Cushing hates dirty cops, praises decent ones. Can't be dealing with asset forfeiture sans due process. Can't be dealing with the whole "sans due process" thing. That makes him some flavour of public-minded libertarian.
Right-wingers tend to be authoritarian, worship the rich, hate public services, and hate it when workers organise or when we plebs want privacy rights and stuff.
It also puts paid to the idea that copyright benefits artists. It doesn't. It benefits rightsholders, who are often entirely separate entities from the artists.
He's the poster child for shortened copyright terms as he spent decades chasing down the right to perform Hey Jude without paying a licence fee for the song he wrote himself because Michael Jackson bought the rights to the Beatles's back catalogue and sold it to Sony.
That's the beauty of being a Pirate; we look stuff up.
Indeed, Scary Devil Monastery. We'd be much better off as a trading bloc than a united states of Europe but the federalists haven't got the memo.
Unfortunately the current situation has left us with a choice between the opt-out deal we have now that gives us exceptions to the federalist agenda and leaving altogether which basically kicks the country off a cliff. Per law blogger David Allen Green we could have had a Brexit that actually worked if we'd carefully peeled off the layers of treaties that bind us to the EU but that requires thinking and Brexiters don't do that.
So it is that the MP for the 18th century, Jacob Rees-Mogg, demands, without a shred of irony, that the Prime Minister observe the law, forgetting that he has already rubbished the need for a solution to the Irish border question that continued membership in the customs union so neatly addresses. He's on the "over the cliff" side of the argument and the law he's ignoring is the Good Friday Agreement.
David Davis, who should really just shut up and go away, wasn't even bovvered to do any negotiation with the EU; he spent about four hours on it over the two years he was Brexit minister.
Don't get me started on -Boorish- Boris Johnson, a Pound shop Trump.
I voted Remain as the only sensible option on the table but I'd welcome a review of the current treaties binding us to the EU and getting rid of the ones that mean closer political ties that would ultimately result in federalism.
I'm hoping that the Theresa May government will be blasted into oblivion in the general election that may follow tonight's vote and that common sense will take over.
Meanwhile, it would be nice if the British right wing press would take a break from gaslighting and outright deceiving the British public. /End rant.
I do believe we need to launch another campaign like the one we had against ACTA. We killed that awful FTA in 2012. If we all work together, we can kill the Copyright Directive.
EU citizens, use the links below to find out who your reps are and contact them if you want to see this directive bite the dust.
Settle down, AC. The fact that dodgy stuff on you exists doesn't mean it must be erased. I've had to battle people who flat out lied about me and came out the other side with my reputation unscathed. It's not what's up there that matters, it's what you do about it.
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What's particularly amusing is his obsession over how many people post here. Assume it's true: people with far too much time on their hands post comments under other names. Okay, so what does that have to do with the price of tea?
Unless these were reported to them at the time, no.
Then there's the matter of who they're going to report malfeasance to and what will be done afterward. In any organisation there's a hierarchical structure of some kind. This means that ultimately there's a person with whom the buck ultimately stops. It seems to me that this was Grassley and the DOJ's departmental heads. There have been at least two of these, which means that the Obama administration had an opportunity to deal with this assuming it had access to Grassley's intel.
Assume it did. Why was nothing done?
Assume it didn't. Why was Grassley holding back this intel?
Widespread institutional corruption should not be the norm in a liberal democracy. It'll take a lot of work to sort this out and someone is going to have to roll up their sleeves and get on with the job.
People who seek attention while committing suicide are usually registering a protest. At heart, then, they don't want to die, they want the thing that makes them not want to be alive any more to go away. You may find that the attention-seeking starts well before the self-destruction. Early intervention would be the way forward because it's usually possible to intervene before it gets to the "You really don't care if I die right in front of you" stage.
I'm a big believer that with great power comes great responsibility and I believe we all agree that there have been many examples of power being exercised without any responsibility being taken, with horrible results.
(I'm curious if reporters ask Ford for a comment when someone commits suicide by leaving their car engine on in a garage?)
How hard is it to build a sensor into the car's dashboard that indicates the level of carbon monoxide in the car's interior and whether or not the engine is switched off, which then triggers the engine to switch off when the safety threshold is exceeded? If you can fit a satnav, you can fit a carbon monoxide sensor.
RE: Facebook suicides
I'd recommend a pop-up article triggered by the keywords "suicide" and "kill myself" (and any others that might fit the bill) that provides professional advice on how to distract or delay a suicide attempt along with information on support services in the suicidal person's area that can help the suicidal person. This would appear on the screens of everyone viewing the feed. Viewers would also be able to alert the local police by pressing a call to action button "Alert the police?" The pop-up could be minimised if it's not necessary. Of course, this relies on viewers caring enough to want to stop the suicide, but it's better than nothing. Thoughts?
Where? We're arguing against her erroneous assumption that she can exercise control over the way her recorded voice is used. She can't, it's impossible to control end-user behaviour, so she's being unreasonable.
