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Who voted that down? Did I disagree with your favorite commercial media journalist? So sorry for the faux paux. So embarrassed. Will make mental note to pick extra cotton from your master's salt mines when my time comes to leave the shed next month. Hoping to save enough bitcoin to buy a generator for warm water to keep my niece alive. Blessed be! But what about THIS cat vid, cultural commentators? Amirite? That calico almost looked like a foreigner. Can you imagine!

....for me to get a side job at? Because I have no disposable income beyond keeping myself alive. So, great time spent on that app, comrade.

As far as cost factor, I imagine James Randi's circle might be of assistance:

http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html

I wonder what Dan Brown would have to say about this.

...Capitalism has a soul?

There is not enough popcorn in the world for this right now.

Right on. The way I always saw it was that the NSA were the thieves, collecting data they did not own. Snowden, while accused of stealing secrets, actually set them free.

If I remember correctly, Snowden himself said in Citizen Four that intelligence agencies use aliases for assets and not targets. Which would mean that if any agents had actually been named in the docs, their masters saw them not as assets but as potential targets, which is damning unto itself.

The talk of need for separation of Church and State is one thing (and absolutely valid), but I think the largest threat to the world, indeed the largest threat the world has ever known, is the marriage between (American) State and (American) Industry. That's what the Snowden leaks have verified most.

So this means the NSA will be dismantled as a complete failure and total waste of monies spent, right?

I love his remarks on the New Age movement. Spirituality without some form of sacrifice has always struck me as unauthentic.

While standing on one foot and facing North, of course.

What if there's some weird loophole among the Five Eyes participants that ignores payphones in favor of other landlines and cells?

I'm more concerned with the ease in how American corporations can so readily influence foreign governance.

We can only hope.

No it's not. You can support your family without enabling an evil corporation in sneaking billions in tax evasion schemes. Greed destroys. Capitalism destroys. No paint job fixes that.

Making money is agenda number one for both companies regardless of what their respective PR departments say.

This is why the concept of free global internet bothers me, as I think it would up the ante in terms of surveillance.

"Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost." -Neil Gaiman

Free speech is all or nothing.

Financial incentive wasn't attached to labor for the bulk of our species' history though. That's relatively new. Prior, there was working for survival (far less hours per week than today), and beyond that the obvious slavery that was more overt than modern industry. All said, now I think it would take a mother of a global psychogenesis to remind people of benefits to working other than the mere monetary (physical, spiritual, etc). But it is in our genes. We are just lazier than our forefathers, that much less willing to scrub our own toilets and the like unless we can see the carrot at stick's end.

Not without literally tons of bloodshed.

No offense, but I disagree with pretty much all of this. We work more than our ancestors do, not to make an easier life, but for the sake of incorporating the ephemeral and inconsequential into our lives. And an agrarian lifestyle can be loads of fun, actually. I got more of a sense of accomplishment helping on my grandparents' farm than from any blue collar job I've ever held.

Like looking for Jesus on potato crisps.

If only the same programs could be used to block searches for Justin Bieber, Dancing with the Stars, Fast and Furious movies, anything Kardashian, etc.

Seek out non-profits in your area and volunteer to help build web-presences for them- websites, social networking, etc. Just assisting with spreading the word can do wonders sometimes.

Or go further and offer a contest, of so many hours of your time to whomever raises the most fundage for whatever local community organization.

Sell it to Jim Beam.

Their tax breaks and corporate subsidies will more than cushion them in their hour of supposed need. And I imagine PR like this will enable them to also raise prices here and there, so extra win.

Shark jumped thusly.

Labels are like teeth- modern man has more than he needs.

-Richard Caldwell

My favorite version was this:

http://vhemt.org/philrel.htm#button