or equivalent with cash. If two or more people buy such a phone with cash, including the minutes cards, they can communicate securely among themselves, because even if the NSA can listen in, they won't know who they are listening to.
Actually I did tell them that I wanted to try this thing and it actually worked as advertised. I just don't find it useful enough to use, especially since it is very expensive.
I have installed Parallels version 9 and tried out their access program, since it was free for six months. It works as advertised, although on our slow Internet connection it is essentially unusable. Trying to do work on a standard iPad screen that is normally displayed on a big PC monitor or even a big laptop makes for pretty tiny print. $80 per year is pretty steep. $20-$30 is about the maximum I would pay even if our Internet connection for up to par. It will not work on a LAN over Wi-Fi. I have no trouble uninstalling the Access part by simply dragging the Access.app in the applications folder into the trash and then emptying the trash and restarting. I did not see any extraneous processes running according to the Activity Monitor. Running the Parallel.app version 9 does not show any additional processes than before version 9 was installed. If and when I have to do real work, I will just take my MacBook and use the iPad strictly for entertainment, maybe answering an occasional email.
I say that sending your child to public school is akin to child abuse.
Not supporting Public Schools is Child Abuse on a Mass scale.
The worst thing that has happened to Public Schools in America is they have become a political weapon used by one party against another. Rather than improve the schools, we keep getting assholes who call themselves Education Candidates -- in a way, they are up front, they're going to teach you how not to run your schools.
While public school systems in many countries are great successes, the American public school has become a target of derision, blame and shame. Not quite lofty goals, not what they could be.
I do believe teachers should be held to account, but so should parents. I had good parents and I attended excellent public schools, which received the full support of the community. It should be that good everywhere, then private schools would be the joke.
Politics and political correctness are certainly a big factor in why public schools mostly leave a lot to be desired in terms of the product they turn out; namely educated children. Any organization, whether business or the schools where the employees get paid regardless of whether the product they turn out is good or bad will eventually fail. Because of the teachers union and political reasons, it is virtually impossible to fire a bad teacher. Also, for the skill and costly education required to be a good teacher, the pay in all but the richest school districts is abysmal. Anybody with any brains or skill at all will look for a teaching job only as a last resort. There are very few people that go into teaching simply because they love children and want to see them succeed.
The reason why people send their kids to private schools is the same reason why people refuse to buy a shoddy product in the marketplace, if they can afford something better. Until there is a correlation between the pay educators get and the quality of product they turn out, there is no hope to improve the public schools. Fortunately, especially because of the advent of the Internet, many people of modest means are turning to homeschooling which is far less expensive than almost any private school. Ever since God was kicked out of public school, many Christian parents have removed their children from that anti-God secular environment as well.
Is there a law that states that browser makers, such as Microsoft, Apple and others MUST include all that extraneous information that their browsers send to Web servers without the user's permission? Why must there be *any* information sent to a Web server other than the actual request for data? Why must a Web server know any information at all about what kind of an OS, sites last visited or whether or not a user has visited a site before? If these companies that make browsers really cared about privacy, they would enable their users to select which, if any, of this data to send out on the Internet. Perhaps somebody might get rich making a browser that allows users to return off the sending of all that extra information.
Real criminals always want their crimes kept secret. If they have the power, such as those in government, to punish people who expose their secret crimes or bumbling ineptness, they will do so every time. The crime such whistleblowers are accused of and punished for are always for exposing dirty deep dark secrets.
It has always been the case throughout human history, that nothing makes people angrier than when their misdeeds and hypocrisy are brought to light. If those people are powerful, such as those in government, they will see to it that draconian punishments are imposed on anybody who dares and exposes the evil deeds of these powerful government officials. Jesus Christ, the best human who ever walked on this planet, was crucified because he publicly exposed the hypocrisy of the powerful religious hierarchy of his time.
