So if I go to someone's house and they didn't lock their door I should be allowed to wander around inside touching things? Right?
More like: you reach for the door of a bank after hours and find it completely open, the vault as well. You leave a few days later with some pizza boxes and Mountain Dew cans left on the floor, but you didn't actually steal any money.
Who should really be in trouble here....you, or the people in charge of the bank's security for not even bothering to lock the door at the end of the day?
Yep, a few thousand bucks paying a few dozen 'vocal shills' to post generic political propaganda in broken english on the biggest SJW haven on the internet swung an election, but billions spent on all manner of actual professional campaigning and marketing and astroturfing was a total waste.
Somebody pointed that out to Podesta on Meet the Press, iirc. Asked him how the Ruskies knew to target swing states, but the Hillary campaign did not. She just took for granted that she would win states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa and didn't bother to campaign in them - that went to Trump. Hell, she nearly lost Minnesota as well.
Russiagate is nothing more than a sad, sad attempt to excuse Hillary losing the most winnable election in history.
The NSA, CIA, and FBI all presented information to Obama showing the Russian's attempted interference in the Presidential campaign but Obama did nothing about it.
Because it's the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time, and the one with the most plot holes. Why would Russia try to get either party in the White House when both parties have been anti-Russian for a century. How is it that Putin was able to see years in advance that an asshole gameshow host could be president, yet completely unable to anticipate any blowback. Why would anyone bother with a dozen Twitter trolls trying to make ad revenue for a few thousand dollars in an election that cost the better part of ten billion dollars.
You got punked on Iraq, and you couldn't wait to get punked again.
Well, maybe we should ask our cops in America to just look the other way and pretend crimes aren't happening
Is the lobotomy free with the wingnut merit badge, or was it a prerequisite? Even a cursory glance at the link would have shown its about cops not stopping crime, but harassing people for....drinking a beer on their own property, driving to church, or visiting a neighbor. Based not on anything you've done, but a cop's say-so.
Once the prosecutor has exhausted the avenues to continue the investigation, they are obliged to discontinue the investigation.
The prosecutor did, however, point out that the investigation "could be reopened if Assange returns to Sweden before the statute of limitations ends in 2020."
Given that the U.K. authorities would not doubt be happy to make that happen, and the consistent refusal of Swedish authorities to make clear this is only about rape allegations and not a pretext to hand him over to the U.S., Assange's decision to stay in the embassy is a no-brainer for him.
He was facing a possible 99 year sentence in the US. If his crimes were as harmless as you state then it certainly would have been less.
Wut.
Aaron Shwartz was threatened with 35 years for what was, at worst, trespassing. That's what the Feds do - threaten draconian prison terms that would make Saudi Arabia blush in order to get people to accept plea deals, saving the prosecutor the work of having an actual trial. That's why Chelsea Manning pled to a 35 year sentence despite it being a much longer sentence than spies who sold secrets for actual money after Obama's unlawful command influence in her trial - something that has gotten other soldiers out of discharges.
If the UK court wanted to really make a point about the UK's jurisdiction and sovereignty, it could do something about all the people being assassinated by Russia inside the UK
There's zero evidence so far tying Russia to the failed poisoning of a former spy long after he defected. The chemical cat has been out of that particular weapon bag for a couple of decades, so the poison could have been made by anyone. Come back to us when there's proof, Sparky.
After arriving in Sweden, Assange could be interrogated for weeks in effective solitary confinement for an alleged crime in another country, without a lawyer if they don't charge him first. As Assange haters keep reminding everyone, he hasn't been openly indicted by the USG. People have confessed to murders they didn't commit in less time, just to get the interrogation to stop. Sweden could easily take of this by promising not to extradite him to the US - but they keep refusing to do so.
No one wants livery laws. They're a protection racket. The fact that Uber is breaking the law is a social benefit.
Paying untrained drivers with little insurance a non-living wage is the social benefit? Or is it the assraping monopoly prices they'll start charging if they manage to drive taxi companies out of business - taxi companies that have to make a profit and can't afford to lose billions of dollars a year. Or maybe its if Uber manages to get an AI that doesn't kill everyone at which point they drop all their human riders while continuing to assrape you on prices.
