Here is a thought, Taxes are not the right of government.
Here's a fact: civilization costs money. Here's another fact: low taxes have high costs.
It is almost like you are arguing that taxes at 45% is "fair". I call it criminal.
Yes, because it's not enough for capitalists to exploit workers, consumers, citizens and the planet past breaking points, you want to live in a first-world society without having to pay for it.
Pay close attention. I know that's hard for someone already convinced they know what's what, but try.
You first.
She handled tens of thousands of classified messages in hardcopy form so they would not be hackable - that was her day-to-day process for handling classified material.
Right. In the same way that because Bush didn't invade New Zealand, it means he didn't really invade Iraq.
The stuff on her unclass email was two categories (a) sent to her and (b) ambiguous discussion of fast-moving current events -- trying to 'talk around' classified details to varying degrees of success.
Irrelevant and irrelevant, respectively. She was running an unsecured, unauthorized private email server, and the only SOS to do so exclusively. If someone emailed her something classified, that doesn't absolve her, because it was her goddamn email server and she was entirely responsible for it.
There was literally nothing classified with classified markings.
Then you are literally full of shit about not just her emails, but your claims to have worked on classified programs. Much of the work Hillary did was inherently classified, and she knew that as one of the few Original Classification Authorities in the government. You think for one second that if she sent an email to a minister in the UK about the movement of nuclear submarines, that the information wouldn't be classified until it was marked as such?
For example, often people would come up to the Clintons and state, "We gave a donation to your foundation. By the way, could you please look into doing/changing X for us?" It would be rude to say "no".
However you want to rationalize the corruption and bribery. The Olympics have been over for months, but I award this exercise in mental gymnastics an 8.4.
However after an agreement is reached there should be another vote.
This is obviously the most sensible option.
Why. If the Leave side had lost by 4%, what would be the reaction if they hemmed and hawed while not-so-quietly demanding do-overs until their side got what they wanted?
The problem is that's only part of the question. Does the UK remain in the EEA? EFTA? Make more of the Commonwealth? Become an isolationist island state? Become another canton of Switzerland? Or the 51st state of the USA? Or a socialist republic?
Y'know you could just as easily fearmonger in the other direction, right? OMG what if the UK gets cornholed if they stay in the EU, the way Greece, Ireland and Spain have been? OMG what if the UK has 25% unemployment? OMG what if social services are gutted to please Germany and the Troika? OMG OMG OMG OMG!
Parliament should have a vote. Our democracy is set up, like most, with two houses so that one can act as a check and balance for the other. Effectively decisions are checked twice, and it helps prevent one house becoming an echo chamber.
Except the people aren't a house of the legislature. They're the people, and they clearly decided to leave. Overruling that decision because you don't like it is both elitist and anti-democratic.
The indication Parliament got from the referendum was that the country is very nearly equally split on the issue
A 4% split is not "equal". One side clearly won, and the other clearly lost.
That's why most of the realists in government will be frantically scrabbling around for a compromise that leaves everyone just a bit disappointed rather than leaving roughly half of the voters livid. Such a compromise is far from easy to find, and this legal ruling does at least buy time.
Leave has been constantly smeared as being either a bunch of racists, or a bunch of idiots who didn't know what they were voting for. Imagine what the reaction would be if they were demanding they get most of what they want if they had lost the vote?
If the UK government let the people vote on massive changes to the country while only requiring a simple majority, then the entire point of having a representative democratic system is pointless. Any country which always does what 51% of its people want at any given time is doomed.
Yes, people keep saying that. People who keep ignoring the fact that a supermajority wasn't required to enter the EU in the first place. It's as much of a farce as Democrats saying Hillary only needs 50.001% of the vote to win, but Trump must get 60% to become president, because reasons.
Alternatively it could be argued that this is the reason that we have a parliament - to mitigate against the undesirable effects of the uneducated masses from implementing poor decisions that seem right in their limited view.
