And now we know what Obama meant when he claimed that he'd run the most transparent administration in history: absolutely nothing.
You realise that you're being totally ridiculous as well as having your partisan bias show though, right?
It's insane (and party-political) to suggest that an ongoing counter-intelligence operation, that has been confirmed by a judge to meet the criteria agreed on by law, should be splattered on the front page just to satisfy your idle curiosity.
It's insane because counter-intelligence operations are needed to prevent spies and/or terrorists from being effective when they work here and in doing so and thereby to protect our security.
We have laws and procedures in place to ensure that snooping is done only when warranted. They are being followed and it has been determined that in this case the snoop order is warranted. Even the House Intelligence committee has been briefed (as it should), and apparently they agree too. So much for your smear that it might be "unconstitutional".
Yet there you are posting unjustified, snide, and derogatory comments. Well, that's your right. But it makes your comments squarely party-political because you're trying to make a government, that is simply doing its job, look bad just because you don't like it.
Obamacare should have been a single-provider healthcare. Thanks to Republican governors insisting that their states use the federal exchange, we're already half-way there to single-provider healthcare.
Great! Instead of a pacemaker for a cardiac issue we can then just "give Grandma a pill" to ease the pain while nature takes it's course. Too bad about Grandma but it saves the Collective money, right?
You people have no clue what you're letting yourselves in for in the near future. You think the government is corrupt and over-reaching now? Ha! Once more of the ACA schedule is enacted you're going to have political/ideological enemies, journalists, and critics suddenly and mysteriously have trouble getting health coverage for random procedures, etc, and mysterious and life-threatening mistakes to their personal electronic health records, and sudden IRS trouble related to mandatory coverage as well.
There are few more intrusive, personal, and powerful tools of control over people than to control their access to doctors and medicine. That's why ACA was passed despite ~70% of US citizens opposing it, and don't even try to say otherwise, those refutations have all been debunked. "We have to pass the bill to see what's IN the bill." is a pretty stark admission of how much the public opposed the ACA when they weren't even willing to let anyone see it until they passed it.
Me? Screw the ACA! I'll go outside the US for healthcare.
Government already is limited via the 4th amendment, Wiretap Act, and other statutes.
Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are!
Two words: "Parallel construction".
The US government has become powerful enough and the power concentrated enough away from the States and citizens to the federal government that those limits no longer have any real meaning or force behind them except as propaganda for the masses.
Rule of Law is no longer applied relatively (nothing is perfect) equally nor universally. Far from it, as a glance at recent headlines proves. Laws in the US currently apply to, and are enforceable against, an individual or business/corporation in direct proportion to the amount of wealth and power they wield. "Too big to fail"..."No intent (when the federal laws in question do not care about nor require intent in determining guilt/innocence, only *possibly* as part of determining the length of prison time) to mishandle Top Secret documents/data".
Public officials are under more scrutiny than ever.
By a foreign government and not our own 4th-estate or oversight, and current US leaders are willing to rattle the thermonuclear sabres over it...but not Crimea, Ukraine, Syria, etc etc...oh, no! Those little Russian military faux-pas are not sufficient reason to threaten reprisals. But, just release some emails that were supposed to be "polished...with a cloth" and suddenly it's 1962 Cuba.
Kinda tells one where their priorities and loyalties lie, doesn't it?
And "privacy experts are concerned!" And the useful idiots think that Mrs. Clinton is their friend.
For decades it's been: "But if we vote 3rd-party/write-in the wrong lizard might get in! We'll just keep voting for the same 2 parties...one of them will eventually listen to us!"
"Doing the same thing over and over yet expecting different results is one definition of insanity."
Obamacare was designed to fail so that the ultimate goal...full government-run, single-provider healthcare...could be rolled out in the US. It was a "Trojan horse" but without any real subterfuge other than propaganda ops shouting down anyone who tried to point this out.
My monthly bill went from $500 per month to $150 per month.
You seem to be the exception rather than the rule. If we actually met IRL you'd be the first person I've ever met whose medical insurance rates went down for a comparable level of coverage due to the ACA.
So, that's it: how to save the world: bring people out of poverty, give them education, and give them access to birth control.
