You mean, keeping track of who is being naughty or nice and reporting it to the NSA, CIA, FBI, local law enforcement, and other commercial entities?

Yep. It has been happening at least since the early 90s. Where do you think most/all of those police-department lambourghinis and mustangs and zrocs came from? They seize people's shit, keep what they want, auction off the rest and pocket the money. You can get incredible deals at police auctions, but I refuse to ever buy anything, myself, because I find it disgusting.

The point of Silk Road was private transactions. They tried to propagandize the idea t hat it's "only for illegal drugs" to justify their actions, when what they were really angry about was simply cracking down on purportedly untraceable money. That people are going around repeating the drug thing suggests their effort worked.

This organization has proven that they have no regard at all for the law. One of the fuckers actually told a reporter a few days ago that he thinks the first amendment should be "revised" to make the NSA's job easier.

NSA apparatchiki have committed billions of felonies, and continue to do so as we speak. The only remedy that will make them stop is to disband them altogether.

-jcr

Has that agency you work for quit pulling this kind of shit?

-jcr

because of epa your air and water is cleaner,

Bullshit. Our air and water are cleaner because the public started to care about it. Giving Nixon's second biggest mistake credit for that is like giving a flea credit for the dog.

-jcr

Only in the US would someone compare government funding of higher education to the Soviet Union.

Both empires made academia serve their rulers. Are you seriously claiming otherwise?

-jcr

It's alright for you to dismiss a whole group with some stupid 'lefties' tag

Reading comprehension isn't your long suit. What I said is that American academia is lousy with lefties, not that it is composed entirely of lefties.

whatever the fuck that means today

It means people who advocate expanding governmental power over the economy.

-jcr

No, this is way too big for a dead cat bounce. Over 600 now.

-jcr

Looks like BITC is recovering fast. 585 USD as I write this.

-jcr

If you imagine that I'm a supporter of the cronyism that banks and other corporations consider business as usual, then you know absolutely nothing about me. Academia is the subject at hand, not banking.

-jcr

your hatred of academia

Guess again. I want nothing more than to see academia liberated from government control. Today, US higher-ed institutions are fully in government thrall, just like all the universities in the Soviet Union.

-jcr

If you limited yourself to Ruling Party candidates, the choice was between a wall street kleptocrat, and a wall street minion. Don't forget that Obama appointed Geithner as the treasury secretary, and the fact that he went along with Paulson's great money-grab.

-jcr

Have you considered getting a job in the productive side of the economy?

-jcr

To be fair, I know one very talented engineer who went to Harvard. I credit him, not Harvard, for his abilities.

-jcr