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Comment Re:Time for a revolution (Score 1) 424

I agree. Close your bank accounts, use check cashing services and pay everything with cash or money orders.
Done by enough people, loudly enough, would be incentive to get stodgy steak-fed Congress-clowns to fix their blunder.
Likely? No. But , I can see there will be outcry if they abuse this law publicly enough. More stupid bullshit from the "superior" overlords we elected. Wait! You elected them! I didn't vote for any Repubmocrats! You did!
You Goddamn fix it! You made the mess, now clean it up! And quit voting for the one-party system or quit complaining about the current government.

And when you are on your way to buy a new washing machine, or something equally innocent, and you have your $400 in cash, the police pull you over, intimidate you into letting them search you and when they find the wad of cash its 'obviously drug money', you lose the cash and are warned that if you complain you'll lose the car too. And yes they will do this for as little as $400, its worth their while. (assuming you are in the USA where this kind of thing is the new normal).

Comment Re:May I suggest (Score 2) 334

How about a modern .308 bolt-action rifle with a synthetic stock? The caliber is more than adequate; the stock won't be affected by the elements; and a bolt-action is very reliable. It's extremely simple and easy to keep clean. Almost any brand will do.

Yes, of course. Because of the shortage of wood in Canada right?

Comment Re:Good to hear (Score 1) 522

I was really unhappy with Debian's move to systemd, and the fact that once systemd is running as one's init system through a general upgrade, one cannot even go back to sysvinit..

Having heard that Slackware was resistant to systemd, I installed the latest version of Slackware on a netbook I have lying around, and while it's a fine project that clearly has its fans, it seems to require a lot of retraining for someone coming from Debian. I'd love to be able to stay on the venerable old Linux distro I have so many years of experience in.

I predict that use of systemd will result in too many 'release critical' bugs, and that future releases will be delayed very badly because of this.

Comment Re: Why..... (Score 1) 259

P.S. Many US families do the same thing as Google, at a smaller scale. I personally know families in which the wife does not work and is stay-home mom because is "cheaper" vs. two working parents and kids in day care. This is because two spouses working would put them in a higher taxable income bracket which will also make them receive less or none of some tax deductions. Plus they will have to pay for day care. With the wife staying home, taxable income of just one working spouse is lower, there are higher tax deductions, and no day care costs. Tax evasion? No, simply a personal example of tax optimization.

The IRS would probably see that as tax avoidance.

Comment Re:Why..... (Score 1) 259

A lot of countries do only tax on the revenues from their country. America is one of the few countries that tries to tax globally. That's why companies are leaving America.

There are just so many reasons to leave the USA. National security letter shenanigans would mean that I wouldn't even have any management staff physically in the USA, there would be no staff in the USA to deliver a NSL to. Taxes? I'd probably prefer to hire non-US citizens, it makes banking with foreign banks a lot easier.

Sell to the US consumer but have no presence in the country.

Comment Re:Voting for the right people (Score 1) 149

Do you honestly believe that someone would be allowed to run for president of the USA who wasn't in big media's pocket?

I honestly believe, that if your (cynical) point of view was connected to reality, we wouldn't have seen the sort of media bias on display in the last two elections.

Its a single party system with big media trying to give the illusion of choice.

USA and North Korea have more in common than just taxing overseas income of their citizens...

Comment Re:Voting for the right people (Score 1) 149

You gotta vote for people who will make it so

Oh, I am voting for such people alright. But the last couple of elections I was overruled by the inane majority, who consider the color of a candidate's skin more important, than his qualifications.

Our "affirmative action" President plays golf with big cable CEO(s), and the rest of his party is in the big media's pocket as well.

Meanwhile, the rank-and-file partisans are encouraged to hate the Kochs brothers...

Do you honestly believe that someone would be allowed to run for president of the USA who wasn't in big media's pocket?

Comment Re: Thats Fair (Score 1) 158

Oh yeah let me see. I could use Amazon and pay $3 for an episode of Southpark or $15 to watch a movie, one time and if I want to watch it again I pay again. Yeah thats going to work out.

Amazon is shit compared to Netflix for anyone who is prepared to use torrents. I only use Netflix because its monthly cost per movie is insignificant and its more convenient than torrents.

Comment Re:You're a dipshit retard, Bennett Haselton. (Score 1) 622

Don't take naked pictures of yourself with an Internet-connected device. Don't transmit naked pictures of yourself through others' networks and store them on others' servers.

The victims did something stupid. Had they not done something stupid, they wouldn't be victims.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/13/...

Comment Re:soooo..?.. (Score 1) 622

...don't blame the victim (which is generally a good policy) because their benefit/risk estimation wasn't erroneous? I don't want to blame Jennifer Lawrence (as she seems to want to blame all those cursed with natural interests) but that she would've normally seen a benefit to her actions doesn't seem to directly address blame in any sense. Perhaps this ethical argument requires a simpler "ipso facto" tacked on the end for us stupid folks which are missing the connection between benefit and blame.

I don't think its so much about blame, thats something thats really being made up by the victims. Its not 'blame' to point out that what someone did was obviously dumb and risky behavior.

The problem there is theres this culture that says the world should be safe and people shouldn't have to take any precautions and just wander through life without having to be careful in any way, that people should have a right to be stupid and unobservant and careless.

Me, I take the opposite view; only danger can keep you safe from harm.

Comment Re:NO. This is not about "foreigners." (Score 1) 335

Parent AC here. Your point is well-taken, but you're also overlooking something: the foreign gov't *can* authorize search ("hacking") of those servers, even if it's a US citizen. If the foreign gov't allows it, then the Constitution is irrelevant: it's as if the foreign gov't did it and handed over the data to the US.

In short, it all comes down to legal agreements between gov'ts.

That would be the entire point of 'five eyes'; if one of the participating countries can't spy on its own citizens it can turn a blind eye to spying on those citizens by other participants in 'five eyes' and in return be given access to information thus obtained.

If you were in, say, Canada you can assume that the Australians, Brits, New Zealanders and USAians are spying the FUCK out of you and handing that data over to the Canadian authorities.

Comment Re:Now sharing music is illegal? (Score 1) 171

I hate to be obvious, but in the U.S. at least, all "recent" music is subject to copyright protection unless the creator specifically places it into public domain (or it is so under law, like works of U.S. gov't employees). To distribute any such music at all you need a license.

this probably goes some way to explaining why virtually all music you are likely to hear in public places (bars, shops etc) is likely to be 'golden oldies'... I actually heard ELO playing from a restaurant the other day, and The Specials another time.

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