You don't need the totalitarian bullshit.
But that's hard to do, and besides, it doesn't give TPTB ever more control over people's lives and yet another excuse to pick their pockets at gunpoint while not doing anything that actually addresses the 'problem' but merely transfers wealth to those they favor.
You expect any politician worthy of the name to work to empower and lift people out of poverty? Maybe if we had some statesmen instead of politicians, but Trump!/Clinton!
But cant they just keep on adding heavy RF shielding?
No. R.F. doesn't work that way.
It's the inverse-square law of transmitter strength versus distance and relative signal strength at the receiver. Possibly comm equipment in a communications van at the scene *might* be powerful enough to punch a signal over the noise, but regular car radios and hand-helds would not be powerful enough. Then, even if the radios at the scene could get a signal to the station/HQ somehow (other than leaving the area or disabling the jammer), there's no way those at the scene will be able to hear a reply nor communicate between themselves over the nearby jammer.
The only practical way they could even partially mitigate such a strategy is to go to full hardened military comms with frequency-hopping, strong encryption, and designed specifically for use in theaters of operation where jamming and other electronic countermeasures can be expected. There isn't a lot of that kind of gear just laying around, and it is far from cheap and requires a system-wide re-tooling of perfectly-functional existing police radio systems at even further expense (and wasted tax dollars).
Ahuxley, I appreciate the thought that went into that, but all that isn't necessary.
Just put a couple of car batteries in a drug house to power a brute-force broadband R.F. noise generator and broadband amplifier to be kicked on when the lookout gives the signal a raid is incoming.
Not only no remotely-controlled drones, no police radios, no cellphones, nada. If it ain't wired together it ain't talking, at least within a few blocks. No tactical comms, no calls for backup, no alerts about fleeing suspects, no calls for med-evac for wounded.
And, it's a lot cheaper, far easier to make, and less labor-intensive.
Then maybe the second amendment has got fuckall to do with your right to own a gun despite what people running the NRA like that guy that sold guns to Iran and Hezbolla, Oliver North, want you to think.
That's the US Code for militias that defines ages and genders, it is a separate thing from the 2nd Amendment. Reading comprehension, dude!
Every person everywhere is born with the natural right to defend themselves and their property if attacked. The 2nd Amendment simply acknowledges and codifies that fact, while recognizing that citizens owning firearms is also essential for the nation's militia.
You've been played by a traitor and are pretending it is patriotism. That's just so fucked up.
Yeah, these activist judges also overlooked clearly written "well regulated militia".
Apparently you are not familiar with the English language as it was used in the 1700s. "Well regulated" meant "in good working order, well-organized".
There are two distinct and separate national militias in the US, the first is the "organized militia" which includes the National Guard. The second is the "unorganized militia" which consists of all able-bodied males between 17 and 45 and who are not already part of the organized militia or regular military and female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
10 U.S. Code 311 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are-
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
Or the letters that suggested mandatory standardized weapon distribution and mandatory military training for all (male) population. Clearly, we should go back all the way to 1800.
I'm down with that, except for the '1800' part. There's more than enough horse manure here on/., don't want any on my street, thanks. I'd love to have a government-provided M4 carbine with select-fire 3-round burst!
This totally illegal general warrant/search is just too far beyond the pale and smells like a panic move by someone in local LE and/or a local politician/bureaucrat who thinks they may have been caught doing something or being somewhere they shouldn't, but the only clue they had to the identity of the person with the possible evidence was seeing the person walk into this building they searched. Now, if this anonymous 'building' was a news/media outlet, it gets even juicier.
If you can make it so difficult to acquire, legally, that the average person doesn't want to be involved due to the regulatory burden, congratulations, you have just restricted and/or removed the right to access that item.
Even more troubling is that you can get judges all day long that will happily violate their sworn oaths and ignore that "shall not be infringed" "recommendation" in the US Constitution and rule these "backdoor ban" tactics do not infringe by some unfathomable "logic" they pull straight out of their collective ass.
Anti-gun extremists may celebrate, but they'd better bend over because the same tactics used to go around and/or reinterpret the 2nd Amendment can and surely will be used against the others, some of which you might actually value.
