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by falk 13y ago
You're missing his point. You could have all the guns in the world but that isn't going to change the fact that Americans don't care they are being monitored and spied on. Including the vast majority of ardent supporters of t
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by falk 13y ago
I admire the progress your country has made thus far, but it seems so silly to limit the quantity you can buy. Especially considering you can overdose on alcohol and kill yourself, where you can't with marijuana.
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by falk 13y ago
I'd recommend you get her going on something like Corona SDK which is an iPhone gaming framework based off of Lua. http://www.coronalabs.com/products/corona-sdk/
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by falk 13y ago
"There will be a monthly limit of 40 grams per person and all consumers will have to register." Does your government limit the amount of alcohol you can purchase per month and do you have to register to buy said alcohol? Because i
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by falk 13y ago
People might take you a bit more seriously if you would stop minimizing every Snowden leak.
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by falk 13y ago
He specifically pointed out Booze Allen which is known for their NSA spying. It's not like you can walk into the organization and say, "Hey, I'd like a job. You guys don't spy on Americans, right?".
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by falk 13y ago
Or one of the thousands of start-ups or charities in this country that are all working on interesting problems.
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by falk 13y ago
Why would you want to work for a defense contractor after seeing all the awful things they do on behalf of the U.S. government? Is a little extra cash in your pocket and a little more job security worth your selling your soul to the devil?
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by falk 13y ago
Bullshit. A pressure cooker is probably one of the most common kitchen accessories ever. Anyone who planned to use one for malicious intent would just deny that they have one.
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by falk 13y ago
Exactly. This article doesn't explain why they questioned her specifically about pressure cookers.
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Charged With the Crime of Filming a Slaughterhouse(thenation.com)
2 points by falk 13y ago|0 comments
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by falk 13y ago
This thing was on Shark Tank. They got $300,000 for 33% of the company from Robert and Kevin. I'd link to the video, but I can't find it. It was on episode 7 of season 4. http://sharktankblog.com/business/self
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by falk 13y ago
AP is reporting he was granted asylum for one year. https://twitter.com/AP/status/362910831836532736
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by falk 13y ago
Last night on CNN they tried to say Snowden stole passwords from his manager. They had on the ex-head of the NSA and he was like (paraphrasing), "We don't have any direct confirmation but we must entertain the idea that Showden ha
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How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say(slate.com)
6 points by falk 13y ago|0 comments
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Police don't need a warrant to seize phone location data, US court rules(theverge.com)
2 points by falk 13y ago|0 comments
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by falk 13y ago
In the PRISM related documents they used that exact term, "foreignness". http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/bombsh...
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by falk 13y ago
You might be interested in Project Gutenberg. They offer over 42,000 free ebooks. Legally. http://www.gutenberg.org/
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Edward Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow(theguardian.com)
6 points by falk 13y ago|0 comments
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by falk 13y ago
I think you're in denial.
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by falk 13y ago
Greenwald said they cancelled the hearing on Twitter yesterday. Do you know if they rescheduled it yet?
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PG Commander, a modern PostgreSQL client for Mac(eggerapps.at)
2 points by falk 13y ago|1 comments
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by falk 13y ago
I thought this was an interesting tidbit from the Center for Constitutional Rights. "While the "aiding the enemy" charges (on which Manning was rightly acquitted) received the most attention from the mainstream media, the Esp
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by falk 13y ago
If you don't agree with how MIT handled this situation, protest the MIT hackathon in October and any other MIT related events.
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by falk 13y ago
He faces up to 130 years in prison. Wow.
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by falk 13y ago
The Guardian is reporting he's been found guilty on five counts of violating the espionage act. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning...
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by falk 13y ago
I'd like to see what a 21st century union looks like. It seems like you could cut down on a lot of the overhead and bureaucracy that is associated with unions via relatively new technologies such as the Internet.
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by falk 13y ago
"Is the argument here that it will lead to blocking of more content in the future? If so this a slippery slope fallacy." No it's not because U.K. ISPs have revealed that the filter will censor other content, as well. "As
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by falk 13y ago
Just because you don't think something is plausible doesn't mean you should denigrate it by calling it a conspiracy theory. I don't know exactly what you're talking about so it's hard for me to research it. For exam
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by falk 13y ago
I did read the article. There's a lot more information to be released. Snowden took thousands of documents that he hand selected. Greenwald has said that there are more NSA programs to be exposed.

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