The U.S. never aimed to be a democracy. It is a republic.
Oh, don't start that nonsense. The US is a democracy, as intended. It's also a republic. The two are not mutually exclusive. "Republic" just means no monarch.
Non-republic democracies also tended to limit voting to white males until around the same time.
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Now if he were to sue Ms. Daniels for breach of contract, that's different. Whatever else she is doing, she is in breach of that contract.
Is she though?
She'd given a several interviews on the subject before signing that contract in 2016. It seems that all she's done is confirm what was already on public record... after Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen did the same. Which she argues broke the terms of the agreement.
Her lawsuit against Trump seeks a judgment declaring that the nondisclosure agreement never came into effect because Trump never signed it. If that's the case, she's offered to return the money.
There's also the issue that the agreement doesn't mention either by name. Daniels/Clifford is identified as Peggy Peterson, while Trump is named David Dennison.
No, that's not the really obscene part. The really obscene part is what it's being used distract people from. Consider what else is happening today:
Abu Ghraib torturer Rick Saccone is up for election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district today. Far from disavowing him, Trump spent the weekend in Pennsylvania campaigning for him. Don Jr. campaigned for him yesterday.
Today Trump appointed Gina Haspel as head of the CIA.
Haspel ran a "black site" CIA prison located in Thailand in 2002. The site was codenamed "Cat’s Eye" and held suspected al Qaeda members Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah for a time. The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture specifies that during their detention at the site they were waterboarded and interrogated using no longer authorized methods. Declassified CIA cables specify that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a month, was sleep deprived, kept in a "large box", had his head slammed against a wall and he lost his left eye. Zubaydah was deemed, by the CIA interrogators, to not be in possession of any useful intelligence.
Haspel later was the chief of staff to Jose Rodriguez, who headed the CIA's Counterterrorism Center. In his memoir, Rodriguez wrote that Haspel had "drafted a cable" in 2005 ordering the destruction of dozens of videotapes made at the black site in Thailand.
The evangelicals are perfectly OK with far, far worse than Trump banging porn stars while his wife recovers from giving birth to his child.
I don't see how this article relates to technology.
Without the Corvette's airbag control module recording the officer's speed at the time of impact, they'd have arrested the van driver for causing the accident. Instead they had to find something with which to charge the mother. (And issue citations to everyone else in the vehicle the officer hit.)
I question the ability of Techdirt to report on instances in which law enforcement actually uses their power to help others
Do your local news services report on YOU, every time you act reasonable and don't get people killed or when you don't abuse authority?
With Vietnam, America was used to the draft. Not so, today.
With Vietnam, the lower class kids were drafted. Not so with the sons of the wealthy and powerful. (Do a quick poll of Presidents, VPs and the candidates for those positions over the last 20 years. That's a lot of deferments and exemptions.)
But with this plan, they're talking about drafting middle-aged professionals. They have power and influence, and now the internet. If they start losing their homes because they were drafted, it'll have greater consequences.
And it won't just be them exerting pressure. The banks will too, faced with draftees unable to pay debts on a scale unseen in Vietnam.
Meanwhile American companies will increase their hiring of foreign tech workers. Because they'll be immune to being drafted at any moment, with the company required to hold their position for them for years until they get back.
18-year-olds drafted for Vietnam didn't have families, mortgages and car loans the way today's 40-year-olds do. Nor did they have a decade or two of advancement in their jobs.
Any draft is going to have to come with orders for the banks to put those debts on hold. And for employers to hold the draftees' positions.
I wouldn't hold my breath for that to happen reliably.
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Misrepresented and cherry-picked.
Germany had a total ban on gun ownership after World War I. Then a 1928 law created a permit system to own and sell firearms and ammunition.
This is what the Nazis inherited when they came to power. Their new gun law in 1938 loosened gun ownership and deregulated sales. The AC's "Gun control established" claim is an outright lie.
The exception of course, is that they forbid gun ownership by Jews.
An FBI-only decryption key isn't just technically impossible; it's politically impossible.
You can be certain that a dozen other federal agencies will demand the keys, along with countless state and local agencies.
