youngerdryas

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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Are there any grown ups left on HN?
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Hey, your bag of stupid is leaking into other threads.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
If you have iTunes Match.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Apple obviously does specialize in hardware and if you use iMessage it is already encrypted.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
>I think the most immediate step going forward that can be done on the side of the private sector is to stop collecting, as much as possible, extensive profiles on people, especially profiles that are, or easily can be, tied to their rea
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Critical thinking is hard, indignance is easy.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
The poor helpless Europeans, laboring under the yoke of their North American oppressors. Exactly what method is being used to relieve you of your responsibility for your own country?
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
If he is sitting in Australia in fear of the US I think he needs more help than a few words will offer.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Not exactly. A lot of people voted for Obama because he promised more transparency. He appears to be breaking his promises. If he was smart, which he hasn't seemed lately, he would use this crisis to try to regain some credibility.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
You do know that Australia and NZ share intel with your boogie monster don't you?
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
The problem is Ellsburg released evidence of government officials doing something illegal which meant he was shielded. The NSA story, which is not even fully known yet, though classified is apparently legal and has congressional as well as
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
There was something ironic about playing Missile Command at the height of the Cold War. No matter how well you did in the end you always lost all your cities.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
>Donating to a third party, or even a major party that happens to lose, could one day become "aiding an enemy of the state." Everyone has lost their minds.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
These numbers are from 2008, and quite a few states have decriminalized pot, so I wouldn't get quite too excited. Also it is probably just coincidental that crime peaked just as incarceration rates went up and crime rates continued to
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Admitting weakness is a virtue in some religions.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
This is how we achieve real change, by real heroes like mindcrime standing up and saying blow me. They are sure to fall.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
More link bait. Charged != turned. The puffed up charges have to hold up in court. Edit: I somehow missed that they were convicted. Regardless of the semantics of the law I am quite sure they do not support violence.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
There are federal laws against marijuana but the Feds don't bust people in MA for smoking weed, though apparently technically they could.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
The title was "German State Justice Minister Calls for Boycott of US companies". I think the only way to roll this back, if it even can be rolled back, is to attack from the states using state power. If CA, NY, TX, UT, VT, every s
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US surveillance revelations deepen European fears(reuters.com)
184 points by youngerdryas 13y ago|76 comments
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
How easy is it to set on fire, I love the smell of burning electronics.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
>You don't have to register anywhere because they don't need that. That is not a very good argument. Why do the Germans need you to register at the local police station?
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
I've never registered anywhere and I have moved a lot. In the states we have at least 20 million undocumented. In Germany you legally have to report someone that doesn't have an ID card.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
We need to teach more history to the youngsters.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
Although set in London I always thought 1984 was rather Soviet.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
This could never happen on Android.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
I am not sure you realize that UK citizens go to jail if they express unpopular opinions on twitter.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
>If smoking pot is a felony In what western country is it a felony? Also if more than one percent commits fraud you could have a problem.
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by youngerdryas 13y ago
>I'm not talking about searches at airports here. Searches of people or baggage for weapons, as long as they check only for weapons and keep no records about you if you have no weapons, are just an inconvenience; they do not endange
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The Legality of the Data Retention Directive (2010)(ejlt.org)
2 points by youngerdryas 13y ago|0 comments

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