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by furyg3 13y ago
The US permits dual citizenship, without treaties, by default. If a person is a US citizen, it does not recognize that person's other nationality. This simply means that it's ok if you are American and French, but the US treat
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by furyg3 13y ago
Pizza, Starbucks, mail? Really? What worthless examples. I'm guessing most mail can be eliminated, tomorrow. Make snail mail marketing illegal, you take out probably 90% or more of all mail. You also take out 90% of the income for
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by furyg3 13y ago
It doesn't have to do with oligarchy in the sense of coordinated corruption (wealth transfers) between rich and politicians, but in my opinion it comes close in terms of unfairness and bad long-term results, and it is still very coordi
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by furyg3 13y ago
But other countries aren't fucked. They did well on the test, so why can't the solution be to do what those other countries are doing? Flanders and Australia are every bit as 'incomparable' as Finland and the US, so let
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by furyg3 13y ago
His timeline and story are all here: http://www.innocentbeyondareasonabledoubt.com/ Lesson: Do not ever cooperate with the police. Bo should have just let the original issue (I'm not even sure what that issue was) betw
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by furyg3 13y ago
I am not sure what the EU-wide regulations are. In NL, employees are hired per term. Meaning you have a 6-12 month contract, and if the employer wants to lay you off or fire you, he has to pay out the rest of your contract. There are some
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yes, but the grandparent is talking about the hypocrisy of American freedom. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
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by furyg3 13y ago
Are the health care reforms really that scary to those who lobby the Republicans?
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by furyg3 13y ago
[...] and stealing Soviet spy satellites Wow, now that you say it that seems logical that the shuttle could steal a satellite, but did that ever happen? I'm really hoping for some cool declassified stories from one/both sides o
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by furyg3 13y ago
Irrespective of boycotts, please please buy chocolate products that have independent certification from a third party (UTZ Certified, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance). Certification isn't perfect, and different labels focus on differen
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by furyg3 13y ago
Going from US to NL was like moving to a banking utopia: Transfer money? Just log in via browser or on your phone, put in their bank account number and the amount, done! Cost: €0. Happens instantly with same bank, next business day with a
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by furyg3 13y ago
Whoa.. > At least two memorandums were sent to Ryanair pilots detailing the company's concern about what was described as "excess fuel explanations" -- a description of the reasons flight commanders have to give if they ta
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by furyg3 13y ago
If that's true it's very interesting... Do you have any sources?
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by furyg3 13y ago
While I don't doubt that there are bad guys who are paying for anonymizing VPNs, I wonder to what extent this is a majority. I know around ten people, who are technically-adept (but not techies), who are using VPNs for Netflix, BBC iPl
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yes, but as someone who makes IT decisions for an organization outside the US, it's still a factor. When evaluating services, one factor is "Do they use sound security principles?" Does their API use SSL? How does authentic
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by furyg3 13y ago
I disagree on one point... 'socialism'. If you agree with the premise of the article, social agreements which can be trusted are vital when an individual is deciding to take risks. One side of this is ensuring rewards for success
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by furyg3 13y ago
It has nothing to do with being a hipster, just different tastes. If you come to Amsterdam and go to the Red Light, Museumplein, and Heineken brewery, that's one experience, but most Amsterdammers are never at those places. They'
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by furyg3 13y ago
Yes, that's the point. If you are worried about Google cooperating with the NSA, and you decide to roll-your-own mail solution, but are using US-based services like MailGun, you are doing it wrong. :) Moving to a self-hosted solution
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by furyg3 13y ago
Is mailgun a US-based company that would comply with a national security letter if faced with one?
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by furyg3 13y ago
You are interpreting this precisely backwards. These "Rights" are unalienable. They are not to be given away, they are not to be taken away. Governments exist to secure these rights. To help protect these rights, the governme
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by furyg3 13y ago
For me (as an American) it's a moral question. If the principles of the country are so fundamental and so sacred, why would you hold others to a lower standard? Spying on Americans, that's clearly wrong! Imprisonment without a t
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by furyg3 13y ago
It will become a problem when European countries / organisations start requiring that data cannot be stored or managed at a US datacenter or by a US organisation. You already see this happening with with datacenter locations...
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by furyg3 13y ago
Oh no. You guys are implementing the same system that was launched in Holland (from the looks of the scanner). It does not get better...
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by furyg3 13y ago
US Persons are protected from surveillance without a warrant. This is a right guaranteed to them by the Constitution. The burden of establishing if someone is a US Person should fall on the government agency performing surveillance. If th
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by furyg3 13y ago
"Some flights were on the taxiway and diverted back to the terminal after the problem was detected" Why? You've checked these guys in, the baggage is loaded, the pilots (presumably) know where they are flying to... why wou
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by furyg3 13y ago
When I wrote my representative, this point is what I stressed. Strong privacy protections will become a competitive advantage for nations going forward, and the US will lose business if they maintain the right to spy on 'foreign'
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by furyg3 13y ago
Last time I checked, most web services (or even telephone providers) are not keeping track of or verifying nationalities. Thus, any blanket surveillance means they are inadvertently spying on US citizens/persons. Let's say you ha
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by furyg3 13y ago
This is completely incorrect. In most states it is not required to have ID on you. Most US citizens do not carry proof of citizenship (passport or birth certificate), and a Drivers License is not proof of citizenship. US citizens travel ab
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by furyg3 13y ago
They don't. Just like a police officer doesn't need you to tell him how fast you were going (hint: he knows). It just works sometimes, which is a lot easier than going through the normal process, and worth a shot. The NSA office
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by furyg3 13y ago
Most companies don't collect nationality information, so there is no question in my mind that the program (if it collects more than metadata) has spied on Americans, in violation of the law. If I sign up to Yahoo France, while in Franc

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