censorship?

the heroin crack meth of money in politics is not defeated by voting for the fourth party candidate wackjob

the laws need to be changed like this:

http://www.wolf-pac.com/

using money to defeat money. corruption jujitsu

At this point, as US citizen, I'm much more concerned about what the US government does both abroad and at home (including stuff like supporting a repressive Saudi Arabia, other actions abroad that make terrorist blowback more likely, domestic cage-like "free speech zones", domestic rulings saying border patrols can operate in a constitution-ignoring way up to 100 miles inland, etc.)

You right-wing fuckbags are always calling for less government. Guess what? Nobody fucking cares about your precious constitution. Your opposition to Obama is just racism. America is going to change and you're not going to like it one bit. Get used to it.

That's not true at all, I have read on these very pages how all religion is utterly and irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. Now we're making exceptions?

PS if you think Buddhists are innocent of bombing, you really need to pick up a history book. Beheading, too.

you're correct, they want an alternative stream

but it's not altruistic, they just want to set up their own competing ~1% ~2% steal

thank you. well explained

the banks can't cut out the ccs, the ccs will punish them

so the best power play is OS/ phone manufacturer and the phone companies cutting out the banks AND the ccs

i get it

but you know the ccs are working furiously with dirty tricks right now like purchased legislation to protect their revenue streams, i mean EHEM, "protect the consumer"

american banks are finally waking the fuck up from all of the easy expensive hacks and finally giving americans european style smart chip cards:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/1014121...

the chips in smart cards are the same thing as phone SIM cards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

so why can't banks team up with verizon/ att/ sprint/ etc (and do an end run around google/ apple/ samsung/ etc. plus mastercard/ visa/ etc.) and just give us phone = bankcard thataways?

what am i missing?

do i get my $30 million bonus now?

the only reason we don't have phone = bankcard technology is this power game pissing contest between all of the players here, correct?

someone please explain to me what i am missing

It shouldn't even indicate that. Consensus has zero to do with truth or even confirmation of theory, scientifically speaking. The majority saying that the moon is made of green cheese does not mean that the moon is actually made of green cheese.

That's the problem with any backdoor - once it's public that it exists, it's only a matter of time before everyone has the key. The stupid Lenovo spyware was exploited the same day it became public that it existed. This may take a little longer, but we can be certain that every bad actor will get this - organized crime as well as government (the distinction seems less clear over time).

Nye may be a "science guy" but he's a popularizer, not a real scientist. Just an actor.

Maybe so but we are supposed to live in a society of laws, both here in the States and in Europe. The US governments general position is Americans are always subject to American laws, and nobody is supposed to be above the law. . Kevin Mitnick did essentially the same thing, called up a manufacturer social engineered them into giving him information. The FBI was certainly on his ass, the federal prosecutors certainly pushed for and obtained a conviction.

These guys though? Nobody will even look into it on the prosecutorial side because these guys had an NSA badge on why the did it.

There is the law, notice the lawfully authorized part? They are not entitled to do anything you and I can't do UNLESS they have a search warrant or there is some other law on the books specifically authorizing the activity. I doubt even the FISA court would have rubber stamped this one.

there are plenty of douchebags in this world with a self-declared and delusional, entitled sense of impunity

"This guy's career is totally a product of having the "right" position."

Which fits, because so do all his opponents. Scientific "consensus" is an indicator that something has gone horribly wrong with the scientific process.

" if proper peer review is undertaken"

The problem comes in when fads appear among the peers.