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• On the post: David Braben, Once Angry At Used Games, Now A New Business Model Embracer

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2014 @ 04:33pm

  Re: This comment has been flagged by the community. Click here to show it

  Just so you know: I often click report on your comments even after they've received enough clicks to already hide them.
  
  I know it does no good, but you are simply so vacuous and offensive that it feels right to do so.
  
  To the rest of the community: QUIT FUCKING FEEDING IT! Simply click 'Report' and move on.

• On the post: Law Enforcement Is Not About Generating Revenue: Speed Trap And Booking Fee Edition

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2014 @ 05:39pm

  Re: Pay for Stay

  Can confirm. I received an OWI conviction that included 4 days in jail. I paid $75 US a day for my incarceration.
  
  Added bonus: one guy I was locked up with was in for meth production. Of the entire 96 hours, every waking moment I spent I watched this guy pace and listened to him talk about how to make meth. My probation officer asked me how I liked my "experience". I told her "it wasn't a total loss, I learned how to make meth".
  
  She was apoplectic. I couldn't understand why.

• On the post: Parallel Construction Revealed: How The DEA Is Trained To Launder Classified Surveillance Info

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2014 @ 05:32pm

  Re: Re:

  I cannot give more than one 'insightful'. :(

• On the post: Chilling Effects: James Clapper Tells Congress That Journalists Are Ed Snowden's 'Accomplices'

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2014 @ 05:50pm

  Re: Anyone on that short list of collaborators needs to...

  "Oops!"
  
  Was the first thing to come to my mind.

• On the post: NSA Defenders Offer Weak Rebuttal Of The RNC's Condemnation Of Mass Surveillance Programs

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 05:52pm

  Re: Re: pinch urself after reading 1783 historical fact & admit u suffer f/ longterm brainwashing

  had to go back over 300 years to find a war you won?

  
  
  Here is a comprehensive list of wars involving the US. There are a 'few' on said list described to be victories.
  
  

  and what did that do to the US ? you've been scared of invasion by the King/Queen ever since, you are allowed to carry guns because your so scared the Brits will come back one day.

  
  
  I hardly think the US is "scared of invasion by the King/Queen ever since". Last time I checked the US and UK were allies.
  
  On a side note, the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution (the right to bear arms) is loosely based on the English Bill of Rights 1689.
  
  

  why not take the same precautions as a result of 9/11, write a declaration of independence, allow you to carry arms to guard against invasion??

  
  
  Now I have to assume that you are just ignorant in general:
  
  The US already has a Declaration of Independence, and also has the 2nd Amendment (the right to bear arms).
  
  

  Put it into you constitution, so you can be scared forever.
  You've done it before, the precedent has already been set.

  
  
  It is already in our constitution, so you can be safe against your own government.
  
  
  

  You've done it before, the precedent has already been set.

  
  
  Non sequitur.
  
  It's been a while, Darryl, but again, it was fun. :)

• On the post: Really Bad Idea: Senator Klobuchar Wants To Mandate A 'Kill Switch' In All Mobile Phones

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2014 @ 04:40pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Your skills at debate are truly amazing.

• On the post: Innovation Asymmetry: Why The Copyright Industry Always Freaks Out About New Technologies

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 06:21pm

  Re: Re: Because THIEVES always use it as easier way to steal!

  QUIT FUCKING FEEDING IT!

• On the post: NSA/GCHQ Use Lolcats To Discuss What They Learn By Spying On All Of Our YouTube Views And Facebook Likes

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 05:27pm

  Re:

  YOUSONOFABITCH.YOU INVOKED IT!

• On the post: Rooting For The Laundry: The Absolute Insanity Of Decisions About The NSA Being Made Based On 'Liberal' Or 'Conservative' Ideology

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 05:12pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  All excellent points.
  
  

  Still Left-wing != Liberal != Democrat just as Right-wing != Conservative != Republican yet that is how much of the population views the terms due to the conflation of the terms by the politicians that are attempting to manipulate them.

  
  
  The manipulation is 'a' problem. The fact that the majority of people in the US don't even see the manipulation is 'the' problem.

• On the post: Rooting For The Laundry: The Absolute Insanity Of Decisions About The NSA Being Made Based On 'Liberal' Or 'Conservative' Ideology

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 05:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: It's all just tribalism

  The answer is to educate people what the terms actually mean, the purpose they are meant to serve as well as their usefulness when understood properly.

  
  
  Agreed, the problem is: who does the educating?
  
  (I don't have an answer, BTW.)
  
  (And you are my favorite AC: always calm and providing the most eloquent counter-arguments.)

• On the post: NSA/GCHQ Use Lolcats To Discuss What They Learn By Spying On All Of Our YouTube Views And Facebook Likes

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2014 @ 05:24pm

  According to the report, GCHQ insists that when it's scooping up this kind of data, it's just using it in the aggregate to look up interesting data, connections and trends,...

  
  
  ...and as soon as an individual matches these 'interesting data, connections and trends' they...
  
  

  ...rather than spying on anyone individually, but of course, once they have that data, if someone becomes "of interest", it's not difficult to go back and dig through it.

  
  
  ..dig up the 'pertinent' records and...

• On the post: Prince Sues 22 Fans For $1 Million Each For Linking To Bootlegs In Laughably Confused Complaint

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2014 @ 05:10pm

  Re: Re: An actual letter to his attorney

  I read it as effect (and kind of liked it, because it made me read it more than once). :)

• On the post: NSA Helped Destroy Trust In US Internet Firms, But Would Going Overseas Be Any Better?

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2014 @ 05:09pm

  Re: Re: Easy question. Answer is NO: all gov'ts and all corporations are intent on stealing your privacy.

  QUIT FUCKING FEEDING IT!

• On the post: Man Subjected To Multiple Rectal Searches And Enemas By Police Officers Receives $1.6 Million Settlement

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2014 @ 04:41pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Reminds me of an old joke:
  
  Q. How do you tell the difference between an oral and a rectal thermometer?
  
  A. Taste.

• On the post: Cop Who Was Fired After Kelly Thomas Beating Trying To Get His Job Back

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2014 @ 06:20pm

  Re: Re:

  Ever since 'officer one-eye' was hired, I would guess...

• On the post: Google Glass Wearer Claims He Was Yanked Out Of Movie, Held In Office For Hours, Over Filming He Didn't Do [Updated]

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2014 @ 05:23pm

  Re: Re: Papers please.

  Exactly. This.
  
  More people need to understand their rights and exercise them.
  
  Politely, but resolutely.

• On the post: Google Glass Wearer Claims He Was Yanked Out Of Movie, Held In Office For Hours, Over Filming He Didn't Do [Updated]

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 21 Jan, 2014 @ 05:20pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  As soon as the words "voluntary interview" came out of the "feds", he should have replied "I do not consent to this interview" and got up and attempted to leave.

  
  
  FTFY
  
  Excellent advice, but real life is sometimes different. I really doubt that he would've been able to just walk out.

• On the post: Microsoft Agrees To Hand Over Skype User Data To Russian Police

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 05:16pm

  Re: Re: Why not ?

  Over where?

• On the post: The Corruption Of Power: President Obama Trusts Himself Not To Abuse NSA Info

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 04:28pm

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  Mmmm, udders...
  
  I know what you meant, I just couldn't resist. :)

• On the post: Police Chief Publicly Disciplines Officers On Social Media

  

  BeeAitch ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2014 @ 04:23pm

  Re: Re:

  Chiming in from rural mid-western USA.
  
  Arrests (not convictions) are printed daily in the local paper and are displayed on the paper's website.

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