Congressmen Pretend to be Fed Up With Mark Zuckerberg's Serial Misrepresentations to Congress

Lot of posing for the cameras, but nothing will happen. Democrats want FaceBook and Google to keep on Colluding to Interfere in US Elections, and Republicans want the bribes they get from the industry.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in hot water with Congress following new revelations about his company's data-sharing practices, with some senators saying he may have misled Congress when he testified this year about protecting the privacy of users.
"Mr. Zuckerberg told us that this kind of nonsense would end and it didn’t," Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) said Wednesday. "Now the first time, you can argue it’s a mistake, but the second time, it’s a choice."

"Squaring his comments with the facts is very hard," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
In his congressional testimony in April, Zuckerberg assured lawmakers that "we don't sell data to anyone." But The New York Times reported Tuesday night that Facebook has long had financially beneficial agreements with companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Netflix and Spotify that allowed it to gain access to people’s timelines, friend lists, private messages and other data -- at times without the users' knowledge or expressed consent.
Lawmakers didn't say whether the CEO should face consequences. Instead, Democrats and Republicans talked up the need for privacy legislation to regulate how Facebook and other companies collect, store and share consumer data -- even though the two parties have yet to coalesce around a single legislative proposal or set of principles.
Outgoing Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) said the details of Facebook's data-sharing arrangements provide "even more ammunition for doing a privacy bill early next year." Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), his replacement, told POLITICO to "count on hearings."
"When companies repeatedly lie to Congress and the American people about what they do with our messages, location, likes and everything else, Congress has a duty to do something about it," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a statement.

No one's talking about breaking up the monopoly, though.

Everyone's getting something out of this, except citizens and consumers.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 07:46 PM

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1
first of all, I'll fetch the others

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 19, 2018 07:45 PM (KCxzN)

2 Ugh.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 19, 2018 07:45 PM (ujg0T)

3
FarceBook

You be careful out among those English!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2018 07:46 PM (pNxlR)

4 hiya

Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:46 PM (cS3Yq)

5 27th

Posted by: Anachronda at December 19, 2018 07:46 PM (xGZ+b)

6 Not to mention Zuck stole the idea from his employers ... iirc

Posted by: Adriane the War is Bad, Slavery is Worse Critic ... at December 19, 2018 07:47 PM (LPnfS)

7 The answer is to go off the grid and be a hermit.

Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:47 PM (cS3Yq)

8
Outgoing Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) said the details of Facebook's data-sharing arrangements provide "even more ammunition for doing a privacy bill early next year." Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), his replacement, told POLITICO to "count on hearings."

"When companies repeatedly lie to Congress and the American people about what they do with our messages, location, likes and everything else, Congress has a duty to do something about it," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a statement.

I call that bold talk for bloviating fat heads.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 19, 2018 07:48 PM (pNxlR)

9 I say we cut Cuckerberg's taxes another 20%. Who's with me? Cuz cutting taxes for billionaire leftists is the #1 priority for conservatives it seems.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 07:48 PM (H4fCt)

10 Congress has no power over this. They all take the grift.

WE THE PEOPLE.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 07:48 PM (I4gka)

11 Kabukakke to run out the clock until their out-and-proud demonrat allies take the House in January.

*spits*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 19, 2018 07:48 PM (mfOi4)

12 He is a robot.

Posted by: literally serious at December 19, 2018 07:49 PM (ZUUI1)

13 Congress has a duty to do something about it," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a statement.
--
21st century protection racket - only it's the government that is offering 'protection' for a fee instead of 'organized crime families.'

It's like the gumba who comes into your restaurant and says, "Nice place you have here. Be a shame if something happened to it. Do you have fire insurance?"

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 19, 2018 07:49 PM (kJWoP)

14 congress people fucking lie. story at 11. times infinity. cocksuckers have no desire to fuck with zuckerfuck. he works for them and the nsa. kabuki at it's worst. all bullshit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 07:50 PM (KP5rU)

15 "Squaring his comments with the facts is very hard," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
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Said the lying scumbag SOB.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2018 07:50 PM (Vhoaq)

16 Stupid people Fakebook.

Don't be stupid.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 19, 2018 07:50 PM (Z+IKu)

17
Democrats want FaceBook and Google to keep on Colluding to Interfere in US Elections, and Republicans want the bribes they get from the industry.

A lot of similarity with illegal immigration.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (aKsyK)

18 I check Face Book several times a day, I must confess.
It's nice for keeping up with old friends and family members.

Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (cS3Yq)

19 Zuckerface in Congress - billionaire john partying with a Parliament of millionaire whores.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (LL1Be)

20 Not ONE THING will come from this. NOT. ONE.

We are SOOOO fucked. Trump doesn't seems to have any power left. The Dems will take over the house in a month. Republicans are spineless fucktards and we're all screwed.

Posted by: Sponge at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (Zz0t1)

21 Does anyone use Facebook anymore?

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (X//Zo)

22 I can see the crackdown coming not on big tech but, I suppose on us.... Thats the way it usually works.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (0OmEj)

23 Farcebook is worldwide. We are not going to do squat. There are a billion others out there that checkmate us.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (I4gka)

24 Congressman Luigi Vercotti told POLITICO "I mean, fings break den, don't dey."

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (5RXy6)

25 Guys. Don't be too upset with the GOP. After all they did important work this week. They passed a bill that lets ms13 members out of jail early and introduced a carbon tax.

I mean come on. That's some serious conservative shit.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (H4fCt)

26 Anyone know if Jeff "Flake" Flake is even pretending to be concerned about this issue?

Posted by: Dr. T at December 19, 2018 07:54 PM (Vgw1E)

27 when they nuke facefraud's servers, then i will believe they're serious. i.e. never fucking happen.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 07:54 PM (KP5rU)

28 This is why I have been saying there will effectively be no difference between Ryan and Co. Running things vs Nancy and Co.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 07:54 PM (H4fCt)

29 Trey Gowdy was always good at acting outraged the phony pinhead.

Posted by: kallisto at December 19, 2018 07:54 PM (v1fwL)

30 Is it outside of the realm of possibility that people could just not use Facebook?

I'm not all that plugged in.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 07:55 PM (NLLmE)

31 Capitalism needs to do it's job here.

Kill facebook. Kill google and destroy the evil conglomerate leftist communist organizations. Period.

Posted by: Sponge at December 19, 2018 07:55 PM (Zz0t1)

32

You wouldn't BELIEVE how many of these cocksuckers hit on me in the Senate Cloak Room!

It's Blow Job City with a vacation at Butthole Acres!

Posted by: The Zuck at December 19, 2018 07:55 PM (E+oBa)

33 hey

Posted by: jbspry at December 19, 2018 07:55 PM (d/n9j)

34 Guys. Don't be too upset with the GOP. After all they did important work this week. They passed a bill that lets ms13 members out of jail early and introduced a carbon tax.

I mean come on. That's some serious conservative shit.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 07:52 PM (H4fCt)

Those Republicans stole our platform!

