Civil court and the judge did not limit future use, in fact by requiring passwords to be shared, the judge implied future use rather than allowing a simply shared supervised discovery session. So big mistake by the judge leaving plenty of leeway for all sorts of stuff.
They still do have their secret police force, the usurps the power of the regular police which is just as disturbing, even more so considering they are a just tech company. It seems they all got too wound up in their own hype and have disappeared out over the deep end. It will end up sinking them as a company if they can't get it back under control.
This is far worse than that. "Warner Brothers used automated software crawlers based on keywords", in this case Warner brothers were attempting to claim copyright on file names not on content. So an egregious criminal act, including fraud, misrepresentation, censorship. The extent of their criminal negligence means they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and then subject to a class action law suit for infringing the constitutional rights of all those whom they wrongfully accused.
Meh. No problem, wont destroy any evidence, just publish the password in Facebook and allow the evidence to be obfuscated. Allowing for memory lapse and no claim can be made that anything in that Facebook account was done by you, problem solved. Of course if your a Facebook addict, open new Facebook account transfer what you want to keep and let the other die a publicly digitally graffitied death.
You forget that part of the litigation process was the advertising that they started forcing on people who bought legal copies. Who can forget the message of, you wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't steal a handbag, you wouldn't steal a television, and of course, you wouldn't steal a movie. Hmm, but yes I must admit given the oppurtunity I would not have the slightest qualm about copying a car, copying a handbag or, copying a television and of course now where does that leave me when it comes to copying a movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0CkJgHKEY8. This and other stupid anti-piracy made it far cooler to copy than to be lame and buy.
The other big thing about the copyright litigation process, it was all pretty obvious it was a quick dirty extortion route to law, poor people where targeted for publiclity stakes and then the lawyers got greedy. The gathering of evidence was laughable, nothing beyond the most weak of circumstantial evidence was submitted, more often than not when challenged the court cases failed.
I like you selection of speaker. A mass media puppet, a talking head who is paid to say what ever his corporate masters tell him and what ever those advertising dollars pay for. After all the Fox not-News PR=B$ and things like news coverage difference between the Tea Party (corporate drones) and OWS (representing the people), that irony completely and utterly escapes you. You guys really just don't get the huge mistakes you make when you indulge in completely out of touch propaganda. Your so locked into what suits you, what benefits you, what gains you advantage, you comepletely fail to see the change going on in the world. Your hear it, resort to hostility and attack it but completely fail to understand it.
Dipshit, what is the economy doing during this time, what are peoples wages doing during this time, what is the unemployment rate doing during this time, what are healthcare costs doing during this time, what are food costs doing during this time, what are foreclosure rates doing during this.
You are an insensitve greedy prick. You are part of the problem so crawl under a rock and shut the fuck up.
So which comes first, feeding the ego of drunken drugged up minstels that demand mansions and mega yachts or ensuring the majority of families have homes to live in, food on the table and a future. To the narcissts in media it is pretty fucking obvious which comes first, worthless, scum sucking, shit eating psychopathic pigs that they are.
Just works, as in just barely works, well that would be pretty accurate for windows. Back to choosing Linux distributions, it's called choice, being able to switch from one distribution to another at any time and keeping your data and applications going is the big thing. Then there is the switch between Gnome and KDE within distributions to make things more interesting.
The hardest thing I have ever had to cope with Linux to be truly honest, is remebering how to configure and tweak it. Do the install, tweak it up and basically don't touch it in any way until the next major upgrade. Until windows where you have to continually fuss with it to keep it running smoothly, hence keep in mind all the tweaks and fixes, Linux let's you forget all that between major upgrades. Getting the brain cells ticking over to remeber what you did a year ago, sometimes even longer if you didn't bother to upgrade can be difficult.
Let's stop the lie, ohh windows works great straight out of the box default install. Reality is there is a huge amount of work, hundreds of hours of learning and many hours of actually downloading, installing, confihuring and tweaking to get a windows install up and running properly. Sure getting a major manufacturers windoze box (full of unwanted) windows is running reasonably well but a fresh install on a new box, now that is a completely different story.
