Things are happening so fast, I can't keep up. What's the deal on COMCAST

Digital Phone Service?

That's what I use.

I haven't seen them mentioned in all this mess.

and has always spied on their customers. They've been doing it for years, from what I've garnered from stories on Slashdot and the Register.

just switched to them.

I don't care. I really don't care.

... It's a little scary to see a "lawyer" saying this...

because the class-action lawsuits will bring out whatever happened, and, if all goes well, the situation will be resolved.

So, that's what "I don't care" means, and sometimes you've just got to relax and let the system take over.

... you and I both know that by the time those class-actions are heard in a courtroom, we'll most likely have a lot bigger problems for anyone to care and all the perps will be dead and buried...

I hope you're right though...

The remedies we're all seeking - the redress and the demand for accountability and dissolving this bullshit - is not to be found in the courts, but in the workings of Congress and in the people rising up in the streets and writing letters to their Congressmen and Senators at all levels and not letting the sounds of the outrage ever dim.

This phone call bullshit is just more of lazy people too uninspired to get off their butts and walk away from their phones and keyboards and go out and actually DO something

We already have the biggest problems I've seen in my long lifetime, my friend, and this NSA bullshit is hardly in the top ten for me right now.

How many died in Iraq yesterday, do you think?

... "something"...

Boy, did you ever put me in my place... (humbled...)

Rising up in the streets is no longer "American", either that or this country is just too fat, lazy and numb, to do it...

and not only literally.

Writing - not calling or emailing, which are immediately forgotten and deleted - to our representatives, getting involved with good candidates in our towns, counties, localities, home bases, working the grassroots efforts.

We let them take it away, and we're paying now. This is war, and we're fighting for our lives, our kids' lives, our grandchildren, and our country.

I honestly believe that.

Me too... If I didn't, I would be actually getting some work done right now instead of wasting my time with this crap... :)

I now sign off and get about real life.

Thanks.

...data mining and "social network analysis"...or ever regarding e-mails to clients and the NSA tapping into Internet backbone fibre to cull network traffic for 'semantics patterns'?

since I don't have any clients who are wasting their or my time about this issue which is - keep in mind - right now nothing but an academic exercise, since there's nothing substantive until the first discovery motions are made.

For now, it's nothing to me.

As a mechanic i pass by many a broke-down vehicle on the road and hear many stories where i just keep my mouth shut because i know someone has to learn the hard way. Many a joke about either trade is justified but last time i checked no one had yet filed for a hearing or a motion to commence the french revolution. To me the trajectory looks like a few more years of what we got now until we really hit the big muddy :popcorn:

but you might check out the latest ACLU activity on this matter.

This is case where there are no results and the use of the means is and always was out of bounds. It's like someone pulling a gun on you so they could rob you but you come to find out the gun only shoots blanks. They crooks in the upper-tiers of government and corporations have decided to steal all you have on a bluff at some card table. They have not the wherewithal to do any of it unless you, me and people like us give into the rules they set at the table.

Nobody knows if any of it is consequential or not but we do know down in our gut, as great mock continues, that they are mocking us all and wish to challenge who is actually in charge of government
The alternative to civilization by consent is the rule by feudal law and intimidation.

Dictatorship
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But in 82 B.C., a general named Cornelius Sulla seized control of Rome. Sulla's dictatorship was not like those of the past. He bypassed the Senate, which was filled with his enemies, and convinced the citizens' assembly to make him a permanent dictator. Sulla then banished or killed hundreds of his opponents.

Sulla became what the ancient Greeks called a tyrant, a man who seizes personal control with military power. When he traveled in public, Sulla was always preceded by 24 guards. Each guard carried an ax bound by a bundle of rods called fasces. This is the origin of the word fascism—the word the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used to describe his political movement in the early 20th century.

After more than three years of tyranny, Sulla suddenly resigned. For the next 30 years, the Roman Republic stumbled along, sometimes in near anarchy. Spartacus led a massive slave revolt that almost brought down the Republic. During all this turmoil, new feuds and factions emerged. This would be the last generation of the Roman Republic.
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http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria8_4.htm

that they do NOT release any information regarding their subscribers without a court order. My wife didn't really know what it was about until I explained it to her after I got home last night. I'm the one who keeps track of this stuff, though she has, on more than one occasion, questioned her superiors on matters of interest to us.

What a lot of people don't realize is that it's the networks that are contributing to this problem. Certain networks actually charge the cable company by subscriber rather than for just general access. Comcast has briefly stopped actively promoting HBO because HBO just raised its rates.

Cause I want Maher, and I'm hooked on Roman History.

However; I didn't know that they had raised their rates :(

instead of the cable bundled pre-choices they 'give' to us ? Unbundle it and let US pick what channels we want to watch. Put CSpan and others like community channels out there too for everybody's access.

Seems like the only channel R's want is the Cartoon channel.

i happen to like the Cartoon Channel :D

Rocky and his friends, Golly BulllllWinkel !"

Where else could my son and I watch The Fullmetal Alchemist? ;)

same reason your newspaper doesn't let you buy the sections or articles you want rather than the whole paper or that amusement parks sell all day passes rather than individual ride tickets...

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