To those at the NSA who are just awakening to the new reality that people are, now and forevermore, going to hate you whether you deserve it or not, I can only say "Welcome to my world. Learn to deal with it. It'll drive you nuts if you don't."
Oh boy, where do I begin? Prior to 1990, the IRS was a terrorist organization with virtually unlimited power. Senators and upper level administration folks were terrified of you. You guys would seize millions of dollars of property, lock all bank accounts, and freeze all assets over trivial amounts of disputed payments which left the victim no chance to defend themselves. Fuck you if you think you did not deserve the hatred you received. You were plain fucking evil. I saw the trail of devastation and shattered lives you guys left behind.
We need to simply shut down the NSA altogether, burn their records in effigy, and recall every elected official who ever voted in favor of their activities, or their funding.
Yes, yes, let's beat our swords into plowshares and all go hug under the bright fluffy clouds. Your suggestion is moronic on its face. There absolutely is a need for an agency like the NSA to exist. It desperately needs some hard and fast rules placed on it in regards to its domestic use... I might even go so far to say that it should not be used domestically at all. The world is not a nice place and the NSA is a weapon that makes the world a safer place (for Americans).
I can't help but think you'd be pissing furious if you found out the GCHQ had recorded all of your conversations for the last few years, and would be first to whine about the illegality of it all. And at how hard I'll laugh when it turns out to be true.
As long as they are not sharing that data back with the NSA, why would he care at all that GCHQ is recording his conversations? Sure, it is a bit creepy and demented but it is not a problem.
GCHQ can spy on me all they want. So can the NKVD and all the other party people. Just. Not. The. NSA.
I discovered Iron Maiden when Number of the Beast was delivered. I still think Killers is their best album ever. Don't get me wrong, I wore Piece of Mind and Powerslave out, but Killers. Just wow.
Don't forget about Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth fame). He cowrote many of the songs on Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning. Cliff and Dave were the real skill there.
It is a shame Dave was such a jackass in his younger years. *sigh*
There is a much cheaper way to do this... and it is much more pleasant. Drive 100 miles into the mountains on a mostly windless day and sit in a nice meadow. You can hear the blood pumping in your veins after your vehicle stops cooling off (it makes very loud noises when cooling). Or you could walk a few miles from your vehicle...
It is amazing at how silent Colorado is. Deafened by my own heart beat.
What a sad experience. Your userid says you are not a hyperactive kid so I am unsure why you could not immerse yourself into the game. Perhaps you should smoke a bit of weed to slow you down? If it were as bad as you seem to have experienced, then there would not be so many millions of people who deeply enjoyed it.
Better luck next time. Perhaps you should play Team Fortress 2? It seems more suited to your attention span.
That must be the most ill-conceived post I've seen in/. on all my years here, and that's saying something. Just because you can't prevent anyone from doing something (murder, rape or holding a speech) doesn't make it a "right".
That is because you misinterpreted it.
A murder is something done to someone else. A rape is something done to someone else. Having a weapon is a completely different property. Once could argue that a speech is something you could do to someone else... so that may not be entirely different.
Regardless, his point is valid: The right to self defense is clearly "inalienable" despite all efforts to make it so. You can argue that being armed enables rape but nowhere did anyone claim that doing something to anyone else (other than self defense) is an inalienable right.
The man did not want his works to be published at this time.
Which makes this an actual theft, not merely a copyright violation. It is a shame that if the person gets caught, they will get a harsher penalty for the stupid copyright violation than the actual theft.:(
Hardly no one looks for examples of harm from non-GMO corn either.
Very insightful. How will we have any hope of a baseline if do not measure it?
the difference is some is engineered with selective breeding and hybridization
We have thousands of years of experience that this is safe. It may not be safe, but thousands of years is a very persuasive argument.
and the other by resequencing.
We have no reason to believe this is safe or unsafe. It is not something that can happen without direct genetic manipulation. It is easy to conceive of intentionally making a genetically modified organism that could kill off an entire species. IIRC, there are people who are actually doing this or have done it in the past.
The begs the question (am I using that right?), could a hostile organism be created by accident? If one is created by accident, how would we find out about it? What are the methods put in place to stop it?
Please recall that we have thousands of years of experience in one kind of genetic manipulation and perhaps 50 years of another kind. While they both deserve scrutiny, which one deserves the greater amount?
The only reason we pay attention to the latter is there's a contingent of motivated believers who think that "natural" food contains Maggi Health Fairies, and that Big Science and Corporations kill the fairies by Playing God(!!1!@1!).
