Manning and Snowden did a massive data dump to organizations who will publish anything to get eyeballs.
Repeating a Big Lie doesn't make it true, it just makes you a bigger and more pathetic liar. Try your trite apologia in some other universe where those two handed documents over to the National Enquirer instead of media organizations that spent months vetting the data.
You still don't get it, do you? At Google, you're not the customer... You are the product. Or more to the point, your browsing habits and associated data is the product. That's why there is Google+. Imagine the windfall Google would gain if they could have the kind of active user base of Facebook joined with their business model.
Err....isn't that agreeing with the parent? Why does Google have the 'most valuable' consumer brand when the consumers are those buying ads from Google and people are the product?
I'm sorry, but the gulf between the "legal channels" and "international media" is big enough to fit.. an Earth sized planet in there.
I'm not sorry, because you're defending the indefensible. Snowden was supposed to report to the CIA that the CIA was breaking the law? Tell the Senate Intelligence Committee that the illegal programs the committee has known about and covered up are illegal? Tell the Supremes that their laughable "no standing" rulings and blind trust of official assertions were laughably blind? Where "proper" channels are indisputably used to shut down whisteblowing instead of protecting whisteblowers? What on earth is a state governor supposed to do about illegal wiretapping from the NSA?
"In 2009, Kiriakou took the position of senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under John Kerry. His job was to investigate waste, fraud, abuse and illegality and he turned his attention to the 2001 Dasht-i-Leili massacre, in which an American-backed warlord had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of Taliban soldiers when he ordered them to be crammed into metal containers and then loaded onto trucks bound for a prison in Shibarghan, Afghanistan.
Six weeks later, Kiriakou got a phone call from John Kerry asking if he was investigating the CIA.
âoeI said, âYes, I am.â(TM) [He said,] âI want you to stop right now.â(TM) I said âbut weâ(TM)ve got a story here. This is a serious situation.â(TM) âI want you to stop right now,â(TM)â Kerry repeated. âoeSo I stopped.â"
It wasn't supposed to become a rich man's club running at the behest of other rich people.
The U.S. was founded as an elitist nation...that's why only property owners had the right to vote for much of the country's existence. And why the undemocratic Electoral College was set up, or why Senators were originally selected by state governments instead of state voters...to "protect" the government from the "mob".
Now, despite the founders being a bunch of elitist snobs, I'm fairly confident they would be horrified by the bipartisan support for the NSA, Patriot Act, drones, etc. Because while they didn't care to know much about issues of class, they were very wary on the dangers of tyranny. And any tyrant would love having the NSA, Patriot Act, drones, etc.
Totally dude. If only Alan Turing had done some whistle blowing on how the privacy of German U boat captains was being violated the world would be a much better place.
Wow, that's the most asinine analogy so far in this story. You should check and see if there's some kind of prize.
We only want citizens voting in our elections, right? It's the same reasoning behind the "must have been born a citizen" candidate rules.
Voter ID is a solution in search of a problem that doesn't functionally exist, and none of the cases cited by Voter ID supporters would have been prevented by ID's anyway. Because they either point to vote registration fraud, or cases where someone double-voted or was a felon - not preventable by ID.
I wouldn't call that the issue so much as how easy it is to get said ID.
It's not easy if you're poor and don't have "appropriate" paperwork. Even if the ID is free, the travel necessary to get on is not. Or even if you aren't poor - it's possible that Ronald Reagan couldn't have voted in either of the elections that put him in the Oval Office, because he never had a birth certificate until the 90's.
Voter ID is about voter disenfranchisement. Period.
You guys know you out yourselves by swooping over the mountains of laws broken by the government to zoom in on the molehill of whisteblowing, right?
And should he come to the US, and be arrested, he should plead GUILTY - as he is (by his own admission.
Snowden took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. How do you suggest he go about doing that? Tell the CIA that the CIA is breaking the law?
There's plenty about teaching contracts that keeps bad teachers from being fired -- because sucking as a teacher isn't 'cause' for termination.
