Since when has N Korea had anything to do with terrorism?
#whoosh
When the world's biggest bully has one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, any country that entertains delusions of kicking that bully in the head has no choice but get tooled up.
Uhm... They have 10 nukes and those were received right after Bush called them a part of the axis of evil. And while we're grandstanding on Iran in the Middle East (no nukes unlike Israel that has 80 in the region), N. Korea continues to suffer in regards to humanitarian aid.
But they don't have a lot of nukes by a long shot.
"We are making the situation worse by forcing law enforcement to work with less reliable resources. Even though the war on morality (piracy, prostitution, drugs, women...) has failed we must continue bad policies that do nothing to solve the problem but more to make people believe the problem is ' solved'."
D'oh! To be fair, I didn't think Canada as a whole had legalized prostitution. And they did make French the official language despite no real reason to do so.
I'm going to say a few things that people may not understand. The human trafficking problem is significant, but there really is a solution. If you notice, the problem with human trafficking is the same one we have for drugs, the same one we have for piracy, the same one we had for alcohol...
It's prohibition. We put more cops on the street to enforce laws and it doesn't help the situation at all. We have people preaching about the morality of these girls being pimped and prostituted while we do very little to help these women get out of their situation. As evidenced by the NY Sex Trade, women can actually do better if they want to go it alone. But the key point here: we're not doing a lot to protect women from pimps or police officers.
If women had a choice to be an escort (or a real estate agent...) and the trade is regulated (ie government taxes it) we could have less women forced into sexual slavery from out of the country. There are a number of countries that have proven this such as Ontario and the Netherlands. If that's to be your choice, the government shouldn't try to punish a woman who they have failed to protect. And they fail to protect these girls, not from the trade, but by creating unsafe environments that can cause them to be jailed for the world's oldest profession or having to rely on pimps that may physically hurt them (although the pimping business has shifted as well since most of the need for pimps in the form of protection are gone)
What we have here is a recognition that our morality can not change what people do on a massive scale. We don't need to continuously attack areas where people congregate to force consumers (of whatever material) to purchase inferior goods. What is sorely needed is a recognition that markets are changing, be it the sex trade or music goods and that the laws might need to change along with our new realities.
They think in terms if control. So having the advantage of being the only choice in the US was very profitable for them. With the internet as a competitor, they will eventually lose that advantage. Hence, their support for bills restricting the internet.
Having read Paul Ryan's austerity plan and seen the devastation on Objectivism on America's values, I have to ostensibly disagree with you about the effectiveness of middle or low income plans.
Re: Re: @Carpathia: so pull the fucking drives out...
Rikuo, if you would be so kind...
What type of hard drives are we talking about here?
Are these similar to IBM server blades, where they only hold the information or do they have to be in a temperature controlled climate? What exactly are we dealing with in regards to this leasing that makes this so much more difficult to just give the servers to MU to mount a defense (to give Fuque the benefit of the doubt).
Funny how China has a better movie industry than the US because of lax copyright laws. Also, Brazil had been stringent in piracy laws to no avail. Point is, enforcement does not equate to more purchases of content.
We haven't needed more laws to turn the internet into territories. We've just needed purple to stop interfering in the growth of the internet.
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#whoosh
When the world's biggest bully has one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, any country that entertains delusions of kicking that bully in the head has no choice but get tooled up.
Uhm... They have 10 nukes and those were received right after Bush called them a part of the axis of evil. And while we're grandstanding on Iran in the Middle East (no nukes unlike Israel that has 80 in the region), N. Korea continues to suffer in regards to humanitarian aid.
But they don't have a lot of nukes by a long shot.
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"We are making the situation worse by forcing law enforcement to work with less reliable resources. Even though the war on morality (piracy, prostitution, drugs, women...) has failed we must continue bad policies that do nothing to solve the problem but more to make people believe the problem is ' solved'."
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Calling it now
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Somewhat controversial
It's prohibition. We put more cops on the street to enforce laws and it doesn't help the situation at all. We have people preaching about the morality of these girls being pimped and prostituted while we do very little to help these women get out of their situation. As evidenced by the NY Sex Trade, women can actually do better if they want to go it alone. But the key point here: we're not doing a lot to protect women from pimps or police officers.
If women had a choice to be an escort (or a real estate agent...) and the trade is regulated (ie government taxes it) we could have less women forced into sexual slavery from out of the country. There are a number of countries that have proven this such as Ontario and the Netherlands. If that's to be your choice, the government shouldn't try to punish a woman who they have failed to protect. And they fail to protect these girls, not from the trade, but by creating unsafe environments that can cause them to be jailed for the world's oldest profession or having to rely on pimps that may physically hurt them (although the pimping business has shifted as well since most of the need for pimps in the form of protection are gone)
What we have here is a recognition that our morality can not change what people do on a massive scale. We don't need to continuously attack areas where people congregate to force consumers (of whatever material) to purchase inferior goods. What is sorely needed is a recognition that markets are changing, be it the sex trade or music goods and that the laws might need to change along with our new realities.
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I got it!
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You then have a problem with the cell phone company in having them able to brick your phone.
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Re: Re: @Carpathia: so pull the fucking drives out...
What type of hard drives are we talking about here?
Are these similar to IBM server blades, where they only hold the information or do they have to be in a temperature controlled climate? What exactly are we dealing with in regards to this leasing that makes this so much more difficult to just give the servers to MU to mount a defense (to give Fuque the benefit of the doubt).
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Re: Move them?
What if the judge in this case is worse?
I've heard rumors that the VA judges are part of a "rocket docket", meaning they may not look at all of the technical aspects to this case.
I can't verify this notion, but the fact that some judges don't understand the internet somewhat worries me.
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We haven't needed more laws to turn the internet into territories. We've just needed purple to stop interfering in the growth of the internet.
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All that singing...
I like how right at the end he states "physical violence is the least of my priorities." Carry on with the protests good sir, carry on...
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