Try reading before you post. First link - source is leaked US embassy cables. Second link - unstated, but some digging shows source is leaked US embassy cables Third link - US diplomatic cables. I'm sure you can see the pattern here. These were US secrets.
Try thinking before you post. That the U.S. was the source does nothing to change the fact that the secrets themselves are still China's, etc.
The US was the only country to succeed in the attempt to build a canal across Panama.
Still their country. And I'm sure the British government paid for all kinds of shit before the Revolutionary War...would you have been impressed with this argument had they used it in 1812?
Noriega was ousted because he was making himself into a pain by importing illegal drugs into the US in industrial quantities
And the United States has been fucking around with Latin America for a hundred years, with military actions and coups every few years. Mountain, meet molehill.
They succeeded with XBox despite entering a new market crowded with leviathans
True, in marketshare if not in profit, because it focused on an area neglected by Sony and Nintendo: online play. If they could find a similar (large) niche to exploit, maybe they could make inroads into the tablet market.
But: netbooks already provided keyboards in lightweight form factors. Maybe a sub-netbook would make a difference, but then the Asus Transformer line has been around for a while without setting the world on fire.
At the end of the day, it might be like Microsoft or Blackberry trying to compete against Apple and Android in the smartphone market: it's tough to out-slick Apple or out-commoditize the Android platform.
That is not what the GP is referring to. The GP is referring to a different incident, post embassy bombings (?), where a special ops team had a visual on Bin Laden. Clinton had them stand down.
More right-wing fiction with no basis in reality.
Bill Clinton signed the legislation permitting the credit default swap financial instruments.
And George W. Bush signed the legislation making it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy - so banks promptly created a bubble by lending money to anyone or anything with a pulse. Blaming it on the CRA is the biggest wingnut lie in the history of wignnut lies.
That's the sort of nonsense he's talking about - that the rich will lose their money advantage without the helping hand of government. Snort as much Libertarian Magic Dust as you want, but you'd still know that there would still be mergers and acquisitions tomorrow even if government were to disappear on the same day...
The patent system certainly doesn't protect small developers from Apple sweeping in copying their work, and crushing them, as Apple has over and over again.
Should have no problems naming some examples then.
If only we had thought to build a multi-touch screen into a cellphone, we'd all be rich!
Everything is obvious, once some else has done it. Like how magnetically attached power adapters are obvious so your cat/child doesn't dump your laptop on the floor. Except we had laptops for over twenty years before somebody thought of it....
Hence the "decriminalization" part. If buyers and sellers are no longer criminals, and it's a plant that grows pretty much everywhere, the black market disappears overnight. Drug sales would fall under existing sales tax laws and intoxication would fall under existing traffic laws.
What if the fortunes were reversed and it was Apple forced to pay out a billion dollars for patent infringement? Would the haterz be burning their Galaxies in effigy while running out to buy iPads before shelves were emptied?
Wow, you are genius! That's a nice response..if your 15.
Your projection is noted.
You still violated the law
Pickpocketing is against the law - does that mean it's the same thing as rape because they both involve inappropriate touching? Or, maybe, we can make use of this "language" thingy and have different words for substantially different things....
Oh yeah, why is the FBI involved in these cases then?
Because they are a tool for capitalism, that's why. Ooo, lookie, another nickle and dime copyright infringer taken down while a single banker has yet to be investigated* or prosecuted.
*SEC "investigations" which result in a fine that take a small bite out of illegal profits don't count.
Wow, should be easy to name some examples then, since there's only 52 comments in this story (so far). Where, exactly, are these shill/troll comments.....
Decriminalization is NOT the answer. If we'd simply decriminalized alcohol in 1933 rather than outright legalizing it, we'd still have the bar bombings etc we had when it was completely illegal.
How do you figure. Violence from Prohibition resulted from a lucrative black market in confrontation with law enforcement. Decriminalization means the black market disappears.
...how many funerals and/or wakes their church has had for first trimester miscarriages. Then see if they don't say "well that's different!" before it dawns on them....
If Cubans have it so well, why are so many still risking their lives to leave Cuba by traveling in make-shift boats across 90 miles of treacherous ocean?
If the U.S. is so awesome and freedomy, why do 40,000 die a year for lack of health care while its government spends over a trillion a year on shit like drone wars and sending special forces to half the countries on the planet?
Because then it would be obvious that he's nothing more than a political prisoner. Because even if crimes were committed under U.S. law, Assange is not an American citizen nor was he on American soil when those "crimes" would have occurred.
