Kind of irrelevant to the point. The o.p. stated the justice department is out of control under obama ignoring what the justice department did under bush - warrantless wire tapping, water boarding, enemy combatant, suspending Habeas corpus, indefinite detention....the list goes on...
How do you rectify ignoring one past administration (Hoover) and not ignoring another past administration (Bush)?
The current Obama DoJ maintained the status quo, the sins of the fathers, by choice.
I believe warrantless wire taping started under Bush....*eye roll*
An excellent example! It did start under Bush. And Obama, plucky Senator from Illinois, railed against the program.
Until he became president.
Merely three days after being sworn in, the tune changed, article here, with citations 1 and 2:
On January 23, 2009, the administration of President Barack Obama adopted the same position as his predecessor when it urged U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to set aside a ruling in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation et al. v. Obama, et al. The Obama administration also sided with the former administration in its legal defense of July, 2008 legislation that immunized the nation's telecommunications companies from lawsuits accusing them of complicity in the eavesdropping program, according to testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder.
AC's point stands pretty clear with this information, I think.
Just a thought: is there a legal minimum resolution of an image of CP? Can someone spread a tiny picture of, say, 4800 pixels (80x60), stuff it into a piece with specially calculated junk bytes so that the computed hash would match up?
Not that it's happening, and even if it was I don't think anyone would notice, but this is more of just a mental exercise.
I always have a hearty laugh when someone who obviously has never used a system (Android, in this case) complains about an issue that doesn't actually exist. It's like they live in a land of make believe.
Anyway, one thing I would like to see in Android functionality is being able to treat install permissions as toggles. For example, Fart Application 9328 wants to access my speaker. Check yes. Also wants to access my location. Check no.
You can get there is a clumsy way, on a rooted phone running Permissions Denied. You reach into each applications' permissions and can turn off the ones you don't like. Sometimes this causes applications to error out rather ungracefully, but if the app isn't going to work with some unrelated overreaching permission I'm not going to suddenly change my mind and grant it back. I might swear a little at apps that refuse to deal with not having the privacy-invading features it doesn't really need, but it's really quid-pro-quot I suppose for free apps. Tell you what, also, I'm just going to skip by that developer's other apps if I can remember. Paid apps? F that S, I'm not even going to buy them at all to try filtering out permissions, despite the refund policy on the Play store.
While I'm wishing for OMG PONIES, also, if an app has an update that wants to add permissions, and I refuse to update it, I'd really like to be able to block the reminders to update. Oh? This Stopwatch application now wants internet access? How about NO. So now that we've established I'm not going to opt in for advertising when I don't need any of the new features, how about you quit telling me about the updates?
Was going to link, but I now realize Permissions Denied used to have a free version but now it's paid only, which sucks. All the more reason to get such a valuable feature baked in to the system.
It's stupid for people to let their kids play with executive toys made of rare-earth magnets, too. But that didn't stop the government from shutting down Buckyballs.
The government didn't shut them down. Maxfield and Oberton was sued by the CPSC but the suit hasn't been settled AFAIK. They made a decision to stop selling them.
I think it's a completely prudent move, in my opinion. Not because they're unsafe, but because A) better to exit the market and clear out the warehouse on their own terms B) there are far too many companies producing small spherical neodymium magnets right now so they can't command a premium C) the costs of rare earths is skyrocketing and the situation isn't likely to get any better so long as China continues to restrict output and other nation's stockpiles remain untapped D) they don't have to roll the dice on the actual findings of the court, and continue to pay lawyers to work hard on that suit.
Whether you agree or disagree on the government's role in funding alternative energy sources and alternative power vehicles, you can't deny Obama's green energy programs failed in every way possible other than making their cronies more wealthy on the taxpayers' dime.
Ultimately it's pervasive corruption that ruins all good intentions.
Lawyers like morons on the jury. They're easier to manipulate. You'll often find that lawyers move to strike potential jurors that might be too smart and might want to bring things up like Jury Nullification, question evidence, or go Henry Fonda in the jurors' room.
Did you read the apology? It consisted of more than just the language of the court. It added an editorial pointing out how other courts found in their favor.
Right up there with your mother telling you to apologize, and when you go up to do so, you say you're sorry and then follow it up with an 80's "NOT".
