The legal system is toothless and corrupt. You are not going to ever prevent "mass surveillance". It's just too easy to do and cover up. We all know it's happening and expanding and resistance is nil. The only option left is to make sure it goes both ways, that we watch over the state the same way they want to watch us. When powerful people and institutions lose their privacy, they might become a bit more cautious on how information is used against a person.
Effective is one thing. Abusive is quite another. Self defense against the state is perfectly legitimate, if just for the lack of oversight alone. While coercion is natural, it is also subhuman. Fallibility, corruption, etc precludes giving the state such power.
The financial markets are fraudulent by nature with all the players hoping they don't get caught in their quest for instant riches. Why should this guy be treated any worse than the regular practitioners? Because it might expose the fraud I suspect. The law deserves no respect while this kind of thing continues.
And besides, how are you ever going to prove they're not snooping anyway? You will not get anything useful from these politicians you keep reelecting. The opportunity to vote out every single member of the house lies before us. Let's take the chance, and then maybe you might prevent government snooping.
I think for a dollar I could bend a little. Proprietary formats are a trivial problem. But at 300? No thanks. I can turn the brightness down and set the background color on the phone to read comfortably in the dark.
Well, yeah! We are under a single party. Yes, with all the factional bickering, but it is monolithic in protecting its power. How many independents are there in congress? How many people are even aware of the independent candidates on their ballots? I would say the party is doing a good job of directing attention, and lucky for them there is virtually no resistance. This year they use the *Fear Factor* to keep the ratings up. Trump and Sanders are the best acts in a long time. "The whole world's watching". And speaking of machine politics, take a gander at how Humphrey won the '68 nomination with only 161,143 votes to the other guy's 2,914,933.
I really wonder if people stop to think that they are electing and reelecting real live crooks into high office. I guess they are so convinced there is no alternative that they just don't give it a second thought. That and they're looking to get a tiny piece of the action themselves, with some juicy contract or tax break.
Really, let's not blame the party for peoples' own bad choices. That's just scapegoating.
The "lesson" of the Pentagon Papers is that nobody learned a damn thing. It was all forgotten when Reagan was elected. Forgive and forget was even part of his campaign... Eh, kinda similar to Obama's treatment of Bush. "Heal" the country by "looking forward". Blech!
He's talking about this now because Graham is making such a stink about the 28 pages. Which probably won't matter. If the Saudi king was one of the pilots, the U.S. would still be all chummy with them in the ongoing game of empires against Russia.
You're in the wrong place again. In the U.S. people are allowed to vote for who they want. There are various alternatives to Clinton, Sanders, Trump, and Cruz. The voters ignore their records to their own detriment. But nobody is forcing them.
There is nothing inherent in a non-profit that guarantees this.
That is not what I said. But to make the effort, there can be no financial obligations, to the sponsors or the patrons. Otherwise the freedom to offend is lost. And we all know how offensive the truth can get.
It points out that case law is unsettled on this, and that it's a Constitutional question.
Case law and your own layer of encryption are irrelevant if they can hold you and your equipment while they wait for you to cough up the password. There will be no compensation to the defendant for lost time and money trying to settle it. We should never allow the state this kind of power. It has no right to compel assistance of any kind, especially in one's own prosecution.
He's trolling. Playing the role of the conservative nationalist (for a very long time here). First he tries to claim I don't understand the difference between training and torture, and now shows that he doesn't.
If you want good journalism, you'll have to run it as a non-profit. Normal profiteering capitalism rarely has the need to go beyond the lowest hanging fruit. Gossip is a bottomless pot of gold.
The people that don't want it eat something else. And there's plenty of them. Just because something is spoon fed, it doesn't preclude you from rolling your own.
Yes, they would attack the low hanging fruit first, because the vendors are enabling the individuals, but if enough individuals start rolling their own, the same rules will be imposed on them. And yes, ultimately all indecipherable communications will give probable cause for arrest and seizure. That is already happening You are perfectly welcome to use the bank's government approved "encryption" in their back-doored app.
And really, you can save your breath on the *court orders*. They are too easy to get to be of any significant impediment to a tap. Sure, you can win on appeal, after many dollars and many hours. Time and money you never get back. The state is no longer the protector, it is the adversary. I don't believe in allowing it any advantage.
Because people like you can't tell the difference between something that people volunteer to experience on a regular basis and actual torture, and it's way too much trouble to put up with those who, out of ignorance (feigned, willful or otherwise), can't muster the presence of mind to understand the difference.
Volunteering the experience for training is not torture. Where did you get the idea that I thought it was? I figure you're just trolling. Not very subtle, are you?
Worthless shits breach server owned by worthless government, acquire worthless data.
Yeah, until you discover the love letters between Trump and Putin going through their servers...
The Daily Mail is as informational as these "leaks" are. What they really are is a new form of press release to make it look like official channels are being circumvented by a "radical" press.
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The legal system is toothless and corrupt. You are not going to ever prevent "mass surveillance". It's just too easy to do and cover up. We all know it's happening and expanding and resistance is nil. The only option left is to make sure it goes both ways, that we watch over the state the same way they want to watch us. When powerful people and institutions lose their privacy, they might become a bit more cautious on how information is used against a person.
