Now, I'm not sure why legislation is required to inform companies that calling someone's cell phone twice a day is inappropriate ...
Er, what? I'm sure you don't mean what that reads like to me. Twice, I can accept. The third time, immediately escalate to their supervisor. Hundreds of times? That's just "Holy !@#$!" Of course this is legislation territory!
This is like that TV commercial: "Pay me now, or pay me later." You can't be bothered to fix your broken system after being told hundreds of times it's broken? You can't be bothered to test your system before you roll it out to ensure it's working as it should? You can't be bothered to exercise *any* quality control or due diligence or supervise your employees' actions? You owe me your first, second, and third child for twenty years of indentured servitude, and don't blame me if they hunt you down and kill you for that, you bonehead! Oh, and die screaming falling into a volcano!
Jury Nullification, too. It only takes one juror in many cases.
That game's rigged too. Unless you're Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men and manage to change the other jury members' minds, you just get a hung jury and a new trial in front of a new jury, instead of a finding of Not Guilty. Double jeopardy doesn't apply.
The monster wants its flesh, and it will find a way to get it regardless of what anyone else wants.
All that's beside the fact that anyone even alluding to jury nullification will be booted by the judge ASAP.
It appears that this may have been a move too far for some Senators, as 19 of them are demanding some answers from Secretary of State John Kerry about this decision to "upgrade" Malaysia.
So, are there really 19 senators who're not in league with the devil, or is this just more partisan bickering? Then again, the administration's supporters in this are largely GOP and Obama's own party is the opposition, so ... gaak!
The article linked above notes that both reporters have continued their investigations into their own arrests, and have faced stonewalling at every turn, including police trying to deny their requests to find out the names of the officers who assaulted and arrested them.
Well, there you go. A clear case of failing to "Respect mah authoritay!" Perhaps Laura Poitras and EFF would be interested in joining these cases of egregious assault on the Fourth Estate.
If tech companies are liable in the kidnapped kid+encrypted iPhone, wouldn't the same logic hold firearms manufacturers liable for crimes caused by the use of their product?
In fact, strong crypto used to be controlled under ITAR, considering it little different from sophisticated weapons which were not to be marketed to foreign entities.
I wish these guys would just admit the elephant in the room: that strong crypto gets in the way of their continued attempt to enforce Prohibition (known today as "The War On Drugs"). That's their real problem. I don't believe them when they say they're just trying to protect everyone from terrorists and child pornographers! They're really just trying to prop up their failed business model, Prohibition. The DEA's getting no nearer to winning that war, and are in fact losing it badly, just as badly as Prohibition was originally lost. They've militarized the police, come to consider themselves fighting a war against domestic insurgents, are tapping the communications of damned near everyone on the planet, are pissing off even (nominal) allies with their nozyness, yet can't bring themselves to accept the truth: Prohibition didn't work and was actually a disaster, and considering crypto to be as dangerous as offensive weapons is still as foolish today as it was in the '90s. Saddling ordinary law abiding people with crippled crypto won't help them win it either.
Finally, I'll just suggest they consider what all my past employers told their people: "If you can't do your job, then quit!" There's plenty of people out here who'd love to pull down the kind of salaries these people get.
We were trying too hard not to be like the commies that we became the commies.
I think it was more that you were so enamored with "Freedom, justice, and the American Way" that you failed to notice fascists were in charge, and always had been in charge. Me too. :-P
Those crayons could be made of explosive material.
Great! Lets sic the DHS on kindergartens. They might be able to handle miscreants like that (might, but "Kindergarden Cop" may disprove that assumption), and I think we'd all feel safer if DHS were all sent back to kindergarten.
"Inside job" usually pertains to thefts where the thieves have some chance of getting away with the scheme. I don't see where anyone's gotten away with anything here, other than (so far) managing to avoid jail/execution. I doubt Cheney and Bush enjoy the fact that pretty much everybody now considers them war criminals (on par with Syria's Assad, or Idi Amin, or Serbia's Milosevic, Pol Pot, Josef Goebbels, Stalin, Gen. Tojo, Francisco Franco, Winston Churchill, ...).
It says a lot about a government when their biggest fear is a journalist with a pen.
I don't believe they had any fear of her in mind. Not many women with pens are going to turn out to be mass-murdering assassins.
No, this is all about their resentment of her actions, resentment of her questioning the party line, and intimidation hoping she'd get sick of their abuse and fall in line. She's guilty in their eyes of Thoughtcrime (I don't recall that ever being made illegal).
At the very least, I hope she and the EFF can raise a massive stink focusing plenty of eyeballs on the asshole behaviour gov'ts today engage in when we question their premises. Whose gov't is it anyway? Ours, theirs, or somebody they're not telling us about?
To anti-establishment journalists everywhere, I suggest they always carry a box of crayons to fall back on when they take the pens and pencils away. Let them try to justify confiscating something designed to be used by pre-schoolers.
