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Merry Christmas. It's not at all pathetic. People on here are still people, you just can't see them face to face.
Must be Aussie's as well know the YANKS are miserable bastards
I thought Americans are really positive ?lol
I share same feelings about EP and all of you who participate.

Merry Christmas to all. May Joy and Happiness fill your hearts.
Well, you'd do the same for us of course :) Merry Christmas!!!
Merry Christmas to you. I hope that every tomorrow is filled with love, laughter, and joy for you. I look forward to your questions :-) Peace
We are all a family here for each other ! Merry Christmas !
How's that pathetic? That's really great to hear, I probably don't fall under those categories but its still cool to hear!
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This is not a detailed review of Infocom's Trinity, because Jimmy Maher has just finished that job. His sequence of posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) puts the game into its context in Infocom's history and, more broadly, in the history of the Atomic Age (remember that?) and the Cold War. Go read.
Inevitably Maher comes around to the question of the ending -- the "...what just happened?" denouement. (You can read just that one post if you're familiar with the game.) It's not the first time, of course. Maher links to a Usenet thread in which we went 'round this topic in 2001.
It's generally agreed that the plot logic of the ending doesn't really hold together. In fact, my teenage self was moved to write a letter of complaint to Infocom! I received a gracious response -- I think it was written by Moriarty himself -- which basically said "The game ends the way we felt it had to end." Which is unarguable. (This letter is in my father's basement somewhere, and one day I will dig it out and scan it with great glee.)
But today I am moved to be argumentative. If I were the author of Trinity, what would I have done?
(Oh, sure, I'm being presumptuous too. All due apologies to Moriarty. But we're both thirty years older; we're different people than the author and player circa 1986. It's worth a rethink.)
(I will assume that you've played the game and read Maher's post. If not, massive spoilers ahoy.)
Tags: Brian Moriarty, if, Infocom, interactive fiction, Trinity.
One of my limited, high-level Kickstarter rewards was "The Hadean Lands source code, in book form". I had these printed in January, I mailed them out last week, and some of my backers have already received them. They're a hit!
@zarfeblong Hadean Lands source book looks fantastic. If I7 source is readable in book form, this is about as good as I'd expect it to look. (-- @dan_sanderson)
My Hadean Lands Source Codex book arrived. Wow - really nicely done. I'm in love with this strange artifact. Thanks @zarfeblong! (-- @telehack)
@zarfeblong Book received, really nice! What service did you use? Did I7 output source that nice-looking or did you post-process a lot? (-- @dan_schmidt)
That last is an excellent question. Everybody deserves nicely-printed source code, so here's how I did it.
(Spoiler: here's my Python script.)
I've been bemoaning the slightly run-down state of IF interpreter software. (The confusing font preference system in Gargoyle is just one example.) The fact is that the big surge of open-source IF activity was the late 90s and early 00s. Since then, coders have been drifting out of the community, and the ones still around have gotten lazy. (I include myself in that indictment, for damn sure.)
As a community, we do not have a tradition of mentoring and fostering new contributors to IF projects. All of our projects were made by people (most often solo developers) who got excited and wrote a whole application or library.
I like to think that we've got a good software stack, which smooths the path a little. You can write an Inform extension or a Glk library port or a Glulx engine core or a Parchment web service, and it will fit into the ecosystem. But it still starts with a person showing up with enough energy to start, build, and finish an idea. If someone shows up who is curious but not committed, we nod companionably and wait to see what happens. The results, over time, are predictable: activity slows down and stops.
With that introduction, you'd expect me to go on and talk about mentoring. But I don't know anything about mentoring. I'm one of the control freaks! I'd rather work on my own projects than collaborate.
Anybody want to think about community-building? (Hopeful look around...)
(Of course a lot of my projects are specifications and tools that interoperate with other people's code. So I kick myself in the ass and make it happen. But my natural talents do not lie in management.)
In this post, I'm going to talk about my plans as a solo IF tool developer. Warning: I will also talk about money.
Tags: coding, crowdfunding, glk, glulx, if, interactive fiction, interpreters, money.
I thought this was the boring part of the release process. Hadean Lands has been out for a couple of months, I've done a couple of iOS updates, time to settle down and work through the Kickstarter rewards. Plan for more distribution platforms, like Steam and the Humble Store. Boring stuff.
Wrong! It's crazy excitement time.
