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• On the post: NSA's Keith Alexander Calls Emergency Private Briefing To Lobby Against Amash Amendment

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2013 @ 10:33am

  Weapons of Mass Destruction

  Remember, these are the same agencies that were certain that Saddam had "Weapons of Mass Destruction" which was supposed to justify the Iraq war.
  Or, to put it another way, they make up whatever s**t they want and expect everyone to believe them. Can't check their sources, can you?
  Governmental Intelligence is a stupid idea as well as an oxymoron. The government doesn't do anything correctly without checks and balances. Hell, they do very little correctly WITH checks and balaces.

• On the post: Rep. Justin Amash Now Looking To Strip NSA Of Its Power To Collect Phone Data On Innocent Americans

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2013 @ 07:25am

  Re: Re: Re: There's not an either: the NSA is not going to be perturbed.

  Congress can do the right thing occasionally.
  Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.

• On the post: ISP CEO Explains What Happens When The NSA Shows Up At Your Door

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2013 @ 01:58pm

  WTF?

  How could anyone, especially the agents on the ground, not see this as totalitarian tactics?
  
  No wonder the Ex-CIA/NSA boss is so psychotic. They have set up themselves as the "guards" of the world, with everyone else in the world as the "prisoners" in a huge "jail" game.

• On the post: Snowden's 'Dead Man's Switch' May Just Make Him A Bigger Target

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 02:13pm

  Re: Re: ...

  Three felonies a day, or too many for the Congressional Research Service to enumerate (for those viewers who have been following along at home).

• On the post: ACLU Presents Its Findings On License Plate Scanners, Most Of Which Is Bad News

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2013 @ 07:54am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, absolutely. He didn't look around at a state overly interested in controlling the populace at the expense of their civil rights. Police brutality is totally unheard of in the UK.
  The UK is a shining example of a total lack of governmental abuse of it populace.

• On the post: ACLU Presents Its Findings On License Plate Scanners, Most Of Which Is Bad News

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 09:29am

  Re:

  Because you don't need specialized technology to track license plates when there are 5 cameras per block, all of which can easily read your plate.
  
  Seriously, you hold up the UK as a symbol of freedom and privacy? FYI, it was NOT a coincidence that George Orwell based 1984 there.

• On the post: Court's 'Temporary' Rule Changes Protect Bad NYPD Cops And Stack Deck Against Plaintiffs

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 08:45am

  Re: Great...

  But Billy Crystal says it's a great place!

• On the post: Just As US Finally Realizes Copyright Terms May Be Too Long, Japan Looks To Make Them Longer

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 08:16am

  Re:

  ...aaand the first comment is from a racist idiot who can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese customs.
  
  Prolly the same ass who gave out the Asiana pilot names.

• On the post: ACLU Presents Its Findings On License Plate Scanners, Most Of Which Is Bad News

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2013 @ 09:32am

  Drones again?

  Why do we insist on freaking out about drones doing what piloted planes have been doing for 20+ years?
  
  I think you guys have watched the terminator series one time too many.

• On the post: Former Top NSA Lawyer Blames Civil Libertarians For 9/11, Says Hype About NSA May Lead To A Repeat

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 09:43am

  Re:

  It's not the first time, but it has been a long time.

• On the post: Pippa Middleton Sends Legal Threats Over Parody Twitter Account

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2013 @ 10:46am

  Cultural Reference

  For those who are unaware of the British Upper Class, please see Monty Python: Upper Class Twit of the Year
  Pippa is well within the intellect of her peers. And office supplies.

• On the post: The Public Domain: Now Available For Only $165 An Hour!*

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2013 @ 11:15am

  Comment II - The Sequel

  Now you know why Hollywood is so keen on sequels.
  
  They've already cleared the copyright hurdles making the previous movie. Less weirdness coming out of the woodwork, like Roger Dean suing James Cameron/Avatar over copyright of the concept of "floating islands".
  
  Nice to see copyright encouraging originality.

• On the post: Reporter: E-Rated Kids' Game Unsafe For Kids Because The Internet Is Scary

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 10:25am

  Re:

  "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
  
  Carl Sagan

• On the post: The NSA Turns Everyone Into A 'Threat To National Security' By Instantly Classifying All Data It Scoops Up

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 02:49pm

  Re: Re: Weasel Words in the Extreme

  I agree. There is a segment of the US population that believe that there should be a "ruling" class called the "government." The "rulers" utilize the revolving door between government jobs and executive private sector jobs, while the "ruled" empower the "rulers" by accepting and encouraging this behavior, often genuinely believing that the "rulers" deserve this preference, while others of the "ruled" support the system in the hopes of becoming one of the "rulers".
  There is a name that the players often use to describe this game that they play: Patriotism.
  I say that, in a country where the people are supposed to rule, that this game is the very antithesis of Patriotism.

• On the post: Iran's President-Elect: Net Filtering Doesn't Work… Oh, And By The Way, Human Rights Are Universal

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2013 @ 12:41pm

  Re:

  We have no enemies except the ones we invented.
  
  In reality, we have crackpots with access to fertilizer, planes, and pressure-cookers.

• On the post: W3C Chief: To Prevent Parts Of The Web From Being Walled Off, We Need To Wall It Off Ourselves

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2013 @ 10:50am

  Who wants DRM?

  The question you need to ask is, "Who actually wants DRM?" The answer is: the declining tech companies. Those would include, but not be limited to, IBM, Microsoft, and Apple. They can all use DRM to leverage users and other companies to prop them up. Oh, you want to keep the movies you think you bought? Well, that means you have to buy our software and use it on our hardware. No transfers, or our legal department chews you up and spits you out.
  See? DRM is a lovely tool for vendor lock-in, and not much else.

• On the post: George W. Bush: NSA Surveillance Is No Problem Because Civil Liberties Are Guaranteed

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2013 @ 02:16pm

  G.W.G.

  Georgie Jr continues to show that his grandfather was Forrest Gump.
  
  Or maybe Bonzo. Bedtime, Bonzo!

• On the post: Yet Another Teen Making Stupid Jokes On Social Media Now Faces Years In Jail

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 09:31am

  Re:

  You forgot the flip-side.
  Flagged by another government as a terrorist? No one tells anyone about it.
  Make terristic comments on an Jihadist web site? All is cool. The NSA knows who you are, but they need to get to "the big guys" so they leave you alone.
  
  The idiots in the government are too wrapped up with the "big arrest" that makes national news. They totally avoid opportunites to warn local authorities and communities about the possible threats in their midst, while law enforcement overreacts to the little they are alerted to.
  
  Has anyone ever looked into the average IQ and education of a law-enforcement officer? The 3 that I know barely passed High School, and one became an FBI agent!
  It could be that the reason that the police seem so stupid is because, well, they are.

• On the post: Internet Takes Smears Against Glenn Greenwald And Make It An Awesome Meme

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 06:40am

  Re:

  On August 6, 1994 Glen Greenwald washed and rinsed, but didn't repeat. #ggscandals

• On the post: Internet Takes Smears Against Glenn Greenwald And Make It An Awesome Meme

  

  TheLastCzarnian ( profile ), 27 Jun, 2013 @ 06:33am

  Re: Re: More evidence that "the media"

  And now you know why the government dropped the restrictions on single companies owning multiple networks in the same area.
  Free markets owned by a nanny government.
  The saddest part: the Bush administration started it. Even Republicans have no standing to complain.

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