Thursday Night Open Thread

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Bob Marley’s songs all kinda sounded the same. Well, not all the same. But most of them. Maybe if I listened to them all the time, I’d come to appreciate their variety. But that ain’t happening. Probably.

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Anyway, what’s been on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? A topic to discuss? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.

Who wants to start?

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  1. Well, I hate to inject politics and technology into a humor site stuffed with political and technology experts, but . . .

    Apple Gives Deep State Access To Roger Stone’s iCloud Account, After Refusing To Violate Privacy . .

    Gateway Pundit / 2/6/2019

    Three years after Apple refused to give the federal government access to the devices used by the San Bernadino terrorists who killed and injured dozens in a mass shooting event, the company has given the office of the Special Counsel complete access to Trump advisor Roger Stone’s iCloud account, reports Apple Insider.

    According to the Washington Post, Apple objected to giving the federal government backdoor access to the shooters’ iPhones, claiming it would “set a dangerous precedent.”

    “From the beginning, we objected to the FBI’s demand that Apple build a backdoor into the iPhone because we believed it was wrong and would set a dangerous precedent. As a result of the government’s dismissal, neither of these occurred. This case should never have been brought.”

    Fast forward to present, and we see that Apple no longer seems to have the same privacy concerns it once did in 2015. Without any fight, they simply turned over Roger Stone’s iCloud passwords and God knows what else, because Orange Man Bad. The fact that Apple views a political persecution less of a hill to die on than protecting the rights of terrorists who killed and maimed dozens of Americans is quite telling.

    “If allowed to stand, [the Washington Post wrote,] the order in Apple’s case would have forced company engineers to create software to disable a phone security feature so that the FBI could try its hand at unlocking the device by cracking a numeric password. Apple quickly resisted, arguing that forcing it to create such software would violate the company’s constitutional rights and weaken privacy for users around the world.”

    Which makes us wonder… what exactly was Apple threatened with by Robert Mueller and the Office of the Special Counsel for them to abandon their firm stance against turning over user data and access to federal investigators?

    Surely they didn’t reason that two mass shooters were more deserving of their tough stand against government overreach and backdoor programs?

    There must be some explanation as to how they could give the federal government the power to access our privately-held devices and accounts at will — right?

    You may not like Roger Stone and you may not agree with him. However, he has been charged with non-violent process crimes that have nothing to do with Russian collusion.

    Robert Mueller’s team has yet to provide one scintilla of evidence that points to real Russian collusion [which is not a crime], instead using his unchecked power and un-elected authority to exact political revenge on the people who stopped his pal Hillary Clinton from becoming President.

    This should concern Americans on all ends of the political spectrum.

    Right now it is Roger Stone… but anyone who dared imagine anything other than President Hillary Rodham Clinton [That’s Me!] is sitting in the cross-hairs of a rogue prosecutor and his all-too-willing Gestapo goon squad. [And Apple.]

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  5. OK back to Marley. Never liked his music but liked his sense of humor… attacked by sjw’s for forgetting his roots and buying an expensive BMW, he claimed that the badge was a monogram honoring his band.

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