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Comment Re:Easy answer (Score 1) 224

Way offtopic now but out of curiosity: No expert on Chomsky or Cambodian Genocide I looked it up on wikipedia and it appears you are right he did do that back in 1975-79, well done a verifiable fact and I am happy to agree with you on that one. As for your other claim all I did was go to the ultimate source and posted the actual short quote, the one which you claimed proved Chomsky was a Holocaust denier. The quote does not appear to support your claim in any way, and you did not follow up with counter evidence or admit your mistake. Worse your still persisting (Card stacking, you call it?). You should try admitting when you are wrong now and then would go a long way to gaining some respect.

Calling me a facist and a Chomsky diciple in the same post, I am amused.

Comment Re:Easy answer (Score 2) 224

It was you who wrote, and I quote "I don't think you can really claim unqualified totalitarianism unless there is actual repression tied into it, especially political repression". I have given you many references to one specific well documented example where the NSA was involved in the identification and takedown of key leaders of a political movement. Perhaps you should have said something like: "I don't think you can really claim unqualified totalitarianism unless there is actual repression tied into it, especially political repression, unless it is a minor political movement, or a fringe political movement - it is OK to repress those they dont count."

Your posts here strongly smell of socially destructive Right Wing Authoritarianism, chiefly:

Authoritarian submission — a high degree of submissiveness to the authorities who are perceived to be established and legitimate in the society in which one lives.

Authoritarian aggression — a general aggressiveness directed against deviants, outgroups, and other people that are perceived to be targets according to established authorities.

Conventionalism — a high degree of adherence to the traditions and social norms that are perceived to be endorsed by society and its established authorities, and a belief that others in one's society should also be required to adhere to these norms.

Comment Re:Easy answer (Score 2) 224

But I don't think you can really claim unqualified totalitarianism unless there is actual repression tied into it, especially political repression

Latest example of several that are on record: NSA used to squash the political movment: Occupy Wall Street. So your right, it is now possible to make a claim for unqualified totalitarianism in this country.

Comment PATENTS and veiled threats at Open Source (Score 2) 111

How many different BitTorrent clients are there? How did that happen...?

It would appear that Bittorrent the company considers the healthy bittorrent/client ecosystem to be a mistake not to be repeated. Like this chat protocol, they have also announced a P2P Streaming protcol - their implimentation will be closed source encumbered with patents that they have threated to use against anyone wishing to start an alternative open client. So even when they openly publish the protocol, it is still of no use the open source community. Don't believe me, take this quote from the horses mouth:

“We want people to use and adopt BitTorrent Live. But we aren’t planning on encouraging alternative implementation because [Insert pathetic excuse here]. We want to ensure a quality experience for all and this is the best approach for us to [i.e more pathetic excuses to close source the system],” Cohen told TorrentFreak.

So, yeah, You can read the protocol spec but try to impliment it and we will "discourage" you - i.e. use out patent(s) to clobber your OS project to oblivion. Personally I hope the open source community can take these interesting initiatives, design around the patents and make a true P2P Streaming and secure chat system ecosystem - because it appears that Bittorrent the company has fallen far from its early success of kicking off the truly open bittorrent protocol, sadly.

Comment Re:Seems like result would be higher price (Score 1) 85

There's no way a business can afford a longer warranty period...

Certainly not when they deliberatly build in obsolescence so your forced to throw away/consume more - increase profits vs deplete more natural resources. Longer warrenty periods by law would go a long way to reign in companies balancing act - how short can they push a products life without overtly harming the brand. Force them to increase product quality (or at least remove the cheap gimmicks they use to sabotage their own products after a short period).

Comment Re:Sadly, not the first time (Score 2) 85

Still it is sad for such premium products that the maker has to be strongarmed into agreeing to local law.

F-That Mate, there can be no exceptions just because your a mega corporation. You don't like the local laws, minimum wage, environmental or employee protections, do not operate in that locality - your not welcome as a company.

Most Corporations are almost always looking to freeload to pad their bottom line. I.E. externalize the negatives so that the rest of us and our children have to pay the deficit one way or the other. Given the ease with whch they can buy their politicians, they usually get away with it...

Comment Re:The law will change (Score 2) 85

It's more profitable for the lawmakers to change that law than to force Apple to provide repairs.

Yes. It is also easier for lawmakers/political elite to seem to be forced to change the law against their will in order to avoid political fallout. "We are just normalizing with internationaly recognized laws", Enter the TPP.

