my comment was a general one which pertains to our using/abusing mercs for Empire's end, then 'rewarding' them with citizenship in Empire... they are probably NOT using this *particular* 'program' to recruit assassins, but if you don't think unka sam recruits and/or makes assassins, you are a babe in swaddling clothes...
...quislings, and assassins ! ! ! i guess i am the only one who finds it kind of weird, and -i don't know- UN-American to offer foreigners who will kill for Empire, the benefit of citizenship in return... i mean, when you get PAST the idea of it, i understand the deal; but what i can't understand is how the deal came to be... we don't have enough homegrown psychopaths willing to kill whoever they are pointed at, we have to import psychopaths ? ? ? something something Rome resorting to mercs, something something Empire falls...
"land of the free and home of the brave" yeah, we're so fucking free, we're so fucking brave, we cant sell clown outfits at target cause we're so fucking brave... what a hollow joke of a country...
meta comment regarding email policy going forward : will power elite players be able to trust ANY email that won't be ultimately 'hacked' OR released by insiders (EVEN encrypted emails) ? ? ? (please note: decent encryption done right *MAY* be unhackable given the current state of the art (maybe), but what about a year or ten from now ? further, in the case of insider leaks, they presumably already have access/encryption keys, no hacking required...) if so, will that create a changed communication strategy, one where emails are simply pollyanna-ish bullshit which says all the right shit, but belies their actual thoughts and plans ? ? ? will evil minions be limited to face-to-face meetings and coded communications ? ? ? will email ever be the same again ? ? ?
1. even *hint* that you know what jury nullification is, and you'll be on the next bus leaving the courthouse... 2. if by 'press' you mean the 1% of the alternative media which is the voice of the 99%; versus the 99% of the mainstream media voicing the propaganda of the 1%; then there is no contest on the saturation/domination of the mainstream/korporate media... 3. computer-based voting systems are NOT trustworthy, period... check and mate... so, now that leaves, um, hmmm... sternly worded letters to the editor ? ? ?
hey looky here ! ! ! i bet this is one of them gummint disinfo botz... they can have one quisling control hundreds of sockpuppet propaganda accounts... pretty neat, huh, gang ? ? ?
damn puppies chew up everything, and remotes are especially tasty since they have our smell all over them... chewed up the one (semi) universal remote, chewed up the ceiling fan remote, then just destroyed the vacuum bot remote tye other day... dare not trust them with the bot running amuck unless we are home... my one pup (florida blackmouth cur/pitbull mix, GREAT dog) got a 'super tough, ballistic material' toy the other day, lasted less than 10 minutes... the booger...
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w-a-y back in the day when i took drivers ed, we were taught to get out of the car and approach the donut eaters with our license and registration in hand... few times i was stopped i would do that, in fact, being invited to sit next to the officer in their car as they ran the license, etc... was told they were less threatened with us NOT being behinfd the wheel of a couple ton killing machine... i guess that thinking is no longer operative...
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oh, another thing: media has to DONATE free air time to all candidates, AND shorten election cycles, AND make THE most important day in a small-dee democracy be a national holiday...
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while i appreciate your point, two cavils: 1. virtually NO ONE is either talking substantively about these issues, relative to the pres election, NOR their top priority, even if they are concerned about them... 2. REGARDLESS of their own personal kmowledge or interest in these issues, i would not trust the blah blah blah of either t-rump or killary, EVEN IF it comported 100% with my views... they WILL fuck us over, period... for stein or johnson or whatever 'alternate' candidate you like, i would trust them INFINITELY MORE to 'do the right thing' on these issues when they arose... in fact, THAT is the nub: i do NOT trust ANY mainstream candidate to 'do the right thing' on virtually anything but minor crap or bullshit done for the optics; conversely, i trust a stein to do yhe right thing on basically everything whicch concerns me... really, their actual personal knowledge on tech issues is beside the point (that is what they have staff and advisors for), it is whether i trust them...
