I hope you also posted a scathing comment to the authors of article sourced by the commenter, from ABC7's I-Team, specifically Chuck Goudie, for posting such a misleading report.
But then again: Iraq has 10-12 times the population of Chicago (and is trying to recover from civil war and insurgency), so me, I'm thinking, "Wow! Iraq only has three times the murder rate of Chicago? That's pretty good!"
While we're at it, compare that Chicago murder rate with that of Toronto (roughly the same size) which experienced a 'sharp rise' to 69, for 2016.
The TD article is missing a crucial fact, where illucidates the Court's ruling.
For those folk who always make a point a commenting without reading the source material:
"The case – A.T. v. Globe24H.com – involves a Romanian-based website that downloaded thousands of Canadian judicial and tribunal decisions, posted them online and demanded fees for their swift removal."
While there's a substantial difference of degree, the Romanian website's business model is essentially revenge porn blackmail.
From what I can discern, in the 'States, as long as someone is able to make a buck, any activity is considered, uh, legitimate. And anyone who pays you a salary, owns you, like a master owns a slave. This applies also when you're not 'on the clock'.
That and, if you've committed a crime and done the time, there is room for forgive and forget - we even allow prisoners, like those actually in prison, to vote in elections.
I know, I know, that sounds like crazy talk! But considering the crime and incarceration rates in Canada vs. those in the 'States, I'll take our system, any day.
So, no, I'm not really surprised about the court ruling, however impractical it is.
A drug dealer with a sense of poetic justice will infect some of the furniture, the better-looking, clean, desirable furniture, with typhus and smallpox.
The ugly, uncomfortable-looking furniture would be reserved for actual use.
Other ideas? Say, espresso machines with asbestos-laden lead pipes?
"Not exactly, and thereby stems one part of your confusion."
Well, not quite. The 'Nation', as its first meaning, "It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests." - quoting AD Smith's 'The Ethnic Origins of Nations'.
BTW: It's all been settled in a amicable fashion, per the IOM news: "Following a joint meeting between the DED and Bushy’s yesterday (Thursday), it was announced an agreement has been reached in principle to allow the continued use of the Bushy’s TT trademark under a proposed co-existence agreement."
I thought the very same thing when I read that section of the Gladwell's, er, turd.
Mind you, Snowden, if I can believe the Oliver Stone docudrama, had big red EFF stickers on his laptops - the same kind I have on mine - while he was working at the NSA. So they might hire an ex-EFF staffer.
The other thought that I had while reading the article was: "Malcom, Malcom, silly little Malcom: if there anyone in the world that knows what a whistleblower looks like, it's not corporate shills like you but actual other whistleblowers, y'know, say Daniel Elsberg himself."
Daniel Elsberg, on Edward Snowden:
".. We all took the same oath to protect and defend the Constitution...no one in the executive branch, or in any branch, has fulfilled the oath to uphold and protect the Constitution as well as you[Edward Snowden], so thank you."
Grrr! I have to go work harder - five minutes ago - in my nerd-like job. So I can't properly demolish this anonymous comment: I have met many people who seem to think that their position in life entitles them to a job that consists of ordering other people to work; work that these entitled people have no idea how it's done, or how it works. In that particular story, the nerds, after telling these entitled people that the laws of mathematics make their requests impossible, are told that "Oh, no, it's that you're not working hard enough".
F**k!
Meanwhile, in this particular case, I'm with the insightful-winning commenter: What, oh what, has Clinton ever done/achieved? Not what has she ever claimed to have done, but really done? For women? For children? For world peace?
I'd accept failing after trying. But she never even tried.
Re: Re: If the EFF ever needed to put "Broken by Design" stickers on something...
I'm trying to figure out in what way a headline like "Ohio Elections Officials Convicted of Tampering with 2004 Presidential Recount" can have a left/right slant.
That and, as a Canadian, I get soooo tired hearing someone characterize an organization/politician/person-with-pulse as being "at the far extreme utmost radical left", when everyone else in the world finds them as being slightly to the right of center. Why to frame the Overton Window, eh.
By greatly increasing the tax on property (and greatly reducing all other taxes), you'd be essentially renting the land from the Commons, the people.
That land cannot be furtively moved to a lower-tax district by weaselly accounting practices. I'm sure you can find all sorts of instances where companies claim that all of their profits are generated by a post-office box address in Andorra or Bermuda, and so can't be taxed where you live.
In many, many cases, the increase of the value of land is largely due to improvements which have been paid for by other citizens' taxes (roads, sewage, public transit, etc), or are the property of Commons (resources, oil,ore, etc).
They'd likely get better results if the IRS put some efforts into shutting down tax havens all over the world. But no, it's better to simply spy on everyone.
You get to invoke Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Henry George (double-bonus here: he was an American!). It has the potential to reduce the cost of living for everyone by two means: i) taxes can actually get collected (or else the owner of the land has to forfeit it, returning it to the Commons); 2) house prices are likely to come down to non-speculation prices.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Confidential Informants
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Meanwhile, in Canada....
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Gern geschehen
'Sehr gut' would have required him not being charged in the first place.
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Re: Re: Re. Chiraq debunking...
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Re. Chiraq debunking...
Iraq has 10-12 times the population of Chicago (and is trying to recover from civil war and insurgency), so me, I'm thinking, "Wow! Iraq only has three times the murder rate of Chicago? That's pretty good!"
While we're at it, compare that Chicago murder rate with that of Toronto (roughly the same size) which experienced a 'sharp rise' to 69, for 2016.
Really, Chicago shouldn't be so smug, eh.
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Re: enforcement ?
Uh, you did notice that the article is about the Italian (see what I did there?) criminal justice system, eh?
