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Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks).

Started byANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
First post2013-10-26 17:02 -0500
Last post2013-10-28 20:44 +0000
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  Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2013-10-26 17:02 -0500
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-26 20:21 -0400
      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> - 2013-10-27 08:08 -0500
        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-27 10:10 -0400
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-10-27 14:16 +1300
      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-26 21:23 -0400
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-27 02:37 +0000
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-26 23:09 -0400
      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). bj <address_is@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-27 09:31 -0500
        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-27 11:00 -0400
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-10-27 10:30 -0700
      Re: Online iCloud is required when sync(hroniz)ing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-10-27 12:21 -0700
      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2013-10-28 10:20 -0600
        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-28 18:15 +0100
          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2013-10-28 12:31 -0600
            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-28 20:44 +0000
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-28 18:38 -0400
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-29 17:01 +0000
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). bj <address_is@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-29 12:16 -0500
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-29 18:22 +0000
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-10-28 15:57 -0700
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2013-10-28 20:56 -0600
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-28 23:57 -0400
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2013-10-29 00:47 -0400
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-29 02:02 -0400
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2013-10-29 21:38 -0400
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2013-10-29 19:38 -0700
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-30 00:50 -0400
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-29 17:01 +0000
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2013-10-29 22:21 -0400
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-30 09:09 -0400
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 09:05 +1100
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-30 14:39 +0000
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "857" <8571953@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 06:59 +1100
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-30 14:39 +0000
            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-29 11:13 +0100
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2013-10-29 12:59 -0600
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-30 09:07 +0100
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-30 11:00 -0400
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-30 16:22 +0100
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-30 14:53 -0400
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-30 14:56 -0400
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2013-10-30 21:01 +0000
                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-11-02 06:53 -0700
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 10:28 +1100
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-31 18:49 +0000
                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-11-02 06:53 -0700
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-31 09:28 +0100
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-31 09:17 -0400
                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-31 15:01 +0100
                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-31 13:35 -0400
                                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-11-04 17:28 +0100
                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-31 18:49 +0000
                                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-31 15:36 -0400
                                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-11-02 01:46 +0000
                                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-11-01 22:20 -0400
                                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Beli <baiheli.pip@xs4all.nl> - 2013-11-02 08:26 +0100
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-11-02 15:06 -0400
                                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> - 2013-11-02 13:42 +0100
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 05:37 +1100
                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 06:24 +0100
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 19:32 +1100
                                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-11-02 14:37 +0000
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-03 04:48 +1100
                                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-01 22:45 -0400
                                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-11-02 14:37 +0000
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-02 12:12 -0400
                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-11-04 17:32 +0100
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-11-05 09:13 +1300
                                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-11-05 11:19 +0100
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). spamfalle2@arcor.de (Marc Stibane) - 2013-11-05 18:18 +0100
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-31 18:49 +0000
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> - 2013-11-02 22:49 -0600
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-11-03 05:23 +0000
          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-28 16:08 -0400
            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-29 11:00 +0100
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 06:28 -0700
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-29 16:42 +0100
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 08:53 -0700
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-29 17:29 +0100
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 09:41 -0700
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 08:33 +1100
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 15:58 -0700
                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 12:30 +1100
                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 23:14 -0700
                                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 03:23 +1100
                                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 10:13 -0700
                                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 10:24 +1100
                                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 16:32 -0700
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 11:22 +1100
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-31 02:41 +0000
                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 20:51 -0700
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-31 18:49 +0000
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 07:42 +1100
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-30 21:55 -0500
                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 20:53 -0700
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 07:43 +1100
                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-30 22:05 -0500
                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 21:00 -0700
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@yahoo.com> - 2013-10-31 10:01 -0400
                                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-31 07:39 -0700
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 07:48 +1100
                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-11-06 17:21 -0600
                                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com> - 2013-11-06 19:58 -0700
                                                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-11-07 09:32 -0600
                                                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com> - 2013-11-07 22:03 -0700
                                                    Re: (OT) Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). AV3 <arvimide@earthlink.net> - 2013-11-08 10:48 -0500
                                                      Re: (OT) Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com> - 2013-11-08 21:34 -0700
                                                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-11-09 10:06 -0600
                                                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com> - 2013-11-09 20:01 -0700
                                                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-11-09 22:36 -0500
                                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <foo@bar.com> - 2013-11-09 21:26 -0700
                                                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-11-11 09:58 +0000
                                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2013-11-10 09:49 -0500
                                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 07:38 +1100
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-30 16:41 +0100
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 10:08 -0700
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 08:28 +1100
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 07:44 +1100
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-29 17:52 -0400
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 07:28 +1100
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 15:54 -0700
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 12:28 +1100
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-29 23:08 -0700
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 03:15 +1100
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-30 10:11 -0700
                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 10:22 +1100
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2013-10-29 10:22 -0400
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-29 16:52 +0100
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 07:42 +1100
              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 07:17 +1100
                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-30 09:24 +0100
                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 03:38 +1100
                    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-10-31 09:53 +0100
                      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-01 08:34 +1100
                        Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-11-04 17:53 +0100
                          Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-05 05:21 +1100
                            Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-11-05 12:58 +0100
                              Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-06 05:25 +1100
                                Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> - 2013-11-06 12:41 +0100
                                  Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2013-11-07 04:53 +1100
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2013-10-27 19:34 -0500
    Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2013-10-28 17:07 +0000
      Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2013-10-28 20:44 +0000

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#18982

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-30 07:28 +1100
Message-ID<bdak4sFjfp3U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#18962
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote 
> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
 
>> But sure, the NSA aims only at terrorists. 
 
> No one ever claimed that.
 
>> Ah, could you please remind me in exactly which terrorist plots the
>> German chancellor, the French prime minister and ~30 high ranking
>> politicians from around the world were involved? Momentarily slipped
>> my memory..
 
