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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Jun 19, 2013, 20:30 |
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Don't forget the company executives made aware would have been committing felonies by even mentioning those orders and most likely similar charges as Snowden is facing for his making knowledge of these programs public.
I mean, they are giving that 60ish guy who was growing pot for his wife's illness 10 years. The Steubenville rapists got 2 years while the person who made it public that officials were going to drop the charges because the rapists happened to be top pick football prospects is up for 10 years. The US is holding publicly acknowledged innocent people prisoner on foreign land because... I don't rightly know. Same country.
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Jun 15, 2013, 23:20 |
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| Not even a peep about the government having the ability to turn off cell phone communications of people even after what is going on with the NSA? |
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| News Comments > Saturday Safety Dance |
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Re: Saturday Safety Dance |
Jun 8, 2013, 17:27 |
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Some interesting facts to note:
Twitter isn't listed in any of the submitted materials as a cooperative entity.
By law, all these companies cannot acknowledge this program in any way.
All the companies have an existing immunity from the earlier Telecom amendment regarding the TIA (Total Information Awareness) scandal.
TIA as a program was abolished, but the Senate Intelligence Committee kept the policies and gave them legal cover.
Only the Senate Intelligence Committee (a fraction of the Senate and Congress) were aware of the details of the recently revealed programs.
This is being treated as a federal leak investigation when it previously would have be considered in the area of whistle-blowing.
This administration has prosecuted more "leaks" than all previous Presidential administrations combined.
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Re: Anonymous |
Mar 1, 2013, 22:41 |
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| What a massively ignorant grasp of the situation. Did you even read the full title of the link above? Because it's glaringly apparent you certainly didn't read the article it link to. |
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| News Comments > Sunday Safety Dance |
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Re: Sunday Safety Dance |
Feb 12, 2013, 01:14 |
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RollinThundr wrote on Feb 11, 2013, 13:51:
Jdreyer, you seem like a pretty rational guy, why for the love of god would you prefer a party that wants to turn the US into a 3rd world shithole of socialism and make everyone overly reliant on government while bankrupting us in the process? aka see Greece.
I guess you aren't too big on data or facts. When Republicans held the presidency and had control of congress, rights of citizens were lessened and rights of corporations expanded while deficits and spending went off the charts. Under Democratic presidencies and congressional control the deficits have either been, recently, dramatically lessened or produced the staggering effect of a surplus of funds.
I would suggest you dial back on the FOX News agitprops.
As for the most ludicrous 'turn US into Greece' meme certain ideologues try to mainstream (see, proper use of quotes!), I am not sure anyone with a minor grasp of economics other than those of Strauss would even bother listening to it. As a matter of fact, doing what conservatives currently suggest would take the US economy on a fast track towards what Greece IS rather than growing the overall economy.
If you want to see how austerity cannot only stop but damage an economy's recovery, all you need do is look at what is happening to European nations that decided to stop investing in their commonwealths and cut, cut, cut. I feel sorry for England- talk about shooting yourself in the face- err foot. A country with no debt, a world leading currency rate, bodies jumping to lend money at next to zero interest, and rather than invest and stimulate their economy they cut hard.
Or you can learn from history, back when Roosevelt listened to Republicans in 1937 in the recovery from the Great Depression where he decided to acquiesce to austerity measures, greatly stunting what was record breaking growth until removing them.
Boom goes the dynamite.
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| News Comments > Sunday Tech Bits |
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Re: Sunday Tech Bits |
Jan 28, 2013, 09:56 |
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This may come as a shock, but there are more *nix based operating systems on devices than Windows- by a long shot. Between Apple shit and Android, Windows is a distant third today.
The development of software compatible with the *nix's has mushroomed thanks to gaming on tablets and phones and the streaming of movies and music, the need for apps. The strong points of linux really allowed it to take off with smart phones. Small, efficient, reliable, open source. Hell, my universal remote is linux based~ |
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Jan 25, 2013, 02:25 |
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Let's not focus on his father being a violent gangbanger who found religion and made it obsession for living, yet still kept assault weapons and large quantities of ammunition easily accessible.
Yeah, religion never killed anyone. Neither did gang culture.
I bet the kid also played Mario Kart. Fucking psycho. |
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Jan 16, 2013, 22:42 |
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JoeNapalm wrote on Jan 16, 2013, 12:21:
I can't help but notice that no one mentions that Swartz could have plead out - six months at Club Fed Minimum Security - or that he had struggled with depression and thoughts of suicide for years.
Federal sentencing guidelines are based on the amount of damages - he compromised ("hacked") systems and stole millions of pages of documents that, at the time, were not free.
While I commend the guy's activism and agree his death is sad, he went too far, he broke the law, he was facing REASONABLE consequences for those actions. If he refused to cut a deal and wanted to roll the dice in court, then yes - he was risking a huge sentence.
You can't plead "NOT GUILTY" and expect to get off just because you don't agree with the law. I don't like to drive slow, but that won't get me out of trouble if I drive 200mph through a school zone. He never contested the fact that he DID the criminal acts - if he disagreed on principle, cut a deal for "No Contest" - don't plead "Not Guilty" then off yourself because you're being prosecuted for crimes you actually committed.