Because a teacher isn't "bad" just because he or she gave Babcock Jr. a well-deserved D- in English. Because no one is stupid enough to point to a "bad" employee at Wal-Mart and use that as a basis for saying capitalism is "bad", or that non-union companies are "bad".
You mean personal anecdote. Well I see your anecdote and raise you one of my own: I worked at a company that made Wal-Mart look pro union. One old man said to one of the young female employees, "I'd like to rape the shit out of you". Nothing happened to him, therefore all non-union companies are bad. That extrapolation makes just as much sense as all the canards thrown against unions or your anecdote on textbooks.
That they not fight getting ride of bad teachers as well as fighting for more pay and more resources for the good ones.
Again with the "unions protect bad employees" boilerplate. Do you like having to work harder to pick up the slack for crappy employees? Most likely no. Would you start liking it if you joined a union? Most likely no.
Then why do you think unionized employees sit around all day thinking, "boy, I sure do wish John over there would start slacking off so I can do his work as well as mine." Teaching is no different - you honestly think that a 5th grade math teacher is going to enjoy teaching 4th grade math to his class because Mrs. Johnson spent her class time picking her nose?
You could also try not being an elitist sociopath. Just a suggestion. In any case, better hope you don't ever fall down on your luck, or else someone like yourself will come over and shit all over you as well.
We can see this with the trend over the past few years towards locked-down, walled garden environments like iOS.
So get a terminal app and ssh into the old celeron system at the school running Free BSD. But, that would require putting down the cup 'o hatorade for at least two minutes....
The solution is the take the kids who are internally motivated and place them in a separate class where they can explore subjects to their full potential, instead of dumbing them down with games. These classes should be taught by real teachers, ones with proper credentials and experience.
You mean, the children of the bourgeoisie, who don't have mommy and daddy working a combined 120 hours a week between five different jobs to keep a roof over their heads. Is the establishment of a caste system and a group of Untouchables a desired feature, or just a convenient bug for you?
Being a teacher is way easier than being a sports star.
If you're a sports star, you're judged based on your own performance. If you're a teacher, you're judged based on other people's performance, as the parents are the #1 correlating factor in a student's performance.
Horsefuckery. Try 50-60 hours a week and summers revolving around continuing your own education or preparing for the next school year, and the latest round of NCLB/RTTP/Common Core/teach to the test crap designed to break the professionalism of the profession.
Factor in that an experienced teacher can re-use the majority of their materials from previous years and there's very little truth to the "teachers are overworked" claims.
Not one of you Bircher-Baggers would touch a teaching position for less than six figures. Not. One.
Master's degree with accompanying five figures of student loan debt, 60 hour work weeks, continuing your own education, acting as parent/babysitter/disciplinarian/nurse to 30 kids before you start teaching, and having your pay set by student performance, when the #1 factor in said performance is entirely outside of your control: what kind of home the student goes home to at the end of the day.
In 5th, 6th, and 7th grade I learned algebra 3 years in a row.
History is worse....Columbus to WWII, with lots of time spent on the revolution and civil war. Every. Freaking. Year.
A lack of individualized learning plans and forcing everyone into the same progress speed, caused by the grade-age system and lack of resources, destroys the enjoyment of school for the gifted.
Low taxes have high costs. If this were a civilized country, you'd have less than 20 kids per teacher. Kinda hard to make individualized lesson plans when you have 28 kids in your class, Common Core breathing down your neck, and your school funding is dependent on the next round of corporate, I mean standardized testing.
The ironic thing about this teacher's union gripe is that tech appears to be the best way to implement individualized learning.
Nah, that's just the troll summary written by Tribble and posted by samzenpus. The teachers aren't complaining about tech inside the classroom, they're complaining about Candy Crush and Facebook outside of the classroom.
The teachers union does more to keep bad teachers employed than anything else.
Unions do nothing to prevent workers from being fired for cause. Do you hate your own right to democracy and due process, or just people who work for a living?
