Gloom and doom

[Raydeus]

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Theme song

[Yellow Mage]

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Probably belongs somewhere in the Computers sub-forum, but what the actual crap.

Microsoft Update and The Nightmare Scenario - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Inb4 smug Mac hipsters.

[Yellow Mage]

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The variant I read had

NPR: Obama enjoying a Pepsi.

right before CNN and

Onion: Obama declares war on Coke.

before Fox, without MSNBC or BBC.

I think I like the variant TM posted marginally better.

[Taskmage]

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/sigh Yeah.

[Feba]

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SPOILERS: no

[Taskmage]

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Former President George Bush Convicted of War Crimes

It'll be interesting to see if anything comes of this.

[Raydeus]

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By the way, this (and nasty price wars using 3rd rate produce) is how Walmart and other Corporations got rid of local producers in Mexico after that damn NAFTA crap was signed. And the fact that the US is corrupt enough for this to actually happen to their own citizens says a lot of where things currently are over there.

[Raydeus]

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And the other thread reminded me I hadn't post this yet:

[Raydeus]

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I'm curious as to how the people in the US will react in the following year. Though it seems they will just get thrown into yet another war (and I fear Mexico could become a target soon) while the US government keeps making people's cages smaller and smaller, until the Petrodollar finally crashes.

[Taskmage]

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Surveillance State democracy

What was most amazing to me back when I first wrote about these Obama administration efforts was that a mere six weeks earlier, a major controversy had erupted when Saudi Arabia and the UAE both announced a ban on BlackBerries on the ground that they were physically unable to monitor the communications conducted on those devices. Since Blackberry communication data are sent directly to servers in Canada and the company which operates Blackberry — Research in Motion — refused to turn the data over to those governments, “authorities [in those two tyrannies] decided to ban Blackberry services rather than continue to allow an uncontrolled and unmonitored flow of electronic information within their borders.” As I wrote at the time: “that’s the core mindset of the Omnipotent Surveillance State: above all else, what is strictly prohibited is the ability of citizens to communicate in private; we can’t have any ‘uncontrolled and unmonitored flow of electronic information’.”

In response to that controversy, the Obama administration actually condemned the Saudi and UAE ban, calling it “a dangerous precedent” and a threat to “democracy, human rights and freedom of information.” Yet six weeks later, the very same Obama administration embraced exactly the same rationale — that it is intolerable for any human interaction to take place beyond the prying eyes and ears of the government — when it proposed its mandatory “backdoor access” for all forms of Internet communication. Indeed, the UAE pointed out that the U.S. — as usual — was condemning exactly that which it itself was doing

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Moreover, for anyone who defends the Obama administration here and insists that the U.S. Government simply must have access to all forms of human communication: does that also apply to in-person communication? Should home and apartment builders be required to install monitors in every room they build to ensure that the Government can surveil all human communications in order to prevent threats to national security and public safety? I believe someone once wrote a book about where this mindset inevitably leads. The very idea that no human communication should ever be allowed to take place beyond the reach of the Government is definitive authoritarianism, which is why Saudi Arabia and the UAE — and their American patron-ally — have so vigorously embraced it.

[Takelli]

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Ok, I thought you where mocking me for a moment for what I posted in another tread. <,.,<

[Murphie]

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Well, it's just such an impediment to doing something one wants to do.

[Takelli]

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Ummm, what? Why does that even come up as a subject?

[Murphie]

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As long as it's not too cold out, right?

[Takelli]

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Yea, that is why I said if I can.