if people start getting blackballed, hired or fired for having expressed mere support for X political party or Y viewpoint.
What do you mean, start getting blackballed? Too young to remember the wholesale blackballing of actors because of their supposed views?
This doesn't even begin to touch the surface of the obvious and hidden blacklisting which goes on every day. Numerous studies have shown your name alone can get you blacklisted from a job.
States have had to pass laws to prevent all kinds of people and groups from blacklisting people for whatever reason.
The police put a lot of effort making sure this guy goes to jail for making information available for free.
It's not information. It's a work someone put a lot of time and effort into creating and this asshat thought he was entitled to give it away to people without compensating the author.
If you want to produce something and give it away that is your right. You do not have the right to give away or steal someone else's work.
Why use something other than a grease pen on a white board?
Because it's technology! It's the cool thing to do because everything is better with technology.
Stop trying to hold us back. Technology is the answer to everything. Didn't you see the trouble the guy in England had to go through to get his wi-fi tea kettle to work? Think of how much easier putting a pot of water on the stove would have been rather than the 11 hours he spent fiddling with technology. The horror!
Don't forget the polished turd which is Ford's infotainment system is known by engineers. Think of how much better it is to look away from the road to figure which part of a screen needs to be pressed to change the song rather than reaching out and touching a physical button. Technology for the win!
And don't get me started on the Internet of Things. It's the greatest. Why, devices hooked to the net, such as refrigerators or toasters, can be used as part of massive botnets. Isn't that great? Who wants, or needs, a refrigerator which isn't connected to everything? Think of how much easier it is to take down a web site you don't like when everything's connected to the internet.
Because they consider you a criminal. You were presumed guilty until they found you innocent.
If you think this is acceptable then you wouldn't have a problem being frisked everywhere you go. Every restaurant, every movie theater, every store you want to enter, they frisk you because they're presuming you're a criminal.
Congratulations. You're another shining example of how the terrorists have won. They've made it so we fear everything and everyone.
Obviously you're not from the U.S. or you would have known instantly the NRSC has nothing to do with our government aside from being a way for Republicans to get money for Senatorial candidates. The Democrats do the same thing, they just call their version something different.
No one, particularly at this level of fundraising, would be stupid enough to use a.gov domain name. That invites all kinds of scrutiny, and possible legal action, which no one wants to be part of.
Russia has angrily accused Britain of trampling on freedom of speech
As if Putin, and thereby extension Russia, knows what freedom of speech is.
If Russia is so worried about freedom of speech then perhaps they should start at home by allowing all those opposition and independent news organizations they keep investigating and shutting down to reopen. Lead by example.
The same would go for the Tartar news and radio organizations they've shut down since they've taken over Crimea from Ukraine rather than putting locks on the doors and imprisoning Tartars who run those organizations.
As I said further up but was modded to oblivion by the Russian trolls, no amount of evidence will ever be enough for the Russian trolls. Their job is to sow confusion and doubt in any story which puts Russia in a bad light.
Russia shooting down a civilian airliner over Ukraine? Nope, never happened. The U.S. is simply keeping the photos from the satellite they had parked over the Russian invasion of Ukraine secret (that's the delusional nonsense they spout).
Russia invading Ukraine? Nope. Those 2,000 or so dead Russian soldiers who mysteriously died within a few months were on vacation in Ukraine but were too stupid to leave when the first of their comrades started dying. That's why the mothers of those dead Russian soldiers are not allowed to talk about their son's deaths.
That last part is true. Anything having to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a state secret and if those mother's talk about their son's deaths or try to set up organizations with other mothers to discuss and count the deaths, they could go to jail for exposing state secrets.
Which is odd because if Russia is not invading Ukraine, as they say they are not, what secret needs to be kept?
Russia deliberately bombing hospitals in Syria? Nope, not happening. The hospitals are blowing up because the people are using Samsung phones (again, delusional rantings). Just because Russia has part of its air force in Syria and is bombing civilians does not mean Russia is deliberately bombing hospitals according to the Russian trolls.
