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California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail
Technically Inept writes "The California Senate has passed a measure to force Google to limit search capabilities on Gmail to real-time, with no records. What if I want them to search my mail in advance?"
I mean seriously, you KNOW what your getting yourself into when you sign up, the company TELLS you FLAT OUT your mail is going to be scanned for ad placement, California has no right to say we we dont care its a intrusion even if the person agreed to be intruded on.
The fact that this is comming from a state that elected twice elected a actor as gov, and has tried to get rid of the master/slave lables yet also says people should have the right to decide what to put in their bodies (in regards to marajauna smoking) shouldnt come as unexpected....
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lets get real.. adictions are for weak people that don't have an aptitude for responcability. With vigilance people can control thier adictions just as easy as they can thier car (if they couldn't then there would be no rehab places or programs). Saying smoking and caffien is selling your self into slavery is totally outragious. Now if you were to mention geting stuck at a dead end minimum wage job because you didn't pay attention at svhool i would believe you. but even that has fixes to it.
people that are addicted to substances are addicted because thier want to be. plane and simple. It is a choice of free will to use and to continue to use them. slavery isn't.
It's not up to the consumer if you're a politician from the left side.
(disclaimer: not all people from the left agree with the politicians of the left, and to prevent confusion my political views skew to the right)
But I have not seen a left politician in awhile say anything other than "You cannot protect yourself, you need the government to protect you. So let me decide what you can and cannot do for yourself."
Which gives you the lovely state of California.
Of course, in my state (not California) you can only have sex missionary style.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
i belive it is called Commiefornia....
if you want "No More Hiroshimas" then I say "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
NO, 99% of the legal statutes and precedents are TORT LAW. I am not going to debate this with you, ask a lawyer. The tort laws regarding home insulation are probably more voluminous than all of the criminal code.
If the article was:
Google plans to read your email, you would all freak out. OMG, they're turning into another evil M$!!
Instead, you're all predictably anti-establishment and attacking the government that is trying to protect the privacy you all so desperately covet.
Stop being reactionary and have a real opinion on the issues.