the framers of the Fourth Amendment could not have conceived of a handheld technological device like the iPhone
That point (an unproveable assertion, BTW) is totally irrelevant. The technology doesn't change our rights. We have the right to be secure in our papers and personal effects. That is obviously perfectly equivalent to records stored in the iPod. It might take a judge distracted by some arguing lawyers a few hours to decide that records stored elsewhere but accessed directly by the iPod are equivalent to the same old papers and effects, but it's an obvious conclusion.
The only relevant question is whether a cop stopping you for speeding or running a red light has probable cause to search your papers and personal effects for anything else. Which they obviously don't, especially since they've already got all the evidence of the moving violation crime they're accusing you of, and your preexisting papers could contain evidence of that only if they are accusing you of premeditated moving violations, which I think isn't even a legal charge.
The people who formulated and signed the Constitution were smart. So smart they didn't have to be able to conceive an iPhone. All they had to conceive was identifying our rights, and directing our government to protect them. And, along the couple centuries since then, we've updated their list of identified rights and required protections at least 17 more times. But none of those updates are because some gizmo appeared, even when some - like telegraphs, cars, airplanes, computers - transformed our society. Because we the people are still the same, with the same rights.
The rest of this crap is just an excuse for lawyers to make money and power brokers to steal more power from the people.
Gates makes money off the money he's investing in charity. Without the hatred that came with his last scammy enterprise, without real competition, and without having to invent anything, however cruddy.
Content companies that indulge DRM to squeeze the maximum possible money from the most lamebrained consumption of their content, instead of doing something else, are doomed. If they rely on DRM to maximize sales of forgettable top 40, and drag out the longest possible revenue streams from reselling "classics" already in demand because of their folk art status, instead of making quality new content, they're stuck.
Because DRM doesn't really protect them, and it gets in the way, sure. But really because they're security corps instead of content corps when they operate that way. If they promoted new content that people like and keep consuming, if they harnessed the energy of their market interacting with their content libraries to make and exchange mashups, if they gave away the content to promote the in-person and material merchandise (posters, toys, clothes, etc) that's easy to control selling, they'd be exploding in value and popularity.
If they were in the business of using tech and other people's interactions by it to make more music, in more people's ears, instead of the failing business of stopping it, they'd be richer and more popular than ever.
The problem isn't so much the DRM. It's that they're relying on DRM to the exclusion of everything else. And with "experts" like PC World (which is in business floating on a sea of "piracy" that sells tons of tech and software) failing to see even these basics, it's no wonder that tech-idiots, music-idiots and business-idiots like the music moguls are doomed.
Maybe a ball with a surface covered in the textural memory plastic I mentioned, but elastic, with coiled shape fibers inside that can create textured shapes and sizes on demand, both convex and concave.
I really think there's some kind of gyroscopic way to simulate at least the inertial mass, and maybe somehow a 3D motion vector. The other option is some really dynamic electromagnet, but I never like the idea of magnetic fields sprayed around a room, especially one that can have magnetic media or CRTs.
There's already a gaming market for this. I wish someone would try to market something more ambitious than the Wiimote, so we can start evolving the winners already.
Well, memory plastic fibers do that without as much heat inefficiency. And though "addressably rigid" fibers are appropriate to simulating shapes of objects held in the gloves, they can't simulate position or other inertial values (eg. the motion of a ball through the air resisting the momentum of a catching hand). I wonder whether three elliptical gyros could cycle in proportions that both net to a 3D vector and sum to an inertial mass effect. If lots of those devices were nanoscale at very high speed, they might feel like a moving object. Which could also resist pressure from each hand interactively to feel like two faces of a single, solid object, even simulating variable softness on its virtual surface.
The clicking sound works because it's coming from something physical in your hand. The sound waves are close enough to actual mechanical vibration of your fingertips that the illusion in your ear (and in fact a tiny vibration of the fingertips) can work. But if there's nothing in your hand, the illusion from the learned association will fail, or be so tenuous as to offer a negative learning experience. Though I'd like to see tests of a demo with really high precision stereo audio apparently originating the sound from the fingers.
But the heard cues take a much longer, complex, and mediated (interfered) path than do tactile cues directly to the fingers interacting with the virtual object. Ask any BMW driver how important the vibrating steering wheel is to keeping control in splitsecond maneuvers, and how rewarding it is to do so, well before the eye or ear processes what just happened.
