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I'm very, very glad it was news. We need to know when Google is breaking the law. Now let's hold them responsible.

You think Google should just get to do whatever they want? I don't. Get the permit. We should throw everyone responsible into prison.

> Failure to get a permit is non-news for almost every entity on Earth.

Corporations should not break the law, period. Weird that anyone would defend that.

They cut down part of a forest without a permit. That is a factual statement. It doesn't matter what kind of trees they were.

I'm going to say that deforesting without a permit is quite a bit worse than not releasing vaporware.

This isn't about a "slip up", it's the modus operandi for Google since it was young. Press releases instead of real releases. I can't count the number of times I've clicked on a "launch" story from Google on HN only to end up on a blog post with an embedded youtube video, and nothing else. Google just doesn't get it, and this is one of the many ways that manifests.

9/11 was an Israeli attack on the US, so yes that's terrorism. Even if we take it at face value, it was a drop in the bucket compared to the millions killed by the US in acts of terrorism in the Middle East. Also, the Europeans genociding the Indigenous Americans was the worst terrorism this planet has ever seen.

> From my perspective, you seem to be making a common error that do-gooders make: projecting your own psychological state onto that of the average criminal.

I know many people who have broken the law. Like most people, I break it all the time. The US already has the largest prison population in the world. Clearly that doesn't work, and common sense would agree. Putting people in prison is not just costly, every person has connections to society that get damaged. And that's not even getting into over-armed, sadistic police running around everywhere. The real crime is that my tax dollars are stolen to support this fascist force.

> Consider historical cases, like that of the Comanche - it took many wars to stop them and force them to stop just killing people for sport.

You're talking about the genocide of Indigenous Americans. You know the Comanche aren't the bad guys right?

We're too far apart to continue this conversation.

Obviously you can't quantify exactly how much it will improve. My point being that instead of spending our money to make the world a worse place, making our actual country a better place will very obviously reduce crime. The money is helpful, but eliminating police and our military presence around the globe are the biggest wins. We need to stop employing sociopathic sadists armed with heavy weaponry and we need to stop imprisoning so many people (US has the largest prison population in the world).

> Why are most other countries able to spend much less?

Because they don't have an armed force of "police" constantly damaging their society and they don't ship off their children to commit terrorist acts abroad and allow them to come back violent, radicalized and full of PTSD. We should follow their lead.

Yes, distributing explosives into the public is terrorism, regardless of if they're discovered or not. I'll add that this mossad agent is also, by definition, engaging in terrorism since he's trying to cause mass fear that they've distributed explosives worldwide.

Some of what gets labeled as "terrorism" is very legitimate resistance. For instance, there's little difference between the Haitian Slave Revolt, the Pueblo Revolt, the Warsaw Rebellion and the Al Asqa Flood (Oct 7th). Yet only the latter is labeled as "terrorism". Repressed people or people forced off their land always have the right to armed resistance. It's also debatable if anyone living on stolen land can be considered a "civilian".

Putting bombs in consumer devices and releasing them into the public is always going to be terrorism.

Wow, well that's to be expected but also terrifying. Thank you for pointing this out, I actually just submitted it here as more people should see this.

Edit: So this hit the front-page almost immediately and has 20 comments but also got instantly flagged. I really wish the mods would put in some kind of protection against flagging Israel stories like this, they're very important.