please disabuse yourself of the notion that 'anarchists' are 'bad' people who want to run around looting and killing everyone...
you -as many are- have been successfully brainwashed about both the term's technical meaning, as well as the his story of anarchism in general...
using 'anarchy' as a word meaning 'chaos', violence, etc, is wrong...
...or a PETA jerk,
...or a fat teacher,
...or a person who dislikes sillinesss,
...or any of at least 6 billion reasons why *someone*/*anyone* can 'object' to ANYTHING for ANY 'reason'...
it does NOT matter if it is IDENTICAL to 'sit-ins', in both intent and practice: The They (tm) don't like it, and that is all that matters...
i'm certain The They (tm) WOULD 'outlaw' sit-ins and other inconvenient protests if they could (which they have tried)...
it really has NOTHING to do with rational thinking, fairness, applying constitutional principles, blah blah blah; it is ALL about control: they don't want pesky sheeple making a stink over anything, anywhere, anytime...
as others have alluded to: credit cards are set up so you lose nothing-to-minimal if you get screwed over; debit cards, the perp can clear out your account, and the bank doesn't have to do squat, you are hosed for however much the perp took...
a long time ago, had a cell phone when they came in bags; after a year or so of dicking around with it, decided to cancel the account... went PERSONALLY into the office, and -thought- i had cancelled the account (they didn't tell me otherwise)... kept on getting dinged for the phone, kept on insisting i had cancelled the account... when it all came out in the wash, turns out they don't 'accept' a cancellation WHEN YOU DO IT IN PERSON (HOW much more 'official' can you get?), i had to jump through hoops and send letters, etc... fuckers...
a similar occurrence with an online payment processor happened, only complicated by the fact it was a slimy company ten levels deep that had been bought/sold a number of times in the interim... didn't have to do *SHIT* to 'sign up' and create an account, etc; *BUT*, when i went to cancel said account, there were EXTREME hoops to jump through: had to provide a copy of my driver's license, etc, etc, etc...
WTF ? didn't have to provide ANY of that sort of info when i signed up, but to *cancel* i have to ? again, fuck those fuckers...
the safe and prudent course of action is to presume ALL companies are out to screw you (because they are), AND that virtually ALL the laws are slanted to their favor...
(hell, simply the one-sided arbitration requirements *SHOULD* be illegal in a moral universe... we are no longer in such a universe...)
dog damn this makes me sick: our "leaders", our "best and brightest", our moral "superiors" joke about MURDERING the ONLY PEOPLE WITH HONOR in this whole clusterfuck, with nary a HINT of 'due process'...
don't the puppetmasters understand: you have BROKEN the social compact, *NOW* you are constantly rubbing our noses in the fact that there is no LEGAL COMPACT any longer... which means NOT ONLY are the power elite allowed to ignore any/all laws they find inconvenient; now WE CAN TOO ! ! !
don't they consider that it will not end well for the 1% when the 99% turn the tables on them ? ? ?
its official: all deals are off, and the only law is the 'law of the jungle'; when the sheeple act on that, it will be an 'oh shit' moment for our puppetmasters...
you joke, but in thinking about this whole enn ess ehh schmear, i wondered if people caught up in various cases couldn't subpoena the enn ess ehh for ALL KINDS OF RECORDS the enn ess ehh has vacuumed up that might help prove/disprove their case...
why not ? ? ?
(besides, 'national security', blah blah blah)
Big Bother is always looking out for us, and simply took the 'r' out of 'free speech'...
hell, the only thing worth anything are things we spend money on, if that information was free, it was obviously worthless; now, its priceless ! ! !
obviously, 'our' (sic) gummint is getting increasingly annoyed with pesky citizens filing FOIA requests, and are slow-walking and otherwise refusing all requests simply because they can...
WHO -and what army- are going to 'force' them to follow the few pitiful laws we have left on the books for the benefit of us lowly citizens ? ? ?
