This is a memo, not a FISA application. And of the assertions that the the FISA warrants were based on a source the DOJ knew was extremely biased - both politically and because Steele was getting paid by the DNC - which are being specifically disputed here? The FBI getting all petulant at having its credibility questioned is not specific.
Judges in the UK can't strike down statutes. The legal system here is not like the US, where the law can evolve directly through the courts as well as through legislation. Our courts are strictly there to interpret existing laws and to deal with conflicts.
I see some pedantry, but where is the distinction or the difference? Courts here rule that XYZ state statute is overruled by ABC federal law, or that federal law conflicts with the Constitution all the time.
The manufacturers would sell the vehicles, but not provide the service/support/parts infrastructure that was required to actually service them (given the poor reliability). Putting the dealerships brought about the parts/service stuff that the dealerships weren't providing.
How does that make sense though - if the car company isn't providing replacement parts, they're leaving money on the table. Couldn't find it with a quick Google but I think Henry Ford had a quote to the effect that he would give cars away for free if he could just have a monopoly on the parts.
Non-response. Again, if greedy Apple was just herding existing customers into giving them more money, as the haters are suggesting, they would have let older phones go on turning off randomly. To force the issue of paying for a new phone or paying for a new battery.
As opposed to the new original thing of harboring completely irrational animosity towards a company who's products you never intend to buy? Hypocritical hater, heal thyself...
Blah blah blah blah. Like holding it wrong, phones turning off randomly with old batteries affects Android as well. But since Apple isn't involved, it's not a problem./eyeroll
You prove my point when you can't even name a single example.
The US presents history written by the victor
IOW you admit it's bullshit. Do you have any smarter friends who can help you with this?
There are reasons for Russiagate BTW.
IOW the same old argument-by-assertion with zero evidence provided. Russigaters have just as much evidence as chem trailers and anti-vaxxers do to support their kooky ideas: none, nada, zip.
That's why we haven't been fooled by mistakes in the news,
Except for the Russiagate horseshit you're sucking up through a spoon. You didn't learn a damn thing from the lies told about Iraq - which came with actual (if faked) evidence.
It is a indisputable fact that the trump campaign met with russians connected to Putin for the express purpose of getting dirt on Clinton.
Still trying to fuck that chicken? You guys should have dropped that talking point when it came out that not only did the Hillary campaign solicit dirt from actual foreign intelligence agents for the Pissgate dossier, they paid for it. To swing a general election. But if you want to fly a flag advertising your hypocritical hackery, knock yourself out.
It is also indisputable that many people from Trump, Session on down have repeatedly lied about contacts with russians.
None of which has anything to do with Russiagate. One of the "Ermagerd Flynn talked to the Russians!!!" was him asking Russia to delay a Security Council vote condemning illegal Israeli settlements for just one example.
You trumpanzees are so fucking ignorant and gullible it seems you would be much happier in Russia or even NK.
Not a Trump supporter, dumbfuck. Anymore than your knowing Obama has a real Hawaiian birth certificate means you supported his bank bailouts or drone wars. It's called having a functional bullshit detector - look into it some time.
And yet they were caught doing exactly this. And besides that, Apple has sealed in the battery and made the cost / terms of replacement so onerous that it could have no other expected effect than drive customer upgrades.
Yes, phones randomly turning themselves off would be so much better! Hatorade Distortion Field....
Please spare us the self-virtuous, good-goody statements and do not insult our intelligence, OK?
What about insulting your own intelligence? If Apple was as greedy as the haters are insisting, they wouldn't have done anything to address older phones randomly shutting off in the software.
Their "solution" would be to tell users they could pay for a new battery at $80 a pop, or to buy a new phone.
That me buying 2 new iPhones due to performance degradation is just a happy coincidence, right? And before you ask a they're for my kid. Posting this from a $220 Android that I won't upgrade until 5G gets cheap.
And how much sooner would you have bought those new phones if your old ones randomly turned themselves off. They screwed up by not telling people or making it an optional setting, but it made older phones more usable, not less.
Horseshit false equivalence. If you think that mainstream US media peddles lies nearly as often as Russian propaganda mills, even if you include the news channel that sued for its right to lie to viewers and won, you've lost your grip on reality.
Indeed. The worst of Pravada you can name is mere drops in the ocean of horseshit you are spoon fed, starting before grade school, in the United States. On everything from the rationalizations for dropping nukes on Japan, to lies on every single conflict the U.S. has engaged in since WWII, to the Russiagate nonsense which so far has as much evidence to back it up as the chem trailers do that the CIA is putting mind controlling gas in jet fuel.
Just as the Russians want, I might add.
Cheney must be kicking himself these days. Who knew he could have skipped that whole presenting-fake-evidence-to-the-UN-thing before invading Iraq, and just made a series of assertions in the press. Because gullible fools and tools would suck up that horseshit through a straw. And then ask for seconds.
