Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
Ugh. "Campaigning this year for the 2016 presidential elections" - why does everybody in this community so very love to pick nits?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Come to think of it - I just now realized why Hillary Clinton is not planning on running this year. Interesting. I'm guessing they're going to hand off this particular political grenade back to the Republicans, just like the Repub
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"I welcome a debate - just not right now. Ideally, I welcome it after I'm out of office, because believe you me, it's going to be torches-and-pitchforks time when this shit hits the fan. But in the meantime, it sounds a lot b
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by Vivtek 13y ago
So - giving your own ignorance the benefit of the doubt - I'm assuming you intend to imply that baby killing is trendy in fashionable in the Arab world? But (white) people calling for the extermination of entire swathes of the world p
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I agree that your first example should have been covered - at high levels - by the code of conduct. However, the other two are civilian authorities who acted illegally, not military personnel who violated the code of conduct. Wrong jurisdic
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I agree with this. The proper function of a military court is to examine compliance with military law, not to pass judgement on ethics outside of that law. The function of civil authority , say a moral President, something I hope to live
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by Vivtek 13y ago
People dance in the streets for everything in the Arab world. I can assure you that there is lots of hootin' and hollerin' in Indiana about similar atrocities visited upon our enemies - we just don't dance, is all.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Seriously? You do know their hatred is basically for our attitude that we can go bomb them and occupy them without repercussions, right? Is that what you think we should stand for? Because the whole fucking world and everybody in it wants
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Greenwald has been doing this for years. His prose is always over the top, but the man is really savvy (courtroom experience, maybe). I'm going to count myself very surprised indeed if this can provoke him into doing even the smallest
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Briefly.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Wish that one applied to patents.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I certainly hope you're correct.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
To be fair, the DEA is going after drug crimes using secret information supplied by the NSA, and lying about it.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Could somebody please make that lower-case "mercury"?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I like your responses here, though. For somebody going through an oh-shit moment I'm admiring your aplomb.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I think the message was meant for the Internet, actually. Something like "You think you own this country? We'll show you who owns this country".
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by Vivtek 13y ago
They nail them with a tax audit when there's reason to believe they're cheating on their non-profit status. And if they have nothing to hide and their accounting is honest, then an audit shouldn't be a problem. Right?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Yeah. Actually, from that guy's perspective, given the actual situation, it is. He'll be sick, but he'll have a home and food, for as long as he lives - and if he was homeless, he might have died sooner than he will now, wi
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Sure, because there are loads of jobs going unfilled right now for poor black men, right? All they have to do is just go get one.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
It certainly worked for me.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I think I'd rather see Rick Astley on there...
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I like this translation of the FAQ into plumbing and carpentry services as an analogy that makes things easier to understand for non-software people (especially the one about RV plumbing that makes it clear that the buyer is liable for use
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Language is one reason, yeah; I'm not sure how strong a reason it is overall. You know one very serious problem? Shipping. Amazon can sit in California and send something cheap anywhere in the United States, but if I'm sitting i
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Europe is absolutely behind, yes. (I live there.) But not for lack of talent. I'm a pretty flaming liberal and I stand behind unionization of traditional industries 100% - when you get to the point of large capital against a large popu
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Both of these are valid points about Germany - but neither one is actually due to a lack of talent .
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by Vivtek 13y ago
So what you're saying is that only the United States is capable of building cloud infrastructure, until people go to other places to build it there, from the United States. And your face is still straight. You exemplify the very attitu
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(Always assuming that this hasn't just killed the very viability of the Cloud concept.)
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by Vivtek 13y ago
In a week? Not even the US. Over a normal time frame? Two dudes from Stanford built Google. Get over your America-centrism. The only reason the American Cloud hasn't been duplicated more extensively than it already has is that there&#x
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Even without the leaks, [Obama] added, the U.S. government would have made the reforms he was proposing, Pull the other one, Mr. President.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
... or if they just ask the BND.

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