Yeah, your brother's sister's hairdresser had all this malware -- and of course all those security firms who present dire warnings every week in order to drum up business.
Did "You" actually have malware that effectively exploited your machine? Or are you just here to add balance because you've "heard" rumors? What was the name of this malware -- what did it do? How did it exploit the system?
There are problems and benefits of all kinds of systems -- but what we don't need is people throwing around FUD -- leave that to the experts at Forbes or some computer magazine.
Why is everything couched as if it's either; a tiny pittance of responsibility or "they go out of business -- JOBS - OMG!!!"? That was a rhetorical question. It's advantageous to companies like Exxon that the argument always be; Free Enterprise vs. No Enterprise.
Exxon got the contract to extract the oil from the Inuit because they PROMISED to have radar and warning systems set in place and not crash their tankers. The "big lie" is that a one drunk captain crashed the ship -- and he went along with it. There are more than one person driving that tanker and warning alarms should have gone off -- if they had not powered down their expensive warning system to save money.
After all the stalling and court cases -- Exxon still saved more money than if they had made good on their original deal. And a lot of Inuit lost their only source of income and died bankrupt while asking Exxon to pay up for their cost cutting catastrophe.
The Exxon Valdez was preventable pretty much like the BP oil gusher under the Gulf was preventable -- but actuarial science says it's much cheaper to do nothing and argue in court -- and spend money on lobbyists and a-holes to champion Torte reform.
It's amazing that the information is readily available on the TRUE CAUSES: http://www.adn.com/evos/storie... >> they skimped on staff and not following requirements for double-hulled vessels. http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/... >> The Radar didn't work because they didn't MAINTAIN IT -- not because of design flaws; Government negligence in oversight is a direct result of company influence on them.
-- criminal negligence by the company and lax supervision by the regulators (who were known to not only sleep with the corporate reps, but have meth filled orgies with the corporate reps). (no really, not kidding; http://www.motherjones.com/blu... )
The media of course, doesn't bother to investigate crap if they already have a great story to tell about one drunk sea captain -- truth be damned.
Of course equations work better with "dark matter" -- whatever is not calculable or not explained -- it's fricken' Dark Matter. You can't see it or sense it, but it is there, wherever observation and theory don't meet up.
Now, it might be there is such a thing as Turbulence due to Gravity, or sub-quantum fluctuations in the aether. Or even that Higgs Boson, shadows from another dimension or graviton flocking. Whatever it really is -- it will be called Dark Matter, so that everyone can feel like they understood what is going on.
Dark Matter is the best invention since the algebraic Variable. We could have called it substance X, but the Power Puff girls already had the copyright.
If however we take it a bit further, it means that parents who leave guns available to kids who are not responsible to wield them are guilty of murder should something bad happen.
Some people get the warm fuzzies over confidentiality agreements. I can see them in some cases such as trade secrets, but protecting the guilty isn't something that keeps me awake at night.
There seems to be this punishment-oriented culture going on here. Yes the daughter did a bit of blabbermouthing -- and how does that stack against the willful negligence of what the school did to deserve the punitive damages?
Gag clauses to protect scum bags who are found guilty is at issue here. The idea of "secret knowledge" is very foreign to me -- unless you harm the innocent.
Children should have a protection of privacy -- not companies.
The keep talking of "the metadata" as if there were an agreed upon term in this context. "What" data other than the routing information is "meta"? Now you and I might say; the email address and routing information -- but aren't we forgetting that the NSA and government are trying to squash the interest in this issue? Couldn't a slippery person portray something like "the relationship data of the person sending, who they send to, the people they commonly send to, the friends and associates of everyone connected to them, a weighting algorithm on the words, analysis (for a computer) of whether the content is negative or positive and some relative understanding of the intent" all in a nice bundle that can be data mined to say; "What kinds of relationships does this person have with all the people they are connected to?
