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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Playing the martyr card hasn't worked for Manning. The US general public still doesn't care. Snowden would be sacrificing himself for literally nothing. The best thing he can do is keep all this in the news as long as possibl
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
A lot of false information was published about Chavez but he was one of the few people who stopped a US-based coup in his country [1]. [1] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/09/nytc-m09.html
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>Russia, as a country that stands against abuse of the powerless by the powerful? It's perfectly possible to be a gross violator of human rights and then later (or even simultaneously) defend human rights.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
That's nothing more than the illusion of security. Nearly anyone using open source is using a distro. Do you imagine distro maintainers would willingly go to jail rather than putting in backdoors in the binaries they release?
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
What are you talking about? Open-source doesn't protect against backdoors even theoretically. Think about it. Have you read every line of every piece of software you run? Would you understand it all if you did? Even if you read th
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
We do have problems indeed. And as long as people continue to get bogged down with the silly "Democrat/Republican" song and dance, the issues can't be addressed. The parties are practically the same thing (see: Bush Jr
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
A businessman will do those things, yes. A rich might generally won't (statistically speaking) beyond what ever business they already have, if any.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
If there were backdoors in the distributed Redhat code, how many people would even be able to know this? And that's if the code were blatantly obvious if you were allowed to see what was actually compiled. If the compiler itself is c
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Good. Big companies are the only thing in the US with even the remotest of hopes of stopping or slowing this down. And they're not going to bother unless it's actually costing them money. So I hope it hurts them, I hope it makes
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
They're not skating on thin ice, they fell through some time ago. I'd also call the way they claim to bypass checks and balances by "storing" instead of "reading" data (assuming that's even true which see
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>could there be a case where the parties in a conversation are legitimate suspects? It doesn't matter if they are. No one expects coffee shops to put microphones at every table on the off chance that a terrorist plot is planned the
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
This is probably the most important point in the whole thread. Honestly, the debate about whether the new X-box will spy on you or not is irrelevant. In fact, it would be even better if there were a massive boycott and Microsoft weren&#x2
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
How can you call it a "fear-mongering assertion" given everything that's been revealed recently? It's certainly well within the realm of possibility even if some might find it unlikely.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
The answer is clearly, and obviously: no you can't trust CPUs, memory, compilers, disassemblers, microcode or anything else. The better question is: what is being done to address this? What can be done (are you going to trust an &qu
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Taxing on profit isn't going to work because how much profit you make can be adjusted due to creative bookkeeping.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
OMG, that's brilliant! Now I just need a couple of hundred million and I could buy Walmart!
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Income is not simpler, as you can change around how people are compensated, which is exactly what's happened for the better part of a century at least [1]. But if you own a garage full of Ferraris, then you own a garage full of Ferrar
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
I can't imagine how anyone would imagine Republicans are anti-poor. It's not like they've spent decades demonizing them or anything [1]. [1] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/23/politics/we
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
The issues are pretty clear cut, the issue is you're getting bogged down by political party labels that have little meaning. If someone performs a bunch deregulation that's not a "left" position no matter what party the
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
This isn't something you need to believe or not believe. The stats are in, decades of trickle down have not had the intended effect and various sources have shown this. It's a pretty well supported fact that lessening the tax bur
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Oh please, trickle down has never worked and the Republicans have always known this [1]. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/business/12scene.html?_r=0
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
You're the one going political here. What he stated is a well known fact about the Republicans whether you chose to acknowledge it or not.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Good thing we've got BI then, so we're no longer slaves to making any move at all because it might cost someone a shit minimum wage job.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>But taxing high salaries is "regressive", just as much as taxing corporations, taxing consumers I disagree here. For this to hold, executives would have to strive to keep their pay where it is. But this simply isn't rea
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>we also voted to ban minarets for instance, which definitely wasn't very rationally based Of course it was. The law itself was stupid, but it highlighted a real issue. Notice that after that vote France, Sweden and a few others lo
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
This is always the fear that if we raise taxes 1% all the people with money will hop on a plane and leave us, but it hasn't happened. Where would they go exactly? There are places that are a lot cheaper, tax-wise than the US right
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
>The BI's natural "lobbying organzation" is the entire public... I think you're misunderstanding the nature of lobby and power in the United States. It doesn't matter the size of your lobby, only the size of t
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Given the abuses we've seen throughout history (not just now), why on earth would I want the government to be able to know exactly where I am at any given time? If they think I've committed some crime let them use the normal prot
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Are you sure about that? They had a big rewrite some years back and got rid of much of it.
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by flyinRyan 13y ago
Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).

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