As has been pointed out many times, these people are complaining about computers outside the classroom lowering the attention span of kids. Not much of a story there, so the Union part was emphasized, since samzenpus knows that triggers a PTSD reaction amongst conservatives, libertarians, and birchers. Because Michael Moore ran over their dog when they were five, or something.
The only thing the Teacher's Unions are terrified of.. is that they're going to be replaced.
You'd be afraid too, if your highly professionalized job was being turned into something slightly less expendable than a burger flipper, that your due process and bargaining rights were being torpedoed, and for being judged on student performance when the #1 factor in said performance is what kind of a home the kid goes home to at the end of the day.
Something you have no control over. And all so the Mitt Romney's can turn public education into a profit center.
Yes and yes. Text takes a fraction of the time and space that voice does. If you have a conversation over SMS instead of voice, you are SAVING processing and bandwidth costs for the telecoms.
Don't need unlimited data for text as it uses practically nothing. That's why charging for SMS has always been a ripoff; it's practically free for the cell phone companies to provide.
Nobody starts out on third base but the children of the wealthy. And there are tens of millions of poor men, even poor white men, that are trapped in crushing generational poverty right along with poor women.
Doesn't get as much press, though. Or as much demagoguery.
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Repeating a Big Lie doesn't make it true, it just makes you a bigger and more pathetic liar. Try your trite apologia in some other universe where those two handed documents over to the National Enquirer instead of media organizations that spent months vetting the data.
Err....isn't that agreeing with the parent? Why does Google have the 'most valuable' consumer brand when the consumers are those buying ads from Google and people are the product?
Lobbyists? Campaign contributions? Owning media sources that parrot the capitalist line? How do you think we got the direct election of Senators?
Be a capitalist if you want, but don't pretend capitalist BS doesn't stink.
I'm not sorry, because you're defending the indefensible. Snowden was supposed to report to the CIA that the CIA was breaking the law? Tell the Senate Intelligence Committee that the illegal programs the committee has known about and covered up are illegal? Tell the Supremes that their laughable "no standing" rulings and blind trust of official assertions were laughably blind? Where "proper" channels are indisputably used to shut down whisteblowing instead of protecting whisteblowers? What on earth is a state governor supposed to do about illegal wiretapping from the NSA?
Who do you think you're kidding, here?
The U.S. was founded as an elitist nation...that's why only property owners had the right to vote for much of the country's existence. And why the undemocratic Electoral College was set up, or why Senators were originally selected by state governments instead of state voters...to "protect" the government from the "mob".
Now, despite the founders being a bunch of elitist snobs, I'm fairly confident they would be horrified by the bipartisan support for the NSA, Patriot Act, drones, etc. Because while they didn't care to know much about issues of class, they were very wary on the dangers of tyranny. And any tyrant would love having the NSA, Patriot Act, drones, etc.
Wow, that's the most asinine analogy so far in this story. You should check and see if there's some kind of prize.
Voter ID is a solution in search of a problem that doesn't functionally exist, and none of the cases cited by Voter ID supporters would have been prevented by ID's anyway. Because they either point to vote registration fraud, or cases where someone double-voted or was a felon - not preventable by ID.
It's not easy if you're poor and don't have "appropriate" paperwork. Even if the ID is free, the travel necessary to get on is not. Or even if you aren't poor - it's possible that Ronald Reagan couldn't have voted in either of the elections that put him in the Oval Office, because he never had a birth certificate until the 90's.
Voter ID is about voter disenfranchisement. Period.
You guys know you out yourselves by swooping over the mountains of laws broken by the government to zoom in on the molehill of whisteblowing, right?
Snowden took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. How do you suggest he go about doing that? Tell the CIA that the CIA is breaking the law?
Because a teacher isn't "bad" just because he or she gave Babcock Jr. a well-deserved D- in English. Because no one is stupid enough to point to a "bad" employee at Wal-Mart and use that as a basis for saying capitalism is "bad", or that non-union companies are "bad".
Definition of right winger crap.
