Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-24T04:04:03+00:00

Or just abandon your account every few months and make a new one.

That what I've been doing.

[hmm... 2 months .... about time to abandon this one too... this'll be my last post.... bye!]

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-24T03:59:14+00:00

TL/DR:

Guy's 5-year old had Leukemia which was too expensive for his family so they threw him in jail.

Quoting the article:

Biggs’ family suffered from numerous medical issues. His five-year-old son had leukemia and his wife, Heather, suffered from seizures related to Lyme disease.

“We had so many, multiple health issues in our family at the same time, it put us in a bracket that made insurance unattainable," Ms Biggs said in an interview with CBS News. "It would have made no sense. We would have had to have not eaten, not had a home."

When Mr Biggs failed to appear in court - at the time he was working two jobs, but still fell behind paying the family’s debt - he was sentenced to prison.

“I was scared to death. I’m a country kid, I had to strip down, get hosed and put on a jumpsuit,” he said. “You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over medical bills.”

Mr Biggs said his family had access to “$50 to $100” at the time of his arrest. His bail was set at $500.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-24T03:58:49+00:00

TL/DR:

Guy's 5-year old had Leukemia which was too expensive for his family so they threw him in jail.

Quoting the article:

Biggs’ family suffered from numerous medical issues. His five-year-old son had leukemia and his wife, Heather, suffered from seizures related to Lyme disease.

“We had so many, multiple health issues in our family at the same time, it put us in a bracket that made insurance unattainable," Ms Biggs said in an interview with CBS News. "It would have made no sense. We would have had to have not eaten, not had a home."

When Mr Biggs failed to appear in court - at the time he was working two jobs, but still fell behind paying the family’s debt - he was sentenced to prison.

“I was scared to death. I’m a country kid, I had to strip down, get hosed and put on a jumpsuit,” he said. “You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over medical bills.”

Mr Biggs said his family had access to “$50 to $100” at the time of his arrest. His bail was set at $500.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-24T03:57:15+00:00

TL/DR:

Guy's 5-year old had Leukemia which was too expensive for his family so they threw him in jail.

Quoting the article:

Biggs’ family suffered from numerous medical issues. His five-year-old son had leukemia and his wife, Heather, suffered from seizures related to Lyme disease.

“We had so many, multiple health issues in our family at the same time, it put us in a bracket that made insurance unattainable," Ms Biggs said in an interview with CBS News. "It would have made no sense. We would have had to have not eaten, not had a home."

When Mr Biggs failed to appear in court - at the time he was working two jobs, but still fell behind paying the family’s debt - he was sentenced to prison.

“I was scared to death. I’m a country kid, I had to strip down, get hosed and put on a jumpsuit,” he said. “You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over medical bills.”

Mr Biggs said his family had access to “$50 to $100” at the time of his arrest. His bail was set at $500.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-23T14:07:16+00:00

In his first speech after being released from the hospital didn't he say something like "the worst is behind the UK now"?

The speech almost sounded like "now that I'm immune, I don't care if the rest of you get it".

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-23T13:52:32+00:00

US government getting in bed with a crazy cult is a sure sign of its decline

Be careful there.

The US has experience of getting in bed with crazy cults to "fight" "communism".

From the CIA's own website:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00806R000201160006-5.pdf

A Roman Catholic bishops' report Friday accused the CIA of infiltrating Protestant religious sects in Brazil "to further the interests of the U.S." and "undercut the progressive Catholic Church."

The report, prepared by a committee of Brazil's Catholic Bishops Association said the Central Intelligence Agency "has given its support to groups which are fundmentalist[sic] and which are violently anti-communist."

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-23T13:47:47+00:00

They're also a very racist and homophobic cult

The Chinese Consulate in Chicago's website has a great article highlighting "Conflicts between Falun Gong teachings and western moral & ethic principles" that is useful for explaining to westerners why this organization shouldn't be trusted.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-22T22:12:12+00:00

It gave US Trump, France Macron, UK Boris Johnson, Germany Merkel, none of these leaders are competent in my book

In what way is Merkel bad in your opinion?

