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U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act
Rick Zeman writes "In the wake of today's 4 dud bombings in London, the U.S. House has voted to extend the Patriot Act by a vote of 257-171. This includes 10-year extensions to the two other provisions set to expire on December 31, one allowing roving wiretaps, and another allowing searches of library and medical records."
to welcome our new American Overlords
I, for one, welcome our new republican overlords
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Hm, maybe I should brush up on my national anthems.
*ahem*
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Our home and native land,...
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Dang, they've taken out the libraries... If only there was some other place I could find subversive information...
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I think this is a great and american thing
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"Bush can come over your house..."
I'll have a bowl of pretzels ready for him to choke on.
Those damn terrorists will stop at nothing to rob us of our freedoms. The terrorists came up with the patriot act, right?
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... its one step closer to Titors predictions...
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
The depth of your knowledge of Europe astounds me. I'd especially like to here more of this "Queen of Europe".
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
If the voters of Podunk want to run a library that distributes translations of the Canterbury Tales in Swedish, that's their right.
...Hm. Oh wait. I live in Sweden. Nevermind...
This might shock you, but where I live this have already started to happen. The public libraries are spreading their filthy swedish propaganda; almost all the books are in swedish now. And there's nothing the government can do to stop it. That is, without the Patriot Act. So support the Patriot Act and free us from the swedish menace!
1) Post the Natalie Portman quote in every single Slashdot article involving civil liberities
2) ???
3) Profit!
This is so 1984 !
Votez ecolo : Chiez dans l'urne !
Now if the detonators went off but the explosives didn't because of some fuck-up in converting metric units to Imperial... then maybe you could believe the U.S. was involved.
Mal-2
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
"So this is how liberty dies. Naked, petrified and covered with hot grits."
This might shock you, but where I live this have already started to happen. The public libraries are spreading their filthy swedish propaganda; almost all the books are in swedish now. And there's nothing the government can do to stop it. That is, without the Patriot Act. So support the Patriot Act and free us from the swedish menace!
You think that's bad? In my town (pop. 832) our entire collection is worthless. I just moved here, but I keep hearing, "Other than the kiddie's books, the whole collection is in Greek."
I haven't actually been in the library yet, but I walk by it everyday. One day I heard someone complaining on their way out, "Who is this shake-a-spear, some African tribal king? Why the hell do I want tribal books in my library? Do I speak African? Do I run around showing the world my bum? It's ungodly!"
Another person said, "Poll-eye-ticks? That's disgusting. Why would I want to read about eye ticks?"
Though, come to think of it, I don't even know if anyone in this town could differentiate Greek from any other language if they tried...
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
I still think there are a few things missing.
First of all, the requirement of having a search warrant for certain cases is way too limiting and time consuming. By the time a court order has been issued, a terrorist conversation might already be over.
Secondly, most conspiracies and plans are most likely hatched in private houses or apartment buildings. Therefore, this law is half toothless unless we also grant the government the right to install surveilence equipment in apartments and houses, private as well as corporate.
And I hope to god they link all this information together and make patterns of non-terrorists, so that terrorists behavior will automatically cause an alarm to ring. This would give our enforcement agencies up to the minute ability to respond to any potential terrorists and quickly remove the threat from the streets.
As I said, there are still some bits missing before I feel completely safe. The government however has made a lot of progress so far as to ensure that I can sleep sound at night.
I for one am glad that the government has access to medical records, in the name of fighting terrorism. We all know how important those medical records are, and damn that doctor-patient confidentiality--this is national security! If the government says it needs to know about my hemorrhoids, psoriasis and ingrown toenail, then let it!