i'll just leave this 'historical' snippet right here:
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
i simply CAN NOT fathom how ANYONE -judge, jury, kop, citizen- can interpret this in any other way but that phones (read: small computers) fall under the 4th as 'papers and effects'...
IF they try to aver that silicon is not 'paper', then fuck them, that is bullshit...
i understand how they WANNA make all the exceptions in the world to snatch OUR shit; but they want NO sort of similar accountability for THEIR shit...
this 'diode justice' (only works one way) is going to be their downfall... stupid shits
yeppers... i can't stand the stupidheads who are trying to childproof the inertnet... not only CAN'T be (practically) done and maintain ANY semblance of free speech; BUT, I DON'T WANT IT DONE: this is an ADULT world (well, supposed to be), children have to GROW UP to live in it, the rest of us don't have to grown down to the lowest common denominator...
one point in relation to people calling/texting whatever harassing crap, while i have a stupid cellular telephonic transportable computing machine thingy, i really don't mess with them much, so a question to phonephreaks: does the *69 block work on cellyphones ? ? ?
if so, WHY is someone/anyone receiving 'thousands' of calls/texts from someone they don't want to communicate with if they can simply *69 them ? ? ?
(yes, of course, the harasser can use other lines/numbers, but -really- how many even hard core jerks are going to go to the trouble to do that ? ...*thousands* of times ? )
THANK YOU, anon @7:38, exactly... as i've called it numerous times in the past (and no doubt will in the future):
you have the RIGHT to NOT be assaulted; you do NOT have the RIGHT to NOT be insulted...
the thing is, i KNOW as sure as dog made little green apples, that there are a MILLION times worse that goes on ALL THE TIME, only, it isn't 'recorded' as far as an email, or text message, or whatever that can become a black and white printout of what someone 'said'...
otherwise, THERE WOULD BE LITTLE TO NO 'case' when it was simply joe blow mouthing off at the bar and calling you names and there was no 'recording' of it...
the thing is, when i hear about shit like this, *I* want to insult the butt-hurt 'victim', AND the idiot politicians (oh, am i being redundant?) even more so... stupid shits
*that's* how sneaky he is ! ! ! i bet he set a virtual trip-wire so that he revoked his own passport ! ! ! he's the most diabolical spy since boris badinoff ! ! !
shit, the fucking spooks apologists should be thanking snowden, now, whenever shit goes down, they just point and screech (khan-like) S-N-N-N-O-O-O-W-W-W-D-E-E-E-N-N-N ! !! its their get-out-of-jail-free card...
in other news, anon poster is either clueless or a bot...
the fucker is an elitist pig from way back... he would roll back EVERYTHING to have only white, male property owners eligible to vote... (okay, *maybe* he's not a racist, and he'd allow black male property owners too, big whoop...) i don't recall if it was pointed out in the article or comments, but he is the censorious dingleberry who would have EVERYONE else censored, but give 'his' propaganda botz free reign to infest the inertnet tubes with gummint sockpuppets... he is slime... the WORST kind of slime: a faux-progressive advocating a police state to make the trains run on time...
further, it is always disappointing that: A. people in general do NOT understand the extreme importance of maintaining 'free speech' as the bedrock right upon which all other rights are dependent; B. that defending 'true' free speech means you defend the right of your vilest enemy to voice their worst speech, or you are not for free speech after all; C. ultimately, you find that FAR TOO MANY people are actually NOT for free speech when they find it means that people can say stuff they disagree with, or find objectionable, or whatever: THE NANO-SECOND free speech causes them to furrow their brow, they stop being for free speech... D. with the rare exception of techdirtia, FAR TOO MANY blogs/etc DO NOT want - much less encourage- free speech to any significant degree... to me, this is especially egregious coming from so-called progressive sites who refuse to tolerate free speech EVEN IN their little sandbox they control... disappointing and discouraging that in situations they 'own', they refuse to abide by principles they supposedly hold dear... the 'h' word comes to mind...
oh horseshit, if i were so inclined, i could point out a dozen or more 'weaknesses' of the print out/redact/copy scenario as well... not the least of which, is you are MULTIPLYING the copies of documents which means it is MORE LIKELY to be exposed...
which is more vulnerable: A. a file locked up in a server somewhere with -presumably- some controls and limits on who can access it, or, B. a non-descript pile of thousands of pages which ANYONE could walk off with and no one would be the wiser...
sure, because printing out many pages and editing them with a 'sharpie' is SO much less prone to 'mistakes' than doing it RIGHT in the electronic version...
when those scumbags are shredding our constitution, spying on us all, doing their dirty tricks on dissidents, enacting secret laws and interpretations, and otherwise fucking people up for NO GOOD REASON, they don't have to 'show cause', explain shit, or 'justify' what they do, OR PROVE THAT PEOPLE ARE KEPT SAFE BY THIS BULLSHIT...