I do not begrudge Apple, but I have never been impressed by their products, mostly because of refusal by Apple to inter-operate with other devices. Am I alone?
Nah, there are plenty of people who complain about Apple's "walled garden" and then go fire up their proprietary game console to play some Mario Kart or Call of Duty.
In appointing Mueller, however, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave him broad authority not only to investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated" with Trump's campaign, but also to examine "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."
None of the indictments or investigation thus far has anything to do with supposed collusion between Trump and Russia. Like I said the first time. And for law, you might want to read up on the 4th Amendment, general warrants, and writs of assistance.
In the U.K. for a rape investigation in another country. If that's why Assange was being arrested, how would they explain handing him over not to Sweden, but the FBI.
In the U.S. workers have to go on strike just to have their benefits not be cut by corporations enjoying historic profit levels. Whereas in Germany, a union responded to automation not by agreeing to job cuts but by demanding a 28 hour work week with no loss in compensation.
The rape allegation is nothing but a pretext to get him into custody so he may be interrogated by or outright handed over to the United States. If it wasn't, the government of Sweden would have taken up Assange years ago on his offers to be interviewed by investigators remotely or in person at the embassy. Or to return to Sweden outright if they promised not to hand him over to U.S. custody.
The response to this inconvenient fact is generally a pithy "since when do wanted suspects get to negotiate terms". Well, since cops negotiate with suspects all the time. Lets say Dallas cops had Micah Xavier Johnson on the phone and were trying to get him to surrender. They would of course say no to crazy demands like a million dollars and a getaway car. But if Johnson had offered to give himself up on the condition that he not be flown to Guantanamo to be tortured, the SWAT commander would roll his eyes and say "sure, we wont fly you to Cuba, so drop your guns and walk out with your hands up".
The response to that is a pithy "well Assange offered to give himself up if Obama commuted Manning's sentence so he's bluffing". EXCEPT - the very credible threats of persecution and torture is why Ecuador granted Assange asylum in the first place. If Sweden were to take extradition and interrogation by the U.S. off the table, the reason for that asylum disappears. So if this is really about alleged rape, let it be about the alleged rape and nothing else. Either Sweden takes Assange up on his offer because the threat is real, or Sweden takes Assange up on his offer so Ecuador will show him the door.
The electoral college was not set up to protect against the masses - that's a line pushed by liberal teachers to gullible students who they assume will never read the actual source documents, and it is pushed second-hand by idiots on TV who want to appear smart without blah blah blah blah
Of course they were elitist assholes. You don't get to be a slave owner without being an elitist asshole by definition, or limiting the right to vote to those who owned property. And even those that didn't own other people didn't want the proles having a say in their own governance. You can complain some more about those facts, but to paraphrase NDT, the neat thing about facts is they don't give a shit about whether or not you believe in them.
Because the job of a SENATOR is to represent his/her STATE and NOT the population of that state
This was always an unbelievably stupid talking point, as that's a distinction without a difference. A state is nothing more than a set of boundaries and the people who live in said boundaries.
Trump has been a massive shock to these people and they are not amused.
Stick to Dems and not this fan-fiction history, mmkay? Because yes, the DNC rigged their own primary, and would rather lose to Trump in 2020 rather than clean up their mess or change course.
Apple forces me to buy an Android phone by being the only competitor and deciding to lock me into their ecosystem if I use them. Not to mention I still haven't forgiven them for not simply allowing me to access a common filesystem.
Yet you're totally ok with being Google's product to sell to advertisers. If nothing else, with Apple you are the customer. And like most Hatebois, you probably spend a hard days work whining about Cupertino's "walled garden", before spending a nice relaxing night of playing a game console, watching a movie on a Blue Ray player, or taking a drive in a car with an infotainment system. None of which allow root access or running a single application not approved by the manufacturer.
The American electoral system uses an electoral college to protect against the tyranny of a few highly populated cities running the nation.
No it fucking wasn't. The EC was set up to protect against "the mob" selecting the president of the United States - otherwise known as preventing the poor and working class from having a say in their own governance. Same reason senators were originally selected by state legislatures, and why voting was originally a right limited to property owners.
Because the sacrosanct Founders were all a bunch of elitist assholes (even the ones who didn't own other people) who should have spent five years in a labor camp before being made to re-write the Constitution, before being sent back for another five years.
Another problem with this retcon is the fact that that the number of seats in the House (which the EC apportionment is based on) was capped. If it had kept expanding and each district was made up of ~60,000 residents like at the time of the signing of the Constitution, California would have 650+ votes in the College compared to Alaska's 12+.
According to the rules, Trump won, therefore no matter what you say with your fevered imagination, HILLARY LOST.
