I love how anytime someone points out the hypocrisy of the left they go with the your tribe/my tribe shtick. ... But say anything about the right and everyone says right on dude!
I'm sick to death of all you Red Team vs. Blue Team idiots. I slam both of you equally. You're both just two sides of the same coin. You're both the enemy of "We, The People", you assholes!
Which is the worst power monger slavering to get control of your tax dollars and your military, HRC or Trump?
Both of you ALWAYS SEE PARTISANSHIP NOT ON YOUR SIDE. You are both so owned by your "pick a side and fight" BS, it's pathetic!
Because the rights outlined in the Constitution, such as due process and a fair trial, must apply to everyone.
I'm very much in favor of both. I don't assume he was talking about lynch mobs or British naval ship captains dealing with mutiny on the high seas.
I assume he was writing about slimy politicians acting like blood sucking parasites on the body politic. Awaiting a firing squad at dawn after they've been duly convicted, with due process and a fair trial, is more than they deserve. They're the aggressors (predators), assuming guilty convictions. We needn't consider their feelings. The sooner they're out of our hair, the sooner we can get back to our lives sans their intrusions upon them.
Explain what? He hasn't been charged with treason.
That you know of. Even the World Court in the Hague does "sealed indictments." What do you expect would happen if he returned?
This is why Assange is holed up in a consulate. The US has been building a case against him in secret, just waiting to get their hands on (hooks into) him. The moment he steps out, he's shipped off to a partner country, they extradite to the USA, and that's the last anyone will hear of him.
It has to be direct aid to a specific nation that is an enemy, though I don't know how "enemy" is defined.
I'm libertarian (sort of; it's the closest, best word). I define "enemy" as "predator." We're presumed to have risen above that "long in tooth and claw" acceptance of predators among us preying on the weak among us. That's what civilization is. We celebrate every second Stephen Hawking beats Lou Gehrig's disease. We help the mentally or physically feeble to fit in and count as much as they can, accepting their limitations. Cf. Stephen Hawking.
I don't much care about nations or rulers or regimes. That's just gang warfare to me. Politicians playing that sort of game in a predatory manner are unwelcome in my eyes. We can all do without them. They're no better than Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. Greater humanity would be greater if they didn't exist. They're throwbacks. I've no problem eliminating them from the gene pool. They don't accept our conditions, they're welcome to live off by themselves alone as best they can. We shouldn't suffer their existence among the rest of us who do live peacefully among others.
I include HRC and Trump in that category of predator. We need neither.
The rest should be lined up and shot for putting their personal wealth and priviledge ahead of their jobs and oaths ...
Because summary execution is the way to stay true to American ideals?
You have a problem with that? Care to explain why? We put down rabid animals for a reason. We fight diseases for a reason. What does ignoring their predation gain anyone?
why exactly are politicians in TPP nations pushing so hard to ratify a controversial agreement that seems have few quantifiable benefits, and very considerable costs?
... seems to have few quantifiable benefits ..." for you and me. For Big Pharma, the MafiAA, Imaginary Property (IP) holders, copyright fascisti, and (IP related) lawyers on the other hand not to mention greedy politicians who desperately want campaign donations or lucrative industry jobs they can slide into, there are astronomically lucrative benefits on the table. Cf. Kim Dotcom for instance, or Eli Lilly.
TPP is our elected governments co-opted into the service of a small clique of politically connected (read "campaign donations") corporate special interests. It's essentially a coup; a small "c" coup, but pretty much the same thing. They've hijacked our democratically elected governments in order to serve them in certain small, but lucrative, ways.
If it wasn't so smarmy, it'd almost be admirable they managed to pull off such a bizarre scheme. So far, they're getting away with it. It's pretty much the definition of chutzpah!
Gateway destinations include Turkey, so what do you do — mess with their tourist industry?
It sure is convenient for ISIS that Turkey can't wait for Assad's regime to fail (I used to feel the same way). Except, they're not waiting. Turkey is full on "material support of ISIS", as are Israel and the Saudis, both ostensibly allies of The West! Yet foreigners still get banged up for supporting ISIS? Er, ...
WTF is going on!?! All this !@#$ just to pee off Shia Iran?!? Madness. I hate this century, or what some are doing with it.
That's funny. :-) You do know what "quod erat demonstrandum" means, I hope?
Oh - and name calling really does add credence to your rant.
You're the one who doesn't appear to be able to read. Wear it with pride.
Oh, and you will also learn that business is completely devoid of any and all corruption.
