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by jmadsen 13y ago
How timely - I happen to be reading this while waiting for my environment to finish setting up :-) Thank you for your work! (Any chance it might work with Vagrant v2 soon?)
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That's spot on. Their biggest concern would seem to be to re-word things in a way that later they can't be accused of having lied. Clapper lead the charge on that one at the very beginning. No attempts to actually clarify what the
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Ecuador renounces trade concessions: '"No" to Blackmail'(cbsnews.com)
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It's the codification of the parts of morality that we bargain & wrestle into a set of rules we decide to enforce. Not all "morality" turns into law, nor is all law based on morale principals.
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by jmadsen 13y ago
So what is your point? That I'm not spending time writing blogs about how broke up I am that foreigners are also being targeted? Ok, I'll go write a blog. Personally I feel America is in a crisis right now, and I'd prefer to
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I think a few of you don't understand my point, so perhaps I didn't explain it very well. The US government is on the verge of becoming a totalitarian regime. The US government is on the verge of throwing out the Constitution &amp
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by jmadsen 13y ago
You, as a non-US citizen, are not protected by our constitution. Nor am I, a US citizen, protected from your government. I have no grounds to "raise outrage" at my government for spying on foreigners, much as I might disapprove. T
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by jmadsen 13y ago
There are so many potential jokes about the 3%, I can't even think where to start
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I wonder if Senator Wyden or others like him have noticed the irony of learning first-hand how frustrating it is to deal with an entrenched bureaucracy that puts up obstacles to protect itself from outside interference, even when it is work
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Richard Matheson passes away(latimes.com)
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There was a case not many years ago at New Years in New Orleans of a woman dying from this, and if you "DuckDuckGo" it you can find other similar news stories. So for all the mathematics posts in reply to your post, the real answe
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Thank you - that was quite informative, actually. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that that term seems to many people more like a label they hang on "terrorists" rather than something with a specific definition
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"The two men were in federal court Wednesday on charges that they conspired to provide material support to terrorists, including use of a weapon of mass destruction." I'm starting to think rolling a large rock down a hill at
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Federal Agents Accuse Two Of Plotting Deadly X-Ray Weapon(npr.org)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Yep, and now all the major media & blow-hards have to back pedal on their smear campaigns, as little by little everything he claimed turns out to be true: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-admits-lis
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by jmadsen 13y ago
And a brilliant one! I gave you a point
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Maybe Google knows too much, is the real issue?
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Supreme Court disallowed Citizens to act vs. NSA - in Feb 2013(cbsnews.com)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
"Realist speaking from experience"
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The interesting side story behind all of this, that HN isn't looking at at all, is the "bi-partisanship as usual" reaction from outside Washington. A reason something might come of this? Ironically, it is because the Rush Lim
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I think it's more a case of, "oh, I see you don't want to be re-elected. We can arrange that" rather than direct prosecution. That's why you don't see guys like Bernie Sanders on those committees :-)
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by jmadsen 13y ago
This. Was a point I raised here just yesterday - glad to see I was on the mark. This is why we are now in an Orwellian state, rather that one with necessary secrecy but checks and balances. When Congress can say, "We are reviewing Nati
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by jmadsen 13y ago
That's what I've been wondering: - if they aren't targeting specific persons, how do they know what country the person is from & if they (the govt) are violating the law? - if I'm American living in another country,
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Excuse me if I have this muddled, but being a Top Secret program, wouldn't those Congressmen be bound to silence on the matter anyway? Assuming you found one who bucked the trend and wasn't bankrupt of responsibility already, what
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by jmadsen 13y ago
At some point, I think - perhaps this is only wishful thinking, but I do think it nonetheless - someone from one of these companies will simply come out in a TV interview and spill the beans. Just make a big enough stir, be explicit about w
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by jmadsen 13y ago
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Vice is nothing but quality. Wish more people were aware of them, and the really wide variety of excellent documentaries they produce
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by jmadsen 13y ago
Why is this the top story in my HN feed at the moment?
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For me, one of the most important things to take away from this story is the possible link to osteoporosis (& a cure for it, although not directly stated). Looking into a disease that affects almost no one might help find a cure for a d
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by jmadsen 13y ago
I don't want to push this next claim too far, as I only have "I have heard" to back it & no actual numbers or links, but... I have heard on more than one occasion that the reason emergency services (ambulances, ER, etc) are so expensive

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