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They're just preoccupied with stealing our stuff. "Ex-TSA agent: We steal from travelers all the time...A TSA agent convicted of stealing more than $800,000 worth of goods from travelers said this type of theft is “commonplace” among airport security. Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers since 2003." http://rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing... http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/... Solution? Protect Yourself: "100% foolproof solution to stop TSA from stealing your valuables out of your carry-on bag" "They're lazy pathetic thieves..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Our Lavrenty Beria was a curator of Russian nuclear project

Obviously, as head of KGB — because your nuclear project had as much work for your spies as it did for scientists.

My point, however, was that Beria antedated McCarthy by decades. (That he is also responsible for thousands of dead , whereas McCarthy can only be blamed for a few scores having lost their jobs, went unmentioned.)

Don't underestimate the importance of copies.

Absolutely right especially given that the ones they are copying were copies to begin with!

http://rt.com/news/240801-isis...

The ancient statues that Islamic State militants smashed in Mosul on camera last month have been proved to be exact replicas of precious artifacts of Iraqi heritage. The real masterpieces of antiquity are said to be in Baghdad.

"They were copies. The originals are all here," Baghdad's museum director told Germany's Deutsche Welle.

Judging from the negative mod I got for my remark, the answer is yes, I was right, and yes it was inconvenient for the Fandroids out there.

Have nice day.

The media in the USA is the most dishonest I've seen. Their entire goal is to generate misinfotainment that is interesting enough to generate more ad revenue.

I went to rt.com to get the other side, and it's really about the same as the CNN one.
http://rt.com/news/261201-rosc...

They also have some enlightening articles right on their front page:
"Internet troll convictions on the rise (VIDEO)"
"Counter attack: MP asks law enforcers to protect Russians from Google page counts"
"Putin signs bill on ‘undesirable foreign groups’ into law"
"Defense Ministry to improve conscripts’ preparedness through military lessons in schools"
"Snowden leaks aided terrorists, damaged spy agencies – neocon think-tank"

Oh, and they have hardly any ads on their site and no subscription plan, so I guess their funded some other way... neat!

You've got to realize though, that those congressmen are our constitutional representatives. They represent the power of the people in this democracy

I think the OP is referring to the fact that the NSA lied to Congress and the American people when asked about spying, not on Congress, but on the American people:

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

James Clapper: "No, sir."

Wyden: "It does not?"

Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

(watch for yourself)

Some Republicans have said He should be fired. Obama said he misspoke.

One might think he should have been arrested. Instead, they arrested the lawyer who asked him why he lied..

We've seen this double-standard applied recently-- no one arrested for torture except the CIA Whistleblower. Leakers getting huge sentences unless their rank is high enough.

If the CIA can get away with spying on Senate computers then that's it. They really are above the law.

They've gotten away with much much worse already. (I started adding links but there are hundreds of them...)

"After investing $1 billion in behavior detection techniques and training since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration has little to show for its efforts, the New York Times stated in a new report. According to the newspaper, critics of the TSA’s attempt to read body language claim there’s no evidence to suggest the agency has been able to link chosen passengers to anything beyond carrying drugs or holding undeclared currency, much less a terrorist attack. In fact, a review of numerous studies seems to suggest that even those trained to look for various tics are no more capable of identifying liars than normal individuals. 'The common-sense notion that liars betray themselves through body language appears to be little more than a cultural fiction,' Maria Hartwig, a psychologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, told the Times."

http://rt.com/usa/tsa-spent-billion-body-language-937/

You're kidding, right?

http://rt.com/news/194424-usa-...
http://www.cfr.org/japan/sino-...

Today, Japan's nuclear energy infrastructure makes it eminently capable of constructing nuclear weapons at will. The de-militarization of Japan and the protection of the United States' nuclear umbrella have led to a strong policy of non-weaponization of nuclear technology, but in the face of nuclear weapons testing by North Korea, some politicians and former military officials in Japan are calling for a reversal of this policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

but take into consideration that the army has autonomous vehicles right now that drive offroad constantly.

