And yet he remains in power with no sign of that changing.
And yet he remains in power with no sign of that changing.
You keep saying that but it’s not necessary to keep power as evidenced by… History.
What would cut into their profits?? Have you never seen how authoritarian regimes work? Do you think North Korea officials want to revolt because of their starving labor pool?
They don’t care about “the labor pool”.
They will probably make a fortune from Putin. Why would they fight him?
We have a strong “anti-expertise” streak going on at the moment, and it’s painful to watch. “Trust experts to select judges? What do they know?”
It’s a problem, and I have no idea what has led to it.
I didn’t think we were “arguing” - just a discussion. You’re right that there is no such thing as “rule of law” without corruption. Or government without corruption. Or a fantasy soccer league without corruption. etc. All human things are corrupted by bad people.
The point is not to remove corruption completely, which isn’t possible, but to minimize it and make it less effective.
I’m not sure what you could mean here. What qualifies someone to hold any political office is their conduct and their rulings and how those are interpreted is by what the people believe is fair.
A judgeship is not a “political office.” Yes yes yes, I know - I hear you clicking the “reply” button, but it’s not supposed to be. And by making them directly voted on they they definitely will be.
I’m going to preface this with “none of these problems are solved by either options but some things are better in some situations than in others.” There is no silver bullet.
But - I want you to imagine a scenario: A judge wants to be on the supreme court.
Scenario 1: Big Evil Co. starts up a PAC that spends billions on getting that judge elected and they win. Big Evil Co. has business before the court and threatens to dissolve the PAC when the judge comes up for election again. Maybe PACs are illegal in Mexico - I don’t know, but they can find some way to fund campaigns since they’re often expensive ordeals.
Scenario 2: An elected official who was chosen by the people (sometimes the good people, sometimes “those other guys”) nominates somebody for office. They are chosen by other elected officials. Now when Big Evil Co. comes before the court they don’t have many options. They can bribe or give gifts. But they can’t really effect whether that judge remains on the bench. And such actions are often deeply looked down upon or outright illegal.
Which is what the legislature is for.
Probably. You’re now going to have judges raising money to campaign. And the average on-the-street voter knows fuck-all about what qualifies somebody to be a judge, so they’re unlikely to pick better candidates.
“Subjective” is not the same as “useless” or “arbitrary”.
If you know the types of movies I like then when I give movie ratings you can adjust for that bias. Especially if I publish my review criteria, preferences, etc. You may not agree with my rating, but if you understand it then you can make an informed decision about whether you may like the movie as well.
It’s going to always be subjective!!! Nobody is claiming it’s objective!!!
FFS
Having a methodology or a standard and writing about how you came to your conclusion doesn’t absolve you of being completely subjective.
No shit. That’s what I said - it is subjective. But this is a way to quantify that subjectivity in a way that is methodological.
Like - “a lot of rain” is completely subjective. But if I say “I consider 2cm/hr to be ‘a lot’” then that at least lets you understand what I mean when I say “a lot”.
No no no. It’s not “the approved narrative”.
You need to make it sound more sinister.
The issue is that “left / right / center” are entirely subjective. You’re always going to have somebody bitching about “how can they say that’s left-leaning!” no matter what standard you set. What’s important is to make the standard you’re following transparent and to justify how you came to a result. Then people can adjust for what their personal offset may be.
Or mostly likely people will just continue to bitch and call it an arbitrary ranking.
They aren’t controlled by the government though are they? Seems like they are funded by taxes but are an independent org.
And they publish how they come to their conclusions: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/swi-swissinfo-ch/
I know the western media never bother to mention it because it doesn’t align with the approved narrative
How to say “I’m not worth listening to” without saying it.
I don’t think the networking part is part that needs solving. Modern AP/routers are pretty easy to configure and setup securely. Dunno - I’m definitely not in the target audience for what you’re doing though.
In what way do you think this article supports anything about the claim that “ssh can be broken into fairly easily”. It’s at best an argument for not using passwords with SSH, and at least for using very good passwords.
I always take somebody’s opinion on HIPAA seriously when they misspell it.