How did that manage to get dragged in here, and what's that got to do with what I wrote? I am no fan of modern corporate capitalism. I'd be first in line to vote for nuking both Wall St. and the Federal Reserve, but they're not tasked with arming the population with knowledge as to how democracy works or fails.
Schools should limit themselves to teaching the "Three Rs." Anyone can do much better on their own for the rest, especially nowadays. Modern mainstream education systems fail miserably at it, and in fact cause far more damage than enlightenment.
Re: Re: Could we all stop wetting our pants over ISIS?
But spreading FUD, working based on fear does not work, censoring speech does not work.
It does work, if you're a politician relying on fear mongering to enlarge your influence.
The depressing bit is how ridiculously easy it is to undercut these attempts. All it takes is educating and informing the ignorant as to the facts of reality. It'd be nice if we could still expect that sort of thing from journalism these days, but it seems most prefer to rely on sensationalism instead to pay the bills.
This isn't a complex problem, just a large sized one. Why aren't there more outfits like The Intercept out there? If I were a journalist, I'd sure prefer to be working for the likes of them, instead of all the rest serving up mainstream pablum.
Blaming the education system for political corruption? - Wow.
You believe political corruption exists in a vacuum? Wow. Who "educates" the voters? The whole world laughs at the US' education system. "The US teaches its youth world geography by invading it." Yuk, yuk, yuk. :-P
And why stop at US politics? Rest of the world must be doing a-ok.
The rest of the world isn't the biggest gorilla in the room, idiot!
For example, the court does note that publication can "amount to an act of terrorism" if the publication "endangers a person's life" and the person publishing "intends it to have that effect." I can understand why someone might make that argument, but it still seems troubling to argue that any form of expression alone is an "act of terrorism."
Anyone who was over ten years old on 9/11 can understand why someone might make that argument. It serves their purpose in grandstanding and accumulation of power over others. When explaining how to use an IM app can get you banged up for material support of ISIS, anything's now possible. If it was up to politicians and LEOs, spitting on the sidewalk would be terrorism. Singapore will throw you in jail for it.
When the bar's been lowered so far that respectable, professional journalists are accused of terrorism for possessing information, the word's essentially worthless except as a legal bludgeon. It disgusts me that they're getting away with this crap. The judge should've laughed the gov't out of court and awarded Miranda treble damages for wasting his time for no valid reason beyond getting their knickers in a knot.
Hillary Clinton continues to say ridiculous things about (insert pretty much any topic here).
While HRC is certainly among the worst of them, you could've used a variable in there and covered the whole field: "$presidential_candidate continues ..."
These people are running for the top political job in the USA, the biggest gorilla in the room! Not one of them should be considered for the job, except as a spoiler to keep the others from getting it. That is very sad! Anyone who'd do the job as it should be done wouldn't even consider running because the game is such a rigged mess in favor of vacuous puppets who'll do what the puppeteers want done. Lawrence Lessig, who's ten times as knowledgeable as all of them combined, was pretty much laughed off the stage leaving it to these idiots. He's not a career politician so he's got a reasonable excuse.
Watching US politics is like wondering why that plugged up toilet down the hall is still plugged up, and it's been two weeks now, damnit! It's stinking to high heaven and I wish someone would do something to fix the damned thing. The US' education system is certainly earning every lousy thing anyone's ever said about it.
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Hollywood would just give Google a list of all the domains belonging to them and demand that Google whitelist all those domains ...
And that would work, until the next new domain goes online and they ("Oopsie!") forget to update Google, and poof, their new domain gets DMCA'd.
How many stories have we seen of $HONKING_BIG_ORG forgetting to renew their domain registration leading to domain squatters snapping it up and selling it to spammers, malware vendors, & etc?
Re: BlackBerry known to be insecure for at least 5 years
No wonder the president of the US is forced to use a BlackBerry against his wishes.
What?!? The way I remember it is he was forced to stop using his BB once elected, until they provided one sufficiently hardened to satisfy the Secret Service.
Seems to me they're trying to have it both ways, telling the public and the politicians/police very different things.
You underestimate the power of bafflegab. I define the meaning of that pseudo-word along the lines of "least untruthful answer."
I expect BB's telling the truth, but not all of it. BBs are secure, until the LEOs show up complaining about criminality. Then, BB installs a back door of some sort, keypad reader perhaps, on that phone as part of a software update. Voila!
