By and large when I trust other people, they fsck me over, so I can't really blame the gubberment for feeling the same way.
These people used to trust people and governments, look what happened to them. If you can't trust anyone, you might as well as live like a hermit, that way you can only be disappointed in yourself.
Trust in a government that has so many secrets that it can't trust its own people to keep them.
Any information released by the United States government to its people will inevitably and efficiently be disseminated to foreign powers, friend or foe. Over 300 million citizens, and all it takes is one Internet leak.
You may disagree with the number of secrets (as do I), but you can't say that fewer secrets would somehow increase trust. Those remaining secrets would be kept guarded as closely, or more so, than they are today.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. - RAH
Don't ask me why it was top secret, or even restricted; our government has gotten the habit of classifying anything as secret which the all-wise statesmen and bureaucrats decide we are not big enough girls and boys to know, a Mother-Knows-Best-Dear policy. I've read that there used to be a time when a taxpayer could demand the facts on anything and get them. I don't know; it sounds Utopian. - RAH
Didn't Orwell work this same thing into his story?
Trust in a government that doesn't trust its own people? Trust in a government that has so many secrets that it can't trust its own people to keep them. Trust in a government that gives more money to its enemies than it does to its own people. Hmmmm....Let me get back to you on that.
Please continue making headlines with your infodumps from.gov,.mil, and contractor websites.
It's not like you're doing much damage, considering the terabytes being siphoned off by foreign governments.
Maybe if there's a bright enough spotlight shone onto the problem, the government will finally get around to fixing it.
Thank You,
Joe Q. Public
Naah, we got Manning, Assange and McKinnon; we'll make them pay for the gross stupidity of government contractors, if fact, we'll give the contractor a ten year no-bid renewal. Remember the government motto: No good deed goes unpunished and no fuck-up goes un-rewarded. You got to fuck-up to move up.
Elected officials have more then one thing they do.
And many of these issues are OUTSIDE FBI responsibility.
Bring all the disparate attempts to deal with this issue together is a SMART thing to do.
More committees? These idiots and their committees are going to put us in the poor house, oh wait. As I said, these idiots are so busy looking busy that nothing gets done. No term limits, no balanced budget, no end to any war, continuous payoffs from corporate america. The last thing this country needs is an investigation into wikileaks. If anything should be investigated, the truth of these leaks and why they stopped being posted for the general population to determine the right or wrong of the situation. As far as I'm concerned, Washington DC should be labeled Washington ADHD, since focus on the most important issues is lost to them.
I have distant relatives in Colorado Springs who are some nutty Christian sect. When my daughter was about 14 or 15 my wife and I drove her out West for a visit on our way to California (rte.66 from Chicago).
My daughter had her hair cut short at the time and was wearing shorts. Not crazy short-shorts, just regular shorts.
One of the first things they said to her is that she was endangering her eternal soul by wearing shorts. Then they asked her if she was a lesbian because she had short hair. Made my kid cry. My wife had to keep me from breaking furniture, and needless to say we don't have much truck with that branch of the family tree any more.
Are Christians required to be judgmental assholes?
That tree needs severe pruning, better yet, torch the whole orchard.
What is this stupid phrasing "Steve Austin, anyone?" about? Why do people use it? You can just hear the writer's pleading voice going "Eh? Eh? Aren't I clever?" as if you couldn't catch his meaning unless he elbowed you in the ribs a few more times.
I was wondering also how a mind-machine interface related to bounced checks...
Once they stop printing fiat money and go all digital currency, flip a switch, a thousand zeroes added to the economy. Another flip of a switch, what debt? I relish the day when my electro-mechanical overlords with the new, improved, Apple iBrain dictate my every thought and movement. Think of the children. America, love it or nuke it!
They get money, fame, power, and women, all without doing anything labourious or meaningful, and you see this as being a sign of lack of intelligence?
Are all the recall votes in yet? Has the budget been balanced? Are we still at war? Hmmm...all that money, fame, power and yet, they can't get their act together. Survey says...Stupid is as stupid does.
...small private companies to set up just outside of orbit to squeegie a satellite's solar panels whether they want it or not and expect a few million in change.
You're doing it wrong, out of work astronauts, displaced by robbie the robot on ISS will hang out on the space corner squeegeeing spy satellite camera lenses for cigarette money. This is why there is no shuttle replacement, ISS will become an automated spy satellite refueling and re-purposing platform.
