On the whole, Capitalism has a far-better track record for delivering a higher standard of living to the people generally.
On what planet is that? Socialism is what keeps the unemployed fed, with access to health care, and puts a roof over their heads. Capitalism would have then die in the street.
Since you were too busy being an asshole to think for two seconds:
That includes ALL of LG's mobile profits, but does not separate that number out into sales of SMART phones and sales of DUMB phones, dumb ass.
When making the claim that LG is making a profit on their smart phones, you need to - stay with me for a second here - talk about the profits from their smart phones. Not their overall mobile revenue stream which includes millions of other products. LG could be taking an average of a $5 loss on each Android handset it sells, and still be making an overall profit because they make an average of $15 on each of the millions of dumb phones they sell every year.
I'm not saying they are taking such a loss. I'm saying that figure does not back up the claim that smartphones are more than "breaking even" for LG, anymore than you can look at Sony's profits for their entertainment division and declare that the PlayStation 3 is more than "breaking even" for the company.
When it comes to fraud on a massive scale, this doesn't even come close to the theft of the people's gold by the government and the banks when FDR decided to renege on the promise to redeem US dollars for specie.
Yes, it was a tragedy that the rich (the only ones able to stockpile gold for obvious reasons) took one for the team for one time in history. Austerity is for the little people!
Maybe you should also join them and research some history because you are inferring tired mostly dis-proven ideas.
Maybe you should read up on the depressions of the 19th Century before going on about "dis-proven ideas".
Most gold bugs advocate at least some backing of the currency due to the fact that the currency remains stable in comparison to a full fiat currency. The numbers and history back up that belief
Except they don't. Gold bugs just skip the slight issues of hoarding and other changes in the supply of the backing.
Will this fucking lie ever die, or does it have to be KILLED WITH FIRE?
Except: that's not killing it. Your quote talks about LG's operating profit, and their smartphone sales, but not drawing a direct link between the two. That's like taking Sony's overall profit numbers and saying the Playstation 3 has been a money winner for them.
Yeah. You can. That's why prosecutors split up a single alleged crime into a dozen felonies: so they can be sentenced to a longer prison term or get them for one charge where others might fail. Like: kidnapping + crossing state lines + rape + assault + gun charge....
He had been offered a deal of six months in a minimum security prison by the prosecutor. Realistically, that's also about the maximum term a court would have imposed anyway.
Not if the judge was as trigger-happy as the prosecutor. And the judge wouldn't have been restricted by the plea deal - that's between the defendant and the prosecutor.
It makes perfect sense to blame the DA for overreaching and harassing Swartz but not blame her for the suicide.
Makes perfect sense to blame her for that as well, when she was warned of the possibility and still tried to cut off his proverbial arm for shoplifiting a pack of gum. It's like buying an alcoholic a round of drinks and then pretending you had no involvement when he gets in a drunken car crash.
Nobody said that civil disobedience and "fighting heroically for internet freedom" was a 9-5 job where you could kick back in comfortable luxury at the end of each and every day.
Nobodys said you aren't a snobby asshole, eager to tell others how they should be martyrs.
Martha Stewart, for example, has had some hassles with travel related to her 4 felony convictions, but she's still doing quite well.
4 felony convictions that are batshit irrelevant to cooking or housekeeping, just as Michael Vick's felonies weren't for anything having to do with football.
The Cuban government (and some misinformed Americans) likes to blame the U.S. embargo on Cuba's woes, being poor with little hope of advancement. But, the reality is that ALL of Cuba's woes are the failure of the Cuban government.
The stupid, it hurts. Ask anyone from any country that's been under an economic boycott or embargo about it's effects on the economy and the goods available. Palestinians who can't even get wheelchairs in Gaza, parents who lost kids in Iraq due to the lack of medicine, which is now being done a second time in Iran. For an example outside of southwest Asia, try asking someone from South Africa when that country was being boycotted for Apartheid.
The rest of your post is similar first world arrogance. As if there isn't hunger and mismanagement in the United States.
This is why many venezuelans think that their (our) country is being controlled politically by the Castros in Chavez
Right, in the same way the United States is "controlled" by miniscule foreign aid donations that make up a percentage of a fraction of a sliver of it's GDP. You know.....paranoid right wing Alex Jones bullshit.
