But the other counties that would be screwed by the conditions that the US would want to impose on them through this agreement, where is their incentive to want to sign the TPP?
Politicians love schmoozfests. They get to fly off to exotic locales and party in upscale venues, surrounded by adoring news media, all paid for by us. This also fast-tracks them into lucrative jobs with the deal's financial (special interest corporate) backers following their political careers.
Said politicians of course don't pay for the result of the agreement passed. Too bad we're not allowed to string up politicians who sell out their electorate. Accountability? What's that?
"when the parents are gone and the kids are home alone"=very bad parenting
Despite the laws' attempts to lower the age of culpability, I still consider teenagers younger than age of majority (eighteen or twenty-one dependent on jurisdiction) are "kids." Are you afraid to allow your soon-to-be-grownups alone in your house unsupervised? If so, how are they ever going to grow up?
No excuses will ever be accepted as to justify any reason to hook a television to the internet.
The fact that it exists and is selling TVs disproves that. As for the reason, of course it's money, for selling their customers' personal information to "business partners." I'd expect customers to run away screaming from it, but most customers aren't "tech-savvy" and tend to believe marketing pitches which boast consumer benefits of a connected experience.
Stupidest comment ever. Please don't ever do that again. How could you possibly imagine anyone else would want to read that? There is nothing of value there.
If those countries can manage it, why not the USA?
That would be the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Those who wrote that were worried about the Redcoats coming back and believed people had a right to defend themselves. The downside is some (many) predators and stupid people got the right as well. You've got to take the good with the bad. Good thing the bad aren't the only ones who're armed and capable of defending themselves. Remember, the bad don't care about laws like making guns illegal. Only the good abide by laws.
Re: Re: Re: Re: How do we stop bad people from using technology is the same as how do we stop bad people from using guns
Also I would say that the residual use of guns be criminals in the UK owes a lot to their ready availability in the US.
That's a novel theory. Are you suggesting the US' gun culture is radicalizing British criminals? Perhaps an embargo on Hollywood's exports ("Action" movies and crime dramas) would nip that in the bud?
I think the imposition of Prohibition 2.0 (War On Drugs) is far more to blame by artificially inflating the business of illicit drug sales.
I'm Canuck. We just survived the attempted imposition of the long gun registry here in Canada. We don't have the US' Second Amendment and the NRA, but we do have a lot of people who share space with some pretty big predatory animals, including Grizzlies and Polar bears and wolves. Those people were quite annoyed about city folk trying to restrict their usage of guns just because criminals use them too (mostly in cities, coincidentally).
Most of the important history pre-dates the founding of the US ...
So overthrowing a democratically elected leader in Iran at the behest of British oil interests, or installing Saddam Hussein in Iraq wouldn't be considered important history, or would they be overshadowed by even more important events?
How difficult is it to stop their control of oil wells?
Stop Erdogan (Turkey) from buying said oil, and stop bitching about the Russians blowing up their tanker trucks when the latter are discovered.
We do all agree that the existence of ISIS is a bad thing, right, and much worse than Russia having a free hand to help rid the world of extremist (so-called) Muslim terrorists? Excuse me for believing that Islam doesn't actually countenance ISIS' senseless brutality. I'm thinking here of murdering antiquities specialists and immolating downed airmen, among many other barbarities. Muslim airmen even.
Does the US gov't really want peace in the Middle East? All of the US gov't and its various agencies, or just some of them? The US gov't does have a reputation for being a bit dyslexic in that way. Left-hand vs. right-hand, and all that.
Has anyone asked the CIA what it wants? They're very often a loose cannon.
The phone I could do without, but they won't even sell me naked DSL.
When I asked the same of my old ISP, they said they could do it for a one time charge of $90 for DSL with no phone, and it'd take a session with their installer person showing up. So, it is possible, though they may not want to bother doing it. If you're willing to pay, I'd wonder why they'd be reticent to do it.
