The American people have a right to know about all the activities of their government, for reasons that I feel should be unnecessary to explain here. But since you don't get it, I guess I have to.
If the American people aren't informed about the activities of their government, they cannot exert control over those activites. The rightful seat of power is with The People.
Prejudice is a useful thing. It can prevent things like being mugged
Prejudice is a harmful thing, because it causes people to elevate petty muggings above real problems like an entire economy based on fraud, just because the fraudsters are white men in suits instead of black men with sagging pants.
BTW, if you feel you normally have a consistent low level of mood otherwise, look hard at what you eat (artificial colors, sugar, refined starch, caffeine?) and what you don't eat (vegetables, omega 3s and other healthy fats, B complex, vitamin D, etc.). See Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Joel Fuhrman as places to start with that.
Please. There's even less reason to believe that diet can improve depression than there is to believe that antidepressants can. Depression is complex and multifactorial, and no one anywhere has demonstrated any unambiguously effective treatment for it. Nor should we expect them to. Depression isn't a disease, it's a rational reaction to living in an unbearable society.
If you want current packages, use the unstable repository. Note that it's the repository that's unstable, not the operating system. Every week there are dozens of updates to the repository, but my system never crashes. Sid makes a great desktop or HTPC. Stable is for servers only.
I don't understand. "Package duplication" should not be a problem for any decent package manager, and it's not. Apt pinning allows you to choose which repository you get your packages from.
The last place you want to be is where you are only caught by the traps they set up for the really dangerous people
You assume that this is only about really dangerous people. We just had weeks of controversy about the IRS targeting people for political motives. Are you so naive to think that won't happen at the NSA?
Yes. The idea of a burn phone is a very old one now. If you think that the NSA doesn't have contingencies to deal with that, you are mistaken.
Such as?
Honestly, unless you really do expect to be doing something illegal, the NSA doesn't have the resources to actually analyze the material they get from everyone for all possible illegal permutations.
Which is all the more reason they need more funding to build more facilities and grant lucrative contracts to their cronies.
Unless you have reason to believe you are being targeted
When you are hypothesis testing 100 million people, making billions of calls per year, the number of false positives is going to be non-significant. We all have reason to fear, even if we have nothing to hide.
When it comes to panopticons, what you really need to do is learn how to hide in plain sight.
When it comes to oppression of any flavor, the only moral choice is resistance.
The real downside to this is that film is still the gold standard for autoradiography. Nothing beats the sensitivity and resolution of Kodak Biomax x-ray films.
Avoiding attention isn't the point. Simply obstructing the illegal surveillance regime is the point. Any way in which you can resist, you should resist.
The "particular form" is irrelevant. It's the same sequence whether it's mRNA or cDNA. You might as well allow people to copyright public domain works by doing a ROT13 transformation.
Identifying particular cDNA that can be used for therapeutic purposes is a whole other thing and requires a lot of research.
Identifying a particular gene or piece of mRNA that can be used for theraputic purposes requires a lot of research too. This has nothing to do with whether that gene, mRNA, or cDNA is a "natural product" or not.
"Spying" is not really "spying" "Meta-data" is not "data" "Imminent" danger means "there might or might not be a danger in the future" "Militant" means "anyone we killed by drone" "Terrorist" means "someone we don't like" "Whistle-blower" means "traitor" "War" Is "Peace" "Freedom" Is "Slavery" "Ignorance" Is "Strength"
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how do you propose to keep the country safe
How do YOU propose to keep the country safe from criminals who cannot obey the Constitution?
If you can't do it without oversight, it's too dangerous to allow. Our own corrupt government is a bigger threat than any foreign enemy.
The American people have a right to know about all the activities of their government, for reasons that I feel should be unnecessary to explain here. But since you don't get it, I guess I have to.
If the American people aren't informed about the activities of their government, they cannot exert control over those activites. The rightful seat of power is with The People.
It's time to call PR men what they really are: Political Officers.
I would have gone with worthless lying sacks of shit who do more to hurt society than everyone in prison combined.
