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[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by Tiberium Wolf

Seems like to me everyone wanna get a bite of Christie. If he can't fend off the attacks he's dead politically but then again like Weiner you can always make a comeback.

It's always good to know who your real friends are, early. If he survives this he would come out stronger. But that's just how the Republicans have to deal with it; their real enemies are each other during Primaries.

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Looks like the knives are coming out. He has plenty of enemies, and regardless of if he is guilty or not, this is the time to strike if they want him gone.

Wouldn't it be better to strike him in 2015-2016 at the time of the primary? Peoples tend to forget fast...

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Wouldn't it be better to strike him in 2015-2016 at the time of the primary? Peoples tend to forget fast...

If, and I know it is a big if, they managed to convict him of committing a crime as a politician, he would be out of the running.

That's hard though, more likely that won't happen. But for his enemies if they can get rid of him now, it is better than later.

There is also the chance that the next Primary would once again be filled with wackos, as such Christie might become the default sane option. And if that's the case his opponents can't risk giving him the chance to run at all.

[Irenicus]

The very obvious roasting and vultures circling aside, the critics have a good point: if you can't trust honor student Obama with the NSA, how in the bloody hell is America going to make it through Big Bully Boy, a Nixon, a Cheney 2.0, unscathed? Tony Soprano for President? Hell no.

[monir]

Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Previews

Yikes!

[SuitUp]

Originally Posted by monir

Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Previews

Yikes!

I can practically hear the shooter saying: i'm not even sorry.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by monir

Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Previews

Yikes!

How does texting even irritate anyone if you do it on silent mode?

It's a tragedy the old fart lived so long while kids elsewhere die at birth

[MrTerrorist]

Originally Posted by monir

Florida Man Is Shot to Death for Texting During Movie Previews

Yikes!

This somehow remind of the movie God Bless America where the protagonist, a loser whose dying of cancer, decides to kill anything he considers wrong with the world with his young partner in crime.

One scene has our protagonists kill a bunch of rude movie goers who were talking, bothering other patrons or on the phone.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

How does texting even irritate anyone if you do it on silent mode?

It's a tragedy the old fart lived so long while kids elsewhere die at birth

The light from the phone?

I admit, it is an overkill. It is not like the person is talking loudly through his phone; that kind deserves a bullet through his palm and a pistolwhip to the head.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

The light from the phone?

I admit, it is an overkill. It is not like the person is talking loudly through his phone; that kind deserves a bullet through his palm and a pistolwhip to the head.

If your phone is at your crotch or you are holding it around the level of your navel then how does the light even affect anyone else?


It isn't as if cinema screens are Indian ink dim...

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

If your phone is at your crotch or you are holding it around the level of your navel then how does the light even affect anyone else?


It isn't as if cinema screens are Indian ink dim...

Relativity; lights will always appear brighter in darkness.

EDIT :

A good thing I can praise China about :

Chinese doctor sentenced to death for selling infants (0:37)

A gynaecologist in northwest China received a suspended death sentence Tuesday (January 14) for her role in selling babies to human traffickers. Chinese media said Zhang Shuxia convinced parents that their newborn babies had congenital defects, and persuaded them to give up the children. She would then sell the infants to a human trafficker. In all, she sold seven babies. Miraculously, six have been recovered and returned to their biological parents. Zhang admitted to the crime during her trial in December. She and five other suspects have been detained in connection with the case.

[LeoXiao]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Relativity; lights will always appear brighter in darkness.

EDIT :

A good thing I can praise China about :

Chinese doctor sentenced to death for selling infants (0:37)

If they got rid of the one-child-policy about ten years ago like they should've the market for baby-trafficking wouldn't be that high in the first place...

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by LeoXiao

If they got rid of the one-child-policy about ten years ago like they should've the market for baby-trafficking wouldn't be that high in the first place...

Have you tried talking to them senile old men in the CCP about it before?

[Lord of Fire]

Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle

How does texting even irritate anyone if you do it on silent mode?

Maddox covered this not too long ago:

I'm all for wanting to shut up people who disturb my movie-going entertainment, but killing them is a bit too much.

[Haak]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

I admit, it is an overkill. It is not like the person is talking loudly through his phone; that kind deserves a bullet through his palm and a pistolwhip to the head.

Pun intended?

[Anh_Minh]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

The light from the phone?

