True. Personally, I see people saying "DA LAW" "DA LAW" like it is some mythological thing that is never wrong.... HARDLY. Laws are created by men/humans, and men are fallible.
There is a 'way around it it'.... ignore the law, because it is stupid and insane. Congressmen are MORE than willing to cover up for the government, to be blunt.
The fact is that is UNCONSTITUTIONAL because it goes against the First Amendment, which also makes it illegitimate to take away a person's choice of spokesperson.
Then we should also keep anyone who has an interest in computers, fine dining, etc. away from money!
Your argument is STUPIDITY, and all of those things could happen if the person in question was NOT a drug user!
Your 'societal parasites' argument is also moot, because jackasses like yourself LOVE to use to in order to refer to people who are living their lives in a way that you dislike, when they are usually working as hard or HARDER than you do!
Add to that, the fact that drugs users have been proven to not be any MORE NOR LESS likely to have an accident, and The Devil's Coachman's argument is exposed for the stinking pile of poo it actually is.
Yes, he will make it through the week, because they will assign a 'protective detail' to the man. Frankly, if someone kills him.... they are the ones who are wrong and should be put in jail for the rest of their lives.
Actually, that doesn't just say that you should tell a member of Congress... it says that you should tell ANYONE WHO CAN GET THE INFORMATION OUT, and need I remind: Deep Throat didn't go to a Congressman. Neither did the guy who leaked the Pentagon papers.
That also leaves an exception for being FORCED to give aid or comfort, or adhering to obligations under the Hippocratic Oath to 'treat all who come to you', regardless of whether they are a foreign combatant or not.
True. Personally, Manning might be covered under the Whistleblower laws after that whole thing about Afghani kids being used as sexual bartering tokens by our corporations in AFghanistan came out.
If that isn't whistleblowing, nothing is. The sheer BULK of the leaks also doesn't make this any less whistleblowing. Manning might have seen that thing or something else just as bad, and said "WOW! If we are covering up this, what else are we covering up!" and done a directory dump.... which I would have also done, to be honest, if I had seen that thing above.
Actually, you are wrong. Once a person is ARRESTED and put into jail, regardless of whether there are ongoing investigations or not, that person has to be CHARGED and TRIED for a crime within 1 year according to the Supreme Court of the United States.
That includes in the military. Ongoing investigations have NO affect on that need to bring someone to trial for a crime immediately or within one year.
In fact, if investigations are ongoing, the general rule of thumb is to NOT arrest the person in question, absent grave physical harm to someone else being probable, until the investigations are done.
What consequences? The fact is that there are VERY LITTLE TO NO consequences from using drugs, when it comes down to brass tacks.
Hell, 6 of the 10 highest ranking students my graduating year from high school were light to HEAVY drug users.
So, it's bullcrap that there are 'consequences' from using drugs, unless you are talking about using them while you are pregnant.
Actually, communism WOULD work if any country in the world had actually had communism. Instead, China and U.S.S.R. had something akin to a plutocracy, and China still does.
As I keep on saying, the BEST thing that they could do would be to just LEGALIZE the drug trade, regulate the dosages of drugs, and move on.
We have tried prohibition and it's time to realize it's a RESOUNDING FAILURE and move on towards legalization.
That is part of it, to be honest. However, with all due respect, I really have NEVER had these DRM protections ever bother me on my computer, and that is WITHOUT trying to actively disable them.
These 'protections' will only be used if applications ask for them to be used, so if the applications don't ask for them to be used? You won't even notice them, it will be like they are not even there.
Who says that you will have to circumvent the DRM? The fact is that this DRM will ONLY BE USED IF THE APPLICATIONS ASK FOR IT TO BE USED!
If you are using a program that DOESN'T call for the DRM to be used, you are golden. Windows 7 does N O T automatically call for all the DRM stuff in it to be used, it waits for individual applications to ask for it to use it.
I would assume this would ALSO be true with this processor-based DRM.
Yeah, I'm calling bullshit. I do things that are not strictly 'legal' on my machine, and I have NEVER had the DRM in Windows 7 bother me one little WHIT!
I have had DRM on some games that I have downloaded or bought bother me, but that isn't Windows 7 nor is it the in-built DRM of that OS bothering me.
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The fact is that is UNCONSTITUTIONAL because it goes against the First Amendment, which also makes it illegitimate to take away a person's choice of spokesperson.
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When you are able to fine HEAVILY, in the billions of dollars? Even the military has to listen to you.
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Your argument is STUPIDITY, and all of those things could happen if the person in question was NOT a drug user!
Your 'societal parasites' argument is also moot, because jackasses like yourself LOVE to use to in order to refer to people who are living their lives in a way that you dislike, when they are usually working as hard or HARDER than you do!
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If that isn't whistleblowing, nothing is. The sheer BULK of the leaks also doesn't make this any less whistleblowing. Manning might have seen that thing or something else just as bad, and said "WOW! If we are covering up this, what else are we covering up!" and done a directory dump.... which I would have also done, to be honest, if I had seen that thing above.
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That includes in the military. Ongoing investigations have NO affect on that need to bring someone to trial for a crime immediately or within one year.
In fact, if investigations are ongoing, the general rule of thumb is to NOT arrest the person in question, absent grave physical harm to someone else being probable, until the investigations are done.
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Hell, 6 of the 10 highest ranking students my graduating year from high school were light to HEAVY drug users.
So, it's bullcrap that there are 'consequences' from using drugs, unless you are talking about using them while you are pregnant.
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We have tried prohibition and it's time to realize it's a RESOUNDING FAILURE and move on towards legalization.
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These 'protections' will only be used if applications ask for them to be used, so if the applications don't ask for them to be used? You won't even notice them, it will be like they are not even there.
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If you are using a program that DOESN'T call for the DRM to be used, you are golden. Windows 7 does N O T automatically call for all the DRM stuff in it to be used, it waits for individual applications to ask for it to use it.
I would assume this would ALSO be true with this processor-based DRM.
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I have had DRM on some games that I have downloaded or bought bother me, but that isn't Windows 7 nor is it the in-built DRM of that OS bothering me.
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