For those of us old enough to remember COINTELPRO from the 1960s, asking us to trust the FBI is a tall order. Then there was Ruby Ridge, Waco, the framing of James Earl Ray, the career-wrecking of Jean Seberg, and on a personal note, the wrecking of my career in Hollywood when I went public with the problems with the official story on Vince Foster (which have now been validated by the FBI's own release of their Vince Foster file).
I will start trusting the FBI when I see Hillary Clinton in handcuffs, and not one second before!
If the government does not have actual evidence that the hard drives contain child porn, it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to go on a fishing expedition, and clearly a violation of the Fifth Amendment to demand the defendant help to build the case against himself.
All the government has is hearsay evidence. The judge erred in considering that sufficient to hold the man in jail as a punitive action.
I did a calculation based on the total number of phone calls on Earth, their average length and discovered that with reasonable compression, the Utah Data center does have enough storage to save the CONTENT of every phone call made on earth for the last 7 years.
The picture isn't photoshopped. The photographer is using a powerful flash to fill in the shadows even though it is a daylight scene. It's a common technique used by high fashion photographers, but is used less in the US because the result looks "odd" to most people.
Such a law would instantly be unconstitutional, because in providing immunity, Congress is approving violations of the Fourth Amendment. Under the USSC Marbury Vs. Madison decision, such a law, repugnant to the Constitution, is instantly null and void.
The reason newspapers are losing revenue has nothing to do with being online. A recent poll shows that 60% of Americans have lost all trust in the corporate-owned media to tell them the truth about what is going on in the world. Nobody likes a liar. And the public, seeking the truth, has abandoned the traditional media in favor of the alternative media. The corporate media doomed itself when it stood shoulder to shoulder with the US Government about Saddam's nuclear weapons, never questioned the official story of 9-11, and so forth.
They did it to themselves and I have no sympathy for them.
I want to share a personal story of how this digital rights management nightmare, designed by lawyers utterly clueless about computers and the real world, encourages piracy.
I have a new computer, purchased recently when my older computer succumbed to planned obsolescence. This new machine is less than a year old. It has a blur-ray capable drive in it, so I decided I wanted a blu-ray player application to watch an occasional movie while I work. I purchased a professional blu-ray application from a company which presumably licenses all the correct technologies. The blu-ray disk I used to test the player is "Avatar", again store bought, totally in compliance, etc. Also very expensive.
But the disk would not play.
I run the special tool that came with the blu-ray player to validate the system and it turns out that there is a new security protocol that has been ordered by the lawyers to make sure that the blu-ray application is playing to a monitor and not to a recording device, and this security protocol has to be implemented in the graphics card. The card is less than a year old and I am being told it is already obsolete in the eyes of the lawyers.
Now, I have to upgrade the card anyway to add a second monitor so I make certain the new card has this special protocol in it.
Again the disk will not play. Again I run the special tool that came with the blu-ray player to validate the system and it turns out that the new security protocol that has been ordered by the lawyers to make sure that the blu-ray application is playing to a monitor and not to a recording device ALSO must be implemented in the monitor as well as the graphics card. Both monitors are less that a year old; one just came home from the store with the upgraded graphics card and it still does not have this special protocol to play the blu-ray disks. So, between the software and the upgraded card, I am down about $130 and several hours and have already forgotten why I wanted to watch the movie in the first place. I think it had something to do with relaxing, but relaxation is now a distant memory.
In about 5 minutes of web searching I find a pirate blu-ray player that plays avatar with the press of s single button. Now, to be honest, I did not keep the pirate player. I wound up deleting all the blu-ray code on my machine and giving the Avatar disk to a neighbor and will not bother wasting any more money and time on trying to watch Hollywood movies until the process is made user friendly rather than lawyer approved. And until Hollywood starts listening to the audience more than to the lawyers, it is doomed.
