Actually, under the equal protection clause EVERYBODY (including non-citizens) that resides on US soil is entitled to constitutional protections. The supreme court ruled on this literally over a hundred years ago.
The same democracy that has been dominated by a single party for over 40 years? The same democracy that controls the media so thoroughly that the reporters without borders ranks them 140th out of 167?
At best Singapore is a procedural democracy that has managed to fool it's citizens into thinking that they are given a truly free choice of leaders, too bad the west is also going to the same direction.
believe the same description was probably given to Saddam Hussein by many a western politician before the Gulf War of 1990-91.
That is EXCATLY correct. If Saddam had'nt screwed up and stepped on western toes he would today be a "valuable ally in the war against terror" and state department would occasionally give some lip service about Iraq's human rights.
I do believe that Pakistan has peaceful intentions but don't fall into the dangerous trap of assuming that a non-hostile dictatorship today can't turn into hostile dicatorship tomorrow. That mistake has been made too many times in modern history.
That is true, my point was merely being that pakistan is not (yet) ruled by religious wackos.
Indeed, my lite-on was cheaper than anything else on the market and never broke (I had 3 cd drives broken in the last 5 years).. too bad the cops took it away.:P
China does indeed have aconstitution. In theory it has a very good constitution. Unfortunately most of the core clauses on freedoms and rights are terminated with the subclause : "...except where this would disturb the peace/breach social order/endanger the harmony of the state".
And it does put all those little "exception" antiterror/antiracism-laws into an interesting light even..
If you are talking about the cultural revolution you have to take into account that it pretty much spun out of control. It is more comparable to say african style anarchy than Stalin. And of course there is the matter of opportunity (Mao and buddies had more people to kill and more time to do it), of course this point of view probably makes Pol Pot (no enemy of the chinese) worse than anybody else.
There's still a huge difference between not allowing to see sites that have the word vagina on them and giving out the IPs of internet dissidents so the chinese can send them to their gulags.
They sure did not have significant terrorism in the eastern bloc despite the massive opposition to the soviet rule. Well, except for Afghanistan and they really did every human rights violation there. So, on at least on the short term that kind of goverments do reduce terrorism but it will bubble under and someday burst out worse than before.
Now I'll probably have to figure out if some particular three-digit number is some stripped down budget processor instead of just seeing the word celeron or pentium.
In America in the 1920's anyone could own land, and start a business, and write or say whatever they pleased. You couldn't legally sell whiskey or beer during much of that period, but in most other ways you had even more freedom than Americans do today.*
* Note: The offer may not apply if you happen to be non-white, non-male or just plain poor.
Try looking up falun gong or tianamen edit histories.. don't know if it's inviduals, trolls or the chinese goverment but sometimes you occasionally see somebody trying to turn the thing into a PRC-approved textbook history.
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Don't forget that you will also need a new memory stick to go with that value pack, those things are real expensive (gee wonder why).
Actually, under the equal protection clause EVERYBODY (including non-citizens) that resides on US soil is entitled to constitutional protections. The supreme court ruled on this literally over a hundred years ago.
Ted Stevens is one of those politicians that truly make me wonder what goes on in the heads of voters.
.. that social networking from my cell involved shivs, gangs, guards, prison bitches, trading skills and smuggling drugs inside.
Well.. they did rename it from department of war to department of defence.. not too much defending going on lately.
Slave market in the USA ?
Outsourcing is the word.
Anybody got a mirror?
The same democracy that has been dominated by a single party for over 40 years? The same democracy that controls the media so thoroughly that the reporters without borders ranks them 140th out of 167?
At best Singapore is a procedural democracy that has managed to fool it's citizens into thinking that they are given a truly free choice of leaders, too bad the west is also going to the same direction.
believe the same description was probably given to Saddam Hussein by many a western politician before the Gulf War of 1990-91.
That is EXCATLY correct. If Saddam had'nt screwed up and stepped on western toes he would today be a "valuable ally in the war against terror" and state department would occasionally give some lip service about Iraq's human rights.
I do believe that Pakistan has peaceful intentions but don't fall into the dangerous trap of assuming that a non-hostile dictatorship today can't turn into hostile dicatorship tomorrow. That mistake has been made too many times in modern history.
That is true, my point was merely being that pakistan is not (yet) ruled by religious wackos.
It maybe called "islamic" but it's ruled by a relatively sane and secular dictator.
Don't know about this year but thanks to the falling dollar eurozone did go ahead of the US at some point.
So what are they going to do about it? Stop selling in the biggest economy of the world?
A (former) P2P company blaming a big DRM-heavy software company for it's lack of sales, talk about unusual.
Indeed, my lite-on was cheaper than anything else on the market and never broke (I had 3 cd drives broken in the last 5 years).. too bad the cops took it away. :P
Expect a torrent of lawsuits if they make anything that even vaguely resembles an apple product.
China does indeed have aconstitution. In theory it has a very good constitution. Unfortunately most of the core clauses on freedoms and rights are terminated with the subclause : "...except where this would disturb the peace/breach social order/endanger the harmony of the state".
And it does put all those little "exception" antiterror/antiracism-laws into an interesting light even..
If you are talking about the cultural revolution you have to take into account that it pretty much spun out of control. It is more comparable to say african style anarchy than Stalin. And of course there is the matter of opportunity (Mao and buddies had more people to kill and more time to do it), of course this point of view probably makes Pol Pot (no enemy of the chinese) worse than anybody else.
There's still a huge difference between not allowing to see sites that have the word vagina on them and giving out the IPs of internet dissidents so the chinese can send them to their gulags.
They sure did not have significant terrorism in the eastern bloc despite the massive opposition to the soviet rule. Well, except for Afghanistan and they really did every human rights violation there. So, on at least on the short term that kind of goverments do reduce terrorism but it will bubble under and someday burst out worse than before.
Lied under oath about a blowjob. The horror.
Now I'll probably have to figure out if some particular three-digit number is some stripped down budget processor instead of just seeing the word celeron or pentium.
In America in the 1920's anyone could own land, and start a business, and write or say whatever they pleased. You couldn't legally sell whiskey or beer during much of that period, but in most other ways you had even more freedom than Americans do today. *
* Note: The offer may not apply if you happen to be non-white, non-male or just plain poor.
Try looking up falun gong or tianamen edit histories.. don't know if it's inviduals, trolls or the chinese goverment but sometimes you occasionally see somebody trying to turn the thing into a PRC-approved textbook history.
Corporations sure are helping by providing those IP addresses.
If pajamas media is supposed to be the best example of this "industry" it is doomed before it has even begun.