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by SCAQTony 13y ago
If they did that in America 50% of the population would quit working and prices would quickly shoot up to MARS! Less workers, higher wages, more money in circulation... What an inflationary mess that would be.
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I was just going to quote the same paragraph - the Silk Road was a distribution center of drugs and mayhem. It's an oxymoron to say that people want to do business anonymously. The majority of legal businesses want to be well known and
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
Let's presume it is all true. Gizmag quoted a study that 15-container ships (just 15) dole out the same amount of pollution as 760-million cars. (I shit you not): http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526&#x2F
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
A space station is a bad investment for any country. The annual cost of the ISS is $3-billion-year. It will cost an additional 24-billion for the next 6-years to keep it up The total budget cost of the Kepler Spacecraft was $0.6-billion and
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
Why run when collectively we can encourage our politicians to do the right thing?
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
"...If at this point, Putin sounds reasonable and is starting to look like the better of two devils, we're in deep shit...." Well, at this point with the NSA scandals, this Syrian civil, I am convince that Putin is the reason
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
The only way out of this climate problem is going to be a technological solution. I wish environmentalist and politicians would acknowledge this. It could be a unifying threat but noooooo, they like the smell of money especially when it com
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
We should shove our NSA rejection letters (mine was signed LOL) in their faces and make them give us our box loads of data along with out analytics scores.
729.
by SCAQTony 13y ago
Oh GOD, you're right. Maybe it is all readying happening?
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
This paragraph sickened me on so many levels: "...An acquaintance in the biz once bribed a Facebook employee whose job it was to approve or deny ads on the platform. His inside man set his account to auto approve any ad he wanted. ...&
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
MIT obviously is conducting it's affairs like a business. Therefore, asking MIT to do the "soul searching" they promised is like asking Dow Chemical* to do so some "soul searching" searching after the the Bhopal che
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
Respectfully, I don't believe the momentum angle; I believe in the tipping point premise whereas Snowden became the human face for this continuing failure of the republic. It's my belief that skilled politicians equate the Edward
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I think the most minimalistic, food, product execution that has proven to sustain life, pass on immunities and provide superior nutrition is breast milk. Of course we can't attach "vacuum suckers" to lactating women but the &
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I live in "Lost Angeles" and former police chief Bill Bratton took credit for any statistic he could. It's my belief that the reason for crime reduction here in L.A. is that the standard of living has gone up via social servi
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I have to agree. Shakespeare: "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come...?" Or as brilliantly stated by XKCD, you end up going back into the "Lego box" http://xkcd.com/659/ To define what su
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
...or they will pass it only so they can look both fabulous and honest but a signing statement or a secret executive order from the executive branch will declare that it won't be enforced.
737.
by SCAQTony 13y ago
...because PRISM is not about protecting Americans it is about protecting politicians and rich people. Sound simplistic but Empires fall abruptly and their arc downward is not like a rainbow - it's a car crash off a cliff: Harvard prof
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I was very impressed - I would have added no reversed-out type, or white type on a black background, if the text exceeds more than 12-words
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
No, let's not place their stated motives aside and presume their premise is simply misguided. Their premise is full bologna and a palpable excuse for the uneducated. From the article: "...But if their purpose is to protect us, wh
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
That is why it is always college students who take the chances; (see student protests of the 1960s and the Tiananmen Square protests in the late 1980s), like all young people they think they are immortal and they don't have any tangibl
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I read it this way: "we are asserting our 5th amendment right to neither confirm or deny we violated your 4th and 5th amendment rights so you can't sue us and have some uppity judge make us follow the law."
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
This is what we have come too: Protection money to Congress reps and Senators. Pay us and we will serve you.
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
The NSA, CIA and FBI would game that petition. I think the phrase is "Manufactured Consent."
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
In a way that is good indicator that they are beginning to worry their timing so as limit the political damage from the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
You nailed it: they could start out by taking out some child pornographers, money launderers, corrupt congressmen, senators, judges and mayors. Then move on to Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, members of the press, uppity hackers like
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
Obama, The NSA and the usual internet suspects: Google, Yahoo, Facebook are getting their asses kicked. This man is the Thomas Paine of our day: "Give me liberty or give me death."
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
Thank you for posting that. The more refusals the White House is forced to dols out, the more it illustrates what a "dog and pony show" show this administration is. If the petition gets as many as 200,000 or 300,000 signatures whi
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
Perhaps Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH)? As a CIA director I bet he was in a position to influence the outsourcing of duties to private companies. It would not surprise me if he at one time chose BAH for some particular project and now it is tim
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I agree. I am hearing and seeing that too in regards to all the "actors in this play" Mr. Snowden is getting slammed for only having a GED and for once working as a security guard and now this former prosecutor is getting slammed
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by SCAQTony 13y ago
I read the first page of the lawsuit, determined it looked liked a valid filing and when I Googled Larry Elliot I learned that he is known as the founder and the former chairman of Judicial Watch, a public interest and non-profit law firm,

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