Well, no. They don't seem to. They're talking about autonomous vehicles And there is at least one far enough along for photo shoots. http://rt.com/usa/driverless-a... But it's often a long way from capability demonstration to proven capability. Not to mention that there may be some significant differences between the appropriate method for an autonomous APC to deal with a couple of cows in the road and the same situation in a Fiat Panda.

Ah yes, the old "I disagree with you because I'm a Christian and that couldn't possibly be true" troll moderation.

Remind me, was it Allah or God that the American military tried to force an atheist to swear allegiance to?

Was God and Freedom the key elements cited in the fight against the evil communist insurgents in Viet Nam? When Viet Nam fell, was it going to be the first in a series of collapses that took away your right to be Christian?

War, war, bloody war. You Christians, in spite of your self-promotion, are no better than the rest of us. You're not special, you're base, just like the rest of us.

You cannot build a church in the Sunni state of Turkey.

Like these or this one?

Yup, no witch hunts at all. http://rt.com/usa/231839-musli...

Thanks for the apology.

I didn't remember any stories at the time saying any airlines had diverted from the Ukraine before MH17 - but all of them set new routes to avoid it after.

That was a lot of airlines that changed courses...

I saw a news blurb about the site just last night on (if I remember right) RT News (http://rt.com/ ), with one of the reporters showing how easy it was to buy stolen web banking login credentials... Could it be that the media exposure spooked the site owners?

Many of my friends regularly post pictures of some nation state having blown the shit out of some children or some wedding party,(...)

What you mean by "some nation state" is often the US, isn't it?

and the fact that Taisha Allen (one of the two people who recorded the choking death of Eric Garner) has been arrested and beaten by NYPD officers?

http://rt.com/usa/240261-nypd-...

It's public domain now, bitches! Edit THIS!

I mean, if is approved for political donations how can California ban it?

And yet, they do., today. Of course, these are prototypes, and it will take many years to go from these prototypes to actual mass-production - but if you look at how far they got in 5 years of research, I bet self-driving cars will be on the market by 2025. (and BTW, you are right - they solved the 'deer' problem long before tackling the urban environment)

I would say that illegal activity is a large part of it, but I do think it serves an important purpose. If everyday buying of bitcoins wasn't more expensive than using my credit card on a website(try buying bitcoins online it's expensive) I would be all over it. Private transaction without the worry of someone stealing my credit information. Someone online can only fleece me out of what I put in without linking to an account with a credit card of bank account attached. There are other options in this area though. Also while I'm not into illegal activities I don't necessarily want people tracking my every movement online.

Say if I had wanted to donate money to wikileaks back when credit cards were rejected. I'm not doing anything illegal by support that site but my credit card wouldn't be accepted. Paypal will hose you on anything if you aren't careful just look at what happened to Notch when minecraft started pulling in mad cash.

I don't want to be limited just because someone THINKS I'm doing something illegal.

http://rt.com/usa/214007-datac...
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...

Past reputation for the US. They only keep deals if it advantages them to do so, once the advantage ceases so does the deal, just ask Native Americans and all the treaties they signed with the Yankees. I can not see how Edward Snowden can possibly expect to return to the US, ever. The nature of the country and it's government makes that impossible. Why the negotiations, likely an immigration step, simple proof of the impossibility of returning and the legal justification for the certainties of Russian citizen status. Russian moves with RT http://rt.com/ would be an indication that is reaching out to the rest of the world. They are now more likely to create say a multi-national technological development enclave within Russia to attract people from all over the globe to develop Russian commercial technology. That kind of cerebral melting pot is far more effective that a monocultural one and it helps to create an economic climate for other commercial developments in that enclave, tourism, content development etc..

That arbitrarily seizes cash left and right because it is deposited in "structured deposits"

What are you, some sort of kook? That never happens!

1+ for easily and percisely tag almost all photos we were able to stuff in it. In microseconds.
This tech is old for the 2d face work. Its fast for local police Privacy concerns? UK police test 'faster-than-ever' facial recognition software http://rt.com/uk/173292-facial... (July 16, 2014)
Or just read the public info on records per second in the 10,000 records/sec http://www.nec.com/en/global/r...

of denouncing Muslims for their "barbarity."

