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Comment Re:Yikes! (Score 3, Informative) 61

lion food: [IBM] n. Middle management or HQ staff (by extension, administrative drones in general).
From an old joke about two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agreed to meet after two months.
When they do meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me --- guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass."
The fat one replies "Well, *I* hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!"

Comment Re: If you walk up to my door (Score 1) 106

You have no expectation of privacy on my property ...

Don't tell me what I expect.

I think you mean to say I have no legal expectation of privacy on your property. Unfortunately, too many people equate legality with morality. "If there's no law banning it, it must be ok."

I do expect some measure of privacy, even walking down the street or approaching your door. Whether I get that, or whether it's legally enforced, is often different from my expectations, unfortunately.

The public ultimately writes the laws we live under, so privacy laws could be changed if we only had the will, but there are plenty of other things we need to get in order first.

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