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That looks very interesting. Thanks for the link.

The robots that drop bombs from the sky could never be the good guys. Who would go see such a film?

Whether or not the court order is renewed will be secret, won't it? Isn't the whole point to make all the agency regulations secret? I mean, the original court order wasn't public, why would the renewal be?

There is no difference anywhere. Even in the old communist countries you support one kind of corruption or another. World wide, in democracies, there is a distinct lack of an honest option.

Please also notice that this "news" is reported on Russia Today. Where is the American Reporting? They are too concerned with royal babies, ironically.

At least Snowden showed that the "home of the brave" part is not entirely false.

Welcome to extra-legal-land. There are no rights here except for those of the accuser. No burden of proof or evidence required! Do you hold executive privilege? Imprison and murder as you wish.

No, it's not ridiculous. If building a bridge were the context, and someone built a piece that would collapse the bridge, I'd fully expect any foreman to say "What the fuck is that?" "That is shit".

And I'd fully expect any worker to say "Yeah, damn, you're right, that was stupid. Cheers, I'll fix that"

People didn't start building stuff in the digital era., It's the same principles.

I hope to hell all crap gets called out, otherwise we're in a position where the bridge builders "meant well", and I wouldn't want to cross a river over such a bridge.

He's correct about the cultural aspects. Many cultures value directness in criticism. Why should an open source community be bound by an American ideal of "correct behaviour"?

Great idea! Watching the watchers is a valuable public service. Cheers!

True satire is very welcome, especially considering the sad state of public opinion.

It's been corrupted since the Kennedy assassination.

"Trust us" will never be good enough. Not when accused are not able to know the charges against them. Not when you can be held indefinitely without judicial recourse. Not when prosecutors demand ludicrous sentences for accessing a public API. Not when the executive has the apparently legal ability to assassinate opponents without oversight.

No. Sorry, there can be no trust in such an arrangement. You want trust? Don't have secret courts.

We are open about our secrecy.

"It is transparent, that’s why we set up the FISA court." - Barack Obama

Directives are the game changer. Dreams of dynamic markup come true. There are still a few limitations especially wrt routing/view/state, but that is being actively worked on. It's hard to see a future of the web where angularjs doesn't play a starring role. Get your head around dependency injection and eureeka!

A government that demands secret courts can not call itself democratic. It is the antithesis.

You may be correct if getting asylum was the only purpose of the spray and pray request. To me, it seems to have filled another purpose also, to show the people of the requested countries where their governments stand. For example, the French government's come under quite heavy fire for their handling of the situation.

They didn't render any self-proclaimed American patriots though.

Sadly this is true. The constitution that the USA was founded on not only affected the people of North America, but the virtues documented there were held as paragons of a just society for the entire industrialized western hemisphere.

Sadly, we are seeing these values eroding and dying. And the few that stand up for them, being imprisoned or silenced.

I despair.

Haha. Very good play. A history lesson no bohemian will ever forget.

Please do. It would really be best for all involved.

It is some coincidence for this to come out the day after the airspace fiasco.

Thanks for that link. Seem to be a few flights out to Havana. That would be an interesting destination.