Bidding started at $500. C-Net said "So far, the check has fetched a bid of $510 on eBay." Bid increments are at $25, I think. How do you add 25 to 500 and get 510?
I don't understand why so many people are upset about Echelon. I don't know about everybody else, but I don't write about assasinating[sic] the president in my e-mails, and thus they don't get read by Echelon. Furthermore, IMHO, not being bombed by terrorists is a bit more important than maintaining my personal privacy.
For me, it's not as much about privacy as about violating the constitution/bill of rights. What they're doing is illegal and if they have no problem with this violation why should they will any other? Also, since the evidence is illegally gathered, doesn't the case get dismissed automatically?
However, as my.sig suggests, the NSA is in fact working for the good of the people of the United States. That is why they are called the National Security Agency.
They are trying to protect the people but they try to do this by restricting and violating our rights. Do good intentions make that alright?
Getting back to Echelon, so what? It is a computer that collects international electronic communications that include phrases like "bomb the Whitehouse." If you are talking about bombing the Whitehouse in your e-mails, frankly, I want the government to take a closer look at what you are doing. And if you don't want Echelon to look at your e-mail, don't talk about bombing the Whitehouse. Efforts like "Jam Echelon Day" have done nothing but help terrorists get a chance to get by our security. I think that we should instead all do our part to avoid writing e-mail that might get picked up by Echelon to lighten their work load and let them take care of the important stuff.
Have you seen that list of words? If it scans for all those words then they're getting a lot more then just stuff sent by terrorists.
"...there is no such concept as God." There may be no proof of his existence (none that I know of) but there is no evidence that She doesn't exist. No need to flame his religion.
Disclaimer: I said there MAY (Might) be no evidence. I don't know of any. No need to flame me for being uninformed.
From his posting history it looks to me as if his posts are usually ether pointless or helpful, not flames. Sure he talks in third person but many people talk a heck of a lot worse then that and they don't get scored down.
Talking different doesn't make you a troll. Calling somebody a jackass does.
Two possibilities that I can think of right now: 1: He considered the commercial a violation of truth in advertising and wanted to stop them. What better way then this? 2: He just wanted to bully the Big Corporate Empire into giving him money or an expensive airplane.
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Bidding started at $500.
C-Net said "So far, the check has fetched a bid of $510 on eBay."
Bid increments are at $25, I think.
How do you add 25 to 500 and get 510?
For me, it's not as much about privacy as about violating the constitution/bill of rights. What they're doing is illegal and if they have no problem with this violation why should they will any other?
Also, since the evidence is illegally gathered, doesn't the case get dismissed automatically?
However, as my .sig suggests, the NSA is in fact working for the good of the people of the United States. That is why they are called the National Security Agency.
They are trying to protect the people but they try to do this by restricting and violating our rights. Do good intentions make that alright?
Getting back to Echelon, so what? It is a computer that collects international electronic communications that include phrases like "bomb the Whitehouse." If you are talking about bombing the Whitehouse in your e-mails, frankly, I want the government to take a closer look at what you are doing. And if you don't want Echelon to look at your e-mail, don't talk about bombing the Whitehouse. Efforts like "Jam Echelon Day" have done nothing but help terrorists get a chance to get by our security. I think that we should instead all do our part to avoid writing e-mail that might get picked up by Echelon to lighten their work load and let them take care of the important stuff.
Have you seen that list of words? If it scans for all those words then they're getting a lot more then just stuff sent by terrorists.
"...there is no such concept as God."
There may be no proof of his existence (none that I know of) but there is no evidence that She doesn't exist. No need to flame his religion.
Disclaimer: I said there MAY (Might) be no evidence. I don't know of any. No need to flame me for being uninformed.
From his posting history it looks to me as if his posts are usually ether pointless or helpful, not flames.
Sure he talks in third person but many people talk a heck of a lot worse then that and they don't get scored down.
Talking different doesn't make you a troll. Calling somebody a jackass does.
Two possibilities that I can think of right now:
1: He considered the commercial a violation of truth in advertising and wanted to stop them. What better way then this?
2: He just wanted to bully the Big Corporate Empire into giving him money or an expensive airplane.