Posted by: The Libertarian Party at December 19, 2018 07:55 PM (X//Zo)

35 Had the Founders envisioned how depraved we'd become they would have limited CongressCritters to one term, made selection by lottery, forced them to be personally subject to the laws they passed, and made it a capital offense for any of those Critters to accept any gift/bribe or break any law.

Near-permanent gridlock FTW, baby!

Posted by: ShainS - #WokeStasi Dragnet Survivor at December 19, 2018 07:56 PM (WqPYg)

36 This is why I have been saying there will effectively be no difference between Ryan and Co. Running things vs Nancy and Co.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 07:54 PM (H4fCt)

Yup....."Ryan" should be the new word for Quisling.

Fuck him and his family.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 19, 2018 07:56 PM (Z+IKu)

37 New One Size Fits All headline:

"X pretends to be fed up with Y, nothing happens."

Posted by: shibumi at December 19, 2018 07:56 PM (UyW0o)

38 Capitalism needs to do it's job here.

Kill facebook. Kill google and destroy the evil conglomerate leftist communist organizations. Period.
Posted by: Sponge

It would like to, but government won't let it.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (5RXy6)

39 Read any of Peter Schweizer's books "Extortion" or "Throw Them All Out" and you are ahead of the game.

This is just shakedown theater.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (lD3vL)

40 When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

Posted by: jbspry at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (d/n9j)

41 Ron Wyden pic at the link looks like one of those melting Germans from Raiders Of The Lost Ark.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (xPl2J)

42 kallisto, I'm ashamed to be so desperate for someone with backbone, that I supported Gowdy.

Fooled me once.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (I4gka)

43 40

That's a lot of hate speech dude. You have been reported to the authorities.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 07:58 PM (H4fCt)

44 It would like to, but government won't let it.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (5RXy6)

Yeah, that's a good point. Damnit.....

Posted by: Sponge at December 19, 2018 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Big time leftist voices are calling for Zuck to step down though. I think they view it as a way to defuse the complaints, make them go away. See, he's gone now you can shut up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2018 07:59 PM (39g3+)

46 The uniparty will be the death of DC. One can hope.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at December 19, 2018 07:59 PM (0OmEj)

47 You don't get a revolution when people aren't hungry.

Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (cS3Yq)

48 lmao! Tucker's opening is epic.

Posted by: Jewells45 at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (dUJdY)

49 Wyden has had his eyebrows surgically removed to combat global warming.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (tfbws)

50 Well maybe when they start talking about Zuckerbergs interest in organ harvesting they'll get serious.

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (z2W2E)

51 Is it outside of the realm of possibility that people could just not use Facebook?

I'm not all that plugged in.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 07:55 PM (NLLmE)

I'm pretty fuckin' plugged in, which is why I've never had a Facebook account, or any other social media account outside one which is basically a functional requirement of my line of work (LinkedIn).

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (t+qrx)

52 Outgoing Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) said the
details of Facebook's data-sharing arrangements provide "even more
ammunition for doing a privacy bill early next year."

=====

LOL. We'll die on that hill NEXT TIME. TRUST US!

Posted by: ShainS - #WokeStasi Dragnet Survivor at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (WqPYg)

53

Gee Zuck, your dick tastes a lot like Sin Enema's bung hole!

Posted by: Senator Bribypervo at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (E+oBa)

54 Government is NOT your friend.

We are NOT going to vote our way out of this.

This will NOT end well.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 19, 2018 08:01 PM (fD23g)

55 We won't do that thing in your mouth, we promise!

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at December 19, 2018 08:01 PM (0OmEj)

56 repost. Americans will not go from Capitalism to Communism with out their leaders introducing Socialism along the way. N Kruschev.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (I4gka)

57 I have a Facebook account. It's just a picture of me. I haven't been there in years.

Should I delete it?

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (NLLmE)

58 Facebook???

Oh, that weird web host that I find, every time I stumble upon one, asks me to 'register' to see it.
Yeah, like I ma going to do that for local mom and pop store.
Bye,
click

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (1g7ch)

59 Well maybe when they start talking about Zuckerbergs interest in organ harvesting they'll get serious.
Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (z2W2E)

We don't get serious with organ harvesters, you should already know this.

Posted by: Uniparty Grifters, Slurping up Planned Parenthood's bribes at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (X//Zo)

60 The hard left ceo of Salesforce went after FB as well. They all smell blood in the water and Cuckberberg is hated in SV with the passion of 1000 burning suns.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (H4fCt)

61 No man, woman or tranny shall buy or sell or otherwise undertake any communication or transaction in interstate commerce, including without limitation the viewing of pron, save he, she or ze that shall have a GooMazonBookCIA account or the name of the Hildebeast or the number of her name or is one of her attorneys or staff members.

Posted by: Senate Bill S.666, The Security of Rights in Data Act at December 19, 2018 08:03 PM (DuAZ5)

62 18 I check Face Book several times a day, I must confess.
It's nice for keeping up with old friends and family members.

Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (cS3Yq)

======

Like rhomboid noted in an earlier thread today, if only we had the technology for things like private email and simple websites to fill this need -- imagine how free we could be from our #MonsterTechOverlords.

Posted by: ShainS - #WokeStasi Dragnet Survivor at December 19, 2018 08:03 PM (WqPYg)

63 Facebook has dirt of some sort on every single person in the country, including of course, all those who could rein them in. That, plus Facebook's now-acknowledged use as a tool for widely distributing "fake news", makes every elected official wary of really crossing Zuck and his interwebs monster.

Google is even more powerful.

Both may have become "Too Big to Crush."

Posted by: Gref at December 19, 2018 08:03 PM (AMIL/)

64 57 I have a Facebook account. It's just a picture of me. I haven't been there in years.

Should I delete it?
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (NLLmE)

Zucker would sell your space to a russian bot and your name to Mueller.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 19, 2018 08:04 PM (1g7ch)

65 "Squaring his comments with the facts is very hard,"

Only the elite are surprised and bewildered.

They sure spend a lot of time confessing that they're dumbasses.

Posted by: t-bird at December 19, 2018 08:04 PM (nIvDu)

66 I have a Facebook account. It's just a picture of me. I haven't been there in years.

Should I delete it?
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:02 PM (NLLmE)

Certainly!

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 08:04 PM (X//Zo)

67 Outgoing Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.) said the
details of Facebook's data-sharing arrangements provide "even more
ammunition for doing a privacy bill early next year."
=====
LOL. We'll die on that hill NEXT TIME. TRUST US!
Posted by: ShainS - #WokeStasi Dragnet Survivor at December 19, 2018 08:00 PM (WqPYg)

*types*
*deletes*

There was a whole lot of cussing. I'll just say that I'm fed up.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (T71PA)

68 I just wanted people to know I was still alive.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (NLLmE)

69 I was thinking on this today.... Perhaps someone should try going after Facebook under False Advertising theory. Advertisers can face stiff penalties for false advertising.

We can't go after FB for breach of contract (even if you win, the limitation of liability clause limits your damages to less than the filing fee for the lawsuit) or reliably or uniformly for violation of Federal and State data privacy and security regs, but under a false advertising theory, you could say that the legal terms of service, VIEWED AS AN ADVERTISEMENT, are false, misleading and fail to adequately inform the user about the dangers of using their service....

