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Or perhaps they simply know Ebay's policy on the matter.
"We encourage our community to report any listings they suspect of price gouging to us."
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...
"...what Surkov has done, is to import ideas from conceptual art into the very heart of politics."
"His aim is to undermine peoples' perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening."
"Surkov turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater. He sponsored all kinds of groups, from neo-Nazi skinheads to liberal human rights groups. He even backed parties that were opposed to President Putin."
"But the key thing was, that Surkov then let it be known that this was what he was doing, which meant that no one was sure what was real or fake."
Sound familiar? It was written two years before Trump became president, about a policy originating 20 years ago in Russia.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/31/bbcs_adam...
Presumably they are, if they're incarcerated. I don't see why the crime of the person should matter. What do people think they're going to vote for, a rape and murder party?
Being incarcerated is the punishment; denying the vote is just cheap populism, being seen to be 'tough on crime', with the added benefit (for politicians) that if prisoners have no vote there's no incentive to treat them humanely.
It seems to always happen in forums, as here, where some people complain that it's somehow 'too soon' to mention something negative, but it doesn't happen in obituaries, which commonly don't just stick to superficial 'good' aspects of someone's life or career.
In the case of Connery, for example, all of the following, and more, refer to his statements on slapping/abuse:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/31/sir-sean-conner...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sean-connery-dead-james-b...
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/featu...
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-10-31/sean-con...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/sean-connery-...
First it was terrorism because it's deliberate; now it's terrorism because it creates confusion, death and fear.
Here's just one example that checks all those boxes and is, of course, not terrorism:
Strictly speaking, if people we don't like attack a hospital it's a war crime; if we do it, it's an accident.
> so how is it not terrorism?
Murdering civilians during a war is a war crime; that doesn't mean murder automatically equals terrorism outside of war.
"Haqqani - one of bin Laden's closest associates in the 1980s - received direct cash payments from CIA agents, without the mediation of the ISI.
"This independent source of funding gave Haqqani disproportionate influence over the mujahideen."
"Haqqani and his network played an important role in the formation and growth of al Qaeda, with Jalalhuddin Haqqani allowing bin Laden to train mujahideen volunteers in Haqqani territory and build extensive infrastructure there."
From a more extensive page linked from there:
"Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, an associate of Bin Laden's, was given visas to enter the US on four occasions by the CIA [...] Rahman was a co-plotter of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."
"Afghan Arabs 'benefited indirectly from the CIA's funding, through the ISI and resistance organizations [...] at an estimated cost of $800 million in the years up to and including 1988'"
"The Guardian alleges that the CIA helped Osama bin Laden build an underground camp at Khost, which bin Laden used to train Mujahideen soldiers."
In a 2004 article entitled "Al-Qaeda's origins and links", the BBC wrote:
"During the anti-Soviet war Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA."
"Two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto said Osama bin Laden was initially pro-American [and] Robin Cook, Foreign Secretary in the UK from 1997–2001, wrote, 'Throughout the '80s [Bin Laden] was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis'.
And what do the Saudis have to say about it?
Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia stated (in the wake of 9/11):
"He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said the communists. Isn't it ironic?"
The US didn't drop nuclear bombs on Japan just because the people there are Japanese.
> Why do you think a victorious German society would've cared that deeply about Jews who have been historically loathed?
Why do you think Germans would not care that their government exterminated six million Jews?
> It would've been publicized as a success, not something to hide away.
Then why did they take such great lengths to hide it away?
To be fair, I think they have a point. Comparison of [current politician] to Hitler is just shit for the birds.
Edit: Obviously quite a few birds here.
[0]http://ironcurtain.svelch.com/
Edit: These seem to be proper Spectrum files for the games (for playing in an emulator):
The main consequence of that flooding, disrupting and destroying of newsgroups is people moved on to the shiny social media sites, and Usenet was effectively killed off.
For about the past 20 years you don't need an archive though, with some Usenet service providers having posts going back to at least 2003 (with people talking about 2003 being a cut off for this archive, I suspect that's where much of the content is coming from).
Major Usenet providers required/had so much space for binaries they just stopped expiring text posts, which are a drop in the ocean by comparison.
I agree, if only for one you didn't mention, Yahoo Games, which I have some fond memories of.
I didn't use the other Yahoo stuff much, but it's a shame, and quite strange, that such a big name from the late 1990s/early 2000s, that I don't remember/know of as being evil in the way other internet giants seem to be, has just withered away. TBH, I thought Yahoo Groups was shut down years ago.
For anyone who doesn't want to sign up to try it, there's also:
news.aioe.org
Its not a bad idea to filter content though, and/or have a flag button on threads/posts. 300 million articles from 40 years of an obscure and anarchic corner of the internet are bound to contain posts that are either potentially illegal or which you otherwise don't necessarily want to be publishing.
The US Constitution means as much to people in other countries as the constitution of Russia or China or anywhere else means to Americans. It doesn't apply, regardless of how old it is.
The point about civil asset forfeiture is that if the US Constitution can't protect Americans against the US government or law enforcement, what hope does the rest of the world have?
We both know the issue is members of the SS, SD, war criminals continued to work in (West) German institutions, including its intelligence service, after post-WWII regime change.
I've already asked you twice, if "KGB" is nothing but a name change from "NKVD", simply state when, in its ~37 year existence, did it engage in the same actions (mass killings) as the NKVD.
We both know this too, though, that the KGB did not kill millions of people, as was the claim, because it was for all intents and purposes a different organization, with different objectives and under different orders from a government diametrically opposed to the Stalinist regime of the NKVD era.
He already said/implied, an international committee or coalition, representative of the world, while possibly still headed by the US. Unless you're seriously arguing ISIS would be a potential alternative to US control of domain names, why even mention them?
> As controversial as it may sound, the USA still allows for the greatest expressions of liberty of any country, period.
Even within the US, authorities regularly and routinely confiscate the property of American citizens, without charging them with anything. So the idea that the US is the greatest protector of liberty for people outside the US is not credible.
Of course not, it's as ridiculous as claiming the KGB, the intelligence agency of anti-Stalinist USSR, killed millions of people, just because an utterly different (Stalin) regime did so while employing some of the same personnel.
If the KGB is just a name change, as you keep trying to pretend, then as I already asked, where are the mass killings perpetrated in the KGB era (1954-1991)?
[0] "Reinhard Gehlen, head of the Org and later president of the BND, [stated] that around 40 of his employees came from the SS and SD ... If there was ignorance on the matter, it was only because no one wanted to know"
Apparently even today, on Hacker News, some people still don't want to know and prefer their own fantasy version of history instead.
"Many Nazi functionaries including Silberbauer, the captor of Anne Frank, transferred over from the Gehlen Organisation to the BND ... Instead of expelling them, the BND even seems to have been willing to recruit more of them"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization
"The then-opposition leader and SPD head Kurt Schumacher [...] described the Gehlen Organization as 'riddled' with former members of the murderous Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the SS's intelligence agency"
While relevant to your initial question:
"The British press at the time openly mocked the 'Gestapo boys' working at the BND's headquarters in Pullach, near Munich."
"It's one of the country's worst-kept secrets. Yet questions still surround the presence of former Nazis and war criminals in West Germany's police, secret service (BND) and politics."
https://www.dw.com/en/stasi-files-shed-light-on-west-german-...
If you want to pretend the KGB, or the regime it operated under[1], was just the same as the NKVD under Stalin, then please provide examples of the same crimes (mass killings) occurring from 1954-1991.
This goes against how Usenet works in general, allowing people from different servers to have discussions with each other, but I can see how it's useful in some cases, for server specific groups.