In what way is blocking access to certain information NOT censorship. Censorship is a restriction on any speech. Establishing categories of "protected" and "non-protected" speech is merely the management process behind censorship; it's choosing what you want to censor.
There's this thing called "bullshit", also known as "politics" if you're not feeling polite. Basically, they're bothering because it makes either the red team or the blue team (or both) happy and helps them avoid other shit.
Hate to say it but the lie this year is that there's no money. Officially we can't even afford to educate people. Bailing out the LSE would show both that the lie is in fact a lie and that some idiot in gov't has really really mixed up priorities. If the LSE goes, it's gone.
Yeah, it would be slightly inconvenient but have some perspective, we're talking about one little service industry here. In terms of importance it ranks well below things like power, water, communications, shopping, manufacturing, research. A stuxnet aimed at any of those would be a whole lot more damaging.
This just reeks of desperation. The financial markets aren't so important but without communications Egypt is essentially isolated. Let's hope it doesn't take too long for the regime to finally crumble.
The Israeli system is party list proportional voting which is a bit different. For a start, I gather that approval voting is being used here to select a winner for single seat elections rather than PR which is used to divide up a number of seats between parties. This alone means that the systems should behave dramatically differently (you'd need an expert to tell you exactly how tho).
I'm in the UK where there's a referendum coming up on switching the vote to AV (single seat, voters rank candidates in order of preference) so I have sort of been looking into this stuff. Our problem (and possibly NH's problem too) is that we use FPTP so elections are split between two or maybe three candidates who aren't really all that desirable, votes for anything other than the likely first or second place are simply dropped. This leads to people believing (sometimes correctly) that their vote doesn't count.
If you believe that it is better for someone you do not agree with to hold the wheel than to have no one hold it, then this is not such a great move.
The people holding the wheel in my country actively oppose education. I'll take my chances with no one at the wheel, thank you very much.
Soaps are the closest an actor can get to a steady salaried job. Career wise, that's a lot better than doing odd comedy shows here and there and always having to look for the next role for when your current season finishes. Granted, most comedy is far more watchable than corrie but settling into a soap is probably a good way for an actor to go.
The scientists here have managed to completely ignore one simple but important fact; no one has any good recipes for insect meat. With the meat being so far outside what's usually considered food, that could kill it. Even currying might not be enough to get people to eat this stuff.
However I draw the line at releasing documents that are the politicians equivalent of a drunken conversation at a frat party.
If I understand frat parties correctly, the conversations aren't usually acted on the next day. Can't say the same for this stuff. There's a couple of interesting bits in there but there's also a lot of stuff everyone already knew; US arming Isreal - no shit Sherlock. I'm waiting for the editing and summaries right now.
Drop the fucking paranoia. It's old. It's boring. It's see through. Stuff like this:
the Obama administration says will put 'countless' lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize US relations with its allies
doesn't win sympathy. It merely shows your inability to come up with relevant points to put in a press release. Who on earth do you think believes it?
Sorry for rant but I've seen this from US politicians, from UK politicians and from European politicians; I'm sick of this crap.
My argument is that the negative impact will be minor. Your statement amounts to a staff switch around and a small difficulty in a bit of process. A difficulty you call "the need to couch language" and "risks to foreign embassies' ability to accurately communicate information". Hardly an insurmountable problem.
Honestly, I think we're just doomed to disagree. It's well late here so I'm off to bed.
The report is from cbc.ca, a few of those c's probably stand for Canada. The "including Canadians" bit basically means "our country was involved" or "we helped" or similar.
Given that politicians and governments already know that they're being assessed, I can't really see a few details coming out now and then causing much of a problem.
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In what way is blocking access to certain information NOT censorship. Censorship is a restriction on any speech. Establishing categories of "protected" and "non-protected" speech is merely the management process behind censorship; it's choosing what you want to censor.
There's this thing called "bullshit", also known as "politics" if you're not feeling polite. Basically, they're bothering because it makes either the red team or the blue team (or both) happy and helps them avoid other shit.
Hang on, hang on. On the one hand we have censorship infrastructure going on our internet connection on the other we have:
might lead them to reduce the amount of works they create for our enjoyment.
Guess which one of those isn't scary?
