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  1. Cohen alleges or sources alleges that Cohen alleges? Allegedly sources allege that Cohen alleges Sources which can allegly be Cohen himself off the record
  2. Best part is that reason for the trade war is that people in USA have so much money to buy stuff from China because of that debt. China loans money to USA -> USA divides it to its population through various methods -> said population buys stuff made in China -> China loans money back to USA -> and so on
  3. So people who claim that political correctness destroys our world got person fired because of his years old politically incorrect tweets. http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/james-gunn-fired-from-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw James Gunn Fired From Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 James Gunn will no longer direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, according to a statement from a Disney spokesperson. The director’s dismissal comes after his old tweets joking about pedophilia and rape were recirculated by Trump supporters online. “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,” Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement. Gunn had been at work on the third Guardians of the Galaxy installment, set for release in fall 2020.
  4. Interestingly it was freedom of speech that gives everybody right to print their own guns not gun rights https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/10/court-victory-legalizes-3d-printable-gun-blueprints/ Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints A multi-year legal battle over the ability to distribute computer models of gun parts and replicate them in 3D printers has ended in defeat for government authorities who sought to prevent the practice. Cody Wilson, the gunmaker and free speech advocate behind the lawsuit, now intends to expand his operations, providing printable gun blueprints to all who desire them. The longer story of the lawsuit is well told by Andy Greenberg over at Wired, but the decision is eloquent on its own. The fundamental question is whether making 3D models of gun components available online is covered by the free speech rights granted by the First Amendment.
  5. I admit that I'm not a lawyer or expert on lawyerism, but I'd bet that if Obsidian wants to do buisiness in the EU they will have tocomply. To answer your question there, it's not the person that will get charged, it's the person/corp hosting the server that it is posted on that is going to be charged. That person/corp has to either stop people from uploading images and such or they have to get themselves content recognition software that will sift through all © material that can match it so he can block it. It's ****ing retarded. They are ****ing retarded aswell. /Edit; Also, bit drunk. Spelling and such might be off. I'm at the point that I hope the entire world ip-blocks the entirety of the EU for stupidity... You can look effects on GDPR on US based sites (lots of sites either have disclaimer prompt for EU users that tells how they use user data which they have collected and how user can remove it or they block EU users) to see how EU laws effect on US sites.
  6. I find it funny that both members of ENF, in the comitee, supported it and both members of ECR, in the comitee, voted null. As it was aproved with 14-9 vote, if anti-EU pro nationalist people would have actually voted according to what they preach it would have been rejected with 13-12 vote. I don't think there are any memes that are copyrighted, though I guess some people could try to copyright them. Only problem is that some memes are so old that nobody remembers who first created it and even now, once a meme appears, it mutates and spreads faster than lightning. Sounds like something that would be impossible to actually manage properly. Photos that memes use are usually copyrighted, so with this very nice directive creators of memes should ask permision to use those photos before they do and web services need to ensure that people who upload meme pictures have done so. And I repeat it is responsibility of web services to ensure that copyrights are followed before they let users to publish their things.
  7. I find it funny that both members of ENF, in the comitee, supported it and both members of ECR, in the comitee, voted null. As it was aproved with 14-9 vote, if anti-EU pro nationalist people would have actually voted according to what they preach it would have been rejected with 13-12 vote.
  8. https://www.axios.com/trump-trade-war-leaked-bill-world-trade-organization-united-states-d51278d2-0516-4def-a4d3-ed676f4e0f83.html Possibly leaked draft of bill about increasing president's right to make unilateral decision about trade can be found end of the article
  9. Most of the world currencies today are so called "floating currencies" which value changes according to markets demands. Like for example if people, corporations, countries want to buy stuff from USA or that are otherwise valued in USD, like having dollars as their reserve currency, they need to buy dollars, which will increase value of USD on markets. And more expensive USD becomes on market more expensive it becomes to buy stuff valued in USD when using other currencies and things valued in other currencies become cheaper to buy when using dollars. About Floating excahnge rates https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/floatingexchangerate.asp About China's currency policy's effect on dollar. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/09/chinas-peg-to-the-dollar.asp
  10. Yes, although in goods only those surplusses aren't very big, but when you count in services and investments US currently has quite even trade globally, which is why dollar has quite stable course. And if you compare USD's course for example to euro, you will see that last time markets valued euro over USD was 14 years ago, which means that markets need more dollars than they need euros, which means that markets want to buy more things (goods, services, stocks, investments, etc.) from USA than they want from EU, meaning that general money flow towards USA is bigger than it is towards EU. Although countries like China which don't have floating currency but instead tie their currency to USD causing artificial inflation on value of USD somewhat, but it is difficult to estimate how much.