First thing this week, two fantastic reviews appeared:
"The best video game I played last year is a science-fiction thriller about alchemy, and it has no graphics or sound effects." -- David Auerbach, Slate
"Hadean Lands is an endlessly clever experience." -- Sean Clancy, Pocket Tactics
Suddenly the sales rate is going nuts, Twitter activity is buzzing, and my head is spinning.
When a wave of publicity hits, that's when you want a Steam Greenlight page, right? (Greenlight is the voting system that Steam uses to gauge public interest in new indie games.) So I have spent the past day constructing one. Here it is:
Vote for Hadean Lands on Steam Greenlight!
This isn't a purchase; it just indicates to Steam that this is the kind of game you want them to offer. When enough "yes" votes accumulate, I get a slot on the Steam storefront. (No, I don't know how many votes is enough.)
(Speaking of Greenlight, I note that two other parser IF games went up this month: Jack Toresal and The Secret Letter (Mike Gentry and David Cornelson) and The Shadow in the Cathedral (Ian Finley and Jon Ingold). There's also Her Story, which is not a text game, but is by IF author Sam Barlow. And that must only scratch the surface; I haven't even tried to survey the Greenlight world.)
Tags: greenlight, hadean lands, if, interactive fiction, pocket tactics, slate, steam, zarf, zarfplan.
Arisia, one of Boston's many sci-fi conventions, is coming up this weekend. I won't be there (I'm at Mystery Hunt) but several Boston IF people will be, and there are a whole slew of IF-related panels and events.
First, there will be another Lost Pig performance (with audience participation) on Friday evening, 7:00 pm, Grand Ballroom B. Hosted by Brad Smith, with live performances and foley.
Panels of IF relevance... (Note: I'm pulling these from the Arisia schedule, which is subject to change. Also, these are just the panels I see which strike me as relevant and/or which include IF people I know. There's a whole Gaming program track which you could go to.)
Games and Minority Representation (Friday 10:00 pm, Alcott): Heather Albano, Bob Chipman, Caelyn Sandel (m), Pablo Miguel Alberto Vazquez III
Gender and Gaming (Saturday 10:00 am, Griffin): Chris Denmead, Brian Liberge, Meghan McGinley (m), Maddy Myers, Caelyn Sandel, Brianna Wu
DIY Digital: Homemade Video Games (Saturday 4:00 pm, Faneuil): Adri, Heather Albano, Caelyn Sandel (m), Carolyn VanEseltine
The Internet Hate Train: Moving Past Gamergate (Saturday 5:30 pm, Faneuil): Adri, Bob Chipman, Maddy Myers (m), Caelyn Sandel, Alan Wexelblat, Brianna Wu
Games as Interactive Literature (Sunday 4:00 pm, Adams): Adri, Meghan McGinley, Joshua A.C. Newman, Rebecca Slitt, Alan Wexelblat (m)
Video Games as Art (Sunday 5:30 pm, Adams): Bob Chipman, Israel Peskowitz (m), Caelyn Sandel, Carolyn VanEseltine
Go, enjoy, stay hydrated.
Tags: arisia, boston, if, interactive fiction.
I am proud to announce that I am the first Writer In Residence at the Trope Tank for the coming semester.
What is the Trope Tank, you ask? That's Nick Montfort's office at MIT, home of his enormous collection of classic videogame hardware, software, and literature. (You can see just one corner of it behind me in the photo.) (Although I think the Asteroids cabinet is out of order again.)
What does it mean that I am a Writer In Residence? Well, basically it means that I have a key, and I will be hanging out in the office once a week. Wednesdays, I expect. I will certainly be working on some kind of IF project there; possibly Glulx upgrade work or interpreter hacking. And, generally, I'll help keep the lights on -- Nick is on leave for the spring semester.
The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction will continue to hold monthly meetings in the Trope Tank. Possibly we will schedule other events there, such as IF writing circles. Details remain to be determined. Join the PRIF mailing list if you're interested.
Thank you, Nick. I look forward to the coming semester.
Tags: if, interactive fiction, mit, nick montfort, trope tank, zarf.
As it happens I replayed Portal 2 right before The Talos Principle launched. That's gotta be the last thing a game designer wants to hear, right? "We don't use the term 'Portal-like', but, sure, Talos is... wait, you just replayed Portal? You couldn't have waited a couple of weeks in between?"