Finally, something that isn't a bad comic book retcon. Yes, Hillary lost. After telling independent Bernie supporters to STFU about closed primaries because the rules were known in advance, and after saying that Trump would undermine our democracy if he didn't accept the results of the election.
Instead, he had a smart strategy of trying to win important states instead of using the "50 state strategy" Hillary used.
If Hillary was doing a "50 state" strategy she wouldn't have skipped campaigning in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. Whereas Hillary's popular vote "victory" (scare quotes because there is no such thing at presidential level) came almost entirely from NY and CA - two states that Trump didn't bother to campaign in because he knew he wouldn't win.
If there was a real popular vote for president, a lot of Republicans in California would have gotten out of the house who otherwise stayed home, same for Democrats in Texas. Which is why talking about the pop vote is misleading at best and sophistry at worst.
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Many of the same Dem screaming the loudest that Trump is in Putin's back pocket just voted to give Trump vast spying powers.
2) They've been utterly and completely full of shit on Russiagate since day one
Either way, grandstanding from Nunes is insignificant in comparison.
This is a memo, not a FISA application. And of the assertions that the the FISA warrants were based on a source the DOJ knew was extremely biased - both politically and because Steele was getting paid by the DNC - which are being specifically disputed here? The FBI getting all petulant at having its credibility questioned is not specific.
Gonna be a tough sell if kids are also discounted (a la movie tickets).
I see some pedantry, but where is the distinction or the difference? Courts here rule that XYZ state statute is overruled by ABC federal law, or that federal law conflicts with the Constitution all the time.
How does that make sense though - if the car company isn't providing replacement parts, they're leaving money on the table. Couldn't find it with a quick Google but I think Henry Ford had a quote to the effect that he would give cars away for free if he could just have a monopoly on the parts.
Non-response. Again, if greedy Apple was just herding existing customers into giving them more money, as the haters are suggesting, they would have let older phones go on turning off randomly. To force the issue of paying for a new phone or paying for a new battery.
As opposed to the new original thing of harboring completely irrational animosity towards a company who's products you never intend to buy? Hypocritical hater, heal thyself...
Blah blah blah blah. Like holding it wrong, phones turning off randomly with old batteries affects Android as well. But since Apple isn't involved, it's not a problem. /eyeroll
You prove my point when you can't even name a single example.
IOW you admit it's bullshit. Do you have any smarter friends who can help you with this?
IOW the same old argument-by-assertion with zero evidence provided. Russigaters have just as much evidence as chem trailers and anti-vaxxers do to support their kooky ideas: none, nada, zip.
Except for the Russiagate horseshit you're sucking up through a spoon. You didn't learn a damn thing from the lies told about Iraq - which came with actual (if faked) evidence.
Still trying to fuck that chicken? You guys should have dropped that talking point when it came out that not only did the Hillary campaign solicit dirt from actual foreign intelligence agents for the Pissgate dossier, they paid for it. To swing a general election. But if you want to fly a flag advertising your hypocritical hackery, knock yourself out.
None of which has anything to do with Russiagate. One of the "Ermagerd Flynn talked to the Russians!!!" was him asking Russia to delay a Security Council vote condemning illegal Israeli settlements for just one example.
Not a Trump supporter, dumbfuck. Anymore than your knowing Obama has a real Hawaiian birth certificate means you supported his bank bailouts or drone wars. It's called having a functional bullshit detector - look into it some time.
Yes, phones randomly turning themselves off would be so much better! Hatorade Distortion Field....
Did you know the Hatorade Distortion Field applies to more than just the length of time a device is supported?
http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....
What about insulting your own intelligence? If Apple was as greedy as the haters are insisting, they wouldn't have done anything to address older phones randomly shutting off in the software.
Their "solution" would be to tell users they could pay for a new battery at $80 a pop, or to buy a new phone.
And how much sooner would you have bought those new phones if your old ones randomly turned themselves off. They screwed up by not telling people or making it an optional setting, but it made older phones more usable, not less.
Indeed. The worst of Pravada you can name is mere drops in the ocean of horseshit you are spoon fed, starting before grade school, in the United States. On everything from the rationalizations for dropping nukes on Japan, to lies on every single conflict the U.S. has engaged in since WWII, to the Russiagate nonsense which so far has as much evidence to back it up as the chem trailers do that the CIA is putting mind controlling gas in jet fuel.
Cheney must be kicking himself these days. Who knew he could have skipped that whole presenting-fake-evidence-to-the-UN-thing before invading Iraq, and just made a series of assertions in the press. Because gullible fools and tools would suck up that horseshit through a straw. And then ask for seconds.
Say hi to your flat-earther, chem trailing and anti-vaxxer friends on your way out the door.