So it's not at all nonsense to think that groups in favor of "gun control" are aiming to completely disarm Americans.
It's exactly the same sort of nonsense. Banning clip sizes and certain gun types isn't on the same planet as total Prohibition, and only a troll or a moron who attended the Pete Hoekstra school of analogies would claim otherwise. Regulating guns no more involves 'removing guns from society' than bank regulation involves 'removing banks from the economy'.
with a side order of willful obtuseness thrown in for good measure.
The US Justice System is there to enforce the law.
Where the hell is the wire fraud in this case? And where the hell are the prosecutions for the banks and Buscho torturers?
Over 100 people were tortured to death under the Bush Administration. Banks stole millions, billions, trillions of dollars and none of them have faced any prosecution. HSBC laundered billions for drug cartels and Al Queda, and they're not prosecuted. Meanwhile, a mother who is found to have 5 pounds of cocaine in her attic - possibly left there by her drug-dealing ex - is sentenced to life in prison for her priors, and because she had no information to give prosecutors. The actual drug dealers were able to cut deals and are now out of prison.
"Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind." - Edward Gibbon
He was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud among other things and when someone alerts the authorities that this may have taken place, they investigate it. If I bypassed your home's security and installed a laptop in your home that connected to your network and took all your files, would you want there to be laws against that?
Would I want you charged with trespassing, or hit with terrorism and home invasion charges and threatened with 30 years in prison? Are you really so obtuse as to not see the draconian response to the actual offense? Are you filling out visa applications so you can see some shoplifters hand cut off for allegedly stealing a pack of gum in Saudi Arabia?
You know, that almost sounds like an endorsement for suicide which is probably one of the most disgusting and vehement posts I've read here so far.
You almost sound like your priorities are fucked up on a galactic scale. Threatening someone with 30 years in prison for what is, at worst, breaking and entering: not a problem. Talking about suicide to avoid 30 years in prison, probable rape in prison, bankruptcy, and a felony record that makes you neigh-unemployable: now that's a tragedy.
You almost sound like the Church Laddies that were more upset that pictures were published of bodies floating in New Orleans then the fact that a major American city was allowed to drown by a careless and indifferent government.
What actions of theirs do you find culpable for forcing Aaron Swartz into no other choice than to take his own life?
Gee, maybe not make a literal federal case out of it to begin with? Or if they do, make the charges fit the alleged crime? Simple answers for bloody stupid questions...
They didn't explicitly ask for consent for them to track my children with "roll call". Someone could get the roll and know where the children are, so where's my explicit opt-in for that fascist "roll-call"?
What are you babbling on about. Attendance != electronic tracking. I suppose you're one of those morans who sees no difference between automated face scanners at football games and stationing cops by the entrance. Willfully ignoring the fact that you'd be out of a cop's short term memory in about 3 seconds, vs staying in a searchable law enforcement database until it's purged.
While the death penalty cannot undo what was done to someone, we as a society can no longer continue to coddle people who refuse to live with the basic bounds of society.
"Coddling" people like the Duke Lacrosse men, who were found innocent before they were sent to jail? How about the equally innocent Central Park Five - they would all be dead right now if the "eye for an eye" people had their way.
You obviously have no right to comment on this. Talk to an actual victim of rape sometime, or get raped yourself.
You're obviously a raging asshole and a demagogue. First, victims of crimes do not set the level of punishment for their victimizers for obvious reasons. Secondly, you're also a raging moron if you think rape is as bad as death - go talk to any parent who's child has been raped AND murdered and see if they'd rather have a rape survivor if you want to play that card.
Third, talk to the Duke Lacrosse men and the Central Park five about how they should have all been executed. Before they were found to be innocent.
Guys go out to the bar to find drunk bitches to fuck. Guys arrange parties and tell their friends to find chicks to bring so they can get them drunk and fuck them. This is not what college kids do. This is not what teenagers do. Thirties, forties guys do this. It is common, consistent, continuous behavior. Most laymen don't register this as 'wrong' until somebody calls it rape. Hell even women don't really take much notice that they've been taken for a romp; they just wake up, ask where the hell they are, and try to find their way home without giving it much thought.
