I find it a bit of a stretch and an oversimplification, to say the least, that simply because one side or individual won any election that all desires of the winners be signed, stamped and delivered.
There is, apparently, a large mass of voters that vote defensively against what they perceive is the greater evil. No?
Your argument doesn't hold up as an argument as you are, basically, just swinging your lollipop of an opinion around wondering who would like a lick.
(e.g. completely overlooking the tea-party surge into congress flips your basic premise on its head, thus: shutdown. Hello?)
I didn't vote for the current president but who the fuck in their remotely right mind actually wanted that other guy? Like bad isn't bad enough or something.
Re: Re: Re: Please don't be a false-equivalence twit
.. I'm hav.ing. trou.ble. parsing that. It seems pretty clear that nobody has won anything else we would not in this condition. It's everyone's favorite stance - standing in the way of anything for everyone.
I'd board that boat. As it is we have grown so much as to no longer be adequately represented apart from the bone we've been thrown to enact change via trying to remove a representative and/or influence their positions on issues.
To say that the people are underrepresented would not do justice and as such have no real means of holding our representatives accountable, much less government operations. At least, given the past 30 years or so, this is what I would have me believe.
Government hostage crisis after government hostage crisis with operational reform only being taken when the advantage is government. This has to stop.
What exactly did you expect from a dog and pony show?
It's a worthless site as it is and after receiving some of the initial responses, zero actions, zero value of any fucking sort whatsoever even the "look, we care" aspect is complete bullshit.
This tit-for-tat group policy think needs an enema.
"temporarily disabled" - Seriously, what the fuck is that? How about shutting off the engines and booting up when the show is over? Oh, Oh, I get it, you have to feel like you're doing something I suppose - bombs not bread, security before prosperity, the trespasses of government over the trespasses of the governed - I get it.
.. struggles to resist urges and temptations for testing the depths of vulgarity in all of it's worldly manifestations .. is conflicted with striving to care about being taken seriously..
If you're living in an English speaking nation right now then it would seem your leaders are mostly accounted for. NATO member nation? The UK? US?
My point? There is a block of nations whose politics have been corrupted. Every nation is a bully in their own right. History makes that apparent as well. Now it again apparent that the bullying of a single government has clearly been directed at the governed. Yah, that's never happened either.
Generally speaking freedom is being free, free to make your own decisions, free from being told what to do, free from manipulation and subservience and being cognizant of the freedoms of others. Governments can not abide by that and neither can a lot of individuals. Governments, by their nature, filter freedoms, and are diametrically opposed to freedom. It's a delicate balance, assuredly, but your clearly prejudiced generalizations belie present reality and the surging groundswell of activities that certain countries are claiming rights to.
What America is supposed to be is a country full of people that don't take kindly to being told what to do, down to a person. Americans are now being trained to both stay in line and to tow it. Five eyes and a hundred ears.
Americans, by their nature, are no better and no worse than any other standing citizen of any other nation.
American empire will eat itself. American principles, the founding principles, are distinctly applicable globally, to a person. I think that is "American".
Governments govern, tyrannies rule. Who lives where?
Re: Well, he could have read the Constitution; most in Congress NEED that.
a) It looks like several critical copyright observations
a1) Senator moshed Dr. Seuss with a filibuster
a2) Senator provided a public performance
a3) Senator's words are on the record (recorded, copied, disseminated etc.)
b) Copyright is important because it absolutely BLOWS right now.
As for personal gain, well, senator just made himself a little more famous by rallying for something he stands for and at the same time providing entertainment by reading other peoples' works.
They're valid questions to which legal answers would be worthy.
Fair-use is critical to the public. It needs to be better defined and apply to every created work ever.
Creators create. Copyrights manipulate. It's well past overdue to right copyright.
Color me shocked. New head of large domestic police/spy/goon agency defends practices making policing/spying/gooning easier.
It's almost as if the job is more important than the company. It's almost as if the company is a front for dealing drugs and raking profits. It's almost as if the company is above the law.
Yah, there's definitely some weird 'not rich enough to quit' white guy vein of control freakage going on. No doubt. Somebody wants so much control that I can taste it.
I understand your premise but I think you're conflating what is occurring, what can be done, what will be done and where an effective privacy currently isn't but needs to exist into some single, tangled ball of unbridled internets.
It's like someone passed you the facebook ball and you fucking ran with it. Towards the wrong end of the field.
Don't roll over and expect me to pat your belly. We have hunting to do, get the fuck up.
This is not some mamby-pamby question about IT morality, rather, it is a question of how much control you're actually willing to submit to, for how long and how intimate (fantasy, one-sided freak show style) the details that you would allow access to for an an effective means of begin controlled.
We're getting the surveillance that's been forced down our fucking throats - No, we're not getting the surveillance that we deserve, nor are we getting access to the available means to make our lives better. I'm about done sacrificing for some ridiculous safety fantasy.
I've got a 21st century bet placed alright, but my horse is not going to run on your track. Not now, not ever.
John Q. Public, Mr. President, will redouble its efforts to adopt legislation, technologies and mechanisms to protect us from the illegal interception of communications and data.
I submit that this passage be respectfully borrowed and we replace Brazil with every connected person and that it be appreciated as sage advice.
In AC's defense this: By now we've all heard plenty of stories about ridiculous goings on at the border by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol agents
*should* read like: By now we've all heard plenty of stories about ridiculous goings on at the border by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents
I believe that's the traditional means of establishing acronym usage in any given text, to define it upon first reference for later usage in the same body of text.
I think it's more of a courtesy and clarity thing more than a rule but it could be a rule I guess.