Don't really see the point here. Just looks like needless censorship. Never understood what the problem with these sites was supposed to be anyway.
If you don't buy a new car every three years, how on earth are you supposed to show your neighbor how much bigger your penis is than his?
You stop being a pathetic consumer and instead use the traditional manly method of "accidentally" leaving your curtains open.
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WTF is trade secrets? The man found out some interesting information and posted it. No harm done.
Hate to say it but the lie this year is that there's no money. Officially we can't even afford to educate people. Bailing out the LSE would show both that the lie is in fact a lie and that some idiot in gov't has really really mixed up priorities. If the LSE goes, it's gone.
Yeah, it would be slightly inconvenient but have some perspective, we're talking about one little service industry here. In terms of importance it ranks well below things like power, water, communications, shopping, manufacturing, research. A stuxnet aimed at any of those would be a whole lot more damaging.
This just reeks of desperation. The financial markets aren't so important but without communications Egypt is essentially isolated. Let's hope it doesn't take too long for the regime to finally crumble.
I like it. Approval voting is recognition of the fact that all politicians come in varying shades of evil.
Sorry to pedant but politicians come in different hues of evil. Don't worry, it's an easy mistake to make.
The Israeli system is party list proportional voting which is a bit different. For a start, I gather that approval voting is being used here to select a winner for single seat elections rather than PR which is used to divide up a number of seats between parties. This alone means that the systems should behave dramatically differently (you'd need an expert to tell you exactly how tho).
I'm in the UK where there's a referendum coming up on switching the vote to AV (single seat, voters rank candidates in order of preference) so I have sort of been looking into this stuff. Our problem (and possibly NH's problem too) is that we use FPTP so elections are split between two or maybe three candidates who aren't really all that desirable, votes for anything other than the likely first or second place are simply dropped. This leads to people believing (sometimes correctly) that their vote doesn't count.
If you believe that it is better for someone you do not agree with to hold the wheel than to have no one hold it, then this is not such a great move.
The people holding the wheel in my country actively oppose education. I'll take my chances with no one at the wheel, thank you very much.
To the funny moderator: I meant it, you insensitive clod.
Are you at all familiar with the accounting practices rampant in the recording and film industries?
No, if I was I would be doing them. Instead, I'm watching futurama and imitating bender by drinking and smoking a tasty cigar.
According to their lies they should have gone bankrupt by now. Maybe this year they can finally fuck off?
Soaps are the closest an actor can get to a steady salaried job. Career wise, that's a lot better than doing odd comedy shows here and there and always having to look for the next role for when your current season finishes. Granted, most comedy is far more watchable than corrie but settling into a soap is probably a good way for an actor to go.
The scientists here have managed to completely ignore one simple but important fact; no one has any good recipes for insect meat. With the meat being so far outside what's usually considered food, that could kill it. Even currying might not be enough to get people to eat this stuff.
Why not try bulimia? It does exactly what you want and it's available right now.
You missed the conservatives and the lib dems off that list.
However I draw the line at releasing documents that are the politicians equivalent of a drunken conversation at a frat party.
If I understand frat parties correctly, the conversations aren't usually acted on the next day. Can't say the same for this stuff. There's a couple of interesting bits in there but there's also a lot of stuff everyone already knew; US arming Isreal - no shit Sherlock. I'm waiting for the editing and summaries right now.
Drop the fucking paranoia. It's old. It's boring. It's see through. Stuff like this:
the Obama administration says will put 'countless' lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize US relations with its allies
doesn't win sympathy. It merely shows your inability to come up with relevant points to put in a press release. Who on earth do you think believes it?
Sorry for rant but I've seen this from US politicians, from UK politicians and from European politicians; I'm sick of this crap.
My argument is that the negative impact will be minor. Your statement amounts to a staff switch around and a small difficulty in a bit of process. A difficulty you call "the need to couch language" and "risks to foreign embassies' ability to accurately communicate information". Hardly an insurmountable problem.
Honestly, I think we're just doomed to disagree. It's well late here so I'm off to bed.
The report is from cbc.ca, a few of those c's probably stand for Canada. The "including Canadians" bit basically means "our country was involved" or "we helped" or similar.
Given that politicians and governments already know that they're being assessed, I can't really see a few details coming out now and then causing much of a problem.