but we mere citizens are expected to 'prove' harm from secret laws and interpretations WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT, NOR WHAT THEY CONTAIN...
i can not stress this poster's sentiment, as well as voiced in the article itself, of the CHILDISH semantic games the alphabet spooks will play... they WILL (metaphorically speaking) look you straight in the eye, piss on your leg, and INSIST it is raining; THEN fabricate evidence to 'prove' it was rain... in my readings about the evil done in our name, with our money, *supposedly* to 'protect and serve' us, by the boys in black, you can NOT UNDERESTIMATE the most simplistic, and -to repeat myself- CHILDISH ways they will LIE AND DISSEMBLE... they are scum, they are slime, they are NOT the best and the brightest, they are the worst and most immoral...
YOU CAN NOT OVERSTATE THEIR MORAL VACUITY... we do NOT deserve these pieces of shit...
which is what makes it doubly maddening: according to THEIR self-professed 'principles' (as if...), of being -you know, like- all free-marketey, and competition is the driving force of capitalism, blah blah blah, you'd *THINK* they would be 180 degrees OPPOSED to any such protectionism like this...
but these issues only serve to PROVE, they have NO PRINCIPLES: it is ALL about jumping when their puppetmasters say 'frog'... they will hop this way today, and that way tomorrow, ALL DEPENDING on their paymasters talking points that moment...
thus PROVING (for the millionth time) they are hypocritical liars who have no bedrock principles, no morals, no nothing but their unchecked power and the desire to wield it to benefit the 1%...
fuck 'em all... the VERY FEW good ones are no reason not to hang the lot...
not that you may not be 100% correct about low-man/woman-on-the-totem-pole scanning the dox, but -geez louise- *most* all programs these days either have built-in PDF print drivers, so you don't have to 'scan' anything, simply print to PDF...
again, NOT that the gummint doesn't have some retarded process or 'official' method which avoids any sane method of getting PDFs out the door, but it isn't necessary...
*besides* the pure propaganda they disseminate, it would hardly surprise me at all if -like faux news when they 'mistakenly' misidentify scumbag rethugs as scumbag dem'rats- they -oops!- made 'mistakes' which ONLY made the gummint look better...
golly, goshies, sure is funny how those 'mistakes' always go one way ideologically...
nah, i'm sure that can't be true, i mean they'll drone us, they'll destroy our constitution, they'll murder brown people on a whim, they'll destroy the economy so banksters can make billions instead of mere millions, but LIE to us ? deceive us ? no, they wouldn't go that far... *snicker*
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Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
i simply CAN NOT fathom how ANYONE -judge, jury, kop, citizen- can interpret this in any other way but that phones (read: small computers) fall under the 4th as 'papers and effects'...
IF they try to aver that silicon is not 'paper', then fuck them, that is bullshit...
i understand how they WANNA make all the exceptions in the world to snatch OUR shit; but they want NO sort of similar accountability for THEIR shit...
this 'diode justice' (only works one way) is going to be their downfall... stupid shits
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pretty much equivalent to a GE who makes everything from lightbulbs to nukes...
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i can't stand the stupidheads who are trying to childproof the inertnet... not only CAN'T be (practically) done and maintain ANY semblance of free speech; BUT, I DON'T WANT IT DONE: this is an ADULT world (well, supposed to be), children have to GROW UP to live in it, the rest of us don't have to grown down to the lowest common denominator...
one point in relation to people calling/texting whatever harassing crap, while i have a stupid cellular telephonic transportable computing machine thingy, i really don't mess with them much, so a question to phonephreaks:
does the *69 block work on cellyphones ? ? ?
if so, WHY is someone/anyone receiving 'thousands' of calls/texts from someone they don't want to communicate with if they can simply *69 them ? ? ?
(yes, of course, the harasser can use other lines/numbers, but -really- how many even hard core jerks are going to go to the trouble to do that ? ...*thousands* of times ? )
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as i've called it numerous times in the past (and no doubt will in the future):
you have the RIGHT to NOT be assaulted;
you do NOT have the RIGHT to NOT be insulted...
the thing is, i KNOW as sure as dog made little green apples, that there are a MILLION times worse that goes on ALL THE TIME, only, it isn't 'recorded' as far as an email, or text message, or whatever that can become a black and white printout of what someone 'said'...
otherwise, THERE WOULD BE LITTLE TO NO 'case' when it was simply joe blow mouthing off at the bar and calling you names and there was no 'recording' of it...
the thing is, when i hear about shit like this, *I* want to insult the butt-hurt 'victim', AND the idiot politicians (oh, am i being redundant?) even more so...
stupid shits
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i bet he set a virtual trip-wire so that he revoked his own passport ! ! !
he's the most diabolical spy since boris badinoff ! ! !
shit, the fucking spooks apologists should be thanking snowden, now, whenever shit goes down, they just point and screech (khan-like) S-N-N-N-O-O-O-W-W-W-D-E-E-E-N-N-N ! !!
its their get-out-of-jail-free card...
in other news, anon poster is either clueless or a bot...
