"He pointed out that the KGB had a file on Putin long before he became the glorious leader which included a personality profile. The KGB had determined that Putin had an unusually low sense of danger, the kind of guy that thinks he can get away with just about anything, and that might include launching a nuclear first strike against America." [citation needed]
Not that I doubt that could very well possible...
You're missing the point. If you decide to let a madman wipe off half the planet, he will, and nomatter how much you hate your country or try to satisfy him he's going to do it, unless you say "if you hit me I'll hit you back", then no nukes get fired, because you *ghasp* stood up for yorself and the only thing bullies understand is strength.
Bullies understand almost only strength, politicians understand strength, but you were talking about madman - need I elaborate on what they might or might not understand?
All told the whole thing is pretty sad. And before someone talks about the evil corporations, lets get something straight... look around the country in more business friendly areas. Take texas or South Dakota or either of the Carolinas... how much of this police buying are we seeing there? Not much. So California is where we're seeing this now.
Why of why would that be?
Since I've only read about this one case, please share the information if there is more of this happening.
I'm not claiming it's for everybody but in Finland I used to bike to school (and I still bike around, summers and winters, raining or shining) and having biked under all of above situations I can say that they hardly make bicycles unusable.
Finland, thank you
We already have many, you silly fox... Let's give your kind your own country,
Oh phlueez, I've had similiar tab counts for several (>=5) years now and it hasn't been a problem, though nowdays it does help to be selective about domains you allow scripts from.
fuck off and die from blunt force trauma in ass
Interesting (not). I disagree with GP on many things, most having to do with VNC as I've used (Tight)VNC for many purposes and have achieved nearly same level of usability over 256K line as I have locally (not for any kind of animated/video context like games, video, etc. but for browsing web for articles, email, coding, etc.) but I also use X forwarding for several reasons and all I can see in your post is a counter argument that isn't and never has been a thing. It's just foul mannered nothing not worth the time I wasted on replying and I'm currently ass-whipping myself for it.
what we have is a choice of kang or kodos. either way, we lose.
and no, voting 3rd party is a non-starter. don't even go there.
So you vote for something you don't believe in, something that you call losing? Or you don't vote at all (better than the former option if you ask me)?
Let me ask you, in the fictional situation that you would actually find yourself in the imaginary scene in Simpsons, would you vote for Kang or would you vote for Kodos? Coz voting for 3rd party is absolutely a non-starter.
I'll leave it for others to figure out why, out of these four choices (of which the first two seem to be the same), voting for 3rd party is indeed the only sane option here (with possibility of choosing not to vote being less insane than voting for ass-poundings for everyone).
Are you talking about Russia or USSR?
It's like some kind of Woody Allen line, "My lawyer plea-bargained my sentence down to death".
You know, I could almost hear it in the voice of Woody Allen in my head when I read this - it was hilarious =D Wish I coult mod you...
My question is how was releasing that information helpful? While certainly unethical, bugging Merkel's phone (for instance) was NOT illegal under US law, and not forbidden under the NSA's charter, while the domestic data collection clearly was both illegal and forbidden. I applaud the exposure of the NSA's illegal activities, but I abhor the exposure of their legal ones.
This is why I believe he had other motives. Snowden is not a hero, he's an attention whore.
Reasonable people don't throw their life away for attention whoring, and I for one most certainly think Snowden is a reasonable person. Reasonable and *ethical* - what's wrong with USA (as well as most other countries and a whole lot of people) is the lack of ethics of any kind and I applaud Snowden for his clearly deep love for his country and hatred for sociopaths that are failing it and taking a huge dump on ethis of any kind.
Granted I'm not american and I thus have other reasons than well being of USA only for thanking Snowden, but let's play pretend and imagine that I were the same person I am now except I was american and I'll grant you I would be just as much cheering for Snowden as I am now.
I'm also thankful, as a Finnish citizen, to Snowden for uncovering how Sweden is in bed with NSA in spying out citizen.
There's something to be said for a patriot who throws his life away to do the right thing for not only his country, by exposing the wrongs their government (and//or three letter agencies), but for other countries as well - thank you Snowden.
I'd rather be a whistleblower than one of the huge sheeple-mob of "I knew what was happening, but... I was just following orders" after someone else finally blows the whistle.
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