I am not American and do not live in America. There is no upside (for me) when Americans spy on my communications. The NSA are not the good guys - if their employees cannot handle some naming and shaming they are working for the wrong organisation.
Holding people without trial, torture, assassination, propping up dictators, invasion of basically everyone's private communications, targeting whistle-blowers, etc are important actions in keeping 'real' Americans safe!
"...and as in the case of Rep. Dan Lungren, pretends that as long as no one proves to them that the NSA is abusing its power, there's simply no reason to demand evidence."
Of course anyone who leaks the evidence will be accused of being a terrorist, threatened with assassination, and / or imprisoned.
If teachers cannot do the job without breaking the law (Constitution = Law) or if they cannot handle the criticism which comes with being public servants (paid for with public funds) they should quit and go work for the private sector and see how THAT goes!
If they name the school / teachers we can all start making jokes about them (and teach them a lesson re: Streisand effect)...someone must the know the name?
Allowing competitors a shot at the market actually reduces anti-trust issues (I think). As for France, Google should just shut their offices and see how the French like that.
mmmuhh... cause? If N Korea actually has nukes, it is because some bright spark put them on a hit-list (axis of evil) to look good in a speech.
Interesting fact (to put the Nuclear threat in perspective): America has actually lost (and failed to recover) more nuclear weapons (11) than N Korea is rumored to possess (10).
Since when has N Korea had anything to do with terrorism?
Even the United States Department of State does not consider N Korea to be a sponsor of terrorism.
When the world's biggest bully has one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, any country that entertains delusions of kicking that bully in the head has no choice but get tooled up.
I have visited Saudi Arabia at least 20 times and never had a problem, however I would be concerned about visiting the US.
Saudi Arabia is quite open (righteous?) about its restrictions, unlike the US which appears to be a democracy but by many accounts seems to behave like a police-state. The other important difference is that Saudi Arabia does not have the influence on the rest of the world that the US does.
Difficult to understand the logic - nearly all search engine results go to pages that contained "copyrighted content"... (because copyright is automatic).
Professionals like lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc often pay a hefty price for bad decisions, negligence, etc. What are the consequences for judges? (Hypothetically of course - I would not dare suggest that an actual judge had made a bad decision - it is probably illegal :) )
Government gets involved because they like to show uppity corporates / individuals(i.e. those that are not paying lobbyists / bribes) who is in charge!
I suspect that many of the laws we have today exist for this reason.
It is ironic that there are people who believe government is competent to tell business / individuals how to run their affairs when government cannot seem to manage its own.
Is it defamation...for a lawyer? If I wanted to hire a lawyer as an attack dog, I would WANT the biggest a*hole in town! Sadly I can envisage a situation where lawyers might actually use their position on a troll page to get business...
Re: Responsibility and Accountability
I am not American and do not live in America. There is no upside (for me) when Americans spy on my communications. The NSA are not the good guys - if their employees cannot handle some naming and shaming they are working for the wrong organisation.
No sympathy
The NSA and its staff do not appear to respect the privacy of anyone. Why should we respect theirs?
Jack Bauer: the American role-model
Holding people without trial, torture, assassination, propping up dictators, invasion of basically everyone's private communications, targeting whistle-blowers, etc are important actions in keeping 'real' Americans safe!
"...and as in the case of Rep. Dan Lungren, pretends that as long as no one proves to them that the NSA is abusing its power, there's simply no reason to demand evidence."
Of course anyone who leaks the evidence will be accused of being a terrorist, threatened with assassination, and / or imprisoned.
If teachers cannot do the job without breaking the law (Constitution = Law) or if they cannot handle the criticism which comes with being public servants (paid for with public funds) they should quit and go work for the private sector and see how THAT goes!
If they name the school / teachers we can all start making jokes about them (and teach them a lesson re: Streisand effect)...someone must the know the name?
Allowing competitors a shot at the market actually reduces anti-trust issues (I think). As for France, Google should just shut their offices and see how the French like that.
I don't think that they got much advertising when the maps appeared on someone's else's site / app.
mmmuhh... cause? If N Korea actually has nukes, it is because some bright spark put them on a hit-list (axis of evil) to look good in a speech.
Interesting fact (to put the Nuclear threat in perspective): America has actually lost (and failed to recover) more nuclear weapons (11) than N Korea is rumored to possess (10).
Since when has N Korea had anything to do with terrorism?
Even the United States Department of State does not consider N Korea to be a sponsor of terrorism.
When the world's biggest bully has one of the world's largest nuclear arsenals, any country that entertains delusions of kicking that bully in the head has no choice but get tooled up.
I have visited Saudi Arabia at least 20 times and never had a problem, however I would be concerned about visiting the US.
Saudi Arabia is quite open (righteous?) about its restrictions, unlike the US which appears to be a democracy but by many accounts seems to behave like a police-state. The other important difference is that Saudi Arabia does not have the influence on the rest of the world that the US does.
Difficult to understand the logic - nearly all search engine results go to pages that contained "copyrighted content"... (because copyright is automatic).
Techdirt is screwed now!
Professionals like lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc often pay a hefty price for bad decisions, negligence, etc. What are the consequences for judges? (Hypothetically of course - I would not dare suggest that an actual judge had made a bad decision - it is probably illegal :) )
Possibly useful if it can identify someone on the plane that you know (FB friend etc)?
Did some idiot / politician / uniformed thug confuse Wikipedia for Wikileaks? Or is it because Wikipedia links to copyrighted content?
When VPN's become illegal, TOR over hacked WiFi will just take its place (and probably more secure)...
...politicians of course will be exempt...
Government gets involved because they like to show uppity corporates / individuals(i.e. those that are not paying lobbyists / bribes) who is in charge!
I suspect that many of the laws we have today exist for this reason.
It is ironic that there are people who believe government is competent to tell business / individuals how to run their affairs when government cannot seem to manage its own.
Re: Re: Patent Trolls
Is it defamation...for a lawyer? If I wanted to hire a lawyer as an attack dog, I would WANT the biggest a*hole in town! Sadly I can envisage a situation where lawyers might actually use their position on a troll page to get business...
Re: Re: Re: Interesting
or Google...