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fanaskin

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He was also a tv journalist and obviously does more due diligence research than most reporters I see on tv.

But yes it wouldn't shock me if they wear white Whigs and use long feathered fountain pens, or iPads.
 
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Itzena_sl

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chaos_sl said:
As this story gets more and more traction I think you will see a big hit on those numbers. Especially as more info comes out.
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khalid

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How the fuck do 38% of people approve the government keeping track of phone records of people without any suspicion of wrongdoing? I don't want to live in this world anymore.
 
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azeth

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khalid_sl said:
How the fuck do 38% of people approve the government keeping track of phone records of people without any suspicion of wrongdoing? I don't want to live in this world anymore.
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i could not possibly care any less about my, or your phone records. tough shit to 62% of you.
 
General Antony

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khalid_sl said:
I don't want to live in this world anymore.
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This is the entirely wrong mentality. The correct expression is that you don't want those 38% to live in this world anymore. Now we can start talking about how to go about accomplishing this ideal. Fuck 'em.
 
Palum

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a_skeleton_03_sl said:
Are you advocating harboring criminals here? It seems like you are. You have always been a moron though so not sure if I am reading it correctly.

Let me get it straight. You don't want the government data mining because some people might be guilty of bad things.....
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Data mining isn't about finding facts, it's about exposing trends based on a multitude of factors WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP. This is the key. Can a team of highly skilled statisticians pick out terrorist calls? Probably, given enough historical data.

But it's also about what any plebeian idiot with a PC and some stats software can do, too. Anyone can add random variables and do cluster analysis until a bunch of known terrorist phone calls are grouped with you calling a bakery on a Thursday morning. Do you think some judge is like 'OK, show me the underlying correlation for these individual variables and that you tested each of these for statistically significant contribution to the model'. No, some hotshot is like 'lol I used SPSS and found terrorists!!!!' and they sign a warrant. In a sealed chamber because it was generated from a top secret program.

It's even WORSE than spying, because at least that is recording actual events. Here you get warrants from correlation, in a day and age where being suspected of certain crimes basically ruins your life and career. See rape/terrorism/embezzlement/etc.
 
Burnem Wizfyre

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Palum_sl said:
It's even WORSE than spying, because at least that is recording actual events. Here you get warrants from correlation, in a day and age where being suspected of certain crimes basically ruins your life and career. See rape/terrorism/embezzlement/etc.
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Recent events (bank bailouts) have proven that we don't so much care about one of those three or at least prosecute. Maybe add terrorism as well if in the context of laundering money for them.
 
fanaskin

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It's more like the mafia burnem the regular guy operates by a different set of rules.
 
BrutulTM

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Dan Carlin is fucking great and not by any means some kind of conspiracy theory weirdo. One of the most clear headed political commentators you will come across.
 
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Put something on the internet, expect that everyone may know about it. I learned that shit 15 years ago.
 
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