Johnny_Rotten wrote:

What you are seeing is a golden age of oppertunity. In fact it is just the American way of entrepreneurship and capitalizing on an expanding market.

Same ole' story since the Grant administration.

choad wrote:

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

This will make Nixon roaming the halls yelling at dead presidents on the walls seem like child's play.  Where is G Gordon Liddy when we need him?

Bite you tongue, he was never sane but he was still kicking when I looked it up yesterday.

I heard an interview Liddy had with Larry King decades ago when King was still doing late night radio.  Crazy like a fox, I'm thinking.

Baywolfe wrote:

choad wrote:

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

This will make Nixon roaming the halls yelling at dead presidents on the walls seem like child's play.  Where is G Gordon Liddy when we need him?

Bite you tongue, he was never sane but he was still kicking when I looked it up yesterday.

I heard an interview Liddy had with Larry King decades ago when King was still doing late night radio.  Crazy like a fox, I'm thinking.

Attended a lecture G-Man gave at W&L in 1980. Believe he was fresh out of the hoosegow.   Entertaining fellow and certainly no love lost on John Sirica.   
Always got a kick hearing him describe Mrs. Liddy's gun collection, on the radio show.  There's a signed copy of "Will" somewhere around here.

Dear choad,

                I have been reviewing my records and can not find where BreannaWatson has submitted her payment of 1 full frontal and one ass photograph.

               Please collect and forward to me at once so I can get her account activated.

                                                           Sin-cerely,

                                                                               bigcat

This is likely what "she" looks like:

My take was similar to Goober's. I guessed that "she" was a spammer. in part based on the website data from her profile page, but also because of her awkward phrasing and use of the term "hereinafter" (big and obscure words might impress someone who actually needed a term paper written, although they are more likely to have the opposite effect on a sophisticated audience, particularly if they are used inappropriately).

I bit my tongue because I wasn't sure enough to comment.

I realize my assessment could be wrong, in which case I owe Breanna an apology. But that was my hunch upon first encountering her message.

In the spirit of reconciliation I'd be happy to provide Bigcat with more ta ta and nae nae pics, however, if that would help calm things down. My inner pornographer is really starting to blossom since I started posting here.

You know you don't mean that (and how did you know it was me in the pics?)

Bigcat wrote:

Smudge wrote:

My inner pornographer is really starting to blossom

It's a pretty amazing feeling when your true Dharma is realized, no?

It feels like coming home again.

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Emmeran wrote:

choad wrote:

https://cruelery.com/sidepic/ajit.pai.png

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That one needs to be hung up-side down in the town square also.  Unfucking this mess is going to take forever.

Fortunately, enough of the original machinery of the constitution is still in place so that individual states are beginning to fight for Net Neutrality and it appears that the movement is gaining steam not losing it.

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choad wrote:

https://cruelery.com/sidepic/ajit.pai.png

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Just fucking wow

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choad wrote:

We've become so inured to getting fucked sideways they're not using lube anymore.

You got that right.

My concern is not so much with the one in ten thousand who might have something on their computer which they shouldn't, but rather with the other 9,999 whose privacy is invaded in the process. The FBI itself is incentivizing illegal activity, for money, by private sector actors.

I've decided that the next time I reload my OS I'm going to encrypt my home folder. I don't have anything worth hiding, but if anyone wants to invade my privacy, I'd just as soon make it as expensive and difficult as possible.

Geek Squad staff 'paid by FBI' to flag illegal imagery

...The rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said that the relationship "circumvents computer owners' Fourth Amendment rights" to privacy.

The FBI did not respond to questions about its relationship with other repair companies, according to the EFF...

Read the rest: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43315176

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SpacePuppy wrote:

Tech Giant's Gestapo

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Clicky the piccy

Subtlety seems to have gone out of style these days.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg Law uncovered a Department of Homeland Security job listing for a "media-monitoring services" request to keep tabs on more than 290,000 "global news sources" and develop an extensive database for an unconfirmed number of "media influencers." After news outlets reported about the amount of data sought by this job listing, DHS Press Secretary Tyler Houlton issued a response on Friday to verify its legitimacy and allege that the data project's aims will be "standard practice."

What's more, Houlton added, "Any suggestion otherwise is fit for tinfoil hat-wearing, black-helicopter conspiracy theorists."

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GooberMcNutly wrote:

develop an extensive database for an unconfirmed number of "media influencers."

Also known as "leverage"...

This is the way the world ends...

Emmeran wrote:

Big Brother is really here

An estimated 170 million CCTV cameras are already in place and some 400 million new ones are expected be installed in the next three years.

That's only one camera per 2.5 people. We need more!

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

We are at 98% or so in the true blue USA.

I lived 40 yrs ago with a pediatric resident tethered round the clock by a ball & chain beeper and thought to myself, never in hell.

I AM THE 2%!

Do I win a prize?

Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Concern about Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users, after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the world’s largest social network tracks people whether they have accounts or not...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-face … SKBN1HM0DR

(Thanks, Emmeran, for fixing my blunder. I've corrected this post now, so you can delete your post if you wish.)

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