...in Massachusetts. Seriously, no joke. After the marathon bombings there was an unending outpouring of adulation for the "first respondahs." You'd think they had, at enormous losses, turned back the Taliban from invading Cambridge and raping the childrens. Not, in actuality, shut down the entire city while they raced around with giant hardons in a largely bungled effort to locate a bleeding, unarmed boy hiding in someone's boat in their back yard (whom the homeowner found and frankly should have clubbed to death on the spot). In the process of arresting this unarmed miscreant they unleashed a barrage of fire on the boat very nearly killing the kid in the process.
Meanwhile folks are still running around with their "Boston Strong" shirts on in one of the lamest displays of self-congratulatory faux heroism that I've ever seen.
The cops and firefighters are milking it with giant billboards touting some BS about being "on the home team", trying to get people to donate to some police fund. It's pathetic.
This 501(c)3 nonsense is just further evidence of their warped perspective of what it is "to protect and serve."
It amazes me that you subscribe to the idea that a local desktop hard drive crash wiped out all email for a high-ranking IRS official... and that the IRS is essentially shrugging at any notion of ineptitude. Clearly you know fuck all about tech.
I've been to NZ.. it's a wonderful place. Beautiful, raw, remarkable in all of its unique features. It's also pretty fucking empty with more sheep than people. There isn't a threat within 5,000 miles unless Australia turns Taliban. The worst thing they need to look out for is Chinese fishing poachers emptying their seas.
In all seriousness, please, kiwis, tell me why you have a//spy agency//?! Enjoy the wonderful land you live in and leave the stupids to the rest of the world.
> "We'll obviously learn details soon enough, but for now, we are left to wonder whether it'll be Apple or Google that ends up owning the automotive market."
Or BlackBerry who currently is the dominant player?
You see it time and again.. that dickbag uncle who wants to get in touch now that the final curtain is drawing near.. ruthless, monopolistic Gates now discovering that being #1 doesn't really mean much at the end of the day and often makes for a shitty person. I don't have much sympathy in either case. He had a lifetime to think about what kind of person he wanted to be. Sure, it's nice that he's parting with some of his ill-gotten gains but he probably did more damage to technical innovation than any other person alive.
Seriously.. I always used to think of Kingston as being a solid brand. In one stupid move they are now classified as ripoff scam artist criminal evil scum.
The real question is where the fuck are the indictments? This is *criminal* behavior and yet the taxpayer is going to shoulder "justice." Until cops and elected officials get put in cuffs when they break the law this sort of BS will continue to happen.
Ah yes, great relativistic argument. That's what union defenders always resort to "but-but-but the mega corps are even worse!" Pathetic. And when cities finally roll over into bankruptcy the police and fire unions fight like wounded bears to keep their bloated, egregious pensions -- even when it means cutting the existing police force.
At the end of the day accountability is almost totally absent in the upper echelons of government. Sure, sure, somebody might resign months later after a complete cluster-fuck of a healthcare.gov web site but actual crimes like perjuring oneself while under oath? meh.. "I didn't understand the question" or "it was as truthy as I felt comfortable"
> "The United States of America has become a war zone," he said. "There's violence in the workplace, there's violence in schools and there's violence in the streets. You are seeing police departments going to a semi-military format because of the threats we have to counteract.
You are no longer an officer of the peace.
You are a new armed wing, a great example of the militarization of the American police force. As part part of the Deep State you see yourself as being on one side with the quarrelsome public and their whining on the other.
Violent crime in the US is at a multi-decade low.. and yet you seek tanks to patrol the streets of US cities.
It is any wonder that people freak when the DHS tries to buy 3 billion bullets?
What I wonder every time I see this: do the law enforcement officers involved ever think something like, "wow, by doing this I become one of the jack-booted thugs working hard to bring tyranny and corruption to this nation!"
Um, no.. the little American flag on their Gestapo storm trooper outfit tells them they're the good guys. Why else would it be there??
Amen. I've been to Sea World (regrettably) and it made me want to puke. These majestic animals trapped in small pools being forced to flap about while thumping techno music plays and a sleazy DJ whoops the simpletons in the crowd into a frenzy because "omg, I'm getting wet!"
Thanks for regurgitating everything that has gone wrong. It's easy and popular these days to prognosticate that BlackBerry is doomed because stock price, market share, bad press, blah blah. Unfortunately for your ilk BlackBerry is under new management and is executing a number of moves that are different from anything in the past.
Partnering with Foxconn, introducing the Z3, the device management moves described here, BBM on all platforms, etc, are just a few.
BlackBerry remains unrivalled in device security (for sure the facebook crowd won't care), has awesome battery life, and has the smoothest mobile operating system I've ever used. Yes, full disclosure, I own a Z10. Literally the only drawback is that it doesn't have a few apps that might be handy (my banking app most notably). That written the support for Android apps grows and you can now install 'droid apps right out of the play store.
Certainly it's true that BB could still be doomed but commentary like yours is essentially the chatter of the Monday morning quarterback.
