“Michael Tice” its nice to know MA can fuck up electing a republican to senate after all those years fucking up and electing a democrat.
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“Friend D” huh?
Yesterday at 8:54am ·

“Michael Tice” republicrats are fucking worthless. they all want to do the same damned thing, take our money and tell us how to live our lives.
it does not matter which of those two worthless parties you elect someone from, you still lose.
Yesterday at 8:56am ·

“Friend D” he calls himself an “independent” of the people. I see no democrat in him. all GOP to me. sorry.
Yesterday at 9:02am ·

“Michael Tice” if he were democrat, how is that any better?
Yesterday at 9:05am ·

“Michael Tice” electing a career politician is a fail on the part of every single voter in the entire fucking country. when the founding fathers wrote the constitution, the idea was that the common man could be elected to federal office.
there was no talk of political parties ar any of the stupid shit we have in place today.
Yesterday at 9:07am ·

“Friend D” because demorats stand for what I stand for. including health care reform, which is a shell of what it should have been and is even more fucked now that the dems lost their majority. but the people have spoken and that’s all I have to say about that. the end.
Yesterday at 9:13am ·

“Michael Tice” you fail to understand what i am getting at.
democrats stand for everything you stand for? you are all them taking your money and giving it to other people? that is what taxes and social assistance programs are.
my money is my money. i am NOT responsible for anyone besides me and my 2 kids. health care reform? FUCK THAT! how about we get the fucking gov’t completely out of it? they are the cause of the problems we have right now in health care!
i have NEVER understood how the majority of people cam complain about how the gov’t cannot do anything right, and yet they want them to provide them with something as important as health care!
here is what it all comes down to. it is a very simple concept.
personal freedom and personal responbility.
but the majority of Americans what to remain like little puppies lapping at the teat of mommy gov’t and never become a fully grown and functioning adult.
Yesterday at 9:19am ·

“Friend D” All of the above is where we disagree. Good thing we live in America. Ever been on public assistance? I have.
Yesterday at 9:24am ·

“Michael Tice” no, i have never been on public assistance and i never will. i will pick up 4 jobs at 4 different McDonalds to make sure my children are fed before i would go on the gov’t dole.
and as for where we disagree, how is it your right to tell me that the money i make throw my labors is tot mine? fine, Friend D, i need $70 to fill up the gas tank in my truck, go pay for it. that money isnt yours, afterall. oh, but i’m not taking from you, i’m giving to me, so it’s ok now, right?
now, here is the thing, everything i am talking about here is on a FEDERAL level. you are aware of the 10th Amendment, right? if states or the people decide they want to impose taxes or run assistance programs, that is fine, it is up to them because of the 10th Amendment.
show me, in the Constitution, where it says the federal gov’t can impose taxes. where they can decide on your health care. where they can set up assistance programs.
you can’t. know why? because it is not there.
Yesterday at 9:32am ·

“Friend D” Once again. All of the above is where we disagree. Good thing we live in America. You’ll not change me and I’ll not change you. You can’t be reasoned with and I can’t be reasoned with. so go find somebody you can reform and I’ll do the same. and leave me be with with your Fox News rhetoric.
Yesterday at 9:36am ·

“Michael Tice” fox news rhetoric my fucking ass!
do you think they are about personal freedom? do you think they are about personal responsibility? no! of course not!
i am giving you opportunity. i want you to show me, in the constitution, where it says the federal gov’t can do the shit it does.
Yesterday at 9:38am ·

“Michael Tice” and by saying you disagree with me on everything, you are telling me you are not responsible for you own actions. you realize that, right? so, please, tell me who is responsible for you.
Yesterday at 9:41am ·

“Friend V” We don’t need govt Healthcare reform. We need a free market were it is based on supply & demand. Insurance companies are what have inflated the cost of healthcare. Without the insurance companies DR’s have to actually be good at what they do in order to get patients. In order to attract enough patients to maintain a practice they have to reduce THIER fees and drive out cost. Let a free market dynamics take place rather than govt. dictated reform would be better for everyone.
Similar to the banking & Auto industry. The govt. should put checks & balance into the system from keeping large corporations corrupt, but not dictate how business is done.
The US current is running a large deficit, yet is going to dictate to industry how to successful run a business & make a profit? NO, part of why the economy is in the current state it still is in.
Yesterday at 10:05am ·

“Michael Tice” actually, i disagree with you on governmental checks and balances. we are the regulatory factor through the money we spend. if a service provided is not worthwhile, then we dont buy it, and it goes under, much like what should have happened with GM.
as far as doctors are concerned, why can’t we have a private underwriting on them, much like UL does for many other things?
Yesterday at 10:12am ·

