Terrorism and Nazis. Net Neutrality. Yes, this guy's connections between them are absurdly funny, but being willing to put his name on nonsense like this means he's also a fucking sicko. The man is human garbage: he's using death to shill for Comcast.
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The 'two stage warrant' bit is really interesting - especially the 'particularity', as it has a little resonance with the NSA and foreign bulk collection with domestic incidental collection.
(It's a side note, but my point about TD readership not generally being fans of government overreach -- regardless of the target -- still holds.)
If you close the border, how will you get your new Iphone?
Chinese ships will be equipped with massive trebuchets that will heave cargo containers into port from two miles out. Stuff from Mexico will be passed through the wall via openings like the ones in prison cell doors that are used for food trays.
He lives in a rotating Godel universe. Charlottesville is in a closed time-loop in which people hit his car, he drives into a crowd, and then they hit his car again... and he drives into a crowd again.
Poor Kurt, first he leaves Austria to get away from Nazi's, and now they're using his ideas to create alt-reality.
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More people here would probably prefer the company of people who visited disruptj20 than those who visit stormfront, but very few are fans of general warrants no matter who the target is.
“The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
I didn't realize the First Amendment was privileged above the rest of 'em.
They could offer to disclose everything and promise to start obeying the Constitution, on the condition that people update & patch their systems with much greater diligence. I'd take the deal.
No, we shouldn't have to buy our rights back from our own security agencies, but over the past decades the government has worn through my hard shell of idealism to the soft nougat of pragmatism underneath.
Why do I want to plug 28 Kingston 2TB thumb drives into that thing, take it to work, and then call the IT guy about 'a bit of a problem with my computer'?
To get to this point, I had to wade through a ton of comments from people posting about how much they're being censored. Does that strike anyone else as just a little bit funny?
This administration fits half the damn DSM - paranoid schizophrenia, paranoid personality disorder, schizoaffective disorder, dissociative personality disorder... but I'd go with a simple, non-medical diagnosis of 'batshit-crazy-bastard spectrum disorder.'
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I'll avoid a Cardassian Law metaphor.
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I don’t see why a civilian semi-auto version of a weapon originally designed for military use can't be called an assault rifle.
Unless it fires more than one round per trigger-squeeze, the Geneva Convention classifies it as a Friendship Comfy-Tube.
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(It's a side note, but my point about TD readership not generally being fans of government overreach -- regardless of the target -- still holds.)
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If you close the border, how will you get your new Iphone?
Chinese ships will be equipped with massive trebuchets that will heave cargo containers into port from two miles out. Stuff from Mexico will be passed through the wall via openings like the ones in prison cell doors that are used for food trays.
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Poor Kurt, first he leaves Austria to get away from Nazi's, and now they're using his ideas to create alt-reality.
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Re: http://www.disruptj20.org/
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“The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
I didn't realize the First Amendment was privileged above the rest of 'em.
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No, we shouldn't have to buy our rights back from our own security agencies, but over the past decades the government has worn through my hard shell of idealism to the soft nougat of pragmatism underneath.
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Fun fact: he got it from an early draft of Thing Explainer.
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Of course, given the universe's 5:4 ratio of dogs to buns I think we can say that given enough time, freedom will triumph.
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it goes a bit beyond 'influencing public policy!'
Hell, it goes all the way to 'displaying public policy'.
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So would magical unicorns
There used to be plenty, but they've all been grabbed up by the golden-crypto-key press gangs.
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Mike Godwin has summarized the problems of the bill nicely with the following analogy:
It's the Mein Kampf of bills.
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Something that would strip him of his ability to be a police office or hold a public position after abusing power like this
I don't think that'd play in Peoria.
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