Our military has a hard enough time managing to fight regular wars. If anyone thinks they are going to be ready for a cyberwar, they are kidding themselves.
Of course they're prepared, look at Pearl Harbor, Tonkin Gulf, 911, when they are attacked, the response will be out of proportion to the false flag attacks orchestrated to chip at our rights and privacy online.
The government cannot force you to do something that the government itself is not constitutionally allowed to do. Any attempt to do so by legislation would be unconstitutional, not a law, never was, IMVHO.
Do you mean, like, bail out Wallstreet and their bankster buddies, or sending needed money to rogue governments to be our friends. Did you have any say in these discussions? Is your imput even necessary? What about the missing 14 billion dollars that went to the auto industry, is that important? I hope you are still working, have your home, not in some shitty foxhole in some G-D forsaken foreign land wondering if all the bullshit raining down on you fron an unseen enemy is worth it.
How about passing laws that make sense in the first place?
What, and set a precedent?!
Exactly, just because somebody's brother-in-law owns a fluorescent bulb facility doesn't mean laws have to be enacted to keep him busy. Besides, an incandescent bulb generates enough heat to keep a water line from freezing.
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Sounds more like the communist demand to get the last bit out of every worker.
Sounds more like the communist demand to get the last bite out of every worker.
FTFY
By and large when I trust other people, they fsck me over, so I can't really blame the gubberment for feeling the same way.
These people used to trust people and governments, look what happened to them. If you can't trust anyone, you might as well as live like a hermit, that way you can only be disappointed in yourself.
Trust in a government that has so many secrets that it can't trust its own people to keep them.
Any information released by the United States government to its people will inevitably and efficiently be disseminated to foreign powers, friend or foe. Over 300 million citizens, and all it takes is one Internet leak.
You may disagree with the number of secrets (as do I), but you can't say that fewer secrets would somehow increase trust. Those remaining secrets would be kept guarded as closely, or more so, than they are today.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. - RAH
Don't ask me why it was top secret, or even restricted; our government has gotten the habit of classifying anything as secret which the all-wise statesmen and bureaucrats decide we are not big enough girls and boys to know, a Mother-Knows-Best-Dear policy. I've read that there used to be a time when a taxpayer could demand the facts on anything and get them. I don't know; it sounds Utopian. - RAH
We need a thousand nukes just in case we want to nuke NK and Iran a thousand times?
Wouldn't a hundred times each be enough?
Stop all war and free health care for everyone, everywhere.
Where else are you going to purchase radiation hardened chips?
70 years ago, it was soap and lamp shades. Is this what the New World Order is about? Reduce the population and stock up the larder in one go.
And they call this progress?
Feed the homeless to the hungry.
Somehow, I'm forced to suggest an alternative.
The fact that they're releasing Rise of The Planet of the Apes in a couple of weeks seems apropos here. :-P
Planet of the Apes is already here, look at all the monkeys and baboons in Congress.
Didn't Orwell work this same thing into his story?
Trust in a government that doesn't trust its own people? Trust in a government that has so many secrets that it can't trust its own people to keep them. Trust in a government that gives more money to its enemies than it does to its own people. Hmmmm....Let me get back to you on that.
Dear LulzSec & Anonymous
Please continue making headlines with your infodumps from .gov, .mil, and contractor websites.
It's not like you're doing much damage, considering the terabytes being siphoned off by foreign governments.
Maybe if there's a bright enough spotlight shone onto the problem, the government will finally get around to fixing it.
Thank You, Joe Q. Public
Naah, we got Manning, Assange and McKinnon; we'll make them pay for the gross stupidity of government contractors, if fact, we'll give the contractor a ten year no-bid renewal.
Remember the government motto: No good deed goes unpunished and no fuck-up goes un-rewarded. You got to fuck-up to move up.
Elected officials have more then one thing they do.
And many of these issues are OUTSIDE FBI responsibility.
Bring all the disparate attempts to deal with this issue together is a SMART thing to do.
More committees? These idiots and their committees are going to put us in the poor house, oh wait.