You can be certain that the FBI counterparts in every other government on the planet will demand the keys too. Plus their state and local counterparts too.
You can be certain that various international private "security" companies will be selling them to any dictatorship that wants them.
We've seen all of the above with Stingray devices for example.
So no, it wouldn't be FBI-only. If the keys exist, they'll be widely shared with many agencies in many countries.
...says the one associated with facts and intelligent reasoning the way cheeseburgers are associated with a lactose intolerant Hindu.
But yes, I should have specified that we *normally* or *traditionally* don't give financial incentives. The recent asset forfeiture without a conviction or court case trend seems to be and America-only thing. (Among first-world countries.)
You're missing the point: Furie is on record being OK with others using his art. Including making money off it.
The lawsuit appears to be about moral issues - use by the racist alt-right. Which US copyright law doesn't much support.
If Disney allowed full and free public domain use of Mickey for a couple years AND THEN got picky about how it was used, they might have a problem clawing back the rights too.
Until a July Florida appeals court ruling, Mark O'Hara, 45, had been in prison for two years of a 25-year mandatory-minimum for trafficking in hydrocodone, based solely on the 58 tablets found in his possession in 2004, even though his supply had been lawfully prescribed by a physician. The state attorney in Tampa had pointed out that Florida law did not mention a "prescription" defense to trafficking, and even though O'Hara had lined up a doctor and a pharmacist to testify, the jury wasn't allowed to consider the issue. After the appeals court called the case "absurd" and ordered a new trial with the prescription evidence allowed, the state attorney still refused to drop the case. [St. Petersburg Times, 8-9-07, via News of the Weird]
State and federal agencies have started mining medical databases and arresting those whose doctors' prescriptions they disagree with.
It's only a matter of how much this law would block searches on lawful prescription drugs.
There were endless pogroms in Europe before the Holocaust, and there were even pogroms after.
Go back 150 years, and you had Christian nations occupying most of the rest of the world - with assorted genocides - and yes, spreading Christianity was a major motivator. In fact the was the Catholic church that divided up the world and told each European country which part of the rest of the world would be their playground.
In the last century the Christian world had WWI, WWII, the holocaust and the nuking of two cities - with clerics and padres on BOTH the German and Allied sides assuring their respective troops that God thought it was peachy-keen. Nothing in the Islamic world compares to it.
(Yes, even the Nazis had military chaplains to assure the troops that they were doing the right thing and could be proud of their work. Nazi soldiers had the words "Gott mit uns" (God with us) on their belt buckles.)
150 years ago Biblical teachings were commonly used to justify slavery and racism. 50 years ago, they were commonly used to support racism and deny civil rights. When Romney was preaching in France (instead of going to Vietnam), his Christian denomination was still teaching that blacks were cursed and inferior.
Christians committed genocide against Muslims in and around Serbia just a few years ago.
There's the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon, with the Christian Militia killing somewhere between 800 and 3500 people - depending on whose numbers you believe - in refugee camps.
Here in Canada there's The Sons of Freedom, a sect of Doukhobor anarchists, who have protested nude, blown up power pylons, railroad bridges, and set fire to homes.
Currently in India there's the National Liberation Front of Tripura. Crimes include forcible conversion of tribal cadres/civilians to Christianity.
In Uganda the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves. It's led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the Christian Holy Spirit. LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.
The survey, conducted in December 2006 by the University of Maryland's prestigious Program on International Public Attitudes, shows that only 46 percent of Americans think that "bombing and other attacks intentionally aimed at civilians" are "never justified," while 24 percent believe these attacks are "often or sometimes justified."
Contrast those numbers with 2006 polling results from the world's most-populous Muslim countries – Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria. Terror Free Tomorrow, the organization I lead, found that 74 percent of respondents in Indonesia agreed that terrorist attacks are "never justified"; in Pakistan, that figure was 86 percent; in Bangladesh, 81 percent.
