I understand the dislike of corporate money going into ad campaigns and I'd like to reduce that influence, although I want to remain aware that sometimes corporations do have important things to say that should at least be heard, even if no one agrees with them.
Sure, just disclose who you are. When you get government protection from liability, you don't also get to be anonymous.
But corporations are run by people - people who decide where to spend money
Not by definition.
And the people who are part of corporations already have a right to free speech, just without the additional benefits of anonymity and protection from liability. They shouldn't get extra rights just because they filed papers with the state.
Yes, if you get attacked, you can use it to clobber the bad guy.
even multiple USB ports.
A well-known security feature.
For goodness sake, it was running Windows CE. You'll note that at the same time, President Obama was using a hardened Blackberry. I think there's a case to be made that the NSA just wanted to ratfuck Hillary. It's what they do, after all.
Since when was buying a political ad in the paper not protected speech?
An individual could always buy an ad in a newspaper under his own name(assuming the paper wanted to run it, of course). What he could not do, was form a liability-protected legal entity for the purpose of raising money anonymously to use in elections.
Despite $18 million in development contracts for each of the vendors selected to build the competing SME PED phones (or perhaps because of it), the resulting devices were far from user-friendly. The phones—General Dynamics' Sectéra Edge and L3 Communications' Guardian—were not technically "smart phones," but instead were handheld personal digital assistants with phone capability, derived from late 1990s and early 2000s technology that had been hardened for security purposes—specifically, Windows CE technology.
"Speech" is shorthand for "expression", including the press and other ways of being heard. These usually require money.
Only since 2010 apparently. The United States Constitution was clear on this matter right up until then, and somehow we managed to survive as a civil society.
Can someone tell me, in English, what any of this means?
It means whatever it is, you probably don't want it and you definitely don't need it.
It's like a commercial for some new pharmaceutical when you don't have the disease. You think, "Oh man, that's a shame that some people have to live with that kind of horror" while at the same time thinking, "I am SO glad I don't have that awful disease".
Money is definitely speech in a situation today where you don't get a voice unless you can pay for ad time.
Horseshit. You don't buy ad time, but you have a voice.
Speech as defined in the Constitution does not guarantee you a mass audience. It guarantees you that nobody is going to prevent you from saying something. The speech can't be regulated. The money can and should.
Giving money to a campaign is expressing an opinion!
No, it's not. The opinion is made first, the giving of money comes second.
Despite what five fabulists on the Supreme Court said in 2010, money is not speech. Speech is speech. Money is money. If they're the same thing, I challenge you to try to pay for your bag of pork rinds and Big Gulp tomorrow with speech.
I'm not one for conspiracy theories either, but barring a recently changed will, or an assumed identity, or a long-lost relative, or a lack of footprints going ze ozer way, this belongs in a Poirot novel.
Scalia was killed by Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a bad manicotti.
I no longer believe you take yourself seriously or ever form coherent sentences at all, instead preferring to go through life just rambling whatever incoherent jumble of words produces itself from the mass of diseased tissue you call a brain.
Very high gas prices are bad for the economy just as very low prices are.
Then it's good that we don't have either right now, isn't it?
Exactly when did you get a degree in economics?
Economics is the softest of all social sciences. It is little more than political agenda dressed up in sloppy math. Parapsychologists laugh at how ridiculous economists are.
I no longer believe in time. I think it's pretty much junk science, and the daylight savings time thing is just an Illuminati plot to keep us subservient to the elite.
You all can do what you want, and spring forward or what not if you need to bend your will to The Man, but I ain't changed my clocks since 2007 and haven't noticed one thing. In fact, I couldn't change them since I threw out my wristwatch, Easy Rider-style, in 2006. Right now, if I look down at the time display on my screen, it's flashing 00:00:00, just like my DVD player and microwave.
Well, here in Oklahoma it has indeed caused a recession,
Brother, you've got to get out of Oklahoma. It's the worst place in the country. It's so bad that in the 1930s, even the dirt did its best to get out of the state.
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Sure, just disclose who you are. When you get government protection from liability, you don't also get to be anonymous.
Not by definition.
And the people who are part of corporations already have a right to free speech, just without the additional benefits of anonymity and protection from liability. They shouldn't get extra rights just because they filed papers with the state.
http://www.cnet.com/news/donal...
Yes, if you get attacked, you can use it to clobber the bad guy.
A well-known security feature.
For goodness sake, it was running Windows CE. You'll note that at the same time, President Obama was using a hardened Blackberry. I think there's a case to be made that the NSA just wanted to ratfuck Hillary. It's what they do, after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Corporations are not people, my friend.
I agree that people who object to Soros have every right to call for his resignation just as people called for Eich's.
An individual could always buy an ad in a newspaper under his own name(assuming the paper wanted to run it, of course). What he could not do, was form a liability-protected legal entity for the purpose of raising money anonymously to use in elections.
That was the innovation of the 2010 court.
The best part of this story is that the device the NSA wanted to give Hillary uses Windows CE.
I am not shitting you.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
To be fair, the opposition comes down to either the least super supervillain or the literal Zodiac Killer.
Who is also, by the way, the former lead singer of Stryper, the biggest pansy-ass metal band in history:
http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
And by the way, Senator Cruz has not denied being the Zodiac Killer and the former lead singer of Stryper.
Only since 2010 apparently. The United States Constitution was clear on this matter right up until then, and somehow we managed to survive as a civil society.
It means whatever it is, you probably don't want it and you definitely don't need it.
It's like a commercial for some new pharmaceutical when you don't have the disease. You think, "Oh man, that's a shame that some people have to live with that kind of horror" while at the same time thinking, "I am SO glad I don't have that awful disease".
Horseshit. You don't buy ad time, but you have a voice.
Speech as defined in the Constitution does not guarantee you a mass audience. It guarantees you that nobody is going to prevent you from saying something. The speech can't be regulated. The money can and should.
Money is not the expression. It's the purchase of a megaphone.
Money does not equal speech.
No, it's not. The opinion is made first, the giving of money comes second.
Despite what five fabulists on the Supreme Court said in 2010, money is not speech. Speech is speech. Money is money. If they're the same thing, I challenge you to try to pay for your bag of pork rinds and Big Gulp tomorrow with speech.
Arguable, but did I say anything about "grammatically"?
Merrick Garland hates systemd.
But a terrific way to perform auto-erotic asphyxiation.
Scalia was killed by Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a bad manicotti.
Obviously his first time here.
Honey, is that you?
Then it's good that we don't have either right now, isn't it?
Economics is the softest of all social sciences. It is little more than political agenda dressed up in sloppy math. Parapsychologists laugh at how ridiculous economists are.
I no longer believe in time. I think it's pretty much junk science, and the daylight savings time thing is just an Illuminati plot to keep us subservient to the elite.
You all can do what you want, and spring forward or what not if you need to bend your will to The Man, but I ain't changed my clocks since 2007 and haven't noticed one thing. In fact, I couldn't change them since I threw out my wristwatch, Easy Rider-style, in 2006. Right now, if I look down at the time display on my screen, it's flashing 00:00:00, just like my DVD player and microwave.
Brother, you've got to get out of Oklahoma. It's the worst place in the country. It's so bad that in the 1930s, even the dirt did its best to get out of the state.