If Sun offered a supported Linux (or Solaris) with a standard SQL interface in its kernel API as featured as is the fileystem API, it would sell a lot more Sun systems. Sun could also sell services to convert default MySQL apps to other DBs that are better at heavy write volume. Or Sun could just upgrade MySQL for a commercial version to compete with Oracle and DB2 on heavy write volume, but keep the same API as the free bundled MySQL. Which would make Sun's platform a preferred one for the DB developer community. That's a huge win in Sun's battle with Oracle and IBM, to say nothing of Microsoft.
We're used to moving an actual thing around to do stuff. The physical reaction into our fingers is very important. The mouse gives a minimum, but the trackpad gives more. Touchless manual gestures don't keep the hands locked in a feedback loop with the virtual object, so they'll be clumsy.
What I'm waiting for is a thin memory plastic layer over a touchscreen, that can raise bumps and edges defining onscreen GUIs. Vibrating gloves could be good for simulating textures, but there's no tech for simulating tensile or inertial force in virtual objects. Maybe some kind of eccentric gyroscope, but I've never seen one.
The Vice President, Cheney, was part of a conspiracy that not only outed Plame, but also tried to discredit her husband, the former US Ambassador to Iraq (during Iraq War Sr).
What these conspiracies "required" is a purely academic point. What they actually did, and who did it, is critically important. Especially because so many people in the conspiracy have been such powerful, trusted officials. And now, evidently, because the conspiracy targeted Plame not just to discredit her husband, but to protect its nuke secrets theft/sale ring from Plame's CIA operation.
The roads will still be congested, they'll just be congested with rich people.
And what's the difference between a road you can't get through because it's congested with cars, and a road you can't get through because it's congested with fees?
This whole system is just a way to give rich people more access to public roads (that they're not paying their share of taxes to support anyway), while also tracking everyone like criminals.
I think their model is Iraq. Because Iraqis have succeeded in preventing the US military from completing a victory.
Iraq, where in reality "the people" have been arming themselves by robbing the armories, the exact opposite of the 2nd Amendment formula. And getting a more brutal slaughter, ever further from any "people's government", destroying any chances for "a more perfect union", "the common defense", "general welfare" or "domestic tranquility" with every shot.
Or maybe it's Vietnam, or Iran, or anywhere else the US military has failed in face of armed, popular revolt. But all those require the US military to want an endless conflict, or at least its top commanders in collaboration with a crooked White House. They think "their boys" in the military won't go shooting up their cousins (as if the Civil War didn't prove that bullets are thicker than blood). But when regiments are sent around the country to states their troops have never seen before, especially North vs South and coast vs Midwest (and NY vs Texas vs California), the US will look like Napoleon or Alexander running through Europe or Asia with local reinforcements fighting old feuds.
In these conflicts, the gun always wins, and democracy always loses. Gun fetishists consume much more "history" of these conflicts than anyone else, so they know what they want. They want to shoot someone and get away with it. Which means getting that nerdy government out of the way.
Here's another American whistelblower from way back in the 1980s who didn't keep the secret, and got banished. But he's back too.
There are surely more, maybe many more. And many many more who saw what happened to those who squealed who absolutely should have been heard and heeded. But none of them were carried in the US corporate media. This is hard evidence of how the conspiracy defends itself. How can you keep denying it with a "smell test" forged by consuming the US corporate media?
No, I think that most of the people doing their part in the conspiracy think they're just doing their job. I think the gagging judge, whether or not they knew that they're protecting a conspiracy, thought they were protecting secret intel practices. Drowning the baby in the bathwater.
Occam's razor doesn't offer her lying or being wrong as a simpler explanation, because it takes an extra loop to explain why she's gagged instead of just letting her fail to prove her allegations in public.
Besides, if Occam's Razor were applied to, say, the Watergate conspiracy, then they were just petty burglars. The truth, that Nixon had the CIA rob the Democratic campaign HQ to steal evidence he though they had that he'd been bribed by Howard Hughes a decade earlier, shatters Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor leaves Eugene Hasenfus just an ex-CIA pilot moonlighting for some drug dealers, not just one weak link in a large smuggling operation that exchanged guns to coke cartels for drugs sold inside the US, funding a covert war in Honduras against Nicaragua, and resupplying our enemy Iran. Occam's Razor doesn't explain how the US baited the Soviets into Afghanistan, blowing back Osama. Where were all the witnesses to those crimes spilling the beans, who numbered in the thousands?
