Not paranoid at all - it sounds realistic to me. And, all of us with European blood have similar stories. Most people today have forgotten the many armies that swept back and forth over Europe throughout history. They believe that it can't happen again. And, they believe that it can't happen here. Politics. It's always about politics - some royalty, or someone who thinks that they should be royal, finds some "cause" with which to recruit some crazies, and off we go into yet another war.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -Richlieu
You need not break a law for law enforcement to get interested in you. Nor do you need to break a law for those who are politically motivated to get interested in you. Have you ever attended a rally to either support, or to defeat, a nominee? Are you not associated with any kind of activists? Not even to the "6th degree"?
I have my secrets, and they stay secret, because I don't share them with anyone. I don't make confessions to clergy, the wife, the kids, coworkers, and certainly not to Facebook, or any of the other social media. And, I damned sure won't permit any shadowy corporation in on my secrets, if at all possible. If they get my secrets, they're going to have work a hell of a lot harder than installing crapware on my computer along with some subscription.
Most people have secrets. Some of those secrets aren't really very important, but as you point out, learning those secrets gives a people power over that person, in most cases. Pretty much all men and women are sexual creatures, who learned by experimentation. Most of them would be devastated to have the details of their early explorations made public. Probably not you, and almost certainly not me, but most people would be. We've ALL done embarrassing things, at some point in our lives.
Those profiles can't be used for political purposes? They can't be used for "police" purposes? In short, the "powers that be" should be able to track you under any circumstances? And, you don't believe that there are any potential injustices to worry about?
Let us try to get a grip on reality here. Knowledge is power. Information is a tool with which to wield power. You are giving away power over yourself. And, you gain NOTHING in return.
Which is kinda funny in a way. Females have been trying to gain power over their lives for many decades now. Here, we have a female saying BFD when it is pointed out that corporations and government alike are seeking ever more power over you.
Filed in the "Things that make you go "HMMMMM"" folder.
When half the population is carrying a gun, the criminal generally chooses NOT to pull a weapon, or to resort to violence of any kind. Criminals don't go looking for fair fights, or even odds.
Every_single_day there are stories published about people being murdered with guns in Chicago. If you were keeping up with current events, you wouldn't have to ask for proof of that.
Now, presuming that those links satisfy your need for a citation - let me ask something. Can you point to any instance of prohibition in this country that has worked? Prohibition of alcohol and Chicago added up to an Al Capone. Prohibition of cannabis and Chicago adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars in cannabis trade, annually. Prohibition of firearms and Chicago adds up to thousands of dead people, annually.
Get rid of stupid damned laws, and let the people sort it out. A law abiding citizen will seldom use his weapon in an unacceptable manner. A crook will often use his weapon inappropriately. Sooner or later, the crook will meet a law abiding citizen who is armed, willing and able to put the crook in his grave. Eventually, all but the very stupidest people will figure out that a life of crime always results in being shot.
Dump the stupid laws. Chicago is incapable of enforcing any kind of prohibition - so give the guns to law abiding people!
Authors of trash fiction and Hollywood have instilled the belief that homicide rates were extremely high in the "wild, wild west". Facts are, there have been hundreds of gunfights in Hollywood, for every real-life gunfight in the American west.
In modern day Hollywood, there have been billions of deaths in space by violence. In reality, how many humans have died in space? And, none by violence.
In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year. In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870. Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:
DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents) New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents) Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents) Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)
Bit of trivia about the "old west". Shooting a man in the back was considered murder, and you were swung from a handy branch for doing it. Shooting an unarmed man was considered murder, and you swung for it.
Bit of trivia from modern day law enforcement - more unarmed young black males are shot in the back by police each and every year.
I say, hand the cowardly rat bastards who hide behind a gun and a badge.
And, these are the very same cops who are going to enforce gun control? Think about it.
Gun laws in general are racist. I had someone tell me that one day, and I asked myself, "This guy IS full of shit, isn't he? I have to obey the same gun laws that he does, don't I?" So, I googled, "Are gun laws racist?" Holy shit, my eyes were opened. Try it yourself. The very first "gun control" laws on this continent were unabashedly aimed at preventing black people from accessing weapons. Maybe the best link is this one: https://www.firearmsandliberty...
