You do realize that there is no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber, right? It would be like a store owner with video surveillance in his own store raping someone as they come in. Might as well walk into a police station and rape the guy at the front desk. There is literally no way you can't get caught. Your every move is tracked by GPS.
Christ, you fucking liberals and your "basic needs". You'll have us all living in caves before you're through.
I don't remember a lot of stories about people being attacked by their taxi driver. But I do remember this and this and this. I'm not saying Uber is inherently dangerous. But it seems more than "no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber". According to my unscientific quick Googling, it seems regular taxis are safer.
Yes, after lurking in slashdot for years, I finally signed up. No agenda, other than my opinions are my own.
NSA has 2 jobs: spying on the world and securing US communications.
I don't know how well they are doing job #1. IMHO they are doing a really crappy job of #2.
Fair enough. But the NSA is also spying inside the United States, which they're not supposed to do, and lied about doing.
Oh, I believe bin Laden was real and is dead. They wouldn't announce to the world that he was, if there were any chance of him showing up. I'm just not sure he was killed when we were told he was. Maybe he was! I have been told he was, but have reason to be skeptical. I just don't know, really.
I might add, Bluckysmucky, that your post history indicates that you signed up just to post in this thread. Who do you work for and what is your agenda?
No, he released information to a self-aggrandizing reporter who is very hostile to the US. Who then released everything in self-aggrandizing click bait fashion.
The worst actual "abuse" they found was a couple of people spying on their girlfriends.
My concern is the waste of taxpayer money. This huge spy machine couldn't stop the Boston Marathon bombers even when alerted to them.
Your opinion of Glenn Greenwald notwithstanding, that just isn't the case. Reporters from the Guardian newspapaer and an independent documentarian were also involved and given the information. The worst abuse they found was the head of the NSA lying to Congress and the fact that what the NSA is doing is illegal and unconstitutional. I assume you are concerned about law breaking by people who work in secret. Or is it all just about money to you?
Were the Israelis consulted when the Palestinians originally kicked them off the land?
The Palestinians have been offered new land, citizenship in Israel, and many other peace deals. The Palestinians however feel that they will never stop until every Israeli is dead.
Is that like when we offered Native Americans new land?
Apparently he valued his own notoriety far more highly than either of those. It's a common trait in narcissists.
You mean the guy who said he didn't want the story to be about him? The one who gave hi information to responsible parties, so that he could stay out of the picture? That guy?
It seems to me that plenty of the people who flew off the handle in reaction to the 9/11 attacks were older. How old are Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, again?
Anyone who grew up during the cold war will see Snowden for the "useful idiot" he is. There were plenty of them back in the 70's and 80's. We used to call them traitors.
I grew up during the Cold War and I have no idea what you're talking about.
And no, I don't mean that YOU think it was illegal, or some judge said was 'probably' illegal. That a Federal court found it to be illegal. It's been over 2 years so this should be easy. I'll wait.
There's this. And this. And there's also this. Yep that was easy. I hope you didn't have to wait too long.
I dislike Edward Snowden for the same reason I dislike Jesus, Muhummad, and Jehovah: He's a religion shoved down my throat without anybody giving me a chance to make up my mind whether he's done anything good for the world or not.
If you ask me to view the story objectively, he's a con artist who never worked for any of the places he claims to have worked for and drew the allegedly leaked "Powerpoint Slides" himself in Windows Paint. All of this is cooked up by collusion with Glenn Greenwald, a UK reporter who has no business sticking his nose in US policy in the first place, to create a paper tiger bogeyman out of the toothless US intelligence industry the likes of which even Senator McCarthy would have blushed to turn out.
To what purpose? Revolution! Why? So Wrong Paul! What for? End the Fed, Occupy Wall Street, Tyler Durden, we are the 1%!!!
It's this generation of filthy hippies making lots of noise and changing nothing, a Xerox copy of everything wrong with the Baby Boomers. Only at least the Boomers had better music.
Does anybody remember when Slashdot was about tech news? I sure miss those days.
You're a Millennial? You do a disservice to your generation. This has to be one of the more clueless and incoherent posts I have read here in a while. And if you're a millennial, you're too young to remember what Slashdot used to be like.
You can chalk this up to those who still believe in the lie (which then hate snowden) and those who dont.
The lie here is of course that the gov has your best interest in mind, and that thing people called "american dream".. turns out it really was a dream.
