Snowdon is a dummy

@Moment-in-Time,

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Privacy...in all areas...is less than it was yesterday...and will be even less tomorrow.

Fight it if you want.

I think it is something that ought to be embraced.

Your entire post is right on target, Frank Apisa, but especially your above statement. Cameras are everywhere....as we drive, street corners, at the ATM! If it had not been for cameras at the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013, we would not have been able to identify the terrorists so quickly. Americans familiarity with old privacy as we once knew it is fading and in its stead is a new normal of privacy. There is nothing that can be done to reverse this trend, at least, not at this time, because the technology is in its babyhood. We live in such an unpredictably violent world, and installing cameras everywhere appear the best the government can come up with to combat such, even if it's only after the fact.

I do not embrace an invasion of my privacy, but there's little I can do to prevent this scientific new industry from knowing much about me.....in such a society, one sometimes have to give up something precious. There are cookies wherever I go on the Internet. The other day I was searching the net for an unusual tiny air-conditioner for an exceedingly small window in my extra small living room. I did not find one to meet my window measurements, but an hour later, very tiny ACs were advertised wherever I went on the web.

I know the feeling, MiT.

I had to look for a part for a Moen faucet...and looked for it on the Internet.

Holy Toledo...I had Moen faucet ads come at me every place I visited for a month afterwards.

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@Moment-in-Time,

Ex-president. Clinton made a speech at Harvard's 2007 Class Day in June, 2007. (There, I only took a photo of him from the big screen .... and when the various police agencies prepared his departure Wink

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@Frank Apisa,

Frank Apisa wrote:

I had to look for a part for a Moen faucet...and looked for it on the Internet.

Holy Toledo...I had Moen faucet ads come at me every place I visited for a month afterwards.

Mrs. Hinteler has very similar problems. And wonders, why I have no ads at all ... (but I told her about the 'why')

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@Walter Hinteler,

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I'm not sure, if Snowden really knew what he did when leaving the USA and finally ending in Russia. And I don't know what his initial intentions were ... if there were any.
From an US point of view, he certainly has to be put on trial.

Only Snowden possibly understand what drove him to betray his country by treachery....had the NSA realized Snowden, a civilian NSA employee, would be in a position to steal classified information, he never would have been hired, no how and no way. It seems to me Snowden infiltrated the organization by stealth. Surely he did not think his get-a-way route out because had he done so, he would not have been stranded for so long in Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport....he should have realized one of the main acts the US would do is revoke his passport, making it un-useable to travel, thereby stranding him. Some have referred to Snowden as narcissistic. Who knows at this time in space what the informer thought or felt simply because I don't give a fig for him and consider him a traitor to his government, the land of his birth.

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I have a totally inane question and really shallow concern, but I vaguely recalling reading the other day about the Chinese internet and congress blocking some of their technology, well, I am completely addicted to casual gaming, particularly hidden object games, in particular the Dark Parables series. I have been waiting for the latest instalment so I looked around wondering what the hold up is. Turns out it is a from a China company. I am hopeful that I don't have to wait forever for the "Ballad of Rapunzel." I imagine on those games, I pick up all kinds of trackers, despite my anti-malware program and the website assurance against spyware, but the whole reason I even started on the internet in the first place was because of the games. I didn't start internet boards until the Clinton affair, and really politics in general. I guess I figure I would rather play than not play and just go ahead and be tracked.

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@revelette2,

According to wikipedia, it will be released in July. Other sites say, it "will be released in June or July 2014".

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@Walter Hinteler,

Thanks, I guess everything is on Wikipedia, the last I heard it was going to be released in May..no matter, at heart I guess I have never grown up.

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@revelette2,

According to statements by his German lawyer made to Spiegel, Snowden is sounding out the possibility of returning to the USA.

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@Moment-in-Time,

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Only Snowden possibly understand what drove him to betray his country by treachery.

Bullshit it more like saving his county by alerting the people of a runaway government.

If he had desire to just betray the US he could had sold those secret in secret for millions to other nations in the same manner as John Walker or Jonathan Pollard did.

The betray here are the ones in power who took the oath to defend the Constitution and instead used it as toilet paper.

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@Walter Hinteler,

That would be an interesting turn of events if it actually comes to pass, I have my doubts.

I do not have a translator that I know of on my computer.

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@revelette2,

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revelette2 wrote:

I do not have a translator that I know of on my computer.

Below is a link for translating German into English or the most common languages used on the Internet, like Spanish, Chinese, etc

http://www.bing.com/translator

If that link doesn't work try: google Babelfish translation

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@Moment-in-Time,

I suppose, some English speaking websites will sooner or later refer to this report - done by now in many others already ...

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Spiegel has an english language alternative but that particular article isn't translated there yet.
I have Spiegel english as part of my News bookmarks, and I do read it from time to time, but have not noticed - or even looked - to see how often they have such news of international interest left untranslated. Walter would have observed, probably, how much that happens, or doesn't happen. Since good translation is quite a task, they may pick only some articles to do that.

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@Walter Hinteler,

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I suppose, some English speaking websites will sooner or later refer to this report - done by now in many others already ...

I just did a check and did not see the article printed in English, but it most surely will be in English sooner or later, as you suggested, Walter.

It doesn't surprise me Snowden is aching to return to the US. If he were dissatisfied with the US when he was here then he must surely bent out of shape in a country like Russia and its recent take over of Kiev.

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@Moment-in-Time,

The lawyer said: "There are negotiations". Both sides would make efforts "to find a solution in the medium term that is tolerable for Edward Snowden".

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@Moment-in-Time,

Thank you. It worked.

here

Interesting, personally I do not see how a deal which was would be tolerable for Snowden could be tolerable for the US government, but stranger things have happened.

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@revelette2,

The first report in English seems to be by "Russia Today": Snowden ‘considers’ returning to US – report

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@Walter Hinteler,

Since we've elections here (five in my state), it went a bit unnoticed (by me):
Germany is paying quite a bit of the costs for the new NSA-complex (Dagger Complex) here in Germany:
- we got prepaid 3.9 million Euros back by the USA,
- nearly 1 million Euro, however, is fully paid by the German taxpayer (due to a memorandum about costs from 1975).

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@Walter Hinteler,

Walter Hinteler wrote:

The lawyer said: "There are negotiations". Both sides would make efforts "to find a solution in the medium term that is tolerable for Edward Snowden".

Seems to me a fair trial on the charges should be more than enough.

Anything else offered would, in my opinion, be too much.

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@Frank Apisa,

You should join those negotiations.

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