It will also show them how to be kind to others as well. While they might be poor and in bad situations now, they could go on to be successful in life, maybe even become rich. Having seen generosity and kindness as kids will help make sure they do the same things for others when they can, helping make the world a better place in general.
Humans being humans, they're likely to become more determined to get Snowden to testify now, just to spite Merkel. And I suspect this will be used against her (and her party) in future elections.
This is really making Wheeler look like a tool of industry
I know when Wheeler was appointed a lot of people were concerned about his past being an industry lobbyist. His continuing to push these horrible rules forward, and now with two diametrically opposed commissioners asking him to slow the hell down, just makes him look like a totally bought and paid for tool of industry.
I doubt there's anything he can do to change people's opinions of him going forward either. The Internet community simply will not trust him on anything now.
Yeah, I can understand Mike's concern about potentially chilling others doing crowd funding, but this one looks like a flat-out fraud. Failing to do a bog-standard printing job in 2 years, and apparently it's now been over a year since the last update of any kind seems fishy as hell.
So I'm not at all surprised to see them getting sued.
So no. As long as a man who belongs six feet under, or at the very least in a jail cell, is running around free to corrupt my family, with the courts and justice system fully complicit in his acts, I will never believe that "fathers' rights" are somehow unfairly under-represented, any more than I will believe someone telling me that the sun is blue, and for the same reason: I have seen that this is not true with my own eyes.
I can't say I totally buy into the "father's rights" crowd, but when it comes to the problems with the family court system, they are absolutely correct. The only thing is, as you have seen happen first-hand, it's not always the father that gets shafted. The family court system basically picks a winner, and then refuses to back down from that position no matter what evidence is shown to the contrary. It is a serious problem that needs to be fixed, as it's destroying both adults' and children's lives.
Going by any individual experience and deciding that's the way the system works for everyone is not going to help fix the problem. Both sides need to admit that the problems exists and demand it be fixed.
Frankly from your story it sounds like her ex-husband was wealthy, powerful and connected. All recipes for making sure he'll come out the winner in the courts. That's not right either, but we see it in everything, even up to murder and child abuse. (Remember that story recently about a rich guy getting probation for child abuse because the judge decided jail wouldn't be "kind" to him? Same damn thing.) We really need to start demanding that shit stop too.
FWIW, I have a cousin that escaped an abusive marriage and the courts took her side totally. But then her ex vanished and they wouldn't do anything to try to hunt him down, leaving her without any child support for two kids. The system failed her too, just not as badly as it did your mom. I still think this guy got the same shaft though, and it's not right.
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And when it comes to suicide you are ensuring She will get the last word!
That doesn't seem to be working out for her though. His last words are totally drowning out anything she says now. I doubt anyone would believe any statement she makes at this point either.
Most likely the mayor filed a complaint with Twitter that got the account suspended. If so, that wasn't good enough for him, and he went much, much further, making a much better fool of himself than the parody account ever could have.
They can't, customs won't release them as-is, so the only way to change them would be to ship them back to the plant in China to have it done, then ship them back to the US. But as the article notes, import taxes into China are so high as to make that option more expensive than just destroying them.
Not to mention that even if customs themselves could be persuaded to do this, they'd still charge $150 an hour to do it (same labor costs as for destroying them) and $150 a day for warehousing them during the change.
That won't stop the bullying and may make it worse
There's no way leaving it at home will actually stop the bullying. He took it to school before, was bullied about it, so you'll get bullies saying "Where's your sissy backpack loser?" (Actually the real bullies will probably say worse stuff.)
And add in that if he tells them the truth, now he'll get bullied for being forced to leave it at home! "So even the teachers/principal/etc. think you're backpack's too sissy for a boy!"
How stupid are these school officials to not realize this? Are they trying to drive the poor victim to suicide or something?
I can sympathize with site owners, I run a site myself and struggle to get enough ad income for it. But I also won't compromise my principles by running intrusive ads, and I don't get all bent out of shape when people use ad blocking, because they have very good reasons to do so.
First up, as you mention in this article, the advertisers are partly to blame. They want more obnoxious ads that people hate so people start blocking them. Secondly, and more important I think, is the fact that ads have repeatedly been used to inject malware to people. Even reputable ad networks have had problems with the occasional malware-laden ad getting through. Why wouldn't people block ads after several incidents of that?
Personally I not only use AdBlock, I'm also using NoScript simply to protect my own computer from attack. If any site wants to get mad at the lost income from this, get mad at the hackers and advertisers, since they drove me to this.
Did you read the article? The cops hid all that information from the judge. To the judge it appeared that her apartment was controlled by the drug dealer Stink. Especially since all the other apartments had resident information and details about surveillance included.
I agree judges should ask more questions before issuing warrants, but here the judge would have had to read the cops' minds to even know what to ask And given how carefully the cops hid her existence to get their warrant, do you really think they would have answered truthfully?
No, they do deserve some blame for being gullible, but being gullible generally isn't a criminal act. Conning people out of their money is. So the con artist gets the biggest share of the blame.
Ever single "job" you mentioned are, at best, controversial ones and some are considered flat-out criminal in the whole world. Others toe the line, but there's a big difference between being, say, an astrologer who makes a living charging people for readings and one that causes/talks a person into mortgaging their house to pay them. The latter one is a con artist, the former is just preying on gullible people, but not putting them into poverty.
The same applies to all of those things actually, you can make money by charging gullible people, but if you start literally putting people into poverty you have crossed a line. And yes, I do include big pharma in that.
Say what you will about fraud, at least it is pacifistic.
