Terrible example, and absolutely false equivalency.
Rittenhouse showed a remarkable amount of self restraint- far more than a cop would have in comparison. He only shot people posing an immediate threat to his life, and even lowered his weapon when Grosskreutz briefly backed off, even though he was armed.
I was reading Battle Cry of Freedom, regarded as one of the best single volume histories on the Civil War, and in the opening chapters the author goes into how changes in technology gave women more free time.
Apparently, the result was that the first half of the 1800s saw an explosion in women's literacy and college attendance. These newly educated middle class women were the vanguard of the most militant abolitionism.
So, we can now blame bored housewives for the civil war, the temperance movement and prohibition, as well as the general decline in society post World War II. Is there anything they can't ruin?
The key thing here is that the state is most interested in passing on its costs to somebody else, particularly when that someone else is a man, who they couldn't care less about. You'll see none of the usual claptrap about "revictimizing a crime victim" here, because the government has money at stake.
Ordinarily there are laws that prohibit you from financially benefiting from your crime, even if other laws would normally provide you compensation, but in this case I'm sure they argue that it's "FoR tHE cHiLD", even though the money is simply given to the adult guardian with absolutely no checks and balances to ensure that a single penny of it is spent on the intended recipient.
Came here to say this. Men only can't be women when it benefits the man at the expense of women. Guarantee if there were a situation where there was a male-only benefit and a woman playacting as a man wanted it, they would have ruled opposite.
The battle between feminists and trannies is like that tagline from Alien vs. Predator: whoever wins, men lose.
Your idols, Hamas
Moron. Look at my post history. I've got no love for muzzies.
The point is that civilized nations adhere to the rules of war- regardless of who they are fighting. The Israelis do not. And despite all their pretenses, we all know that they would love nothing more than to kill everyone currently living in Gaza and move their own people in. As their constant illegal settlements show, they're only restrained by as much as they think they can get away with without causing the international community to finally step in and stop them.
As for me? I'd prefer if the last Israelite and the last raghead choked each other to death. Let's clear out the vermin of both stripes from the area.
Found the Israeli shill.
LOAC is a thing in civilized countries. It's taught to US service members exactly as I just explained it.
No army in all of history has gone to such lengths to avoid civilian losses as the IDF. Not one.
Just LoL.
"Proportionality" is also a component of the law of armed conflict. i.e. it's not proportional to blow up a church with 100 non-combatants because one enemy soldier or terrorist ducked in there to avoid you. Such an act would be treated as a war crime.
Now, there's no hard and fast rules for what is proportional and what isn't, but I think you could make a very defensible argument that leveling Gaza and the resulting civilian deaths and displacement is out of proportion given the number of actual Hamas fighters.
Chica looks like she's had a few gorditas too many.
Devs need to make it a free download and just distribute it from their own website.
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
The US refuses to recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court or similar bodies like this one when it relates to the US government or military. Although it's more than happy to turn "evil dictators" and "war criminals" from other countries over to them for judgment.
Likewise, any other country like Russia or China that is strong enough to enforce its sovereignty with its military ignores rulings it doesn't like.
Presumably Israel, with the agreement and protection of the US, will simply ignore this ruling like it has similar ones that we have heard about in the last couple years.
The thing is, everything that has been outsourced overseas was done so because it was cheaper. And it wasn't a decision made overnight or just one thing that prompted it. It was a combination of factors such as taxation, unions, safety laws, etc.
This presidency will last 4 years; maybe we get another Republican after, but eventually they will be another Democrat president.
All these companies that are being incentivized to bring jobs back to the US have to be doing the math and deciding whether it's cheaper to bring the jobs back to the US and take the hit in four or eight years when all the tariffs get dropped again, or to just suffer through the tariffs for the current presidency until things return to status quo and it again becomes cheaper to have everything made overseas.
But it shouldn't be surprising. Hatred for a rival nation is part of nationalism.
Where the left fucks it all up is it the other part of nationalism is a sense of pride and superiority about your own country. I'm not sure "Russia is evil, just a different kind of evil and a worse evil than our own historically evil United States" is the rallying cry they think it is.