  11. Oh noes, that would be a real loss for the US? I don't know about that, as country of 5.5 million people our trade impact on 60 times larger country will be always minor, but because of USA's sanctions which freeze lots of Russian's foreign assets and put restrictions on what can be traded with Russia, Finland is losing billions of dollars worth of trade and if USA starts to put heavy tarrifs for European products like for example cars it will cut our trade towards USA also with millions if not billions, so I would appreciate if Trump means to actually follow through his world wide trade war that he would lift those sanctions against Russia so that our economy would not take that big of a hit.
  12. Hopefully Trump will drop sanctions against Russia, so that we can return to normal trade with Russia during trade war with USA.
  13. By that definition it is safe to say that Trump will nominate another liberal justice (meaning yes man who consistently votes according to what State(Trump) wants) He didn't get that with Gorsuch. He sided against the government as both plaintiff & defendant three times this term. Any President wants a justice that will do what they are told. But that is not what their job is. "Is it legal?" If their answer is "no" they are going to rule against you no matter if you appointed them or not. Gorsuch is mostly supported state's view (trump's view which in some cases are against state view) in the travel/muslim ban (Trump v. Hawaii), in bakery denying (Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Comm'n), service, unions rights to collect fees from non-union members for their services (Janus v. AFSCME), he gave his support so that states may charge tax on purchases made from out-of-state sellers, even if the seller does not have a physical presence in the taxing state. (South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.) and in case of National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra Gorsuch supported majority view that crisis pregnancy centers have right to lie and withhold information from their clients. He did go against state, in case in which the Court held drivers of rental cars have rights protecting them from unconstitutional searches by police, even if they are not listed on the rental agreement (Byrd v. United States), in that case court was unanimous in their decision. and in case in which the Court held that the Fourth Amendment prevented Border Patrol officers from conducting warrantless, suspicionless searches of private vehicles removed from the border or its functional equivalent. (United States v. Ortiz) again court was unanimous in their decision.
  14. By that definition it is safe to say that Trump will nominate another liberal justice (meaning yes man who consistently votes according to what State(Trump) wants)
  15. It is difficult to say if Red Hen that started the uproar is suffering as they are closed until July 5, as they seem to have schedulled summer break, but some media outlets say that they have longer break than usually, but can't say if that is true. Other restaurants in USA that are also named as Red Hen have faced protests, even though there is no Red Hen franchise they are just private business that by change have same name. There are protesters in Lexington, that mostly support Trump who have caused road blocks and thrown chicken **** over Red Hen and caused other kinds of disturbance in Lexington. There are no reliable sources that restaurant owner or its employeers started to harash Sanders after she was asked to leave, all the mentions about it are days later of initial news, but after Fox news mentioned it, claims are repeated so many times that it issue has become so muddy that there isn't really way to tell what is real and what has been invented by media outlets and social media users. Red Hen's owner did resign from her position in bussiness group that focuses to promote Lexington's downtown area because she felt that news about her, Red Hen, Sanders and Trump's tweets would compromise said bussiness group's efforts to promote Lexington and she felt that it isn't right that other bussiness owners suffer because of her actions.
  16. They must be here under visa or green card. I don't think one can simply walk into Mordor land in Miami international airport and chill out for the rest of their lives. That is true, but it is quite easy to find services that help apply long stay visas and green card or some other permanent visas. In case of Finnish retirees there are even some cities in Florida where you can find those services in Finnish like for example Lake Worth. Although these days Florida has lost its popularity as first choice of retairement destination to Portugal and Spain which both offer ten years of tax free living (with certain conditions) for retairees from other countries.
  17. Florida seems to be quite accepting towards retirees who get their pension from foreign pension funds. Like for example there are 25000 Finnish retirees with permament residence without need to seek USA citizenship (which would cut their right to get pension from Finland's pension funds). Of course such retairees are somewhat special case of immigrants as they not only bring money with them but also create local jobs.
