I wouldn't say :the most: demanding, but I'd enjoy hearing what you think is easy about driving some of the fastest land vehicles ever created vs the best drivers in the world, with your life (and no small amount of money) at stake?
I wonder - do HN rules prevent people from pointing out suspicious accounts even when the user's name is a balls-out reference to shilling?
Am I allowed to reference other comments made in the last three days, such as
> "If Iran didn't attack the ships who did?", or
> "In 1971, 60 Minutes, the most watched TV show in the country won an Emmy for it's story on "What Really Happened at Tonkin Gulf?". The truth was out pretty early, and well accepted."
Maybe we :are: dealing with an incredibly naive and honest fella here - but with that fucking name?
Is your shtick to act unsurprised at things? There's more going on here than compound interest friendo, this is not the time for acting suave and ignorant.
> There is no way they would charge him if they didn't think it could stand up under the first amendment.
Your comment reminds me of this one from 2012, spoken with utter confidence at the time:
> Your comment again puts forward the idea that the political forces aligned against Assange are so great that no amount of critical thinking, due process, or countervailing concern for the rights of victims can apply: it is, to use your word, "obvious" that the case isn't about "rape", but about an undocumented (and undisclosed) but nevertheless clear and immediate effort to haul Assange to the US and try him with espionage. No court in Europe seems to view the situation that way.
Show me the most antisemitic thing Corbyn has ever done.
These slurs on his character are spread by newspapers and TV but when you look into them there's nothing there. If you can't give me an example, please consider that you might have 'been had'.
Your statements about tankies and Sanders are beyond incoherent. I really have no idea how to talk with you if you think Corbyn's base is entirely 'tankies' and Sanders is the most left candidate ever seen.
Your 'point' about their ideological coherence says more about you than anyone else.
Are you talking about Corbyn? The guy with broad support despite an unremitting smear campaign from every single corner of the media from The Grauniad to the Beeb, never mind the tabloids? The guy who has been astonishingly effective standing up to the Maybots and revitalised Labour?
I'm very curious what poll you're referring to there that has him after "don't know".
There are links to primary evidence and unbiased sources throughout. It's absolutely riddled with them, as this thread is with people like you.
So, you're welcome. Except, from your recent comments you seem highly averse to becoming familiar with the facts, even when people have put them right in front of you.
The way media has "covered" this, it is not all that surprising to see ignorant comments and cynical speculation. Such deliberate and thorough ignorance as the above is a little more rare.
Meanwhile, there has been a simultaneous attack on outlets that might actually spit the truth out there: the recent "changes to Facebook's algorithm" resulting in outlets like MPN, Democracy Now, and Wikileaks go from regular 20k shares to the 7-900 range practically overnight is suspicious in the extreme.
Not really. In a whole number of ways. I actually have no idea how you can say this with any honesty.
I mean, are you really arguing that national identity is the major stumbling block in integrating to a tribe in Papua New Guinea.... Here's a hint: Other :tribes: would have difficulty integrating, and they've likely never been introduced to the concept.
Please explain to me how you're so confident while simultaneously so widely and clearly wrong.
> "The lack of transparency around new policing tools such as mobile phone extraction is a serious cause for concern. There are no records, no statistics, no safeguards, no oversight and no clear statement of the rights that citizens have".
There may be places where this is routine, but it really shouldn't be - anywhere.
If you'd like to educate yourself on some of the transgressions of UK police in the past, and the extent to which subsequent cover ups have gone, I'd suggest reading some recent Irish history.
>I think that my stand on this issue should be respected.
But I don't think it's remotely worthy of respect. You want to live in a society like that, go somewhere with no public schools or roads or firefighters.
If Apple wants to do business in one country in a way that upsets people in another country, then they have to face the consequences of that contagion. I honestly don't know what you expect to be different; people aren't rule-following robots.