And then we sit around and discuss two, five, or ten years about some imaginary BS that isn't really what the NSA is data mining. For all we know they capture your DNA and grow tiny copies of you for a simulation. They are only admitting to the least damming thing of what Snowden proved was going in, and it's likely he wasn't deeply into ALL of what the NSA and other security organizations are involved in.
It's like using an ordinance against Horse Heads to control the mob from extorting people -- the problem isn't the horse head on your bed -- it's the mob.
WE also have no idea of the INTENT of the NSA -- a point I keep bringing up because this entire program seems useless for capturing terrorists like Al Qaeda.
In my state they "deregulated" our Natural Gas supply. Now they've got about 2 dozen companies I can shop with -- only they cost about 5 times what we used to pay for Natural Gas. The same guys who install and cut off your gas are the same guys now -- only they have no job security and they can work for any of 2 dozen companies that someone has to bill and compensate them for. Same work, less pay.
You call them and get either a robot "Your call is important to us, press 3 if you would like another series of options" or you get someone after a long wait who is doing a passing job with English and can't solve any of your problems.
So one pipe, one gas supply, 24 different P.O. Boxes and bills that have "transfer fees" and every few months a new company runs a special because it's their turn. I've got no interest in a pretend free market on one pipe without regulations.
Would it score higher or lower that they covered the example they made of Bradley Manning? I mean, not letting a person sleep, lights and sounds at all times, no clothes in a cold room -- standard long-term torture regime.
No point in torturing if people don't learn about it and get a bit worried, right?
So do we get freedom of press points for letting people know we torture our dissidents or do we lose points?
Well since much of the "news" is from recycled AP reports -- the "Netizens" like Bradley Manning are releasing information that might have come from someone labelled a "Journalist" a few decades ago.
Now it's pay for play access and reporters and politicians want to go to the same parties after work is done.
We even get our news on Slashdot these days -- are there reporters here?
So yes, arresting Bradley Manning, and going after the founder of Wikileaks in my book is suppressing freedom of the press -- the REAL press, not the advertiser driven gossip columns.
Well, to be fair, if GOP Governors were not firing so many workers -- we'd have about 6% unemployment right now.
But yes, it seems like the Dems and Republicans have done a great job keeping down wages, job growth and killing the economy with Austerity. They are STILL printing lots of money -- it's just not going to the people at the bottom so it isn't spurring real growth that might offset the deficit.
If we had higher taxes at the top, that would force capital investment rather than profit taking -- and it would reduce the budget shortfall by PAYING FOR THINGS.
I think we could debate the fact that the $3.5 Trillion could have done more for "My economy" had it been spent in public works projects and landed in my pocket.
Bernanke kept "his economy" going -- and that's stocks and record profits. That's 400 families who have more wealth than over 150 million Americans combined.
I'm not some moron who can't understand that we need some bank liquidity to keep paychecks going -- but it would be much better to let a few banks go bankrupt and to redistribute this wealth. It's too depressing to look at the lack of any increase in standard of living since the 70's for the vast majority. And rich people trading paper isn't going to create "demand".
We need to kill the dumbass myth that the best programmers started when they're in diapers.
You aren't going to kill that myth until you can beat the kid who grew up programming. I think anyone can become competent. But the people who push boundaries are naturally curious at a young age. Those people who reverse engineered their computer games. People like Steve Wozniak for instance -- he didn't learn most of what he knows in schools. He was hacking cable boxes and tricking long distance dial tones.
Especially when it comes to cyber security. A person has to get down and not take for granted what signals are getting passed.
That was my first thought. The truly great hackers and programmers are going to be people who have been poking sticks into electronics since they were kids.
Sure, someone who can read binary and train and do what they are wanting them to learn can get much better -- but that will be a few thousand people covering the same skills as the instructor -- what you want is people who are looking at things nobody else is looking at. 4,000 people who can find the same exploit is 3,999 to many.
On the plus side, this makes me feel a bit more at ease with an overbearing paranoid government -- at least they aren't competent at being overbearing.