Reality who wins on a new install on average computer, Linux eats windows alive. Installs far faster, tidies up all over the place, propely configures itself for most hardware and leaves pretty much just appearance choices and which additional free software packages you want to install. Your off and running in Linux, hours before you have finished doing hardware driver downloands installs and reboots, let alone services, security configuration and tweaking.
Now when it comes to a new you windows operating system, the fresh install, configuration and tweaking will take weeks. As you do research over the internet to figure out what crappy services you dont need, what registry changes you should make, what additional software is needed to better control windows and how to use it.
So hmm, you gave Linux a couple of hours, so how many hours did you give windows. For me it involved hundreds even thousands of hours, of researching, learning, installing, configuring, tweaking, reparing, rebuilding and re-installing. Of course have been at it a while, msdos 2.1. I have to tell you Linux has been a far, far better ride than windows. Windows over the years has been a painfull, frustrating, annoying and expensive pain.
Speaking of older folk. Don't forget they look at that broadband connection as a phone connection, so it is not just tripling (that is a huge jump in price and not 35 per month but 420 per year!) but also the added cost of mobile phones. People went from one land line per family to four mobile phones and an internet connection. There is quite simply a limit on how much money you can suck out of a family.
With corporate greed eating away at both ends, demanding we get paid less whilst we have to spend more, you can see the end result of that kind of psychopathic insanity, consumer debt is already at it's limit and basically regardless of how much PR=B$ advertising is out there, higher cost product uptake is flatening off.
Let's not forget actual reality, large scale fibre optic networks are actually cheaper than copper networks and easiier to manage. So what is really blocking uptake of fibre, easy, incumbent telecom greed.
Expansion packs are also worth buying in those free to play MMO. Buy a pack and get a whole host of gear, features and maps to significantly expand the free version, a middle ground between free and subscriber.
Better to add in the third dimension to the calculations themselves, switch from binary '0,1' to trinary '+1,0,-1'. New problems to solve but a definite leap in 'calculation' density.
So in reality the problem is not Mexico at all, it is the US forcing those drug laws on other countries. It looks very much like that destablisation is done on purpose to prevent those other countries from becoming to competitive. So it looks like to solve the Mexico and the whole of South America drug problem you have to deal with the real trouble makers, the United States government, corrupted by lobbyist bagmen for the various corporation who profit by the continued civil war on drug users.
So far better to find and target the actuall individuals who force the continuation of the drug war. It seems the only solution is to make their live a misery so those asshats will stop making hundreds of millions of other peoples lives a misery. It is seriously fucked up to think the insensinate greed of few hundred individuals is causing pain and suffering to hundreds of millions of people, psychopathic 'corporate executives, lobbyists and politicians', what a boon to society they are, 'NOT'.
More than that, how about a touch screen display ie tablet to control the application whilst the output remains on the main screen, no feedback but readily customisable input.
So tell me, where are Apples manufacturing plants. Other companies actually have factories that produce goods they design. Apple has pretty much become an empty middle man, contracting out all of it's products to other companies and as such is totally dependent upon them. In many cases it is a decision for those companies which would be more profitable, supplying Apple products and forcing them to go elsewhere. This decision is affected by the actual manufacturers public presence, the more it's products are directly desireable by the public the greater the pressure to stop supplying Apple and simply sell direct. So you must be thinking about Foxconn International a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry. There is no PR=B$ likes Apple's steady stream.
Lawyer schmoyer, who cares. If Edward Naughton want's to make a bunch of chug-a-lug claims about Anroid and GPL, well, let him put his money where his mouth is and sue Google. Until that happens, it is all empty FUD and you don't need a lawyer, a judge or a court of law to decide that.
The reality is, there is all sorts of leeway with GPL. Don't use it in commercial application or distribute it and no one really cares what you do. Adhere to the principles or spirit of GPL and contribute to the source, again most every one is going to be content. If grab small bits (not to many and none very big and every knows that is already happening all over the place) of it and bury it in closed source propritary code and that'll slide through unless of course your known for attacking open source and are a target as a result of your known hostility to FOSS.
