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For some bizarre reason this turned into a left vs right issue, but that's how everything works in the US because we're not smart enough to understand anything more nuanced than two political stances.

The important thing to remember about parties in the US system is that they don't actually represent consistent ideological positions; that's largely a convenient fiction. Ideology tends to divide people along fine distinctions, which works in a parliamentary system because a small party can join a governing coalition. In fact small parties often play kingmaker and wield a great deal of power. In the American system being a small party like the Greens means you get nothing. Ever.

In the US we have to build our cross-ideological coalition within the parties, which requires a lot of creative rationalization and, to put it bluntly, emotional manipulation. That's why the Democrats have trade unionists and minorities on one hand, and the Republicans have evangelicals and the Log Cabin Republicans on the other. These groups have little intrinsic motivation to support each other, except that's the only way to get a share of power.

This means that to understand a party you cant just go by the pictures they paint of themselves (never a good idea with any group); you need to look at their history. And that explains those Republican ranchers and their undocumented workers. From Reconstruction until the 1960s the Republican party was regional party that represented Northern and later Western business interests. The in 1964 Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. That very year arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond switched parties from Democrat to Republican, and the Republicans for the first time ever gained a foothold in the South and a nation-wide scope that has allowed them to dominate the House of Representatives since the early 90s.

A Democratic hyperpartisan will tell you the post-Nixon Republicans embraced racism, but really what they did was smarter: they embraced nativism. Nativism had considerable appeal to racists while being more acceptable to traditional Republicans. However this also conflicted with business interests (especially agricultural ones), so the Republican party adopted a regime of hard rhetoric and and harsh but deliberately ineffective measures. If you don't believe me, check out this graph of undocumented Mexicans in the US and note the transition from the Bush era to the Obama era. Obama actually stepped up deportations pretty much from the get go, particularly of criminals.

At the same time the adoption of nativism by the Republicans makes the Democrats' job easier. While from a strict trade-unionist position undocumented workers are a bad thing, in practical terms the impacts aren't in jobs where there is a strong union, because the union prevents employers from paying low wages to non-union workers.

Did you know your decaf latte probably used supercritical CO2 to decaffeinate the beans? Supercritical CO2, also at very high pressures, is a very good solvent and used in many industries.

Have some fun videos about the latter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gCTKteN5Y4

Let that sink in. The President-Elect of the United States casually remarked that this man was a chill dude to hang out with. Or golf.

I don't remember anyone saying she was in danger of immanent death, but Hillary did get chucked into a van by her staff and her health was reported as being just fine... until that very public collapse. The foreign press was far less kind when they made a little re-enactment. I haven't even heard the other ones, so feel free to link me to the Tweets.

But yes, I'd be happy to have more people posting verifiable facts rather than ill-informed speculation, no matter who they are.

I don't remember anyone saying she was in danger of immanent death, but Hillary did get chucked into a van by her staff and her health was reported as being just fine... until that very public collapse. The foreign press was far less kind when they made a little re-enactment. I haven't even heard the other ones, so feel free to link me to the Tweets.

But yes, I'd be happy to have more people posting verifiable facts rather than ill-informed speculation, no matter who they are.

TL;DR...

Short answer, most modern TV's have a "F" connector on the back. Most modern antenna have a matching connector which may or may-not have threads. If it does not have threads just press it on the F connector. If it has threads, screw it on to the F connector. If your antenna is so old that it doesn't have a matching connector (e.g., 300-ohm twin-lead cable), you will probably need to buy a device called a balun to convert between the two (if the TV doesn't also have 2 screws to connect the twin-lead antenna cable to).

For your viewing pleasure you can watch someone attach and F connecter in this video....

Don't forget they were testing this tech out on people like Michael Hastings, who they killed.

Someone high up don't like you? They can now mandatory suicide you because your car will have this "nice tech"

Then when the car happens to burst into flames it not only ensures the target is terminated, it conveniently destroys all traces of tampering, AND has the added benefit of making future whistleblowers think twice before embarrassing someone important. All completely plausible. Even if there is suspicion of tampering, just blame foreign hackers.

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Only with e-cash. Coming to a mineshaft gap near you.