First they came for the gun owners, but I owned no guns...
I don't think Anonymous went about things the right way but they appear to be right about the problem with BCH. A BCH psychiatrist (usually the bottom of the med school barrel) invoked invasive legal provisions to kidnap a child with a medical condition diagnosed and treated by internal medicine doctors at another Boston hospital. The kid became a multiple cash stream and an injured experimental subject of BCH, as well as hostage. Both Mass and Conn became complicit in the kidnap.
After a year, BCH essentially proved the other drs right by almost killing the kid. The parents and kid were damaged far more than $300,000. The kid's health then had to be restored as best as possible by the parents' previous drs... By a jury, the actual damages would be over a million.
The real issues here involve the state "antiabuse" powers against competent and caring parents, corporate greed and persistent misbehavior (BCH), involuntary experimental subjects, medical corruption, and gunpoint medicine. BCH got off lightly, the favored historical response to kidnapping and torture is death.
How dare you bring reason and context to an 'Anonymous-bashing' party!
I agree, Anonymous should have come up with a better response, but from my assessment of the facts available, BCH knowingly acted criminally and negligently in the Pelletier case and likely in a number of others as well, and both MA and CT governments criminally colluded with BCH in abusing the child and wrongly abridging the parent's rights.
Go read up on the Justine Pelletier case. It's any parents' worst nightmare. Authority out of control.
When the powers that are supposed to protect innocent life turn to harming it, don't be surprised when groups of individuals come together to protect that life.
Why don't you get your condo association to ban short term rentals? Or, get them to assess fines on the condo owner if there are neighbor complaints about noise when there's a short term renter occupying the space? Why does the government have to get involved when you have a governing body that is much closer to the problem and challenges of your building rather than a "one size fits all" solution.
Simple, because that doesn't blanket-suppress AirBnB type competition to the established players in the whole city/county/State. If AirBnB/Uber type businesses joined forces maybe they could swing more money and lobbyists than the established players in places like NYC/NYS, and then you can bet there would start being laws passed restricting hotels/motels and costing them money and business and opening the market to AirBnB type businesses.
It's all about the Benjamins to politicians and regulators, doubly-so in NY. They could not care less about your safety, comfort, or well-being unless it benefits them in some way.
The only reason AirBnB (and Uber/Lyft, etc) type businesses are growing is that government and the established players are forcing prices high enough above what the market would otherwise set that more and more people see the risks as worth it. If hotel/motel and other similar temporary accommodation businesses dropped prices and offered better quality/value, most AirBnB type activity would die on the vine. Same with Uber/Lyft vs cab companies.
The public is ignorant of the content of your emails. If you feel so strongly that the public should know everything, why don't you go ahead and post your username and password here so everyone can take a look. You don't want the public to be ignorant, after all.
I'm not someone seeking to become the leader of one of the most powerful nations on Earth and who is also heavily embroiled in corruption investigations. If I were the one running for POTUS I would offer up my email archives, particularly when there has been so much government/political corruption revealed.
Would you be equally outraged if it were Trump's emails revealed instead of Clinton's?
And "international criminals" like Assange also do not need to be here if they are charged with something like distributing classified information. If there is evidence, then charge him with a crime. If there's not, leave him alone.
The 2 things that stick out to me is how they can charge an Australian citizen living abroad with violating a domestic US law, and how is it that the US based NYT was not guilty of the same basic charges in the Pentagon Papers leak publication as the ones they level at Assange.
Treason has a very specific definition under the US Constitution. But you're obviously not concerned with that little detail, are you?
The US government and it's politicians and bureaucrats violate the crap out of the US Constitution 500 times before breakfast and are not at all concerned with that little detail.
Why should anyone else concern themselves with that little detail? Why even bother with trials? Other gangs...Crips, Bloods, MS13, Latin Kings, etc etc don't.
At this point with the US government having abandoned nearly all pretense it is bound by the agreement between it and the people which gave it legitimacy, those gangs have the same single claim to being legitimate as the US government and which determines how large an area they control and how much control they have within their 'turf'. That is the amount of deadly force each can bring to bear on their enemies and not much else.