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at IT guy- 1. instant runoff AKA ranked choice voting 2. trustworthy, non computer based voting system (paper ballots, hand counted, locally reported) 3. public financing of campaigns AND reversing insane legal proposition that fictitious legal entities called korporations have -in fact- superior rights to mere flesh and blood peoples... that'll do for starters... oh, i forgot to mention step 0, it involves lots of rope and power poles, which is about the only way steps 1, 2 and 3 can happen...
he is auditioning for a part in the administration, whether already decided upon or doing it on spec, he is sucking up to killary for a coveted job as a power elite toady...
i am not sure why poop has gotten such a bad name... poop is a vital ingredient for gardening... composted bullpoop or horsepoop is black gold... if you ate your vegetables, thank some poop... got poop ? ? ?
"Bot h sides are horrible if you ask me. This two party system of ours has resulted in a divided country, and hateful people. We are so busy pointing fingers at the opposition, that we forget our own contribution to the problem. How about we stop pointing fingers and start fixing ourselves first?"
Bwa ha ha ha haaa, Smithers, the plan is working perrrrrr-fectly.
that's richtig, kampers, the divide-and-conquer game been run on you so long, you don't know which end is up... keep on salivating when they ring that bell, keep on snapping and barking at each other, keep on ignoring the ultimate causes of many of the world's problems...
poster is richtig: point fingers at your fellow 99%'ers all you want (for *their* icky morals... what? my morals ? why, above reproach, of course!), but ignore the 1% who are making this planet a living hell, who ACTUALLY have the power to enact systemic changes to benefit the 99%... (um, you do realize we *don't* have that power, don't you, dear kamper ? i don't care WHAT you blah blah blah is SUPPOSED to happen in this small-dee democracy, the RESULT IS: the 1% get their way, and the 99% have to pay...)
yeah, i won't risk my bread crumbs from Empire to traduce the 1%; but i *can* righteously shame some fellow poor schmuck 99%'er somewhere, for something (likely inconsequential in the overall scheme of things), and feel like a real hero for making them out to be an incarnation of hitlerian proportions (and -just coincidentally- i am a fucking saint compared to *that* POS ! ! ! funny how that works...)
'cause they said something -you know- 'bad'... or bit a poptart in the shape of a gun... or let their kids walk home from school... or sold raw milk at a farmer's market... or... or... or... or any of a million inhumane horror stories promulgated by a police state...
there are several mechanisms which would serve to make for a true representative democracy: 1. trustworthy elections (we have none with computer-based systems as presently constituted with proprietary code) 2. instant runoff/ranked choice voting process; if you don't know/understand the concept, the bottom line is it allows third party/etc candidates you WANT to vote for, have a chance WITHOUT being a so-called 'spoiler'... 3. reversal of the INSANE legal concepts which accord FICTITIOUS LEGAL ENTITIES we lovingly call korporations have SUPERIOR rights to REAL PEOPLE... 4. reversal of the INSANE moral concepts which accord worshipful status to money/profit/riches accruing to -literally- A FEW individuals, over the greatest good for the greatest number... 5. reversal of the rule of men, and reinstate the rule of law... so-o-o-o-o, as you can see, we are stuck, because any one of these prescriptions, nevermind all of them, imply the dismantling of Empire, and that ain't happening... welcome to your dystopia, mr winston...
(as i recall from article) DEA recruits 'parcel service' employee (apparently, unbeknownst to the company) to forward 'suspicious' packages to their offices, employee does so, to the tune of about 1.3 million paid over 12 years for 180 'suspicious' pkgs... here is the fun part: NONE of the 'suspicious' pkgs had drugs in them... NONE... say wha ? either there was a lot more than 180 and the ones with drugs and money got 'lost', or it is a total sham...
being against 'memes' because they tend to be silly, is like being against oxygen because it supports oxidation.... like anything useful, it has two edges... also, i used to give a fair amount of credibility to snopes, but have found them tripped up on a number of issues, including recently decrying a REAL NOAA weather map as a 'hoax' because it was showing an unlikely -yet entirely plausible- scenario of the hurricane looping back... uh, you booted that one, snopes, and when i checked last night, they still had an erroneous story saying it was a faked map...
you authoritarian tool, did you or did you not just read the story about the feebs DESTROYING (based on a side agreement!) the laptops of hellary's aides WHICH THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE had already said they wanted preserved as evidence ? ? ? you are disgusting in your abject obeisance to Empire... have you gotten fitted for your brown shirt yet ? ? ? scumbag...
