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811.
by beedogs 13y ago
Kinda strange how the most-impoverished states are the ones that vote Republican all the time. It's odd how they've gotten poor voters to act against their own best interests by electing the party most likely to screw them over.
812.
by beedogs 13y ago
Really weird; I just made these last night and the post shows up here today. They're delicious, by the way.
813.
by beedogs 13y ago
There's a difference between hyperbole and sensationalism. And this is a blog , for fuck's sake. They can use whatever tone they want. The people wasting time complaining about "sensationalism" should go back to Reddi
814.
by beedogs 13y ago
Wow, the guy in the comments section of the article just nonstop trolling for Rockstar/Apple is unbelievable.
815.
by beedogs 13y ago
This was basically his stated goal when he started this whole thing: getting the public informed and starting the conversation about how much government intrusion into our private lives is too much.
816.
by beedogs 13y ago
The precedent for this was set in Australia in 1975, and certainly other places before that.
817.
by beedogs 13y ago
An interesting pivot, for sure.
818.
by beedogs 13y ago
Typical ham-fisted conservative/authoritarian approach to something which isn't even a real problem.
819.
by beedogs 13y ago
Judges and juries and awful politicians have been carving out little chunks of those amendments for the past 200 years. There's very little left to chip away.
820.
by beedogs 13y ago
> Why were the police and the criminal justice officials apparently angry with him? Because while he was playing his little game, to "prove" that police profile people and to "prove" that getting arrested and jailed c
821.
by beedogs 13y ago
To be fair, he's Harvard Business. Sort of the meathead division of Harvard, compared to their law school.
822.
by beedogs 13y ago
It would be even nicer if we didn't live in a surveillance-state kleptocracy; then we wouldn't have to worry about a lot of crap like this.
823.
by beedogs 13y ago
> I don't exactly live in fear of muggings but I take sensible precautions like e.g. backing up my data, making sure that I can turn a factory-new laptop into a working dev environment within a day, and carrying insurance. Yep. Whe
824.
by beedogs 13y ago
There's basically a separate system of justice in most countries for anyone with a net worth of 8 figures or more. He literally got away with murder.
825.
by beedogs 13y ago
I'm happy to let people make these dangerous little handheld explosives; there's no need to ban them. The only people they'll wind up hurting with a crappy 3D-printed gun is themselves.
826.
by beedogs 13y ago
> The day the news broke that Edward Snowden had left Hong Kong, I was out of town at a soccer tournament with my daughter. The parents of her teammates, mostly younger than I am, heard me announce that news, and when one parent asked, w
827.
Why privacy? "The power of mind over mind"(digbysblog.blogspot.com.br)
3 points by beedogs 13y ago|0 comments
828.
by beedogs 13y ago
At this point, the DHS appears to be merely an antagonistic bully, and the only "security" it offers is in the form of high-paying jobs to mid-level government hacks. It should be done away with along with the TSA and the NSA.
829.
by beedogs 13y ago
Litecoin is nearing $20 as well, and still relatively easy to mine. In fact, many of the altcoins are skyrocketing in value now that the Chinese exchanges have opened.
830.
by beedogs 13y ago
I don't see how an effectively-infinite monopoly on content (which is where we are now with copyright term lengths) is justifiable in any way whatsoever.
831.
by beedogs 13y ago
Apple Derangement Syndrome, is my guess. To some people, anything beginning with a lowercase "i" has a capitalized second letter by default.
832.
by beedogs 13y ago
If these tax-less spend-less austerity morons were right about their ideology, you'd think it might have worked once in a while. But it never has, nor will it ever. Instead they've taken to punishing the nations that prove them
833.
by beedogs 13y ago
They already get that. Lyrics sites are not cutting into the profit made from the sale of music.
834.
by beedogs 13y ago
This shit needs to stop. Every few years these assholes sue a bunch of lyrics sites. People transcribe your lyrics. So fucking what? Get over it!
835.
by beedogs 13y ago
It's the New York Post; expecting anything other than a hit piece from that rag just seems wrong.
836.
UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism'(reuters.com)
17 points by beedogs 13y ago|3 comments
837.
by beedogs 13y ago
I really wish they'd just nullify any patent granted that involves "doing something commonplace ON THE INTERNET!!! ", as if adding a tcp/ip connection is something truly inventive or novel. Christ, this is getting out
838.
by beedogs 13y ago
Considering he was being spied on in 2004, before he even ran for Congress, and considering Supreme Court justices and other world leaders are monitored a well, I'm willing to bet he's still being spied on now.
839.
by beedogs 13y ago
It wasn't. Somebody's mad at HN I guess.
840.
by beedogs 13y ago
Indeed. A lot of people seem to gloss over the fact that the US trained and funded Bin Laden himself, which was all well and good when he was on "our side".

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