How do you expect to have a rational conversation when you are spewing such garbage? I understand your frustration with people stuck in their beliefs but to characterize all opinions different than yours as being of that type of belief is worse than useless and pretty much ends the conversation. At which point, the ignorant people who yell the loudest will win. Enjoy.
Every time we send food aid to some poor African or central American country, the local farmers get no money for the little food they produce and the local market is ruined, stopping local production of food instead of encouraging it.
If the local farmers were producing enough food, then why would we be sending aid? If they are not producing enough food, then the aid is stopping them from gouging starving people. I fail to see the real problem here.
How much do you think it *really* costs to diagnose and treat a broken leg?
I do not know but I can tell you how much it costs to get a broken wrist repaired. $13k+ of which insurance would only pay $5k despite it being treated at THEIR hospital with THEIR doctors with THEIR treatments. God damned mother fucking leeches.
Curious people constantly film him when he walks on his prosthetics with their cellphones - yes, obnoxious tactless jerks raise their cellphones and start filming right in his face, as if he was a spectacle, just like that.
Oh my god. How very shameful. Did the parents of these people not give them ANY morals or compassion at all? Your friend would be safe around me. *sigh*
Phone to your face? Sorry but if I wanted to take a picture of you discretely with my phone you'd NEVER realise. I could for instance hold my phone exactly where a normal person holds their phone while talking, at my ear, except with the camera pointed at you.
Would you notice me?
Yes. I would. Someone recently was arrested for EXACTLY that in the mall here. But go ahead and try to be dick. We have laws for people like you.
That's funny because Apple seems to be the only smartphone maker paying attention to such laws, not building needlessly dense displays that suck power like a kid with a juice box.
Hm. Who came up with the Retina display again? Honestly, you sound like an Apple astroturfer rather than someone holding an enlightened argument... no matter how valid your other points are.
Streisand effect. I never would have seen the post that offended you if you had not mentioned it and garnered a response yourself. And now, it grows even larger:
White people are inherently evil and need to ask the Black Race for forgivness on the whole.
What makes you any less racist than the anonymous coward? At least you logged in I suppose...
Even just reading the summary should be convincing enough: Expanding your horizons leads you to clearer thinking and a more tolerant attitude.
Seems like a no-brainer to me. The first time I traveled halfway around the world and stepped foot on completely foreign ground, my horizons were instantly expanded. I am sure a trip to a semi-distant museum/art gallery would have a similar effect; although perhaps not to the same degree.
Crap. I wish I had saved a mod point for you. This comment is one of the rare ones that deserves to be +6 informative/insightful. It is a shame it is only +3.
To me, being an American meant you were trustworthy. Seeing the Red White and Blue on a uniform should inspire relief, not fear.
Now... ? I still love my country, but I should not have to say but... and I do. I am sad.
Also, the local police objected to it vigorously. The device can make it easier for heroin users to find veins so in the view of the FDA and law enforcement, the device is drug paraphernalia and should be illegal. It's the same reason we were forced to put blue tinted lights in the bathrooms of the hospital. By not doing so they claimed we were encouraging illegal drug use.
Holy shit! Really? Just wow. Is stopping people from doing drugs THIS fucking important? Really? Fuck it, why don't we just buy needles for everyone and let them go at it. This is way too high of a price to pay.
What do we get out of it? More productive members of society? It would appear that society is productive enough considering the number of unemployed and underemployed people that we have. What do we get out of stopping people from abusing drugs when they were already liable to be abusing them anyways?
The biggest subsidy fossil fuel companies get is they don't have to pay the cost the pollution the use of their products imposes on society.
Except it is not the fossil fuel companies that are burning the fossil fuels. How are they responsible for the 20 gallons of gasoline that YOU choose to burn each week? How are the fossil fuel companies responsible for the pollution created to provide YOU with electricity?
You are the one who chooses to use the energy so how is it all THEIR fault? Right. The issue is a bit more complex than my fault/your fault.
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To those at the NSA who are just awakening to the new reality that people are, now and forevermore, going to hate you whether you deserve it or not, I can only say "Welcome to my world. Learn to deal with it. It'll drive you nuts if you don't."
Oh boy, where do I begin? Prior to 1990, the IRS was a terrorist organization with virtually unlimited power. Senators and upper level administration folks were terrified of you. You guys would seize millions of dollars of property, lock all bank accounts, and freeze all assets over trivial amounts of disputed payments which left the victim no chance to defend themselves. Fuck you if you think you did not deserve the hatred you received. You were plain fucking evil. I saw the trail of devastation and shattered lives you guys left behind.