Why is the timescale so important as to future predictions? That "someone" is God and he foretold that the Jews would be scattered all over the earth. That happened exactly in the year 70 A.D. and was finalized in 135 A.D. but the prediction of this was made many centuries before it happened. God further predicted that not too long before the end of history as we have known it, the scattered Jews would be brought back into their homeland. This happened when the state of Israel was founded on May 14, 1948. God further predicted that after this takes place, the Jews will never again be uprooted out of their homeland. God predicted that Jerusalem would once again come under sovereign control of the Jewish people, something that has not been true for thousands of years. This was fulfilled in the Six-Day War where on June 6, 1967 Israel assumed sovereign control over Jerusalem. The combined might of the Arab armies have tried four times to exterminate the nation of Israel, but so far have failed miserably. It must be horribly embarrassing to the Islamist Arabs, that their god Allah does not give them victory over the Jews which they hate and wish to exterminate. Instead, the Jewish God Jehovah whose human name is Jesus, protects the Jews.
Right at this time, there are still many Jews scattered in various nations, especially the US. God further tells us through his prophets that the time will come when there will not be a single Jew anywhere on earth except for their ancient homeland, Israel. As I write this, Egypt is at the door of Civil War. God's prophet Isaiah, foretold that this would happen. There will be three more attempts to wipe out Israel. During one of these attempts, Damascus, the Syrian capital will be totally destroyed. The final futile attempt will be when ALL armies of all nations of the earth participate in the final war of humanity, the battle of Armageddon. God writes history in advance, which he uses to authenticate his message the Bible to all mankind.
I think the reason you are so angry is because in your heart of hearts you are beginning to understand which way the world is heading, namely to a one world financial system under a one world government. I am telling you now "I told you so", because most likely neither I or anybody else will be able to tell you that anymore when it happens. Nothing gets people angrier and madder and more furious than truth they know is true, but hate with a purple passion, people such as you. I just hope you don't get mad enough to have a brain hemorrhage over this truth.
Exactly. Those in authority care nothing for the betterment of the world. Only their own betterment, which is tied to the betterment of the rich and powerful.
Resistance to those with authority is the only way we are actually going to better the world.
Resistance to those in authority would not be necessary if they were intrinsically good and not evil. The problem is that people are not intrinsically good, but can and do in fact get corrupted and let the evil within them take control of them. After that they desperately seek to control everyone else.
That's a matter of personal opinion. In general wrong and illegal are the same thing, because no one will be able to decide what is wrong unless it's defined that way.
No, it's a matter of fundamental morals. If you'd lived in nazi Germany, would you have ratted on a neighbour hiding Jews? Not doing so was illegal, but also the only right thing to do.
Equating illegal with wrong means you're uncritically accepting your government as the ultimate judge in ethical matters.
Where do fundamental morals come from? If the government is not the ultimate judge of ethical matters, who is? The government after all is nothing but a collection of people, such as in the Nazi case, who have decided that the Jews are "subhuman". In the pre-Civil War South, blacks were not considered to be human, but mere property, such as cattle or sheep. It is really a question of whether or not there are absolutes in the moral and ethical realm, as there are in the physical realm. No one can repeal or negate the law of gravity, because it is absolute as are all natural laws.
At one time people believed that all laws, whether natural or moral were put in place by the Supreme Lawgiver, God. The founding fathers believed that all humans have inalienable rights that are given to them by the author of life. All governments everywhere can and have only ever taken away these divinely given rights of all people. If God is left out of the equation, such as is commonly the case today, exactly who decides what is moral or ethical? Is it the majority opinion? Is it the one with the biggest and best weapons? Who?
Well, it so happens that the "yokels" that wrote the Bible had some information from someone who could look through the corridors of time and see our world. He revealed to them that a time would come when no one would be able to "buy or sell" without some sort of numerical identifier. Such a thing was impossible to even imagine in the day these writers lived. Most likely, if you live in the US you already have a universal identifier, known as the Social Security number. All that remains now is that this sort of identifier is expanded to the whole world and somehow affixed or implanted into your body, to make it accessible to some sort of universal reader device. Many animals already have a chip implanted in them. If you are young and live long enough, it is highly likely you may see this be implemented.
You dismiss the article because of the source, yet offer no counter to their position or opinion.
Over. Kaput. Your politicians aren't even bothering to try to come up with plausible explanations for the !@#$ that's going on in your name. We're just waiting for it to fall in on itself and see what rises from the ashes.