GPLs main goal is to protect itself from copyright and patent attack, not to attack others with copyright and patents. So within that is a fair bit of lattitude and a real spirit of sharing.
The reality is your badge should be enough. At the entry point to the building your badge with it's chip is accesed and matched to your physical appearance, beyond that simply use you badge to swipe into any computer. Types of access should be restricted to locales of machine, obvious a machine at the reception desk etc should be hardware locked to only gain reception desk style access regardless of who logs in.
The most secure machines, should be in a glassed off room running parrallel to the main hallway through the building with screens not facing that glass wall nor the top of the desk visisble but anybody at that machine should be clearly visible and identity on display (the access control hardware being of course the computers that require the most security).
Passwords in reality are problematic as they really only require access to the user and a remote terminal to test the password. Of course an emergency password could be introduced, use of which would provide honey pot like access, where false data is provided whilst an alert is sent out for immediate user visual confirmation and or rescue.
At the end of the day, Apple manufactures nothing apart from software, getting a leg up on a fullly featured electronic manufacfturer is going to be impossible unless Apple buys one to take on the rest.
New kind of TV. The big thing about TVs is their life versus what used to be the life of a computer. Now computer upgrades have been slowing right down and the majority of people are pretty much starting to hang onto them until the computer die.
So the new TV, basically just jam a fully featured computer right into a big screen TV. Big cost advantage you eliminate on electronic components that would other wise be replicated as seperate units. So it becomes a TV, media centre, game console, internet browser and, home server.
Now that creates some real issues about the operating system that runs it. Obviously charging for software upgrades is pretty much going to be a no go. So the real choice is between some version of the Apple OS, some type of M$ windows, Android of some description or a manufacturers in house Linux distribution (best option for manufacturer branding).
Controlling a big screen TV/computer will be an interesting issue. A free smart phone with telecom acccount bundles would work, still a bit clumsy on the controls. A tablet again thrown in for free would also work, picture in (no longer in but in the palm of your hand) picture, plus many other features. Additional controllers as add ons for every memeber of the family all readily networked adds new market oppurtinities.
Then there is the wall garden. Two of the players Apple and M$ will want to control what you watch and how you watch it. Sony will try to a foot in both markets, lock in and free choice. All the others markets of course will hype up choice. Net result the wall garden players will end up chomping upon each other to fight for market share, leaving those offering choice an easier run in getting the lions share of the market, the betamax choice will eat away at the walled garden options.
It would seem that your user name pretty much defines why you would resort to an 'ad hominem' attack, just so typical of Apple marketing efforts over the last year as the stresses of diminishing market share affect bonuses.
Well if the Apple marketdroids had not been quite so incessant when it came to attacking anyone that posted anything against Apple in any forum for any reason, it would not have become quite so much fun to now continually hit them with that trolling stick. Apple marketing basically went way too far and are now starting to pay a price for it and it is only beginning, those Apple marketdroids are just so laughably over-defensive it's fun to poke them at every opportunity.
More importantly why should people who do not infringe copyright be burdened by the costs of what is recognised as a civil infringement. The cost does not go to government, it gets shifted to everyone.
WTF, I go out and legally buy licence material and those ass hats now want me to pay for it copies that they guess might have been made, with evidence that would be laughed out of a criminal court.
This basically stinks of a real effort to create corporate censorship of the web. They want to block all content from the internet via the power of Government and brutish law enforcement, so that only major corporations can publish on the internet, just like the good old days of untroubled uncontested mass media lies on radio, television and the newspapers.
Protect the 1% from the 99% Department. Department of Hoard Safekeeping ie protecting the ill gotten gains of a psychopathic minority from ever returning to it's victims. Here's betting their skulking about in force at the Occupy Wall Street protests, profiling, recording and investigating everyone there, except of course the creeps in the offices who actually stole billions of dollars, in one scam after another.
