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HN still has people worth talking to, but it is beginning to suffer from moderation rot.
Certainly did not make him a better human being between condoning torture, kill lists, and his utter disregard for human liberties. I wonder how any child could respect such a bloodthirsty parent.
Perhaps English is not your native language?
How do you know TPP fines are settled between governments? TPP is still ongoing, and is secret. How can I be more clear?
As for your opinion about free trade, it hardly deserves a response, please consult a dictionary because you are not using the word correctly.
How would you know what the TPP entails?
From leaks it suggests it involves companies suing governments for cash settlement.
Also, you are rather naive if you think 'free trade' means free trade, it will be nothing of the sort, it will raise barriers and make many goods and services more expensive.
Smuggling, ignoring IP laws, refusing to comply with fines or other rulings. You seem like a smart guy, try using your brain.
The simple solution is to ignore illegitimate laws.
The legal process no longer concerns itself with the average citizen, why then does the average citizen show concern over the law?
The American legal system lacks any semblance of justice or legitimacy. It is a system designed to empower and serve the State.
Since these things can be opaque, archlinux updated to disable "hotword":
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/...
thanks to the maintainer and the FOSS community in general.
? Why do you think people are discussing this, might it be because, gasp, the source code is being audited?
Ritchie's ghost tells you to get off his digital lawn
Because water doesn't cost $3 a gallon.
We don't know the full scale of such things because it is considered a state secret.
Its bizarre how people will say something when it flies in the face of observable reality.
the US police state slaughters more people than is acknowledged, it requires a UK newspaper to get the correct amount.
Cite court cases all you want, they directly contradict what the police get away with everyday, you plainly see on tape them beating and killing people, planting evidence, destroying evidence and private property, and it happens without consequence.
You are a police apologist, defending murderous thugs.
Cops kill 3 people a day, sounds like execution to me. Funny how dead men can't defend themselves or contradict the narrative police give -- which is often wrong when caught on tape.
I don't think you fully grok how many more people the US imprisons, a country would have to execute tens of thousands of people per year for decades to match the amount.
Police are thugs, far worse than any gang.
By every measure the US has the most imprisonment. America is the première police state, how else would you measure it?
One reason the US has a policing problem is because of the reflexive and thoughtless defense people give them.
How many more Chicago Blacksites, 'accidental' deaths while in custody, and shooting and killing of unarmed citizens do people need to have happen before the cop apologists stop their hero worship excuse making?
Police are murderous thugs. Their pensions should be cut and department budgets gutted.
US police kill about three people a day, and shoot and harrass many more and all with hardly any consequences. They even openly operate 'blacksites' where people are detained without rights and tortured, sometimes even killed.
These are not the hallmarks of a free society, it is the symptoms of fascist military rule.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/10/the-counted-5...
No worries, the secret laws totally make this legal, honest!
Every greyhound bus I've been in has a tiolet in the back, maybe not the most amazing experience but it sure beats pissing into a water bottle.
Because the US government has proven so trust worthy in recent memory with all the secret laws, torture, and murder of innocents.
What an endless parade of jingoists to ever defend the exceptional American empire.
Passing secret laws is a hallmark of a dictatorship.
It does in fact make a difference when the law prosecutes some but not others. That is how kings and dictators rule, by enforcing 'the law' selectively and in secret.
When you celebrate political theater that reaffirms the status quo with some window dressing you are essentially saying "yay, tyranny".
Dismissing criticism with a flippant "perfect is the enemy of the good" is lazy and thoughtless.
The government has shown no interest in curtailing the vast surveillance apparatus it has built, nor does it show interest in investigating its own abuses of such power.
When people praise such drivel as the freedom act it only sets us all back on the road to tyranny. So yeah, your perspective is detrimental to improving the dire circumstances we find ourselves.
And bad is brother of worse.
Slogans are easy, what's hard is recognizing the difference between political theater and meaningful change.
America is tumbling into the abyss of tyranny and people celebrate.
The other option is to quit but offer to train their new employee as a consultant at twice or thrice your previous salary.
The document is classified and supposed to be kept secret for four years after the entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement is reached, for four years from the close of the negotiations.
How do people put up with this craziness? You all are talking about the rule of law while your congress is going to pass something many of them can't read, can't read in full, can't read with the help of aids, and can't disclose, and can't disclose even after it becomes law.
That's not law, that's tyranny.
The power and authority of the state emanates from the people, don't let your government convince you otherwise. If enough enough people woke this morning deciding their government was no longer legitimate those in power would be gone by night fall.
Developing using twitter open source and api is essentially asking to to robbed by them if anything you make is successful.
Here is a better example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=yeahyeah
At the time this was the top comment and completely derailed the conversation. Pretty sure that wasn't a Russian agency, take a guess which one it was.
EDIT: amazing, I provide the community a crystal clear example of astroturfing and get down voted.
If only that gumption extended to the US tax payer footing the bill to be spied upon.
Accordingly to the world's stock markets things couldn't be better, but it hasn't changed job prospects for today's youth.
Central bank easing has helped those with assets, which is predominantly the older. Obamacare helps also the older, in fact today's youth pay an outsized subsidy to the old even though they are the least able to afford it.
Today's youth are also the most indebted, college was remarkably cheaper for previous generations but now that advantage is gone.
Politics tells the same story, the congress and judicial instituions are packed by white haired babyboomers making policy predominantly in the interest of the old.
Regulations help the large established companies to the determent of the small and new.