What will rise from the ashes is a new world order, which the bankers and financiers have been striving toward for a long time now. After the dollar dies, a new cashless completely electronic financial system will come along with a puppet world dictatorship controlled by the corporate money masters. The infrastructure with the ability to monitor and track every financial transaction and much else is being put in place today. Huge data centers in various places of the world, all interconnected, will track everybody and everything. We have had the shadows of such a system for a long time now. Try to get a job or open a bank account without a Social Security number. See if you can rent a car without a credit card. This was prophesied in the Bible centuries ago. People throughout history before our time wondered how such a prophecy could come true, but today this is now possible. (Revelation 13:16-17)
with everyone thinking/believing that their data is reasonably private.
Everyone? I think not. If anyone believed such a thing, they were simply naive.
The Internet and other digital infrastructure and the enormous data warehouses filled with supercomputers are necessary infrastructure for the coming New World Order. When the present currencies and financial systems based on debt collapse, they will be replaced by a new cashless, centralized system controlled by the international world bankers. The infrastructure now being built and tested will be necessary to keep track of every single financial transaction done on this planet.
So? No matter who is behind it, it showed just how horrible the Russian government really is.
Back in the Cold War days I never thought the time would ever come that someone blowing the whistle on the American Government's evil behavior would seek and find asylum in a communist country like China or Russia.
Which begs the questions: Who is the puppeteer? Why don't Americans do something about it?
The puppeteers are the money masters, the ones that control the nation's money. There is a quote that goes something like this, "the one who controls the financial system, controls the country, no matter who is in office". For the US, that consortium of bankers is known as the " Federal Reserve".
"These aren't people who care about right or wrong. "
Oh yes they do and that is why they are so incredibly, spitting mad and want to get Snowden at all costs because he exposed THEIR secret wrongdoing to the American people.
Eric Holder and his criminal gang would put Snowden in solitary confinement just like they did with Manning. They did this to the young man before he was even put on trial before a kangaroo court. If solitary confinement is not a form of torture, then tell me what is. History has shown innumerable times that evildoers with power in and out of government hate nothing more than when their evil is brought to the light of day where everybody can see it.
It is only because of modern data processing and storage technology, that it would be possible to enforce an edict, that if you have no ID you are not allowed to participate in commerce. This is not future, but already here for much of the world today. If you don't have a government issued ID (passport) you're not allowed to cross national borders. If you don't have an ID, it is almost impossible to cash a check. If you don't have an ID, you can't buy a gun, etc. etc. etc. Having some sort of universal ID affixed to some part of your body is just a small additional step from what is already here today.
"I do appreciate the fact that there needs to be a key that allows to mark and track everyone's tax payments. What's wrong with that?"
Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but then it is never limited to that is it? Is the IRS scandal targeting certain conservative groups not be sufficient illustration for you yet? Has there ever been a time or a government that has not used legitimate information for illegitimate purposes, such as stifling dissent or opposition?
It is not that I or anybody else wants a world dictatorship or Armageddon to come about, but unrestrained human evil combined with nuclear proliferation, will unfortunately bring this about sometime in the future. When has there ever been a weapon forged by the hand of man that was NOT used to kill people? If the people who fly airplanes into buildings get nukes, does anybody here think that they will NOT use them?
It is not just that the US is going to end up with a dictatorial government, but that the stage is being set for the new world order and the world dictator that is predicted to come that has been labeled the antichrist. With the coming New World order will be a cashless computerized worldwide economic system where every transaction between people will be tracked. It is also necessary to be able to track and eliminate any opposition to such a world dictatorship. To do this reliably it requires enormous worldwide computing and data storage facilities, just exactly like the kind that the NSA and other governments are building right now. It is all moving toward the Mark of the Beast, without which no one will be allowed to buy or sell. We already have precursors to that future system solidly embedded in our culture. Try to get a job without a Social Security number or rent a car without some sort of credit card. Just try to imagine what Adolf Hitler or Stalin could have done, if today's technology had been available in those days.
From the way the government has been ignoring the Constitution already, what makes you think that any additional amendments of any kind will change that?