> The NSA's mission is to collect signals intelligence from both 
> allies, enemies, potential enemies, and neutral parties in order 
> to further the political and military interests of the United States.  

But there has been an agreement that none of Australia, the 
US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada will spy on each other. 

> (Those are my words, not the official mission statement, 
> but I'm quite accurate in my assessment.)  

No you aren't with those countrys I listed. 

> Knowing what an ally would do in a given situation 
> helps the US determine what it would do.  

Doesn't explain why it has agreed not to spy on those countrys. 

> If we knew, for instance, that Germany would not back us up if 
> we took a given action might cause us not to take that action; 

In fact the shrub ordered Schroeder's phones be tapped
when he refused to get involved in the invasion of Iraq. 

> however, if we knew that Germany would back 
> us up, it would help decide to take that action.

Even sillier. 
 
>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
 
> We never said that.

Obama has in fact said just that.  

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#18997

FromMichelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Date2013-10-29 15:54 -0700
Message-ID<291020131554370042%michelle@michelle.org>
In reply to#18982
In article <bdak4sFjfp3U1@mid.individual.net>, Rod Speed
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> > The NSA's mission is to collect signals intelligence from both 
> > allies, enemies, potential enemies, and neutral parties in order 
> > to further the political and military interests of the United States.  
> 
> But there has been an agreement that none of Australia, the 
> US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada will spy on each other. 

Citation please?

> >> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
>  
> > We never said that.
> 
> Obama has in fact said just that.

Citation please?

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#19004

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-30 12:28 +1100
Message-ID<bdb5mnFmvmfU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#18997
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>>> The NSA's mission is to collect signals intelligence from both
>>> allies, enemies, potential enemies, and neutral parties in order
>>> to further the political and military interests of the United States.

>> But there has been an agreement that none of Australia, the
>> US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada will spy on each other.

> Citation please?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/australia-acting-as-listening-post-for-us-spy-agencies/5056534
Just under the second heading.

>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>>> We never said that.

>> Obama has in fact said just that.

> Citation please?

That's what he said when the shit first hit the fan with the revelations
about what the NSA does keeping track of who calls who. I didn't
bother to keep the cite and it isnt as easy to find as the first one which
has a unique keyword that makes that one trivially easy to find. 

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#19013

FromMichelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Date2013-10-29 23:08 -0700
Message-ID<291020132308398421%michelle@michelle.org>
In reply to#19004
In article <bdb5mnFmvmfU1@mid.individual.net>, Rod Speed
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> But there has been an agreement that none of Australia, the
> >> US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada will spy on each other.
> 
> > Citation please?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement 

All that says is "Unlike the "second party" members (that is, the Five
Eyes themselves), "third party" partners are not automatically exempt
from intelligence targeting," with no reference to support it.

> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/australia-acting-as-listening-post-
> for-us-spy-agencies/5056534
> Just under the second heading.

And that says "Mr Ball says Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and
Canada have a long-standing "five eyes" agreement to not spy on each
other, and he believes it has not been breached," again with nothing to
support it.  Mr. Ball may have been mistaken.

> >>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
> 
> >>> We never said that.
> 
> >> Obama has in fact said just that.
> 
> > Citation please?
> 
> That's what he said when the shit first hit the fan with the
> revelations about what the NSA does keeping track of who calls who. I
> didn't bother to keep the cite and it isnt as easy to find as the
> first one which has a unique keyword that makes that one trivially
> easy to find. 

In other words, it's only your memory, which may be faulty.

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#19041

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-31 03:15 +1100
Message-ID<bdcpmeF2ovrU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#19013
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>>>> But there has been an agreement that none of Australia, the
>>>> US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada will spy on each other.

>>> Citation please?

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

> All that says is "Unlike the "second party" members
> (that is, the Five Eyes themselves), "third party" partners
> are not automatically exempt from intelligence targeting,"

That clearly states that they don't spy on each other.

> with no reference to support it.

Hardly surprising that the actual agreement
isn't actually online for all to read.

Not sure if wikileaks has it tho.

>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-30/australia-acting-as-listening-post-
>> for-us-spy-agencies/5056534
>> Just under the second heading.

> And that says "Mr Ball says Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand
> and Canada have a long-standing "five eyes" agreement to not
> spy on each other, and he believes it has not been breached,"
> again with nothing to support it.

Hardly surprising that the actual agreement
isn't actually online for all to read.

Not sure if wikileaks has it tho.

> Mr. Ball may have been mistaken.

Someone always points out when he is.
That hasn't happened with that.

>>>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>>>>> We never said that.

>>>> Obama has in fact said just that.

>>> Citation please?

>> That's what he said when the shit first hit the fan with the
>> revelations about what the NSA does keeping track of who
>> calls who. I didn't bother to keep the cite and it isnt as easy
>> to find as the first one which has a unique keyword that
>> makes that one trivially easy to find.

> In other words, it's only your memory,

And yours isn't ?

> which may be faulty.

Yours clearly is if it wasn't a deliberate bare faced lie of yours. 

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#19048

FromMichelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Date2013-10-30 10:11 -0700
Message-ID<301020131011494603%michelle@michelle.org>
In reply to#19041
In article <bdcpmeF2ovrU1@mid.individual.net>, Rod Speed
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yours clearly is if it wasn't a deliberate bare faced lie of yours. 

Whenever someone disagrees with you, you call him or her a liar.  You
are one of the last people here who should be calling anyone a liar.

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#19084

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-31 10:22 +1100
Message-ID<bddiluF84p3U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#19048
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote 
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
 
>> Yours clearly is if it wasn't a deliberate bare faced lie of yours. 
 
> Whenever someone disagrees with you, you call him or her a liar.  

Everyone can see for themselves that that is just another of your bare 
faced lies with the most recent conversation with Michael Eyd alone. 
 

