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by falk 13y ago
It's all in the language they use. They are scooping up all the phone calls, emails, etc. they possibly can. They then go get a warrant to process that information or so they can use it in court and what have you. And like you said, ge
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by falk 13y ago
This is how I think the Congressional committee hearing will go down Wednesday. Or perhaps some variation of this. 1. Greenwald testifies and talks about all the awful things the NSA has been up to. 2. NSA offials will deny any and all clai
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by falk 13y ago
This is why I won't be using iCloud Keychain.
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by falk 13y ago
No, I didn't. Interesting. Thanks. Carson's book spurred the environmentalist movement, I'll give her that. I used to think poorly of DDT and GMOs, but then I did some research and changed my opinions. Should we be cautious a
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by falk 13y ago
"DDT is generally safe when it clearly is not." I'd love for you to cite your source on that. When used properly DDT is generally safe and has saved millions of lives. There is no arguing that it doesn't do a great job k
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by falk 13y ago
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is credited with starting the anti-DDT movement. It's been discredited and is full of junk science and needless corporation-bashing. Read the paper Chemicals and Pests which tears apart Carson&#x
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by falk 13y ago
Did anyone else pick up on all the chemophobia in this video? Is a clip of people spraying DDT supposed to scare us? Rachel Carson was wrong. DDT is safe. My favorite part is when they say "food grade FDA compounds". That's a
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by falk 13y ago
I think this tweet is pretty spot on: "Rotating Villains strike again: Just enough liberals inexplicably voted no on NSA restrictions to make it the way Obama wanted." https://twitter.com/brmull/status/36
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by falk 13y ago
Yes, you can find the roll call here. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
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by falk 13y ago
I'm not trying to convince you. I'm pointing out atrocities and lies committed by the United States government. We aren't below killing journalists. I figured you would due some sort of due diligence by visiting the link and
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by falk 13y ago
Yep. Got this from a live blog that Greenwald tweeted a little while ago. "Federal migration service has not issued documents allowing Edward Snowden to leave the airport yet, there was a misinformation today in the media, said Kuchere
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by falk 13y ago
The United States government traffics drugs such as heroin [1], has started wars under false pretenses to profit multi-national corporations [2] [3], backs death squads in Indonesia [4], tried to convince Martin Luther King Jr. to commit su
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by falk 13y ago
"I mean, Putin straight kills journalists." So does the United States of America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 The United States government wants to make an example out of Snowden. There's no wa
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by falk 13y ago
He and other writers at the Guardian have written about Snowden on multiple occasions. I haven't seen any other news outlets reporting that Snowden has been cleared or is on the verge of being cleared. Edit: I just found some additiona
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by falk 13y ago
I wonder why Glenn Greenwald or the Guardian hasn't written anything about this yet?
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by falk 13y ago
They can be found under the heading "Technical specifications" toward the bottom of their Indiegogo project page. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
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by falk 13y ago
Other comments made in this thread by snitko. "Police officers, firefighters, teachers... Could it be that we don't really need any government to finance them? The demand is there. Private companies will be more than happy to fill
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by falk 13y ago
This guy is nothing more than an extremist. Ask him about his prison system and I'm sure he'll parrot how privatized prisons are the solution to our woes. Alas, they aren't. Be weary of someone trying to tell you that if we j
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by falk 13y ago
This may sound farfetched, but it's not. If you're interested in learning more about the CIA and drugs, I recommend the following: - The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred W. McCoy [1] - Whiteout
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by falk 13y ago
"We elected Bush in 2004 when he had Tom Ridge upping the terror alert every week before the election." You hit the nail right on the head. The problem in America isn't the politicians, it's the people.
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by falk 13y ago
It's been working pretty well for Somalia I hear.
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by falk 13y ago
I found this Wikipedia article on tax resistance to be full of interesting information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_resistance
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by falk 13y ago
I was being hyperbolic. Sorry. Amazon has made a minuscule amount of profit. Their numbers are horrible. I can't believe their shareholders put up with them. Their most profitable year, 2010, they only made $1.15-billion of profit off
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by falk 13y ago
The companies are proud because they're profitable, unlike Amazon or Salesforce.
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by falk 13y ago
Perhaps, but this is just something I said in passing by the thread, so I shouldn't have to seek out another forum. If people want to down vote me because they can't accept that Apple isn't perfect then I reckon that's t
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New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens(classic.slashdot.org)
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by falk 13y ago
iWork for iCloud which is a part of iCloud.com. I'm strictly speaking of the website for iCloud. It's awful. It takes a long time to load and is stuck with a clunky user-interface that mimics iOS/OS X. It doesn't look ri
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by falk 13y ago
If Canada wants to attract start-ups, they should get rid of software patents.
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by falk 13y ago
iCloud.com sucks. They're trying to replicate iOS UI and functionality in the browser and it's an abysmal failure. Steve Jobs always liked to tout Apple and their employees as artists. Well artists have to know their medium and th
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by falk 13y ago
"By comparison, our press and government practiced transparency -- they may have lied, but not on the scale the others did." "I keep slipping back into believing the United States government believes in honesty and transparen

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