Flu shot hoax admitted
GMO front man exposed
Mercury still in flu shots
Vaccines sterilize women
CDC scientist confesses to vaccine fraud

But wait! Let's not limit ourselves to just their headlines...
Essential vocabulary for the medical police state descending upon America
Six preventable disorders America has manufactured, perpetuated, and propagated
Tetanus vaccines found spiked with sterilization chemical to carry out race-based genocide against Africans

And my favorite,
Gun-free schools in America now training children as resistance militia forces armed with cans of soup


Great site you've found there, friend! I've added it to my "humor" bookmarks folder!

Although we may agree on the need for less porous borders, the CDC actually has solid data on the causes of outbreaks like the current one. And, they don't typically start with "foreign invaders" - They start with unvaccinated legal US citizens going on vacation and coming back infected.

So yeah, idiots choosing not to vaccinate, whether because Jenny or Jesus said so, do count as the entire problem.

Ah, I've figured out where we diverged in our discussion - You refer to a secret law, whereas I only meant secret warrants.

In that case, I suppose you have a valid argument, but still, kinda tough to enforce secret laws - When Google gets an NSL, as its very first step it would have its army of lawyers decide the legality of the order. If its lawyers don't know about secret law X that compels a company to lie, they would advise Larry and Sergey to use it as toilet paper.

So even if that order held up in court (though, how do they find a prosecutor and defender who know the law well enough to debate it?), we would have heard about it already from the first few companies who told FISA to go pound sand. Since we haven't, we can conclude that at least that particular secret law doesn't exist (not to say others don't, of course).

Riiiight. Because it totally makes sense to let all comers string their own wires, bury their own fiber, etc. That doesn't need any regulation at all.

Funny thing about that... I currently use 4G as my primary ISP, because the local cable monopoly decided my town won't make them any money. Not "my town won't let them steal my front yard to run wires", but "no one wants to steal my front yard to run wires". Except, adding insult to injury, I still have my front yard "occupied" by a utility pole, for power lines. Wow, best of both worlds!

So in this case, yes, the market has actually managed to beat the government-sanctioned monopolies in addressing the "last mile" problem, for me at least. Though make no mistake, I don't consider Verizon any better than Comcast - Just a rare example of two once-upon-a-time monopolies in different markets accidentally managing to compete with each other in an otherwise-unexpected ballpark. Make no mistake, I'd give my left nut to have Google offer FTTP in my town, but that detail does more to *make* my point than refute it.

Yeah, I got that part - So what, exactly, stops every non-warrant-receiving hungry young JD fresh out of school from pointing out that the EFF has it (hypothetically) wrong?

The "indistinguishable" part only works under two conditions:

1) They can force people to lie, and
2) Every lawyer in the country has an NSL against them ordering them to lie about point #1.

Otherwise, my original point holds - Organizations the size of the EFF can't just make things up and get away without someone calling them on it.

Ahhh...so you only agree with government regulation when it supports your own agenda...I see.

Force AT&T and Comcast and PG&E to legitimately negotiate for the land they've stolen from my front yard, and we can talk about the merits of "no regulation" vs "undoing damage already done". Until then, don't waste my time setting up some "purist Libertarian" strawman.

Net neutrality counts as a very small step in the right direction. Not because "these are the areas we believe should be regulated", but because we've already "regulated" them into nearly uncontrollable parasitic monopolies.

Unless you mean to suggest that "they" have forced every lawyer in the US to lie to the rest of us, you've missed my point - Those lawyers not under order to lie would call BS on the EFF's claims.

That said, yes, I will grant that if literally everyone had to lie, the results would look indistinguishable. Doesn't make it a very good conspiracy, though, if it includes everyone. :)

As a Libertarian fucktard - I support net neutrality.

Would I have preferred corporate America came to that decision on their own? Sure! And I'll take a unicorn, as long as you have enough for everyone.

Keep in mind, before you go whining about those more fiscally responsible than yourself, that that the very abuses that net neutrality address exist because of government interference - Giving the telecoms local monopoly powers, limited right of eminent domain (an outright abomination in any context), and in many states, flatly banning public competition even in towns (like my own) that won't see cable or DSL until the next infernal ice age because the telecoms have zero interest in serving the "last mile". Not to mention that whole "incorporation" bullshit in the first place.

Rant on, though! Never let facts stand in the way of demonizing your political enemies.

Graphene has the unfortunate property that transistors using it don't actually have an "off" mode - Just a "low" and "high". So although it might give us crazy-fast switching times, it will leak current worse than an XFinity modem. But hey, we all miss the good ol' days of using our P4 gaming rigs as space heaters, right?

Silicene, by comparison, does have a tunable band-gap, meaning that it should get around that limitation of graphene.

Although... if they *could* force us to lie, then they they could just be forcing people at the EFF and canary websites to lie about not being able to force them to lie.

Although these warrants may count as secret, the law itself does not. If the government had forced EFF to lie about this, a million hotshot lawyers fresh out of college would have jumped all over them - Either for making such a rookie error, or ironically enough, flagging that claim as itself a canary.

or dispel someone from existence

How about just casting "Imperius"? Unforgivable, or silly?
Does trying to cast "Dominate Monster" on a human count as racism?

If you tried to file a police report for someone threatening to "dispel [you] from existence", they'd laugh you out of the station - Right after they searched you for drugs.

it is teaching that threatening people, whether the threat is credible or not, is highly inappropriate, and won't be tolerated.

Mighty fine world you seem to live in... Can I borrow those cool pink shades?

"Do your homework or you'll fail the test" - Threat.
"Listen to your mother or no dessert" - Threat.
"Obey the speed limit or get a ticket" - Threat.
"Don't kill people or we'll execute you" - Threat.
"Don't threaten people or get suspended" - Threat.

We live in a world full of threats, both implied and explicit. "Don't make them" lacks utility as a lesson, because it presupposes the possibility of a world without consequences.

Learning the difference between credible and silly threats, however, counts as one of the more important life-lessons a kid should pick up - Because some day, they'll need to decide whether their employer really can make them work eighteen hour days, seven days a week; whether Officer Friendly really can search them for no reason; or perhaps most apropos, whether that chain letter really can curse anyone who breaks it.

the school is teaching the kid that threats have consequences.

Credible threats have consequences. Threatening to magically make someone magically vanish lacks credibility.


and a pretty good lesson

"Good" lessons have a point to them. Teaching kids to fear imaginary threats does not.

Or maybe it would be an idea to not buy from the cheapest seller

What a great moral to the story! "Quit price-shopping, assholes - Pay full retail, or we... will... fuck you!"

Glad to see people feel just peach about that.

Simple, really:

Ubisoft just taught another generation of paying customers that piracy provides a superior product, regardless of price.

Congrats, Ubi! We haven't had a good DRM fuckup like this in a while - Without all your hard work, people might eventually forget how much it (and you) sucks. Keep up the good work!