You say this as if no woman has ever gotten a guy drunk to have sex with him. Or gotten a guy really drunk when he really wouldn't want to have sex with her. So how much time should these women be serving?
As others have posted elsewhere: you're spouting partisan bullshit.
You're projecting. With a cannon. House Democrats got more votes than the GOP but won fewer seats. Why is this? Because Republicans at the state level gerrymandered the hell out of congressional districts. You didn't think it was some craaaazy coincidence that liberal Austin wound up with 3 Republicans representing it, did you?
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On what planet is that? Socialism is what keeps the unemployed fed, with access to health care, and puts a roof over their heads. Capitalism would have then die in the street.
Since you were too busy being an asshole to think for two seconds:
That includes ALL of LG's mobile profits, but does not separate that number out into sales of SMART phones and sales of DUMB phones, dumb ass.
When making the claim that LG is making a profit on their smart phones, you need to - stay with me for a second here - talk about the profits from their smart phones. Not their overall mobile revenue stream which includes millions of other products. LG could be taking an average of a $5 loss on each Android handset it sells, and still be making an overall profit because they make an average of $15 on each of the millions of dumb phones they sell every year.
I'm not saying they are taking such a loss. I'm saying that figure does not back up the claim that smartphones are more than "breaking even" for LG, anymore than you can look at Sony's profits for their entertainment division and declare that the PlayStation 3 is more than "breaking even" for the company.
Yes, it was a tragedy that the rich (the only ones able to stockpile gold for obvious reasons) took one for the team for one time in history. Austerity is for the little people!
Not his job to fix the problems with your storyline.
Maybe you should read up on the depressions of the 19th Century before going on about "dis-proven ideas".
Except they don't. Gold bugs just skip the slight issues of hoarding and other changes in the supply of the backing.
And just convert your engine to biodisel so it gets the advertized 40mpg instead of real-world 25mpg.
Simple!
Except: that's not killing it. Your quote talks about LG's operating profit, and their smartphone sales, but not drawing a direct link between the two. That's like taking Sony's overall profit numbers and saying the Playstation 3 has been a money winner for them.
Need a few more dots between those points....
And face bankruptcy.
And face the real chance of being raped in prison.
And possibly lose the right to vote or own a firearm.
And have the Scarlett Letter of a felony conviction for his every rent or employment application for the rest of his life.
And face the possibility that the judge would go ahead and throw the book at him, regardless of any plea deal with the prosecutor.
All the assholes wondering why Swartz didn't bend over and take it should give martyrdom a try before telling anyone what hot shit it is.
Yeah. You can. That's why prosecutors split up a single alleged crime into a dozen felonies: so they can be sentenced to a longer prison term or get them for one charge where others might fail. Like: kidnapping + crossing state lines + rape + assault + gun charge....
Not if the judge was as trigger-happy as the prosecutor. And the judge wouldn't have been restricted by the plea deal - that's between the defendant and the prosecutor.
Makes perfect sense to blame her for that as well, when she was warned of the possibility and still tried to cut off his proverbial arm for shoplifiting a pack of gum. It's like buying an alcoholic a round of drinks and then pretending you had no involvement when he gets in a drunken car crash.
Nobodys said you aren't a snobby asshole, eager to tell others how they should be martyrs.
4 felony convictions that are batshit irrelevant to cooking or housekeeping, just as Michael Vick's felonies weren't for anything having to do with football.
You may be a shitbag imperialistic apologist for colonialism, but at least you're a funny one.
The stupid, it hurts. Ask anyone from any country that's been under an economic boycott or embargo about it's effects on the economy and the goods available. Palestinians who can't even get wheelchairs in Gaza, parents who lost kids in Iraq due to the lack of medicine, which is now being done a second time in Iran. For an example outside of southwest Asia, try asking someone from South Africa when that country was being boycotted for Apartheid.
The rest of your post is similar first world arrogance. As if there isn't hunger and mismanagement in the United States.
