Just had to make a meme on the cat. Probably won’t work in isolation by itself. But works with article above.

Slave labor, zero safety regulations and the fact that most of the systems are probably not nearly as advanced as the brochure says. Also the actual cost is probably higher. Never trust official Russian numbers.

Fuck that, (Iowa) railgun platform time.

No. NATO never invited us nor did we ever apply for NATO.

Have you ever seen the way that big corporations deal with our government? Watch a congressional hearing some time. Pleading the fifth is basically just how these people say “hello.”

Hahahahhahahaaa! Good grief. Is this the best they have? The Fifth? There is no way in hell the judge is going to buy the Fifth in this case.

Ask the European countries that continue to petition for NATO membership. Putin’s posturing and aggression in Georgia and Ukraine are motivating these European countries. The Swedish public polls in favor of joining NATO, and then Putin warns Sweden that there will be “military consequences” if they join NATO. Can you…

I may be veering a little off topic here, but this article touched on one of my biggest concerns for the 2016 election on the Democrat side. I’m worried that the Hillary and Bernie camps are SO invested in their candidates and focused on tearing the other down to prop theirs up that it’ll cause a huge rift when it…

It is going to be decided by lawmakers...the judiciary, in this case. They’re going to lose because their argument sucks. The new paranoia over potential government misconduct is not going to defeat the need to investigate and punish actual misconduct by known actors. One way or the other, and regardless of their…

I agree that Apple will get their arm twisted... the question is how resilient their arm is and how high is their pain threshold... unless, this goes to Congress and they settle it properly but I doubt anyone has the patience to take it that far, given the urgency on hand to obtain information from the phone. To your…

Yeah, they’re gonna lose. They have a reputational interest in being perceived as a manufacturer that will protect your data, but not a compelling argument for denying access to data that's in the national or state interest. What they haven't contemplated is that the government can easily regulate products than can…

Apple unlocked phones for the government what, 70 times at least before they suddenly underwent this crisis of conscience? C’mon. The government doesn’t want Apple to remove the privacy feature on every device, merely to make it possible for prosecutors to see the content on devices, presuming that the courts agree.…

You don’t know to whom you’ve given access. That’s the point. Your information has already been bought, sold, parsed a thousand ways. Unless there’s a sea change in the interpretation of the Constitution or a tremendous (one would imagine legislated) expansion in prosecutorial rights, your information is no more at…

I am with you up to the point that anyone has a right to access my legal private life beyond those for which I have given opportunity. The key the government is asking for could not only allow a deeper picture into my admittedly legal existence, but also open the door for commercial interests to further delve into and…

I think you over-estimate the desire and capability of the government. I’m not going to presume on the benevolence of the NSA, but then again, I’ve never considered anything about my life particularly private. I have a driver’s license. I pay taxes. My medical records are now electronic, as are my payment histories,…

I think our orientation, both in the US and UK, is to want to preserve loopholes that facilitate our commission of illegal acts. We can all agree that privacy concerns aren’t de minimus, but concern for individual privacy has never and will never trump national interests. Virtually any US citizen can own a gun, but…

I find it interesting that this article does NOT touch on the fact that this is not a personal phone, but a government owned one, and the government agency has given permission for them to open it. Also, it does not discuss that the order specifically states that the software is to be written specifically for his…

I am just as likely to believe that Apple is lying, as the FBI (or any Gov. agency for that matter). I firmly believe that yes, Apple does have the ability to by-pass the locks. But, no, there is now way that they would admit this.

Yeah too bad this DRM fucks with paying customers. All for what? A boogeyman witchhunt that offers no real evidence of having any real, consistent consequences, particularly for AAA games because it’s usually ONLY AAA games that use these forms of abusive DRM and AAA games and studios get hurt the least by piracy.

Watched my mother lose her home and go through bankruptcy. Three months after it was complete she was getting credit card applications in the mail at favorable rates. Three years after, her score was back up over 700. The bankruptcy has counted against her at all.