LLWM

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by LLWM 11y ago
Not really. It's one of the things he is most famous for. Even people who otherwise have no idea who RMS is have often seen the "I'd just like to interject for a moment" copypasta.
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by LLWM 11y ago
By the same reasoning, criminals literally pay the police to lock them up or shoot at them. Isn't that crazy????? No, that's how taxes work. You don't get to pick and choose which government functions to pay for.
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by LLWM 11y ago
That only works if society has the nerve to actually trap people in poverty and restrict them socially when they don't get education or skills. That idea is politically unpopular with a lot of people.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Why can't you say the law? Seems like you're assuming that everyone disagrees with what the NSA has been doing, which is totally off base.
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by LLWM 11y ago
A great recipe for tyranny.
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by LLWM 11y ago
It doesn't matter how he is judged, he will be pardoned.
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by LLWM 11y ago
He can return anytime, as long as he doesn't mind facing trial for the crimes he has committed.
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by LLWM 11y ago
That is a matter of law, not thinking. We have specific laws in cases where you can expect that information you disclose to others should be kept secret. Attorney-client privilege, HIPAA, etc. That alone should tip you off that types of com
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by LLWM 11y ago
That's okay. I am.
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by LLWM 11y ago
But commenting here is OK?
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by LLWM 11y ago
It's presumably the job of the BND to collect information about threats to Germany. If they've determined that the most effective way for them to achieve that is to submit to the NSA completely and beg for whatever scraps USA is w
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by LLWM 11y ago
Tommy Lee Jones has to pay the bills somehow.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Because a lot of people are desperate to rationalize not being employed there.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Talking as if "face" and individualism are opposites simply proves that you have no understanding of one or both of those concepts.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Sure there is, as you've just demonstrated. Compulsory sterilization is one of many ways to implement eugenics, and the fact that it is so closely associated with the general concept is the cultural meme TeMPOraL was referring to. Othe
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by LLWM 11y ago
That's a bit patronizing. Of course it is true that most people who support surveillance don't understand what's happening, but only because most people in general don't understand what's happening. Plenty of us und
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by LLWM 11y ago
Most normal users.
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by LLWM 11y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they embrace you, then they extend you, then they extinguish you.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Nobody is going to stop one trusting of the huge CAs like DigiCert or Verisign over something like that. It'd be like deciding you're not going to use Windows because there is a bug in it - you're too dependent on it to give
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by LLWM 11y ago
How can that be made any more clear than it already is? Pretty much all software a typical consumer ever uses works this way.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Why do people develop software? Your employer, assuming WFH, owns the software you write. Microsoft owns Visual Studio. Amazon owns the AWS servers.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Just because you want an option doesn't mean you should get it. Sometimes (most of the time) what this weirdo wants is completely unreasonable. For example, how is a cell phone going to contact a tower without giving away its location,
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by LLWM 11y ago
What happened to australopithicus? You'll be free to starve with a meat-based brain as everyone with implants outcompetes you at everything if you'd prefer.
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by LLWM 11y ago
>the Chinese engage in cyber-espionage operations against their "peaceful" trading partners Thankfully, the US and other "good" countries are above such things.
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by LLWM 11y ago
That's why 10 year olds are not allowed to enter into contracts with 30 year olds.
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by LLWM 11y ago
Or the simpler explanation is true - most of them didn't bother to vote because they don't give a shit.
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by LLWM 11y ago
>something engineering designed to be end-to-end encrypted? Is that seriously what you believe?
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by LLWM 11y ago
It has nothing to do with that. It's obvious this company is privately owned by him and possibly his brother.
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by LLWM 11y ago
It's definitely much _less_ meaningful for a multinational company than for one where all its workers live in the same city.
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by LLWM 11y ago
It's not about what position you personally are more likely to end up in. It's about the incentives it creates.

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