It's a bit sad that these days comedians make more of an impression and produce greater results than the much vaunted Fourth Estate. One of my favorite sites is the Columbia Journalism Review, but The Daily Show and its offspring seem to run rings around those degreed professionals.
Granted that one side has to aspire to go by the rules of their profession and the other's encouraged to break the rules by definition, but which is more efficacious? Ridiculing our rulers' deeds is more powerful than exposing their deeds to the light of day, even when one looks very much like the other.
I think both should aspire to be more like Tom Paine.
Is the NYPD screwed up? Of course, but that still doesn't mean that they are not the BEST police force in the world.
Define "best." What's the standard by which they're judged? London Bobbies used to hold that honour. The force that drove Frank Serpico to seek asylum in Switzerland is hardly in the running, and I haven't seen much lasting improvement sought since then. Their political masters haven't been much help in that area either.
In their favour, NY is a big problem, and NYPD is a big organization. It's going to take superior skills, organization, and management to keep a handle on it all. Add to that, Albany's a long way away from NYC.
Re: "We'll just add that to the pile of 'laws that don't apply to us' shall we?"
I suspect that civilian representative is going to be run off its feet, never finding a moment's sleep. I hope they at least pay them well ("Chyaa, right!" ha ha :-).
I expect some city councilman is going to see the need for a new city fiefdom, staffed by thousands, with a representative in the back seat of every cop car, sort of like a political officer in the USSR on every ship or submarine. It won't work, of course. SOP == SNAFU.
Remember the mayor in Ghostbusters? Paraphrased: "New Yorkers consider it a god given right to be nasty and insulting to each other!"
I wouldn't expect any miracles to happen here. I kind of admire them for this attitude. It's New York after all, not Oregon. Anyone who doesn't like it can always leave.
If it's a slow day with few calls, you make it up with issuing tickets as your 'activities'. So there's no direct ticket quota.
Except, they're going to extraordinary lengths to obfuscate (at best). They've got to know that's going to come back and bite them. Why not just cough up (after saving!) their emails which might prove the facts of the situation? Instead, they're showing how insulted they are by others looking into what they're doing and how they do it, others who pay their salaries.
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Re: Re: "reign" vs "rein"
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Re: TPPA signing in NZ
Actually, it is. They were very afraid that their best efforts would ultimately not be enough. They were right to be afraid. They weren't enough.
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Politicians love schmoozfests. They get to fly off to exotic locales and party in upscale venues, surrounded by adoring news media, all paid for by us. This also fast-tracks them into lucrative jobs with the deal's financial (special interest corporate) backers following their political careers.
Said politicians of course don't pay for the result of the agreement passed. Too bad we're not allowed to string up politicians who sell out their electorate. Accountability? What's that?
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Despite the laws' attempts to lower the age of culpability, I still consider teenagers younger than age of majority (eighteen or twenty-one dependent on jurisdiction) are "kids." Are you afraid to allow your soon-to-be-grownups alone in your house unsupervised? If so, how are they ever going to grow up?
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Re: What's the market?
Doing something badly takes a lot less effort than doing it well or right.
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The fact that it exists and is selling TVs disproves that. As for the reason, of course it's money, for selling their customers' personal information to "business partners." I'd expect customers to run away screaming from it, but most customers aren't "tech-savvy" and tend to believe marketing pitches which boast consumer benefits of a connected experience.
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Stupidest comment ever. Please don't ever do that again. How could you possibly imagine anyone else would want to read that? There is nothing of value there.
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Re: Re: Re: How do we stop bad people from using technology is the same as how do we stop bad people from using guns
Or just throw all babies off a cliff at birth. That's solve that entire crime problem.
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Re: Re: the hand gun ban in the UK...
