a top-secret 41-page PowerPoint document
UK press is going ape shit over this one. For them I think it's the phone hacking scandal on a much bigger scale. They basically want to know who knew about it in parliament and then let the heads role. Pretty standard really. Naturally all the big companies like google ect have come out insisting they knew nothing and didn't allow the US any access.
As for me, I'm not to bothered about it. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
This bit made me laugh
Why do I immediately think some kid put together some really shitty presentation and sent it to them.
This is some epic stuff. According to this map my country doesn't exist :lol:
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This is meant to be used primarily against groups of people, not individuals. Purpose of this program is to easily identify possible terrorist threat. That's all fine and dandy in theory, but in reality terrorist is also any person or group of people who is trying to perform violent overthrow of the government.
This brings more safety for anyone, but it also minimize the chance to change things when they go in the wrong direction.
As for me, I'm not to bothered about it. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.
As for me, I'm not to bothered about it. If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.How can someone possibly say this with a straight face? :|
How can someone possibly say this with a straight face? :|
How can someone possibly say this with a straight face? :|
So uh, how about that Xbox One needing to be connected to the internet to function. And how about the fact that Kinect (you know, that HD camera with a microphone that's so good at tracking movements) also needs to be connected to the Xbox One to function. Oh yeah and also Microsoft was one of the PRISM companies.
Hmmm... Always connected to the internet, Kinect's HD camera working even if you're not even using it, Microsoft working with PRISM.(click to show/hide)
Is it weird that the idea of that turns me on?
weird (wîrd)
adj. weird·er, weird·est
1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
2. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
It is a democratically elected government head that takes decisions that are not democratically accepted. Not that uncommon.
What's wrong with US invading privacy? You don't have anything to hide, do you? Besides, it's for the children. You don't hate children, do you?
Keep the masses uneducated is the single best tool for people seeking power.
Anti-terror measures and administrations by no means exist because it's a safety concern. Looking at the numbers and comparing with actual safety problems, it just isn't. Creating an anti-lightning, anti-alligator or anti-child molester task force with the same budget would make more sense from that point of view.
You think it's a joke, but there's a branch of the US government that has exactly that. Think of any potential accident or discriminatory/negatively viewed behavior and there's a group of people who's jobs are largely dedicated to battling these things.
That said, this is wrong. Not that they're doing it, because let's face it, if you were in charge, would you not? It's not that 'the government is greedy' or anything like that. It's simpler. You always act in your own (unless you're batshit crazy) self-interest, don't you? What's wrong is that our government got caught. We can't accept this in public. It's fine if it never came out, but once shit like this just keeps coming back to the spotlight, you kind of have to take a stand and say something about it.
It's like this. If I had a crazy serial killer dad who killed off random people I didn't like, I wouldn't care. If I found out he was doing this, I'd get mad and tell him to turn himself in or I'd call the police myself.
That's enough with overblown analogies. Sorry guys.
It's easy to settle back and claim that's inevitable and there's no real freedom, but you are free to change it if you're an American citizen. You just need to make enough friends. Friends who whine a lot.
I guess I lied about the analogies thing, but this last one was less of one. Right?
Really, though. Say something. To anyone. Don't argue, though, unless you've got a Philosophy degree or something. We can't force education on everyone, but we can preach at them until they just believe what we're saying.
If I had a crazy serial killer dad who killed off random people I didn't like, I wouldn't care. If I found out he was doing this, I'd get mad and tell him to turn himself in or I'd call the police myself.
Least violent? The fuck are you smoking?
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Least violent? The fuck are you smoking?
Consider that train of thought.
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143285836/war-and-violence-on-the-decline-in-modern-times
It all depends on how much time you want to consider. The past few years? Then sure, you're right. The 20th century was incredibly violent right up until its end, so it should be hardly surprising that the 21st is mild in comparison (so far).
