Is America Really 'The Land of The Free'?

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  • rollingsrollings Posts: 7,124
    JimmyV wrote:
    both of them??

    this is what i've been told. :evil:

    Still holding out hope that the bans will not be permanent. I guess we'll see.

    they shouldn't be.

    that's ridiculous :thumbdown:
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    one of the two is back using another account

    anyone here concerned about the billion dollars the us gov't is spending on facial recognition software and database? ... it's not even just the face - the software can identify you from side profiles and what not as well ...
  • riotgrlriotgrl Posts: 1,895
    polaris_x wrote:
    one of the two is back using another account

    anyone here concerned about the billion dollars the us gov't is spending on facial recognition software and database? ... it's not even just the face - the software can identify you from side profiles and what not as well ...


    Is this what you're talking about? http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/28/facial-recognition-software-is-coming-to-google-glass/

    I continue to find it frightening that we bicker and argue about things like guns when there are real threats to our freedom that many will ignore because it 'protects our safety'. The uses for these types of technologies by both the government and corporations scares the shit out of me!

    Hopefully, our dear friend will have her ban lifted and soon!
    Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?

    Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...

    I AM MINE
  • polaris_x wrote:
    one of the two is back using another account

    yeah, noticed that. :nono:
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    riotgrl wrote:
    Hopefully, our dear friend will have her ban lifted and soon!

    Who?
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    riotgrl wrote:
    Is this what you're talking about? http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/28/facial-recognition-software-is-coming-to-google-glass/

    I continue to find it frightening that we bicker and argue about things like guns when there are real threats to our freedom that many will ignore because it 'protects our safety'. The uses for these types of technologies by both the government and corporations scares the shit out of me!

    Hopefully, our dear friend will have her ban lifted and soon!

    actually no ...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4diPjRj1d3w
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    "Bullshit is the glue, that BINDS us as a nation. Where would we be without our safe, familiar, American bullshit? Land of the free, home of the brave, the American dream, all men are equal, justice is blind, the press is free, your vote counts, business is honest, the good guys win, the police are on your side, God is watching you, your standard of living will never decline… and everything is going to be just fine— The official national bullshit story. I call it the American okie doke. Every one, every one of those items is provably untrue at one level or another, but we believe them because they're pounded into our heads from the time we're children."

    ~ George Carlin's 'It's Bad For Ya' stand-up comedy act 2008.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    free press only exists for those who own the press.
    hear my name
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    this could be the day
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    i just need to say
  • STAYSEASTAYSEA Posts: 3,814
    I do whatever I want. I live in America. If it's illegal, I don't talk about it.

    I'm not living in Saudi Arabia, Women can legally be stoned to death by family members for leaving the house with out a family male escort. :fp: :nono:

    (Where I live, I can HANG you for trying to steal my horse, w/o a trial, but I don't have a pony....
    Be like I'm like the DUDE.. and I abide.)
    "Like a Salmon... only to be eaten by a bear..." -not worth it-


    Freedom isn't Free...

    Trey Parker... Matt Stone NC-17... ;)

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

    If, you can't laugh at this... and tolerate cuss words, I'm toast.



    I quote Mr. Parker... If you have offense. "They are puppets?"

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



    Please watch it all and have a sense if humor before you judge. ;)
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Ouch!

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... ourt-order

    Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

    Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama

    Glenn Greenwald
    The Guardian, Wednesday 5 June 2013



    The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.

    The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.

    The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.

    The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19...
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