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  1. Re:Bribes on Google Leads Among Consumer Tech Companies Lobbying Congress · · Score: 2

    Wag the dog. Unseen brokers, consultants, and accountants that skim off money traveling both directions are who direct the action. Google leads the tech companies. Who spends the most overall?

    Pharmaceuticals/Health Products...

    Insurance...

    Well... big surprise there.. Big year coming up for those dudes...

    Spending your money on lobbying is perfectly fine, but fuck these politicians being a yes man to them. There's no extortion. Everybody's doing this crap by free choice with full 'consent of the governed'.

  2. Re:Coming to a Soviet state near you on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    Most states require that you carry ID also, but an ID cannot be denied to you, even if you are a convicted felon. A passport, on the other hand, will become the preferred method of restricting travel. All the more reason the US is motivated to pump out as many felons as possible. If they can't lock them all up in their fancy private prisons, the lack of a passport will damn near put them under house arrest as the next best thing. The government acting this way doesn't bother me nearly as much as the public's acquiescence. Resistance is feeble to nonexistent.

  3. Coming to a Soviet state near you on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Soon passports will be required for domestic travel...

  4. Re:Independence..... on PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips · · Score: 1

    so what happened last time the British tried to enforce their morality across the pond....?

    We got the FCC

  5. "The mind is what the brain does"* on Physicist Unveils a 'Turing Test' For Free Will · · Score: 1

    We can't prove "free will" isn't instinctively driven with physical causes any better than we can prove the condition of Schrodinger's Cat.

    *courtesy National Geographic

  6. Re: Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Ever suffered Russian or European Imperialism? One thing we'll have to face for the foreseeable future is that unless you're the biggest Imperialist, whose well cared for lapdog citizens who will need somebody to change their bedpans and diapers most certainly approve, you will be under somebody's thumb

  7. Re:Really? on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Screw that. How much does the "stimulus" cost the "economy"?* Much much of our pensions are being gambled away on the derivatives markets? How much longer are all you people going to keep voting your approval of this?

    Shutdown, pfft! All this bullshit to manipulate speculative markets... High frequency traders are making out like the bandits they are.

    *Hint: more than 85 billion a month. That might even be more than the war.

  8. Re:It's a big planet on Snapchat Search Warrants Emphasize Data Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    And how are you going to trust them? I sure as hell wouldn't. For the right price they'll cough up anything. Hell, they'll even make up shit if the cops want you that badly. Prosecutors have quite the history in that department. The best way to deliver a message after all these thousands of years is still through the classifieds or letters to the editor of a national or global daily periodical. Because even through Craigslist they can still track who reads the ad.

  9. Re:What Do You Mean, "We"? on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 1

    [Citation needed]

    Bugger off!

  10. Re:I'm Sorry, China on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    Eh, U-2s can fill in, if we still have a bunch of them. And inertial guidance is still pretty good. You don't have to be real accurate if you're tossing nuclear poo with multiple warheads. And drones that high up can network a pretty good distance.

  11. Re:What Do You Mean, "We"? on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 1

    You know you're right? The world still loves America. Tourism is way up. Business is good, where it counts. There's lots of money flowing. But it all happens over our heads. That trickle down is literally a trickle.

    To me this is Obama saying, "Can't touch this".. And he's right. All the loons have completely debased any criticism. Coincidence?

  12. Re:Deep down.. on Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't There More Public Outrage About NSA Revelations? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...before 9/11 the NSA was basically barred from operating domestically...

    That's assuming they ever abide by any rules... I would lay odds that was never the case. Hell, the Constitution wasn't seven years old when the Aliens and Sedition Act was imposed. What have we learned? That we repeat mistakes totally unawares. Then we "unlearn" it during the next hysterical "crisis".

  13. Re:Ignore the whole damn thing on Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy" · · Score: 1

    Even then, it's still cheaper for me, and cheaper for most if they count the time lost doing extra paperwork that should be the damn bureaucrat's responsibility.

  14. Re:I'm Sorry, China on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    If they don't lend the money, the US will just go in and take it, like they do for other resources they want.

  15. Ignore the whole damn thing on Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy" · · Score: 1

    It's cheaper, and you're better off just paying the fine, and wait until we get medicare for all.

  16. Re:Independent World Interchange Currency on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    Therefore, no country would be able to just print money to buy new resources.

    With a strong enough military they can. That is what backs up one's currency. And that is why the US still dominates that market. That is why it is at war with the Middle East. Lead is much more persuasive than gold.

  17. Re:I'm Sorry, China on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    You can't piss them off too much or they'll leave you without money once you spent everything they already gave you.

    That's where military intervention comes in... I mean, "liberation" from those dirty commies. Send in the drones... It will be interesting to see if the US can defeat a real army.

  18. Re:I'm Sorry, China on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 0

    Besides, it doesn't matter. If the US doesn't want to pay the "debt", who has the power to force them? The whole thing is so phony, nothing more than something to fill time on the TV news to keep our minds off our stolen pensions.

  19. Re:Why isn't this libel? on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 1

    Who cares if I'm insulted? That makes no sense. The right to offend is sacrosanct. Feeling insulted is strictly personal. Everybody reacts differently, regardless of what's in your dictionary, so whatever your point is, it is baseless.

    I feel it's a factual statement...

    Yes, you feel... That's a personal issue. You're trying to use a book to tell people how they should feel. Culture, DNA, and experience define how people react to words. The words themselves carry no intrinsic value one way or another of any kind, and nobody has any right to determine, legally or otherwise, how they are used. Educate or sanction the listener, and nobody else. Like they say about the idiots on talk radio. it's their followers you should be afraid of, not the blabbermouth. Only there will you find the real danger. You're just trying to tell me that I can't say "fuck" on TV.

  20. Re: Such Hubris... on Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying" · · Score: 1

    If the republicans keep coming up with total losers...

    Think about that for a second. What better way to scare people out of voting for a real alternative? Sounds quite intentional to me, seeing that republicans and democrats are on the same team.

  21. Re:Why isn't this libel? on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 1

    Words are words. They have no force whatsoever.

  22. Re:Why isn't this libel? on Broadcasters Petition US Supreme Court In Fight Against Aereo · · Score: 1

    You cannot do harm through speech, only through action.

  23. How will we defend ourselves? on Weaponized Robots Could Take Point In Future Military Ops · · Score: 1

    It's time to develop some serious long range, portable EMP capabilities. Otherwise we are in deep doo-doo.

  24. I don't know about you people on Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die · · Score: 1

    But I use PageMaker...

  25. Re:Decathlon on Team Austria Wins the 2013 Solar Decathlon With Their Net-Zero LISI House · · Score: 1

    The name suggests 10 athletic contests, how is it related?

    Yeah, I thought they had this race in Australia. I guess this one is about how fast you can drive your solar powered house across the country.