Big Brother is Watching You

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CBC: U.K. data watchdog raids Cambridge Analytica office in London

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Who’s Who Of American War Criminals And Torture Apologists Endorse Gina Haspel For CIA Director

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Forget Comey and McCabe. Support FBI whistleblower Terry Albury

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Been thinking about doing one of those genetic tests. I settled on 23andme.

One thing I'm concerned about though is the privacy aspect. Seems pretty wild to let some company have all this genetic info at their fingertips. I guess there's steps you can take to maintain anonymity. Or maybe I'm being overly cautious. I'm just some random douchebag living in South Carolina, after all. Not a big-shot politician or public figure.

Hmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EEmVfbKNs

Watching that made me feel better about the privacy issues, but not enough to push me over the edge.

Investigators: DNA from genealogy site caught serial killer

More than three decades after his trail went cold, one of California's most prolific and elusive serial killers was caught when investigators matched crime-scene DNA with genetic material stored by a relative on an online genealogical site, prosecutors said Thursday.

Authorities have said the DNA tied former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, to most of the 12 killings he is accused of committing between 1976 and 1986 as part of the Golden State Killer case....

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Civ Lib Groups and Generals Agree: Vote No on Haspel

Opposition to Trumps nominee to head the CIA continues to build. Today, over 100 retired generals and flag officers of the US armed forces sent a letter to the Senate today expressing concern about Haspel’s role in the torture program and destruction of evidence of the program. The letter concluded:

It would send a terrible signal to confirm as the next Director of the CIA someone who was so intimately involved in this dark chapter of our nation’s history.

The letter was organized by Human Rights First and is available here....

The following (50 civil liberties, peace, and social justice organizations organizations) urge Sen. Schumer and Senate Democrats to do all they can to stop the Pompeo and Haspel nominations. Read the full letter here....

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Been thinking about doing one of those genetic tests. I settled on 23andme.

One thing I'm concerned about though is the privacy aspect. Seems pretty wild to let some company have all this genetic info at their fingertips. I guess there's steps you can take to maintain anonymity. Or maybe I'm being overly cautious. I'm just some random douchebag living in South Carolina, after all. Not a big-shot politician or public figure.

Hmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3EEmVfbKNs

Watching that made me feel better about the privacy issues, but not enough to push me over the edge.

Golden State Killer: Police using genealogy website wrongly identified innocent man in nursing home as suspect

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Golden State Killer: Police using genealogy website wrongly identified innocent man in nursing home as suspect

...police at the time suspected they were chasing either a fellow law enforcement officer or a member of the armed forces due to the methodical and meticulous nature of the crimes.

He revealed officers assigned to the task force were required to submit saliva samples to exclude anyone who shared a genetic trait identified in the attacker’s saliva found in around 15 per cent of the population.

"Obviously, you didn't want the East Area Rapist on the team," Mr Phillips said, "That turned out to be a pretty good concern."

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So Cambridge Analytica has gone under.

Or to be more accurate, they've simply moved everyone and everything to a new company, "Emerdata."

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So Cambridge Analytica has gone under.

Or to be more accurate, they've simply moved everyone and everything to a new company, "Emerdata."

Given that Cambridge Analytica assisted with President* Trump's campaign, this news of its bankruptcy could have also appeared in the Trump Administration* - Fired / Quit thread. It's no surprise that folks associated with POSPOTUS are dodging creditors while continuing business as usual.

[Leo Lyons]

I discovered recently that I'm an object of somebody's search. Interesting. But also creepy.

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I discovered recently that I'm an object of somebody's search. Interesting. But also creepy.

Sounds like karma to me. Wouldn't you agree?

You never answered a question before disappearing in March.
http://www.blueridgedebate.com/viewtopi ... 502#p83502

[Leo Lyons]

You knew what I meant; no reply to your trolling was necessary.

[Leo Lyons]

I discovered recently that I'm an object of somebody's search. Interesting. But also creepy.

Sounds like karma to me. Wouldn't you agree?

Karma as in how or what manner?

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You knew what I meant; no reply to your trolling was necessary.

Wussy projection, you were the one trolling, and I don't know what you meant. You take a position on an internet forum, you explain it when asked rather than run away.