More logically the phrase "no evidence" versus the more commonly expected "no knowledge". So perhaps no recovered alien vessels and no captured aliens versus no knowledge of unknown space vessels, presumably not operated by humans.
You are no witnessing government, you are witnessing corpor/fascist state, the conjunction of corporations and autocratic government. In the Soviet era is was the police/autocratic state, where it was all about individuals gaining and maintaining power and everything else was subjugated to that.
The psychopaths in charge of those corporation also have another objective in mind, the complete breaking down of the US labour market and the extinction of the middle class. A new three class structured America and the rest of the West, 1% with everything, the enforcement class and the working in poverty class.
Reality is of course, whilst the 1% will create the police state, just like the Soviet Union, the enforcement class will soon enough turn their power on the ones that gave it too them, the 1% will find themselves in the gulags along with the protesting intellectuals (those that give power can take it away, hence they must be eliminated to maintain that power).
The rich and greedy of course never learn, that is not the nature of psychopathy, basically damn the consequences I want everything now. Sparta was a classic example, their were no rich helot merchants, any uppity helots will simply executed as combat practice for the warrior class, the Spartans, the class created to protect those that owned the land and the resources.
Ignoring the mood of your country is often a pretty destructive thing for a politician to do. Really how much time do you think it would take to review say a page of information. Of course those collating are spending a lot of time but the expectation is a poltical should know the mood of the electorate, should pay attention to it and in reality should flip or flop which ever way they tell him to ie be a 'representative' politician and not a 'dictative' politcian.
Every says you should listen to your boss, pay attention to your employer, well, for any poltician that is the electorate. Why do right wing control freaks always mistakenly believe it is the other way around, that the people have to obey "The Leader In Chief", that is just so democratically wrong. Once you have voted for them does not mean the end of your duty as a democratic citizen, the next step is to keep them on their toes, to ensure they are being representative of the will of the majority, to harangue, cajole and even yell in their face as the situation demands.
The real question you need to ask yourself is who should respect whom the most, should be the people respect the politician more than the politicians respects the people. For democracies there is only one answer to that question and it's the one where the people come first.
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Civil court and the judge did not limit future use, in fact by requiring passwords to be shared, the judge implied future use rather than allowing a simply shared supervised discovery session. So big mistake by the judge leaving plenty of leeway for all sorts of stuff.
They still do have their secret police force, the usurps the power of the regular police which is just as disturbing, even more so considering they are a just tech company. It seems they all got too wound up in their own hype and have disappeared out over the deep end. It will end up sinking them as a company if they can't get it back under control.
This is far worse than that. "Warner Brothers used automated software crawlers based on keywords", in this case Warner brothers were attempting to claim copyright on file names not on content. So an egregious criminal act, including fraud, misrepresentation, censorship. The extent of their criminal negligence means they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and then subject to a class action law suit for infringing the constitutional rights of all those whom they wrongfully accused.
Meh. No problem, wont destroy any evidence, just publish the password in Facebook and allow the evidence to be obfuscated. Allowing for memory lapse and no claim can be made that anything in that Facebook account was done by you, problem solved. Of course if your a Facebook addict, open new Facebook account transfer what you want to keep and let the other die a publicly digitally graffitied death.
You assumed wrong great, grandpa my father died of stomach cancer last year you insensitive prick.
The other big thing about the copyright litigation process, it was all pretty obvious it was a quick dirty extortion route to law, poor people where targeted for publiclity stakes and then the lawyers got greedy. The gathering of evidence was laughable, nothing beyond the most weak of circumstantial evidence was submitted, more often than not when challenged the court cases failed.
I like you selection of speaker. A mass media puppet, a talking head who is paid to say what ever his corporate masters tell him and what ever those advertising dollars pay for. After all the Fox not-News PR=B$ and things like news coverage difference between the Tea Party (corporate drones) and OWS (representing the people), that irony completely and utterly escapes you. You guys really just don't get the huge mistakes you make when you indulge in completely out of touch propaganda. Your so locked into what suits you, what benefits you, what gains you advantage, you comepletely fail to see the change going on in the world. Your hear it, resort to hostility and attack it but completely fail to understand it.