Posted by: RichardWindsor at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (db5dt)

70 If you delete your FB account how will you comment on HotAir?

Lol

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (H4fCt)

71 I'm ready for my closeup, Mr DeMille.

Posted by: failure theater at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (Evws/)

72 42. I think most of us were fooled by so many of these animatronic frauds. My congressman had a good chance of retaining his seat but instead fell for a commiedonk honey pot.

Posted by: kallisto at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (v1fwL)

73 I asked a fucking R activist why they kept directing their traffic to fakebook. Well?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (I4gka)

74 I just wanted people to know I was still alive.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (NLLmE)

I'd be happy to poke you with a stick and see if you move, friend.

*poke*

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (t+qrx)

75 68 I just wanted people to know I was still alive.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (NLLmE)

Just send a Christmas card each year...

...crap, too late?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (1g7ch)

76 "Too Big To Fail"

Posted by: G Dub Boosh at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (LL1Be)

77 A record amount of hurumphs were recorded at that testimony.

Posted by: Bosk at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (9m9TT)

78 Miss me yet bitches?

Posted by: MySpace at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (H4fCt)

79 I have a Facebook account. It's just a picture of me. I haven't been there in years

++++

And yet, Facebook knows everywhere you've been, everyone you talked to, and everything you've bought during those intervening years

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (z2W2E)

80 A record amount of hurumphs were recorded at that testimony.
Posted by: Bosk at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (9m9TT)

^This^

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 19, 2018 08:07 PM (T71PA)

81 I wonder what the comments at Hot Air is like now. Bunch of Facebook retards.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 19, 2018 08:07 PM (xPl2J)

82 Miss me yet bitches?
Posted by: MySpace at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (H4fCt)

Come back to us Tom, all is forgiven.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:07 PM (t+qrx)

83 78 Miss me yet bitches?
Posted by: MySpace at December 19, 2018 08:06 PM (H4fCt)

hah.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:07 PM (NLLmE)

84 If you delete your FB account how will you comment on HotAir?

Lol
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:05 PM (H4fCt)

When was the last time anyone commented on HotAir?

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 08:08 PM (X//Zo)

85 hormartin. How goes it my friend?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:08 PM (I4gka)

86 I wonder what the comments at Hot Air is like now. Bunch of Facebook retards.
Posted by: Mark1971

My sister just made 1,993.81 USD in ONE DAY!!!
Click here to learn how.

Posted by: typical HotAir comment at December 19, 2018 08:08 PM (5RXy6)

87 just about all the data on my FB pages is inaccurate, except for the people i like, etc...

not sure how much that is worth to them.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 19, 2018 08:08 PM (zJ7J0)

88 I still have a Hotmail account which I've been informed is incredibly out of touch.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:08 PM (NLLmE)

89 I read HotGas occasionally. The comments run about 70/30 left/right. So yeah generally retards.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:09 PM (H4fCt)

90 Don't be on either platform.
Let businesses know their participation on those platforms limit your participation $ at their business.

Support alternatives.

Posted by: Flyover at December 19, 2018 08:09 PM (B5K06)

91 Never mess with people who know your search history and read your email.

Posted by: Anchovy at December 19, 2018 08:10 PM (B3kya)

92

"Squaring his comments with the facts is very hard," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

what an amazing comment from daNang Dick.

I'm speechless.

Wonder what that comment sounds like in Vietnamese.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 19, 2018 08:10 PM (UsCnO)

93 They know I really like MILFs then.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:11 PM (NLLmE)

94 As far as I know you cannot delete your FB account, you can only deactivate it.

Posted by: Jewells45 at December 19, 2018 08:11 PM (dUJdY)

95 False Advertising Law under Lanham Act:
The false-advertising section of the Lanham Act (commonly known as Section 43(a)) provides as follows:
Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which -
is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person, or
in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person's goods, services, or commercial activities,
shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.
41 U.S.C. S 1125(a)(1).

Posted by: RichardWindsor at December 19, 2018 08:11 PM (db5dt)

96 Other than LinkedIn I'm non existent on social media.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:11 PM (H4fCt)

97 Amazon is no different than fake book. How much convenience did you support them with?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:12 PM (I4gka)

98 It doesn't matter if the information on your Facebook is inaccurate the power of the application is it's ubiquity. It has access to your phone your online history purchase history where you go who you're with etc

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:12 PM (z2W2E)

99 Hey there, Ben Had. Very busy, but otherwise fine, you?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:12 PM (t+qrx)

100 I've have never and will never use Amazon.

Not feeding that particular monster.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:12 PM (NLLmE)

101 Lurking Lurker, Thanks for the laugh.

You are here.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:13 PM (I4gka)

102 just about all the data on my FB pages is inaccurate, except for the people i like, etc...

Monkey wrenching works so much better when they can't trust their data.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at December 19, 2018 08:13 PM (lD3vL)

103 I don't have a smartphone, which cuts off tremendous amounts of data from the big silicon corps.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2018 08:13 PM (39g3+)

104 Someone, I think it was Klavan, ran a series of tapes of Zuckhead apologizing for this kind of shit, going back to his college days. There were about 5 or 6 of them, and they were identical. Including the completely inadvertent nature of the fcuk ups, and of course the absolute take it to the bank guarantee that he'd see it'd never happen again.

Posted by: Eeyore, fomerly George LeS at December 19, 2018 08:13 PM (VaN/j)

105 As far as I know you cannot delete your FB account, you can only deactivate it.
Posted by: Jewells45 at December 19, 2018 08:11 PM (dUJdY)

--------------------

You can delete it from any kind of viewing, but that does not mean FaceDesk deleted it from their servers.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 19, 2018 08:13 PM (ffYR/)

106 103 I don't have a smartphone, which cuts off tremendous amounts of data from the big silicon corps.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2018 08:13 PM (39g3+)

Flip phone FTW!

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (NLLmE)

107 This isn't social media at least not as it is traditionally defined.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (H4fCt)

108 Shit is going to get real entertaining once someone drags forth evidence of big tech selling private images/video to third parties.
You know what I'm talking about.

Posted by: lurker (the other one) at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (eAshZ)

109 hogmartin, I am good. How is your lone kitty?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (I4gka)

110 If only Zucker could give blow jobs as good as he lies.

I would know these things.

Posted by: Shep Smith at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (UsCnO)

111

Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.

It is those names of porn stars of which the Moron Horde is so knowledgeable that get me in trouble when I go "who is xxxxxxxx".

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (kJWoP)

112 Whole Foods was bought by AMZ. Whole Foods sucks now.

Posted by: kallisto at December 19, 2018 08:15 PM (v1fwL)

113 The Fappening wasn't a hack?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 19, 2018 08:15 PM (1g7ch)

114
The left is turning on Farcebook. Soros said in a speech it was a menace to society and Sheryl Sandberg had some "research" done on him. The left freaked out that they would dare look into old Georgie. I hope they both kill each other.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 19, 2018 08:15 PM (SiINZ)

115 Amazon is no different than fake book. How much convenience did you support them with?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:12 PM (I4gka)

Actually, there is one very significant difference between Apple/Amazon and FB/Google.