Their Google play has regional customized availability. i.e. many apps are not available due to some stupid error or censorship. I had to contact at least 2 app authors including Kaiten email to make it available in the country I am currently residing in. The app ranking is also region dependent...
And the rest of the story? Did those authors make it available to your country? If an application author doesn't tick whatever box they need to in order to make it available in your location, whose fault is it? As far as censorship, you could argue that by allowing sideloading all they're doing is refusing to distribute it via their online store. Meanwhile, if Apple doesn't want your app to exist, you'll have to hack your device to get it up and running.
Security is still a main issue. We used to ramble about Windows, and now Android acts like the old windows system, the swiss cheese of security.
I don't recall Windows every explicitly defining the permissions a given application requires when being installed, letting me make an informed decision. The best it currently does is ask if I want to run it as Administrator, basically, don't trust it and close it, or trust it and give it access to everything and anything. The Android model is a pretty good one to copy, IMO.
Unfortunately the other alternatives are more sinister than Android so we don;t have other options. Other possible proposed alternatives are not commercially viable since only large companies can venture into this market.
What do you mean? If you didn't buy your Android device from a company that locked it down, you're free to write your own bootloader. Hell, Canonical is working on a distro now for current Nexus devices, maybe you can lend a hand?
This. I was able to work my way through Windows 8 pretty easily. That's not the issue at hand, at all. this didn't stop me from hating its guts, because I needed to break free from my 15 years old habits and do it differently.
And yet during the transition to Windows 95, you'd have been hard pressed to find a Windows 3.x user that didn't immediately love the Start button and the collapsing menus as opposed to progman and it's horrible icons-in-folders organization.
Habits are easy to quit, I think, if the alternative is truly better. Microsoft wants to harmonize touch and non-touch computers, the way Windows Desktop and Windows Server are essentially the same*. This desktop/server harmonization didn't take anything away, though. You can still do it all from command line if you're so inclined. Microsoft's answer to harmonizing touch and non-touch seems to be taking away things from the non-touch side of the house.
As any good DM can tell you, you can't just take away toys from your players, even if they're overpowered and breaking your game. You gotta be more clever than that. If you set up a game event to "aw, someone stole your ill-gotten wand of amazing powers, too bad so sad let's move on." your players are going to hate you.
* the difference is in what's running at any given time, truth is, things that work in one will work on the other.
Hardware manufacturer: We have a new 15 inch display at 2880x1800, wanna buy it? Consumer: Well, is it a Retina Display (TM)? Hardware manufacturer: Well no, that's a brand name owned by Apple. But our display exceeds what they call "Retina Display (TM)" with a PPI of- Consumer: Not a Retina Display (TM), clearly inferior. If it was better, it too would be called Retina Display (TM). Not interested.
There are two issues here, trusting those that own the servers flinging bits around and the codes that actually describes how the bit flinging should happen. You may trust Google and Yahoo to use their servers in supporting Youtube and Flickr, but can you really trust the code? You might trust it, but your trust is not based on anything observable since their back ends are not open source.
So the missing part here is that, well, ok, Mediagoblin supports 3D objects, that's cool, but who is going to run the repository? That Lulzbot (Aleph Objects) invested in it leads me to believe they want to run a repository. And, unlike Makerbot, those guys are* seriously open about their stuff. Release early, release often, release when designed and not after collecting XXXX dollars in preorders. They've even been sponsoring releases of Slic3r, a open-source GCode generator for 3D printing. I'm pretty pleased to have spent money with them, actually, considering they're giving back in big ways.
* well, right now anyway. Makerbot used to be a champion of open hardware, too, once upon a time. But, right now, nothing about AO seems to indicate they're going to quit being open.
So after all the "bigger screen, MOAR PIXELZ!!!!1!!!" ad campaign for the new iPhone, they made this one lower res and smaller and rebooted old technology. I didn't know Apple customers' top 3 wanted features were decrementing the version number, less pixels, and a smaller viewing area.
It's clearly a stopgap measure. Apple needs to get a "Goldilocks" product to keep someone else from owning that size profile and eroding their market share in smaller and larger formats.
The best engineering will be in both the iPad and the iPhone: best battery life, best display, etc. This mid-size is a compromise of the two, and won't really excel at anything in particular. If it ever does, it will be because of functionality that will be held back from being released on other sizes. Maybe external storage? Maybe two cameras for 3D? Maybe some software tweak that won't be made available? It's obviously only conjecture: it really doesn't make too much sense to me.