Dipshit, what is the economy doing during this time, what are peoples wages doing during this time, what is the unemployment rate doing during this time, what are healthcare costs doing during this time, what are food costs doing during this time, what are foreclosure rates doing during this.
You are an insensitve greedy prick. You are part of the problem so crawl under a rock and shut the fuck up.
So which comes first, feeding the ego of drunken drugged up minstels that demand mansions and mega yachts or ensuring the majority of families have homes to live in, food on the table and a future. To the narcissts in media it is pretty fucking obvious which comes first, worthless, scum sucking, shit eating psychopathic pigs that they are.
Just works, as in just barely works, well that would be pretty accurate for windows. Back to choosing Linux distributions, it's called choice, being able to switch from one distribution to another at any time and keeping your data and applications going is the big thing. Then there is the switch between Gnome and KDE within distributions to make things more interesting.
The hardest thing I have ever had to cope with Linux to be truly honest, is remebering how to configure and tweak it. Do the install, tweak it up and basically don't touch it in any way until the next major upgrade. Until windows where you have to continually fuss with it to keep it running smoothly, hence keep in mind all the tweaks and fixes, Linux let's you forget all that between major upgrades. Getting the brain cells ticking over to remeber what you did a year ago, sometimes even longer if you didn't bother to upgrade can be difficult.
Let's stop the lie, ohh windows works great straight out of the box default install. Reality is there is a huge amount of work, hundreds of hours of learning and many hours of actually downloading, installing, confihuring and tweaking to get a windows install up and running properly. Sure getting a major manufacturers windoze box (full of unwanted) windows is running reasonably well but a fresh install on a new box, now that is a completely different story.
Reality who wins on a new install on average computer, Linux eats windows alive. Installs far faster, tidies up all over the place, propely configures itself for most hardware and leaves pretty much just appearance choices and which additional free software packages you want to install. Your off and running in Linux, hours before you have finished doing hardware driver downloands installs and reboots, let alone services, security configuration and tweaking.
Now when it comes to a new you windows operating system, the fresh install, configuration and tweaking will take weeks. As you do research over the internet to figure out what crappy services you dont need, what registry changes you should make, what additional software is needed to better control windows and how to use it.
So hmm, you gave Linux a couple of hours, so how many hours did you give windows. For me it involved hundreds even thousands of hours, of researching, learning, installing, configuring, tweaking, reparing, rebuilding and re-installing. Of course have been at it a while, msdos 2.1. I have to tell you Linux has been a far, far better ride than windows. Windows over the years has been a painfull, frustrating, annoying and expensive pain.
Speaking of older folk. Don't forget they look at that broadband connection as a phone connection, so it is not just tripling (that is a huge jump in price and not 35 per month but 420 per year!) but also the added cost of mobile phones. People went from one land line per family to four mobile phones and an internet connection. There is quite simply a limit on how much money you can suck out of a family.
With corporate greed eating away at both ends, demanding we get paid less whilst we have to spend more, you can see the end result of that kind of psychopathic insanity, consumer debt is already at it's limit and basically regardless of how much PR=B$ advertising is out there, higher cost product uptake is flatening off.
Let's not forget actual reality, large scale fibre optic networks are actually cheaper than copper networks and easiier to manage. So what is really blocking uptake of fibre, easy, incumbent telecom greed.
Expansion packs are also worth buying in those free to play MMO. Buy a pack and get a whole host of gear, features and maps to significantly expand the free version, a middle ground between free and subscriber.
Better to add in the third dimension to the calculations themselves, switch from binary '0,1' to trinary '+1,0,-1'. New problems to solve but a definite leap in 'calculation' density.
So in reality the problem is not Mexico at all, it is the US forcing those drug laws on other countries. It looks very much like that destablisation is done on purpose to prevent those other countries from becoming to competitive. So it looks like to solve the Mexico and the whole of South America drug problem you have to deal with the real trouble makers, the United States government, corrupted by lobbyist bagmen for the various corporation who profit by the continued civil war on drug users.