Grotesque elitism. And utterly nonsensical, as it has been the elites who have driven society, governments and economies into the ground, in everything from WWI to the market crash of 2008. Not the unwashed masses.
What they're actually saying is that UK citizens are not free to enter into individual contracts for labor or service, they may only be employees of a business/corporation.
Nice straw man. What they're saying is that if a company is benefiting from workers as if they are employees....then they're employees and should be treated as such by the company. Not prey on people desperate to make next months rent, so they spend their free time driving for Uber....even if gas and maintenance costs push their annual earnings well below minimum wage.
Apparently the leaders in the UK must not believe UK citizens are intelligent enough to avoid signing themselves into slavery or something.
Nobody chooses to be a low paid serf, you Randian nutjob, any more than you've "chosen" not to be a billionaire.
I came across this the other day in a different context and found it interesting.
Did you also come across the price of rice in China or some other non-sequitur? The coup in Ukraine and Russian support for the east is cause and effect, not some random Big Word you found on the internet.
Zero evidence has been presented that Russia is "guilty" of anything, just a series of assertions from the fine people that lied you into a million lives and trillions of dollars lost in Iraq. But American Exceptionalists seem eager to get fooled and fooled again.
AE response 1: but but what about Syria and Ukraine? Neither situation would exist if not for America's policy of regime change, and it's not like the U.S. would do nothing if the USSR had engineered a communist coup in, say, Mexico.
AE response 2: you're just a Putin lover! Yeah, you guys said the same thing about Saddam and anyone who questioned your bullshit about WMD's and "ties to Al Queda". So why don't you skip that part and go complain that anyone who talks about Hillary's incompetent corruption is only trying to get Trump elected.
And you're definitely acting like a massive Mac Fanboy here.
Whining at the fact that Apple has long been at the top of hardware reliability surveys is a pure Hateboi reaction. As is losing your shit and throwing your kitchen sink at the effigy of Steve Jobs you've constructed.
Replying to a 3 day dead article
And what do you think you're doing, Slick? And what do you mean, "dead"? An article isn't dead until comments are closed. Your elevator isn't going to the top floor...
to say "but but Note 7!" when we're talking about PCs and laptops.
Because you pulled a random search for recalls out of your ass, err, Google. Classic Hateboi nutpicking. Guess what, you can find Honda recalls too - doesn't change the fact they're more reliable than other car makers. You want to talk about PC's? Okay, lets talk about:
Read your own link? "The two main culprits that cause a malfunctioning cellphone battery are physical damage or use of a low quality, unauthorized charger." When Apple has a crisis so bad they recall an entire line, factory supplied chargers included, do let us know.
Should we now shift the goalposts to some other area?
Says the Hateboi who hasn't bothered to address the fact that Apple took the top spot in reliability, as the usually do. Specifically on laptops, when you wanted to wank on about....PC's and laptops.
If you want unlimited data then you should pay extra for it. Is that not fair?
Already am. I'm also paying for Netflix. I don't want my cable company f****** with Netflix packets until Netflix pays them a blackmail fee, which they naturally have to pass on to me, despite my paying the cable company a pretty penny to be my isp. This is net neutrality 101....any more dumb questions?
Problems with their Macbook Pros only acknowledged after a class action lawsuit:
And Samsung phones are blowing up on airplanes and setting people's houses on fire - but nobody GAF because it's not Apple. The problem for Hatebois is that Apple has been at or near the top of reliability surveys since the Paleozoic era of computing.
No, that doesn't mean they're flawless, Hateboi canards to the contrary. It means their shit is more reliable than everyone else's shit.
the publications department - but become much more problematic for field staff and managers (especially to start) because things aren't where they've grown to expect them to be
That's your confirmation bias talking. If you've spent any time supporting PC users, you've run into some that need a great deal of handholding. A couple months I had one ask me, "what's the Start menu?" when trying to get him to open the Control Panel - what's that prove?
But now that I know that you, personally, haven't had problems with your Macs... well that changes everything. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the hand waiving. Had to support a Mac where the OS has randomly decided to uninstall critical software because it's "not compatible", the way Windows 10 is wont to do, without asking?