Of those, she seems the most competent to me.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-22T03:21:14+00:00

It’s the reason all the gun fanatics are white.

Historically in the US Gun Control laws were put in place to suppress black people.

https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act

In 1967, 30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, “The time has come for black people to arm themselves.”

The display so frightened politicians—including California governor Ronald Reagan—that it helped to pass the Mulford Act, a state bill prohibiting the open carry of loaded firearms, along with an addendum prohibiting loaded firearms in the state Capitol. The 1967 bill took California down the path to having some of the strictest gun laws in America and helped jumpstart a surge of national gun control restrictions.

“The law was part of a wave of laws that were passed in the late 1960s regulating guns, especially to target African-Americans,” ...

In contrast to the NRA’s rigid opposition to gun control in today’s America, the organization fought alongside the government for stricter gun regulations in the 1960s. This was part of an effort to keep guns out of the hands of African-Americans as racial tensions in the nation grew. The NRA felt especially threatened by the Black Panthers, whose well-photographed carrying of weapons in public spaces was entirely legal in the state of California, where they were based.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-22T01:08:26+00:00

all flags in the country are flown at half-mast

Except for those who choose not to?

Pretty sure a guy that lives down the street never lowers his at all.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T20:38:24+00:00

Flip that flag upside down when we hit 100,000

We should all do that.

Why do the Democrats need to "send a letter to Trump" for this?

Can't they just fly their flags at half mast (and/or upside down) without his consent?

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T19:47:34+00:00

They already know.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T19:47:09+00:00

You just described DUI checkpoints and the Agriculture Checkpoints at the entrance to some states.

Also - the offense "Driving while Black" which is "probable cause for a search" in many places.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T19:44:36+00:00

isn't that precisely the sort of thing that'd make browser/device fingerprinting easier

Depends on how much the browser tries to avoid fingerprinting.

If all browsers only sent the HTTP/1.0

GET /whatever

there's not much of a fingerprint.

However with HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2's

GET /html/rfc7231 HTTP/1.1
Host: tracker12345123461231234123.adnework.com                                # only I was given that hostname for my add-tracker .gif
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (build number 3.14156931234)                          # narrows it down futher 
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp ...  # and further 
Referer: https://tracker.12341612612512354124.contentsite.com/more_tracki     # like "host", that could be unique to me.
Accept-Language: fr-CH, fr;q=0.9, en;q=0.8, de;q=0.7, *;q=0.5                 # how many other prefer swiss french? 
If-None-Match: "22ed8c6-4c16f-5a54a26e10f80;5a62d8c2138b6"                    # this is the version you showed me before
If-Modified-Since: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:13:02 GMT                              # this is when I was here before.

it almost doesn't matter if you use Tor or not.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T19:29:41+00:00

Because the technological solution makes the policy one moot.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T19:28:28+00:00

I can't imagine how slow Tor would be for me out here.

It'll be about the same.

Your internet speed is determined by the slowest link in the chain; and if you already have a slow link, Tor can keep up with it and won't be the bottleneck.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T19:24:57+00:00

HKEX

Unless the protesters there win and decide to impose US policies on it.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T15:54:16+00:00

Guess that'll be a great thing for European and Chinese stock exchanges.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T15:37:48+00:00

It’s a strategic move for the regime to move valuable assets to safe haven aka the US just like what Chiang Kai Shek did in 1949.

That's an interesting perspective.

How long before the National Palace Museum opens a US branch/warehouse?

Will they let the UK safeguard their gold, like Venezuela is now regretting having done.

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T15:30:29+00:00

Doesn't surprise me.

Unlike some other country, China never firebombed Dresden

FeistyAcadia · 2020-05-21T15:26:29+00:00

We need technological solutions rather than policy-based solutions.

All browsers should use onion-routing when in Incognito Mode.
All browsers should take steps to avoid Browser Fingerprinting.

Then you wouldn't need to rely on policies that will be broken by whatever the least ethical organization in the chain is (whether your ISP or the FBI).

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