You are wasting a shit ton of money on Terrorism protections...
It is not about terrorism. It is a naked power grab.
We need to simply shut down the NSA altogether, burn their records in effigy, and recall every elected official who ever voted in favor of their activities, or their funding.
Yes, yes, let's beat our swords into plowshares and all go hug under the bright fluffy clouds. Your suggestion is moronic on its face. There absolutely is a need for an agency like the NSA to exist. It desperately needs some hard and fast rules placed on it in regards to its domestic use... I might even go so far to say that it should not be used domestically at all. The world is not a nice place and the NSA is a weapon that makes the world a safer place (for Americans).
I can't help but think you'd be pissing furious if you found out the GCHQ had recorded all of your conversations for the last few years, and would be first to whine about the illegality of it all. And at how hard I'll laugh when it turns out to be true.
As long as they are not sharing that data back with the NSA, why would he care at all that GCHQ is recording his conversations? Sure, it is a bit creepy and demented but it is not a problem.
GCHQ can spy on me all they want. So can the NKVD and all the other party people. Just. Not. The. NSA.
I discovered Iron Maiden when Number of the Beast was delivered. I still think Killers is their best album ever. Don't get me wrong, I wore Piece of Mind and Powerslave out, but Killers. Just wow.
Free Eddy!
Don't forget about Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth fame). He cowrote many of the songs on Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning. Cliff and Dave were the real skill there.
It is a shame Dave was such a jackass in his younger years. *sigh*
He carried â 30,000 in a plastic bag with him, and could not provide immediate proof for the money's origin. He was arrested.
*sigh* There goes another fine country down the authoritarian rabbit hole. I guess I will not be visiting Amsterdam again. :(
It makes me terribly sad. All of the Dutch people that I have met seemed so incredibly warm and friendly.
There is a much cheaper way to do this... and it is much more pleasant. Drive 100 miles into the mountains on a mostly windless day and sit in a nice meadow. You can hear the blood pumping in your veins after your vehicle stops cooling off (it makes very loud noises when cooling). Or you could walk a few miles from your vehicle...
It is amazing at how silent Colorado is. Deafened by my own heart beat.
Hm. Less than 1% of my internet traffic is web browsing. A very sizable chunk (random number) 40% is very latency sensitive.
Why would I want to participate in this? It would make 40% of my internet traffic utterly useless and would be pointless for 99% of my traffic.
What a sad experience. Your userid says you are not a hyperactive kid so I am unsure why you could not immerse yourself into the game. Perhaps you should smoke a bit of weed to slow you down? If it were as bad as you seem to have experienced, then there would not be so many millions of people who deeply enjoyed it.
Better luck next time. Perhaps you should play Team Fortress 2? It seems more suited to your attention span.
That must be the most ill-conceived post I've seen in /. on all my years here, and that's saying something. Just because you can't prevent anyone from doing something (murder, rape or holding a speech) doesn't make it a "right".
That is because you misinterpreted it.
A murder is something done to someone else. A rape is something done to someone else. Having a weapon is a completely different property. Once could argue that a speech is something you could do to someone else... so that may not be entirely different.
Regardless, his point is valid: The right to self defense is clearly "inalienable" despite all efforts to make it so. You can argue that being armed enables rape but nowhere did anyone claim that doing something to anyone else (other than self defense) is an inalienable right.
Perhaps your blinders are on too tightly?
The man did not want his works to be published at this time.
Which makes this an actual theft, not merely a copyright violation. It is a shame that if the person gets caught, they will get a harsher penalty for the stupid copyright violation than the actual theft. :(
Hardly no one looks for examples of harm from non-GMO corn either.
Very insightful. How will we have any hope of a baseline if do not measure it?
the difference is some is engineered with selective breeding and hybridization
We have thousands of years of experience that this is safe. It may not be safe, but thousands of years is a very persuasive argument.
and the other by resequencing.
We have no reason to believe this is safe or unsafe. It is not something that can happen without direct genetic manipulation. It is easy to conceive of intentionally making a genetically modified organism that could kill off an entire species. IIRC, there are people who are actually doing this or have done it in the past.
The begs the question (am I using that right?), could a hostile organism be created by accident? If one is created by accident, how would we find out about it? What are the methods put in place to stop it?