NONE of 'our' (sic) leaders in the administration or kongress, that is certain...
unless/until we are in the streets waving pitchforks and torches, ain't NO ONE in power going to comply with such impertinent requests...
the *nerve*: mere citizens asking/begging for public information, *who* do they think they are, the 1% ? ? ?
seriously, SHOULDN'T all of the actions taken to conform to THE LAW on FOIA be 'built-in' to their budgets, since it is a function they 'have to' do (when they can't lie or worm out of it) ? ? ?
*BESIDES* the factoid (knowing nothing about the original law) that having FOIA requests be 'self-funding' kind of defeats the purpose of them (oh, i get it now, the old 'feature-not-a-bug' trick), i do not trust the feebs (OR ANY GUMMINT AGENCY) to NOT be lying their fat asses off in numerous ways...
there *may* be 95 000+ dox on booz, or there may be 1000 relevant dox, with 94 000+ tacked on for good measure which only tangentially name booz/etc... The They (tm) have been known to drown requesters with tons of papers so they can't find the *one* they need...
...and -sorry- even *more* importantly:
simply because a film gets a PG or 'worse' rating, does NOT mean it isn't a 'family' movie...
for example, 'stand by me' is rated R for various mostly stupid reasons, but it is a quintessential coming-of-age movie that resonates with kids...
simply looking at how violence is NOT taken into account as assiduously as profanity, nudity, sex, etc, has been a staple of -justly- sarcastic remarks about the ratings 'system', for forever...
it is still true: the ratings system is arbitrary, outdated, and inconsistent...
as far as that goes, i'm not a huge movie fan by any stretch, but i've read MANY articles where the director, or producer, writers, actors, whatever, talk about how they 'self-censor' in numerous ways to -mostly- avoid an R (or *gasp* X) rating...
its fucking stupid; that isn't 'art' made freely, its pre-digested, pre-approved, pre-censored pablum compromised for the least common denominator...
so, i can curl up in a fetal position in my free speech pen; be enjoined from saying anything about anything of any importance (and can't say, i can't say anything about anything because of *something* secret); be swept away under secret laws to secret courts with secret judges to secret prisons where i'm secretly non-torture tortured; and then have no recourse through 'our' (sic) justice system, because of ubiquitous 'state secrets'* which trump EVERYFUCKINGTHING...
you mean *that* powerful 1st amendment mojo ? ? ?
(*only states are allowed to have secrets, not mere humans...)
1. put all your important/spy/terrorist crap up on 'the cloud' in dropbox, or whatever (hell, you can hardly turn around these days without somebody offering you 10 gigs of cloud space), that way you have nothing on you...
2. make a live USB stick with puppy linux or similar, and have all your important/spy/terrorist crap on *that*... go into bios of laptop/whatever (and if not already so configured) configure so it boots from USB, do your evil stuff, shut down, put USB in pocket (or more intimate hidey hole), no worries...
so-o-o-o, you *want* Big Daddy to make everything 'right' ? ? ? watch it, your authoritarianism is showing...
you make an initial statement that *of course* you want 'checks and balances', and then go on to refute that by saying how you think saint obama *has to* do an end run around kongress since they are dysfunctional...
cass sunstein ? is that you ?
for the authoritarian-impaired: our system is set up to make us a nation ruled by LAW, not MEN (NO MATTER how well intentioned)...
REGARDLESS of whether you think choco jesu (OR ANYONE) is a moral paragon who will 'do the right thing' for us 99%, we DO NOT invest all our power in them, because it WILL BE ABUSED when you have a 'bad guy' in power...