It's like this. If I had a crazy serial killer dad who killed off random people I didn't like, I wouldn't care. If I found out he was doing this, I'd get mad and tell him to turn himself in or I'd call the police myself.
Okay... why?
If I had a crazy serial killer dad who killed off random people I didn't like, and there wasn't definitive proof it was happening I wouldn't care- even if I had some suspicion that it was happening.
If I had a crazy serial killer dad who killed off random people I didn't like and I found out (caught him redhanded or encountered some other definite proof) he was doing this, I'd get mad and tell him to turn himself in or I'd call the police myself.
stuffOkay, so? There is nothing wrong with either trying to further improve the current situation or at least trying to prevent it from getting worse. It's called progress.
Bunch of whiners living in the freest, healthiest, least violent period humanity has EVER gone through
in the most priviledged countries, whining about "opression" and "totalitarians". Get a sense of perspective.
Nuclear weapons and MAD is pretty much the only reason WW2 didn't immediately continue after the fall of Japan. The Soviets could have invaded all of western europe to the Atlantic and the US couldn't have done shit about it. They are also a huge part of the reason that there has yet to be another total war. So yes, that, along with advances in nutrition, general medical technology, agriculture, biological manipulation, etc are the reasons there is less war, crimes, famine than before. It has nothing to do with people bitching about shit. People have always bitched about shit. Should we suddenly discover an unlimited source of renewable energy and voluntary immortality, people would find a way to bitch about it somehow.
Because people aren't fundamentally different in their approach to life than they have been in the past. There is a saying, along the line of "civilization is just a couple of meals away from barbarity". When people have their basic material needs met, they can afford to worry about high minded concepts like "liberty" and "freedom". Others have a tendency to see things more pragmatically, little things like "where is my next meal going to come from" and "I hope no one I know gets killed today". You know, actual opression and misery. And despite all the high-minded rhetoric, the wealthy, well-fed "philosophers" pontificating about noble words and ethics would just as easily fall into the darwinistic survival of the fittest if the situation demanded it, like a mass famine or an epidemic (which we are more than due for). Or they would die.
Nuclear weapons and MAD is pretty much the only reason WW2 didn't immediately continue after the fall of Japan. The Soviets could have invaded all of western europe to the Atlantic and the US couldn't have done shit about it.
btw eric schmidt was at Bilderberg.just sayin....
It's easy to settle back and claim that's inevitable and there's no real freedom, but you are free to change it if you're an American citizen. You just need to make enough friends. Friends who whine a lot.
no. This is the biggest phallacy written here.
No amount of political pressure, civilian protest, budget cuts, etc, will stop the behemoth that is running the world you live in. You have no rights. No power. You just won't EVER be able to change ANYTHING of any meaningful value. There are too many vested interests. Too many of the ruling class of your country have invested too many generations into becoming the ruling class. They will never allow anything to interfere with their ambitions. I honestly cannot understand WHY you continue to tell yourself that you have any say. You werent born to it. Or maybe YOU were. I don't know who you are related to.
But let's be honest, PLEASE: there is no such thing as democracy in the same location as capitalism. There is no such thing as equality, equal representation, or even freedom while we have a monetary system. I'm not trying to preach the evils of capitalism or something, it is just NOT possible for everyone's best interest to be the same: Those in charge HAVE what they want, and those not in charge CANNOT have they want, or those in charge would no longer have it. The ppl who make descisions in the NATO aligned countries were never elected, they are not answerable to the public, and to pretend that the politicians you elected get to decide policy is just literally lying to youself. You do what your told, when your told to do it, or you can opt out and go be self sufficiant in a lost valley somewhere. It's not your society. Short of a revolution, there is no way to loosen the control of the power set. But, as we can clearly see from the word: revolutions are just that: a circular motion -> the most u can ever hope to achieve is a short period of time before those who were in control before are in control again. Maybe with a different puppet waved in front of you. Maybe not.