Amazon and Apple sell you a thing. You give them money, they give you a thing. They'll collect any information about you that they like, and they'll use it to sell you more of their things.

Facebook and Google only sell one thing, and it is the information they've collected off you, and they sell it to whoever will pay them.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:16 PM (t+qrx)

116 Flip phone FTW!

Land line. Oh I have Kindle so they can tell what books I like to read, and that I like solitaire and word games.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (39g3+)

117 Not unrelated to Professor Hanson's observations below about our mediocre "elites." When you have a two-tier system of justice there eventually will be justice and it will be administered in the streets. The idiots are hurtling in that direction.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (iw59Q)

118 I love my new flip phone.

Posted by: Flyover at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (B5K06)

119 You know what I'm talking about.
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Oh, shit.

Posted by: analpundit at a 'mouse party' at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (Evws/)

120 Shit is going to get real entertaining once someone drags forth evidence of big tech selling private images/video to third parties.
You know what I'm talking about.
Posted by: lurker (the other one)

I DO know.

Posted by: J-Law's bunghole at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (5RXy6)

121

Stop using US currency!!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (aKsyK)

122 So, my personal phone has a tendency to get a lot of spam texts (It is an old number I have had forever, lot of businesses could have sold the number.) Usually stuff like (random name, give her multiple O's.) I usually just go through every day when I get home and delete.

Last night I check and one of them I got was just an image file. I deleted that sucker faster than anything without even opening the text up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 19, 2018 08:18 PM (Hmagm)

123 Amazon is no different than fake book. How much convenience did you support them with?

Your purchases should reflect the sort of person you want them to think you are. The real you uses cash at venues far from home.

Lets say that someone wanted to buy a box of road flares with the intent of celebrating the spirit and solidarity of the Yellow Jackets here privately.

DO NOT BUY THEM FROM AMAZON.

Don't even buy them at a Wally mart near you. Or within a month of when you might want to use them.

There is a reason we wear ball caps and go through stores looking down, then buy with cash.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at December 19, 2018 08:18 PM (lD3vL)

124 hogmartin, I am good. How is your lone kitty?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:14 PM (I4gka)

She's very affectionate and when I get home, she's desperate to be stepped on. Never had a cat try so hard to be directly under my feet. She could use a buddy, but I need to find her the right one so it works out for both of them. One might be forthcoming. We'll see.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:19 PM (t+qrx)

125 From the sidebar: NFW I'm going to listen to a podcast with David French. He was one of the key people making me reject Never Trump even before I decided to back Orange Man. It was a case of "I'm not with them."

I can deal with not-completely-insane Trump critics like Geraghty or Lowrie or Cooke. But the complete douches, well, the Hell with them.

Posted by: Eeyore, fomerly George LeS at December 19, 2018 08:19 PM (VaN/j)

126 ok so i'm taking off my resting bitch face for the gazzilionth time the last couple of years. and making it real

I would like to know why anyone supports anything that is destroying me my neighbors or their fellow citizens?

I like Facebook! I like Sports! I like twitter.

these are all things destroying US.

at what point do we find other ways to chat, talk, send messages? watch on tv?
when do we do anything but bitch they are screwing us and we are helping them?

we support Them!

people like you and me.

if anyone wants to kick my rear, go ahead, but i'm right, why don't we find other venues,?

do we have any abilities or do we just go down weeping?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:19 PM (fE+0o)

127 Facebook and Google only sell one thing, and it is the information they've collected off you, and they sell it to whoever will pay them.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:16 PM (t+qrx)

When you cannot find out how a company makes money because they have no product- you are their product.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 19, 2018 08:19 PM (Hmagm)

128 fistbump BB

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:20 PM (I4gka)

129 "87
just about all the data on my FB pages is inaccurate, except for the people i like, etc...

not sure how much that is worth to them.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 19, 2018 08:08 PM (zJ7J0)"...
That's not how this works. The problem generally isn't what you post, it's everything else they grab.

If you are using FB via a smartphone, they know basically every damn thing about you; where you are, where you go, who you associate with and their contact info, what other apps you use and what you do with them. They know almost everything you do on and with the phone, FB related or not, and can infer many other things indirectly.
If you use it on some other platform (destop, laptop, tablet), they still know a lot of that info.
Now lets say you actually do post personal stuff - throw facial recognition and other various bits and bobs into the mix, and now they can infer and confirm a shit-ton more about you from other sources.

Posted by: lurker (the other one) at December 19, 2018 08:21 PM (eAshZ)

130 Most of this kind of thing is self-repairing over time, but in the time it takes to right its self a lot of damage can be done, particularly as the people behind this are deliberately attempting to wipe out America as it was made and prospered for a particularly awful, destructive alternative.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2018 08:21 PM (39g3+)

131 analpundit at a 'mouse party'

Sounds like a great way to get a perforated colon.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:22 PM (ykYG2)

132 red whether you say or give them anything of value to you doesn't really matter it's the Numbers they have of support.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:22 PM (fE+0o)

133 The ULA webcast has started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwb0leeydEs

They will try again to launch the Delta IV Heavy that was scrubbed a couple weeks ago.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 08:23 PM (sdi6R)

134 "Squaring his comments with the facts is very hard," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

what an amazing comment from daNang Dick.
I'm speechless.
Wonder what that comment sounds like in Vietnamese.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 19, 2018 08:10 PM (UsCnO)

I can see the Facebook crisis becoming the next opioid crisis. That TV face time ain't gonna fill itself.

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 19, 2018 08:24 PM (T71PA)

135 Hey, man. That brie's not mine. No way, dude.

Posted by: analpundit at a 'mouse party' at December 19, 2018 08:24 PM (Evws/)

136 Looking up mouse party and it's all about drugs

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:24 PM (z2W2E)

137 131 analpundit at a 'mouse party'

Sounds like a great way to get a perforated colon.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:22 PM (ykYG2)

'Perforated Colon' is his middle name- they call him the 'Big PC'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 19, 2018 08:25 PM (Hmagm)

138 mice do drugs?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:25 PM (fE+0o)

139 Lab mice do drugs

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:25 PM (z2W2E)

140 Conservative Christian homeschool mothers are heavily on facebook. So are suburban mothers more generally. Most of the school-related groups that used to be email lists are on facebook because, ironically of its obsessive location-specific group features. Facebook's location tracking means people have a much harder time faking where they are w/r/t mom-stuff, so moms keep staying there because it's location-specific vetting. Nextdoor could have stolen their thunder, but it's full of spam and won't let you contact non-locals at all.

Posted by: CMH at December 19, 2018 08:26 PM (2bsku)

141 Stop using US currency!!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2018 08:17 PM (aKsyK)

All of my transactions are in Hogcoin™. It is a highly secure counterfeit-proof cryptocurrency that looks and tastes exactly like caramel M&M's.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:26 PM (t+qrx)

142 Total Control, ah yes, you're right.

so it's a lab of information resembling mice , mazes and traps?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:26 PM (fE+0o)

143 I would like to make clear another point about the volume and nature of info that big tech collects;

It's not like the fanciful TV shows depicting some sort of panopticon where you have a bunch of nerdy people in a big mission control room with some giant ass screen where they pull up a huge display showing grainy footage of somebody superimposed with a decade's worth of data on them.

