Ha, even on the HIGHLY UNLIKELY chance any of these scumbags would ever be charged with anything, they would get a full Presidential pardon before the ink even dried on their arrest warrants.
Keith Alexander: "Several of your aides mentioned it within hearing distance of their cellphone mikes yesterday."
President Obama: "Well okay, what are you planning on doing now?"
Keith Alexander: "Probably spend a few days whacking it to these pictures I captured from your daughter's cellphone camera. Then I'm going to become the most powerful lobbyist in Washington with all this blackmail material."
They should give him a t-shirt that says "I raped my country's Constitution and all I got was full my federal pension, lifetime healthcare benefits, full pardon for all my crimes, and this lousy t-shirt."
Only Cameron would have the balls to use the word "politely" in reference to a direct threat from the police. It's like Hitler referring to the Poland invasion as a "polite visit with our friends in Poland."
In Cameron's bizarre lapdog logic, Snowden was the hacker and the fact that the U.S. and UK governments were hacking people's phones was the personal information that he hacked. And I have to admire the guy for being able to make that argument with a straight face.
Clearly, he's pointing out that The Guardian is hypocritical for criticizing newspapers for hacking of people's phones, and not criticizing Edward Snowden for hacking information about the government hacking of people's phones.
Just don't try to follow that logic too deep and the headache will go away.
These days in Western intelligence, rape charges and other smear tactics are the preferred assassination technique. Why deal with something as messy as bullets and poisons when a nasty sex-offender charge can do the job just as well? Assassination by character assassination.
Company towns don't depend on the government. But the company is still a monopoly in the town. It still can run the only store, be the only landlord, own the only police.
In getting rid of government, you're only exchanging one master for another.
It's just a further illustration of how much it is NOT "an airplane for space." It neither takes off nor lands under its own power. It's more analogous to a slash-down pod in that it basically just falls back down to earth.
Why do you give a flying **** what the NSA are doing with your data? I don't. I'm more concerned about Russia, China and assorted hackers and scammers the world over who might actually want to do me harm,
Because as a U.S. resident, I don't worry about Russia, China, etc. kicking my door down and throwing me in jail or putting me on a no-fly list for some joke I made in a private email to a friend.
I can remember being told as a kid that the Shuttle was going to be like a spacecraft in the movies. It would take off under its own power, come back down and land, be refueled, and take off again. "It's going to be like an airplane for space," one of my teachers said.
Sadly, what we got was just a very expensive splash-down pod that could land on a modified airstrip instead of the ocean, with a larger crew cabin and a small cargo bay. It had to be strapped to giant nonresuable rockets to get into space, couldn't go beyond LEO when it got there, had very limited maneuvering abilities and fuel even in LEO, couldn't even land under its own power (it just glides in), and has to be almost completely rebuilt every time it lands. Oh, and it's expensive, complicated, and dangerous as fuck to boot. It's more "contractor boondoggle" than it is "Buck Rodgers."
And meanwhile, we scrapped the Apollo program and the Saturns, and all that institutional knowledge is long gone from NASA.
Yes, because the vampires on Buffy were all ugly, overweight, middle-aged men. Not a pretty or handsome teenager or 20-something in sight on that show.
That 80% market share hasn't translated into more profits for app developers, or more apps being available for Android than the iPhone. The fact that a lot of cheap phones happen to run Android doesn't mean that the people who own those phones are buying apps.
It's the Xbox/PS3 vs. Wii argument. Sure the Wii outsold the Xbox and PS3, and judged by that metric alone, it clearly "won" the previous console generation. Yet where were all the good games and developer effort going? They were going into the Xbox and PS3 because developers quickly realized that the people buying all those Wii's WEREN'T buying games. So, while more Wii's were out there, they were sitting in closets gathering dust while the PS3 or Xbox was hooked up to the TV and being used. And that's what defines the REAL winner in the end.
What "competition"? Maybe in your libertarian fantasy world. But here in the real-world, powerful corporations collude, buy monopolies, crush any smaller competitors--and generally do everything to ensure that there is no real competition, and never will be. The "free market" is a bunch of horseshit shoveled to gullible suckers.
Maybe it would be easier for them to tell us what DOES work. Do they have some new headset with some sort of weird proprietary connector (hard as it is to picture Sony going with a proprietary device)?
China has no intention of fighting a *military* war. They're just sitting back and letting the U.S. bankrupt itself on a ridiculously over-sized military that it doesn't need, thus winning the *economic* war without firing a shot.
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Ha, even on the HIGHLY UNLIKELY chance any of these scumbags would ever be charged with anything, they would get a full Presidential pardon before the ink even dried on their arrest warrants.
President Obama: "Well Keith, I'm here to.."
Keith Alexander: "Ask me to resign, yeah I knew."
President Obama: Whaat..how you did you know?
Keith Alexander: "Several of your aides mentioned it within hearing distance of their cellphone mikes yesterday."