To the Russian trolls, anything not coming from Putin's mouth is said to be propaganda, again, to sow doubt and confusion to people reading the story.
Keep an eye out on this story. You will see anything mentioning a third world war, a nuclear war or any comment which sows doubt or twists reality will be modded up but comments such as mine which state facts will be modded down. I expect to be at -1 within the next 5 to 10 minutes because of the facts I have stated.
You have to understand, people who are posting such nonsense are generally Russian trolls being paid by the Kremlin. Their job is to try and insert comments which will make people unfamiliar with the situation to have doubts or in general, deflect anything which puts the Kremlin in a bad light.
It's well known there is place in St. Petersburg where they operate out of because workers there have spoken out about what they do and one of them even sued for back wages.
Now, having posted this, watch two things. First, I will be down modded and two, just like the response to your question, the Russian trolls will ask for proof even though proof has been given. It's what they do. Just like Russia still denies they shot down the civilian airliner over Ukraine despite the photographic, audio and eyewitness evidence. They claim none of that is proof yet at the same time, they offered their own photographic "evidence" (highly doctored photos shown to be false) as proof. Which only goes to show they can't keep their own lies straight.
You will also notice any time Russian relations with the U.S. is brought up they immediately jump to talking about a world war. Go ahead. Check their posts. Every single time.
Once you see the same things repeated over and over, you'll understand why what they say can be ignored.
Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria,
Anyone who is against the dictator Assad is a good place to start. Since Russia is actively engaged in supporting said dictator, anyone who is against Russia is also one to support.
and now the Russians have to figure out a way to get them downed.
Considering all the hospitals Russia is bombing, it sounds like Russia is substantially more incompetent.
I have yet to see anyone charged over that either.
Because the U.S. made a full and complete investigation, then fully admitted its mistake to the world and paid reparations to the families of those onboard.
Whereas Russia has perpetually insisted it had nothing to do with shooting down a passenger jet even though the BUK system was tracked coming into Ukraine from Russia then promptly returned to Russia missing one of its missile systems.
Further, the world has the recorded phone calls made by the Russians and their terrorist proxies gleefully announcing the shoot down before they realized it was a passenger jet, not to mention the various social media postings proclaiming the shoot down.
Then, when the Russians realized they had shot down a civilian airliner, they promptly closed off the crime scene and rooted through the personal belongings of those they killed and denied access to the site, thereby contaminating the crime scene.
As the investigation proceeded, Russia did everything in its power to deny responsibility for the murders of the civilians, tossing out bogus claim after bogus claim, including photoshopped pictures trying to claim a jet shot down the airliner, and thwarted every attempt to collect data by not cooperating in the least.
Unfortunately for Russia, civilians who were interviewed stated unequivocally the location of where the Buk missile was launched from and investigators found the scorch marks on the ground which were clearly in an area occupied by the terrorists and their Russian backers.
Its interesting to see the hacks people do to make things work.
It's a freaking KETTLE! How much do you have to hack it to get it to sit on a stove top and heat water? In the time it took him to hack this piece of crap he could have had dozens of cups of tea. Instead, he wasted 11 hours doing something completely unnecessary because he wanted to take the longest possible route to complete the simplest possible action.
As I have repeatedly said, this is why analog is still better than digital.
The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effects of corruption and shining a light on those who would use their entrusted power for personal gain. An independent and free media is a cornerstone of democracy and a crucial component of a healthy governance system.
Except when it doesn't cowtow to what you think it should do. Like say, Fox News which is as blatant an arm for the Republican Party as one can get. Then again, with Trump as their candidate it shouldn't be a surprise since it is well known the air at Fox is just as mysoginist and sexist as Trump is.
Further, neither Hillary or Bill have gained anything from their political dealings. Or at least no more than any other politician. That foundation which everyone whines about? They have had no personal gain from its operations, unlike Trump who has used other people's money given to his foundation to pay for his legal bills, personal bills and even bought things for his personal use, all illegal. Funny thing, you don't hear this supposed biased media talking about those illegal acts, do you?
