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• On the post: Major New Anti-NSA Bill Dropping Next Week With Powerful Support

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2013 @ 02:15pm

  Well we have to start somewhere.

  But I think that this will only generate requests for exemptions and the hunt for loop-holes.

• On the post: Cablevision Realizes It Argued Against Its Own Interests In Aereo Case; Flips Sides

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2013 @ 02:02pm

  Am I the only person confused?

  Are you for the ruling in your favor or against the ruling in your favor?
  
  Maybe you need to reconsider your business model and side with those that want to give you the option to choose.

• On the post: Dianne Feinstein Deploys All The 'Intelligence' Cliches In Op-Ed Defending Metadata Program

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2013 @ 07:43am

  Hmmmm.....

  Above all, the program has been effective in helping to prevent terrorist plots against the U.S. and our allies.

  
  
  So the NSA dragnet is kind of like Nostradamus predictions. Very easy to prove they were correct after the fact.

• On the post: Experience Stop And Frisk Thanks To This POV Video

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 17 Oct, 2013 @ 03:39pm

  I had to reserve commenting at first.

  When I read this and watched the video no one had commented yet.
  I just could not at that time because I had feelings of serious hate towards them. I am not a minority nor am I some bleeding heart but watching this video made me so mad that ANYONE in the country would be treated in that manner no matter the circumstances that I really wanted to blast them.
  
  I am not aware of their day to day job or the stresses involved but there simply is not excuse for the way another human being is being treated.
  
  Simple answer these officers should be fired. If not then the police chief should be fired then the officers. Anything less is just not acceptable. Time to send a message to police they are not the power they are allowed by us to exercise certain powers we grant them to serve and protect us. That is it.

• On the post: NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet… Because It Gets It From Your GPS

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 08:43am

  Re:

  Well maybe...But there are other ways of tracking you. OnStar? Have we heard a word from the Government bailed out company GM about what they do or do not provide to the government about tracking info? The NSA might be all up in their DBs finding data.
  
  Don't forget traffic cams, or highway traffic cams, or the billion other cameras that are tracking your movements that the NSA has found some way to tap in to.
  
  1984 was a fantasy. The reality is a bit more detailed.

• On the post: Anonymous Cop Claims Anonymity Is Bad, Proposes National Email Registry For Internet Users

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2013 @ 08:36am

  Validity and anonymity are not the same

  The AC "Anonymous Cop" has points of thought that should be considered if only to contrast.
  
  The fact is this: Freedom of speech is and always should be a right!!! Period. Let him say what he wants and let others do the same. They, even when very, very wrong can inform and create new insight.

• On the post: New FBI Director Thinks President Obama's Surveillance Program Is Great

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2013 @ 11:42am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I know but some might not.

• On the post: New FBI Director Thinks President Obama's Surveillance Program Is Great

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2013 @ 11:17am

  Re: Politician's and their continuing failures

  Washington is about gaining power not about representing the people that elected you. So the people elected only need to balance 2 points. What gains them power in Washington and what gets them re-elected. Nominations are not part of that equation.

• On the post: New FBI Director Thinks President Obama's Surveillance Program Is Great

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2013 @ 10:42am

  Re:

  Really it would be useless unless it was while they were hooked up to a polygraph. Because all would lie to appease their donors.

• On the post: New FBI Director Thinks President Obama's Surveillance Program Is Great

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2013 @ 10:38am

  Bush haters rate Obama as better, not sure why.

  So it seems that Bush was the pre-vanguard 1984 monitoring president. And Obama is a president that found good info in being a government that always and monitors...everything.
  
  Elect those people you want, but enjoy the benefits and consequences of that choice.
  
  Turn off that stupid, vapid reality tv show and find a way to understand what they want to do to you and your family. Or complain never again. You choice with or without information is your choice. But understand if enough uninformed people agree then the US becomes the USSR.

• On the post: Kim Dotcom Seeks Millions From The New Zealand Government For Illegal Raid On His Home

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 09:12am

  Re: Re: One thing to say...

  I agree. But when the people that are governed by those that they elect those people bare the responsibility of those they elect.
  
  So pay up bitches. And then learn from those mistakes.

• On the post: Student Arrested And Charged With 'Terrorizing' For Shooting Classmates… With An iPhone App

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 06:29am

  Re:

  I wish it was just the US. That way I would have some place I could move to.

• On the post: Student Arrested And Charged With 'Terrorizing' For Shooting Classmates… With An iPhone App

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 05:59am

  Re: This is...

  When we allow ourselves to become defined by a fear that is spurious those that feel it their job to protect us from a fear react in a way that is spurious.
  
  So we either grow a set or agree to have them removed.

• On the post: Student Arrested And Charged With 'Terrorizing' For Shooting Classmates… With An iPhone App

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 05:51am

  Re:

  I like your logic here, but you do understand that the government never violates any of it's laws. Never. Unthinkable.
  
  So yeah, not really.

• On the post: Kim Dotcom Seeks Millions From The New Zealand Government For Illegal Raid On His Home

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 06:06am

  DOTCOM for President!!

  Just kidding!
  
  I hope thought that he wins. Also DOTCOM is a dumb ass for asking for so little. If he was suing somebody in America he would be asking for 100-1000 times actual damage. So in his case asking for the paltry sum near actual cost and damages is just plain bad legal strategy.

• On the post: Student Arrested And Charged With 'Terrorizing' For Shooting Classmates… With An iPhone App

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2013 @ 05:50am

  Ah, those crazy kids...

  Thinking that virtual reality is not really reality and that by doing something that could not possibly cause any harm to anyone to express your frustration is OK and legal.
  
  I mean where do they get these ideas. That it is OK to be upset or even GOD FORBID angry because someone treated you unpleasantly.
  
  Next time you just need to write in your diary is only the most vague terms that people are upsetting you and that you are sad by this, otherwise you will be upset by the amount of time you spend in jail.

• On the post: Declassified Documents Prove NSA's Bulk Metadata Collections Completely Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2013 @ 01:15pm

  Re: Re: Much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

  Yeah Politicians always use a cause to distract from the real issue with what they are doing.

• On the post: Declassified Documents Prove NSA's Bulk Metadata Collections Completely Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2013 @ 12:05pm

  Re: Much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

  It gives me some hope when I see the replies to my comment. But...not enough hope.

• On the post: Thai Airways Tries To Cover Logo On Crashed Plane, Gets Egg On Face Instead

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2013 @ 03:17pm

  I saw this and laughed so hard I broke another plane.

  I wonder who was so stupid to think this was a good idea.

• On the post: Declassified Documents Prove NSA's Bulk Metadata Collections Completely Unnecessary

  

  Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 11 Sep, 2013 @ 06:43am

  Much easier to ask for forgiveness than permission

  I am so sad that more people are just not that upset by all these revelations. Why is there not protests in the streets all over the world about this but they feel the world should stop because one dumb ass police officer arrested a person of race in a questionable situation.
  
  The NSA (aka Big Brother) is aware of this. They know that if they can feed enough BS to obfuscate the whole situation to the American people it will all just go away, in time.
  
  Sad.

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