I'm not justifying what happens in the Islamic world - but the Christian world hasn't been any better until VERY recently - and even then, by taking Christianity out of the picture. As communications technology spread, as secular education spread, and as it became safe to disagree with the clerics, the west became a better place. The Muslim world is going through the same process.
The founding fathers of America get a lot of the credit, thanks to their insisting on separation of church & state. People are free to practice their religion, so long as it doesn't harm others or break laws. It worked for Christianity (eventually) and it'll work for Islam.
It might even work for they guy I was responding to above, defending the actions of a Christian committing a massacre against Muslims in Canada.
The rest of your post certainly adds context to this claim.
The reality is that the old left/right labels don't work anymore. We should probably stop using them.
You prefer the "white supremacist" label, or just "Nazi?"
No, really. EVERYTHING in your post and links can be said with equal accuracy about Christianity, cherry-picking biblical quotes and extremists the same way.
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Re: Re: Desire to be Dictator
Oh, don't start that nonsense. The US is a democracy, as intended. It's also a republic. The two are not mutually exclusive. "Republic" just means no monarch.
Non-republic democracies also tended to limit voting to white males until around the same time.
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Is she though?
She'd given a several interviews on the subject before signing that contract in 2016. It seems that all she's done is confirm what was already on public record... after Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen did the same. Which she argues broke the terms of the agreement.
Her lawsuit against Trump seeks a judgment declaring that the nondisclosure agreement never came into effect because Trump never signed it. If that's the case, she's offered to return the money.
There's also the issue that the agreement doesn't mention either by name. Daniels/Clifford is identified as Peggy Peterson, while Trump is named David Dennison.
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Re: Trump's usefulness
No, that's not the really obscene part. The really obscene part is what it's being used distract people from. Consider what else is happening today:
Abu Ghraib torturer Rick Saccone is up for election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district today. Far from disavowing him, Trump spent the weekend in Pennsylvania campaigning for him. Don Jr. campaigned for him yesterday.
Today Trump appointed Gina Haspel as head of the CIA.
Wikipedia: Gina Haspel:
The evangelicals are perfectly OK with far, far worse than Trump banging porn stars while his wife recovers from giving birth to his child.
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Without the Corvette's airbag control module recording the officer's speed at the time of impact, they'd have arrested the van driver for causing the accident. Instead they had to find something with which to charge the mother. (And issue citations to everyone else in the vehicle the officer hit.)
Do your local news services report on YOU, every time you act reasonable and don't get people killed or when you don't abuse authority?
Scratch that. You sound bitter that they don't.
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Wikipedia: List of HTTP status codes
We're going to need some new ones.
etc.
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With Vietnam, the lower class kids were drafted. Not so with the sons of the wealthy and powerful. (Do a quick poll of Presidents, VPs and the candidates for those positions over the last 20 years. That's a lot of deferments and exemptions.)
But with this plan, they're talking about drafting middle-aged professionals. They have power and influence, and now the internet. If they start losing their homes because they were drafted, it'll have greater consequences.
And it won't just be them exerting pressure. The banks will too, faced with draftees unable to pay debts on a scale unseen in Vietnam.
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Re: Could help Canadian tech companies
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Any draft is going to have to come with orders for the banks to put those debts on hold. And for employers to hold the draftees' positions.
I wouldn't hold my breath for that to happen reliably.
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Re: Bring back the commercials!
And you don't even need the Genius Bar! You can follow their script at home:
Step 1: Disconnect the power cord from your Mac.
Step 2: Replace the rest.
A MagSafe connector even lets you skip Step 1 as you violently move on to Step 2.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Swap out the encryption for gun control .
Germany had a total ban on gun ownership after World War I. Then a 1928 law created a permit system to own and sell firearms and ammunition.
This is what the Nazis inherited when they came to power. Their new gun law in 1938 loosened gun ownership and deregulated sales. The AC's "Gun control established" claim is an outright lie.
The exception of course, is that they forbid gun ownership by Jews.
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Re: Gain power by asking for the impossible
You can be certain that a dozen other federal agencies will demand the keys, along with countless state and local agencies.
You can be certain that the FBI counterparts in every other government on the planet will demand the keys too. Plus their state and local counterparts too.