President Barak H. Obama only said the Government will no longer store the data; he favours private corporation(s) to store the data until such time as the Government wants access thereto.
Yeah, that's the exact same "end run around the Constitution" arrangement they were already using.
A private corporation that is motivated by profits is WORSE than the government, which "on a good day with the wind blowing the right way" might have motivations or at least a whimsy to do something for the common good.
Snowden was able to carry off a boatload of their snooping secrets BECAUSE they outsourced a lot of this. The economic model will always, always, always, put profits above all else unless you put a gun to their head. "Security" was just lip service. They will get the lowest wage workers and the lowest cost equipment that will fill the specs. If you don't pay top dollar, you can't get the loyalty of the corrupt people you want.
They'll have to recruit from religious colleges to get people who will be naive enough to NOT KNOW this is wrong, and dutiful enough to do it without decent wages. Fascists tend to love theocrats because they are so damn useful. But if you've got fascism you need three things; Corruption, Loyalty, Intelligence. You can only have two of the three in any one person. This is why corrupt oligarchies and empires kill themselves off -- it's really the only reason Humanity has not quite yet extinguished itself.
In WW II they fought both the East and the West -- because they took orders from idiots. And so their dedicated, loyal and religious people and their intelligent and loyal scientists, and their corrupt and evil Generals could not win with the best military in the world.
The NSA, no matter how many brilliant people they bring in, will still have Rat Bastards, Egomaniacs, and Greedy Morons because those are the only ones you can trust to do the wrong thing on a consistent basis.
It sounds like I've run all over the map here, going from the NSA to WW II and Religious Colleges, but I'm making short work of a larger dynamic that has been going on since the 80's in this country. There is a push towards supporting fundamentalist churches -- because certain power groups find them useful. It's the best way to get people to not fight for their own self interest -- to use the Heaven "lay away" plan. And they aren't looking for a hot war like WW II - -but it's the exact same type of elitists and manipulators at the top of America as were at the bottom of Nazi Germany. Anyone spending any time listening to the biographies of Rumsfeld and Cheney need only change the accent to understand the mindset.
These people are rotten, and they are lapdogs for the super wealthy and connected and if you think the NSA is just about security, you probably were shocked by the Snowden revelations. The NSA is about preserving the status quo, and our military is the muscle for multinational organizations, and they support religious fundamentalism here and elsewhere because they create the justifications and make the best useful idiots.
With the NSA going hard after anyone duped by Snowden, and the President mouthing a bunch of words of concern -- I can guarantee you that they at the very least don't give two fucks.
Fiat Money may not be perfect - but it's better than Gold and Silver coins. You don't want resources wasted digging holes in the ground trying to scratch up more useless Gold to be turned into a vehicle for exchange. Money is best if it represents a good or service -- not if it has intrinsic value.
The only problem with fiat currency is third parties making counterfeits and the money producers printing excessive amounts. The first is technology while the latter is policy. We the people if we are in control have an impact on that last part.
Regardless of the form of currency, if a government is corrupt of falls into expediency -- then it doesn't matter what type of currency they have.
discredited Keynesian theory Citation needed. Preferably from some non-hack promoting Globalism, within a libertarian think tank promoting economic models that parrot failed third world nations and free market pixie dust.
The "stagflation" under Obama is due to not taxing people with money to play for all these government services, and not forcing companies to invest profits.
If this government printed a lot of money and handed poor people -- that would create demand because they'd have something to spend. The OPPOSITE is creating the economic malaise; printing lots of money and handing it to banks. The only reason it has some settling effect on the markets is because they've got trillions of dollars to depreciate from the 2008 bust due to speculation with the Credit Default Swaps.
We aren't implementing Keynesian theory right now -- it's as if you were blaming Unions for keeping American non-competitive, while we've had a 900% increase in productivity and no such increase in wages. You are whipping a dead horse that got fatally wounded in the 1980's.
