It does not provide any products or services critical to the US, or anyone in it.
The DNC is a political party that provides some of the people (presidents, senators, representatives, even justices) that set policy for our nation. How could that be anything but critical to the United States?
Oh, wait, I get you: RNC needs to provide the critical people, right? Just arguing for a one-party system, right?
When I was a kid, I was told to be silent while the adults talked. This was a RULE: children were to be seen and not heard
So when he says "adult conversation" he means all the kids (which includes experts, naughty little back-talkers that they are) shall shut up and let him talk...
...because he is the only adult in the room. "Or else!"
Yeah, well, NYPD may have started thinking about it. But my bet is that, unlike Deep Thought, it's going to take a lot longer than seven-and-half million years for them to finish thinking about it.
I just can't wait for all the outrage. You know it's coming, now that Obama has opened the floodgates for ISIS terrorist mobster migrant rapist immigrants from Mexico.
Every company and our ever-loving government: the same excuse. Over and over. We want them to do X, their answer is, "We can't, because it would reduce your security."
Somehow or other, we need to turn this threat around. For example: "Microsoft, you need to stop watching us or it will reduce your security."
Let me get this straight: we've spent $47 billion for nothing so far? $100 billion it's supposed to cost?
No, not buying. You're looking at at least a $1 trillion boondoggle here, for a project I'm betting never delivers an usable result. That trillion will be the fed share, and we're already 5% of the way there.
And that's before the winner soaks all the local police for $hundreds$of$billions$ more for components of the system that will never work.
I knew this was a government giveaway, but even I never dreamed...
I want to know where those stats came from, too. According to this page the U.S. homicide rate per 100,000 per year is 12,996; and for Canada, 554. That's makes it at least 23 times as risky to be in the United States.
Let's just leave it that he got his figures from some other site with an axe to grind, like this one.
(12,996 per 100,000 per year!...one in 8!...every family be missing multiple people...whole towns wiped out...idiots...mutter, mutter...)
It's not likely this decision matters. The last thing FBI wants is for people to be talking about NSLs, which would reveal the BS that FBI is demanding.
So great, FBI has to review all the NSL gags every 3 years or whatever. There's no time limit or performance goals beyond "must review", so the result of every review is most likely to be, "Gag remains in place." It might be the 100th review of the NSL--300 year anniversary--but government secrecy is forever.
And even should FBI drop a gag on an NSL, you know it's going to be accompanied by a nebulous threat that would scare the socks off of Daniel Webster:
"The gag on NSL x is hereby lifted. But be aware that the FBI investigates any misuse of information, and that such misuse is subject to 25 years in prison or a $1 million fine, or both."
No doubt the recipient will read that and immediately start blabbing about that NSL, right? It's not the first time we've seen a vague and ominous threat like that used to frighten people into knuckling under.
One way or another, FBI intends to keep NSLs secret forever, and no puny USA Freedom Act, or this court ruling, is likely to change that.
Why would the KKK be the FBI's immediate go to in terms of talking about him?
He is clearly not a fan of government, which means he's a member of an anti-government hate group. And all hate groups--KKK or anti-government--are alike.
"...having to be told "no" repeatedly before the message sinks in."
Oh, I'm very sure the message sank in all right; but that doesn't mean the government gave up or learned to respect our Constitutional rights. Most likely they simply stopped asking permission and started using parallel construction.
In my post, I was being sarcastic. Reading it in retrospect, I can see how that would fail to come across. I should have added a line about prostrating ourselves to be walked over by government hob-nailed boots, or something like that.
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Solved and green
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Whistle-blowing charges in a nutshell
You might be a thief.
You might be a torturer.
You might even be a mass murderer.
That all [*shrug*] and, "No problemo, here's a broom, there's the rug."
Talk to the media, though; embarrass your boss; report wrongdoing: and they will hound you to death for misusing the toilet paper in the latrine.
Because there just is nothing like retaliation against the guy who's making waves, to save the wrongdoer's day.
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No anonymity, no privacy!
OTOH, the citizens DON'T KNOW what they want. Any government will confirm this "truth."
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Wall
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The DNC is a political party that provides some of the people (presidents, senators, representatives, even justices) that set policy for our nation. How could that be anything but critical to the United States?
Oh, wait, I get you: RNC needs to provide the critical people, right? Just arguing for a one-party system, right?
