It's pretty stupid to have some kind of irrational fear of jews when the NSA is already doing all of the things you were so afraid of "zionists" all those years.
Doing good so far....
Turns out you just needed to fear Liberal Fascists all along.
...but then you descend into abject, dumber-than-pond-scum fuckwittery as asinine as anything the parent was going on about.
pay attention to the world. apple has been caught many times cheating.
Then you'll have no problems naming many examples, then. No, showing benchmarks that show your product to be superior while...not publishing those that don't, does not count. When and where has Apple actively cheated.
Lol.. and you don't see how that fallacy is problematic
If you think those analogies are fallacies, you don't understand either term.
I mean seriously, we have people who oppose liberal policies being declared racists simply because the president is black due to idiots thinking that shit is proper.
No, you don't.
This is why I shake my head with pity when I read your posts, Mr. D, because you come so close yet remain so far. Because you could have gone with what some right wing Democrats actually do: insist that anyone that calls the president "Barry" is racist. See what I did there? That's a valid comparison, based in reality, that has actually happened.
It's faux butthurt, designed to derail a conversation while attempting to put the other person on the defensive through the clever use of flopping: pretending that some grave offense just occurred when anyone with two functioning neurons can see that that's not the case and the person is just faking it. Right wing Republicans pull the same crap when they pretend that anyone who says the word "teabaggers" is using a homophobic insult when it's a well known fact that Teabaggers came up with their own name.
The problem is the comparison is completely out of line with the reality of the situation.
Not in the slightest. It's showing the utter absurdity of the argument by applying the same line of reasoning with a different set of variables. Another case in point: take this article about a mother who kidnapped her daughter after losing custody and spent 19 years on the lam, internationally. Peruse the comments and you'll see plenty of people who are siding with the woman for no other reason than she's the woman. Because you know full well that if the kidnapper was a guy, these same people would want him arrested, castrated, shot, hung, drawn and quartered and then shot a second time.
So, to get back to the original point: nobody is calling anyone a pedo, anymore than anyone is calling someone a slaver when slavery is used to rebut the "this has been done for a long time so it's no big deal" talking point.
The Tea Party started in direct response to TARP, a Bush program
And what have they done on the bank bailouts since then? Jack and shit, and Jack left town. They moved on to tearing their hair out over deficits and government overreach - which was done first and best by Bush. But you didn't have teabaggers protesting the Bush Tax Cuts in 2001 or warrantless NSA wiretapping when it was revealed in 2005, now did you?
Ugh, try to be less willfully ignorant of current events, not everyone else is.
And the original question was "What country doesn't spy on allies?"
You mean the blatant diversionary tactic? It's not "spying on allies", and anyone who suggests that is either uninformed or disingenuous in the extreme. It's the breadth and pervasiveness and capability.
The NSA literally wants to collect every bit of information from every person it can, across the entire planet. It taps the personal cell phones of politicians long before they rise to top leadership positions (Merkel). It has much of the world's communication infrastructure running through it's borders.
So lets go ahead and say that the intelligence chief for Romania wants to spy on Americans. Is he going to be able to spy on the entire country the way the U.S. spies on Brazil or Germany? He could build some "radar towers" and try to spy on the the wireless communications in neighboring Ukraine or Hungary - but how's he going to do that to Washington D.C.? The United States is extremely isolated geographically compared to most other countries.
Wow.. spying on allies is like molesting children now. Some of you people have a seriously fucked view on life.
Don't be such a dumbass, Dumbass. You know perfectly well that he's attacking the "lots of people would like to do this so nothing to see here, move along" talking point. Same as bringing up slavery to rebut the "this has been around for a long time, so it's okay" talking point. Nobody's calling Clapper a slave owner or Alexander a pedo.
But, again, you knew this already. So put down the faux butthurt.
The tea party exists because a percentage of the population are 1) hypocritical hacks and 2) fucking idiots. Every problem that the teabaggers bitch about from Obama was done first and in most cases best by Bush, but they didn't have a problem with it when their guy was doing it. Like the militia guys from the 90's that went on about Clinton's New World Order and black helicopters, only to snooze through 8 years of Bush's warrantless wiretapping, power grabs, and military detention of American citizens.
Ron Paul is not a "states righter" (is that a word?), read his material, you will see he believes that government should not intervene in any non-violent activity.
You first. Ron Paul does not believe that the 14th Amendment applies the Bill of Rights to the states. Which means that, yes, the states can indeed oppress you as much as they want, because the right to freedom of speech/trial/jury/privacy doesn't apply to them.
The next thing you know some prick like Obama is going to be arguing for an individual grid connection mandate; because its only affordable if we all participate.
Why, did the Heritage Foundation come up with such a plan 25 years ago? Anything else would be hippie nonsense.
Actually its covered under the economist Bastiat's Broken Window Princicple. Essentially, the green economy was explained to create jobs and increase GDP. Since its actually just creating inefficient rebalancing of the economy its hurting the economy more than the most efficient distribution of labor.