Right, in the same way the United States is "controlled" by miniscule foreign aid donations that make up a percentage of a fraction of a sliver of it's GDP. You know.....paranoid right wing Alex Jones bullshit.
It's exactly the same sort of nonsense. Banning clip sizes and certain gun types isn't on the same planet as total Prohibition, and only a troll or a moron who attended the Pete Hoekstra school of analogies would claim otherwise. Regulating guns no more involves 'removing guns from society' than bank regulation involves 'removing banks from the economy'.
Right, just like the goal of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is to get all Americans to give up cars.
Or, maybe that's all just stupid nonsense.
When has that ever worked. It didn't work for Randy Weaver, it didn't work for Leonard Peltier, and it didn't work for the Black Panthers.
And how much success have your local Wolverines chapter had in reversing these policies by driving up the sales numbers of Smith & Wesson?
with a side order of willful obtuseness thrown in for good measure.
Where the hell is the wire fraud in this case? And where the hell are the prosecutions for the banks and Buscho torturers?
Over 100 people were tortured to death under the Bush Administration. Banks stole millions, billions, trillions of dollars and none of them have faced any prosecution. HSBC laundered billions for drug cartels and Al Queda, and they're not prosecuted. Meanwhile, a mother who is found to have 5 pounds of cocaine in her attic - possibly left there by her drug-dealing ex - is sentenced to life in prison for her priors, and because she had no information to give prosecutors. The actual drug dealers were able to cut deals and are now out of prison.
"Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind." - Edward Gibbon
Would I want you charged with trespassing, or hit with terrorism and home invasion charges and threatened with 30 years in prison? Are you really so obtuse as to not see the draconian response to the actual offense? Are you filling out visa applications so you can see some shoplifters hand cut off for allegedly stealing a pack of gum in Saudi Arabia?
You know, that almost sounds like an endorsement for suicide which is probably one of the most disgusting and vehement posts I've read here so far.
You almost sound like your priorities are fucked up on a galactic scale. Threatening someone with 30 years in prison for what is, at worst, breaking and entering: not a problem. Talking about suicide to avoid 30 years in prison, probable rape in prison, bankruptcy, and a felony record that makes you neigh-unemployable: now that's a tragedy.
You almost sound like the Church Laddies that were more upset that pictures were published of bodies floating in New Orleans then the fact that a major American city was allowed to drown by a careless and indifferent government.
Gee, maybe not make a literal federal case out of it to begin with? Or if they do, make the charges fit the alleged crime? Simple answers for bloody stupid questions...
What are you babbling on about. Attendance != electronic tracking. I suppose you're one of those morans who sees no difference between automated face scanners at football games and stationing cops by the entrance. Willfully ignoring the fact that you'd be out of a cop's short term memory in about 3 seconds, vs staying in a searchable law enforcement database until it's purged.
Not when your "choice" is placing dozens to hundreds of people at risk for your moranic "beliefs". Get the damn vaccine, or get a different job.
"Coddling" people like the Duke Lacrosse men, who were found innocent before they were sent to jail? How about the equally innocent Central Park Five - they would all be dead right now if the "eye for an eye" people had their way.
Says the demagogue who's never talked to any dead people who've said they're happier being dead than being a rape survivor.
You're obviously a raging asshole and a demagogue. First, victims of crimes do not set the level of punishment for their victimizers for obvious reasons. Secondly, you're also a raging moron if you think rape is as bad as death - go talk to any parent who's child has been raped AND murdered and see if they'd rather have a rape survivor if you want to play that card.
Third, talk to the Duke Lacrosse men and the Central Park five about how they should have all been executed. Before they were found to be innocent.
Your shitty opinion. As if you or anyone else you know wouldn't rather be raped - multiple times even - than murdered.
You say this as if no woman has ever gotten a guy drunk to have sex with him. Or gotten a guy really drunk when he really wouldn't want to have sex with her. So how much time should these women be serving?
You're projecting. With a cannon. House Democrats got more votes than the GOP but won fewer seats. Why is this? Because Republicans at the state level gerrymandered the hell out of congressional districts. You didn't think it was some craaaazy coincidence that liberal Austin wound up with 3 Republicans representing it, did you?