For me, this isn't exclusively a HRC problem. She's just a symptom of a systemic problem. How in the world do HRC, Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, or Donald Trump end up the cream of the crop?!? Come on, USA! You've got to up your game. These people are nowhere near what you need to be electing to high public office!
Whatever you think of Sanders' politics, he's at least a plausible candidate. Those others? You're being sold down the river by deep pocketed backroom manipulators, and you shouldn't be tolerating it. No-one in their right mind could believe those people are going to fix anything that needs fixing.
But how do people of USA react for 100% made in china trademark?
When I was a kid, "Made in Japan" and "Made in Hong Kong" were derisive insults, the sort of thing you saw on cheap CrackerJack toys. Ten years from now, China'll be the ones selling things like Acuras, top of the line electronics, and high end chronographs (assuming people still wear watches in ten years). They're already producing bullet trains that rival the best European offerings.
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That's what I was saying (the sarcasm tag is extraneous). This's exactly the sort of omnipotent prosecutorial overreach that Kozinski's complaining about, and the same vicious bullying the prosecutors showed Aaron Swartz. They couldn't care less about justice. They want his suffering and pain to chill any idea of others to attempt to thwart the MafiAA's world view.
The best gov't money can buy. They don't even think this's wrong. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!
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Kim is playing out his hand possible to the best of his abilities, knowing that with the data in their hands, the US DoJ is very likely to win any case if he makes it in front of a judge.
I take it you missed those early attempts by the DoJ to have that data deleted? KDC wanted to preserve it to prove his innocence. I believe the judge agreed with KDC that destruction of evidence is uncool.
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I have yet to determine any single act or result of Christianity for which I could imagine any human being actually taking pride.
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Pieta, and David. It (Xtianity) did inspire much great art. It also delivered the coup de grace to the Roman Empire which by that time was not worth keeping around any longer. I'm not suggesting they were an improvement on the Romans, mind.
I actually like Jesus. He was quite the "Man of the People" revolutionary (assuming what we know of him isn't all Xtian PR). Too bad the marketroids managed to hijack his message. I despise what they managed to do to Judas, and women.
How do the 100% illegal consumers spend ANYTHING on content?
Read the article! They go to concerts and cinemas. I'm forced to pay for my assumed pirating every time I buy blank media (Canada). There's lots of ways to support artists without supporting their label as well.
Homosexual men?!? I thought this was about cigarettes. Everybody knows they're spawn of the devil, hate crimes (second hand smoke), cause everything from cancer to racism and kids living together, real wrath of god stuff.
... earlier this week they had a drone disrupt firefighting capabilities ...
Which sounds suspiciously like way over-reacting to me. All they had to do was fly past it close enough (not very close!) and the backwash would pretty much pulverize the thing.
I think politicos should instead be forcing said critical infrastructure to be disconnected (air-gapped) from the net. Who wants to go to the trouble of driving a truck bomb into the WTC's basement garage when you can just telnet into its controllers (login: Siemens, password: Stuxnet) and make it fall over remotely?
Sure it is. It's just very powerful stuff so you don't need much of it to do its thing. Vanishingly small thicknesses of gold leaf do a great job in ornamentation. You don't need much of it at all to increase electrical connectivity on a *lot* of stuff.
Gold is damned near impossible to counterfeit (thank you Archimedes!), its supply is extremely stable (eliminating inflation and deflation; manipulation of the money supply), and is extremely portable. It doesn't lose its value when your gov't collapses, and it gains in (or retains its) value despite gov't futzing with its fiat currency values.
Did I mention it's extremely stable?
I think you're thinking of diamonds, the value of which deBeers has been fiddling with pretty much forever.
... but the labels do not get much money from concerts and gigs ...
No, but they do get money from resulting sales from the gigs advertising the works. If you go to a concert and enjoy what you get, you're going to want to support their efforts to encourage them to do more, by buying the labels' stuff. Yes, many will just torrent free copies, but real fans don't want to screw their favourite artists. That doesn't encourage them to produce more.
Carrot or stick? I think that stick is the way more expensive way for them to go, and it works abysmally for everybody except for the Righthaven and Prenda leech industry types.
And you muricans, all of this was paid with your f***ing taxes.
I used to blame the US gov't as being the cause of all this, but now I see so many other countries lining up to get the same things, maybe the US has just been their point man, or water carrier.
I'm not even sure you can blame some shadowy clique (Gnomes of Zurich, Illuminati, Bankster cartel, ...) pushing an agenda. This's just always been the way it's been done, but now we're getting to see how the sausages are made.
Australian Govt seems to be in full "fuck the citizens" mode these days.
I think they all are. It's not an Australian phenomenon. Canada's got C-51. Britain, their snooper's charter (et al). The USA, well ...
I think it's more the fact that we're finally getting the chance to see what they've been doing all this time. Gov'ts and their cronies are no longer the only ones allowed on the playing field. We now have tools that can be effective in dragging this !@#$ out into the open and they can't stop it without going into full tyrant mode.
