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  1. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, i never brought up the Chicago bs because it was largely BS. The democrats had to hang someone for disrupting their get together. If that was all there was to the story i never would have brought it up.

    If it was really about those killing you, it wouldn't be an issue. Yes, advocating the deaths of catagories of people is where the line is drawn. And that is a bullshit cop out about the war as every one was being sent off. Drugs is just plain stupid as it takes a willing participant.

    Oh, and bobby's advocacy of murder stems from the murder of a black panther (read young black man here) who was suspected of being a law enforcement informant. There was no need for media propaganda, seale wrote it down himself and distributed it. Most all bad things about them are at their own hands.

  2. Yes, because government is all about doing things for groups of people instead of the country as a whole.

    Let there be no part of your life secret so the government can do for you. Just stop them before they take that next step and decide all you can do.

  3. Re:I don't care how Sprint "sees it" on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    Its not really the act of rooting that is the problem. It is the dmca anti circumvention law that makes circumvention as well as most collaboration and dissemination the problem.

  4. Re:Nice summary! on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Would that be std in, std out, or std err?

    I mean i view a lot of porn so I should be qualified to understand but damned if I do.

  5. Re:Yoda Police come to you to shove it in your ASS on How California Police Are Tracking Your Biometric Data In the Field (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about interesting, disturbed and completely funny maybe. Oh, maybe you find that interesting. Carry on then.

    PS, I think the most disturbing part is that I knew the song music (hotel California) from reading his lyrics on the first line. It just popped into my head after a few words.

  6. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, first, here is Reagan's official reasoning for supporting it.

    http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03...

    Second, you are bringing something up after the "i don't know" Iran-Contra hearings in which it was obvious his mind was going and citing a year 1991 in which the law is not the same law passed by congress in 1993. It had been changed a bit and included different languages and provisions like the assault weapon's ban.

    By the way, the final and passed version of the brady bill was voted on and passed into law in 1993, less than one year before Reagan's official diagnosis of Alzheimer was made public.

    So once again, a statement was made in a vacuum hoping others were not smart enough to know the difference. That or you are just not capable of looking at the entire picture.

  7. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The drone programs should be secret from the American people, we do not need to know how many people the government killed, only that those killings are justified and constitutional.

    As for Trump, I have never heard him say anything about deporting legal citizens. You got a cite for that? As far as I know it is all been illegal aliens he wants to deport.

  8. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing racist or lies in there. It is all fact and verifiable at many separate sources- some of which were authored and published by the people themselves.

    Close your eyes and cry that reality doesn't equal what you think it should but don't venture into the real world with real people who will actually know the truth and where to find it.

  9. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no freedom of anything in the constitution. There is only powers granted to the government and specific hard restrictions on it. This guy is US citizen and amendments should apply to the government in any interaction they are involved in whether he is incarcerated by another country or not.

    If it wasn't for generations thinking it is a living document subject to change or interpretation with the times instead of amending it like it says, or is outdated and can be ignored, the courts never would have gotten away with this and neither would the government.

  10. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Yup, when Reagan first switched from the democrat party to the republican party, he still had some stupid ideas. Of course the Black Panthers weren't just arguing a gun for self-defense but actively arguing harming cops and whitey so it isn't really the same thing as today. But if you ignore all things associated with reagan becoming a republican only a few years befor becoming governor the mulford act and the black panthers, you could make some really shocking statements. But if you look at the Panthers founders like Eldrige Cleaver who serial raped white women as a political statement, huey newton the cop killer, and bobby seal who got off on murder charges but actively supported the murders of others claiming it aids in the revolution, you can start to see how his liberal democrat ways resurfaced. But hey, let's look at everything in a vacuum so we can get upset at everything that doesn't seem the way we want.

  11. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Where did he say that was liberal? He said bullshit is done with impunity because liberals teach generations that the safeguards are bullshit too.

  12. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    How does the republican debates fit in there? If you were wise, you would be more concerned with democrats. The only thing they seem to fear is your second amendment ability to defend yourself. And yes, they are behind quite a lot of those zero tolerance policies.

  13. Re:Where does it say this data is actually fake? on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 1

    Held a rally in Cincinnati Ohio and a few in Indiana near fort Wayne. Nothing really noteworthy except being carted off by the cops when someone spit on a protester.

  14. Re:Apart from "we know", weird grammar on What Your Photos Know About You (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess is trouble floating between the first and third person format.

    Doesn't most sites like Facebook strip this out when uploading due to people actually posting location data with pictures of their new toys and getting robbed shortly after?

  15. Re:Where does it say this data is actually fake? on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back in the mid 90s, i joined the KKK for the express purpose of informing some black activists friends of their activities. I actually joined another group like this for the same purpose. I know of others who did the same. You could get in their list server and chat groups which were generally invite only.

    I stopped when it was obvious that they knew what i was doing. They used the clashes that came from it for publicity. 20 hate mongers preaching hate doesn't get as much news coverage as the same being protested by hundreds of others or the rare occasions when violence would break out.

    I used a fake name but an email address i still use today. Not sure if it will be included in the dump but if it is, it will be fun to see what idiots on parade do with it. Most of the people who would know the address were in on it to.