(I haven't gone to check whether the designers used the term "Portal-like". Nobody's going to disagree with it, nohow.)
Talos is a pleasant puzzle game with a nice script and good art and bullet-holes in several of its own feet. I recommend it but I wish it had fewer self-inflicted wounds.
(Note: in a "ruminations" post I don't offer an overall review. Instead, I focus on particular areas of design that I find interesting -- or problematic. So don't freak out just because I complain a lot.)
It is Christmastime, the time of bundles... okay, every month is the time of bundles these days. Bundles have become continuous. We get it. We're joining in!
I have posted Zarf's IF Bundle on the iOS App Store. Basically, you buy Hadean Lands through this link, you get my Shade and Heliopause apps thrown in free. Why not? If you've already purchased HL for iOS, the "complete my bundle" link should let you download the other apps.
And while I'm at it: Meanwhile for iOS is now on sale for two bucks, through the end of the year. That's 60% off! Or like 87% off as compared to the hardback book!
(Let us not speak about the relative values placed on creators by the book and software industries these days. I'm trying to gin up some product excitement here.)
So go buy Meanwhile now, if you haven't. If you have, why not gift a copy to a friend? Or an enemy? Two weeks only! Imagine lying on the living-room floor, next to the tree or bull's-head or aluminum pole or whatever your December celebratory decoration is, scrolling around Jason's mad-science fairy tale and trying to remember where you left the branch that doesn't involve zapping the Earth clean of human life.
And then buy Hadean Lands too. The nickel beads demand it.
Tags: hadean lands, if, interactive fiction, meanwhile, sales, zarf, zarfplan.
I don't imagine that Gone Home suffers from lack of reviews. I heard about it from several directions when it came out, and that was over a year ago. But I just played it.
(Yes, I am slowly starting to dig into the past four years of indie IF that I was too busy writing my own game to play. Yes, I will also get to Bioshock Infinity one of these months.)
I don't have anything to add to the discussion of Gone Home as a story game, or as a game about gay folks, or as a flashpoint of hatred from jerk-gamers. That's all been covered. Nor am I going to tell you why you should like or dislike the game. I liked it, a lot of people liked it, that's not news.
Instead, I'm going to give my impressions as a game designer. This is what I would have said if I were on the team building the thing. Or, more likely, having muffins with the designer during the wild-idea stage. Maybe that'll hit some new ground. If not, well, too late -- I've already written this post.
No video game I have played as an adult has affected me as profoundly and personally as Telltale Games' The Walking Dead has. I've already written about my technical admiration for Telltale's interactive television dramas (whose titles have doubled in number between the date of that essay and just this week), but now I wish to get personal. This may take more than one post.
The rest of this post contains spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 of the "Walking Dead" video game.
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Cited by: Papers (2)Wireless local loops are of interest due to their many advantages over the wireline systems. However, the bandwidth allocation schemes in wireless local loops are different from that of the cellular networks in some aspects since the terminals are fixed. In this paper, we propose a strategy of bandwidth allocation for time-division multiple-access based wireless local loops. We align the sectors assigned the same channels such that the cochannel interference is reduced. In the performance evaluation, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme improves the bandwidth efficiency and increases system capacity with minimal loss of signal-to-interference ratio. View full abstract»
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I need to make an ajax post to a .NET web service on another domain. Can I set any return data coming from the server to jsonp and use js to read the data? I've come across this solution when posting to a .NET service:
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I've used this before with much success, however my calls have always been within the same domain. Now that I would like to post cross-domain (is that even possible?), can the data that is returned be in jsonp to avoid any cross-domain issues.
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I was alarmed by your product review of face recognition software,
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What the Soviet Union's armies of human watchers could not do, the United States will do with armies of computers.
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The July 27, 2005 front page of The Providence Journal | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Local Media Group |
Publisher | Howard Sutton |
Founded | 1829 |
Headquarters | 75 Fountain Street Providence, Rhode Island 02902 United States |
Circulation | 74,400 Mon.-Fri. 99,100 Sunday[1] |
Website | providencejournal.com |
The July 27, 2005 front page of The Providence Journal | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Local Media Group |
Publisher | Howard Sutton |
Founded | 1829 |
Headquarters | 75 Fountain Street Providence, Rhode Island 02902 United States |
Circulation | 74,400 Mon.-Fri. 99,100 Sunday[1] |
Website | providencejournal.com |
The Providence Journal, nicknamed the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island and is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island. The newspaper was first published in 1829 and is the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the United States. The newspaper has won four Pulitzer Prizes.