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It isn't until the survey results start to come in from us losers in the real world, that the numbers start to drop.
On the post: James Comey Claims He Wants An 'Adult Conversation' About Encryption; Apparently 'Adults' Ignore Experts
Adult Conversation
So when he says "adult conversation" he means all the kids (which includes experts, naughty little back-talkers that they are) shall shut up and let him talk...
...because he is the only adult in the room. "Or else!"
On the post: Inspector General Finds NYPD's Surveillance Of Muslims Routinely Violated Consent Decree Guidelines
Deep Thought
Much less acting on the answer.
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Outrage
On the post: The EFF Calls Out Microsoft's Ongoing Bullshit On Windows 10 Privacy Concerns
Reversing the threat
Somehow or other, we need to turn this threat around. For example: "Microsoft, you need to stop watching us or it will reduce your security."
On the post: FBI Apparently Made Darkweb Child Porn Site Faster During Its Hosting Of Seized Server
Little Red...well...
"All the better to entrap you," was the reply.
"But, Uncle, what clever spyware you have!" he said.
"All the better to locate and identify you."
"But, Uncle, what large servers you have!"
"All the faster for you to download many, many pictures; to fill your harddrive with multiple counts."
"Oh! but, Uncle, what a terrible big jackboots you have!"
"All the better to crush you with!"
And scarcely had the Uncle said this, than thirty brutal SWAT officers arrested the hapless downloader.
On the post: With Both Presidential Candidates Claiming To Be Against The TPP, President Obama Kicks Off Campaign To Ratify It
Talk is cheap
Clinton, Trump say they don't support TPP? Talk is cheap, and when one of them is in office, I'm betting you'll find out just how cheap it is.
Hey, a joke: "Q: How do you tell when a politician is lying?" Oh, you've heard it.
On the post: Allegations Of Dysfunction Continue To Plague FirstNet, Our $47 Billion (And Growing) National Emergency Network
$100 billion? Hee, hee, hee, haw, haw, haw...
No, not buying. You're looking at at least a $1 trillion boondoggle here, for a project I'm betting never delivers an usable result. That trillion will be the fed share, and we're already 5% of the way there.
And that's before the winner soaks all the local police for $hundreds$of$billions$ more for components of the system that will never work.
I knew this was a government giveaway, but even I never dreamed...
On the post: NY Daily News Admits It Got It All Wrong When Declaring Crime Increases Would Follow Stop-And-Frisk Decision
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Let's just leave it that he got his figures from some other site with an axe to grind, like this one.
(12,996 per 100,000 per year!...one in 8!...every family be missing multiple people...whole towns wiped out...idiots...mutter, mutter...)
On the post: DOJ Finally Going To Force Law Enforcement Agencies To Hand Over Info On People Killed By Police Officers
Puzzled officer lament
On the post: Court Says FBI Must Review Its NSL Gag Orders Every Three Years, Rather Than Almost Never
Puny USA Freedom Act
So great, FBI has to review all the NSL gags every 3 years or whatever. There's no time limit or performance goals beyond "must review", so the result of every review is most likely to be, "Gag remains in place." It might be the 100th review of the NSL--300 year anniversary--but government secrecy is forever.
And even should FBI drop a gag on an NSL, you know it's going to be accompanied by a nebulous threat that would scare the socks off of Daniel Webster:
No doubt the recipient will read that and immediately start blabbing about that NSL, right? It's not the first time we've seen a vague and ominous threat like that used to frighten people into knuckling under.
One way or another, FBI intends to keep NSLs secret forever, and no puny USA Freedom Act, or this court ruling, is likely to change that.
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Why Is The Copyright Office Lying To Protect The Cable Industry's Monopoly Stranglehold Over The Cable Box?
On the post: FBI Official Compares Encryption Guru Moxie Marlinspike To The KKK, Refuses To Discuss Him
KKK comparison explained
He is clearly not a fan of government, which means he's a member of an anti-government hate group. And all hate groups--KKK or anti-government--are alike.
Signed: #GovernmentLivesMatter
On the post: Documents Show FISA Court Refusing To Grant FBI's Requests To Scoop Up Communications Along With Phone Metadata
Easier to parallel construct than get permission
Oh, I'm very sure the message sank in all right; but that doesn't mean the government gave up or learned to respect our Constitutional rights. Most likely they simply stopped asking permission and started using parallel construction.
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