Who have the families of the Parkland victims bullied? Was billy.pilgrim correct?

Of course these big bad thug like kids deserved death threats, they said something perceived to be hurtful to nra snowflakes.

Is that what we should think of you?

I discovered recently that I'm an object of somebody's search. Interesting. But also creepy.

Sounds like karma to me. Wouldn't you agree?

Karma as in how or what manner?

Should be uber-obvious. Now you're making me wonder if you were lying all along about your career. What else could I possibly mean?

[Leo Lyons]

You knew what I meant; no reply to your trolling was necessary.

Wussy projection, you were the one trolling, and I don't know what you meant.
Of course you knew. I was referring to the kid being bullied; that's why he shot up the school.

You take a position on an internet forum, you explain it when asked rather than run away.
It wasn't a position; rather a statement. Also, I should have wrote baiting, not trolling.

As a child, I used to hear the tale that if you were bitten by a snapping turtle, it wouldn't let go until lightning struck. I now believe that saying is true; except the turtle is people like you who won't let go until you've impressed your friends by humiliating someone. Wouldn't you agree?

I discovered recently that I'm an object of somebody's search. Interesting. But also creepy.

Sounds like karma to me. Wouldn't you agree?

Karma as in how or what manner?

Should be uber-obvious. Now you're making me wonder if you were lying all along about your career. What else could I possibly mean?
You shouldn't get your snowflake bowels so roused. I nor my team ever busted anyone for possessing marijuana, we went after the hard stuff that you find so enchanting. FWIW, I could care less what you choose to believe.

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Of course you knew.

Wrong.
I posted about the victims' families getting death threats. You wrote: "Getting a taste of their own bullying."
There is ZERO evidence that the victims or their families did any bullying.
Don't blame me for your vagueness.

I was referring to the kid being bullied; that's why he shot up the school.

It's questionable whether Cruz was bullied, though he was avoided because HE WAS a rightwing bully.
It's an ammosexual meme that the activist Parkland teens bullied Cruz, themselves - also ZERO evidence.
It's also an ammosexual meme that you're now endorsing that the the mass murder was justified by supposed bullying. Shame on you.

It wasn't a position; rather a statement. Also, I should have wrote baiting, not trolling.

Position, statement, assertion, claim, etc. are all synonyms. ESL much?
You're projecting again, wuss. YOUR "statement" was the baiting.

As a child, I used to hear the tale that if you were bitten by a snapping turtle, it wouldn't let go until lightning struck. I now believe that saying is true; except the turtle is people like you who won't let go until you've impressed your friends by humiliating someone. Wouldn't you agree?

Are you planning on shooting up a school because you feel bullied?
Don't be such a crybaby. All I did was give you the opportunity to defend YOUR entry into a conversation that you hadn't been part of by politely asking, "Who have the families of the Parkland victims bullied?"
People like you that defend mass murderers and then defend threatening the families of victims deserve to be questioned. Wouldn't you agree?
You humiliated yourself by running away.


You shouldn't get your snowflake bowels so roused.

Science has proven that you cons are the snowflakes.
At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.
Own it, snowflake.

I nor my team ever busted anyone for possessing marijuana,

Wussy deflection. The point here is that you're whining about being surveilled when it's what you spent a career doing to others. Accept your well-earned karma, snowflake.

we went after the hard stuff that you find so enchanting.

Wussy straw man, as usual when you're floundering. Accurately stating that your career of work harmed America greatly while doing nothing to reduce consumption is NOT advocating "the hard stuff".

FWIW, I could care less what you choose to believe.

Ummm, YOU asked me about my calling it karma. It's adorable when you try to get out of the hole you dug for yourself by contradicting yourself.

[Leo Lyons]

You're too funny. Thanks for the laugh Mr. Deuterostome.

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You're too funny. Thanks for the laugh Mr. Deuterostome.

Back at ya'. It's hilarious when you get busted whining and lying and then run shrieking away from all personal responbsibility.

[billy.pilgrim]

You're too funny. Thanks for the laugh Mr. Deuterostome.

Back at ya'. It's hilarious when you get busted whining and lying and then run shrieking away from all personal responbsibility.

Kinda funny that he actually says he cares much more than he could.

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Kinda funny that he actually says he cares much more than he could.

I missed that.