So far better to find and target the actuall individuals who force the continuation of the drug war. It seems the only solution is to make their live a misery so those asshats will stop making hundreds of millions of other peoples lives a misery. It is seriously fucked up to think the insensinate greed of few hundred individuals is causing pain and suffering to hundreds of millions of people, psychopathic 'corporate executives, lobbyists and politicians', what a boon to society they are, 'NOT'.
More than that, how about a touch screen display ie tablet to control the application whilst the output remains on the main screen, no feedback but readily customisable input.
So tell me, where are Apples manufacturing plants. Other companies actually have factories that produce goods they design. Apple has pretty much become an empty middle man, contracting out all of it's products to other companies and as such is totally dependent upon them. In many cases it is a decision for those companies which would be more profitable, supplying Apple products and forcing them to go elsewhere. This decision is affected by the actual manufacturers public presence, the more it's products are directly desireable by the public the greater the pressure to stop supplying Apple and simply sell direct. So you must be thinking about Foxconn International a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry. There is no PR=B$ likes Apple's steady stream.
Lawyer schmoyer, who cares. If Edward Naughton want's to make a bunch of chug-a-lug claims about Anroid and GPL, well, let him put his money where his mouth is and sue Google. Until that happens, it is all empty FUD and you don't need a lawyer, a judge or a court of law to decide that.
The reality is, there is all sorts of leeway with GPL. Don't use it in commercial application or distribute it and no one really cares what you do. Adhere to the principles or spirit of GPL and contribute to the source, again most every one is going to be content. If grab small bits (not to many and none very big and every knows that is already happening all over the place) of it and bury it in closed source propritary code and that'll slide through unless of course your known for attacking open source and are a target as a result of your known hostility to FOSS.
GPLs main goal is to protect itself from copyright and patent attack, not to attack others with copyright and patents. So within that is a fair bit of lattitude and a real spirit of sharing.
The reality is your badge should be enough. At the entry point to the building your badge with it's chip is accesed and matched to your physical appearance, beyond that simply use you badge to swipe into any computer. Types of access should be restricted to locales of machine, obvious a machine at the reception desk etc should be hardware locked to only gain reception desk style access regardless of who logs in.
The most secure machines, should be in a glassed off room running parrallel to the main hallway through the building with screens not facing that glass wall nor the top of the desk visisble but anybody at that machine should be clearly visible and identity on display (the access control hardware being of course the computers that require the most security).
Passwords in reality are problematic as they really only require access to the user and a remote terminal to test the password. Of course an emergency password could be introduced, use of which would provide honey pot like access, where false data is provided whilst an alert is sent out for immediate user visual confirmation and or rescue.
At the end of the day, Apple manufactures nothing apart from software, getting a leg up on a fullly featured electronic manufacfturer is going to be impossible unless Apple buys one to take on the rest.
New kind of TV. The big thing about TVs is their life versus what used to be the life of a computer. Now computer upgrades have been slowing right down and the majority of people are pretty much starting to hang onto them until the computer die.
So the new TV, basically just jam a fully featured computer right into a big screen TV. Big cost advantage you eliminate on electronic components that would other wise be replicated as seperate units. So it becomes a TV, media centre, game console, internet browser and, home server.
Now that creates some real issues about the operating system that runs it. Obviously charging for software upgrades is pretty much going to be a no go. So the real choice is between some version of the Apple OS, some type of M$ windows, Android of some description or a manufacturers in house Linux distribution (best option for manufacturer branding).
Controlling a big screen TV/computer will be an interesting issue. A free smart phone with telecom acccount bundles would work, still a bit clumsy on the controls. A tablet again thrown in for free would also work, picture in (no longer in but in the palm of your hand) picture, plus many other features. Additional controllers as add ons for every memeber of the family all readily networked adds new market oppurtinities.