Untill you all stop craving bread and circuses, that's how life is. I am not criticizing it: It works. But when I see people purposefully telling themselves that things are not this way it makes me sick for humanity. Ffs grow up.
no. This is the biggest phallacy written here.
No amount of political pressure, civilian protest, budget cuts, etc, will stop the behemoth that is running the world you live in. You have no rights. No power. You just won't EVER be able to change ANYTHING of any meaningful value. There are too many vested interests. Too many of the ruling class of your country have invested too many generations into becoming the ruling class. They will never allow anything to interfere with their ambitions. I honestly cannot understand WHY you continue to tell yourself that you have any say. You werent born to it. Or maybe YOU were. I don't know who you are related to.
But let's be honest, PLEASE: there is no such thing as democracy in the same location as capitalism. There is no such thing as equality, equal representation, or even freedom while we have a monetary system. I'm not trying to preach the evils of capitalism or something, it is just NOT possible for everyone's best interest to be the same: Those in charge HAVE what they want, and those not in charge CANNOT have they want, or those in charge would no longer have it. The ppl who make descisions in the NATO aligned countries were never elected, they are not answerable to the public, and to pretend that the politicians you elected get to decide policy is just literally lying to youself. You do what your told, when your told to do it, or you can opt out and go be self sufficiant in a lost valley somewhere. It's not your society. Short of a revolution, there is no way to loosen the control of the power set. But, as we can clearly see from the word: revolutions are just that: a circular motion -> the most u can ever hope to achieve is a short period of time before those who were in control before are in control again. Maybe with a different puppet waved in front of you. Maybe not.
Untill you all stop craving bread and circuses, that's how life is. I am not criticizing it: It works. But when I see people purposefully telling themselves that things are not this way it makes me sick for humanity. Ffs grow up.
Okay... why?
That's some fucked up thinking you got there. You go from not caring to "turn urself in or i call the police." Because of...? Why is there such a huge difference between "no definitive proof but strongly suspect" and "definitive proof"?
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Our politicians don't have power and some shadowy group does, eh? Who? YOU have the truth?
I guess we're getting to the point, though, after all that needless exposition. Our politicians don't have power and some shadowy group does, eh? Who? YOU have the truth?
That's arrogance, bud. Thinking you've got the world figured in a circular argument. Not hubris. Not confidence. Just blind arrogance.
I wrote a masive essay, including drawing on my past with examples, took about 30 minutes. But then I realised: 15 years I spent telling people how it is didn't change anyones complacency to being ruled by others for the rulers personal gain. Why would me writing here do it? Humanity blunts the instruments of change, by wearing down emotional resistance of people like me, to the point that I just say:
Hey, if you are happy to live as you are, like a mushroom, in the dark and fed on shit, why should I bother to try to help you anymore Kalam.
I don't mean it in any way to offend you. If you are convinced what you think is right, and more importantly, are HAPPY with your beliefs, I won't try to change you.
You ARE wrong, but I see what IS there, and it makes me UNHAPPY everyday. So of the two of us, you are probably better off.
BTW: I'm not an atheist: Either 1/ there is no god, in which case I am very sad that ppl still use him/her/it/them as an excuse to propogate hate or 2/ There is a god/s, in which case a/ WTF are they doing? and b/ Why the fuck would they care if I believe in them or not, they are already God. If there is an afterlife/heaven/hell, I will find out when the time comes. It seems massively conclusive that there is no god, but if there are, and what everyone has written is correct: I will be judged by my actions and moral choices, in which case I am sitting pretty. But I don't do what I consider morally right for some reward afterwards: I do it because it is right.
Russian government can invade privacy better and faster than USA government can. Suck it, losers. :P
So, where in the internet have USA located oil-deposits?
That's so 2004Still 9 years left until they will start starring in pornos :(
hell people born in 2004 are nine years old
That's so 2004
hell people born in 2004 are nine years old
You clearly are not American. Oil is never old, oil is forever. We will liberate it from you dirty blasphemers.