It's worse. It's a couple of monitors at some random moonbat's workstation, with access to even more stuff, with nobody watching what they are doing.

Posted by: lurker (the other one) at December 19, 2018 08:27 PM (eAshZ)

144 I don't know what it refers to honestly I'm mystified

Posted by: Total Control Racist at December 19, 2018 08:27 PM (z2W2E)

145 so it's a lab of information resembling mice , mazes and traps?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:26 PM (fE+0o)

Twisty little passages, all alike.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:28 PM (t+qrx)

146 The problem generally isn't what you post, it's everything else they grab.

Browser sync - Firefox account to keep your browser(s) in sync across all your devices. I've tried running without it and invariably the bit of information I find on one device is needed on another.

I just got an email from my firefox account that another device logged into the account. They had my IP and from that they had my location. (This feature is not a bug; it is intended to tell you if someone else is accessing your account, and who that someone might be.)

Microsoft - Google - they all do it now, and they nag you to turn on sync.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 19, 2018 08:28 PM (kJWoP)

147 I believe NYTs article they are selling private mails etc info to 150 companies.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:28 PM (fE+0o)

148 A mouse party you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK92NYwBMts

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 08:28 PM (sdi6R)

149 Now lets say you actually do post personal stuff - throw facial recognition and other various bits and bobs into the mix, and now they can infer and confirm a shit-ton more about you from other sources.

----

And if you share your contacts on a FB app, they now have information of all of them, even if they have never, ever been on the platform.

How is that not an invasion of privacy?

If you access through the app, it is still active on your phone, even when you are not using it.

Get out. Now.

Posted by: Flyover at December 19, 2018 08:28 PM (B5K06)

150 hog, I admit to feelings a .little claustrophobic thinking about it.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:28 PM (fE+0o)

151 I agree, I never heard of a 'mouse party'.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:29 PM (ykYG2)

152 The Mouse Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixrQcGQ6o-w

Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2018 08:29 PM (Evws/)

153 Total Control, so that makes 2 of us.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:30 PM (fE+0o)

154 The mouse reference:
https://youtu.be/uK92NYwBMts

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at December 19, 2018 08:30 PM (5RXy6)

155 This is so enormously profitable, that they can afford to spend a couple of bucks to bribe politicians from all parties, plus pressure groups , etc..
Plus, at this point, no mainstream politician or organization wants to really get on Facebook's or Google's bad side. It's one thing what they say in front of the cameras and, probably, quite another what they whisper in private reassurances.
I can imagine what sort of nastiness Google and Facebook can mete out for those on their black lists.

Posted by: PG at December 19, 2018 08:30 PM (iqCkn)

156 I love it when these billionaires showcase themselves on radio shows and smoke illicit, controlled substances. Oh wait, that was MaryJane Musk!

My bad. This is the other billionaire that wears $3 JCPenney designer T-shirts at work!

Posted by: Fritz at December 19, 2018 08:30 PM (Z9C5C)

157
"Squaring his comments with the facts is very hard!"

Lines for the Congressman Ken doll.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 19, 2018 08:31 PM (oGNNA)

158 ha ludwig, I think all mice are seditious

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:32 PM (fE+0o)

159 Perino recommends Trump use visual aids to 'splain the reasons for The Wall better.

Yeah, you dippy broad. Because your boss was such a fucking communication machine.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 08:34 PM (LL1Be)

160 so what's the status of Gab ? is it still under attack and can others shut it down?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:35 PM (fE+0o)

161 I would like to make clear another point about the volume and nature of info that big tech collects;

I have knowledge of a project that was using deep social media access to determine if a person is a bot or real. This was used, among other cases, for dating services where many people who sign up are not real.

In order to test the algorithms to determine a score for the participant, many known FB profiles were analyzed and connection graphs, analysis of postings and other participation events were scored for determining authenticity.

Several things came out from this: We are an amazingly boring and plain people. There are plenty of dead-ends in the data.

But what appealed to me the most is that the algorithms always considered me a 'bot.

Mission Accomplished.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at December 19, 2018 08:35 PM (lD3vL)

162 GWB made every excuse possible against the Wall.

Globalist fuckers.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 08:35 PM (LL1Be)

163 so what's the status of Gab ? is it still under attack and can others shut it down?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:35 PM (fE+0o)

---------------

It's back online. For now.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 19, 2018 08:36 PM (ffYR/)

164 Dana Perino is an idiot.

Posted by: Jewells45 at December 19, 2018 08:36 PM (dUJdY)

165 hogmartin. I have 5 billion pesos that I would like to convert to hogcoin. What is my exchange rate?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:36 PM (I4gka)

166 no facefraud on my phone or tablet no googlag on either of them. never were. first things deleted.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 08:37 PM (KP5rU)

167 Fitz I heard Musk speak for the 1st time today about the tunnel that would take people across a city at 150 mph, and thought He Must do better on paper /plans etc than speaking he did seem higher than a kite.

worse than me by far.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:37 PM (fE+0o)

168 They had my IP and from that they had my location

Why on earth are you not using a VPN?

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at December 19, 2018 08:37 PM (lD3vL)

169 Scrub for tonight. There's a hydrogen leak in the port booster. They will tentatively try again tomorrow night.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 08:37 PM (sdi6R)

170 Remember, the Feds almost broke Microsoft up over including a web browser with their operating system.
Posted by: Kreplach at December 19, 2018 08:36 PM (qxq6t)

I'm old enough to remember when IBM was the Evil Empire. I'm not that old.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:38 PM (t+qrx)

171 I heard Musk speak for the 1st time today about the tunnel that would take people across a city at 150 mph

Space:1999 Travel Tubes

powered by Wheed!

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 08:39 PM (LL1Be)

172 165 hogmartin. I have 5 billion pesos that I would like to convert to hogcoin. What is my exchange rate?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:36 PM (I4gka)

One Mary B Hogony.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:39 PM (NLLmE)

173 hogmartin. I have 5 billion pesos that I would like to convert to hogcoin. What is my exchange rate?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:36 PM (I4gka)

Current exchange rate is 2.99 USD = 9.6oz bag of delicious chewy Hogcoin™ with that crunchy ~~candy~~money shell.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:41 PM (t+qrx)

174 Calm, im not tech . so how does one avoid google , avoid bing, aoid firefox. how does one enter the internet while avoiding everything Microsoft tries to make you fall in their lines

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:41 PM (fE+0o)

175 eleven, will that get me a double cheeseburger at Mickey D's?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:41 PM (I4gka)

176 175 eleven, will that get me a double cheeseburger at Mickey D's?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:41 PM (I4gka)

Fuck yes.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:42 PM (NLLmE)

177 While it would be tough to quit Google or Amazon, quitting Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the social networks it easy. Apple has plenty of competition, so it's not a problem.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 19, 2018 08:42 PM (4zQrR)

178 Chavez, who do you replace it?

and on a phone google seems to own it

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:42 PM (fE+0o)