And Occam's Razor doesn't explain what Cheney was doing in the room every time. Or really in the office upstairs, busily shredding evidence to preserve his plausible deniability.
What does serve all those purposes is naivete. At this late date, powered by a strong denial that perpetuates itself rather than face how wrong it's been about everything.
Well, now you're moving on to talk about the substance of the allegations, since your effort to nip it in the bud by denying my toplevel point about its interest regardless of political orientation (so long as it's in the interest of America) has failed.
So I'm not impressed by your "smell test". Usually the line of argument you follow relies on saying "but no one leaked". In this case, someone actually did leak, Sibel Edmonds. Who's been (unconstitutionally) gagged for years. To suppress false info? That doesn't pass the smell test.
Also not sticking to the conspiracy's script is Valerie Plame, and her husband. Those people aren't exactly screaming from the rafters, but of course they've also worked hard most of their lives to protect the US from bottom line damage, and keep its intel systems intact. The rest of the people in a position to know are either guilty, so they're not going to squeal, or still in the game working inside to slow/stop/fix the damage. At this level, very few people have much to gain by just going public. Especially when part of the described conspiracy operation was to replace actual loyal Americans with foreign moles.
The one person we know of who isn't playing inside the rules got gagged, and who knows what other threats. Meanwhile, plenty of other spying takes place and almost never comes to light, even when caught. And even this case is getting practically no coverage here in America, where it would be a popular story, though it's passed muster at several very legitimate news orgs at very close allies, in English, like in Canada and now the UK. So "kept it all a secret" isn't really a failed requirement of these conspiracies.
I remind you that the Iran/Contra conspiracy, which bridged several agencies covering for each other (CIA, NSC, Pentagon, Justice, and more) didn't leak to the press until one pilot (Eugene Hasenfus, CIA) crashed in Nicaragua (an enemy government the target of an actual shooting war run by the conspiracy) and was put on TV saying he was CIA (he actually had his CIA ID card with him). Those Iran/Contra people are at the core of this Bush regime, from Congress (Google (cunningham "iran/contra")) through the Executive branch, through "emeritus" figures like John Poindexter. It's a successful, unbroken conspiracy (despite exposure and even - overturned - convictions) that has absolutely no reason to stop growing. And since huge, longeterm business like Star Wars is up for grabs, it will grow bigger than the Earth no matter how much some of us try to deny it.
That's reality. "Smell tests" run by complex, practiced denial mechanisms that "don't believe the vast majority of accusations against htis administration", are just part of the faithy community that's run rampant over this country and the world the past seven or more years. People like you make it easy, because you're pulling the wool so hard over your own eyes.
Whether it's "the government" or "traitors working in the government" is immaterial to my point. My point is that "slashkos" portrays this issue of nuke proliferation, and conspiracies to do it, and to cover it, all up inside the government, as an issue of interest only to liberal activist Democrats, which is what DailyKos is for. That is what I'm asserting.
The distinction between the government and the people who run it, the people who use their government jobs to do it and to cover it up, makes no difference when saying the issue suits the Democratic agenda and not just general interest. The facts of the allegations are immaterial to the relegation of stories about the depths of government corruption to the sidelines because the administration responsible is Republican.
What nonsense. Just because the guy who started DailyKos interviewed with the CIA for a job doesn't mean that he joined. I know several people who interviewed and didn't join. And the "logic" of that video doesn't add up at all. He doesn't say that he did nothing but interview with the CIA until Dean started to campaign, that's just the items he mentioned in that timeframe, during which he thought about what to do.
And those are just the big fallacies in that video (like "which war?" obviously the Iraq War, which is the war that DailyKos is obsessed with). If that's your idea of "truth", then "set you free" only means that you've lowered your price for shilling to $0.
Maybe you should realize that the second amendment is in our constitution for protection from the government
Where are all you gun-totin' "libertarians" already? The government has started an endless war in Iraq on lies rather than protect us from attackers from Saudi Arabia, while losing the Afghanistan War, all for over $1 TRILLION. While putting us in $10T government debt, and another $10T mortgage debt, all of which everyone (except the government's cronies) will pay to the banks. They've used all that as a pretext for suspending Habeas Corpus, torturing prisoners, and now evidently also stealing nuke secrets to give to major threats like Pakistan and those Sauds again. They stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. And you libertarians will say the Democrats are just as bad, and I'd agree that they're collaborating by failing to impeach.
