How the fuck do you mange to keep twisting things like this?
The twist is red tape in the bedrooms from the "freedom" and "small government" party. For added hilarity there's the strange fear of the impossible with worries about Sharia law by the people who are actually trying to enforce something similar with pointless red tape in the bedrooms. The Republican party was not always like this. People keep on using "1950s values" as an insult but they've actually gone backwards in some ways since then due to a fringe taking things over.
Of course Putin is doing his best to revive those old days.
You are thinking far too short term. He mostly wants to revive the days of Tsars that dramatically increased the size of the Russian Empire, but he also has Stalin's library in his office.
A Trump v Putin game of chicken does not sound like a wonderful thing, I must admit...
They are both authoritarians but Trump is very much Putin-lite. Trump is like a spoiled trust fund child of Putin that would like to be thought of as being as great as his dad but has nothing to use other than half of his dad's book of speeches. A better analogy would be comparing Henry Ford to Edsel Ford (with apologies to both - similar politics but Putin is a murderous thug). A Trump versus Putin game of chicken would result in a Putin win every time. Trump may talk like a gangster but Putin has dealt with gangsters and had them killed (as well as effectively being a gangster himself at one point).
The change of management at Fox could drastically change the way Trump is seen by the world. Trump is a lame puppy in business compared with Rupert Murdoch and Rupert likes to be a kingmaker just as Hearst was. Rupert's contempt for Trump (as seen on his other outlets) could end up coming through on Fox in a major way if Rupert can get some advantage from Hillary and decides to bring his media empire down on her side.
Trump just told Putin via the press that if Russia invades Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the USA will just sit back and act unconcerned.
Despite it being a Trumpism he's probably right even if somebody else is President. If it's a slow takeover like the Ukraine instead of a blitzkrieg that's probably exactly what will happen apart from some pointless bluffing.
Treason doth not prosper... look that quote up and you will understand. Treason isn't even giving classified anti-tank weapons to Hezbolla less than a year after they blew up over a hundred US Marines. Treason these days is beating a Russian at chess. Treason is for nobodies. People working for the state can just wrap themselves in a flag and call working for an enemy "patriotism".
Seriously folks, if a subcontractor in Hawaii like Snowden had access do you really think the Chinese didn't? It's a massive attack surface and one of those hundreds of thousands is going to have gambling debts or trade secrets for sex.
After all even Petraus right at the top of the tree was found guilty for selling secrets for sex.
Yes I suppose. Speaking of confidence tricksters a really funny thing is Pokemon initially had monsters called Uri and Gellar - things with a psychic attack holding bent cutlery. Uri Gellar got annoyed so they changed the names to Abra and Cadabra which resulted in witch-hunting fundamentalists using the names as proof that Pokemon is demonic. An even funner thing is that it's left as Pokemon because it just doesn't sound right to encourage kids to play with their pocket monster.
To be accurate, there definitely was a correlation observed but it's now suspected it was false positives due to the people eating a lot of salt probably also eating a lot of fat.
That's reason not bigotry. Bigotry is hating a little girl wearing a head scarf in your street because some guy on the other side of the world is hacking heads off for what he claims are religious reasons, but are really not. Remember Manson and Jim Jones both tried to put the blame on Jesus.
don't know, Trump is the one who is openly advocating nuclear weapon proliferation in southeast Asia, which may actually be the very worst political idea I've heard yet in my 40 years
Give it a month and he'll say something worse.
If he actually gets in don't worry about him because he's all talk. Carefully watch those around him. Cheney got up to all kinds of mischief due to there being a weak President that wanted a title but didn't want to actually do the job.
You are replying to someone who had to learn how to write macros for MS Excel three times because the entire language used for them changed three times. Backwards compatibility is not a valued feature in MS Office and various measures to "clean out cruft" have meant that all Open/libreoffice had to do to have better compatibility is not throw things away.
I still stand by the very old lesson from the days before MS Word was integrated with Excel etc - if multiple people are working on stuff with the same non-standard file format and appearance matters then they had all better be using the same software and the same version of that software. Not long ago there were a ridiculous number of fuckups in my workplace due to MS Office 2010/2013 incompatibility.
whenever someone says those work better than MS-Office
Depending on the situation they often do - graphing in MS Excel sucks in a technical environment and the current UI for MS Office adds a lot of time consuming busywork that did not previously exist in menu driven UIs.