I just don't know what makes him think that the current administration is on the "respect freedom" side of things.
It's not. But he's a politician and part of a Government that excels at saying one thing and doing another. All this bullshit talk about "transparency" is laughable. The only reason we are having this "talk" is because of Edward Snowden.
Nevermind, of course, that any reasonable reading of the Constitution makes much of the NSA's activities illegal. But no, that's not important. What's important is that we're talking, having "conversations," in a "transparent" manner. Meanwhile the NSA's vacuums are running full tilt and the FISA rubber-stamp machine is printing "Approved" on anything that comes near it.
Although everyone seems to rejoice at Blackberry's troubles their new Z/Q phones are not only the most secure on the market they are also a pleasure to use. I've had an android and used iPhone's before and they do not compare. The ease of multi-tasking, the Hub, and the generally reliable performance are a pleasure. With the latest BB OS they also run Android apps with ease. It's not 100% compatibility but I've gotten Google Navigate and others installed with one click.
It's not a shameless plug. Theo has been openly critical of the OpenSSL team's development practices. By forking in-house he's essentially saying that they will put their proverbial money where their mouth is by doing their own development.
It sounds like a harmless game of Duck Hunt but it's hard to say just how insane that erratic dog Kim Jong is when it comes to retaliations for any of his tin-can missiles being shot down. Japanese take down missile? Fire a single artillery round into Seol!
Indeed arguing the higher moral ground can be difficult when you're an American but I can't help but feel China has blood on its hands by essentially supporting the North Korean regime. I can understand that they don't want a democratic Korean peninsula but what that fat little piglet Kim Jung does to his people is nothing short of an atrocity on the scale of the Holocaust.
We're not far from being able to check-box for all the SNPs and phenotypes we want in offspring. The idea that we need to ship around tens of thousands of mouth-breathers just to maintain "diversity" is about as ludicrous as saying we'll need stout men to construct shelters upon arrival at the far side.
But I can't help but feel that the very nature of our Government has morphed. Institutions like the NSA aren't bothered by public perception -- they have grown into their own. They are beholden only to their own agenda and will do whatever it takes (lying to congress, fabricating effectiveness) to maintain and expand their power. Obama will do some hand-wringing on TV but in the end nothing will change.
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...in Massachusetts. Seriously, no joke. After the marathon bombings there was an unending outpouring of adulation for the "first respondahs." You'd think they had, at enormous losses, turned back the Taliban from invading Cambridge and raping the childrens. Not, in actuality, shut down the entire city while they raced around with giant hardons in a largely bungled effort to locate a bleeding, unarmed boy hiding in someone's boat in their back yard (whom the homeowner found and frankly should have clubbed to death on the spot). In the process of arresting this unarmed miscreant they unleashed a barrage of fire on the boat very nearly killing the kid in the process.
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Meanwhile folks are still running around with their "Boston Strong" shirts on in one of the lamest displays of self-congratulatory faux heroism that I've ever seen
The cops and firefighters are milking it with giant billboards touting some BS about being "on the home team", trying to get people to donate to some police fund. It's pathetic.
This 501(c)3 nonsense is just further evidence of their warped perspective of what it is "to protect and serve."
It amazes me that you subscribe to the idea that a local desktop hard drive crash wiped out all email for a high-ranking IRS official... and that the IRS is essentially shrugging at any notion of ineptitude. Clearly you know fuck all about tech.
I've been to NZ.. it's a wonderful place. Beautiful, raw, remarkable in all of its unique features. It's also pretty fucking empty with more sheep than people. There isn't a threat within 5,000 miles unless Australia turns Taliban. The worst thing they need to look out for is Chinese fishing poachers emptying their seas.
//spy agency//?! Enjoy the wonderful land you live in and leave the stupids to the rest of the world.
In all seriousness, please, kiwis, tell me why you have a
> "We'll obviously learn details soon enough, but for now, we are left to wonder whether it'll be Apple or Google that ends up owning the automotive market." Or BlackBerry who currently is the dominant player?
Ford switches to QNX.
You see it time and again.. that dickbag uncle who wants to get in touch now that the final curtain is drawing near.. ruthless, monopolistic Gates now discovering that being #1 doesn't really mean much at the end of the day and often makes for a shitty person. I don't have much sympathy in either case. He had a lifetime to think about what kind of person he wanted to be. Sure, it's nice that he's parting with some of his ill-gotten gains but he probably did more damage to technical innovation than any other person alive.
Seriously.. I always used to think of Kingston as being a solid brand. In one stupid move they are now classified as ripoff scam artist criminal evil scum.
The real question is where the fuck are the indictments? This is *criminal* behavior and yet the taxpayer is going to shoulder "justice." Until cops and elected officials get put in cuffs when they break the law this sort of BS will continue to happen.
Wow.. so adding IL to FL on my "do not visit" list due to their infantile and corrupt police.
Ah yes, great relativistic argument. That's what union defenders always resort to "but-but-but the mega corps are even worse!" Pathetic. And when cities finally roll over into bankruptcy the police and fire unions fight like wounded bears to keep their bloated, egregious pensions -- even when it means cutting the existing police force.