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#18964

FromDavoud <star@sky.net>
Date2013-10-29 10:22 -0400
Message-ID<291020131022186918%star@sky.net>
In reply to#18960
Davoud:
> > Everybody? Really? Europeans are so poor at basic arithmetic that they
> > think that NSA can spy on /everybody/ ? Or Europeans' egos are so
> > puffed up that they think (hope?) that they are important enough to
> > draw the attention of the U.S. Intelligence Community? Wrong again.

Michael Eyd:
> You may continue to make fun of this topic - but be aware that one day 
> you might wake up in a world that you always thought was not possible to 
> come true.
> 
> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all the 
> information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they might 
> tell the public... Whether my data (or your data) is part of this 
> collection is not so much my concern, I'm already concerned more than 
> enough about it *possibly* being part of it.
> 
> But I guess you will not understand these concerns, because you never 
> read '1984', you never lived in a country that had experienced in its 
> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective 
> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
> 
> But sure, the NSA aims only at terrorists. Ah, could you please remind 
> me in exactly which terrorist plots the German chancellor, the French 
> prime minister and ~30 high ranking politicians from around the world 
> were involved? Momentarily slipped my memory...
> 
> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
> 
> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

Hah! If you only knew... But you are delusional about NSA's coverage of
private citizens in Europe. Resources are limited and the legitimate
workload is unmanageably heavy.

Many of the problems the world faces today, from Islamic extremism to
the India-Pakistan debacle to international terrorism to Arab
dictatorships can be traced to decisions made by various European
regimes in the past 100 years or more. In the past 50 years the USA has
suffered more than its share of the consequences of Europe's mistakes.
That alone is reason enough to keep an eye on Europe.

> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its 
> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective 
> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

In fact, I lived in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa for 32
years, much of the time under iron-fisted dictatorships. As for the
country to which you refer, all the more reason to keep an eye (and an
ear) on the German chancellor. And the French? They definitely need
watching.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

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#18967

FromMichael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Date2013-10-29 16:52 +0100
Message-ID<l4olkf$smd$1@news.sap-ag.de>
In reply to#18964
Am 29.10.2013 15:22, schrieb Davoud:
> Davoud:
>>> Everybody? Really? Europeans are so poor at basic arithmetic that they
>>> think that NSA can spy on /everybody/ ? Or Europeans' egos are so
>>> puffed up that they think (hope?) that they are important enough to
>>> draw the attention of the U.S. Intelligence Community? Wrong again.
>
> Michael Eyd:
>> You may continue to make fun of this topic - but be aware that one day
>> you might wake up in a world that you always thought was not possible to
>> come true.
>>
>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all the
>> information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they might
>> tell the public... Whether my data (or your data) is part of this
>> collection is not so much my concern, I'm already concerned more than
>> enough about it *possibly* being part of it.
>>
>> But I guess you will not understand these concerns, because you never
>> read '1984', you never lived in a country that had experienced in its
>> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective
>> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
>>
>> But sure, the NSA aims only at terrorists. Ah, could you please remind
>> me in exactly which terrorist plots the German chancellor, the French
>> prime minister and ~30 high ranking politicians from around the world
>> were involved? Momentarily slipped my memory...
>>
>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
>>
>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,
>
> Hah! If you only knew... But you are delusional about NSA's coverage of
> private citizens in Europe. Resources are limited and the legitimate
> workload is unmanageably heavy.

I don't claim that everybody is watched all the time - but if someone 
high up the ladder chose that everybody in Germany e.g. should be 
watched, the NSA would be able to do so.

> Many of the problems the world faces today, from Islamic extremism to
> the India-Pakistan debacle to international terrorism to Arab
> dictatorships can be traced to decisions made by various European
> regimes in the past 100 years or more.

Many: Yes.

All: No. In fact quite many of currently pressing problems in the Middle 
East have been severely influenced as well by decisions taken by the US 
in the time since the end of WWII.

> In the past 50 years the USA has
> suffered more than its share of the consequences of Europe's mistakes.

And have accumulated quite a record of making things even worse - at 
least in this corner of the world.

> That alone is reason enough to keep an eye on Europe.

Oh, I certainly don't mind the US having an eye on Europe - just as much 
as we're having (at least I hope we do) an eye on the US. But at the 
very same time I say that there are boundaries to what should be done. 
Or what would you (or the President) say if the German secret service 
spied on him, tracing every phone call, possibly even listening to each 
and every word spoken over the (mobile) phone? Breaking even encryption 
used? Would you still argue so lightheartedly?

>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its
>> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective
>> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
>
> In fact, I lived in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa for 32
> years, much of the time under iron-fisted dictatorships. As for the
> country to which you refer, all the more reason to keep an eye (and an
> ear) on the German chancellor.

Ok, then you certainly don't mind if we started to have a very close eye 
on the US president, since US presidents have a track record of lying to 
the public, starting wars based on those lies, ...

> And the French? They definitely need watching.

Just because they refuse to follow the US in its footprints like the 
British? ;-)

Michael

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#18984

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-30 07:42 +1100
Message-ID<bdakuhFjldqU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#18967
Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
> Davoud wrote
>> Michael Eyd wrote
>>> Davoud wrote

>>>> Everybody? Really? Europeans are so poor at basic arithmetic that they
>>>> think that NSA can spy on /everybody/ ? Or Europeans' egos are so
>>>> puffed up that they think (hope?) that they are important enough to
>>>> draw the attention of the U.S. Intelligence Community? Wrong again.

>>> You may continue to make fun of this topic - but be aware that one day
>>> you might wake up in a world that you always thought was not possible to
>>> come true.

>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all the
>>> information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they might
>>> tell the public... Whether my data (or your data) is part of this
>>> collection is not so much my concern, I'm already concerned more than
>>> enough about it *possibly* being part of it.

