I'm still wondering why the executive branch are the ones interpreting the law.
Simple. So far, they've been allowed to.
In theory, there are checks and balances which force their illegalities out into the open so they can be stopped and possibly punished. Those checks and balances have been allowed to atrophy and are no longer performing their original desired function. Both Congress and the courts are choosing to collude with the administration, having decided that they're no longer beholden to citizen voters. They're beholden to something else; a not so hidden agenda.
That hidden agenda is so much in force that even a US senator is afraid to publicly call them on it. That should scare the hell out of everyone and anger them enough to fix this obvious brokenness, but so far that's not happened. We don't know whether we'll see that happen in our lifetimes, but if we care to see it happen someday, we just have to keep pushing back hoping they'll come to their senses before they find themselves hanging from meathooks in the town square.
I wonder what is the point of even having elected lawmakers writing laws when the administration can decide for itself what those laws actually say and mean and we're not allowed to know what those laws actually say and mean. You'd be better off simply demolishing the Capitol Building and saving the money. You may as well suspend elections too, and there'll be no need for an FEC either.
All those politicians about to spend trillions on a presidential election next year can instead just go find a sunny beach and drown themselves in pina coladas instead of wasting everyone's time and money seeming to govern.
I don't really see what the problem is. It's not hard to just hit a couple spacebars to pass it if you're not interested. I don't bother confronting them, but I don't see anything really wrong with others doing so. One of TD's mantras is meet bad speech with more speech, which is what they're doing. Sure, it gets repetitive and is a bit annoying if you're not into it, but I don't really see any problem with it.
If this man wants to be Pres. then he must be able to understand and abide by the LAW!
I don't think anyone seriously believes Trump has a chance in Hades of becoming pres. This is all just icing on the cake of the coronation of the King/Queen. The backroom money has already been spent (spoken). Now, things like Trump's "bump" is color making the coronation interesting for the plebes watching and believing *their* great white hope will succeed, whichever "great white hope" they may be rooting for.
It's a little shocking to realize that US-ians still think this thing is up to them to decide what happens in the end. It's rigged!
Where does this idea come from that it's not legitimate civil disobedience/protest/whistleblowing unless you are willing to go to jail for it?
From the Plutocracy. You want to be taken seriously with your protest against The Establishment? Write and perform a song that goes platinum and makes lots of money and ends up with memes going viral.
Tell me: which do you value more: a cowardly idealist or a brazen fool?
The cowardly idealist. All they need to do is grow a backbone and stand up on their hind legs, something that's happened often in history. A fool's a fool, and will ever remain that way.
The biggest problem I see is, assholes are all you seem to get rising up to be "cream of the crop". I *think* Sanders is an exception, but who really knows? Rand Paul seems an exception, but he's certainly asshole-ish in ways too (attacking planned parenthood? Why?).
The others, assholes without exception, Democrat and Republican. Very sad.
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Yeah, I mean it's fun and all to pile on, but don't confuse rhetoric and allegory for facts.
Okay. From your linked article:
"It is interesting that although Microsoft operating systems still have a considerable number of vulnerabilities, they are no longer in the top 3."
Yeah, when you have the categories "Apple Mac OSX", "Apple iOS", "Linux Kernel", then Windows(TM) split into seven separate categories, any individual flavor of Windows(TM) is going to not end up in the top three. Quel surprise. Added up, those seven categories of Windows(TM) total ("HIGH vulnerabilities") == 168, which kind of blows the doors off the others' paltry 64, 32, and 24 respectively. It's a bit astonishing that Microsoft has managed to pull this off for this long, but I suppose ignorant (uneducated, non-technically minded) users are a lucrative gravy train still, and Microsoft(TM) were smart to find a way to tap into that huge pool of innocent suckers. I can't be bothered to read the rest of the article.
I've been running Linux (numerous versions/"Distros") on my personal boxes, and working with clients' & employers' Unix and Linux boxes since '93. I never need to buy third party add-on software (Debian alone offers ca. 30k you can choose from for free), I don't need to run a firewall on my personal machine, half my machines' CPU isn't sucked away immediately by "anti-virus" programs (snakeoil!), and I've no trouble using it (nor them with me) working with Windows(TM) or Apple users.
Windows(TM) users are masochists. But, have fun. Whatever floats your boat. It's no skin off my nose.
Shame and punish the city officials who collided but pillory the real crooks while you are at it else the same will happen again.
Which one's the "real crook"? Someone selling snakeoil, or the elected representative who buys it with your money while getting a bribe from the snakeoil salesman to cheat you out of your money behind your back?
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It is also a term used at furcons to inquire about sexual intentions between fursuiters.
The Office of The Director of National Intelligence has a "tumblr" [sic] account!?! Why?!? Doesn't the gov't run its own websites? Maybe "www.odni.gov.us" maybe (I've no idea whether that exists or not)? Why is ODNI posting press releases on commercial platforms? Was it posted to both that hypothetical ODNI website and "tumblr" [sic]? What happens when someone cracks "tumblr" [sic] and posts "We're now officially at war with X!" Should I be expected to then go to their hypothetical website to confirm? I'm busy cringing under my desk, and you want me to distrust what "tumblr" [sic] is telling me? What good is it then for them to be using "tumblr" [sic] in the first place?!?
I've never even been to "tumblr" [sic] and always just assumed it's where thirteen year olds post cat pics or tell their social networking clique what kind of sandwich they're having. Do I need to check "tumblr" [sic] along with all the other stuff I check every morning to stay up to date on world events? !@#$!
Oddly unnamed? Oddly? It troubles me greatly that you would find that strange.
Perhaps read it as suspiciously unnamed? Perhaps he was turned and is selling out those he was supplying, or he was always a plant owned by the rightsholders?