(and -as far as i'm concerned- obomber IS a 'bad guy'...)
these are first principles which should NEVER be abandoned; were you asleep in civics 101 ? ? ?
there is an apocryphal story about how a new pres get elected, and before he/she takes office, a group of shadowy types working for the power elites, takes them aside and shows them a 'home movie'...
the movie shows the kennedy entourage going through dallas on 22 nov 1963, and is from an angle never seen before, the movie clearly shows kennedy getting his head blowed off from the grassy knoll...
after the movie, the lights come back up, and the shadowy folk ask the new president: 'any questions ?'...
all the other means of wresting control of 'our' (sic) gummint are being eliminated, stifled, gutted, or ignored: there is no effective electoral choice; there is no means of redress; there is no means of recourse...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of the people are against war with (fill in the blank/who's left?), we go to war anyway...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of us wanted single-payer/etc, we get a health insurer's bailout...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of us wanted banksters to go to the gaol, they get millions in bonuses out of our pockets...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of us want gay marriage available, constitutionally 'guaranteed' privacy, jobs, universal healthcare, scaled-back military, dismantling the security state, ending the war on _______, we get what our 1% puppetmasters want, *not* what us 99% want/need...
we can go stand meekly in our 'free speech' pens and scream until we are fucking DEAD, The They (tm) don't give a shit...
it is only unless/until we actually THREATEN them, that any attention will be paid...
what is left to us sheeple but to bare our fangs ? ? ?
it is the ONLY THING the psychopaths in charge will respond to...
Re: Re: Re: And, by omission: Google, Facebook, and other corporate employees are above suspicion?
i bet with the right mix of simple meta-data they can make a *really* good guess:
*when* and *where* you accessed an ATM, or made a withdrawal...
*where* your GPS from the phone and/or vehicle shows you went...
*what* businesses are in that area and *who* lives in that area...
*what* an examination of your web of friends, contacts, etc would show...
...and that you withdrew X dollars, went to *this* area you go to about once a month, and find that *that* acquaintance deposited X dollars after your trip: BUSTED ! ! !
seriously, i'm not sure how much using cash protects you from the prying eye of Sauron; if he turns his fiery gaze on you, you are screwed...
i don't care if you are pope francis, mother teresa, mr rogers, and jesus christ combined, if Sauron turns his deadly gaze on you, you are toast... they will either find *something*/*anything* to media blast you with, OR, they will simply make it up: you/we are personally HELPLESS against the might of Empire...
1. commercials generally suck, i don't want to watch them if i have a choice (which is why i get pissed off being forced to watch TEEVEE commercials (nevermind the dozen movie trailers) at the movies I PAY YOU A BUNCH OF MONEY TO WATCH... FUCK YOU VERY MUCH mpaa douches...
2. having said that, the infrequent 5-10 second commercials on hulu are pretty much endurable; i would PREFER to have NO commercials, but theirs are not excessively intrusive...
3. LOVE that i can watch the daily show/colbert report (etc) the next day in about half the time it would take watching it live...
4. OTA antenna works great, roku is pretty cool, but cord-cutting lasted only about a month before SWMBO was jonesing for some football not available elsewhere...
so, -MUCH to my chagrin (at minimum)- we are back in the thrall of Big Media: she ordered a reduced dish package from what we had, and it is on month-to-month so we can cancel when we want, but she simply could not live without suckling from the glass teat...
*sigh*
On the post: Team Prenda Tries To Flip The Story Of John Steele's Mother-in-Law To Make Alan Cooper Look Bad
Re: Re: A/C comment from 12:12am
you -as many are- have been successfully brainwashed about both the term's technical meaning, as well as the his story of anarchism in general...
using 'anarchy' as a word meaning 'chaos', violence, etc, is wrong...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
oef
On the post: High School Student Forced To Remove NRA Shirt, Because Pictures Of Guns Are Scaaaaary
Re:
...or a fat teacher,
...or a person who dislikes sillinesss,
...or any of at least 6 billion reasons why *someone*/*anyone* can 'object' to ANYTHING for ANY 'reason'...
its bullshit all the way down...
On the post: High School Student Forced To Remove NRA Shirt, Because Pictures Of Guns Are Scaaaaary
Re: Re:
you -like too many real murican's- know nothing of what 'free speech' is supposed to entail...
short story: you MUST allow the worst, most despicable speech from your worst enemy, or you are NOT for free speech...
please read up on my boy chomsky's tireless work in this regard...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
On the post: Anonymous Indictment Raises Serious Question: Is It Really A CFAA Violation To DDoS A Website?
