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by fianchetto 13y ago
Hell yeah, I'll give those boys with the funny accents a bitcoin.
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Journalists Detained Attempting to Video NSA Building where Snowden Worked(photographyisnotacrime.com)
82 points by fianchetto 13y ago|13 comments
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Fincen to virtual economy: "Ensure integrity and transparency"(fincen.gov)
2 points by fianchetto 13y ago|0 comments
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Very curious.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
"Rulers who distrust their own people, must govern in a spirit of absolutism ; and suspected subjects will be ever sensible of their bondage." The Constitutional History Of England Vol II Erskine May 1863
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Bernie Madoff didn't have direct access to his victims' accounts. They willingly gave him the money.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> FWIW, I believe them when they say they aren't giving direct access to their servers to the government. What have they done to earn your trust so that you believe them? In matters of espionage and mass surveillance, I expect lying
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> If you're going to say your data not safe in Google's hands, then your data just isn't safe on the internet which I think is a needlessly extreme position to take. Google isn't the internet. Dump gmail, FB and other
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> I'm really not sure why HNers reacted differently in this instance though. Because the government has admitted it.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> Facebook is not and has never been part of any program to give the US or any other government direct access to our servers. Amazing how all them, to a company, are using the "direct access" phrase. Plausible deniability for t
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BoA blocks $25k from Yoko Ono to Julian Assange(smh.com.au)
7 points by fianchetto 13y ago|1 comments
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> I wouldn't question their motives I would.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> The same thing happened when Steve Jobs died. People and events resonate with, move or touch other people. Most other people, I should say.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> Why does the NSA want so much information? > Since the program is secret, it’s hard to say for sure. But the NSA is probably using a software technique called data mining to look for patterns that could be a sign of terrorist acti
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by fianchetto 13y ago
The biggest government spy operation in history is now public knowledge. It's kind of a big deal.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> It cannot be used to intentionally target any U.S. citizen, any other U.S. person, or anyone located within the United States. "Intentionally" is a weasel word. Clapper also used the word "wittingly", another weasel word, when questio
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by fianchetto 13y ago
The line was in an earlier edit: > "The administration has now lost all credibility." http://www.newsdiffs.org/diff/245539/245566/www.nytimes.com/...
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> How is that any of anyone's business but his? He used public land. He made it public.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Old story: Arrogant punk thinks the world is his, will be shown differently in a few years.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> who eventually end up hyperventilating about jackbooted thugs forcing you to register your car at the DMV. It's a poor argument that can be derailed by what you think another might say.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
Not to be harsh, but your argument is all over the place.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> Voluntarily suspending operation Something is voluntary only if there's no threat of force behind it. Voluntary: acting or done without compulsion or obligation. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voluntary
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by fianchetto 13y ago
A smaller entity being threatened by a larger entity is a form of force. Do you think you pay taxes "voluntarily" also?
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> It sounds like they did this voluntarily No, they were forced by the state.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> They are not being forced to close. They were told they "must" close by the state. I'm not sure how anyone can construe that as voluntary.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
"The commission has formally stated that unless exempt from licensing we must stop further activity until such time as we apply for and obtain a Money Transmitter license."
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A Bitcoin service suspended by state of Virginia(bitcointalk.org)
45 points by fianchetto 13y ago|60 comments
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by fianchetto 13y ago
How about starting with something as simple as being able to grow hemp without being threatened by various police? The US has been a developing economic police state since at least the 1930's.
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> Despite what people on reddit, and other fringe internet forums would have you believe, The United States has some of the strongest personal liberties in the world. I must disagree. Any government that would prohibit free agriculture
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by fianchetto 13y ago
> His statements about persecution have to be taken with some grains of salt. In the fight between the National Security State and the individual, I always give the individual the benefit of the doubt. Then again, I always back the unde

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