>>> But I guess you will not understand these concerns, because you never
>>> read '1984', you never lived in a country that had experienced in its
>>> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective
>>> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

>>> But sure, the NSA aims only at terrorists. Ah, could you please remind
>>> me in exactly which terrorist plots the German chancellor, the French
>>> prime minister and ~30 high ranking politicians from around the world
>>> were involved? Momentarily slipped my memory...

>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

>> Hah! If you only knew... But you are delusional about NSA's coverage of
>> private citizens in Europe. Resources are limited and the legitimate
>> workload is unmanageably heavy.

> I don't claim that everybody is watched all the time - but if someone high 
> up the ladder chose that everybody in Germany e.g. should be watched, the 
> NSA would be able to do so.

No, particularly not those who never leave the house and never
communicate with anyone.

They wouldn't even have been able to detect someone like Fritzl.

>> Many of the problems the world faces today, from Islamic extremism to
>> the India-Pakistan debacle to international terrorism to Arab
>> dictatorships can be traced to decisions made by various European
>> regimes in the past 100 years or more.

> Many: Yes.

> All: No. In fact quite many of currently pressing problems in the Middle 
> East have been severely influenced as well by decisions taken by the US in 
> the time since the end of WWII.

Only really support for Israel and the first gulf war and the invasion of 
Iraq.

>> In the past 50 years the USA has suffered more than its share of the 
>> consequences of Europe's mistakes.

> And have accumulated quite a record of making things even worse - at least 
> in this corner of the world.

But they made things much better in the 50 years before that.

And produced the great depression too.

And with nukes have now ensured that we
won't see another full world war again.

>> That alone is reason enough to keep an eye on Europe.

> Oh, I certainly don't mind the US having an eye on Europe - just as much 
> as we're having (at least I hope we do) an eye on the US. But at the very 
> same time I say that there are boundaries to what should be done. Or what 
> would you (or the President) say if the German secret service spied on 
> him, tracing every phone call, possibly even listening to each and every 
> word spoken over the (mobile) phone? Breaking even encryption used? Would 
> you still argue so lightheartedly?

>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its
>>> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective 
>>> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

>> In fact, I lived in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa for 32
>> years, much of the time under iron-fisted dictatorships. As for the
>> country to which you refer, all the more reason to keep an eye (and an
>> ear) on the German chancellor.

> Ok, then you certainly don't mind if we started to have a very close eye 
> on the US president, since US presidents have a track record of lying to 
> the public, starting wars based on those lies, ...

Everyone has done that for more than a century now, for that reason.

>> And the French? They definitely need watching.

> Just because they refuse to follow the US in its footprints like the 
> British? ;-)

The British didn't with Vietnam. 

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#18979

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-30 07:17 +1100
Message-ID<bdajgfFjb2qU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#18960
Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote 
> Davoud wrote
>> Michael Eyd wrote

>>> And I think that there are still many people out there 
>>> (many more than you think), that would rather not put 
>>> anything into any cloud - least any private information.

>> Wow! That means no web surfing, no e-mail, no USENET, 
>> no Internet full stop--because it all puts personal stuff on 
>> the the remote servers that we have come to call "the cloud."

>>> Might be different in the US, but in Europe e.g. mentalities 
>>> may differ quite a lot from the ones in the US. And the latest 
>>> discussions about the NSA (and others) spying on basically
>>> everybody don't help here either...

>> Everybody? Really? Europeans are so poor at basic arithmetic that they
>> think that NSA can spy on /everybody/ ? Or Europeans' egos are so
>> puffed up that they think (hope?) that they are important enough to
>> draw the attention of the U.S. Intelligence Community? Wrong again.
 
> You may continue to make fun of this topic - but be aware that one day 
> you might wake up in a world that you always thought was not possible to 
> come true.

I've never bought that sort of nightmare scenario. 

I couldn't care less that the stores that I buy my grocerys 
from know in full detail what I do and do not buy. 

I just make a mental note that if I do ever plan to kill someone,
that I will make sure I use what can't be tracked to a purchase 
of mine to do that. 
 
> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting 
> all the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of 
> what they might tell the public... 

But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured
on all those surveillance cameras just in case they might want
to shaft you for being a terrorist some time in the future, so
I don't bother to wear a balaclava every time I am outside the
house so they can't keep track of my movements using facial
recognition software. 

> Whether my data (or your data) is part of this collection 
> is not so much my concern, I'm already concerned more 
> than enough about it *possibly* being part of it.

But you use the phone system anyway, and presumably
do move around in public at times, even tho the NSA
could keep track of your activitys if they wanted to. 
 
> But I guess you will not understand these concerns, 
> because you never read '1984', 

I have actually. 

> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its 
> last 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very 
> effective secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again. 

Just like its very unlikely to have another Kaiser again either. 
 
> But sure, the NSA aims only at terrorists. Ah, could you please remind 
> me in exactly which terrorist plots the German chancellor, the French 
> prime minister and ~30 high ranking politicians from around the 
> world were involved? Momentarily slipped my memory...
 
> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

All foreigners are bad guys by definition...
 
> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.  

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#19019

FromMichael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Date2013-10-30 09:24 +0100
Message-ID<l4qfnj$s44$1@news.sap-ag.de>
In reply to#18979
Am 29.10.2013 21:17, schrieb Rod Speed:
> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>> Davoud wrote
>>> Michael Eyd wrote

>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all
>> the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what
>> they might tell the public...
>
> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on all
> those surveillance cameras

That might be true - or not. Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?
And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already have
working face recognition to track people? ...? The problem with very
capable secret services is (and that's been shown many times in history)
that they tend to develop a 'if I can do it, I will do it' attitude. And
due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly control them.
And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.

>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100
>> years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret
>> services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
>
> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.

Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps that
might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again. On both sides of
the Atlantic, btw.

> Just like its very unlikely to have another Kaiser again either.

The Kaiser was pretty harmless, compared to the Führer. I certainly
don't expect history to copy itself 1:1 - but dreams of big power in
one's hands are neither new nor limited to carrying specific titles.

>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
>
> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...

So you're a bad guy - good to know!

>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,
>
> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.

I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my best
(as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to shape a future
not allowing those things to happen again.

Best regards,

Michael

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#19045

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-10-31 03:38 +1100
Message-ID<bdcr17F324pU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#19019
Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>> Davoud wrote
>>>> Michael Eyd wrote

>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all the 
>>> information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they might 
>>> tell the public...

>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on all 
>> those surveillance cameras

> That might be true - or not.

Absolutely certainly not even possible.

> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?

Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.

> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already have 
> working face recognition to track people? ...?

We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.

> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been shown 
> many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can do it, I will 
> do it' attitude.

But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.

> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly control 
> them.

The story always gets out eventually.

Merkel won't be saying anything that matters on her
mobile phone, you can be completely sure about that.

> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.

Sure, but there is no viable alternative.

>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100 years 
>>> two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret services as 
>>> well against internal 'enemies', ...

>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.

> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps that 
> might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.

Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.

> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.

There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.

>> Just like its very unlikely to have another Kaiser again either.

> The Kaiser was pretty harmless, compared to the Führer.

That's a separate matter to any possibility of another of either.

> I certainly don't expect history to copy itself 1:1 - but dreams of big 
> power in one's hands are neither new nor limited to carrying specific 
> titles.

But the US has never had either.

>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...

> So you're a bad guy - good to know!

No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.

>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.

> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my best (as 
> little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to shape a future not 
> allowing those things to happen again.

You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your country.

Germany won't be starting another world war either. 

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#19119

FromMichael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Date2013-10-31 09:53 +0100
Message-ID<l4t5qm$77$1@news.sap-ag.de>
In reply to#19045
Am 30.10.2013 17:38, schrieb Rod Speed:
> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote
>
>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all
>>>> the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they
>>>> might tell the public...
>
>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on all
>>> those surveillance cameras
>
>> That might be true - or not.
>
> Absolutely certainly not even possible.
>
>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?
>
> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.

And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations? Wow!

>> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already
>> have working face recognition to track people? ...?
>
> We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
> would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
> dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.

Even they don't have (or had) access to everything, AFAIK.

>> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been
>> shown many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can do
>> it, I will do it' attitude.
>
> But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
> where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.

What did they skip? Spying on other members of the Five Eyes? If so (and 
at least as of today I didn't see any leakage that they did) it was 
their decision because in the total cost calculation they deemed this 
behavior to be in their favor. Nothing there to decide otherwise anytime 
this think it will give them enough of an advantage.

>> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly control
>> them.
>
> The story always gets out eventually.

But possibly only at a time (decades later) when hardly anybody bothers 
anymore... Standard reasoning for many secret operations... ;-)

> Merkel won't be saying anything that matters on her
> mobile phone, you can be completely sure about that.

Over a not encrypted phone: I surely hope you're correct.
Over a specially hardened and encrypted phone (line): Hard to believe 
she wouldn't...

>> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.
>
> Sure, but there is no viable alternative.

There is: Better public control over those services.

>>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100
>>>> years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret
>>>> services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
>
>>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.
>
>> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps that
>> might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.
>
> Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.

I surely hope you're correct on that one!

>> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.
>
> There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.

Let's hope that this claim stays true for the future...

>> I certainly don't expect history to copy itself 1:1 - but dreams of
>> big power in one's hands are neither new nor limited to carrying
>> specific titles.
>
> But the US has never had either.

Not being a real expert on American presidents, but I have the strong 
feeling that some of them felt quite powerful, and tried a lot to 
circumvent the checks and balances. Never got almighty, though (and 
that's good).

>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
>
>>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...
>
>> So you're a bad guy - good to know!
>
> No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.

Thank you for the confirmation of my statement. :-)

>>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,
>
>>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.
>
>> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my best
>> (as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to shape a
>> future not allowing those things to happen again.
>
> You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your country.

It will not happen again if there are enough people in my country to 
prevent it from happening. If nobody's there to prevent something to 
happen, it might happen eventually - democracy includes as well the 
responsibility of everybody to be vigilant for unwanted developments.

> Germany won't be starting another world war either.

See my last statement.

Best regards,

Michael

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#19152

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-11-01 08:34 +1100
Message-ID<bdg0o4Fnov5U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#19119
Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote

>>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all the 
>>>>> information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they might 
>>>>> tell the public...

>>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on all 
>>>> those surveillance cameras

>>> That might be true - or not.

>> Absolutely certainly not even possible.

>>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?

>> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.

> And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations?

Everyone does.

> Wow!

No.

>>> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already have 
>>> working face recognition to track people? ...?

>> We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
>> would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
>> dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.

> Even they don't have (or had) access to everything, AFAIK.

Don't need to with something as important as that.

>>> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been shown 
>>> many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can do it, I 
>>> will do it' attitude.

>> But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
>> where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.

> What did they skip? Spying on other members of the Five Eyes?

Yep.

> If so (and at least as of today I didn't see any leakage that they did)

And neither has anyone else that has looked at that much more
closely than you can.

> it was their decision because in the total cost calculation they deemed 
> this behavior to be in their favor.

No, because they had agreed not to do that.

> Nothing there to decide otherwise anytime this think it will give them 
> enough of an advantage.

That wasn't the reason they chose not to do that.

>>> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly control 
>>> them.

>> The story always gets out eventually.

> But possibly only at a time (decades later) when hardly anybody bothers 
> anymore... Standard reasoning for many secret operations... ;-)

Not with something as important as that. They
will always care about something like that.

