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EU About To Grant US Unlimited Access To Banking Data
An anonymous reader points out a blog post reporting that on Monday The EU Council is set to give US intelligence services full access to SWIFT banking data, despite a unanimous call by the European Parliament not to do so. "The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU justice and interior ministers are apparently keen [on agreeing to] a deal as soon as possible, on 30 November. Why 30 November? Because one day later, on 1 December 2009, the EU’s Lisbon Treaty will be in force and would allow the European Parliament to play a major role in the negotiations of the deal with the US. A deal one day before will be a slap in the face to democracy in the EU. ... [W]hile the US will be able to access EU banking data, no access to US banking data by EU [authorities] is being foreseen."
It's like if there was an American pizza, and European pizza, and the Americans got to have some of the European pizza, but no Europeans could have any of the American pizza, and, and, and.....well, dammit, I just want some pizza! Why do I have to explain it to a bunch of smelly asocial geeks? Fuck you all, I'm ordering a pizza and none of you can have any!
Well with the new shell ui I'd side with KDE too.
This is exactly the reason we as Americans have to take the power back. If people keep treating us, we will answer back.
Let me give you an example.
Consider this situation. Your best online friend has just bought a new computer game. It is an online MMO. Now, as a true fan of MMO's, you're intrigued. You want to know how it's like. But to do that, your friend asks you to order a pizza for him. You say, okay, I'll order one for myself aswell. You type in "pizza for a gamer" to google and find out this great site about all kinds of information related to pizza baking, pizza toppings, pizza mayonnaises and chocolate ice cream desserts. Now because of your friend, you get hungry.
And you only get hungry for more. Before it was OK that you only ordered a normal sized pizza with a small cola. Then one day you notice that the pizza doesn't fill you as much as before. So you decide to order a family size pizza with a large mountain dew. You are happy again. Now because of your friend, even this isn't enough anymore. You know your online friend will be eating a pizza and you wont get any of it. You wont even see it. You dont know whats happening there. You want to be part of that pizza. So you go to the pizza place yourself, eat your own family sized hawaiian pan pizza with a large mountain dew bottle and some delicious ice cream and pancakes as a dessert.
Then you apply for a job at that pizza place. As your first delivery mission, you will deliver a pizza to your friend. You go over to his place and ring the doorbell. As he opens it, you throw the pizza at his face. He cant see anything now. He can only smell the delicious pizza that is on his face. Then you go and trash his place, smash his computer, burn his printer, throw his girlfriends music cd's on the wall and crack them to pieces. Then you take his new game and tell him that he should just had shown it to you to begin with, without demanding anything back.
The point here being, pizza does solve some things, but you still dont need to get aggressive and go mess on other peoples lands.
+5, Brutal Fact Correction Smackdown. Rock on, dude.
If I've done nothing wrong, WHY ARE YOU WATCHING ME??
Cuz ur cute.
Someone mod Marcika's post up. Anyway good thing I live in canada. We don't have any of that US taking (spying/stealing) our information bull here.