Yes. Congress is typically quite industrious at violating the Constitution and destroying civil rights.

so you should be happy when congress is gridlocked or filibustered and unable to do any of those things

Yes, and...?

Was there a point here?

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somehow throw a spanner in the works and cause a massive cost/delay to the government.

Are you asserting that congress would have actually gotten anything done during that time?

Yes. Congress is typically quite industrious at violating the Constitution and destroying civil rights.

I wish the partisans would STFU and realize this is a civil rights issue, not a partisan issue, for *everyone* regardless of political party, ideology, and/or religion (or lack thereof).

For those kool-ade drinkers defending the administration regarding domestic spying, do you want your political enemies to have this power to wield when they inevitably gain office?

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Paranoid, much?

Those that would mistake paranoia with basic observational skills referencing events over the last 60 years are likely be on some type of 'agenda'. What some call paranoid, others are calling it 'having a big mouth', but you don't see that part now do you?

Don't bother. Just check Dave420's post history. He's drank so much of Leftist/Social Justice kool-aid that California is considering sanctioning him for the amount of water he wastes.

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I'd be far more likely to trust Israeli-produced tools as opposed to anything from the Five Eyes.

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That's okay, databases of names, addresses, and dates of birth are valuable for identity crimes, anyway. I can open new credit accounts with my bank without providing my social security ID.

Head in the sand, much?

It's more rational than "omg it's not actually stable it eats your data!" OpenBSD had an exploitable flaw in X11 for like 26 years; Microsoft has been in the spotlight enough that we've seen this dozens of times, security, data loss, that whole thing called Windows ME... What do you want to compare to?

An economic/social collapse is what those in power need to roll out martial law and complete the final stages of the "fundamental transformation of America" to a police state.

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...What they mean by "export" is posting downloads or links to downloads of source code or binaries on the 'net.

Just another restriction on the communication of knowledge & free speech in the "Land of the Free".

The US I grew up in during the 1960s/'70s is dead.

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Well I expect the original design was far superior, since it ran on air.

You're not going to get complicated designs out of a brainstorm session. If you do, you've conflated it with a decision session, and have started doing design in your meeting. This invariably leads to bad decisions and bad design.

Microsoft has made bigger blunders, and then refused to fix them.

Bwaahahaha!

"I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything"

It's the Bart Simpson defense!

[Beetlejuice voice] And it just keeps getting funnier *every* *single* *time* I see it! [/Beetlejuice voice]

How about you just stick your fingers in your ears and go; "Lalalala, I can't hear you! Lalalala!".

Too funny!

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The question is how long you can go without maintenance and repair--what's the cost over time?

It's like when you hit someone's parked car and they make your insurance pay to fix their fucked-up door, but the door had already been smashed in by them hitting a fire hydrant 2 years prior. How much more damage did you really do? Well, okay, a lot. How much more cost did you add to the repair? None. Why should you have to pay for it? Largely, because you're a shitty driver.

It doesn't make sense to me to claim that drivers of big vehicles causing big damage to roads should be proportionally more responsible for the damage they cause, rather than the usage they make, when much of the damage is unmitigated wear and tear--when the road takes its greatest damage from freeze-thaw cycles. If 10% of the damage is caused by vehicle traffic--that is, if the amortized cost-per-year is only 90% as much with no traffic as it is with traffic--then 10% of the cost should be scaled based on traffic damage, and the other 90% is most fair scaled to bulk usage.

Of course, scaling for bulk usage is stupid, too. It makes the percentage of income paid toward road maintenance higher for lower-income users.

The rich live close while the poor have to commute

It's funny that those living way out in the suburbs are "the poor".

Have you seen housing rental rates in NYC, the location the OP was talking about? Granted, in many locations it's the reverse, but the OP's point re: NYC is generally accurate.

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