You see, normal people with 1/2 a brain are capable of evaluating facts without constantly saying "what about...". It's a skill but I think you could learn it too.
Sorry to hear you were dropped on the head as a child - early and often. Trump has faced a ten month long investigation from Mueller on a theory, for something that Hillary did in fact. The only response available is "sure, keep investigating Trump but Hillary should have been indicted last year".
Otherwise, not only are you a political hack, you're doing what the United States routinely accuses countries like Venezuela or Russia of doing: using the criminal justice system to go after people you don't like for purely political purposes.
I know comrade. Your handlers told you to just keep repeating lies over and over and eventually you'll sway the dumb people. It doesn't even matter if you don't supply any facts!
Not just early and often, but from a great height as well. I have the facts, you have the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time.
Are you playing dumb or have you just not been paying attention? One of the most notable aspects of Trump is how pro-Russian he's been
AYFKM? Under Trump, our moderate headchopping friends in ISIS just magically got targeting information precise enough to kill Russian generals in Syria with mortar fire. Trump is illegally staying in Syria indefinitely, a country Russia is defending from the aforementioned moderate headchoppers and organ eaters.
Trump has maintained high troop levels in eastern Europe, wants to arm our literal neo-Nazi pals that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea. That's like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the sanctions have been maintained, and the reason for not pushing new ones is that it's going to punish allies who have little choice to trade with Russia.
Sanctions that are complete bullshit to begin with. How is it that the U.S. gets to level sanctions against Russia in response to...the aforementioned American overthrow of Ukraine's government. How is it totally legitimate for the U.S. to spend $5 billion to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves" and then say the Crimean vote to secede was illegitimate - before whining about $5,000 in Facebook ads swinging an American election.
Flynn was fired because he got caught secretly phoning the Russian ambassador to say that Trump would drop the election sanctions
In return for Russian support on a UN vote on illegal Israeli settlements. But this fact is never mentioned in the Russiagate storyline...almost as if the people pushing it were lying propagandists. That and the fact that no one is accusing Trump of treason for colluding with Apartheid Israel.
The Steele dossier being used toilet paper
Also fixed. And still, how can Democrats talk about collusion with a straight face when it's a fact (as opposed to an unproven conspiracy theory) that Hillary not only worked with foreign agents to swing an election, but paid them to do so.
But if Trump was being groomed beforehand it doesn't mean they wanted him to be President
Still the plot hole of Putin being a master chess player setting the board years in advance, except for anticipating the totally predictable response from Democrats, from the media, and from the military-industrial complex.
But I'm not talking about Russia in this context, I'm talking about Trump. One of the main ideas of Democracy is the job is bigger than the person, the President's first duty is to the country, the Attorney General to the law, director of the EPA to the environment, etc, etc. No administration gets this perfectly, but Trump doesn't even seem to understand this basic concept. He sees his job as doing good for Trump, whether that's boosting his poll numbers, helping out his family, helping his own businesses, or giving himself a tax cut. And he sees the first duty of any appointee as serving his interests rather than the country.
Videos that are just as misinterpreted (by you, for example) as the Uber video.
Human eyes have higher dynamic range than whatever cell phone this guy was using, so they would see better than this video. Nice try though.
The pedestrians in this video are on the same side of the road as the lights
And not moving. Moving objects are easier to see than stationary objects.
This driver is also specifically looking for peds, not your typical driver.
The typical driver needs to be able to handle road hazards that can be seen from a hundred yards away, or they have no business driving.
in the Uber video the ped comes from the other side and is in the darkest spot between lights
Which is still vastly brighter than the Uber video lets on. If I were the DA/states attorney I would be looking real hard at Uber for evidence tampering on top of the vehicular manslaughter.
A million dead pedestrians (and counting) from human drivers would disagree with you.
Copying and pasting since this was already addressed. The other part of this is, you could take a hundred human drivers and put them in the same conditions, and you may find one drunk or inattentive enough to kill the same pedestrian. But most would have seen her in time to at least slow down (for a non-fatal accident) or avoid her entirely.
