I want to thank you for your service, and I agree 100% on Snowden being a patriot.. I believe, a patriot on a par with many of the patriots of the first American revolution.. You may notice I said the "first American revolution"..This is because I'm firmly convinced we're in the early times of the second American revolution.. I'm a 63 year old Vietnam vet, and am sickened daily by the sewage that controls the government... A lot of us suspected for a long time what Mr Snowden exposed, but with his disclosure, hopefully more of America, at least the ones who have woke up will understand the depths this government will go to destroy the Constitution...
I've been a ham since the 70s and have no problem if the FCC rules that limited encryption for 3rd party message traffic during disasters is legal. If they are going to do that, they should also allow it during ARES/RACES drills, to allow verification that the encryption mechanisms work.. From what I've seen in the RM proposal, that is the limit of what they are proposing..
If someone is being an obvious prick, the FCC will confiscate equipment and shut down offending transmitters.
THAT is what they are *supposed* to do, but just give a listen to 14.313mhz sometime, or several 2m repeaters out in LA... Those sewer pipes have been spewing garbage for years, with endless reports to the FCC by the local goodguys, and nothing is done...
I totally agree.. and the old "we were just following orders" didn't work in Nurnberg and it shouldn't work here either.. ANYbody with half a brain AND who has READ the Constitution should KNOW that what they are doing is BLATANTLY unconstitutional.. I don't give a crap what the pigshit running these agencies say, its UNconstitutional..
Frankly, Sparky.. I think he's a flippin' national hero, on a par with many of the heros of the first American revolution, and I'm betting theres a LOT of us out here who think this.... He knew his life was gonna change dramatically and he'd likely be on the run from the pigshit running this country now, YET he blew the whistle on the blatantly UNconstitutional crap these three-letter fiefdoms were perpetrating on the American people.. Sure, I'll grant you that he violated a bunch of laws/rules/regulations, BUT he followed the only really important law.. the Constitution, the one mentioned in the oath that government workers take, where they swear to "protect and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic..." He was defending it from the pigshit poseurs who are trying to shred the Constitution at every turn.. So you can call me and the rest of us who think he's a hero a moron, but we know we're the people the founding fathers had in mind, and YOU are the moron, if I was into ad hominim attacks, which I try to avoid.. But since YOU started it, I'm gonna play along.. You and your ilk are part of the problem with America today... YOU are the moron...
How about if your lies are created with the specific purpose to PROTECT your country??? I'm sure he exaggerated his position in the NSA, but he release PROOF of activities of the NSA that are UN-CONSTITUTIONAL... Frankly, I consider him a national hero....
For all its flaws and mistakes the U.S. was nothing like the Soviets, not even close, not even now.
I agree, its nothing like the USSR *now*... Give Obama and his ilk free reign and in the VERY near future, that "not even close" will suddenly not be true any longer
Is anybody stupid enough to believe anything the NSA says?
I'll go a step further.. Is ANYbody stupid enough to believe anything this GOVERNMENT says??
Answer: Unfortuantly, a large number of "low information" people who are still bitching about Bush, when he's been gone for 5 flippin' years and the new boss is FAR worse than the old boss. The only thing I see thats halfway encouraging is the fact that a LOT of people who voted for Obama are now learning the mistake they made.. Not to mention, Americans who are awake and watching their country go down the shithole are getting pissed... Its getting REALLY close to being too late to do anything about it....
Remember those days VERY well..Around 1994, the company I worked for at the time, was wanting to put up one of those new-fangled thingies called a website..Since we were actually a Novell shop, the rest of the IT department wanted to go with a then-available httpd NLM (Netware Loadable Module) for the webserver. Since I was evaluating Slackware, both on and off-the-clock, I suggested setting it up via Linux and its httpd, which would be FREE vs the several hundred dollars the vendor wanted for the Novell NLM. The IT manager went with my idea and I got to run with it.. Fun times!!!
