I educated myself. See wikileads. You, you just resort to an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps you should try to come up with a real argument before you open your mouth and make yourself look like a ignorant twat who champions cowards.
What real warriors? The kind that thinks a "terrorist" is located somewhere, and then let them bomb the hell out of the location, and goes in for a check afterward, to find out they bombed a family? Spare me the hypocrite hero crap. Americans fight like cowards, at the expense of collateral damage.
The data protection act, who is it protecting? The chip shows the location of the dog, right? Not of the people or house around him. Why didn't they just provide coordinates for the dog? If it is the dog's private data, does the dog not wish to be found? Now they seem to have gathered the coordinates of the dog, went to the coordinates and witnessed people hanging around the dog which are not its owners, and is protecting the data privacy of these irrelevant persons. This is a very important point. The guy bought a chip providing coordinates for the dog, not for random objects or persons around him at the time of polling. If you go that way, all such microchips are rendered useless, because objects and domesticated animals tend to be near to people.
Since critics are not allowed in this thread, I'm gonna post them in one single comment to be labeled as "troll" for everybody's convenience:
- The "citizenship as an afterthought" is an insult to Americans and to people fighting for citizenship.
- He immigrated to a country involved into various dirty wars with a corrupted corporate government, which is debatable except for the fact he came from a country which by fact is involved in less wars and has less corrupted government, for commercial reasons I suppose, and thus is morally corrupted.
- He states he dislikes all kinds of American things, which shows a lack of respect for his new host, stating he will fix him from within like a true citizen etc., which will turn out to be yada yada, but I expect his mansions and cars to become bigger though.
- Linux still has not penetrated on the desktop, which clearly is betrayal.
Avatar was a highly engrossing (both to the viewer and the bottom line) film even without the 3D
IMO Avatar wasn't even engrossing in 3D and on video it's a complete and utter turd. It got its reputation and popularity by being the first blue LED and a enormous bore after the 3D effect wore off. In a few years, it will become the biggest money making movie that nobody ever watches anymore.
You're feeding the urban legend, or as one commenter says:
I am having some difficulty in believing that we all read the same 58 page report. Let's just look at the facts. Police went to 142 premises and interviewed 254 people who sold sex, of whom 210 (83%) were migrants. They scored the interviews on a variety of markers of vulnerability. They rated 24 of the sample (9%) as showing some signs of exploitation, and classified this as trafficked. They did not find any 'slaves'. The rest is speculation.
The only ones I really pity (besides the kidnapped, sold and/or enslaved the other repliers keep addressing) are those who are victims of certain kind of drugs. They are the equivalent of the street junkies robbing and stealing throughout the day to finance their addiction, like zombies.
It is an urban legend that these women have no other options than prostitution. At most locations, this is false, they have. The other options don't pay as well though. These girls prefer relatively well-paid prostitution over working 10 hour shifts at a factory or selling food stuff on markets. If there are no other options, all the ugly girls and lowly educated men would die of starvation. Yes they are exploited, but how did they get there? All the high-profile stories about human trafficking and prostitution slavery, in the end it's only a small minority.
You must have been in jail or on a space mission the past few years. Welcome back to Slashdot! Second Life is widely regarded as no longer relevant nowadays.
Most of the Slashdotters consciously voted the RIAA muppet into government and suppressed it, to defeat McCain.
Touchy subject, it seems. I know why this hurts so much. It's the dictatorship of the majority (of morons) you are feeling. This leads to things as a choice between Obama and McCain. I like how people do nothing about, don't want to talk about it, but still feel they are not to blame. That'll fix it.
Yes McCain would have been even a worse president, which was entirely not the point. But good for you it gives you an easy tool for ignoring the point.
I'm not an American and certainly not a republican. So you're way off, I did not lose or think the republicans are better (they seem to be much worse). I think a republican would call a European like me a liberal, which is something really bad in their eyes?
Look, I appreciate your problem of having to vote for one evil or the other, and voting for the lesser evil.
But don't FUD me in your anger or deny you voted for evil. You voted for evil. You voted for lizards. And when someone points it out to you, you FUD the hell out of him in denial.
Let's not be hypocritical. I think most people here voted for Obama/Biden. If know what you were voting for with Joe Biden, you know he is an RIAA man. They can and have bought him, but it was you who elected him to power. And then the industry uses the power they bought into the government. So this is all very logical and the consequence of voting the RIAA into your government. There will be much more of this. All of this was brushed away because defeating McCain was all that mattered.
Wow are you still here? I'd define a jerk as someone who can only reply with logical fallacies and such. None of your replies are about the original discussion. How sad. Chances are 100% you are a complete and total turd.
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Well, thank you for proving my argument. I predict your oil wars will proceed well... like Vietnam.
I educated myself. See wikileads. You, you just resort to an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps you should try to come up with a real argument before you open your mouth and make yourself look like a ignorant twat who champions cowards.
What real warriors? The kind that thinks a "terrorist" is located somewhere, and then let them bomb the hell out of the location, and goes in for a check afterward, to find out they bombed a family? Spare me the hypocrite hero crap. Americans fight like cowards, at the expense of collateral damage.
