"You mean that Wikileaks exposed the fact that the US used coercive force to get other states to agree to a treaty that the US will benefit from?"
Yes, such forms of coercion are of course not at all at odds with those Democratic values The U.S. likes to rub everyones noses in when it suits them. The fact that it happens isn't right, the fact that now at least some of the ways in which it has been abused are coming to light is a victory for real Democracy and accountability. Of course the U.S. government has rarely wanted either of those, they just like to use them as whips to coerce others. Now their suspected hypocrisy has been revealed for the whole world to see they have no problem kicking out the first amendment as well and calling for the head Assange, who has not been proven to be guilty breaking any law whatsoever. How civilized, how worthy of our support and trust.
You must be pretty dense not to have some kind of grasp on the difference between a private citizen's private email and the things elected oficials or people working for the government say and do in their professional capacity. Nice illustration of the saying "opinions are like *rseholes, everybody's got one" though.
Which may be pretty hard considering the amount of money you need and the things you have to get involved in to even get into a position of being electable....
Well, to be precise: this. There may be many people who didn't like Paypal but I think for a pretty large group this may just be the final drop to make them decide to cancel their Paypal account. It was for me (I also cancelled my Amazon account). The reason I gave them in both cases is that their business policies are in violation my personal fair service policy.
Your decision to terminate the Wikileaks.org account because of violations of your fair use policy has violated my personal fair service policy. Therefore you leave me with no other choice but to terminate my account with you.
Regards
And:
Dear Amazon Management,
Your decision to terminate the Wikileaks.org account because of violations of your hosting terms of service has violated my personal fair service policy. Therefore you leave me with no other choice but to terminate my account with you.
That would somewhat depend on wether you're actually on the earth while observing, eh? Your remark may not be technically geocentric but it's not that far off.
Exactly, the Catholic Church is way too busy surpressing evidence on the thousands of child abuse cases that have been surfacing in the last years and any spare time goes into campaigning against the use of condoms in Africa so leave those Catholic nuts alone alone.
More like tragicomedy. It would be funny except for the sad fact that a lot of people don't seem to realize exactly how hilarious it is. It requires a sense of irony to appreciate how funny Fox News is, and a sense of irony coincidentally is of particular importance when it comes to the ability to learn from history. That is one of the things that helps explain the American tendency to repeat the same mistakes at least once every decade for the last sixty years.
By arresting him in absentia for rape, illegally confirming his name to the press, retracting the rape charge and then retracting the retraction? Well, at least they seem to know what they're doing.
"One of the odors emanating from Washington, D.C., these days is from journalists marking their territory.
Whatever awkwardness previously existed as journalists desiring a federal shield law wooed the legislators they’re supposed to be watching, it’s now worse. In recent weeks, the two groups have publicly joined forces to exclude WikiLeaks from possible protection under the bill. In doing so, journalists have managed both to look territorial and to endanger the independence they’re striving to create."
Like the record industry and the movie industry before it, the news industry seems to be the next to try to get state protection for a business model that is starting to be outdated and is threathened by new models emanating from the internet. Apparently they are even willing to sell out some of the last principles that give them some legitimacy in order to get it...
On a side note, as potential "collateral" wildlife I'd prefer being confronted by a French accordeon player any day, especially when the accordeon players at least has a basic knowledge of history and the ability to learn from it, something that US administrations and their armies have consistently failed to do. I'd also prefer it if the US military stopped promoting people to general who compare war to deer hunting. It does nicely illustrate the attitude of the US towards the rest of the planet though: their own private hunting grounds with civilians as collateral wildlife.... Dehumanization has always been the key when it comes to fighting wars.
Orwellian, no. Endemic surveillance society, as a recent human rights report called it, no doubt. Alas we seem to be all headed in the same direction in Europe as well as the US.
"AT&T said Tuesday that any Net neutrality plan restricting its ability to engage in 'paid prioritization' of network traffic would be harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet."
I wasn't aware AT&T arbitrarily limiting customers access to information based on how much money they stand to gain from extorting the companies that provide it was a fundamental priciple of the internet? When did that happen?
"Making the US mission more difficult through leaks of classified information only increases the cost in blood of these military actions."
Cost in blood for whom? The Afghan citizens? The US military?
So far the Afghan war diaries have shown a lot of significant things that are badly wrong with the war in Afghanistan: US troops are systematically and consistently underreporting civilian casualties. The Australian and Italian governments keeping plans to increase their military presence in Afghanistan hidden from the electorate. The Italian government looking for ways to circumvent Italian law in order to provide military equipment for the war Afghanistan. Suspicious events in which large numbers of Taliban forces were reported killed with none wounded or captured. Reports which seem to indicate people in the Afghan national army is involved in organised and pretty large scale theft of military and humanitarian supplies and selling them to the highest bidder. The Dutch government failing to mention accidental killing of people who were defending themselves against a Taliban attack and trying to spin the story in the media so that this fact was obscured. A whole series of incidents where Afgan nationals were "accidentally" killed by "ricochets" from "warning shots".
