I think it's very telling that both under a strident Democratic administration, and now a Republican one, that the investigation and hatred for Wikileaks is exactly the same. This is why I often maintain there is really very little difference between the two parties...
You have to remember, there was a time before Wikileaks was just a partisan tool of Russia. It actually exposed real crimes instead of just trying to embarrass a certain party in order to install a puppet president.
Like everything and everyone associated with Trump, Julian Assange and Wikileaks has lost a lot of credibility. His degeneracy spreads. If you don't believe me, ask yourself if there is a single person or institution associated with Trump that has gained in stature and respect.
Oh, and Chelsea Manning is a goddamn hero. No bone spurs on Chelsea. She did what she believes and has been willing to stand up and pay the consequences. It's exactly how people with honor and character behave.
Did you know that the number of US users "leaving Facebook" is almost exactly the same as the number of US users joining Instagram?...which is owned by Facebook.
From the article you linked, Rand Paul says: "I believe that the benefits of vaccines greatly outweigh the risks".
He is also quoted there as saying vaccines give parents a "false sense of security". So it appears he wants it both ways. He wants to keep the infowars.ru crowd happy while at the same time not sounding like a complete imbecile.
Vaccines only give a "false sense of security" if you're saying they don't really work. It should be no surprise that Rand Paul is as duplicitous and phony as they come. He talks out of both sides of his face.
Just like, setting the rules for encryption aren't part of his job, so his comments are just random musings by some old guy with some unrelated important job.
Is he old? His bio says 52. I don't know what's old any more.
How the fuck is there a new hallucinogen and I haven't heard about it? I must be getting old.
The last time I used salvia was almost a decade ago, and during that trip I became convinced that I had been irreversibly transformed into a suspension bridge.
Most vaccines given to children are not for life threatening diseases, so choosing one of the few that are life threatening means you are trying to manipulate people with half-truths and mis-information.
Measles, mumps, and chicken pox can be life threatening. Tetanus can be life threatening.
You accuse me of "half-truths and misinformation", but you don't point out either of those from my post.
You do realize that people tend to become more conservative with age. There are plenty of articles you can find on the topic.
The interesting thing about those "plenty of articles" is that they only deal with Baby Boomers, the most drug-addled and entitled generation. The same shift to conservatism with age has not been shown in other age cohorts. You can look it up.
20% + of what's left are non-internet-using elderly folks, who almost always vote.
The good news is that the aging baby boomers are dying off and there are no new baby boomers on the horizon. That big demographic lump is working its way through the snake and then maybe the country will regain some sanity.
Those elderly people who always vote won't be voting much longer.
I'm not sure you're seeing this literally enough. Yes, you're telling Google that you're interested in finding web sites about "treatment for liver cancer". You're literally sending Google's a communication to that effect. You personally told them, using your computer, that you value that information for something.
I get you. But it has to be taken as a whole. If google collects enough information about me from other sources to determine my real identity, even though I never gave them such information, then connecting my identity to liver cancer and then selling that information would be considered by most people to be a breach.
Maybe not according to the law (in some places) but according to the law (in other places) it s a breach. I'm just saying we need to have this conversation about what online privacy laws should look like. Saying, "You did it on the internet, so you are fair game" isn't going to cut it in a future legal framework.
The real shit Decatur is in Illinois. It's where ADM processes 90% of the USA's soy crop. The whole town smells like a tofu eater puked in the corner (of every room).
But the median one-bedroom apartment in Decatur, Illinois is only $670/month! That's why everybody is fleeing San Francisco and moving to Decatur.
The median rent for a one bedroom apartment in San Francisco has reached a new peak of $3,690
Supply and demand. A lot of people want to live here. If you come to California, you will understand.
The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Decatur, Alabama is $599. If you go there, you will understand. As with everything in life, you get what you pay for.
The free speech movement started in 1776, you no good liberal trash Kike cocksucker.
How is it that so many of you don't know the history of the Free Speech movement in America? It's a very specific thing and was actually something that both liberals and conservatives were involved in. Not the Trumpservatives of today, but actual, by-god conservatives when such people still existed.
Maybe you should start by googling "Mario Savio and the Free Speech movement".
Also, lay off the antisemitism and homophobia, AC. When you get older, you'll feel bad about having been such an asshole.
Dedicated servers and the lack of forced matchmaking would do wonders to de-toxify gaming instead of forcing everyone to play together without any admin tools or ability to run dedicated servers like ye good old days in the 90's.
Excellent point. There was not this toxic behavior when you could choose your server. I never had someone threaten to kill me at a LAN party. OK, now that I think about it, I did get into a fistfight once with someone who once thought my style of Protoss play in StarCraft was "cheating", but we were both pretty drunk and nobody got hurt, and we are still friends.
It's not the videogames themselves that are "toxic", it's the players.
Well...a murder simulator like COD is likely to draw a lot of toxic pricks. I don't think you could argue the game itself is completely neutral in this. I say that as someone who likes to play these multiplayer shooters. When I go to the opera, I don't run into a lot of jackoffs who want to talk shit and dox people. I don't find a lot of this toxic behavior at the handball court. Also, I've never had a telemarketer threaten to kill my family.
Um, Berkeley was literally the place the free speech movement started, you stupid sonofabitch.
And yes, forcing someone to publish something is as bad as being forced not to publish something. We're not talking about prior restraint here. This was a letter from an elected representative to a CEO showing concern that a product could be knowingly hurting people. There's no law, no regulation, no compulsion. Jeff Bezos got the letter and said, "OK, good point. Fuck anti-vaxxers. Let them go on Infowars and spread their bullshit. I don't have to carry them in my store."