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Re: Re: Empire needs its mercs...
they are probably NOT using this *particular* 'program' to recruit assassins, but if you don't think unka sam recruits and/or makes assassins, you are a babe in swaddling clothes...
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Empire needs its mercs...
i guess i am the only one who finds it kind of weird, and -i don't know- UN-American to offer foreigners who will kill for Empire, the benefit of citizenship in return...
i mean, when you get PAST the idea of it, i understand the deal; but what i can't understand is how the deal came to be...
we don't have enough homegrown psychopaths willing to kill whoever they are pointed at, we have to import psychopaths ? ? ?
something something Rome resorting to mercs, something something Empire falls...
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Re: We are our own worst enemy
yeah, we're so fucking free, we're so fucking brave, we cant sell clown outfits at target cause we're so fucking brave...
what a hollow joke of a country...
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will power elite players be able to trust ANY email that won't be ultimately 'hacked' OR released by insiders (EVEN encrypted emails) ? ? ?
(please note: decent encryption done right *MAY* be unhackable given the current state of the art (maybe), but what about a year or ten from now ? further, in the case of insider leaks, they presumably already have access/encryption keys, no hacking required...)
if so, will that create a changed communication strategy, one where emails are simply pollyanna-ish bullshit which says all the right shit, but belies their actual thoughts and plans ? ? ?
will evil minions be limited to face-to-face meetings and coded communications ? ? ? will email ever be the same again ? ? ?
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2. if by 'press' you mean the 1% of the alternative media which is the voice of the 99%; versus the 99% of the mainstream media voicing the propaganda of the 1%; then there is no contest on the saturation/domination of the mainstream/korporate media...
3. computer-based voting systems are NOT trustworthy, period...
check and mate...
so, now that leaves, um, hmmm...
sternly worded letters to the editor ? ? ?
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Re: Nothing new here.
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Re: I live near this
i bet this is one of them gummint disinfo botz...
they can have one quisling control hundreds of sockpuppet propaganda accounts...
pretty neat, huh, gang ? ? ?
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how about a vacuum bot remote ?
chewed up the one (semi) universal remote, chewed up the ceiling fan remote, then just destroyed the vacuum bot remote tye other day... dare not trust them with the bot running amuck unless we are home...
my one pup (florida blackmouth cur/pitbull mix, GREAT dog) got a 'super tough, ballistic material' toy the other day, lasted less than 10 minutes...
the booger...
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Re: Re: Please close the door and roll down your window, sir
was told they were less threatened with us NOT being behinfd the wheel of a couple ton killing machine...
i guess that thinking is no longer operative...
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On the post: No Matter Who's Elected, Surveillance Powers And Programs Unlikely To Be Scaled Back
Re: Re: Re: Re: And THAT is what YOU are voting for!!!
1. virtually NO ONE is either talking substantively about these issues, relative to the pres election, NOR their top priority, even if they are concerned about them...
2. REGARDLESS of their own personal kmowledge or interest in these issues, i would not trust the blah blah blah of either t-rump or killary, EVEN IF it comported 100% with my views... they WILL fuck us over, period...
for stein or johnson or whatever 'alternate' candidate you like, i would trust them INFINITELY MORE to 'do the right thing' on these issues when they arose...
in fact, THAT is the nub: i do NOT trust ANY mainstream candidate to 'do the right thing' on virtually anything but minor crap or bullshit done for the optics; conversely, i trust a stein to do yhe right thing on basically everything whicch concerns me...
really, their actual personal knowledge on tech issues is beside the point (that is what they have staff and advisors for), it is whether i trust them...