Instead I do everything Windowsy inside a VM on top of Linux.
So instead of maintaining one operating sytem you maintain 2.
Not necessarily.
Some VMs simply update with the rest of the host OS software applications and the win version & SP environment variables are a selectable variable within the VM application. The various virtual OS flavors in this type of VM typically do not update themselves independently.
The interesting thing is that this is truly a Kang v. Kodos election. Sure one is less bad than the other, but they're both terrible by historical standards. This is the election where a minor party would have a chance and yet...here we are.
The wrong lizard might get in if we voted other than (R) or (D).
Sad that the US's crowning achievement is to copy a side-gag from a sci-fi/comedy novel, even knowing beforehand it's a failed strategy as that's the joke.
People have lost so much trust in their fellow citizens (rightly or wrongly) that they don't believe it is possible for enough people to make good choices for anyone other than an (R) or (D) candidate to have any chance.
Your signature places the blame on US liberals, instead of spreading it across both parties.
No, you simply fail to differentiate between ideologies and political parties like so many tend to do, whether from ideological/political bias or just plain intellectual laziness and apathy. There are Liberal/Progressive Republicans and there are also Constitutional-Conservative Democrats (although admittedly there are very few of the latter left).
You know, if you were going to critique chess strategies one would hope you would take the time & trouble to at least learn the basics of the game beforehand.
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And now we know what Obama meant when he claimed that he'd run the most transparent administration in history: absolutely nothing.
You realise that you're being totally ridiculous as well as having your partisan bias show though, right?
It's insane (and party-political) to suggest that an ongoing counter-intelligence operation, that has been confirmed by a judge to meet the criteria agreed on by law, should be splattered on the front page just to satisfy your idle curiosity.
It's insane because counter-intelligence operations are needed to prevent spies and/or terrorists from being effective when they work here and in doing so and thereby to protect our security.
We have laws and procedures in place to ensure that snooping is done only when warranted. They are being followed and it has been determined that in this case the snoop order is warranted. Even the House Intelligence committee has been briefed (as it should), and apparently they agree too. So much for your smear that it might be "unconstitutional".
Yet there you are posting unjustified, snide, and derogatory comments. Well, that's your right. But it makes your comments squarely party-political because you're trying to make a government, that is simply doing its job, look bad just because you don't like it.
In a word: deplorable.
And here he is in person, kiddies!
The Tool Of The State in all his glory!
Huzzah, Sir! Tyrants past and present approve!
Strat
Obamacare should have been a single-provider healthcare. Thanks to Republican governors insisting that their states use the federal exchange, we're already half-way there to single-provider healthcare.
Great! Instead of a pacemaker for a cardiac issue we can then just "give Grandma a pill" to ease the pain while nature takes it's course. Too bad about Grandma but it saves the Collective money, right?
You people have no clue what you're letting yourselves in for in the near future. You think the government is corrupt and over-reaching now? Ha! Once more of the ACA schedule is enacted you're going to have political/ideological enemies, journalists, and critics suddenly and mysteriously have trouble getting health coverage for random procedures, etc, and mysterious and life-threatening mistakes to their personal electronic health records, and sudden IRS trouble related to mandatory coverage as well.
There are few more intrusive, personal, and powerful tools of control over people than to control their access to doctors and medicine. That's why ACA was passed despite ~70% of US citizens opposing it, and don't even try to say otherwise, those refutations have all been debunked. "We have to pass the bill to see what's IN the bill." is a pretty stark admission of how much the public opposed the ACA when they weren't even willing to let anyone see it until they passed it.
Me? Screw the ACA! I'll go outside the US for healthcare.
Strat
Government already is limited via the 4th amendment, Wiretap Act, and other statutes.
Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are!
Two words: "Parallel construction".
The US government has become powerful enough and the power concentrated enough away from the States and citizens to the federal government that those limits no longer have any real meaning or force behind them except as propaganda for the masses.
