its not that i don't believe *you* personally, but i don't believe *them*: i don't believe there isn't a way the Big Tels couldn't listen if if they wanted to; i don't believe the spooks; and i certainly don't believe there aren't backdoors, etc that can be accessed EVEN IF ATT/et al are telling their own limited truths...
since we have gone so long being led down this primrose path and find we have been lied to the whole time, the ONLY REASONABLE response is to NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING the gummint tells us...
interview with former spook russ tice who says they were wiretapping obomber, judges, lawyers, etc out the fucking ying-yang YEARS ago (when choco jesu was running for senate)...
*AND* that is one of the big uses: these masters of the universe are ALWAYS plotting against each other, so it would not surprise me that 90% of the taps are against 'players', not stupid, useless chumps like us...
the 'chamber of commerce' is NOT the voice of ma/pa li'l bidness owners they make themselves out to be, they are financed and run by big korporations who use it as a means of introducing big-bidness friendly laws, and stifling any/all laws which seek to hold korporation's accountable, and/or promote worker rights...
in short, they are scum, NOT your friendly neighborhood bidnessman...
well, as long as they aren't reading my 'correspondence'...
i know that mike/et al have discussed this on occasion, BUT, it appears to me to be THE overriding issue to pin down:
searches and seizures of papers and effects has NOT been modernized to include shit that 99.99% of us WOULD consider as being covered under these inalienable rights...
fucking gummint is acting as if it ain't china ink written with a quill on handmade hemp paper in an envelope with a wax seal on it, then it ain't covered no more...
encasing babies in concrete does work and improves safety, fortunately, the screams of the baby are muffled by the 4" thick concrete shell...
i am HIGHLY skeptical of red-light camera improving 'safety' to any *significant* extent, ESPECIALLY in comparison to any of a dozen other tactics which would be more effective, but don't generate extortion money for someone...
oh, please, please, please, Big Daddy, make me safe against my own will...
...OR, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE, goons for the state...
1. i can imagine drones making a VERY useful technology for society in general...
2. with the exception of search & rescue ops (which should not necessarily be a police/military function), i can ONLY imagine horrific consequences for this technology in the hands of the police-military (difficult to tell apart these days: our mercenaries, oops, military 'police' countries a half a planet away, and our police make war on the citizens here...
3. all we have to do to understand how police-military use of drones within the US, is to see how they are used on the rest of the world... which many legal minds and moral leaders (all four of them!) make an arguable case for the use of drones constituting war crimes...
if its a war crime 'over there', why ain't it a war crime 'over here' ? ? ?
4. lastly, the MOST scary prospect in this inhumane drone usage (and -not coincidentally- 'warrantless wiretapping', 'TIA' shit), is establishing the 'legal/moral principle' (sic), that use of unobtrusive, undetectable surveillance techniques make the 4th amendment obsolete...
*aside* from the mere factoid that 99%+ of our kongresskritters piss on the constitution and bill of rights on *at least* a three-month basis; *aside* from how our modern 'papers and effects' have mutated to a digital world unanticipated, BUT WHICH SHOULD STILL BE COVERED; and *aside* from the dubious value of these insane systems; i am looking in my popular science speculation crystal ball, and it ain't too long out where we have 'nanobots' of various scales...
if we establish the 'principle' that unobtrusive surveillance is 'okay', then what is to stop The They (tm) from putting a nanobot up your butt ? ? ?
its a sign of the times: all style, no substance...
1. not a gamer, just play the occasional mahjong, bejeweled, backgammon, etc...
2. i'm so old, i remember a stupid game called pong which had a line, two rectangles, and a dot, and we spent EONS playing the shit out of that thing...
had NOTHING to do with 3D, ray-traced graphics, etc, but was damn good fun...
3. never have bought a console, and never will (for all kinds of reasons), but i bet i put enough quarters in a space invaders arcade game to buy 10 consoles...
again, no fancy graphics, just mowing down pixelated aliens until you get hand cramps...
good times...
4. however, what *really* struck me in the douchenozzles clueless comments, was that 'modern' games *HAVE TO* have 3D, ray-traced, hyper-realistic, mega-world graphics to even dare put up on the shelf...
as another poster pointed out, angry birds is hardly a cutting-edge graphics superstar, yet the authors/publishers seem to have made a couple pennies on that one...
not everyone either needs or wants to buy a ferrari...
actually, john bolton is *our* evil minion of doom...
slime from way back, i am CERTAIN there are more than a few 'smoking guns' (figuratively if not literally) in the intel pile that has this fucks fingerprints on it...
gee, wonder why that POS doesn't want any more leaks...
*snort*
there's your bottom line right there: they used to say that they only thing that would upset an incumbent's reelection, was being found with a dead grrl, or a live boy...
now?
hell, that's just called wednesday for a kongresskritter...
i know this sounds weird, but *one* (of the millions) of the things 'our' (sic) kongress has done, has grated against my grade-school education for decades: gerrymandering...
as i recall in EVERY civics class throughout school, one of the big dangers we had and victories we secured to preserve democracy, was to outlaw gerrymandering...
of course, these days, there is *NOTHING* 'against the law' if you are an elite puppetmaster, and in this case, since both the rethugs and dem'rats both wanted to game the system to eliminate ANY third party attempts, they both went the gerrymander route to carve up the country into mafia territories...