No, Hillary sometimes does the actual executions herself.
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Seems like using "self-driving car" and "hit" in the same sentence might be a bad combination.

It's a 17 second clip from LA but this seems obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ZSGGTcE74

Leans in to the mic "Wrooooong!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People steal from UPS trucks all the time if the driver is not attending the packages. (leaves the truck open and walks away).
Not just UPS... but anything really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The drone, by virtue of not having a driver is always 'unattended'.

I can can see drones getting downed by birds. (I recall we had swallows nesting in a tree near our front door one year... they'd dive bomb anyone who came by...) I wouldn't be surprised to see them downed by theives running their own drones and taking them out midair, and then packages stolen. Fun and profit.

And when they malfunction, how will they avoid crashing into things and damaging property or injuring people? Even a 5 pound device falling from 15 feet and crashing into a person or a car is pretty serious. Not to mention after a crash, the goods will probably be stolen... possibly the drone itself too.

Dude, if there is anything that needs driverless cars, it is "The Streets of San Francisco". The drivers here are out of control. They are driving on the train tracks! The effing train tracks!

Bonus Theme for you early kids of boomers.

Dude, if there is anything that needs driverless cars, it is "The Streets of San Francisco". The drivers here are out of control. They are driving on the train tracks! The effing train tracks!

Bonus Theme for you early kids of boomers.

Windmills don't work that way! Goodnight!!

Suck on this, faggot.

So... do you like... stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And never, ever mention the war.

Like this?

I see,. So your question "why would the methane suddenly be released now when it (apparently) wasn't then" was a red herring? Fiendishly clever. Still rather unrelated to the post you were responding to though. That post makes a good point that sharply rising methane emissions may offset any thing we can do in the short term to limit CO2 emissions. Methane released from warming tundra is likely to be a big part of that. More than 10 times the amount of methane that is in the atmosphere right now is sequestered under permafrost.

I lived in China for a year. I loved it. I love the culture, I love the country side. Even the pollution can be handled with a decent apartment with good window seals and air scrubbers. They people are fine (let's face it, all countries have great people and terrible people). But, the reason I, as a software engineer, won't go back: no green cards and you can't own property or start a business. Maybe when your 25 years old, the lack of unfettered internet is the worst thing you can think of. But, as you get older, you become more risk adverse. Why would I invest a life in a country where I cannot be granted permanent residence, even if I marry a citizen? I wouldn't; that's foolish.

Yeah this definitely discourages me: http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
And 3 years before that they said it was 10%: http://china.org.cn/environmen...
So do you believe it's really 20% or actually higher?

If you don't believe that it's a problem perhaps you can convince these bunch:
http://articles.latimes.com/20...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

It's hard to believe that this video is 9 years old already, but it shows how companies conspire to disqualify American workers.

Relevant link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... This scientist agrees with what you are saying. She is saying decades until we see massive uncontrollable change.

I also know it's you giving me guff on my sports stuff

You "know" incorrectly.

just as you did on my comp. sci. ones

You mean how I told you repeatedly that the power usage of a DNS server doesn't seem to effect the wattage on my computers nor routers?

What is your problem?

You are malicious and are the very antithesis of the cure you're claiming to be.

I think so, lol...

Considering you were wrong about about "knowing" about who is behind those posts, it's not suprising you're wrong agin.

That's my point here...

I'm afraid, Mr. Kowalski, your hosts files will not protect you from clarinet hackers.

Trump is selling "Inauguration membership cards" from his official presidencial campaign. With this video popping up December 9th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Has he divested his foreign businesses yet like he promised? No? Has he closed his offshore accounts yet? No. Has he put his US business into a blind trust yet? No.

But you can be sure he has a big press outrage thing planned to draw attention away from his own expired deadline to do this.

Meanwhile in Democrat-land, senator Harry Reid apparently took a $2 million bribe from online poker companies to enact online poker legislation.

An investigation was started, but was "stymied" by the federal government, frustrating prosecutors who actually wanted to investigate and prosecute corruption.

Senator Reid (Democrat, Nevada) apparently owns, or is searchlight holdings, a holding company in the Marshall Islands.

Democrats are quick to point out how Trump should divest himself from everything he owns, which are above-board in-country real estate holdings.

But a Democratic senator owning a holding company in the Marshall Islands is OK. Right?