It's as if you were saying high taxes and limits on large companies were causing us not to have jobs. What about our current market isn't 100% in line with what Corporatists suggested?
How do you know WHY they have the data, WHAT their intentions are, or WHAT their capabilities are?
Grabbing everything is absolutely useless to going after an enemy. Real bad guys aren't going to be linking to FaceBook when they search for bomb materials, and they aren't going to use their own credit cards.
But it's great if you want to create profiles on people and control movements. If you want to build consensus and monitor people who are not convinced by propaganda -- absolutely awesome.
What you have said is interesting, however I am not yet convinced. I urge people to stay reasonable, and respect and honor their authorities.
I think I've said this a thousand times, but it bears repeating; Moderation. Humility. Perseverance. Work hard and of course opportunity will come to you, sometime before you are 95 years old.
Security is necessary, because those bad guys out there might not show us the respect and decency that our Security people do by treating us all like criminals. And no, I don't find it curious that identity theft is going on if they could trace each and every transaction back to it's source and that means they allowed it to happen -- that's just crazy talk. You need more moderation and humility!
Well, I'm not on either side of this F@ck Beta debate -- because I haven't even investigated it yet.
But it seems to me that -- just by random chance, that if there are more posts saying "F#ck Beta!" and they are all getting modded down, and yet, there are a few "gosh, you guys are immature" pro Beta comments, and they reach 5 -- all ten of them. Well it seems to me that other than saying something is a conspiracy theory because we all know there are NEVER ANY conspiracies, that it seems like the Pro Beta crowd is somehow getting mod points but all the pro Beta people are modding and not commenting.
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Yeah, your brother's sister's hairdresser had all this malware -- and of course all those security firms who present dire warnings every week in order to drum up business.
Did "You" actually have malware that effectively exploited your machine? Or are you just here to add balance because you've "heard" rumors? What was the name of this malware -- what did it do? How did it exploit the system?
There are problems and benefits of all kinds of systems -- but what we don't need is people throwing around FUD -- leave that to the experts at Forbes or some computer magazine.
Why is everything couched as if it's either; a tiny pittance of responsibility or "they go out of business -- JOBS - OMG!!!"? That was a rhetorical question. It's advantageous to companies like Exxon that the argument always be; Free Enterprise vs. No Enterprise.
Exxon got the contract to extract the oil from the Inuit because they PROMISED to have radar and warning systems set in place and not crash their tankers. The "big lie" is that a one drunk captain crashed the ship -- and he went along with it. There are more than one person driving that tanker and warning alarms should have gone off -- if they had not powered down their expensive warning system to save money.
After all the stalling and court cases -- Exxon still saved more money than if they had made good on their original deal. And a lot of Inuit lost their only source of income and died bankrupt while asking Exxon to pay up for their cost cutting catastrophe.
The Exxon Valdez was preventable pretty much like the BP oil gusher under the Gulf was preventable -- but actuarial science says it's much cheaper to do nothing and argue in court -- and spend money on lobbyists and a-holes to champion Torte reform.
It's amazing that the information is readily available on the TRUE CAUSES:
http://www.adn.com/evos/storie... >> they skimped on staff and not following requirements for double-hulled vessels.
http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/... >> The Radar didn't work because they didn't MAINTAIN IT -- not because of design flaws; Government negligence in oversight is a direct result of company influence on them.
-- criminal negligence by the company and lax supervision by the regulators (who were known to not only sleep with the corporate reps, but have meth filled orgies with the corporate reps). (no really, not kidding; http://www.motherjones.com/blu... )
The media of course, doesn't bother to investigate crap if they already have a great story to tell about one drunk sea captain -- truth be damned.
Of course equations work better with "dark matter" -- whatever is not calculable or not explained -- it's fricken' Dark Matter. You can't see it or sense it, but it is there, wherever observation and theory don't meet up.
