People get so freaked out when they think the government is watching but everyone broadcasts their lives on social media anyway. Trust me even if you’re not directly doing it your friends are doing it for you. But the minute it comes up that the government has surveillance programs in place which is fucking obvious to anyone with a brain then its the end of the world. I’m happier knowing that someone cares and pays attention then knowing some loser doesn’t have all the privacy they want. You want a safe and secure continent then this is the price we pay. If you don’t like then fucking move!!! Seriously, what do you have to hide? Nothing? Then what is the problem? No wait I get it, only THEY should be watched, not YOU. YOU have rights that should be protected, but if something terrible happened then you’d have no rights, yes? —Have fun on FB hypocrites!
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What does this have to do with NSA sex?
The difference is that when the government monitors designated “high-risk” groups in the name of security, it’s racist, anti-democratic and a slippery slope to toalitarianism.
When journalism students do it, its completely diff…..
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Sorry, I knew I couldn’t type that with a straight face.
Like the European nations on the eve of WW1 our current information technology has advanced well beyond our ability to reconcile with “archaic” concepts like freedom and privacy. The smartphone may well have a more catastrophic impact on society than the Maxim gun a century ago, and preening narcissists like Julian Assmange and Edward Snowjob are just a sideshow.
Isn’t it great living in “interesting times”?
I don’t take issue with the Government doing surveillance on the populace, I have nothing to hide except empty java cups and roaches. What I take exception to is their inability to keep the populace informed of important events. For example, silencing the scientists, astrophysicists, geologists, climatologists, etc. No one can prepare if they have no knowledge or are given a short period of time to come to the conclusion… F&$K ME.
& people here call me a more-on …OB you are fucked !
When big brother can do what they like when they like whenever they like …they then go to the next step & it will be hmmm seems suspicious , search his house. Reason ,,,,we don’t need no stinking reason.
OH Look he or someone smoked a joint !…yeah we were looking for bomb materials, but this proves he’s a drug king pin we found a roach !
When you give up your rights & freedoms , you deserve to have neither any rights or any freedom . Let the rein of Kings & serfdom for the rest start again ! All hail facism , tolitarian dictatorships are sooooo safe, so safe that is until the protector(s) decides you are a problem , cause they want your property, or don’t like your ideas, etc
OB , do the planet a favour drop dead.
Submit. The reason being simple – you’ve said it yourself, “…if you’re not directly doing it your friends are doing it for you.” So submit. And make your Facebook page the BEST FB page it can be!
Then, fuck off with your nonsense. Please.
It’s about consent. If people want to broadcast the minutia of their lives, it’s up to them but you don’t want to HAVE to divulge personal aspects of your life. Government has an obligation to protect it’s citizens from it’s citizens sometimes and yes, there is overreach at times. A balance has to struck, I wouldn’t trust the populace with total freedom nor the government with absolute power.
errr crispy, are you insinuating my fb has too many ‘what i made for dinner” pictures
Have any of you ever wondered what life is like without a fail book account ?
I for one have never wondered what its like to have one… & can honestly say I have no regrets that i don’t. You can have that, if that’s what you want & I have no problem with you doing so. I don’t & wouldn’t even if it was government mandated & a job requirement .
DO you see the difference there folks.
Choice
That’s the difference & having anyone tell you they are using completely unregulated spying on everyone …to protect you . Is bullshit & you are a real moron if you believe for one second that’s all they are doing, and they are only doing so for ‘your’ well being.
Its not just a slippery slope to loss of all rights & freedoms, its a slippery slope covered in oil !
op obviously has no clue about global politics.
try telling your silly rant to any of the numerous nations pissed off at the US for spying on them….
“Hey germany if you have nothing to hide then you shouldn’t mind us spying on you!”
that should go over well
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Just because you have a FB, and spill the beans on it doesn’t mean the rest of us are comfortable with the government recording our phone calls, and search engines queries.
Have no fear, Citizens. The Captain is watching the people who are watching you.
Everything is under control
Go about your business
Move along… move along
Yeah, but who watches the watchers, huh?
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Oh. I see. Well, I guess everything’s all wrapped up in a nice neat little package, then.
No. Really. Sorry if I sounded sarcastic.
The scariest words i’ve ever heard
” We’re from (insert any Government agency name here) & we’re here to help you ! “
truly terrifying !
The scariest words I’ve ever heard:
“I vonts hat a form in Ofrica”
…because it meant that I was sitting though yet another 3 hour installment of Meryl Streep’s Wide World of Accents and wouldn’t wind up with so much as a hummer to show for it.