That, and it gives the U.S. more time to try and break Bradley Manning. If they can pressure him into a plea deal where he agrees to testify against Assange, then they can have him extradited to the U.S. more easily if he's already in custody with a friendly regime.
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Try thinking before you post. That the U.S. was the source does nothing to change the fact that the secrets themselves are still China's, etc.
It is.
Still their country. And I'm sure the British government paid for all kinds of shit before the Revolutionary War...would you have been impressed with this argument had they used it in 1812?
And the United States has been fucking around with Latin America for a hundred years, with military actions and coups every few years. Mountain, meet molehill.
Spanish-American War, heard of it? Since when are treaties signed under duress (or by a puppet government) counted as "willingly"?
True, in marketshare if not in profit, because it focused on an area neglected by Sony and Nintendo: online play. If they could find a similar (large) niche to exploit, maybe they could make inroads into the tablet market.
But: netbooks already provided keyboards in lightweight form factors. Maybe a sub-netbook would make a difference, but then the Asus Transformer line has been around for a while without setting the world on fire.
At the end of the day, it might be like Microsoft or Blackberry trying to compete against Apple and Android in the smartphone market: it's tough to out-slick Apple or out-commoditize the Android platform.
False dichotomy. Your drinking water is overseen by bureaucrats, but I doubt you could name the last megalomaniacal scheme they were busted for...
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.htm
Easier done than said.
The most debunked right wing lie in history, and that's saying a lot. Bill Hicks had a term for people like you....
More right-wing fiction with no basis in reality.
And George W. Bush signed the legislation making it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy - so banks promptly created a bubble by lending money to anyone or anything with a pulse. Blaming it on the CRA is the biggest wingnut lie in the history of wignnut lies.
Says the guy looking to a for-profit corporation to save the day...just cuz. Self-awareness to aisle 3....
That's the sort of nonsense he's talking about - that the rich will lose their money advantage without the helping hand of government. Snort as much Libertarian Magic Dust as you want, but you'd still know that there would still be mergers and acquisitions tomorrow even if government were to disappear on the same day...
A life form like a red herring?
If you believe that Justin Bieber copied much of his act from Ozzy Osbourne, maybe. Or forgotten who started Palm.....
So close and yet so far.
Should have no problems naming some examples then.
Everything is obvious, once some else has done it. Like how magnetically attached power adapters are obvious so your cat/child doesn't dump your laptop on the floor. Except we had laptops for over twenty years before somebody thought of it....
Hence the "decriminalization" part. If buyers and sellers are no longer criminals, and it's a plant that grows pretty much everywhere, the black market disappears overnight. Drug sales would fall under existing sales tax laws and intoxication would fall under existing traffic laws.
What if the fortunes were reversed and it was Apple forced to pay out a billion dollars for patent infringement? Would the haterz be burning their Galaxies in effigy while running out to buy iPads before shelves were emptied?
Methinks not.
Your projection is noted.
Pickpocketing is against the law - does that mean it's the same thing as rape because they both involve inappropriate touching? Or, maybe, we can make use of this "language" thingy and have different words for substantially different things....
Because they are a tool for capitalism, that's why. Ooo, lookie, another nickle and dime copyright infringer taken down while a single banker has yet to be investigated* or prosecuted.
*SEC "investigations" which result in a fine that take a small bite out of illegal profits don't count.
Wow, should be easy to name some examples then, since there's only 52 comments in this story (so far). Where, exactly, are these shill/troll comments.....
How do you figure. Violence from Prohibition resulted from a lucrative black market in confrontation with law enforcement. Decriminalization means the black market disappears.
...how many funerals and/or wakes their church has had for first trimester miscarriages. Then see if they don't say "well that's different!" before it dawns on them....
If the U.S. is so awesome and freedomy, why do 40,000 die a year for lack of health care while its government spends over a trillion a year on shit like drone wars and sending special forces to half the countries on the planet?
Since you seem to like Red Herring and all....
Uh huh. And all those put at risk by our sanctions and drone wars? What level of reprisal are they entitled to?
Because then it would be obvious that he's nothing more than a political prisoner. Because even if crimes were committed under U.S. law, Assange is not an American citizen nor was he on American soil when those "crimes" would have occurred.
That, and it gives the U.S. more time to try and break Bradley Manning. If they can pressure him into a plea deal where he agrees to testify against Assange, then they can have him extradited to the U.S. more easily if he's already in custody with a friendly regime.