And which, based on past experience, their massive untargeted collection will leave them wholly unprepared except to capitalize on cleaning up the resultant mess, leading to more intrusive massive untargeted collection ... Lather, rinse, repeat.
I'm not so sure about the "facist" thing because it all is or becomes more or less the same which leaves few groups/people to hate.
Fascist is just an easy name for it, or one example of it. I'm really just pissed at that clique at the very top who get away with things like shooting the economy in the head and telling heads of state what to do; ie. a NeoCon + NATO + IMF backed coup in Ukraine. Wouldn't that be fun to piss off Putin, just for shits & giggles? Assholes. How many innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire of their atrocious games?
And yes, this will be a very sad, cruel, prohibitionist century to live in. It already is.
Well, buck up soldier. That doesn't mean it can't be fun, and we have had successes. For instance, even the media is starting to come around to the fact that Snowden may have a point. We've had a few other successes too, and they still haven't much of a clue as to how powerful this Internet thingy really is. Ultimately, they're going to lose this war.
frustrating and cruel century? Meh, I'd call it entertaining ...
Eh, I usually would too. Defiance is my usual stance. They're not going to get away with this !@#$ forever! One of these days, we're going to get all of us on the same page working for us together, and then we'll have them cornered with spotlights illuminating for all what they really are: beady eyed little rats that never do anything but take.
No, it doesn't, but that appears to matter not a whit to them. Fascists are taking back the world. Our views on the situation are unimportant (to them). They gave us this sop called democracy for a while to shut us up making us believe we were in control of our destiny, but it's unwieldy and slow and too inefficient, so they're putting an end to the experiment and going back to the old ways including oligarchy and plutocracy.
That's my take on it anyway. Should make for a frustrating and cruel century (at least).
Why do those treaties need to be negotiated in secret?
They don't. It's just easier this way. They'll deal with the fallout all at once once it's in place, then find something else for us to focus on instead, even invade someone if necessary. Sometimes the goal is worth the steamroller approach. Direct access to the treasuries of nations via non-judicial tribunals controlled by lawyers is worth it.
The corps appear to be trying to wrest the world's economy out of the hands of gov'ts. As a libertarian, I can applaud that ambition, but I doubt they're going to give Rome back to the people once they win their glorious coup.
For me, this is like seeing those "Superman Killed!!!111" comic books when I was a six year old kid. Between Petraeus/Panetta, HRC & email, NSA+Five Eyes, what they're doing to whistleblowers, and how R vs. D politics are *so* obnoxiously messy to watch, and all the other crazy !@#$ that's going on, ...
Alas, most institutions of higher education are quite willing to abandon their dignity to grovel to ...
I was looking at it from another perspective not noticing that institutional doctrine weighing on her, which was shallow of me. I guess I shouldn't lay all the blame on her thickheadedness. She's got to comply with PC policy just to get and keep the job. That limits her options considerably.
... excluding clauses about non-discrimination on the basis of religion when the religion involved is any variety of Christianity or Judaism.
Maybe it's just me (growing leaps and bounds more USA cynical by the day, it seems), but the US sure has come up with a virulent form of PC. The litigious crowd has made everyone bend over backwards in attempts to avoid any whiff of official discrimination or non-"egalit'e".
I think DC should just give it up and head off to Brazil. There's no way anyone can get a fair trial these days, not when one of the parties to it can claim NatSec and not have to tell the court how they came up with evidence. Between that and parallel reconstruction, welcome to Spanish Inquisition 2.0.
I was reading another story last night where whistleblower Binney admits he doesn't bother using crypto. There's no point in bothering with it when the NSA can, and will, just crack any system it pleases to to get at whatever it wants.
... the communications between the two qualify as "constitute attorney-client communications" or "attorney work product"
Just going by this latest lie, didn't he just admit he's working for the MPAA ("attorney-client") while serving as Mississippi's AG, or is he saying he's the client and the MPAA is his lawyer (and, if so, WTF?!?)? How can anyone reasonably expect BS like this to pass the smell test?
I can tell I'm going to really enjoy reading whatever Google pries out of him. This is crazier than HRC's email problem.
And people lacking the mental capacity for recognizing the not really subtle statement the art is conveying.
I think this pretty much sums up the situation. She got the job because when it was offered, she was the only one who didn't run screaming from the room (or, perhaps she just couldn't find the door).
The USA: where you can become the dean of a university and remain blissfully ignorant of the principles, and their meanings, upon which your country was founded.