Your comment was modded "insightful", because "warriors" are taught to think for themselves. Ask Drill Instructor Hartman.
The data protection act, who is it protecting? The chip shows the location of the dog, right? Not of the people or house around him. Why didn't they just provide coordinates for the dog? If it is the dog's private data, does the dog not wish to be found? Now they seem to have gathered the coordinates of the dog, went to the coordinates and witnessed people hanging around the dog which are not its owners, and is protecting the data privacy of these irrelevant persons. This is a very important point. The guy bought a chip providing coordinates for the dog, not for random objects or persons around him at the time of polling. If you go that way, all such microchips are rendered useless, because objects and domesticated animals tend to be near to people.
Since critics are not allowed in this thread, I'm gonna post them in one single comment to be labeled as "troll" for everybody's convenience:
- The "citizenship as an afterthought" is an insult to Americans and to people fighting for citizenship.
- He immigrated to a country involved into various dirty wars with a corrupted corporate government, which is debatable except for the fact he came from a country which by fact is involved in less wars and has less corrupted government, for commercial reasons I suppose, and thus is morally corrupted.
- He states he dislikes all kinds of American things, which shows a lack of respect for his new host, stating he will fix him from within like a true citizen etc., which will turn out to be yada yada, but I expect his mansions and cars to become bigger though.
- Linux still has not penetrated on the desktop, which clearly is betrayal.
More importantly, it means demand outpaces supply.
We have already been in the next World War over resources since 9/11. What, you think it was about liberation and terrrrrorrrists?
No DataChairs ?..pah!
Avatar was a highly engrossing (both to the viewer and the bottom line) film even without the 3D
IMO Avatar wasn't even engrossing in 3D and on video it's a complete and utter turd. It got its reputation and popularity by being the first blue LED and a enormous bore after the 3D effect wore off. In a few years, it will become the biggest money making movie that nobody ever watches anymore.
I am having some difficulty in believing that we all read the same 58 page report. Let's just look at the facts. Police went to 142 premises and interviewed 254 people who sold sex, of whom 210 (83%) were migrants. They scored the interviews on a variety of markers of vulnerability. They rated 24 of the sample (9%) as showing some signs of exploitation, and classified this as trafficked. They did not find any 'slaves'. The rest is speculation.
The only ones I really pity (besides the kidnapped, sold and/or enslaved the other repliers keep addressing) are those who are victims of certain kind of drugs. They are the equivalent of the street junkies robbing and stealing throughout the day to finance their addiction, like zombies.
Yes, I pity the enslaved kidnapped prostitutes who were advertising themselves on Craigslist.
Small comfort if it's your daughter on the milk carton.
But, but.. if we would be talking about my daughter being a prostitution slave, who exactly do you think sold her into slavery?
It is an urban legend that these women have no other options than prostitution. At most locations, this is false, they have. The other options don't pay as well though. These girls prefer relatively well-paid prostitution over working 10 hour shifts at a factory or selling food stuff on markets. If there are no other options, all the ugly girls and lowly educated men would die of starvation. Yes they are exploited, but how did they get there? All the high-profile stories about human trafficking and prostitution slavery, in the end it's only a small minority.
You must have been in jail or on a space mission the past few years. Welcome back to Slashdot! Second Life is widely regarded as no longer relevant nowadays.
the web got big when HTML forms were introduced and information was able to flow both ways.
What a strange way to describe porn.
The truth still is:
Most of the Slashdotters consciously voted the RIAA muppet into government and suppressed it, to defeat McCain.
Touchy subject, it seems. I know why this hurts so much. It's the dictatorship of the majority (of morons) you are feeling. This leads to things as a choice between Obama and McCain. I like how people do nothing about, don't want to talk about it, but still feel they are not to blame. That'll fix it.
Yes McCain would have been even a worse president, which was entirely not the point. But good for you it gives you an easy tool for ignoring the point.
I'm not an American and certainly not a republican. So you're way off, I did not lose or think the republicans are better (they seem to be much worse). I think a republican would call a European like me a liberal, which is something really bad in their eyes?
Look, I appreciate your problem of having to vote for one evil or the other, and voting for the lesser evil.
But don't FUD me in your anger or deny you voted for evil. You voted for evil. You voted for lizards. And when someone points it out to you, you FUD the hell out of him in denial.
Let's not be hypocritical. I think most people here voted for Obama/Biden. If know what you were voting for with Joe Biden, you know he is an RIAA man. They can and have bought him, but it was you who elected him to power. And then the industry uses the power they bought into the government. So this is all very logical and the consequence of voting the RIAA into your government. There will be much more of this. All of this was brushed away because defeating McCain was all that mattered.
Point proven. Here, you will prove my point again. Good luck with your mental disabilities.
You really like to have the last word, don't you? Perhaps you should visit a shrink. He will tell you what that means (it ain't pretty).
Wow are you still here? I'd define a jerk as someone who can only reply with logical fallacies and such. None of your replies are about the original discussion. How sad. Chances are 100% you are a complete and total turd.
Argumentum ad populum.
Which makes you a pitiful loser. Why don't you shut up if you have nothing to contribute.