Hollywood movies (almost) never make a profit.
For example David Prowse (played Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi) isn't get his share of the net profit since the movie still hasn't made since it was made in 1972.
You miss quite a few points when you argue that Assad is responsible for using chemical weapons.
1) Assad is winning.
2) Why fire the weapon on civilian positions instead of rebel positions.
3) Why fire when he knows that there are foreign witnesses around.
4) several earlier attempts to connect the Assad regime with chemical weapons which fell apart after either not enough evidence, evidence of it not being a chemical weapon or evidence that it were makeshift devices used by the rebels.
5) Several locations which were used to stockpile chemical weapons were taken over by the rebels. For at least one of those locations there is evidence that Assad didn't have time to remove the weapons.
About the silence of Russia arming Assad. Pot, kettle, black. In the technical sense it is indeed not the US that has been arming the rebels, seeing that those have been provided by Saudi Arabia, it is just the CIA that has been overseeing the transfer of those weapons to the rebels, in the hopes of reducing the chance of them reaching the al-qaeda look-a-likes. Not much success since they just beat up anyone not handing them over if they didn't get their share.
You do know that the current mess started when the US thought it could weaken/topple the Assad regime on the cheap after a mutiny in the army went rebellion when the mutineers managed to get their clans involved. Then things went up the creek when the al-qaeda look-a-likes noticed that Saudi Arabia was handing out weapons (& the USA other supplies) like candy.
That that Obama took the advice of the dolt who said antagonize Putin on this subject. I mean Putin signaled that if he was given a way to get out of this mess that wouldn't reduce his strongman image he'd do so. But no, the brilliant minds advising on how the US should react to this went into complete meltdown mode while trying to push Putin around, leaving Putin no other option (at least not if he didn't want to look weak) then handing asylum to Snowden to show the people that vote for him that he isn't beholden to the USA.
Seems you are missing a brain. There is a simple reason to bring a gun onto a plane. To carry it from A to B while it just being of the right size to fit in the hand/carry on luggage class.
There is another purpose for guns. It is called recreation and no that is not an euphemism for shooting at people.
Your next paragraph is word salad that makes even less sense then the preceding (or following) paragraphs.
Your experiment of handing out guns has already been done. Unfortunately the results do not bear out your prediction. Just ask the Swiss who hand out guns to their reserves to keep at home.
Chronoss you really need to get your reading comprehension level checked. Kindergarten level just doesn't work well on the internet.
That point you think is/was racism was made to show how much of a hypocrite the comment of the minister was.
You have the same problem with comprehension with your first point.
Who cares if he goes to France and Germany. This is not about them but about about countries which are US allies but are seriously debating to give Snowden political asylum.
The biggest problem with his request for asylum is that he has to be here (can't request asylum from an embassy).
Then there is a division between the political parties. Some say yes. Others say no. The minister who would most likely process the request said: "No he broke the law", to which people have already reacted by saying: "Oh when are we going to send all the Iranian homosexuals requesting political asylum back as well since that is against the law in Iran.",
The biggest reason why he shouldn't try coming here (as said by the people who want to grant him asylum) is normal (That is deferential) behavior of the country in it's relation with the USA.
Were it not that, in the majority of the cases, the only people you can choose to represent you in the US are the ones who manage to get enough money to campaign. And that money expects payback.
Simple. They are using the slippery slope argument. As is explicitly stated in the older TD article linked:
“What happens here could affect other future treaties,” said Chris Marcich, who is in charge of dealing with the negotiations for the MPAA and its international wing, the Motion Picture Association.
So the blind are just collateral damage in an attempt to prevent copyright from being watered down.
Wiretapping as you describe it didn't happen.
One of the victims called them while they were trying to get hold of the second victim.
Then it was discovered when the recording was sold and published.
The crimes, from what I've read, are recording a call without all participants knowing and then selling said recording.
As for spoofing caller ID. They called the offices of the two victims. Just tell the person receiving the call that you have a new phone(number) and there goes the recognition, person receiving the call passes it on to the victim, victim notices a dead line and hits redial.
No one is paying but they aren't allowed to destroy/reuse them. The US has their evidence and said destroy the remaining evidence since we won't pay. Megaupload want's to keep them but has no assets to pay for it. The judge went talk to each other but in the meanwhile don't do anything to those servers.
That is where the IRS criminal investigations division (CID) comes into play.
When people compared them to the Romulans after judge Wrights order someone commented aptly that Romulans have a better grasp of due process.
When the CID is involved you are presumed guilty until you can prove your innocence. You better be able to show you crossed all the Ts and dotted all the Is and show that the remaining errors are innocent mistakes easily corrected or they'll stuff you in a cell while you try to figure out how to get the money for the fine they handed out.
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
Sociopaths should be removed from position of power.
Not possible. Every publicly traded company is almost bound by law to behave as a sociopath. Not doing so would mean that said company is not complying with it's duty to it's shareholders.
One beer brand had an exclusive deal. So another one shipped in a bunch of women in with a very orange dress (seeing that this was done during the a match involving the Dutch) with their logo on the back.
The amount of free exposure they got when that group got arrested for showing that logo on T.V. during the match.
Ambush marketing, maybe not that ethical but damn fun to watch (if properly executed).
There are more things that play then just the dislike of big (the American part not so much if you check the cases that the EU anti-trust commission managed).
Google has has around a 90% market ratio around here (the EU).
What are considered monopoly practices is different between the EU and the USA.
Then there are the newspapers who want a piece of the Google pie.
