You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare.
You don't say? Live and learn, I guess. Or is that live and don't learn? What do you think the Veterans Administration is in the US? Hint: State healthcare - fully government owned and operated healthcare. It has been a source of major scandals for years, and manages to kill people in the process. Of course the NHS does make the news from time to time, doesn't it?
Up to 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff fail to diagnose a treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs the death toll from superbugs like MRSA
The US healthcare system would probably stand a chance if it weren't for the so called "Affordable Care Act" passed by the Democrats. Big problems are coming.
Yes, they were. I see where you ran into trouble and got confused. You overlooked the qualifier "Northern" in the article you reference. I've indicated that in the second item below which is from the link you provide.
The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Pope Urban II authorized the First Crusade in 1095 with the goal of restoring European access to the Holy Land,...
The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were crusades undertaken by the Christian kings of Denmark, Poland[3] and Sweden, the German Livonian and Teutonic military orders, and their allies...
The Crusades were an undertaking with much wider support in Europe to address the Muslim invasions and preceded the so called "Northern Crusades" by a notable period. I would also draw your attention to this sentence from the article on the "Northern Crusade":
Some of these wars were called crusades during the Middle Ages, but others, including most of the Swedish ones, were first dubbed crusades by 19th-century romantic nationalist historians.
The only part of your statement that is correct is your statement that you, "don't know". We can start to address the gaps in your knowledge with this:
... The crusades were in every way a defensive war. They were the West’s belated response to the Muslim conquest of fully two-thirds of the Christian world. While the Arabs were busy in the seventh through the tenth centuries winning an opulent and sophisticated empire, Europe was defending itself against outside invaders and then digging out from the mess they left behind. Only in the eleventh century were Europeans able to take much notice of the East. The event that led to the crusades was the Turkish conquest of most of Christian Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The Christian emperor in Constantinople, faced with the loss of half of his empire, appealed for help to the rude but energetic Europeans. He got it. More than he wanted, in fact. Pope Urban II called the First Crusade in 1095. Despite modern laments about medieval colonialism, the crusade’s real purpose was to turn back Muslim conquests and restore formerly Christian lands to Christian control. The entire history of the crusades is one of Western reaction to Muslim advances....
I admit it's a small start, but at this point you're slightly less ignorant than you were not long ago. I encourage you to continue to address the gaps in your knowledge.
There seem to be some "gaps" in your research there. Have to bothered to look at how Hamas governs? How it relates to Fatah? You might try going beyond your usual sources on this one.
Israeli doctrine allows for unprovoked attacks on neighboring countries.
The words you're looking for are "retaliation" and "preemptive" attack. The preemptive attack is used when the enemy's intent to attack is clear but you're not going to wait for them to inflict casualties on you. When your enemy make clear their policy is genocide it would be foolish to wait for that, don't you think?
On my LAN, I don't need encryption. If the NSA is on my LAN, I've got other things to worry about than just them sniffing on my pr0n.
The problem is that you don't know who else may be on your LAN, or trying to get on it. Even if you think you have nothing of value on your network the computers and associated storage and cpus represent a potentially valuable resource that could be used for many purposes by crackers, spammers, and various criminals. You should really be using a secure protocol of some sort unless your LAN doesn't connect to the internet. Even then you have to ask yourself if you trust all the users on the network?
Reading this post demonstrates Americans have absolutely no idea what socialism is.
Reading this post demonstrates that many would-be socialists have no idea how the most common variety of governing Socialism encountered over the last century (the Marxist-Leninist-x variety) plays out in real life.
The critical issue you are overlooking is the prohibition on conducting partisan political activity using government resources. The more honest politicians do their government work on government computers, and the political work on non-government computers. Hillary Clinton did both on her personal computer thereby commingling her official business with personal matters and other non-government public work. That is a bad thing, and that is before you even get to the question of mishandled classified material.
Bush and Cheney weren't "Radical-Right." If you actually believe that you're essentially stating you're either bordering on or on the fringe Left.
Speaking of "damage," what do you think of the Democrats blocking reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the result of that? We'll be living with that for a long time.
I'm afraid you're batting 0 for 2. The "tribunal" your link refers to isn't a government entity. You can find more info at the two links below. The founder has some troubling views.
