How about saving some outrage for when a sentient being spies on you, as opposed to some program that generates so much data it's like being outraged someone could find a sand grain in the Sahara and potentially link it back to being once stuck to your shoe? What are they going to do with that? Persecute you?
Look up J. Edgar Hoover or Richard Nixon sometime to see what could happen if one of them had access to this information.
If I find all the faux outrage exasperating it's because I know what it's like to live in a real surveillance state as opposed to an imagined one. Chinese cops were wielding cameras in my private apartment last August. No warrant of course. That, my friends, is violating my privacy. Maybe one day you'll get off your high horse and understand what a real violation is.
Gods, you remind me of someone who lived in Korea for awhile and went "it's not as bad as other countries have it, so just suck it up."
How about a giant FUCK NO?!
I do NOT want to live in a country where the government can just SPY on you for whatever reason and if someone in law enforcement decides they don't like you, they can have you thrown into jail! It happens all the time and THAT'S why I get so mad about people, much like yourself, who are WILLING to ignore the SACRIFICES that your forefathers made to protect peace and security!
You and others like you who just go "what can we do" have given up!
It's people like you who make the sacrifices that Dr. King, Rosa Parks, Lucy Stone and others who fought for equality for all races, genders and identities in this country worthless.
All because you have this attitude of "it's not so bad" or "what can one person do" or even "you shouldn't complain".
You, sir or madam, make me sick. Doubly so since you LIVED in China, according to your post and you KNOW what it could end up being!
Go talk to the Germans or the Polish people and ask THEM how they feel about government surveillance.
Or how about reading up on a former Stasi member views what the NSA is doing and his thoughts on it?
Don't go "oh, you don't know what it's like being in a real surveillance state, stop complaining".
By the time we GET to that stage we won't BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN!!
By protesting, calling our members in congress, speaking out and, yes, complaining, reporting on it, even if it gets exhausting, we can hopefully CHANGE the course before it's too late!
I would rather get tired of reading about this stuff than forget about it.
He broke into their homes! Raped their baby, kicked their dog, spilled their dirty laundry out for everyone to see and then ran away to someone who the police can't go after while showing more dirty laundry to everyone.
Not how it works, Congress is supposed to craft laws and rules for the people, most of the time to get greater benefits to their constituents, but for the people at large.
President decides if something that lands on his desk is worth having as a law.
The Courts are supposed to decide whether or not the laws, as written, follow the Constitution or not.
Would love it if he did that and then got reminded, hard, along with the rest of the Obama administration, that the Congress has the authority to Impeach the Executive Branch and have an open and public trial.
Not to mention the authority to convict members of that branch if needed.
NSA sub-boss: Shit! We forgot the cars! Flunky A and Idiot B! Get down to Ford and get all that Meta-data! Flunky A: Yes sir! Idiot B: Can we stop for donuts? NSA sub-boss: On the way back.
Despite how this is, cops call for backup because they have NO idea how the suspect will react.
Sometimes, like this time, they go completely overboard.
Othertimes, however, you have suspects who struggle and thrash and can end up hurting either themselves or the officer, so they want backup just in case.
I, myself, am around 6 feet tall and over 230 lbs. Do you think that it would be easy for a cop to take me down without resorting to their weapons if I put up a fight? And, let's be frank, if someone throws a punch at you, unless you've got your hand on your weapon and are lightning fast, you don't have time to pull out a billy club or mace.
If I start thrashing and struggling, I could do some real damage to a police officer if it was just one person.
Yes, it shouldn't require more than 2, but sometimes you find people on PCP or are on some other drug and whatnot.
While that doesn't excuse the actions of bad cops, you have to understand why cops end up in packs like they do. There was no need for this response level from them for a video though.