  18. Only specific type of cake (wedding cake), which by chance was type of cake that said gays were ordering from bakery specialiced on wedding cakes. Although Supreme court didn't say that baker had right to deny his services but that Colorado's civil rights commission showed religious hostility towards him and didn't give him fair hearing. There are also couple other cases of denying services in same-sex weddings (florist and photo grapher) which lead some GOP majority states introduce legistative measures to ensure bussiness right to deny people services on moral/religious grounds. Colorado case got publicity because it had potential to lessen states rights to give protection towards discrimation on moral/religious reasons, but supreme court decided not to give out their stance on the subject.
  19. Year old article, but it seems to be even more revelant now considering looming global trade war Deficits In Trade And Deficits In Understanding https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/05/24/deficits-in-trade-and-deficits-in-understanding/#5c957d6316d5
  20. Nah, I'm pretty sure he's Lawful Evil Considering that God put Devil charge of punishing people who have gone against God's laws, because Devil wanted freedom from God's rule I am not sure if Devil is even evil
  21. The Tampa Bay Times reports Bondi received a police escort Friday when several members of Organize Florida confronted her as she left a Tampa theater after seeing "Won't You Be My Neighbor" about Mr. Rogers. The demonstrators questioned Florida joining a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act and Bondi's general support of President Donald Trump's immigration policies. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-confronted-mr-rogers-movie/ http://orgfl.org/about_us "Organize Florida Organize Florida is a community-based, nonprofit member organization of low and moderate income people dedicated to the principles of social, racial, and economic justice and the promotion of an equal and fair Florida for all. Organizing Our Community One Door at a Time Our dedicated organizers and members bring communities together, one door at a time, to join in the fight for safe neighborhoods, healthy families, quality education, good jobs, justice, equality and a more representative democracy. Building a Movement of Leaders Our members have access to multiple leadership development trainings, develop ideas and solutions to community needs, and are given the tools needed to affect changes in our communities. With the help of our experienced staff, our members decide on the issues and campaigns we work on and play an active role in community development. Holding Our Government Accountable Our campaigns, from standing with children and families to the de-prioritization of marijuana, and turning out the most Latinos ever in a national election have propelled Florida to the national spotlight and we remain committed to exposing injustice and holding our leaders accountable. Taking Action Our work helps to strengthen democracy, justice, accountability and equality for workers, families and communities. We don’t meet for the sake of meeting, we meet to take action that will help move our priorities forward. Stand up, speak out, and organize Florida — now." They seem to be more Florida first latino organization which does not like Bondi's support for federal politics that they feel to be against their best interest.
  22. "Imagine if banks were to say you can't purchase books or certain books aren't acceptable." They already do.
  23. no i don't remember that because that was not the case. What do you mean by "that was not the case" exactly? You had a rest button. You click the button, you rest, your health and spells are restored. No fuss. You didn't have to but you could. There were some areas where resting was disabled and some areas where there was change for random mosters to appear. And there was also couple timed quests which had possibility to fail if you took too long. But most of the time rest button was full heal and get spells back without any consequences button which was there only for roleplay purposes and to give players ability to decide if they want additional difficulty or not.
  24. No irony, if Muharrim Ince wins it would certainly be a revolution given how entrenched the AKP is. If they go to a 2nd round he has a decent chance too since every candidate who isn't Erdogan seems to hate Erdogan, including the islamists and conservatives who should be his allies. A narrow first round victory would still mean 50% of the vote for Erdogan, and it's all he needs for his program. I'm sure he'd like Putin numbers for bragging rights, but a win is a win. I think that smjames thought that you meant incel (involuntary celibates) revolution
  25. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/floatdown-sarnia-americans-wash-ashore-1.3730792 Two years old article, that I come across today,, about 1500 illegal aliens from USA to Canada, it is quite funny to think how greatful they must be these days that Canada isn't like USA where they would have been hold from cople weeks to indefinitely for their crime of crossing broder improperly. For perspective article from yesterday https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jogger-accidentally-crosses-u-s-border-from-b-c-gets-detained-for-2-weeks-1.4717060 Jogger who accidentally crossed U.S. border from B.C. detained for 2 weeks
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