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[Iamwhomiam]

Some people cannot see the human, only their uniform and that is what they react to, 82. That's my experience, anyway. I have been in more than a few situations that could have gone ugly, but diffused them with words into a positive experience for all involved.

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So, what's the inverse of Hanlon's razor? If as published,


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Pigden, Charles (2006). "Chapter 3: Popper Revised, or What is Wrong with Conspiracy Theories?". In David Coady. Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate. p. 17. "Quoted in the Otago Daily Times, 3/4/85"

What's it's alternative our option opposite?

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So, what's the inverse of Hanlon's razor? If as published,


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

Pigden, Charles (2006). "Chapter 3: Popper Revised, or What is Wrong with Conspiracy Theories?". In David Coady. Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate. p. 17. "Quoted in the Otago Daily Times, 3/4/85"

What's it's alternative our option opposite?[/quote]


The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Diogenes

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now on a military advisory board for the Pentagon
http://www.businessinsider.com/former-g ... tion-board

Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, has agreed to head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.

Carter is due to discuss the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the annual RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco. Schmidt is now the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc <GOOGL.O>, the parent company of Google.

The new board is Carter's latest effort to kick-start innovation across the U.S. military by building bridges to the U.S. technology industry. The U.S. defense chief announced the board's creation on Wednesday during his third trip to Silicon Valley since taking office just over a year ago.

Carter and Schmidt will select up to l2 individuals to serve on the board, focusing on people who have led large private and public organizations, and excelled at identifying and adopting new technology concepts, the Pentagon said in a statement.

Modeled on the Defense Business Board, which provides advice on best business practices from the private sector, the new panel is intended to help the Pentagon become more innovative and adaptive in developing technology and more nimble.

Members will draw on their experience in Silicon Valley to advise on rapid prototyping, iterative product development, complex data analysis, the use of mobile and cloud applications and organizational information sharing.

"The secretary is always looking at ways to ... keep the department thinking fresh, bringing in new ideas, bringing in new voices, and he sees this as another opportunity to do that," said one senior defense official.

Details of how often the board will operate were still being worked out, the official said.



(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

Read the original article on Reuters. Copyright 2016. Follow Reuters on Twitter.

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https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/896972
Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and tablets

Also, from the comments:



Amazon Among Supporters of Apple in Encryption Case
http://www.technewstoday.com/28758-amaz ... tion-case/

Hypocrites.

This is why, when you read shit like "Google/Amazon/Facebook supports Apple in encryption battle" it's nothing but marketing.

Put your money where your mouth is and we'll talk.

So far the only company that I can think of that really showed some balls towards fighting for our privacy was Lavabit (rip).




Don't forget Calyx Internet Access & Nicholas Merrill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill

Fought an NSL & gag-order for over a decade & finally won.



Holy shit. He won the court cases in 2008, and was only able to publicly identify himself a few years later, whic itself was a few years before he could talk about what the FBI originally requested from him (all of which they had long since decided that they didn't need).

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https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/896972
Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and tablets

Also, from the comments:



Amazon Among Supporters of Apple in Encryption Case
http://www.technewstoday.com/28758-amaz ... tion-case/

Hypocrites.

This is why, when you read shit like "Google/Amazon/Facebook supports Apple in encryption battle" it's nothing but marketing.

Put your money where your mouth is and we'll talk.

So far the only company that I can think of that really showed some balls towards fighting for our privacy was Lavabit (rip).




Don't forget Calyx Internet Access & Nicholas Merrill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill

Fought an NSL & gag-order for over a decade & finally won.



Holy shit. He won the court cases in 2008, and was only able to publicly identify himself a few years later, whic itself was a few years before he could talk about what the FBI originally requested from him (all of which they had long since decided that they didn't need).

And this is terrifying
http://archive.is/Hot4k

Terror suspects will test deradicalization program
Four young Twin Cities men facing federal terrorism charges have been chosen for a first-of-its kind deradicalization program under the supervision of a Minneapolis judge and a German expert on Islamic extremism.

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https://voat.co/v/technology/comments/896972
Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and tablets

Also, from the comments:



Amazon Among Supporters of Apple in Encryption Case
http://www.technewstoday.com/28758-amaz ... tion-case/

Hypocrites.

This is why, when you read shit like "Google/Amazon/Facebook supports Apple in encryption battle" it's nothing but marketing.

Put your money where your mouth is and we'll talk.

So far the only company that I can think of that really showed some balls towards fighting for our privacy was Lavabit (rip).




Don't forget Calyx Internet Access & Nicholas Merrill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Merrill

Fought an NSL & gag-order for over a decade & finally won.



Holy shit. He won the court cases in 2008, and was only able to publicly identify himself a few years later, whic itself was a few years before he could talk about what the FBI originally requested from him (all of which they had long since decided that they didn't need).

And this is terrifying
http://archive.is/Hot4k

Terror suspects will test deradicalization program
Four young Twin Cities men facing federal terrorism charges have been chosen for a first-of-its kind deradicalization program under the supervision of a Minneapolis judge and a German expert on Islamic extremism.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news ... nd-8759504

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Oliver Stone: American Corporations Were Too Scared to Finance the Film "Snowden"


Oliver Stone was interviewed Aug. 26 at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television.

During the interview, reports The Hollywood Reporter, he said he skipped his mother's funeral to continue work on Snowden.

"I would have had to cut like four days of filming. And we couldn't afford it," he said according to The Reporter.

Stone also revealed that none of the major corporate studios agreed to finance the film.

"The biggest problem in the end turned out to be the self-censorship of scared American corporations," Stone said. "And that's the truth about our society. … At the price we were offering, and the script the way it was, it's very hard to believe [that there wasn't] a political factor [in denying the project financing]....although the script was admired and people wanted to make it, they said at the studio level, whatever, they said, 'Well, I have to run it upstairs,' because they no longer are in charge of their own studios. You have to realize that. So they run it to the corporate boards that run these gigantic megalopolises that own these studios. And the lawyers always say, 'No, no, no. This is going to be a lawsuit, controversial.' Or, 'We have a pending deal with the U.S. Government Department of Justice. We want to merge with XYZ, and that merger's worth $30 billion or $100 billion to us. We don't want to have any problems with the government.' So it becomes self-censorship by the private corporations not to antagonize in any way Mr. Obama or the DOJ."

The film was eventually produced jointly by Endgame Entertainment, Wild Bunch,KrautPack Entertainment,Onda Entertainment and Vendian Entertainment

Snowden opens Thursday, September 15.



https://youtu.be/QlSAiI3xMh4

http://www.targetliberty.com/2016/09/ol ... -were.html

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I call BS on OS.

He exec-produced Indictment, a major component in cementing the witch hunt narative" around DayCare child abuse: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Indi ... 155481.php

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The Joint Force in a Contested and Disordered World 14 July 2016 Distribution Statement A
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.

http://dtic.mil/doctrine/concepts/joe/j ... july16.pdf

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Nothing earth shattering but good reminder. Unplug your wifi when you go to bed. Over time it could help with headaches and insomnia.

https://youtu.be/F0NEaPTu9oI

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http://www.metafilter.com/162568/High-Hitler

German novelist Norman Ohler has written his first non-fiction work, Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany. Drug abuse permeated all levels of the Third Reich, with Hitler himself, enabled by his personal physician Theodor Morell, being one of the most addicted, primarily to Eukadol (Oxycodone) and cocaine. Ohler also argues methamphetamines made the western Blitzkrieg through the Ardennes possible.

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Anyone here heard of Kessinger Publishing?