What New Zealand law did Kim Dotcom break? As far as I know, he followed NZ law, and he followed DMCA requests and, hmm, the only time he DIDN'T take something down was because, *gasp* horror of horrors, he was COMPLYING with the police to keep up the infringing file so that they could get someone else.
out_of_the_blue just hates it when the lies of the Copyfraud Alliance are exposed.
In and Out is only a small portion of the U.S., try Five Guys, they're in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. with plans to expand to France and Australia. XP
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Look up J. Edgar Hoover or Richard Nixon sometime to see what could happen if one of them had access to this information.
If I find all the faux outrage exasperating it's because I know what it's like to live in a real surveillance state as opposed to an imagined one. Chinese cops were wielding cameras in my private apartment last August. No warrant of course. That, my friends, is violating my privacy. Maybe one day you'll get off your high horse and understand what a real violation is.
Gods, you remind me of someone who lived in Korea for awhile and went "it's not as bad as other countries have it, so just suck it up."
How about a giant FUCK NO?!
I do NOT want to live in a country where the government can just SPY on you for whatever reason and if someone in law enforcement decides they don't like you, they can have you thrown into jail! It happens all the time and THAT'S why I get so mad about people, much like yourself, who are WILLING to ignore the SACRIFICES that your forefathers made to protect peace and security!
You and others like you who just go "what can we do" have given up!
It's people like you who make the sacrifices that Dr. King, Rosa Parks, Lucy Stone and others who fought for equality for all races, genders and identities in this country worthless.
All because you have this attitude of "it's not so bad" or "what can one person do" or even "you shouldn't complain".
You, sir or madam, make me sick. Doubly so since you LIVED in China, according to your post and you KNOW what it could end up being!
Go talk to the Germans or the Polish people and ask THEM how they feel about government surveillance.
Or how about reading up on a former Stasi member views what the NSA is doing and his thoughts on it?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130627/15455123642/
Don't go "oh, you don't know what it's like being in a real surveillance state, stop complaining".
By the time we GET to that stage we won't BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN!!
By protesting, calling our members in congress, speaking out and, yes, complaining, reporting on it, even if it gets exhausting, we can hopefully CHANGE the course before it's too late!
I would rather get tired of reading about this stuff than forget about it.
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Of course they hate Snowden...
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President decides if something that lands on his desk is worth having as a law.
The Courts are supposed to decide whether or not the laws, as written, follow the Constitution or not.
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That's for the courts to decide, not Congress.
But, anyway, the instant you have people going "it's not constitutional", others just roll their eyes and dismiss them.
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Not to mention the authority to convict members of that branch if needed.
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http://www.cracked.com/article_20841_5-things-i-learned-as-cop-that-movies-wont-show-you.html - read more here from an ex-cop.
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NSA sub-boss: Shit! We forgot the cars! Flunky A and Idiot B! Get down to Ford and get all that Meta-data!
Flunky A: Yes sir!
Idiot B: Can we stop for donuts?
NSA sub-boss: On the way back.
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Yet another reason...
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It's a console system, but the games that played in it were 100% IDENTICAL to the arcades themselves.
Not sure why the 3DO is 2nd though.
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Sometimes, like this time, they go completely overboard.
Othertimes, however, you have suspects who struggle and thrash and can end up hurting either themselves or the officer, so they want backup just in case.
I, myself, am around 6 feet tall and over 230 lbs. Do you think that it would be easy for a cop to take me down without resorting to their weapons if I put up a fight? And, let's be frank, if someone throws a punch at you, unless you've got your hand on your weapon and are lightning fast, you don't have time to pull out a billy club or mace.
If I start thrashing and struggling, I could do some real damage to a police officer if it was just one person.
Yes, it shouldn't require more than 2, but sometimes you find people on PCP or are on some other drug and whatnot.
While that doesn't excuse the actions of bad cops, you have to understand why cops end up in packs like they do. There was no need for this response level from them for a video though.
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Already called...
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out_of_the_blue just hates it when the lies of the Copyfraud Alliance are exposed.
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