He had no reason to reveal that to the press
Except that the American people have a right to know.
Even if he is lying, the fact that there's any ambiguity at all is proof that there's not enough oversight.
Prejudice is a useful thing. It can prevent things like being mugged
Prejudice is a harmful thing, because it causes people to elevate petty muggings above real problems like an entire economy based on fraud, just because the fraudsters are white men in suits instead of black men with sagging pants.
BTW, if you feel you normally have a consistent low level of mood otherwise, look hard at what you eat (artificial colors, sugar, refined starch, caffeine?) and what you don't eat (vegetables, omega 3s and other healthy fats, B complex, vitamin D, etc.). See Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Joel Fuhrman as places to start with that.
Please. There's even less reason to believe that diet can improve depression than there is to believe that antidepressants can. Depression is complex and multifactorial, and no one anywhere has demonstrated any unambiguously effective treatment for it. Nor should we expect them to. Depression isn't a disease, it's a rational reaction to living in an unbearable society.
If you want current packages, use the unstable repository. Note that it's the repository that's unstable, not the operating system. Every week there are dozens of updates to the repository, but my system never crashes. Sid makes a great desktop or HTPC. Stable is for servers only.
Clarance Thomas talks?
They hoover down all the internet data
I see what you did there.
people ended up playing it safe.
Voting for a known criminal is not playing it safe.
The real question is why didn't they just admit to it from the start?
Because it's a flagrant violation of the 4th amendment.
I don't understand. "Package duplication" should not be a problem for any decent package manager, and it's not. Apt pinning allows you to choose which repository you get your packages from.
I've never seen a phone that wouldn't let you shut off the GSM transmitter, nobody needs to "design" this it's already there.
You really need a hardware switch. Otherwise the OS could just pretend to shut off the radio.
How would anyone know without the source code? Even with the source code, it's impossible to prove there's no back door.
The NSA, an organization that is arguably the best in the world at sorting noise from signal.
What reason is there to believe the NSA is any more effective than the TSA?
The last place you want to be is where you are only caught by the traps they set up for the really dangerous people
You assume that this is only about really dangerous people. We just had weeks of controversy about the IRS targeting people for political motives. Are you so naive to think that won't happen at the NSA?
Yes. The idea of a burn phone is a very old one now. If you think that the NSA doesn't have contingencies to deal with that, you are mistaken.
Such as?
Honestly, unless you really do expect to be doing something illegal, the NSA doesn't have the resources to actually analyze the material they get from everyone for all possible illegal permutations.
Which is all the more reason they need more funding to build more facilities and grant lucrative contracts to their cronies.
Unless you have reason to believe you are being targeted
When you are hypothesis testing 100 million people, making billions of calls per year, the number of false positives is going to be non-significant. We all have reason to fear, even if we have nothing to hide.
When it comes to panopticons, what you really need to do is learn how to hide in plain sight.
When it comes to oppression of any flavor, the only moral choice is resistance.
The real downside to this is that film is still the gold standard for autoradiography. Nothing beats the sensitivity and resolution of Kodak Biomax x-ray films.
Avoiding attention isn't the point. Simply obstructing the illegal surveillance regime is the point. Any way in which you can resist, you should resist.
The "particular form" is irrelevant. It's the same sequence whether it's mRNA or cDNA. You might as well allow people to copyright public domain works by doing a ROT13 transformation.
Identifying particular cDNA that can be used for therapeutic purposes is a whole other thing and requires a lot of research.
Identifying a particular gene or piece of mRNA that can be used for theraputic purposes requires a lot of research too. This has nothing to do with whether that gene, mRNA, or cDNA is a "natural product" or not.
"Spying" is not really "spying"
"Meta-data" is not "data"
"Imminent" danger means "there might or might not be a danger in the future"
"Militant" means "anyone we killed by drone"
"Terrorist" means "someone we don't like"
"Whistle-blower" means "traitor"
"War" Is "Peace"
"Freedom" Is "Slavery"
"Ignorance" Is "Strength"
The 4th amendment was the law that was broken.