You can be certain that various international private "security" companies will be selling them to any dictatorship that wants them.
We've seen all of the above with Stingray devices for example.
So no, it wouldn't be FBI-only. If the keys exist, they'll be widely shared with many agencies in many countries.
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But yes, I should have specified that we *normally* or *traditionally* don't give financial incentives. The recent asset forfeiture without a conviction or court case trend seems to be and America-only thing. (Among first-world countries.)
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The lawsuit appears to be about moral issues - use by the racist alt-right. Which US copyright law doesn't much support.
If Disney allowed full and free public domain use of Mickey for a couple years AND THEN got picky about how it was used, they might have a problem clawing back the rights too.
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The President spends his weekends at Mar-A-Lago on the Florida coast. Putin just unveiled his anti-Mar-A-Lago missile system.
America's nuclear deterrent is kept submerged for protection. They're doing the same with Mar-A-Lago.
Trump is playing 4D chess, man.
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Re: How do we know
But paying a minimum-wage Best Buy employee $500 each time he finds evidence? Apparently that's OK.
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Re: "Illegal" drugs
Are any drugs actually legal?
State and federal agencies have started mining medical databases and arresting those whose doctors' prescriptions they disagree with.
It's only a matter of how much this law would block searches on lawful prescription drugs.
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Teen 2: "I'd Google it, but a null result could just mean that their vague law is blocking any mention of their drug use."
Teen 1: "How convenient!"
Teen 2: "However, judging by their sense of reality..."
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700? How about 70?
There were endless pogroms in Europe before the Holocaust, and there were even pogroms after.
Go back 150 years, and you had Christian nations occupying most of the rest of the world - with assorted genocides - and yes, spreading Christianity was a major motivator. In fact the was the Catholic church that divided up the world and told each European country which part of the rest of the world would be their playground.
In the last century the Christian world had WWI, WWII, the holocaust and the nuking of two cities - with clerics and padres on BOTH the German and Allied sides assuring their respective troops that God thought it was peachy-keen. Nothing in the Islamic world compares to it.
(Yes, even the Nazis had military chaplains to assure the troops that they were doing the right thing and could be proud of their work. Nazi soldiers had the words "Gott mit uns" (God with us) on their belt buckles.)
150 years ago Biblical teachings were commonly used to justify slavery and racism. 50 years ago, they were commonly used to support racism and deny civil rights. When Romney was preaching in France (instead of going to Vietnam), his Christian denomination was still teaching that blacks were cursed and inferior.
Christians committed genocide against Muslims in and around Serbia just a few years ago.
There's the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon, with the Christian Militia killing somewhere between 800 and 3500 people - depending on whose numbers you believe - in refugee camps.
Here in Canada there's The Sons of Freedom, a sect of Doukhobor anarchists, who have protested nude, blown up power pylons, railroad bridges, and set fire to homes.
Currently in India there's the National Liberation Front of Tripura. Crimes include forcible conversion of tribal cadres/civilians to Christianity.
In Uganda the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves. It's led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the Christian Holy Spirit. LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.
And of course there's northern Ireland.
Or how about America....
Christian Science Monitor: Americans are more approving of terrorist attacks against civilians than any major Muslim country except for Nigeria.
I'm not justifying what happens in the Islamic world - but the Christian world hasn't been any better until VERY recently - and even then, by taking Christianity out of the picture. As communications technology spread, as secular education spread, and as it became safe to disagree with the clerics, the west became a better place. The Muslim world is going through the same process.
The founding fathers of America get a lot of the credit, thanks to their insisting on separation of church & state. People are free to practice their religion, so long as it doesn't harm others or break laws. It worked for Christianity (eventually) and it'll work for Islam.
It might even work for they guy I was responding to above, defending the actions of a Christian committing a massacre against Muslims in Canada.
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The rest of your post certainly adds context to this claim.
You prefer the "white supremacist" label, or just "Nazi?"
No, really. EVERYTHING in your post and links can be said with equal accuracy about Christianity, cherry-picking biblical quotes and extremists the same way.
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