Mahathir Mohamad, the founder of this kangaroo court, was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. In October 2003, shortly before he stepped down as prime minister, he attracted international attention with a speech at a summit for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), where he told his audience that while Muslims “have the biggest oil reserve in the world,” “have great wealth” and “control 57 out of the 180 countries in the world,” they “will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews.” Indeed, according to Mahathir, “today the Jews rule the world by proxy.”
I'll correct your correction - hundreds of those emails contained classified information, and it was classified at the time, including the two with Top Secret information. You can't just repeat information in a Top Secret message on an unclassified system and render that information "unclassified."
... Most people can be forgiven for not understanding the difference between classified documents and classified information. A classified document is marked “Top Secret” or some such. But people who work in government understand that lots of information is classified simply by virtue of the kind of information it is.
My National Review colleague Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, has been setting his head on fire trying to get the mainstream media to take note of this fact. He points out that according to an executive order issued by President Barack Obama, all “foreign government information is presumed to cause damage to the national security” and is therefore presumed classified. Clinton routinely ignored this rule. That’s not just my opinion. A study by Reuters found that “Clinton and her senior staff routinely” ignored these rules.
“Here’s my personal email,” Clinton told Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who then proceeded to convey numerous private conversations he had with foreign leaders.
The Washington Times reports that Clinton’s unsecured emails contained spy satellite information about North Korea’s movement of its nuclear assets. This sort of information is universally recognized as top secret and is normally subjected to draconian safeguards. There is no way Clinton didn’t know this.
In case you are like me and have never heard of the “Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC)” and its “tribunal,” a quick check at Wikepedia tells us that this is “a Malaysian organisation established in 2007 by Mahathir Mohamad to investigate war crimes...as an alternative to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which Mahathir accused of bias in its selection of cases.” Among those tried and duly convicted by the “tribunal” are of course George W. Bush and Tony Blair
Mahathir Mohamad, the founder of this kangaroo court, was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. In October 2003, shortly before he stepped down as prime minister, he attracted international attention with a speech at a summit for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), where he told his audience that while Muslims “have the biggest oil reserve in the world,” “have great wealth” and “control 57 out of the 180 countries in the world,” they “will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews.” Indeed, according to Mahathir, “today the Jews rule the world by proxy.”
If you bothered to read the post there is an argument being made there, and a credible one. It is consistent with reporting on the post-incident damage investigation and remedial action in other national security incidents. The lawyers that write at powerlineblog are knowledgeable and tend to make informed and thoughtful arguments. They are credible, your opinion not withstanding.
Interesting use of technology, I hope it works well. This sort of thing might be a useful way to address the growing problem of invasive species, many of which are aquatic. It seems to be a preferable means of addressing the issue instead of trying to introduce more predator species in an attempt to control an invasive species.
If it doesn't it should carry a "body cam" to review the kills to ensure is it working properly and not killing things it shouldn't.
Yes, let's move on for a war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and focus on a mail server that was receiving non-classified email as much as a state state.gov address would....
Neither President Obama nor Bush is "wanted" for any "crimes against humanity" by the ICC, INTERPOL, or any government. The emails that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned over from her server have been found to include at least two emails with Top Secret information, and that information was always Top Secret, as well as hundreds more with classified information. The FBI is investigating this matter, has seized the server, and the emails held by her attorney. It seems pretty clear that one or more people were reckless with handling classified information, and may have passed it on to people without security clearances and an official need to know. There is a genuine possibility someone will be prosecuted for this.
Organisms found in nature vary in their virulence. Offensive and defensive Bio-warfare programs tend to collect the deadlier or more "interesting" strains suitable for the purpose.
Iraq had a functioning government, military, and police forces when the US withdrew around 2011, and had them for years before. The level of violence was minor at the time. The corruption in Iraq and unwillingness to engage in political compromise made it difficult for the government to function effectively which left opportunities for ISIS. It would have been better if the US had been able to stay, but domestic politics on both sides made that unlikely.
The US was hardly involved in Syria early on, and that is part of the problem. There were more moderate groups that the Obama administration ignored, and they lost a huge amount of ground.
ISIS is essentially an offshoot of al Qaeda, but appears to be surpassing it in some important ways. The US had nothing to do with founding either al Qaeda or ISIS.