So where are you with your guns, to save our Constitution? The 1st Amendment freedom from religion in government is smashed, "free speech zones" routinely gag our speech and right to assembly, the press is controlled by media corporations. The government is unreasonably searching and seizing people to violate the 4th Amendment. Grand Juries ignore the 5th Amendment, there is no protection of our rights to speedy trials, gay people don't have equal protection under the law. Even your holy 2nd Amendment is just a license to play weekend warrior and let gangs arm themselves with tankbusters, while many laws abridging your right to keep and bear arms are on the books across the country at every level.
If you're not going to save the Constitution and the republic now, then when?
Obvious answer: you never are. You're just going to play with your lethal toys. Legal and illegal trading in your guns will continue to supply an excuse to the police to keep us all under wraps, because violent people can so easily get guns to become a real menace. But you'll ignore the only reason you can cite for protecting your gun rights, "the security of a free state", all the while you scream it as loud as you can for cover for destroying the rest of the Constitution.
You gun people are weak and pathetic. Bunch of whiners who shoot off your mouths about the Constitution, but couldn't hit the broad side of a revolution. I'm not afraid of your threat to "put me against a wall when the revolution comes" Gimme a break. You're a coward who shouldn't even be talking in public, let alone talking about protecting the Constitution with the blood of people like me who can describe you for what you are.
Which is a bunch of people who just want to shoot someone and get away with it. But won't, even when your Constitution is at stake. Sissies.
According to NY Verified Voting, partisan deadlock and a lack of product alternatives might just combine to ensure that NY state requires that every voting machine that replaces our time-honored "Iron Maidens" (metal mechanical lever-pull boards) voting booths be a paper ballot. Marked with a standard marking machine, and counted electronically - but available for recounts as physical evidence.
Maybe after a few hundred more years running this huge "democracy experiment" we'll finally get right the basics, like counting the votes.
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Where's the gene for those men who can't pull over and ask for directions? How about the gene in women who can't ask questions they could learn from?
That point (an unproveable assertion, BTW) is totally irrelevant. The technology doesn't change our rights. We have the right to be secure in our papers and personal effects. That is obviously perfectly equivalent to records stored in the iPod. It might take a judge distracted by some arguing lawyers a few hours to decide that records stored elsewhere but accessed directly by the iPod are equivalent to the same old papers and effects, but it's an obvious conclusion.
The only relevant question is whether a cop stopping you for speeding or running a red light has probable cause to search your papers and personal effects for anything else. Which they obviously don't, especially since they've already got all the evidence of the moving violation crime they're accusing you of, and your preexisting papers could contain evidence of that only if they are accusing you of premeditated moving violations, which I think isn't even a legal charge.
The people who formulated and signed the Constitution were smart. So smart they didn't have to be able to conceive an iPhone. All they had to conceive was identifying our rights, and directing our government to protect them. And, along the couple centuries since then, we've updated their list of identified rights and required protections at least 17 more times. But none of those updates are because some gizmo appeared, even when some - like telegraphs, cars, airplanes, computers - transformed our society. Because we the people are still the same, with the same rights.
The rest of this crap is just an excuse for lawyers to make money and power brokers to steal more power from the people.
Gates makes money off the money he's investing in charity. Without the hatred that came with his last scammy enterprise, without real competition, and without having to invent anything, however cruddy.
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At least 20% of modders trust Microsoft more than their own lying eyes.
Unless Microsoft is just lying. How can they be trusted, with their track record?
Content companies that indulge DRM to squeeze the maximum possible money from the most lamebrained consumption of their content, instead of doing something else, are doomed. If they rely on DRM to maximize sales of forgettable top 40, and drag out the longest possible revenue streams from reselling "classics" already in demand because of their folk art status, instead of making quality new content, they're stuck.
Because DRM doesn't really protect them, and it gets in the way, sure. But really because they're security corps instead of content corps when they operate that way. If they promoted new content that people like and keep consuming, if they harnessed the energy of their market interacting with their content libraries to make and exchange mashups, if they gave away the content to promote the in-person and material merchandise (posters, toys, clothes, etc) that's easy to control selling, they'd be exploding in value and popularity.
If they were in the business of using tech and other people's interactions by it to make more music, in more people's ears, instead of the failing business of stopping it, they'd be richer and more popular than ever.
