This is the best line in almost any TV series ever but you really only understand the enormity and profundity of it if you are familiar with the whole show’s mythology and it’s just so beautiful and I was in the bath and I cried.
Perfect.
These Are The Prices AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Charge For Cellphone Wiretaps
Holy fucking shit. They have made a business out of wiretapping cellphones. This reads like an a la carte menu.
- Wiretaps cost hundreds of dollars per target every month, generally paid at daily or monthly rates. To wiretap a customer’s phone, T-Mobile charges law enforcement a flat fee of $500 per target. Sprint’s wireless carrier Sprint Nextel requires police pay $400 per “market area” and per “technology” as well as a $10 per day fee, capped at $2,000. AT&T charges a $325 activation fee, plus $5 per day for data and $10 for audio. Verizon charges a $50 administrative fee plus $700 per month, per target.
- Data requests for voicemail or text messages cost extra.AT&T demands $150 for access to a target’s voicemail, while Verizon charges $50 for access to text messages. Sprint offers the most detailed breakdown of fees for various kinds of data on a phone, asking $120 for pictures or video, $60 for email, $60 for voice mail and $30 for text messages.
And then they try and pass that off as COGS recovery?
“Fees are charged to law enforcement in other circumstances such as court ordered requests and it’s important to note that any fee charged is for recovery of cost required to support these law enforcement requests 24/7,” she writes.
I’m not buying that. That’s way to low of a price, and way to cleanly packaged. If these companies cared about their consumer and their privacy, they would be making it painful and confusing to get access. They wouldn’t have a clean price structure. These companies want the government business.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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| — | Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nedhepburn) |
Our goal is not to please those whom we report on or to produce stories that create the appearance of balance, but to seek the truth.
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| — | NPR’s ethics handbook and Jay Rosen’s great post about it (via soupsoup) |
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
A police officer steps on the head of a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement as another assists in arresting him Nov. 17, 2011, in New York.
(Credit: AP Photo)Okay clearly the creator of this photo has ZERO clue what OWS even means. I hate stuff like this. Pick up a book before you attempt to hate on the government.
BULLSHIT
bullshit
bullshit
BULL FUCKING SHIT
This is freedom of fucking speech being STAMPED OUT.
OF COURSE I’m hating on the government. This isn’t about agreeing with the protesters, and I know good and damn well what #OWS is about, you OBVIOUSLY don’t.
Our government used PUBLIC FUNDS that’s TAX PAYER MONEY to bail out banks, corporate fucking welfare funded by US the tax payers, the rich get tax cuts and write offs that amount to welfare for the rich.
DO NOT sit there and act like I’m ignorant and tell me to fucking “pick up a book” when it’s obvious you have NO FUCKING CLUE what you are talking about.
Fucking Hell.