He was sentenced, if only to community service, so this is a bit hard to believe, but stranger things have happened. We don't know what's really going on or what really happened. I find it hard to believe they gave him a pass for not acting the way TPB acted.
Yes, you have an interesting name, and I'm missing your point on purpose just to speculate.
Go watch "The Internet's Own Boy" (2014; I got it from my library :-). The CFAA is what the prosecutor (Diaz) used to pile on bogus charges trying to railroad him into a plea deal.
Pretty much everyone with a brain has recognized the CFAA is bad law, and has been for a long time. If Google's agreeing, that just shows they're not idiots.
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Simple. So far, they've been allowed to.
In theory, there are checks and balances which force their illegalities out into the open so they can be stopped and possibly punished. Those checks and balances have been allowed to atrophy and are no longer performing their original desired function. Both Congress and the courts are choosing to collude with the administration, having decided that they're no longer beholden to citizen voters. They're beholden to something else; a not so hidden agenda.
That hidden agenda is so much in force that even a US senator is afraid to publicly call them on it. That should scare the hell out of everyone and anger them enough to fix this obvious brokenness, but so far that's not happened. We don't know whether we'll see that happen in our lifetimes, but if we care to see it happen someday, we just have to keep pushing back hoping they'll come to their senses before they find themselves hanging from meathooks in the town square.
I wonder what is the point of even having elected lawmakers writing laws when the administration can decide for itself what those laws actually say and mean and we're not allowed to know what those laws actually say and mean. You'd be better off simply demolishing the Capitol Building and saving the money. You may as well suspend elections too, and there'll be no need for an FEC either.
All those politicians about to spend trillions on a presidential election next year can instead just go find a sunny beach and drown themselves in pina coladas instead of wasting everyone's time and money seeming to govern.
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Just my C$0.02.
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Re: Lie, truth and the LAW
I don't think anyone seriously believes Trump has a chance in Hades of becoming pres. This is all just icing on the cake of the coronation of the King/Queen. The backroom money has already been spent (spoken). Now, things like Trump's "bump" is color making the coronation interesting for the plebes watching and believing *their* great white hope will succeed, whichever "great white hope" they may be rooting for.
It's a little shocking to realize that US-ians still think this thing is up to them to decide what happens in the end. It's rigged!
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Re: Civil disobedience
From the Plutocracy. You want to be taken seriously with your protest against The Establishment? Write and perform a song that goes platinum and makes lots of money and ends up with memes going viral.
"How many roads must a man walk down, ..."
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss ..."
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The cowardly idealist. All they need to do is grow a backbone and stand up on their hind legs, something that's happened often in history. A fool's a fool, and will ever remain that way.
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Re: And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Meanwhile, all the other !@#$ they're doing which you haven't yet caught them doing carries on ... What a fun game this is.
Hey, it's better than being a slave in the Roman Empire, yeah? Still, not what I expected of this century.
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The others, assholes without exception, Democrat and Republican. Very sad.
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Okay. From your linked article:
Yeah, when you have the categories "Apple Mac OSX", "Apple iOS", "Linux Kernel", then Windows(TM) split into seven separate categories, any individual flavor of Windows(TM) is going to not end up in the top three. Quel surprise. Added up, those seven categories of Windows(TM) total ("HIGH vulnerabilities") == 168, which kind of blows the doors off the others' paltry 64, 32, and 24 respectively. It's a bit astonishing that Microsoft has managed to pull this off for this long, but I suppose ignorant (uneducated, non-technically minded) users are a lucrative gravy train still, and Microsoft(TM) were smart to find a way to tap into that huge pool of innocent suckers. I can't be bothered to read the rest of the article.
I've been running Linux (numerous versions/"Distros") on my personal boxes, and working with clients' & employers' Unix and Linux boxes since '93. I never need to buy third party add-on software (Debian alone offers ca. 30k you can choose from for free), I don't need to run a firewall on my personal machine, half my machines' CPU isn't sucked away immediately by "anti-virus" programs (snakeoil!), and I've no trouble using it (nor them with me) working with Windows(TM) or Apple users.
Windows(TM) users are masochists. But, have fun. Whatever floats your boat. It's no skin off my nose.
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Which one's the "real crook"? Someone selling snakeoil, or the elected representative who buys it with your money while getting a bribe from the snakeoil salesman to cheat you out of your money behind your back?
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Sounds like ...
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Re: Please vote for this guy!
When Trump himself is funnier than anything any comedian can come up with?!? Comedians need straight men, like the Shrub.
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Good for him. Why'd he hire him in the first place? Is he still on Trump's staff?
I think he'd fit right in with the US' notion of prosecutor these days.
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Yet another Red Team vs. Blue Team player. Guess who pardoned Nixon! He didn't have a "D" after his name.
Idjit!
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As a public service ...
yiffing:
Good. Grief.
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That's about the most unbiased politically biased comment I've seen in a while. High praise sir/ma'am.
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And, in other news ...
I've never even been to "tumblr" [sic] and always just assumed it's where thirteen year olds post cat pics or tell their social networking clique what kind of sandwich they're having. Do I need to check "tumblr" [sic] along with all the other stuff I check every morning to stay up to date on world events? !@#$!
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Perhaps read it as suspiciously unnamed? Perhaps he was turned and is selling out those he was supplying, or he was always a plant owned by the rightsholders?
He was sentenced, if only to community service, so this is a bit hard to believe, but stranger things have happened. We don't know what's really going on or what really happened. I find it hard to believe they gave him a pass for not acting the way TPB acted.
Yes, you have an interesting name, and I'm missing your point on purpose just to speculate.
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Pretty much everyone with a brain has recognized the CFAA is bad law, and has been for a long time. If Google's agreeing, that just shows they're not idiots.
Got any more?
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