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Cars do not deliberately kill people for thinking the wrong kind of thought. The victims of random car accidents were not killed for their political viewpoint, for speaking out aga…

I don't know about the past decade, but here is a list of recent terrorist attacks: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks I count 339 dead in the past ten days. This…

Ah yes, the metadata that is not protected by the 4th Amendment because Verizon's users freely gave it to Verizon and have no expectation of privacy that Verizon would not transmit…

Snowden has not, in fact, revealed the existence of a global system to capture the digital communications of everyone on the planet. Try again. Also, I'd still like to hear the exp…

Please show me where Snowden has exposed his coworkers torturing other human beings. Please show me where Snowden has exposed his coworkers building a totalitarian surveillance inf…

"just"? The BLA was shooting people and blowing up buildings, no scare quotes needed, they actually did that. That is why the police were after them: they were breaking the law in …

I'm still waiting on Snowden to provide evidence of the NSA breaking the 4th amendment and illegally spying on the American people. For all the panic and the republication of old s…

Thank you for adding nothing to the discussion.

Because he is starting at China, one superpower that is an antagonist of the US; taking the first leg of his trip to Russia, another superpower that is an antagonist of the US; and…

The entire Snowden hoax is a media event, a PR campaign to cover up the fact that he spied on the US for foreign powers. It's the most effective case of spin and damage control tha…

Assata Shakur? The terrorist? Of course she did not "find a safe haven here in the U.S." while she and her Black Liberation Army were shooting people and blowing up buildings. The …

Someone could, but the explanation is secret. Ironic, isn't it?

Regarding the idea that someone would have leaked something, WorldNetDaily seems to get a lot of leaks from the CIA. This raises several questions about any of these stories starti…

They are already effecting change; seeing this on the front page has made me have much less respect for the Hacker News community. How can so many people be so stupid , and on HN o…

What outrageous actions? What outrageous policies? What long-festering problem? You haven't said a damn thing, just as Snowden has yet to expose any wrongdoing on the part of the N…

AJAX and REST sure are evil. The fact that 229 people have upvoted this is certainly proof that web-based UIs are something that we as hackers ought to oppose. We are all aware tha…

As long as we're playing at labels, I am a socialist and you are a goddamned idiot. There is no such thing as a corporatist. You're just using it as a nasty word to accuse your deb…

What we need is a court ruling that people who click through these things have no intention to be bound by the contract, and therefore aren't.

Is the community jumping the shark, or is Hacker News under a denial-of-service attack? It's hard to tell.

The civil police force.

"If you knew this was happening"... Define "this". For the last few days, these huge comment threads have been completely empty of information. People are complaining about "NSA sp…

I submitted a better link yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5859658 It is "better", in that: 1. It goes to the original source, not a blog post giving a five-line sum…

I disagree, but I gave you an upvote because your mindless rhetoric is as equally valuable and informative to this conversation as the other mindless rhetoric posts that do nothing…

So you are taking the position that Unit 61398 of the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s (GSD) 3rd Department has no relation to the state …