179 Supersize that shit.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:42 PM (NLLmE)

180 The Chinese , who own over half our government elites, banned Christmas in a "crackdown on religion" there.

I'll wait for commentary by Mitch "Yen my Yang" McConnell in order to formulate an opinion.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 08:42 PM (LL1Be)

181 Since Nancy Pelosi likes to pass things before reading them, just add the wall funding in the bill and vote.

https://twitter.com/sean_spicier/status/
1075133152551755777

Posted by: andycanuck at December 19, 2018 08:43 PM (Evws/)

182 Okay, saw the Mouse Problem.
Seems like standard Python send-up of moralistic 1950s BBC expose's. As seen from the early 1970s after the BBC had (mostly) quit doing them.
Although John Cleese demonstrates his comedic chops, again. "Cheddar or gouda, if into the hard stuff".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:43 PM (ykYG2)

183 It's all kabuki. All the way down. Both sides.

Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2018 08:44 PM (zLDYs)

184 andy, that really is a great idea, and we should have a yuge party and get all their staff workers drunk at a week party so they don't notice.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:44 PM (fE+0o)

185 Calm, im not tech . so how does one avoid google , avoid bing, aoid firefox. how does one enter the internet while avoiding everything Microsoft tries to make you fall in their lines

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:41 PM (fE+0o)

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Use a Linux operating system, open office and use duckduckgo for your searches. You can't avoid them completely, but you can minimize.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 19, 2018 08:45 PM (ffYR/)

186 Pelosi is going to pass a lot of things in the House that go to the Senate to die.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:45 PM (I4gka)

187 186 Pelosi is going to pass a lot of things in the House that go to the Senate to die.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:45 PM (I4gka)

Stagnation. I like it.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:46 PM (NLLmE)

188 The story is at the NY Times, so no linky-poo for 'em.

But, I saw at FB that NYT ran a story alleging that Facebook allowed Netflix and Spotify to read their users' private messages.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (miE9U)

189 When it's Christmas in China, does everyone order Matzoh balls?

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (NLLmE)

190 Calm, it will be interesting to watch how they fair. I do wish we'd lend more support .

how is their security and selling of info?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (fE+0o)

191 178: don't have a google phone for one thing. iphone. deleted all the apple maps, never had google on it. still know how to use a paper map when traveling. fuck google and apple maps. don't use my phone for internet. voice and text. that's about it. only a few people have my real phone number. everybody else gets a number on a phone i shitcanned years ago. fuck em.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (KP5rU)

192 I heard Musk speak for the 1st time today about the tunnel that would take people across a city at 150 mph

Space:1999 Travel Tubes

powered by Wheed!
Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 08:39 PM (LL1Be)

I thought it looked like the tram they had in Logan's Run

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (SiINZ)

193 182 Okay, saw the Mouse Problem.
Seems like standard Python send-up of moralistic 1950s BBC expose's. As seen from the early 1970s after the BBC had (mostly) quit doing them.
Although John Cleese demonstrates his comedic chops, again. "Cheddar or gouda, if into the hard stuff".
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:43 PM (ykYG2)

As a couple of YouTube comments pointed out, the Pythons actually predicted furries.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (sdi6R)

194 qd steve, same article I read. emails private anything given to 150 companies.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (fE+0o)

195 bah, yup.
Disturbing facts if true, and I have zero reason to believe FB is being lied about.

Someday an incredible "Citizen Kane"-style movie will be made about Zuck (and I'm not talking about The Social Network).

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 19, 2018 08:49 PM (miE9U)

196 the quietman, im not an engineer, but I had to laugh at how many cars one could get in their and the long waiting times, traffic congestion to make that trip.

and would a truck fit in there?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:49 PM (fE+0o)

197 Calm, it will be interesting to watch how they fair. I do wish we'd lend more support .

how is their security and selling of info?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:47 PM (fE+0o)

-----------------

I have no idea, but I've never heard of them being specifically abusive.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 19, 2018 08:49 PM (ffYR/)

198 their-there

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:49 PM (fE+0o)

199 Mitch Mc Yertle ignored reciprosity for CC four times. I don't think you are going to get a lot done on your agenda , Nancy

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:49 PM (I4gka)

200 Don't do Faceplant, don't do Twatter, don't do Snotchat, don't do Pimpstagram, nor any of the others. Have bought stuff of Amazon and eBay, but neither lately.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 08:50 PM (fDU8w)

201

What's going on with Kreplach?

Was he banned?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (jdPh/)

202 I do duck duck go, but me doing a Linux is way above my tech grade.

also requires funds, which I also don't have.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (fE+0o)

203 Oh. Kreplach *has* been banned.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (NLLmE)

204
Banned for what and by whom?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (jdPh/)

205 I check Face Book several times a day, I must confess.
It's nice for keeping up with old friends and family members.
Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (cS3Yq)

Bob at NSA thanks you, as does Pastor Ingawangu in Nigeria.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (fDU8w)

206 hugo chaves @ 191--I use and iphone too and under the same rules as yours. No email, internet, or maps.

Posted by: Eromero at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (zLDYs)

207 Why was Kreplach banned?

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (X//Zo)

208 "No one's talking about breaking up the monopoly, though.

Everyone's getting something out of this, except citizens and consumers."

-----------

If something is free then I feel you should not complain when it's not what you expected.

I always found these platforms suspect and didn't join, not a single social medium. I took heed of that saying, "If it's free you are the product".

People still have an option, get off and close your account.

Posted by: Decaf at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (jLBUC)

209 I would do Linux until someone say "it's so easy all you have to do is go into your boot screen"...

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (NLLmE)

210 I do duck duck go, but me doing a Linux is way above my tech grade.

also requires funds, which I also don't have.
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (fE+0o)

It doesn't cost anything. But you'd better have a Linux Sherpa handy until you get it running.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (t+qrx)

211 Chavez, it almost makes me yearn for ma bell. at least they had rules

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (fE+0o)

212 I hope Kreplach is just on timeout. He did need to be less negative but he wasn't toxic against the morons on a personal level.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (ykYG2)

213 204
Banned for what and by whom?
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (jdPh/)

Yeah, this.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (sdi6R)

214 I wouldn't mind a Sherpa. lol

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (fE+0o)

215 I check Face Book several times a day, I must confess.
It's nice for keeping up with old friends and family members.
Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (cS3Yq)

Bob at NSA thanks you, as does Pastor Ingawangu in Nigeria.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (fDU8w)

As do I.