FML >: (
Ivan, I LOVE how you mock journalism students.
… much how Biscuit and I mock PR students.
😀
I think Snowden is a blow artist.
I think Ivan and Montrealman are 100% gay for each other
Not that there’s anything wrong with that but it’s more of a bro-mance.
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F.T.W.W.B (02/01, 1.45AM)
It is my understanding that for you to be 100% sure that Col. Ivan and MM are gay for each other would mean you are an expert on the subject. I suggest you seek out Saint Meaty for some enlightenment of the fine arts of being gay. Knowing MM’s love of Labia would preclude any normal person to come to the conclusion that your reasoning is somehow skewed and misguided. What the hell was in your drink last night to have made such an erroneous assumption?
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: Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (02/01, 8:09AM)
A “bro-mance?” Yes that’s it. I think.
: Klyde (9:17AM)
Your reference to my unconditional love of magnificent labia must have dispelled FTWWB’s misconceptions in respect to my sexual orientation. A thought: Do you think that FTWWB has labia? Do you think that this is all a ploy? Do you think that she is hungering after my magnificent body? In the memorable words of the Pointer Sisters, does she want “to wrap herself around me?”
New Avatar Alert! A Henry VI Groat
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
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Montrealman (02/01, 10.04AM)
I am sensing envy, jealousy or even hatred from FTWWB towards you and Col. Ivan which, imo, is simply unfounded. I for one, love seeing new avatars and name changes. One question I have about your new avatar, Why did they call that ‘ a Groat’?
Ahhhhhhhh, lets all bask in the glow from the same right wing assclowns coming to the governments defense, citing the same “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about” bullshit. Its ok for the government to spy on its people as long if its to prevent “terrorism” and for our own protection, right? No, it’s not!!!! How about the immigration department and the NSA collaborate and keep “terrorists” out of the fucking country to begin with. There’s a thought, close the doors to all countries with terrorist affiliations instead of having a revolving door immigration policy where these fuckwads can waltz in here and expect us to respond with tolerance to all their “religious” demands.
Thanks but no thanks, Canadian government, I’ll roll the dice and say that me and my “Bob Smith” type white guy name and the fact that I’m a fourth of fifth generation born Canadian speak for itself when it comes to my “threat to national security”. If the government thinks that them spying on me and my online habits is worth the time and effort to violate my privacy rights, that’s where the problem lies. We have systematically sold ourseles out by giving government far too much power. Power they will never willingly give back. When governments think they can take our charter of rights and freedoms and change it without our consultation, therein lies the problem. Those are there as our guarantee that we will not become oppressed, and are non negotiable. I don’t give a Fuck what the “threat de jour” is. There will always be threats, where do we draw the line when it comes to how much freedom we have to give up to “protect ourselves”?
SHITD – pulling a little to the right on this aren’t we?
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: Klyde (02/01, 10:16AM)
Seaby’s “Standard Catalogue of British Coins” describes the “groat” as “Four pence. 1279-c. 1305 and 1351-1662” but does not indicate the derivation of the term. “The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English” describes the groat as “Silver coin = 4d. issued 1351 -1662 (occasionally used of the the four-penny piece 1836-1856, i.e., Maundy Money); From Middle Dutch ‘groot’ meaning ‘great’ as in sense of thickness.”
Like all coinage before “milling” – machine-made coins producing those little lines around the edge of the coin – the groat was “hammered”. All coinage prior to and including the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) was produced by striking the coin between “dies” – blocks of metal with the design cut into it which, when hammered, impresses the coin blank with the design. Originally hammered coinage was hammered by someone with a strong right arm but later by a press powered by a horse walking around in a circle.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
People spying on people, what a new concept – not. We spy on them (enemy and ally alike) they spy on us and we spy on us. The only thing different today than 30 years ago is the internet and the stupid and sometimes criminal things put on it.
So they are gathering billions of bits of data daily and have to go through. Do you think they care or even look at Ivan’s and MM’s bromance? They don’t give a shit about it. Remember it’s the government. Do you think they even have the capability to separate the wheat from the chaff?
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:Bro Tim (02/01, 6:33PM)
“Do you think they even have the capability to separate the wheat from the chaff?”
An excellent distinction Dim Bro, one I have never heard before. I assume, of course, that by “Ivan’s and MM’s bromance” you are referring to the wheat and not the chaff.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!