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(c)ass (s)unstein is (s)cum...
he would roll back EVERYTHING to have only white, male property owners eligible to vote...
(okay, *maybe* he's not a racist, and he'd allow black male property owners too, big whoop...)
i don't recall if it was pointed out in the article or comments, but he is the censorious dingleberry who would have EVERYONE else censored, but give 'his' propaganda botz free reign to infest the inertnet tubes with gummint sockpuppets...
he is slime...
the WORST kind of slime: a faux-progressive advocating a police state to make the trains run on time...
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and testilying by kops is grounds for appeal...
now: you want to tell me how many times testilying happens versus how many times that is the reason for an appeal that gets overturned ? ? ?
just a guess, but i bet there are THOUSANDS of instances of testilying that go by unchallenged -if not unnoticed- for every one that gets appealed...
and you're supposed to do a 10 point safety check every time you get in your vehicle...
and you're supposed to wash behind your ears...
and...
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A. people in general do NOT understand the extreme importance of maintaining 'free speech' as the bedrock right upon which all other rights are dependent;
B. that defending 'true' free speech means you defend the right of your vilest enemy to voice their worst speech, or you are not for free speech after all;
C. ultimately, you find that FAR TOO MANY people are actually NOT for free speech when they find it means that people can say stuff they disagree with, or find objectionable, or whatever: THE NANO-SECOND free speech causes them to furrow their brow, they stop being for free speech...
D. with the rare exception of techdirtia, FAR TOO MANY blogs/etc DO NOT want - much less encourage- free speech to any significant degree... to me, this is especially egregious coming from so-called progressive sites who refuse to tolerate free speech EVEN IN their little sandbox they control...
disappointing and discouraging that in situations they 'own', they refuse to abide by principles they supposedly hold dear... the 'h' word comes to mind...
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not the least of which, is you are MULTIPLYING the copies of documents which means it is MORE LIKELY to be exposed...
which is more vulnerable:
A. a file locked up in a server somewhere with -presumably- some controls and limits on who can access it,
or,
B. a non-descript pile of thousands of pages which ANYONE could walk off with and no one would be the wiser...
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1. black out the wrong line
2. skip a page in the pile of 10 000 pages...
etc, etc, etc...
you make MORE steps, you create MORE opportunities for fuckups: YOU ARE INCREASING THE ODDS OF MISTAKES, NOT DECREASING THEM...
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Re: Re: Re: Makes sense
sure, because printing out many pages and editing them with a 'sharpie' is SO much less prone to 'mistakes' than doing it RIGHT in the electronic version...
urine idjit, stop making excuses for fascists...
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funny how that doesn't work both ways...
but we mere citizens are expected to 'prove' harm from secret laws and interpretations WE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT, NOR WHAT THEY CONTAIN...
um, ain't that totally bass-ackwards ? ? ?
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they WILL (metaphorically speaking) look you straight in the eye, piss on your leg, and INSIST it is raining; THEN fabricate evidence to 'prove' it was rain...
in my readings about the evil done in our name, with our money, *supposedly* to 'protect and serve' us, by the boys in black, you can NOT UNDERESTIMATE the most simplistic, and -to repeat myself- CHILDISH ways they will LIE AND DISSEMBLE...
they are scum, they are slime, they are NOT the best and the brightest, they are the worst and most immoral...
YOU CAN NOT OVERSTATE THEIR MORAL VACUITY...
we do NOT deserve these pieces of shit...
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but these issues only serve to PROVE, they have NO PRINCIPLES: it is ALL about jumping when their puppetmasters say 'frog'...
they will hop this way today, and that way tomorrow, ALL DEPENDING on their paymasters talking points that moment...
thus PROVING (for the millionth time) they are hypocritical liars who have no bedrock principles, no morals, no nothing but their unchecked power and the desire to wield it to benefit the 1%...
fuck 'em all...
the VERY FEW good ones are no reason not to hang the lot...
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again, NOT that the gummint doesn't have some retarded process or 'official' method which avoids any sane method of getting PDFs out the door, but it isn't necessary...
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Voice of Amerika ? ? ?
*besides* the pure propaganda they disseminate, it would hardly surprise me at all if -like faux news when they 'mistakenly' misidentify scumbag rethugs as scumbag dem'rats- they -oops!- made 'mistakes' which ONLY made the gummint look better...
golly, goshies, sure is funny how those 'mistakes' always go one way ideologically...
nah, i'm sure that can't be true, i mean they'll drone us, they'll destroy our constitution, they'll murder brown people on a whim, they'll destroy the economy so banksters can make billions instead of mere millions, but LIE to us ? deceive us ?
no, they wouldn't go that far...
*snicker*
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