Fighters for al Qaeda have come from around the world, and they fight around the world. ISIS fighters have come from around the world, but they are fighting in a much smaller area.
Islamic radicalism has been a growing problem for decades. The many oppressive and dysfunctional or otherwise troubled regimes and societies in the Arab and Muslims worlds made that almost inevitable. Blaming the US is largely misguided, but you could thank the Soviet Union.
I could really condense your post down to one argument: "Our enemies at present do not wage war lawfully and fulfill the obligations necessary for them to receive the full rights and protections of the Geneva Conventions."
FTFY
There actually is a point to this, and you keep missing it. This isn't simply a question of "nastiness," but of obligations. Even the Germans in WW2 attempted to meet their obligations when fighting at least the Western Allies (US, UK, France, etc.). As I stated before, that obligation is imposed as part of the enforcement mechanism. If you don't care about them meeting their obligations then you shouldn't care about them not receiving full benefit of the treaties. It is just that simple.
Slashdot Mirror
In short you have essentially no familiarity with healthcare in the US.
She had stomach cancer, didn't she? Hmmmm....
Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment
Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks
What a relief, stomach isn't on that list.
You know nothing about the NHS, or indeed state healthcare.
You don't say? Live and learn, I guess. Or is that live and don't learn? What do you think the Veterans Administration is in the US? Hint: State healthcare - fully government owned and operated healthcare. It has been a source of major scandals for years, and manages to kill people in the process. Of course the NHS does make the news from time to time, doesn't it?
Thousands of cancer patients to be denied treatment
Common drugs for breast, bowel, prostate, pancreatic and blood cancer will no longer be funded by the NHS following sweeping cutbacks
Elderly patients condemned to early death by secret use of do not resuscitate orders
New NHS spending scandal: £3.3 billion wasted on agency doctors
Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS
Up to 40,000 patients die annually because hospital staff fail to diagnose a treatable kidney problem, a figure that dwarfs the death toll from superbugs like MRSA
The US healthcare system would probably stand a chance if it weren't for the so called "Affordable Care Act" passed by the Democrats. Big problems are coming.
Your formulation isn't correct. You might start with these links*:
Obama Skips the Kennedy Tax Cuts
Was JFK really a supply-sider?
The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates
*No doubt there are better ones, but time is short.
But the notion that prosperity for the rich leads to prosperity for everyone is no straw man - it's a well known part of right wing policy.
The description of the policy can be a straw man depending on how it is described. You've basically gone straw man there.
Some background for those that are interested:
Obama Skips the Kennedy Tax Cuts
The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates
Yes, they were. I see where you ran into trouble and got confused. You overlooked the qualifier "Northern" in the article you reference. I've indicated that in the second item below which is from the link you provide.
Crusades
The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Pope Urban II authorized the First Crusade in 1095 with the goal of restoring European access to the Holy Land, ...
Northern Crusades
The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were crusades undertaken by the Christian kings of Denmark, Poland[3] and Sweden, the German Livonian and Teutonic military orders, and their allies ...
The Crusades were an undertaking with much wider support in Europe to address the Muslim invasions and preceded the so called "Northern Crusades" by a notable period. I would also draw your attention to this sentence from the article on the "Northern Crusade":
Some of these wars were called crusades during the Middle Ages, but others, including most of the Swedish ones, were first dubbed crusades by 19th-century romantic nationalist historians.
You might want to follow up with this: The abuse of Christianity’s holy wars.
PS - Those Mongol-Tatars and Turks were something, huh?
The only part of your statement that is correct is your statement that you, "don't know". We can start to address the gaps in your knowledge with this:
The abuse of Christianity’s holy wars.
... The crusades were in every way a defensive war. They were the West’s belated response to the Muslim conquest of fully two-thirds of the Christian world. While the Arabs were busy in the seventh through the tenth centuries winning an opulent and sophisticated empire, Europe was defending itself against outside invaders and then digging out from the mess they left behind. Only in the eleventh century were Europeans able to take much notice of the East. The event that led to the crusades was the Turkish conquest of most of Christian Asia Minor (modern Turkey). The Christian emperor in Constantinople, faced with the loss of half of his empire, appealed for help to the rude but energetic Europeans. He got it. More than he wanted, in fact. Pope Urban II called the First Crusade in 1095. Despite modern laments about medieval colonialism, the crusade’s real purpose was to turn back Muslim conquests and restore formerly Christian lands to Christian control. The entire history of the crusades is one of Western reaction to Muslim advances. ...