Most people are heavily invested in the lie. They will fight to defend it and can't be unplugged.
I thought it would be torch and pitchfork time but unless something directly and immediately affects people they just don't seem to care.
What you are seeing is not necessarily apathy but fear, a confluence of external influences stoking the internal fear of individuals. People are generally terrified, and to acknowledge or understand that among the perpetrators of terribles are the same institutions and authorities they have been relying upon for protection is more than they can bear.
This is an insightful point. There is a lot of psychology mixed up in this.
Then he started releasing information that was less and less pertinent to government violating American's privacy. Every country has spying capability and they have every reason to need it. At this point, it seems to me that he's just releasing information that sabotages foreign relations.
- A Millennial
He is not releasing information! The news agencies he gave it to are. So your problem is with them, not Snowden.
Now I know whey people aren't happy with him. They think he's doing things he's not. My sig gets more on point every day...
Older people still get their news and information from more traditional sources; radio, TV, newspapers. Younger people tend to get their news from Internet sources which can be more varied in their viewpoint. I wonder how much that contributes to the difference in opinion. Traditional media have cast Snowden in a harsher light, and that is where older people get their opinions.
The problem with Snowden is that he unilaterally made himself the judge of which secrets should be released and which should not.
You may dislike the current system, but it is system put in place by people we elect. If you have people arbitrarily deciding which parts of the system are invalid and which aren't then all you have is anarchy. I realize that many of you would like that. But the system is what prevents people that disagree with you from hunting you down and murdering you.
So you either work with the system or you take your chances outside the system.
No, no, and again, no. Ed Snowden released his information to certain specific news organization that he thought would be responsible in their reporting. That is, people who would expose what was happening but protect identities and not release information that would do more harm than good. So please get it straight before you get your back up about it.
You say the System is what keeps people who disagree with me from hunting me down. Maybe so, to a degree anyway. But what do I do when the person who wants to hunt me down works for the System? What happens when I join a protest, or speak out against whatever ill-advised foreign adventure our leaders decide to get into next? Hell, what happens when I end a romantic relationship with one of them? You know that protesters and activists have been spied on and interfered with by the System, and that it has been abused for personal purposes. If the System protects me, why is it interfering with me exercising my rights? Where do I go when I consider the System to be the enemy because it is treating me like one?
Non-aggression principal. Voluntarism. Private-property. Look it up sometime and educate yourself.
Define "aggression". If I use my purchasing power to undercut your profit margin, am I acting aggressively? If I am competing with you in business and corner the market on a required resource, am I acting aggressively? If I buy up all the water rights in a particular area, am I acting aggressively? If I use low-quality materials and don't tell anyone, am I acting aggressively?
While Hamas are terrorists (nobody can deny it) the Israelis are also not that 'non-terrorists' either
No, they're not terrorists. Retaliating against murderous ideologues, and removing their ability to kill, is not terrorism. Maybe you'll learn that someday.
You understand that that's the way Hamas views Israel, right? I'm just saying, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
I'm not gonna defend that shit, but who was the one who took the ancestral land of a people, forcibly evicted them, and forces them to live in poverty in what is basically a huge open-air prison camp? It's not Hamas. Don't act as if Israel didn't start this shit, they did.
Then you'd best learn some history. After all, the ones who didn't run and stayed in Israel are citizens to this day. Mainly Druze, the ones who ran when the arab countries said "we're going to kill every jew there, and you'll get the land afterwards" are the ones that are living in your 'open-air' camps that have a standard of living beyond what most do in the other arab countries.
So, you're saying that no one was forced off of their land and everyone there could have stayed there and just had the state of Israel created around them? Were these people consulted about having a new nation created where they currently lived?
Israel and The Saudies are not terrorists, they are nation states. There leadership does not hide, they have been recognized as nation states by the other nation states.
I recently learned that this is the crucial difference between Al Qaeda and, say, the CIA. The US considers only acts by "non-state actors" to be terrorism. So if the CIA were to plant bombs and blame the resulting carnage on Communists it would not be terrorism, even though it is violence designed to elicit a political response. Because they work for a government.
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You do realize that there is no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber, right? It would be like a store owner with video surveillance in his own store raping someone as they come in. Might as well walk into a police station and rape the guy at the front desk. There is literally no way you can't get caught. Your every move is tracked by GPS. Christ, you fucking liberals and your "basic needs". You'll have us all living in caves before you're through.
