You didn't read the TFS and then wrote some snarky, bullshit-dripping nonsense claiming the opposite. That is flamebaiting, hence your moderation. We might be "freeloaders", but you're an idiot.
I wasn't defending anyone or their actions, just making your chosen language a bit more accurate by explaining that the few set-top-boxes actually numbered in the thousands.
Rock groups make the lion's share of their money from live appearances, not merchandise. Unless you're talking about KISS, but those guys can go eat a KISS-brand bag of KISS-brand dicks.
That was sketchy as all hell, but these weren't just some people helping out their friends, these people had 5,000 set-top-boxes. That's clearly criminal fraud.
Yes, but when people lump together a bunch of disparate folks whose only common attribute is said religion, then ascribe to those people some characteristic that isn't true (say, Muslims = terrorists), then that is discrimination, and it is bad.
So the same goes for Christians, whose favourite book calls for genocide for pretty much any reason... Hint: Most Muslims, like most Christians, don't believe their favourite book is actually 100% true.
Profiling is not the best solution. Not even close. It just means terrorists use non-terrorist-looking people to carry out their deeds, who are not exactly hard to come by. If you check the size of El Al's fleet and routes, and the actual content of their security procedures, you'd see that profiling of anything other than specific apparent characteristics is a complete waste of time.
Oh, and the actual quote says the opposite of your misquote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Profiling is giving up essential liberty for just the feeling of temporary safety, which is even more morally repugnant.
Well, as the UK is nowhere near a police state in any non-hyperbolic sense of the phrase, your point is moot. My point still stands. "Trending towards" is clearly not the same as "is".
You can't really fault someone for recoiling in horror when someone cites prisonplanet as evidence for anything. They're about as far from being trustworthy as a drunken Hitler with a gambling problem.
You don't seem to understand that "Islamist" and "Muslim" mean two different things. All Islamists are Muslims, but not all Muslims are Islamists. Not even close. Labelling all Muslims as Islamists, and all as troublemakers hell-bent on a caliphate with a disdain for human rights and sexual equality shows how ignorant you are on this subject.
But please, continue to vomit hate-filled nonsense on your keyboard. It's entertaining to people who can see your ignorance a mile off.
If every person was an island, you'd have a point. As it is, we all live in countries, and we all depend on a whole host of other people being able to live their lives in a fashion enabling them to be depended on. It's almost as if you don't seem to realise that helping everyone helps everyone. If people get ill and can't get treatment without bankrupting themselves, then that's a problem not just for that person, but for that person's family, and all the people who rely on that person and their family to help provide the level of existence required for society to tick on. And it's actually more intertwined than that - we all depend on everyone else in various degrees - to refuse to pay membership for this club is short-sighted, selfish, and down-right illogical.
Use whatever words you want, just realise that you are not responsible for everything that happens in your life, good and bad. You seem to think you are some sort of sovereign entity operating in a vacuum.
And it might also help you to learn how many people use socially-funded aid and then return to being prosperous, functional, productive members of society. And learn about what happened in Greece, as your jarring analogy illuminated just how easy you let your hubris replace actual learning. If you got that wrong, what makes you (and anyone reading your post) assume you are correct about anything else? You clearly don't care for facts, just being correct.
There is no "them" and "us", just "us". Just be grateful you've never been poor.
I think you are overestimating the amount of minerals in water, and severely underestimating the amount of minerals in food. Eat an extra sandwich a month, and you'll more than cover any loss of minerals from drinking distilled water.
Something just flew clear, clear over your head. It must be a lack of minerals screwing you up. I would put money on you having ingested some water recently - that's the only possible explanation.
Yes, but that doesn't automatically mean anyone saying something that a "shill" might possibly say is actually a "shill". That's how bat-brained conspiracy theories start.
Aah, so you are ignoring all the evidence of Hitler's actual religious practices, and just going through some mental leaps to try to make it make sense to you, all the while anyone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject simply shakes their head in disbelief of your inane ramblings. Great jerrrrrb.
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You didn't read the TFS and then wrote some snarky, bullshit-dripping nonsense claiming the opposite. That is flamebaiting, hence your moderation. We might be "freeloaders", but you're an idiot.
I wasn't defending anyone or their actions, just making your chosen language a bit more accurate by explaining that the few set-top-boxes actually numbered in the thousands.
