But one should not. "Terrorism", for the tiny, tiny little bit that happens in our country, was not here before.

Let's just switch to a sane foreign policy and be done with "terrorism". At least mid- and long-term, that's the only thing that will stop the recruiting of new "terrorists".

All I am arguing is that using probablities as counter argument to war on terrorism is not really smart.

There are far better arguments out there. So lets not use the ones that the supporters may be able to use against us.

Always keep in mind that the government's cheapest manipulation strategy is fear (it always works):

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/constitutional-expert...

And for some more numbers that we should talk to our family and friends about:

> You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

taken from: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/fear-of-terror-makes-...

Conclusion: Terrorism is actually not a problem, but they want us to believe that.

By your link, we're also 8 times more likely to get killed by a government employee than by a terrorist.

So, by government logic, we'd have to start a War on Government Employee-ism...

EDIT: Seriously, just this 1 thought would warrant HUGE articles in papers like the New York Times. Obviously, this will never happen.

The lesson IMO is to rebuild the whole political system, on a foundation made of sane rules. (And that should obviously include all government agencies, especially those which have been corrupting democracy for a few decades now.)

EDIT: Don't forget that one of the earlier whistle blowers said (a few months back) that Obama had been put under surveillance by the NSA as well [0], which means

a) you should expect him to have been vetted by the powers in place before being admitted as a presidential candidate by that 1 of the 2 parties available,

b) "they" have stuff on him and can handle him like a puppet that he seems to have become.

Ergo, it's not about which puppet you elect, it's about the system.

[0] http://www.peterbcollins.com/2013/06/19/boiling-frogs-blockb...

Also, let's keep in mind that Obama has lied to the public when he said that there was no abuse by the NSA.

(Not that we can expect different behavior from any of the future Presidents, nor from the recent ones.)

The thing is, the owners of the private prisons want to get richer and invest serious money so their cells are kept as full as possible:

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/

See "2.) Private Prisons Corporations"

Lobbying is legalized corruption, in most cases.

It's obvious that we need to get rid of it if we want to fix the country.

Expect around a 1% chance of winning.

I won the DV2013 lottery (I have about 3 months left to relocate to the US) and I remember the chances being as high as 4% in some places.

Or you just book a round trip with a few hours inside the US and you're good to go for the next 12 months in your home country.

This way you can opt for the wait-and-see approach regarding the evolution of the surveillance state trend and its ramifications.

It depends on where you are from.

So which countries are more preferable? And from where do you have this information?

People from Europe & Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, etc.) get 80% of the DV. If you're fromm elsewhere you have around a 1% or less chance of winning. (For Oceanians it's about 5%.)

Source: Wikipedia article on it.

That's not right. The chances of winning are, with the exception of Oceania, less than 2%. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa#Winnin... (Oceania is 5.28%). I'm not sure where you got the 80% from.

Same here. This is definitely not ok.

EDIT 1: I also checked "Clear history when Firefox closes" and included "Cache" in the definition of "history". And the tracking is still happening. So either the site uses another tracking method in addition to the etag method or there is a big f#ck-up in FF.

EDIT 2: The tracking even continues when I check "Always use private browsing mode" and then close the browser and open it again.

EDIT 3: Even a complete removal and a clean install of FF (without any add-ons which may interfere) lets the tacking happen, for both the case of "EDIT 1" and "EDIT 2".

So this pretty certainly seems to be a bug.

The only way I've found to ensure this doesn't happen is to set about:config -> network.http.use_cache = false.

Private browsing keeps it for at least one restart (with clear everything set in options), even though I can't see tracker.jpg in about:cache anywhere. Other weird thing is tracker.jpg isn't showing up in a filesystem search anywhere. Wondering if there's something stored in the sqllite files.

That works, thanks!

EDIT 4: Even having set about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable -> false, I have to close/open the browser twice in order for the cache (and tracking) to disappear.

> “Most certainly our nation’s security will be enhanced.”

Because we're all so close to dying from terrorism:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/president-obama-the-o...

I'm positive it will stay alive on these (b/c peers can stay anonymous): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29

> "Were we to provide positive or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries' compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security."

You just can't be more full of sh#t.

Oh, give it a week or so, and Im sure they will surpass that.