Lemme help you understand how "gun control" is "anti-gun". Fact is, the stricter the gun laws get, then more bad people manage to get guns. Whether by theft, forgery of documents, strawman purchases, or perhaps even coercion of weaker people to make those purchases.
Meanwhile - good people are convicted for carelessly breaking stupid laws.
Chicago is the best example in the nation. Every day, there are multiple murders committed by people who the law says shouldn't have had guns. The laws are wasteful and meaningless, in that they utterly fail to achieve their intended purpose.
The gang member who has never held a job, and makes his living through welfare and criminal enterprise doesn't care one whit about violating a gun law. Hard working, tax paying citizens, on the other hand, can run afoul of the law through simple acts of momentary carelessness. Got a gun on you when you drive through a school zone? A cop happened to notice? Maybe the cop didn't even notice the weapon, he just knows that you have a concealed carry permit, and he wonders if you have your gun on you. YOU'RE BUSTED!!
Stupid laws have unintended consequences, and gun laws are no different than any other stupid law.
Exactly. Cross site scripting was bad from the beginning, and it only got worse when the advertising industry discovered how they could abuse it. Pretty much everything is blocked on my network. Screw the advertisers, and screw everyone who thinks that my bandwidth belongs to them. I want to read Slashdot, and that's all I want. If it becomes mandatory to load crap from third party sites, then I'll stop reading slashdot. It's that simple.
Whatever you say. I saw the images from Maidan. Skinheads, nazis, and white supremacists. I trust no one who has anything in common with Porkochenko, or that other damned fool from Georgia.
In this conflict, I'll side with the Russians. They may not be "good", but they are less evil than the Cock brothers and associates.
Let us just wait and see how this plays out. There's no one in the field that I really like. On merits, I'd have to say that Rubio or Cruz kinda sorta "deserve" the nomination. That doesn't mean I "like" either of them though.
What we're seeing here is, people are fed up with the same-old same-old. That is why Trump may just win this election. When it comes down to the vote, I'll vote for anyone whose name is not Clinton. It appears that a lot of other people feel the same way, including women younger than my generation. Women of my generation are still hung up on the idea of putting a woman in the White House, so they'll just vote for any vagina that comes along. Younger women resent that, so a lot of independents, and even some liberals, are going to vote against Clinton.
Right now, it looks like Trump may be Hillary's opponent.
You seem to have a disconnect on how the election process works. Well, how it's SUPPOSED to work, anyway.
The party puts forward a half dozen or more candidates. There is no threshold - the person who gets the most votes wins in each state. Since Trump walked away with ~30% of the vote, and no one else even came close, he wins.
And, if you think about it, if the vote can be split 4, 5, or 6 ways, or more, then 30% is a pretty compelling majority.
Now, the OTHER party doesn't give a damn who wins the popular vote. Bernie won in N.H, but Hillary got the lion's share of the delegates. You're gonna tell us that isn't corrupt?
Of the two parties, it's hard to say which is more corrupt, but you know damned well that the DNC is corrupt when it won't honor it's constituent's votes.
I have to disagree. I shop online. I don't rely on the advertisements. Of course, with noscript, ublock, request policy, and more, I don't see the ads.
If I want a thingamabob, I search for thingamabob. If I know what brand I want, then I search for Bob's thingamabob. I don't get adverts, instead I get hits on stories, articles, and vendor's sites. Someone evaluated all of Bob's thingamabobs, and found that they aren't all the same quality - his cheapest item sucks, his most expensive item doesn't suck, but it's highly overpriced. The remaining three items have lesser suckiness vs price as the price increases.
Time and again, I've found that I want the second tier in the price range of the product. Sometimes the third tier is a perfectly acceptable alternative. Maybe I'll only use that thingamabob twice a year, so I don't really need to pay for the second tier quality.
Advertising would have you believe that you always want the top price tier item, all the time.
I would much rather read technical reviews, customer blogs, and vendor comments, than any advertising. Any of my preferred pages may or may not be wrong, but they are far more likely to be honest than advertising is. Adverts are always dishonest.
Ukraine was content with it's normal corrupt government until the Cock brothers invested 14 billion dollars into destabilizing the country. That wasn't bad enough, but the Cock brothers installed a fascist government.
