The Goat Pen

I read that Rolling Stone story

I actually thought it was pretty fair - I liked how he pointed out that Trump just isn't all bluster, like his stance on opening up insurance competition nationwide.

The Feds know it's not about just one phone. They want this for more than that.

Jungle Rat wrote:The Feds know it's not about just one phone. They want this for more than that.

yea I think we all agree on that.

This sounds harsh, eCat, but I don't care that much about the rights the Chinese government gives its citizens. I also don't care that much that Apple and Samsung and countless other companies allow products sold there to be routed through designated servers under Chinese control. Maybe the freedoms given to the Chinese should be higher on the list of things I worry about, but it just isn't. At all. It's hard for me to even feign concern. I will try, though.

eCat wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:The Feds know it's not about just one phone. They want this for more than that.

yea I think we all agree on that.

Seems sorta like a simple answer then. No.

"was not winnable as a corporate entity

is that another way of saying compromise your principles for profit?"

It's not compromising when your principle is profit...

hedge wrote:"was not winnable as a corporate entity

is that another way of saying compromise your principles for profit?"

It's not compromising when your principle is profit...

Exactly. Although, to be fair, I believe Tim Cook is freedom-minded (at least for Americans).

reading the story about the German flight

in this day and age - who makes out a "to do list" for committing suicide?

On March 22, the day before returning to work, Lubitz scribbled “Decision Sunday,” along with the flight code BCN, for Barcelona, on a scrap of notebook paper that was later retrieved from the trash in his apartment. Below that heading, Lubitz listed several options: “[find the] inner will to work and continue to live,” “[deal with] stress and sleeplessness,” “let myself go.”

Doesn't his wireless carrier have a record of all his communications? What do they need that is solely on his phone?

eCat wrote:reading the story about the German flight

in this day and age - who makes out a "to do list" for committing suicide?

Yeah that was crazy...even moreso, he had a fiancee he lived with and she said didn't notice anything. This was the case even after he obviously killed himself and she had the benefit of perspective. What type of relationship was that?

I hate to get stereotypical, but...Germans. Sheesh.

Heh.

how could that fucker sit there and watch 16 high school students, adults with babies and little kids get on that plan and decide to crash into a mountain.

from a writing found on a Jewish concentration camp

"If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness."

"It's not compromising when your principle is profit..."

I didn't mean that as a dig against Apple. The profit motive is the cornerstone of capitalism and ergo of our entire way of life. All this "principles" shit derives thereof. Fuck the Chinese, if they want to live over there in their commie utopia, they have to abide by the rules of that game. But that's not our game. To me, Apple represents our game WAY fucking more than some sniveling legislator or some puffed up federal lawman. They are supposed to be our servants, not the other way around...

"I hate to get stereotypical, but...Germans. Sheesh."

Good thing he wasn't schwarz-deutsch, who knows the calumny that would've been dropped on him...

Schwarz-deutsch? Is that like a Schwartzenegger?

lol

Take that joke out to the public at your own peril.

I've said it before but just as Democrats are scratching their head at the support of Donald Trump by republicans (although its definitely a hostile crowd in the mix)

I'm just as disappointed in Democrats supporting Hillary in the kind of numbers I'm seeing. HIllary won't go to jail but she is going to burn for these emails and it will happen after she locks up the democratic nomination but before the presidential election.

A former islamic extremist now contributing scholarly papers to the defense department provided his views on addressing terrorism.

Among them are................


Many of the articles contained in the document have scholarly merit and are written by academics and researchers in the field of counterterrorism. But a chapter titled “A Strategic Plan to Defeat Radical Islam,” written by Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a self-described former Islamic extremist and fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, contains a number of bizarre prescriptions for how to defeat terrorism, few of which appear to be supported by empirical evidence

Among Hamid’s claims are that support for militancy is primarily a product of sexual deprivation and that terrorism bears relation to religious dress. His ideas for combating terrorism thus include “addressing the factors underlying [sexual] deprivation” among young men, as well as “weakening the hijab phenomenon.” Hamid further claims that, along with fundamentalist ideology, the “hijab contribute[s] to the idea of passive terrorism” and represents an implicit refusal to “speak against or actively resist terrorism.”



http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-milita ... sm/5510029

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