Is that what you're saying?

I hate to break it to you, but a) Ronald Reagan was a textbook neoconservative and did not serve the interests of the people.

I personally think he was great when he nuked the dinosaurs, and did us all a favor by saving the world from not having Hitler in it.

Also, Trump is the Prince of Wails.

I hate to break it to you, but a) Ronald Reagan was a textbook neoconservative and did not serve the interests of the people.

I personally think he was great when he nuked the dinosaurs, and did us all a favor by saving the world from not having Hitler in it.

Also, Trump is the Prince of Wails.

Yea, and Tony Hayward is sorry.

No, he's a dick. And you're a pussy. And the other guy, well, he's an arsehole. I hope this makes the situation clear.

I was in southern Germany in 2008. I loved the yellow-to-green light; no one jumped the gun and no one honked. For those who aren't aware, about one second before the red light turns green, the yellow also comes on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The red is still on, so you are not supposed to move yet.

First is a massive 20-10-5 billion dollar X-prize to the first three groups to successfully colonize.

$20 billion won't even be close to enough money. It certainly won't cover the cost of such a venture. $20 Billion is roughly NASA's annual budget today in 2016. It's certainly not enough to cover the cost of a colonization. Colonizing Mars will cost TRILLIONS of dollars. Probably tens or even hundreds of trillions. $20 billion wouldn't even buy you the Apollo program on an inflation adjusted basis.

Second is homesteading. There's no value in Martian real-estate right now, but in 200 years? 500? How much would companies pay to have governments recognize their property rights over a decent sized chunk of Mars? I'm not sure how markets would treat it, but property rights are very stable, I'm betting the value would be substantial.

I think you don't understand how capital markets work. The value of Mars real estate is zero and will remain so for the lifetime of anyone reading this. The possibility of it being worth substantial sums in 500 years is WAY beyond any realistic projections for a business plan. Property rights are only as stable as governments and governments are demonstrable very unstable over century long time spans. And even if they were, until we have some actual functioning colonies on Mars with a self sustaining economy and infrastructure the value of an real estate on Mars is very literally less than zero. It is a cost with no offsetting revenue.

As for funding the companies could create a consortium to spread out costs and risk.

You don't get it. No they cannot. You can't spread out risks that you cannot even quantify. Nobody is going to take on costs unless you can show them some means by which those costs can be recouped in a reasonable time frame. I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson is right that private enterprise will not and indeed cannot lead us to Mars. The risks are unknown and unquantified, the ROI is non-existent, the costs are enormous and unquantified, the technology to go there doesn't yet exist and nobody knows when it will exist, and the likelihood of failure is high. No private company can take a risk like that. If one did they would be in bankruptcy faster than you could say "shareholder lawsuit".

I hope they throw some money towards developing LFTRs. If you have a couple of hours this Thorium Remix 2016 documentary is AMAZING.

I did some digging on the interwebs looking for the real tech behind Magic Leap, surprisingly, I found that they actually do have the key people who invented core pieces of technology, when put together results in a high resolution high frame rare light field display, in other words, digital holography movies where your eye or any camera can actually focus on the near and far objects in a display.

Start by googling the keywords "scanning fiber technology", follow the trail of clues from there and you will quickly realize the tech they have is real and it works. I'll just list a few clues below:
* Scanning Fiber Endoscope, Eric Seibel, Ph.D. 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    But this is a camera not a display! Yes, the scanning fiber tech works both ways, you can put light sensors or light sources on the other end
* Eric Seibel - Research Professor at University of Washington's Department of Bioengineering, http://www.me.washington.edu/r...
    Check out his selected publications on "New displays are a fiber scanned microdisplay and a true 3D display that mimics the natural conditions of depth perception by adding both accommodative cues as well as stereographic cues." first author is Schowengerdt, B.T. who now works for Magic Leap.
* True 3D Displays, https://depts.washington.edu/h...
* 3D Displays using Scanning Laser Projection. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers 2012, http://imgur.com/a/IRZK7
* Ultra-High Resolution Scanning Fiber Display for HMDs, DoD Air Force grant, 2013, to Brian Schowengerdt, Magic Leap, https://www.sbir.gov/content/u...