You mean personal anecdote. Well I see your anecdote and raise you one of my own: I worked at a company that made Wal-Mart look pro union. One old man said to one of the young female employees, "I'd like to rape the shit out of you". Nothing happened to him, therefore all non-union companies are bad. That extrapolation makes just as much sense as all the canards thrown against unions or your anecdote on textbooks.
Again with the "unions protect bad employees" boilerplate. Do you like having to work harder to pick up the slack for crappy employees? Most likely no. Would you start liking it if you joined a union? Most likely no.
Then why do you think unionized employees sit around all day thinking, "boy, I sure do wish John over there would start slacking off so I can do his work as well as mine." Teaching is no different - you honestly think that a 5th grade math teacher is going to enjoy teaching 4th grade math to his class because Mrs. Johnson spent her class time picking her nose?
You could also try not being an elitist sociopath. Just a suggestion. In any case, better hope you don't ever fall down on your luck, or else someone like yourself will come over and shit all over you as well.
So get a terminal app and ssh into the old celeron system at the school running Free BSD. But, that would require putting down the cup 'o hatorade for at least two minutes....
You mean, the children of the bourgeoisie, who don't have mommy and daddy working a combined 120 hours a week between five different jobs to keep a roof over their heads. Is the establishment of a caste system and a group of Untouchables a desired feature, or just a convenient bug for you?
If you're a sports star, you're judged based on your own performance. If you're a teacher, you're judged based on other people's performance, as the parents are the #1 correlating factor in a student's performance.
Repeating zombie winger crap doesn't make it true. There is nothing about unions that prevent someone from being fired with cause. Nothing.
Horsefuckery. Try 50-60 hours a week and summers revolving around continuing your own education or preparing for the next school year, and the latest round of NCLB/RTTP/Common Core/teach to the test crap designed to break the professionalism of the profession.
Not one of you Bircher-Baggers would touch a teaching position for less than six figures. Not. One.
Master's degree with accompanying five figures of student loan debt, 60 hour work weeks, continuing your own education, acting as parent/babysitter/disciplinarian/nurse to 30 kids before you start teaching, and having your pay set by student performance, when the #1 factor in said performance is entirely outside of your control: what kind of home the student goes home to at the end of the day.
Not when he's to the right of Reagan on just about any issue you can name.
History is worse....Columbus to WWII, with lots of time spent on the revolution and civil war. Every. Freaking. Year.
Low taxes have high costs. If this were a civilized country, you'd have less than 20 kids per teacher. Kinda hard to make individualized lesson plans when you have 28 kids in your class, Common Core breathing down your neck, and your school funding is dependent on the next round of corporate, I mean standardized testing.
Nah, that's just the troll summary written by Tribble and posted by samzenpus. The teachers aren't complaining about tech inside the classroom, they're complaining about Candy Crush and Facebook outside of the classroom.
Unions do nothing to prevent workers from being fired for cause. Do you hate your own right to democracy and due process, or just people who work for a living?
As has been pointed out many times, these people are complaining about computers outside the classroom lowering the attention span of kids. Not much of a story there, so the Union part was emphasized, since samzenpus knows that triggers a PTSD reaction amongst conservatives, libertarians, and birchers. Because Michael Moore ran over their dog when they were five, or something.
You'd be afraid too, if your highly professionalized job was being turned into something slightly less expendable than a burger flipper, that your due process and bargaining rights were being torpedoed, and for being judged on student performance when the #1 factor in said performance is what kind of a home the kid goes home to at the end of the day.
Something you have no control over. And all so the Mitt Romney's can turn public education into a profit center.
Yes and yes. Text takes a fraction of the time and space that voice does. If you have a conversation over SMS instead of voice, you are SAVING processing and bandwidth costs for the telecoms.
It's practically free for Verizon et all to provide SMS texting to existing customers versus having no texting at all.
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Don't need unlimited data for text as it uses practically nothing. That's why charging for SMS has always been a ripoff; it's practically free for the cell phone companies to provide.
Nobody starts out on third base but the children of the wealthy. And there are tens of millions of poor men, even poor white men, that are trapped in crushing generational poverty right along with poor women.
Doesn't get as much press, though. Or as much demagoguery.