'law', 'consequences', 'fairness', 'justice', 'the public', etc, etc, these terms have NO MEANING any longer in our society... mere window-dressing to keep the rabble in line...
i'm not sure you catching on to the nub:
WE.
ALL.
ARE.
THE.
ENEMY.
IF you are a good li'l cog in the machine and keep your head down, don't bitch about anything, and support Empire in all ways, then that doormat is not a problem... (yet)
it is the ne'er-do-wells who talk about rights, the complainers who bitch about kongresskritters, the ones who insist on following the constitution, the ones who have actually read -and believe!- the bill of rights who are 'the enemy'...
haven't you been following the playbook ?
diligent citizens who actually have a copy of the constitution are considered ENEMIES, The They (tm) spy on and infiltrate such crazy people...
KNOWING AND INSISTING ON YOUR 'INALIENABLE' RIGHTS IS THE NUMBER ONE SIGN OF AN ENEMY OF THE STATE...
fuckers...
like the poster above, EVEN IF they weally, weally, cwoss-my-ha-rart-and-hope-to-die pwomise to not ebber, ebber do that again, I DO NOT TRUST THEM, PERIOD...
(they have EARNED that distrust, REPEATEDLY...)
not that it will do any good, but signed on myself...
On the post: Latest NSA Leak: Rules On How They Use Data Without A Warrant
Re: Re: Re: Banking.
since we have gone so long being led down this primrose path and find we have been lied to the whole time, the ONLY REASONABLE response is to NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING the gummint tells us...
you will be correct at least 90% of the time...
On the post: Accessing A Public Website Is Not A Crime, And Craigslist Should Back Away From Its Lawsuit Claiming Such
Re: Re: Reason for CL behavior -- Their TOS is very closed
NOW, ALL stupid fucking EULA's, TOS's, etc are going to be sitting pretty with this ruling...
in other words: SNAFU, we are screwed, the korporadoes are king...
good luck with that revolution, digital serfs...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Obama Administration Has Declared War On Whistleblowers, Describes Leaks As 'Aiding The Enemy'
check it out at boiling frogs...
*AND* that is one of the big uses: these masters of the universe are ALWAYS plotting against each other, so it would not surprise me that 90% of the taps are against 'players', not stupid, useless chumps like us...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Chamber Of Commerce Drops Lawsuit Against Parodists The Yes Men, Who Ask The Chamber To Reconsider
just a reminder to kampers...
in short, they are scum, NOT your friendly neighborhood bidnessman...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: If You Were Bradley Manning, What Would You Do?
Re: if I was bradley manning
funny, that, eh...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Connecticut Man Arrested For Writing Obscenity On Traffic Ticket Payment Form
now wait a minute...
ie it wasn't 'swear', 'dirty' words at all, but nonsense words...
does someone get arrested for hate crimes/racism if they write "the n-word" ? ? ?
*IF* that was literally what he wrote, i don't see how they could prosecute in any way: THEY AREN'T WORDS...
fucked up world...
i have a strange compulsion to write them and tell them how fucked up i think they are...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Massachusetts Wants To Make Surveillance Easier, While Texas Is Making It Harder
well, as long as they aren't reading my 'correspondence'...
searches and seizures of papers and effects has NOT been modernized to include shit that 99.99% of us WOULD consider as being covered under these inalienable rights...
fucking gummint is acting as if it ain't china ink written with a quill on handmade hemp paper in an envelope with a wax seal on it, then it ain't covered no more...
THAT is bullshit, plain and simple...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: New Orleans Cops Caught Filling Their Pockets With Red Light Camera Cash
Re:
i am HIGHLY skeptical of red-light camera improving 'safety' to any *significant* extent, ESPECIALLY in comparison to any of a dozen other tactics which would be more effective, but don't generate extortion money for someone...
oh, please, please, please, Big Daddy, make me safe against my own will...
...OR, GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE, goons for the state...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: FBI Admits To Using Drones To Spy On Americans
Re: Lots of room to debate drones
2. with the exception of search & rescue ops (which should not necessarily be a police/military function), i can ONLY imagine horrific consequences for this technology in the hands of the police-military (difficult to tell apart these days: our mercenaries, oops, military 'police' countries a half a planet away, and our police make war on the citizens here...
3. all we have to do to understand how police-military use of drones within the US, is to see how they are used on the rest of the world... which many legal minds and moral leaders (all four of them!) make an arguable case for the use of drones constituting war crimes...
if its a war crime 'over there', why ain't it a war crime 'over here' ? ? ?
4. lastly, the MOST scary prospect in this inhumane drone usage (and -not coincidentally- 'warrantless wiretapping', 'TIA' shit), is establishing the 'legal/moral principle' (sic), that use of unobtrusive, undetectable surveillance techniques make the 4th amendment obsolete...
