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  • #61
    Sorry, if you're not willing to own up to being caught out, you get no sympathy from me for being ragged about it. It's not about partisanship (which to the extent I am forced to identify with a party, I'm largely with yours); it's about honesty.
    <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
    I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
      perhaps you could save yourself sometime by simply posting:
      I've consistently maintained that Democrats are bad... but Republicans are worse.

      If I just said that in response to everything that happens in the world of politics, I might end up sounding like a broken record... like you.

      It's always fun to post a little pwnage, leave for a few hours, then return and see it blossom into something beautiful.

      If your first reply after that post of mine near the top was something along the lines of

      got me... fair enough
      you could have saved yourself a lot of embarrassment.

      At this point, watching you dig yourself deeper is the entertainment.
      To us, it is the BEAST.

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      • #63
        Exactly.
        <Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad.
        I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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        • #64
          Someone is not getting the memo. On the one hand Obama has declared that he plans to repeal the AUMF thus signalling the end of the 'war on terror' on the other hand the presumptive reason for the overly broad use of Verizon records is explictly a 'war on terror' action.

          Is anyone running the show? Is anyone responsible for anything?
          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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          • #65
            Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
            Sorry, if you're not willing to own up to being caught out, you get no sympathy from me for being ragged about it.
            Beyond finding the interest in the issue of contrary post from ~7 years ago to be bizarre (I also copped to the contradiction in post 25), you misunderstand me if you think I care what the opinion people here hold of me might be. As of now it is merely curiosity over why someone would find me and my musings more interesting than the issue in the original post. I'm starting to wish I had asked someone else start a thread on this issue because other than giving me an ego boost because of how interesting I must be the thread has been largely devoid of meaningful discussion and another poster would likely have had a more productive reception.
            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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            • #66
              Does nobody get it?!?!?!?!?!

              VERIZON IS RUN BY TERRORISTS!!!!

              ACK!
              Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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              • #67
                Originally posted by Tuberski View Post
                Does nobody get it?!?!?!?!?!

                VERIZON IS RUN BY TERRORISTS!!!!

                ACK!
                I would assume the proper lesson here is that only terrorists use Verizon.
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #68
                  That's why I use Verizon
                  “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                  - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                  • #69
                    Sava

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post
                      That's why I use Verizon
                      You are of terrorist descent after all.
                      I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                      For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                      • #71
                        Some related reporting on the software equivalent:



                        This is all confirmation of various stories that have been floating around for years, though the software version seems to have more actual data rather than just metadata. Adding Dropbox to the list is a big step, imo - though I guess that depends on exactly what MS and Apple have already given away.
                        "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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                        • #72
                          Glorious job, Sava.
                          “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
                          "Capitalism ho!"

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                          • #73
                            What I don't get is...what the hell kind of judge signs a warrant like this? What the ****?

                            About a month ago I was arguing with Kentonio over whether we should distrust the government as a whole or if "checks and balances" is enough and having an independent judiciary/checks and balances makes the concept of limited government irrelevant. I am resting my case here and claiming victory.

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
                              About a month ago I was arguing with Kentonio over whether we should distrust the government as a whole or if "checks and balances" is enough and having an independent judiciary/checks and balances makes the concept of limited government irrelevant. I am resting my case here and claiming victory.
                              It puts a different spin on this commercial.

                              I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                              For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by Wezil View Post
                                Are the kids still saying "pwnd"?

                                Big time example.
                                Yep and yep.
                                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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