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Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by mattmanser »

wavephorm wrote: post #8
shareme wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you better re-read what is happening in Australia, what you describe better fits their situation than the US one.

This trend appears to be happening in Canada, UK, and EU simultaneously. The G8 are coordinating their authoritarian efforts in a way that is completely unprecedented. Like a lot of things the US is probably the one pushing for this on its "friends".

I feel things have calmed down in the UK on that front since TB got booted out. Personally I thought the height of that was when David Blunkett was home secretary.

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by JonnieCache »

wavephorm wrote: post #4

The United States is very quickly becoming an ever more scary looking country. From the outside, it appears to be converting itself into a full-on fascist regime, hostile to insiders and outsiders alike. The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up. The SOPA/PIPA powered nation-wide firewall is being constructed. Local authorities are increasingly becoming subservient to a centralized federal…

I particularly enjoyed the all-male congressional panel on the morality of contraception they had the other day. One woman tried to testify but was deemed "unqualified." Well played.

Also, who else is looking forward to the war with Iran? I hear it's going to be in HD this time.

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by [deleted] »

mattmanser wrote: post #11
wavephorm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This trend appears to be happening in Canada, UK, and EU simultaneously. The G8 are coordinating their authoritarian efforts in a way that is completely unprecedented. Like a lot of things the US is probably the one pushing for this on its "friends".

I feel things have calmed down in the UK on that front since TB got booted out. Personally I thought the height of that was when David Blunkett was home secretary.

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Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by gph »

JonnieCache wrote: post #12
wavephorm wrote: post #4

The United States is very quickly becoming an ever more scary looking country. From the outside, it appears to be converting itself into a full-on fascist regime, hostile to insiders and outsiders alike. The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up. The SOPA/PIPA powered nation-wide firewall is being constructed. Local authorities are increasingly becoming subservient to a centralized federal…

I particularly enjoyed the all-male congressional panel on the morality of contraception they had the other day. One woman tried to testify but was deemed "unqualified." Well played. Also, who else is looking forward to the war with Iran? I hear it's going to be in HD this time.

Only HD? Damn, I thought I'd get some good use out of my 3D flatscreen.

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by skrebbel »

a_a_r_o_n wrote: post #5

"My servers are in Germany." The author's granttree is at .co.uk, but woobius is at .com. My understanding is that the US claims domain over anything serving .com and .org, and that first world countries (do we say that anymore?) will roll over for the US on domain issues.

The .com doesn't make random US agencies able to look what's on the servers. Worst case scenario, they could block the domain. Quite a difference, I'd say.

This is my reason for never deploying an app on anything that runs on e.g. AWS (thus incl anything on Heroku). It's like personally, directly, with no notification and no warranty, selling out your users to the NSA.

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by powertower »

I live in the US.

I don't know a single person that's in prison.

I don't know a single person that's been charged as a terrorist.

I don't know a single person whose business has been adversely affected by the government (such as the above).

Seriously!

But they keep telling me that it's happening all around me. They tell me it's a fascist police state.

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by wyclif »

wavephorm wrote: post #4

The United States is very quickly becoming an ever more scary looking country. From the outside, it appears to be converting itself into a full-on fascist regime, hostile to insiders and outsiders alike. The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up. The SOPA/PIPA powered nation-wide firewall is being constructed. Local authorities are increasingly becoming subservient to a centralized federal…

The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up

You mean like England, the land of ubiquitous CCTV?

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by wyclif »

JonnieCache wrote: post #12
wavephorm wrote: post #4

The United States is very quickly becoming an ever more scary looking country. From the outside, it appears to be converting itself into a full-on fascist regime, hostile to insiders and outsiders alike. The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up. The SOPA/PIPA powered nation-wide firewall is being constructed. Local authorities are increasingly becoming subservient to a centralized federal…

I particularly enjoyed the all-male congressional panel on the morality of contraception they had the other day. One woman tried to testify but was deemed "unqualified." Well played. Also, who else is looking forward to the war with Iran? I hear it's going to be in HD this time.

Well, the only Presidential candidate in the US who isn't down with the Patriot Act and its provisions, and doesn't believe the US should be engaged in worldwide wars (aka "police actions"), is routinely dismissed as "crazy" by both major parties. Tells you a lot about the USA.

Re: The town is no longer friendly for business

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Post by meric »

JonnieCache wrote: post #12
wavephorm wrote: post #4

The United States is very quickly becoming an ever more scary looking country. From the outside, it appears to be converting itself into a full-on fascist regime, hostile to insiders and outsiders alike. The walls are going up, the spy-cams and wiretapping are springing up. The SOPA/PIPA powered nation-wide firewall is being constructed. Local authorities are increasingly becoming subservient to a centralized federal…

I particularly enjoyed the all-male congressional panel on the morality of contraception they had the other day. One woman tried to testify but was deemed "unqualified." Well played. Also, who else is looking forward to the war with Iran? I hear it's going to be in HD this time.

You better enjoy it when it happens. The Iraq war cost $6300 per citizen.
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