The torrent guy is in Poland and I was discussing how copyright violation appears to be worth the trouble of extradition from Poland but not rape. That is sort of on topic. While you may be entirely correct (at least I think you are) and Polanski may be in France now we're wandering a bit off the reservation.
Yes but in his case the Judge described it as both - if she was 23 instead he still would have been convicted. There are many books on this case. Even if all the very nasty rumors are discounted the stuff that came out in court made it very clear.
His punishment in reality is that he can't come back to the USA again
Do you think this torrent guy is going to be given that same "punishment" or do you think he is going to be extradited from Poland and do time in the USA if found guilty? Consider that and you will get my point. In this situation copyright violation is being taken far more seriously than a fugitive found guilty of rape. One is being extradited from Poland but not the other.
it is lot more complex situation than just crying 'child rapist' and putting him in same box as all similar criminals
Yes I get it - he's a Hollywood aristocrat and she's just common muck whored out by her mother. George Washington fought hard to stop that sort of attitude but here you are as if it never happened. The Hollywood PR machine said the little girl liked it but the transcript of the trial said she was injured and that's why it came to the attention of the police in the first place.
It appears you are trying to say that the extenuating circumstances made rape of a child a less serious crime than copyright violation. Is that really how you want to say it? You can backtrack if you didn't really mean that, but that is how you have put it so far.
You forgot to mention the injuries, and that he was found guilty. Very odd to see someone here as an apologist for a convicted pedophile rapist, perhaps that "Men's Rights" stuff is far more toxic than I imagined.
Warning. Last time the Feds seized a site (some child porn site on TOR)
The irony here is they can extradite someone who links to things but not an actual child rapist such as Roman Polanski who is evading US justice in Poland. That's a pretty huge double standard considering the "think of the children" excuse used for internet crackdowns.
Meanwhile you can still hide from justice in Poland after being convicted of raping an American child (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski). Once again, protecting Hollywood.
It's hard to extradite someone from somewhere what they have done it not a crime
I've lost track of all the Julian Assange articles on slashdot and have got no idea how you managed to forget all of them. However extradition is still hard, especially from Poland where a very high profile convicted pedophile rapist has been evading US justice for decades.
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The twist is red tape in the bedrooms from the "freedom" and "small government" party. For added hilarity there's the strange fear of the impossible with worries about Sharia law by the people who are actually trying to enforce something similar with pointless red tape in the bedrooms.
The Republican party was not always like this. People keep on using "1950s values" as an insult but they've actually gone backwards in some ways since then due to a fringe taking things over.
You are thinking far too short term. He mostly wants to revive the days of Tsars that dramatically increased the size of the Russian Empire, but he also has Stalin's library in his office.
They are both authoritarians but Trump is very much Putin-lite. Trump is like a spoiled trust fund child of Putin that would like to be thought of as being as great as his dad but has nothing to use other than half of his dad's book of speeches. A better analogy would be comparing Henry Ford to Edsel Ford (with apologies to both - similar politics but Putin is a murderous thug). A Trump versus Putin game of chicken would result in a Putin win every time. Trump may talk like a gangster but Putin has dealt with gangsters and had them killed (as well as effectively being a gangster himself at one point).
The change of management at Fox could drastically change the way Trump is seen by the world. Trump is a lame puppy in business compared with Rupert Murdoch and Rupert likes to be a kingmaker just as Hearst was. Rupert's contempt for Trump (as seen on his other outlets) could end up coming through on Fox in a major way if Rupert can get some advantage from Hillary and decides to bring his media empire down on her side.
Despite it being a Trumpism he's probably right even if somebody else is President. If it's a slow takeover like the Ukraine instead of a blitzkrieg that's probably exactly what will happen apart from some pointless bluffing.
Treason doth not prosper ... look that quote up and you will understand.
Treason isn't even giving classified anti-tank weapons to Hezbolla less than a year after they blew up over a hundred US Marines. Treason these days is beating a Russian at chess. Treason is for nobodies. People working for the state can just wrap themselves in a flag and call working for an enemy "patriotism".
Seriously folks, if a subcontractor in Hawaii like Snowden had access do you really think the Chinese didn't? It's a massive attack surface and one of those hundreds of thousands is going to have gambling debts or trade secrets for sex.