Also the shenanigans with Streetview slurping WiFi data hasn't been forgotten.
And a few more of minor quibbles like those last two.
That said I do expect them to find that Google hasn't abused it's position if the commission decides to investigate.
Not just Ireland. The best example here in the Netherlands. A referendum on the EU constitution. It was rejected despite the propaganda (and very clear bias towards yes on instruments that were supposed to help clarify what would be the best vote for people).
My comment at the time, due to previous experiences, was making a bet on how long it would take before it would be reintroduced as a government only vote. Nobody I knew would take the bet. Which I, most likely, would have won since it was only 2 weeks after the time I said they did exactly that.
Europe is not a democracy, it isn't a republic it isn't a federation. It is some form of an oligarchy with institutions like the parliament and the different committees as smokescreen/camouflage to hide this fact
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Not a myth
For example David Prowse (played Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi) isn't get his share of the net profit since the movie still hasn't made since it was made in 1972.
See more at: this link
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Faulty reasoning
1) Assad is winning.
2) Why fire the weapon on civilian positions instead of rebel positions.
3) Why fire when he knows that there are foreign witnesses around.
4) several earlier attempts to connect the Assad regime with chemical weapons which fell apart after either not enough evidence, evidence of it not being a chemical weapon or evidence that it were makeshift devices used by the rebels.
5) Several locations which were used to stockpile chemical weapons were taken over by the rebels. For at least one of those locations there is evidence that Assad didn't have time to remove the weapons.
About the silence of Russia arming Assad. Pot, kettle, black. In the technical sense it is indeed not the US that has been arming the rebels, seeing that those have been provided by Saudi Arabia, it is just the CIA that has been overseeing the transfer of those weapons to the rebels, in the hopes of reducing the chance of them reaching the al-qaeda look-a-likes. Not much success since they just beat up anyone not handing them over if they didn't get their share.
You do know that the current mess started when the US thought it could weaken/topple the Assad regime on the cheap after a mutiny in the army went rebellion when the mutineers managed to get their clans involved. Then things went up the creek when the al-qaeda look-a-likes noticed that Saudi Arabia was handing out weapons (& the USA other supplies) like candy.
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What baffles me is:
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Re: Re: Re:
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There is another purpose for guns. It is called recreation and no that is not an euphemism for shooting at people.
Your next paragraph is word salad that makes even less sense then the preceding (or following) paragraphs.
Your experiment of handing out guns has already been done. Unfortunately the results do not bear out your prediction. Just ask the Swiss who hand out guns to their reserves to keep at home.
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Re: @8
That point you think is/was racism was made to show how much of a hypocrite the comment of the minister was.
You have the same problem with comprehension with your first point.
Who cares if he goes to France and Germany. This is not about them but about about countries which are US allies but are seriously debating to give Snowden political asylum.
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The Netherlands
Then there is a division between the political parties. Some say yes. Others say no. The minister who would most likely process the request said: "No he broke the law", to which people have already reacted by saying: "Oh when are we going to send all the Iranian homosexuals requesting political asylum back as well since that is against the law in Iran.",
The biggest reason why he shouldn't try coming here (as said by the people who want to grant him asylum) is normal (That is deferential) behavior of the country in it's relation with the USA.
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Re:
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Re: Re: Re: Stop and think
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Why?
So the blind are just collateral damage in an attempt to prevent copyright from being watered down.
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Double standard? No.
Then it is all legal again.
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Huh?
One of the victims called them while they were trying to get hold of the second victim.
Then it was discovered when the recording was sold and published.
The crimes, from what I've read, are recording a call without all participants knowing and then selling said recording.
As for spoofing caller ID. They called the offices of the two victims. Just tell the person receiving the call that you have a new phone(number) and there goes the recognition, person receiving the call passes it on to the victim, victim notices a dead line and hits redial.
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It is a millstone for them
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Re:
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Re: Getting away with it.
When people compared them to the Romulans after judge Wrights order someone commented aptly that Romulans have a better grasp of due process.
When the CID is involved you are presumed guilty until you can prove your innocence. You better be able to show you crossed all the Ts and dotted all the Is and show that the remaining errors are innocent mistakes easily corrected or they'll stuff you in a cell while you try to figure out how to get the money for the fine they handed out.
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As max Planck said
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Re: Re: Re:
Not possible. Every publicly traded company is almost bound by law to behave as a sociopath. Not doing so would mean that said company is not complying with it's duty to it's shareholders.
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Reminds me of the world soccer cup
The amount of free exposure they got when that group got arrested for showing that logo on T.V. during the match.
Ambush marketing, maybe not that ethical but damn fun to watch (if properly executed).
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EU and getting things right?
Google has has around a 90% market ratio around here (the EU).
What are considered monopoly practices is different between the EU and the USA.
Then there are the newspapers who want a piece of the Google pie.
Also the shenanigans with Streetview slurping WiFi data hasn't been forgotten.
And a few more of minor quibbles like those last two.
That said I do expect them to find that Google hasn't abused it's position if the commission decides to investigate.
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Re: They've done it before
My comment at the time, due to previous experiences, was making a bet on how long it would take before it would be reintroduced as a government only vote. Nobody I knew would take the bet. Which I, most likely, would have won since it was only 2 weeks after the time I said they did exactly that.
Europe is not a democracy, it isn't a republic it isn't a federation. It is some form of an oligarchy with institutions like the parliament and the different committees as smokescreen/camouflage to hide this fact
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