President Obama: "Well okay, what are you planning on doing now?"
Keith Alexander: "Probably spend a few days whacking it to these pictures I captured from your daughter's cellphone camera. Then I'm going to become the most powerful lobbyist in Washington with all this blackmail material."
Silly rabbit, laws are for the poor and weak.
They should give him a t-shirt that says "I raped my country's Constitution and all I got was full my federal pension, lifetime healthcare benefits, full pardon for all my crimes, and this lousy t-shirt."
Only Cameron would have the balls to use the word "politely" in reference to a direct threat from the police. It's like Hitler referring to the Poland invasion as a "polite visit with our friends in Poland."
In Cameron's bizarre lapdog logic, Snowden was the hacker and the fact that the U.S. and UK governments were hacking people's phones was the personal information that he hacked. And I have to admire the guy for being able to make that argument with a straight face.
Clearly, he's pointing out that The Guardian is hypocritical for criticizing newspapers for hacking of people's phones, and not criticizing Edward Snowden for hacking information about the government hacking of people's phones.
Just don't try to follow that logic too deep and the headache will go away.
These days in Western intelligence, rape charges and other smear tactics are the preferred assassination technique. Why deal with something as messy as bullets and poisons when a nasty sex-offender charge can do the job just as well? Assassination by character assassination.
I guess the NSA promised him riches as long as he spreads their "we're not bad, we promise" propaganda?
They offered him a choice of working for either shutthefuckup.com and gitmo.com.
A Department of the Department of Divisions and Departments, Administrative Division.
Company towns don't depend on the government. But the company is still a monopoly in the town. It still can run the only store, be the only landlord, own the only police.
In getting rid of government, you're only exchanging one master for another.
It's just a further illustration of how much it is NOT "an airplane for space." It neither takes off nor lands under its own power. It's more analogous to a slash-down pod in that it basically just falls back down to earth.
Why do you give a flying **** what the NSA are doing with your data? I don't. I'm more concerned about Russia, China and assorted hackers and scammers the world over who might actually want to do me harm,
Because as a U.S. resident, I don't worry about Russia, China, etc. kicking my door down and throwing me in jail or putting me on a no-fly list for some joke I made in a private email to a friend.
I can remember being told as a kid that the Shuttle was going to be like a spacecraft in the movies. It would take off under its own power, come back down and land, be refueled, and take off again. "It's going to be like an airplane for space," one of my teachers said.
Sadly, what we got was just a very expensive splash-down pod that could land on a modified airstrip instead of the ocean, with a larger crew cabin and a small cargo bay. It had to be strapped to giant nonresuable rockets to get into space, couldn't go beyond LEO when it got there, had very limited maneuvering abilities and fuel even in LEO, couldn't even land under its own power (it just glides in), and has to be almost completely rebuilt every time it lands. Oh, and it's expensive, complicated, and dangerous as fuck to boot. It's more "contractor boondoggle" than it is "Buck Rodgers."
And meanwhile, we scrapped the Apollo program and the Saturns, and all that institutional knowledge is long gone from NASA.
I propose we build a statue in his honor!
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Yes, because the vampires on Buffy were all ugly, overweight, middle-aged men. Not a pretty or handsome teenager or 20-something in sight on that show.
That 80% market share hasn't translated into more profits for app developers, or more apps being available for Android than the iPhone. The fact that a lot of cheap phones happen to run Android doesn't mean that the people who own those phones are buying apps.
It's the Xbox/PS3 vs. Wii argument. Sure the Wii outsold the Xbox and PS3, and judged by that metric alone, it clearly "won" the previous console generation. Yet where were all the good games and developer effort going? They were going into the Xbox and PS3 because developers quickly realized that the people buying all those Wii's WEREN'T buying games. So, while more Wii's were out there, they were sitting in closets gathering dust while the PS3 or Xbox was hooked up to the TV and being used. And that's what defines the REAL winner in the end.
What "competition"? Maybe in your libertarian fantasy world. But here in the real-world, powerful corporations collude, buy monopolies, crush any smaller competitors--and generally do everything to ensure that there is no real competition, and never will be. The "free market" is a bunch of horseshit shoveled to gullible suckers.
Oh, naive one. The point is to maintain NASA's funding.
Maybe NASA can pay the Russians to ferry them to Mars.
Maybe it would be easier for them to tell us what DOES work. Do they have some new headset with some sort of weird proprietary connector (hard as it is to picture Sony going with a proprietary device)?
Careful, the last person to challenge the U.S. dollar found himself in a U.S. jail on a trumped-up rape charge just a few months later.
China has no intention of fighting a *military* war. They're just sitting back and letting the U.S. bankrupt itself on a ridiculously over-sized military that it doesn't need, thus winning the *economic* war without firing a shot.
I came here for the punch and pie. Sadly, I *was* disappointed.