Effective is one thing. Abusive is quite another. Self defense against the state is perfectly legitimate, if just for the lack of oversight alone. While coercion is natural, it is also subhuman. Fallibility, corruption, etc precludes giving the state such power.
"legal process" = rubber stamp
That doesn't mean it's the first time they did this.
The financial markets are fraudulent by nature with all the players hoping they don't get caught in their quest for instant riches. Why should this guy be treated any worse than the regular practitioners? Because it might expose the fraud I suspect. The law deserves no respect while this kind of thing continues.
And besides, how are you ever going to prove they're not snooping anyway? You will not get anything useful from these politicians you keep reelecting. The opportunity to vote out every single member of the house lies before us. Let's take the chance, and then maybe you might prevent government snooping.
It's all government money. Look at the names on the coins and bills. You see yours anywhere?
Please, take the Ayn Rand crap somewhere else.
I think for a dollar I could bend a little. Proprietary formats are a trivial problem. But at 300? No thanks. I can turn the brightness down and set the background color on the phone to read comfortably in the dark.
Is that how it works now?
Whaddya mean "now"?
the Manchurian Candidate.
Damn! I always thought that was Carter...
Yea, it is a single party issue.
Well, yeah! We are under a single party. Yes, with all the factional bickering, but it is monolithic in protecting its power. How many independents are there in congress? How many people are even aware of the independent candidates on their ballots? I would say the party is doing a good job of directing attention, and lucky for them there is virtually no resistance. This year they use the *Fear Factor* to keep the ratings up. Trump and Sanders are the best acts in a long time. "The whole world's watching". And speaking of machine politics, take a gander at how Humphrey won the '68 nomination with only 161,143 votes to the other guy's 2,914,933.
I really wonder if people stop to think that they are electing and reelecting real live crooks into high office. I guess they are so convinced there is no alternative that they just don't give it a second thought. That and they're looking to get a tiny piece of the action themselves, with some juicy contract or tax break.
Really, let's not blame the party for peoples' own bad choices. That's just scapegoating.
The "lesson" of the Pentagon Papers is that nobody learned a damn thing. It was all forgotten when Reagan was elected. Forgive and forget was even part of his campaign... Eh, kinda similar to Obama's treatment of Bush. "Heal" the country by "looking forward". Blech!
He's talking about this now because Graham is making such a stink about the 28 pages. Which probably won't matter. If the Saudi king was one of the pilots, the U.S. would still be all chummy with them in the ongoing game of empires against Russia.
You're in the wrong place again. In the U.S. people are allowed to vote for who they want. There are various alternatives to Clinton, Sanders, Trump, and Cruz. The voters ignore their records to their own detriment. But nobody is forcing them.
"Make me a sandwich" requires root privileges
There is nothing inherent in a non-profit that guarantees this.
That is not what I said. But to make the effort, there can be no financial obligations, to the sponsors or the patrons. Otherwise the freedom to offend is lost. And we all know how offensive the truth can get.
It points out that case law is unsettled on this, and that it's a Constitutional question.
Case law and your own layer of encryption are irrelevant if they can hold you and your equipment while they wait for you to cough up the password. There will be no compensation to the defendant for lost time and money trying to settle it. We should never allow the state this kind of power. It has no right to compel assistance of any kind, especially in one's own prosecution.
Let's hope they can keep the lights on...
He's trolling. Playing the role of the conservative nationalist (for a very long time here). First he tries to claim I don't understand the difference between training and torture, and now shows that he doesn't.
If you want good journalism, you'll have to run it as a non-profit. Normal profiteering capitalism rarely has the need to go beyond the lowest hanging fruit. Gossip is a bottomless pot of gold.
The people that don't want it eat something else. And there's plenty of them. Just because something is spoon fed, it doesn't preclude you from rolling your own.
How much fucking effort does it take to change a number in a ledger??
Yes, they would attack the low hanging fruit first, because the vendors are enabling the individuals, but if enough individuals start rolling their own, the same rules will be imposed on them. And yes, ultimately all indecipherable communications will give probable cause for arrest and seizure. That is already happening You are perfectly welcome to use the bank's government approved "encryption" in their back-doored app.
And really, you can save your breath on the *court orders*. They are too easy to get to be of any significant impediment to a tap. Sure, you can win on appeal, after many dollars and many hours. Time and money you never get back. The state is no longer the protector, it is the adversary. I don't believe in allowing it any advantage.
Because people like you can't tell the difference between something that people volunteer to experience on a regular basis and actual torture, and it's way too much trouble to put up with those who, out of ignorance (feigned, willful or otherwise), can't muster the presence of mind to understand the difference.
Volunteering the experience for training is not torture. Where did you get the idea that I thought it was? I figure you're just trolling. Not very subtle, are you?
War is still more profitable than infrastructure and hookers
Islamists (including your ISIL, ISIS, Whatever) are using the ammo* they buy from the U.S.
The Christians are hoarding it.
Both are good customers.
The Russians are pissed.
SNAFU
*Just think, if the supply ever dried up, the war would be over. Interesting concept, don't you think?
Worthless shits breach server owned by worthless government, acquire worthless data.
Yeah, until you discover the love letters between Trump and Putin going through their servers...
The Daily Mail is as informational as these "leaks" are. What they really are is a new form of press release to make it look like official channels are being circumvented by a "radical" press.