Apple is clearly run by a bean counter these days, so, minus the big-picture drawn by Jobs, they're just paying attention to their competitors. Too much attention, methinks.
Possible implication: Only "blue" people are actually concerned about X-ray radiation harm, so they're moving the X-ray devices to areas less likely to care.
Or, rather, areas less likely to contain people with a voice. There's a reason why so many unethical human experiments were conducted in the South.
I work at Google and don't have long hours. I am on an on call rotation, but for a lot of teams, there are dedicated people on call, with a resulting salary bonus. (And the work load for being on call is really very minimal.)
Google question then, how does one actually get help from Google? I like a lot of their stuff but abandon all hope if you need to talk to a human to figure out why an email isn't going through gmail or resolve issues from the Play store (see Nexus 7 preorder fiasco, "resolve issues" not just "say whatever they want to hear to get them off the phone") or report downright errors in shopping.google.com?
I can't imagine needing any on-call at all when the end-user support is basically a doormat that reads "GO AWAY"
Wow. Parents are pulling kids out of biology because of evolution?
Where have you been for the last 15 years? I only spent grade 9 and part of 10 in NC and part of grade 12 in Maine. Their school system is F'ed up, when I was in Maine there were people that didn't know where Nova Scotia was. I told them it's where all their lobster comes from... which is why I only spent part of grade 12 there.
It's easier to claim you need more money in education when the education system itself is churning out dullards. If education did it's job, no one would want to spend any additional money on it. Such is the necessity of maintaining a broken system.
All these institutions over the last 50 years have degenerated into Consultantware.
That was something that troubled me about the debates last night. Neither candidate supports the ownership of automatic weaponry, they (I think it was Obama) say that our streets are not battlegrounds. As Syria shows, sometimes they do become a battleground. And the people (on either side of that battle) deserve to be honored the right to be able to defend themselves, their families, and the positions they wish to take up. To do so often demands the appropriate weaponry. Now - semiautomatic assault weapons will probably be sufficient - but shouldn't "the people" also be able to own rocket propelled grenade launchers? Arial drones for surveillance/intelligence purposes? As Syria is proving out, we should never be too trustworthy of either our government or the intergovernmental world leadership. My.02 cents...
You've discovered the true purpose: to prevent the arming of the public in defense of themselves and their country from demagogs. Only the government is worthy of weaponry able to turn the tide of a battle. And to those that suggest the military wouldn't turn on the people, consider Guantanamo Bay, NDAA 2012, bombing citizens from drones (the American Taliban Cleric), SWAT teams, War on Drugs, TSA, MK-ULTRA, the list goes on and on and on and on.
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Fantastic, I'm off to start a cloud hosting service outside the US as the government just killed their industry dead!
Wasn't Megaupload based in Korea?
Don't worry, they'll fish the keys out later from an image of your laptop they'll take when you cross a border with it.
Kind of irrelevant to the point. The o.p. stated the justice department is out of control under obama ignoring what the justice department did under bush - warrantless wire tapping, water boarding, enemy combatant, suspending Habeas corpus, indefinite detention....the list goes on...
How do you rectify ignoring one past administration (Hoover) and not ignoring another past administration (Bush)?
The current Obama DoJ maintained the status quo, the sins of the fathers, by choice.
I believe warrantless wire taping started under Bush....*eye roll*
An excellent example! It did start under Bush. And Obama, plucky Senator from Illinois, railed against the program.
Until he became president.
Merely three days after being sworn in, the tune changed, article here, with citations 1 and 2:
On January 23, 2009, the administration of President Barack Obama adopted the same position as his predecessor when it urged U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to set aside a ruling in Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation et al. v. Obama, et al. The Obama administration also sided with the former administration in its legal defense of July, 2008 legislation that immunized the nation's telecommunications companies from lawsuits accusing them of complicity in the eavesdropping program, according to testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder.
AC's point stands pretty clear with this information, I think.
Just a thought: is there a legal minimum resolution of an image of CP? Can someone spread a tiny picture of, say, 4800 pixels (80x60), stuff it into a piece with specially calculated junk bytes so that the computed hash would match up?