Rule of Law is no longer applied relatively (nothing is perfect) equally nor universally. Far from it, as a glance at recent headlines proves. Laws in the US currently apply to, and are enforceable against, an individual or business/corporation in direct proportion to the amount of wealth and power they wield. "Too big to fail"..."No intent (when the federal laws in question do not care about nor require intent in determining guilt/innocence, only *possibly* as part of determining the length of prison time) to mishandle Top Secret documents/data".
Strat
Haha! Modded *both* 'offtopic' AND 'troll!
That tells me I was a little too accurate in my assessment for the Church of AGW's liking!
Too funny!
Strat
Public officials are under more scrutiny than ever.
By a foreign government and not our own 4th-estate or oversight, and current US leaders are willing to rattle the thermonuclear sabres over it...but not Crimea, Ukraine, Syria, etc etc...oh, no! Those little Russian military faux-pas are not sufficient reason to threaten reprisals. But, just release some emails that were supposed to be "polished...with a cloth" and suddenly it's 1962 Cuba.
Kinda tells one where their priorities and loyalties lie, doesn't it?
Strat
And "privacy experts are concerned!" And the useful idiots think that Mrs. Clinton is their friend.
For decades it's been: "But if we vote 3rd-party/write-in the wrong lizard might get in! We'll just keep voting for the same 2 parties...one of them will eventually listen to us!"
"Doing the same thing over and over yet expecting different results is one definition of insanity."
Strat
Obamacare reformed the healthcare system.
Obamacare was designed to fail so that the ultimate goal...full government-run, single-provider healthcare...could be rolled out in the US. It was a "Trojan horse" but without any real subterfuge other than propaganda ops shouting down anyone who tried to point this out.
https://youtu.be/3sTfZJBYo1I
My monthly bill went from $500 per month to $150 per month.
You seem to be the exception rather than the rule. If we actually met IRL you'd be the first person I've ever met whose medical insurance rates went down for a comparable level of coverage due to the ACA.
https://youtu.be/fkcytCVqw_s
https://youtu.be/i_Dq6DOAoJI
Strat
So, that's it: how to save the world: bring people out of poverty, give them education, and give them access to birth control.
You don't need the totalitarian bullshit.
But that's hard to do, and besides, it doesn't give TPTB ever more control over people's lives and yet another excuse to pick their pockets at gunpoint while not doing anything that actually addresses the 'problem' but merely transfers wealth to those they favor.
You expect any politician worthy of the name to work to empower and lift people out of poverty? Maybe if we had some statesmen instead of politicians, but Trump!/Clinton!
We're SO hosed!
Strat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You're welcome.
Strat
But cant they just keep on adding heavy RF shielding?
No. R.F. doesn't work that way.
It's the inverse-square law of transmitter strength versus distance and relative signal strength at the receiver. Possibly comm equipment in a communications van at the scene *might* be powerful enough to punch a signal over the noise, but regular car radios and hand-helds would not be powerful enough. Then, even if the radios at the scene could get a signal to the station/HQ somehow (other than leaving the area or disabling the jammer), there's no way those at the scene will be able to hear a reply nor communicate between themselves over the nearby jammer.
The only practical way they could even partially mitigate such a strategy is to go to full hardened military comms with frequency-hopping, strong encryption, and designed specifically for use in theaters of operation where jamming and other electronic countermeasures can be expected. There isn't a lot of that kind of gear just laying around, and it is far from cheap and requires a system-wide re-tooling of perfectly-functional existing police radio systems at even further expense (and wasted tax dollars).
Strat
Ahuxley, I appreciate the thought that went into that, but all that isn't necessary.
Just put a couple of car batteries in a drug house to power a brute-force broadband R.F. noise generator and broadband amplifier to be kicked on when the lookout gives the signal a raid is incoming.
Not only no remotely-controlled drones, no police radios, no cellphones, nada. If it ain't wired together it ain't talking, at least within a few blocks. No tactical comms, no calls for backup, no alerts about fleeing suspects, no calls for med-evac for wounded.
And, it's a lot cheaper, far easier to make, and less labor-intensive.
Strat
So kid, in a few decades time when you turn 45...
Too late, just turned 59.
No guns for girls either?
No?
