...if these photographs and video and audio recordings are released, terrorists will use them to attract followers, bring attention to their causes, and inspire others to kill.
"We gotta because...because...terrorists! That's it, we gotta keep this secret or the terrorists will kill us all!"
I am not surprised. What I am surprised about is that no one has done the same with national security letters. Those seem a perfect target for this kind of cheating, because they threaten prison and at the same time you don't even dare ask the FBI if they're valid.
Mostly what these incidents show is that you can't trust companies to defend your privacy.
I could care less about this civil lawsuit nonsense. What I want to know is where are the prosecutions for falsifying court documents? Where are the disbarments?
But, of course, neither of those things will ever happen because the party offending is the same as the party prosecuting and the party disbarring. And so, oh well, boys will be boys and more of the same next week or next month.
I could care less about this civil lawsuit nonsense. What I want to know is where are the prosecutions for falsifying court documents? Where are the disbarments?
But, of course, neither of those things will ever happen because the party offending is the same as the party prosecuting and the party disbarring. And so, oh well, boys will be boys and more of the same next week or next month.
As the unnamed person notes, DHS isn't an intelligence agency. It's a law enforcement agency.
That might have been a nice theory on the part of the people who wrote the law that created DHS. But any law enforcement official will tell you that intelligence is an essential part of law enforcement. Just ask NYPD.
The insane thing is that anyone thanks that they can somehow create a law enforcement agency that won't immediately aspire to become an intelligence agency.
I don't think you read the law. What if the agency refuses to set a time to meet, or refuses to meet in any manner other than face-to-face? What recourse is there then?
Re: The courts are a long way from the answer, what is the short
If the patent examiner disapproves an application, there is endless fuss with appeals. The examiner's job performance suffers because they are spending their time on appeals instead of reviewing more patents. That means their pay suffers and their job is at risk.
So their bias is always going to be to approve, even if the patent doesn't seem worth approving. At least, until their job performance includes measures of quality of patents approved, which is about as likely to happen as hell freezing over.
I thought consistency was the Bugaboo of small minds?
Consistency. These guys need to get their act together. FCC politicians thought the AstroTurf messages were all gospel, these politicians think the AstroTurf message are all from the "bad guys." Get your act together or get out.
Ten minutes seems reasonable to me. I mean, how long should it take for the judge to review the officer's statements that (a) "Someone in Minnesota surely committed this crime," and (b) "If someone in Minnesota didn't do the crime, we're sure they did another one."
And then, I am sure that Governor Lepetomane--excuse me--the judge gave that pair of beauties all the careful consideration they so richly deserved, while signing the warrant unread.
The thesaurus has many useful descriptions for this activity. Frittering away their time. KIlling time. Passing the time. Whiling away their time. Piddling. Shilly-shallying. Tilting at windmills. Going nowhere fast. Running in circles. Wasting their effort.
But surely they ONLY have our best interests at heart
I recall when questions were first raised about the Intelligence Community hoovering up all of our data. Their line was, "Trust us: we have only your best interests at heart." Echoed, of course, by their sycophantic supporters.
Here we see the truth of the matter. Our data has become a commodity sold to foreign countries wishing to enforce their desires against US citizens. Tantamount to treason.
Let's see how all you IC sycophants feel when you're being screwed by UAE, Israel, China, Russia, or Turkey, and you find out that it was done using data collected by the "trustworthy" IC you adored.
On the post: New Florida Bill Seeks To Bury Recordings Of Mass Shootings
I especially "enjoyed" this part of the bill:
"We gotta because...because...terrorists! That's it, we gotta keep this secret or the terrorists will kill us all!"
On the post: It's Apparently Easy To Pretend To Be A Cop, Grab Location Data From Cellular Carriers
Re: Re: National security letters
More to the point: how would anyone, even the FBI or DOJ, find out? The perfect crime?
On the post: UN Human Rights Expert Warns EU Not To Pass Article 13
Citation needed.
On the post: It's Apparently Easy To Pretend To Be A Cop, Grab Location Data From Cellular Carriers
National security letters
I am not surprised. What I am surprised about is that no one has done the same with national security letters. Those seem a perfect target for this kind of cheating, because they threaten prison and at the same time you don't even dare ask the FBI if they're valid.
Mostly what these incidents show is that you can't trust companies to defend your privacy.
On the post: Thailand Decides To Make Its Terrible Cybersecurity Law Even Worse
Achieving perfect unanimity
Not a single rejection vote. I am wondering if the absentees were previously shot.
On the post: California Supreme Court Rejects Second Attempt By Cops To Jump The Judicial Queue Over Police Misconduct Records
Re: Re: Nothing civil about it
You are right and I have no idea how I did it.
On the post: Court Says Lawsuit Over Fake Subpoenas Issued By Louisiana DA's Office Can Proceed
Nothing civil about it
I could care less about this civil lawsuit nonsense. What I want to know is where are the prosecutions for falsifying court documents? Where are the disbarments?