Drivel. How many jobs are going to be created in a community for placing solar panels on roofs vs working at a new coal or even nuclear plant 75 miles from town. You're also ignoring the fact that the costs of dealing with climate change are insignificant next to the costs of not dealing with it.
True, that is the policy of libertarians and the reason libertarians believe in this is because the people most affected by inefficient and expensive renewable energy are the poor.
No, that's why they are political hacks. Otherwise, they'd first be complaining that the real pork barrel subsidies should be eliminated: ethanol subsidies, and the Department of Defense. Because the DOD spends over a trillion a year on war spending, most of which is focused on the world's gas station, the Middle East. The CIA, keeping the world safe for capitalism since 1953!
Maybe math is hard but this is still more expensive than coal or natural gas (which market forces are decreasing the cost of sans government interference) and consumers are going to have to pay for the difference. And where does this money go? To Non-American solar array producers instead of jobs in natural gas or coal in the United States, further reducing employment and skilled labor jobs for the poor or lower middle class.
Even your crappy math can add together the costs of dealing with massive forest fires, record droughts and record hurricanes. You're also ignoring the fact that while coal might make for some jobs out in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, installing solar panels can be done in any community in the nation.
Otherwise known as Republicans who are under the sway of Environmental lobbyists
Otherwise known as the part of your post where you reveal yourself as being divorced from reality. What's next, how the Christian Coalition is under the sway of gay marriage activists?
Backwards. You have to have regulation to have a free market or trade for buyers and sellers. Otherwise you have monopolies acting as barriers and hoarding resources to artificially increase the price of their stocks.
As someone else living in Europe that is paying through taxes for this "doesn't cost a dime" service of yours, can I just say... you're welcome.
Isn't it lovely living in a civilized place?
You could always move to an uncivilized place like the United States, and pay 3x as much for worse care AND deal with insurance company roadblocks to get it.
Spin as much as you want, nothing is going to change the fact that the mandate was a Republican idea and pushed by the Heritage Foundation for decades. That's why Obomneycare is such a great partisan hack test for both Republicans and Democrats.
For Dems: if Obomneycare is so awesome, why didn't you work your asses off to get Romney elected as president when he ran in '08?
For R's: if Obomneycare is so horrible, did you vote for Clinton in '92 and '96 since H.W. Bush and then Dole were pushing it in those election years?
Democrats are dumb enough to give all power to the government, even when it could mean that Republicans (or someone much more terrible) may inherit that power.
Are you dumb enough to think that giving the government the power to keep poison out of your food is the same thing as the government spying on you illegally? Get past the nonsensical absolutes and slippery slope nonsense, you might notice that both parties are willing to sell out everyone and everything to monied interests.
On the other hand, the USPS is not supposed to losing money.
Which they wouldn't be if they weren't the only public or private entity with a requirement to fund their benefits 75 years in advance. This is not news.
That's why Mercedes and BMW went out of business in the 50's, and GM discontinued the Cadillac line during the Carter Administration. As for Ford, they stopped making the high end 450 dualies because no one buys pickups for more than $30k.
Many people use trucks for work, five or six days a week, in all kinds of weather and road conditions.
Do you also look down your nose at people who buy two-door F150's because they can't seat 5 passengers or tow 18,000 lbs? It's about buying what fits your needs, and not everyone needs a truck for 300 miles a day, 6 days a week, anymore than everyone needs a F450 Super Duty Crew Cab.
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Doing good so far....
Fandroid Reality Distortion field, meet reality: a retail 16 gig Nexus 5 has the exact same price as a 16 gig iPhone 5C.
Name one.
Then you'll have no problems naming many examples, then. No, showing benchmarks that show your product to be superior while...not publishing those that don't, does not count. When and where has Apple actively cheated.
If you think those analogies are fallacies, you don't understand either term.
No, you don't.
This is why I shake my head with pity when I read your posts, Mr. D, because you come so close yet remain so far. Because you could have gone with what some right wing Democrats actually do: insist that anyone that calls the president "Barry" is racist. See what I did there? That's a valid comparison, based in reality, that has actually happened.
It's faux butthurt, designed to derail a conversation while attempting to put the other person on the defensive through the clever use of flopping: pretending that some grave offense just occurred when anyone with two functioning neurons can see that that's not the case and the person is just faking it. Right wing Republicans pull the same crap when they pretend that anyone who says the word "teabaggers" is using a homophobic insult when it's a well known fact that Teabaggers came up with their own name.
Not in the slightest. It's showing the utter absurdity of the argument by applying the same line of reasoning with a different set of variables. Another case in point: take this article about a mother who kidnapped her daughter after losing custody and spent 19 years on the lam, internationally. Peruse the comments and you'll see plenty of people who are siding with the woman for no other reason than she's the woman. Because you know full well that if the kidnapper was a guy, these same people would want him arrested, castrated, shot, hung, drawn and quartered and then shot a second time.
So, to get back to the original point: nobody is calling anyone a pedo, anymore than anyone is calling someone a slaver when slavery is used to rebut the "this has been done for a long time so it's no big deal" talking point.
Faux butthurt: noted.