That's not profiling at that point, that's just normal intelligence work.
Rock groups make the lion's share of their money from live appearances, not merchandise. Unless you're talking about KISS, but those guys can go eat a KISS-brand bag of KISS-brand dicks.
That was sketchy as all hell, but these weren't just some people helping out their friends, these people had 5,000 set-top-boxes. That's clearly criminal fraud.
Yes, but when people lump together a bunch of disparate folks whose only common attribute is said religion, then ascribe to those people some characteristic that isn't true (say, Muslims = terrorists), then that is discrimination, and it is bad.
So the same goes for Christians, whose favourite book calls for genocide for pretty much any reason... Hint: Most Muslims, like most Christians, don't believe their favourite book is actually 100% true.
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Profiling is not the best solution. Not even close. It just means terrorists use non-terrorist-looking people to carry out their deeds, who are not exactly hard to come by. If you check the size of El Al's fleet and routes, and the actual content of their security procedures, you'd see that profiling of anything other than specific apparent characteristics is a complete waste of time.
Oh, and the actual quote says the opposite of your misquote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Profiling is giving up essential liberty for just the feeling of temporary safety, which is even more morally repugnant.
Well, as the UK is nowhere near a police state in any non-hyperbolic sense of the phrase, your point is moot. My point still stands. "Trending towards" is clearly not the same as "is".
You can't really fault someone for recoiling in horror when someone cites prisonplanet as evidence for anything. They're about as far from being trustworthy as a drunken Hitler with a gambling problem.
You don't seem to understand that "Islamist" and "Muslim" mean two different things. All Islamists are Muslims, but not all Muslims are Islamists. Not even close. Labelling all Muslims as Islamists, and all as troublemakers hell-bent on a caliphate with a disdain for human rights and sexual equality shows how ignorant you are on this subject.
But please, continue to vomit hate-filled nonsense on your keyboard. It's entertaining to people who can see your ignorance a mile off.
If every person was an island, you'd have a point. As it is, we all live in countries, and we all depend on a whole host of other people being able to live their lives in a fashion enabling them to be depended on. It's almost as if you don't seem to realise that helping everyone helps everyone. If people get ill and can't get treatment without bankrupting themselves, then that's a problem not just for that person, but for that person's family, and all the people who rely on that person and their family to help provide the level of existence required for society to tick on. And it's actually more intertwined than that - we all depend on everyone else in various degrees - to refuse to pay membership for this club is short-sighted, selfish, and down-right illogical.
Use whatever words you want, just realise that you are not responsible for everything that happens in your life, good and bad. You seem to think you are some sort of sovereign entity operating in a vacuum.
And it might also help you to learn how many people use socially-funded aid and then return to being prosperous, functional, productive members of society. And learn about what happened in Greece, as your jarring analogy illuminated just how easy you let your hubris replace actual learning. If you got that wrong, what makes you (and anyone reading your post) assume you are correct about anything else? You clearly don't care for facts, just being correct.
There is no "them" and "us", just "us". Just be grateful you've never been poor.
I think you are overestimating the amount of minerals in water, and severely underestimating the amount of minerals in food. Eat an extra sandwich a month, and you'll more than cover any loss of minerals from drinking distilled water.
Something just flew clear, clear over your head. It must be a lack of minerals screwing you up. I would put money on you having ingested some water recently - that's the only possible explanation.
But the letters to the other religious dude about jihad puts a slightly different spin on things, however.
The vast, vast majority of those are not owned by the state in any capacity, and are subject to data protection laws and requests.
Yet another person who doesn't know what a police state actually is... Hint: The UK is not one, and not even close.
They do get cancer.
He's started fewer wars, though...
Microsoft's terminal services are pretty decent. It seems you've not used them.
Yes, but that doesn't automatically mean anyone saying something that a "shill" might possibly say is actually a "shill". That's how bat-brained conspiracy theories start.
The drone in question is both, actually. The two terms are not mutually exclusive.
Aah, so you are ignoring all the evidence of Hitler's actual religious practices, and just going through some mental leaps to try to make it make sense to you, all the while anyone with a modicum of knowledge on the subject simply shakes their head in disbelief of your inane ramblings. Great jerrrrrb.
Not that old nonsense again. You are either intellectually lazy or intellectually dishonest, neither of which is something to be proud of.