Nah, there are plenty of people who complain about Apple's "walled garden" and then go fire up their proprietary game console to play some Mario Kart or Call of Duty.
You first, dipshit.
None of the indictments or investigation thus far has anything to do with supposed collusion between Trump and Russia. Like I said the first time. And for law, you might want to read up on the 4th Amendment, general warrants, and writs of assistance.
In the U.K. for a rape investigation in another country. If that's why Assange was being arrested, how would they explain handing him over not to Sweden, but the FBI.
In the U.S. workers have to go on strike just to have their benefits not be cut by corporations enjoying historic profit levels. Whereas in Germany, a union responded to automation not by agreeing to job cuts but by demanding a 28 hour work week with no loss in compensation.
Which is how it should be.
The rape allegation is nothing but a pretext to get him into custody so he may be interrogated by or outright handed over to the United States. If it wasn't, the government of Sweden would have taken up Assange years ago on his offers to be interviewed by investigators remotely or in person at the embassy. Or to return to Sweden outright if they promised not to hand him over to U.S. custody.
The response to this inconvenient fact is generally a pithy "since when do wanted suspects get to negotiate terms". Well, since cops negotiate with suspects all the time. Lets say Dallas cops had Micah Xavier Johnson on the phone and were trying to get him to surrender. They would of course say no to crazy demands like a million dollars and a getaway car. But if Johnson had offered to give himself up on the condition that he not be flown to Guantanamo to be tortured, the SWAT commander would roll his eyes and say "sure, we wont fly you to Cuba, so drop your guns and walk out with your hands up".
Assange's fear of being handed over to the U.S. isn't remotely crazy, though, since Sweden handed people over to the CIA who were then tortured and Obama had Manning tortured with months of solitary confinement. So, yeah, a suspect gets to negotiate terms when dealing with entities known for kidnapping and torture, two things the people screaming about alleged rape DGAF about.
The response to that is a pithy "well Assange offered to give himself up if Obama commuted Manning's sentence so he's bluffing". EXCEPT - the very credible threats of persecution and torture is why Ecuador granted Assange asylum in the first place. If Sweden were to take extradition and interrogation by the U.S. off the table, the reason for that asylum disappears. So if this is really about alleged rape, let it be about the alleged rape and nothing else. Either Sweden takes Assange up on his offer because the threat is real, or Sweden takes Assange up on his offer so Ecuador will show him the door.
Of course they were elitist assholes. You don't get to be a slave owner without being an elitist asshole by definition, or limiting the right to vote to those who owned property. And even those that didn't own other people didn't want the proles having a say in their own governance. You can complain some more about those facts, but to paraphrase NDT, the neat thing about facts is they don't give a shit about whether or not you believe in them.
This was always an unbelievably stupid talking point, as that's a distinction without a difference. A state is nothing more than a set of boundaries and the people who live in said boundaries.
Stick to Dems and not this fan-fiction history, mmkay? Because yes, the DNC rigged their own primary, and would rather lose to Trump in 2020 rather than clean up their mess or change course.
Yet you're totally ok with being Google's product to sell to advertisers. If nothing else, with Apple you are the customer. And like most Hatebois, you probably spend a hard days work whining about Cupertino's "walled garden", before spending a nice relaxing night of playing a game console, watching a movie on a Blue Ray player, or taking a drive in a car with an infotainment system. None of which allow root access or running a single application not approved by the manufacturer.
No it fucking wasn't. The EC was set up to protect against "the mob" selecting the president of the United States - otherwise known as preventing the poor and working class from having a say in their own governance. Same reason senators were originally selected by state legislatures, and why voting was originally a right limited to property owners.
Because the sacrosanct Founders were all a bunch of elitist assholes (even the ones who didn't own other people) who should have spent five years in a labor camp before being made to re-write the Constitution, before being sent back for another five years.
Another problem with this retcon is the fact that that the number of seats in the House (which the EC apportionment is based on) was capped. If it had kept expanding and each district was made up of ~60,000 residents like at the time of the signing of the Constitution, California would have 650+ votes in the College compared to Alaska's 12+.
Finally, something that isn't a bad comic book retcon. Yes, Hillary lost. After telling independent Bernie supporters to STFU about closed primaries because the rules were known in advance, and after saying that Trump would undermine our democracy if he didn't accept the results of the election.
If Hillary was doing a "50 state" strategy she wouldn't have skipped campaigning in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. Whereas Hillary's popular vote "victory" (scare quotes because there is no such thing at presidential level) came almost entirely from NY and CA - two states that Trump didn't bother to campaign in because he knew he wouldn't win.
If there was a real popular vote for president, a lot of Republicans in California would have gotten out of the house who otherwise stayed home, same for Democrats in Texas. Which is why talking about the pop vote is misleading at best and sophistry at worst.