That's not just admitting that the system is broken, it's doing so and then endorsing the fact that it's broken.
I think that simply instituting a LEOBR is acknowledging that the system is broken, but that the Special Snowflake police shouldn't have to suffer for it like ordinary citizens have to. Wouldn't it be better for all to fix the broken system so it protects everyone from injustice?
"Some animals are more equal than others." -- G. Orwell.
In some ways TPP is good, because the US has only tipped barely into civil war.
I suspect if you polled "Dixie" states, they'd insist they never actually lost that war ("Waaaaaaah!"), and it's still going on, and it'll go on until they've won (or they're annihilated). Cf. Texas.
"Better to take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
I wonder when Earth will decide to invade the USA to smite the cancer that's been ravaging the planet for the past century. You'd think if Osama bin Laden was considered a significant threat to the US (pathetic!), even Canada should be able to pull it off (again) all by itself. Canada from the north, Mexico from the south, Europe from the east, AsiaPac from the west, and then we can all get back to living our lives in peace, sans USA as Global Cop.
And the victims. Innocent, non-combattant victims, just trying to eke out a living for themselves and their children on planet Earth, and this is the ass-holery they run into.
I'm ashamed this !@#$'s still allowed to go on. I'm incensed that the US gov't is allowing this because *campaign contributions*, and corrupted politicians want to continue in office, swearing they're doing it because *America*!
I assume that the TPP's going to get signed and ratified and Malaysia will get its upgrade ...
You forgot the part where Malaysia gets to continue to ignore mass murder and human trafficking with USA's blessing. So much for being the engine of democracy, exporting freedom to the unwashed masses, all yearning to be free.
Watch out China/Russia/North Korea/Kazachstan/...! We're coming for you next!
Just because it's not surprising, doesn't make it any less disgusting.
It's more disgusting because we're not surprised. When will we learn not to fall for it?!? The system needs to be rebooted. It's been pwned by mal-actors, and is clearly running out of control, as far as we're concerned.
Who knew the Amnesia video games provided such a wonderful allegory for corporate statehood?
I'm not a gamer so I don't know about Amnesia, however I remember the original Rollerball movie, where the archivist was *shocked* that somehow they'd managed to lose the 13th Century and everything related to it.
Tyrants have been pulling this trick on us forever, and enough people fall for it every time for it to work every time.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell is hell bent on scuttling the Iran nuclear deal, and the administration is propping up an illegal gov't allied with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and fomenting WWIII with (somebody, anybody, hopefully *formerly* communist) Russia?!? Oh, and they prefer Israeli Zionists allied with Saudis over Iran, and they're accusing Assad to be in league with ISIS?!?
I can't decide if US politicos are just bought and paid for, or if they're insane (or simply idiots), or if they have an even more twisted tune they're singing along with which we don't know about yet.
I doubt it can get any weirder than this. I've never seen anything like this mish-mash in my lifetime before this.
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Pardon?
Er, what? I'm sure you don't mean what that reads like to me. Twice, I can accept. The third time, immediately escalate to their supervisor. Hundreds of times? That's just "Holy !@#$!" Of course this is legislation territory!
This is like that TV commercial: "Pay me now, or pay me later." You can't be bothered to fix your broken system after being told hundreds of times it's broken? You can't be bothered to test your system before you roll it out to ensure it's working as it should? You can't be bothered to exercise *any* quality control or due diligence or supervise your employees' actions? You owe me your first, second, and third child for twenty years of indentured servitude, and don't blame me if they hunt you down and kill you for that, you bonehead! Oh, and die screaming falling into a volcano!
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That game's rigged too. Unless you're Henry Fonda in Twelve Angry Men and manage to change the other jury members' minds, you just get a hung jury and a new trial in front of a new jury, instead of a finding of Not Guilty. Double jeopardy doesn't apply.
The monster wants its flesh, and it will find a way to get it regardless of what anyone else wants.
All that's beside the fact that anyone even alluding to jury nullification will be booted by the judge ASAP.
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Strange, strange world.
So, are there really 19 senators who're not in league with the devil, or is this just more partisan bickering? Then again, the administration's supporters in this are largely GOP and Obama's own party is the opposition, so ... gaak!
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Now they're at war with journalists too?
Well, there you go. A clear case of failing to "Respect mah authoritay!" Perhaps Laura Poitras and EFF would be interested in joining these cases of egregious assault on the Fourth Estate.
This century just keeps on getting sillier.
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Pachyderm alert!
In fact, strong crypto used to be controlled under ITAR, considering it little different from sophisticated weapons which were not to be marketed to foreign entities.
