The NSA has already been passing information to the FBI, which has been prosecuting those people [hey, it's ok if we use parallel construction, along with a dash of lying]. It won't be a big surprise if the next Patriot Act extension makes this legal.
And congress still has oversight of all these agencies. They choose to continue to permit them to do it.
It's only acceptable to you because you don't happen to live where they are killing a bunch of their 'targets'. There, if you happen to have gone to the wrong funeral, or the child of the wrong person, or just sitting in the wrong cafe, or walking on your own property with a rifle, oops, you get to be posthumously declared a terrorist. Hope you weren't with your wife and children.
Yes, it is completing ignoring anything our spy agency does. The RCMP does welcome whatever information it passes to it [course, the FBI gets the information first].
The dishwasher will remind you to buy more Palmolive. The washer will remind you to buy more Tide. The stove will give you a recipe that lists everything from brands, like Robin Hood bread flour
etc. etc.
It won't save you any appreciable time, just put another advertising platform in front of you. It's all about the device manufacturer getting an ongoing revenue stream, because you didn't pay enough up front for the device.
Except that is a blank check. They can declare ANYONE to be a member of that set of people, without any oversight by anyone. And they can also have you killed on sight for being a member of that group. And there isn't anything anyone can do about it, either before or after you are killed.
It amounts to "that guy standing over there is bad. kill him now."
It's not a dark shadow government organization anymore. Everyone knows the US gov't is chaotic evil, and the gov't is proud of what it manages to accomplish.
Hopefully your hosts aren't based in Canada, because we have the privilege of volunteering to do that small set of 'things' that the US spy agencies decide would be too politically damaging to be caught doing themselves.
But it's ok, because our press is too polite to report on such things. It wouldn't be proper.
That's not the kind of thing I'm talking about. More like the "we can kill an American anywhere on Earth except within the US, if we think he is a bad person". Or "the president or someone he delegates to, can decide you are a bad person, and can have you secretly detained and removed from US soil, without any judicial oversight or notification to anyone, and then keep you secretly detained for as long as they want".
But there are secret interpretations of the law, where the gov't basically does lawyer-shopping, going from one lawyer to the next [whom they hire], to write a legal opinion about something, and they just keep going through lawyers until they get the 'opinion' they want, and then use it as a legal justification for doing something.
You would think they would at least have to run it by a judge, but no. It only gets looked at by a judge:
-if someone finds out about it [hard to do when it is classified as top secret] -you have standing to challenge it [good luck with this, given how much leeway judges are giving the gov't in most cases]
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Everywhere I go...it smells like toast.
Good. Fast. Cheap.
You bought Samsung, so you picked cheap.
I have had it with these motherfucking knives on this motherfucking plane!
wow. amazing coincidence.
Good thing we have a Turing Test then, so we'll know when we've found another one.
You can 3D print these now. As well as the bags to hold the poop.
"Wow, look at that meteor shows. No dear, those are flaming bags of poop from the space station."
or rather "Not tonight dear, I had a headache"
I reject the very idea that the system could possibly be gamed for the general advantage of the major labels and their most popular bands.
they won't if you pile them up in the shape of a pyramid. maybe also get a permit to allow yourself to be mummified and buried in the middle of it.
Where have you been?
The NSA has already been passing information to the FBI, which has been prosecuting those people [hey, it's ok if we use parallel construction, along with a dash of lying]. It won't be a big surprise if the next Patriot Act extension makes this legal.
And congress still has oversight of all these agencies. They choose to continue to permit them to do it.
It's only acceptable to you because you don't happen to live where they are killing a bunch of their 'targets'. There, if you happen to have gone to the wrong funeral, or the child of the wrong person, or just sitting in the wrong cafe, or walking on your own property with a rifle, oops, you get to be posthumously declared a terrorist. Hope you weren't with your wife and children.
Yes, it is completing ignoring anything our spy agency does. The RCMP does welcome whatever information it passes to it [course, the FBI gets the information first].
So, to avoid being killed as part of the war on terror, we have to leave the planet, because the US population has lost control of it's government...
It's an emergency, because we are being overrun by terrorists and child molesters.
That makes it ok.
that's really the purpose of this IoT stuff.
To get you to buy brand name items.
The dishwasher will remind you to buy more Palmolive.
The washer will remind you to buy more Tide.
The stove will give you a recipe that lists everything from brands, like Robin Hood bread flour
etc. etc.
It won't save you any appreciable time, just put another advertising platform in front of you.
It's all about the device manufacturer getting an ongoing revenue stream, because you didn't pay enough up front for the device.
Have you tried repeating a story while on fire? I didn't think so.
Except that is a blank check. They can declare ANYONE to be a member of that set of people, without any oversight by anyone. And they can also have you killed on sight for being a member of that group. And there isn't anything anyone can do about it, either before or after you are killed.
It amounts to "that guy standing over there is bad. kill him now."
It's not a dark shadow government organization anymore. Everyone knows the US gov't is chaotic evil, and the gov't is proud of what it manages to accomplish.
Hopefully your hosts aren't based in Canada, because we have the privilege of volunteering to do that small set of 'things' that the US spy agencies decide would be too politically damaging to be caught doing themselves.
But it's ok, because our press is too polite to report on such things. It wouldn't be proper.
The battlefield for the war on terror is "everywhere". And it's just a couple of guys in a room, none of whom are particularly impartial.
And this is a nice summary:
http://americablog.com/2014/05/post-constitutional-era-scotus-allows-capture-rendition-u-s-citizens-ndaa.html
That's not the kind of thing I'm talking about. More like the "we can kill an American anywhere on Earth except within the US, if we think he is a bad person". Or "the president or someone he delegates to, can decide you are a bad person, and can have you secretly detained and removed from US soil, without any judicial oversight or notification to anyone, and then keep you secretly detained for as long as they want".
But he also pinky-swears not to abuse this power.
Yes, it hasn't publicly come out of the closet, even though most people working there already know.
But there are secret interpretations of the law, where the gov't basically does lawyer-shopping, going from one lawyer to the next [whom they hire], to write a legal opinion about something, and they just keep going through lawyers until they get the 'opinion' they want, and then use it as a legal justification for doing something.
You would think they would at least have to run it by a judge, but no. It only gets looked at by a judge:
-if someone finds out about it [hard to do when it is classified as top secret]
-you have standing to challenge it [good luck with this, given how much leeway judges are giving the gov't in most cases]
Yes. Yes, I do. 0.5% per day will be fine.
They would be an improvement on US culture?