Now, it might be there is such a thing as Turbulence due to Gravity, or sub-quantum fluctuations in the aether. Or even that Higgs Boson, shadows from another dimension or graviton flocking. Whatever it really is -- it will be called Dark Matter, so that everyone can feel like they understood what is going on.
Dark Matter is the best invention since the algebraic Variable. We could have called it substance X, but the Power Puff girls already had the copyright.
I can see that this has some logic to it.
If however we take it a bit further, it means that parents who leave guns available to kids who are not responsible to wield them are guilty of murder should something bad happen.
Some people get the warm fuzzies over confidentiality agreements. I can see them in some cases such as trade secrets, but protecting the guilty isn't something that keeps me awake at night.
There seems to be this punishment-oriented culture going on here. Yes the daughter did a bit of blabbermouthing -- and how does that stack against the willful negligence of what the school did to deserve the punitive damages?
Gag clauses to protect scum bags who are found guilty is at issue here. The idea of "secret knowledge" is very foreign to me -- unless you harm the innocent.
Children should have a protection of privacy -- not companies.
Dennis Kucinich.
. so far so good. It gets ruined as soon as a Ron Paul fan jumps in.
The keep talking of "the metadata" as if there were an agreed upon term in this context. "What" data other than the routing information is "meta"? Now you and I might say; the email address and routing information -- but aren't we forgetting that the NSA and government are trying to squash the interest in this issue? Couldn't a slippery person portray something like "the relationship data of the person sending, who they send to, the people they commonly send to, the friends and associates of everyone connected to them, a weighting algorithm on the words, analysis (for a computer) of whether the content is negative or positive and some relative understanding of the intent" all in a nice bundle that can be data mined to say; "What kinds of relationships does this person have with all the people they are connected to?
And then we sit around and discuss two, five, or ten years about some imaginary BS that isn't really what the NSA is data mining. For all we know they capture your DNA and grow tiny copies of you for a simulation. They are only admitting to the least damming thing of what Snowden proved was going in, and it's likely he wasn't deeply into ALL of what the NSA and other security organizations are involved in.
It's like using an ordinance against Horse Heads to control the mob from extorting people -- the problem isn't the horse head on your bed -- it's the mob.
WE also have no idea of the INTENT of the NSA -- a point I keep bringing up because this entire program seems useless for capturing terrorists like Al Qaeda.
In my state they "deregulated" our Natural Gas supply. Now they've got about 2 dozen companies I can shop with -- only they cost about 5 times what we used to pay for Natural Gas. The same guys who install and cut off your gas are the same guys now -- only they have no job security and they can work for any of 2 dozen companies that someone has to bill and compensate them for. Same work, less pay.
You call them and get either a robot "Your call is important to us, press 3 if you would like another series of options" or you get someone after a long wait who is doing a passing job with English and can't solve any of your problems.
So one pipe, one gas supply, 24 different P.O. Boxes and bills that have "transfer fees" and every few months a new company runs a special because it's their turn.
I've got no interest in a pretend free market on one pipe without regulations.
Would it score higher or lower that they covered the example they made of Bradley Manning? I mean, not letting a person sleep, lights and sounds at all times, no clothes in a cold room -- standard long-term torture regime.
No point in torturing if people don't learn about it and get a bit worried, right?
So do we get freedom of press points for letting people know we torture our dissidents or do we lose points?
No but you have to give him props for
North Korea, not having any Netizens, presumably gets a perfect score in this regard.
Presumably he was debating a talking point by first pulling the data out of his rear end but I'm just guessing by reading what he said.
Well since much of the "news" is from recycled AP reports -- the "Netizens" like Bradley Manning are releasing information that might have come from someone labelled a "Journalist" a few decades ago.
Now it's pay for play access and reporters and politicians want to go to the same parties after work is done.
We even get our news on Slashdot these days -- are there reporters here?
So yes, arresting Bradley Manning, and going after the founder of Wikileaks in my book is suppressing freedom of the press -- the REAL press, not the advertiser driven gossip columns.