I admit, it is an overkill. It is not like the person is talking loudly through his phone; that kind deserves a bullet through his palm and a pistolwhip to the head.

You know who should die? The assholes who open fire inside a theater. Talk about disruptive.

Or, you know, the guys starting arguments over trivial stuff.

[Xellos-_^]

A federal appeals court struck down the U.S. government’s rationale for regulating broadband Internet providers, opening the door for telecom companies to exert more control over what consumers see online. The ruling took aim at the so-called “net neutrality” rule that required broadband companies to treat all Internet content equally. But now, a company such as TimeWarner Cable could speed up access to Disney Web sites for a fee, essentially creating a system that would offer the fastest service to the highest bidder.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z1





An investigation by major Mexican newspaper El Universal has concluded that the United States government worked with the Sinaloa cartel from 2000 and 2012 as part of a divide and conquer strategy. In exchange for intel on rival cartels, the U.S. government allegedly allowed the cartel to smuggle billions of dollars worth of drugs.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...y-drug-cartel/

[GDB]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

A federal appeals court struck down the U.S. government’s rationale for regulating broadband Internet providers, opening the door for telecom companies to exert more control over what consumers see online. The ruling took aim at the so-called “net neutrality” rule that required broadband companies to treat all Internet content equally. But now, a company such as TimeWarner Cable could speed up access to Disney Web sites for a fee, essentially creating a system that would offer the fastest service to the highest bidder.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z1

Yeah, we're screwed unless someone can take this further. Their reasoning was such shit too. They cited high levels of competition and ease of market entry, and used Google Fiber as an example. Apparently all 2 cities they're in are now the base line for the country.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

You know who should die? The assholes who open fire inside a theater. Talk about disruptive.

Or, you know, the guys starting arguments over trivial stuff.

Originally Posted by Somebody

A movie experience is not trivial!

Originally Posted by Haak

Pun intended?

Go away you crazy Englishman! Stop reading too much into my words!

[Irenicus]

Originally Posted by GDB

Yeah, we're screwed unless someone can take this further. Their reasoning was such shit too. They cited high levels of competition and ease of market entry, and used Google Fiber as an example. Apparently all 2 cities they're in are now the base line for the country.

It's a coded message from the D.C. Circuits court along the lines of "Okay Google, now bring your Fiber to D.C. pls op."

Jokes aside, the EFF, defenders of the Internet and all that is right with the world, actually shares the court's opinion on the part about how the FCC's regulation is based on stopgap flimsy legal reasoning, that basically saw the FCC giving itself wide regulatory powers beyond its charter. They argue that the same powers that defend Net Neutrality in the USA could easily be turned around against us all and create indecency rules or something.

But what they want is different from the court's utterly idiotic perception of choices (lulz, choices) -- they want Congress to take action on net neutrality, upon which the FCC can do whatever the hell it wants to defend the principle that is enshrined into law. Good luck to them. Maybe I'll donate to them even, but they should know they are fighting giant blobs of corruption, darkness and villainy.

Alternatively, aside from appeals to the Supreme Court or Congressional action (pfft), the FCC can always try to pull other moves to defend Net Neutrality, if they are so inclined. Write better regulations, for starters. Or maybe they'll find a way to make the whole damn cable industry be considered as common carriers, promptly ensuring that net neutrality is married into the concept and throw the court's ruling out the window. To clarify: cable companies in the USA are not considered common carriers, a legal term of art referring to services like UPS, a US goods delivery service, which cannot refuse to carry (legal) goods from any potential customer, or public transportation, which cannot reject passengers unless they break the law. Regulatory agencies monitoring common carriers have wide precedent and authority to enforce their defense of this "common" principle, which means if the FCC somehow successfully gets cable companies considered as common carriers, net neutrality is law. The same way UPS charges by weight and stuff, not by how nice you are to the UPS guy or whether you're shipping literature or trash.

Hell if they're feeling really vindictive, and admittedly the new FCC chairman feels less like an Elizabeth Warren consumer hawk than yet another industry stooge, they can try and make a case for cable lines being public utilities. That would really, really ruin the ISPs' day, and promptly free Americans everywhere towards a new golden age of free market competition for their porn internet access, the world's newest and most welcome human right.

Tall order, though. Free market in America? Shit man, ain't nobody got time for that.