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Or one of the thousands of start-ups or charities in this country that are all working on interesting problems.

Why would you want to work for a defense contractor after seeing all the awful things they do on behalf of the U.S. government? Is a little extra cash in your pocket and a little more job security worth your selling your soul to the devil?

Bullshit. A pressure cooker is probably one of the most common kitchen accessories ever. Anyone who planned to use one for malicious intent would just deny that they have one.

Exactly. This article doesn't explain why they questioned her specifically about pressure cookers.

This thing was on Shark Tank. They got $300,000 for 33% of the company from Robert and Kevin. I'd link to the video, but I can't find it. It was on episode 7 of season 4.

http://sharktankblog.com/business/self-balancing-unicycle/

AP is reporting he was granted asylum for one year.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/362910831836532736

Last night on CNN they tried to say Snowden stole passwords from his manager. They had on the ex-head of the NSA and he was like (paraphrasing), "We don't have any direct confirmation but we must entertain the idea that Showden had outside help. Why else would he go to China?!?" They also implied several times that Snowden isn't smart enough to do something like this on his own.

In the PRISM related documents they used that exact term, "foreignness".

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/bombsh...

You might be interested in Project Gutenberg. They offer over 42,000 free ebooks. Legally.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

I think you're in denial.

Greenwald said they cancelled the hearing on Twitter yesterday. Do you know if they rescheduled it yet?

I thought this was an interesting tidbit from the Center for Constitutional Rights.

"While the "aiding the enemy" charges (on which Manning was rightly acquitted) received the most attention from the mainstream media, the Espionage Act itself is a discredited relic of the WWI era, created as a tool to suppress political dissent and antiwar activism, and it is outrageous that the government chose to invoke it in the first place against Manning. Government employees who blow the whistle on war crimes, other abuses and government incompetence should be protected under the First Amendment.

We now live in a country where someone who exposes war crimes can be sentenced to life even if not found guilty of aiding the enemy, while those responsible for the war crimes remain free. If the government equates being a whistleblower with espionage or aiding the enemy, what is the future of journalism in this country? What is the future of the First Amendment?

Manning’s treatment, prosecution, and sentencing have one purpose: to silence potential whistleblowers and the media as well. One of the main targets has been our clients, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, for publishing the leaks. Given the U.S. government’s treatment of Manning, Assange should be granted asylum in his home country of Australia and given the protections all journalists and publishers deserve.

We stand in solidarity with Bradley Manning and call for the government to take heed and end its assault on the First Amendment."

http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-condemns-m...

If you don't agree with how MIT handled this situation, protest the MIT hackathon in October and any other MIT related events.

He faces up to 130 years in prison. Wow.

The Guardian is reporting he's been found guilty on five counts of violating the espionage act.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning...

I'd like to see what a 21st century union looks like. It seems like you could cut down on a lot of the overhead and bureaucracy that is associated with unions via relatively new technologies such as the Internet.

"Is the argument here that it will lead to blocking of more content in the future? If so this a slippery slope fallacy."

No it's not because U.K. ISPs have revealed that the filter will censor other content, as well.

"As well as pornography, users may automatically be opted in to blocks on "violent material", "extremist related content", "anorexia and eating disorder websites" and "suicide related websites", "alcohol" and "smoking". But the list doesn't stop there. It even extends to blocking "web forums" and "esoteric material", whatever that is. "Web blocking circumvention tools" is also included, of course." [1]

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/27/pornwall

The bottom line is that if you don't want your children to be exposed to content that may be questionable, don't let them get on the Internet. Set a password on your computer. Install a filtering program which don't require any technical expertise to install whatsoever. Hell, Windows has a web filter build in now a days. Don't force your preposterous views on to me. The government has no place restricting legal content. I'm tired of these bullshit "Think of the children!" arguments.

Just because you don't think something is plausible doesn't mean you should denigrate it by calling it a conspiracy theory. I don't know exactly what you're talking about so it's hard for me to research it.

For example, the CIA helps traffic opium/heroin across the world. That sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_South...

I did read the article. There's a lot more information to be released. Snowden took thousands of documents that he hand selected. Greenwald has said that there are more NSA programs to be exposed.