Just to mention a few.
One big mistake a lot of people make is to take the Afghan war diaries as "fact". They are not facts about the war in Afghanistan they are facts about how the American military has been INTERNALLY REPORTING about that war. To understand the significance of a lot of the reports they have to be compared to information about the same events from independent sources or otherwise put into context.
On a related note I think the article title should read any of the following: Facebook throws book at Teachbook Facebook books Teachbook on use of "book" Facebook teaches Teachbook a lesson Teachbook facing Facebook charges
I hope the next article will be titled: Facebook tries to save face in book charge.
We'll have to wait what the next chapter brings I guess...
Normally I would be strongly opposed to that kind of thing but since Facebook appears to have completely lost the plot it seems we are facing the rare situation where a book burning is warranted.
Somehow I don't think leaving a book that favours values that do not compare unfavorably to that of a psychopath on this guy's doorstep will improve the situation.
RIAA: If you could just sign this "informal" agreement in blood here, here and uhhh if you could sign over here as well? Don't worry that last signature is just a formality to forfeit the souls of all your offspring for all eternity. Thank you very much.
I don't think you completely understand the RIAA. They have a very simple rule for distinguishing infringement from fair use. If it doesn't make them obscene amounts of money and doesn't give them the option to force you to pay yet another obscene amount of money for using it on a different system or device until the end of eternity it's infringement.
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"You mean that Wikileaks exposed the fact that the US used coercive force to get other states to agree to a treaty that the US will benefit from?"
Yes, such forms of coercion are of course not at all at odds with those Democratic values The U.S. likes to rub everyones noses in when it suits them. The fact that it happens isn't right, the fact that now at least some of the ways in which it has been abused are coming to light is a victory for real Democracy and accountability.
Of course the U.S. government has rarely wanted either of those, they just like to use them as whips to coerce others. Now their suspected hypocrisy has been revealed for the whole world to see they have no problem kicking out the first amendment as well and calling for the head Assange, who has not been proven to be guilty breaking any law whatsoever. How civilized, how worthy of our support and trust.
You must be pretty dense not to have some kind of grasp on the difference between a private citizen's private email and the things elected oficials or people working for the government say and do in their professional capacity. Nice illustration of the saying "opinions are like *rseholes, everybody's got one" though.
Which may be pretty hard considering the amount of money you need and the things you have to get involved in to even get into a position of being electable....
Well, to be precise: this. There may be many people who didn't like Paypal but I think for a pretty large group this may just be the final drop to make them decide to cancel their Paypal account. It was for me (I also cancelled my Amazon account). The reason I gave them in both cases is that their business policies are in violation my personal fair service policy.
Same here:
Dear Paypal Management,
Your decision to terminate the Wikileaks.org account because of violations of your fair use policy has violated my personal fair service policy. Therefore you leave me with no other choice but to terminate my account with you.
Regards
And:
Dear Amazon Management,
Your decision to terminate the Wikileaks.org account because of violations of your hosting terms of service has violated my personal fair service policy. Therefore you leave me with no other choice but to terminate my account with you.
Regards
If you don't like what it says just edit it! :)
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Play_Conservatroll
I don't think you can use Charles Heston to support the theory of evolution...
That would somewhat depend on wether you're actually on the earth while observing, eh?
Your remark may not be technically geocentric but it's not that far off.
Exactly, the Catholic Church is way too busy surpressing evidence on the thousands of child abuse cases that have been surfacing in the last years and any spare time goes into campaigning against the use of condoms in Africa so leave those Catholic nuts alone alone.
Yep, very cowboyish them folks at Wikileaks.
After all they are te ones who went in guns blazing using cowboy rhetoric.
They are the ones torturing...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html
Using "National Security" as a guise to protect the guilty and deny justice to the victims...
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/08/obama/index.html
Using political and economic presure to protect American war criminals from prosecution and force foreign governments into compliance with "extra judicial" measures...
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_Red_Cell_Memorandum_on_United_States_%22exporting_terrorism%22,_2_Feb_2010
And killing civilians...
http://cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm
For sport...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-afghan-civilians-fingers
No they don't have them.
Oh wait...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-afghan-civilians-fingers
And even then the government wouldn't protect them...
Oh wait...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/08/obama/index.html
Suspect indeed. I think this is just a setup to enable them to film their next new series of Most Dangerous ~ in the Discovery studio...
