You clearly didn't even read past the first five words of my comment, did you? I never even used the word 'Facebook', now did I? Shut the fuck up, Trump supporter, until you GET CORRECT. Tired of you fucktards and your 'MAGA' bullshit. The entire Administration is more corrupt than it's ever been; the so-called 'swamp' has been replaced by a CESSPOOL. I wasn't even a Democrat until a few months ago, that is what you jackasses and the Pussygrabber-in-Chief has driven me to. So fuck off.
The dyed-in-the-wool fucktarded Trump supporters are so blinded by their desire to "stick it to the Libtards" that they don't give a flying fuck what it does to the United States as a nation, or it's reputation on the World stage, or as a concept, so long as they get what they think they want, and screw the long-term consequences. "Get all the black brown and yellow n*ggers out of the country, and put women back in their place, so the Great White Male can have his Rightful Place" is all they care about, and they don't give a fuck how they get it.
Even you Trump supporters should give a fuck if ANY foreign country, especially one as corrupt as Russia, run by someone as corrupt and conquest-minded as Putin, interferes in our electoral process -- or do you not actually believe in your heart of hearts that Republican candidates can make it on their own without outside help? Are you un-American? Is 'making America great again' mean 'being beholden to countries like Russia, China, and North Korea'? Because if you're okay with them meddling in our affairs (and the affairs of other 1st-world countries) then that's what you're advocating. There's a word for that: TREASON. Get correct, Trump supporter. If your own party has to cheat in order to stay in power, then you're no better than all the corrupt shit-hole countries you hate so much. Or I suppose you can keep supporting people who keep doing things that help tear down the United States not only as a nation, but as a concept. ..and now will come the inevitable insults, baseless claims of being a butthurt Clinton supporter, and so on.
Get your own shit correct before you attack me.
Who is 'everyone'? If 'everyone' saw this coming then why was it allowed? Or are you implying that 'everyone' is okay with it? I think not. There is no 'everyone' in this equation. There is only 'a majority' who are clueless, then 'the few' who see the likely outcome of things. Then we get called 'paranoid' and dismissed. The real fun comes when 'the majority' finally get smacked in the face with the fact that there's precisely ZERO about their lives anymore that's private. Then they'll expect the government to do something about cleaning up the mess they made for themselves, and they'll cry and whine about how nobody told them what was going on.
What does someone expect me to do? Go blow up Apple stores or shoot up an Apple campus? Comandeer a nuclear bomber and fly to South Korea and bomb Samsung into the stone age? I am TALKING ABOUT IT, what the fuck else is anyone without money and power going to do?
If no one talks about things then nobody learns anything new.
Ever since I learned that smartphones have more holes in their security than an kitchen collander I've been telling people to stay away from those, too, since most people don't have an actual 'need' for them, it's just one more SHINY THING they're told they HAVE to have.
How many of these devices do you have in your house? Do you enjoy being watched? Are you an exhibitionist? Please, tell us about your mental illnesses, I'm sure they're fascinating.
But the pervasive indoctrination that 'sharing is normal' and 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear' coupled with 'it's so NEW and SHINY and CONVENIENT and you JUST HAVE TO HAVE ONE!' means people buy shit like this without even thinking about the consequences.
About five years ago when more and more things started showing up that listened and watched inside our homes, I posed the question of what would it be like to live in a world where you don't have privacy even in the sanctity of your own home, being watched and listened to 24/7/365; I was dismissed as a nutjob and ignored, everything I pointed out likewise dismissed as nonsense. Yet here we are today, with devices intended to be installed in EVERY ROOM OF YOUR HOUSE that will watch and listen to you. How do you all feel about this now? Is it still nonsense to you? Or are you all so thoroughy deluded into believing that Amazon and whoever else aren't surveilling you every moment these devices are powered on? Or are you of the camp that says "I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear"? Or maybe the "My life is UNINTERESTING, therefore no one will bother"? You are all FOOLS.
EVERYTHING I SAID WOULD HAPPEN, IS HAPPENING *NOW*. You all LET IT HAPPEN.
Oh look the Trump supporters had mod points today and are reacting! How original!
Trump is a piece of shit and I wish he'd get glioblastoma brain cancer, and die, soon. He sure as fuck acts like he's got brain cancer, LOL.