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or equivalent with cash. If two or more people buy such a phone with cash, including the minutes cards, they can communicate securely among themselves, because even if the NSA can listen in, they won't know who they are listening to.
Actually I did tell them that I wanted to try this thing and it actually worked as advertised. I just don't find it useful enough to use, especially since it is very expensive.
I have installed Parallels version 9 and tried out their access program, since it was free for six months. It works as advertised, although on our slow Internet connection it is essentially unusable. Trying to do work on a standard iPad screen that is normally displayed on a big PC monitor or even a big laptop makes for pretty tiny print. $80 per year is pretty steep. $20-$30 is about the maximum I would pay even if our Internet connection for up to par. It will not work on a LAN over Wi-Fi. I have no trouble uninstalling the Access part by simply dragging the Access.app in the applications folder into the trash and then emptying the trash and restarting. I did not see any extraneous processes running according to the Activity Monitor. Running the Parallel.app version 9 does not show any additional processes than before version 9 was installed. If and when I have to do real work, I will just take my MacBook and use the iPad strictly for entertainment, maybe answering an occasional email.
on your phone you get hit by that car unless you are REALLY fast and jump out of the way.
I say that sending your child to public school is akin to child abuse.
Not supporting Public Schools is Child Abuse on a Mass scale.
The worst thing that has happened to Public Schools in America is they have become a political weapon used by one party against another. Rather than improve the schools, we keep getting assholes who call themselves Education Candidates -- in a way, they are up front, they're going to teach you how not to run your schools.
While public school systems in many countries are great successes, the American public school has become a target of derision, blame and shame. Not quite lofty goals, not what they could be.
I do believe teachers should be held to account, but so should parents. I had good parents and I attended excellent public schools, which received the full support of the community. It should be that good everywhere, then private schools would be the joke.
Politics and political correctness are certainly a big factor in why public schools mostly leave a lot to be desired in terms of the product they turn out; namely educated children. Any organization, whether business or the schools where the employees get paid regardless of whether the product they turn out is good or bad will eventually fail. Because of the teachers union and political reasons, it is virtually impossible to fire a bad teacher. Also, for the skill and costly education required to be a good teacher, the pay in all but the richest school districts is abysmal. Anybody with any brains or skill at all will look for a teaching job only as a last resort. There are very few people that go into teaching simply because they love children and want to see them succeed.
The reason why people send their kids to private schools is the same reason why people refuse to buy a shoddy product in the marketplace, if they can afford something better. Until there is a correlation between the pay educators get and the quality of product they turn out, there is no hope to improve the public schools. Fortunately, especially because of the advent of the Internet, many people of modest means are turning to homeschooling which is far less expensive than almost any private school. Ever since God was kicked out of public school, many Christian parents have removed their children from that anti-God secular environment as well.
Is there a law that states that browser makers, such as Microsoft, Apple and others MUST include all that extraneous information that their browsers send to Web servers without the user's permission? Why must there be *any* information sent to a Web server other than the actual request for data? Why must a Web server know any information at all about what kind of an OS, sites last visited or whether or not a user has visited a site before? If these companies that make browsers really cared about privacy, they would enable their users to select which, if any, of this data to send out on the Internet. Perhaps somebody might get rich making a browser that allows users to return off the sending of all that extra information.
Real criminals always want their crimes kept secret. If they have the power, such as those in government, to punish people who expose their secret crimes or bumbling ineptness, they will do so every time. The crime such whistleblowers are accused of and punished for are always for exposing dirty deep dark secrets.
It has always been the case throughout human history, that nothing makes people angrier than when their misdeeds and hypocrisy are brought to light. If those people are powerful, such as those in government, they will see to it that draconian punishments are imposed on anybody who dares and exposes the evil deeds of these powerful government officials. Jesus Christ, the best human who ever walked on this planet, was crucified because he publicly exposed the hypocrisy of the powerful religious hierarchy of his time.