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The USSR was an ally in the war against Nazi Germany. This would make the US a co-conspirator and accomplice to Stalin's crime wave. Uh oh.
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This is not a left vs. right, Red vs. Blue problem. When are you going to wake up and notice they both stink to high heaven?
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Ya think? Sorry.
For me, this isn't exclusively a HRC problem. She's just a symptom of a systemic problem. How in the world do HRC, Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, or Donald Trump end up the cream of the crop?!? Come on, USA! You've got to up your game. These people are nowhere near what you need to be electing to high public office!
Whatever you think of Sanders' politics, he's at least a plausible candidate. Those others? You're being sold down the river by deep pocketed backroom manipulators, and you shouldn't be tolerating it. No-one in their right mind could believe those people are going to fix anything that needs fixing.
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When I was a kid, "Made in Japan" and "Made in Hong Kong" were derisive insults, the sort of thing you saw on cheap CrackerJack toys. Ten years from now, China'll be the ones selling things like Acuras, top of the line electronics, and high end chronographs (assuming people still wear watches in ten years). They're already producing bullet trains that rival the best European offerings.
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The best gov't money can buy. They don't even think this's wrong. Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!
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That is all. [said in M.A.S.H. camp loudspeaker voice.]
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I take it you missed those early attempts by the DoJ to have that data deleted? KDC wanted to preserve it to prove his innocence. I believe the judge agreed with KDC that destruction of evidence is uncool.
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Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Pieta, and David. It (Xtianity) did inspire much great art. It also delivered the coup de grace to the Roman Empire which by that time was not worth keeping around any longer. I'm not suggesting they were an improvement on the Romans, mind.
I actually like Jesus. He was quite the "Man of the People" revolutionary (assuming what we know of him isn't all Xtian PR). Too bad the marketroids managed to hijack his message. I despise what they managed to do to Judas, and women.
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More likely a martyr. Banged up in prison for life, a pauper, by corrupt prosecution, on orders of the MafiAA.
The US no longer has a Justice system. It's a Legal system, and they can get away with anything they choose to, and they sleep well at night.
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Re: 100% illegal
Read the article! They go to concerts and cinemas. I'm forced to pay for my assumed pirating every time I buy blank media (Canada). There's lots of ways to support artists without supporting their label as well.
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Go read judge Kozinski's paper. You're a drooling sychophant and a liar.
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Which sounds suspiciously like way over-reacting to me. All they had to do was fly past it close enough (not very close!) and the backwash would pretty much pulverize the thing.
I think politicos should instead be forcing said critical infrastructure to be disconnected (air-gapped) from the net. Who wants to go to the trouble of driving a truck bomb into the WTC's basement garage when you can just telnet into its controllers (login: Siemens, password: Stuxnet) and make it fall over remotely?
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Sure it is. It's just very powerful stuff so you don't need much of it to do its thing. Vanishingly small thicknesses of gold leaf do a great job in ornamentation. You don't need much of it at all to increase electrical connectivity on a *lot* of stuff.
Gold is damned near impossible to counterfeit (thank you Archimedes!), its supply is extremely stable (eliminating inflation and deflation; manipulation of the money supply), and is extremely portable. It doesn't lose its value when your gov't collapses, and it gains in (or retains its) value despite gov't futzing with its fiat currency values.
Did I mention it's extremely stable?
I think you're thinking of diamonds, the value of which deBeers has been fiddling with pretty much forever.
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I don't know. Conspiracy theorists are starting to look damnably prescient lately.
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That's just sick. I'll have to look into that. Thanks.
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Way to spin it, Amy. Good job!
So, 99.999% reality? 99.9999% reality? 99.99999% reality?
You're earning your keep, Amy. Keep it up.
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No, but they do get money from resulting sales from the gigs advertising the works. If you go to a concert and enjoy what you get, you're going to want to support their efforts to encourage them to do more, by buying the labels' stuff. Yes, many will just torrent free copies, but real fans don't want to screw their favourite artists. That doesn't encourage them to produce more.
Carrot or stick? I think that stick is the way more expensive way for them to go, and it works abysmally for everybody except for the Righthaven and Prenda leech industry types.
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I used to blame the US gov't as being the cause of all this, but now I see so many other countries lining up to get the same things, maybe the US has just been their point man, or water carrier.
I'm not even sure you can blame some shadowy clique (Gnomes of Zurich, Illuminati, Bankster cartel, ...) pushing an agenda. This's just always been the way it's been done, but now we're getting to see how the sausages are made.
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I think they all are. It's not an Australian phenomenon. Canada's got C-51. Britain, their snooper's charter (et al). The USA, well ...
I think it's more the fact that we're finally getting the chance to see what they've been doing all this time. Gov'ts and their cronies are no longer the only ones allowed on the playing field. We now have tools that can be effective in dragging this !@#$ out into the open and they can't stop it without going into full tyrant mode.
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