Spare me this crap how one person is controlling news media or news media is supporting one person when this same media does report on every leak, every released email and every flub of that person. If you're going to whine about one side you have to whine about the other, but you won't because then you'd have to admit to being the hypocrite that you are.
Considering this same media didn't do shit to investigate how Bush ignored 8 months of daily warnings of an impending attack which resulted in the deaths of 3,000 people in a few short hours, it is farcical to believe they are suddenly supporting a candidate from the opposing party, especially when one considers those full-fledged, died-in-the-wool newspapers who have never supported a Democratic candidate in their entire existence who are now calling Trump something this side of Hitler and supporting Clinton.
Of are you going to claim they too are being controlled by Hillary and they're spouting her propaganda?
But by my downmodding it is quite obvious Trumpettes don't want the truth to be seen. Which isn't surprising, facts don't matter to Trump.
"Waaa! Waaa! The polls are rigged!"
"Waaa! Waaa! The news is making me look bad by reporting what I said."
"Waaa! Waaa! The votes are fixed."
Talk about a whiner. If Hillary said the same things Trump is saying you'd be all over her, calling her a whiner and baby. But when Trump says it, "Uh huh. He's right you know. Guy is getting screwed."
Again, this is why Trump's propaganda is so effective. He caters to the base instincts of the base intellect of the lowest common denominator in this country. Trailer trash and angry white men eat up his crap because they can't take two seconds to think for themselves and see the reality of Trump.
That's effective propaganda? You must have been living in a hole if you think that's propaganda.
You know what propaganda is? Saying the same thing over and over because you want people to believe it's the truth. Look at Trump. He's such a great businessman he never turned a profit at any of his casinos while he ran them for a decade. Every year they lost money.
He was such a great businessman his dad had to give him an illegal loan to keep one of his casinos afloat (at least until Trump declared bankruptcy).
He was such a great businessman he lost nearly $1 billion at a time when everyone else was making money hand over fist.
Trump Airlines. Failure.
United Football League. Failure.
Tour de Trump. Failure.
Trump University. Failure and a scam.
The relevant question is "what would happen to me if I had done the same thing?"
Yes, let us examine this question. If I released the name of an undercover CIA agent I would, without a doubt, have gone to solitary confinement for the rest of my life.
Now compare that scenario to Dick Cheney who told Scooter Libby that Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent, was the wife of the guy who outed the yellow cake document as a fake. We know this because Libby's own notes indicated the date and meeting Cheney told him about Plame. That's why Libby went to jail. He obstructed justice by not naming Cheney as the primary source for Plame's outing.
Plame gets outed, thus endangering herself, her husband and every other contact she had made over the years, thus endangering our overseas contacts, yet Cheney walks around like nothing happened. He even lied under oath when he said he didn't remember if he had ever said anything to anyone about Plame.
You are correct, it just makes no sense the way people gloss over this like it doesn't matter. After all, what could possibly happen if we start naming undercover CIA agents out of political vindictiveness? It's like the failure of Bush to protect this country from terrorist attacks. No one seems to care he let 3,000 people die in the span of a few hours because he ignored 8 months of daily warnings of the impending attack
Because no crime was committed. She did not intentionally leak any information.
Unlike Dick Cheney who intentionally leaked Valerie Plame's name to Scooter Libby as political retribution for her husband showing the yellow cake document to be a forgery.
Facts were getting in the way of the Bush lies about the need to invade and occupy a foreign country for no reason.
Right up to the moment someone reminds the angry white men how they're responsible for most of today's ills, whether rapes, mass shootings, extermination of species and people, child molestation and child rape and so on. Then suddenly it will be, "Shut them down! Facts don't belong here! SJW alert!"
If these angry white men are going to go on about how they've been the ones to create most of what we have, they also have to take the blame for the equal amount of the bad which have come along with it.