You know, you're right. I meant the subset of Muslims who make up ISIS, and I misspoke. Next time I'll be sure to say some Muslims. Care to retract your sweeping generalizations about "The American Christians"? The act of burning someone to death is a barbaric act. Doesn't matter who does it. I feel pretty confident this is a rational and defensible position.

What is ISIS doing that isn't as barbaric as the things we do every day?

Well, kidnapping, torturing and enslaving / selling children for one. Putting people in cages and setting them alight for another. Let's not get started on their treatment of women.

Burning somebody alive. Big fucking deal.

I'm... speechless...

The American Christians burned thousands of people alive.

So here's your source article, no citations for the "thousands" figure anywhere. There are two examples given, Sam Hose in 1899 and Jesse Washington in 1916. Note that these are examples of past barbarities Americans committed and they're documented so we can learn from them and not repeat history. This is not happening today in America, and there is probably nobody alive now who was not an infant when it happened. Can you say the same about the Muslims that murdered Muadh al Kasasbeh?

Clearly for ISIS to burn a prisoner to death was [insert the same condemnation you use when Christians and Americans do the same thing].

History? Speaking as an Atheist in America, I don't think Christians (or any significant number of Americans) have tortured anyone to death by burning them in a cage in a very long time.

But be consistent. Whatever you say about the Muslims, you should say about the Christians who caused just as much or more painful suffering and death.

While Christians may well have caused as much painful suffering and death as Muslims, I'm not seeing them doing that now. Once again, I can't say the same thing about ISIS.
Also note that your ideas of what I should say are largely irrelevant to me at this time.
Please feel free to continue grinding that axe though!

I am a Chemical and Biological Engineer and overall I think that GMO food is safe.

For one, why the qualifier 'overall'? Have you seen instances where GMO food isn't?

Your opinion is much more valid than mine; for which I concede. In regards to safety , what worries me is what is theoretically safe on the bench (in the lab) is much different than when released into the wild.

GMO food may be perfectly safe to eat, but growing it outside the lab?

Then there's the whole IP issue. When we have huge corporations owning the rights to food, I get extremely concerned about that. And considering that the US government is bought and paid for by Corporate America, we cannot control our own food.

This is MUCH different than the '30s when drought resistant seed came out and SAVED farms. This is about maximizing profit - nothing else.

You can encrypt the body with things like PGP, which works. But you better download the email to a safe computer before you decrypt it. "Online" email is terribly insecure and any idea that you can keep content secure in a web browser is not really realistic.

You can probably make some JS PGP software, but then how could you know that the key is not being sent out somewhere?

Anyway, header information is not encrypted. So From, To, Date, Subject, Received, etc. are all plain text. You can use TLS for SMTP, but it's optional and basically opportunistic, not required.

Still email with PGP is vastly safer than any online messaging system. Hard time to get XSS or other hole exploited when the email just has PGP signed/encrypted message and some headers.

But then US is now assassinating people based on SIM card numbers or other meta data.... so I guess content is irrelevant.

http://rt.com/usa/158460-cia-d...

Where is this shit coming from? How did you get voted so highly?

Police who commit misconduct of any kind is are the extreme minority.[...]

Here's a concrete example for you.

Cleveland Cops recently shot a black teenager who had an air-pistol.

That's OK, because the air pistol is indistinguishable from a real pistol (the red tip had been removed), and the police followed proper procedure. In a statement given to the press, the police described how the teenager had been told three times to raise his hands, and when he didn't comply and went for the pistol, he was shot twice and killed.

No problem, it wasn't a black-on-white issue, the police were responding to a call, it really *really* looked like he had a pistol, and he didn't respond to repeated commands to surrender.

...except that video of the shooting shows police opening fire less than 2 seconds after arriving on the scene, and neither [of the two policemen] administered first aid to Rice after the shooting.

The entire police force closed ranks and kept quiet while the department made an official statement that was a complete falsification of the evidence, in order for two officers to shirk legal responsibility. The police didn't release the surveillance video until public pressure forced them to.

So enlighten me, I'm confused. Which of the police in the Cleveland police force are *not* guilty of aiding and abetting a crime?