More like tragicomedy. It would be funny except for the sad fact that a lot of people don't seem to realize exactly how hilarious it is.
It requires a sense of irony to appreciate how funny Fox News is, and a sense of irony coincidentally is of particular importance when it comes to the ability to learn from history.
That is one of the things that helps explain the American tendency to repeat the same mistakes at least once every decade for the last sixty years.
By arresting him in absentia for rape, illegally confirming his name to the press, retracting the rape charge and then retracting the retraction?
Well, at least they seem to know what they're doing.
Exactly. As the article states:
"One of the odors emanating from Washington, D.C., these days is from journalists marking their territory.
Whatever awkwardness previously existed as journalists desiring a federal shield law wooed the legislators they’re supposed to be watching, it’s now worse. In recent weeks, the two groups have publicly joined forces to exclude WikiLeaks from possible protection under the bill. In doing so, journalists have managed both to look territorial and to endanger the independence they’re striving to create."
Like the record industry and the movie industry before it, the news industry seems to be the next to try to get state protection for a business model that is starting to be outdated and is threathened by new models emanating from the internet. Apparently they are even willing to sell out some of the last principles that give them some legitimacy in order to get it...
On a side note, as potential "collateral" wildlife I'd prefer being confronted by a French accordeon player any day, especially when the accordeon players at least has a basic knowledge of history and the ability to learn from it, something that US administrations and their armies have consistently failed to do. I'd also prefer it if the US military stopped promoting people to general who compare war to deer hunting. It does nicely illustrate the attitude of the US towards the rest of the planet though: their own private hunting grounds with civilians as collateral wildlife.... Dehumanization has always been the key when it comes to fighting wars.
Orwellian, no. Endemic surveillance society, as a recent human rights report called it, no doubt. Alas we seem to be all headed in the same direction in Europe as well as the US.
"AT&T said Tuesday that any Net neutrality plan restricting its ability to engage in 'paid prioritization' of network traffic would be harmful and contrary to the fundamental principles of the Internet."
I wasn't aware AT&T arbitrarily limiting customers access to information based on how much money they stand to gain from extorting the companies that provide it was a fundamental priciple of the internet?
When did that happen?
You forgot one:
Saying Assange is guilty of rape and/or molestation? Prove it.
"Making the US mission more difficult through leaks of classified information only increases the cost in blood of these military actions."
Cost in blood for whom? The Afghan citizens? The US military?
So far the Afghan war diaries have shown a lot of significant things that are badly wrong with the war in Afghanistan:
US troops are systematically and consistently underreporting civilian casualties.
The Australian and Italian governments keeping plans to increase their military presence in Afghanistan hidden from the electorate.
The Italian government looking for ways to circumvent Italian law in order to provide military equipment for the war Afghanistan.
Suspicious events in which large numbers of Taliban forces were reported killed with none wounded or captured.
Reports which seem to indicate people in the Afghan national army is involved in organised and pretty large scale theft of military and humanitarian supplies and selling them to the highest bidder.
The Dutch government failing to mention accidental killing of people who were defending themselves against a Taliban attack and trying to spin the story in the media so that this fact was obscured.
A whole series of incidents where Afgan nationals were "accidentally" killed by "ricochets" from "warning shots".
Just to mention a few.
One big mistake a lot of people make is to take the Afghan war diaries as "fact". They are not facts about the war in Afghanistan they are facts about how the American military has been INTERNALLY REPORTING about that war. To understand the significance of a lot of the reports they have to be compared to information about the same events from independent sources or otherwise put into context.
On a related note I think the article title should read any of the following:
Facebook throws book at Teachbook
Facebook books Teachbook on use of "book"
Facebook teaches Teachbook a lesson
Teachbook facing Facebook charges
I hope the next article will be titled:
Facebook tries to save face in book charge.
We'll have to wait what the next chapter brings I guess...
Normally I would be strongly opposed to that kind of thing but since Facebook appears to have completely lost the plot it seems we are facing the rare situation where a book burning is warranted.
You can if you own congress.
Somehow I don't think leaving a book that favours values that do not compare unfavorably to that of a psychopath on this guy's doorstep will improve the situation.
RIAA: If you could just sign this "informal" agreement in blood here, here and uhhh if you could sign over here as well? Don't worry that last signature is just a formality to forfeit the souls of all your offspring for all eternity. Thank you very much.
I don't think you completely understand the RIAA. They have a very simple rule for distinguishing infringement from fair use. If it doesn't make them obscene amounts of money and doesn't give them the option to force you to pay yet another obscene amount of money for using it on a different system or device until the end of eternity it's infringement.