Believe it or not, you have a right to defend your property, and fear for life and property is one of the several mitigating circumstances for personal violence that ends up hurting or killing someone.
This is the issue. ANTIFA causes this CONSTANTLY, and yet no one stands up to THEM.
NO ONE of any CONSEQUENCE supports the KKK or any of these neo Nazi groups. The problem is the DNC SUPPORTS ANTIFA.
As is very typical of leftists, the point is purposefully side stepped.
ANTIFA bussed in from all over the nation in direct response to a PEACEFUL protest, INCITED riot, and ended up giving leftists like you all fodder to once again pretend the main problem is not ANTIFA.
ANTIFA riots EVERYWHERE. ANTIFA causes property damage to innocent people. ANTIFA has no right tossing "a paltry rock" at anyone.
ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem.
Your insistence on taking the far left view on history and culture and trying to attach it to a more free market view of economics is not working.
ANTIFA is the problem here. There is video of ANTIFA attacking the car that ended up hitting ANTIFA rioters.
ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem.
So what a few hundred people got a piece of paper to demonstrate about something you don't like? So what?
There's absolutely no sense tearing down these statues. To the people who like them they represent the reintegration of the south into the rest of the USA, and it is YOU that has the problem with THEM, not the other way around.
Russia is still for the most part an Atheistic state apparatus. The "Church" in Russia is mostly dominated by the Russian Orthodox, which itself is dominated by the government. This is much the same with the official churches in Europe.
Americans trying to comment on what is going on in either Europe or Russia without realizing these things do a lot of damage to the truth.
An atheist playing Pokemon in church might well be offensive to religious people, especially an outspoken atheist who openly mocks their beliefs. Pussy Riot... well... Look at their name.
I'm sorry, but in an age where you all have decided that Christians need to be ashamed of opposing infanticide and the abandonment of children to wildly inappropriate sexual practices, it is very, very difficult for me to be upset that Russia is supporting its state church in much the same fashion that you are supporting yours - State Sponsored Atheism.
At some point folks are going to have to confront Trump on his own turf. You can make all the idiotic comments you like about him not understanding cybersecurity, but no President of the USA is ever going to be deeply knowledgeable about everything you may want to spring on them. They all have prepackaged responses to questions on a broad range of topics. Acting like Trump is the only one is stupid.
The take everyone is trying to play against Trump is he is a xenophobic racist. Unfortunately, you have all been talking about the working class for decades as if the left were doing anything for us.
They are NOT.
Border issues are about saying enough is enough to lip service to AMERICAN WORKING PEOPLE.
If you geniuses can't get it fixed and still engage in internationalism, we're going to take your internationalist toys away so that you can focus on issues here at home.
I am SICK TO DEATH of screaming liberal whining about Trump, and he is basically a Democrat who doesn't hate America as much as most Democrats do.
The issue is not where the lawsuit lands. It's why we allow lawsuits at all of this nature.
We need to separate IP abuse issues from the larger issue of so called "tort reform" which is basically just a bunch of corporate lawyers trying to engineer a system more beneficial to oligopolies.
It's funny, true, but the issue is quite simply that it costs money to have good moderation, and without it comments sections devolve into filth, especially on heated topics.
Seen it time and time again.
Always impressed, in fact, by moderation at TechDirt. Perhaps you should publish your model? It can also be the result of the target audience I imagine.
I drove a cab for a brief period of time, and my solution is to simply do away with all regulation of ride sharing and renting to begin with. It's a freaking cottage industry. If I want to drag someone around in my car for money, what's it to the government?
You know, jumping out of a burning building and plummeting to your death isn't torture either. I'm sick and tired of the partisan witch hunt.
If American had any allies in the Democratic party, we would be allowed to fully win wars. Then all this sneaking around trying to find out who exactly it is we need to defend ourselves from would not be necessary.
Were any of you morons even alive when 9/11 happened?
Yes, cable is for crap. But underlying this is the fact that cable is about to own the internet. I think we need not only Title 2 net neutrality, but a massive deconstruction of cable monopolies in general.
The trend now seems to be an inexorable flow towards a very small number of people owning all of telecom. And while you may like to think of that as a conspiracy theory, this is exactly what happened with satellite. They eventually maneuvered around to illegalize, not capturing the signal, but descrambling it, which protected the centralized model for global communication for another two decades.