That and the "or state" thing was most definitely not clear when presented nor was it clarified very shortly thereafter but, like CBP, not very difficult to qualify either (though Canadian Border Patrol popped into my head by default on the first pass)
I've suspected that this is a primary motivation for those entrenched media delivery players for quite some time now too. They're putting up a good fight for a bunch of vengeful idiots though. They might get a couple more castles built before the tide comes in.
As for recent intelligence collection revelations well that's just pure lunacy on multiple levels but the DOD beast needs to be put back in its cage post haste.
As someone nicely summarized somewhere else: Authority is marching roughshod over all people and their authority is unchecked. That can only get worse.
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There is, apparently, a large mass of voters that vote defensively against what they perceive is the greater evil. No?
Your argument doesn't hold up as an argument as you are, basically, just swinging your lollipop of an opinion around wondering who would like a lick.
(e.g. completely overlooking the tea-party surge into congress flips your basic premise on its head, thus: shutdown. Hello?)
I didn't vote for the current president but who the fuck in their remotely right mind actually wanted that other guy? Like bad isn't bad enough or something.
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Re: Re: Re: Please don't be a false-equivalence twit
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Re: The peephole movement?
To say that the people are underrepresented would not do justice and as such have no real means of holding our representatives accountable, much less government operations. At least, given the past 30 years or so, this is what I would have me believe.
Government hostage crisis after government hostage crisis with operational reform only being taken when the advantage is government. This has to stop.
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It's a worthless site as it is and after receiving some of the initial responses, zero actions, zero value of any fucking sort whatsoever even the "look, we care" aspect is complete bullshit.
This tit-for-tat group policy think needs an enema.
"temporarily disabled" - Seriously, what the fuck is that? How about shutting off the engines and booting up when the show is over? Oh, Oh, I get it, you have to feel like you're doing something I suppose - bombs not bread, security before prosperity, the trespasses of government over the trespasses of the governed - I get it.
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Re:
... wins both battles.
Because Football!
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Re: Man in the middle?
Mr. Schneier has some coverage of possibilities realized. https://www.schneier.com/
Here's a recent one that is relevant: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/new_nsa_leak_sh.html
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My point? There is a block of nations whose politics have been corrupted. Every nation is a bully in their own right. History makes that apparent as well. Now it again apparent that the bullying of a single government has clearly been directed at the governed. Yah, that's never happened either.
Generally speaking freedom is being free, free to make your own decisions, free from being told what to do, free from manipulation and subservience and being cognizant of the freedoms of others. Governments can not abide by that and neither can a lot of individuals. Governments, by their nature, filter freedoms, and are diametrically opposed to freedom. It's a delicate balance, assuredly, but your clearly prejudiced generalizations belie present reality and the surging groundswell of activities that certain countries are claiming rights to.
What America is supposed to be is a country full of people that don't take kindly to being told what to do, down to a person. Americans are now being trained to both stay in line and to tow it. Five eyes and a hundred ears.
Americans, by their nature, are no better and no worse than any other standing citizen of any other nation.
American empire will eat itself. American principles, the founding principles, are distinctly applicable globally, to a person. I think that is "American".
Governments govern, tyrannies rule. Who lives where?
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Expelled
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Re: Well, he could have read the Constitution; most in Congress NEED that.
a1) Senator moshed Dr. Seuss with a filibuster
a2) Senator provided a public performance
a3) Senator's words are on the record (recorded, copied, disseminated etc.)
b) Copyright is important because it absolutely BLOWS right now.
As for personal gain, well, senator just made himself a little more famous by rallying for something he stands for and at the same time providing entertainment by reading other peoples' works.
They're valid questions to which legal answers would be worthy.
Fair-use is critical to the public. It needs to be better defined and apply to every created work ever.
Creators create. Copyrights manipulate. It's well past overdue to right copyright.
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Riiight
It's almost as if the job is more important than the company. It's almost as if the company is a front for dealing drugs and raking profits. It's almost as if the company is above the law.
It's almost as if there is no law.
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Hunting Season
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Re: Re: @ AC: "coming from a country that is known to have terrorist."
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Re: Meanwhile in Europe
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Re: Agree except for the bit about privacy
It's like someone passed you the facebook ball and you fucking ran with it. Towards the wrong end of the field.
Don't roll over and expect me to pat your belly. We have hunting to do, get the fuck up.
This is not some mamby-pamby question about IT morality, rather, it is a question of how much control you're actually willing to submit to, for how long and how intimate (fantasy, one-sided freak show style) the details that you would allow access to for an an effective means of begin controlled.
We're getting the surveillance that's been forced down our fucking throats - No, we're not getting the surveillance that we deserve, nor are we getting access to the available means to make our lives better. I'm about done sacrificing for some ridiculous safety fantasy.
I've got a 21st century bet placed alright, but my horse is not going to run on your track. Not now, not ever.
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Re: Re:
oh, oh, Speach.
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I submit that this passage be respectfully borrowed and we replace Brazil with every connected person and that it be appreciated as sage advice.
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Re: Re: assumptions
By now we've all heard plenty of stories about ridiculous goings on at the border by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol agents
*should* read like:
By now we've all heard plenty of stories about ridiculous goings on at the border by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents
I believe that's the traditional means of establishing acronym usage in any given text, to define it upon first reference for later usage in the same body of text.
I think it's more of a courtesy and clarity thing more than a rule but it could be a rule I guess.
That and the "or state" thing was most definitely not clear when presented nor was it clarified very shortly thereafter but, like CBP, not very difficult to qualify either (though Canadian Border Patrol popped into my head by default on the first pass)
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As for recent intelligence collection revelations well that's just pure lunacy on multiple levels but the DOD beast needs to be put back in its cage post haste.
As someone nicely summarized somewhere else: Authority is marching roughshod over all people and their authority is unchecked. That can only get worse.
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