> Just to be clear, witness testimony, including testimony FROM THE VICTIM, is evidence of the crime. Just for some reason, in rape cases, we go all wonky with this principle.
People lie, people have memory issues. Complicating things is the lovely issue modernity has brought, of two adults getting intoxicated and fornicating followed by regret and rape accusations sometime later. Then we have weaponized accusations - just like we have keyboard warriors making false police reports to have their opposition receive a SWAT team visit, we have people that will make false accusations to get revenge after a perceived slight.
What is wonky to me is the people who hear an accusation and treat it like the Gospel, destroying the accused depriving them of any possible justice. This is what is truly, absolutely, criminally insane.
I suppose destroying revenue streams is a way of phrasing the “issue,” but at the end of the day we’re just further democratizing content.
If consumers don’t want $REAL_AUTHOR and so she loses money, that’s her failing to adapt to the market. I don't feel that gatekeepers creating artificial scarcity is a good thing.
How did it destroy revenue streams exactly? I’ve just never understood that to be the case.
(Disclosure, I worked with and attended university on the dime of the folks who built Amazon’s POD acquisition - so I have some fealty (and insight), I suppose)
If punishment for murder was sitting in a luxury European prison with a vintage PS3[0] and not death or life, I’d have whacked my former con-artist business partner years ago and likely be out by now.
Worked for a company with a similar approach (circa 2010) and we got rejected and had to just use the one. Can’t say I feel Apple is wrong for fighting app spam, however.
Is this intentional, desired policy on their part or more of a "means to an end?" I understood it that, historically, the Taliban were anti-opium. I suppose if Western nations pursue a North Korean containment style policy, that this would continue similar to NK methamphetamine operations.
> This is a very ironic comment considering that the soviets, not the US liberated Europe from Germany.
You're responding to another human, such that its a locality sensitive sentiment. To a French, Belgian or Dutch national the US is the savior of that war - the Soviets being uninvolved in their liberation.
As an aside, I wonder if there exist an Slavic-language HN where Eastern Europeans argue that American steel was the true winner in the war and the Soviets don't deserve glory...
We did have a goal. The building of the nation of Afghanistan into a functioning liberal democracy. Of course Afghanistan barely qualifies as a nation and many (most?) have no desire to live in anything resembling a Western nation-state. Short of a truly brutal, imperialist takeover or the installing of a strongman puppet to do the dirty work for the next 50 years, there's no real chance of transitioning the peoples and their cultures over to our way of things. Americans likely have no stomach for such things, and the state of realpolitik is such that this would be truly untenable on the world stage.
I do believe the thing you’re missing with Western forces is that the events listed were aberrations rather than the norm.
Also, should you not like “Delta,” and frankly I don’t see how a Greek letter is aggrandizing, you could always go with “CAG.”
Last, what you’re claiming is neither discussed in TFA nor supported by historical record. CAG was created as a result of European terrorist hostage events.