In other words: You're either a shill for companies that want to do shit like this, or you're a nearsighted myopian and/or in denial about the consequences of setting a precedent like this; which is it?
Or maybe you're one of these guys:
"I have nothing to hide, therefore I have nothing to fear! Only people with things to hide want privacy!"
..or this guy:
"My life (and yours) isn't interesting enough for anyone to care about; you shouldn't be worried about anyone 'tracking' or 'surveilling' you, you're not worth the bother!"
So are you one of those? If you are then you are sadly mistaken and/or in denial.
"We're already being tracked everywhere and there is nothing we can do about it so why bother even trying or worrying about it? After all we don't have a choice in the matter."
If you're that guy then I got news for you: You are a coward. Stop being a coward and stand up for your rights.
Except it's not working that way now is it? California wants to regulate some things the way it wants to, and the Trump administration (and Trump himself) keep threatening them over that. Trump and his administration only like the States doing things their way when it suits Trump and his administration. It's more bullshit and lies which is the way things have been since November 2016 with the son of a bitch. Do you really unironically believe he's 100% truthful, really honestly has 100% of the American peoples' interests at heart, and doesn't have a 'conservative agenda' and a 'corporate agenda', and is otherwise corrupt as fuck? If you really believe he's done no wrong and is doing no wrong then you're either stupid or you're as corrupt as he and his administration are. Which is it? Rhetorical question. I know the facts already, they're clear as a bell, and all that Trump has done in 'draining the swamp' is to make way to build a cesspool/toxic waste dump in it's place. If you voted for Trump and still defend him then you need to take a hard look at your decision-making process. Unless you're just an evil son of a bitch yourself, in which case you can drop dead, there's already too many of you in the world.
Screw you. Are you saying everyone should LIKE having an insurance company track their every move? Or are you just being an asshole to be an asshole? Either way step off.
What if you don't want to be so obviously tracked and monitored by some goddamned corporation, even more so than most people already are?
What if you don't have or want a smartphone? I don't and refuse to have one and I'm far from alone in that.
This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard lately. Won't last.
..here comes the wireless industry to bugger you month after month after month and demand you thank them for the privilege. Tell 'em to shove it up their fat asses.
Also, THANKS, TRUMP, for appointing this piece of fucking garbage AJIT PAI, you fat orange-haired sonofabitch.
None of this matters. Everyone else just says "LOL there's no other possible way so we'll just keep doing the same things we've been doing and hope nothing bad happens LOL" which is pants-on-head stupid, at least I'm doing something to protect myself that isn't some useless feel-good nonsense.
I suppose at the same time they're still busting non-company scalpers and insisting they're prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?
Seems to me that Ticketmaster should put in for a corporate name change to East India Company. Then they can call their payrolled scalpers 'privateers'.
Isn't this that they're doing illegal? If not it should be. I hope they go bankrupt over this.
My bank doesn't do any of that, so I'll just continue using cash like I have for the past 2 years and NGAF about any of that until the rest of the world gets it's head out of it's collective ass and starts giving a damn about actual data security when it comes to people's money and private data -- which means I'll be paying cash until I drop dead of old age. Nobody really cares so long as they're making money themselves. We're just peons/plebians, The Rich DGAF about what happens to us or our worthless little lives, their shit is all secured and protected to the Nth degree, so why should they care? Guess I have to take control of the situation where it concerns me -- which is exactly what I've been doing. Also has the nice side-benefit of making balancing my checkbook take all of 5 minutes every month, and I never have to worry about a bunch of receipts in my wallet to enter into the spreadsheet. Guess the rest of the sheep can continue with their 'conveniences' and the cumulative risk of having their banking information stolen every time they do, and when their bank accounts are drained, credit cards charged to the max, and identity stolen, they'll go cry to Congress about it -- who will do precisely dick, because (as outlined above) they DGAF, their shit is already secure, why should they care about us? Corporations and profits, not citizens' lives.
Wrong! I drive my Toyota Tacoma down to the open-air market to buy locally-produced goods -- because I support the LOCAL economy, being the good citizen and neighbor that I am. Why aren't you? He thinks you can't POSSIBLY live a 'modern' life without using plastic for everything, LOL!
Think again.