I admit it's a small start, but at this point you're slightly less ignorant than you were not long ago. I encourage you to continue to address the gaps in your knowledge.
The Crusades were a long overdue defensive reaction to Muslim aggression.
The Troubles in Northern Ireland weren't over a question of religion.
There seem to be some "gaps" in your research there. Have to bothered to look at how Hamas governs? How it relates to Fatah? You might try going beyond your usual sources on this one.
So you have faith in the "peaceful" intentions of Saddam Hussain and the Baathists ruling Iraq at the time? .... "parity" .... right....
Israeli doctrine allows for unprovoked attacks on neighboring countries.
The words you're looking for are "retaliation" and "preemptive" attack. The preemptive attack is used when the enemy's intent to attack is clear but you're not going to wait for them to inflict casualties on you. When your enemy make clear their policy is genocide it would be foolish to wait for that, don't you think?
On my LAN, I don't need encryption. If the NSA is on my LAN, I've got other things to worry about than just them sniffing on my pr0n.
The problem is that you don't know who else may be on your LAN, or trying to get on it. Even if you think you have nothing of value on your network the computers and associated storage and cpus represent a potentially valuable resource that could be used for many purposes by crackers, spammers, and various criminals. You should really be using a secure protocol of some sort unless your LAN doesn't connect to the internet. Even then you have to ask yourself if you trust all the users on the network?
That's a tricky problem.
Countering "Trusting Trust"
Reading this post demonstrates Americans have absolutely no idea what socialism is.
Reading this post demonstrates that many would-be socialists have no idea how the most common variety of governing Socialism encountered over the last century (the Marxist-Leninist-x variety) plays out in real life.
The post you replied to is BS, plain and simple.
The critical issue you are overlooking is the prohibition on conducting partisan political activity using government resources. The more honest politicians do their government work on government computers, and the political work on non-government computers. Hillary Clinton did both on her personal computer thereby commingling her official business with personal matters and other non-government public work. That is a bad thing, and that is before you even get to the question of mishandled classified material.
Bush and Cheney weren't "Radical-Right." If you actually believe that you're essentially stating you're either bordering on or on the fringe Left.
Speaking of "damage," what do you think of the Democrats blocking reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the result of that? We'll be living with that for a long time.
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis
The Bush administration tried to get reforms through, but the Democrats blocked it.
Are you a big fan of Obama's policies and foreign policy?
I'm afraid you're batting 0 for 2. The "tribunal" your link refers to isn't a government entity. You can find more info at the two links below. The founder has some troubling views.
Bush, Cheney Face Torture and War Crimes ‘Charges’ in Mock Trial
Guess who finds Israel guilty of genocide?
Mahathir Mohamad, the founder of this kangaroo court, was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. In October 2003, shortly before he stepped down as prime minister, he attracted international attention with a speech at a summit for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), where he told his audience that while Muslims “have the biggest oil reserve in the world,” “have great wealth” and “control 57 out of the 180 countries in the world,” they “will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews.” Indeed, according to Mahathir, “today the Jews rule the world by proxy.”
I'll correct your correction - hundreds of those emails contained classified information, and it was classified at the time, including the two with Top Secret information. You can't just repeat information in a Top Secret message on an unclassified system and render that information "unclassified."
An arsenal of smoking guns in Clinton email scandal
... Most people can be forgiven for not understanding the difference between classified documents and classified information. A classified document is marked “Top Secret” or some such. But people who work in government understand that lots of information is classified simply by virtue of the kind of information it is.
My National Review colleague Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, has been setting his head on fire trying to get the mainstream media to take note of this fact. He points out that according to an executive order issued by President Barack Obama, all “foreign government information is presumed to cause damage to the national security” and is therefore presumed classified. Clinton routinely ignored this rule. That’s not just my opinion. A study by Reuters found that “Clinton and her senior staff routinely” ignored these rules.
“Here’s my personal email,” Clinton told Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who then proceeded to convey numerous private conversations he had with foreign leaders.
The Washington Times reports that Clinton’s unsecured emails contained spy satellite information about North Korea’s movement of its nuclear assets. This sort of information is universally recognized as top secret and is normally subjected to draconian safeguards. There is no way Clinton didn’t know this.
