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by madaxe 13y ago
Frankly, both Bush and Obama are patsies for the system, which at this point is a fully fledged self-sustaining kafakesque bureaucracy. It's easy to personify and be angry with a person, less easy to be angry with an abstract clusterfu
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by madaxe 13y ago
The word you're after is doublespeak. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
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by madaxe 13y ago
I think you give him too much credit. If this were the case, he's the goddamned POTUS, and should grow a pair and accept the fate he signed himself up for. With great power comes great responsibility.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yes, simultaneously with the end of drone strikes. All of these things ended in '08, when he was elected, remember, just like he promised.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Representative democracy is the rule of more equal people over the less equal.
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by madaxe 13y ago
The victor writes the history books. Snowden will be your Emmanuel Goldstein.
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by madaxe 13y ago
He also categorically denied that any warrantless searches were/are being performed - which is also a flat lie, and explicitly refuted by the Guardian's piece a few hours before his bullshit session.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I re-watched Brazil a few nights ago for the first time in a few years, and you couldn't be more right. Harry Tuttle probably happens every day.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Also, gerrymandering. It's a major, major factor in maintaining the status quo. The UK has picked up on this trend (well, they've done it before, but it's kicked up a notch), and the conservatives been quietly moving parliame
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by madaxe 13y ago
He explicitly denied warrantless surveillance in his press conference a few hours ago - a few hours after the guardian published a piece on exactly how they go about it. Also telling were the pregnant pauses when posed questions about the N
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by madaxe 13y ago
They don't rubber stamp warrants because there are no warrants . See the XKEYSCORE presentation. They just need a loose reason that the person may or may not be affiliated with a foreign entity by up to five degrees of separation.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Capitol rewards behaviour benefiting capital. FTFY!
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by madaxe 13y ago
On the note of lying, Obama just explicitly denied exactly this in his press conference an hour or so ago.
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by madaxe 13y ago
You can sneak very nasty yet innocuous things past reviews - you just have to make it out of sane looking parts, and in unrelated commits.
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by madaxe 13y ago
This could be great news - I'd imagine there are a whole bunch of sysadmins at the NSA right now thinking about what variety of backdoors and "I accidentally the data" bugs they can work in before they're kicked out.
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by madaxe 13y ago
You have a distinction between legislative and executive in principle . In practice, however, the tail wags the dog.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Total train wreck in mobile - chrome, iOS. Someone needs to work on their QA!
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yup. Tax benefits of being in the us are huge. Easy to bribe politicians, no corporate income tax, huge rebates. As to the US market - meh. The US is third world in terms of purchasing power. Only reason to base there is the pro-corporate c
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by madaxe 13y ago
I shun and shame the people I know that work for "the machine". They're equally culpable, as they choose to work for evil.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I might be wrong about MSG. IIRC animals produce the D- entantiomer (MSG is chiral), and industrially produced stuff is D- and L-, and apparently L- can be harmful.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Well. Two things. I ate largely due to anxiety. Weed makes me not anxious. Therefore I ate less. Secondly, you can decide to morph that "hungry" feeling into a "full" feeling. Not quite sure how to put it, but you can co
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by madaxe 13y ago
Aspirin. Bayer. People used to chew willow. That said they did isolate it, so it's not parity, but at least peripheral.
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by madaxe 13y ago
It's less harmful than cigarettes - nicotine is a vasoconstrictor and bronchioconstrictor. Weed is neither, and actually also has expectorant qualities, so you tend to cough most of the tar back up. That said, smoking anything is not
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by madaxe 13y ago
HFCS reacts badly with the majority of the population, inducing adiposis. So does MSG. Don't forget about the pesticides you chow down on with every meal, or the chloride in your water, or the phthalates in your soda, or the BPA in you
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by madaxe 13y ago
I lost 70lbs smoking pot. Health is better than it has been in years. Munchies go both ways, you just have to learn to "flip the switch". I'm a filthy criminal.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Again, missing the point. Both your average attacker and average user have as much technical knowledge as a daffodil, which means even the most trivial barrier would be effective. As to users who don't set a password - never make the p
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by madaxe 13y ago
I can see you don't, which is why I'm trying to pose it variously. It's a simple one: why make it easier for a user to be compromised than is necessary? Why is it such a problem to ask the user to enter their account password
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by madaxe 13y ago
You're still missing the point, and you're scarily out of touch. A novice (I use my mother as my reference novice) has NO IDEA how to go about changing a form field type, but does know how to drill into preferences and look at
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by madaxe 13y ago
Yes, but by your reasoning, surely obfuscating passwords when inputted into websites is also pointless, yet you do do this in Chrome, which is inconsistent with your reasoning. I know, and you know, that locking one's account is the
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by madaxe 13y ago
But it is a false sense of security. Joe User doesn't know a thing about how this magical box of tricks called a computer works. He just assumes that his data is safe on it, and won't get into the wrong hands, and that his pas

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