It looks like this.

White nationalist Richard Spencer talks to Al Jazeera

He starts off by objecting to being called a White Supremacist. He says it's a "slur".

He also says he isn't a neo-nazi or the KKK.

He then goes on to say that "America is a white country".

He decries the idea of a black James Bond that was discussed a few years ago.

He says:

"You could call it 'the great erasure'. It is a radical transformation of the 'white wall' and because this is happening, because we feel it. Everyone feels it. That's why the alt-right is powerful, because it's so true."

"They should be afraid because we are changing the current paradigm."

He says white males are under-represented in Silicon Valley, which is a point which may hit home to me. I'm not sure if it's true but I'm pretty sure they're not hiring black people in record numbers either.

But that's okay because he hates all immigrants.

Some excerpts from that interview:

"We just have to say 'This is not your country'"

"'This is ours. You are not us. This country is for us.'"

"Only Europeans could be the first ones to go to space. Only Europeans could build something as magnificent as...as..uh...uh...St. Paul's Cathedral or St. Peter's Cathedral. Only Europeans could engage in the kind of scientific discovery that we engage with."

"Only Europeans can be like this."

"Being an immigrant - I mean - it's kind of pathetic to be honest. You know, you're kind of like shuffling off from your own country and you're just entering another one and you're just kind of taking advantage of what other people built, just washing up on our shore. Give me a break. I wouldn't be proud of a nation of immigrants."

What I find "scary" about this is that I know many people will buy into his rhetoric. Look, I'm all for clamping down on immigration and the abuse of the H1B system but this guy is a wannabe Hitler. (Goddammit, I just Darwin'ed my whole post).

perhaps you could sing something more topical

Humans need not apply. In short, there have been many revolutionary advances in labor over the past 120 years but this one is different because the jobs that go away will not be replaced with different jobs in great enough numbers to matter. Pre-judging anyone who can't find a job as "well they shoulda thought about that before doing things I don't like" is ignorant at best. You've swept reality under the rug with your broom of disdain for young and poor people. Not everyone today has the luxury of having grown up in a time when entry-level low-paying work in a company didn't require a Bachelor's like your user ID implies you did. Many of those younger people you hold so much contempt for blame your generation for being massively selfish, piling on all sorts of debts and shoving those off onto future generations for your own wealth-building and personal comfort, so the blame game works both ways.

have absolutely nothing to show for given the billions in tax dollars that they wasted all these decades. It is one of these useless self-fulfilling three letter agencies that accomplish nothing.

Negative. They gave us this Comedy GOLD! Recruitment Video featuring, babe learning neural networks 101, App Dashboard Dev who uses C/C++ and ASM (a little Java on the side), and the King of the Hipsters!

It just goes to show how out of touch these people are if our best intelligence agency thought that was an appropriate recruitment video. I thought it was a parody at first, but it's real. Maybe you don't think that's worth trillions of tax payer dollars, BUT I DO. It is now immortalized as what not to waste tax money on forevermore.

If you try to hire a bunch of rooster haired SJWs, then your intel agency is going to have a bad time, mmmkay?

> I blame that incredibly annoying song by (I think) Dean Martin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore

And when it comes to pass, that an eel bites your ass - That's a moray.

Of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

IMHO

You're welcome to your own opinion, but my point is that the opinion of the far-better-informed investors is rather more credible. The number of years you've been hearing about it is not particularly relevant to the feasibility of the product.

the headset they actually have is the size of a helmet

Sure, that's a working prototype - the one that performs the lightfield projections that (AFAIK) no other company has demonstrated anything close to (NVIDIA have showed a low-res display-only system, and Microsoft's Hololens, while impressive in many ways, uses ordinary LCD displays rather than lightfields or holograms). The sunglasses are the production target, and they're still finding the best engineering process to get a reasonable display squeezed into that form. It's not some surprising revelation that they've hit the occasional roadbump along the way.

the demo they posted on youtube over a year ago ... was actually made with film studio special effects

The one with the big Weta logo in the corner? What a shock :-) If you want a reliable picture of what it can currently do, look instead at the videos that actually claim to be shot through the Magic Leap equipment.

there wouldn't be any need for this level of wierd cloak and dagger secrecy

The secrecy was precisely to manage the expectations of the inevitable "hype machine". You may have noticed; the internet has this tendency to blow things out of proportion, both positive and negative.