My statement stands. The organization your link refers to is not a government entity. You can get more direct information at these two links:
Bush, Cheney Face Torture and War Crimes ‘Charges’ in Mock Trial
Guess who finds Israel guilty of genocide?
In case you are like me and have never heard of the “Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC)” and its “tribunal,” a quick check at Wikepedia tells us that this is “a Malaysian organisation established in 2007 by Mahathir Mohamad to investigate war crimes...as an alternative to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which Mahathir accused of bias in its selection of cases.” Among those tried and duly convicted by the “tribunal” are of course George W. Bush and Tony Blair
Mahathir Mohamad, the founder of this kangaroo court, was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. In October 2003, shortly before he stepped down as prime minister, he attracted international attention with a speech at a summit for the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), where he told his audience that while Muslims “have the biggest oil reserve in the world,” “have great wealth” and “control 57 out of the 180 countries in the world,” they “will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews.” Indeed, according to Mahathir, “today the Jews rule the world by proxy.”
If you bothered to read the post there is an argument being made there, and a credible one. It is consistent with reporting on the post-incident damage investigation and remedial action in other national security incidents. The lawyers that write at powerlineblog are knowledgeable and tend to make informed and thoughtful arguments. They are credible, your opinion not withstanding.
Prototype terminator version 0.001 in testing.
Let's hope "SeaNet" doesn't become self-aware.
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Interesting use of technology, I hope it works well. This sort of thing might be a useful way to address the growing problem of invasive species, many of which are aquatic. It seems to be a preferable means of addressing the issue instead of trying to introduce more predator species in an attempt to control an invasive species.
If it doesn't it should carry a "body cam" to review the kills to ensure is it working properly and not killing things it shouldn't.
Yes, let's move on for a war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and focus on a mail server that was receiving non-classified email as much as a state state.gov address would ....
Neither President Obama nor Bush is "wanted" for any "crimes against humanity" by the ICC, INTERPOL, or any government. The emails that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned over from her server have been found to include at least two emails with Top Secret information, and that information was always Top Secret, as well as hundreds more with classified information. The FBI is investigating this matter, has seized the server, and the emails held by her attorney. It seems pretty clear that one or more people were reckless with handling classified information, and may have passed it on to people without security clearances and an official need to know. There is a genuine possibility someone will be prosecuted for this.
Clinton emails contained spy satellite data on North Korean nukes
New Clinton Violations In Use Of Thumb Drives For Emails
Organisms found in nature vary in their virulence. Offensive and defensive Bio-warfare programs tend to collect the deadlier or more "interesting" strains suitable for the purpose.
You've got a lot of this backwards.
Iraq had a functioning government, military, and police forces when the US withdrew around 2011, and had them for years before. The level of violence was minor at the time. The corruption in Iraq and unwillingness to engage in political compromise made it difficult for the government to function effectively which left opportunities for ISIS. It would have been better if the US had been able to stay, but domestic politics on both sides made that unlikely.
The US was hardly involved in Syria early on, and that is part of the problem. There were more moderate groups that the Obama administration ignored, and they lost a huge amount of ground.
ISIS is essentially an offshoot of al Qaeda, but appears to be surpassing it in some important ways. The US had nothing to do with founding either al Qaeda or ISIS.
Fighters for al Qaeda have come from around the world, and they fight around the world. ISIS fighters have come from around the world, but they are fighting in a much smaller area.
Islamic radicalism has been a growing problem for decades. The many oppressive and dysfunctional or otherwise troubled regimes and societies in the Arab and Muslims worlds made that almost inevitable. Blaming the US is largely misguided, but you could thank the Soviet Union.
I could really condense your post down to one argument: "Our enemies at present do not wage war lawfully and fulfill the obligations necessary for them to receive the full rights and protections of the Geneva Conventions."
FTFY
There actually is a point to this, and you keep missing it. This isn't simply a question of "nastiness," but of obligations. Even the Germans in WW2 attempted to meet their obligations when fighting at least the Western Allies (US, UK, France, etc.). As I stated before, that obligation is imposed as part of the enforcement mechanism. If you don't care about them meeting their obligations then you shouldn't care about them not receiving full benefit of the treaties. It is just that simple.