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by alexqgb 14y ago
You are correct. The scale of your ignorance combined with the depth of your obliviousness to it rendered me speechless. Should you actually have any curiosity here (which I suspect you don't), you'll find that the resource I provided offer
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by alexqgb 14y ago
If it was a Federal trial, then they're in Federal prison, not the system run by Georgia, which is what we're discussing here.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Oh for god's sake. Are you really that uninformed about the crash? Do you honestly think it was simply banks "going long"? Tell you what, if it's an education you're after, see "Inside Job". It's right here, free and legal, for your conveni
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Um, the Bailout Bill was signed by George W. Bush - a Republican approving the work of his own cabinet. The bailout wasn't the issue, by the way. Faced with a catastrophic crisis, propping up a criminal enterprise that we are utterly depend
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Why are you citing a vote from 2008 in reference to the Congress that was just elected in 2012?
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The latter. Consider embezzlement, for instance. That's a case in which a person abuses their position for personal gain without expecting payment from another. Abuse that festers in the wake of successful attempts to frustrate legitimate c
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Bullshit. If you're talking about the American people, the political will is there in spades. But thanks to gerrymandering and the filibuster, their voices been successfully nullified. The GOP holds the House by a wide majority, even though
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Really not getting the impression that Ortiz was a good soul trappend in a bad system. To the contrary, she seems to be the embodiment of the bad system. To the good souls who are actually trapped alongside her, she's a prime example of the
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by alexqgb 14y ago
No.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
No, it's not "just like" at all. And that's for the not-difficult-to-discern reason that people and pigs are not interchangeable, which why you can have bacon for breakfast without being charged as an accessory to murder. And I'm sorry that
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Who pays (and why) is hardly immaterial when it has a defining effect on how the site is actually used. There's a good reason as to why Google and Dropbox can easily claim legitimacy while Mega has to struggle.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
If they're of any appreciable size, they're paid for by the people hosting, not downloading. You do know this, right?
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Can you go to google.com/somethingyouwantforfree and just download it? No, no you can't. There is a wildly obvious difference here and unless you're being deliberately dishonest, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to see it.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Issa is corrupt as hell. I mean, he has a business empire that he runs from a different part of the floor on which he has his CA office. Even by the shady standards of Congress, this is pushing it. But he was on the right side of SOPA/PIPA,
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by alexqgb 14y ago
What do I want? For him to be thrown in jail. I honestly don't care about people swapping media between themselves. But setting up an exchange to do that, and paying for it by selling space to advertisers? That's not "sharing". That's busin
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Do you honestly think that any major artist works with unlicensed, uncleared samples? After "Paul's Boutique", I mean?
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Separate from the realm of rights, witholding credit is a dick move. I mean, the guy can afford a dozen cars and a helicopter, but he won't hire a decent copywriter? Fucker.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The clean interface makes the tagline (lifted from Daft Punk w/o credit) that much more conspicuous. Clearly, some things haven't changed.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
The whole point of the tactics used against Aaron was to render his right to a trial by jury too risky and expensive to exercise. In both cases, the legal accountability of the Executive Branch is what's being undermined - by the Executive
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Sorry, but no, they weren't "just doing their jobs". They were operating way outside the parameters of their jobs, which - as extensions of the Executive Branch - are subject to oversight by the Judicial branch which, in turn, is subject to
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by alexqgb 14y ago
If you think the President is a robotic extension of Congressional will and obliged to enforce all laws as written, they you have failed to grasp the fundamental principle of divided government. As a matter of very explicit design, executiv
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Key words: "legally" and "properly". In other words, the opposite of what Anon or 4chan could be expected to do. Identifying the tactics used to effectively strip people of their rights to open trials is the object here. Juries exist specif
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by alexqgb 14y ago
None of this has any bearing on the pre-trial tactics that are being used with increasing abandon by the DOJ. Specifically, they seek to prevent defendants from having their day in court by making any defence ruinously expensive. An even na
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Unless Anon pursues the course of action outlined above, I strongly suspect they will do more harm than good. Even a hint of illegitimacy on the part of Ortiz's opponents will be exploited ruthlessly. Keeping one's own hands clean is a vita
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Changing the law is the aim, no doubt, but as with anything, progress is much easier when you're seen as having strength and being on the side of the angels. Having legally and properly dispensed with a conspicuously abusive US Attorney doe
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Meanwhile, the guys who wiped out literally trillions of dollars of wealth by cratered the global economy in an orgy of greed, fraud, and reckless disregard for everything but their own inflated bonuses couldn't get arrested if they tired.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Uh, that's one possibility. The other possibility is that they're studying something they're truly passionate about, and they aren't focused on how - exactly - the're going to make a living. I know a number of folks who simply fed their cur
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by alexqgb 14y ago
In big companies, the idea that "there's no time to do it right" is often paired with the understanding that there's time to do it again, even if this rarely happens in practice. Not having a runway or a burn rate to manage does a lot to in
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by alexqgb 14y ago
It's a bit like studying the development of physics and stopping when you get to Newton.
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by alexqgb 14y ago
Relax, they don't. The well-worn litmus test in these cases is whether the law was written to target religious conduct in particular (e.g. Sikhs can't wear turbans in public) versus a law that applies indiscriminately (like the speed limit)

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