Well, the prison business in the US is profitable and it's ever expanding (possibly faster now). Forget coca or marijuana, open banks or prisons in the US.
Meanwhile deaths of innocent by the hands of those virtuous blue men and women are at an all time record. And increasing. But obviously some lives matter more than others.
"In fact, the threat has metastasized and decentralized, and the risk is as threatening today as it was that September morning almost 16 years ago."
Interesting, if everything these megalomaniacs say came true we should be living in some American Dad parody where people blew up themselves yelling "Allah" every 5 minutes. And aliens should be running over people with limousines while hitting fancy honks.
Instead the joke is on us and we are subject to all sorts of intrusive prods (physically or not) at the border and wherever the Government (tm) says the Constitution doesn't apply. Because reasons.
It would take an immense cognitive dissonance and an even greater amount of money to ignore it. Whether or not Pai or the ones gutting what Wheeler set up really believe what they say or their payment makes them believe it will be hard to keep ignoring the consumers...
Goebbels family would like to remove some outdated facts about their names to protect their privacy yes? Cool with it? No?
This case is rather obvious but sometimes we will only realize the true value of historical data many, many years or even decades after it happened. Do we really want to go down that slippery slope and make stuff vanish like that? Sure we need privacy but this is not the right path.
Dealing with the increasing surveillance conducted by Governments in the EU sound like a good start to improve privacy.
Excuse me but wouldn't the system be erring to the bad people as well? Maybe they should be asking the court if it's ok that the system may mistakenly release a convicted sex offender? Or some child molester? Or some repeat murderer?
I'd be surprised if the answer was the same 'deal with it'.
I fought Satan head on in one of the games (another system). It was an unfortunate chain of very unlucky events and rolls that led to our awesome demise (no, really, I never died that spectacularly again after it). So yeah, RPGs can summon Satan after all and it's scary.
After the game was over we had burger and fries with soda. And no, no Satan around.
I read Netflix actually decided to 'do something' about the leaks. While the MAFIAA may be quick (or already did) point "AHA! Doing the same while pretending to be opposed to us!" I'd say it's more "we don't like the extortion" than "OMG COPYRIGHTS". And they are right. Had the guy just quietly released the stuff it would be another story (even though I think releasing stuff before official release anywhere in the world is bad in any case) but extortion? Have a chat with the cops, will you?
That. What when they shoot someone because their phone could be guns? Ban phone makers from making phones that look too much like a gun? (ie: black phones)
"There really hasn't been enough Fifth Amendment cases of this type in federal appeals courts to press the issue."
And it's okay that there are people locked up indefinitely because they don't want to give their passwords regardless of their motives. Nothing pressing here, jails are being paid for their indefinite inmates.
And what will be the excuse when they inevitably overreact and kill a kid with a bright orange replica gun? Sue the public utility company because the public lights are too dim?
"It's understandable that these companies don't want government dictating where they can or can't deploy broadband services."
It is? What if we are talking about drinking water? Would it be reasonable? No? There's your answer. With internet being more and more part of our daily lives to the point you need it to do stuff related to the government and healthcare there's no excuse not to treat it like critical infrastructure.
Just fuck you you rotten piece of trash. Watching the things and hearing the audio left me very disturbed by the brutality these animals that call themselves cops were capable of. No matter what drugs he used the cops had clear advantage and could have just restrained him. This was clearly abusive, monstrous and the only way to defend their actions or blame the victim is to be a monster like the cops involved. Again, fuck you.
Amusingly, even if he gets what he wants it will only make people go for open source alternatives that are beyond the Govt control net and people doing journalism anonymously behind these same security measures the US can't control at all.
It's a lost war even if he gets some wind in some battles. I'd compare it to Vietnam where a very well equipped military with a heavy handed govt behind got their arses handed back to themselves by a bunch of underdeveloped apes. (I'm using the term ape as the government probably thought they were, this is not meant to degrade the Vietnamese)
Hmm, one question that may have been asked before but if tax-backed broadband is so goddamn bad like that the private isps would have no problem competing against them, right? RIGHT?
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Interesting, if everything these megalomaniacs say came true we should be living in some American Dad parody where people blew up themselves yelling "Allah" every 5 minutes. And aliens should be running over people with limousines while hitting fancy honks.
Instead the joke is on us and we are subject to all sorts of intrusive prods (physically or not) at the border and wherever the Government (tm) says the Constitution doesn't apply. Because reasons.
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This case is rather obvious but sometimes we will only realize the true value of historical data many, many years or even decades after it happened. Do we really want to go down that slippery slope and make stuff vanish like that? Sure we need privacy but this is not the right path.
Dealing with the increasing surveillance conducted by Governments in the EU sound like a good start to improve privacy.
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I'd be surprised if the answer was the same 'deal with it'.
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Re: I played AD&D from ~1977-1990.
After the game was over we had burger and fries with soda. And no, no Satan around.
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And it's okay that there are people locked up indefinitely because they don't want to give their passwords regardless of their motives. Nothing pressing here, jails are being paid for their indefinite inmates.
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It is? What if we are talking about drinking water? Would it be reasonable? No? There's your answer. With internet being more and more part of our daily lives to the point you need it to do stuff related to the government and healthcare there's no excuse not to treat it like critical infrastructure.
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It's a lost war even if he gets some wind in some battles. I'd compare it to Vietnam where a very well equipped military with a heavy handed govt behind got their arses handed back to themselves by a bunch of underdeveloped apes. (I'm using the term ape as the government probably thought they were, this is not meant to degrade the Vietnamese)
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