Re: Re: Letters
i'm certain The They (tm) WOULD 'outlaw' sit-ins and other inconvenient protests if they could (which they have tried)...
it really has NOTHING to do with rational thinking, fairness, applying constitutional principles, blah blah blah; it is ALL about control: they don't want pesky sheeple making a stink over anything, anywhere, anytime...
*that* is the bottom line...
On the post: London School Of Economics Study Shows, Yet Again, That The Music Industry Is Thriving, Not Dying
Re: Re: Blows away your notion Hollywood is "doing it all wrong"!
A. gates was a dumpster diving thief who *stole* the original s/w he went on to monetize, and paid for it after-the-fact...
B. gates himself has said it was PIRACY which allowed windoze to penetrate the world market; no piracy, no worldwide domination...
On the post: Gym Thinks New Member Isn't A Real Person; Drains Nearly $1,000 From Her Checking Account To 'Verify'
credit not debit...
a long time ago, had a cell phone when they came in bags; after a year or so of dicking around with it, decided to cancel the account... went PERSONALLY into the office, and -thought- i had cancelled the account (they didn't tell me otherwise)... kept on getting dinged for the phone, kept on insisting i had cancelled the account... when it all came out in the wash, turns out they don't 'accept' a cancellation WHEN YOU DO IT IN PERSON (HOW much more 'official' can you get?), i had to jump through hoops and send letters, etc... fuckers...
a similar occurrence with an online payment processor happened, only complicated by the fact it was a slimy company ten levels deep that had been bought/sold a number of times in the interim... didn't have to do *SHIT* to 'sign up' and create an account, etc; *BUT*, when i went to cancel said account, there were EXTREME hoops to jump through: had to provide a copy of my driver's license, etc, etc, etc...
WTF ? didn't have to provide ANY of that sort of info when i signed up, but to *cancel* i have to ? again, fuck those fuckers...
the safe and prudent course of action is to presume ALL companies are out to screw you (because they are), AND that virtually ALL the laws are slanted to their favor...
(hell, simply the one-sided arbitration requirements *SHOULD* be illegal in a moral universe... we are no longer in such a universe...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Former NSA Director Jokes About Putting Snowden On A 'Kill List,' Says He 'Hopes' NSA Is Involved In Targeted Killings
Re:
dog damn this makes me sick: our "leaders", our "best and brightest", our moral "superiors" joke about MURDERING the ONLY PEOPLE WITH HONOR in this whole clusterfuck, with nary a HINT of 'due process'...
don't the puppetmasters understand: you have BROKEN the social compact, *NOW* you are constantly rubbing our noses in the fact that there is no LEGAL COMPACT any longer... which means NOT ONLY are the power elite allowed to ignore any/all laws they find inconvenient; now WE CAN TOO ! ! !
don't they consider that it will not end well for the 1% when the 99% turn the tables on them ? ? ?
its official: all deals are off, and the only law is the 'law of the jungle'; when the sheeple act on that, it will be an 'oh shit' moment for our puppetmasters...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Asked To Explain The Disappearance Of Mark Lutz, Team Prenda Says They're Sure He Has A Good Reason
Re:
why not ? ? ?
(besides, 'national security', blah blah blah)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: FBI Wants More Than $270,000 To Respond To FOIA Request About Booz Allen
just more 'fee speech'...
hell, the only thing worth anything are things we spend money on, if that information was free, it was obviously worthless; now, its priceless ! ! !
obviously, 'our' (sic) gummint is getting increasingly annoyed with pesky citizens filing FOIA requests, and are slow-walking and otherwise refusing all requests simply because they can...
WHO -and what army- are going to 'force' them to follow the few pitiful laws we have left on the books for the benefit of us lowly citizens ? ? ?