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1. instant runoff AKA ranked choice voting
2. trustworthy, non computer based voting system (paper ballots, hand counted, locally reported)
3. public financing of campaigns AND reversing insane legal proposition that fictitious legal entities called korporations have -in fact- superior rights to mere flesh and blood peoples...
that'll do for starters...
oh, i forgot to mention step 0, it involves lots of rope and power poles, which is about the only way steps 1, 2 and 3 can happen...
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Re: Re: (Global) school-yard bully
stay supine, citizen, and avert your gaze from the puppetmasters ! ! !
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don't be so daft...
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poop is a vital ingredient for gardening...
composted bullpoop or horsepoop is black gold...
if you ate your vegetables, thank some poop...
got poop ? ? ?
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Bwa ha ha ha haaa, Smithers, the plan is working perrrrrr-fectly.
that's richtig, kampers, the divide-and-conquer game been run on you so long, you don't know which end is up...
keep on salivating when they ring that bell, keep on snapping and barking at each other, keep on ignoring the ultimate causes of many of the world's problems...
poster is richtig: point fingers at your fellow 99%'ers all you want (for *their* icky morals... what? my morals ? why, above reproach, of course!), but ignore the 1% who are making this planet a living hell, who ACTUALLY have the power to enact systemic changes to benefit the 99%...
(um, you do realize we *don't* have that power, don't you, dear kamper ? i don't care WHAT you blah blah blah is SUPPOSED to happen in this small-dee democracy, the RESULT IS: the 1% get their way, and the 99% have to pay...)
yeah, i won't risk my bread crumbs from Empire to traduce the 1%; but i *can* righteously shame some fellow poor schmuck 99%'er somewhere, for something (likely inconsequential in the overall scheme of things), and feel like a real hero for making them out to be an incarnation of hitlerian proportions (and -just coincidentally- i am a fucking saint compared to *that* POS ! ! ! funny how that works...)
'cause they said something -you know- 'bad'...
or bit a poptart in the shape of a gun...
or let their kids walk home from school...
or sold raw milk at a farmer's market...
or...
or...
or...
or any of a million inhumane horror stories promulgated by a police state...
there are several mechanisms which would serve to make for a true representative democracy:
1. trustworthy elections (we have none with computer-based systems as presently constituted with proprietary code)
2. instant runoff/ranked choice voting process; if you don't know/understand the concept, the bottom line is it allows third party/etc candidates you WANT to vote for, have a chance WITHOUT being a so-called 'spoiler'...
3. reversal of the INSANE legal concepts which accord FICTITIOUS LEGAL ENTITIES we lovingly call korporations have SUPERIOR rights to REAL PEOPLE...
4. reversal of the INSANE moral concepts which accord worshipful status to money/profit/riches accruing to -literally- A FEW individuals, over the greatest good for the greatest number...
5. reversal of the rule of men, and reinstate the rule of law...
so-o-o-o-o, as you can see, we are stuck, because any one of these prescriptions, nevermind all of them, imply the dismantling of Empire, and that ain't happening...
welcome to your dystopia, mr winston...
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didn't see this one...
DEA recruits 'parcel service' employee (apparently, unbeknownst to the company) to forward 'suspicious' packages to their offices, employee does so, to the tune of about 1.3 million paid over 12 years for 180 'suspicious' pkgs...
here is the fun part: NONE of the 'suspicious' pkgs had drugs in them...
NONE...
say wha ?
either there was a lot more than 180 and the ones with drugs and money got 'lost', or it is a total sham...
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silliness abounds...
like anything useful, it has two edges...
also, i used to give a fair amount of credibility to snopes, but have found them tripped up on a number of issues, including recently decrying a REAL NOAA weather map as a 'hoax' because it was showing an unlikely -yet entirely plausible- scenario of the hurricane looping back... uh, you booted that one, snopes, and when i checked last night, they still had an erroneous story saying it was a faked map...
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you are disgusting in your abject obeisance to Empire... have you gotten fitted for your brown shirt yet ? ? ?
scumbag...
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