He's just making excuses. To hell with the fact he is trapped in Russia because of the US and not because he wants. No, you need to vilify them, smear their character. They did it with manning. The good part is that it doesn't work as well nowadays.
Coca leaves are actually a must if you want to tolerate high altitudes. I've had such problems and it caused me a severe headache but the moment I took some coca tea the symptoms started receding. The war on drugs is a failure and a lie.
"part of civil disobedience and protest is standing up and taking responsibility for your actions"
Oh please, by all means do that in North Korea to see how fast you get killed. In the US at the very least you'll only be tortured into suicide and when it fails you'll be double tortured. Yep, Snowden should have stayed for sure.
"Either way, anyone who believes everything they read online is a moron."
Talk to your parents. They are probably morons to some degree. Heck, even I have already been fooled by stuff I read. Make no mistake, at some point every single one of us will be the moron. Still, the approach Facebook is taking and the herd mentality developed by people chanting that fake news is bad and SOMETHING MUST BE DONE at all costs is not going to help.
We should try to make people take those grains of salt, be skeptical, look for sources. Think critically. Why would a goddamned Nigerian prince have my contact and want to make financial-wee-wee with a nobody? Obviously an egregious example but if you develop critical thinking you can steer away of most false stories except maybe for the more elaborate.
So I'd argue fake news aren't an issue. People devoid of critical thinking is.
They have issued bullshit rulings before so it's a possibility. While I have no sympathy towards Facebook this is dangerous on multiple levels. These people are effectively trying to kill user generated content platforms online even though most of them are good willed. As the saying goes: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Let's not forget that people tend to admit to anything to make the pain stop. You can make somebody admit to anything if you apply enough torture which makes statements obtained with the use of torture extremely unreliable.
To me these people are simply monsters that enjoy doing it. Devoid of any humanity and any empathy that I wouldn't dare insult animals calling these vile creature 'animals'.
All this secrecy only contributes to the collective imaginary that the thing must be incredibly damning, monstrous. Which honestly at this point I don't doubt. At this point, fighting to keep it a secret probably is doing more damage than releasing it and admitting the mistakes.
"Net neutrality opponents can certainly proceed with their plan to kill net neutrality, but the effort is going to come with a price tag most of them violently underestimate."
If not from public backlash maybe by, you know, keeping broadband speeds in last century levels while the rest of the world moves ahead.
I dunno but it seems to me that the legislative knows better than the executive about laws and takes precedence over less important tools like NSLs. It seems to me that the correct approach would be to tell her that Cloudflare had received an NSL with a gag order that he would only be able to discuss directly with the representative given he was under oath to tell the truth but the NSL had a gag order. Then if said representative wanted HE/SHE could make it public because the NSLs are not above laws. Or at the very least make the Congress and the Senate aware and challenge the order if it's improper.
It's a matter of degrees of importance. The NSLs are subject to a law created by the Congress. And speaking under oath to the Congress seems to trump any other mechanism.
If companies don't start being financially hurt by their lack of care with security we will see major problems soon. It's past time bodies like the FTC started bringing down the hammer on the bad players.
Then there's the psychological damage. We have enough tools to know that very early incidents develop psychological responses that will follow the individuals to the rest of their lives as psychoanalysis teach us.
People can't admit more than 1 solution working at the same time for the same thing or on the same gadget. I like how Google wants to ditch the portion of the cellphone signal reserved for talking only and move this talking to voip and then switch from the mobile network to a wifi connection and use that to provide all the services. You install your wifi in usually crowded places and offload the burden of the mobile network making the whole system more resilient. And you free that reserved channel to internet that's actually what matters today.
Spot on! What about the hysterical anti-Obama propaganda? Or the hysterical anti-Clinton during the elections? And the hysterical anti-Bush propaganda that pops around every now and then when the fallout of 9/11 is in discussion? This site is sickening indeed.
"I am from the alt-right"
This was obvious when you used the word 'leftoid'. The rest of your comment is pretty much garbage after that.
"The left has had a good run for the last 50 years"
There is no left in the US. The closest you got from left was Obama that was just right wing, not nazi right wing.
"the pendulum is swinging back to the right, so I hoped you enjoyed your time in the sun while it lasted."
Last time this happened we had World War II. Just thought I should mention it.
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Oh please, by all means do that in North Korea to see how fast you get killed. In the US at the very least you'll only be tortured into suicide and when it fails you'll be double tortured. Yep, Snowden should have stayed for sure.
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Talk to your parents. They are probably morons to some degree. Heck, even I have already been fooled by stuff I read. Make no mistake, at some point every single one of us will be the moron. Still, the approach Facebook is taking and the herd mentality developed by people chanting that fake news is bad and SOMETHING MUST BE DONE at all costs is not going to help.
We should try to make people take those grains of salt, be skeptical, look for sources. Think critically. Why would a goddamned Nigerian prince have my contact and want to make financial-wee-wee with a nobody? Obviously an egregious example but if you develop critical thinking you can steer away of most false stories except maybe for the more elaborate.
So I'd argue fake news aren't an issue. People devoid of critical thinking is.
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Let's not forget that people tend to admit to anything to make the pain stop. You can make somebody admit to anything if you apply enough torture which makes statements obtained with the use of torture extremely unreliable.
To me these people are simply monsters that enjoy doing it. Devoid of any humanity and any empathy that I wouldn't dare insult animals calling these vile creature 'animals'.
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If not from public backlash maybe by, you know, keeping broadband speeds in last century levels while the rest of the world moves ahead.
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It's a matter of degrees of importance. The NSLs are subject to a law created by the Congress. And speaking under oath to the Congress seems to trump any other mechanism.
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So, yeah, you are right.
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"I am from the alt-right"
This was obvious when you used the word 'leftoid'. The rest of your comment is pretty much garbage after that.
"The left has had a good run for the last 50 years"
There is no left in the US. The closest you got from left was Obama that was just right wing, not nazi right wing.
"the pendulum is swinging back to the right, so I hoped you enjoyed your time in the sun while it lasted."
Last time this happened we had World War II. Just thought I should mention it.
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