It's all in the language they use. They are scooping up all the phone calls, emails, etc. they possibly can. They then go get a warrant to process that information or so they can use it in court and what have you. And like you said, getting a warrant is a joke. Especially through the FISA court.

This is how I think the Congressional committee hearing will go down Wednesday. Or perhaps some variation of this.

1. Greenwald testifies and talks about all the awful things the NSA has been up to.

2. NSA offials will deny any and all claims made by Greenwald.

3. Greenwald will release documents that directly refute the NSA's testimonial.

This is why I won't be using iCloud Keychain.

No, I didn't. Interesting. Thanks. Carson's book spurred the environmentalist movement, I'll give her that. I used to think poorly of DDT and GMOs, but then I did some research and changed my opinions. Should we be cautious about spraying chemicals like DDT? Absolutely. But the chemical has saved millions from dying. We don't have anything better yet. Are you from Canada? Because my experience here in the U.S. has been wildly different for the most part. Our textbooks originate from Texas mostly which is very conservative and evangelical. There's an interesting documentary called The Revisionaries which outlines essentially the battle behind textbooks. [1] [2] The chair of the Texas Board of Education believes that dinosaurs and humans coexisted and doesn't believe in evolution. Hell, I don't even remember learning about the Pentagon Papers in high school.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155440679/revisionaries-tells-...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAeKXdLZhOg

"DDT is generally safe when it clearly is not."

I'd love for you to cite your source on that. When used properly DDT is generally safe and has saved millions of lives. There is no arguing that it doesn't do a great job killing mosquitos. Resistance is mostly due to agricultural use. The video claimed we are using chemicals toxic to humans and flashed some footage of DDT being sprayed. That's simply a false assertion on the part of the maker's of the video and the product. They're trying to use junk science to push their product onto naive consumers.

Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is credited with starting the anti-DDT movement. It's been discredited and is full of junk science and needless corporation-bashing. Read the paper Chemicals and Pests which tears apart Carson's book. [1]

Checkout the New York Times article from 1962 titled "Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science" [2]

A choice quote:

"Ms. Carson used dubious statistics and anecdotes (like the improbable story of a woman who instantly developed cancer after spraying her basement with DDT) to warn of a cancer epidemic that never came to pass. She rightly noted threats to some birds, like eagles and other raptors, but she wildly imagined a mass “biocide.” She warned that one of the most common American birds, the robin, was “on the verge of extinction” — an especially odd claim given the large numbers of robins recorded in Audubon bird counts before her book."

You may also want to check out the story of Professor Kenneth Mellanby who ate DDT for 40 years. [3]

Make sure to take a look at the scientific paper mentioned in this Times article. It concludes "DDT is practically harmless to humans who get it on their skins or breathe it into their lungs." [4]

[1] http://www1.umn.edu/ships/pesticides/library/baldwin1962.pdf

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/science/earth/05tier.html?...

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4264030/DDT-is-safe-just-...

[4] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,812248,00.h...

Did anyone else pick up on all the chemophobia in this video? Is a clip of people spraying DDT supposed to scare us? Rachel Carson was wrong. DDT is safe. My favorite part is when they say "food grade FDA compounds". That's a lot of words to say chemicals.

I think this tweet is pretty spot on:

"Rotating Villains strike again: Just enough liberals inexplicably voted no on NSA restrictions to make it the way Obama wanted."

https://twitter.com/brmull/status/360192763502931968

Yes, you can find the roll call here.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml

I'm not trying to convince you. I'm pointing out atrocities and lies committed by the United States government. We aren't below killing journalists. I figured you would due some sort of due diligence by visiting the link and reading the sections about supposed WMDs.

Here's a great documentary and book on how we were lied into the Iraq war. It's called Hubris: Selling the Iraq War. Watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FaMbnINwc

I did give you a name, Tareq Ayoub, a journalist that was killed by U.S. bombs when we bombed Al Jazeera's headquarters in Baghdad.

Yep. Got this from a live blog that Greenwald tweeted a little while ago.

"Federal migration service has not issued documents allowing Edward Snowden to leave the airport yet, there was a misinformation today in the media, said Kucherena."

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_07_24/Edward-Snowden-leaves-Sher...