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The Keystone pipeline project has been rejected today.
Better late than never.

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Thanks @ant!
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I couldn't catch which station he claimed he was at either, but here's the transcript of the rest:

00:01: All right, I've just parked? out at ?? station, and I've just been watching this willy willy forming
00:08 (laughs) Check that out, that's one of the bigest ones I've seen in a few years
00:12 That is absolute dare-devil status right there
00:18 Far out, that is grouse
00:21 F#?'n run into this thing
00:24 Woo hoo, Jesus Christ, That is huge!
00:30 That is absolutely huge
00:40 #?$?#?
01:06 Oh my god

Turns out I was wrong (about HBO pulling the plug) but also right (about Theon's character arc being glorious).

woo hoo!

The Olympic Peninsula is a giant rock that ran into the continental US. When the white settlers first got here, they looked at all the massive trees and thought -- FERTILE LAND! Woo-hoo!

They were shocked when they clear cut, dug down, and found rock, like, really quickly.

Port Townsend was supposed to be Seattle -- the main entry point of all ocean shipping. But they could see that there wasn't enough water and the deep bay wasn't protected enough. When a storm came in and beached a bunch of sailing ships. that ended PT's hopes. The money moved to Seattle, protected by Puget Sound.

PT is also in the rainshadow of the Olympics. Over 100" of rain on the ocean side of the Olympics. PT, which is on the other side? Gets 19" a year. Seattle gets 40".

Micro-climates rule over here. Even within city limits -- once I was downtown (which is one block from the water) and struggled to get home through a snow storm. By the time I drove half a mile to a flat area to attempt to go inland, and drove four blocks away from the waterfront, it wasn't even raining.

Micro. Climates.

What you say is true of the Seattle side of Puget Sound. But once you keep going east, over the Cascades, you end up in a huge rainshadow that is most of Eastern Washington.

I couldn't tell you word one about climate in Europe. Typical American!

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well first off, I think to answer your first point. As with most things, there's a grain of truth to most scandals, but it's distorted, exaggerated and sensationalized.

But here's the thing, I freely acknowledge that I make no claim to understanding the whole topic and I call BS on most people who do. Because of the sorry state of our 4th estate. I assume there is some bias one way or the other in just about everything they report, especially when it's political. You don't trust gov't? I don't trust media. With gov't even people who are just ultimately seeking power, they're typically seeking power because they think they can wield it for good. even if they ultimately do bad things with it. No one wakes up and says "you know what? I'm going to totally use my power to fuck over some people, woo hoo!" Even the most crazed elected official deep down thinks they're trying to help out. or they honestly believe their ideas will ultimately benefit everyone.

meanwhile, with the media, it's just pure profit motive there. give me ratings, give me money.

as for your remaining arguments. I think the whole privacy issue is a bit hypocritical. Whenever you buy something with a credit card, that's a fingerprint that gets left behind that can track you. Whenever you use your smartphone GPS, that's something that can track you. Whenever you use the internet, there are a myriad of technologies all designed around tracking you. all for the sake of selling you something, to extract more money out of you.

..and we accept that, hell we demand it.

But when gov't does it, suddenly it's bad. But they're supposedly using that tracking to catch terrorists. So let's see, catching people who mean to do us harm, or ads and methods to extract money from you. I know which one I'd rather have. Sure, both types of surveillance could be abused, but one we tolerate, the other is not. I think that's rather hypocritical. either it's all bad, or it's not.

I also just tend to think our sense of privacy is exaggerated. (and no I felt this way even when Bush was in power). While I don't agree with the Patriot Act, I do think our fears of surveillance and are outdated and as I explained above, hypocritical. Just like virtually every tool, there are good positive uses for surveillance data, and the tool can be abused as well. That doesn't stop us from using it, we just try to put safeguards in place to try and reduce the incentive to use it for harm.

I think our sense of privacy comes from two things. Either we're doing something we shouldn't be doing..ie illegal or unethical, in that case tough shit. Or we're doing something that we consider embarrassing. In that case you're just being human and really shouldn't be embarrassed about it at all.

lets take two cases. First one: homosexuality. Lets say it was the 80s when most people were still quite firmly in the closet. and bam. because of no more privacy, everyone was instantly outed. no more hiding. Everyone knows. People would be forced to accept it. Even though they would be in the minority, there would be just too many people out to dismiss it anymore. You couldn't lock them up or ostracize them without committing holocaust-level atrocities.

Same thing with my 2nd case, marijuana. If it were suddenly possible to know each and every person who ever smoked. It would force the issue out in the open. You couldn't lock them all up as there would be too many. Even if you could, it would be a huge hit to our workforce and our families. We'd be forced to re-evaluate it and legalize it.

it would be impossible to commit physical abuse if there was no privacy.

In many ways, our views on sexuality and privacy are SO puritanical. In the long run things would be so better if we could just get it out there in the open and thus solve problems and help.

I get what you're saying about corruption and power. but historically speaking, ANY time there has been widespread corruption and abuse of power, it's always been stamped out in some way. It has to be. corruption and abuse of power are ultimately unsustainable and it eventually falls apart and gives way to something better that is sustainable. otherwise we wouldn't have survived this long.

If enough people are wronged, they WILL do something about it. If things were REALLY that bad here in America. There wouldn't be pundits talking about revolution and tyranny. There WOULD be revolution and tyranny.

Talk. is. cheap.

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