But as the old saying goes - if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist
You are incorrect on the prosecution's actions. The charges deviated widely from the standard and expected charges, which would normally be misdemeanors. Hence the speed at which the whole thing was dropped in the hopes to make it disappear as quickly as possible. You may also want to double check the actual estimation of the alleged damages.
No dog in this one, but still needs to be sorted out properly. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Jan 16, 2013, 22:12 |
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Yosemite Sam wrote on Jan 16, 2013, 16:19:
Society mirroring media mirroring society.
Sure glad Biden is the VP, had Mrs Clinton been in that position it would have been very bad for us gamers. Shes another one of those who care little for facts and are more concerned with which way the wind blows.
I have to agree with that. Voting and supporting the Iraq invasion then turning around and condemning it for an election primary is fairly blatant.
Forbes put out a decent and relatively fair opinion piece. Kudos.
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Jan 15, 2013, 19:14 |
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Yeah, because you know, Biden has been way extreme all his life, what with his "Eat babies" campaign.
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Look at the charges against Aaron Swartz for what the actual actions were. The reason the charges are being posthumously dropped because they know it was a gigantic overreach and they were just going for a show-trial for both lobbyists and the public. Prosecutors, lobbyists and certain politicians want this to go away, quickly.
To this day, no one has been prosecuted for crashing the world economy with bad debt and mortgage trading schemes. Most of the actors involved are multi-billion dollar corporations.
A guy making a political statement with little to no access to resources gets 13 felony charges (some completely irrelevant to his actual actions) against him for what is traditionally misdemeanor offenses. |
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Re: etc., etc. |
Jan 11, 2013, 22:56 |
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Sorry, but weapons manufacturers have better funded lobbyists.
Also, turning on a power switch =/= parenting. Allowing any stimuli to a developing mind without proper oversight and context is completely irresponsible.
Not as irresponsible as allowing the purchase of firearms without a background check while on a terror watch list, however. |
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| News Comments > Steam Hardware |
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Re: Steam Hardware |
Jan 8, 2013, 13:48 |
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Far be it from me to interrupt someone's self-delusional 'only I have vision' rant, but battery technology is nowhere near able to support casual gaming much less what regularly runs on current generation consoles and PCs. And pretty much, no one is going to want to tone down their "WOW" factor. I'm not even going to ponder the time and costs it would take to further miniaturize processor fabrication to come close to the amount of horsepower needed to run the most popular games.
Even with the possibility of the nascent low-latency bluetooth compression routines, there will still be way too much lag time streaming video and sound to external devices. It simply is not conducive to multiplayer gaming and there is only the faintest hint of a promise of seeing something within the next two decades.
I'm not knocking people that like "Angry Birds", but that's not exactly what most gamers hold as the standard of gaming, but it is close to the pinnacle of what is achievable today and the foreseeable future. |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Oct 18, 2012, 22:27 |
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I happen to like liberty- I guess that snide and dismissive comment also applies to me.
Fox isn't news, as their successful court strategy points out; they are an entertainment company. Seriously, that is the farthest thing from conservative news you could have pointed to. It's a sycophant's protective alternate reality.
Newsbeast has been dragged right-wards since Tina Brown bought it, but more and more it's just a fluff rag. When Newsweek was originally sold, the talent all bailed and there really isn't much there resembling critical journalism.
Really, going after Rachel Maddow? The only damn person who provides facts, data, and if she does make a mistake actually corrects it, prominently, on her show- that's who you just insinuated is a "commie"? Why, because she just happens to be gay and would like the same rights afforded her family as any other citizen of her country? Or is it because she actually gives a shit about people above economic principles? |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Apr 30, 2012, 15:14 |
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| You figure the average HD streamed flick is around 3~gb or roughly 2~gb per hour. My great niece constantly streams Nickelodeon toons and shows at 350-500mb SD a pop. Add in gaming, patches, misc file downloads along with everyday email and a browsing and you hit that cap well within a month, especially if you've cut the cord and supplement OTA with streaming with devices like Roku. |
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| News Comments > BioWare Explains Mass Effect 3 Day One DLC |
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Re: BioWare Explains Mass Effect 3 Day One DLC |
Feb 24, 2012, 16:47 |
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To put this into perspective, it's like buying the Blu-Ray of "Jurassic Park" for $14.99 and finding out the scenes with T-Rex are not included. You still get the main story, arrogance of man, nature will find a way, growing as a person, traversing a dangerous island. However, you can buy those T-Rex scenes for an additional $9.99 through an online purchase! After all, it's just an added character- bonus content!
We all know, "Jurassic Park" -is- fucking T-Rex, right? Just like the only reason Shepard is anything but some other faceless military character is because he was zapped by a Prothean artifact and the entire world they live in is affected by Prothean technology and culture and their main enemies just happen to be genetically modified Protheans. Arooo?
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