I'm sorry, you can't even remotely compare Bush to Palpatine - Palpatine was shrewd and planned ahead and intelligent and dangerous - and His Holy Shrubbiness was only the last of those. To do so is to insult Palpatine's intelligence.
The only thing Bush had going for him was a lack of malevolence - that was happily supplied by Darth Cheney and Darth Rumsfeld, neither of whom showed any ability to plot further than their own immediate enrichment anyway.
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Either you support loss of all rights to fight 'terrorism', or you are a filthy terrorist (sympathiser).
It's like when you see various so-called Christian sects throwing around accusations of other sects following their man below for not being One True Christians...
Re: Yes, real world is you don't exactly own those phones.
If you don't like what people who buy and own the phones do with them, don't sell them. Then happily go out of business when those people buy ones that let them do more, or they just ignore your dinsaur rules anyway.
And should you find yourself in a pool of blood from a gunshot wound, or down a well with a broken leg, I hope people remember that you don't 'deserve' help because you are such a selfish narcissictic excuse for a failure of an enlightened human being.
Well then, stop whining when your roads are rotten, bridges fall down, and you can't field a military able to stop Burkina Faso - or whine because the current obscenely oversized military spends everything that should go elsewhere in society.
There is such a thing as enough money to not care. The more money you have, the more options you have, and the easier it is to deal with the unexpected and very expensive, especially in a country where you can be bankrupted for an illness.
Seriously, someone on minimum wage losing 10% of their wage is way more hurt than someone on $100k a year, who also can afford good healthcare, a nice house somewhere safe, their own transport and a government bending over backwards to make sure that a 10% tax is more like 5% or less.
Again, this is why every other 'civilised' country has progressive tax rates. And that is why you get compared to Middle-East oil dictatorships.
Right after the whole Shrub administration is impeached and imprisoned for lying to the American people and the world, initiating illegal wars, and getting thousands of Americans killed for the benefit of Exxon and Blackwater.
Or would you rather whine about 4 people in Libya?
Both governments this millenium are corrupt. Be consistent at least.
I would castigate the IRS for not going after all the supposedly politics-exempt churches that were actively campaigning against Obama during the last election cycle. Too much religion gets handed a free lunch - make the churches earn and pay their taxes!
If you were so superior, you wouldn't have waited three years and until Germany declared war on *you* to even think of moving your arses to 'help'. You profited nicely off it all too!
One of the things I love about this site is that even foreigners know more about US law than all the shills put together. Thanks for keeping us educated.
And thanks to all the ethical US lawyers (TAC, SJD, Ken Popehat, etc.) for showing us that not all of you should be up against the wall first ;)
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I'm sure that even if piracy went away, there'd be enough stories about corrupt/stupid politicians, corrupt/stupid artists, corrupt/stupid corporations and corrupt/stupid lawyers to keep him quite busy!
Yes, well, the rights of the content controllers to swing their fists is being unfairly 'stolen' or restricted by our rights to having our noses intact!
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The only thing Bush had going for him was a lack of malevolence - that was happily supplied by Darth Cheney and Darth Rumsfeld, neither of whom showed any ability to plot further than their own immediate enrichment anyway.
Palpatine was master of the Xanatos gambit. Cheney and Rumsfeld were just nightmare fuel.
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Re: Re: Re: How is it Mike both "supports copyright" and defends Kim Dotcom?
It's like when you see various so-called Christian sects throwing around accusations of other sects following their man below for not being One True Christians...
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The same way that anyone without an FB page will be 'assumed' to be 'hiding' something by unscrupulous employers...
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Except I can't, because I'm humane.
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Seriously, someone on minimum wage losing 10% of their wage is way more hurt than someone on $100k a year, who also can afford good healthcare, a nice house somewhere safe, their own transport and a government bending over backwards to make sure that a 10% tax is more like 5% or less.
Again, this is why every other 'civilised' country has progressive tax rates. And that is why you get compared to Middle-East oil dictatorships.
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Re: Re: NULLIFY + REPUDIATE
Or would you rather whine about 4 people in Libya?
Both governments this millenium are corrupt. Be consistent at least.
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And thanks to all the ethical US lawyers (TAC, SJD, Ken Popehat, etc.) for showing us that not all of you should be up against the wall first ;)
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