What? Are there any sanctions? Perhaps all major newspapers wrote articles condemning Latvia's actions?

Nope. These Nazi wannabes at most get silence from the official Europe, if not outright support. And yes, they really _are_ Nazi wannabes - there are official parades of Waffen SS veterans there (not joking, http://rt.com/news/latvia-demo... ). And just recently the official Latvia blocked a genocide exhibition in UNESCO: http://www.jta.org/2015/01/21/... because it might have damaged Latvia's image (Holodomor exhibition a couple of months earlier was welcomed). Very freedom-of-speechy, I know.

So yes, I think that Europe should shut the hell up and first fix its own affairs first. There's nothing worse than outright hypocrisy.

I don't know what they do in the UK, but Eastern Europeans do not integrate well here. They are pretty notorious for being heavily involved in criminality.

There's nothing pseudo about the effects of more and more people refusing to vaccinate their kids due to unfounded superstitions:

http://rt.com/usa/220715-mease...

Logo? http://img.rt.com/files/news/n...

Like this guy? http://www.npr.org/2014/09/25/...
Or these guys? http://rt.com/uk/184112-britis...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor... (and holy shit that's the Saudis)

Or maybe you'd like to say "If only the Muslims would fight ISIS and the fundamentalists!"
I mean, who do you think the YPK is made up of? Or Hezbollah (which, oddly enough is an ally in the fight against ISIS and their ilk)?

The fact is, there are MANY MANY MANY Muslims who are sick of this shit, just like non-Muslims. And they speak out against their backwards, inbred rednecks. The media is loathe to report this side of the story (see the Fergeson protests.. the media only concentrated on the trouble makers, not the hundreds/thousands who protested without managing to rob stores and burn shit down). All it takes is a cursory look around and you realize that money is to be made by sensationalism, and you've been had.

Also note that this prosecutor also had a previous history of driving people to suicide.
http://rt.com/usa/swartz-prose...

Citations for the AC:

http://www.forbes.com/pictures...

No cops listed in that one.

http://rt.com/usa/us-germany-8...

85 bullets fired by police in all of Germany in 2012.

Citation enough for ya?

I see these articles, which seem dated about Sept 2014:

Pirate Bay fools the system with cloud technology

The Pirate Bay runs on 21 “raid-proof” virtual machines

I'm lowercasing some of those titles, so it doesn't look like RAID-proof. This is referring to police raids, not RAID (disk redundancy).

So I guess now we may get to see just how “raid-proof” this really is(n't).

Then again, Pirate Bay moves to the cloud, becomes raid-proof shows a date of October 2012. So their cloudiness might not be a brand new thing.

this is the first time i've heard this claim. reference? i know of the hand wringing about if we can trust the h/w, but i didn't see any evidence that it was broken.

Ars Technica
New York Times
rt.com

If you are hiding, wouldn't Brazil be a lot more hip place to be? 20,000 Nazis can't be wrong!.

Of course the preferred place of immigration for these bastards was the good old USA, where thousands went. And where, if you were discovered, you just had to move abroad meanwhile receiving all you social security payments.

No idea where you got your facts. Your numbers are completely wrong. https://static.nationalpriorit...

Those are OMB numbers. The military budget is part of discretionary spending. Most the social programs are mandatory spending. We spend way more of our budget on social programs combined than the military.

https://static.nationalpriorit...

I'm not interested in arguing whether the balance is correct. Hopefully seeing the real numbers gives you a better insight that your idea of the budget is orders of magnitude wrong.

Russia has one aircraft carrier and China has at least one being refurbished from Russia. http://rt.com/news/china-super...

Since the 2014 election the only congressional representatives that are Democrats are Progressives. Greens, liberals, progressives, government unions all vote Democratic. The reason Congressional Democrat's voting record might look center right is because the absolute majority of America is center right. The modestly watered down progressive goal of government run Healthcare caused a huge repudiation of the Democrat's fortunes. America does not want progressive policies that's why Democrats in Congress can't push the ideas.

Ask the Weimar republic how spending out of a recession helps. Or better yet, we just had a huge stimulus. Did that get us out of a recession?

