06-14-2013, 01:10 AM
(06-13-2013, 04:21 PM)eppie Wrote:(06-13-2013, 03:08 PM)Jester Wrote: Democracies seldom regress,
-Jester
Regress in what way? Freedom? Wealth? Human rights? Tax burden? Government power?
And over what time scale do you mean?
In the middle of all this sensational news, my freedom hasn't really change at all. I still do all the things I've done for the last 20-30 years. Is it out of hand? Somewhat. Is it all Obama's fault? No. Neither party has a monopoly on idiocy. One party wants to take away the guns, the other party wants to peek in our bedrooms to make sure we're having 'approved' kinds of sexual relations, it seems. Neither is a good thing. Both are grabs for control, thinly-veiled.
Also, I work for a fairly well-known retail company (well-known in the US) in their IT security department. (Yes, new job) NONE of this surprises me at all. I just hooked up a million-dollar rack of equipment today that lets us store *all* the traffic that comes in and out of our corporate headquarters, including the store traffic from all over the US, and the web/ecommerce traffic for a large hunting/fishing/boat company with a 'fishy' name.
If my company (a retail company, remember, not an IT specialist) can do it for about a million, the government can suck up tons more data for a couple billion, don't you think?
--Mav
--Mav