As I said, these idiots are so busy looking busy that nothing gets done. No term limits, no balanced budget, no end to any war, continuous payoffs from corporate america. The last thing this country needs is an investigation into wikileaks. If anything should be investigated, the truth of these leaks and why they stopped being posted for the general population to determine the right or wrong of the situation. As far as I'm concerned, Washington DC should be labeled Washington ADHD, since focus on the most important issues is lost to them.
Sometimes "treat others as you would want to be treated" can be open to interpretation.
I prefer STP treatment, less engine wear, better gas mileage.
I have distant relatives in Colorado Springs who are some nutty Christian sect. When my daughter was about 14 or 15 my wife and I drove her out West for a visit on our way to California (rte.66 from Chicago).
My daughter had her hair cut short at the time and was wearing shorts. Not crazy short-shorts, just regular shorts.
One of the first things they said to her is that she was endangering her eternal soul by wearing shorts. Then they asked her if she was a lesbian because she had short hair. Made my kid cry. My wife had to keep me from breaking furniture, and needless to say we don't have much truck with that branch of the family tree any more.
Are Christians required to be judgmental assholes?
That tree needs severe pruning, better yet, torch the whole orchard.
They celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day on the 26th??? Heathens!
Hey, hey, hey...Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sept. 19, arrrgh! These wack-job zealots use Alfredo sauce, not Marinara.
Congress needs to pass legislation to protect customers from unauthorized third-party charges
Congress NEEDS to get their shit together. I am of the opinion that America can no longer afford Congress' protection.
What is this stupid phrasing "Steve Austin, anyone?" about? Why do people use it? You can just hear the writer's pleading voice going "Eh? Eh? Aren't I clever?" as if you couldn't catch his meaning unless he elbowed you in the ribs a few more times.
Hey, whatta bout Jamie Sommers?
I was wondering also how a mind-machine interface related to bounced checks...
Once they stop printing fiat money and go all digital currency, flip a switch, a thousand zeroes added to the economy. Another flip of a switch, what debt? I relish the day when my electro-mechanical overlords with the new, improved, Apple iBrain dictate my every thought and movement. Think of the children. America, love it or nuke it!
They get money, fame, power, and women, all without doing anything labourious or meaningful, and you see this as being a sign of lack of intelligence?
Are all the recall votes in yet? Has the budget been balanced? Are we still at war? Hmmm...all that money, fame, power and yet, they can't get their act together. Survey says...Stupid is as stupid does.
Studies suggest that there is a potential correlation between brain-body size ratio and intelligence.
The study is most definitely biased, just look at the fat, arrogant, asshats in DC and you will see that the study is without merit.
...small private companies to set up just outside of orbit to squeegie a satellite's solar panels whether they want it or not and expect a few million in change.
You're doing it wrong, out of work astronauts, displaced by robbie the robot on ISS will hang out on the space corner squeegeeing spy satellite camera lenses for cigarette money. This is why there is no shuttle replacement, ISS will become an automated spy satellite refueling and re-purposing platform.
Our military has a hard enough time managing to fight regular wars. If anyone thinks they are going to be ready for a cyberwar, they are kidding themselves.
Of course they're prepared, look at Pearl Harbor, Tonkin Gulf, 911, when they are attacked, the response will be out of proportion to the false flag attacks orchestrated to chip at our rights and privacy online.
The government cannot force you to do something that the government itself is not constitutionally allowed to do. Any attempt to do so by legislation would be unconstitutional, not a law, never was, IMVHO.
Do you mean, like, bail out Wallstreet and their bankster buddies, or sending needed money to rogue governments to be our friends. Did you have any say in these discussions? Is your imput even necessary? What about the missing 14 billion dollars that went to the auto industry, is that important? I hope you are still working, have your home, not in some shitty foxhole in some G-D forsaken foreign land wondering if all the bullshit raining down on you fron an unseen enemy is worth it.
You'd think kiddie porn was the scourge of our time from all the press it gets.
You're looking in the wrong place, try youtube and all the bad cop videos. /. How's that for paranoia?
Or better yet, all the bad mouth postings on
How about passing laws that make sense in the first place?
What, and set a precedent?!
Exactly, just because somebody's brother-in-law owns a fluorescent bulb facility doesn't mean laws have to be enacted to keep him busy.
Besides, an incandescent bulb generates enough heat to keep a water line from freezing.
Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach'
Yeah and the checks in the mail and I won't come in your mouth.