[I've taken the liberty of reflowing your text and eliminating your extraneous spaces preceding terminal punctuation, in order to improve both cohesion and my ability to reply.]
Whether we vote Republicans or for Democrats, we vote for the same fucking system. "Vote for somebody else then," you say. Who? Third party? Libertarians?
Yes — absolutely I say vote "vote for third parties" (especially to voters in "safe" states (i.e., non-swing states)). I also say "vote your conscience," "voting for 'lesser' evil is still voting for evil," "third parties need your vote — some D/R candidates don't even want you to vote," and "voting for a third party isn't 'wasting your vote; voting D/R (especially in a "safe" state) is wasting your vote."
The third parties are one of our best shots for restoring liberty, and they deserve the support of everyone who values the liberties that the authoritarian D/R Corporate Party has sacrificed on the altars of control, security theater, and corruption. (I usually recommend that people on the left vote Green, and people on the right vote Libertarian — both parties' anti-authoritarian platforms emphasize the restoration of civil liberties. It's a recommendation I encourage others to espouse if they like, as it conceals no left/right agenda.)
I *AM* a libertarian, but even me know that the "Libertarian party" is worse than a fucking joke.
I'm a left/socialist-libertarian, and I disagree. The Libertarian Party's last presidential candidate — Gary Johnson — was an excellent choice for them; a completely sane, former two-term governor of New Mexico. As a left-libertarian, I was in agreement with nearly all of his social and foreign policy positions.
Every single day the system fill us with nonsensical topics such as "abortion", "welfare abuses", "prayer in the school" and so on, so to occupy our attention. So we have the line drawn in between the people along the line of "Pro Life" vs "Pro Choice", and people having protests over "Gay Parade" (on both sides), and so what? I mean, those are the devices that the fucking system used to divert attention AWAY from the hundreds of millions of morons living in America anyway.
I congratulate you for your unusual recognition of this for what it is (a distraction) — but it also illustrate the vast majority of issues on which the D/R factions of The Corporate Party are in agreement, as well as serving as divisive mechanism of control of the populace, via "divide & conquer" and by dissuading us from uniting against the government or their draconian policies. This strategy failed recently, in a wonderful coming-together between left and right for the "Restore the Fourth" rally in DC to oppose mass-surveillance. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a trend that will continue all the way to the voting booths in 2016.
... or, more likely, anyone who holds a differing political view can be labelled as a dissenter.
So you say iMessage? I would not be the least bit surprised if NSA had access to that, too.
This is probably the reason iMessage/iChat doesn't support third-party encryption tools like OTR. Apple used to offer encryption for the mac.com subscribers, but I believe that has since been removed.
Apple isn't alone on this, anything made by Microsoft is suspected of having a backdoor.
I think many people have, throughout the history of civilization, gotten that impression, yes.
And, one imagines, most especially when their particular civilisations were in decline. Not that we would know what that feels like.
I've been force-seeding this PBS Frontline: "Two American Families" episode since the day it aired.
(I also indefinitely force-seed some other Frontline episodes: one on domestic surveillance ("Spying on the Home Front;"") bullshit forensic pseudoscience (accepted in most US courts as incontrovertible truth) and its life/family-shattering consequences ("The Real CSI;" and the counterproductive "War on Drugs" and its life/family-shattering consequences ("The House I Live In" (Independent Lens; not Frontline.)
(Going further off-topic, I also indefinitely seed torrents for which I've become the sole-seeded, as I feel a responsibility to maintain stewardship — to delete them would be tantamount to burning the last copy of a book extant in only one library.)
The torrent is one file, and the video is 720p, x264/AAC MP4, 1.64GB. The hash is: 8AA420C27E1829A762DBBB6FA72898587AE2FE71
To Jer: Sorry for "flame-baiting" you (in "public," if you will,) on your apparent inability/unwillingness to post replies that have fuck-all to do with the parent's comment. To no avail, I thought I might coax you into providing an explanation for this consistent and extremely irritating habit of yours. Oddly, you seem to be able to reply contextually in JEs, just not under stories. Is this practice of yours meant to annoy only the parent poster with irrelevant "Reply to [post] by Jeremiah Cornelius" messages, or meant to annoy everyone, or what? You must have some explanation — why not share it? Maybe everyone could reap the benefit(s) you do from posting "replies" to arbitrarily-selected posts.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer