Jesus fuck, why doesn't the FBI just put out a missive that says "you are required to lay bare all of your user data to any script-kiddy level hacker" and call it gott-damn day?
Anybody with a brain can tell you that's exactly where it will go--spoof up a "I'm from the FBI" ip address and use a user name and password you got from Robert Hackerton's phone calls and ta-da!, you're the gott-damm FBI and can look at anybodys' data in any company...
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
[Robert Heinlein]
I know it's been here before, but for those who do not yet have this burned into their conscious mind, please read it again.
Ah, the mantra of the human race. If only those in power would realize the truth of these words...
Of course, that would first require the ability to make reason based decisions; and I'm pretty sure politicians have that part of their brain secretly removed after being elected to a sufficiently elevated governmental office--how else does one explain career politicians?
Tautology (small computer is small! Anonymous commentator is anonymous!)
That's like claiming people like TV because they haven't realized it's ad funded...
As soon as a person hits the age of reason (around 28yo, give or take a few years) the obviousness of "if you are not paying for the service you are not the customer" becomes glaringly apparent.
In short, people know. They're just generally too lazy to care.
The problem of human trafficking is easily solved thru the laws of supply and demand.
Remove the social stigmas around sex, legalize prostitution, and those who force women into prostitution will find they have no market, the payoff of the illegal trafficking would not be worth the price they would get.
YES! Hollywood was created by people who were all like: "we'll move to California and pretend we never received the letters demanding licensing fees, now let's make some movies!"
9/10 - You forgot to attack somebody's character or argument.
It sounds as though you're advocating a nanny state --
"The rights of the group supersede the rights of the individual, therefore you have no rights."
"There's no point in letting you decide what's good for you, you'd just do something stupid anyway. I will decide for you and you will do what I decide."
By the way, you're 'fact 1' is a flawed premise, meaning your conclusion is inevitably flawed as well.
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Re: Re: Re: JCF!!
Anybody with a brain can tell you that's exactly where it will go--spoof up a "I'm from the FBI" ip address and use a user name and password you got from Robert Hackerton's phone calls and ta-da!, you're the gott-damm FBI and can look at anybodys' data in any company...
*Grrr!...*
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The future of techdirt
I'm'a miss techdirt when it's taken down as a "homegrown terrorist" site--due to pointing out clueless/malicious government actions.
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Re: Reasons
They are done with this site forever!!
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Just an encore for a wise man, now dead.
I know it's been here before, but for those who do not yet have this burned into their conscious mind, please read it again.
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Re: Re: ♥
Of course, that would first require the ability to make reason based decisions; and I'm pretty sure politicians have that part of their brain secretly removed after being elected to a sufficiently elevated governmental office--how else does one explain career politicians?
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Re: False!
That's like claiming people like TV because they haven't realized it's ad funded...
As soon as a person hits the age of reason (around 28yo, give or take a few years) the obviousness of "if you are not paying for the service you are not the customer" becomes glaringly apparent.
In short, people know. They're just generally too lazy to care.
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Re: Re: wut...
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Re: But it does!
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Re: iDev
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Well know,
Except, ya know, I ♥ humans, because they do stuff like this.
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Re: One Point I'm Missing
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Re: I agree...but also disgree
The problem of human trafficking is easily solved thru the laws of supply and demand.
Remove the social stigmas around sex, legalize prostitution, and those who force women into prostitution will find they have no market, the payoff of the illegal trafficking would not be worth the price they would get.
Pfft, easy.
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Re: "Fair and Balanced" Load of Sh*t
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Chris Dodd...
"And here you are, doing a complete reversal on your stance on [x] after having received $[y] campaign contributions from [z]"
Or something to that effect... (affect? damn.)
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I, for one, definitely DO NOT WANT Chris Dodd exposing himself.
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Re: Revisionist History is NohBohdey's Beetch.
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Re: As governments fight reality they seem unable to face it.
Thank you.
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Re: Re: Re: Emo rules!!
It sounds as though you're advocating a nanny state --
"The rights of the group supersede the rights of the individual, therefore you have no rights."
"There's no point in letting you decide what's good for you, you'd just do something stupid anyway. I will decide for you and you will do what I decide."
By the way, you're 'fact 1' is a flawed premise, meaning your conclusion is inevitably flawed as well.
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