It's amazing that our tax dollars pay for the equipment to be bought on DOD contracts on the federal level, and then our state tax dollars turn around to pay for it a second time. What a complete fucking sham.

Tell it two girls, one cup. Wonder if it would become sentient just to subsequently kill itself.

People's ingenuity and tenacity to game the system never fails to amaze me.

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THIS! READ IT! That is all.

Is your beat frequency your hash salt or something?

You know there is a used market right? Craigslist? Autotrader? Etc. Why pay book value for new models when the 3 year old model will last you as long ...

Hey US, IN SOVIET RUSSIA ROCKET LAUNCH YOU. Sincerely, US citizens for restoring manned American space exploration.

Dipshit,

It's called paraphrasing, and it's a common form. By condoning the current NSA you are in fact giving up essential liberty in exchange for a little temporary safety. I'm glad that you can recognize a founding father quote. It's a shame you don't adhere to its ruminations.

The full inclusion of all qualifiers does not strengthen your argument. Try again with a valid rebuttal.

Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. You are obviously one of those.

You know what, I'll bite.

Firstly, the "don't worry about civil liberties because ... uh ... ter'ist murika freedom!!!" argument became passe once those who were prophetic about the longstanding ramifications of the Patriot act turned out to be correct. And secondly, it's antithetical for you to justify domestic spying for the formation of a free country. The two are diametrically opposed. I'm not putting words in your mouth. You are justifying domestic spying. If you had said, "I believe we should have the best SIGINT over foreign entities, and none over American's private domestic communication, and no secret FISA courts and no gag-orders, no NSLs, no secret no-fly list, no secret kill-list", ok, maybe, but you did not say that.

The American people are not the enemy, and there is not some huge terrorist cell lying in wait in your neighbor's fucking closet. Get over it. Whoever beat nationalistic pride into your psyche, probably some baby boomer, they had it beat into them by the McCarthyism of their day, and it was wrong then and it is wrong now. We are a great country because of our people. Not our government. They serve us. They should fear us. We pay for them to serve us, not the other way around.

How about we all just stick our heads in the sand so the terrorist know we didn't see their sacred prophet Muhammad while where at it. Because oh noes .. the terrorist are gunna git'cha!

Fuck you.

Some years back I when I was working on my undergrad (BS Applied Math), I stopped by an NSA booth at the career fair. I asked if any of the signals intelligence work involved monitoring domestic communications. The recruiter panel said "No, it is illegal for us to spy on Americans and there are signs near every workstation that say so". Agreeing, I said, "well why do you still do it?".

Ok so I was there to be antagonistic, but even five years ago the lower level guys knew what was going.

College students can step up and stop joining there ranks. Here in North Carolina, my alma mator is suckling the teat and getting in bed further with them via a 60 million dollar data analytics lab. There was some student protest in the form of people writing "Fuck the NSA" in chalk on buildings, but other than that, big U's are happy to cozy up closer to the feds.

I ended up going into the private sector and look back thankful that I didn't join their ranks.

A book on consise exposition without complex family relations; one that cuts right to the content. That would be a good start.

It truly just became pay to play for actual content producers and hosts. Goodbye little guys. Right now, I get content from the internet pretty much as fast as I'm willing to pay for. Now, for the same amount of my money, does this mean the content I'm delivered is at the mercy of how much the companies serving it are willing to pay ISPs backbone peers?

How long until consumers are offered tiered internet to these sites, pay X to get the FB + GOOG + AAPL package, etc etc, pay Y for gaming, pay Z for streaming, if you're caught in violation you'll be automatically charged at the overage level (like cell phone providers).

If there were no betting caps, I would progressive bet on paper. Bet 1 dollar paper. If lose, bet 2 dollar. If lose, bet 4 dollar. If lose, bet 8 dollar, et al. Once you win you reset back to zero. This naturally has drawbacks and potential for huge failure, but I've had good luck with it in blackjack and roulette if betting caps are high and I have about $10000 to play around with.