PickledHotdog

It would be miniscule compared to the damage Israel inflicted on Lebanon for decades

Iran was "contained" under Obama's deal with them....that Trump tore up....and when he was in the middle of negotiating a new one he attacked Iran who were in good faith negotiations.

The rogue nation here is the US.

Isn't the person you're replying to suggesting people can update the firmware to the trusted version via a website? So it doesn't matter if you get one from 'the next batch' - provided you're on top of updating the firmware.

And yet millions of people starve, are tortured and are worked to death in the name of Capitalism. How many die or are made destitute due to lack of affordable healthcare in the US alone?

Not to mention the trillions of dollars (and lives) given up in the pursuit of halting what we're told is a fragile, prone-to-collapse form of government for a hundred years now.

Strange that.

Yeah, in my experience it's typically used by people who can't counter your argument and people who seem likely to be fooled by actual bots. They're the same people, as it happens.

Where's the proof Roaring Kitty is a pump and dump scammer? He made the connections, concocted the thesis and is now taking it to its natural conclusion.

He wields enough power in his position that he doesn't need anyone to bring it about.

Given how he's handled other things, I doubt he's just using e-trafe

He hasn't done anything illegal. He posts his positions after the market closes and he's talked about his thesis for years now.

We're all just getting front row seats to the show.

How is it a pump and dump? He doesn't need anyone to do anything.

He has the position and the funds to make the play himself.

Speak for yourself

Traveller and expat here - "free world" is absolutely correct.

Even its allies aren't free of government interference from the US.

Lions don't attack every animal that sets foot on their turf.

The release of "Collateral Murder" damaged public opinion of the US invasion of Iraq and US foreign policy in general. If journalists embarrass the US government by telling them their nose looks funny, Assange embarrassed them by pulling their pants down at the half time show at the Superbowl.

For Australians: Right-wing, Sky News talking head, Rita Panahi, was born in Pine Bluff, AK, according to its wikipedia page. Sure would explain her hatred of the poor.

Those few days where Facebook blocked news org posts was absolute bliss. The platform is better without them.

Perhaps the term "wired differently" wasn't so far off the mark after all?

People look at beautiful sunrises that way too, sometimes

Trade unions were involved in the push for the ban. So, rather than cynical motives, it might actually just be regular old "the health and safety of workers" behind it.

There's a substantial amount of lobbying, but the reporting requirements on it are laughably low. Agree it's not at the level of the US, though. The member for Kooyong was working to establish a bill about it. At the moment lobbyists have unfettered access to parliament house.

Scandinavian, right? It blew my mind to hear about the enduring popularity of Donald Duck at the top of the Disney food chain.

I mean, that is certainly an opinion

Easy, just block them at night

And their single login domain got seized. Oh boy.

Motorola/Lenovo have some fairly stock Android options

They had this calibration on PCs decades ago

At least we've moved on from Blockchain as the technology du juor

Your analogy is a bit off. Companies have responsibilities to keep customer data safe - Medibank wouldn't be fined if so someone broke into their offices and stole all the toilet paper.

Nice feelings you have there.

Why can't we legalise sex work and cut a lot of pimps out of the equation? Maintain a "ban" on street walking, but allow brothels and escorting.

What is prostitution anyway? A coal miner sells his body in similar ways to a prostitute.

Why can't we legalise drugs and cut cartels and gangs out of the equation? Personal use amounts, manufactured and taxed like other drugs (alcohol, cigarettes etc)

Why can't we legalise abortion and cut backyard operators out of the equation?

Why should your moral stances take precedence over the safety of others?

You can't legislate behaviours away. They're going to happen. We've been taking drugs for 10s of 1000s of years. We've been trading our bodies for benefits for at least a few thousand.

These actions are largely harmless. Let's realise that making them illegal is a large part of what makes them dangerous.

Oh weird. Having read the book, I agree it's a tough read. But would it have been the same if prostitution was legalised (or at least decriminalised) and regulated? I doubt it very much.

Sex work can be made far safer. A holier than thou blanket ban on legalisation of sex work will only guarantee that it won't become safer.

Similar to drug use, if we as societies continue to pretend that people won't partake in drugs because there are laws against it, all we're doing is ensuring drug use is more dangerous.

If you don't want to be a sex worker, don't be one. If you don't want to take drugs, don't take them (though I'm sure many anti-drug types enjoy a whiskey or 10).

But don't pretend you're doing people a favour by refusing to entertain the idea of legalising largely harmless behaviours. You're just ensuring that the actions which are going to happen regardless are more dangerous for those involved.

A bit like abortion, really.

Given the largest English speaking population on the internet is Americans, I'm going to have to assume that the ridiculously puritanical opinions on sex work and drug use in the comments are from Americans.

Ah yes, that would explain the enormous raft of benefits that Portugal came into when it decriminalised drug use for personal amounts and would explain why the Prohibition Era was so wildly successful and free from downsides

Which drugs do you draw the line at? Coffee? Alcohol? Nicotine?