I wish these guys would just admit the elephant in the room: that strong crypto gets in the way of their continued attempt to enforce Prohibition (known today as "The War On Drugs"). That's their real problem. I don't believe them when they say they're just trying to protect everyone from terrorists and child pornographers! They're really just trying to prop up their failed business model, Prohibition. The DEA's getting no nearer to winning that war, and are in fact losing it badly, just as badly as Prohibition was originally lost. They've militarized the police, come to consider themselves fighting a war against domestic insurgents, are tapping the communications of damned near everyone on the planet, are pissing off even (nominal) allies with their nozyness, yet can't bring themselves to accept the truth: Prohibition didn't work and was actually a disaster, and considering crypto to be as dangerous as offensive weapons is still as foolish today as it was in the '90s. Saddling ordinary law abiding people with crippled crypto won't help them win it either.
Finally, I'll just suggest they consider what all my past employers told their people: "If you can't do your job, then quit!" There's plenty of people out here who'd love to pull down the kind of salaries these people get.
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Not enough patent lawyers at the bottom of the ocean. :-(
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Re: Re: Remember the Cold War?
I think it was more that you were so enamored with "Freedom, justice, and the American Way" that you failed to notice fascists were in charge, and always had been in charge. Me too. :-P
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Great! Lets sic the DHS on kindergartens. They might be able to handle miscreants like that (might, but "Kindergarden Cop" may disprove that assumption), and I think we'd all feel safer if DHS were all sent back to kindergarten.
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So was Chernobyl.
"Inside job" usually pertains to thefts where the thieves have some chance of getting away with the scheme. I don't see where anyone's gotten away with anything here, other than (so far) managing to avoid jail/execution. I doubt Cheney and Bush enjoy the fact that pretty much everybody now considers them war criminals (on par with Syria's Assad, or Idi Amin, or Serbia's Milosevic, Pol Pot, Josef Goebbels, Stalin, Gen. Tojo, Francisco Franco, Winston Churchill, ...).
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Re: Re: They don't need help
Yeah, that thing they instantly forget about after having sworn to defend it.
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I don't believe they had any fear of her in mind. Not many women with pens are going to turn out to be mass-murdering assassins.
No, this is all about their resentment of her actions, resentment of her questioning the party line, and intimidation hoping she'd get sick of their abuse and fall in line. She's guilty in their eyes of Thoughtcrime (I don't recall that ever being made illegal).
At the very least, I hope she and the EFF can raise a massive stink focusing plenty of eyeballs on the asshole behaviour gov'ts today engage in when we question their premises. Whose gov't is it anyway? Ours, theirs, or somebody they're not telling us about?
To anti-establishment journalists everywhere, I suggest they always carry a box of crayons to fall back on when they take the pens and pencils away. Let them try to justify confiscating something designed to be used by pre-schoolers.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Well, what can we say?
That one word is your biggest obstacle. Good luck with that one.
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I think that simply instituting a LEOBR is acknowledging that the system is broken, but that the Special Snowflake police shouldn't have to suffer for it like ordinary citizens have to. Wouldn't it be better for all to fix the broken system so it protects everyone from injustice?
"Some animals are more equal than others." -- G. Orwell.
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I suspect if you polled "Dixie" states, they'd insist they never actually lost that war ("Waaaaaaah!"), and it's still going on, and it'll go on until they've won (or they're annihilated). Cf. Texas.
"Better to take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
I wonder when Earth will decide to invade the USA to smite the cancer that's been ravaging the planet for the past century. You'd think if Osama bin Laden was considered a significant threat to the US (pathetic!), even Canada should be able to pull it off (again) all by itself. Canada from the north, Mexico from the south, Europe from the east, AsiaPac from the west, and then we can all get back to living our lives in peace, sans USA as Global Cop.
Tempting.
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Re: Well... fuck.
And the victims. Innocent, non-combattant victims, just trying to eke out a living for themselves and their children on planet Earth, and this is the ass-holery they run into.
I'm ashamed this !@#$'s still allowed to go on. I'm incensed that the US gov't is allowing this because *campaign contributions*, and corrupted politicians want to continue in office, swearing they're doing it because *America*!
Sick, sick, sick.
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Re: So...what now?
You forgot the part where Malaysia gets to continue to ignore mass murder and human trafficking with USA's blessing. So much for being the engine of democracy, exporting freedom to the unwashed masses, all yearning to be free.
Watch out China/Russia/North Korea/Kazachstan/...! We're coming for you next!
Chyaa, right.
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Re: Just because it's not surprising...
It's more disgusting because we're not surprised. When will we learn not to fall for it?!? The system needs to be rebooted. It's been pwned by mal-actors, and is clearly running out of control, as far as we're concerned.
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Re: Re: Human fodder
I'm not a gamer so I don't know about Amnesia, however I remember the original Rollerball movie, where the archivist was *shocked* that somehow they'd managed to lose the 13th Century and everything related to it.
Tyrants have been pulling this trick on us forever, and enough people fall for it every time for it to work every time.
Baaaaa, baaaaa, ...
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I can't decide if US politicos are just bought and paid for, or if they're insane (or simply idiots), or if they have an even more twisted tune they're singing along with which we don't know about yet.
I doubt it can get any weirder than this. I've never seen anything like this mish-mash in my lifetime before this.
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