Hacker News Reader

shit_paradeon Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer

No president would be a better alternative than a man who indiscriminately bombs foreign countries, refuses to count civilian deaths, orders hits on US citizens, refuses to prosecute torture but prattles on about fighting extremism while his home town of Chicago has its own home grown black site. So yeah, he's worse than nobody, he's worse than if my dead grandmother were president.

shit_paradeon Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer

I think a modicum of effort instead of wasting everyone's time with what is a well known fact would be polite.

shit_paradeon Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer

"disposition matrix", although I don't think getting on that list even evolves a court, just an advisory panel made up people picked by the executive breach, but it is hard to know for sure since it is all considered secret.

EDIT: how about a counter argument instead of reflexive down votes -- yeah it sucks our government kills US citizens without much due process but that's the truth, try not to avert your eyes.

shit_paradeon Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

Dismantling Guantanamo? Where have you been?

How many countries have we bombed? We are re-invading Iraq, we are still in Afghanistan, we are now meddling in Ukraine which is utterly insane. Much of the weaponry ISIS is using was supplied by America under Obama, the defense Budget has grown under Obama, what metric are you using to disagree?

For all the down voters how about using some facts instead of more emotional knee jerks.

shit_paradeon Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

We've also bombed Syria. It seems Ukraine and Russia are next on the list for the crazies in DC.

shit_paradeon Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules

It would be funny if it wasn't the fact that deranged, warmongering nuts like Obama run America.

shit_paradeon PayPal has ceased processing MEGA customer payments

The air conditioning footprint of bank branches alone is going to be several magnitudes greater in terms of energy consumption than bitcoin mining, add in commuting hours for every bank employee and it isn't even a contest, people just parrot whatever news source they like without thinking, even people on HN, it is really very sad.

shit_paradeon PayPal has ceased processing MEGA customer payments

? are you talking about central banks? Because I have no idea what you are saying, and I believe you also do not understand yourself.

shit_paradeon The Robots Are Coming

>The narrative that machines will "eat" all the jobs leaving the mass of humanity unemployed is an easy to understand story, but it hasn't ever come to pass and probably won't for reasons that don't need to be detailed in this comment.

It is already happening, just take a look at graphs of labor rate participation against productivity. Will it happen to 'all the jobs', no, but will it leave masses of humanity unemployed? Yeah that is already happening, EU unemployment for those under 30 is staggering.

shit_paradeon FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

? can you help me understand, I am curious why you believe this to be the case?

By any metric I can think of US government regulation has increased dramatically. Size of US tax code, number of laws, number of regulations, number of government agencies, expenditures, population of washington DC, the # of people with security clearances.

The only thing that has decreased is total work force, but if you add in the additional hiring of contractors that reduction is also thrown into question.

shit_paradeon FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

It is much cheaper to purchase legislation mandating people buy a product or mandating legal barriers to protect a business from competition than it is to convince people to willing purchase and engage with a business.

Why are people so afraid of each other? Why are people so afraid of allowing their fellow humans to choose the services and products and businesses they want to choose? Why are people so quick to call upon the government to implement through force the ideas they think are best? Especially when they are faced with the reality that their government continually flaunts their own laws when it suits them?

So many intelligent people so quickly willing to give away their rights to a government they criticize on one hand but call upon to protect them with the other.

shit_paradeon FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote

Because recent government conduct has been stellar, I really want more government regulation, government always knows best, government does an amazing job, is very fair, is very open and transparent, government is democratic and responsive to citizen concerns.