Having everyone think in lockstep is far more dangerous than the anti-vaccine movement imho.
Tell that to somebody with smallpox or polio or cervical cancer from HPV. Or the family of someone who died in one of the recent measles outbreaks.
Too bad there isn't a vaccination against people who think that accepting study after replicated study - thousands of them- that show vaccines are effective and safe is somehow, "thinking in lockstep".
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You have to remember, there was a time before Wikileaks was just a partisan tool of Russia. It actually exposed real crimes instead of just trying to embarrass a certain party in order to install a puppet president.
Like everything and everyone associated with Trump, Julian Assange and Wikileaks has lost a lot of credibility. His degeneracy spreads. If you don't believe me, ask yourself if there is a single person or institution associated with Trump that has gained in stature and respect.
Oh, and Chelsea Manning is a goddamn hero. No bone spurs on Chelsea. She did what she believes and has been willing to stand up and pay the consequences. It's exactly how people with honor and character behave.
Did you know that the number of US users "leaving Facebook" is almost exactly the same as the number of US users joining Instagram? ...which is owned by Facebook.
Sorry, Americans, you played yourself.
So, could I use the excess energy the house generates to mine cryptocurrency so it will pay for itself?
To be honest, I get the feeling it might be exhausting to live in a house that's working harder than I am.
He is also quoted there as saying vaccines give parents a "false sense of security". So it appears he wants it both ways. He wants to keep the infowars.ru crowd happy while at the same time not sounding like a complete imbecile.
Vaccines only give a "false sense of security" if you're saying they don't really work. It should be no surprise that Rand Paul is as duplicitous and phony as they come. He talks out of both sides of his face.
Reminder: Donald Trump is an anti-vaxxer.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
The wife of Bill Shine, Trump's communications chief of staff, is also an anti-vaxxer.
https://www.usnews.com/news/po...
Rand Paul is an anti-vaxxer.
https://thehill.com/policy/hea...
Actually, I don't. Marijuana is legal here in the People's Republic of California.
Is he old? His bio says 52. I don't know what's old any more.
How the fuck is there a new hallucinogen and I haven't heard about it? I must be getting old.
Well, sign me the hell up.
What jackoff put this guy in charge of the FBI, anyway? And why does he hate freedom so much?
Measles, mumps, and chicken pox can be life threatening. Tetanus can be life threatening.
You accuse me of "half-truths and misinformation", but you don't point out either of those from my post.
No offense, but you sound like a drooling moron.
The interesting thing about those "plenty of articles" is that they only deal with Baby Boomers, the most drug-addled and entitled generation. The same shift to conservatism with age has not been shown in other age cohorts. You can look it up.
The good news is that the aging baby boomers are dying off and there are no new baby boomers on the horizon. That big demographic lump is working its way through the snake and then maybe the country will regain some sanity.
Those elderly people who always vote won't be voting much longer.
I get you. But it has to be taken as a whole. If google collects enough information about me from other sources to determine my real identity, even though I never gave them such information, then connecting my identity to liver cancer and then selling that information would be considered by most people to be a breach.
Maybe not according to the law (in some places) but according to the law (in other places) it s a breach. I'm just saying we need to have this conversation about what online privacy laws should look like. Saying, "You did it on the internet, so you are fair game" isn't going to cut it in a future legal framework.
But the median one-bedroom apartment in Decatur, Illinois is only $670/month! That's why everybody is fleeing San Francisco and moving to Decatur.
Supply and demand. A lot of people want to live here. If you come to California, you will understand.
The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Decatur, Alabama is $599. If you go there, you will understand. As with everything in life, you get what you pay for.
Upon further reflection, I think I may have had a telemarketer threaten to kill my family once.
How is it that so many of you don't know the history of the Free Speech movement in America? It's a very specific thing and was actually something that both liberals and conservatives were involved in. Not the Trumpservatives of today, but actual, by-god conservatives when such people still existed.
Maybe you should start by googling "Mario Savio and the Free Speech movement".
Also, lay off the antisemitism and homophobia, AC. When you get older, you'll feel bad about having been such an asshole.
Excellent point. There was not this toxic behavior when you could choose your server. I never had someone threaten to kill me at a LAN party. OK, now that I think about it, I did get into a fistfight once with someone who once thought my style of Protoss play in StarCraft was "cheating", but we were both pretty drunk and nobody got hurt, and we are still friends.
Well...a murder simulator like COD is likely to draw a lot of toxic pricks. I don't think you could argue the game itself is completely neutral in this. I say that as someone who likes to play these multiplayer shooters. When I go to the opera, I don't run into a lot of jackoffs who want to talk shit and dox people. I don't find a lot of this toxic behavior at the handball court. Also, I've never had a telemarketer threaten to kill my family.
A guy punched another guy. Neither guy had any connection to Berkeley. You're gonna have to do better than that.
Who were these "journalists" you're speaking of?
The first vaccine was developed in 1796. Does that qualify as "modern technology" to you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Um, Berkeley was literally the place the free speech movement started, you stupid sonofabitch.
And yes, forcing someone to publish something is as bad as being forced not to publish something. We're not talking about prior restraint here. This was a letter from an elected representative to a CEO showing concern that a product could be knowingly hurting people. There's no law, no regulation, no compulsion. Jeff Bezos got the letter and said, "OK, good point. Fuck anti-vaxxers. Let them go on Infowars and spread their bullshit. I don't have to carry them in my store."
Tell that to somebody with smallpox or polio or cervical cancer from HPV. Or the family of someone who died in one of the recent measles outbreaks.
Too bad there isn't a vaccination against people who think that accepting study after replicated study - thousands of them- that show vaccines are effective and safe is somehow, "thinking in lockstep".