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Comment Can we send a dollar to DHS (Score 1) 82

So they can buy a fucking clue? No, there will be no "escrow" the administration you represent has continued a policy of spying on our communications. Therefore any suggestions, changes, or stupid fucking ideas that would compromise my data's security is off the table. Now as the former VP would say, go fuck yourself!

Comment HealthInsurance Company Fail (Score 3, Interesting) 18

In other news, Anthem is going to acquire Cigna. Now all those Cigna customers can get the same high-quality data protection and HIPPA compliance that all Anthem customers enjoy. Of course Anthem will only pay a paltry fine for not protecting customer information and will in return provide one year of "credit monitoring" to those affected by their stupidity.

Comment Our Leadership, bought and paid for. (Score 4, Interesting) 83

"[Navy Secretary Ray] Mabus said Iran and other countries were already using lasers to target ships and commercial airliners"

Laser targeting != Laser weaponry. I'm surprised that SecNAV doesn't understand the difference although low energy lasers can be fun.

TFA:

"Directed energy brings the dawn of an entirely new era in defense," Lieutenant General William Etter, Commander, Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region, told a conference hosted by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment.

which reminded me of:

Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

- Dwight Eisenhower

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