Incidentally, while I believe they genuinely do have some interesting technology, and am looking forward to what they (eventually) come out with, I'm not expecting magic, nor anything shipped in the next couple of years. For a well-informed and balanced (yet somewhat critical) look at what we know of Magic Leap's technology, the best I've is on Karl Guttag's blog.

IMHO

You're welcome to your own opinion, but my point is that the opinion of the far-better-informed investors is rather more credible. The number of years you've been hearing about it is not particularly relevant to the feasibility of the product.

the headset they actually have is the size of a helmet

Sure, that's a working prototype - the one that performs the lightfield projections that (AFAIK) no other company has demonstrated anything close to (NVIDIA have showed a low-res display-only system, and Microsoft's Hololens, while impressive in many ways, uses ordinary LCD displays rather than lightfields or holograms). The sunglasses are the production target, and they're still finding the best engineering process to get a reasonable display squeezed into that form. It's not some surprising revelation that they've hit the occasional roadbump along the way.

the demo they posted on youtube over a year ago ... was actually made with film studio special effects

The one with the big Weta logo in the corner? What a shock :-) If you want a reliable picture of what it can currently do, look instead at the videos that actually claim to be shot through the Magic Leap equipment.

there wouldn't be any need for this level of wierd cloak and dagger secrecy

The secrecy was precisely to manage the expectations of the inevitable "hype machine". You may have noticed; the internet has this tendency to blow things out of proportion, both positive and negative.

Incidentally, while I believe they genuinely do have some interesting technology, and am looking forward to what they (eventually) come out with, I'm not expecting magic, nor anything shipped in the next couple of years. For a well-informed and balanced (yet somewhat critical) look at what we know of Magic Leap's technology, the best I've is on Karl Guttag's blog.

> I blame that incredibly annoying song by (I think) Dean Martin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore

Look people, this sort of tech has been around for decades now.

I don't think most people know, but for some of these automated restaurant ideas and industrial food machines, you read "it has been around for years"... you'll think something like early 2000s, but it's actually more like back in the 60s or 70s. You know that conveyor belt sushi thing? It was invented in 1958. It had a huge boom, then it fell out of fashion, then it started becoming popular once again in early 2000s. But here's the deal: restaurants with regular non automated parts are still the majority and the most popular.

Wanna see something older? Try restaurants that serves food using vending machines only. One of those existed back in 1902, and it was in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A prototype restaurant is far from replacing jobs in a large scale, and if this is about robots replacing fast food workers in a smaller scale, this isn't news. China and some countries in Europe already used adapted industrial automation systems, robots and robotic arms. The fact that one restaurant is opening does not mean that it's economically feasible as a regular thing, doesn't mean that all restaurants will copy the concept, and it doesn't mean it'll work at all.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4...

Remember this Nuremberg restaurant from 2007?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How about this japanese restaurant from 2009?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Eatsa opened last year, but it's basically the same idea as the previously mentioned Automat that had an initial boom only to disappear years later:
https://techcrunch.com/2015/08...

Right now, these automated systems are on average extremely expensive, single purpose, hard to maintain, and mostly seen as novelty both by clients and from a marketing perspective. We're still probably over a century away from a multipurpose humanoid robot that can do everything human staff do, in an ideal condition where the price, maintenance costs and usefulness counterbalances paying minimum wage or so. By the time miraculous robots like those appear, we'll be more prepared for the switch, and it'll happen gradually. And even then, it's hard to imagine robots completely replacing fast-food and restaurant staff unless we're talking about a future where robots are replacing humans. Because there will always be people willing to pay for a restaurant that has humans preparing your food and serving it.

The base logic why things like that don't suddently happen out of nowhere is easy to understand: even if by some miraculous circunstance we managed to produce perfect robots that would work flawlessly and require no maintenance in all restaurants in a city, this would automatically put so many people out of a job that these restaurants would end up having no costumers to serve, closing down before all the investment put into it had any return. But of course, we can't magically create thousands of robots out of thin air overnight, most robots and automation systems nowadays have limited functionality that's not usually adequate for fast food kitchen environments, and culturally people are not used to and will take a long time to get used to automated restaurants.