Just like they would if the US was actually stupid enough
to try killing the leaders of their allies they didn't like etc.

>> Merkel won't be saying anything that matters on her
>> mobile phone, you can be completely sure about that.

> Over a not encrypted phone: I surely hope you're correct.

Even she isn't actually THAT stupid.

> Over a specially hardened and encrypted phone (line): Hard to believe she 
> wouldn't...

Bet she doesn't now.

>>> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.

>> Sure, but there is no viable alternative.

> There is: Better public control over those services.

Not even possible.

>>>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100 
>>>>> years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret 
>>>>> services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

>>>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.

>>> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps that 
>>> might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.

>> Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.

> I surely hope you're correct on that one!

Corse I am. You haven't even come close since the last one.

>>> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.

>> There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.

> Let's hope that this claim stays true for the future...

It isnt a claim, it's a fact and the reason hasn't changed.

The US didn't even come close in the great depression.

FDR couldn't even manage to get the US interested in
being part of WW2 until Pearl Harbor changed the US
mentality on that.

>>> I certainly don't expect history to copy itself 1:1 - but dreams of big 
>>> power in one's hands are neither new nor limited to carrying specific 
>>> titles.

>> But the US has never had either.

> Not being a real expert on American presidents, but I have the strong 
> feeling that some of them felt quite powerful,

FDR couldn't even get the US involved in WW2 until
after Pearl Harbor changed the US mentality on that.

> and tried a lot to circumvent the checks and balances.

And got the bums rush when they were caught trying to do that.

> Never got almighty, though

Or even close to that.

> (and that's good).

>>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>>>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...

>>> So you're a bad guy - good to know!

>> No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.

> Thank you for the confirmation of my statement. :-)

Fraid not.

>>>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

>>>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.

>>> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my best 
>>> (as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to shape a future 
>>> not allowing those things to happen again.

>> You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your country.

> It will not happen again if there are enough people in my country to 
> prevent it from happening.

And there always will be, essentially
because of the result you got last time.

Same thing happened with Britain, they will never have
a dictator again because of what happened with Cromwell.

> If nobody's there to prevent something to happen,

That won't ever be the case.

> it might happen eventually

No, because those circumstances won't happen.

We won't see a return of absolute monarchs either.

Or slavery either.

> - democracy includes as well the responsibility of everybody to be 
> vigilant for unwanted developments.

Its not necessary with that.

>> Germany won't be starting another world war either.

> See my last statement.

Not relevant at all to that. The reason Germany won't ever
start another world war is because nukes have ensured that. 

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#19224

FromMichael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Date2013-11-04 17:53 +0100
Message-ID<l58jdj$dvv$1@news.sap-ag.de>
In reply to#19152
Am 31.10.2013 22:34, schrieb Rod Speed:
> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote
>
>>>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all
>>>>>> the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what
>>>>>> they might tell the public...
>
>>>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on
>>>>> all those surveillance cameras
>
>>>> That might be true - or not.
>
>>> Absolutely certainly not even possible.
>
>>>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?
>
>>> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.
>
>> And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations?
>
> Everyone does.

Obviously not.

>>>> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already
>>>> have working face recognition to track people? ...?
>
>>> We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
>>> would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
>>> dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.
>
>> Even they don't have (or had) access to everything, AFAIK.
>
> Don't need to with something as important as that.

Oh, sure... NSA internally is just a big bazaar, where everybody sees 
everything they have and do. Sure.

>>>> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been
>>>> shown many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can
>>>> do it, I will do it' attitude.
>
>>> But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
>>> where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.
>
>> What did they skip? Spying on other members of the Five Eyes?
>
> Yep.
>
>> If so (and at least as of today I didn't see any leakage that they did)
>
> And neither has anyone else that has looked at that much more
> closely than you can.
>
>> it was their decision because in the total cost calculation they
>> deemed this behavior to be in their favor.
>
> No, because they had agreed not to do that.

And, what was the reason to sign this agreement in the first place? You 
certainly don't want to tell me (or the others around) that the US 
signed it without expecting advantages from it.

>> Nothing there to decide otherwise anytime this think it will give them
>> enough of an advantage.
>
> That wasn't the reason they chose not to do that.

Right, I forgot: It was because the US are so nice, they just simply 
signed it because the others had so nice faces... ;-)

>>>> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly
>>>> control them.
>
>>> The story always gets out eventually.
>
>> But possibly only at a time (decades later) when hardly anybody
>> bothers anymore... Standard reasoning for many secret operations... ;-)
>
> Not with something as important as that. They
> will always care about something like that.
>
> Just like they would if the US was actually stupid enough
> to try killing the leaders of their allies they didn't like etc.

Oh, it's not that that never happened... ;-) Certainly not with major 
leaders in Europe, but the US dropped more than one leader in other 
regions of the world once they saw better chances with somebody else...

>>>> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.
>
>>> Sure, but there is no viable alternative.
>
>> There is: Better public control over those services.
>
> Not even possible.

Oh yes, and there were (long) times in history where people thought that 
better control over the ones in power (mostly kings et.al. at that time) 
was not possible. History proved otherwise. Just one example.

>>>>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100
>>>>>> years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret
>>>>>> services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
>
>>>>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.
>
>>>> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps
>>>> that might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.
>
>>> Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.
>
>> I surely hope you're correct on that one!
>
> Corse I am. You haven't even come close since the last one.

Isn't it nice how humble you are. Lovely.

>>>> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.
>
>>> There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.
>
>> Let's hope that this claim stays true for the future...
>
> It isnt a claim, it's a fact

For the the past. You can state facts for the future? And you're still 
spending time here in this newsgroup rather than spending your time on a 
luxurious island in the Caribbean (or which corner of the world you like 
best)?