Then maybe the second amendment has got fuckall to do with your right to own a gun despite what people running the NRA like that guy that sold guns to Iran and Hezbolla, Oliver North, want you to think.
That's the US Code for militias that defines ages and genders, it is a separate thing from the 2nd Amendment. Reading comprehension, dude!
Every person everywhere is born with the natural right to defend themselves and their property if attacked. The 2nd Amendment simply acknowledges and codifies that fact, while recognizing that citizens owning firearms is also essential for the nation's militia.
You've been played by a traitor and are pretending it is patriotism. That's just so fucked up.
Umm, what? I don't even...
Hello, non-sequitur!
Strat
Yeah, these activist judges also overlooked clearly written "well regulated militia".
Apparently you are not familiar with the English language as it was used in the 1700s. "Well regulated" meant "in good working order, well-organized".
There are two distinct and separate national militias in the US, the first is the "organized militia" which includes the National Guard. The second is the "unorganized militia" which consists of all able-bodied males between 17 and 45 and who are not already part of the organized militia or regular military and female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
10 U.S. Code 311 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are-
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
Or the letters that suggested mandatory standardized weapon distribution and mandatory military training for all (male) population. Clearly, we should go back all the way to 1800.
I'm down with that, except for the '1800' part. There's more than enough horse manure here on /., don't want any on my street, thanks. I'd love to have a government-provided M4 carbine with select-fire 3-round burst!
Strat
Or they were after something else.
Bingo!
This totally illegal general warrant/search is just too far beyond the pale and smells like a panic move by someone in local LE and/or a local politician/bureaucrat who thinks they may have been caught doing something or being somewhere they shouldn't, but the only clue they had to the identity of the person with the possible evidence was seeing the person walk into this building they searched. Now, if this anonymous 'building' was a news/media outlet, it gets even juicier.
Strat
If you can make it so difficult to acquire, legally, that the average person doesn't want to be involved due to the regulatory burden, congratulations, you have just restricted and/or removed the right to access that item.
Even more troubling is that you can get judges all day long that will happily violate their sworn oaths and ignore that "shall not be infringed" "recommendation" in the US Constitution and rule these "backdoor ban" tactics do not infringe by some unfathomable "logic" they pull straight out of their collective ass.
Anti-gun extremists may celebrate, but they'd better bend over because the same tactics used to go around and/or reinterpret the 2nd Amendment can and surely will be used against the others, some of which you might actually value.
First they came for the gun owners, but I owned no guns...
You know how it ends.
Strat
I don't think Anonymous went about things the right way but they appear to be right about the problem with BCH. A BCH psychiatrist (usually the bottom of the med school barrel) invoked invasive legal provisions to kidnap a child with a medical condition diagnosed and treated by internal medicine doctors at another Boston hospital. The kid became a multiple cash stream and an injured experimental subject of BCH, as well as hostage. Both Mass and Conn became complicit in the kidnap.
After a year, BCH essentially proved the other drs right by almost killing the kid. The parents and kid were damaged far more than $300,000. The kid's health then had to be restored as best as possible by the parents' previous drs... By a jury, the actual damages would be over a million.
The real issues here involve the state "antiabuse" powers against competent and caring parents, corporate greed and persistent misbehavior (BCH), involuntary experimental subjects, medical corruption, and gunpoint medicine. BCH got off lightly, the favored historical response to kidnapping and torture is death.
How dare you bring reason and context to an 'Anonymous-bashing' party!
I agree, Anonymous should have come up with a better response, but from my assessment of the facts available, BCH knowingly acted criminally and negligently in the Pelletier case and likely in a number of others as well, and both MA and CT governments criminally colluded with BCH in abusing the child and wrongly abridging the parent's rights.
Go read up on the Justine Pelletier case. It's any parents' worst nightmare. Authority out of control.
When the powers that are supposed to protect innocent life turn to harming it, don't be surprised when groups of individuals come together to protect that life.
Strat
That says all you need to know. Could there be a more infantile group wannabes?
Yes.
The US government.
Corrupt to the bone and infantile to the extreme.
Compared to the US government Anonymous are benevolent saints.