What is key is establishing a decentralized peer to peer model. The internet is doomed. It was open as long as it took to pay for the infrastructure. Now, a small number of people own the infrastructure, and technology is going to have to evolve away from it or else we are stuck with another dead end attempt at global open communication.
I've been observing for years now that, really, the internet is NOT like being in your house with a friend. It is a lot more like having a conversation with your friend across the street using code. What you do on the internet is public.
I've watched with increasing concern as the internet has been designed increasingly around "cloud services" - basically putting everything you do on the web somewhere. I have never liked this business model.
Maybe some folks will begin to rethink the downhill-only traffic flow model and insist they store their stuff on THEIR OWN COMPUTERS, and only transmit over the internet from and to THEIR OWN DEVICES so that they still own the instruments that contain their data.
That's the REAL defense against this nonsense. Stop letting the service provider dictate your business model. Stop buying sorry "services".
While no particular fan of Putin or Russia in general (And that's obviously part of the point of the article, isn't it? To tie anyone opposed to homosexuality as a fascist?), I will just repeat that the concept of homosexuality as an "orientation" is bankrupt, as it is entirely impossible to confirm or deny.
This concept has brought us to the brink of a Constitutional crisis in this nation, setting the right to celebrate what has for quite literally millenia been nigh universally seen as a grotesque sexual perversion in direct opposition to the literal wording of the Constitution, which prevents the state from establishing a religion or preventing the free exercise thereof.
I cannot imagine anyone at the time anticipated homosexuality being seriously promoted as an alternative to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.
I am hopeful that, as the idiocy of the so called "research" establishing homosexuality as a sort of race, class, or gender all its own slowly becomes more publicly understood, that this grotesque violation of not just our civil rights, but of our ability to self govern AT ALL, will be understood and repudiated.
To put it even more bluntly, I am sick and tired of the political left pushing every conceivable sexual degradation as a civil right.
We were told we had to have almost no limits on porn in order to preserve freedom of the press and other civil rights.
Now we have plenty of porn, and also plenty of violations of our civil rights.
You people are not our friends, you who constantly foist sexual filth on us as if it were something we as a nation need more of.
What's sad is not that people recognize that a street full of black people is statistically likely to be more dangerous than a street with few black people. What's sad is that it is a statistical fact.
Being against prejudice means you judge each person on their own merits. It does not mean you refuse to acknowledge cultural differences.
The REASON these streets are more dangerous is that there were a couple of centuries of slavery coupled by a century and then some of legal oppression, then finally period we are in now where the oppression is cultural. We have decided we do not owe the descendants of the people whose culture we raped and pillaged as a nation entry into our better neighborhoods and schools, let alone our lives and our personal sphere of friends and acquaintances.
Even churches of the same denomination are to this day divided along racial lines in America.
We have a long way to go, but the problem is not helped by supporting riots pitched because a man in the process of committing a crime was shot while resisting arrest. I have little doubt the officer in this case made some egregious errors, as there just seems to be no excuse for him hopping out of his car solo to chase down the perpetrator, but the fact is that what he achieved at the end of the day was to mete out the death penalty for assault and petty theft, which is just ridiculous.
Defending the illegal mob mentality carnage though that occurred after the fact as if this were somehow the equivalent of Rosa Parks taking a seat on the bus is dishonest to the point of evil though. I am really sick of this tactic. It does nothing but provide excuses for the continued cultural divide, and give Democrats another few years of dominance of the black vote by deceit.
How is a Mormon Democrat anything resembling a family values conservative? The ties between porn and the Democratic party are well understood.
Also, I think it is a sad statement about the shrinking freedom of speech and of association in this country that someone would think that offering to fund someone's CAMPAIGN if they promise to vote on a specific issue in a specific way is "bribery". The entire purpose of electing officials is to cast a vote for someone to vote they way you want, and helping to pay for a campaign is classic freedom of association.
And then there's the fact that the vote was nigh unanimous anyhow? With one abstention?
What does it take to put a bow on something and call it a wrap these days?
I applaud you highlighting the distinction between these two pieces, but I hardly think it was an accident that they aired together. Subtlety helps on so many levels, especially behind the scenes.