Then there is the wall garden. Two of the players Apple and M$ will want to control what you watch and how you watch it. Sony will try to a foot in both markets, lock in and free choice. All the others markets of course will hype up choice. Net result the wall garden players will end up chomping upon each other to fight for market share, leaving those offering choice an easier run in getting the lions share of the market, the betamax choice will eat away at the walled garden options.
It would seem that your user name pretty much defines why you would resort to an 'ad hominem' attack, just so typical of Apple marketing efforts over the last year as the stresses of diminishing market share affect bonuses.
Well if the Apple marketdroids had not been quite so incessant when it came to attacking anyone that posted anything against Apple in any forum for any reason, it would not have become quite so much fun to now continually hit them with that trolling stick. Apple marketing basically went way too far and are now starting to pay a price for it and it is only beginning, those Apple marketdroids are just so laughably over-defensive it's fun to poke them at every opportunity.
More importantly why should people who do not infringe copyright be burdened by the costs of what is recognised as a civil infringement. The cost does not go to government, it gets shifted to everyone.
WTF, I go out and legally buy licence material and those ass hats now want me to pay for it copies that they guess might have been made, with evidence that would be laughed out of a criminal court.
This basically stinks of a real effort to create corporate censorship of the web. They want to block all content from the internet via the power of Government and brutish law enforcement, so that only major corporations can publish on the internet, just like the good old days of untroubled uncontested mass media lies on radio, television and the newspapers.
Protect the 1% from the 99% Department. Department of Hoard Safekeeping ie protecting the ill gotten gains of a psychopathic minority from ever returning to it's victims. Here's betting their skulking about in force at the Occupy Wall Street protests, profiling, recording and investigating everyone there, except of course the creeps in the offices who actually stole billions of dollars, in one scam after another.
More logically the phrase "no evidence" versus the more commonly expected "no knowledge". So perhaps no recovered alien vessels and no captured aliens versus no knowledge of unknown space vessels, presumably not operated by humans.
Of course one need only look at the reply for marijuana versus say this story http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2008/jul/23/significance_us_govt_cannabinoid which leads you to http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html. So the US Department of Health has a patent on what the US Government in turn denies is of any value.
Then of course who could forget wikileaks and embassy cables, basically the US government lying all over the place, again and again and again.
You are no witnessing government, you are witnessing corpor/fascist state, the conjunction of corporations and autocratic government. In the Soviet era is was the police/autocratic state, where it was all about individuals gaining and maintaining power and everything else was subjugated to that.
The psychopaths in charge of those corporation also have another objective in mind, the complete breaking down of the US labour market and the extinction of the middle class. A new three class structured America and the rest of the West, 1% with everything, the enforcement class and the working in poverty class.
Reality is of course, whilst the 1% will create the police state, just like the Soviet Union, the enforcement class will soon enough turn their power on the ones that gave it too them, the 1% will find themselves in the gulags along with the protesting intellectuals (those that give power can take it away, hence they must be eliminated to maintain that power).
The rich and greedy of course never learn, that is not the nature of psychopathy, basically damn the consequences I want everything now. Sparta was a classic example, their were no rich helot merchants, any uppity helots will simply executed as combat practice for the warrior class, the Spartans, the class created to protect those that owned the land and the resources.
Ignoring the mood of your country is often a pretty destructive thing for a politician to do. Really how much time do you think it would take to review say a page of information. Of course those collating are spending a lot of time but the expectation is a poltical should know the mood of the electorate, should pay attention to it and in reality should flip or flop which ever way they tell him to ie be a 'representative' politician and not a 'dictative' politcian.
Every says you should listen to your boss, pay attention to your employer, well, for any poltician that is the electorate. Why do right wing control freaks always mistakenly believe it is the other way around, that the people have to obey "The Leader In Chief", that is just so democratically wrong. Once you have voted for them does not mean the end of your duty as a democratic citizen, the next step is to keep them on their toes, to ensure they are being representative of the will of the majority, to harangue, cajole and even yell in their face as the situation demands.
The real question you need to ask yourself is who should respect whom the most, should be the people respect the politician more than the politicians respects the people. For democracies there is only one answer to that question and it's the one where the people come first.