Do you really not see a difference between an experimental, opt-in location system and an international, clandestine spy program?
They are all opt-in when they are starting out. Doesn't make it equal to NSA, but "opt-in" is only temporary until it's not
EZ-Pass and their ilk were totally opt-in (and even offered a discount, at least in NH) when they started.
what it was like to watch a movie without seeing "Buffering" messages and heavy compression artifacts. Yep, streaming is so superior to those ancient physical discs alright.
Not to worry, your local cable company owned movie provider will have good quality streaming service which will not count towards your regular bandwidth cap.
My sister still likes going to the store and browsing.
"Digital delivery" for which the market has spoken does not work in combination with crappy (monopolistic and sometimes transfer-capped) internet.
Having a near-by rental store had its benefits.
However this is difficult to translate into a movie especially with the Captain American/Iron Man style they chose to make it in.
"Translate" into a movie?
They usually just buy the rights to the title of the book/the names of the character and then make their own movie ("I, Robot" is certainly a prime example of that).
Does anyone actually believe that if he had gone to the Senate or the House that anything would change, that the concerns would have been addressed?
Not only that, but does anyone believe that he would not have been redirected to one of the NSA agents to air his concerns? I am sure Senate/House intelligence committees just stand by to address people's complaints (and is not spending all of their time fundraising).
Speeding fines are there to provide some disincentive to doing stupid things prior to going to jail for it.
Speeding fines are there to collect some money for municipalities.
Otherwise they would be uniformly and much more strictly enforced. Currently they are enforced in a haphazard manner, often collected at locations where speedlimit rapidly changes.
If speed limits were uniformly and strictly enforced (rather than an occasional tax on the driver), there would likely be enough outrage to repeal them.
Remember folks, you're not the customer, you're the product.
Sometimes against your will, too. You might be a commodity brought in by other "products"
People have posted pictures/tagged me without my knowledge.
How can you possibly know that? The Bush administration was arguably the most secretive administration ever.
Certain things are easily visible even if they do not "officially" exist
For example, no matter how secretive and non-existent in US, drone bombings get noticed by affected countries. Obama expanded drone operations quite a bit (perhaps not 100-fold, but significantly).
I take it this appointment did not require a joint Democrat/Republican confirmation?
We basically flipped the sh#t sandwich over and are eating it from the other side now.
It's a lot worse now!
In Bush years, at least Democrats used to protest against (some) of the human rights violations. Now they all agree without any discussion.
Google has decided to put the private back in VPN by supporting uProxy,
Even if they don't plan to install a backdoor, it is hard to believe in Google's interest in our privacy.
Who supported privacy measures before Snowden's revelations?
Cheap streaming: Premium Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. Payment: 1 low monthly fee.
Except that last I heard, Premium Hulu still has commercials. For your payment you just get an expanded library of commercial-laden content. I have no idea who pays for that.
The companies that WOULD actually heed your opt-out are also the ones where you don't NEED an opt-out.
That's not at all true
Nowdays, EVERY business I ever did anything with decides that I really want to know about their promotions. A hotel in Spain and another one in NY (each of which I have visited once, years ago) tried to send me regular notes about their
"specials"
I guess doing business once with them allows them to do so (no one asked me to opt-in), but opt-out really helped here.
The only subtle distinction is that the terror that we need to worry about are increasingly of the domestic variety.
the important question is if the increase is the cause of our actions or effect of them.
Sadly, we won't be able to tell much until someone defines "terrorism"
Right now, it could be anything. Regular crime, cyber-crime, hateful propaganda, having a wrong name...
Obama freely admits that he was voting for political reasons and he has now come to understand that it was the wrong way to go. Yes, a politician admitted he was wrong once. AMAZING!
This does not count for shit, until a politician ACTS to right a wrongdoing. If a politician does something wrong, then admits it to be "wrong" but makes no effort to fix it, that hardly changes the outcome.
If you look at Obama's speeches (particularly the ones before the election), you would be far more impressed than based on his actual performance in the office.
The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money. - Ed Bluestone