I don't remember a lot of stories about people being attacked by their taxi driver. But I do remember this and this and this. I'm not saying Uber is inherently dangerous. But it seems more than "no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber". According to my unscientific quick Googling, it seems regular taxis are safer.
Who are self righteousness for?
Why not? And who exactly is asking for a "blank check"?
Since we're on the topic, I'd like a blank check!
My cynical self agrees with you.
Yes, after lurking in slashdot for years, I finally signed up. No agenda, other than my opinions are my own. NSA has 2 jobs: spying on the world and securing US communications. I don't know how well they are doing job #1. IMHO they are doing a really crappy job of #2.
Fair enough. But the NSA is also spying inside the United States, which they're not supposed to do, and lied about doing.
Oh, I believe bin Laden was real and is dead. They wouldn't announce to the world that he was, if there were any chance of him showing up. I'm just not sure he was killed when we were told he was. Maybe he was! I have been told he was, but have reason to be skeptical. I just don't know, really.
I might add, Bluckysmucky, that your post history indicates that you signed up just to post in this thread. Who do you work for and what is your agenda?
No, he released information to a self-aggrandizing reporter who is very hostile to the US. Who then released everything in self-aggrandizing click bait fashion. The worst actual "abuse" they found was a couple of people spying on their girlfriends. My concern is the waste of taxpayer money. This huge spy machine couldn't stop the Boston Marathon bombers even when alerted to them.
Your opinion of Glenn Greenwald notwithstanding, that just isn't the case. Reporters from the Guardian newspapaer and an independent documentarian were also involved and given the information. The worst abuse they found was the head of the NSA lying to Congress and the fact that what the NSA is doing is illegal and unconstitutional. I assume you are concerned about law breaking by people who work in secret. Or is it all just about money to you?
Were the Israelis consulted when the Palestinians originally kicked them off the land?
The Palestinians have been offered new land, citizenship in Israel, and many other peace deals. The Palestinians however feel that they will never stop until every Israeli is dead.
Is that like when we offered Native Americans new land?
Apparently he valued his own notoriety far more highly than either of those. It's a common trait in narcissists.
You mean the guy who said he didn't want the story to be about him? The one who gave hi information to responsible parties, so that he could stay out of the picture? That guy?
It seems to me that plenty of the people who flew off the handle in reaction to the 9/11 attacks were older. How old are Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, again?
Anyone who grew up during the cold war will see Snowden for the "useful idiot" he is. There were plenty of them back in the 70's and 80's. We used to call them traitors.
I grew up during the Cold War and I have no idea what you're talking about.
And no, I don't mean that YOU think it was illegal, or some judge said was 'probably' illegal. That a Federal court found it to be illegal. It's been over 2 years so this should be easy. I'll wait.
There's this. And this. And there's also this. Yep that was easy. I hope you didn't have to wait too long.
Adults respect the rule of Law and civilized society and know that what Snowden did was wrong.
Children don't like rules and think that the ends always justify the means.
Color me completely shocked.
Adults like those in the NSA? They're the ones ignoring the Constitution and lying to Congress about it. Why don't you hold them to the same standard?
It's sneakier than most people think, isn't it?
I dislike Edward Snowden for the same reason I dislike Jesus, Muhummad, and Jehovah: He's a religion shoved down my throat without anybody giving me a chance to make up my mind whether he's done anything good for the world or not.
If you ask me to view the story objectively, he's a con artist who never worked for any of the places he claims to have worked for and drew the allegedly leaked "Powerpoint Slides" himself in Windows Paint. All of this is cooked up by collusion with Glenn Greenwald, a UK reporter who has no business sticking his nose in US policy in the first place, to create a paper tiger bogeyman out of the toothless US intelligence industry the likes of which even Senator McCarthy would have blushed to turn out.
To what purpose? Revolution! Why? So Wrong Paul! What for? End the Fed, Occupy Wall Street, Tyler Durden, we are the 1%!!!
It's this generation of filthy hippies making lots of noise and changing nothing, a Xerox copy of everything wrong with the Baby Boomers. Only at least the Boomers had better music.
Does anybody remember when Slashdot was about tech news? I sure miss those days.