The problem isn't so much the DRM. It's that they're relying on DRM to the exclusion of everything else. And with "experts" like PC World (which is in business floating on a sea of "piracy" that sells tons of tech and software) failing to see even these basics, it's no wonder that tech-idiots, music-idiots and business-idiots like the music moguls are doomed.
Thanks. Posting in the thread destroys the mod. Besides, this is all purely virtual, anyway.
Maybe a ball with a surface covered in the textural memory plastic I mentioned, but elastic, with coiled shape fibers inside that can create textured shapes and sizes on demand, both convex and concave.
I really think there's some kind of gyroscopic way to simulate at least the inertial mass, and maybe somehow a 3D motion vector. The other option is some really dynamic electromagnet, but I never like the idea of magnetic fields sprayed around a room, especially one that can have magnetic media or CRTs.
There's already a gaming market for this. I wish someone would try to market something more ambitious than the Wiimote, so we can start evolving the winners already.
Well, memory plastic fibers do that without as much heat inefficiency. And though "addressably rigid" fibers are appropriate to simulating shapes of objects held in the gloves, they can't simulate position or other inertial values (eg. the motion of a ball through the air resisting the momentum of a catching hand). I wonder whether three elliptical gyros could cycle in proportions that both net to a 3D vector and sum to an inertial mass effect. If lots of those devices were nanoscale at very high speed, they might feel like a moving object. Which could also resist pressure from each hand interactively to feel like two faces of a single, solid object, even simulating variable softness on its virtual surface.
The clicking sound works because it's coming from something physical in your hand. The sound waves are close enough to actual mechanical vibration of your fingertips that the illusion in your ear (and in fact a tiny vibration of the fingertips) can work. But if there's nothing in your hand, the illusion from the learned association will fail, or be so tenuous as to offer a negative learning experience. Though I'd like to see tests of a demo with really high precision stereo audio apparently originating the sound from the fingers.
But the heard cues take a much longer, complex, and mediated (interfered) path than do tactile cues directly to the fingers interacting with the virtual object. Ask any BMW driver how important the vibrating steering wheel is to keeping control in splitsecond maneuvers, and how rewarding it is to do so, well before the eye or ear processes what just happened.
If Sun offered a supported Linux (or Solaris) with a standard SQL interface in its kernel API as featured as is the fileystem API, it would sell a lot more Sun systems. Sun could also sell services to convert default MySQL apps to other DBs that are better at heavy write volume. Or Sun could just upgrade MySQL for a commercial version to compete with Oracle and DB2 on heavy write volume, but keep the same API as the free bundled MySQL. Which would make Sun's platform a preferred one for the DB developer community. That's a huge win in Sun's battle with Oracle and IBM, to say nothing of Microsoft.
We're used to moving an actual thing around to do stuff. The physical reaction into our fingers is very important. The mouse gives a minimum, but the trackpad gives more. Touchless manual gestures don't keep the hands locked in a feedback loop with the virtual object, so they'll be clumsy.
What I'm waiting for is a thin memory plastic layer over a touchscreen, that can raise bumps and edges defining onscreen GUIs. Vibrating gloves could be good for simulating textures, but there's no tech for simulating tensile or inertial force in virtual objects. Maybe some kind of eccentric gyroscope, but I've never seen one.
I think viruses are alive. But they're neither eukaryotic nor prokaryotic, unless you call the whole planet their "cell". Where are they in the tree?
The Vice President, Cheney, was part of a conspiracy that not only outed Plame, but also tried to discredit her husband, the former US Ambassador to Iraq (during Iraq War Sr).
What these conspiracies "required" is a purely academic point. What they actually did, and who did it, is critically important. Especially because so many people in the conspiracy have been such powerful, trusted officials. And now, evidently, because the conspiracy targeted Plame not just to discredit her husband, but to protect its nuke secrets theft/sale ring from Plame's CIA operation.
The roads will still be congested, they'll just be congested with rich people.
And what's the difference between a road you can't get through because it's congested with cars, and a road you can't get through because it's congested with fees?
This whole system is just a way to give rich people more access to public roads (that they're not paying their share of taxes to support anyway), while also tracking everyone like criminals.
I think their model is Iraq. Because Iraqis have succeeded in preventing the US military from completing a victory.
Iraq, where in reality "the people" have been arming themselves by robbing the armories, the exact opposite of the 2nd Amendment formula. And getting a more brutal slaughter, ever further from any "people's government", destroying any chances for "a more perfect union", "the common defense", "general welfare" or "domestic tranquility" with every shot.
