Next time I play live poker and a flush hits on the river I am going say, "let me check my hand...", lift my actual hand and stare toward my palm. "Ok, allin".
After a certain period of time playing live poker I reach my threshold of feeling disgusting from handling the chips of dirty, degenerates. If it weren't for the hand sanitize dispensers near by I would wear OJ simpson gloves, I mean micheal jackson gloves.
Interview bullets points from this week. Full video at bottom Apparently in the USA this is being censored or blacked out - unknown source
Here are some of the other interesting points he made in the interview:
"There have been thousands of violations of the National Security Agency and other agencies and authorities every single year."
Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an email, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace and the government has decided that it’s a good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you’ve never been suspected of any crime. Traditionally the government would identify a suspect, they would go to a judge, they would say we suspect he’s committed this crime, they would get a warrant and then they would be able to use the totality of their powers in pursuit of the investigation. Nowadays what we see is they want to apply the totality of their powers in advance - prior to an investigation.
"When you are on the inside and you go into work everyday and you sit down at the desk and you realise the power you have - you can wire tap the President of the United States, you can wire tap a Federal Judge and if you do it carefully no one will ever know"
"But what (the review boards investigating the illegal NSA programs) found was that these programs have no value, they’ve never stopped a terrorist attack in the United States and they have marginal utility at best for other things...The National Security agency operates under the President’s executive authority alone. He can end of modify or direct a change of their policies at any time."
I can track your username on a website on a form somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what’s called a fingerprint which is network activity unique to you which means anywhere you go in the world anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence hide your identity, the NSA can find you
However, it’s no secret that every country in the world has the data of their citizens in the NSA. Millions and millions and millions of data connections from Germans going about their daily lives, talking on their cell phones, sending SMS messages, visiting websites, buying things online, all of this ends up at the NSA and it’s reasonable to suspect that the BND may be aware of it in some capacity.
So realistically what’s happening is when they say there’s no spying on Germans, they don’t mean that German data isn’t being gathered, they don’t mean that records aren’t being taken or stolen, what they mean is that they’re not intentionally searching for German citizens. And that’s sort of a fingers crossed behind the back promise, it’s not reliable.
The problem there is you end up in a situation where government policies are being influenced by private corporations who have interests that are completely divorced from the public good in mind. The result of that is what we saw at Booze Allen Hamilton where you have private individuals who have access to what the government alleges were millions and millions of records that they could walk out the door with at any time with no accountability, no oversight, no auditing, the government didn’t even know they were gone.
If I am a traitor who did I betray? I gave all of my information to the American public, to American journalists who are reporting on American issues. If they see that as treason I think people really need to consider who do they think they’re working for. The public is supposed to be their boss not their enemy.
What he doesn’t say is that the crimes that he has charged me with are crimes that don’t allow me to make my case. They don’t allow me to defend myself in an open court to the public and convince a jury that what I did was to their benefit. The espionage act was never intended, it’s from 1918, it was never intended to prosecute journalistic sources, people who are informing the newspapers about information that’s of public interest. It was intended for people who are selling documents in secret to foreign governments who are bombing bridges who are sabotaging communications not people who are serving the public good. So it’s I would say illustrative that the president would choose to say someone should face the music when he knows the music is a show trial.
It has been 7 years since partypoker fucked up hard with their coding, creating a bug that upon upgrading your partypoker software, the update permanently deleted all the photos on your HD.
To this day I still have a voice say, 'pp is auto-updating, do you think these assholes are going to delete your photos?' 'You don't even play on pp, why are you updating knowing they could attempt an anal fisting'
This life we live is not a game. Yet, play life best and you may live what life truly means to be--free. Unshackling of world Deity -man's best friend- is found within. Truth is blind, and so are we, we the people who see to believe; Yet, believe in what we have never seen. Piecemeal thoughts of grandeur being, but never a world being at peace. The world is our heaven sought and we the angels, enabling angelic deeds. Mindfulness of each moment, of the cascading momentum of living, is salvation. Those minds waiting for tomorrow will be waiting forever.
Pretty fucking pumped. I used to go bananas everytime Apple would have a show, release a new ipod and somehow make me have a deep feeling they were ahead of the world. Not anymore.
Now we have Google pimping some ridiculous life changing software and user experiences that just show fast we are developing. Before it was ergonomic and small tech gear, now it is deep root life software.
As the sun dims and the night takes hold, wafting cool air tickles the nose. Chills on the arms move towards the soul, while memories dance to the fore front with a mindful glow. Play is pressed and feelings unfold: old times, good times, best times began to mold the reality once seen from the eye -- captured, compressed and archived.
Joy and sadness, depression and gladness but no pain. Pain, once gone, is gone for good; merely just a feeling understood. Pain, though powerful and piercing, does not break through the barrier of projection. Pain is here for the moment and then is nothing. Nothing, as yesterday passes on to today. Nothing, as today passes on to the present. Nothing, as the present passes on to the last breath. Nothing, as life passes on to death.
House caught on fire this evening. Power line into the house exploded and dangled outside the door, exactly where I stood 10 seconds prior. Threw a snowball at the fire coming from the disconnected line that was going into the house. GG
Snow Balls rule
Coincidentally I have 16 pre-made snowballs along the fence outside for various purposes, which are as follows:
a) because you can only make them when the snow is sticky. Now I have snowballs everyday regardless of the winter weather.
b) because my dogs loves playing fetch
c) because they have high projectile properties. Good for headshots/tree trunks/putting out fires.