Well, to be fair, if GOP Governors were not firing so many workers -- we'd have about 6% unemployment right now.
But yes, it seems like the Dems and Republicans have done a great job keeping down wages, job growth and killing the economy with Austerity. They are STILL printing lots of money -- it's just not going to the people at the bottom so it isn't spurring real growth that might offset the deficit.
If we had higher taxes at the top, that would force capital investment rather than profit taking -- and it would reduce the budget shortfall by PAYING FOR THINGS.
I think we could debate the fact that the $3.5 Trillion could have done more for "My economy" had it been spent in public works projects and landed in my pocket.
Bernanke kept "his economy" going -- and that's stocks and record profits. That's 400 families who have more wealth than over 150 million Americans combined.
I'm not some moron who can't understand that we need some bank liquidity to keep paychecks going -- but it would be much better to let a few banks go bankrupt and to redistribute this wealth. It's too depressing to look at the lack of any increase in standard of living since the 70's for the vast majority. And rich people trading paper isn't going to create "demand".
We need to kill the dumbass myth that the best programmers started when they're in diapers.
You aren't going to kill that myth until you can beat the kid who grew up programming. I think anyone can become competent. But the people who push boundaries are naturally curious at a young age. Those people who reverse engineered their computer games. People like Steve Wozniak for instance -- he didn't learn most of what he knows in schools. He was hacking cable boxes and tricking long distance dial tones.
Especially when it comes to cyber security. A person has to get down and not take for granted what signals are getting passed.
That was my first thought. The truly great hackers and programmers are going to be people who have been poking sticks into electronics since they were kids.
Sure, someone who can read binary and train and do what they are wanting them to learn can get much better -- but that will be a few thousand people covering the same skills as the instructor -- what you want is people who are looking at things nobody else is looking at. 4,000 people who can find the same exploit is 3,999 to many.
On the plus side, this makes me feel a bit more at ease with an overbearing paranoid government -- at least they aren't competent at being overbearing.
President Barak H. Obama only said the Government will no longer store the data; he favours private corporation(s) to store the data until such time as the Government wants access thereto.
Yeah, that's the exact same "end run around the Constitution" arrangement they were already using.
A private corporation that is motivated by profits is WORSE than the government, which "on a good day with the wind blowing the right way" might have motivations or at least a whimsy to do something for the common good.
Snowden was able to carry off a boatload of their snooping secrets BECAUSE they outsourced a lot of this. The economic model will always, always, always, put profits above all else unless you put a gun to their head. "Security" was just lip service. They will get the lowest wage workers and the lowest cost equipment that will fill the specs. If you don't pay top dollar, you can't get the loyalty of the corrupt people you want.
They'll have to recruit from religious colleges to get people who will be naive enough to NOT KNOW this is wrong, and dutiful enough to do it without decent wages. Fascists tend to love theocrats because they are so damn useful. But if you've got fascism you need three things; Corruption, Loyalty, Intelligence. You can only have two of the three in any one person. This is why corrupt oligarchies and empires kill themselves off -- it's really the only reason Humanity has not quite yet extinguished itself.
In WW II they fought both the East and the West -- because they took orders from idiots. And so their dedicated, loyal and religious people and their intelligent and loyal scientists, and their corrupt and evil Generals could not win with the best military in the world.
The NSA, no matter how many brilliant people they bring in, will still have Rat Bastards, Egomaniacs, and Greedy Morons because those are the only ones you can trust to do the wrong thing on a consistent basis.
It sounds like I've run all over the map here, going from the NSA to WW II and Religious Colleges, but I'm making short work of a larger dynamic that has been going on since the 80's in this country. There is a push towards supporting fundamentalist churches -- because certain power groups find them useful. It's the best way to get people to not fight for their own self interest -- to use the Heaven "lay away" plan. And they aren't looking for a hot war like WW II - -but it's the exact same type of elitists and manipulators at the top of America as were at the bottom of Nazi Germany. Anyone spending any time listening to the biographies of Rumsfeld and Cheney need only change the accent to understand the mindset.