Apparently, BMWs force you to go to the dealer to have the car computer reprogrammed if the battery dies, so the computer "knows" the stats on the battery.
And they cheerfully charge you $500 for that "service"... And it isnt just them.. Ford (may they rot in the lowest regions of hell) charges $120 for a locksmith to call up an 800-number, give the operator the vin number of the vehicle and the operator reads back a serial number that the locksmith then writes to an rfid chip in the key. I had to get a replacement key a while back for my 2007 Ford Ranger, and the other costs charged by the mobile locksmith weren't too bad, but when he told me about $120 charge TO Ford merely for a FUCKING number to load into the RFID chip in the key, I damn near lost it... I was later told I could have gone to a Ford dealer and had a key made BY them for much less... Except, I needed the key to be ABLE to DRIVE my flippin' truck TO the dealer.. Don't ask WHY.. suffice it to say... KIDS will lose ANYthing they get their damned little hands on...
If more government is the answer to the problem, then I say we need a branch of government whose sole responsibility is "constitutional oversight." Because we really need it.
THAT was what the SCOTUS was *supposed* to be, when the BOR/Constitution was written. It seems to have morphed into a black-robed "rubber-stamp" of whatever Congress/POTUS sends their way..
Yeah.. he made a promise to protect information.. But in the case of blatantly unConstitutional crap like this, the oath that he almost certainly did NOT take, trumps that promise.. namely the part of the oath that says "Protect and Defend The Constitution from foreign and domestic enemies".. I'd say this current administration is a "domestic enemy".... In which case, he's obeying the oath quite well in my estimation.. In fact, I'd say he's a national hero...
THAT is the problem... They don't TEACH American History in today's public schools err indoctrination camps.. Those of us who went thru highschool/college in the 60s-70s actually DID learn about the Constitution and what it was written to protect.. Protip: The rights given in the Bill Of Rights are GOD-given rights NOT government-given rights.. The Constitution is written to provide limits on the government NOT the people... Plus, this guy is/was a government contractor, he didn't take the standard oath given to government employees, all the way from the lowest GS-puke up to POTUS AND Congress. The oaths are slightly different for each job title, but ALL state in the very beginning of the oath, "I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Even though this guy did not take that oath, he obeys it FAR FAR better than any of the actual government employees in this administration. He put his safety/comfort in jeopardy to UPHOLD the Constitution.. As far as I'm concerned, he is a national hero.... May God Bless his future life...
In my opinion, when you're dealing with the government, the cure is ALWAYS worse than the disease.. I'm FAR FAR more afraid of this government than any terrorist.. Its becoming clear that this government, to "protect" us from terrorism, is becoming a terrorist itself..
Geez.. Ya never have mod points when you need them.. Popo has hit the nail RIGHT on the head.. I consider Mr Snowden a national hero. Of course this corrupt government is going to make his life a living hell.. He knows that.. And he went ahead and did the right thing anyway.. Sure, he broke the law, but he did it to bring to light the blatantly UNConstitutional vacumning up of EVERYone's data by the NSA. Apparently, he had access to the "keys to the Kingdom" but ONLY released the one glaring affront to the Constitution. I'll answer Popo's final questions... We will NEVER know the "Who,What, How high..."... I second the "Serious crimes have been committed. Snowden was NOT part of them...."
Sliding? Hell... We're FALLING at terminal velocity towards a police state... I'm 63 years old and unless I die in the next year or so, perhaps much less than that, I'm gonna see the country I love torn by civil war, and become a Soviet-style police state. I weep...
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I want to thank you for your service, and I agree 100% on Snowden being a patriot.. I believe, a patriot on a par with many of the patriots of the first American revolution.. You may notice I said the "first American revolution"..This is because I'm firmly convinced we're in the early times of the second American revolution..
I'm a 63 year old Vietnam vet, and am sickened daily by the sewage that controls the government... A lot of us suspected for a long time what Mr Snowden exposed, but with his disclosure, hopefully more of America, at least the ones who have woke up will understand the depths this government will go to destroy the Constitution...
