FellowTraveler

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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Just a reminder that the IRS will be enforcing Obamacare, and it's already in the news that the IRS was secretly using NSA data. It would be the height of naiveté to believe the information wouldn't end up being abused. It's
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
If competition is not forcibly prevented by law, that is commendable (unfortunately there are all kinds of such preventions in the USA.) However I'm willing to bet that the people who are actually paying for the system would face threa
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Well in the USA they forcibly prevent competition, in order to drive the population towards eventually accepting a single payer system.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
> or have single payer How could we "have single payer" without the threat of violence? A doctor would normally be free to treat whoever he wants, and patients would be free to choose any doctor they want, and any insurance com
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
It would be the ultimate in naiveté to believe that NSA data, already used by IRS and DEA, will not end up being used by Obamacare, in addition to any other government agency where they deem it useful. Don't be a fool. In fact the IRS
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
But I thought NSA data was only used for counter-terrorism efforts? Turns out, that's bullshit. It's used by DEA, it's used by IRS -- soon it will be used by Obamacare.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Apple disallows Bitcoin. Android has secret "Master Keys." Google and Facebook monitor my entire online life. And I'm supposed to use my phone as my wallet, too?
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Obama also assured us that he would protect whistleblowers: "Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
This has nothing to do with porn. Porn is just a good justification for getting a "Great Firewall of China" system implemented in the UK.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
They want us to be transparent. They just don't want to be transparent themselves.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Many leaks are authorized. The White House leaks all the time.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
If you want to get an education, and you are a self-starter, then I recommend search engines and Wikipedia. Universities were invented in the middle ages before the Internet existed.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
The whole purpose of Skype is eavesdropping.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
http://sourcefednews.com/xbox-one-is-watching-you/
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
You're right: Sony, ThinkPad, and Nokia are therefore also systems of slavery. How hard can it be to manufacture a product with an off-switch?
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Do you ever notice that your Mac's camera and microphone do not have a physical off-switch? Just like 1984.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
I've already lost all faith in Google. I recommend Spider Oak as a replacement for Google Drive. Also, don't forget Bittorrent Sync.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
What do you want to bet these data protection laws will do a better job of protecting authorities, than they will "protecting" users?
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Austin is a cool town, but the property taxes are between 2 and 3% (per year.) That means if you buy a normal house worth about $400K, you will pay an additional 11K per year in property tax, which is a little less than a grand per month. H
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Just wanted to point out that banning guns will increase the number of gun deaths, and legalizing guns will decrease the number of gun deaths. http://orlingrabbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wpid-Ayj53.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Get him under contract.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Dead voters.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
three words: the income tax.
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
Spider Oak? Bittorrent Sync?
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
There's always this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=212490.0
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
As long as they didn't EVADE taxes, it's perfectly legal. (And in keeping with their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders.)
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki
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by FellowTraveler 13y ago
The reason credit cards are less secure, is because there is no need for them to be secure. Anytime something goes wrong, there is a staff of people, paid for by those high credit card merchant fees, able to reverse any transaction. Since t
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by FellowTraveler 14y ago
If you need to hire 2 people, and you have 200 resumes, the first thing you do is throw out all the ones with misspellings and without a degree. Other than that, the degree isn't that important, compared to the skill-set and work history. T

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