These people are rotten, and they are lapdogs for the super wealthy and connected and if you think the NSA is just about security, you probably were shocked by the Snowden revelations. The NSA is about preserving the status quo, and our military is the muscle for multinational organizations, and they support religious fundamentalism here and elsewhere because they create the justifications and make the best useful idiots.
With the NSA going hard after anyone duped by Snowden, and the President mouthing a bunch of words of concern -- I can guarantee you that they at the very least don't give two fucks.
Unbeknownst to many in our "Security USA Hell Yeah! Inc." there may be real heroes hidden behind those made in China flag pins.
Fiat Money may not be perfect - but it's better than Gold and Silver coins. You don't want resources wasted digging holes in the ground trying to scratch up more useless Gold to be turned into a vehicle for exchange. Money is best if it represents a good or service -- not if it has intrinsic value.
The only problem with fiat currency is third parties making counterfeits and the money producers printing excessive amounts. The first is technology while the latter is policy. We the people if we are in control have an impact on that last part.
Regardless of the form of currency, if a government is corrupt of falls into expediency -- then it doesn't matter what type of currency they have.
discredited Keynesian theory
Citation needed. Preferably from some non-hack promoting Globalism, within a libertarian think tank promoting economic models that parrot failed third world nations and free market pixie dust.
The "stagflation" under Obama is due to not taxing people with money to play for all these government services, and not forcing companies to invest profits.
If this government printed a lot of money and handed poor people -- that would create demand because they'd have something to spend. The OPPOSITE is creating the economic malaise; printing lots of money and handing it to banks. The only reason it has some settling effect on the markets is because they've got trillions of dollars to depreciate from the 2008 bust due to speculation with the Credit Default Swaps.
We aren't implementing Keynesian theory right now -- it's as if you were blaming Unions for keeping American non-competitive, while we've had a 900% increase in productivity and no such increase in wages. You are whipping a dead horse that got fatally wounded in the 1980's.
It's as if you were saying high taxes and limits on large companies were causing us not to have jobs. What about our current market isn't 100% in line with what Corporatists suggested?
That's because Trump has spent a lot of money on his "Platinum Douche Card." Hypocrisy has it's privileges.
How do you know WHY they have the data, WHAT their intentions are, or WHAT their capabilities are?
Grabbing everything is absolutely useless to going after an enemy. Real bad guys aren't going to be linking to FaceBook when they search for bomb materials, and they aren't going to use their own credit cards.
But it's great if you want to create profiles on people and control movements. If you want to build consensus and monitor people who are not convinced by propaganda -- absolutely awesome.
What you have said is interesting, however I am not yet convinced. I urge people to stay reasonable, and respect and honor their authorities.
I think I've said this a thousand times, but it bears repeating; Moderation. Humility. Perseverance. Work hard and of course opportunity will come to you, sometime before you are 95 years old.
Security is necessary, because those bad guys out there might not show us the respect and decency that our Security people do by treating us all like criminals. And no, I don't find it curious that identity theft is going on if they could trace each and every transaction back to it's source and that means they allowed it to happen -- that's just crazy talk. You need more moderation and humility!
Oh, and I haven't actually counted the pro beta vs. anti beta comments. I just brought a can of gas to this candle vigil.
Well, I'm not on either side of this F@ck Beta debate -- because I haven't even investigated it yet.
But it seems to me that -- just by random chance, that if there are more posts saying "F#ck Beta!" and they are all getting modded down, and yet, there are a few "gosh, you guys are immature" pro Beta comments, and they reach 5 -- all ten of them. Well it seems to me that other than saying something is a conspiracy theory because we all know there are NEVER ANY conspiracies, that it seems like the Pro Beta crowd is somehow getting mod points but all the pro Beta people are modding and not commenting.
Just curious, that's all.