When the FBI and DHS fusion centers started building vast, unregulated, facial recognition databases, they shrugged elaborately and said that there weren’t any standard protections for doing so, and that they were just experimenting, and it wasn’t going to be used operationally until the legalities were all sorted out.
Some of you have doubtless heard of the Haymarket Affair.
In the comments on my previous posting, someone mentioned deep sea oil rigs. Now, there’s a captive work-force. So, I was curious.
You’ve probably heard of Fordlandia – it crops up again and again on the internet’s “weird things” zones.
Imagine if you and I were to play a game of chess.
I have written before about the battle of Matewan, [stderr] which was a small engagement in what later was known as “The Coal War.”
This is the kind of shit that sits on the bench in Pennsylvania: [root]
There has been considerable discussion about what to do if Trump loses in November, yet refuses to leave office.
That’s probably too general. I mean, it’s true – but let’s focus more narrowly: Huawei.
Here’s a general rule: when the US government claims to be concerned that some other government will do X it is because the US has been doing X for some time, and considers X to be its sole prerogative. There’s seldom any attempt to justify its prerogrative as appropriate, merely a bunch of stuff about how bad it is for anyone else to do what we do.