“Friend D” I am responsible for me but for those who need help and don’t know how to get, there needs to be a safety net there. until you’ve been there you’ll never know. hope you never get there. YAY TAXES!
Yesterday at 10:22am ·

“Friend V” Yes, GM should have gone under. What I mean by checks & balances is that we should not allow large corps. to do whatever they want to a degree. If there is absolutely no govt. balance you end up where we were with the “Robber Barons” early (1900′s) think Getty, Rockefeller & Vanderbilt. Where very few owned everything. I know you could argue that Gates & Buffet are the same today. Put not to the extent it was before. Wealth is some what more distributed today.
UL underwrites safety. I’m not sure what you mean by that? Do you thing they should do private insurance or underwrite the capability of medical service / Doctors?
Yesterday at 10:23am ·

“Michael Tice” so, you are happy having someone else, with froce, tell you that you have to help everyone else?
why not get rid of taxes and donate that money to charity so it is your personal decision?
Yesterday at 10:39am ·

“Michael Tice” why can’t they underwrite doctors like that? basically a replacement for state medical license, a privately issued medical license from a trusted company.
i know, fraud, right? are you saying it doesnt happen now?
but i digress. these are thoughts about having an entirely free market system, which will never happen.
you know, its funny, when you start talking free market everyone starts talking about all the evil things people will do, does that mean that all people are inherently evil and thereby want to fuck over everyone else? and i thought the population of the USA was 86% religious.
i guess god doesn’t make you moral.
Yesterday at 10:56am ·

“Friend V” Yes, people are inherently evil to a degree.
NO GOD doesn’t make you moral. That is why I only believe in me, myslef & I! I am my only moral compass. For people who don’t like it the can STFU!
Yesterday at 11:46am ·

“Michael Tice” you need a comma, my dear.
NO, GOD doesn’t make you moral.
grammar nazi, but it changes the meaning, the only way we can be moral is without god, otherwise we only do good things for fear of retribution.
Yesterday at 11:54am ·

“Friend V” LOL. I will not multitask again, for fear of the grammar NAZI!
Yesterday at 12:01pm ·

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/20/internet.records.bill/index.html

Bill proposes ISPs, Wi-Fi keep logs for police

(CNET) — Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, supporter of a bill that would require Internet user records to be saved for police.

The legislation, which echoes a measure proposed by one of their Democratic colleagues three years ago, would impose unprecedented data retention requirements on a broad swath of Internet access providers and is certain to draw fire from businesses and privacy advocates.

“While the Internet has generated many positive changes in the way we communicate and do business, its limitless nature offers anonymity that has opened the door to criminals looking to harm innocent children,” U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said at a press conference on Thursday.

“Keeping our children safe requires cooperation on the local, state, federal, and family level.”

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Since when has it become the job of mommy and daddy government to watch out for our children?  We have law makers who do not fully understand how anonymity on the internet works, and therefore want to pass horrible legislation such as this that does nothing but hurt every single internet user in the U.S.A. today.  Of course, when you have people who say such wonderful things as the internet is a bunch of tubes, you end up with ignorant legislation that does nothing to help anyone.

It seems like their overall thought is good though, right?  Protecting our kids from all those horrible child predators out there.  They are so bad and we need to keep our kids safe.  The real question is, how many child predators on the internet are there?  We see this garbage on the news all the time, are inundated with it from programs like Law and Order: SVU and To Catch a Predator, it seems like they are just EVERYWHERE, but are they?  Doubtful.

Let’s take at look at this bill for just a moment, though, and see what they plan on logging.

Senate Bill:  S.436

House Resolution:  H.R. 1076

“all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.”

Well, what records do they plan on maintaining then?  The ip address is, like it says in the bill, only temporary.  MAC address?  Spoof it. Sure, the real MAC address is permanently imprinted on the network card, but using your OS to spoof works just fine.

So what does that leave?  Tracking the user ids and passwords that you have on any website you log into?  If the person is a savvy user, then they will go for complete and total anonymity and none of the information they use will be true to begin with.  If you really want to remain totally anonymous, those “netbooks” are getting cheaper all the time, almost to the point where they could be like prepaid cell phones.  Use them, then throw them away.  As long as you paid cash for it, they could never track the sale back to you.

Of course, the real problem with this is that almost everyone uses DHCP to assign temporary ip addresses.  This includes your home wireless router.  So if some creep parks his van outside your house, accesses your wide open wi-fi because you didn’t know how to set up your security properly, you should be logging that persons information.  How on earth is that even possible?

What this really comes down to, though, is personal responsibility.  You, as a parent, should know what your children are doing on the internet, and should be tech savvy enough to know how to prevent them from getting around the blocks you should definitely put in place.  Does that mean you may have to learn something new?  Of course, but welcome to the XXIst century.