But I thought Barry saved us all by getting all those weapons out of Syria…..
So who used what on those poor folks?
I mean, as far as I can tell, Facebook didn’t do anything illegal. So what is the expected result from these hearings?????It’s not like FaceBook is a public company or utility.
ETA: ‘Twas also pointed out to me that No One was under oath for this hearing…..)
And if you weren’t aware of the fact that your personal information and it’s dissemination to advertisers and other interested parties was the reason that Facebook was free….and that YOU, as the Facebook customer were, in fact, the product….Then you really are stupid, aren’t you?
There is a reason that my Facebook account does not use my real name, is never opened in a browser that I normally use for other web surfing, in passed through a VPN and anonymizer, etc. I knew….. If you don’t know, then you deserve whatever “invasion of privacy” you suffered. I don’t have any data out there for them to “steal”
So, again, what are the (no doubt costly) hearings in Congress doing for us? What, exactly, will they accomplish? We are, after all, paying the expenses for this show trial….We should ask our congresscritters what they are accomplishing with this expenditure of our money?
ETA: Apparently, in 2011, they agreed to some sort of Consent Decree about keeping Users information private (HT: Earthbound Misfit)
I still think that if you are surprised that your data and shopping preferences and pretty much everything that FaceBook knows about you is disseminated for profit, then you are a Total Moron and you should not breed…In fact, you are a waste of air.
Also that Sea Ice has been both lesser and greater in the past 100 years than it is now.
I was asked for cites, which I provided.
The response? The predictable “I don’t believe you/those sources are not Peer Reviewed (which means that they haven’t been approved by those who will tell us what to believe) therefore they are not valid”. In other words, “I don’t want to learn because I have already made up my mind….”
I’ts like arguing with a newly converted (Insert Religion Here) that just won’t listen to any data which does not fit their preconceived thought patterns.
I might be wrong about global warming, but I have yet to see ANY data that has’t been “massaged” that purports to prove it is real. And I still ask these folks “if you believe that Glowbal Warming is real, why don’t you live as if you believed that it is real?”…they never answer.
With all of the above, I am reminded of the old phrase “Never try to teach a pig to sing…..It wastes your time and annoys the pig”.
ETA: Stolen from HERE:
It all stems, it seems, from his choice to base policy on SCIENCE, rather than fashionable “consensus” Junk Science….He wants an honest assessment of the “data” that is used to make policy….to let everyone examine the methodology and the datasets themselves. To base policy that affects many millions of people and hundreds of millions of dollars on actual, you know, science….
The Left is up in arms, and for good reason. He won’t hear of spending money or making policy where there is no science…or where the data cannot be examines or the methodology is secret…where the results cannot be independently verified or reproduced……
But that has been the modus operandi of the “environmental” folks at the EPA for YEARS…decades, even…..Come up with at theory (generally unresearched and unproven or researched using poor “science”) as to how Mother Gaia is being damaged (usually the fault of some Big Business)…and make a regulation to fix the (nonexistent, or marginal) perceived problem….
Now, what do we do about it?
Note that this is nearly the same number of High School kids killed in Parkland.
By a truck driver.
We must do something. Trucks are too easy to get. Truck drivers need to be subject to a more rigorous background check.
(Please note that I am not making light of ANY of those deaths. Both incidents are a tragedy. 14 more kids are dead, and that is terrible.)
I’m just pointing out the illogic of the arguments….
My prayers for the families of the dead and injured.
There seems to be a race thing….or a culture thing, or something that makes Black people living in Black neighborhoods periodically riot and burn and loot their own neighborhoods when they perceive (truthfully or not) that an injustice has been done
Dorothy Tucker of CBS 2 Chicago explains (watch the whole thing at the link,…the video won’t embed).
They rioted and burned….and their neighborhood has never recovered…even 50 years later.
Why don’t other races do that?
Yeah, I know, pointing out the above makes me a rayciss.
“I didn’t pay any taxes this year, I got money back!”. This from a guy driving a local contractors work truck and wearing a union hat to his buddy at the gas station….
If I had had the time, I might have explained exactly how that part works….Sadly (Or maybe it is better) I didn’t.
No, you idiot, you PAID TOO MUCH every paycheck and at the yearly settlement, you got your EXCESS TAX PAYMENTS back.
It’s no wonder the government and the Media can lead folks around.
I’d like to buy this dude a beer. Watch it.
I’m thinkin’ more of us need to follow his example at our city, county and state meetings.