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by caskance 11y ago
Followed shortly by the petition to rename China to Asia.
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by caskance 11y ago
I wonder if detecting them is even really a problem. They move, emit heat, and most are naturally inclined to avoid drones already. I'm really curious about whether birds of prey might start hunting drones.
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by caskance 11y ago
It doesn't have to be imminent to be taken seriously. I take my retirement savings seriously.
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by caskance 11y ago
If a human trespassed on your property, would your first response be to shoot him?
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by caskance 11y ago
Because that would be a useful first step in getting that stupid law overturned. Unless you think it's more likely Congress will do it themselves?
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by caskance 11y ago
Many people would say that leaking top secret information to the entire world and fleeing your home in Hawaii to live in exile in Russia would be an incomprehensibly stupid move. Yet he did that.
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by caskance 11y ago
Whenever someone makes them. What do you expect? That they will walk down to the local police office and turn themselves in?
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by caskance 11y ago
Whether they had the information or not, giving them a plausible excuse to know that information is still a significant security breach. There are countless examples in the past where one party had secret information they were forced not to
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by caskance 11y ago
Whether they had the information or not, giving them a plausible excuse to know that information is still a security breach. There are countless examples in the past where one party had secret information they were forced not to act on for
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by caskance 11y ago
While death-qualified juries have some unfortunate side effects, you're mischaracterizing it in a very misleading way. If the law states that a possible punishment for theft is putting the thief in prison, it makes no sense to allow pe
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by caskance 11y ago
>I'm sure he would have loved to take refuge in a free country, but so far it looks like they are all run by cowards. Not a coincidence.
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by caskance 11y ago
If the law is unjust, changing the law fixes things for everyone. Running from the law tarnishes your own reputation while not fixing anything.
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by caskance 11y ago
The same way William Binney did. He did things responsibly through the proper channels. The public didn't give a shit. The government wishes Snowden would have followed his example.
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by caskance 11y ago
This is exactly the case a pardon is designed for.
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by caskance 11y ago
Hollywood is not in the UK. In the US, true statements are not defamation. There is plenty of damage Hollywood could do to Google purely by telling the truth.
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by caskance 11y ago
I would call it "the best opportunity Bing will ever get"
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by caskance 11y ago
Why should they be in prison for screwing their customers? Is that illegal?
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by caskance 11y ago
Disable or suppress would work fine.
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by caskance 11y ago
I guess, if you're willing to stretch the definition of unverifiable far enough that it becomes completely meaningless.
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by caskance 11y ago
No they aren't. Plenty of people here know someone who works at Google.
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by caskance 11y ago
That kind of cowardly pseudoreasoning allows those who are willing to threaten violence to get whatever they want effortlessly.
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by caskance 11y ago
And when that happens, it is the man's fault for reacting violently, or if you're particularly callous, the wife's fault for cheating. The person who reveals the truth is quite a ways down the blame list.
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by caskance 11y ago
>being publicly defamed on the internet for eternity is far too harsh a punishment for cheating on your spouse If people really thought that were true, it wouldn't happen. Why go to all that effort unless you really believe in your
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by caskance 11y ago
There is a disappointingly large number of "privacy" advocates on this site who disagree with that.
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by caskance 11y ago
heh.
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by caskance 11y ago
Didn't hn look for evidence of them preventing terrorism and found nothing?
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by caskance 11y ago
And yet, despite realizing that, some people think "well, I'll just arbitrarily limit my hate to the US and UK then" and not reconsider whether the original premise makes any sense.
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by caskance 11y ago
Criticising the NSA for spying on the wrong targets makes as little sense as criticising soldiers because your country is at war with the wrong enemy.
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Good.
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by caskance 11y ago
Everyone has their own indicators. If you are conditioned to accept your situation in a way that makes you feel free, then you are free. Birds and dolphins probably have their own definite indicators of whether someone is free or not that t

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