Why don't you get your condo association to ban short term rentals? Or, get them to assess fines on the condo owner if there are neighbor complaints about noise when there's a short term renter occupying the space? Why does the government have to get involved when you have a governing body that is much closer to the problem and challenges of your building rather than a "one size fits all" solution.
Simple, because that doesn't blanket-suppress AirBnB type competition to the established players in the whole city/county/State. If AirBnB/Uber type businesses joined forces maybe they could swing more money and lobbyists than the established players in places like NYC/NYS, and then you can bet there would start being laws passed restricting hotels/motels and costing them money and business and opening the market to AirBnB type businesses.
It's all about the Benjamins to politicians and regulators, doubly-so in NY. They could not care less about your safety, comfort, or well-being unless it benefits them in some way.
The only reason AirBnB (and Uber/Lyft, etc) type businesses are growing is that government and the established players are forcing prices high enough above what the market would otherwise set that more and more people see the risks as worth it. If hotel/motel and other similar temporary accommodation businesses dropped prices and offered better quality/value, most AirBnB type activity would die on the vine. Same with Uber/Lyft vs cab companies.
Strat
The public is ignorant of the content of your emails. If you feel so strongly that the public should know everything, why don't you go ahead and post your username and password here so everyone can take a look. You don't want the public to be ignorant, after all.
I'm not someone seeking to become the leader of one of the most powerful nations on Earth and who is also heavily embroiled in corruption investigations. If I were the one running for POTUS I would offer up my email archives, particularly when there has been so much government/political corruption revealed.
Would you be equally outraged if it were Trump's emails revealed instead of Clinton's?
Strat
And "international criminals" like Assange also do not need to be here if they are charged with something like distributing classified information. If there is evidence, then charge him with a crime. If there's not, leave him alone.
The 2 things that stick out to me is how they can charge an Australian citizen living abroad with violating a domestic US law, and how is it that the US based NYT was not guilty of the same basic charges in the Pentagon Papers leak publication as the ones they level at Assange.
Strat
However this man is not a hero, he is a criminal trading in stolen goods - goods he stole from every American. We need to keep that in mind.
"Trading in stolen goods" eh?
Since when has theft of public ignorance been a crime?
Oh yeah, ever since we've had criminal politicians who've relied on public ignorance to avoid prosecution, that's when.
Strat
Treason has a very specific definition under the US Constitution. But you're obviously not concerned with that little detail, are you?
The US government and it's politicians and bureaucrats violate the crap out of the US Constitution 500 times before breakfast and are not at all concerned with that little detail.
Why should anyone else concern themselves with that little detail? Why even bother with trials? Other gangs...Crips, Bloods, MS13, Latin Kings, etc etc don't.
At this point with the US government having abandoned nearly all pretense it is bound by the agreement between it and the people which gave it legitimacy, those gangs have the same single claim to being legitimate as the US government and which determines how large an area they control and how much control they have within their 'turf'. That is the amount of deadly force each can bring to bear on their enemies and not much else.
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Not necessarily.
Some VMs simply update with the rest of the host OS software applications and the win version & SP environment variables are a selectable variable within the VM application. The various virtual OS flavors in this type of VM typically do not update themselves independently.
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The interesting thing is that this is truly a Kang v. Kodos election. Sure one is less bad than the other, but they're both terrible by historical standards. This is the election where a minor party would have a chance and yet...here we are.
The wrong lizard might get in if we voted other than (R) or (D).
Sad that the US's crowning achievement is to copy a side-gag from a sci-fi/comedy novel, even knowing beforehand it's a failed strategy as that's the joke.
People have lost so much trust in their fellow citizens (rightly or wrongly) that they don't believe it is possible for enough people to make good choices for anyone other than an (R) or (D) candidate to have any chance.
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Your signature places the blame on US liberals, instead of spreading it across both parties.
No, you simply fail to differentiate between ideologies and political parties like so many tend to do, whether from ideological/political bias or just plain intellectual laziness and apathy. There are Liberal/Progressive Republicans and there are also Constitutional-Conservative Democrats (although admittedly there are very few of the latter left).
You know, if you were going to critique chess strategies one would hope you would take the time & trouble to at least learn the basics of the game beforehand.
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