I don't want to make TOO many excuses for the lapdog mentality the Democratic press has toward the Democratic party. I submit to you it's rather obvious why it is. Democratic business folk apparently get the importance of the media and have invested accordingly... But this particular episode seems more like an elegant and graceful stab at the heart of the Obama administration than it does some sort of mistaken and ignorant airing of seemingly opposed pieces, to me.
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Re: Uh-oh
So far, the two held for moderation had to do with banking.
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Re: Re:
This is the issue. ANTIFA causes this CONSTANTLY, and yet no one stands up to THEM.
NO ONE of any CONSEQUENCE supports the KKK or any of these neo Nazi groups. The problem is the DNC SUPPORTS ANTIFA.
On the post: Defending Hateful Speech Is Unpleasant But Essential, Even When Violence Is The End Result
ANTIFA bussed in from all over the nation in direct response to a PEACEFUL protest, INCITED riot, and ended up giving leftists like you all fodder to once again pretend the main problem is not ANTIFA.
ANTIFA riots EVERYWHERE. ANTIFA causes property damage to innocent people. ANTIFA has no right tossing "a paltry rock" at anyone.
ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem.
On the post: Defending Hateful Speech Is Unpleasant But Essential, Even When Violence Is The End Result
ANTIFA is the problem here. There is video of ANTIFA attacking the car that ended up hitting ANTIFA rioters.
ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem. ANTIFA is the problem.
So what a few hundred people got a piece of paper to demonstrate about something you don't like? So what?
There's absolutely no sense tearing down these statues. To the people who like them they represent the reintegration of the south into the rest of the USA, and it is YOU that has the problem with THEM, not the other way around.
On the post: Pokemon Go The Latest Tool For Russian Government To Silence Speakers It Doesn't Like
Atheists Complaining about the State
Americans trying to comment on what is going on in either Europe or Russia without realizing these things do a lot of damage to the truth.
An atheist playing Pokemon in church might well be offensive to religious people, especially an outspoken atheist who openly mocks their beliefs. Pussy Riot... well... Look at their name.
I'm sorry, but in an age where you all have decided that Christians need to be ashamed of opposing infanticide and the abandonment of children to wildly inappropriate sexual practices, it is very, very difficult for me to be upset that Russia is supporting its state church in much the same fashion that you are supporting yours - State Sponsored Atheism.
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Trumped
The take everyone is trying to play against Trump is he is a xenophobic racist. Unfortunately, you have all been talking about the working class for decades as if the left were doing anything for us.
They are NOT.
Border issues are about saying enough is enough to lip service to AMERICAN WORKING PEOPLE.
If you geniuses can't get it fixed and still engage in internationalism, we're going to take your internationalist toys away so that you can focus on issues here at home.
I am SICK TO DEATH of screaming liberal whining about Trump, and he is basically a Democrat who doesn't hate America as much as most Democrats do.
It's pathetic.
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Actually
So we should be having our cake and eating it too.
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We need to separate IP abuse issues from the larger issue of so called "tort reform" which is basically just a bunch of corporate lawyers trying to engineer a system more beneficial to oligopolies.
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Chewing?
Folk science.
On the post: The Trend Of Killing News Comment Sections Because You 'Just Really Value Conversation' Stupidly Continues
Income and Outflow
Seen it time and time again.
Always impressed, in fact, by moderation at TechDirt. Perhaps you should publish your model? It can also be the result of the target audience I imagine.
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On the post: T-Mobile Still Doesn't Understand (Or Simply Doesn't Care) That Their 'Music Freedom' Plan Tramples Net Neutrality
Good old days
No cap, no worries. How is it easier for them to provide unlimited streaming from specific sources? Why not just unlimited streaming?
Because they long for the days of cable again. One way communication means all your information from the same people. Monopolies.
They love them.
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Shut up about it already
If American had any allies in the Democratic party, we would be allowed to fully win wars. Then all this sneaking around trying to find out who exactly it is we need to defend ourselves from would not be necessary.
Were any of you morons even alive when 9/11 happened?
On the post: Dish Pulls CNN, Doesn't Think Customers Still Paying For It Are Missing Much
Connecting the Dots
The trend now seems to be an inexorable flow towards a very small number of people owning all of telecom. And while you may like to think of that as a conspiracy theory, this is exactly what happened with satellite. They eventually maneuvered around to illegalize, not capturing the signal, but descrambling it, which protected the centralized model for global communication for another two decades.
