So the Nazis weren't guilty of genocide because they merely killed millions of Romani, Jews, homosexuals and communists rather than completely exterminating them?

Idiots.

Lets see the pedants say that when everyone from Japan to France has military bases on the U.S. mainland, whether or not the USG is a puppet or just bought off.

No they shouldn't be punished forever, but we probably should keep an eye on them forever.

So who do you suggest should keep an eye on the United States, for it's history of genocide, slavery, imperialism, and overthrowing democratically elected governments? You'd need quite a team for that job.

The USA's response has been something along the lines of "you expected us not to conducting traditional spying activities?"

There's nothing "traditional" about the depth, pervasiveness, or reach of the USG's spying. If it's anything like military spending, the U.S. spends more than the rest of the planet combined.

How about the unstoppable force of your projection vs the immovable object of your ignorance? If prisoners can start filing cases citing SCOTUS's reasoning on the wider reasoning on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, JW's can do the same on an apples-to-apples issue like blood transfusions. And if the courts block those objections, they are directly favoring one religion over another.

You, and the hacks on the court, are in a lose-lose position here.

You are the one that's willfully obtuse.

Fraid not. Having the money at some point and trying to invest it - what the government was able to prove - was not violating the law. He was kept in jail because the judge thought he was hiding the money - something the government was never able to prove.

Then refused to file a fraud complaint against the person (or persons) who defrauded him. The inconsistent behavior and proof he had the money, but no indication of where it went after he deliberately hid it.

Which would be relevant in a perjury case if he turns up this weekend in a yacht, but irrelevant to keeping him in prison for one year, much less 14. It's the government's job to prove your guilt, not your job to prove your innocence.

The average full time non salary worker at hobby lobby makes $14 an hour. I wouldn't exactly call that not much.

Only when compared to the minimum wage which is far below poverty level, so yeah, having to fork out $300 out of pocket for an IUD is a good chunk of change. And not exactly fair when the guy working the next register over pays $300 out of pocket for a $3,000 vasectomy, which Hobby Lobby still covers.

1) Hobby Lobby was fine with covering these meds before it was mandatory

I need a cite before I will believe this.

Sure thing.

Not relevant but show me a creditable link and it needs to be one concerning the 4 contraception they took issue with.

Pointing out hypocrisy is always relevant. Ditto that for buying products from China and the total absence of the "life begins at conception" crowd at the entrance of IVF clinics, which throw thousands of embryos in the trash. And again, sure thing.

3) All their products come from China with it's mandatory abortions

Not relevant again. Or do you think you should go to prison for something your father or brother did?

Pointing out hypocrisy is always relevant. Re the brother and the father nonsense - didn't I ask you to stop being a dumbass for five seconds?

They don't seem to be telling others how to live, just objecting to others telling them to ignore their faith and provide a couple specific things.

Just the usual rationalized bullshit. They aren't a church, they are a business. And right now, businesses owned by JW's and Scientologists and Christian Scientists are objecting to having to provide for blood transfusions/psychiatric care/any medical care. And their objections are just as "valid" as Hobby Lobby's.

No one is arguing to mess around with other people's lives except for the government. They are saying you have to provide X even if it is against your religion and hobby lobby said no I don't and a court agreed with them. That is the facts that it boils down to if you remove all the spin.

By all means, remove the spin. Hobby Lobby wants to collect tax breaks from employer-provided insurance - which is part of an employees compensation - without following the rules that come with said compensation. They're still happy to cover viagra and vasectomies though - but then you seem to be a fan of hypocrisy.

You wouldn't be double paying for it.

Of course you are, as insurance is a part of your compensation, but being arbitrarily denied for unjustifiable reasons.

IT doesn't prevent those people subjected to the loss of transfusions or psychiatric medication from gaining coverage in some other way.

Yeah. It does. Under Obomneycare, you have to take your employer's insurance plan.

There is no reason why it could not be done in the hobby lobby case or a Jehovah's Witnesses or Scientologist.

So you are in favor of abject insanity. At least that's out and on the table.

You act like the sky is falling when all you did was knock you glass off the table.

You're acting like the trashing of the 1st Amendment is no big thang. Let us know how you like it when you end up shelling out thousands of dollars just to make your crazy JW boss happy.

You don't know how to read very well, do you? There are no statistics in existence that explains giving lower rates to an accident-prone driver with multiple moving violations on the side - which put the driver in actuarial tables for higher risk and higher insurance rates.

It is name-calling no matter how much you try to justify it

Not when it's a factual description, no matter how petulantly you whine about it. Immaturity is immaturity, whether your 4, 14 or 40. Deal.

And if you knew how to read you'd see I said the car "in the next lane."

And you know the driver ahead of that car isn't going to give a rat's ass when it's his bumper taking the brunt of your little "joke". Thus, hoping that the bumper in question is yours.

I can replace my job in 1/10th the time/cost it would take my employer to replace me.

So you're going to engage in wankery, to defend his corporate master.

If you are at your employers mercy, you have no one to blame but yourself.

When there's five other unemployed people for every job opening? Best hope you never fall out of elitist bubble of rarefied air, Randian.

So receipts are imaginary?

I went to Wal-Mart last night. I did not keep my receipt. Was my trip to the store imaginary?

You are asking the government to prove the negative. That he didn't spend the money.

Willfully obtuse. Anyone who's passed 2nd grade civics knows it's the government's job to prove your guilt (hiding the money), not your job to prove your innocence(money was spent).

To avoid court costs.

Because they knew they had fucked up. Badly. Claiming that a corp the size of Microsoft is afraid of a little lawsuit - days after having someone's business raided - is about as believable as your Craigslist ad for oceanfront property in Nebraska.

And you don't know that they offered a settlement. MS could have simply told them to STFU or they'd be countersued for X, Y, and Z.

Your protests don't pass the laugh test. If Microsoft could sue for X, Y, or Z, they never would have agreed to a settlement so quickly.

Maybe MS threatened to publicly release evidence that showed they were actively aiding and abetting the malware shit MS was called in to clean up.

Then they would have done so.

You can blindly hate MS all you want, but no-ip and its siblings have a less than stellar reputation themselves.

Go home, Microsoft fanboi, you're delusional. The response would have been the same if it were Microsoft or Google or Samsung pulling the same crap.

If Microsoft wasn't the "bad guy", why offer a settlement less than two weeks later?

I don't like Redmond

For some reason I feel like doubting the sincerity of this statement.

I guess every story has at least one.

So, the cop saw someone breaking the law, gave chase, and then they're the bad guys because the suspect tried to ram them?

No, you twit. They're bad guys for lying about it.

No drone, or "remotely piloted aircraft" in DoD newspeak, should be flown over a populated area.

Charge them for what they did do, not make shit up about what they didn't do. This isn't hard.

They had proof he hid money. He had no proof he lost the money he hid. So, to the court's satisfaction, he had committed fraud, and the contempt charge was to compel a confession.

Yes, they were demanding that he prove a negative, which is of course impossible to do. If the government couldn't prove that he still had the money, the government had no business holding him.