After all even Petraus right at the top of the tree was found guilty for selling secrets for sex.
If it wasn't for society keeping religious loonies in check we'd be picking on people in the name of witchcraft too.
Yes I suppose.
Speaking of confidence tricksters a really funny thing is Pokemon initially had monsters called Uri and Gellar - things with a psychic attack holding bent cutlery. Uri Gellar got annoyed so they changed the names to Abra and Cadabra which resulted in witch-hunting fundamentalists using the names as proof that Pokemon is demonic.
An even funner thing is that it's left as Pokemon because it just doesn't sound right to encourage kids to play with their pocket monster.
They gave away all their old rockets that couldn't hit shit to people that wanted to launch them at Israel.
The sad thing is that was only because he bribed the FBI but didn't think about bribing the IRS.
To be accurate, there definitely was a correlation observed but it's now suspected it was false positives due to the people eating a lot of salt probably also eating a lot of fat.
That's reason not bigotry. Bigotry is hating a little girl wearing a head scarf in your street because some guy on the other side of the world is hacking heads off for what he claims are religious reasons, but are really not.
Remember Manson and Jim Jones both tried to put the blame on Jesus.
Give it a month and he'll say something worse.
If he actually gets in don't worry about him because he's all talk. Carefully watch those around him. Cheney got up to all kinds of mischief due to there being a weak President that wanted a title but didn't want to actually do the job.
Backwards compatibility is not a valued feature in MS Office and various measures to "clean out cruft" have meant that all Open/libreoffice had to do to have better compatibility is not throw things away.
I still stand by the very old lesson from the days before MS Word was integrated with Excel etc - if multiple people are working on stuff with the same non-standard file format and appearance matters then they had all better be using the same software and the same version of that software. Not long ago there were a ridiculous number of fuckups in my workplace due to MS Office 2010/2013 incompatibility.
Depending on the situation they often do - graphing in MS Excel sucks in a technical environment and the current UI for MS Office adds a lot of time consuming busywork that did not previously exist in menu driven UIs.
The torrent guy is in Poland and I was discussing how copyright violation appears to be worth the trouble of extradition from Poland but not rape. That is sort of on topic. While you may be entirely correct (at least I think you are) and Polanski may be in France now we're wandering a bit off the reservation.
Not if they don't even try.
Yes but in his case the Judge described it as both - if she was 23 instead he still would have been convicted.
There are many books on this case. Even if all the very nasty rumors are discounted the stuff that came out in court made it very clear.
Do you think this torrent guy is going to be given that same "punishment" or do you think he is going to be extradited from Poland and do time in the USA if found guilty?
Consider that and you will get my point.
In this situation copyright violation is being taken far more seriously than a fugitive found guilty of rape. One is being extradited from Poland but not the other.
And also because she was violently raped.
Yes I get it - he's a Hollywood aristocrat and she's just common muck whored out by her mother. George Washington fought hard to stop that sort of attitude but here you are as if it never happened. The Hollywood PR machine said the little girl liked it but the transcript of the trial said she was injured and that's why it came to the attention of the police in the first place.
It appears you are trying to say that the extenuating circumstances made rape of a child a less serious crime than copyright violation.
Is that really how you want to say it?
You can backtrack if you didn't really mean that, but that is how you have put it so far.
It's Poland and extradition so a perfect example of a non violent property crime being considered above and beyond a violent crime.
You forgot to mention the injuries, and that he was found guilty.
Very odd to see someone here as an apologist for a convicted pedophile rapist, perhaps that "Men's Rights" stuff is far more toxic than I imagined.
Warning. Last time the Feds seized a site (some child porn site on TOR)
The irony here is they can extradite someone who links to things but not an actual child rapist such as Roman Polanski who is evading US justice in Poland. That's a pretty huge double standard considering the "think of the children" excuse used for internet crackdowns.
Meanwhile you can still hide from justice in Poland after being convicted of raping an American child (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski).
Once again, protecting Hollywood.
I've lost track of all the Julian Assange articles on slashdot and have got no idea how you managed to forget all of them.
However extradition is still hard, especially from Poland where a very high profile convicted pedophile rapist has been evading US justice for decades.