they could be, because google has localized search engines for just about every country it does business in. They can, and do filter content based on local laws of various countries.

They've made no bones about blocking various content in various countries due to laws like the DMCA.

not quite how that works. Thats like saying we don't need laws against murder because most Americans don't murder people.

This is about google complying with european law, and it selectively enforcing european's rights based on its own perogatives, basicly its rather American view on criminal justice which revolves around the witch hunt, and very harsh black and white theories, that people are either good or bad, and its really a waste of time trying to reform criminals.

Again, they don't challenge American laws like the DMCA, and NSA/FBI security letters under freedom of speech or right to privacy.

If they complied with all laws in countries they operated in, and stated such, they'd be forgiven as working within the system

If they complied with none of them, and held universal principles like Free speech, it'd be awesome, and unbiased.

If google refused to recognize the authority of any country of which it did no business in, again, fair for not letting a country excede its own jurisdiction, and enforce laws outside its boundries.

But what google is telling the world, is that they are an American company, and follow American laws, unquestionablly, while disregarding laws everywhere else, even in their overseas operations. The issue is that American law, byzantine American laws are being made to apply world wide, to everyone else, with little or no recourse.

my sides, my fucking sides.

That is so fucking bullshit its not even funny. The definition of "plenty" is debatable, as America doesn't spent nearly 1/10th what it needs to feed its poor. Let along medical care, the big one.

The military budget, however, rarely if ever gets questioned, and we have by far the largest military spending in the world. Mabey 1/3 could probably end both homelessness and hunger, and pay for universal health care.

not quite. In europe, former criminals have a right to move on with their lives after being reformed, and have their past crimes forgotten about so they can start new lives without interference, and you know, mabey not go back to jail.

Google also complies with 98% of requests from the US government, without really weighing moral implications of US law.

the hangup on adiction is that it takes a person's right to consent away.

air, water, food, and human contact are not addictions, they are human neccesities.

a web browser used to be something you paid $29.95 for at a computer store, long before you could get computer parts at staples.

Back in those days, the only people that paid, where people not on the internet, piracy was ubitquitos to internet usage.

warez, hackz, crakz, serialz, phreakz, and mp3z, you'd all find right on one poorly written site, fserv on irc, or bbs.

some you'd simply trade what you had for credits to download what you needed.

that was the 1990s.

speaking of "mp3z", they existed for about a decade, before any so called "legitimate" store existed to sell them. Warez before app stores, as pirates were the pioneers of digital distribution. Along with them, software programs to listen to mp3s as well as hardware mp3 players all came before the first online music store, by a very wide margin.

>Lots of things are highly addictive, the various drugs starting with oxy are good examples as they're perhaps more addictive then heroin and frequently prescribed.

I know, and they need to be more tightly regulated. I've been screaming about it for years. Many of them even have the nicknames "synthetic heroin", and despite being label, they do cause adiction, and many of the soul crushing effects of heroin. Prescription painkillers *are* an issue, and they are *not* ok.

>If someone is in chronic pain, whether physical or mental and a drug as cheap to manufacture and as safe as heroin is cheaply available, does it matter if they become addicted?

something about the cure being as bad as the disease.

Nothing is going to change because in our us vs them election cycle issues like this are:

1. not brought up by either major party.
2. Major party partisanism is strong, they don't vote on the issues, they vote on attacking the other guy, and fear. Few people inside the party are willing to listen to any message that doesn't come dirrectly from party HQ, in fear that it might be sabeteurs working for the other party, or they might be labeled as such by over zealous partisans, and their friends might stab them in the back.
3. No minor party really stands a chance for election.
4. If they did, they'd be attacked by both parties with information campaigns denouncing the third party as fringe, lunatics, and terrorists, by affiliated news media.(its pretty damn obvious that both major parties have affiliated news-media as propaganda)
5. Allegations which will be substainalized by the FBI doing an "investigation".(read set-up operation)

The only way to bring up an issue is to go through the Media companies in the face of PR, paying millions to have celebrities, and someone in either party consider your platform, and the 10 o'clock news won't denounce you as a terrorist with no one to back you.

Now that you want to wage cyber-war against the world, or protect against cyber-terrorism, good luck finding recruits. So instead of the best and the brightest, the NSA kow-tows to protecting the intrests of large corporations instead of the public at large. Anyone really supprised.

But yeah, I don't think the FBI is recruting top tier people anyway. You'll get the same shit-tier bean counters who learned all they knew about computers in 4 years of college, who can't remember any of it because they are disintrested in the subject matter.

>People were soliciting for hit men on Silk Road. You good with that?

Ross Ulbrich solicited a hit man once. That is it. It was not many people, or multiple people. Your making a wide reaching conspiracy where one simply does not exist. The silk road did not permit people selling hitman contracts.

>Even if Silk Road had prohibited payments for that kind of activity, don't you realize that another market allowing these transactions would exist?

This argument makes no sense. Your saying that even if person X didn't commit the crime, they are still guilty because someone else would have done it anyway. How about we arrest you now for treason, because that is what your suggesting, and even if its not, someone else is going to do it anyway. Substitute Treason for child rape, terrorism, or any other high and despicable crime

>Murder and sex trafficking are just as illegal.

niether which were being solicited on the silk road. Making the argument a strawman.

>I wonder if Kickstarter would let me set up a project so I could pay for someone to kick the shit out of you. Nothing personal, just to make a point. How does it feel when you are the target?

I was thinking we'd show up at your house at dinner time and beat you in front of your family before handcuffing you, and charging you with non-violent dissent against the current system. How does it feel when your the target?

http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/05/the-role-of-the-prison-guards-union-in-californias-troubled-prison-system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_Officers_Association

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/20/2658701/private-prison-firms-quotas-cells-coffers/

I mean you could have found this with a 5 second trip to google. Sweet fuck. Its no secret that guard's unions and private prisons fund campaigns of politicians that promote stronger sentancing. This is not incidental.

the very concept of a private prison is absurd. There is no market for prisons, and there can't be. Its very existence is corruption.(all business is generated dirrectly by lobying), and they don't really sell a product, and exist soley on government given taxpayers dollars.

theft is easier to combat, though, and its nowhere near as lucrative. Far more money, far lower risk per transaction.

Society has a far lower tollerance for theft, and the amount of money in stealing is far less than drugs, and its far riskier.

Its highly adictive, to the point that someone adicted to heroin no longer consents to being on heroin, but rather must continue to feed a habbit. Thats whats wrong with it.

speaking of money owed, you can't afford me. Plain and simple. Do you think I'd just port your shit for nothing? Or just talk to Redhat about support. I mean, your already paying for it.

What really does systemd break in your legacy operations? journald has a config option to turn syslog back on again. It'd be damn easy to rewrite /etc/init.d/ shims if your devs where dense enough to hardcode calls to bash scripts. No really, system calls are in the kernel, and most of the rest are in various libs.

What actually fucking breaks? Do you ever know?

Honestly: Probably not, but it just might have overstepped its bounds as LE does quite frequently.

I'm just using the opperunity to get on my soap box to decry the disasterous war on drugs. Something that I don't think can be done enough.