The trolls appear. The reason the U.S. exists is because it got tired of being England's whipping boy and paying tax after tax but getting nothing in return.
The colonies then pursued peaceful means by sending protest letter after protest letter to the King outlining the usurpations they were enduring and even suggested remedies.
In the end the King ignored all peaceful attempts at resolving the underlying issues. Only then did the colonists take up arms against those they perceived as oppressors.
The Senate, in conjunction with the House, can write laws to affect Yahoo! including requirements on reporting data breaches.
Yes, the Senate does have authority over Yahoo! and every other business in the country, especially when it pertains to people's personal information being stolen/hacked/whatever because quite obviously private industry doesn't give a crap how you might be affected.
Your statement would be like saying the Senate has no authority over the paper industry which dumps millions of gallons of polluted water back into streams and rivers.
The good thing about private industry is that there are laws penalizing them for this kind of behavior,
Hogwash. Target settled with a $10 million payout: $10K per affected person. $10 million is less than the compensation package for Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, in 2015. That "penalty" barely ranks as an itch on the Target balance sheet.
Home Depot settled for $19.5 million. A bit better but nothing to write home about.
Penalties are supposed to hurt. They are supposed to be designed to either force or encourage better behavior. The above two examples do not fall into the category and from the look of things, nor do other penalties for data breaches.
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if people start getting blackballed, hired or fired for having expressed mere support for X political party or Y viewpoint.
What do you mean, start getting blackballed? Too young to remember the wholesale blackballing of actors because of their supposed views?
This doesn't even begin to touch the surface of the obvious and hidden blacklisting which goes on every day. Numerous studies have shown your name alone can get you blacklisted from a job.
States have had to pass laws to prevent all kinds of people and groups from blacklisting people for whatever reason.
The police put a lot of effort making sure this guy goes to jail for making information available for free.
It's not information. It's a work someone put a lot of time and effort into creating and this asshat thought he was entitled to give it away to people without compensating the author.
If you want to produce something and give it away that is your right. You do not have the right to give away or steal someone else's work.
Why use something other than a grease pen on a white board?
Because it's technology! It's the cool thing to do because everything is better with technology.
Stop trying to hold us back. Technology is the answer to everything. Didn't you see the trouble the guy in England had to go through to get his wi-fi tea kettle to work? Think of how much easier putting a pot of water on the stove would have been rather than the 11 hours he spent fiddling with technology. The horror!
Don't forget the polished turd which is Ford's infotainment system is known by engineers. Think of how much better it is to look away from the road to figure which part of a screen needs to be pressed to change the song rather than reaching out and touching a physical button. Technology for the win!
And don't get me started on the Internet of Things. It's the greatest. Why, devices hooked to the net, such as refrigerators or toasters, can be used as part of massive botnets. Isn't that great? Who wants, or needs, a refrigerator which isn't connected to everything? Think of how much easier it is to take down a web site you don't like when everything's connected to the internet.
Woo hoo! Three cheers for technology.
I get frisked at airports, its no big deal.
Because they consider you a criminal. You were presumed guilty until they found you innocent.
If you think this is acceptable then you wouldn't have a problem being frisked everywhere you go. Every restaurant, every movie theater, every store you want to enter, they frisk you because they're presuming you're a criminal.
Congratulations. You're another shining example of how the terrorists have won. They've made it so we fear everything and everyone.
Obviously you're not from the U.S. or you would have known instantly the NRSC has nothing to do with our government aside from being a way for Republicans to get money for Senatorial candidates. The Democrats do the same thing, they just call their version something different.
No one, particularly at this level of fundraising, would be stupid enough to use a .gov domain name. That invites all kinds of scrutiny, and possible legal action, which no one wants to be part of.
Russia has angrily accused Britain of trampling on freedom of speech
As if Putin, and thereby extension Russia, knows what freedom of speech is.
