I've never been to the Capitol Building, but at this point I'd be willing to bet that the toilet paper in the bathrooms are rolls of little squares with pages of the Constitution on them.
Excuse my poor choice of terminology. When I saw "online vs offline" I really mean "online vs reality". My point is the same as yours: it's a lot easier for the government to violate a person's privacy "online" (your point 1) than is is in "the real world" (your point 2).
“It may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties,” Sotomayor wrote in 2012. “This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks.”
I'm not sure what I find more incredible: 1. That this nugget of wisdom comes from a government official, or 2. That it's even considered to be some kind of life-changing "wisdom" strong enough to change a person's mind.
How we define privacy online vs offline may have to be reconsidered in the Internet Age? HOLY SHIT, BATMAN! SOMEBODY CALL DATELINE NBC!
The United State Code of Law: Running 20 Years Behind the Rest of the World.
What's the reason that you can't make a video parody? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Hey there! You there! Stop there! You're stealing our IP! M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
Mickey Mouse! Mickey Mouse!
Forever let us hold our copyright! RIGHT? RIGHT! RIGHT! RIGHT!
Come along and sing a song For only a modest fee! M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
The irony is that, in most cases, lawsuit settlements are taxable. So Apptricity will be cutting a check right back to Uncle Sam.
As an added kick in the pants, the Army should send them a shirt saying "The government took $225 million of software from me, and all I got was $30 million and this fucking t-shirt."
If I had to throw out a guess, I'd say he'd be whistling a different tune if if was revealed that the French government has slurped up data on 70 million American phone calls.
The guy is obviously not very smart. For a few dollars he could've run down to the Dollar Tree, bought five plastic squirt guns, planted them in the kids' lockers, and just had them expelled.
"Captain, we have entered orbit around Earth."
"Excellent. Commence communications intercept."
"Captain, a ship has launched from the surface and is moving to intercept our course. The ship identifies itself as the USA Constitution
"Red alert! Evasive maneuvers! Load proton lawyer tubes!"
"Lawyers loaded, sir."
"Target that ship and fire!"
"Direct hit, sir! The ship's shields have been neutralized by our Non-Disclosure Agreements and Motions to Delay"
"Fire phasers! Pew, pew, pew!"
"The Constitution...has been violated, captain."
"Outstanding. Continue full communications intercept. File a report with the ship computer, redact, and bury somewhere deep in the janitorial logs."
"Yes, sir"
"Ahh. Another day, another victory for democracy."
The more I read these stories, the more I want to start a Kickstart campaign to buy thousands of 10 ft x 8 ft pieces of plywood, cut them all into the shape of a middle finger, and start propping them up at various locations around Washington DC. Cuz frak you, DC. Frak you hard, just like you've been frakking us for decades.
While reading this I'm reminded of the little South African bastard in Lethal Weapon 2 who plugged a dozen bullets into Mel Gibson then had the balls to hold up his papers and yell "Diplomatic Immunity!"
There's a very deep rabbit hole you could go down when forming an internal dialogue about this subject, and it gets ever more complex and tragic the deeper you go.
It's truly amazing, the divide between what the government expects of you and how much they can punish you for not meeting their expectations. In many cases, even if you ultimately win, you're still in far worse shape than you were before, with little chance of ever being "made whole" again.
If you task someone to do something, but then give them too few resources to accomplish it, isn't it your fault for not giving them the resources they need to accomplish the task you've asked of them?
If they have the resources to enforce these laws, it stands to reason that they have the resources to list them all out.
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This:
When I saw "online vs offline"...
was supposed to be this
When I say "online vs offline"
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“It may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties,” Sotomayor wrote in 2012. “This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks.”
I'm not sure what I find more incredible:
1. That this nugget of wisdom comes from a government official, or
2. That it's even considered to be some kind of life-changing "wisdom" strong enough to change a person's mind.
How we define privacy online vs offline may have to be reconsidered in the Internet Age? HOLY SHIT, BATMAN! SOMEBODY CALL DATELINE NBC!
The United State Code of Law: Running 20 Years Behind the Rest of the World.
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Even scarier, these are the people sworn to protect and uphold the US Constitution.
I don't know whether it's funny or terrifying that the only times these people seem to do anything good is when they massively fuck something up.
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can't make a video parody?
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
Hey there! You there! Stop there!
You're stealing our IP!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
Mickey Mouse!
Mickey Mouse!
Forever let us hold our copyright!
RIGHT? RIGHT! RIGHT! RIGHT!
Come along and sing a song
For only a modest fee!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!
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As an added kick in the pants, the Army should send them a shirt saying "The government took $225 million of software from me, and all I got was $30 million and this fucking t-shirt."
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"Thank you, France, for keeping us safe!"
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"Excellent. Commence communications intercept."
"Captain, a ship has launched from the surface and is moving to intercept our course. The ship identifies itself as the USA Constitution
"Red alert! Evasive maneuvers! Load proton lawyer tubes!"
"Lawyers loaded, sir."
"Target that ship and fire!"
"Direct hit, sir! The ship's shields have been neutralized by our Non-Disclosure Agreements and Motions to Delay"
"Fire phasers! Pew, pew, pew!"
"The Constitution...has been violated, captain."
"Outstanding. Continue full communications intercept. File a report with the ship computer, redact, and bury somewhere deep in the janitorial logs."
"Yes, sir"
"Ahh. Another day, another victory for democracy."
[FIN]
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I was under the impression we already had checks and balances in place against government abuses of power: the fucking United States Constitution
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It didn't end well for him...
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It's truly amazing, the divide between what the government expects of you and how much they can punish you for not meeting their expectations. In many cases, even if you ultimately win, you're still in far worse shape than you were before, with little chance of ever being "made whole" again.
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If they have the resources to enforce these laws, it stands to reason that they have the resources to list them all out.
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