NONE of 'our' (sic) leaders in the administration or kongress, that is certain...
unless/until we are in the streets waving pitchforks and torches, ain't NO ONE in power going to comply with such impertinent requests...
the *nerve*: mere citizens asking/begging for public information, *who* do they think they are, the 1% ? ? ?
seriously, SHOULDN'T all of the actions taken to conform to THE LAW on FOIA be 'built-in' to their budgets, since it is a function they 'have to' do (when they can't lie or worm out of it) ? ? ?
*BESIDES* the factoid (knowing nothing about the original law) that having FOIA requests be 'self-funding' kind of defeats the purpose of them (oh, i get it now, the old 'feature-not-a-bug' trick), i do not trust the feebs (OR ANY GUMMINT AGENCY) to NOT be lying their fat asses off in numerous ways...
there *may* be 95 000+ dox on booz, or there may be 1000 relevant dox, with 94 000+ tacked on for good measure which only tangentially name booz/etc... The They (tm) have been known to drown requesters with tons of papers so they can't find the *one* they need...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Police Chief Charged With More Than 130 Violations Has Collected Over $115,000 Without Working A Day This Year
due process, blah blah blah
you, me, and the 99% have a WHIFF of *SOME* sort of 'wrongdoing' (not even illegal), and we are gone from our jobs before the evening news...
privileged donut-eaters and our other superiors, eat babies for breakfast, and they get paid leave...
the ones who should be under MOST scrutiny, who should be MOST observant of the law, skate away unscathed...
us hoi polloi ? lucky if we aren't summarily executed for bad attitudes...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: More And More Research Showing That The Assumptions Underpinning Copyright Law Are Fundamentally Wrong
Re: Re: Re: Re:
simply because a film gets a PG or 'worse' rating, does NOT mean it isn't a 'family' movie...
for example, 'stand by me' is rated R for various mostly stupid reasons, but it is a quintessential coming-of-age movie that resonates with kids...
simply looking at how violence is NOT taken into account as assiduously as profanity, nudity, sex, etc, has been a staple of -justly- sarcastic remarks about the ratings 'system', for forever...
it is still true: the ratings system is arbitrary, outdated, and inconsistent...
as far as that goes, i'm not a huge movie fan by any stretch, but i've read MANY articles where the director, or producer, writers, actors, whatever, talk about how they 'self-censor' in numerous ways to -mostly- avoid an R (or *gasp* X) rating...
its fucking stupid; that isn't 'art' made freely, its pre-digested, pre-approved, pre-censored pablum compromised for the least common denominator...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Border Patrol's Horrific Treatment Of On The Media's Producer, Family & Friends Highlights The Lack Of Accountability From DHS
Re: Re: second amendment
you mean *that* powerful 1st amendment mojo ? ? ?
(*only states are allowed to have secrets, not mere humans...)
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Border Patrol's Horrific Treatment Of On The Media's Producer, Family & Friends Highlights The Lack Of Accountability From DHS
Re: Re:
1. put all your important/spy/terrorist crap up on 'the cloud' in dropbox, or whatever (hell, you can hardly turn around these days without somebody offering you 10 gigs of cloud space), that way you have nothing on you...
2. make a live USB stick with puppy linux or similar, and have all your important/spy/terrorist crap on *that*... go into bios of laptop/whatever (and if not already so configured) configure so it boots from USB, do your evil stuff, shut down, put USB in pocket (or more intimate hidey hole), no worries...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: President Obama Asks Congress To Give Up Its Oversight On Secret TPP Agreement
Re: Re: Re:
you make an initial statement that *of course* you want 'checks and balances', and then go on to refute that by saying how you think saint obama *has to* do an end run around kongress since they are dysfunctional...
cass sunstein ? is that you ?
for the authoritarian-impaired: our system is set up to make us a nation ruled by LAW, not MEN (NO MATTER how well intentioned)...
REGARDLESS of whether you think choco jesu (OR ANYONE) is a moral paragon who will 'do the right thing' for us 99%, we DO NOT invest all our power in them, because it WILL BE ABUSED when you have a 'bad guy' in power...