Re: Re: The stand-alone HBO subscription can't come soon enough
So, what did Comcast get out of this obfuscatory exercise? As now all those frustrated consumers can go direct to HBO and ignore an obstructionist middleman, does Comcast lose anything other than customer satisfaction? Does their bottom line take a hit? What does Comcast's CEO tell their shareholders? "Good news! We managed to burn the building down before anybody else could, woohoo! We rock!"
What's to stop them from pulling this "technical difficulty" crap in the future when they'd just rather not live up to their customers' expectations?
I'm always astounded by how little they go for. What's a state-wide ISP's infrastructure worth? I'd guess in the tens of millions of dollars, yet that first list isn't even $100k, and the second one is far less. Blackburn, just like all the rest, are pretty "cheap tricks." She sells you out for mere peanuts. Makes you wonder if they even bother to stay for the whole night.
Does anyone have any information on how much money these politicians have received from cable and telecom companies (including front-groups)?
Even more important, is it possible to track how much Blackburn and Tillis get for this obvious and transparent shill attempt to get some cash into their currently empty campaign chests, so we can send their contributors to jail at the same time?
Blackburn and Tillis, selling out their constituents to deep pocketed, corporate, monopolistic special interests since ... forever, to keep the vicious and obnoxious nanny state regulators from queering individual freedoms in the capitalist holy land. Politicians should be sent to prison for soliciting bribery as transparently as this. They don't even try to hide what they're doing.
Meanwhile, everyone goes back to sleep because, no biggie, this is just how it's done these days; SOP.
"It's really cute the way you think citizens are the bosses and elected representatives are employees."
I think that it's a bad idea to make fun of people for this.
The truth hurts. "Of the people, by the people, for the people ..." contains about as much truth and reality today as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy combined. If the Internet's done anything, it's at least shown the world what a crock of !@#$ all that "American Exceptionalism" is worth. It's BS. Your elections are staged by the incumbents, your cops kill twice as many civilians as the FBI is willing to admit even while they rob you blind assuming your stuff is forfeit due to the Drug War, and you have to be a millionaire (at least) to get an education or survive a lawsuit. I won't even bother with affordable health care or prescription drugs. Meanwhile, you're no less racist than you were at the end of the Civil War, and that may even be getting worse. Jeffrey Stirling and John Kiriaku go to jail, and Petraeus gets a wave. For what purpose, other than to hide illegality, would a Sec. of State former FLOTUS ignore rules on email?
I am *so* glad I'm not subject to the crap you people suffer, and pay your taxes for, daily. The world will rejoice when the USA collapses and breaks up into multiple warring, Balkanized provinces, disappearing into history. Good riddance!
It's really cute the way you think citizens are the bosses and elected representatives are employees. It's even cuter that you believe you've a right to watch over officials' actions, and presume the right to question them. Awwww, so cute when serfs stand up for rights they presume they have.
Have a nice little pat on the head. I'm looking forward to senility when I can believe such fairy tales again too.
No, privacy advocates shouldn't wince at the thought of ubiquitous cell phones. Capturing a police officer's actions in public has nothing to do with privacy. Make sure they're set up to automatically upload somewhere off-phone storage.
What I understand of recent news is cell phone communications have been cracked. The recent NSA/GCHQ theft of sim card keys acknowledge the 2G keys got away. Stingrays force phones to fall back to 2G when they connect.
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Re: And for what?
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Fascist is just an easy name for it, or one example of it. I'm really just pissed at that clique at the very top who get away with things like shooting the economy in the head and telling heads of state what to do; ie. a NeoCon + NATO + IMF backed coup in Ukraine. Wouldn't that be fun to piss off Putin, just for shits & giggles? Assholes. How many innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire of their atrocious games?
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Well, buck up soldier. That doesn't mean it can't be fun, and we have had successes. For instance, even the media is starting to come around to the fact that Snowden may have a point. We've had a few other successes too, and they still haven't much of a clue as to how powerful this Internet thingy really is. Ultimately, they're going to lose this war.
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Eh, I usually would too. Defiance is my usual stance. They're not going to get away with this !@#$ forever! One of these days, we're going to get all of us on the same page working for us together, and then we'll have them cornered with spotlights illuminating for all what they really are: beady eyed little rats that never do anything but take.
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No, it doesn't, but that appears to matter not a whit to them. Fascists are taking back the world. Our views on the situation are unimportant (to them). They gave us this sop called democracy for a while to shut us up making us believe we were in control of our destiny, but it's unwieldy and slow and too inefficient, so they're putting an end to the experiment and going back to the old ways including oligarchy and plutocracy.
