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Stop lumping them all together as one giant boogeyman.
No. Not until they quit their jobs at the NSA. Once they quit, IF they can prove they had no knowledge, I will forgive them. Until then, fuck them ALL.
To those at the NSA who are just awakening to the new reality that people are, now and forevermore, going to hate you whether you deserve it or not, I can only say "Welcome to my world. Learn to deal with it. It'll drive you nuts if you don't."
Oh boy, where do I begin? Prior to 1990, the IRS was a terrorist organization with virtually unlimited power. Senators and upper level administration folks were terrified of you. You guys would seize millions of dollars of property, lock all bank accounts, and freeze all assets over trivial amounts of disputed payments which left the victim no chance to defend themselves. Fuck you if you think you did not deserve the hatred you received. You were plain fucking evil. I saw the trail of devastation and shattered lives you guys left behind.
You are wasting a shit ton of money on Terrorism protections...
It is not about terrorism. It is a naked power grab.
We need to simply shut down the NSA altogether, burn their records in effigy, and recall every elected official who ever voted in favor of their activities, or their funding.
Yes, yes, let's beat our swords into plowshares and all go hug under the bright fluffy clouds. Your suggestion is moronic on its face. There absolutely is a need for an agency like the NSA to exist. It desperately needs some hard and fast rules placed on it in regards to its domestic use... I might even go so far to say that it should not be used domestically at all. The world is not a nice place and the NSA is a weapon that makes the world a safer place (for Americans).
I can't help but think you'd be pissing furious if you found out the GCHQ had recorded all of your conversations for the last few years, and would be first to whine about the illegality of it all. And at how hard I'll laugh when it turns out to be true.
As long as they are not sharing that data back with the NSA, why would he care at all that GCHQ is recording his conversations? Sure, it is a bit creepy and demented but it is not a problem.
GCHQ can spy on me all they want. So can the NKVD and all the other party people. Just. Not. The. NSA.
I discovered Iron Maiden when Number of the Beast was delivered. I still think Killers is their best album ever. Don't get me wrong, I wore Piece of Mind and Powerslave out, but Killers. Just wow.
Free Eddy!
Don't forget about Dave Mustaine (of Megadeth fame). He cowrote many of the songs on Kill 'em All and Ride the Lightning. Cliff and Dave were the real skill there.
It is a shame Dave was such a jackass in his younger years. *sigh*
He carried â 30,000 in a plastic bag with him, and could not provide immediate proof for the money's origin. He was arrested.
*sigh* There goes another fine country down the authoritarian rabbit hole. I guess I will not be visiting Amsterdam again.
It makes me terribly sad. All of the Dutch people that I have met seemed so incredibly warm and friendly.
There is a much cheaper way to do this... and it is much more pleasant. Drive 100 miles into the mountains on a mostly windless day and sit in a nice meadow. You can hear the blood pumping in your veins after your vehicle stops cooling off (it makes very loud noises when cooling). Or you could walk a few miles from your vehicle...
It is amazing at how silent Colorado is. Deafened by my own heart beat.
Hm. Less than 1% of my internet traffic is web browsing. A very sizable chunk (random number) 40% is very latency sensitive.
Why would I want to participate in this? It would make 40% of my internet traffic utterly useless and would be pointless for 99% of my traffic.
What a sad experience. Your userid says you are not a hyperactive kid so I am unsure why you could not immerse yourself into the game. Perhaps you should smoke a bit of weed to slow you down? If it were as bad as you seem to have experienced, then there would not be so many millions of people who deeply enjoyed it.
Better luck next time. Perhaps you should play Team Fortress 2? It seems more suited to your attention span.
That must be the most ill-conceived post I've seen in
That is because you misinterpreted it.
A murder is something done to someone else. A rape is something done to someone else. Having a weapon is a completely different property. Once could argue that a speech is something you could do to someone else... so that may not be entirely different.
Regardless, his point is valid: The right to self defense is clearly "inalienable" despite all efforts to make it so. You can argue that being armed enables rape but nowhere did anyone claim that doing something to anyone else (other than self defense) is an inalienable right.
Perhaps your blinders are on too tightly?
The man did not want his works to be published at this time.
Which makes this an actual theft, not merely a copyright violation. It is a shame that if the person gets caught, they will get a harsher penalty for the stupid copyright violation than the actual theft.
Hardly no one looks for examples of harm from non-GMO corn either.
Very insightful. How will we have any hope of a baseline if do not measure it?
the difference is some is engineered with selective breeding and hybridization
We have thousands of years of experience that this is safe. It may not be safe, but thousands of years is a very persuasive argument.
and the other by resequencing.
We have no reason to believe this is safe or unsafe. It is not something that can happen without direct genetic manipulation. It is easy to conceive of intentionally making a genetically modified organism that could kill off an entire species. IIRC, there are people who are actually doing this or have done it in the past.
The begs the question (am I using that right?), could a hostile organism be created by accident? If one is created by accident, how would we find out about it? What are the methods put in place to stop it?
Please recall that we have thousands of years of experience in one kind of genetic manipulation and perhaps 50 years of another kind. While they both deserve scrutiny, which one deserves the greater amount?
The only reason we pay attention to the latter is there's a contingent of motivated believers who think that "natural" food contains Maggi Health Fairies, and that Big Science and Corporations kill the fairies by Playing God(!!1!@1!).
How do you expect to have a rational conversation when you are spewing such garbage? I understand your frustration with people stuck in their beliefs but to characterize all opinions different than yours as being of that type of belief is worse than useless and pretty much ends the conversation. At which point, the ignorant people who yell the loudest will win. Enjoy.
Every time we send food aid to some poor African or central American country, the local farmers get no money for the little food they produce and the local market is ruined, stopping local production of food instead of encouraging it.
If the local farmers were producing enough food, then why would we be sending aid? If they are not producing enough food, then the aid is stopping them from gouging starving people. I fail to see the real problem here.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.