But, of course, neither of those things will ever happen because the party offending is the same as the party prosecuting and the party disbarring. And so, oh well, boys will be boys and more of the same next week or next month.
On the post: California Supreme Court Rejects Second Attempt By Cops To Jump The Judicial Queue Over Police Misconduct Records
Nothing civil about it
I could care less about this civil lawsuit nonsense. What I want to know is where are the prosecutions for falsifying court documents? Where are the disbarments?
But, of course, neither of those things will ever happen because the party offending is the same as the party prosecuting and the party disbarring. And so, oh well, boys will be boys and more of the same next week or next month.
On the post: CBP Put A Bunch Of Journalists, Immigration Lawyers, And Activists On A Secret Watchlist
That might have been a nice theory on the part of the people who wrote the law that created DHS. But any law enforcement official will tell you that intelligence is an essential part of law enforcement. Just ask NYPD.
The insane thing is that anyone thanks that they can somehow create a law enforcement agency that won't immediately aspire to become an intelligence agency.
On the post: California Legislators Want To Make It More Difficult For Records Requesters To Get Documents From The Government
Re: Not that onerous.
I don't think you read the law. What if the agency refuses to set a time to meet, or refuses to meet in any manner other than face-to-face? What recourse is there then?
On the post: Missouri Law Enforcement Is Dodging State Forfeiture Laws To Screw Schools And Keep Drugs Flowing Into The State
Re: Police hate Kids
"Hate" is too strong a word. The police are just self-centered, interested in their own pocket books, and are indifferent to the kids.
On the post: Judge Refuses To Hand The Government Biker Gang's Trademark
DOJ steals a line
"Overreach: It's what we do."
On the post: Stupid Patent Of The Month: Veripath Patents Following Privacy Laws
Re: The courts are a long way from the answer, what is the short
If the patent examiner disapproves an application, there is endless fuss with appeals. The examiner's job performance suffers because they are spending their time on appeals instead of reviewing more patents. That means their pay suffers and their job is at risk.
So their bias is always going to be to approve, even if the patent doesn't seem worth approving. At least, until their job performance includes measures of quality of patents approved, which is about as likely to happen as hell freezing over.
On the post: Apple Shutting Down Stores In East Texas To Avoid Patent Trolling Cases In The Troll's Favorite Docket
Dare I say it?
But isn't this a boycott? And I thought boycotts were bad, aren't they?.
On the post: German Politician Thinks Gmail Constituent Messages Are All Faked By Google
I thought consistency was the Bugaboo of small minds?
Consistency. These guys need to get their act together. FCC politicians thought the AstroTurf messages were all gospel, these politicians think the AstroTurf message are all from the "bad guys." Get your act together or get out.
On the post: Fatal Houston PD Drug Raid Apparently Predicated On Drugs A Cop Had Stashed In His Car
Re: Re: That uh, seems like an important detail there
And even more important detail is that, if I can read a map correctly, Napoleon Street is nowhere near Harding Street.
On the post: Sony Using Copyright To Take Down Its Own Anti-Piracy Propaganda
Inevitability
If the copyright maximalists get everything in their wildest dreams, will come a day when nobody, including the big corporations, can post anything.
When William Shakespeare gets added to the filters, that will take down about a third of all western content right there.
On the post: Minnesota Judges Spent Only Minutes Approving Warrants Sweeping Up Thousands Of Cellphone Users
Seems reasonable to me
Ten minutes seems reasonable to me. I mean, how long should it take for the judge to review the officer's statements that (a) "Someone in Minnesota surely committed this crime," and (b) "If someone in Minnesota didn't do the crime, we're sure they did another one."
And then, I am sure that Governor Lepetomane--excuse me--the judge gave that pair of beauties all the careful consideration they so richly deserved, while signing the warrant unread.
On the post: Sprint Sues AT&T Over Its Fake 5G, Says AT&T's Tricking Consumers
Is there a theme here?
The thesaurus has many useful descriptions for this activity. Frittering away their time. KIlling time. Passing the time. Whiling away their time. Piddling. Shilly-shallying. Tilting at windmills. Going nowhere fast. Running in circles. Wasting their effort.
On the post: Ex-NSA Personnel Spied On Americans And Journalists For The United Arab Emirates
But surely they ONLY have our best interests at heart
I recall when questions were first raised about the Intelligence Community hoovering up all of our data. Their line was, "Trust us: we have only your best interests at heart." Echoed, of course, by their sycophantic supporters.
Here we see the truth of the matter. Our data has become a commodity sold to foreign countries wishing to enforce their desires against US citizens. Tantamount to treason.
Let's see how all you IC sycophants feel when you're being screwed by UAE, Israel, China, Russia, or Turkey, and you find out that it was done using data collected by the "trustworthy" IC you adored.
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