I've been a ham since the 70s and have no problem if the FCC rules that limited encryption for 3rd party message traffic during disasters is legal. If they are going to do that, they should also allow it during ARES/RACES drills, to allow verification that the encryption mechanisms work.. From what I've seen in the RM proposal, that is the limit of what they are proposing..
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I guess we should expect gross generalizations out of an AC...
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If someone is being an obvious prick, the FCC will confiscate equipment and shut down offending transmitters.
THAT is what they are *supposed* to do, but just give a listen to 14.313mhz sometime, or several 2m repeaters out in LA... Those sewer pipes have been spewing garbage for years, with endless reports to the FCC by the local goodguys, and nothing is done...
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Morris Code
I never knew Morris had a code... I'm betting you mean Morse Code...
73 K7DGF
I totally agree.. and the old "we were just following orders" didn't work in Nurnberg and it shouldn't work here either.. ANYbody with half a brain AND who has READ the Constitution should KNOW that what they are doing is BLATANTLY unconstitutional.. I don't give a crap what the pigshit running these agencies say, its UNconstitutional..
Frankly, Sparky.. I think he's a flippin' national hero, on a par with many of the heros of the first American revolution, and I'm betting theres a LOT of us out here who think this.... He knew his life was gonna change dramatically and he'd likely be on the run from the pigshit running this country now, YET he blew the whistle on the blatantly UNconstitutional crap these three-letter fiefdoms were perpetrating on the American people.. Sure, I'll grant you that he violated a bunch of laws/rules/regulations, BUT he followed the only really important law.. the Constitution, the one mentioned in the oath that government workers take, where they swear to "protect and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic..." He was defending it from the pigshit poseurs who are trying to shred the Constitution at every turn.. So you can call me and the rest of us who think he's a hero a moron, but we know we're the people the founding fathers had in mind, and YOU are the moron, if I was into ad hominim attacks, which I try to avoid.. But since YOU started it, I'm gonna play along.. You and your ilk are part of the problem with America today... YOU are the moron...
...you will be undermining national security...
No more than Mr Soetero-Obama is undermining it sending arms to the Syrian AlQueda fighters...
Looks like its not ready for prime time... it blows up with
AttributeError at /vnotary/dispatch/emailverify/input/
'module' object has no attribute 'choice'
From the government's view point it's always "heads I win, tails you lose" type of deal.
You got that a bit wrong..Its "heads I win, tails I win.."
How about if your lies are created with the specific purpose to PROTECT your country??? I'm sure he exaggerated his position in the NSA, but he release PROOF of activities of the NSA that are UN-CONSTITUTIONAL... Frankly, I consider him a national hero....
Well gee.. since he's lying, we gotta arrest him cuz he's guilty of "annoying the government"... yeah.. thats the ticket...
For all its flaws and mistakes the U.S. was nothing like the Soviets, not even close, not even now.
I agree, its nothing like the USSR *now*... Give Obama and his ilk free reign and in the VERY near future, that "not even close" will suddenly not be true any longer
Is anybody stupid enough to believe anything the NSA says?
I'll go a step further.. Is ANYbody stupid enough to believe anything this GOVERNMENT says??
Answer: Unfortuantly, a large number of "low information" people who are still bitching about Bush, when he's been gone for 5 flippin' years and the
new boss is FAR worse than the old boss. The only thing I see thats halfway encouraging is the fact that a LOT of people who voted for Obama are now learning
the mistake they made.. Not to mention, Americans who are awake and watching their country go down the shithole are getting pissed... Its getting REALLY close to being too late to do anything about it....
Remember those days VERY well..Around 1994, the company I worked for at the time, was wanting to put up one of those new-fangled thingies called a website..Since we were actually a Novell shop, the rest of the IT department wanted to go with a then-available httpd NLM (Netware Loadable Module) for the webserver. Since I was evaluating Slackware, both on and off-the-clock, I suggested setting it up via Linux and its httpd, which would be FREE vs the several hundred dollars the vendor wanted for the Novell NLM. The IT manager went with my idea and I got to run with it.. Fun times!!!