And what have they done on the bank bailouts since then? Jack and shit, and Jack left town. They moved on to tearing their hair out over deficits and government overreach - which was done first and best by Bush. But you didn't have teabaggers protesting the Bush Tax Cuts in 2001 or warrantless NSA wiretapping when it was revealed in 2005, now did you?
Ugh, try to be less willfully ignorant of current events, not everyone else is.
You mean the blatant diversionary tactic? It's not "spying on allies", and anyone who suggests that is either uninformed or disingenuous in the extreme. It's the breadth and pervasiveness and capability.
The NSA literally wants to collect every bit of information from every person it can, across the entire planet. It taps the personal cell phones of politicians long before they rise to top leadership positions (Merkel). It has much of the world's communication infrastructure running through it's borders.
So lets go ahead and say that the intelligence chief for Romania wants to spy on Americans. Is he going to be able to spy on the entire country the way the U.S. spies on Brazil or Germany? He could build some "radar towers" and try to spy on the the wireless communications in neighboring Ukraine or Hungary - but how's he going to do that to Washington D.C.? The United States is extremely isolated geographically compared to most other countries.
Don't be such a dumbass, Dumbass. You know perfectly well that he's attacking the "lots of people would like to do this so nothing to see here, move along" talking point. Same as bringing up slavery to rebut the "this has been around for a long time, so it's okay" talking point. Nobody's calling Clapper a slave owner or Alexander a pedo.
But, again, you knew this already. So put down the faux butthurt.
The tea party exists because a percentage of the population are 1) hypocritical hacks and 2) fucking idiots. Every problem that the teabaggers bitch about from Obama was done first and in most cases best by Bush, but they didn't have a problem with it when their guy was doing it. Like the militia guys from the 90's that went on about Clinton's New World Order and black helicopters, only to snooze through 8 years of Bush's warrantless wiretapping, power grabs, and military detention of American citizens.
You first. Ron Paul does not believe that the 14th Amendment applies the Bill of Rights to the states. Which means that, yes, the states can indeed oppress you as much as they want, because the right to freedom of speech/trial/jury/privacy doesn't apply to them.
Changes nothing. If I argue that there's an invisible unicorn in my backyard, is it your fault that you don't cite evidence that there isn't one?
lolz. Good thing I had put my beer down before reading that.
Okay, how many other industries get over a trillion a year in subsidies?
Why, did the Heritage Foundation come up with such a plan 25 years ago? Anything else would be hippie nonsense.
Drivel. How many jobs are going to be created in a community for placing solar panels on roofs vs working at a new coal or even nuclear plant 75 miles from town. You're also ignoring the fact that the costs of dealing with climate change are insignificant next to the costs of not dealing with it.
No, that's why they are political hacks. Otherwise, they'd first be complaining that the real pork barrel subsidies should be eliminated: ethanol subsidies, and the Department of Defense. Because the DOD spends over a trillion a year on war spending, most of which is focused on the world's gas station, the Middle East. The CIA, keeping the world safe for capitalism since 1953!
Even your crappy math can add together the costs of dealing with massive forest fires, record droughts and record hurricanes. You're also ignoring the fact that while coal might make for some jobs out in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, installing solar panels can be done in any community in the nation.
Otherwise known as the part of your post where you reveal yourself as being divorced from reality. What's next, how the Christian Coalition is under the sway of gay marriage activists?
Free trade would be deregulated trade.
Backwards. You have to have regulation to have a free market or trade for buyers and sellers. Otherwise you have monopolies acting as barriers and hoarding resources to artificially increase the price of their stocks.
You could always move to an uncivilized place like the United States, and pay 3x as much for worse care AND deal with insurance company roadblocks to get it.
It means free-to-use, pedant. Same as your public library.
Funny how everyone saying this is ignoring the speed and collisions involved, and thus using bad statistics.
Spin as much as you want, nothing is going to change the fact that the mandate was a Republican idea and pushed by the Heritage Foundation for decades. That's why Obomneycare is such a great partisan hack test for both Republicans and Democrats.
For Dems: if Obomneycare is so awesome, why didn't you work your asses off to get Romney elected as president when he ran in '08?
For R's: if Obomneycare is so horrible, did you vote for Clinton in '92 and '96 since H.W. Bush and then Dole were pushing it in those election years?
Are you dumb enough to think that giving the government the power to keep poison out of your food is the same thing as the government spying on you illegally? Get past the nonsensical absolutes and slippery slope nonsense, you might notice that both parties are willing to sell out everyone and everything to monied interests.
Which they wouldn't be if they weren't the only public or private entity with a requirement to fund their benefits 75 years in advance. This is not news.
That's why Mercedes and BMW went out of business in the 50's, and GM discontinued the Cadillac line during the Carter Administration. As for Ford, they stopped making the high end 450 dualies because no one buys pickups for more than $30k.
Do you also look down your nose at people who buy two-door F150's because they can't seat 5 passengers or tow 18,000 lbs? It's about buying what fits your needs, and not everyone needs a truck for 300 miles a day, 6 days a week, anymore than everyone needs a F450 Super Duty Crew Cab.
/statingtheobvious
Depends on how much melanin you have.