You may not like paying taxes, but taxes fund the government and are necessary. Still, government waste is like lemon juice in a paper cut. I’m no judge of what’s wasteful, but the idea that the IRS is spending money producing a video parody of Star Trek? Priceless. Yes, the IRS goes boldly where no man … Continue reading
How is it that Bitcoin has managed to avoid annihilation by governments, hackers, and overhype? How has it evaded the “slow internal death,” as the economist Garrick Hileman put it, that destroyed the English barter system LETS? How does it continue to seduce new users, while keeping the base enthralled? Why won’t Bitcoin die? Continue reading
Realize, first of all, that the normal attention span of elite media is about three days. If you can jam your version of data down their throats for that length of time, you’re golden. Then you’re facing another three days. You start all over again. You being the White House PR flack machine. The overall … Continue reading
Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some The government is attacking whistleblower Edward Snowden by claiming that he was lying about the scope of the NSA’s spying on Americans. However, CNET reports today: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic … Continue reading
See on UnSpy – For Liberty! The recent NSA leaks from whistleblower Ed Snowden have publicly confirmed that digital privacy does not exist. The federal government and intelligence agencies have direct server access to the world’s most popular sites and services including Facebook,… unspy‘s insight: Consider using a private and secure social network like Pidder. This … Continue reading
Every Tuesday, President Obama personally checks off the names of people he wants killed. George Bush, a bit more squeamish than Obama, never did that; but Mr Obama felt those decisions were the president’s responsibility: he “want[s] to keep his own finger on the trigger”, according to one report. A tidy, scheduled man, the President only picks his victims once a week, now called “Terror Tuesday”. Continue reading