But fraud isn't pacifistic actually. Just because the fraudster doesn't directly beat the victim or kill them doesn't make it that way. What happens when the victim was bilked out of the life savings and loses their house? What about when they can't afford food because they lost all their retirement savings? Victims can easily end up dying cold, alone and homeless because of that "pacifistic" fraud.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, if you scam someone out of money, they no longer have it, and they will suffer in proportion to their loss. I don't care how bad the poverty is there. Putting someone else into poverty to get yourself out of it is not acceptable behavior anywhere in the world.
Sometimes there's not much choice. My choices for senator next election will be Lamar Alexander, who's not great but compared to the crazy, extreme-right-wing crazy primarying him looks like Ghandi in comparison. There's not going to be an Democrat running who's got a chance in hell of winning here either.
So what do we do? I could (and probably will) write in a candidate that won't win, but this will not stop the incumbent from winning. (Or worse, if Alexander loses the primary, the crazy right-wing guy from winning.)
What we need are some decent candidates, period. Ones that are both sane and can win.
Apparently he has PTSD, that doesn't start out as full blown crazy usually, it gets progressively worse over time. Plus he may have married before he was shipped out and got PTSD. So he may have been perfectly normal/sane (or close to it) when they got married and has gone insane since then.
While he seems to be pretty obviously mentally ill, and has a diagnosis of PTSD already, the fact of the matter is most mentally ill people manage to refrain from making such public spectacles of themselves. Mentally ill or not, if he's going to do something so ridiculously over-the-top he's going to get lots of negative attention. Ignoring him will not make him get help.
The best thing to hope for here is that he has crossed the line that will make a court order him into treatment. He obviously needs some. He also sounds potentially dangerous, if you read that one link he's also getting into stalking of people in real life and has already had the courts require him to wear a GPS tracking bracelet due to that.
There may be another Snowden, although the evidence is a bit slim at the moment. The article by Der Speigel about the NSA interdicting hardware very carefully does not say the info came from the files Snowden leaked. And Glenn Grenwald has stated emphatically that he had nothing to do with that article and also points out they didn't say they were Snowden docs (see here). He says:
I had no involvement in that Spiegel article, ask them - and they don't say those are Snowden docs.
So this opens up the possibility that there's another leaker now.
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This is really making Wheeler look like a tool of industry
I doubt there's anything he can do to change people's opinions of him going forward either. The Internet community simply will not trust him on anything now.
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So I'm not at all surprised to see them getting sued.
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Going by any individual experience and deciding that's the way the system works for everyone is not going to help fix the problem. Both sides need to admit that the problems exists and demand it be fixed.
Frankly from your story it sounds like her ex-husband was wealthy, powerful and connected. All recipes for making sure he'll come out the winner in the courts. That's not right either, but we see it in everything, even up to murder and child abuse. (Remember that story recently about a rich guy getting probation for child abuse because the judge decided jail wouldn't be "kind" to him? Same damn thing.) We really need to start demanding that shit stop too.
FWIW, I have a cousin that escaped an abusive marriage and the courts took her side totally. But then her ex vanished and they wouldn't do anything to try to hunt him down, leaving her without any child support for two kids. The system failed her too, just not as badly as it did your mom. I still think this guy got the same shaft though, and it's not right.
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Not to mention that even if customs themselves could be persuaded to do this, they'd still charge $150 an hour to do it (same labor costs as for destroying them) and $150 a day for warehousing them during the change.
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That won't stop the bullying and may make it worse
And add in that if he tells them the truth, now he'll get bullied for being forced to leave it at home! "So even the teachers/principal/etc. think you're backpack's too sissy for a boy!"
How stupid are these school officials to not realize this? Are they trying to drive the poor victim to suicide or something?
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Blame the advertisers and the hackers, not users
First up, as you mention in this article, the advertisers are partly to blame. They want more obnoxious ads that people hate so people start blocking them. Secondly, and more important I think, is the fact that ads have repeatedly been used to inject malware to people. Even reputable ad networks have had problems with the occasional malware-laden ad getting through. Why wouldn't people block ads after several incidents of that?
Personally I not only use AdBlock, I'm also using NoScript simply to protect my own computer from attack. If any site wants to get mad at the lost income from this, get mad at the hackers and advertisers, since they drove me to this.
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I agree judges should ask more questions before issuing warrants, but here the judge would have had to read the cops' minds to even know what to ask And given how carefully the cops hid her existence to get their warrant, do you really think they would have answered truthfully?
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The same applies to all of those things actually, you can make money by charging gullible people, but if you start literally putting people into poverty you have crossed a line. And yes, I do include big pharma in that.
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But fraud isn't pacifistic actually. Just because the fraudster doesn't directly beat the victim or kill them doesn't make it that way. What happens when the victim was bilked out of the life savings and loses their house? What about when they can't afford food because they lost all their retirement savings? Victims can easily end up dying cold, alone and homeless because of that "pacifistic" fraud.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, if you scam someone out of money, they no longer have it, and they will suffer in proportion to their loss. I don't care how bad the poverty is there. Putting someone else into poverty to get yourself out of it is not acceptable behavior anywhere in the world.
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So what do we do? I could (and probably will) write in a candidate that won't win, but this will not stop the incumbent from winning. (Or worse, if Alexander loses the primary, the crazy right-wing guy from winning.)
What we need are some decent candidates, period. Ones that are both sane and can win.
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The best thing to hope for here is that he has crossed the line that will make a court order him into treatment. He obviously needs some. He also sounds potentially dangerous, if you read that one link he's also getting into stalking of people in real life and has already had the courts require him to wear a GPS tracking bracelet due to that.
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So this opens up the possibility that there's another leaker now.
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