Don't forget that Coraline stated that white WOMEN are also the enemy. After all, it's white WOMEN who give birth to white males. She can't even talk to white women!
The goal is to hire non-white sales people. Github's boss has declared that she can't even interview white people. Worse, she has declared that white WOMEN are the enemy. Racists are racists, no matter which race they are denigrating.
That's just a little bit on the silly side. You install the HOSTS file on the router, not every machine in the neighborhood. Tomato and DDWRT both have the capability, depending on precisely which version you've installed.
DO NOT expect any commercial offerings with such configurability - certainly not consumer grade products.
High efficiency clothes washer. I've watched, and I can't find where it attempts to connect to anything. The price was right, the savings in water and electricity are great, so I put up with it. The wife is happy with it. As I say, I've watched carefully, and it has never made an appearance on the network. I HOPE it's alright.
If/when it breaks down, I may or may not be able to repair it.
Uhhhhh - one in a million, maybe, but she isn't the one in a million that she wishes she were. I really have no way to determine how rare female criminals of her caliber are.
Yeah, a little evidence is needed. You can tell me that my server has been pwned - anyone can make that claim. I'll have to see some evidence before I believe it. At least a minimum of evidence. Got any logs from Shrillary's server? Got any idea when to focus on? Something, anything. Otherwise, it's pure speculation that her server was hacked.
"I assume she was owned by every single country on earth."
I'll have to disagree with you. She was owned by persons who could wave million dollar donations under her nose. Individuals, corporations, countries, or even ET. A million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation was all that was required to get any secret Hillary had access to. I've seen speculation, but no evidence, that her server was pwned by outside interests. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but I've not seen the evidence to support the claim.
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Not paranoid at all - it sounds realistic to me. And, all of us with European blood have similar stories. Most people today have forgotten the many armies that swept back and forth over Europe throughout history. They believe that it can't happen again. And, they believe that it can't happen here. Politics. It's always about politics - some royalty, or someone who thinks that they should be royal, finds some "cause" with which to recruit some crazies, and off we go into yet another war.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -Richlieu
You need not break a law for law enforcement to get interested in you. Nor do you need to break a law for those who are politically motivated to get interested in you. Have you ever attended a rally to either support, or to defeat, a nominee? Are you not associated with any kind of activists? Not even to the "6th degree"?
I have my secrets, and they stay secret, because I don't share them with anyone. I don't make confessions to clergy, the wife, the kids, coworkers, and certainly not to Facebook, or any of the other social media. And, I damned sure won't permit any shadowy corporation in on my secrets, if at all possible. If they get my secrets, they're going to have work a hell of a lot harder than installing crapware on my computer along with some subscription.
Most people have secrets. Some of those secrets aren't really very important, but as you point out, learning those secrets gives a people power over that person, in most cases. Pretty much all men and women are sexual creatures, who learned by experimentation. Most of them would be devastated to have the details of their early explorations made public. Probably not you, and almost certainly not me, but most people would be. We've ALL done embarrassing things, at some point in our lives.
Those profiles can't be used for political purposes? They can't be used for "police" purposes? In short, the "powers that be" should be able to track you under any circumstances? And, you don't believe that there are any potential injustices to worry about?
Let us try to get a grip on reality here. Knowledge is power. Information is a tool with which to wield power. You are giving away power over yourself. And, you gain NOTHING in return.
Which is kinda funny in a way. Females have been trying to gain power over their lives for many decades now. Here, we have a female saying BFD when it is pointed out that corporations and government alike are seeking ever more power over you.
Filed in the "Things that make you go "HMMMMM"" folder.
When half the population is carrying a gun, the criminal generally chooses NOT to pull a weapon, or to resort to violence of any kind. Criminals don't go looking for fair fights, or even odds.
Every_single_day there are stories published about people being murdered with guns in Chicago. If you were keeping up with current events, you wouldn't have to ask for proof of that.
http://mic.com/articles/127842...
http://chicagoist.com/2013/01/...
http://america.aljazeera.com/w...
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...