At the end of the day accountability is almost totally absent in the upper echelons of government. Sure, sure, somebody might resign months later after a complete cluster-fuck of a healthcare.gov web site but actual crimes like perjuring oneself while under oath? meh.. "I didn't understand the question" or "it was as truthy as I felt comfortable"
Fuck these guys.
> "The United States of America has become a war zone," he said. "There's violence in the workplace, there's violence in schools and there's violence in the streets. You are seeing police departments going to a semi-military format because of the threats we have to counteract.
You are no longer an officer of the peace.
You are a new armed wing, a great example of the militarization of the American police force. As part part of the Deep State you see yourself as being on one side with the quarrelsome public and their whining on the other.
Violent crime in the US is at a multi-decade low.. and yet you seek tanks to patrol the streets of US cities.
It is any wonder that people freak when the DHS tries to buy 3 billion bullets?
What I wonder every time I see this: do the law enforcement officers involved ever think something like, "wow, by doing this I become one of the jack-booted thugs working hard to bring tyranny and corruption to this nation!"
Um, no.. the little American flag on their Gestapo storm trooper outfit tells them they're the good guys. Why else would it be there??
Amen. I've been to Sea World (regrettably) and it made me want to puke. These majestic animals trapped in small pools being forced to flap about while thumping techno music plays and a sleazy DJ whoops the simpletons in the crowd into a frenzy because "omg, I'm getting wet!"
Thanks for regurgitating everything that has gone wrong. It's easy and popular these days to prognosticate that BlackBerry is doomed because stock price, market share, bad press, blah blah. Unfortunately for your ilk BlackBerry is under new management and is executing a number of moves that are different from anything in the past.
Partnering with Foxconn, introducing the Z3, the device management moves described here, BBM on all platforms, etc, are just a few.
BlackBerry remains unrivalled in device security (for sure the facebook crowd won't care), has awesome battery life, and has the smoothest mobile operating system I've ever used. Yes, full disclosure, I own a Z10. Literally the only drawback is that it doesn't have a few apps that might be handy (my banking app most notably). That written the support for Android apps grows and you can now install 'droid apps right out of the play store.
Certainly it's true that BB could still be doomed but commentary like yours is essentially the chatter of the Monday morning quarterback.
A phone that puts security first. No ifs, and, or, buts about it. Not to mention 2-day battery life and a seamless OS experience.
It really is stunning how the asses in Congress will name a surveillance law "Freedom Act"
I just don't know what makes him think that the current administration is on the "respect freedom" side of things.
It's not. But he's a politician and part of a Government that excels at saying one thing and doing another. All this bullshit talk about "transparency" is laughable. The only reason we are having this "talk" is because of Edward Snowden.
Nevermind, of course, that any reasonable reading of the Constitution makes much of the NSA's activities illegal. But no, that's not important. What's important is that we're talking, having "conversations," in a "transparent" manner. Meanwhile the NSA's vacuums are running full tilt and the FISA rubber-stamp machine is printing "Approved" on anything that comes near it.
Although everyone seems to rejoice at Blackberry's troubles their new Z/Q phones are not only the most secure on the market they are also a pleasure to use. I've had an android and used iPhone's before and they do not compare. The ease of multi-tasking, the Hub, and the generally reliable performance are a pleasure. With the latest BB OS they also run Android apps with ease. It's not 100% compatibility but I've gotten Google Navigate and others installed with one click.
It's not a shameless plug. Theo has been openly critical of the OpenSSL team's development practices. By forking in-house he's essentially saying that they will put their proverbial money where their mouth is by doing their own development.
Yes, gotcha.. by the time we're ready to colonize distant star systems we'll still not have unravelled the mysteries of the genome. Brilliant.
It sounds like a harmless game of Duck Hunt but it's hard to say just how insane that erratic dog Kim Jong is when it comes to retaliations for any of his tin-can missiles being shot down. Japanese take down missile? Fire a single artillery round into Seol!
Indeed arguing the higher moral ground can be difficult when you're an American but I can't help but feel China has blood on its hands by essentially supporting the North Korean regime. I can understand that they don't want a democratic Korean peninsula but what that fat little piglet Kim Jung does to his people is nothing short of an atrocity on the scale of the Holocaust.
We're not far from being able to check-box for all the SNPs and phenotypes we want in offspring. The idea that we need to ship around tens of thousands of mouth-breathers just to maintain "diversity" is about as ludicrous as saying we'll need stout men to construct shelters upon arrival at the far side.
"First time accepted submitter "
Umm.. applause? Seems kind of high and mighty for a site most use as a time killer.
But I can't help but feel that the very nature of our Government has morphed. Institutions like the NSA aren't bothered by public perception -- they have grown into their own. They are beholden only to their own agenda and will do whatever it takes (lying to congress, fabricating effectiveness) to maintain and expand their power. Obama will do some hand-wringing on TV but in the end nothing will change.