From my experience, Macs work great.. as long as you only ever want to do the things Steve Jobs thought you should want to do. Which admittedly, is a good fit for most non-techies that just want email and a web browser. As soon as you try to break out of the mold though, things tend to take a nosedive very fast.
Hatorade.
Just try sorting your iTunes list by path/filename. Yeah no juice there. You use Apple's library system or you piss off. There's no third option.
1) No one cares 2) nothing stops you from using another music player. Do you think Zombie Steve comes for you in the middle of the night if you install VLC and make some m3u playlists?
Or Flash. Sure Flash might be terrible in many ways, but you _still_ can't access like half the video sites on the web from a mobile phone.
Name five.
And of course, there's the age-old issue of lack of software for Macs
Name a product category where software isn't available for OS X.
A particular problem for gamers
BootCamp has been out for a full ten years now. Why don't you complain about the single button mice and lack of preemptive multitasking while you are at it?
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Low taxes have high costs. People in Sweden pay a fraction of what you do for higher education, medical care and retirement.
Here's a fact: civilization costs money. Here's another fact: low taxes have high costs.
Yes, because it's not enough for capitalists to exploit workers, consumers, citizens and the planet past breaking points, you want to live in a first-world society without having to pay for it.
Pay close attention. I know that's hard for someone already convinced they know what's what, but try.
You first.
Right. In the same way that because Bush didn't invade New Zealand, it means he didn't really invade Iraq.
Irrelevant and irrelevant, respectively. She was running an unsecured, unauthorized private email server, and the only SOS to do so exclusively. If someone emailed her something classified, that doesn't absolve her, because it was her goddamn email server and she was entirely responsible for it.
Then you are literally full of shit about not just her emails, but your claims to have worked on classified programs. Much of the work Hillary did was inherently classified, and she knew that as one of the few Original Classification Authorities in the government. You think for one second that if she sent an email to a minister in the UK about the movement of nuclear submarines, that the information wouldn't be classified until it was marked as such?
However you want to rationalize the corruption and bribery. The Olympics have been over for months, but I award this exercise in mental gymnastics an 8.4.
Why. If the Leave side had lost by 4%, what would be the reaction if they hemmed and hawed while not-so-quietly demanding do-overs until their side got what they wanted?
Y'know you could just as easily fearmonger in the other direction, right? OMG what if the UK gets cornholed if they stay in the EU, the way Greece, Ireland and Spain have been? OMG what if the UK has 25% unemployment? OMG what if social services are gutted to please Germany and the Troika? OMG OMG OMG OMG!
Except the people aren't a house of the legislature. They're the people, and they clearly decided to leave. Overruling that decision because you don't like it is both elitist and anti-democratic.
A 4% split is not "equal". One side clearly won, and the other clearly lost.
Leave has been constantly smeared as being either a bunch of racists, or a bunch of idiots who didn't know what they were voting for. Imagine what the reaction would be if they were demanding they get most of what they want if they had lost the vote?
Yes, people keep saying that. People who keep ignoring the fact that a supermajority wasn't required to enter the EU in the first place. It's as much of a farce as Democrats saying Hillary only needs 50.001% of the vote to win, but Trump must get 60% to become president, because reasons.
And? A supermajrority wasn't required to enter the EU, so no one has any standing to demand that a supermajority be required to leave.
You're using that term, sovereignty, but it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means.
Grotesque elitism. And utterly nonsensical, as it has been the elites who have driven society, governments and economies into the ground, in everything from WWI to the market crash of 2008. Not the unwashed masses.
The pipeline is going across their land, moran, so as not to go north of Bismarck and endanger the watershed of the lilly white state capital.
Unless that bill repealed all fees on physical media - passed to "pay" for "piracy" - then Canadians are getting DVDA'ed by the corporations.