Comment Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. (Score 1) 698

The data and operations sharing arrangements within these opaque organizations, is, well, opaque. There is no strict "there must be a separation of intelligence organizations" rule. They specialize and they also overlap, so we can only assume that they all work hand in hand:

That is what Snowden has exposed, with official, secret documents. The NSA, FBI and CIA have, with the new digital technology, surveillance powers over our own citizens that the Stasi – the secret police in the former "democratic republic" of East Germany – could scarcely have dreamed of. Snowden reveals that the so-called intelligence community has become the United Stasi of America.

Comment Re:real socialism (Score 5, Insightful) 356

True. The US is the biggest corporate welfare socialist regime in the world. Socialism is only a dirty word when you, dear tax payer, demand more social service bang for your buck. Why spend good tax $$$ on a dignified social security net when you can spend (appropriate?) X times more on an effective police state to crack down on the resulting crime due to a lack of one, or sell more health insurance even.

Comment Re:Lie-fest from the NSA (Score 1) 504

NSA Spying and Intelligence Collection: A Giant Blackmail Machine. Great for subverting democracies the world over. It is perfectly capable of intimidating the majority of politicans with any "real power" (or powerful bankers: see "The US Using Prism To Engage In Commercial Espionage").

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him..

Cardinal Richelieu

Comment Re:Lie-fest from the NSA (Score 5, Interesting) 504

NSA IS the government of the United States.

No, the NSA Surveillance Destroys Diplomacy and Democracy:

How do democratically elected officials (the president, congressmen or senators) get control of a stand-alone secret government bureaucracy that was operating long before they arrived and will survive them after they've gone? A bureaucracy that knows everything there is to know about them, too?

They don't. They can't. So the surreptitious, illicit actions of a US spy agency can undermine the diplomatic work of months and years. And the president - the elected official chosen to lead the country - is so hamstrung by the NSA that he cannot stop the interceptions and order an immediate investigation.

Comment Re:Amnesty? *snarf* (Score 4, Insightful) 383

No, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, and Britain aren't the enemies of the US. But some of the people in those countries are.

Interesting spin. So how does monitoring 35 world leaders fall into that "the bad guys are amougst us" line.

There are many reasons that nations spy on each other besides being an enemy. Although all of our nations are basically open, they are not necessarily completely transparent. Being able to understand your allies, the pressures they face, the practical considerations is important if you are going to engaged in coalition diplomacy

In other words, the NSA Surveillance Destroys Diplomacy and Democracy:

How do democratically elected officials (the president, congressmen or senators) get control of a stand-alone secret government bureaucracy that was operating long before they arrived and will survive them after they've gone? A bureaucracy that knows everything there is to know about them, too? They don't. They can't. So the surreptitious, illicit actions of a US spy agency can undermine the diplomatic work of months and years. And the president - the elected official chosen to lead the country - is so hamstrung by the NSA that he cannot stop the interceptions and order an immediate investigation.

Comment Re:Assange said he likes crushing bastards (Score 5, Informative) 167

A reporter worried that Assange would risk killing Afghans who had co-operated with American forces if he put US secrets online without taking the basic precaution of removing their names. "Well, they're informants," Assange replied. "So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it."

The reporter that attributed those words to Assange is David Leigh. A well known liar, the type of person that breaks contract then lies about it, David Leigh also has been called out out by an independent third party journalist for fabricating those words:

"However, an independent witness – John Goetz, a journalist with Der Spiegel – states that the events related above are simply not true:"

"“I was at dinner at the Moro restaurant in London, along with Marcel Rosenbach from Der Spiegel, David Leigh and Declan Walsh of the Guardian, and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. Patrick Forbes asked me specifically if Julian Assange had made the remark “They’re informants, they deserve to die” at the dinner, as has been alleged by David Leigh, and I told him that Julian did not say that at the dinner.”"

David Leigh' s systematic pattern of dishonesty.

But you know all this already, don't you Cold Fjord. By calling out your FUD with some facts and counter examples you will feebly defend as you have done in your last post by accusing any detractors from your message of being "fans" or part of some cult. Anything other than, you know, actually addressing the facts or providing solid counter evidence.

So now you have been informed that David Leighs account is highly questionably including credible independent third party witnesses, and that David Leigh has a long history of dishonesty on other non Assange related areas - yet I can guarantee you will be back here with the same ferver like agenda, the same libel Assange quote on the next Wikileaks story. No matter how many times we demonstrate some of your more crazy ideas to be false, you persist on repeating over and again the same falehoods - damn the facts and eternally ignore any counter evidence presented. One can see this clearly time and again across many topics only by browsing your post history and the subsequent replies. Rinse, repeat. This is the classical modus operandi of a troll, a shill and a astroturfer. Facts do not matter.

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