You may be the supreme driver you think, but even you would not handle every pedestrian situation perfectly. Most drivers are not so supremely focused (again ask the million dead).
Straw men. A moderately attentive driver would have seen the pedestrian in time to come to stop or drive around her without swerving. A woefully inattentive driver could have still braked or swerved at the last second so the accident wouldn't have been fatal. That some drunk driver on her eighth DUI could have also killed the lady does nothing to change those facts.
The big difference between AVs and humans is that the next version of Uber's car will handle this situation much better (as will all other AVs too, I imagine).
Autonomous vehicles are an inevitability. And they will do great things for seniors and drunk driving fatalities. But corporations that aren't abominations of greed, hubris and exploitation like Uber are testing their vehicles on closed courses without putting human lives at risk.
I've never used Move Pass so that would be a hard nope. The willful obtuseness that other members of my species is a bit worrisome, though. You do you know that expecting a company to be all things to all people is a farce of a proposition, yes?
If you're so happy to work hard beyond 40 hours a week, giving your labor to someone else with little in return - why aren't you flying the hammer and sickle?
There are videos on Youtube showing this road to be much better lit than the Uber video lets on. This one even has pedestrians on the side of the road at almost the same site of the accident, and the driver has no problems seeing them in advance.
The other part of this is, you could take a hundred human drivers and put them in the same conditions, and you may find one drunk or inattentive enough to kill the same pedestrian. But most would have seen her in time to at least slow down (for a non-fatal accident) or avoid her entirely. Even very large vehicles can stop quickly with good brakes.
But you could take a hundred Uber vehicles with the same condition and most would have killed the same pedestrian, because they would share the same design flaw.
You do realize that the Uranium One deal required 9 (that is nine for you number limited people) government people to sign off on?
Irrelevant.
You think Hillary was the only one? You are an idiot.
Straw man. And irrelevant.
From factcheck.org
Factcheck == toilet paper. But lets go ahead and look at your attempted deflection from the fact that Hillary promised at her confirmation hearings to erect a wall and disclose any potential conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and her work at the State Department. How many of these other eight people had spouses earning half a million dollars from people pushing the deal?
And of course you're ignoring the findings of the CIA, FBI, and NSA.
You mean the ones that don't exist? Clapper - the guy who committed perjury before Congress while spying on Congress - handpicked analysts to come up with a story. And if you're handpicking the analysts, you're handpicking the results as well.
The DNC hack was detected by federal organizations, advice and assistance was offered, but declined by the DNC at the time.
Supposedly, this is was a major criminal act from a hostile foreign power. Why would the FBI even consider getting approval from the DNC, rather than subpoenaing the alleged evidence or even skipping that step by sending them a 'national security letter'? Russiagate plothole #1,278.
Hi, Hilary Clinton is no longer running for president. You'll have to find a new bogeyman in your attempts to distract the US populace from the actual, present dangers facing us.
Uh huh. And how much time did you spend complaining about Pence's private email from Indiana? And yes, Hillary will continue to be relevant, since:
1) President Trump is only a thing because of Hillary Clinton
2) All the crap Russiagaters accuse Trump of doing (without any evidence) Hillary was actually guilty of. Not only did she conspire with foreign intelligence agents, she paid them for dirt on her opponent.
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More like: you reach for the door of a bank after hours and find it completely open, the vault as well. You leave a few days later with some pizza boxes and Mountain Dew cans left on the floor, but you didn't actually steal any money.
Who should really be in trouble here....you, or the people in charge of the bank's security for not even bothering to lock the door at the end of the day?
Somebody pointed that out to Podesta on Meet the Press, iirc. Asked him how the Ruskies knew to target swing states, but the Hillary campaign did not. She just took for granted that she would win states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Iowa and didn't bother to campaign in them - that went to Trump. Hell, she nearly lost Minnesota as well.
Russiagate is nothing more than a sad, sad attempt to excuse Hillary losing the most winnable election in history.
