I dare you.
I dare you, to not break the law in the location you are currently in, for a period of 24 hours. Unless you resort to not moving, you will be breaking a law (although that might be illegal as well). In most developed nations, you are dealing with a layer of international, national and local laws, with a history of several hundred years. Many of these old laws have not been revoked however, they are just no longer enforced.
"Oh" you say now, "I mean I just follow the laws that are still enforced actively". To that I say, "so do I". But I might just have a different set of laws I consider enforced than you do. That doesn't make me more or less moral than you. We both break the letter of the law. And we both hold ourselves to our own moral standards.
Given that we haven't seen anything new from OBL in so many years, it also means that we don't know how he aged, or the state of his health at the time of death (remember the rumours about kidney failure, for example?). Seeing his body may be quite a revelation, in many ways.
Or: One of my best friends committed suicide at age 32 in 2005. I think LSD was not part of his life, so I am sure that is not why he killed himself. Anyway, you get the point.
People die, sometimes I wonder why.
I don't think so. Manning leaked cables and somewhat classified documents from/to US embassies. These documents are internal US Department of Defense documents.
He also (allegedly) leaked the Iraq and Afghanistan war documents, including the Collateral Murder video. So, assuming he is a Wikileaks source, he had access to a wide range of DoD files in addition to State Department files.
The thing is, Manning didn't go into detail about any Gitmo files when chatting with Adrian Lamo, and, according to the Nation's Wikileaks pointsman Greg Mitchell, there were rumors that Wikileaks had secret Gitmo files before the alleged leaking from Manning took place. http://www.thenation.com/blog/160135/wikileaks-blog-guant%C3...
Remember, too, that Wikileaks released Gitmo's "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures" way back in 2007.
This leak could have come from anybody at any time. My feeling is that this was probably someone other than Manning, though I obviously don't have any real evidence to support that.
Remember that Adrian Lamo was on the FBI radar before producing these chat logs, it could well be that he dealt with the FBI by producing chat logs that implicate someone else. It wouldn't exactly be the first time someone has lied to the FBI to get a reduced sentence, or avoid prosecution.
We also know that the US gov't engages in torture to extract confessions so you should be skeptical of anything anyone who has been in US custody says. It's not just middle easterners, Canadian citizens have been tortured under US auspices.
Yeah, that's true. Although I think it's more likely that Lamo would falsify/misrepresent the chat logs because of his sketchy political views or because he lives off of media attention. His public defense of his actions seems too enthusiastic to be coming from someone who made up a story just to avoid jail time. We don't know what other evidence the government has against Manning, if any. If they only have Lamo's chat logs and testimony, that's pretty flimsy. (Not that the government needs evidence of a crime to keep someone in jail indefinitely. You know, see above.)
That's it. I'm starting a new organisation called Greypeace, to protect the moon's ecological system. Our goal will be attacking these lunar rovers with inflatable rockets in order to raise public awareness.
I'll post a link where you can donate money for this completely legit organisation shortly.
When I was in college, I was hanging out with some guys who worked for Greenpeace. I asked them, "how would you feel about mining the moon for raw materials?" The response I got back was basically, "NO!", "THAT'S HORRIBLE!", "O.M.G. YOU'RE EVIL!"
I tried to explain that the moon was a big, lifeless, ball of rock. But they were having none of it. They all thought we should leave the moon alone, pristine in its lifelessness. <shrug>
That "big, lifeless, ball of rock" partially controls the oceans' tides. I would be in favour of leaving it alone. Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it should be done.
You would have to remove a significant chunk of the moon's mass before mining it affected the tides in any serious way. There's a lot of useful mining you can do without violating that constraint.
That's basically the objective of the modern Greenpeace, elimination of human life from the planet. If you talk to the founder of Greenpeace he will basically tell you that his mission for Greenpeace was full filled and that most of what they do now is on the lunatic fringe.
"He works at a hard-drive repair center". Ah? A hard-drive repair center yes? What do they do there? Take the drives apart, polish the platters and bolt them back together? Must be a Russian thing no?
That is correct. However, to the best of my knowledge this activity does not take place in a "hard-drive repair center". In fact, there's no such thing as a "hard-drive repair center", with the exception perhaps of an RMA department of a hard drive manufacturing company. That gave me the impression that the story was either made up or badly translated.
I sometimes do it too. If I consistently sleep for about 4 hours max for 3 or 4 days, my mood will start improving. If I then take a mild stimulant like caffeine (or music with a high BPM) I reach a state that is close to euphoria, lasting several hours. My guess is that there is some genetics involved.It's never been hard for me to become manic for a short period of time.
Looks pretty, but all this talk about relationships with inanimate objects in the video made me feel like it aimed at owners of real dolls. I have relationships with people (and maybe animals and myself), objects just enable me to have these relationships. Maybe an object oriented website just isn't my thing.
"Oh" you say now, "I mean I just follow the laws that are still enforced actively". To that I say, "so do I". But I might just have a different set of laws I consider enforced than you do. That doesn't make me more or less moral than you. We both break the letter of the law. And we both hold ourselves to our own moral standards.