The newspaper began publishing as The Providence Daily Journal in 1832. In 1868, the Journal began to publish the afternoon paper The Evening Bulletin. In 1872 the first diner in America, a horse-drawn wagon serving hot food, was founded to serve the employees of the Providence Journal. The Journal dropped "Daily" from its name and became The Providence Journal in 1920. In 1992, the Bulletin was discontinued and its name was appended onto that of the morning paper: The Providence Journal-Bulletin. After beginning online service in 1995, the Journal established projo.com in 1996. In 1998, the paper's name was shortened back to The Providence Journal.[2]
The Journal bills itself as "America's oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication," a distinction that comes from the fact that The Hartford Courant, started in 1764, did not become a daily until 1837 and The New York Post, which began daily publication in 1801, had to suspend publication during strikes in 1958 and 1978.[3]
The paper's history has reflected the waxing and waning of newspaper popularity throughout the United States.
During its heyday, the Journal had news bureaus throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, a trend that had been inaugurated in 1925 by then-managing editor Sevellon Brown. Bureaus in Westerly, South Kingstown, Warwick, West Warwick, Greenville, Pawtucket, Woonsocket, Newport, Bristol/Warren, Attleboro and Fall River were designed to make sure that reporters were only 20 minutes away from breaking news.[4]
The paper also had a variety of regional editions, which it called zones, that focused on city and town news. The system produced an intense focus on local news typically seen only in small-town newspapers. For example, everyone who died in the Journal's coverage area, rich or poor, received a free staff-written obituary.
But in the 1990s, those rising production costs and declines in circulation prompted the Journal to consolidate both the bureaus and the editions. (The paper, in an attempt to raise revenue, began charging for obituaries on January 4, 2005.) The editors tried to reinvigorate the coverage of city and town news in 1996, but competition from the Internet added fuel to the decline. The paper's last Massachusetts edition, for example, was published on March 10, 2006.
On Oct. 10, 2008 the paper stopped publishing all of its zoned editions in Rhode Island and laid off 33 news staffers, including three managers. Even during the Great Depression, the Journal had not terminated news staff to cut costs.
The next few years included an extensive campaign to make the Internet version of the paper profitable. The Journal aggressively marketed its news on the web, pushing to get detailed stories onto its website, projo.com, before competing radio, television and other print outlets. But circulation continued to decline and online advertising failed to compensate.
On Oct. 18, 2011 with circulation down to about 94,000 on weekdays and 129,000 on Sundays (down from 164,000 and over 231,000 in 2005),[5] the Journal renamed its website providencejournal.com, a move which meant that most of the previously Internet links to its content no longer worked. It also began implementing a system to require online readers to pay for content. Interactive images of its newspaper pages were initially available on personal computers and the iPad for free. The paywall was put in place on February 28, 2012. The new website was part of a larger rebranding project by Nail Communications which also included a campaign entitled "We Work For The Truth".[6] The rebranding failed to stem the circulation decline.
Throughout most of its history, the paper was privately owned. After the Journal became publicly traded and had acquired several television stations throughout the country, it was sold to the Dallas-based Belo Corp in 1996. Belo also owned several television stations. The company later split into two entities and one—A.H. Belo—took control of the newspapers.
On Dec. 4, 2013, A.H. Belo announced that it was seeking a buyer for the Journal, including its headquarters on 75 Fountain St. and its separate printing facility.[7] The company said it wanted to focus on business interests in Dallas. Workers were not surprised because the announcement came after the company sold one of its other papers, the Riverside Press-Enterprise in California.[8]
A.H. Belo announced on July 22, 2014 that it was selling the paper's assets to New Media Investment Group Inc., parent company of GateHouse Media, for $46 million. By then, the Journal's Monday through Friday circulation had dropped to 74,400, with an average of 99,100 on Sundays. Its website was getting 1.4 million unique users on an average month.[9]
The sale was completed on Sept. 3, 2014, when New Media Investment Group Inc., the parent company of Fairport, N.Y.-based GateHouse Media, finalized its $46-million purchase of The Providence Journal from Dallas-based A. H. Belo Corporation, which had owned The Journal since 1996.