Because it's the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time, and the one with the most plot holes. Why would Russia try to get either party in the White House when both parties have been anti-Russian for a century. How is it that Putin was able to see years in advance that an asshole gameshow host could be president, yet completely unable to anticipate any blowback. Why would anyone bother with a dozen Twitter trolls trying to make ad revenue for a few thousand dollars in an election that cost the better part of ten billion dollars.
You got punked on Iraq, and you couldn't wait to get punked again.
Is the lobotomy free with the wingnut merit badge, or was it a prerequisite? Even a cursory glance at the link would have shown its about cops not stopping crime, but harassing people for....drinking a beer on their own property, driving to church, or visiting a neighbor. Based not on anything you've done, but a cop's say-so.
Carmen Ortiz, you know you don't have to post anonymously, right? You can post your Nazi bullshit under your own name.
Statue of limitations on the most serious accusations don't run out until 2020:
https://qz.com/987490/julian-a...
Given that the U.K. authorities would not doubt be happy to make that happen, and the consistent refusal of Swedish authorities to make clear this is only about rape allegations and not a pretext to hand him over to the U.S., Assange's decision to stay in the embassy is a no-brainer for him.
Sounds like you ran out of talking points and went to the old standby, wingnut butthurt.
Wut.
Aaron Shwartz was threatened with 35 years for what was, at worst, trespassing. That's what the Feds do - threaten draconian prison terms that would make Saudi Arabia blush in order to get people to accept plea deals, saving the prosecutor the work of having an actual trial. That's why Chelsea Manning pled to a 35 year sentence despite it being a much longer sentence than spies who sold secrets for actual money after Obama's unlawful command influence in her trial - something that has gotten other soldiers out of discharges.
Absolutely:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/crim...
There's zero evidence so far tying Russia to the failed poisoning of a former spy long after he defected. The chemical cat has been out of that particular weapon bag for a couple of decades, so the poison could have been made by anyone. Come back to us when there's proof, Sparky.
Not likely:
https://www.theguardian.com/co...
After arriving in Sweden, Assange could be interrogated for weeks in effective solitary confinement for an alleged crime in another country, without a lawyer if they don't charge him first. As Assange haters keep reminding everyone, he hasn't been openly indicted by the USG. People have confessed to murders they didn't commit in less time, just to get the interrogation to stop. Sweden could easily take of this by promising not to extradite him to the US - but they keep refusing to do so.
Only to radical centrist fanatics.
Paying untrained drivers with little insurance a non-living wage is the social benefit? Or is it the assraping monopoly prices they'll start charging if they manage to drive taxi companies out of business - taxi companies that have to make a profit and can't afford to lose billions of dollars a year. Or maybe its if Uber manages to get an AI that doesn't kill everyone at which point they drop all their human riders while continuing to assrape you on prices.
Because Lyft is Moe's Tavern next to Uber Mr. Burn's nuclear power plant. Any more questions?
Because if it didn't it would hit something or drive at an unsafe speed - thus being a recordable intervention?
Sorry to hear you were dropped on the head as a child - early and often. Trump has faced a ten month long investigation from Mueller on a theory, for something that Hillary did in fact. The only response available is "sure, keep investigating Trump but Hillary should have been indicted last year".
Otherwise, not only are you a political hack, you're doing what the United States routinely accuses countries like Venezuela or Russia of doing: using the criminal justice system to go after people you don't like for purely political purposes.
Not just early and often, but from a great height as well. I have the facts, you have the dumbest conspiracy theory of all time.
AYFKM? Under Trump, our moderate headchopping friends in ISIS just magically got targeting information precise enough to kill Russian generals in Syria with mortar fire. Trump is illegally staying in Syria indefinitely, a country Russia is defending from the aforementioned moderate headchoppers and organ eaters.
Trump has maintained high troop levels in eastern Europe, wants to arm our literal neo-Nazi pals that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and is sending Navy ships to the Black Sea. That's like Russia sending a fleet to the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the sanctions have been maintained, and the reason for not pushing new ones is that it's going to punish allies who have little choice to trade with Russia.
Sanctions that are complete bullshit to begin with. How is it that the U.S. gets to level sanctions against Russia in response to...the aforementioned American overthrow of Ukraine's government. How is it totally legitimate for the U.S. to spend $5 billion to "bring Ukraine the future it deserves" and then say the Crimean vote to secede was illegitimate - before whining about $5,000 in Facebook ads swinging an American election.