Now, presuming that those links satisfy your need for a citation - let me ask something. Can you point to any instance of prohibition in this country that has worked? Prohibition of alcohol and Chicago added up to an Al Capone. Prohibition of cannabis and Chicago adds up to hundreds of millions of dollars in cannabis trade, annually. Prohibition of firearms and Chicago adds up to thousands of dead people, annually.
Get rid of stupid damned laws, and let the people sort it out. A law abiding citizen will seldom use his weapon in an unacceptable manner. A crook will often use his weapon inappropriately. Sooner or later, the crook will meet a law abiding citizen who is armed, willing and able to put the crook in his grave. Eventually, all but the very stupidest people will figure out that a life of crime always results in being shot.
Dump the stupid laws. Chicago is incapable of enforcing any kind of prohibition - so give the guns to law abiding people!
Liberal democrats ARE bad guys. The only variable is "how bad" they are.
Maybe you'd like to click some of these links - https://www.google.com/search?...
Authors of trash fiction and Hollywood have instilled the belief that homicide rates were extremely high in the "wild, wild west". Facts are, there have been hundreds of gunfights in Hollywood, for every real-life gunfight in the American west.
In modern day Hollywood, there have been billions of deaths in space by violence. In reality, how many humans have died in space? And, none by violence.
http://libertarianstandard.com...
In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:
DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)
Bit of trivia about the "old west". Shooting a man in the back was considered murder, and you were swung from a handy branch for doing it. Shooting an unarmed man was considered murder, and you swung for it.
Bit of trivia from modern day law enforcement - more unarmed young black males are shot in the back by police each and every year.
I say, hand the cowardly rat bastards who hide behind a gun and a badge.
And, these are the very same cops who are going to enforce gun control? Think about it.
Gun laws in general are racist. I had someone tell me that one day, and I asked myself, "This guy IS full of shit, isn't he? I have to obey the same gun laws that he does, don't I?" So, I googled, "Are gun laws racist?" Holy shit, my eyes were opened. Try it yourself. The very first "gun control" laws on this continent were unabashedly aimed at preventing black people from accessing weapons. Maybe the best link is this one: https://www.firearmsandliberty...
Lemme help you understand how "gun control" is "anti-gun". Fact is, the stricter the gun laws get, then more bad people manage to get guns. Whether by theft, forgery of documents, strawman purchases, or perhaps even coercion of weaker people to make those purchases.
Meanwhile - good people are convicted for carelessly breaking stupid laws.
Chicago is the best example in the nation. Every day, there are multiple murders committed by people who the law says shouldn't have had guns. The laws are wasteful and meaningless, in that they utterly fail to achieve their intended purpose.
The gang member who has never held a job, and makes his living through welfare and criminal enterprise doesn't care one whit about violating a gun law. Hard working, tax paying citizens, on the other hand, can run afoul of the law through simple acts of momentary carelessness. Got a gun on you when you drive through a school zone? A cop happened to notice? Maybe the cop didn't even notice the weapon, he just knows that you have a concealed carry permit, and he wonders if you have your gun on you. YOU'RE BUSTED!!
Stupid laws have unintended consequences, and gun laws are no different than any other stupid law.
Exactly. Cross site scripting was bad from the beginning, and it only got worse when the advertising industry discovered how they could abuse it. Pretty much everything is blocked on my network. Screw the advertisers, and screw everyone who thinks that my bandwidth belongs to them. I want to read Slashdot, and that's all I want. If it becomes mandatory to load crap from third party sites, then I'll stop reading slashdot. It's that simple.
Whatever you say. I saw the images from Maidan. Skinheads, nazis, and white supremacists. I trust no one who has anything in common with Porkochenko, or that other damned fool from Georgia.
In this conflict, I'll side with the Russians. They may not be "good", but they are less evil than the Cock brothers and associates.
Let us just wait and see how this plays out. There's no one in the field that I really like. On merits, I'd have to say that Rubio or Cruz kinda sorta "deserve" the nomination. That doesn't mean I "like" either of them though.
What we're seeing here is, people are fed up with the same-old same-old. That is why Trump may just win this election. When it comes down to the vote, I'll vote for anyone whose name is not Clinton. It appears that a lot of other people feel the same way, including women younger than my generation. Women of my generation are still hung up on the idea of putting a woman in the White House, so they'll just vote for any vagina that comes along. Younger women resent that, so a lot of independents, and even some liberals, are going to vote against Clinton.