Why is the timescale so important as to future predictions? That "someone" is God and he foretold that the Jews would be scattered all over the earth. That happened exactly in the year 70 A.D. and was finalized in 135 A.D. but the prediction of this was made many centuries before it happened. God further predicted that not too long before the end of history as we have known it, the scattered Jews would be brought back into their homeland. This happened when the state of Israel was founded on May 14, 1948. God further predicted that after this takes place, the Jews will never again be uprooted out of their homeland. God predicted that Jerusalem would once again come under sovereign control of the Jewish people, something that has not been true for thousands of years. This was fulfilled in the Six-Day War where on June 6, 1967 Israel assumed sovereign control over Jerusalem. The combined might of the Arab armies have tried four times to exterminate the nation of Israel, but so far have failed miserably. It must be horribly embarrassing to the Islamist Arabs, that their god Allah does not give them victory over the Jews which they hate and wish to exterminate. Instead, the Jewish God Jehovah whose human name is Jesus, protects the Jews.
Right at this time, there are still many Jews scattered in various nations, especially the US. God further tells us through his prophets that the time will come when there will not be a single Jew anywhere on earth except for their ancient homeland, Israel. As I write this, Egypt is at the door of Civil War. God's prophet Isaiah, foretold that this would happen. There will be three more attempts to wipe out Israel. During one of these attempts, Damascus, the Syrian capital will be totally destroyed. The final futile attempt will be when ALL armies of all nations of the earth participate in the final war of humanity, the battle of Armageddon. God writes history in advance, which he uses to authenticate his message the Bible to all mankind.
I think the reason you are so angry is because in your heart of hearts you are beginning to understand which way the world is heading, namely to a one world financial system under a one world government. I am telling you now "I told you so", because most likely neither I or anybody else will be able to tell you that anymore when it happens. Nothing gets people angrier and madder and more furious than truth they know is true, but hate with a purple passion, people such as you. I just hope you don't get mad enough to have a brain hemorrhage over this truth.
Exactly. Those in authority care nothing for the betterment of the world. Only their own betterment, which is tied to the betterment of the rich and powerful.
Resistance to those with authority is the only way we are actually going to better the world.
Resistance to those in authority would not be necessary if they were intrinsically good and not evil. The problem is that people are not intrinsically good, but can and do in fact get corrupted and let the evil within them take control of them. After that they desperately seek to control everyone else.
That's a matter of personal opinion. In general wrong and illegal are the same thing, because no one will be able to decide what is wrong unless it's defined that way.
No, it's a matter of fundamental morals. If you'd lived in nazi Germany, would you have ratted on a neighbour hiding Jews? Not doing so was illegal, but also the only right thing to do.
Equating illegal with wrong means you're uncritically accepting your government as the ultimate judge in ethical matters.
Where do fundamental morals come from? If the government is not the ultimate judge of ethical matters, who is? The government after all is nothing but a collection of people, such as in the Nazi case, who have decided that the Jews are "subhuman". In the pre-Civil War South, blacks were not considered to be human, but mere property, such as cattle or sheep. It is really a question of whether or not there are absolutes in the moral and ethical realm, as there are in the physical realm. No one can repeal or negate the law of gravity, because it is absolute as are all natural laws.
At one time people believed that all laws, whether natural or moral were put in place by the Supreme Lawgiver, God. The founding fathers believed that all humans have inalienable rights that are given to them by the author of life. All governments everywhere can and have only ever taken away these divinely given rights of all people. If God is left out of the equation, such as is commonly the case today, exactly who decides what is moral or ethical? Is it the majority opinion? Is it the one with the biggest and best weapons? Who?
Needing to resort to an ad hominem attack shows that you cannot give an intelligent and coherent reply.
Well, it so happens that the "yokels" that wrote the Bible had some information from someone who could look through the corridors of time and see our world. He revealed to them that a time would come when no one would be able to "buy or sell" without some sort of numerical identifier. Such a thing was impossible to even imagine in the day these writers lived. Most likely, if you live in the US you already have a universal identifier, known as the Social Security number. All that remains now is that this sort of identifier is expanded to the whole world and somehow affixed or implanted into your body, to make it accessible to some sort of universal reader device. Many animals already have a chip implanted in them. If you are young and live long enough, it is highly likely you may see this be implemented.
You dismiss the article because of the source, yet offer no counter to their position or opinion.
Over. Kaput. Your politicians aren't even bothering to try to come up with plausible explanations for the !@#$ that's going on in your name. We're just waiting for it to fall in on itself and see what rises from the ashes.