That's my take on it anyway. Should make for a frustrating and cruel century (at least).
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Re: In Secret
They don't. It's just easier this way. They'll deal with the fallout all at once once it's in place, then find something else for us to focus on instead, even invade someone if necessary. Sometimes the goal is worth the steamroller approach. Direct access to the treasuries of nations via non-judicial tribunals controlled by lawyers is worth it.
The corps appear to be trying to wrest the world's economy out of the hands of gov'ts. As a libertarian, I can applaud that ambition, but I doubt they're going to give Rome back to the people once they win their glorious coup.
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Damn, I'm so sad for my old hero.
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I'd like to see proof of that.
Afraid not. I boycott. I look forward to watching Imaginary Property maximalists' rotting and emaciated bodies float by.
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This's the absolute perfect way to lose an argument. Congrats.
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I was looking at it from another perspective not noticing that institutional doctrine weighing on her, which was shallow of me. I guess I shouldn't lay all the blame on her thickheadedness. She's got to comply with PC policy just to get and keep the job. That limits her options considerably.
Maybe it's just me (growing leaps and bounds more USA cynical by the day, it seems), but the US sure has come up with a virulent form of PC. The litigious crowd has made everyone bend over backwards in attempts to avoid any whiff of official discrimination or non-"egalit'e".
Yet, then there's Ferguson anyway.
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I was reading another story last night where whistleblower Binney admits he doesn't bother using crypto. There's no point in bothering with it when the NSA can, and will, just crack any system it pleases to to get at whatever it wants.
On the post: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood Demands $2,100 To Reveal The Emails He's Had With The MPAA
Re: Slip of the tongue?
Just going by this latest lie, didn't he just admit he's working for the MPAA ("attorney-client") while serving as Mississippi's AG, or is he saying he's the client and the MPAA is his lawyer (and, if so, WTF?!?)? How can anyone reasonably expect BS like this to pass the smell test?
I can tell I'm going to really enjoy reading whatever Google pries out of him. This is crazier than HRC's email problem.
On the post: Iowa College Grants Hecklers More Veto Power, Resulting In Summoning Of Campus Police To Offending 'Free Speech Wall'
Re: Who was heckled here?
I think this pretty much sums up the situation. She got the job because when it was offered, she was the only one who didn't run screaming from the room (or, perhaps she just couldn't find the door).
The USA: where you can become the dean of a university and remain blissfully ignorant of the principles, and their meanings, upon which your country was founded.
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Re: Re: The stand-alone HBO subscription can't come soon enough
What's to stop them from pulling this "technical difficulty" crap in the future when they'd just rather not live up to their customers' expectations?
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Re: Completely unrelated I'm sure...
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Even more important, is it possible to track how much Blackburn and Tillis get for this obvious and transparent shill attempt to get some cash into their currently empty campaign chests, so we can send their contributors to jail at the same time?
Blackburn and Tillis, selling out their constituents to deep pocketed, corporate, monopolistic special interests since ... forever, to keep the vicious and obnoxious nanny state regulators from queering individual freedoms in the capitalist holy land. Politicians should be sent to prison for soliciting bribery as transparently as this. They don't even try to hide what they're doing.
Meanwhile, everyone goes back to sleep because, no biggie, this is just how it's done these days; SOP.
On the post: Breaking: Clinton Gave Staffers Clintonemail.com Addresses Too
Re: Re: Re: Don't they work for us?
The truth hurts. "Of the people, by the people, for the people ..." contains about as much truth and reality today as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy combined. If the Internet's done anything, it's at least shown the world what a crock of !@#$ all that "American Exceptionalism" is worth. It's BS. Your elections are staged by the incumbents, your cops kill twice as many civilians as the FBI is willing to admit even while they rob you blind assuming your stuff is forfeit due to the Drug War, and you have to be a millionaire (at least) to get an education or survive a lawsuit. I won't even bother with affordable health care or prescription drugs. Meanwhile, you're no less racist than you were at the end of the Civil War, and that may even be getting worse. Jeffrey Stirling and John Kiriaku go to jail, and Petraeus gets a wave. For what purpose, other than to hide illegality, would a Sec. of State former FLOTUS ignore rules on email?
I am *so* glad I'm not subject to the crap you people suffer, and pay your taxes for, daily. The world will rejoice when the USA collapses and breaks up into multiple warring, Balkanized provinces, disappearing into history. Good riddance!
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Re: Don't they work for us?
Have a nice little pat on the head. I'm looking forward to senility when I can believe such fairy tales again too.
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Re: Citizen journalism
Game over.
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