Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
I think at least part of the problem stems from society's expectations of the "role" of men in relationships. Right or wrong, men are still largely expected to be pursuers but the rules are not well defined - often different
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by Amadou 13y ago
If I am reading that right you are saying that justice is defined by laws - rather than the law being derived from justice.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You keep assuming the initial point as a given, that is pretty much the definition of faith - belief that can't be or isn't proven.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is not ultra-paranoid. The government's own rules regarding cell-phones in certain highly classified areas (SCIFs) require that they be left outside precisely because you can't guarantee that off means off.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't remember where I first saw it, but it is mentioned on this list of NSA word redefinitions that the EFF is keeping track of: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames
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by Amadou 13y ago
Not for cookies it ain't.
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by Amadou 13y ago
That is a terribly user-unfriendly design decision because it does not distinguish between failure modes. Maybe your site is broken because I am running noscript or maybe it broken because it is mis-configured or recently hacked or my ISP&
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by Amadou 13y ago
Have you tried taking one out to the car and shining it up on the windshield during the day? Without any special windshield coatings you'll get a double-image, but at least you can get an idea of how visible and focused it would be un
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think it says a lot that the defense of these programs relies on what amounts to the redefinition of words, sometimes redefinitions with practically the opposite meaning - like how "collect" has been changed to mean access alrea
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm sorry but locking two people in a room really has nothing to do with the way the vast majority of people live their lives. You are again assuming the initial point and working backwards from that belief. It seems pretty clear thi
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by Amadou 13y ago
> Introducing drugs into this method will shifts the balance to the less optimal side of the reward-effort continuum. There is absolutely no basis of support for that in your argument. I think you can reasonably make the argument that u
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by Amadou 13y ago
Has anybody experimented with a pico projector? I've been thinking that a HUD would be a fantastic application since some (most?) pico's have infinite focus. Some of the newer ones are pretty bright too - especially if you only
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by Amadou 13y ago
That third option could be that they had a second source confirming things while the article was in process but that source was ruled out (either reversed themselves or was found to be making stuff up) and the editors made a bad last minute
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sounds like an argument for single-payer public education, which is mostly what we had back up through the 70s.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It would be nice if all these disclosures resulted in Eben Moglen's "Freedom Box" project getting a boost: https://freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't know where you got "allusions to shadowy conspiracies that kill people" from. I posted (a) a story about a reporter being very publicly persecuted for investigative reporting unfriendly to the government status quo a
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by Amadou 13y ago
This is what happens when you don't parrot the government lies (from a previous HN article): http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett... The espionage-industrial complex is on the order o
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by Amadou 13y ago
Ever since the publication of the NSA leaks I've been wondering if any of the NSA intel has been used to disrupt Occupy. With the well established lack of actual terrorists, it doesn't take much to imagine a bit of scope creep &
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by Amadou 13y ago
I should hope not. If the NYPD has been federalized then there are a whole lot of other problems. Although, given how the NYPD has been sending agents to other states, maybe they THINK they are a federal agency.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Except for the fact that being on the no-fly list means you can't even enter US airspace regardless of your origin and destination and many (most?) flights from Canada still pass through US airspace. Same thing with most Mexican fligh
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by Amadou 13y ago
In the US we have a narrative that we are "the good guys." Foremost that means things like living up to our ideals regarding democracy and human rights. I think polling questions which remind people of those ideals will get resu
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by Amadou 13y ago
I am wondering if you read the Techdirt article. It isn't about what Google, et al do. It is about what the government does. While it is true that the targeted advertising business model which dominates the modern internet greatly
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by Amadou 13y ago
My favorite stasi joke: After the wall came down all the former stasi agents got jobs as taxi drivers - you get in the cab, tell the driver your name, and they already knew the address to take you home.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Everything you wrote is indeed true, the one key point you miss is that while we should plan for dealing with the worst-case scenario that should not stop us from holding our government a higher standard than that worst-case scenario. In fa
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by Amadou 13y ago
You mean like the background checks and audit trails that prevented Snowden from absconding with all those documents? Background checks don't stop people who think they are righteous and audit trails are only as good as (a) the audit p
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by Amadou 13y ago
Since I'm not an anarcho-libertarian type and you clearly are not, I don't think what they might hypothetically say matters all that much.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'd say you have a point when talking about wholesale outsourcing of an entire division to a private contractor. But individuals who report to managers which are government employees are not a consequential risk. Even then it isn&#x27
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by Amadou 13y ago
FWIW, I looked that up and the active lane assist only "steers" by fiddling with the brakes on individual wheels.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Methinks you've spent too much time on facebook. In the dead tree world we don't usually have an "It's Complicated" option for marital status.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not surprised at this turn of events. It is a common accusation that Assange himself created wikileaks as a tool for self-aggrandizement. I think that's mostly just a smear calculated to discredit wikileaks - it is the other

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