He and the Ecuadorians need to place a tote board on the side of the embassy with a debt clock-like running total to show how much UK taxpayer money is being wasted on this US-led smear campaign.
But, in keeping with the times, the actual cost is probably a fucking state secret.
Why the courts admit secret evidence totally escapes me. Quite possibly, that's a worse breach of personal freedom than the surveillance itself, because without secret evidence the surveillance couldn't be (legally) used against citizens.
This is the absolute worst, heart-breaking part of this slow imposition of the police state. Sure, you expect the spooks (spies) to want ever more data and unchecked power, and sure, you sadly expect elected officials to either be fascists (R) or cowards (D), but goddamnit Judges! Federal Judges are supposed to be the bulwark against blatant abuses of the Peoples constitutional rights, especially by the government!
For them to have just rolled over and rubber-stamped every FISA fishing expedition and allowing the DOJ to conduct Kafkaesque Star Chamber inquisitions is sickening and unforgiveable. Either they are as cowardous as the Ds, or they themselves have been blackmailed by data from PRISM, et al.
"Sure you can post the total number of requests. But you're not allowed to separate out the garden variety (child support, parole violations, etc.) from the NSA domestic fishing expeditions."
Austrailia has a world-wide reputation of being laid-back, easy going, and - sometimes - incredibly rational (real gun laws in response to mass killings).
But on the other hand, they keep electing right-wing governments more than willing to be trained poodles for US corporate and foreign policy.
My ISP is shit. SHIT. They WAY overcommit their crappy low-end ADSL lines (which constantly crash/go down), and have delayed any upgrade plans for YEARS. Then they have the unmitigated gall to go whining to the state legislature to block any attempts by our local municipality to seek out a better PAID-FOR solution for us.
If you're very lucky, they've not added a No Class Action clause yet. You and the rest of the victims (subscribers) have more than enough cause for judicial redress.
Guess which area in the US that has seen the greatest increase in broadband speeds over the last year. Northeast Kansas. As in: the same area that now features Google Fiber as a real competitor.
If anyone ever wanted a great example of photo recognition not helping catch people or why PRISM is entirely useless, the Boston Marathon bombing is a perfect example.
Or they let it happen so they could justify obtaining even more power to instititutionalize their reign.
Lay money: before the year is up, we will hear about an NSA employee (or more likely, one of the several thousand contractors with Top Secret clearance that is given out like tissue paper) using all this data against their ex or soon to be ex-spouse in a nasty divorce fight. Or for stalking the babysitter. Or insider trading. Or screwing over a shitty neighbor. Or...
And this, dear Frightened Compliant Snowflakes, are but a few reasons why this system is dangerous and deadly to democracy; NOBODY IS WATCHING THEM.
Why "kill" a device when you stand a good chance of getting it back? Killing it does nobody any good, and has lots of quite horrible abuse potential.
The companies get new sales and the government gets a stealthed system to quickly kill organized protests and evidence of police brutality with the push of a button. Win-Win!
That said, it seems that finger pointing creates headlines and generates click revenue these days, so back to our regular two-party mudslinging system we go, ironically in the name of capitalism.
This is exactly why most (all?) of the founding fathers where against political parties; and so their fears have come to pass.
Hell, Jefferson was against even allowing corporations! I suppose this is one reason why he is now willfully ignored by the right wing.
This damage has to be fixed, period. The corruption and psychopaths and enablers must be ripped out by their roots with no favoritism nor quarter given, By Any Means Necessary. Only then can we "have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"No one is listening to your phone calls*." -- President Obama
But we are having our corporate pals collect / record / machine transcribe them for later use as either blackmail or grand jury indictment (with special attention given to any and all legislative and judicial officials).
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we're only a little bit pregnant.
He and the Ecuadorians need to place a tote board on the side of the embassy with a debt clock-like running total to show how much UK taxpayer money is being wasted on this US-led smear campaign.
But, in keeping with the times, the actual cost is probably a fucking state secret.
This is the absolute worst, heart-breaking part of this slow imposition of the police state. Sure, you expect the spooks (spies) to want ever more data and unchecked power, and sure, you sadly expect elected officials to either be fascists (R) or cowards (D), but goddamnit Judges! Federal Judges are supposed to be the bulwark against blatant abuses of the Peoples constitutional rights, especially by the government!
For them to have just rolled over and rubber-stamped every FISA fishing expedition and allowing the DOJ to conduct Kafkaesque Star Chamber inquisitions is sickening and unforgiveable. Either they are as cowardous as the Ds, or they themselves have been blackmailed by data from PRISM, et al.
A very good LCD screen, a very good camera, and an autonomous image to text program; probably do War And Peace in a day.
"Sure you can post the total number of requests. But you're not allowed to separate out the garden variety (child support, parole violations, etc.) from the NSA domestic fishing expeditions."
Lying cowards.
You want world-class Fanbois and Trolls? Develop for Apple instead.
I think the schools should be paid more than $199 per RT.
Austrailia has a world-wide reputation of being laid-back, easy going, and - sometimes - incredibly rational (real gun laws in response to mass killings).
But on the other hand, they keep electing right-wing governments more than willing to be trained poodles for US corporate and foreign policy.
If you're very lucky, they've not added a No Class Action clause yet. You and the rest of the victims (subscribers) have more than enough cause for judicial redress.
Guess which area in the US that has seen the greatest increase in broadband speeds over the last year. Northeast Kansas. As in: the same area that now features Google Fiber as a real competitor.
Pure coindence, I'm sure.
The Do Not Track Coffee Club Card!
With every thousandth purchase, we remove one of your SSN digits from our database!
Tulip bulbs traded at the speed of light.
Or they let it happen so they could justify obtaining even more power to instititutionalize their reign.
WIllfully ignoring any sense of an existing desert ecology in the process.
Worst Supreme Court since the days of Dred Scott.
Lay money: before the year is up, we will hear about an NSA employee (or more likely, one of the several thousand contractors with Top Secret clearance that is given out like tissue paper) using all this data against their ex or soon to be ex-spouse in a nasty divorce fight. Or for stalking the babysitter. Or insider trading. Or screwing over a shitty neighbor. Or...
And this, dear Frightened Compliant Snowflakes, are but a few reasons why this system is dangerous and deadly to democracy; NOBODY IS WATCHING THEM.
"Look at us fight CP!! (Pay no attention to the NSA man behind our curtain.)"
Kinda like there was suddenly a bumper crop of bomb and airplane threats the first few weekdays after Snowden broke.
The companies get new sales and the government gets a stealthed system to quickly kill organized protests and evidence of police brutality with the push of a button. Win-Win!
This is exactly why most (all?) of the founding fathers where against political parties; and so their fears have come to pass.
Hell, Jefferson was against even allowing corporations! I suppose this is one reason why he is now willfully ignored by the right wing.
The gravest nautical threat to the US since Admiral Yamamoto.
This damage has to be fixed, period. The corruption and psychopaths and enablers must be ripped out by their roots with no favoritism nor quarter given, By Any Means Necessary. Only then can we "have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"No one is listening to your phone calls*." -- President Obama
But we are having our corporate pals collect / record / machine transcribe them for later use as either blackmail or grand jury indictment (with special attention given to any and all legislative and judicial officials).
The offered list of vulnerabilities is in a pdf.
Scalia just *told* Thomas to write and speak.
Next October, they will begin the year with Thomas rolling over, and fetching Scalia's slippers.