If Russia is so worried about freedom of speech then perhaps they should start at home by allowing all those opposition and independent news organizations they keep investigating and shutting down to reopen. Lead by example.
The same would go for the Tartar news and radio organizations they've shut down since they've taken over Crimea from Ukraine rather than putting locks on the doors and imprisoning Tartars who run those organizations.
Yup, because you're entitled to someone else's work.
Typical thief.
Why would he care at that point? He got his money. They're the immature brats who think they're entitled to his performance.
If your life revolves around your phone, you need to reevaluate your life.
As I said further up but was modded to oblivion by the Russian trolls, no amount of evidence will ever be enough for the Russian trolls. Their job is to sow confusion and doubt in any story which puts Russia in a bad light.
Russia shooting down a civilian airliner over Ukraine? Nope, never happened. The U.S. is simply keeping the photos from the satellite they had parked over the Russian invasion of Ukraine secret (that's the delusional nonsense they spout).
Russia invading Ukraine? Nope. Those 2,000 or so dead Russian soldiers who mysteriously died within a few months were on vacation in Ukraine but were too stupid to leave when the first of their comrades started dying. That's why the mothers of those dead Russian soldiers are not allowed to talk about their son's deaths.
That last part is true. Anything having to do with the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a state secret and if those mother's talk about their son's deaths or try to set up organizations with other mothers to discuss and count the deaths, they could go to jail for exposing state secrets.
Which is odd because if Russia is not invading Ukraine, as they say they are not, what secret needs to be kept?
Russia deliberately bombing hospitals in Syria? Nope, not happening. The hospitals are blowing up because the people are using Samsung phones (again, delusional rantings). Just because Russia has part of its air force in Syria and is bombing civilians does not mean Russia is deliberately bombing hospitals according to the Russian trolls.
To the Russian trolls, anything not coming from Putin's mouth is said to be propaganda, again, to sow doubt and confusion to people reading the story.
Keep an eye out on this story. You will see anything mentioning a third world war, a nuclear war or any comment which sows doubt or twists reality will be modded up but comments such as mine which state facts will be modded down. I expect to be at -1 within the next 5 to 10 minutes because of the facts I have stated.
You have to understand, people who are posting such nonsense are generally Russian trolls being paid by the Kremlin. Their job is to try and insert comments which will make people unfamiliar with the situation to have doubts or in general, deflect anything which puts the Kremlin in a bad light.
It's well known there is place in St. Petersburg where they operate out of because workers there have spoken out about what they do and one of them even sued for back wages.
Now, having posted this, watch two things. First, I will be down modded and two, just like the response to your question, the Russian trolls will ask for proof even though proof has been given. It's what they do. Just like Russia still denies they shot down the civilian airliner over Ukraine despite the photographic, audio and eyewitness evidence. They claim none of that is proof yet at the same time, they offered their own photographic "evidence" (highly doctored photos shown to be false) as proof. Which only goes to show they can't keep their own lies straight.
You will also notice any time Russian relations with the U.S. is brought up they immediately jump to talking about a world war. Go ahead. Check their posts. Every single time.
Once you see the same things repeated over and over, you'll understand why what they say can be ignored.
and then there came a day when hundred of their citizens were raped by these refugees in various cities.
False and outright lie. There have not been hundreds of rapes in Germany from the immigrants. A handful have occurred.
Gary Johnson had it right!
Gary Johnson can't even find Syria on the map, let alone Aleppo. I'd be surprised if he could find Washington, D.C.
Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria,
Anyone who is against the dictator Assad is a good place to start. Since Russia is actively engaged in supporting said dictator, anyone who is against Russia is also one to support.
and now the Russians have to figure out a way to get them downed.
Considering all the hospitals Russia is bombing, it sounds like Russia is substantially more incompetent.
I have yet to see anyone charged over that either.
Because the U.S. made a full and complete investigation, then fully admitted its mistake to the world and paid reparations to the families of those onboard.