*aside* from the mere factoid that 99%+ of our kongresskritters piss on the constitution and bill of rights on *at least* a three-month basis; *aside* from how our modern 'papers and effects' have mutated to a digital world unanticipated, BUT WHICH SHOULD STILL BE COVERED; and *aside* from the dubious value of these insane systems; i am looking in my popular science speculation crystal ball, and it ain't too long out where we have 'nanobots' of various scales...
if we establish the 'principle' that unobtrusive surveillance is 'okay', then what is to stop The They (tm) from putting a nanobot up your butt ? ? ?
nothing but a threadbare pair of tidy whities...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Discovering Names Of Secret NSA Surveillance Programs Via LinkedIn
Re: Re:
On the post: 'Gears Of War' Designer: Used Games Must Be Killed So Unsustainable Development Can Live
its a sign of the times: all style, no substance...
2. i'm so old, i remember a stupid game called pong which had a line, two rectangles, and a dot, and we spent EONS playing the shit out of that thing...
had NOTHING to do with 3D, ray-traced graphics, etc, but was damn good fun...
3. never have bought a console, and never will (for all kinds of reasons), but i bet i put enough quarters in a space invaders arcade game to buy 10 consoles...
again, no fancy graphics, just mowing down pixelated aliens until you get hand cramps...
good times...
4. however, what *really* struck me in the douchenozzles clueless comments, was that 'modern' games *HAVE TO* have 3D, ray-traced, hyper-realistic, mega-world graphics to even dare put up on the shelf...
as another poster pointed out, angry birds is hardly a cutting-edge graphics superstar, yet the authors/publishers seem to have made a couple pennies on that one...
not everyone either needs or wants to buy a ferrari...
now, get off my cathode ray tube ! ! !
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: MPAA's Chris Dodd Will Be The Chair Of 'Free Speech Week'
Re: Re:
On the post: Knowing The Government Is Spying On You Changes How You Act
i object...
*NOT* because it will change how we live...
*NOT* because it is expensive bullshit for no good return...
i object because it is MORALLY WRONG and constitutionally horrific, *regardless* of any/all good/bad consequences...
i know, i know, morals are so last millennium...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Knowing The Government Is Spying On You Changes How You Act
Re:
...until they droned him
On the post: Knowing The Government Is Spying On You Changes How You Act
Re:
slime from way back, i am CERTAIN there are more than a few 'smoking guns' (figuratively if not literally) in the intel pile that has this fucks fingerprints on it...
gee, wonder why that POS doesn't want any more leaks...
*snort*
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: TX Congresswoman's Misdeeds Re-Vaulted Into News Via That Pesky Streisand Effect
Re: I don't think it'll matter
now?
hell, that's just called wednesday for a kongresskritter...
i know this sounds weird, but *one* (of the millions) of the things 'our' (sic) kongress has done, has grated against my grade-school education for decades: gerrymandering...
as i recall in EVERY civics class throughout school, one of the big dangers we had and victories we secured to preserve democracy, was to outlaw gerrymandering...
of course, these days, there is *NOTHING* 'against the law' if you are an elite puppetmaster, and in this case, since both the rethugs and dem'rats both wanted to game the system to eliminate ANY third party attempts, they both went the gerrymander route to carve up the country into mafia territories...
'law', 'consequences', 'fairness', 'justice', 'the public', etc, etc, these terms have NO MEANING any longer in our society... mere window-dressing to keep the rabble in line...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Leaked: NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance
Re: Limited Data
NO.
CLUE.
please refrain from expressing your opinions about subjects which you are woefully misinformed about...
the inertnet thanks you...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: DailyDirt: English Curiosities
An azinmag fcat cncenornig rdaneig...
Ptrtey cool, huh.
art grlliuea
aka ann acrhy
eof
On the post: Perhaps The NSA Should Figure Out How To Keep Its Own Stuff Secret Before Building A Giant Database
Re:
WE.
ALL.
ARE.
THE.
ENEMY.
IF you are a good li'l cog in the machine and keep your head down, don't bitch about anything, and support Empire in all ways, then that doormat is not a problem... (yet)
it is the ne'er-do-wells who talk about rights, the complainers who bitch about kongresskritters, the ones who insist on following the constitution, the ones who have actually read -and believe!- the bill of rights who are 'the enemy'...
haven't you been following the playbook ?
diligent citizens who actually have a copy of the constitution are considered ENEMIES, The They (tm) spy on and infiltrate such crazy people...
KNOWING AND INSISTING ON YOUR 'INALIENABLE' RIGHTS IS THE NUMBER ONE SIGN OF AN ENEMY OF THE STATE...
wake the fuck up, sheeple...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: 86 Companies And Groups Ask Congress To Put An End To Abusive NSA Spying
dog damn, i hates my gummint...
like the poster above, EVEN IF they weally, weally, cwoss-my-ha-rart-and-hope-to-die pwomise to not ebber, ebber do that again, I DO NOT TRUST THEM, PERIOD...
(they have EARNED that distrust, REPEATEDLY...)
not that it will do any good, but signed on myself...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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