Not that it's happening, and even if it was I don't think anyone would notice, but this is more of just a mental exercise.
Actually a lot of decent apps have a why in the description of the app.
If it does not seem like it should need it and they fail to explain it don't install it.
Still better than on the PC, where any application can read any of your files.
Even if they explain it, consider the possibility they're lying. Unless you look and understand the source, you're just not going to ever really know.
I always have a hearty laugh when someone who obviously has never used a system (Android, in this case) complains about an issue that doesn't actually exist. It's like they live in a land of make believe.
Anyway, one thing I would like to see in Android functionality is being able to treat install permissions as toggles. For example, Fart Application 9328 wants to access my speaker. Check yes. Also wants to access my location. Check no.
You can get there is a clumsy way, on a rooted phone running Permissions Denied. You reach into each applications' permissions and can turn off the ones you don't like. Sometimes this causes applications to error out rather ungracefully, but if the app isn't going to work with some unrelated overreaching permission I'm not going to suddenly change my mind and grant it back. I might swear a little at apps that refuse to deal with not having the privacy-invading features it doesn't really need, but it's really quid-pro-quot I suppose for free apps. Tell you what, also, I'm just going to skip by that developer's other apps if I can remember. Paid apps? F that S, I'm not even going to buy them at all to try filtering out permissions, despite the refund policy on the Play store.
While I'm wishing for OMG PONIES, also, if an app has an update that wants to add permissions, and I refuse to update it, I'd really like to be able to block the reminders to update. Oh? This Stopwatch application now wants internet access? How about NO. So now that we've established I'm not going to opt in for advertising when I don't need any of the new features, how about you quit telling me about the updates?
Was going to link, but I now realize Permissions Denied used to have a free version but now it's paid only, which sucks. All the more reason to get such a valuable feature baked in to the system.
If you've stayed at a hotel, odds are good someone's seen you nude.
In that case, I'm glad I'm ugly as sin, and hope I've blinded them. :)
It's stupid for people to let their kids play with executive toys made of rare-earth magnets, too. But that didn't stop the government from shutting down Buckyballs.
The government didn't shut them down. Maxfield and Oberton was sued by the CPSC but the suit hasn't been settled AFAIK. They made a decision to stop selling them.
I think it's a completely prudent move, in my opinion. Not because they're unsafe, but because
A) better to exit the market and clear out the warehouse on their own terms
B) there are far too many companies producing small spherical neodymium magnets right now so they can't command a premium
C) the costs of rare earths is skyrocketing and the situation isn't likely to get any better so long as China continues to restrict output and other nation's stockpiles remain untapped
D) they don't have to roll the dice on the actual findings of the court, and continue to pay lawyers to work hard on that suit.
^^ This.
Whether you agree or disagree on the government's role in funding alternative energy sources and alternative power vehicles, you can't deny Obama's green energy programs failed in every way possible other than making their cronies more wealthy on the taxpayers' dime.
Ultimately it's pervasive corruption that ruins all good intentions.
They've screwed us over long enough and bad enough that they surely deserve a taste of their own medicine.
It's like with very loud motorcycles. Sure, I look forward to the day that the bike crashes, and the biker is either severely injured or killed.
Dude, you're fucked up. Please seek help.
Lawyers like morons on the jury. They're easier to manipulate. You'll often find that lawyers move to strike potential jurors that might be too smart and might want to bring things up like Jury Nullification, question evidence, or go Henry Fonda in the jurors' room.
Did you read the apology? It consisted of more than just the language of the court. It added an editorial pointing out how other courts found in their favor.
Right up there with your mother telling you to apologize, and when you go up to do so, you say you're sorry and then follow it up with an 80's "NOT".
The next trailer:
Scene filled with mist, lamentful orchestration of A New Hope
Narrator: A long time ago in a galaxy far away...
Mist parts and slow zoom in towards a small hut village
Narrator: It's just as hard being a kid as ever
Scene changes to inside a dark, wooden hut. You see the back of a woman wearing a long dress, but not her arms or the back of her head.
Mom: You had better eat all those vegitables!
Scene changes to a shot of a table with an 8 year old furry kid sitting at it, trying to feed his space broccoli to his pet alien dog thing.
Kid: Aw man!
Mom: Corbin! How will you ever become a big strong Ewok?
