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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Trumplings from my own family praise Putin's liberal use of polonium nutritional supplements as "he knows how to get things done!"
Even the ones who currently depend on government assistance for their very lives( read: cancer treatments) shit on the sole thing keeping them alive as "SOCIALIST POISON" and people other than themselves relying on it as parasites.
edited 23rd Mar '17 10:21:44 AM by carbon-mantis
You know, now I feel bad for calling them stupid, stupid people aren't even that stupid anyways.
The only good fanboy, is a redeemed fanboy.Even stupid has a sense of self preservation, Too Dumb to Live notwithstanding.
On the humor side, the @PresVillain twitter wasted no time on "I'm President and you're not."
There are absolutely people who would say to themselves "I love his Muslim ban, his health care bill, his budget proposal, and his dealings with foreign national leaders, but pardoning his friends who broke the law? That's obvious cronyism! He was supposed to drain the swamp!" Yeah, it's dumb that that's their bridge too far, but it still would be for some people.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Yeah, that bridge has been crossed. Several times. Doublethink is a thing as it turns out. I still imagine Trump's undoing will be getting caught acting like a decent human being. ![]()
As for that. I certainly agree on not more or less handing Trump's cronies their pardons, but the filibuster could end up being Too Awesome to Use. The Dems probably should be thinking towards getting their base off the couch and to the polls in 2018/2020, not flipping GOP voters. And, so far, the Dems' voters seem to want to see a fight. Meekly bowing Trump's SCOTUS nominee or accepting a flimsy deal after Mc Connell started a constitutional crisis over Garland, which was in the news for months, probably wouldn't go over well.
(That burning the one shot might be leave the Dems helpless is relevant, but fat chance explaining that to voters, especially when the "lol hope the DNC is learning its lesson over its 'corruption'" narrative is still out there).
edited 23rd Mar '17 10:43:23 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesHouse Freedom Caucus members are saying no deal despite a meeting with Trump.
"It's dead Donald, Paul."
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."The Senate just voted 50-48 to revoke the FCC's privacy rules.
They don't care. It's not like there's any tangible damage that all the protests will do.
It would take Google refusing to conduct searches to change their minds. Maybe not even that. If Google stops doing searches, the population becomes that much more uninformed. And the Republicans profit. Again.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youI continue to find it amusing how militantly Internet communities oppose companies having access to store and trade users' browsing history. There are so many slippery slope fallacy arguments being made that I legitimately cannot keep track of them.
Certainly, there is merit to an argument in favor of general consumer privacy, but the obvious solution: a universal online ID system that encrypts personal information and releases it only to entities authorized by the user, is dismissed out of hand. Instead, people seem to prefer an anarchistic view of the Internet where security is basically a shark pit that you jump into at your peril.
And this from the same people who scoff at the notion of a libertarian society in which everybody is exclusively responsible for their self-defense and vigilantism is the primary method of administering justice.
The Internet is not the Wild West anymore, no matter how the online hipsters keep yearning for the good ol' days. The enemy is not corporations and governments, but the outlaws who steal data, forge identities, and hold web-based companies ransom. The best way to ensure security is to force rigorous identity-tracking at the hardware level, preventing anyone from forging credentials without getting booted.
Pick one: control over your identity, or freedom from data collection.
edited 23rd Mar '17 11:25:07 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show
Yes, the Secret Service cannot afford Trump's lifestyle.
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It's like with physical housing. Your place of residence and your identity are more or less a matter of public record. What you actually have and do inside your home is a private matter only to be shared with people you want to share it with. If the authorities have a warrant and probable cause, only then should they be allowed to search your home. I think the Internet should be more or less the same. There has to be some form of unspoofable identification built-in, but the information is only available to authorities with probable cause, such as if they're investigating an online child pornography ring or the hacking of a company database.
The idea has been proposed before, but the issue is that the way the Internet was designed and built makes it impossible to implement such a system. It would require a rebuild from the ground-up to incorporate, which would be costly beyond imagination.
Smaller countries such as South Korea and Japan have partially implemented a form of such a system, where you basically sign up for various web services using your social security number (I would know; I've tried to register for some Korean MMOs without much luck on that front) but I don't know how practical it would be on a wider scale.
edited 23rd Mar '17 11:36:51 AM by danime91
On a wider scale? The second the more resourceful cyber criminal types get their hands on it - the worst card database breaches will look like child's play compared to the sheer extent of identity theft or forgery that will happen.
If my memory is correct, Fatal System Error
suggests as much, that the Internet will have to be changed from the ground up for such a system to work without being exploited to hell and back.
It's the way the Internet works by sending and receiving packets. Currently there's no way to hardcode in identifying information into packets; packets just carry information back and forth, some of which may be identifying info which may or may not be true. It's in the hardware (well, not really, but it's inherent in the system), so it's not something that can just be patched. To make such a universal identification system work, you'd have to come up with a whole new architecture for the Internet, while at the same time making every single computer, smartphone, wireless router, and any other device using or having to do with Internet connectivity incompatible. Imagine the financial nightmare that would be.

You know, with all the news going around about Trump's ridiculous doings and all his wholly unqualified administration staff choices and nominees, I hear almost nothing about the VP. Anyone know what Pence is up to these days or is he just so sidelined that he's not in the spotlight at all?