(and -as far as i'm concerned- obomber IS a 'bad guy'...)
these are first principles which should NEVER be abandoned; were you asleep in civics 101 ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Universal Music Using Copyright To Kill Off Wacky Charlie Brown / Smiths Comic Mashup
Re: Re: Ever notice how Mike focuses on second-handers?
if you are xtian, dog almighty is the ONLY original 'author', since then, EVERYONE has been cribbing...
if you are rational, Slimey the Pond Ooze is the ONLY original, ALL the rest of us are derivatives...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Remember When White House Insisted James Clapper Wasn't Overseeing Review Of Surveillance? About That...
Re: Re:
the movie shows the kennedy entourage going through dallas on 22 nov 1963, and is from an angle never seen before, the movie clearly shows kennedy getting his head blowed off from the grassy knoll...
after the movie, the lights come back up, and the shadowy folk ask the new president: 'any questions ?'...
just sayin'...
On the post: President Obama Asks Congress To Give Up Its Oversight On Secret TPP Agreement
Re: Re: Re: To paraphrase....
i think that is our *only* hope left...
all the other means of wresting control of 'our' (sic) gummint are being eliminated, stifled, gutted, or ignored: there is no effective electoral choice; there is no means of redress; there is no means of recourse...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of the people are against war with (fill in the blank/who's left?), we go to war anyway...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of us wanted single-payer/etc, we get a health insurer's bailout...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of us wanted banksters to go to the gaol, they get millions in bonuses out of our pockets...
it doesn't matter 90-99% of us want gay marriage available, constitutionally 'guaranteed' privacy, jobs, universal healthcare, scaled-back military, dismantling the security state, ending the war on _______, we get what our 1% puppetmasters want, *not* what us 99% want/need...
we can go stand meekly in our 'free speech' pens and scream until we are fucking DEAD, The They (tm) don't give a shit...
it is only unless/until we actually THREATEN them, that any attention will be paid...
what is left to us sheeple but to bare our fangs ? ? ?
it is the ONLY THING the psychopaths in charge will respond to...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: State Approved Stalking: MN Newscaster's License Info Viewed 1,380 Times
Re: Re: Re: And, by omission: Google, Facebook, and other corporate employees are above suspicion?
*when* and *where* you accessed an ATM, or made a withdrawal...
*where* your GPS from the phone and/or vehicle shows you went...
*what* businesses are in that area and *who* lives in that area...
*what* an examination of your web of friends, contacts, etc would show...
...and that you withdrew X dollars, went to *this* area you go to about once a month, and find that *that* acquaintance deposited X dollars after your trip: BUSTED ! ! !
seriously, i'm not sure how much using cash protects you from the prying eye of Sauron; if he turns his fiery gaze on you, you are screwed...
i don't care if you are pope francis, mother teresa, mr rogers, and jesus christ combined, if Sauron turns his deadly gaze on you, you are toast... they will either find *something*/*anything* to media blast you with, OR, they will simply make it up: you/we are personally HELPLESS against the might of Empire...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: How Ruling On WiFi Snooping Means Security Researchers May Face Criminal Liability
Re: Re: So, very narrow risk so far only in Mike's FUD...
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
On the post: Another Court Won't Block Dish's AutoHopper; TV Networks Plan To Shoot Selves In Foot In Response
Re:
2. having said that, the infrequent 5-10 second commercials on hulu are pretty much endurable; i would PREFER to have NO commercials, but theirs are not excessively intrusive...
3. LOVE that i can watch the daily show/colbert report (etc) the next day in about half the time it would take watching it live...
4. OTA antenna works great, roku is pretty cool, but cord-cutting lasted only about a month before SWMBO was jonesing for some football not available elsewhere...
so, -MUCH to my chagrin (at minimum)- we are back in the thrall of Big Media: she ordered a reduced dish package from what we had, and it is on month-to-month so we can cancel when we want, but she simply could not live without suckling from the glass teat...
*sigh*
why did i get married again ? ? ?
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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