Narrator: Sometimes the world lines up against you...
Scene set in a schoolhouse. Music stops
Bully Ewok: You'll never amount to anything Corbutt!
Narrator: And tries to FORCE it's will upon you
Scene shot goes wider, and bully Ewok knocks the books out of Corbin's hand and all his fellow classmates point and laugh.
Scene changes to a shot of Corbin on his bed playing with his pet alien.
Corbin: I wish I could be a hero like uncle Skywalker...
Pans to a framed picture portrait on his desk showing a pregnant Ewok standing and smiling next to Luke and Leia.
Narrator: Until the littlest Ewok found his place in the universe
Song changes to Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Scene changes to the forest, and a smaller, pinker version of Jar Jar Binks shows her head out from behind a tree.
Car Car: Hi, meesah Car Car!
Laughing while they run through the trees, splash in rivers, meet Chewbacca's kid, etc etc etc
Their Google play has regional customized availability. i.e. many apps are not available due to some stupid error or censorship. I had to contact at least 2 app authors including Kaiten email to make it available in the country I am currently residing in. The app ranking is also region dependent...
And the rest of the story? Did those authors make it available to your country? If an application author doesn't tick whatever box they need to in order to make it available in your location, whose fault is it? As far as censorship, you could argue that by allowing sideloading all they're doing is refusing to distribute it via their online store. Meanwhile, if Apple doesn't want your app to exist, you'll have to hack your device to get it up and running.
Security is still a main issue. We used to ramble about Windows, and now Android acts like the old windows system, the swiss cheese of security.
I don't recall Windows every explicitly defining the permissions a given application requires when being installed, letting me make an informed decision. The best it currently does is ask if I want to run it as Administrator, basically, don't trust it and close it, or trust it and give it access to everything and anything. The Android model is a pretty good one to copy, IMO.
Unfortunately the other alternatives are more sinister than Android so we don;t have other options. Other possible proposed alternatives are not commercially viable since only large companies can venture into this market.
What do you mean? If you didn't buy your Android device from a company that locked it down, you're free to write your own bootloader. Hell, Canonical is working on a distro now for current Nexus devices, maybe you can lend a hand?
But, see, the rules don't actually say I'm not allowed to burn my Chaos Orb into ashes and pour the ashes on the enemy's permanents, do they?
This.
I was able to work my way through Windows 8 pretty easily. That's not the issue at hand, at all. this didn't stop me from hating its guts, because I needed to break free from my 15 years old habits and do it differently.
And yet during the transition to Windows 95, you'd have been hard pressed to find a Windows 3.x user that didn't immediately love the Start button and the collapsing menus as opposed to progman and it's horrible icons-in-folders organization.
Habits are easy to quit, I think, if the alternative is truly better. Microsoft wants to harmonize touch and non-touch computers, the way Windows Desktop and Windows Server are essentially the same*. This desktop/server harmonization didn't take anything away, though. You can still do it all from command line if you're so inclined. Microsoft's answer to harmonizing touch and non-touch seems to be taking away things from the non-touch side of the house.
As any good DM can tell you, you can't just take away toys from your players, even if they're overpowered and breaking your game. You gotta be more clever than that. If you set up a game event to "aw, someone stole your ill-gotten wand of amazing powers, too bad so sad let's move on." your players are going to hate you.
* the difference is in what's running at any given time, truth is, things that work in one will work on the other.
Agreed.
Hardware manufacturer: We have a new 15 inch display at 2880x1800, wanna buy it?
Consumer: Well, is it a Retina Display (TM)?
Hardware manufacturer: Well no, that's a brand name owned by Apple. But our display exceeds what they call "Retina Display (TM)" with a PPI of-
Consumer: Not a Retina Display (TM), clearly inferior. If it was better, it too would be called Retina Display (TM). Not interested.
Ok, the real advantage of Youtube,Flickr, et all is that they *are* centralized. I trust a link going to those sites.
I don't trust these highlighted example sites running mediagoblin:
http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Live_instances
There are two issues here, trusting those that own the servers flinging bits around and the codes that actually describes how the bit flinging should happen. You may trust Google and Yahoo to use their servers in supporting Youtube and Flickr, but can you really trust the code? You might trust it, but your trust is not based on anything observable since their back ends are not open source.