Or maybe it's Vietnam, or Iran, or anywhere else the US military has failed in face of armed, popular revolt. But all those require the US military to want an endless conflict, or at least its top commanders in collaboration with a crooked White House. They think "their boys" in the military won't go shooting up their cousins (as if the Civil War didn't prove that bullets are thicker than blood). But when regiments are sent around the country to states their troops have never seen before, especially North vs South and coast vs Midwest (and NY vs Texas vs California), the US will look like Napoleon or Alexander running through Europe or Asia with local reinforcements fighting old feuds.
In these conflicts, the gun always wins, and democracy always loses. Gun fetishists consume much more "history" of these conflicts than anyone else, so they know what they want. They want to shoot someone and get away with it. Which means getting that nerdy government out of the way.
Here's another American whistelblower from way back in the 1980s who didn't keep the secret, and got banished. But he's back too.
There are surely more, maybe many more. And many many more who saw what happened to those who squealed who absolutely should have been heard and heeded. But none of them were carried in the US corporate media. This is hard evidence of how the conspiracy defends itself. How can you keep denying it with a "smell test" forged by consuming the US corporate media?
The guys high up have done so much evil that there's no way they think there's a god, especially one with a hell.
But supposedly they do have some insider info on the aliens. Not a reassuring thought.
No, I think that most of the people doing their part in the conspiracy think they're just doing their job. I think the gagging judge, whether or not they knew that they're protecting a conspiracy, thought they were protecting secret intel practices. Drowning the baby in the bathwater.
Occam's razor doesn't offer her lying or being wrong as a simpler explanation, because it takes an extra loop to explain why she's gagged instead of just letting her fail to prove her allegations in public.
Besides, if Occam's Razor were applied to, say, the Watergate conspiracy, then they were just petty burglars. The truth, that Nixon had the CIA rob the Democratic campaign HQ to steal evidence he though they had that he'd been bribed by Howard Hughes a decade earlier, shatters Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor leaves Eugene Hasenfus just an ex-CIA pilot moonlighting for some drug dealers, not just one weak link in a large smuggling operation that exchanged guns to coke cartels for drugs sold inside the US, funding a covert war in Honduras against Nicaragua, and resupplying our enemy Iran. Occam's Razor doesn't explain how the US baited the Soviets into Afghanistan, blowing back Osama. Where were all the witnesses to those crimes spilling the beans, who numbered in the thousands?
And Occam's Razor doesn't explain what Cheney was doing in the room every time. Or really in the office upstairs, busily shredding evidence to preserve his plausible deniability.
What does serve all those purposes is naivete. At this late date, powered by a strong denial that perpetuates itself rather than face how wrong it's been about everything.
Well, now you're moving on to talk about the substance of the allegations, since your effort to nip it in the bud by denying my toplevel point about its interest regardless of political orientation (so long as it's in the interest of America) has failed.
So I'm not impressed by your "smell test". Usually the line of argument you follow relies on saying "but no one leaked". In this case, someone actually did leak, Sibel Edmonds. Who's been (unconstitutionally) gagged for years. To suppress false info? That doesn't pass the smell test.
Also not sticking to the conspiracy's script is Valerie Plame, and her husband. Those people aren't exactly screaming from the rafters, but of course they've also worked hard most of their lives to protect the US from bottom line damage, and keep its intel systems intact. The rest of the people in a position to know are either guilty, so they're not going to squeal, or still in the game working inside to slow/stop/fix the damage. At this level, very few people have much to gain by just going public. Especially when part of the described conspiracy operation was to replace actual loyal Americans with foreign moles.
The one person we know of who isn't playing inside the rules got gagged, and who knows what other threats. Meanwhile, plenty of other spying takes place and almost never comes to light, even when caught. And even this case is getting practically no coverage here in America, where it would be a popular story, though it's passed muster at several very legitimate news orgs at very close allies, in English, like in Canada and now the UK. So "kept it all a secret" isn't really a failed requirement of these conspiracies.