Nice straw man. What they're saying is that if a company is benefiting from workers as if they are employees....then they're employees and should be treated as such by the company. Not prey on people desperate to make next months rent, so they spend their free time driving for Uber....even if gas and maintenance costs push their annual earnings well below minimum wage.
Nobody chooses to be a low paid serf, you Randian nutjob, any more than you've "chosen" not to be a billionaire.
Did you also come across the price of rice in China or some other non-sequitur? The coup in Ukraine and Russian support for the east is cause and effect, not some random Big Word you found on the internet.
Except then you'd never release anything, ever, because there's always "something better" coming in 3 months.
Zero evidence has been presented that Russia is "guilty" of anything, just a series of assertions from the fine people that lied you into a million lives and trillions of dollars lost in Iraq. But American Exceptionalists seem eager to get fooled and fooled again.
AE response 1: but but what about Syria and Ukraine? Neither situation would exist if not for America's policy of regime change, and it's not like the U.S. would do nothing if the USSR had engineered a communist coup in, say, Mexico.
AE response 2: you're just a Putin lover! Yeah, you guys said the same thing about Saddam and anyone who questioned your bullshit about WMD's and "ties to Al Queda". So why don't you skip that part and go complain that anyone who talks about Hillary's incompetent corruption is only trying to get Trump elected.
Based on what, Apple being a major Samsung customer for many years now? Sounds more like simply facile hatorade, given the AC's response below....
Your projection is noted.
Whining at the fact that Apple has long been at the top of hardware reliability surveys is a pure Hateboi reaction. As is losing your shit and throwing your kitchen sink at the effigy of Steve Jobs you've constructed.
And what do you think you're doing, Slick? And what do you mean, "dead"? An article isn't dead until comments are closed. Your elevator isn't going to the top floor...
Because you pulled a random search for recalls out of your ass, err, Google. Classic Hateboi nutpicking. Guess what, you can find Honda recalls too - doesn't change the fact they're more reliable than other car makers. You want to talk about PC's? Okay, lets talk about:
Dell recalls 4 million 'exploding' laptops
....and how it was a complete non-issue, because it wasn't Apple.
Read your own link? "The two main culprits that cause a malfunctioning cellphone battery are physical damage or use of a low quality, unauthorized charger." When Apple has a crisis so bad they recall an entire line, factory supplied chargers included, do let us know.
Says the Hateboi who hasn't bothered to address the fact that Apple took the top spot in reliability, as the usually do. Specifically on laptops, when you wanted to wank on about....PC's and laptops.
Already am. I'm also paying for Netflix. I don't want my cable company f****** with Netflix packets until Netflix pays them a blackmail fee, which they naturally have to pass on to me, despite my paying the cable company a pretty penny to be my isp. This is net neutrality 101....any more dumb questions?
Go ahead, say it. I know you want to...."innocent victims of AIDS"
Corrupt anti-competitive behavior is "more" functionality on what planet?
You use salt & pepper while licking those corporate boots, or do you take them black?
And Samsung phones are blowing up on airplanes and setting people's houses on fire - but nobody GAF because it's not Apple. The problem for Hatebois is that Apple has been at or near the top of reliability surveys since the Paleozoic era of computing.
No, that doesn't mean they're flawless, Hateboi canards to the contrary. It means their shit is more reliable than everyone else's shit.
That's your confirmation bias talking. If you've spent any time supporting PC users, you've run into some that need a great deal of handholding. A couple months I had one ask me, "what's the Start menu?" when trying to get him to open the Control Panel - what's that prove?
Thanks for the hand waiving. Had to support a Mac where the OS has randomly decided to uninstall critical software because it's "not compatible", the way Windows 10 is wont to do, without asking?
Hatorade.
1) No one cares 2) nothing stops you from using another music player. Do you think Zombie Steve comes for you in the middle of the night if you install VLC and make some m3u playlists?
Name five.
Name a product category where software isn't available for OS X.
BootCamp has been out for a full ten years now. Why don't you complain about the single button mice and lack of preemptive multitasking while you are at it?