Posted by: ELDER James Grange (Remember me?) at December 19, 2018 08:54 PM (X//Zo)

216 It doesn't cost anything. But you'd better have a Linux Sherpa handy until you get it running.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (t+qrx)

right.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:54 PM (NLLmE)

217 I wouldn't mind a Sherpa. lol
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (fE+0o)

They are sturdy folk.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:54 PM (t+qrx)

218 why do we think Kreplach is banned?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:54 PM (fE+0o)

219 206; the only way my friend. the only way.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 08:54 PM (KP5rU)

220 Why was Kreplach banned?
He was really Eeyoring hard this week and got criticized by some one-name.

Didn't see a ban for cause anywhere.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 08:54 PM (LL1Be)

221 hogmartin, certainly are.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:55 PM (fE+0o)

222 Soohtsayer, If you do a wreath out of rosemary you can sweep up the needles and reuse them.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 08:55 PM (I4gka)

223 Kreplach: if you're duncecapped, you shouldn't be here under another IP.
I got duncecapped earlier this year and took my timeout, and my lesson.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 08:57 PM (ykYG2)

224 I check Face Book several times a day, I must confess.
It's nice for keeping up with old friends and family members.
Posted by: ALH at December 19, 2018 07:51 PM (cS3Yq)

Bob at NSA thanks you, as does Pastor Ingawangu in Nigeria.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (fDU8w)

As does Suckerberg and all of the millions he funnels to leftist causes

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 19, 2018 08:57 PM (SiINZ)

225 BTH, he's cranky but not abusive, so why would he be banned?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (fE+0o)

226 too much crap on all phones now. not mine. i'm amazed at people who have about ten pages of apps on a phone. and, how freely they just hand over personal information. i at least try and make the fuckers work for it. you can never disappear, unless you truly go off the grid.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (KP5rU)

227 Time for an update to this cartoon with Twitter, Facebook and Google taking the place of the industrial trusts in the background.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/The_Bosses_of_the_Senate_by_Joseph_Keppler.jpg

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (0V/8D)

228 We're not done with space stuff tonight. The Soyuz MS-09 has undocked and will be returning to Earth later tonight.

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (sdi6R)

229 Maybe Kreplach stepped on a Pixy mine.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (NLLmE)

230 Preserved in case it's auto-removed:

@212

I'm pretty sure I know why I was banned and by whom.

Its silly and ridiculous but these are silly and ridiculous times we live in.
Posted by: Kreplach at December 19, 2018 08:56 PM (qxq6t)

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (X//Zo)

231 Other than LinkedIn I'm non existent on social media.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at December 19, 2018 08:11 PM (H4fCt)

Not on that, either. Some directional driller invited me to join, and I politely replied, "no fucking way".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (fDU8w)

232 Jack Squat you embiggened the blog.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:59 PM (NLLmE)

233 Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (0V/8D)

*puffs cigarette*

Posted by: The Margins at December 19, 2018 08:59 PM (X//Zo)

234 Not on that, either. Some directional driller invited me to join, and I politely replied, "no fucking way".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (fDU8w)

Well you know how those directional drillers can be.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:59 PM (t+qrx)

235 Soyuz MS-09 is the one that had a hole in its orbital module. Hopefully the descent module is OK.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 09:00 PM (sdi6R)

236 Fuckerburg's daughter is going to own all the information on all your children.

Ponder that.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 09:00 PM (I4gka)

237 Chavez ive tried to delete items like twitter and they reappear . I don;'t know if it's updates they also demand or ???

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:00 PM (fE+0o)

238
Now un-Zuck yourself, or I shall taunt you a second time!

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at December 19, 2018 09:00 PM (NVrxk)

239 Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 19, 2018 08:58 PM (0V/8D)

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WTAF? Allow me to introduce you to tinyurl and bitly as I escort you to the barrel and shove you in it.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 19, 2018 09:01 PM (ffYR/)

240 Soyuz MS-09 is the one that had a hole in its orbital module. Hopefully the descent module is OK.
Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 09:00 PM (sdi6R)

Do they still get reentry blackouts with the Soyuz, even with TDRS?

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 09:01 PM (t+qrx)

241 "Not to mention Zuck stole the idea from his employers ... iirc
Posted by: Adriane the War is Bad, Slavery is Worse Critic ... at December 19, 2018 07:47 PM (LPnfS)"

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He cheated his partners as well. He started exactly how he meant to go on. Not surprising at all.

Posted by: Decaf at December 19, 2018 09:01 PM (jLBUC)

242 Bongino filling in for Hannity!

Posted by: mikeyG at December 19, 2018 09:01 PM (LL1Be)

243 209 I would do Linux until someone say "it's so easy all you have to do is go into your boot screen"...
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 08:52 PM (NLLmE)

Once you are at the boot screen it is easy. The only difficult part is if your boot loader fails and you are left with a black screen and blinking cursor. Linux itself can be a Windows like as you want, or as console like as you want. The choice of either or anything in between is very nice. The biggest problem is the new UEFI boot standard and the Windows secure boot enabled on most every machine by default. Both make it difficult, and mostly because of the later. Personally I don't even try dual booting, just buy the box with Windows on it, nuke it, and install a real operating system.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 19, 2018 09:02 PM (8Is7P)

244 237: the secret is, never sign up in the first place. once you join you can never "leave." never signed up for any of that shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 09:02 PM (KP5rU)

245 Facebook, Apple, Google, and Spotify... Ah yes, the well known conspiracy of F.A.G.S.

Posted by: An Observation at December 19, 2018 09:02 PM (i31Zm)

246 240
Do they still get reentry blackouts with the Soyuz, even with TDRS?
Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 09:01 PM (t+qrx)

Yes, because of the ionization around the spacecraft during re-entry.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 09:02 PM (sdi6R)

247 Once you are at the boot screen it is easy.

I darn thee to Heck.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM (NLLmE)

248 Day two of my first period. No relief in sight.

Posted by: freaked at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM (UdKB7)

249 I wonder how many millions Ace is getting for selling all our information from this site? ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM (miE9U)

250 Mark Zuckerberg admits in a New Yorker profile that he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information. A youthful indiscretion, the Facebook founder says he's much more mature now, at the ripe age of 26.
They trust me dumb fucks says Zuckerberg in one of the instant message

9 13 2019

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM (fE+0o)

251 I need a moon_over_vermont Sherpa.

STAT.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM (NLLmE)

252 Day two of my first period. No relief in sight.
Posted by: freaked

Er... Midol? Maybe some iron supplements?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (ykYG2)

253 Chavez, I've never signed up for either.

I read other peoples links to twitter, or facebook

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (fE+0o)

254 @223

Well I wasn't warned for any particular comment, I didn't even realize I was banned until a little while ago and I'm not IP hopping.

Im not even mad, which is strange, I'm really quite bemused by it really.
Posted by: Kreplach at December 19, 2018 09:00 PM (qxq6t)

I think this may have been an accidental system-fluke banning, since your comments are disappearing after a few seconds and you haven't mentioned getting any ban notice. In a genuine ban, your comments would not appear at all and you would instead get a page informing you that you were banned.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (X//Zo)

255 Calm, im not tech . so how does one avoid google , avoid bing, aoid firefox. how does one enter the internet while avoiding everything Microsoft tries to make you fall in their lines

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:41 PM (fE+0o)

L.I.N.U.X.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (fDU8w)

256 If Ace wants to sell my info , good on him. It would only be partial payment for the good he does.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (I4gka)

257 I darn thee to Heck.
Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM (NLLmE)

I live in Vermont, it would be an improvement.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 19, 2018 09:06 PM (8Is7P)

258 When I hit the Sign Me Up button for FB I knew it was a mistake.

I knew and yet I clicked. I hate that me.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 09:06 PM (NLLmE)

259 In a genuine ban, your comments would not appear at all and you would instead get a page informing you that you were banned.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (X//Zo)

Personal Experience?

Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (PF4TZ)

260 'If Ace wants to sell my info , good on him. '

Is that why I keep getting ads for Maxi-pads?

Posted by: freaked at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (UdKB7)

261 ugh, I hope ace doesn't do that.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (fE+0o)

262
Kreplach, restart your pc, restart all your devices, to get a new connection.

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (jdPh/)

263 Ben Had, here's what they'll find out about us:

- We likes gunz.
- We likes pron.
- We likes teh cishet sex.

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (miE9U)

264
If you do a wreath out of rosemary you can sweep up the needles and reuse them.

This is so hippy.

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (jdPh/)

265 so do you buy a linux cd and follow instructions?

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (fE+0o)

266 freaked, coming soon to a pharmacy near you:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8zyojf

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (miE9U)

267

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (jdPh/)

268 Day two of my first period. No relief in sight.
Posted by: freaked at December 19, 2018 09:03 PM

So...you're, what, 12?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (Uw2PZ)

269 freaked, I thought you were in need of them.

How is Scout. I have a vested interest

Posted by: Ben Had at December 19, 2018 09:09 PM (I4gka)

270 Kreplach, if you're using a phone, turn off wifi. It worked for me.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 09:09 PM (X//Zo)

271 So...you're, what, 12?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (Uw2PZ)

Total confusion here.

Posted by: eleven at December 19, 2018 09:09 PM (NLLmE)

272 ive been banned a few times, pixy or my ip

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:09 PM (fE+0o)

273 from the time i bought my first pc, i always figured somebody was watching. never forgot that. it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2018 09:09 PM (KP5rU)

274 I've been banned twice. Once was a pixyban for commenting on the Original Memorial Day ONT several years later, like an idiot. The second (real) temp ban was Ace putting me on timeout and sticking my name on the sidebar with a dunce cap. That was for jumping ahead and commenting on a FUTURE thread.

Time travel leads to trouble. Is what I learnt.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2018 09:09 PM (ykYG2)

275 Yes, because of the ionization around the spacecraft during re-entry.
Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 09:02 PM (sdi6R)

I thought the Shuttle Orbiters didn't have that problem any more after TDRS was in place, though they did have the antennas positioned specifically to communicate through the weak spot in the ionization envelope and the Soyuz descent module might not have anything like that.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 09:10 PM (t+qrx)

276 so do you buy a linux cd and follow instructions?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (fE+0o)

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You can, but Linux is free. You download it and save it on something you can boot from, like a CD, DVD or flash drive.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at December 19, 2018 09:10 PM (ffYR/)

277 'freaked, coming soon to a pharmacy near you: '

Oh my gawd I'm so embarrassed!

* runs to room and sprawls on the bed crying *

Posted by: freaked at December 19, 2018 09:10 PM (UdKB7)

278 40
Posted by: jbspry at December 19, 2018 07:57 PM (d/n9j)
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Spot on sir, spot on.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at December 19, 2018 09:12 PM (+ldAm)

279 ty calm. maybe I will find the courage to risk computer and try it.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:12 PM (fE+0o)

280 so do you buy a linux cd and follow instructions?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (fE+0o)

Oh, whatever you do, don't follow the instructions.

For real, you usually download the installer to a writable DVD or USB drive and boot off that.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 09:12 PM (t+qrx)

281 I had a really cool and appropriate hash on the gun thread; 6eek5

Posted by: An Observation at December 19, 2018 09:12 PM (i31Zm)

282 I do duck duck go, but me doing a Linux is way above my tech grade.

also requires funds, which I also don't have.
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 08:51 PM (fE+0o)

No, Willow, Linux is free. There are any number of "distros" that can be downloaded for free and installed on your existing computer. I went with Mint, because the Mint desktop works almost like the Win7 desktop. Double-click on an icon to launch a program. Comes with Firefox as the default browser, but you can change that.

And you get LibreOffice, which emulates all the crap in MS Office pretty well, and enables you to open and edit MS Word docs, or Excel spreadsheets. And there are good video and photo suites, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 09:12 PM (fDU8w)

283 275
I thought the Shuttle Orbiters didn't have that problem any more after TDRS was in place, though they did have the antennas positioned specifically to communicate through the weak spot in the ionization envelope and the Soyuz descent module might not have anything like that.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 09:10 PM (t+qrx)

As far as I know, there is a blackout period for Soyuz re-entries, but I don't know how long it lasts, and I could be wrong.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2018 09:13 PM (sdi6R)

284 freaked, didn't mean to make you upset :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at December 19, 2018 09:13 PM (miE9U)

285 In a genuine ban, your comments would not appear at all and you would instead get a page informing you that you were banned.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 09:05 PM (X//Zo)

Personal Experience?
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2018 09:07 PM (PF4TZ)

Yes. I commented on an old thread by accident back in September and ended up having to explain my situation to Ace and Pixy, and after a week or so of inaction, the ban was lifted by Maetenloch.

Posted by: Surfperch at December 19, 2018 09:13 PM (X//Zo)

286 "How is Scout. I have a vested interest"

He's ok but still chewing if he gets a chance. Expecting a 90 day supply of Dinovite any day now and will add that to his current diet. If any dog is a test case for that stuff this one is.

I'll report as conditions change.

Posted by: freaked at December 19, 2018 09:15 PM (UdKB7)

287 It doesn't cost anything. But you'd better have a Linux Sherpa handy until you get it running.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 19, 2018 08:53 PM (t+qrx)

I did it all by my lonesome, and I am no way a computer guru. The download sites have some pretty damned detailed instructions.

If you can read a cookbook, and follow the instructions therein, you can install Linux, and any programs into it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 09:16 PM (fDU8w)

288 265 so do you buy a linux cd and follow instructions?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (fE+0o)

We're on a new thread so you might not see this, but I'll try anyway. Most Linux CD's you download and burn yourself, no cost except for the blank CD. You need to make sure your machine will boot from CD, that is the tricky step with the new boot standard and Windows secure boot. Assuming it does boot most will allow you to run a "live" system from the CD where there are absolutely no changes made to your hard drive. Only when you are happy with it do you then try to install. Many people never install and just boot and run from the live CD if they don't need any sort of permanent storage on the hard drive for their stuff. It has been many years since I've been at the entry stage but I'm pretty sure Ubuntu or the derivative Mint are most recommended for absolute beginners.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 19, 2018 09:17 PM (8Is7P)

289 ty for the advice, i'm going to paste this so I have a start. thanks again.

Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:18 PM (fE+0o)

290 so do you buy a linux cd and follow instructions?
Posted by: bah at December 19, 2018 09:08 PM (fE+0o)

You don't buy it. It's free. You download it, and you can put it on a CD, DVD, or thumb drive. And run it from there, without changing your computer in any way. And if you like well enough, you can then tell it to install itself on your hard drive in a new partition, or to wipe the HD, and install new.

Read this link:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-inst all-linux-mint-on-your-windows-pc/

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2018 09:25 PM (fDU8w)

291 (40) Was that Eric Stratton? Sounds familiar.

Posted by: Burger Chef at December 19, 2018 09:50 PM (RuIsu)

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