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That's a lot of money to spend to not follow through and put the last nail in the coffin.

No, because then they might be taking on an entity with enough money to provide a competent legal defense against them.

You are free to leave society and stop paying taxes.

In this analogy, you are the roommate who stopped paying rent, won't leave and keeps ranting about Hayek. There is no man with a gun.

Because it's really easy, indexed and the Constitution doesn't make it clearly illegal.

Or at any point in history. If something has value, people with interest and power will seek it out.

It's popularized (il)legal gambling, you don't understand it because you aren't justifying an addiction to yourself.

The historical record is full of key themes and tropes: our warlike behavior as whole, bias for tribalism, hatred and discrimination of minorities and society's propensity to rally behind those things.

To ignore the recent abuse of such data is ignoring the potential abuse DNA collection could enable.

I almost forgot about this incredible travesty to human rights. You really do selectively forget the bad when remembering the past.

'Right to work' is a specific term used in the US to designate labor legislation used to cripple unions and shouldn't be confused with a general 'right' to employment.

The choice in terminology had me very confused on the first read.

It's okay, your friends and those you converse with already have.

There are better options than to use Ghostery for the same reasons you don't want a private company having a say in your privacy ;)

They are admitting to using two year old footage to identify people in a crowd, who are associated with people who turn violent.

It implies that they can and will dedicate that much time and power to put you on lists and possibly harass you for exercising your freedom of speech and assembly.

Given the relationship between the police and protesters, I wouldn't want to suffer the repercussions of being in their systems as one.

The result is that I'm less likely to become politically active out of fear of being identified and associated with subversives in the eyes of my government.

It's meant to sent a message: get involved with people or movements we don't like and you will be systematically hunted down.

The chilling effect is real.

Leninism/Stalinism/those fucking Trots/Maoism isn't true Communism.

So the tools, infrastructure and contacts are all there for police to hit a button / make a phone call and get your private data.

Why bother getting a warrant if you can open your laptop and have your suspicions validated in five minutes?

Access shouldn't be in the hands of local departments with little to no accountability. I'd go as far to say that access shouldn't be made available at all, but it's almost 2016 and that isn't changing.

http://theantimedia.org/local-sheriffs-dept-used-stingray-su...

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/ny-cops-used-stingray-spy-tool-...

No one is about to flood the market with free goods. Power in a capitalist system is derived from scarcity, so it follows that artificial scarcity will be maintained if a 'post-scarcity' technological development was made.

Post scarcity isn't much of a boon to society if it is constrained in the hands of the few. Especially if power is derived from scarcity.

This is the US, do you really think that if there wasn't a single gun in the hands of people in the country that cops wouldn't still carry guns?

If the gun supply is strained, the chances of encountering such a person are lowered.

It's better to not make any laws because someone might break them.

The point is no one has been collecting the data for reasons, and short of using a time machine, the FBI will never see it.

Yep, they used these systems in Iraq and now they're setup in some of the more dangerous areas near me.

Disarming/disabling != Shooting someone dead.

Just because you have an easy button for homicide doesn't mean it's called for in every hostile situation. Courts agree. Try killing someone for robbing your house.

If guns were illegal and cops still carried guns, they'd pull them when they walk into rooms. Why wouldn't they?

You're overlooking the "view it" part. I don't want to see your web font in the first place.

I'd agree if there weren't safe ways to have sex.

Breaking a treatment regimen to use a drug that wreaks havoc on the specific neurotransmitter the antidepressant acts on doesn't work.

There is no way to reliably control the outcome of stopping treatment and taking street drugs.

Just wait til you see what is classified as "counter-terrorism"

I have to wait for it to load, view it and charge my battery later. I don't get that time back. It concerns me.

Leninism/Stalinism/those fucking Trots/Maoism isn't true Communism.

This happens so often in this community that it's cringeworthy.

When I got to the first mention of Twitter I hit the back button.