lamarpye

That whole April Fool's thing kinda went over your head.

They have already done it. Just look at the cable news coverage for the past two years. Non-stop Trump is a traitor news.

Jussie Smollett would be an excellent spokesman for this issue. A cautionary tale about Government overreach.

How is my take looking today?

That is true is some cases, but not for everyone.

Well said.

No. There are better targets for my aggression

You are right sounds like a good thing to do to a child.

It is worse than Watergate. The FBI spied on a Presidential campaign using evidence supplied and paid for by the another candidate.

If the names were changed, Hacker News people would be outraged. They would be mad at the FISA court, mad at the FBI, mad at the media.

Look in the mirror and decide, do you have consistent principles or do they own apply in certain situations.

None of the people were convicted on charges related to Russian collusion. Many people convicted/plead guilty to process crimes, for example, lying to the FBI.

I won't accuse of you of trying to mislead people, but the judge apologized for making the treason claim against Flynn:

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/judge-quickly-backtracks-apo...

Clippy knew the risks when he signed up.

Your link on debtors prison is referring to people not paying their government imposed fines, which seems the opposite of your point.

We forgot/neglected to make the last payment to AT&T when we switched to Comcast. I am not so worried about the police sending me to AT&T jail. My unaddressed car registration is a different story...

Not clear what happened in your case, the Gas Company notified the police to evict you? Is the Gas Company following a law in which they are required to tell the police?

I don't agree. Which is more likely for you to end up in jail? Not buying an iPhone or stop paying your taxes?

Maybe you could expand on the connection that you are making between Keynesian macroeconomic policy and Amazon child policy because it seems like a non-sequitur.

Serious question, where is the legal right to demand better working conditions codified?

What about Bob?

>It took 4 years thanks in no small part to espionage efforts by the USSR. Part of the reason why this worked is people who didn't want a world where only the US had nuclear weapons. It would be too dangerous.

I believe the technical term for these kinds of people is "useful idiots". How exactly was the world made a safer place by Joseph Stalin having a nuclear bomb?

Try this thought experiment, at the end of WWII the Soviets have the bomb and the United States does not. Does Russia wait 20 years for the US to develop the bomb? Or do they attack as soon as the are able?

Which part of Stalin's morality guides his decision?

I've spent a large percentage of my life in bookstores and I have never seen an Ada book. I've never met an Ada programmer or met someone who knew an Ada programmer. Is there any proof that the language actually existed? Maybe it was a CIA plot to trick the commies into wasting their time.

I would think a military solves a genocide by preventing it. Reading the news or history would provide many examples of genocide being stopped by military action.

A society that wouldn't send/draft people to war is one that doesn't care about it's existence.

Unfortunately, some other community will have to suffer having so many high paid workers.

Here's a thought; do you want to rely on the goodwill of people you don't know, that live hundreds or thousands of miles away, to get up at 4am to farm and create food (a basic human need) for you?

Or do you want to rely on the profit motive? If not, why?

Right. The State Government is running a huge surplus:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-shortfalls-widen-new-yorks-...

> I doubt that Amazon are the only ones with any likelihood of bringing new jobs to New York in the near future.

Not anymore. Why would a company want the hassle? Go to New York and have an idiot bartender trash our goodwill or go somewhere else where they roll out the red carpet for us.

It's unprofitable if you drive them out of town. If you can position yourself as a community liaison rep, it is a sweet gig.

You forgot the worst, Florida Man.

I find this anti-religious bias (in the form of downvotes) distributing.

A strong statement was made. Don't come to New York and expect any tax incentives. I am sure that the message was received in corporate boardrooms all over the world.

Enjoy the deafening silence of no major companies moving to New York

Maybe. It could also be housing for the reincarnated souls when Christ returns.

I guess time will tell. We can track how long it takes for another company or companies to develop the same properties. Hopefully it will be less time than the length of the tax breaks