I had lunch with Richard Stallman, way back in 1996 through a mutual acquaintance in Harvard Square. He was talking about privacy and how companies were going to have access to realtime data about everything in your life through mobile devices. I thought he was a whiny, paranoid fool, and who cares. The fact is, he was way ahead of his time, and saw things way more clearly than almost anyone else.

I'm going to need a magnifying glass to see the actual article. Are cockroaches running slashdot?

Exactly - I was like 99 cents! I need a new phone. AT&T?? - close tab.

Thank you for quoting FZ. He also says something with regard to the fact that democracy is doomed to fail because the average American does not have the reasoning capability to distinguish between what is true and what is false.

Totally disagree with this. This whole program started with 9/11 and was instituted by the people who supposedly champion smaller government, lower taxes, and no social services.

Obama, the constitutional law professor, also signed NDAA unlimited detention of United States citizens by the military without trial.

I'm not a big Obama fan, but most of the critics of Obama criticize him for the wrong reasons. Newsweek aired a cover article "Why are Obama's Critics so Dumb?", and most of the critics in this forum prove that article's point. They blame him for the economy when he inherited the worst recession in history (that was not a depression). Or they say he should have turned around the economy sooner or that his stimulus didn't work. If you want to criticize Obama, how about doing it for real reasons, like his signing NDAA on New Year's Eve when he should have vetoed it (as a former constitutional law professor), or how trillions escaped from the Federal Reserve in zero percent interest loans to banks, which turned around and reinvested in U.S. treasury bonds, which amounted to our taxes turning their losses into profits. How about criticizing him for being Wall Street's butt boy? Or saying one thing and his justice department doing something different altogether? Or for not closing Guantanamo?