That would be the Second Amendment to the Constitution. Those who wrote that were worried about the Redcoats coming back and believed people had a right to defend themselves. The downside is some (many) predators and stupid people got the right as well. You've got to take the good with the bad. Good thing the bad aren't the only ones who're armed and capable of defending themselves. Remember, the bad don't care about laws like making guns illegal. Only the good abide by laws.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: How do we stop bad people from using technology is the same as how do we stop bad people from using guns
That's a novel theory. Are you suggesting the US' gun culture is radicalizing British criminals? Perhaps an embargo on Hollywood's exports ("Action" movies and crime dramas) would nip that in the bud?
I think the imposition of Prohibition 2.0 (War On Drugs) is far more to blame by artificially inflating the business of illicit drug sales.
I'm Canuck. We just survived the attempted imposition of the long gun registry here in Canada. We don't have the US' Second Amendment and the NRA, but we do have a lot of people who share space with some pretty big predatory animals, including Grizzlies and Polar bears and wolves. Those people were quite annoyed about city folk trying to restrict their usage of guns just because criminals use them too (mostly in cities, coincidentally).
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So overthrowing a democratically elected leader in Iran at the behest of British oil interests, or installing Saddam Hussein in Iraq wouldn't be considered important history, or would they be overshadowed by even more important events?
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Stop Erdogan (Turkey) from buying said oil, and stop bitching about the Russians blowing up their tanker trucks when the latter are discovered.
We do all agree that the existence of ISIS is a bad thing, right, and much worse than Russia having a free hand to help rid the world of extremist (so-called) Muslim terrorists? Excuse me for believing that Islam doesn't actually countenance ISIS' senseless brutality. I'm thinking here of murdering antiquities specialists and immolating downed airmen, among many other barbarities. Muslim airmen even.
Does the US gov't really want peace in the Middle East? All of the US gov't and its various agencies, or just some of them? The US gov't does have a reputation for being a bit dyslexic in that way. Left-hand vs. right-hand, and all that.
Has anyone asked the CIA what it wants? They're very often a loose cannon.
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Congress writes the law, defines what FCC is, so yeah complain to your elected representative.
Have fun. Report back on the result. Bon chance.
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Re: Broadband that sucks
When I asked the same of my old ISP, they said they could do it for a one time charge of $90 for DSL with no phone, and it'd take a session with their installer person showing up. So, it is possible, though they may not want to bother doing it. If you're willing to pay, I'd wonder why they'd be reticent to do it.
This was in downtown, medium size city, Canada.
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Re: You have a type-o
Bullish vs. Bearish? Invest vs. cash in. We all hope for outcomes which conflict with others' goals.
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Granted that one side has to aspire to go by the rules of their profession and the other's encouraged to break the rules by definition, but which is more efficacious? Ridiculing our rulers' deeds is more powerful than exposing their deeds to the light of day, even when one looks very much like the other.
I think both should aspire to be more like Tom Paine.
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Define "best." What's the standard by which they're judged? London Bobbies used to hold that honour. The force that drove Frank Serpico to seek asylum in Switzerland is hardly in the running, and I haven't seen much lasting improvement sought since then. Their political masters haven't been much help in that area either.
In their favour, NY is a big problem, and NYPD is a big organization. It's going to take superior skills, organization, and management to keep a handle on it all. Add to that, Albany's a long way away from NYC.
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Re: "We'll just add that to the pile of 'laws that don't apply to us' shall we?"
I expect some city councilman is going to see the need for a new city fiefdom, staffed by thousands, with a representative in the back seat of every cop car, sort of like a political officer in the USSR on every ship or submarine. It won't work, of course. SOP == SNAFU.
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What, we can't be racist fucks any more?!?
I wouldn't expect any miracles to happen here. I kind of admire them for this attitude. It's New York after all, not Oregon. Anyone who doesn't like it can always leave.
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Re: Talked to an ex cop once
Except, they're going to extraordinary lengths to obfuscate (at best). They've got to know that's going to come back and bite them. Why not just cough up (after saving!) their emails which might prove the facts of the situation? Instead, they're showing how insulted they are by others looking into what they're doing and how they do it, others who pay their salaries.
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