This is essentially what I was going to post. I set up a pod on a VM, and while I finally got it working (after assistance from one of the devs via IRC), if there's going to be real acceptance of Diaspora, it needs to deploy cleanly and automatically. This is not currently the case.

Another point that doesn't get enough attention is the lack of symmetrical bandwidth on consumer ISP links. This will limit both the utility and acceptance of any distributed app/protocol (social networking or otherwise). It's unlikely that will happen anytime soon, as that props up the status quo for the content arms of the big ISPs, so I think we're mostly SOL.

This is really a shame, as moving away from centralized models can allow greater flexibility and privacy. Others have mentioned privacy on this thread, but only in the context of which "friends" or others can see what and what sort of advertising is shown.

I'm a lot less concerned about which people I know can see photos of me smooching the giraffe at the zoo. I'm much more concerned that the folks who run these sites have access (and analyze such information ad infinitum, ad nauseam) to everything I might post, and even the sfuff I don't.

Tell us exactly what the problem is with this corn. Is it killing anything? Is it affecting anything?

I would very definitely call this HARM.

Introduced plants spreading where they are very definitely unwanted are called invasive species.

Companies suing farmers whose fields have been invaded without their consent is abusive monopolistic behavior. (Read: "corporatism".)

I could go on, but those are 2 harms that have been proved. One to crop diversity, the other to society and free markets.

Pretty disgusting, but not all that surprising. Ever had a dog hump your leg? Or heard of these idiots having sex with a porcupine? Or a moose trying to get it on with a lawn ornament? And lots of stories of moose in love with cows. And dogs mating with cats ...

"The government" is not an organized entity with a secret agenda.

In this case some agency is paying shills to post nonsense on the internet, and which agency--be it the FBI, the originators of COINTELPRO, or the CIA, or any other alphabet soup entity--isn't relevant to the fact of those trolls existing. Hence, "the government". If I said it was the NSA, you'd be busy telling me how incompetent the NSA is. Instead you've chosen to conveniently overlook the cooperation of the NSA and its pet, the GCHQ.

But I'll go ahead and tear about your stupid shit about there not being web propaganda, because why not.

Leon Panetta publicly admits to web propaganda efforts by the Pentagon. However, it's a contractor performing the propaganda, which would confuse your poor mind into wanting to associate it with some government agency, since "the government" after all is too much of a summary for you. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

USA TODAY found that the owners of the top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan, Leonie Industries, had failed to pay $4 million in federal taxes on time despite earning more than $200 million in contracts from the government. Their tax bills were paid after the story was published.

Shortly after USA TODAY made inquiries about the tax bills, fake Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as phony fan club websites, were set up to disparage USA TODAY reporters. The co-owner of the company, Camille Chidiac, admitted to setting up some of the sites but said he did not use company resources in doing so. He had been suspended from receiving federal contracts because of the campaign, but the military lifted the suspension late last year.

Domestic propaganda legalized in 2013, for the first time since the cold war: http://rt.com/usa/propaganda-u...
Military Announces New Social Media Policy: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com...
Many months behind schedule, the Department of Defense on Friday issued a new policy that, on the surface, seems likely to expand access to popular social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter by troops using military computers.

And most importantly: Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media: Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech...

In summary, you're bad at this, and should feel bad.

http://rt.com/news/184600-isis...
http://cphpost.dk/news/danes-w...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute....

That is just retarded. Non-white immigrants and descendants of immigrants only make up 300,000 people in Denmark, or short of 6% of the population, and hasn't been raising since the immigration laws were tighten in the late 90s, and since then they have gone from tight to being outright silly, and no major political party is seriously trying to bring them back to sanity let alone the immigrant positive levels of the 20th century.

Somehow this fact has escaped the nationalist right wing, who rose to power to oppose the immigration policies of the 70-90s, but then admitting they already won would mean shuting down..

http://rt.com/news/184600-isis...
http://cphpost.dk/news/danes-w...
http://www.gatestoneinstitute....

Yes, the most important racism out there is affirmative action.

