What are you 5? I mean do you seriously think you are going to gain anything by responding to a troll with a troll comment? The poster you are replying to is nothing but a troll- likely not remotely religious and just spouting bigotry (if the AC wasn't you trying to set up the garbage reply you gave) and your trying to validate it with continuing the toll? The comment has so many negative votes, I had to hit the parent button just to see the context of your ramblings. So by your reply, you actually exposed more people to that vile post.

And you even have to inject specifically male homosexual activity in order separate gays from lesbians (which is an idiotic distinction anyways) which the parent did nothing of the sort. But on top of all that, you have to try to be offensive in the process. By your logic (or lack thereof), I can only reason you are the original poster and trying to troll the interweb.

I think you are forgetting about the FireHose. Chances are one if not both of the dupes was promoted via the fire hose where enough positive votes promoted it as designed.

Nope, nothing at all wrong with it. We have seen it in the US when they cannot find employees willing to work for low wages, they up and move the company to Mexico or India, or China. Thank goodness for free trade and Clinton to set it all rolling.

But you would have to be blind to think Amazon is overestimating their positioning here. To deal with the strike, they are simply transferring the work load to other countries and thanks to the EU trade agreements, it is working for them. So outside of being stuck paying a lease on some property inside Germany, Amazon will not fail at all. And most of that costs can be recouped with an add on delivery charge specific to Germany deliveries.

Lol.. the term computer came about because of what it originally replaced which was teams of mathmeticians who's job was to compute complex math problems. The original computer rooms consisted of tables, pencils, and paper (possible some slide rulers too).

Now i know you were think of the digital wonders we have now, but the only thing missing from a paper and pencil being considered a computer is the person computing. But don't let this fun fact take away from your point. Those and the abacus is far from what we consider to be a computer today. I just wanted to piint to how right and wrong the concept was at the same time.

The 13th really has nothing to do with it. No one will need to be compelled to do this so it would be neither involuntary or slavery. It would be more like charity.

Oh, and as soon as the 13th does come into play, you need to involve the 5th too. Time and effort is still the most common private property held by the people and if it is seized for public use, just compensation is more than appropriate.

Maybe just to piss california off. Or maybe to secure against hackers bricking your phone or possibly companies wanting to up their sales or lock you into another contract.

What in the world would make you think that outside of ignorance of state's rights. The feds are constitutionally empowered to regulate commerce between the states. State's rights is about keeping the feds out of areas they are not constitutionally supposed to be in, not empowering states above the constitution.

California is more than capable of placing restrictions and requirements on commerce conducted withing its borders as long as it doesn't favor local companies over other US companies. The problem of states essentially dictating to the rest of the nation is more of a problem with companies being so large that compliance withing that state ends up influencing every product sold in other states.

What the parent complains of can be fixed by companies only offering cartain models within those states. The motor vehicle industry did this for the longest time.

There are many ways to rate teachers but none will work as long as the teachers union rejects any mention of performance based compensation.

Not possible without sacrificing freedom.

No one invaded the US in WWI. Granted our entrance into WWII had an attack on US territory but there was no invasion until after we entered the war. Of course you can argue that the US had no interest in entrring those wars but we did and have largely structured our defende strategies around no allowing other countries wars unfold to the point another world war would happen ever since.

Concentrating on someone invading the US is a complete mistake. If someone invaded Mexico or even Canada, you better bet the US would enter the war. Same goes for a number of countries in south america as well as around the world. But if we knew some country was buying arms to invade colimbia, strengthening their defenses for that particular threat could very well avoid a war or even stop it before it got large enough to become another WWI or vietnam or Korea. So lets look at the entire picture rather that only the portions that can easily be discredited. Or should we forget the lessons history has taught us and become another Neville Chamberlain. Even if you think we should, the cold war has shown that the defense strategies of the US and quite a bit of the rest of the would do not think we should.

Godwin is more or less a way to be intelectually lazy any more. Back when it first came about, it wasn't the entrance of Nazis, hitler, or any evil historical figure into debates that was the problem, it was when a point or participant was compared to or likened to them. The observation was that once that happened, nothing constructive would come after and it would de-evolve into personal attacks and so on so debate was essentially over there.

Now it is a trick of the dishonest and intelectually lazy who think any mention automatically means a loss in the debate and if they point it out, they somehow win it. This is true even in discussion about WWII to some even.

Sometimes the mention of these topics are beneficial to the debates. This is especially true when discussing topics like oppresive governments and data collection. Its likr that sayong about when you don't know about history, you are doomed to repeat it.

It appears the biggest thing stopping releases right now it the reporter Greenwald trying to monitize the process. Snowden says greenwald has all the dicuments.

There are people right now trying to organize mercenary teams to find snowden and turn hum in to the US. There is even one of the right wing radio host claiming they want to start a kickstarter campain to crowd source this.

Yep, no reason to worry about anything at all. It is not like no other country has been invaded or any world wars have been started by countries allying together and sharing military tech or anything.

Lol.. not only that, they are suggesting the watchers watch the watchers to make the report.

With an honest president, this crap would have been stopped long before a Snowden would have appeared.

What we have is an untold amount of information being collected and disiminated to foreign organizations with a reporter and internet salesman in possession of it to start their newest money making venture and the guy eho initially took the information it is offering to help other countries defeat the US inteligence gathering that is likely constitutional. What a mess we have