With completion of the sale, Bernie Szachara, senior vice president for publishing and group publisher at Local Media Group, a division of GateHouse Media, assumes the title of interim publisher, succeeding Howard G. Sutton, who remains as a consultant through the end of 2014. A national search for a permanent publisher will occur next year.
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Here is a slightly more challenging example that involves the sine and cosine in double angle formulas. Problem says if sine of alpha equals 3/5 and alpha is between pi over 2 and pi find cosine of alpha sine of 2 alpha and cosine of 2 alpha.
First thing I want to do is locate alpha on the units circle. Now alpha is between pi over 2 and pi that puts us in the second quadrant and they need to find out where the sine of alpha would be 3/5 and remember sine of alpha gives us the second coordinate on the unit circle so 3/5 it's about here and so going across, that point will be about here. And over the x coordinate yet but the y coordinate is 3/5.
So this is my alpha. The first thing I want to do is find the value of x because that's going to be the cosine of alpha and I need that, so remember we are on the unit circle so x² plus y² equals 1. Now when we substitute in this point here I get x² plus 3/5 squared equals 1 that's x² plus 9 over 25 equals 25 over 25. I subtract x² equals 16 over 25 and I get x equals plus or minus 4/5. Well is it plus or minus? In the second quadrant, the x coordinates are going to have to be negative, so let's take -4/5.
So now we know the cosine and the sine of alpha, that's one of our answers, cosine alpha is -4/5. Let's find the sine of 2 alpha first. Remember the double angle formula for sine it's 2 sine alpha cosine alpha. Sine of alpha was 3/5 that was given, and the cosine of alpha -4/5. And so we het 25 in the denominator in the numerator I have -12 times 2 negative 12 times 4. So the sine of 2 alpha -24 over 25. And now the cosine 2 alpha.
Cosine of 2 alpha is cosine squared minus sine squared the cosine of alpha was -4/5 so we have to square that and the sine of alpha was 3/5 we have to square that too, so that gives me 16 over 25 minus 9 over 25 and that's 7 over 25. That's cosine 2 alpha. So cosine alpha -4/5 sine of 2 alpha -24 over 25 and cosine 2 alpha 7/5.
What's interesting about this is even if you've not drawn a really great diagram of your angle you can see that because cosine is positive and sine is -2 alpha is going to be somewhere over here.
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Refugees drowning in Mediterranean create catch-22 for EU
"I don't know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done," said Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat. "As things stand we are building a cemetery within our Mediterranean Sea."
He was talking about the part of the Mediterranean between the North African coast and the two islands that are the closest bits of the European Union: the Italian island of Lampedusa and his own country, Malta.
In the past two weeks, almost as many migrants have died in that narrow stretch of water -- only 120 kilometres separate the Tunisian coast from Lampedusa -- as died along the U.S.-Mexican border in all of last year.
On the southern U.S. border they mostly die of thirst in the desert; in the Mediterranean they drown. The migrants pay the people smugglers in Libya or Tunisia thousands of dollars each to make the crossing in small, unseaworthy, grossly overcrowded boats, but the smugglers don't go with them. They don't want to get arrested at the end of the journey. They just hand over the keys to the migrants.
The refugees -- more than half of the 32,000 who have reached Italy so far this year come from Syria, Somalia or Eritrea -- have no experience at sea. The boats leak, they run out of fuel, they catch fire, and nobody knows what to do about it. In many cases, the boats just capsize when everybody rushes to the same side to call for help from a passing ship or aircraft.
Then they are in the water, and of course there are no life-jackets. Last week, when 359 Somali and Eritrean migrants drowned in a single boat, nobody even had a satellite phone to summon help. Most of the migrants can't swim, and even those who can often drown before help arrives. Every sinking brings stories of parents who could swim, but had to choose which children to save.
"For us it's intolerable that the Mediterranean is a sea of the dead," said Prime Minister Enrico Letta of Italy this week, announcing that his country is tripling its air and naval presence in the death zone. But as Interior Minister Angelino Alfano warned, "It's not a given that the intervention of an Italian ship will mean that migrants are taken to an Italian port."
They don't want the migrants to die, but they don't want them to stay in Italy either. As in other European Union countries that are getting a lot of asylum-seekers, the flood of migrants from Africa and the Middle East is fuelling a powerful anti-immigrant backlash.
The numbers are not really all that huge. Frontex, the EU agency that deals with refugees, recorded only 272,208 asylum-seekers last year. That's the biggest number since 2005, but it's only a drop in the bucket among the EU's 400 million people.