  16. Re:This is the net. Call anyone a KKK member you w on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you think that is strange (Bill Cosby), look up Clayton Bigsby.

    True story. I saw it on the same channel i get most my other news from (before Stewart left )

  17. Re:Really? on Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with it?

    Even if it is paid for, that in and of itself is not enough reason to dismiss it out of hand. Neither is it being negative to some beliefs you hold.

  18. Re:Excellent. on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who picks up the trash for minimum wage? Most places around here get $15 an hour starting wage, more if your driving and more if you been at it for a while. The minimum wage is $8 something an hour. And this is in the mid west to central US.

  19. Re:Alcohol != joy loving on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Its simple. It allows us to ignore buzzkills like you and similar people or problems in our lives. Sure it is temporary but it is better than prison.

  20. Re:Lawyers failed at presentation on Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nah, his verdict was probably given to him by the NSA shortly after realizing exactly how much internet monitoring they do.

  21. Oh, I don't think it's that bad but whatever. They were told to stand down and they are. If they do it long enough, most of the problem will take care of itself with the rest of it either dieing in the process or ending up begging for the way it was.

  22. Look at Baltimore Maryland after the police largely slowed down.

    http://www.npr.org/2015/06/04/...

    And before someone chimes in about how NPR is a conservative wind chime or something, the news articles are available at plenty of other places not normally associated with political douchebaggery.

  23. Government involvement is what causes this. You can track this fenominom back to when Medicare started paying the average costs for treatments instead of the actual costs. It got worse when the feds tried to save money by only paying a percentage of the costs.

    What happens is a treatment costs X dollars, the government decided that because somewhere else it is cheaper they are willing to pay the average of the two but in order to save money, instead of fixing whatever is making it expensive, they are going to only pay 85% of it and the provider cannot demand more else lose the ability to treat Medicare patients which is a sizable number of people seeking treatment in any area.

    So the providers started raising rates in order to get the average up to what they expected in the first place. Insurance companies got upset and threatened to exclude those providers from policy use so agreements were worked out where they get steep discounts for preferring a network of providers. This discount doesn't deflate the average because it is based on the preferential treatment of a network of providers instead of the costs of treatment. Now with no insurance, you do not get this discount. You can get some of it if you pay the same day as service but often if you can afford that, you can afford insurance to.

  24. I had to get a copy of my SS card recently to. My experience was a little more pleasant but similar. Showed up, my belt buckle set of the metal detector so i got groped by an armed security guard. Signed in at the door and recieved instructions on where to go. Pulled my number and watched the 5 or so people who came in while I was experiencing federal foreplay get served before me. Thinking i would be called soon, i held the need to use the restroom when someone who wasn't even in the same room for the last half hour or so walked up and complained their number was skipped. So they jumped in front of me and argued with the window clerk loud enough that my not so secret admirer walked up and stood beside them.

    So I'm standing there for about 20 minutes almost about to start the pee-pee dance when officer friendly's not so friendly brother comes over asking me why i looked so agitated. The battery in his hearing aid must have been dead or something because i had to repeat that my number is next and i had to piss couple of times progressively louder until his dad came over to inquire why i was yelling at his officers. Finally a window opens and as the people were leaving i was expecting my number to be called. But no, life couldn't be that easy, it was the clerk's lunch break time so i told the guard i was going ahead and pissing. Came back and the number after me was at the other window. I'm on my third hour now and was about to go off on everyone when the guard came over and told me a supervisor would open a window to do my business in a minute. Sure enough, a window opened and she called me over. I told her what i needed and gave her my drivers license. She verified my address, explained it was a two part process where a letter saying they were going to mail the card would show up first and if i didn't see it within a week to call them because something might have been screwed on the address. Then she asked me my race. I had to ask if i said Martian or black if I would get better or worse service. She said it was just on the screen so she had to ask and it wouldn't effect anything. So i said if there wasn't a box for American i didn't want to play the game. She laughed and said i didn't have to answer which puzzled me.

    All in all, i wasted about three hours and forty five minutes, got to meet a chick with a strange sense of humor, a frisky security guard, two guards with little sense of humor, and left with the sense of being in incompetent hands

  25. Re: The Republicans... on Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation (atr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hear that a lot but can never find where any vote in congress happened where republicans actually voted for it.

    The reality is a lot different than the picture you attempt to paint. Outside of some republicans in very liberal states, very few supported it and the support it seems to have recieved was the lesser of two evils type. There are plenty of conservative states which republicans controlled all branches of government which refused to adopt similar laws or the law you claim they championed. It has never been brought to the floor of the house or Senate any recieved any significant amount of republican votes. During the primary, Romney got slammed hard for Romney care by republicans and democrats both. In fact, even the democrats had severe issues with the PPACA and it only passed by legislative maneuvering and bribes to democratic senators when the democrats controlled both houses of congress and the administration.

    You really should look into what you are repeating before blindly repeating it. Perhaps doing a little sanity check on your reality would be wise to. It certainly doesn't match the pictures you painted which is likely why you find yourself "informing" people so often. The reason they didn't know is because it is made up or presented fictitiousaly.