If you walk around with your cell phone on the phone company can tell where you are- duh, it's in constant contact with the phone and even if you disable location services the phone company knows which tower is in contact with your phone. So you are ok with Ma Bell knowing but object to the government knowing? What a bunch of tea baggers you are.
@ 3. I'm so glad Jay Rosen came up with a name for that rhetorical tactic. In his words, "don't savvy me" means "stop dismissing valid questions with the insider's 'and this surprises you?'"
You only further highlight exactly why we should have a clearly defined and transparent separation of government and corporations, specifically in regards to corporations acting as a proxy or replacement for the government.
The privatization of government over the last several decades has significantly eroded, if not virtually eliminated, the sovereignty of the American people.
We are faced today with a distinctly segregated society where the government is clearly of, by and for the bankster corporations, with the people's vote (largely gerrymandered and manipulated) and their consent by participation is all that remains of a once vibrant and growing democratic middle-class.
In other words, you're a troublemaking fool who thinks your accomodations in the master's house make you special. ...oh, the education that awaits you when history revisits apologists and sycophants of your rank and ilk.
I notice a difference between the current interim chief and Diaz: the former seems to have some idea of the limits of his reach. Or maybe he's just taking the DOJ seriously. either way, it's an imrovement.
Color me foncused. Didn't McGinn shutdown the drone program and halt the West Seattle camera/mesh network in February, saying "no more surveillance tech w/o public dialogue and clear policies in place first..." (or words to that effect)? Why'd the city continue installing and activating this 160-node network downtown then?
State/Federal spies: "Lalalala lalalalala--we're gonna do it anyway. The end."
@ 3. I'm so glad Jay Rosen came up with a name for that rhetorical tactic. In his words, "don't savvy me" means "stop dismissing valid questions with the insider's 'and this surprises you?'"
You only further highlight exactly why we should have a clearly defined and transparent separation of government and corporations, specifically in regards to corporations acting as a proxy or replacement for the government.
The privatization of government over the last several decades has significantly eroded, if not virtually eliminated, the sovereignty of the American people.
We are faced today with a distinctly segregated society where the government is clearly of, by and for the bankster corporations, with the people's vote (largely gerrymandered and manipulated) and their consent by participation is all that remains of a once vibrant and growing democratic middle-class.
In other words, you're a troublemaking fool who thinks your accomodations in the master's house make you special. ...oh, the education that awaits you when history revisits apologists and sycophants of your rank and ilk.