So the missing part here is that, well, ok, Mediagoblin supports 3D objects, that's cool, but who is going to run the repository? That Lulzbot (Aleph Objects) invested in it leads me to believe they want to run a repository. And, unlike Makerbot, those guys are* seriously open about their stuff. Release early, release often, release when designed and not after collecting XXXX dollars in preorders. They've even been sponsoring releases of Slic3r, a open-source GCode generator for 3D printing. I'm pretty pleased to have spent money with them, actually, considering they're giving back in big ways.
* well, right now anyway. Makerbot used to be a champion of open hardware, too, once upon a time. But, right now, nothing about AO seems to indicate they're going to quit being open.
So after all the "bigger screen, MOAR PIXELZ!!!!1!!!" ad campaign for the new iPhone, they made this one lower res and smaller and rebooted old technology. I didn't know Apple customers' top 3 wanted features were decrementing the version number, less pixels, and a smaller viewing area.
It's clearly a stopgap measure. Apple needs to get a "Goldilocks" product to keep someone else from owning that size profile and eroding their market share in smaller and larger formats.
The best engineering will be in both the iPad and the iPhone: best battery life, best display, etc. This mid-size is a compromise of the two, and won't really excel at anything in particular. If it ever does, it will be because of functionality that will be held back from being released on other sizes. Maybe external storage? Maybe two cameras for 3D? Maybe some software tweak that won't be made available? It's obviously only conjecture: it really doesn't make too much sense to me.
Apple is clearly run by a bean counter these days, so, minus the big-picture drawn by Jobs, they're just paying attention to their competitors. Too much attention, methinks.
Possible implication: Only "blue" people are actually concerned about X-ray radiation harm, so they're moving the X-ray devices to areas less likely to care.
Or, rather, areas less likely to contain people with a voice. There's a reason why so many unethical human experiments were conducted in the South.
Uh huh, and lemme guess. You consider yourself totally non-biased, don't you? Mr Applekid.
I don't consider anyone, including myself, non-biased.
My biggest bias? Towards Shigesato Itoi and the Mother series of games.
I work at Google and don't have long hours. I am on an on call rotation, but for a lot of teams, there are dedicated people on call, with a resulting salary bonus. (And the work load for being on call is really very minimal.)
Google question then, how does one actually get help from Google? I like a lot of their stuff but abandon all hope if you need to talk to a human to figure out why an email isn't going through gmail or resolve issues from the Play store (see Nexus 7 preorder fiasco, "resolve issues" not just "say whatever they want to hear to get them off the phone") or report downright errors in shopping.google.com?
I can't imagine needing any on-call at all when the end-user support is basically a doormat that reads "GO AWAY"
Wow. Parents are pulling kids out of biology because of evolution?
Where have you been for the last 15 years? I only spent grade 9 and part of 10 in NC and part of grade 12 in Maine. Their school system is F'ed up, when I was in Maine there were people that didn't know where Nova Scotia was. I told them it's where all their lobster comes from... which is why I only spent part of grade 12 there.
It's easier to claim you need more money in education when the education system itself is churning out dullards. If education did it's job, no one would want to spend any additional money on it. Such is the necessity of maintaining a broken system.
All these institutions over the last 50 years have degenerated into Consultantware.
That was something that troubled me about the debates last night. Neither candidate supports the ownership of automatic weaponry, they (I think it was Obama) say that our streets are not battlegrounds. As Syria shows, sometimes they do become a battleground. And the people (on either side of that battle) deserve to be honored the right to be able to defend themselves, their families, and the positions they wish to take up. To do so often demands the appropriate weaponry. Now - semiautomatic assault weapons will probably be sufficient - but shouldn't "the people" also be able to own rocket propelled grenade launchers? Arial drones for surveillance/intelligence purposes? As Syria is proving out, we should never be too trustworthy of either our government or the intergovernmental world leadership. My .02 cents...
You've discovered the true purpose: to prevent the arming of the public in defense of themselves and their country from demagogs. Only the government is worthy of weaponry able to turn the tide of a battle. And to those that suggest the military wouldn't turn on the people, consider Guantanamo Bay, NDAA 2012, bombing citizens from drones (the American Taliban Cleric), SWAT teams, War on Drugs, TSA, MK-ULTRA, the list goes on and on and on and on.