So I had The Talk with my teenaged son tonight

In a Manny thread

You told your kid he can't type on the computer anymore?

I updated, thanks.

How about that awesome win last night! Senator Markey goes to Washington! Massachusetts is awesome~

We showed the world that Boston is Strong!

I can't contain my excitement and that is so wrong on your post! Sorry~

So to your OP.

Blessing to you for your son. I never had children. However I have nieces and nephews that are close enough to be mine. Yikes I even have great nieces and nephews now. I know the need to love and protect.

So here is my question to you.

If it is so very dangerous now for you son to post on the internet and he now must be tame and lame when he does, well I ask you, why are you posting. They are listening to you too. Yikes they are even listening to me.

When I found out about this six years ago, that President Bush had been doing this for years, illegally, yup I was concerned.


However the concern has now escalated ten fold. Thanks to Snowden and Greenwald for informing us. I firmly believe that we should set a date to set ourselves free of this illegal???? spying that our President is doing.

I suggest that we all, right now agree that we will shut down our computers, our cells our ipads our iphones
and our blackberries or what ever other toys we own.We need to protect ourselves. we need to do it now~

Shut down date should be agreed upon, however I suggest it be the next full moon. Any thoughts?

Respectfully sheshe2~

Thanks for your time~

We rejoiced in the fact that his gay friends will now be able to marry.

We marveled at Wendy Davis' filibuster last night in Texas to defend women's rights.

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What's that got to do with Manny's OP?







Weird thing to say.

from the 60's onward I would answer my telephone by saying 'J. Edgar Hoover sucks' - obviously on the assumption that my phone was bugged.

Things have changed?

who kept me from attending MLK's March on Washington. Thought Dad was wrong then, and think this is wrong. Things haven't changed so much: Dads can still be wrong.

Last year I took him to check out Occupy Boston.

Even in Nazi Germany, oddly enough, the vocal dissenters were safe for a long while because if they "disappeared" people would know why.

I'll have to think about it.

It's the little, day-to-day things that worry me more.

If you really want your kid to have a good life, unplug the computer and go camping, or something. If you're lazy, send the child to Outward Bound.

Nothing wrong with telling children to be smart on the internet, and guard their privacy, but banging the gloom and doom gong?

That's like saying "We've got trouble....right here in River City! With a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for POOL!!!!"

Odds are, those "PTB" (such a silly catch-all, as irritating as "First World Problem" in its pretentiousness), if they ever bother to look, will think it's YOU, not your kid, chatting foolishly like a teen, for whatever reason. Unless your kid pays all the bills at your house, that is...

Ooooh! What a lovely, pithy sounding phrase...

Except it was, "Kirk versus Picard."

(Picard)

TlalocW

But I think you're right, and it's sad that it is so.

Watch what you say- Big Brother is watching, and you never know when he'll come to visit...

because they believe that Barack Obama (D) will be in the Oval Office, FOREVER.

trouble for them later on. Those pics you think no one will ever see can come back to haunt you, and now so can organizing a protest or talking about smoking marijuana.

(with a reservation only if you seriously instructed your son to stifle himself, something I think/hope you were probably being facetious about)

PB

Better late than never.

That ought to give him the idea. I hear it's hitting the best-seller lists again lately.

Yu Darvish throwing the Shuuto pitch.

They used to have to notify someone within 90 days after a court approved bug or tap was REMOVED. The place where I worked got those notices every 90 days for about 2 years.

I found an FBI bug in my apartment, after I was followed by a couple of agents. And I wasn't even a target of the investigation. They were on a fishing expedition for the guy I worked for. I had people I knew were informants trying to talk me into all kinds of stuff.

Think you're not doing anything, and have nothing to worry about? WRONG. If those guys get a bug up their ass, they'll fabricate a case against you in a heartbeat.

That's when I first read James Bamford's "The Puzzle Palace", just to try to understand their capabilities. And I've read everything he's written since.

Technology was pretty much in it's infancy back then. And even then the NSA tried to stay at least 5 years ahead of the state of the art.

Add private contractors, corrupt greedy politicians, ex spooks, and generals to the mix, and you have a horror story brewing right in front of you, that you won't even acknowledge.

Nah, it can't happen to you. You're special.

"If you are at a party (or anywhere) and an intoxicated (or not) young woman is being abused, get her the hell out of there."

Maybe I need to tell him to be careful on the computer too. But he's a pretty cautious & gentlemanly kinda guy already. He's certainly more judicious and grown up than I am a lot of times!

No electric
No sanitation connections
No garbage collection

(wouldn't want to give up any DNA by accident)

just kidding

The church controlled much of the political and economic power. They wouldn't allow us to shop on their holy day. They also said nobody can sell or use alcohol on any day. My religion didn't have a prohibition against alcohol, why should my life be regulated by your religion.


The government and the business world had its measure of power, but the ones that really impacted our daily life was those self appointed mouthpieces of God.



Corporate Tyranny, is not as demanding as religious tyranny. Still bad.

puts in your teeth. The aliens, not the government.

& I will be doing that also.

Bam! Nailed it.

Exclaimer:

Dear NSA, when I use the term "Bam!", it was used idiomatically as in "right on!" Please dismiss this data as irrelevant in your war on us, er, terror.

Best Wishes,

Fantastic Anarchist