>>>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
>
>>>>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...
>
>>>> So you're a bad guy - good to know!
>
>>> No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.
>
>> Thank you for the confirmation of my statement. :-)
>
> Fraid not.

Oh, yes, you confirmed it. And you cannot talk yourself out of that! :-)

>>>>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,
>
>>>>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.
>
>>>> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my
>>>> best (as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to shape
>>>> a future not allowing those things to happen again.
>
>>> You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your
>>> country.
>
>> It will not happen again if there are enough people in my country to
>> prevent it from happening.
>
> And there always will be, essentially
> because of the result you got last time.

Oh, unfortunately history shows that people may forget such lessons over 
time - therefore it is important to keep the memories alive.

> Same thing happened with Britain, they will never have
> a dictator again because of what happened with Cromwell.
>
>> If nobody's there to prevent something to happen,
>
> That won't ever be the case.
>
>> it might happen eventually
>
> No, because those circumstances won't happen.
>
> We won't see a return of absolute monarchs either.
>
> Or slavery either.

And we will never see the communist block collapse, the wall being 
teared down, ... Never is quite a bold world when dealing with the 
future as this can be quite long... ;-)

>> - democracy includes as well the responsibility of everybody to be
>> vigilant for unwanted developments.
>
> Its not necessary with that.

Oh, great news, democracy doesn't need people to make it work, to keep 
it up, ...! It can live right on its own! :-)

>>> Germany won't be starting another world war either.
>
>> See my last statement.
>
> Not relevant at all to that. The reason Germany won't ever
> start another world war is because nukes have ensured that.

Since WWII nukes were about the least reason why Germany didn't start 
another war.

Best regards,

Michael

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#19227

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-11-05 05:21 +1100
Message-ID<bdq6vjFscj7U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#19224
Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote

>>>>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all 
>>>>>>> the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what they 
>>>>>>> might tell the public...

>>>>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on all 
>>>>>> those surveillance cameras

>>>>> That might be true - or not.

>>>> Absolutely certainly not even possible.

>>>>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?

>>>> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.

>>> And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations?

>> Everyone does.

> Obviously not.

Fraid so.

>>>>> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already 
>>>>> have working face recognition to track people? ...?

>>>> We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
>>>> would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
>>>> dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.

>>> Even they don't have (or had) access to everything, AFAIK.

>> Don't need to with something as important as that.

> Oh, sure... NSA internally is just a big bazaar, where everybody sees 
> everything they have and do. Sure.

With something as important as that, it would be completely
impossible to stop knowledge about that spreading within
an operation that is into that sort of thing.

Anyone with even half a clue would notice the situations
in which it wouldn't have been possible to catch various
terrorists without that capability. So it doesn't even need
to have be leaked either.

>>>>> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been 
>>>>> shown many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can do 
>>>>> it, I will do it' attitude.

>>>> But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
>>>> where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.

>>> What did they skip? Spying on other members of the Five Eyes?

>> Yep.

>>> If so (and at least as of today I didn't see any leakage that they did)

>> And neither has anyone else that has looked at that much more
>> closely than you can.

>>> it was their decision because in the total cost calculation they
>>> deemed this behavior to be in their favor.

>> No, because they had agreed not to do that.

> And, what was the reason to sign this agreement in the first place?

Because it was decided that that would produce a better result.

Germany and the US have just decided to agree to that now too.

> You certainly don't want to tell me (or the others around) that the US 
> signed it without expecting advantages from it.

Sure, but the advantages are obvious.

Just like they are with the most recent decision to
have something similar with Germany and the US.

>>> Nothing there to decide otherwise anytime this think it will give them 
>>> enough of an advantage.

>> That wasn't the reason they chose not to do that.

> Right, I forgot: It was because the US are so nice, they just simply 
> signed it because the others had so nice faces... ;-)

Having fun thrashing that straw man ?

>>>>> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly control 
>>>>> them.

>>>> The story always gets out eventually.

>>> But possibly only at a time (decades later) when hardly anybody
>>> bothers anymore... Standard reasoning for many secret operations... ;-)

>> Not with something as important as that. They
>> will always care about something like that.

>> Just like they would if the US was actually stupid enough
>> to try killing the leaders of their allies they didn't like etc.

> Oh, it's not that that never happened... ;-) Certainly not with major 
> leaders in Europe, but the US dropped more than one leader in other 
> regions of the world once they saw better chances with somebody else...

That is a different matter entirely. Those had been put in place by
the US in the first place. That didn't happen with the european allies.

Even de Gaulle who arguably did get where he got to because
of the way the US and Britain chose to treat him during the war
didn't get killed by either of them when they decided that they
didn't like what he got up to once the war had ended.

>>>>> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.

>>>> Sure, but there is no viable alternative.

>>> There is: Better public control over those services.

>> Not even possible.

> Oh yes, and there were (long) times in history where people thought that 
> better control over the ones in power (mostly kings et.al. at that time) 
> was not possible. History proved otherwise. Just one example.

Kings have always had to make sure they don't get too far
out of line otherwise they will be replaced by someone else.

No one has ever come up with a way of having a democracy control
what their spies get up to without producing a situation where they
a no longer effective.

We haven't even been able to work out how to do a democracy
where the voters have a direct say on the detail of how something
complex like taxation is done either. It isn't even possible.

You lot haven't even been able to work out how to give the voters a
direct say on stuff like Bismarck's arguable invention of socialism either.

>>>>>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100 
>>>>>>> years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret 
>>>>>>> services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

>>>>>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.

>>>>> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps
>>>>> that might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.

>>>> Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.

>>> I surely hope you're correct on that one!

>> Corse I am. You haven't even come close since the last one.

> Isn't it nice how humble you are. Lovely.

Humble is for wimps.

>>>>> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.

>>>> There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.

>>> Let's hope that this claim stays true for the future...

