"this bill makes clear in black and white legislative text that nothing authorizes government surveillance in this act."
Whenever you see words like "in this act" or "under this authority", that needs to be taken as big red flag that what is being discussed is authorized under a different act/authority, and the person speaking is probably trying to trick you.
Sortof, yes. Private incinerators weren't exactly outlawed, but they were regulated due to the amount of pollution they were producing. Private incinerators still exist, but as you say, they have to be permitted and conform to emissions rules.
Indeed yes. If it were my company, I'd do it differently, but it's not. Also, where I work the primary concern is industrial espionage, not governmental.
You beat me to it. Burn bags are still used for very secure documents, because paper shredders only stop casual spies. More dedicated ones can and do reassemble shredded documents.
Where I work, everything gets burnt after being shredded. We don't have burn bags as such, but instead we hire a company to take care of the disposal.
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Although Java's popularity saw a slight uptick over the last year, putting it back in the #1 spot (very slightly more popular than C), the overall trend has been that Java is losing favor.
Oracle has never been known for thinking long-term, being insightful, or even producing quality products. Their concern is more with being inciteful for profit.
Two things: In today's world, if you want secure crypto you either need to use computers or you need to be able to share a secret key (which requires a secure method of communication to begin with). Also, in the old days, strong crypto was very rarely used, but since computers make it easy, it's common now.
"and I am puzzled by the thought that it is possible to discuss the one without referring to the other"
Why does this puzzle you? The topic of propaganda is much broader than any single event. Why do you think that the Ukrainian situation should be a part of the conversation and not the thousands of other things that should, by the same logic, also be included?
I know why: because you are desperately trying to change the subject away from what we're talking about.
"But Comcast is so terrible they consistently get rated worse than the people who actually ruin lives and steal millions and billions of dollars."
That's not hard to understand at all. When the large banks fuck you over, there's almost never a direct and obvious connection between what they did and your hardship. When the telecoms fuck you over, they're looking in your eyes and grinning while they do it.
" I would add that tarring everyone who objects to the US sponsoring coups worldwide (eg, to take recent and salient examples, in Venezuela, Libya, Syria, Ukraine...) with the label of "Russian sympathisers" is a disgusting tactic."
Which, of course, nobody is doing. What people are pointing out is that arguing that criticizing Russia is wrong because "look what the US is doing" is a completely bullshit argument.
That's nowhere near the same as saying that people who object to US behavior are being tarred for it. They're being tarred for using US misbehavior in a discussion that is not about the US in the hopes of changing the subject away from Russia's misbehavior.
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I think that's far too generous. As a reform bill, USA Freedom is arguably better than nothing. But it's a long way from "good".
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Whenever you see words like "in this act" or "under this authority", that needs to be taken as big red flag that what is being discussed is authorized under a different act/authority, and the person speaking is probably trying to trick you.
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Where I work, everything gets burnt after being shredded. We don't have burn bags as such, but instead we hire a company to take care of the disposal.
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Why does this puzzle you? The topic of propaganda is much broader than any single event. Why do you think that the Ukrainian situation should be a part of the conversation and not the thousands of other things that should, by the same logic, also be included?
I know why: because you are desperately trying to change the subject away from what we're talking about.
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This is not a discussion of US behavior, though. This is a discussion of the Russian propaganda machine.
"I am puzzled why this seems to escape your notice."
And I am puzzled by how it is that you don't even seem to understand what is being talked about here.
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Re: Banking conspriacy
That's not hard to understand at all. When the large banks fuck you over, there's almost never a direct and obvious connection between what they did and your hardship. When the telecoms fuck you over, they're looking in your eyes and grinning while they do it.
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Which, of course, nobody is doing. What people are pointing out is that arguing that criticizing Russia is wrong because "look what the US is doing" is a completely bullshit argument.
That's nowhere near the same as saying that people who object to US behavior are being tarred for it. They're being tarred for using US misbehavior in a discussion that is not about the US in the hopes of changing the subject away from Russia's misbehavior.
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Re: You can't rob a bank and defend yourself with stolen money.
So civil forfeiture exists in order to prevent people from having a hope of defending themselves against unproven and specious accusations?
That's a pretty startling admission.
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That's not even close to being true. All of your points were discussed extensively, on every site that cares about these issues.
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