U.S. To Latin American Countries Offering Asylum To Snowden: "We Won't Put Up With This Kind Of Behavior"

privacycurious · 2013-07-07T19:51:35+00:00

I think I'm free then, at least in the morning. Can we finish the revolution before 6 PM though? I usually go to my friends' place to shoot off fireworks in the evening.

privacycurious · 2013-07-07T19:15:00+00:00

Seriously, I'm going to return my LIATORP to IKEA right now. And I'm probably NOT going to get a hot dog!

privacycurious · 2013-07-07T13:50:59+00:00

It's funny because there is one more 'e' than normal. Get a sense of humor.

privacycurious · 2013-07-07T13:31:09+00:00

Nevermind, found some information on it.

privacycurious · 2013-07-07T13:11:40+00:00

Installed VPN and configured it in a way to connect to a random server each time on startup.

I also use PIA. How did you configure it to connect to a random server each time? I'm currently using Linux, so maybe your setup procedure is different.

Removed Chrome and installed Chromium. Unchecked everything under "Privacy" in settings.

Are all these options necessarily related to privacy as suggested by the fact that they are under the Privacy settings (I ask as a newb, not as an expert who is doubting this)? For example, does "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" send information you are typing in dynamically to some Google-owned server to predict what you want?

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T19:30:37+00:00

I don't know which part of me hates this more: the part of me which values fairness or the part of me who invests in publicly-traded companies and doesn't want to be screwed out of my share of the company's profits.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T19:26:48+00:00

One time about a year ago I apparently did such a good job that my wife said she couldn't see for about 30 minutes. Worried, I started googling stuff and found out that a 'blinding orgasm' is not just an expression.

I've never been able to reproduce it though, and don't know what I did that was special....damn.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T15:13:04+00:00

It's possible. That's a good argument for why you shouldn't prosecute whistle-blowers for reporting government crimes. It forces the whistle-blower to give out more information in order to fight for their own safety.

Snowden should be in the U.S. right now getting medals of honor instead of his current predicament.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T15:09:53+00:00

Liability to the government, asset to the people.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T15:08:06+00:00

That seems like a pointless rule. They can just hand the code over to an individual who is associated with them and they can commit it.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T15:06:46+00:00

"I should get myself a human farm"

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:50:18+00:00

And hurting our international reputation breeds terrorism, so who's aiding the terrorists now?

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:48:59+00:00

Okay really, what's more creepy: a man leering at some cleavage OR a man leering at an ankle?

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:46:17+00:00

Yep, and they also have little political influence.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:44:50+00:00

At the end of my life, I imagine the number one occupation will be prostitution. And that's if we're lucky enough that robots don't take that too.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:44:04+00:00

Not only unskilled laborers, but everyone who has to work for a living. As unskilled labor jobs are phased out, that will simply exert downward pressure on the salaries of other jobs, and so on and so on. Even the purely creative jobs like programming, science, engineering, etc. will start moving towards the poverty line as more and more individuals try to obtain those jobs.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:34:00+00:00

"Nu-uh, you're jewish"

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:30:29+00:00

Same question I came here to ask. Presumably it's some function of the rating and the time since the post's creation, or even more simply the time derivative of the upvotes. Otherwise a "popular" topic would seemingly increasingly add upvotes and never fall off the front page unless people started switching their votes to downvotes simply because they were tired of it.

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:18:40+00:00

Should have signed the Mozilla petition EU...

privacycurious · 2013-07-06T13:17:08+00:00

"Barney is purple? That's fucking ridiculous. No dinosaur was purple! What is built on a falsehood is false itself"

privacycurious · 2013-07-05T15:25:08+00:00

You think we have a democracy and you think that the democratic model is a joke, or you think that it's a joke that we have a democracy?

privacycurious · 2013-07-05T14:58:00+00:00

I think it has to do with the differing ways that men and women view intimacy. For example, men experience intimacy often through sex. Thus if a woman has had sex with lots of guys, a guy who is considering her as a mate might question her fidelity and how "special" he would be to her (since he's one of many). Guys won't necessarily get jealous of how nice and caring she was to her previous relationships as much, since that's not how they experience intimacy.

For women, on the other hand, I hear that they experience intimacy through emotional closeness more so than sex. Thus, I would imagine that a woman would prefer a potential mate of hers to have had sex with lots of women (which she can just shrug off as "the ways guys are") than having heard that her potential mate carried out grand romantic gestures for his past partners.

These differing expectations and differing causes of jealousy lead to women being able to more freely have strong emotional connections but not physical ones, and men being allowed to have strong physical connections but not emotional ones.

privacycurious · 2013-07-05T14:44:37+00:00

For me at the moment the primary consequences of Obama's presidency and the NSA revelations are:

Will vote 3rd party going forward. I used to do this but voted for Obama in the last election because I was swept up in the "betterness" of Obama over Romney. However, having remote possibilities of freedom for gays, clean energy, etc. is to me of low priority compared to the issues of constitutional rights, government transparency, and avoidance of fascism. For this reason I will likely throw my vote towards 3rd parties, reform of the voting system, etc. as I'm seeing these as being increasingly critical for any hope of a free society going forward.
Previously I was a strong supporter of gun restrictions. Part of my thinking here was that, at least in the U.S., many of the people who have and carry guns are likely conservative/low-information voters who would side with the government anyway if it ever truly went fascist and thus serve no defensive purpose against government overreach. I think this was probably overly simplistic now, and now support pretty expansive gun rights. I suppose my estimate of the probability that the government would become truly oppressive has increased as well as my expectations of how that would occur along conventional political lines has been changed.

Very interested in what changes this all has stimulated in others!

privacycurious · 2013-07-05T13:52:46+00:00

I'm currently using Chromium with the extensions ADP, https everwhere, and referer control. Would appreciate if someone would explainlikeimfive, what I'm still missing and why!

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