What will rise from the ashes is a new world order, which the bankers and financiers have been striving toward for a long time now. After the dollar dies, a new cashless completely electronic financial system will come along with a puppet world dictatorship controlled by the corporate money masters. The infrastructure with the ability to monitor and track every financial transaction and much else is being put in place today. Huge data centers in various places of the world, all interconnected, will track everybody and everything. We have had the shadows of such a system for a long time now. Try to get a job or open a bank account without a Social Security number. See if you can rent a car without a credit card. This was prophesied in the Bible centuries ago. People throughout history before our time wondered how such a prophecy could come true, but today this is now possible. (Revelation 13:16-17)
with everyone thinking/believing that their data is reasonably private.
Everyone? I think not. If anyone believed such a thing, they were simply naive.
The Internet and other digital infrastructure and the enormous data warehouses filled with supercomputers are necessary infrastructure for the coming New World Order. When the present currencies and financial systems based on debt collapse, they will be replaced by a new cashless, centralized system controlled by the international world bankers. The infrastructure now being built and tested will be necessary to keep track of every single financial transaction done on this planet.
So?
No matter who is behind it, it showed just how horrible the Russian government really is.
Back in the Cold War days I never thought the time would ever come that someone blowing the whistle on the American Government's evil behavior would seek and find asylum in a communist country like China or Russia.
Which begs the questions: Who is the puppeteer? Why don't Americans do something about it?
The puppeteers are the money masters, the ones that control the nation's money. There is a quote that goes something like this, "the one who controls the financial system, controls the country, no matter who is in office". For the US, that consortium of bankers is known as the " Federal Reserve".
"These aren't people who care about right or wrong. "
Oh yes they do and that is why they are so incredibly, spitting mad and want to get Snowden at all costs because he exposed THEIR secret wrongdoing to the American people.
Eric Holder and his criminal gang would put Snowden in solitary confinement just like they did with Manning. They did this to the young man before he was even put on trial before a kangaroo court. If solitary confinement is not a form of torture, then tell me what is. History has shown innumerable times that evildoers with power in and out of government hate nothing more than when their evil is brought to the light of day where everybody can see it.
It is only because of modern data processing and storage technology, that it would be possible to enforce an edict, that if you have no ID you are not allowed to participate in commerce. This is not future, but already here for much of the world today. If you don't have a government issued ID (passport) you're not allowed to cross national borders. If you don't have an ID, it is almost impossible to cash a check. If you don't have an ID, you can't buy a gun, etc. etc. etc. Having some sort of universal ID affixed to some part of your body is just a small additional step from what is already here today.
"I do appreciate the fact that there needs to be a key that allows to mark and track everyone's tax payments. What's wrong with that?"
Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but then it is never limited to that is it? Is the IRS scandal targeting certain conservative groups not be sufficient illustration for you yet? Has there ever been a time or a government that has not used legitimate information for illegitimate purposes, such as stifling dissent or opposition?
It is not that I or anybody else wants a world dictatorship or Armageddon to come about, but unrestrained human evil combined with nuclear proliferation, will unfortunately bring this about sometime in the future. When has there ever been a weapon forged by the hand of man that was NOT used to kill people? If the people who fly airplanes into buildings get nukes, does anybody here think that they will NOT use them?
It is not just that the US is going to end up with a dictatorial government, but that the stage is being set for the new world order and the world dictator that is predicted to come that has been labeled the antichrist. With the coming New World order will be a cashless computerized worldwide economic system where every transaction between people will be tracked. It is also necessary to be able to track and eliminate any opposition to such a world dictatorship. To do this reliably it requires enormous worldwide computing and data storage facilities, just exactly like the kind that the NSA and other governments are building right now. It is all moving toward the Mark of the Beast, without which no one will be allowed to buy or sell. We already have precursors to that future system solidly embedded in our culture. Try to get a job without a Social Security number or rent a car without some sort of credit card. Just try to imagine what Adolf Hitler or Stalin could have done, if today's technology had been available in those days.
From the way the government has been ignoring the Constitution already, what makes you think that any additional amendments of any kind will change that?