This is to me the fundamental flaw in America's notion of democracy. We have all these guards at the gates to filter out who is allowed to have a legitimate shot at being considered for office. The blame lands on both the party leadership on both sides and with the news media. They all conspire to maintain control and to make sure the American people do not truly have free will in the election choices. I really hope the day comes soon that the American people stand up and demand more than the illusion of choice. I hope we stand up and demand more than our pick of the rubber stamped celebrity politicians who have enough name recognition to walk in with good poll numbers before the race has even begun. I'd like to see the news media try some actual journalism and show us the details of the relevant candidates rather than just shoveling more from the constant flow of pseudo news of the life and times of the most interesting celebrity candidates.

That's funny, when I start making things out of steel wool it's usually after I take the the drugs.

As much as we harp on NSA abuses what they do to the average person pales in comparison to how far up your ass with a flashlight corporations and allowed to go with just a check mark in the terms of service acceptance check box. I really feel PAID services should be required to offer a disagree check box that still allows you to purchase service while giving the provider zero rights to tread on your privacy. That of course would not stop data brokers from collecting info on everyone since they don't need consent to put their tentacles into every available data source to collect and share information about you. The TLAs have nothing on the ability of private enterprise to collect mass intelligence.

You're right, free will is much too dangerous. We should have a lot of rules and laws and when we should never act on our own instincts and use our own judgement in defending ourselves our homes or our rights. Either that, or we should have the ability to protect our rights without hesitation or apology. If someone gets hurt then the party causing injury can suffer the consequences. We shouldn't proactively prevent people from taking action because we fear our citizens ability to make prudent and rational decisions and face the consequences of their own choices.

Didn't they ban the sale of Ephedra also? I used to get weight loss smoothie powder from GNC with Ephedra back in the 90s. I think the FDA banned it due to people supposedly having cardiac events. It seems to be banned from sale as a nutritional supplement in the U.S., but I'm not sure how that affects the ability to grow it privately.

The real purpose of the study is to find alternatives to waterboarding at Gitmo, but so far prisoners don't seem to be all that bothered by marbles or fox odor. Hopes were high when 96% of mice tested eventually admitted to having ties to extremist factions.

The clear solution is to send the male child to a labor camp so that the female child can get her fair share of computer time. I'm afraid there is no other way.

Why is Obama so hell bent on passing this? I can understand how this would be popular with corporations and some legislators, but why in his second and final term is Obama bent on passing this seriously flawed bunch of shit?

Lemons?

I would hire a black person, I would hire a woman, I would hire a latino, I would never hire a SJW.

That would be a seriously good start. Once there I'd just ask for more safeguards against malware and invasive tracking. If I visit a site, the site operator in my mind is ethically responsible for assuring any ads presented do not contain malicious code.

There isn't a secure way to access fifteen different content providers and freely run scripts provided by all of them every time you visit a page and with zero knowledge of what content or what provider will be accessed when you open a page.

I don't avoid adds because they are annoying. I avoid them because when I visit a website I'm saying a trust that website enough to interact with it. I have no such trust in blindly accepting all advertiser interaction. When the website I'm accessing brings the ads in house and takes complete ethical and legal responsibility for the safety and privacy implications of ad content then, I may be happy to allow their ads to load. My security trumps their ad revenue.

No...It's the month that cloud computing finally jumps the shark.

Does cannibalism count as a carbon offset?

They just have to wait for some event that triggers an increase in the fear index.

Step 1) Scare the bejeezus out of the citizenry.
Step 2) Legislate
Step 3) Repeat step 1 as needed.

President Obama, your lack of respect for individual rights and freedoms has been my greatest disappointment during your administration.