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Och, if that had occured in Glasgow instead of Edinburg...
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The TD article is missing a crucial fact, where illucidates the Court's ruling.
For those folk who always make a point a commenting without reading the source material: "The case – A.T. v. Globe24H.com – involves a Romanian-based website that downloaded thousands of Canadian judicial and tribunal decisions, posted them online and demanded fees for their swift removal."
While there's a substantial difference of degree, the Romanian website's business model is essentially revenge porn blackmail.
From what I can discern, in the 'States, as long as someone is able to make a buck, any activity is considered, uh, legitimate. And anyone who pays you a salary, owns you, like a master owns a slave. This applies also when you're not 'on the clock'.
In Canada, it's a little different. For example, in 2012 the 'Supreme Court rule[d] employees have right to privacy on work computers'. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-rules-employees-have-right-to -privacy-on-work-computers/article4625660/
In fact, there's even a federal officer of Parliament, the Privacy Commissioner, whose job is, well, privacy.
Some people here may remember Jennifer Stoddard, who investigated Facebook, getting them to institute privacy protections for its users. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/jennifer-stoddar t-making-your-privacy-her-business/article1319261/?page=all
That and, if you've committed a crime and done the time, there is room for forgive and forget - we even allow prisoners, like those actually in prison, to vote in elections.
I know, I know, that sounds like crazy talk! But considering the crime and incarceration rates in Canada vs. those in the 'States, I'll take our system, any day.
So, no, I'm not really surprised about the court ruling, however impractical it is.
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".. a 20% larger image from your phone.."
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Re:
Govt - Why are you talking about this? It's old news.
(Usually a few weeks after vehemently denying it ever happened at all.)
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Wow! An actual apology.
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Re: Re: Re:
To quote the Wiki entry: In 1866, the Isle of Man obtained a nominal measure of Home Rule.
And in case you're disinclined to google 'home rule': the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens.
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One of these days...
The ugly, uncomfortable-looking furniture would be reserved for actual use.
Other ideas? Say, espresso machines with asbestos-laden lead pipes?
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Re:
"Not exactly, and thereby stems one part of your confusion."
Well, not quite. The 'Nation', as its first meaning, "It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests." - quoting AD Smith's 'The Ethnic Origins of Nations'.
BTW: It's all been settled in a amicable fashion, per the IOM news: "Following a joint meeting between the DED and Bushy’s yesterday (Thursday), it was announced an agreement has been reached in principle to allow the continued use of the Bushy’s TT trademark under a proposed co-existence agreement."
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Re: Well, THERE's your problem....
I thought the very same thing when I read that section of the Gladwell's, er, turd.
Mind you, Snowden, if I can believe the Oliver Stone docudrama, had big red EFF stickers on his laptops - the same kind I have on mine - while he was working at the NSA. So they might hire an ex-EFF staffer.
The other thought that I had while reading the article was: "Malcom, Malcom, silly little Malcom: if there anyone in the world that knows what a whistleblower looks like, it's not corporate shills like you but actual other whistleblowers, y'know, say Daniel Elsberg himself."
Malcom Gladwell, corporate shill:
http://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/
Daniel Elsberg, on Edward Snowden: ".. We all took the same oath to protect and defend the Constitution...no one in the executive branch, or in any branch, has fulfilled the oath to uphold and protect the Constitution as well as you[Edward Snowden], so thank you."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/daniel-ellsberg-snowden-honored-his-o ath-better-than-anyone-in-the-nsa/375031/
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Re: Trumpology 101: Best ≠ Winning the Most Votes
I have met many people who seem to think that their position in life entitles them to a job that consists of ordering other people to work; work that these entitled people have no idea how it's done, or how it works.
In that particular story, the nerds, after telling these entitled people that the laws of mathematics make their requests impossible, are told that "Oh, no, it's that you're not working hard enough".
F**k!
Meanwhile, in this particular case, I'm with the insightful-winning commenter: What, oh what, has Clinton ever done/achieved? Not what has she ever claimed to have done, but really done? For women? For children? For world peace?
I'd accept failing after trying. But she never even tried.
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Re: Re: If the EFF ever needed to put "Broken by Design" stickers on something...
Would you settle for this account?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401441.html
That and, as a Canadian, I get soooo tired hearing someone characterize an organization/politician/person-with-pulse as being "at the far extreme utmost radical left", when everyone else in the world finds them as being slightly to the right of center. Why to frame the Overton Window, eh.
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Re: Re: Badly placed efforts, if you ask me.
That land cannot be furtively moved to a lower-tax district by weaselly accounting practices. I'm sure you can find all sorts of instances where companies claim that all of their profits are generated by a post-office box address in Andorra or Bermuda, and so can't be taxed where you live.
In many, many cases, the increase of the value of land is largely due to improvements which have been paid for by other citizens' taxes (roads, sewage, public transit, etc), or are the property of Commons (resources, oil,ore, etc).
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Badly placed efforts, if you ask me.
Or by lobbying to switch the US system of taxation to Land Value Taxation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
You get to invoke Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Henry George (double-bonus here: he was an American!).
It has the potential to reduce the cost of living for everyone by two means: i) taxes can actually get collected (or else the owner of the land has to forfeit it, returning it to the Commons); 2) house prices are likely to come down to non-speculation prices.
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Sanctionned? Couldn't a better, clearer word be used?
sanc·tion noun: sanction; plural noun: sanctions
a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule. "a range of sanctions aimed at deterring insider abuse"
Can a sanctioned sanction be used as a sanction to convince people that a sanction is a good idea?
/ Yes, I know, the NSA probably has a completely different sanctioned meaning for the word.
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