Pure CO2 causation, the forced feedback in climate models and the machinations on the data that attempt to leverage a 400% CO2 rise into an extremely-slight-yet-lost-in-noise rise or flatline (depending on how you rearrange the noise) average global temperature... it has been like a bad dream that does not end.

Will the world end in ***FIRE*** or ***ICE***? Or will the world fail to end at all, that would be really embarrassing. It's time to put the steep rise in people-generated pure-CO2 and the observed not steep at all global temperature curve in proper perspective. As in, pure-CO2 causation is a non-starter yet worthy of study --- but it's time to focus on other aspects for awhile. Without all that 'climate denier' noise too.

Let's just talk about actual particulates and albedo. Stratospheric sulfur aerosols reflect more sunlight. In the Arctic, nearby soot may be a larger forcing than CO2. One effect would cause net cooling at the surface and the other a net warming as near-perfect blackbody particles settle on ice crystals. The photograph of a melt water canal with concentrated black carbon particles lining the bottom of the pool begs the question, does this melt channel owe its very existence to the presence of the carbon, or was it caused by other factors? I guestimate that the area of black is about 1/10 the size of the surrounding melt pit... so we are definitely seeing 'grey snow' in the Arctic here.

It has taken five years for the failed 'Glory' satellite mission to be re-launched as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. It is my hope that OCO2 will help to answer these questions by showing where pollution plumes originate and how they move, so that we know where to take samples and what to look for.

Politics demands simplified models and pure-CO2 causation so they can tax everybody without pissing off the coal industry. F*ck politics. It is my view that pure-science demands a balanced approach that will reveal the true impact of coal, among other manmade and natural causes.

And the folks in California would really appreciate a green-tax refund for the 29% of their pollution that is actually from Asia.

Re: "There was malware installed to get more information than just the IP."
The press has more details on the word "software":
http://gizmodo.com/fbi-plants-...
"....-brand malware would be planted on his computer, allowing the Agency to ultimately nab the purported perpetrator. "
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut... (OCT. 28 2014)
"...using a phony—and malware-laced..."
http://www.theguardian.com/com... (29 October 2014)
"...all to deliver malware to a suspect in a criminal case.." http://rt.com/usa/200131-seatt... ( October 28, 2014)
"... was made possible with the use of a so-called “Computer & Internet Protocol Address Verifier” program, or CIPAV, that had been remotely installed on the
individual’s machine to collect and then communicate to the authorities the user-specific information that eventually identified the suspect."

Step one: get person to "hack" the white house network
Step two: Claim "It's Russia!"
Step Three: Stir up media reports about "How safe is the internet really" and "Do we need the government to police the internet?"
Step four: Put in place controls that cripple the internet, spies on all Americans, and causes more laws to be written that stomp of the rights of Americans.


Yeah they can track down who is illegally downloading the latest Bastille album but they have these loose "links" to Russia that they claim if "fact!" it is them.


Couldn't be THIS could it?????

Is that one offense total (distributing the driver) or one offense _per bricked chip_ (unauthorized modification of the code in the chip itself that renders it unusuable?)

With the UK proposing life sentences for people who cause economic damage that threatens national security, I suppose it's good (for them) that they pulled this now rather than when or if that proposal is approved and enacted. After all, can they be SURE that this didn't affect some computer used by a security agency?

Well, the Russian government was not forced to pay any reimbursements for the survivors, as there were no physical disabilities as the result of using the agent on them.

dead people don't count as disabilities

To be fair, Putin might have changed that in 2013.

Now in Russia, the immediate families of terrorists are financially liable for the damages their family members caused. It's just too bad we don't have a law like that in the US, or the Bin Laden family would have had Osama Bin Laden killed, or imprisoned, as a financial precaution for preserving its billions of dollars.

And the "proper" legal definition of 'collection' means "it's not collection until we decide to prosecute you for it, so it's okay to record 80% of all the audio from calls made in the US."

How about you stop licking those tasty jackboots and realize that shit has officially hit the fan. The government no longer cares and will redefine any word it has to in order to fuck over its employer, We The People?

Just because an authority figure says something doesn't make it right. But, you, as a lawyer, wouldn't know how to think for yourself if your life depended on it.