What a fucking cop out. You should be ashamed to even float that line.

Come to think of it, there have been some very peculiar incidents recently.

Supreme court justices changing their mind about which way to vote.

The head of the CIA and other officers resigning because of affairs where the government admits reading their personal email without a warrant.

Journalists being spied on.

Fuck, they caught Elliott Spitzer with that call girl and then couldn't explain how they stumbled on him....

Are you sure none of these incidents involved the illegal spying? The eye of Sauron stings a bit when it focuses on you doesn't it?

The purpose of gathering this information is to investigate and determine innocence or guilt only for the crime in question. Once innocence or guilt has been determined, you still need to keep the data for appeals. Once the appeals are over, should all of the evidence become public record (assuming it was introduced into evidence in court)?

What's objectionable to me is that the police gathers your biometric data for the purpose of investigating one crime and then says fuck it we're going to use it however we damn well want. Even if you were innocent, even if it was never introduced into evidence, even if the evidence was exculpatory.

That's like going to work for a company and receiving trade secrets, then when the job is over you tell them: 'fuck you I'll use these trade secrets however I want now'.

They get the jokes if you stop and explain the jokes to them.

Comparing Global Warming to Racism is already dumb. Equating the two is going Full Retard mode.

Maybe you should know that the big banks who do HFT also co-locate inside the exchanges and front run orders making hundreds of billions per year.

Also, you might want to know that if the market crashes and restarts like today the big banks can get their losing trades reversed and you can't.

All the profit they're making has to come from somewhere. Are you so certain it doesn't come out of your pocket?

Step two will be to charge income tax if your bitcoins appreciate in value. Then other types of taxes. They will give it the same treatment as they give precious metals, just so there's no doubt that in their eyes FIAT money is the only money and the rest will be subject to additional taxation to discourage use as money.

If they removed the taxes on gold and silver, the dollar would collapse within a year.

Is it like the galaxy nexus, I can do anything I want with it, or is it like most other phones: Locked and useless?

To be fair.. It's not hard to find unflattering photos of people with fanny packs, bluetooth earlobes or geeky google glasses.
Just saying. If they had been flattering photos, it would have to have been some kind of astroturf.

As some wise men once said

VPN logs are data.

Oh Freudian slips how I love thee.. .