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You clearly didn't even read past the first five words of my comment, did you? I never even used the word 'Facebook', now did I? Shut the fuck up, Trump supporter, until you GET CORRECT. Tired of you fucktards and your 'MAGA' bullshit. The entire Administration is more corrupt than it's ever been; the so-called 'swamp' has been replaced by a CESSPOOL. I wasn't even a Democrat until a few months ago, that is what you jackasses and the Pussygrabber-in-Chief has driven me to. So fuck off.
The dyed-in-the-wool fucktarded Trump supporters are so blinded by their desire to "stick it to the Libtards" that they don't give a flying fuck what it does to the United States as a nation, or it's reputation on the World stage, or as a concept, so long as they get what they think they want, and screw the long-term consequences. "Get all the black brown and yellow n*ggers out of the country, and put women back in their place, so the Great White Male can have his Rightful Place" is all they care about, and they don't give a fuck how they get it.
Even you Trump supporters should give a fuck if ANY foreign country, especially one as corrupt as Russia, run by someone as corrupt and conquest-minded as Putin, interferes in our electoral process -- or do you not actually believe in your heart of hearts that Republican candidates can make it on their own without outside help? Are you un-American? Is 'making America great again' mean 'being beholden to countries like Russia, China, and North Korea'? Because if you're okay with them meddling in our affairs (and the affairs of other 1st-world countries) then that's what you're advocating. There's a word for that: TREASON. Get correct, Trump supporter. If your own party has to cheat in order to stay in power, then you're no better than all the corrupt shit-hole countries you hate so much. Or I suppose you can keep supporting people who keep doing things that help tear down the United States not only as a nation, but as a concept.
..and now will come the inevitable insults, baseless claims of being a butthurt Clinton supporter, and so on.
Get your own shit correct before you attack me.
Who is 'everyone'? If 'everyone' saw this coming then why was it allowed? Or are you implying that 'everyone' is okay with it? I think not. There is no 'everyone' in this equation. There is only 'a majority' who are clueless, then 'the few' who see the likely outcome of things. Then we get called 'paranoid' and dismissed. The real fun comes when 'the majority' finally get smacked in the face with the fact that there's precisely ZERO about their lives anymore that's private. Then they'll expect the government to do something about cleaning up the mess they made for themselves, and they'll cry and whine about how nobody told them what was going on.
What does someone expect me to do? Go blow up Apple stores or shoot up an Apple campus? Comandeer a nuclear bomber and fly to South Korea and bomb Samsung into the stone age? I am TALKING ABOUT IT, what the fuck else is anyone without money and power going to do?
If no one talks about things then nobody learns anything new.
Ever since I learned that smartphones have more holes in their security than an kitchen collander I've been telling people to stay away from those, too, since most people don't have an actual 'need' for them, it's just one more SHINY THING they're told they HAVE to have.
How many of these devices do you have in your house? Do you enjoy being watched? Are you an exhibitionist? Please, tell us about your mental illnesses, I'm sure they're fascinating.
But the pervasive indoctrination that 'sharing is normal' and 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear' coupled with 'it's so NEW and SHINY and CONVENIENT and you JUST HAVE TO HAVE ONE!' means people buy shit like this without even thinking about the consequences.
About five years ago when more and more things started showing up that listened and watched inside our homes, I posed the question of what would it be like to live in a world where you don't have privacy even in the sanctity of your own home, being watched and listened to 24/7/365; I was dismissed as a nutjob and ignored, everything I pointed out likewise dismissed as nonsense. Yet here we are today, with devices intended to be installed in EVERY ROOM OF YOUR HOUSE that will watch and listen to you. How do you all feel about this now? Is it still nonsense to you? Or are you all so thoroughy deluded into believing that Amazon and whoever else aren't surveilling you every moment these devices are powered on? Or are you of the camp that says "I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear"? Or maybe the "My life is UNINTERESTING, therefore no one will bother"? You are all FOOLS.
EVERYTHING I SAID WOULD HAPPEN, IS HAPPENING *NOW*. You all LET IT HAPPEN.
So long as Equifax keeps making money they don't give a fuck about the rest of us peons and our little bank accounts/identities/lives.
If you fail enough times it locks you out for a substantial time period and in fact may never allow you back in.
Oh look the Trump supporters had mod points today and are reacting! How original!
Trump is a piece of shit and I wish he'd get glioblastoma brain cancer, and die, soon. He sure as fuck acts like he's got brain cancer, LOL.