What is key is establishing a decentralized peer to peer model. The internet is doomed. It was open as long as it took to pay for the infrastructure. Now, a small number of people own the infrastructure, and technology is going to have to evolve away from it or else we are stuck with another dead end attempt at global open communication.
On the post: Court Says By Agreeing To AOL's Terms Of Service, You've 'Consented' To Search By Law Enforcement
Learning to Love the Police State
I've watched with increasing concern as the internet has been designed increasingly around "cloud services" - basically putting everything you do on the web somewhere. I have never liked this business model.
Maybe some folks will begin to rethink the downhill-only traffic flow model and insist they store their stuff on THEIR OWN COMPUTERS, and only transmit over the internet from and to THEIR OWN DEVICES so that they still own the instruments that contain their data.
That's the REAL defense against this nonsense. Stop letting the service provider dictate your business model. Stop buying sorry "services".
On the post: Russia Dismantles Steve Jobs Memorial, Fearing That Tim Cook's Homosexuality Might Be Contagious
"Orientation" a lie
This concept has brought us to the brink of a Constitutional crisis in this nation, setting the right to celebrate what has for quite literally millenia been nigh universally seen as a grotesque sexual perversion in direct opposition to the literal wording of the Constitution, which prevents the state from establishing a religion or preventing the free exercise thereof.
I cannot imagine anyone at the time anticipated homosexuality being seriously promoted as an alternative to freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.
I am hopeful that, as the idiocy of the so called "research" establishing homosexuality as a sort of race, class, or gender all its own slowly becomes more publicly understood, that this grotesque violation of not just our civil rights, but of our ability to self govern AT ALL, will be understood and repudiated.
To put it even more bluntly, I am sick and tired of the political left pushing every conceivable sexual degradation as a civil right.
We were told we had to have almost no limits on porn in order to preserve freedom of the press and other civil rights.
Now we have plenty of porn, and also plenty of violations of our civil rights.
You people are not our friends, you who constantly foist sexual filth on us as if it were something we as a nation need more of.
On the post: A Tale of Two Riots: 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Vs. 'Bring Out The BearCat'
Faux Racism
Being against prejudice means you judge each person on their own merits. It does not mean you refuse to acknowledge cultural differences.
The REASON these streets are more dangerous is that there were a couple of centuries of slavery coupled by a century and then some of legal oppression, then finally period we are in now where the oppression is cultural. We have decided we do not owe the descendants of the people whose culture we raped and pillaged as a nation entry into our better neighborhoods and schools, let alone our lives and our personal sphere of friends and acquaintances.
Even churches of the same denomination are to this day divided along racial lines in America.
We have a long way to go, but the problem is not helped by supporting riots pitched because a man in the process of committing a crime was shot while resisting arrest. I have little doubt the officer in this case made some egregious errors, as there just seems to be no excuse for him hopping out of his car solo to chase down the perpetrator, but the fact is that what he achieved at the end of the day was to mete out the death penalty for assault and petty theft, which is just ridiculous.
Defending the illegal mob mentality carnage though that occurred after the fact as if this were somehow the equivalent of Rosa Parks taking a seat on the bus is dishonest to the point of evil though. I am really sick of this tactic. It does nothing but provide excuses for the continued cultural divide, and give Democrats another few years of dominance of the black vote by deceit.
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Get real
Also, I think it is a sad statement about the shrinking freedom of speech and of association in this country that someone would think that offering to fund someone's CAMPAIGN if they promise to vote on a specific issue in a specific way is "bribery". The entire purpose of electing officials is to cast a vote for someone to vote they way you want, and helping to pay for a campaign is classic freedom of association.
And then there's the fact that the vote was nigh unanimous anyhow? With one abstention?
What does it take to put a bow on something and call it a wrap these days?
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Really?
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Actually clever journalism
I don't want to make TOO many excuses for the lapdog mentality the Democratic press has toward the Democratic party. I submit to you it's rather obvious why it is. Democratic business folk apparently get the importance of the media and have invested accordingly... But this particular episode seems more like an elegant and graceful stab at the heart of the Obama administration than it does some sort of mistaken and ignorant airing of seemingly opposed pieces, to me.
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