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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#141551: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:26:51 AM

Like, they've been doing this for years for their own purposes but suddenly the NSA gets involved and it's the worse thing in the world?

Oh really when?
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#141552: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:28:03 AM

As someone who's been want to do serious history research for my own purposes lately, I just wanna lament the barrier that is academic journal paywalls and no longer having student access to them through universities. I really need to get myself some community patron access to the library of the nearest college one of these days. Or move closer to my old school where I'd have alumni borrowing privileges.

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#141553: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:32:52 AM

If you think that the political system is so badly corrupt that it cannot be meaningfully influenced by enough people getting out and voting, then you should start planning alternatives. For example, withdrawal from society (an anarchist commune that can actually feed itself, perhaps) or some form of direct action. Whining apathy only helps the psycho fanatics.

Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#141554: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:33:30 AM

Academic paywalls can fuck right off. They're bad even for active students, and i recall at one point sending an expletive-laden email in the "questions/comments?" box of one such pernicious organization.

Usually not an advocate for law-breaking, but that one guy who hacked open an academic database and dumped all the paywalled content out onto the internet is a hero.

CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#141555: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:35:06 AM

[up][up] As I've said before, I'm not a political nihilist. For now at least, we still have the ability to influence society through voting, though I am somewhat concerned that's also beginning to slip away. I am deeply cynical about the state of human society, but I also hold out hope that we can, if only by inches, effect meaningful improvements to the human condition.

edited 4th Oct '16 10:37:04 AM by CaptainCapsase

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#141556: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:38:14 AM

[up]x6 So basically, this confirms what I suspected all along: That despite NSA reforms in Congress, they continued to operate as they pleased. ARGH.

edited 4th Oct '16 10:38:23 AM by speedyboris

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#141557: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:39:11 AM

But like, Yahoo isn't doing this on their behalf. They're just sharing the data they already collect normally.

Oh really when?
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#141558: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:40:54 AM

Important distinction, the items that guy liberated from that database were those old enough to legally be in the public domain to begin with (making putting them behind a paywall extra scummy). As someone working on being a writer I have to have a little sympathy for others that write for a living (though the mechanisms for making scholarly articles available need serious work.)

</derail>

Edit: ...oh, hey, I didn't know NY residents could get free access to a number of academic databases including JSTOR through the state. Yo, Cap, you're eligible for this.

Edit 2: Ok, maybe not as good as I thought...about half of the stuff requires the higher tier of state library card which is only availible to doctors, lawyers and government employees.

edited 4th Oct '16 11:25:13 AM by Elle

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141559: Oct 4th 2016 at 10:57:07 AM

538 has Clinton above her pre September 11th odds in all three projections. Polls-only is giving Clinton every swing state, other than Iowa. Ohio is still effectively tied. North Carolina is still red according to poll-plus, but that projection takes longer to respond to new polls.

I don't think the VP debate will have much of an impact, barring a Biden 2012 style rally or a total implosion (on the part of two vanilla, veteran politicians? Unlikely) this evening.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#141560: Oct 4th 2016 at 12:14:28 PM

While the shooting itself might be "old news" at this point, Jacob Hall, the 6-year-old killed by the 14-year-old shooter in South Carolina, is having a superhero-themed funeral, as his parents don't want to frighten the other children who might attend and as a way to celebrate his life. Jacob himself will be dressed as Batman, which was his favorite hero.

Family members tell local news outlets that pallbearers will dress as superheroes and people attending also are encouraged to wear costumes.

An uncle, Johnny Bridges, told CBS Spartanburg affiliate WSPA-TV that Jacob will be dressed as Batman, his favorite superhero. Bridges said the family wants to celebrate what Jacob enjoyed instead of focusing on negative memories.

“I don’t want suits and ties and all that,” Renae Hall, Jacob’s mother, told WHNS-TV. “There will be a lot of children there and I don’t want it to be scary for them.”

edited 4th Oct '16 12:15:49 PM by ironballs16

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#141561: Oct 4th 2016 at 12:22:39 PM

[up] Oh, how Harsher in Hindsight that his favorite hero was Bruce Wayne . . . sad

EpicBleye drunk bunny from her bed being very eepy Since: Sep, 2014 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
drunk bunny
#141562: Oct 4th 2016 at 12:39:20 PM

that hurts me down at my very soul

"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-Mae
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#141563: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:19:07 PM

If I wasn't working, I'd go to his funeral. Tragic loss for the community

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TheWanted Since: Oct, 2013
#141564: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:40:44 PM

Uh oh.

Gucciffer 2.0 is claiming that they hacked the clinton foundation servers and is now releasing all the data. Seems like an attempt to create an October surprise for Hillary.

edited 4th Oct '16 1:41:19 PM by TheWanted

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141565: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:42:55 PM

By that they means they'll selectively release crap, ignore all the good the Foundation does and generally try to get the US consumed by fascism for a generation or two.

I hate these hackers so very much...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#141566: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:43:48 PM

Why is everyone so desperate to keep her from winning anyway that they'd do this?

Why not let democracy run its course since if your preferred candidate is so great they'd obviously smash her at the ballot box.

edited 4th Oct '16 1:44:31 PM by Deadbeatloser22

"Yup. That tasted purple."
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#141567: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:45:32 PM

According to Fighteer, it's because she's guilty of Politicking While Owning A Vagina at a time when this was Unforgivable, and hasn't been forgiven since.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
ironballs16 Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Owner of a lonely heart
#141568: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:45:33 PM

[up]

Just had a customer in who described Clinton and Obama as "Luciferian" (or however that would be spelled - Loo-si-fair-e-n for phonetic), based on their being fans of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals".

"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#141569: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:45:42 PM

[up][up][up] They are in Russia's pockets, are sexist, anti-SJW extremists, conspiracy nuts and/or idiots.

edited 4th Oct '16 1:46:27 PM by Bat178

flameboy21th The would-be novelist from California Since: Jan, 2013 Relationship Status: I <3 love!
The would-be novelist
#141570: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:46:04 PM

[up][up][up][up]This country is not a strict democracy.

And voting gave us Bush... thrice!

Also conspiracy bullcrap

edited 4th Oct '16 1:46:37 PM by flameboy21th

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#141571: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:47:00 PM

Is this Gufficer shithead one of the Russian proxies? If they are, there is your democracy answer (the Kremlin and their assets typically don't care about democracy, or the rule of law).

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#141572: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:47:49 PM

At this point, I can't really think why she's so unpopular, or whether it's deserved or not, really matters that much.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#141573: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:48:16 PM

Democracy and rule of law are meaningless to these Russian proxies. No, they detest Obama and Clinton for daring to tell them to their faces to shut the hell up.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#141574: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:49:39 PM

[up] Some of these guys probably want the Soviet Union back and/or Russia to be a superpower again, too.

edited 4th Oct '16 1:49:57 PM by Bat178

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#141575: Oct 4th 2016 at 1:52:37 PM

What does being "Luciferian" entail? A taske for kinky sex and a cheeky sense of humour?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

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