BB's been very upfront about not wanting to help criminals so I doubt they bother with niggling details like warrants 'cause they don't have to. Problem easily solved.
Based on what our rulers have said and allowed so far, I doubt we're going to make any progress on this issue until we have (space) aliens weighing in complaining about SETI; ie. never. Our modern rulers have spent decades now showing how little they care about what any of us want or what's right and proper for democratically elected institutions. They've learned they can just keep this stuff churning through the courts with their litigious mouthpieces re-defining words to mean whatever they want, ad infinitum. Humpty Dumpty, indeed.
All the Darrell Issas and EFFs in the Universe are just spittin' into the wind as long as we keep electing jerks who can't be bothered to care about the electorate once they're elected.
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Re: Re: Congratulations on your win!
I'm sick to death of all you Red Team vs. Blue Team idiots. I slam both of you equally. You're both just two sides of the same coin. You're both the enemy of "We, The People", you assholes!
Which is the worst power monger slavering to get control of your tax dollars and your military, HRC or Trump?
Both of you ALWAYS SEE PARTISANSHIP NOT ON YOUR SIDE. You are both so owned by your "pick a side and fight" BS, it's pathetic!
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Re: Are you serious?
It was likely the same conclusion of Spartacus.
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I'm very much in favor of both. I don't assume he was talking about lynch mobs or British naval ship captains dealing with mutiny on the high seas.
I assume he was writing about slimy politicians acting like blood sucking parasites on the body politic. Awaiting a firing squad at dawn after they've been duly convicted, with due process and a fair trial, is more than they deserve. They're the aggressors (predators), assuming guilty convictions. We needn't consider their feelings. The sooner they're out of our hair, the sooner we can get back to our lives sans their intrusions upon them.
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That you know of. Even the World Court in the Hague does "sealed indictments." What do you expect would happen if he returned?
This is why Assange is holed up in a consulate. The US has been building a case against him in secret, just waiting to get their hands on (hooks into) him. The moment he steps out, he's shipped off to a partner country, they extradite to the USA, and that's the last anyone will hear of him.
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I'm libertarian (sort of; it's the closest, best word). I define "enemy" as "predator." We're presumed to have risen above that "long in tooth and claw" acceptance of predators among us preying on the weak among us. That's what civilization is. We celebrate every second Stephen Hawking beats Lou Gehrig's disease. We help the mentally or physically feeble to fit in and count as much as they can, accepting their limitations. Cf. Stephen Hawking.
I don't much care about nations or rulers or regimes. That's just gang warfare to me. Politicians playing that sort of game in a predatory manner are unwelcome in my eyes. We can all do without them. They're no better than Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer. Greater humanity would be greater if they didn't exist. They're throwbacks. I've no problem eliminating them from the gene pool. They don't accept our conditions, they're welcome to live off by themselves alone as best they can. We shouldn't suffer their existence among the rest of us who do live peacefully among others.
I include HRC and Trump in that category of predator. We need neither.
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You have a problem with that? Care to explain why? We put down rabid animals for a reason. We fight diseases for a reason. What does ignoring their predation gain anyone?
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Follow the money.
... seems to have few quantifiable benefits ..." for you and me. For Big Pharma, the MafiAA, Imaginary Property (IP) holders, copyright fascisti, and (IP related) lawyers on the other hand not to mention greedy politicians who desperately want campaign donations or lucrative industry jobs they can slide into, there are astronomically lucrative benefits on the table. Cf. Kim Dotcom for instance, or Eli Lilly.
TPP is our elected governments co-opted into the service of a small clique of politically connected (read "campaign donations") corporate special interests. It's essentially a coup; a small "c" coup, but pretty much the same thing. They've hijacked our democratically elected governments in order to serve them in certain small, but lucrative, ways.
If it wasn't so smarmy, it'd almost be admirable they managed to pull off such a bizarre scheme. So far, they're getting away with it. It's pretty much the definition of chutzpah!
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Re: Re: Pthoo!
The actual quote escapes me atm, but it's something like (paraphrased): "When $blah gain power, they'll accuse their opponents of being $blah."
Obviously, we're now being ruled by terrorists, and they're out to eliminate the competition.
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It sure is convenient for ISIS that Turkey can't wait for Assad's regime to fail (I used to feel the same way). Except, they're not waiting. Turkey is full on "material support of ISIS", as are Israel and the Saudis, both ostensibly allies of The West! Yet foreigners still get banged up for supporting ISIS? Er, ...
