Syria, etc. Some would argue the Arab Spring was furthermore a catalyst for OWS and the earlier protests in Wisconsin.
Of course, by the looks of it, he leaked everything he could get his hands on and so had no particular motive in mind except to undermine the classification system, but wittingly or not, the man's a hero. I wish him the best of luck.
The great work they're doing now will help ensure they'll be able to look back happily on these times. It's better than sitting on your hands in ignorance, mocking people who are trying to improve our country.
Street protests are stupid and futile.
Egypt? Tunisia? March on Washington '63? Someone with more time on there hands could dig up a thousand examples.
It works if it goes far enough, and usually indirectly. Oftentimes, it's the only way people can show an overwhelming support in favor of a cause when the media isn't playing the voice of the people.
The cops are actually doing an enormous favor for the occupy wall street protestors by beating them senseless, as now the media is reporting on it. It couldn't be better if it was scripted. In that sense, go NYPD!
All apparently true, ignoring the middle paragraph, but you could add that Obama's most costly legislation in 2009 was in trying to prop up the economy after the banking fiasco. The total figure for this was about $800 billion. Whether you agree with this or not, it was a reaction that either party would've had in 2009, one which Bush had already started in 2008.
give almost all of what I make in large part to support those that never tried.
This argument has always bothered me. In a sense, it's perfectly reasonable, however:
The second point is how I justify my view that the wealthy ought to pay much more in taxes. So much of their success comes from the strength of the economy that fostered them. It's an illusion that someone with a billion dollars has done 10,000 times the amount of work of someone with a 100,000 dollars. What makes this point so often overlooked is that while it's obviously true, it introduces so many variables that it's impossible to measure how much a wealthy person owes to the society that gave them their wealth.
You might as well also mention AIPAC and the NCAA which are just as 'openly racist.' They don't have an exclusive motto, but point to one piece of legislation promoted by AIPAC or the NCAA that benefits other races to the exclusion of their own. There isn't one! This is because in their capacity of lobbying groups that's just what they do, lobby on behalf of their represented race! Sheesh.
s/philosophical types/ideologues/
That wasn't my point.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I'm about as progressive as it comes. I get nothing but massive amounts of coupons in the mail, catalogues and bills addressed to previous occupants, and an occasional birthday card. I transport my mail to the trash every couple weeks. If I could cancel my USPS service (Kramer-style) I would. That said, I'm all for minorities (i.e. the poor) getting privileged access to services that would make their lives easier and keep them on their feet. If I could be convinced that there weren't better alternatives to the USPS, I'd be more supportive of it's continued existence.
It couldn't be essential, because that implies it's impossible to learn any other way. However, IMO, while the book is fascinating and amazingly ambitious, it rips through large topics so quickly I think it would be very difficult to actually try to learn the mathmatics behind modern physics through it alone. It does function well as a road map and a series of introductions to the things an aspiring physicist would want to understand, so I believe it is a great resource in this regard. While I did originally review this book for slashdot long long ago in my silly youth, I am not a physicist or anywhere close. Reviewers elsewhere may have more nuanced opinions, but I don't doubt it'd be a nice tome for a physics student or just an interested party to have lying around.
Personally I'll wait until the end of this term to see how much of Bush's damage he can undo.
As we've seen, he's not interested in undo-ing Bush's damage: nominating Geitner, et al, who got us into the mess in the first place, giving massive subsidies (a.ka. bailouts) to the banks who funded his 2008 campaign with no strings attached, re-instating the Bush tax cuts, cutting social entitlement programs that could spur our economy, the tax holiday, banking de-regulations, etc, etc, etc. All of these things have been counter to the advice of the great majority of economists and not coincidently benefit his major campaign donors or potential donors. Without campaign finance reform, this is going to go on forever.
No, the episode came out just a couple weeks ago. Wonderful episode, wonderful show.
putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not evil, but the free market is not perfect. Take a look at How Markets Fail. We've seen over the past ten years (or actually since 1980) that as the wealthy accumulate a greater and greater share of the wealth, average wages and employment figures do not improve. Also, there's no requirement that they invest or loan the money in the U.S. Whenever we given money to an investor, a lot of that money will end up overseas.
All of those problems can be resolved by more revenue. Except for the DMV, who are a bunch of useless, waste-of-space fuck-faces, schools and roads can't be efficiently operated by private enterprise (yeah, yeah, I've heard all the arguments). Sales tax alone is not the answer, but it would certainly help.
California needs money because, as is often said, a deficit is built into the state constitution. Much is decided through propositions, and guess what? People like to vote for services, but won't vote to pay for them (even though props are supposed to be budget neutral). The result is that they choke their public services to the point where they're largely ineffective (schools, jails, etc). Corruption is a different issue which can be resolved through campaign finance reform.
I think so many people haven't bothered even looking at a mail-order coupon in ages (blame the Innert00bs :^) that they've forgotten this.
This case in particular is an example of policy needing to evolve to accommodate a massive change in the way people consume. The bottom line is that California sorely needs money and Amazon is helping to deplete their tax revenue by competing against California business on a scale that mail-order never could. Arguing about technicalities like the affiliate program is not helping anybody in this case, either the consumer or web site owners. It amounts to a weak legal ploy to try to trap Amazon into paying sales taxes and it hurts California business even more because website owners can no longer make use of Amazon's affiliate program.
It's a more difficult case to make, but California ought to pass a law, saying, if you want to do business in this state, you need to pay our sales tax, and then let it go to the supreme court. A strong case could be made that a website is no different than 'brick and mortar' in today's world.
it's pretty amazing that users (rather than the businesses getting listed) would be willing to pay for something like that.
And while I'm at it, fuck you for insinuating that someone who pays for something that actually helps them out is an idiot.
He's clearly only expressing surprise at the vagaries of human nature. He even says he's not knocking your app and might even check it out. Get a grip
There is much to be amused by in the above link..
Defendant respectfully urges the Court to visit Plaintiff’s website, www.mytrumanshow.com, to which the Plaintiff refers both the Court and Defendant. Therein Plaintiff makes the following claims including: Plaintiff is running for President of the United States in 2008 with Bill Gates as his running mate.
And Copperfield's response to the lawsuit:
Plaintiff Christopher Roller (“Roller”) has commenced an action for a purported labor dispute against David Copperfield’s Disappearing, Inc. (“Copperfield”) under Minnesota Statute 179.06. This statute relates to the notice required to negotiate or make changes to a collective bargaining agreement. Seeing as how Roller has never worked for Copperfield in any capacity anywhere ever and has no relation to Copperfield whatsoever, he has no claim currently nor could he ever have any employment or labor claim against Copperfield. Plaintiff’s Complaint is best described as a claim for usurpation of Godly powers, which as this Court is aware, is beyond the jurisdiction of this Court or any court of this earth.
Filed by UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
Plaintiff Christopher Anthony Roller claims that defendant David Copperfield has been wrongfully using plaintiff’s godly powers to perform defendant’s magic. Plaintiff asserts one cause of action in his complaint, that David Copperfield’s use of his plaintiff’s go dly powers constitutes a labor dispute under Minn. Stat. 179.06. Plaintiff added in his response to defendant’s motion to dismiss the assertion that defendant’s use of plaintiff’s magic powers also constitutes a wrongful “usurpation of Godly powers.”
or, more likely, instead of protecting the copyrights of our corporate overlords or spying on government watchdog organizations.