pretty much all of it impacts national security
Pretty much all? Clearly, if the NSA is doing something it impacts national security. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. Duh. Besides that, it's right there in their name. National Security Agency, see?
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Or do you think it might not be that simple?
The law says it's perfectly legal for NSA to destroy evidence that would compromise national security if revealed in a civil court.
So the NSA gets to decide which evidence could impact national security of course, and pretty much all of it impacts national security so there is effectively no oversight. So pretty much the NSA operates as an unchecked branch of the government.
You apologist are many things: cowards, shills, etc. Patriots you are not. You are undermining our democracy (however much we have left).
Go destroy some evidence in a case against you where a judge has ordered you to preserve it. Let me know how that works out for you. The NSA will get away with it. You'll be asking Bubba to make sure he uses some lube.
These fucking people are out of control and need some serious jail time.
entangled with the cat (not literally, that would hurt)
I'm thinking that you are correct!
I'm not simply arguing that the Singularity is stupid â" people much smarter than me have covered that territory.
"Stupid"? That's just fucking asinine. "The Singularity" has many incantations, some of which are plausible, and others which are downright unbelievable, but to say it is "stupid" makes you sound stupid. The various models of the singularity have been argued as both likely and impossible by equally intelligent people. I take offense to the word.
It's only going to get worse as more and more "platforms" get tied to some company curated web store.
HA! Pretty soon they'll have your desktop acting just like a smart phone: no privacy what-so-ever with every app knowing when you take a shit to when your SO is ovulating.
No fucking thanks indeed!
If only they would have made it simpler by either stealing a lot more, or a lot less.
Extensive surveillance is not just great for catching terrorists, but finding out who is a conservative and what they are doing you can use the keep them quiet.
Tell me, SuperKendall, why in the fuck would Obama want to keep conservatives quiet? Obama is more conservative than Reagan.
Really, it's not that complicated. Follow the money.
If you think about it a seven-foot rise in water is not very reasonable to predict - it has to come from somewhere and there is just not that much water locked up in ice anymore.
Really?! Are you even fucking trying anymore?
If all land ice melted, sea level would rise approximately 70 meters (230 feet) worldwide.
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