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DCBob

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22. Are there some new restrictions posting comments now?

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #20)

Sun Jun 9, 2013, 11:09 AM

Jun 2013

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Also, it is my understanding the government is not "opening the package" unless there is some legitimate reason.

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Curious: do people think phone calls and emails route themselves... [View all] Recursion Jun 2013 OP

Do you think locked doors keep burglars out? Xipe Totec Jun 2013 #1

exactly the point I was going to make Enrique Jun 2013 #3

Stay vigilant on this Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #4

They better shape up if they want to stay 'the party' Ash_F Jun 2013 #6

Oh get over yourself. I opposed it then and now Recursion Jun 2013 #7

Thanks for the offer Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #8

I think the point is that its like someone making a statement on the radio.. DCBob Jun 2013 #5

Do we expect it to collected, catalogued, and stored in databases for later retrieval? woo me with science Jun 2013 #13

There are legitimate reasons for collecting and cataloging the information. DCBob Jun 2013 #19

No. woo me with science Jun 2013 #21

There are certainly arguable justifications, but I'm not sure a database full of "just in case" info Ed Suspicious Jun 2013 #31

For sure many Americans are uncomfortable with this. DCBob Jun 2013 #46

Reminds me, why don't gun owners want anyone to know? Whereas when one has alarms, they have neon graham4anything Jun 2013 #26

Guns are valuable and can be stolen. Alarm systems deter break ins. REP Jun 2013 #30

so do alarms. No, there must be some reason gun holders want to hide the fact because graham4anything Jun 2013 #36

So do alarms what? Reread my post without your agenda. REP Jun 2013 #39

Alarms says something is in house people would protect. Same with guns. graham4anything Jun 2013 #42

exactly. veganlush Jun 2013 #2

And what type of bigger picture info could an ambitious law enforcement officer infer from a phone Ed Suspicious Jun 2013 #34

Does anyone here think this is a Democrat created issue? The Patriot Act was passed in 2006 by Thinkingabout Jun 2013 #9

89 disidoro01 Jun 2013 #10

The 10 Senators who voted No on reauthorization were all Democrats, along with about 130 in Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #17

We expect the phone companies, whose service we pay for, to protect our privacy. backscatter712 Jun 2013 #11

No but that is quite irrelevant to my feelings on the issue. Bonobo Jun 2013 #12

Does knowing that UPS boxes do not deliver themselves mean the driver is expected to have opened Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #14

There is a detailed record of a every package that is sent via UPS and by other shippers. DCBob Jun 2013 #18

Yes. But you did not answer my question, and you are not the OP either. Tag team non sequiters? Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #20

Are there some new restrictions posting comments now? DCBob Jun 2013 #22

No, feel free to take the part the OP can not take. But you have to comprhend that I was speaking to Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #38

UPS does not hold the power to imprison me or to legally commit violence against me. nt Ed Suspicious Jun 2013 #37

I know that the USPS asks what is inside a package, and lying is a federal offense graham4anything Jun 2013 #27

Can you support that assertion? Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #40

Yes, they ask is there anything dangerous or liquid in the package and you have to tell them. graham4anything Jun 2013 #41

So you admit they do not ask 'what's in the box', they if it's dangerous. To protect their workers. Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #44

Ethernet frame routing? IP Packet routing? or email message relay? FarCenter Jun 2013 #15

Nobody's got the storage to log the first and second generally Recursion Jun 2013 #24

Do people think their dinner gets to the table by itself, without a waiter? Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #16

On that, I do think it's funny that people who are paranoid about their credit cards online... Recursion Jun 2013 #25

Politics aside, no DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2013 #23

the word spying is a word used to inflame. It is a mcguffin. graham4anything Jun 2013 #28

The act of spying on everyone is used to control a populace. It's a McFucking. DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2013 #29

They are not doing that. It is a wide speculation to reach for that answer. graham4anything Jun 2013 #32

I've seen a warrant that makes clear that you're incorrect. DisgustipatedinCA Jun 2013 #35

That's not what a MacGuffin is REP Jun 2013 #33

as is this whole issue. IT's like Seinfeld, a show about nothing. So is this issue. It's nothing but graham4anything Jun 2013 #43

REP is right, that's not what a McGuffin is. Bluenorthwest Jun 2013 #45