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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>That would be an interesting point in the argument if true. Can you substantiate that? http://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit/
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>Without civil forfeiture, any time the police take something from you, it's theft Anytime the police take something from you it is theft... Period With Civil Forfeiture it might be legal theft, but it is still theft. >>
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>this is the heart of civil forfeiture, and without it there isn't any Good, there should not be. > It's a case of police discretion being warped into something it wasn't intended to be. Actually it is not, this is
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by the_ancient 11y ago
TPP is not law. TPP is a proposed treaty that is far far far from being ratified and hopefully never does. Even if ratified today, I doubt Zen could use it as it was not law at the time of the action.
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>Clarification: I said that somebody would notice, not that somebody would care. Then I fail to see what your point it, the entire point of "someone would notice" would imply that would be a deterrent to prevent or give pau
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by the_ancient 11y ago
You would be wrong... Cook was not served with a NSL, at least not one he "won a staring contest over" Tim Cook, Apple, in the San Berandio Case was served with a standard, in the open, court order, not a NSL, not a FISA Court or
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by the_ancient 11y ago
No one claimed the NSA does (although I do not personally believe they are only SigInt) The claim was "US Govt.", NSA was only used in reference to law suits where they use national security to get cases tossed.
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by the_ancient 11y ago
I am sure they would... At any given time there are ~90,000 people missing in the US, annually something like 250,000 missing person cases are opened. The charge is not that they would be disappeared and no one would miss them...
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Even if someone would present such a case there would be soo little tangible evidence and many other "more plausible" theories as to why the person disappeared it would be simply dismissed as a conspiracy People want to reject the
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by the_ancient 11y ago
I always love this argument, the NSA routinely uses it in Court to eliminate any challenge based on Standing Since the NSA will never admit they violated the constitution, no one can get discovery to prove they did, thus they will never b
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Actually it is not, unless you take it out of context like you have.... Allow me to Quote Jefferson... "“[T]he laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They [Congress] ar
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by the_ancient 11y ago
If the Constitution is silent, that means it is prohibited. The constitution is first and foremost a document outlining what the federal government is allowed to do. If it is not listed in the Constitution, then by design the government do
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by the_ancient 11y ago
That oath is worth nothing given the Greatest threat to the Constitution is the FBI, NSA and other parts of the Federal Government They may swear a oath to the constitution, but they are actually Loyal to the Federal Government, not the Con
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by the_ancient 11y ago
If your site breaks because NPM is down, or a package is removed, you have designed your site poorly and you deserve to have your site taken down.
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by the_ancient 11y ago
What they feel did not work was that the developer simply did not roll over and give in when a larger company made a demand... there was 168 Comments before they removed commenting from the Blog.... Of those I counted like 5 that where in
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>>Please post comments and questions here. We’ve moved to a Github issue for improved moderation. No you removed comments because you did not like the comments you were getting... You understand that your policies are almost universa
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Which have you had problems with. I work Ubuntu Based, Fedora, and Arch have had no issues on these.
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Depends on which Sub Committee they are on, and what position they hold on it....
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>But I doubt that even more than a few teachers are thinking in the terms of creating a 'compliant' workforce. Consciously, no probably not. They probably genuinely believe they are educating.. That is the by design.. After a
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by the_ancient 11y ago
It may be true that some teachers actually want to educate, it may also be true that many even most teachers start their career with that motivation but the system of schooling quickly and permanently removes that motivation and replaces it
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>Go outside more! You're totally free! The streets are yours for the taking! Go hand out pamphlets in the town square! Grab a guitar and sing for an audience in a public park! Go to the beach and make new friends! There are no gatek
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by the_ancient 11y ago
You being insignificant to the government does not mean the government collecting data about you is not a threat to you. Maybe one day you cut off the wrong FBI agent on the way to work, or may be a friend of a friend knows someone with acc
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by the_ancient 11y ago
You assume Schools and Teachers have the desire, the goal of Education. They do not. They have the desire the goal to create a work force, soldiers, and compliant citizens for society,. Not to create educated free thinking persons
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Miranda did not create any rights, only the requirement that the government inform you of your rights...
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Why you believe that a workforce prepared for the 21 century requires at minimum 16 years of education? This over application of degrees for jobs that should not need a degree at all is one of the problems. Vocational Training should be th
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Of course... I think everyone should have to spend the first 40 years of their life in some kind of government run institution being learned.... Only then can they be true productive members of society...
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by the_ancient 11y ago
When you are a hammer, everything is a nail The government is a hammer, people are the nails....
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by the_ancient 11y ago
Sham is a strong word, The model Lavabit used, is the same security model 99% of cloud services use even today. The same model that iCloud, Google, and other use, all of which have control over the encrytion stored on their servers, all of
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by the_ancient 11y ago
I have never really understood why people continue to instist that EME is not filled with "black box plugins" EME is enabling black box plugins, simply calling them "extensions" does not magically make them something ot
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by the_ancient 11y ago
>why should there be a government? Why indeed... >You get taxed because the government provides something for you and the provided services need to get paid. To the extent I want or need those services I will be happy to pay for them

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