The problem is that they almost all head for a few relatively rich countries in western Europe -- Britain, France, Germany and the low countries -- or else end up stranded in Greece, Italy or Spain, the countries closest to where the refugees sail from. And for Italy, in particular, the problem has got a lot worse recently.
A joint EU police force managed to close off the previously favoured route for Middle Eastern refugees, the Greek-Turkish border, in 2010, but that just redirected the migrants to sea routes across the Mediterranean. The recent revolutions in Libya and Tunisia have crippled the ability of those countries to control their own coasts. And the wars in Syria and Somalia are generating ever larger numbers of desperate asylum-seekers.
The Italians do let most of the migrants stay -- although Germany accused Italy last May of encouraging the refugees to move on by giving them 500 euros ($680) and a "Schengen" visa that allows them to travel to most other EU countries without passport checks. But the brutal truth is this: the safer the EU countries make the Mediterranean crossing, the more people will try to come.
Most of the migrants currently risking their lives in those little boats are genuine refugees, but behind them, in the vast sweep of countries from West Africa to Somalia and Iraq, there are several hundred million others who would leap at the chance of moving to Europe. The nationalists in those countries will indignantly deny that, but you only have to talk to ordinary people there to know that it is true.
Europeans, like most people, want to see themselves as generous and caring, but behind all the humanitarian talk there is the stark reality that the EU will never make it so easy and safe to get in that even a small fraction of that vast reservoir of would-be migrants actually tries to make the journey. European leaders who let that happen would be committing political suicide.
The least bad solution would be to encourage the emergence of stable governments in Tunisia and Libya that could stop the boats from leaving their shores, but that will not happen any time soon. In the meantime, people will go on drowning in the Mediterranean, although hopefully in smaller numbers than the catastrophe of the last few weeks.
Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 18, 2013 A13
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This kind of proof requires use of your brain.
We've all heard the reasoning the government uses to justify their extensive surveillance and intel networks. They say "It is for the public good, to keep the public safe from enemies foriegn and domestic".
Well, what kind of info are they gathering and storing forever? All internet and phone data, gps tracking, drone and satellite imagery, millions of video surveillance devices in businesses and homes, as well as millions of traffic video cams and other city surveillance.
So, they've set up an excellent system to catch terrorists...like your neighborhood oathkeeper, homeschooler, christian, patriot...and the islamic terrorists. Right?
So, since this system is so massive and contains basically all the information needed to catch perps and keep us safe, we should be hearing about more and more arrests of child abductors, murderers, rapists, etc...right? Every time we hear about a new abduction or murder -- or terrorist bombing -- we should expect the perp to be arrested and the child found in a matter of hours to days. Not weeks. Not months. Not years. And almost never "unsolved". Right?
Since we as citizens clearly do not see those kinds of results, I don't think we're seeing the correct bang-for-buck ratio with this surveillance system we paid for.
It also proves that the government doesn't give a shit about us, and that they have been covering for murderers, pedophiles, rapists...letting children be taken from their parents and be sexually assaulted and murdered, or kidnapped and abused for years, etc. With their all too untimely discovery of who blew up that apparent surveillance deadzone at the finish line at the boston marathon, plus the abilities their systems give them, it is clear we were being lied to about when they knew who did it and that they were being "sought" (they clearly knew where they were the whole time with this system).
In conclusion, the government is guilty of not only Constitutional violations through the use of this system, but they are also covering up murders and kidnappings in order to not expose the reach of their system, and they are at the very least derelict in their duties. QED.
Suck it NSA fascists.
I don't see "Obama" anywhere in your post. Life was pretty good before Obama. HE is the problem. The tyrant ABUSING HIS POWER. If you don't name him as the problem, you are full of shit.
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and yes, I see your avatar. Why didn't you mention him in your post????
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LOL. I was wondering if you would see that.
I don't know if it is Obama that is the problem, or if they had to wait for the Obama theme to arise in order to to be utterly ridiculous and treasonous.
I'm not a fan of many previous presidents either.
For some reason, I have a problem with a Cheerleader whose grandfather was a main banker for the nazis and who started 2 unnecessary wars using a false flag event, murdering thousands, to justify them.
I really don't think Obama is the problem. He shouldn't even be in office. The problem lies further up the chain of command than our President -- or, in Obama's case, "President".
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