In return for Russian support on a UN vote on illegal Israeli settlements. But this fact is never mentioned in the Russiagate storyline...almost as if the people pushing it were lying propagandists. That and the fact that no one is accusing Trump of treason for colluding with Apartheid Israel.
Also fixed. And still, how can Democrats talk about collusion with a straight face when it's a fact (as opposed to an unproven conspiracy theory) that Hillary not only worked with foreign agents to swing an election, but paid them to do so.
Still the plot hole of Putin being a master chess player setting the board years in advance, except for anticipating the totally predictable response from Democrats, from the media, and from the military-industrial complex.
You could always take it up with the person most responsible for Trump being in the White House.
Still a hard nope.
Human eyes have higher dynamic range than whatever cell phone this guy was using, so they would see better than this video. Nice try though.
And not moving. Moving objects are easier to see than stationary objects.
The typical driver needs to be able to handle road hazards that can be seen from a hundred yards away, or they have no business driving.
Which is still vastly brighter than the Uber video lets on. If I were the DA/states attorney I would be looking real hard at Uber for evidence tampering on top of the vehicular manslaughter.
Copying and pasting since this was already addressed. The other part of this is, you could take a hundred human drivers and put them in the same conditions, and you may find one drunk or inattentive enough to kill the same pedestrian. But most would have seen her in time to at least slow down (for a non-fatal accident) or avoid her entirely.
Straw men. A moderately attentive driver would have seen the pedestrian in time to come to stop or drive around her without swerving. A woefully inattentive driver could have still braked or swerved at the last second so the accident wouldn't have been fatal. That some drunk driver on her eighth DUI could have also killed the lady does nothing to change those facts.
Autonomous vehicles are an inevitability. And they will do great things for seniors and drunk driving fatalities. But corporations that aren't abominations of greed, hubris and exploitation like Uber are testing their vehicles on closed courses without putting human lives at risk.
I've never used Move Pass so that would be a hard nope. The willful obtuseness that other members of my species is a bit worrisome, though. You do you know that expecting a company to be all things to all people is a farce of a proposition, yes?
If you're so happy to work hard beyond 40 hours a week, giving your labor to someone else with little in return - why aren't you flying the hammer and sickle?
Nope. Still a hard nope.
There are videos on Youtube showing this road to be much better lit than the Uber video lets on. This one even has pedestrians on the side of the road at almost the same site of the accident, and the driver has no problems seeing them in advance.
The other part of this is, you could take a hundred human drivers and put them in the same conditions, and you may find one drunk or inattentive enough to kill the same pedestrian. But most would have seen her in time to at least slow down (for a non-fatal accident) or avoid her entirely. Even very large vehicles can stop quickly with good brakes.
But you could take a hundred Uber vehicles with the same condition and most would have killed the same pedestrian, because they would share the same design flaw.
Irrelevant.
Straw man. And irrelevant.
Factcheck == toilet paper. But lets go ahead and look at your attempted deflection from the fact that Hillary promised at her confirmation hearings to erect a wall and disclose any potential conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and her work at the State Department. How many of these other eight people had spouses earning half a million dollars from people pushing the deal?
You mean the ones that don't exist? Clapper - the guy who committed perjury before Congress while spying on Congress - handpicked analysts to come up with a story. And if you're handpicking the analysts, you're handpicking the results as well.
Don't forget your tinfoil hat on the way out.
Supposedly, this is was a major criminal act from a hostile foreign power. Why would the FBI even consider getting approval from the DNC, rather than subpoenaing the alleged evidence or even skipping that step by sending them a 'national security letter'? Russiagate plothole #1,278.
Uh huh. And how much time did you spend complaining about Pence's private email from Indiana? And yes, Hillary will continue to be relevant, since:
1) President Trump is only a thing because of Hillary Clinton
2) All the crap Russiagaters accuse Trump of doing (without any evidence) Hillary was actually guilty of. Not only did she conspire with foreign intelligence agents, she paid them for dirt on her opponent.