or is he admitting the next one is already in the wild, and they are already exploiting it?

exactly, He answered the wrong question, The correct question should have been
" will you allow the use of these tools against americans without disclosure" I dont mind if they are spying on others as that is their job, but it is not their job to spy on us in america. (we can argue the merits of spying on other countries another day)

in 2009 this was an issue, it shouldnt be an issue 5 years after win 7 and another OS after it has come out. People have poor planning if they are still having issues with software that doesnt work on anything but XP*

* there are always exceptions to the rule, but in general people should have had plenty of time to work on replacements at this point

That is also a good point AK, simply blaming people does nothing whether they ar ein power or not if we dont do anything about it.

you dont think that the government would jump in and say that the largest producer of content and delivery system is "too big to fail" and then give them tons of our money to ensure that they can keep raping us with fees? I can see the government doing that

im going to assume that was sarcasm and everyone missed it. at least I hope so

Does not mean that it is a good idea. Why would anyone want the company called the worst company in the world to take over another company? Time warner is not great by any stretch of the imagination, but comcast makes them look like gold

you mean like everyone who keeps bringing up the koch brothers all the time? yeah exactly!

it doesnt work that way

when I send a request to the server, I am knocking on your door. You can either tell me I am welcome, or you can refuse entry. If you tell me I am welcome then you cant also try and claim i accessd something without authorization because your server did authorize it

in 2009 id agree with you, but its 2014 now, and the numbers have not gone down, there has been trillion dollar deficit spending for years which Ill give you some of that was for the war (some of that was also for obamacare if we want to be honest)

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html
So I will see your point that the spending is going down (thanks largely to the sequester) however the spending levels are still higher than bush (and for the record I was bitching about bush spending as well years ago)

I will aso note that spending did not drop down under 1 trillion until the republicans took control of the house. Long story short, there is plenty of blame to go around. but we can either waste our time blaming people who are no longer in a position to do anything or we can work on those we can

Agreed, and 500 years is not really a large enough sample on a planet that is billions of years old either. Now we could make the argument from civilization on or say a number more like 50K years. and on top of that we are using different methods of obtaining the temprature today then we have in the past, be it better tools, or monitors in different locations. I still want more information because I am willing to concede that the temp is going up, I dont agree with the reason for it, or the options people want to try and fix the "problem"

I blame shifted nothing, go back to my posts over the past 10 years you will see just as much vitriol in my posts against bush as you do now against obama. The difference is simple, bush is gone, not in power anymore, theres nothing we can do about that. but we CAN do something about the person sitting in the office now.

gitmo is still open, so we dont know if he is or is not torturing people....

I will agree with everything you just said, as long as you dont have a double standard and want to see the current admin locked up for being bush 2.0. If you cant agree to that, you are simply being a political pawn

sorry you are correct, I did mean debt, which again someone said was unamerican in the past. But yeah, im a fucktard because i mistyped something. You could have ended it after your second sentence and gotten the same point across without sounding like a smug asshole

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