Or maybe you're one of these guys:
"I have nothing to hide, therefore I have nothing to fear! Only people with things to hide want privacy!"
..or this guy:
"My life (and yours) isn't interesting enough for anyone to care about; you shouldn't be worried about anyone 'tracking' or 'surveilling' you, you're not worth the bother!"
So are you one of those? If you are then you are sadly mistaken and/or in denial.
"We're already being tracked everywhere and there is nothing we can do about it so why bother even trying or worrying about it? After all we don't have a choice in the matter."
If you're that guy then I got news for you: You are a coward. Stop being a coward and stand up for your rights.
Except it's not working that way now is it? California wants to regulate some things the way it wants to, and the Trump administration (and Trump himself) keep threatening them over that. Trump and his administration only like the States doing things their way when it suits Trump and his administration. It's more bullshit and lies which is the way things have been since November 2016 with the son of a bitch. Do you really unironically believe he's 100% truthful, really honestly has 100% of the American peoples' interests at heart, and doesn't have a 'conservative agenda' and a 'corporate agenda', and is otherwise corrupt as fuck? If you really believe he's done no wrong and is doing no wrong then you're either stupid or you're as corrupt as he and his administration are. Which is it? Rhetorical question. I know the facts already, they're clear as a bell, and all that Trump has done in 'draining the swamp' is to make way to build a cesspool/toxic waste dump in it's place. If you voted for Trump and still defend him then you need to take a hard look at your decision-making process. Unless you're just an evil son of a bitch yourself, in which case you can drop dead, there's already too many of you in the world.
Screw you. Are you saying everyone should LIKE having an insurance company track their every move? Or are you just being an asshole to be an asshole? Either way step off.
What if you don't want to be so obviously tracked and monitored by some goddamned corporation, even more so than most people already are?
What if you don't have or want a smartphone? I don't and refuse to have one and I'm far from alone in that.
This has got to be one of the stupidest things I've heard lately. Won't last.
'nuff said.
..here comes the wireless industry to bugger you month after month after month and demand you thank them for the privilege. Tell 'em to shove it up their fat asses.
Also, THANKS, TRUMP, for appointing this piece of fucking garbage AJIT PAI, you fat orange-haired sonofabitch.
I pay CASH at payment stations for all my utilities and get a receipt. /subject
None of this matters. Everyone else just says "LOL there's no other possible way so we'll just keep doing the same things we've been doing and hope nothing bad happens LOL" which is pants-on-head stupid, at least I'm doing something to protect myself that isn't some useless feel-good nonsense.
I suppose at the same time they're still busting non-company scalpers and insisting they're prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?
Seems to me that Ticketmaster should put in for a corporate name change to East India Company. Then they can call their payrolled scalpers 'privateers'.
Isn't this that they're doing illegal? If not it should be. I hope they go bankrupt over this.
Spoiler: I don't buy things on the internet anymore. :-)
I don't pay for things on the internet. /thread
My bank doesn't do any of that, so I'll just continue using cash like I have for the past 2 years and NGAF about any of that until the rest of the world gets it's head out of it's collective ass and starts giving a damn about actual data security when it comes to people's money and private data -- which means I'll be paying cash until I drop dead of old age. Nobody really cares so long as they're making money themselves. We're just peons/plebians, The Rich DGAF about what happens to us or our worthless little lives, their shit is all secured and protected to the Nth degree, so why should they care? Guess I have to take control of the situation where it concerns me -- which is exactly what I've been doing. Also has the nice side-benefit of making balancing my checkbook take all of 5 minutes every month, and I never have to worry about a bunch of receipts in my wallet to enter into the spreadsheet. Guess the rest of the sheep can continue with their 'conveniences' and the cumulative risk of having their banking information stolen every time they do, and when their bank accounts are drained, credit cards charged to the max, and identity stolen, they'll go cry to Congress about it -- who will do precisely dick, because (as outlined above) they DGAF, their shit is already secure, why should they care about us? Corporations and profits, not citizens' lives.
Wrong! I drive my Toyota Tacoma down to the open-air market to buy locally-produced goods -- because I support the LOCAL economy, being the good citizen and neighbor that I am. Why aren't you?
He thinks you can't POSSIBLY live a 'modern' life without using plastic for everything, LOL!
Think again.