What typical myopic bullshit.

shit_paradeon Snowden Task Force Damage Report is Redacted

"A Pentagon review has concluded that the disclosure of classified documents taken by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden could "gravely impact" America’s national security and risk the lives of U.S. military personnel, and that leaks to journalists have already revealed sources and methods of intelligence operations to America’s adversaries. At least, that’s how two members of Congress who have read the classified report are characterizing its findings. But the lawmakers — who are working in coordination with the Obama administration and are trying to counter the narrative that Snowden is a heroic whistleblower — offered no specific examples to substantiate their claims."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/09/congressmen-reveal-secre...

try reading, vice links that article in the very quote I used. Well, duh, senior stooge.

shit_paradeon Snowden Task Force Damage Report is Redacted

Thank you for your intelligent, insightful comment which has really improved the discussion regarding state secrecy and the rights of its citizens to know what the government does in their name. Bravo, Bravissimo.

shit_paradeon Snowden Task Force Damage Report is Redacted

5.1 million Americans have security clearance[0]. Let that sink in, there are essentially two classes of citizens in America, those trusted by the government and allowed to look at 'sensitive' information, and everyone else who is distrusted, disdained, ignored, and spied upon.

0:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/24...

shit_paradeon Snowden Task Force Damage Report is Redacted

The Obama administration did authorize leaks relating to Snowden for political purposes, are you claiming that did not happen? But please do go on defending the fantastic, transparent, freedom loving US government which strives to weed out corruption, protect whistle-blowers, and zealously defends constitutional rights.

shit_paradeon Snowden Task Force Damage Report is Redacted

" In fact, the existence of the DIA's report had been unknown until the White House secretly authorized the declassification of select portions of it so two Republican lawmakers could undercut the media narrative painting Snowden as a heroic whistleblower."

https://news.vice.com/article/official-reports-on-the-damage...

shit_paradeon Snowden Task Force Damage Report is Redacted

Releasing evidence to support claims is a quaint relic of when America was a Republic beholden to its citizens.

shit_paradeon It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

shit_paradeon It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

'foaming at the mouth' is an Orwellian characterization of what is a profound and rational aversion to totalitarian state surveillance. Stop using the metaphor of a rabies infected dog to describe those who wish to live without the government spying on them.

shit_paradeon It's Time to Break Up the NSA (2014)

Are you aware of the recent guardian article about a Chicago police blacksite[0]? Your analogy is inappropriate in the face of systematic torture, killing, and corrupition of law by American institutions. Simplistic analogies will not fix this problem nor do they help the discourse.

0:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/25/chicago-homan...

shit_paradeon Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

I wonder what the apologists will say, there certainly is no lack of imagination when it comes to defending torture and murder when done by the government.

shit_paradeon Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely

I'm also surprised that people are not more skeptical of anything coming out of the white house with Obama's name on it.

Obama has proven himself to be a warmonger with loose ethics unwilling to prosecute torture and also fully interested in continuing the surveillance state, killing Americans without due process, prosecuting whistle-blowers, and protecting the status quo above the constitution and civil rights.

shit_paradeon Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely

I also recommend people try startpage.com

shit_paradeon The Common Cure for Heroin Addiction Is Also a Magnet for Police Harassment

but decriminalization does, at least it has had stunning results in Portugal. But thugs are going to be thugs and most people seem to like to have the local thugs in blue do their shit.

shit_paradeon Accused British hacker, wanted for crimes in US, won’t give up crypto keys

>(based on the article, you seem guilty)

what utter nonsense, is being charged with a crime the same as guilt now? The article makes a point of repeatedly using the word alleged and citing that all the claims are from the prosecutor. It is extremely pernicious of you to use such language.

shit_paradeon Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit against the US government

People and companies need to remember that civil disobedience is a valid option in response to unjust laws.

shit_paradeon The Worst Way to Fire Someone: I Was There

Reminds me of a friend who used to manage a fast food outlet, it was corporate policy to never fire anyone, they simply would schedule the person 0 hours week after week until they quit.

shit_paradeon “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/18/yes-there-are-bad-guys-i...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/13/ukraine...

Please educate yourself.

shit_paradeon “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

This comment reads very much like astroturfing. I hope the admins of HN take a look at who registered this account and who up-voted this comment to make it the current top comment in this thread. As mentioned by others, this account is nearly a year old with one silly comment before that.