I used WhatsApp for a short time -- that thing you saw as a feature? I saw it as an intrusion. I don't necessarily want any and all contacts entered into the phone showing up in WA -- I want to pick and choose exactly what data I share with different companies -- and for an IM client, I want to add users myself, not simply let it harvest them.
Umm
Exactly where did you go to school? People should know because you're education is staggeringly inadequate.
Just so you know, a regulation forbidding ISPs from being content providers is 180 degrees from fascism. The system we have now, where there's a revolving door between Comcast and the regulatory bodies, where laws are enacted to prevent competition (laws that Comcast purchases) -- that's what fascism looks like. When you can't really see the difference between the govt and the corps (oh, and some blind nationalism in the general populace (no deficit there in America)) -- that's fascism.
Regulatory burden? WTF? The only regs Comcast and its ilk adhere to are those that they purchase.
Here's what real regulation would look like -- no ISP may be a content provider of any type, nor can a parent company own both an ISP and a content provider/producer/etc. You can own one or the other, but not both.
The ONLY reason Comcast has a hardon for Netflix is because it is a content provider and Netflix threatens their model.
Free Cascadia!
Maybe, or maybe Five Eyes is just a way to reunite with its colonies. In America, British people get a lot of attention socially, I'm guessing that is true in other former colonies. There's an entire genre of literature loosely based on feudal England (fantasy) and it even breaks into the mainstream every now and then (game of thrones) to sort of soften up attitudes toward the recombination. Anyway, that's enough conspiracy BS, but it is something that could eventually occur if interests aligned sufficiently, and with American apathy toward our political rulers shredding the Constitution as fast as possible, it isn't exactly impossible.
It might be better to go with cat pictures than vile porn -- a clever prosecutor might figure out a way to harass you with some legal BS over porn. Cat pics though -- as long as they are public domain or ones you took, no issues.
If Obama really wanted to help the country, he'd roll back the Executive branch's usurpation of legislative and judicial powers. Except he's just a member of the New GOP (formerly known as the DNC) and thus, has no interest in rocking the gravy boat.
Shit, they way you were talking spy-skills, I thought the USSR was alive and well considering how vastly awesome their spy apparatus is -- I mean, that they could manipulate so many random world events just to make it LOOK like Snowden got grounded in the USSR
That was brilliant. The "You sicken me. Scum like you have polluted humanity since time began. During
the 1930s you wore a brown shirt
He may or may not be an uber-hacker, I have no idea. That said, if you are handed root, you don't need to be a hacker at all.
Cut him some slack, it's his job to grovel in and shovel shit. Don't blame him for following orders.
Are you talking about Smith v. Maryland?
Here are some distinguishing characteristics:
In Smith, the police targeted a specific individual for telephone metadata, they most certainly could have gotten a warrant based on the information they had about that person (too lazy I guess), the pen register on Smith's phone was for a short period of time, the pen register was removed right away.
It would be extremely easy for the SCOTUS to limit Smith to its facts and find that a program which was not targeted, for which there was no probable cause, and was unlimited in duration, violates the Constitution.
Let's hope, then bootlickers such as yourself can suck it.
That Heritage Foundation stuff comes directly from the plan Nixon offered -- yeah, Tricky Dick. Obama's plan is essentially the same thing with the liberal parts stripped out.
He's either a total backbirth who somehow manages to type, or being paid by the NSA to troll. I'm guessing the latter, in which case, CF will be hooking up electrodes to other people's nuts without probable cause while exhorting them on the virtues of American values.
We can take the word of people like you that all is well in the Government, like we've been doing for decades
We would not be having this discussion without Snowden. Snowden was the only person who took his oat to the Constitution seriously.
As for the GOP and DNC, we basically have two neocon parties, one largely pro-abortion and gay-marriage, the other largely anti-abortion and gay-marriage. If they agreed on those issues, they'd be identical. Interestingly, those two issues don't matter if you get due process free murdered or gulaged.
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