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  • On the post: Even If You Cancel Your OnStar Service, The Company Will Still Track (And Sell) Your Location

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2011 @ 01:14pm

    Re: Waiter!

    I am not a conspiracy crazy, but the gestapo and the secret police did not happen over night. They started by monitoring people first. Check your history.

    Just a thought exercise. During your normal day how often do you think someone somewhere can NOT find out where you are? Think about it, really think about it.

    Do I think that we are on the verge of being a police state, no. But I think that we have allowed ourselves to be subjected to too much in terms of loss of privacy.

    Everyday you can read here and many other sites and see where we have failed to fight the erosion of our privacy. Failed to fight the erosion of our rights.

    I am not out there when I worry that I can be put in prison for 75 years because I videoed a police officer in public doing something, anything. When I worry that the government will be able to access information they should not be able to without a court order, but they can.

    I am not out there because this worries me. Government should only have exactly the powers we let it have. It should not be able to decide for itself what it can or can not do. It should only perform those duties that we have with full knowledge allowed it to do.

    The slippery slope is not only in the passing of laws but in the abdication of those freedoms that are on the surface still there but have long been superseded.

  • On the post: Even If You Cancel Your OnStar Service, The Company Will Still Track (And Sell) Your Location

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2011 @ 12:29pm

    Re: With OnStar's history

    I agree with your idea. In the end how do we know if your not being tracked everywhere and that the government isn't then behind everyone's back hacking those systems to get the data? They have done it in the past.

    I have nothing to hide but the thought of someone tracking me just makes me scream. Why, because history teaches that that will always be used to control us.

  • On the post: Even If You Cancel Your OnStar Service, The Company Will Still Track (And Sell) Your Location

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2011 @ 12:24pm

    Big Brother is not always the GOV

  • On the post: BMI Says Club Is Too Sexy For Standard Fees, Voids Check, Sues For Non-Payment

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2011 @ 12:22pm

    I'm confused

    How is playing a song copyright infringement? Failure to pay public performance fees true, but copyright infringement?

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:42pm

    Re: Re: Police are there to protect us, HA!

    Of course they don't. As long as they are not found at fault.

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:31pm

    Gibson's comment..

    "I never thought an officer would lie."

    What a naive, dumb f@#k! They will always protect their own.

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:27pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Actually, I would beat your A$$ if I think it could save 100 lives. But only if I knew before that you had info and could back that assumption up with hard info.

  • On the post: Obama Administration Trying To Move Away From Allowing Countries To Ignore Patents To Save Lives

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:25pm

    Follow the money

    Pharma, labor unions. Here is a minor list of those that were exempted from the Obamacare law.

    http://cciio.cms.gov/resources/files/alw_hra_05132011.pdf

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:17pm

    Re:

    So you support torture? You commy! ;-)

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:15pm

    Re: Nothing To See Here Folks

    Or just accept that we are prisoners of the ruling class. Sorry not trying to use inflammatory language but the ruling class is those that make and enforce the laws.

    WE really fight them half as much as we should.

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:12pm

    Re: Re:

    Me too. No matter whether I agree with your position. In my country you will always be able to express it in any way that is non-violent. Yell, scream, talk through a bull-horn. I don't care because that is your RIGHT as a citizen of the US.

    Freedom of speech was such an important tenet of the idea in the creation of America they made it the first right!!!!!

    First Amendment ? Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 01:07pm

    Re:

    Honestly, how could it ever be a terrorist act in a free country to film the acts of those the seek to enforce that freedom?

  • On the post: Citizen Recording Of Police Proves Officer Lied About Arrest

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 12:23pm

    Police are there to protect us, HA!

    So why should any law be made or be allowed to be made that makes it illegal to video them in any situation doing their duty?

    We are recorded all the time just living our normal lives. I can share over 10,000 links to police stopping people from video recording their actions in what should be a 100% (no grey area) legal situation.

    Even at the height of the communist regime in Russia they didn't arrest people most times. They just took the video recording device.

    Why are we letting our country become a police state?

    Just one example
    http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=1247

    Police should not feel any threat to being videoed nor should they be allowed to do anything they don't want recorded.

    The video from OccupyWallSt.org at http://youtu.be/jYaA-34c-vI just shows my point.

  • On the post: Criticize The Better Business Bureau… And They'll Pull Your Accreditation

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 12:06pm

    Re: The BBB has long lost any credibility

    Look at these statistics if you think I am wrong about the available options to clear your business's name. Just look at the top 2 lines. Does anyone really believe that?

    http://www.bbb.org/us/storage/16/documents/stats%20pdf/2010/US%20Sorted%20by%20Complaint.pdf

    The two most complained about industries were able to resolve 98+% and 95+% of complaints?

  • On the post: Criticize The Better Business Bureau… And They'll Pull Your Accreditation

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2011 @ 11:54am

    The BBB has long lost any credibility

    Anyone that has a small amount of intelligence has seen over the years the plain junk on the BBB.

    Do a search on their website for work at home and then search on Google or Bing for reviews of any company that shows up. The BBB lets any company that pays get special treatment that involves erasing bad comments if the company responds to any complaint. They don't have to fix the issue just respond.

    Additionally, those complaints don't reflect in the company's overall rating.

  • On the post: Will John Sununu And Harold Ford Jr. Agree To Pay Netflix's Broadband Bill Next Month?

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2011 @ 11:31am

    Re:

    So that means there are paid for by the end user and the provider of the product or service like every other product in the world?

  • On the post: Dear MPAA: Stomp Your Feet And Repeat It As Many Times As You Want, But Infringement Is Not Theft

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 12:09pm

    Re: A Few Things

    Tofu you have been voted up for pointing out the WOW I AM OBLIVIOUS statements.

    I love you Man! circa 1995

  • On the post: European Nations Wish To Ban Negative Thoughts Or Investments On Their Financial Position

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 12:01pm

    Re: new economy

    That would not be buying but giving money away since you could never actually make money which only happens when you sell after it has risen in price.

  • On the post: European Nations Wish To Ban Negative Thoughts Or Investments On Their Financial Position

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 11:59am

    Re: The Root of the Issue

    I choose to believe that what you state as a statement of reality is in itself a distortion of what we will believe is the actual reality of our consequences of not seeing reality as it is.

  • On the post: European Nations Wish To Ban Negative Thoughts Or Investments On Their Financial Position

    Skeptical Cynic ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2011 @ 11:47am

    Re: "Short selling" is on FUTURES, not on already owned stock.

    By the way Futures values are based on actual value of the underlying commodities. Stock values are based on the "Greater fool theory" in which you hope that a greater fool than you will value the stock more than you. There is not a stock that is actually valued at the empirical value of "assets-liabilities= value."

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