Whereas Russia has perpetually insisted it had nothing to do with shooting down a passenger jet even though the BUK system was tracked coming into Ukraine from Russia then promptly returned to Russia missing one of its missile systems.
Further, the world has the recorded phone calls made by the Russians and their terrorist proxies gleefully announcing the shoot down before they realized it was a passenger jet, not to mention the various social media postings proclaiming the shoot down.
Then, when the Russians realized they had shot down a civilian airliner, they promptly closed off the crime scene and rooted through the personal belongings of those they killed and denied access to the site, thereby contaminating the crime scene.
As the investigation proceeded, Russia did everything in its power to deny responsibility for the murders of the civilians, tossing out bogus claim after bogus claim, including photoshopped pictures trying to claim a jet shot down the airliner, and thwarted every attempt to collect data by not cooperating in the least.
Unfortunately for Russia, civilians who were interviewed stated unequivocally the location of where the Buk missile was launched from and investigators found the scorch marks on the ground which were clearly in an area occupied by the terrorists and their Russian backers.
See the difference?
Its interesting to see the hacks people do to make things work.
It's a freaking KETTLE! How much do you have to hack it to get it to sit on a stove top and heat water? In the time it took him to hack this piece of crap he could have had dozens of cups of tea. Instead, he wasted 11 hours doing something completely unnecessary because he wanted to take the longest possible route to complete the simplest possible action.
As I have repeatedly said, this is why analog is still better than digital.
The media is one of the strongest weapons in showing the world the devastating effects of corruption and shining a light on those who would use their entrusted power for personal gain. An independent and free media is a cornerstone of democracy and a crucial component of a healthy governance system.
Except when it doesn't cowtow to what you think it should do. Like say, Fox News which is as blatant an arm for the Republican Party as one can get. Then again, with Trump as their candidate it shouldn't be a surprise since it is well known the air at Fox is just as mysoginist and sexist as Trump is.
Further, neither Hillary or Bill have gained anything from their political dealings. Or at least no more than any other politician. That foundation which everyone whines about? They have had no personal gain from its operations, unlike Trump who has used other people's money given to his foundation to pay for his legal bills, personal bills and even bought things for his personal use, all illegal. Funny thing, you don't hear this supposed biased media talking about those illegal acts, do you?
Spare me this crap how one person is controlling news media or news media is supporting one person when this same media does report on every leak, every released email and every flub of that person. If you're going to whine about one side you have to whine about the other, but you won't because then you'd have to admit to being the hypocrite that you are.
Considering this same media didn't do shit to investigate how Bush ignored 8 months of daily warnings of an impending attack which resulted in the deaths of 3,000 people in a few short hours, it is farcical to believe they are suddenly supporting a candidate from the opposing party, especially when one considers those full-fledged, died-in-the-wool newspapers who have never supported a Democratic candidate in their entire existence who are now calling Trump something this side of Hitler and supporting Clinton.
Of are you going to claim they too are being controlled by Hillary and they're spouting her propaganda?
Paid? I don't get paid to speak the truth.
But by my downmodding it is quite obvious Trumpettes don't want the truth to be seen. Which isn't surprising, facts don't matter to Trump.
"Waaa! Waaa! The polls are rigged!"
"Waaa! Waaa! The news is making me look bad by reporting what I said."
"Waaa! Waaa! The votes are fixed."
Talk about a whiner. If Hillary said the same things Trump is saying you'd be all over her, calling her a whiner and baby. But when Trump says it, "Uh huh. He's right you know. Guy is getting screwed."
Again, this is why Trump's propaganda is so effective. He caters to the base instincts of the base intellect of the lowest common denominator in this country. Trailer trash and angry white men eat up his crap because they can't take two seconds to think for themselves and see the reality of Trump.
That's effective propaganda? You must have been living in a hole if you think that's propaganda.
You know what propaganda is? Saying the same thing over and over because you want people to believe it's the truth. Look at Trump. He's such a great businessman he never turned a profit at any of his casinos while he ran them for a decade. Every year they lost money.
