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Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August
hypnosec writes that the Tor network has witnessed a massive rise in the number of users connecting to it for the month of August.
"The privacy-enhancing network is known for providing an anonymous browsing experience through the use of a series of encrypted relays, and has had as many as 500k users throughout this year so far. But if we check the latest statistics available through Tor Metrics Portal there has been a whopping 100 percent increase in the number of Tor clients and as many as 1,200,000 users are connecting to the network. The previous peak for the network was in January 2012, when it saw as many as 950,000 users."
Rules...how quaint. You sound like my dad's generation. (And well I'm over 40).
I guess you have learned jack squat in all those years. What a waste.
I take your rules and I point a gun at your fucking head. Show me how those rules are gonna stop me from pulling the trigger
They make you consider the consequences. If you're fucking retarded and don't care about consequences, then nothing can stop you. Well, nothing until someone else puts a bullet in you. At a bare minimum, that's all that rules do: show you the consequences of your actions. At an absolute maximum, they regulate behavior. The fact that they're not guaranteed to regulate actions is irrelevant, as that is a completely unrealistic expectation of anything. If you're looking for guarantees, just off yourself. You will not be contributing anyway.
especially when I have a nuclear equipped army backing me.
Where is that nuclear-backed army of yours? Oh, now you're speaking hypothetically, as a hypothetical representative of government. Which, I presume, arrived in some sort of black helicopter. Of course, what you're overlooking is not every cop is backed by an actual nuclear-armed army. Actually, no cop is. That would be the army.
They just change or ignore the rules and there's not flipping thing you can do about it.
Who, exactly, is "They"? Show me them, and I'll show what I can do about it.
Ghandi's way is completely ineffective in the modern world.
Assertion without support. As a matter of fact, assertion contradicted by recent events, which started in Tunisia.
And stop with the "democracy" bullshit. "Democracy" isn't important anymore. Democracy has shown time and time again to be a stepping stone to dictatorship anyway.
As opposed to what, exactly? The reason it's a stepping stone to dictatorship is partially because of morons like you who just shrug their shoulders and go "eh, it's all the same anyway". When the founding fathers said that Democracy is hard work, they meant that you have to work to preserve it. You want to have Democracy, but aren't willing to work for it. You're an insult to your history.
A feel good for one or two generations and then it's over. Ask Athens how democracy worked out for them.
And again, the defeatist attitude that because something is hard work, isn't guaranteed and at some point might fail, it's completely pointless to work towards it. Go back to watching whatever TV show is rotting your brain, because you're a worthless drag on society, incapable of contributing. During pioneer days, you would have starved to death within a week. Why? Because no one would have put up with your whining.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.