Please recall that we have thousands of years of experience in one kind of genetic manipulation and perhaps 50 years of another kind. While they both deserve scrutiny, which one deserves the greater amount?
The only reason we pay attention to the latter is there's a contingent of motivated believers who think that "natural" food contains Maggi Health Fairies, and that Big Science and Corporations kill the fairies by Playing God(!!1!@1!).
How do you expect to have a rational conversation when you are spewing such garbage? I understand your frustration with people stuck in their beliefs but to characterize all opinions different than yours as being of that type of belief is worse than useless and pretty much ends the conversation. At which point, the ignorant people who yell the loudest will win. Enjoy.
Every time we send food aid to some poor African or central American country, the local farmers get no money for the little food they produce and the local market is ruined, stopping local production of food instead of encouraging it.
If the local farmers were producing enough food, then why would we be sending aid? If they are not producing enough food, then the aid is stopping them from gouging starving people. I fail to see the real problem here.
How much do you think it *really* costs to diagnose and treat a broken leg?
I do not know but I can tell you how much it costs to get a broken wrist repaired. $13k+ of which insurance would only pay $5k despite it being treated at THEIR hospital with THEIR doctors with THEIR treatments. God damned mother fucking leeches.
Curious people constantly film him when he walks on his prosthetics with their cellphones - yes, obnoxious tactless jerks raise their cellphones and start filming right in his face, as if he was a spectacle, just like that.
Oh my god. How very shameful. Did the parents of these people not give them ANY morals or compassion at all? Your friend would be safe around me. *sigh*
Phone to your face? Sorry but if I wanted to take a picture of you discretely with my phone you'd NEVER realise. I could for instance hold my phone exactly where a normal person holds their phone while talking, at my ear, except with the camera pointed at you.
Would you notice me?
Yes. I would. Someone recently was arrested for EXACTLY that in the mall here. But go ahead and try to be dick. We have laws for people like you.
That's funny because Apple seems to be the only smartphone maker paying attention to such laws, not building needlessly dense displays that suck power like a kid with a juice box.
Hm. Who came up with the Retina display again? Honestly, you sound like an Apple astroturfer rather than someone holding an enlightened argument... no matter how valid your other points are.
Streisand effect. I never would have seen the post that offended you if you had not mentioned it and garnered a response yourself. And now, it grows even larger:
White people are inherently evil and need to ask the Black Race for forgivness on the whole.
What makes you any less racist than the anonymous coward? At least you logged in I suppose...
Even just reading the summary should be convincing enough: Expanding your horizons leads you to clearer thinking and a more tolerant attitude.
Seems like a no-brainer to me. The first time I traveled halfway around the world and stepped foot on completely foreign ground, my horizons were instantly expanded. I am sure a trip to a semi-distant museum/art gallery would have a similar effect; although perhaps not to the same degree.
Some people call the former nature vs. nurture. I call it, again, the past of least resistance.
Freudian slip? ;)
Crap. I wish I had saved a mod point for you. This comment is one of the rare ones that deserves to be +6 informative/insightful. It is a shame it is only +3.
To me, being an American meant you were trustworthy. Seeing the Red White and Blue on a uniform should inspire relief, not fear.
Now... ? I still love my country, but I should not have to say but... and I do. I am sad.
And budgets and power supply certainly do not scale infinitely.
Unless you are the NSA. ;)
Also, the local police objected to it vigorously. The device can make it easier for heroin users to find veins so in the view of the FDA and law enforcement, the device is drug paraphernalia and should be illegal. It's the same reason we were forced to put blue tinted lights in the bathrooms of the hospital. By not doing so they claimed we were encouraging illegal drug use.
Holy shit! Really? Just wow. Is stopping people from doing drugs THIS fucking important? Really? Fuck it, why don't we just buy needles for everyone and let them go at it. This is way too high of a price to pay.
What do we get out of it? More productive members of society? It would appear that society is productive enough considering the number of unemployed and underemployed people that we have. What do we get out of stopping people from abusing drugs when they were already liable to be abusing them anyways?
The biggest subsidy fossil fuel companies get is they don't have to pay the cost the pollution the use of their products imposes on society.
Except it is not the fossil fuel companies that are burning the fossil fuels. How are they responsible for the 20 gallons of gasoline that YOU choose to burn each week? How are the fossil fuel companies responsible for the pollution created to provide YOU with electricity?
You are the one who chooses to use the energy so how is it all THEIR fault? Right. The issue is a bit more complex than my fault/your fault.