comrade1

Ha ha! I know who you are.

Tomorrow, after your meds, read what you wrote and you will see that you are arguing against yourself. I'm only responding to you so that others here can see how insane you are.

Tomorrow if you wish to continue this debate we can do so in person with Roberts rules of debate, the loser with their head between their knees.

This was an interesting and early revelation, but it wasn't until the Snowden documents that we understood what this closet really meant. We had no idea the government was recording every phone conversation in the u.s., every email, etc... We still had some hope that the rule of law as being followed and that this closet was just a way to make targeted surveillance easier.

First, I'm American. I've worked on NSA and DoD projects, and I've worked for PGP. I now live in Switzerland.

You only have to look at the consequences of the Snowden revelations. Nothing has really changed - some meaningless legislation was passed that moves the phone metadata recording to the phone companies from the NSA, but even then it's not clear that its stopped - the NSA data center in Utah where those conversations were recorded doesn't seem to be shutting down. I would bet the phone conversation, skype conversation, etc recording is still going on since it was never explicitly addressed anywhere in legislation.

And my comment about Americans being Authoritarian is nothing new - they've long considered to be Authoritarian.

No, not really with ECHELON. That would have required all phone calls in the u.s. to be routed outside of the u.s., and really the only cooperating country was the UK, even though Canada was part of the group. It wasn't practical to route all communications from the u.s. through the UK, and it probably would have been noticed.

Spying on the u.n. based on terrorism legislation is a revelation. Recording of all telephone conversations in the u.s. is a revelation. Recording of all emails, skype, sms, etc is a revelation.

Before discovery of that room everyone knew that there was close cooperation between the telecoms and the government, but we had no idea it was this close and we were shocked at especially the recording of all phone conversations in the u.s.

Hopefully companies and organizations like the UN start moving away from AT&T. AT&T is a publicly traded company and so the only thing they understand is profit and loss.

The snowden releases cost u.s. tech companies $100B+, including a 10% drop in Cisco quarterly revenues. Hopefully this continues as multinationals continue to move their business outside the u.s.

Let the u.s. government spy on Americans all they want since Americans seem to like being spied on, while the rest of us move on. I know that mindset doesn't match many of the people here on HN, but Americans are mostly Authoritarian and seem to like the comfort they feel from programs like this.

The FCC has been cracking down on companies using long codes for SMS services because those long codes aren't required to follow the normal SMS rules concerning opting in, opting out, opt less keywords (help messages). For short codes the phone companies each test the short code to confirm it's following the rules.

Further, these long codes switch companies frequently as they get reused when they're no longer in use, and SMS user numbers have been spammed with sms messages as a result.

Microsoft is still one of the largest companies in the world. Adobe. Pepsi. What, would you have them run uber or something small like that?

One is from chennai, the finance hub of India. The other is from almost the Nepal region but I've never heard of him.

There is a population of radicals in India - separists, communists, but they are separate from the western tied Indians. They are separate because they never were in the group that has close ties to the west, and they are a loud but weak minority.

What do you mean by the communist parts of India? Do you mean Nepal? WTF are you talking about? What you are saying has nothing to do with reality.

Most of the c-level Indians I know are from Hyderabad, including the former ceo of Microsoft India, the Eco of Adobe... Hyderabad is like Texas in India.

There are 1.2B Indians and 300M Americans. And there are strong ties between the Indian middle class and the u.s. In education and business. The indian middle class is around 300M. It's surprising that there aren't more Indians in high corporate roles considering how many there are in universities, for example.

Something that is disturbing long-term is the low number of Chinese nationals in corporate roles in the u.s. China is arguably ahead of India socially and economically. They have 500M in the middle class. But we don't have strong ties with mainland China like we do with India. We run the risk of continuing to diverge.

Are you saying Fukushima left more uninhabitable land? I don't think that's right.

Chernobyl made a lot larger part of the planet uninhabitable than Fukushima did.

It's still pretty weird to see someone running in New Delhi, for example. I know heat and air quality are part of it but there are days where it would be perfectly fine. I think it's just considered weird to run.

What's anti-American? Do you mean the racism? Or being against racism is anti-American?

You live in a bubble. I can confidently say that you are ignorant.

http://www.rt.com/usa/majority-americans-racist-poll-378/ http://www.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-h...

This is rural MN and NW WI, but even then do you find it hard to believe? 45% of Americans believe in creationism and the u.s. has some of the worse race relations on the planet. What sort of bubble do you live in?

I'd hate to be this guy's customer...

Just do a search on 'u.s. Education decline'.

Sure, there are always individuals that buck the trend but overall the u.s. Is an embarrassment and getting worse.

Anecdotally, I am in the Midwest twice per year and have to listen to people complaining about the Jews and the niggers, and about various conspiracies about global warming, and how there's no way we're descended from monkeys.

I don't hear any of at shit where I live in Europe, except for some of the racist stuff but in a more nuanced manner.

Just stop going to the u.s. Frankly, the place is a dump and its people are ignorant and crude. I never thought I'd have an unironic conversation with someone arguing against the existence of evolution until my last trip to the u.s. They are superstitious and even the most liberal of them has politics to the right of your government's fascist wing, and a bizarre attitude toward sex where their behavior is nothing like their rhetoric.

I'd be interested in the stats in the other direction - how low of a chance of someone born in the upper quintile ending up in the lower quintile. The u.s. seems to be disproportionally high in mediocre people being at the top, being there through famil money.

Basically britain's upper class twits satirized by Monty Python.

Or you could just be living a normal life:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/07/experien...

You've obviously never had to spend a night in jail.

Why doesn't English have a plural you like German? Do the other Germanic languages have plural you?

I went through the questions and when I first saw the results I was impressed, but then I realized the "most similar" covered about 75% of the u.s. For my results it basically just made the confederate states least similar and everywhere else dark blue. Guess I'm a Yankee.

I at first believed it came from MH370 but now that I hear the Malaysian PM confirm it it makes me wonder if it's from some other source.

(This is a sarcastic comment on the quality of thee Malaysian leadership and how they handled the situation.)

That makes sense. Assuming they had freezer cars on the trains. Or I guess you could try freezing the freshwater fish, or holding it at a temp close to freezing for awhile.

As part of the ancestry of that Swedish immigration wave to the Midwest, all I know of is lutefisk, which is by no means sushi. It's about the most vile thing you can imagine - dried cod turned to fish jello in lye. You can smell it from miles away when it's being cooked, and... well, the smell is worse than the taste, but to think of equating that with sushi...

I don't think you can even call it seafood.

Even a wealthy person in 1905 couldn't get fresh fish from the ocean. The Wright brothers didn't even fly until 1903. And the train from either coast would be a couple of weeks.

As someone else mentioned, it was probably tamago, or maybe beef. Or maybe even local fish but pickled, which would have gone with the vinegar rice.

Or maybe they used local fish raw and just risked getting worms.

This is more of a problem with GitHub than git.

Remember, it's not that hard to host your own git repo. There's no need to use GitHub.