Profiling is a terrible "solution". Trivial stealth for the actual bad actors. Just get someone who doesn't look the part say a convert, or mercenary and suddenly you have an agent. So then they wonder how Jihadi John was able to plant 50 tons of fertilizer in the capital while they were busy harassing Sihks.
All it gets you is security theatre without inconveniencing the majority. It is as evil as it is stupid.
It also divides people based on religion and race - both fairly stable, so the division is easy to maintain. Nothing is better if you profit from disharmony the way a certain section of society does.
And Islamic Terrorism is a rounding error compared to the terror perpetrated by the US / Israel over the last few decades. That's why there's blow-back. Blow-back is retaliation.
In the same sense as 'guns kill people', encryption did it!...so...lets have encryption advertised in every single film and have the encryption lobby pay for laws.
Woohoo! Free communication with family members without some creepy NSA freak reading all our private messages is just around the corner. Let's legislate!!
The website is called #opIceISIS [slow right now, but it does load] and will index ISIS members based on their real name, location, picture, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts."
I have information on a terrorist but don't know all their details (see above in bold).
All I know is the name: Obama.
Can anyone help me fill-in the blanks? Even an address would be a start; anyone?
Once more... reinforcing the truth that free speech in the US is a figment; that everything the US does is right - therefore, it's not OK for the other guy to fight back.
The freedom to toe the line and pretend to be religious; to repeat the platitudes; to avoid mentioning the elephant in the room. Keep it up.
Indeed; if we knew who requested this attack we might have a hint regarding intentions.
On an unrelated note, is anyone planning to visit the COP21 climate talks in Paris? I hear that certain governments and powerful oil interests have their backs up against the wall.
They _want_ people who arn't completely broke but can't afford the credit so they'll keep making minimum payments forever. They want to load you down with more credit than you can afford so you get on that treadmill.
I'm kinda on the fence with regards to how I feel about this. One one hand, the banks are doing some shady stuff and directly trying to set people up for financial disaster for their own benefit.
Yep, every dollar of debt you take puts $10 back into the sytem which they can then lend out to ten more suckers. Gotta love it.
They don't pull over white people jogging in a subdivision street.
People get verbal warnings about unsafe behavior all the time. The difference is that some people say "Thanks, have a nice day" and some say "RACIAL PROFILING! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!"
I'm sure lots of white people would love to have leverage over corrupt pieces of shit driving around harassing people for sport / to meet arrest/fine targets.
If someone openly renounces their American citizenship in a propaganda video made by/with/for terrorists, and are only still a citizen because they won't fill out the paperwork to formally renounce it... Yeah, the military can kill 'em and I won't be sorry.
That's called "giving aid and comfort to America's enemies" and his own video is/was prima facie proof of it.
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Unless they built 'robust, maintainable code' (TM) ^_^
'Pre-emptive response' against the imminent US threat? ^_^
Anyhow, we're talking quantities here not lineage.
Three decades of covert war with the rest of the world got you into this.
I wonder if the original Occam's Razor came with instructions :D
Profiling is a terrible "solution". Trivial stealth for the actual bad actors. Just get someone who doesn't look the part say a convert, or mercenary and suddenly you have an agent. So then they wonder how Jihadi John was able to plant 50 tons of fertilizer in the capital while they were busy harassing Sihks.
All it gets you is security theatre without inconveniencing the majority. It is as evil as it is stupid.
It also divides people based on religion and race - both fairly stable, so the division is easy to maintain. Nothing is better if you profit from disharmony the way a certain section of society does.
Rounding errors compared to Islamic terrorism.
And Islamic Terrorism is a rounding error compared to the terror perpetrated by the US / Israel over the last few decades. That's why there's blow-back. Blow-back is retaliation.
It's not yet clear whether the NYT is a mouthpiece for special interest groups and is as we speaking borderline-choking on one of their cocks.
What the hell? What else "isn't clear" which, as we all know, means "we don't know". So, what else don't you know NYT?
Is this anything other than a smear?
In the same sense as 'guns kill people', encryption did it! ...so ...lets have encryption advertised in every single film and have the encryption lobby pay for laws.
Woohoo! Free communication with family members without some creepy NSA freak reading all our private messages is just around the corner. Let's legislate!!
I have information on a terrorist but don't know all their details (see above in bold).
All I know is the name: Obama.
Can anyone help me fill-in the blanks? Even an address would be a start; anyone?
Once more ... reinforcing the truth that free speech in the US is a figment; that everything the US does is right - therefore, it's not OK for the other guy to fight back.
The freedom to toe the line and pretend to be religious; to repeat the platitudes; to avoid mentioning the elephant in the room. Keep it up.
In my day, people knew the good, honest value in growing old.
Get off my lawn, dammit!
Where are my teeth? Who am I?
Worth looking at the actual article, especially the before and after pic they've included ...
I wouldn't be so quick to trumpet 'anti-aging effects', the after-guy looks 30 years older !! ^_^
Indeed; if we knew who requested this attack we might have a hint regarding intentions.
On an unrelated note, is anyone planning to visit the COP21 climate talks in Paris? I hear that certain governments and powerful oil interests have their backs up against the wall.
"Even" appears to imply that CEO is the most crucial role.
...people are safe from being murdered by a US drone in Ireland?
More expensive == better == you are an alpha!
Get with the program.
Irony leads to horror that this is really done and then confusion that somehow it still doesn't lead to the right decision.
Or if, ya know, these corporations were run by human beings.
If human life had some quantifiable financial value, the market would be able to figure out how to "do the right thing."
Drug companies are in 'health' for the money rather than benefits to humanity.
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They _want_ people who arn't completely broke but can't afford the credit so they'll keep making minimum payments forever. They want to load you down with more credit than you can afford so you get on that treadmill.
I'm kinda on the fence with regards to how I feel about this. One one hand, the banks are doing some shady stuff and directly trying to set people up for financial disaster for their own benefit.
Yep, every dollar of debt you take puts $10 back into the sytem which they can then lend out to ten more suckers. Gotta love it.
They don't pull over white people jogging in a subdivision street.
People get verbal warnings about unsafe behavior all the time. The difference is that some people say "Thanks, have a nice day" and some say "RACIAL PROFILING! I'M BEING OPPRESSED!"
I'm sure lots of white people would love to have leverage over corrupt pieces of shit driving around harassing people for sport / to meet arrest/fine targets.
If someone openly renounces their American citizenship in a propaganda video made by/with/for terrorists, and are only still a citizen because they won't fill out the paperwork to formally renounce it... Yeah, the military can kill 'em and I won't be sorry.
That's called "giving aid and comfort to America's enemies" and his own video is/was prima facie proof of it.
"No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law".
It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
Phew, lucky for them the law doesn't apply or that would be quite restrictive.
When increasing numbers of our younger citizens believe that the US Constitution is an out-dated relic with no contemporary relevance, it's no wonder our leaders behave with such contempt of the document.
ProTip: They don't care about you unless you have your own army or a mountain of cash.