Neon Genesis Evangelion for one. Except they were teenagers and one was a clone of the male lead's mom, so not very wholesome.
reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're two sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
You've just described every campus pseudo intellectual that admires communism and the Democrat politicians or voter that they eventually become.
Enforcing any sort of punishment outside of their jurisdiction is going to require the cooperation of the country where the website is actually based.
Now, countries do often assist each other in law enforcement, but in a situation like this it's most probable that the host country will simply check to see if the website met their own standards of due diligence in attempting to comply with UK law- which would probably be simply blocking all traffic from the UK.
I can't see any country requiring their website operators to employ expensive and sophisticated technology to attempt to suss out whether or not a connection is a VPN and whether or not it ultimately redirects to the UK. They have a vested interest in the economic success of their companies, and they are not going to make them take unreasonable measures to comply with obtuse foreign laws.
Yes I don't find this to be a very compelling request to a foreign government: "someone from the UK broke our laws and pretended to be from another country to access a website owned by someone in your country that doesn't offer services in the UK. Please assist us in levying a ruinous fine on the company based out of your country that doesn't do business in the UK."
The US in particular under Trump would almost assuredly tell them to go fuck themselves.
I'm hard-pressed to think of an author with a greater range than he had: from Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park, the Great Train Robbery, Eaters of the Dead (13th Warrior), Timeline, etc. he could write medical drama, science fiction/fantasy, or heist stories. And he had an MD from Harvard. Incredible talent there.
What, you don't think his corpse continue to work at Microsoft for 2 years after dying?
Jesus, Kagen sure looks like a man in drag to me.
I actually watched Severance and have seen bits and pieces of a couple of the others. The first season of Severance was okay, but I think it went off the rails in the second season. I probably won't keep watching when they drop the third season.
It had an interesting premise- what if you really could just blank out all the time you spend at work, but doing so meant you created an alter ego whose whole existence was doing your job (sounds like hell). There were a bunch of mysteries and open plot points in season 1 that were largely resolved unsatisfactorily in season 2.
I think DS9 is many people's favorites because it was one of the first TV shows to introduce a continuous story arc (although many of the episodes were still disconnected "alien of the week" style). That's commonplace today, to the point that you won't have any clue what's going on in many shows if you haven't been watching from the beginning of miss an episode, but it was innovative at the time.
ala Saint Elsewhere and the Sopranos? I'm not opposed to ending something by saying "and none of that was real", but audiences tend to get pissed when the characters they invested emotionally in are done dirty like that.
I never preferred the human characters in DS9. Sisko was intolerably self-righteous and preachy, and his son was completely uninteresting as a journalist. The standouts in DS9 were all the aliens: Garak, Dukat, Quark- hell, they even made Nog interesting as a Ferengi that wanted to be a Starfleet officer.
Star Trek was always pushing progressivism. ToS had the first interracial kiss and in TNG Riker fell in love with an androgenous scientist from a society where having a gender was a crime.
The problem is it's always ranged from something innocuous like imagining a future where Russians and Americans wouldn't be rivals anymore to pushing trannies and bull dykes in the newer shows. Progressivism wears this "it's all just get along and accept each other" mask, when in reality they want to throw you in a gulag if you don't agree with their world view.
Whether you like Trump or not, I think anyone who's been paying attention for the last 8 years understands that no matter what he does the press will rip him apart. If you can't possibly earn any points with these people, what incentive would you have to court their favor?
The medical field is ideal for a large percentage of the work to be replaced by AI.
I've had a number of ailments over the years that the doctor failed to diagnose and ultimately just went away on their own, sometimes after months or years. Got a strange rash, or a headache, or a weird pain? If it's not something common and widely known they're probably not going to figure it out.
This is where AI and databasing can actually be used for good, instead of the usual government oppression nonsense. Imagine a catalog of millions of symptoms cross referenced to photographs and blood test results and a computer powerful enough to search all of them and make correlations.
There will always be a need for human oversight, but computers can process information like this so much more efficiently and effectively than people.