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Yup! I would shout it from the rooftops! I hate people who betray their friends family and fellow countrymen! Who break their word and pass off information that will definitely lead to their friend's death!
Not exactly, something is only so if generally agreed by the public, and in this case the GP agrees that the Army can take any rights it wants.
>but it doesn't strip you of any human rights.
In fact it does. When you join the Army you become property of the US Army. You lose most all legal and civil protection.
Remember, as a serviceman he is tried by a military tribunal where laws are slightly different.
Nope. In WWII such things happened all the time. its not always clear who the enemy is, and it's far better to be alive and sorry than dead. For more information on chaotic wars look no further than Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. There were more than three sides who would alternate alliances on an almost daily basis, Orwell himself would shoot anyone who held a gun and appeared to be a threat -- and he was supposed to be a non-partial reporter!
Also it's unclear what torture took place, the article fails to mention anything worse than what happens to child molesters in regular prisons, and Manning's crime is of the same caliber, whether you like the US's actions or not betraying your word and countrymen is a terrible crime.
Oh I saw that: Manning's crime wasn't quiet by the book either. Never in America's History has a natural born citizen released so much private government data for no other reason than to allow his country men to be embarrassed and slaughtered.
But the article completely ignores his crime, making him sound like a mistreated child, not a treasonous bastard
I knew vice was liberal and slightly anti-american, but this takes it to a whole new level of hate. There is nothing new about prosecuting a soldier for releasing classified information to the enemy (which is in effect what Manning did) the fact that he did it in the name of transparency doesn't absolve him of guilt. He swore to protect any secrets divulged to him and to protect his fellow country men, he failed on both counts.
I'm sorry that anyone thinks its okay to betray one's country and fellow people in such a way.
This! nukes are not a serious weapon of war, their only use is deterrence because they completely rape any place where they're used so that that area is altogether off limits for the remaining life of humanity.
What did Einstein say about failure?
way to beat a dead horse /s
Wow, I saw the onion article but not the real story... that's crazy!
why only the 'stache?
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Yes, only I'm not spending $20 to play portal on a calculator...
Oh how I wish I still had a usb-TI83 cable, still have the calculator just not the cord to plug it into my computer...
Seems like a great way to loose a lot of bikes.
This is kinda old, I saw a video about this on the verge a couple months ago...
Not working right now...
Gives new meaning to the term helicopter parenting.
Yeah, you need to have a .edu email address, which if I understand correctly is not something high schools or middle schools give out anymore, as the .edu domain has become exclusively for higher education (Universities, etc), still most of the tools you get from Dreamspark aren't all that important and the open sources alternatives are often better.
Right, but finding a good Product Key is very difficult still.
Adobe Software in no longer easy to pirate. From what I understand people have to go to great lengths to pirate CS6, same goes for Office 2010, a friend told me that to pirate it he had to call Microsoft and mess around with files, it's not just a keygen anymore.
Which they're very aggressive about doing...
IDFblog, if you tried to go there during the war, they would popup and say "we're checking if you're a legit request .... redirecting now"
Nice to see startups still being bought for the products and not just the talent
But you'll play call of duty and Battlefield 1942, or better yet mow down civilians in GTA?
I'd play that game. /s
But seriously this is pretty cool, who new that a government agency had good programmers? I was very impressed with the polish of the tool while I was on the site, it felt very Hipster, could've been made by zynga or VLAMBEER or HalfBot. IMPRESSED!
1. wikipedia =/= reputable 2. Look at the contents of all those "resolutions" and you come to realize that none of them stand or are unbiased. 2a. A lot of those Resolutions are contradictory and self referential. anything else?
Actually yes. Innocent bystanders killed in targeted attack of some foreign national or just regular criminal are often referred to as "collateral damage" in CIA, FBI, and Police reports.