I remind you that the Iran/Contra conspiracy, which bridged several agencies covering for each other (CIA, NSC, Pentagon, Justice, and more) didn't leak to the press until one pilot (Eugene Hasenfus, CIA) crashed in Nicaragua (an enemy government the target of an actual shooting war run by the conspiracy) and was put on TV saying he was CIA (he actually had his CIA ID card with him). Those Iran/Contra people are at the core of this Bush regime, from Congress (Google (cunningham "iran/contra")) through the Executive branch, through "emeritus" figures like John Poindexter. It's a successful, unbroken conspiracy (despite exposure and even - overturned - convictions) that has absolutely no reason to stop growing. And since huge, longeterm business like Star Wars is up for grabs, it will grow bigger than the Earth no matter how much some of us try to deny it.
That's reality. "Smell tests" run by complex, practiced denial mechanisms that "don't believe the vast majority of accusations against htis administration", are just part of the faithy community that's run rampant over this country and the world the past seven or more years. People like you make it easy, because you're pulling the wool so hard over your own eyes.
Whether it's "the government" or "traitors working in the government" is immaterial to my point. My point is that "slashkos" portrays this issue of nuke proliferation, and conspiracies to do it, and to cover it, all up inside the government, as an issue of interest only to liberal activist Democrats, which is what DailyKos is for. That is what I'm asserting.
The distinction between the government and the people who run it, the people who use their government jobs to do it and to cover it up, makes no difference when saying the issue suits the Democratic agenda and not just general interest. The facts of the allegations are immaterial to the relegation of stories about the depths of government corruption to the sidelines because the administration responsible is Republican.
What nonsense. Just because the guy who started DailyKos interviewed with the CIA for a job doesn't mean that he joined. I know several people who interviewed and didn't join. And the "logic" of that video doesn't add up at all. He doesn't say that he did nothing but interview with the CIA until Dean started to campaign, that's just the items he mentioned in that timeframe, during which he thought about what to do.
And those are just the big fallacies in that video (like "which war?" obviously the Iraq War, which is the war that DailyKos is obsessed with). If that's your idea of "truth", then "set you free" only means that you've lowered your price for shilling to $0.
Where are all you gun-totin' "libertarians" already? The government has started an endless war in Iraq on lies rather than protect us from attackers from Saudi Arabia, while losing the Afghanistan War, all for over $1 TRILLION. While putting us in $10T government debt, and another $10T mortgage debt, all of which everyone (except the government's cronies) will pay to the banks. They've used all that as a pretext for suspending Habeas Corpus, torturing prisoners, and now evidently also stealing nuke secrets to give to major threats like Pakistan and those Sauds again. They stole the 2000 and 2004 elections. And you libertarians will say the Democrats are just as bad, and I'd agree that they're collaborating by failing to impeach.
So where are you with your guns, to save our Constitution? The 1st Amendment freedom from religion in government is smashed, "free speech zones" routinely gag our speech and right to assembly, the press is controlled by media corporations. The government is unreasonably searching and seizing people to violate the 4th Amendment. Grand Juries ignore the 5th Amendment, there is no protection of our rights to speedy trials, gay people don't have equal protection under the law. Even your holy 2nd Amendment is just a license to play weekend warrior and let gangs arm themselves with tankbusters, while many laws abridging your right to keep and bear arms are on the books across the country at every level.
If you're not going to save the Constitution and the republic now, then when?
Obvious answer: you never are. You're just going to play with your lethal toys. Legal and illegal trading in your guns will continue to supply an excuse to the police to keep us all under wraps, because violent people can so easily get guns to become a real menace. But you'll ignore the only reason you can cite for protecting your gun rights, "the security of a free state", all the while you scream it as loud as you can for cover for destroying the rest of the Constitution.
You gun people are weak and pathetic. Bunch of whiners who shoot off your mouths about the Constitution, but couldn't hit the broad side of a revolution. I'm not afraid of your threat to "put me against a wall when the revolution comes" Gimme a break. You're a coward who shouldn't even be talking in public, let alone talking about protecting the Constitution with the blood of people like me who can describe you for what you are.
Which is a bunch of people who just want to shoot someone and get away with it. But won't, even when your Constitution is at stake. Sissies.
According to NY Verified Voting, partisan deadlock and a lack of product alternatives might just combine to ensure that NY state requires that every voting machine that replaces our time-honored "Iron Maidens" (metal mechanical lever-pull boards) voting booths be a paper ballot. Marked with a standard marking machine, and counted electronically - but available for recounts as physical evidence.
Maybe after a few hundred more years running this huge "democracy experiment" we'll finally get right the basics, like counting the votes.
Hey, that's not funny.