Right now, it looks like Trump may be Hillary's opponent.
You seem to have a disconnect on how the election process works. Well, how it's SUPPOSED to work, anyway.
The party puts forward a half dozen or more candidates. There is no threshold - the person who gets the most votes wins in each state. Since Trump walked away with ~30% of the vote, and no one else even came close, he wins.
And, if you think about it, if the vote can be split 4, 5, or 6 ways, or more, then 30% is a pretty compelling majority.
Now, the OTHER party doesn't give a damn who wins the popular vote. Bernie won in N.H, but Hillary got the lion's share of the delegates. You're gonna tell us that isn't corrupt?
Of the two parties, it's hard to say which is more corrupt, but you know damned well that the DNC is corrupt when it won't honor it's constituent's votes.
I have to disagree. I shop online. I don't rely on the advertisements. Of course, with noscript, ublock, request policy, and more, I don't see the ads.
If I want a thingamabob, I search for thingamabob. If I know what brand I want, then I search for Bob's thingamabob. I don't get adverts, instead I get hits on stories, articles, and vendor's sites. Someone evaluated all of Bob's thingamabobs, and found that they aren't all the same quality - his cheapest item sucks, his most expensive item doesn't suck, but it's highly overpriced. The remaining three items have lesser suckiness vs price as the price increases.
Time and again, I've found that I want the second tier in the price range of the product. Sometimes the third tier is a perfectly acceptable alternative. Maybe I'll only use that thingamabob twice a year, so I don't really need to pay for the second tier quality.
Advertising would have you believe that you always want the top price tier item, all the time.
I would much rather read technical reviews, customer blogs, and vendor comments, than any advertising. Any of my preferred pages may or may not be wrong, but they are far more likely to be honest than advertising is. Adverts are always dishonest.
Putin - - - causing trouble - - - Ukraine - - -
Ukraine was content with it's normal corrupt government until the Cock brothers invested 14 billion dollars into destabilizing the country. That wasn't bad enough, but the Cock brothers installed a fascist government.
But, yeah, Putin is causing trouble. Got it.
A: the font isn't open source
B: one or more pair of eyes DID find this problem
C: there are no eyes looking at your Windows platform
I'll take my chances with open source, thank you. You enjoy your telemetry nonsense.
Don't forget that Coraline stated that white WOMEN are also the enemy. After all, it's white WOMEN who give birth to white males. She can't even talk to white women!
Coraline is a racist, plain and simple.
The goal is to hire non-white sales people. Github's boss has declared that she can't even interview white people. Worse, she has declared that white WOMEN are the enemy. Racists are racists, no matter which race they are denigrating.
Github is having it's own problems with credibility. It seems the Social Justice Warriors have infested the site with their lunacy.
That's just a little bit on the silly side. You install the HOSTS file on the router, not every machine in the neighborhood. Tomato and DDWRT both have the capability, depending on precisely which version you've installed.
DO NOT expect any commercial offerings with such configurability - certainly not consumer grade products.
High efficiency clothes washer. I've watched, and I can't find where it attempts to connect to anything. The price was right, the savings in water and electricity are great, so I put up with it. The wife is happy with it. As I say, I've watched carefully, and it has never made an appearance on the network. I HOPE it's alright.
If/when it breaks down, I may or may not be able to repair it.
Uhhhhh - one in a million, maybe, but she isn't the one in a million that she wishes she were. I really have no way to determine how rare female criminals of her caliber are.
Yeah, a little evidence is needed. You can tell me that my server has been pwned - anyone can make that claim. I'll have to see some evidence before I believe it. At least a minimum of evidence. Got any logs from Shrillary's server? Got any idea when to focus on? Something, anything. Otherwise, it's pure speculation that her server was hacked.
"I assume she was owned by every single country on earth."
I'll have to disagree with you. She was owned by persons who could wave million dollar donations under her nose. Individuals, corporations, countries, or even ET. A million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation was all that was required to get any secret Hillary had access to. I've seen speculation, but no evidence, that her server was pwned by outside interests. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but I've not seen the evidence to support the claim.