WTF is going on!?! All this !@#$ just to pee off Shia Iran?!? Madness. I hate this century, or what some are doing with it.
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That's funny. :-) You do know what "quod erat demonstrandum" means, I hope?
You're the one who doesn't appear to be able to read. Wear it with pride.
How did that manage to get dragged in here, and what's that got to do with what I wrote? I am no fan of modern corporate capitalism. I'd be first in line to vote for nuking both Wall St. and the Federal Reserve, but they're not tasked with arming the population with knowledge as to how democracy works or fails.
Schools should limit themselves to teaching the "Three Rs." Anyone can do much better on their own for the rest, especially nowadays. Modern mainstream education systems fail miserably at it, and in fact cause far more damage than enlightenment.
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Re: Re: Could we all stop wetting our pants over ISIS?
It does work, if you're a politician relying on fear mongering to enlarge your influence.
The depressing bit is how ridiculously easy it is to undercut these attempts. All it takes is educating and informing the ignorant as to the facts of reality. It'd be nice if we could still expect that sort of thing from journalism these days, but it seems most prefer to rely on sensationalism instead to pay the bills.
This isn't a complex problem, just a large sized one. Why aren't there more outfits like The Intercept out there? If I were a journalist, I'd sure prefer to be working for the likes of them, instead of all the rest serving up mainstream pablum.
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You believe political corruption exists in a vacuum? Wow. Who "educates" the voters? The whole world laughs at the US' education system. "The US teaches its youth world geography by invading it." Yuk, yuk, yuk. :-P
The rest of the world isn't the biggest gorilla in the room, idiot!
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Pthoo!
Anyone who was over ten years old on 9/11 can understand why someone might make that argument. It serves their purpose in grandstanding and accumulation of power over others. When explaining how to use an IM app can get you banged up for material support of ISIS, anything's now possible. If it was up to politicians and LEOs, spitting on the sidewalk would be terrorism. Singapore will throw you in jail for it.
When the bar's been lowered so far that respectable, professional journalists are accused of terrorism for possessing information, the word's essentially worthless except as a legal bludgeon. It disgusts me that they're getting away with this crap. The judge should've laughed the gov't out of court and awarded Miranda treble damages for wasting his time for no valid reason beyond getting their knickers in a knot.
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While HRC is certainly among the worst of them, you could've used a variable in there and covered the whole field: "$presidential_candidate continues ..."
These people are running for the top political job in the USA, the biggest gorilla in the room! Not one of them should be considered for the job, except as a spoiler to keep the others from getting it. That is very sad! Anyone who'd do the job as it should be done wouldn't even consider running because the game is such a rigged mess in favor of vacuous puppets who'll do what the puppeteers want done. Lawrence Lessig, who's ten times as knowledgeable as all of them combined, was pretty much laughed off the stage leaving it to these idiots. He's not a career politician so he's got a reasonable excuse.
Watching US politics is like wondering why that plugged up toilet down the hall is still plugged up, and it's been two weeks now, damnit! It's stinking to high heaven and I wish someone would do something to fix the damned thing. The US' education system is certainly earning every lousy thing anyone's ever said about it.
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They have; 127.0.0.1. At Google, that's where "localhost" points to.
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Re: Re: Live by the DMCA notice, get de-listed by the DMCA notice
And that would work, until the next new domain goes online and they ("Oopsie!") forget to update Google, and poof, their new domain gets DMCA'd.
How many stories have we seen of $HONKING_BIG_ORG forgetting to renew their domain registration leading to domain squatters snapping it up and selling it to spammers, malware vendors, & etc?
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Re: BlackBerry known to be insecure for at least 5 years
What?!? The way I remember it is he was forced to stop using his BB once elected, until they provided one sufficiently hardened to satisfy the Secret Service.
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Bafflegab! :-)
You underestimate the power of bafflegab. I define the meaning of that pseudo-word along the lines of "least untruthful answer."
I expect BB's telling the truth, but not all of it. BBs are secure, until the LEOs show up complaining about criminality. Then, BB installs a back door of some sort, keypad reader perhaps, on that phone as part of a software update. Voila!
BB's been very upfront about not wanting to help criminals so I doubt they bother with niggling details like warrants 'cause they don't have to. Problem easily solved.
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Meh.
All the Darrell Issas and EFFs in the Universe are just spittin' into the wind as long as we keep electing jerks who can't be bothered to care about the electorate once they're elected.
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So far, nobody's trying to pass laws making it illegal to watch politicians do their jobs, so there's that.
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