You're a Millennial? You do a disservice to your generation. This has to be one of the more clueless and incoherent posts I have read here in a while. And if you're a millennial, you're too young to remember what Slashdot used to be like.
You can chalk this up to those who still believe in the lie (which then hate snowden) and those who dont. The lie here is of course that the gov has your best interest in mind, and that thing people called "american dream".. turns out it really was a dream.
Most people are heavily invested in the lie. They will fight to defend it and can't be unplugged.
I thought it would be torch and pitchfork time but unless something directly and immediately affects people they just don't seem to care.
What you are seeing is not necessarily apathy but fear, a confluence of external influences stoking the internal fear of individuals. People are generally terrified, and to acknowledge or understand that among the perpetrators of terribles are the same institutions and authorities they have been relying upon for protection is more than they can bear.
This is an insightful point. There is a lot of psychology mixed up in this.
Then he started releasing information that was less and less pertinent to government violating American's privacy. Every country has spying capability and they have every reason to need it. At this point, it seems to me that he's just releasing information that sabotages foreign relations.
- A Millennial
He is not releasing information! The news agencies he gave it to are. So your problem is with them, not Snowden.
Now I know whey people aren't happy with him. They think he's doing things he's not. My sig gets more on point every day...
Older people still get their news and information from more traditional sources; radio, TV, newspapers. Younger people tend to get their news from Internet sources which can be more varied in their viewpoint. I wonder how much that contributes to the difference in opinion. Traditional media have cast Snowden in a harsher light, and that is where older people get their opinions.
The problem with Snowden is that he unilaterally made himself the judge of which secrets should be released and which should not.
You may dislike the current system, but it is system put in place by people we elect. If you have people arbitrarily deciding which parts of the system are invalid and which aren't then all you have is anarchy. I realize that many of you would like that. But the system is what prevents people that disagree with you from hunting you down and murdering you.
So you either work with the system or you take your chances outside the system.
No, no, and again, no. Ed Snowden released his information to certain specific news organization that he thought would be responsible in their reporting. That is, people who would expose what was happening but protect identities and not release information that would do more harm than good. So please get it straight before you get your back up about it.
You say the System is what keeps people who disagree with me from hunting me down. Maybe so, to a degree anyway. But what do I do when the person who wants to hunt me down works for the System? What happens when I join a protest, or speak out against whatever ill-advised foreign adventure our leaders decide to get into next? Hell, what happens when I end a romantic relationship with one of them? You know that protesters and activists have been spied on and interfered with by the System, and that it has been abused for personal purposes. If the System protects me, why is it interfering with me exercising my rights? Where do I go when I consider the System to be the enemy because it is treating me like one?
Non-aggression principal. Voluntarism. Private-property. Look it up sometime and educate yourself.
Define "aggression". If I use my purchasing power to undercut your profit margin, am I acting aggressively? If I am competing with you in business and corner the market on a required resource, am I acting aggressively? If I buy up all the water rights in a particular area, am I acting aggressively? If I use low-quality materials and don't tell anyone, am I acting aggressively?
No, they're not terrorists. Retaliating against murderous ideologues, and removing their ability to kill, is not terrorism. Maybe you'll learn that someday.
You understand that that's the way Hamas views Israel, right? I'm just saying, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
I'm not gonna defend that shit, but who was the one who took the ancestral land of a people, forcibly evicted them, and forces them to live in poverty in what is basically a huge open-air prison camp? It's not Hamas. Don't act as if Israel didn't start this shit, they did.
Then you'd best learn some history. After all, the ones who didn't run and stayed in Israel are citizens to this day. Mainly Druze, the ones who ran when the arab countries said "we're going to kill every jew there, and you'll get the land afterwards" are the ones that are living in your 'open-air' camps that have a standard of living beyond what most do in the other arab countries.
So, you're saying that no one was forced off of their land and everyone there could have stayed there and just had the state of Israel created around them? Were these people consulted about having a new nation created where they currently lived?
Israel and The Saudies are not terrorists, they are nation states. There leadership does not hide, they have been recognized as nation states by the other nation states.
I recently learned that this is the crucial difference between Al Qaeda and, say, the CIA. The US considers only acts by "non-state actors" to be terrorism. So if the CIA were to plant bombs and blame the resulting carnage on Communists it would not be terrorism, even though it is violence designed to elicit a political response. Because they work for a government.