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It's a thought. Probably should have checked the glove compartment. Might have even thought of it myself if it wasn't for the heat. Gets a lot harder to think when it starts cookin', and even if the breeze is decent and the clothes thin I start cooking pretty easily.

Somewhat irrelevant now, though, as between that post and this one I have learned that being flat on my back like required to fit under a car has apparently become an incredibly goddamn bad idea of the holy-shit-I-think-I-almost-lost-consciousness variety. So I'm done for at least a few hours.

Ah, that's a familiar sensation these days, though more with spiders, for me. Be glad the wasp is real, and doesn't have friends of a dissimilar nature.

Suffice to say there is a big deep ocean of shit to actually worry about under the frothy surface layer we usually interact with, and this vote is definitely the sort of thing to haunt these congresscritters with when they come up for reelection, but it isn't actually a significant change from the sort of behavioral logging most readily accept from facebook and google.

It kinda' is, though. There's a fairly notable difference between a particular website logging and the ISP doing it. Hard to puzzle out a good analogy, but it'd be something like the difference between being filmed when you drive up to someone else's house, and having the roads you drove lined with hidden cameras.* Surveillance on the service level is a titch less of a concern than surveillance on the infrastructure level. You usually can choose services, when it comes down to it. ISP is not quite so negotiable, particularly if "without" isn't really something you can live with.

*And US wise, we've actually been pretty adamant in a lot of the places the latter largely isn't kosher even in specific areas with overt cameras, never mind everywhere, even for sodding law enforcement, much less ostensibly private companies.

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... on related subjects, anyone know of a resource that breaks down the historical congressional voting record on privacy (or just specific policy areas in general)? Turns out it seems to be something of a pain in the ass to find summarized records of voting trends in that area. Or any data that wouldn't require digging through several hundred/thousand difference sources to just to have in one place, never mind actually seeing what the leans are.

I didn't say you were, and I'm not sure where you got that I said you were attacking anyone. In any case, no, you're not attacking anyone per se, you're just trying to draw out the tired conservative/anti-government nonsense that the two parties are functionally indistinguishable. Which is bullshit on many, if not necessarily all, issues, often times to damn significant degrees. "Corporate trash" manifests significantly differently between the two parties, especially in relation to those of us corporations are trying to exploit. Who, y'know. One of the parties actually tries to protect with something approaching regularity, even if there's still much room for improvement.

It's not about attacking anyone, it's that you're whitewashing what's actually happening in this bloody country. As someone who started getting really pissed off at our media and political narratives in the last few years, it's something that's significantly and increasingly friggin' annoying. It's ignorance at best, and all too damn often in this country it's a straight up malicious attempt to excuse the GOP's asshattery.

You want to call the parties crap or corporate trash, whatever. Maybe don't call them the same sort of crap or corporate trash, because they're seriously not. Spooling out that message for the Nth time is a good chunk of why the parties are in the state that they're in to begin with.

If by likely you mean expressly and repeatedly stated it was going to happen, heh. The new FCC head fellow is a bucket of bought and paid for dicks. Though whether that turns out to be a lie or the current administration gives up shortly on encountering resistance remains to be seen, I guess.

Though yeah, privacy issues have been a problem for a while now. Which is why the regulation that was there was a step in the right direction and all those shits that voted to ditch it can go bugger themselves with a broadcasting antenna.

Sweet Jesus, that reminds me of final fantasy tactics art for some reason (which doesn't make much sense, since those guys have noses)

Now if only someone would make a game of thrones tactics game :U

Some of them are definitely reminiscent of amano's style, though I'd probably say that was more characteristic of some of the earlier, non-tactics, games. So the concept art, if not the in-game. Makes sense you might pick up on some similarities.