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Trust in the FBI is a tall order
For those of us old enough to remember COINTELPRO from the 1960s, asking us to trust the FBI is a tall order. Then there was Ruby Ridge, Waco, the framing of James Earl Ray, the career-wrecking of Jean Seberg, and on a personal note, the wrecking of my career in Hollywood when I went public with the problems with the official story on Vince Foster (which have now been validated by the FBI's own release of their Vince Foster file).
I will start trusting the FBI when I see Hillary Clinton in handcuffs, and not one second before!
The government has become a dictatorship
If the government does not have actual evidence that the hard drives contain child porn, it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to go on a fishing expedition, and clearly a violation of the Fifth Amendment to demand the defendant help to build the case against himself.
All the government has is hearsay evidence. The judge erred in considering that sufficient to hold the man in jail as a punitive action.
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TPP Must Be Kept Secret, Because The Public Is SMART ENOUGH To Understand It!
NSA can record all calls
I did a calculation based on the total number of phone calls on Earth, their average length and discovered that with reasonable compression, the Utah Data center does have enough storage to save the CONTENT of every phone call made on earth for the last 7 years.
They are using a flash
The picture isn't photoshopped. The photographer is using a powerful flash to fill in the shadows even though it is a daylight scene. It's a common technique used by high fashion photographers, but is used less in the US because the result looks "odd" to most people.
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Such a law would instantly be unconstitutional, because in providing immunity, Congress is approving violations of the Fourth Amendment. Under the USSC Marbury Vs. Madison decision, such a law, repugnant to the Constitution, is instantly null and void.
Nobody likes a liar!
The reason newspapers are losing revenue has nothing to do with being online. A recent poll shows that 60% of Americans have lost all trust in the corporate-owned media to tell them the truth about what is going on in the world. Nobody likes a liar. And the public, seeking the truth, has abandoned the traditional media in favor of the alternative media. The corporate media doomed itself when it stood shoulder to shoulder with the US Government about Saddam's nuclear weapons, never questioned the official story of 9-11, and so forth.
They did it to themselves and I have no sympathy for them.
The reason Hollywood is dying...
I want to share a personal story of how this digital rights management nightmare, designed by lawyers utterly clueless about computers and the real world, encourages piracy.
I have a new computer, purchased recently when my older computer succumbed to planned obsolescence. This new machine is less than a year old. It has a blur-ray capable drive in it, so I decided I wanted a blu-ray player application to watch an occasional movie while I work. I purchased a professional blu-ray application from a company which presumably licenses all the correct technologies. The blu-ray disk I used to test the player is "Avatar", again store bought, totally in compliance, etc. Also very expensive.
But the disk would not play.
I run the special tool that came with the blu-ray player to validate the system and it turns out that there is a new security protocol that has been ordered by the lawyers to make sure that the blu-ray application is playing to a monitor and not to a recording device, and this security protocol has to be implemented in the graphics card. The card is less than a year old and I am being told it is already obsolete in the eyes of the lawyers.
Now, I have to upgrade the card anyway to add a second monitor so I make certain the new card has this special protocol in it.
Again the disk will not play. Again I run the special tool that came with the blu-ray player to validate the system and it turns out that the new security protocol that has been ordered by the lawyers to make sure that the blu-ray application is playing to a monitor and not to a recording device ALSO must be implemented in the monitor as well as the graphics card. Both monitors are less that a year old; one just came home from the store with the upgraded graphics card and it still does not have this special protocol to play the blu-ray disks. So, between the software and the upgraded card, I am down about $130 and several hours and have already forgotten why I wanted to watch the movie in the first place. I think it had something to do with relaxing, but relaxation is now a distant memory.
In about 5 minutes of web searching I find a pirate blu-ray player that plays avatar with the press of s single button. Now, to be honest, I did not keep the pirate player. I wound up deleting all the blu-ray code on my machine and giving the Avatar disk to a neighbor and will not bother wasting any more money and time on trying to watch Hollywood movies until the process is made user friendly rather than lawyer approved. And until Hollywood starts listening to the audience more than to the lawyers, it is doomed.