Perhaps far into the future we'll pay more to go to restaurants with an all human staff that will only be there simply because they enjoy working with that... but here I'm entering utopia territory. If we ever reach an age where robots can do most things for use at reasonable costs, we'll either have already implemented the universal basic income, or governments will be responsible for most of the upkeep of basic population needs. I mean, you have a damn army of multipurpose robots,

Look people, this sort of tech has been around for decades now.

I don't think most people know, but for some of these automated restaurant ideas and industrial food machines, you read "it has been around for years"... you'll think something like early 2000s, but it's actually more like back in the 60s or 70s. You know that conveyor belt sushi thing? It was invented in 1958. It had a huge boom, then it fell out of fashion, then it started becoming popular once again in early 2000s. But here's the deal: restaurants with regular non automated parts are still the majority and the most popular.

Wanna see something older? Try restaurants that serves food using vending machines only. One of those existed back in 1902, and it was in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A prototype restaurant is far from replacing jobs in a large scale, and if this is about robots replacing fast food workers in a smaller scale, this isn't news. China and some countries in Europe already used adapted industrial automation systems, robots and robotic arms. The fact that one restaurant is opening does not mean that it's economically feasible as a regular thing, doesn't mean that all restaurants will copy the concept, and it doesn't mean it'll work at all.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4...

Remember this Nuremberg restaurant from 2007?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

How about this japanese restaurant from 2009?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Eatsa opened last year, but it's basically the same idea as the previously mentioned Automat that had an initial boom only to disappear years later:
https://techcrunch.com/2015/08...

Right now, these automated systems are on average extremely expensive, single purpose, hard to maintain, and mostly seen as novelty both by clients and from a marketing perspective. We're still probably over a century away from a multipurpose humanoid robot that can do everything human staff do, in an ideal condition where the price, maintenance costs and usefulness counterbalances paying minimum wage or so. By the time miraculous robots like those appear, we'll be more prepared for the switch, and it'll happen gradually. And even then, it's hard to imagine robots completely replacing fast-food and restaurant staff unless we're talking about a future where robots are replacing humans. Because there will always be people willing to pay for a restaurant that has humans preparing your food and serving it.

The base logic why things like that don't suddently happen out of nowhere is easy to understand: even if by some miraculous circunstance we managed to produce perfect robots that would work flawlessly and require no maintenance in all restaurants in a city, this would automatically put so many people out of a job that these restaurants would end up having no costumers to serve, closing down before all the investment put into it had any return. But of course, we can't magically create thousands of robots out of thin air overnight, most robots and automation systems nowadays have limited functionality that's not usually adequate for fast food kitchen environments, and culturally people are not used to and will take a long time to get used to automated restaurants.

Perhaps far into the future we'll pay more to go to restaurants with an all human staff that will only be there simply because they enjoy working with that... but here I'm entering utopia territory. If we ever reach an age where robots can do most things for use at reasonable costs, we'll either have already implemented the universal basic income, or governments will be responsible for most of the upkeep of basic population needs. I mean, you have a damn army of multipurpose robots,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ...sad that idiocracy may eventually be viewed as a documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

when he thinks that "you all wanted to be spied on by us" is going to get much agreement from the public.

Yeah, the scary thing is that while the majority of Americans disagree, polls consistently show a rather huge number of people DO agree with the spying. Pew research found 42% of Americans approve of government collection of personal data, and when you ask a more generic question, like whether our anti-terrorism policies have "not gone far enough" vs. "gone too far restricting civil liberties," you'll see the majority of Americans saying we haven't gone far enough.

Of course, part of this has to do with how you frame the questions, and MOST of it has to do with how ignorant the American public still is about what this spying really entails. As John Oliver famously showed during his process of interviewing Edward Snowden last year, if you ask people, "Should the government be allowed to see nude pictures of you" sent by email or phone or whatever, we'd probably get near 100% agreement against the NSA policies. But it's not generally framed in those terms.

(By the way, whatever you think of Snowden or John Oliver for that matter, you should watch this interview. It's scary how quickly the American public has completely forgotten about Snowden, completely misunderstands what he did and what the surveillence program is actually about, etc.)