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Cushing hates dirty cops, praises decent ones. Can't be dealing with asset forfeiture sans due process. Can't be dealing with the whole "sans due process" thing. That makes him some flavour of public-minded libertarian.
Right-wingers tend to be authoritarian, worship the rich, hate public services, and hate it when workers organise or when we plebs want privacy rights and stuff.
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Fascism
https://rense.com/general37/fascism.htm
tl;dr: government works with corporations to crush personal freedom and enforce nationalism.
Socialism
https://www.britannica.com/topic/socialism
tl;dr: government owns all corporations, state controls public service provision.
What Europe has is liberal socialism, where private property ownership and private enterprise work alongside social service provision.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_socialism
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That's the beauty of being a Pirate; we look stuff up.
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Indeed, Scary Devil Monastery. We'd be much better off as a trading bloc than a united states of Europe but the federalists haven't got the memo.
Unfortunately the current situation has left us with a choice between the opt-out deal we have now that gives us exceptions to the federalist agenda and leaving altogether which basically kicks the country off a cliff. Per law blogger David Allen Green we could have had a Brexit that actually worked if we'd carefully peeled off the layers of treaties that bind us to the EU but that requires thinking and Brexiters don't do that.
So it is that the MP for the 18th century, Jacob Rees-Mogg, demands, without a shred of irony, that the Prime Minister observe the law, forgetting that he has already rubbished the need for a solution to the Irish border question that continued membership in the customs union so neatly addresses. He's on the "over the cliff" side of the argument and the law he's ignoring is the Good Friday Agreement.
David Davis, who should really just shut up and go away, wasn't even bovvered to do any negotiation with the EU; he spent about four hours on it over the two years he was Brexit minister.
Don't get me started on -Boorish- Boris Johnson, a Pound shop Trump.
I voted Remain as the only sensible option on the table but I'd welcome a review of the current treaties binding us to the EU and getting rid of the ones that mean closer political ties that would ultimately result in federalism.
I'm hoping that the Theresa May government will be blasted into oblivion in the general election that may follow tonight's vote and that common sense will take over.
Meanwhile, it would be nice if the British right wing press would take a break from gaslighting and outright deceiving the British public. /End rant.
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ACTA 2.0
I do believe we need to launch another campaign like the one we had against ACTA. We killed that awful FTA in 2012. If we all work together, we can kill the Copyright Directive.
EU citizens, use the links below to find out who your reps are and contact them if you want to see this directive bite the dust.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/your-meps/uk_meps.html
https://www.writetothem. com
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What it would do is force the likes of me to pay more tax so the idle rich could have pocket money.
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That was the GOP's fault; the idea was to derail the Affordable Care Act.
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I've already covered this.
Settle down, AC. The fact that dodgy stuff on you exists doesn't mean it must be erased. I've had to battle people who flat out lied about me and came out the other side with my reputation unscathed. It's not what's up there that matters, it's what you do about it.
See also: How Your Web Presence Affects Your Reputation Do You Really Think For Yourself?
You're welcome.
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Then there's the matter of who they're going to report malfeasance to and what will be done afterward. In any organisation there's a hierarchical structure of some kind. This means that ultimately there's a person with whom the buck ultimately stops. It seems to me that this was Grassley and the DOJ's departmental heads. There have been at least two of these, which means that the Obama administration had an opportunity to deal with this assuming it had access to Grassley's intel.
Assume it did. Why was nothing done?
Assume it didn't. Why was Grassley holding back this intel?
Widespread institutional corruption should not be the norm in a liberal democracy. It'll take a lot of work to sort this out and someone is going to have to roll up their sleeves and get on with the job.
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Re: Transparency, right?
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Re: David Irving v Penguine Books, Deborah Lipstadt
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https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/25564-the-dark-disturbing-trend-of-teens-live-stream ing-suicide-and-how-it-can-be-stopped
People don't take their own lives for trivial reasons.
Facebook's reach doesn't cause people to kill themselves.
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Power and responsibility
I'm a big believer that with great power comes great responsibility and I believe we all agree that there have been many examples of power being exercised without any responsibility being taken, with horrible results.
(I'm curious if reporters ask Ford for a comment when someone commits suicide by leaving their car engine on in a garage?)
How hard is it to build a sensor into the car's dashboard that indicates the level of carbon monoxide in the car's interior and whether or not the engine is switched off, which then triggers the engine to switch off when the safety threshold is exceeded? If you can fit a satnav, you can fit a carbon monoxide sensor.
RE: Facebook suicides
I'd recommend a pop-up article triggered by the keywords "suicide" and "kill myself" (and any others that might fit the bill) that provides professional advice on how to distract or delay a suicide attempt along with information on support services in the suicidal person's area that can help the suicidal person. This would appear on the screens of everyone viewing the feed. Viewers would also be able to alert the local police by pressing a call to action button "Alert the police?" The pop-up could be minimised if it's not necessary. Of course, this relies on viewers caring enough to want to stop the suicide, but it's better than nothing. Thoughts?
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