A 'dark net' is very easy to shutdown. If a protocol is not white listed by the authorities, any packets that are using it will be dropped. Until the internet becomes peer to peer over a mesh network, there is no hope.

No, the government censors.

That's because the government is following orders, and orders are orders. We have let the corporation become the legislative branch of the government. The government itself just supplies the muscle, the 'button men'..

It's the way of the world. Without big money behind the opposition these laws will steamroll right through.

This it?

Might have been a dupe of this and was deleted..

If you don't like it, consider the alternative. The system craves fresh meat/blood. So what?

Now people, on the other hand, are damned hard to program, as any parent or teacher can attest to.

Advertisers and propagandists would beg to differ, and they would be correct in telling the parents and teachers that they're just doing it wrong.

Well, they really didn't rule. They just refused to hear the case. I would have preferred they actually stated outright that we have the right to film the cops so as to invalidated all the state laws against it.

You all are being so conned. Wall Street has never been so well off, and we are the ones that are supposed to sacrifice and give even more money to them.

I'll grant you your post war prosperity bit (maybe that's a big reason for the wars we engage in now, and we are busting the EU's balls. Only this time we're getting some competition from Russia and China), but you should note how the rules changed in the 70s and 80s that completely debased our currency and let the banks gamble it all away, and that's in addition to giving tax breaks to those who move our work force offshore. This whole thing is no coincidence.

I wonder what the French candidates had to say about Israel and the Arabs?

When it comes to the middle east, the only real concern is arms sales. For instance, in Syria, the FSA (or whatever they're called now) will prove to be a better customer than Assad, who is buying from the Russians. Publicly, everybody in NATO has to say Israel is the good guy if they don't want Hillary to give them "the look"

You know, when you're sick, you can feel mighty lonely. Maybe he just wants to read something directed to him. Even if he doesn't doesn't get better, the quality of his remaining time might still be a little bit better for it. IOW, don't harsh his high for whatever that's worth. Dig?

You people just aren't getting it. This was no "accident". It was entirely intentional, and you're letting it happen. God forbid you admit to be taken for a bunch of chumps.

Jesus! That Wall Street jizz tastes mighty good, doesn't it? Those 'entitlements' were fully funded before the banks robbed them blind to finance their stock market fraud. Restore the Pre-Reagan tax rates and make the Federal Reserve stop subsidizing the derivatives markets. Eliminate the social security tax cap. Tell big business to use domestic labor, or lose their corporate charters and tax give-a-ways. Ending the wars is a gimme. Abolish prohibition. These are just some of the ways to put an end to this nonsense.

...the primary cause of our budget woes is Medicare/Medicaid and to a lesser extent Social Security.

Yes, it would seem that way when you use Hollywood accounting methods. The CBO is not non-partisan. It is bi-partisan. It conforms to how both parties want to to steal our pensions. What they want to call entitlements is much more correctly labeled earned benefits. And that money was outright stolen from underneath our noses. Put the tax rates back to what we had in the 50s, bring our work force AND our troops back home, and watch the shortfalls evaporate. We are being robbed in broad daylight, and when mass media screams, "Hey! Look over there!", we fall for it every time.

But they get their own 'facebook/twitter' page. A first step to mandatory black boxes. Aren't you excited? They'll "dance to anything"..