He was such a great businessman his dad had to give him an illegal loan to keep one of his casinos afloat (at least until Trump declared bankruptcy).
He was such a great businessman he lost nearly $1 billion at a time when everyone else was making money hand over fist.
Trump Airlines. Failure.
United Football League. Failure.
Tour de Trump. Failure.
Trump University. Failure and a scam.
Here, take a look at his other failures (not an inclusive list)
To keep saying one is successful after repeated and numerous failures is nothing but pure propaganda.
The relevant question is "what would happen to me if I had done the same thing?"
Yes, let us examine this question. If I released the name of an undercover CIA agent I would, without a doubt, have gone to solitary confinement for the rest of my life.
Now compare that scenario to Dick Cheney who told Scooter Libby that Valerie Plame, an undercover CIA agent, was the wife of the guy who outed the yellow cake document as a fake. We know this because Libby's own notes indicated the date and meeting Cheney told him about Plame. That's why Libby went to jail. He obstructed justice by not naming Cheney as the primary source for Plame's outing.
Plame gets outed, thus endangering herself, her husband and every other contact she had made over the years, thus endangering our overseas contacts, yet Cheney walks around like nothing happened. He even lied under oath when he said he didn't remember if he had ever said anything to anyone about Plame.
You are correct, it just makes no sense the way people gloss over this like it doesn't matter. After all, what could possibly happen if we start naming undercover CIA agents out of political vindictiveness? It's like the failure of Bush to protect this country from terrorist attacks. No one seems to care he let 3,000 people die in the span of a few hours because he ignored 8 months of daily warnings of the impending attack
Talk about a criminal act.
Because no crime was committed. She did not intentionally leak any information.
Unlike Dick Cheney who intentionally leaked Valerie Plame's name to Scooter Libby as political retribution for her husband showing the yellow cake document to be a forgery.
Facts were getting in the way of the Bush lies about the need to invade and occupy a foreign country for no reason.
the Jews have suffered the most and it also implies that they are non-white.
Jews are not white. They are, genetically, the same as Palestinians. No one would ever say a Palestinian was white.
Right up to the moment someone reminds the angry white men how they're responsible for most of today's ills, whether rapes, mass shootings, extermination of species and people, child molestation and child rape and so on. Then suddenly it will be, "Shut them down! Facts don't belong here! SJW alert!"
If these angry white men are going to go on about how they've been the ones to create most of what we have, they also have to take the blame for the equal amount of the bad which have come along with it.
You can't have it both ways.
I don't see anyone reaching for willow bark when they have a headache.
The trolls appear. The reason the U.S. exists is because it got tired of being England's whipping boy and paying tax after tax but getting nothing in return.
The colonies then pursued peaceful means by sending protest letter after protest letter to the King outlining the usurpations they were enduring and even suggested remedies.
In the end the King ignored all peaceful attempts at resolving the underlying issues. Only then did the colonists take up arms against those they perceived as oppressors.
Hardly ignoring the law.
The Senate, in conjunction with the House, can write laws to affect Yahoo! including requirements on reporting data breaches.
Yes, the Senate does have authority over Yahoo! and every other business in the country, especially when it pertains to people's personal information being stolen/hacked/whatever because quite obviously private industry doesn't give a crap how you might be affected.
Your statement would be like saying the Senate has no authority over the paper industry which dumps millions of gallons of polluted water back into streams and rivers.
The good thing about private industry is that there are laws penalizing them for this kind of behavior,
Hogwash. Target settled with a $10 million payout: $10K per affected person. $10 million is less than the compensation package for Brian Cornell, CEO of Target, in 2015. That "penalty" barely ranks as an itch on the Target balance sheet.
Home Depot settled for $19.5 million. A bit better but nothing to write home about.
Penalties are supposed to hurt. They are supposed to be designed to either force or encourage better behavior. The above two examples do not fall into the category and from the look of things, nor do other penalties for data breaches.