Finally!! a bit of common-sense.. I just hope the CentOS devs carry that over to CentOS7..
Apparently, BMWs force you to go to the dealer to have the car computer reprogrammed if the battery dies, so the computer "knows" the stats on the battery.
And they cheerfully charge you $500 for that "service"... And it isnt just them.. Ford (may they rot in the lowest regions of hell) charges $120 for a locksmith to call up an 800-number, give the operator the vin number of the vehicle and the operator reads back a serial number that the locksmith then writes to an rfid chip in the key. I had to get a replacement key a while back for my 2007 Ford Ranger, and the other costs charged by the mobile locksmith weren't too bad, but when he told me about $120 charge TO Ford merely for a FUCKING number to load into the RFID chip in the key, I damn near lost it... I was later told I could have gone to a Ford dealer and had a key made BY them for much less... Except, I needed the key to be ABLE to DRIVE my flippin' truck TO the dealer.. Don't ask WHY.. suffice it to say... KIDS will lose ANYthing they get their damned little hands on...
Already have replaced Google Reader with Feedly... MUCH better than Reader ever was..
--- We need more Ron Paul!
His son, Rand Paul, will do quite well instead... One of the few real patriots in the Senate...
If more government is the answer to the problem, then I say we need a branch of government whose sole responsibility is "constitutional oversight." Because we really need it.
THAT was what the SCOTUS was *supposed* to be, when the BOR/Constitution was written. It seems to have morphed into a black-robed "rubber-stamp" of whatever Congress/POTUS sends their way..
Yeah.. he made a promise to protect information.. But in the case of blatantly unConstitutional crap like this, the oath that he almost certainly did NOT take, trumps that promise.. namely the part of the oath that says "Protect and Defend The Constitution from foreign and domestic enemies".. I'd say this current administration is a "domestic enemy".... In which case, he's obeying the oath quite well in my estimation.. In fact, I'd say he's a national hero...
THAT is the problem... They don't TEACH American History in today's public schools err indoctrination camps.. Those of us who went thru highschool/college in the 60s-70s actually DID learn about the Constitution and what it was written to protect.. Protip: The rights given in the Bill Of Rights are GOD-given rights NOT government-given rights.. The Constitution is written to provide limits on the government NOT the people... Plus, this guy is/was a government contractor, he didn't take the standard oath given to government employees, all the way from the lowest GS-puke up to POTUS AND Congress. The oaths are slightly different for each job title, but ALL state in the very beginning of the oath, "I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Even though this guy did not take that oath, he obeys it FAR FAR better than any of the actual government employees in this administration. He put his safety/comfort in jeopardy to UPHOLD the Constitution.. As far as I'm concerned, he is a national hero.... May God Bless his future life...
In my opinion, when you're dealing with the government, the cure is ALWAYS worse than the disease.. I'm FAR FAR more afraid of this government than any terrorist.. Its becoming clear that this government, to "protect" us from terrorism, is becoming a terrorist itself..
Geez.. Ya never have mod points when you need them.. Popo has hit the nail RIGHT on the head.. I consider Mr Snowden a national hero. Of course this corrupt government is going to make his life a living hell.. He knows that.. And he went ahead and did the right thing anyway.. Sure, he broke the law, but he did it to bring to light the blatantly UNConstitutional vacumning up of EVERYone's data by the NSA. Apparently, he had access to the "keys to the Kingdom" but ONLY released the one glaring affront to the Constitution. I'll answer Popo's final questions... We will NEVER know the "Who,What, How high..."... I second the "Serious crimes have been committed. Snowden was NOT part of them...."
Sliding? Hell... We're FALLING at terminal velocity towards a police state... I'm 63 years old and unless I die in the next year or so, perhaps much less than that, I'm gonna see the country I love torn by civil war, and become a Soviet-style police state. I weep...