>> It isnt a claim, it's a fact

> For the the past. You can state facts for the future?

Didn't do anything like that.

> And you're still spending time here in this newsgroup rather than spending 
> your time on a luxurious island in the Caribbean (or which corner of the 
> world you like best)?

I do spend my time in the luxurious corner of the world I like best.

Leaves the rest of the world for dead on real standard of living
measured properly and not how stupid bean counters measure that.

>>>>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>>>>>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...

>>>>> So you're a bad guy - good to know!

>>>> No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.

>>> Thank you for the confirmation of my statement. :-)

>> Fraid not.

> Oh, yes, you confirmed it. And you cannot talk yourself out of that! :-)

Wrong.

>>>>>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

>>>>>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.

>>>>> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my best 
>>>>> (as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to shape a 
>>>>> future not allowing those things to happen again.

>>>> You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your 
>>>> country.

>>> It will not happen again if there are enough people in my country to 
>>> prevent it from happening.

>> And there always will be, essentially
>> because of the result you got last time.

> Oh, unfortunately history shows that people may forget such lessons over 
> time

Not in countrys as well organised as yours is now.

You don't even try to hide the utterly obscene detail
that you lot produced the last time, unlike the Japanese.

> - therefore it is important to keep the memories alive.

That happens regardless of anything you do.

>> Same thing happened with Britain, they will never have a dictator again 
>> because of what happened with Cromwell.

And put systems in place that ensure that it can't happen again.

>>> If nobody's there to prevent something to happen,

>> That won't ever be the case.

>>> it might happen eventually

>> No, because those circumstances won't happen.

>> We won't see a return of absolute monarchs either.

>> Or slavery either.

> And we will never see the communist block collapse, the wall being teared 
> down, ...

No one with even half a clue ever said that.

> Never is quite a bold world when dealing with the future as this can be 
> quite long... ;-)

We've been checking what happened for millennia now
and the systems we have put in place to ensure that that
sort of thing won't happen again are working very well
indeed in the most advanced societys.

It took you lot quite a while to understand what needed
to be done, but even you lot eventually woke up and
smelt the coffee and put those systems in place too,
essentially because of the utterly obscene result you
got the last time you didn't have them.

>>> - democracy includes as well the responsibility of everybody to be 
>>> vigilant for unwanted developments.

>> Its not necessary with that.

> Oh, great news, democracy doesn't need people to make it work, to keep it 
> up, ...! It can live right on its own! :-)

That is a flagrantly dishonest misrepresentation of what I said there.

>>>> Germany won't be starting another world war either.

>>> See my last statement.

>> Not relevant at all to that. The reason Germany won't ever
>> start another world war is because nukes have ensured that.

> Since WWII nukes were about the least reason why Germany didn't start 
> another war.

Even sillier. 

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#19243

FromMichael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Date2013-11-05 12:58 +0100
Message-ID<l5amhm$qi7$1@news.sap-ag.de>
In reply to#19227
Am 04.11.2013 19:21, schrieb Rod Speed:
> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote
>
>>>>>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting
>>>>>>>> all the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of
>>>>>>>> what they might tell the public...
>
>>>>>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on
>>>>>>> all those surveillance cameras
>
>>>>>> That might be true - or not.
>
>>>>> Absolutely certainly not even possible.
>
>>>>>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?
>
>>>>> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.
>
>>>> And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations?
>
>>> Everyone does.
>
>> Obviously not.
>
> Fraid so.

Oh I forgot, you know exactly what everybody in the world knows. 
Hilarious. If it wasn't so pathetic.

>>>>>> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already
>>>>>> have working face recognition to track people? ...?
>
>>>>> We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
>>>>> would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
>>>>> dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.
>
>>>> Even they don't have (or had) access to everything, AFAIK.
>
>>> Don't need to with something as important as that.
>
>> Oh, sure... NSA internally is just a big bazaar, where everybody sees
>> everything they have and do. Sure.
>
> With something as important as that, it would be completely
> impossible to stop knowledge about that spreading within
> an operation that is into that sort of thing.

It would be hard to keep such a secret for a long time, but it is 
definitively possible to keep it for some time.

> Anyone with even half a clue would notice the situations
> in which it wouldn't have been possible to catch various
> terrorists without that capability. So it doesn't even need
> to have be leaked either.

But that takes time...

>>>>>> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been
>>>>>> shown many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can
>>>>>> do it, I will do it' attitude.
>
>>>>> But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
>>>>> where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.
>
>>>> What did they skip? Spying on other members of the Five Eyes?
>
>>> Yep.
>
>>>> If so (and at least as of today I didn't see any leakage that they did)
>
>>> And neither has anyone else that has looked at that much more
>>> closely than you can.
>
>>>> it was their decision because in the total cost calculation they
>>>> deemed this behavior to be in their favor.
>
>>> No, because they had agreed not to do that.
>
>> And, what was the reason to sign this agreement in the first place?
>
> Because it was decided that that would produce a better result.

And that is not an advantage?

> Germany and the US have just decided to agree to that now too.

Nope, please read the news more carefully: They decided to take on 
negotiations that should lead to some agreement on dos (and don'ts!) 
regarding the work of the intelligence services in the other state.

We're at this time not even anywhere close to any kind of agreement, 
least to some coming close the Five Eyes agreement.

>> You certainly don't want to tell me (or the others around) that the US
>> signed it without expecting advantages from it.
>
> Sure, but the advantages are obvious.

It is irrelevant whether the advantages were obvious or not, it was 
signed because there were advantages for the signatory states. And 
that's exactly what I said. Thanks for the confirmation. :-)

> Just like they are with the most recent decision to
> have something similar with Germany and the US.

See above. As far as I can see the points of view of the US and of 
Germany with regards what such an agreement should contain are still 
pretty much apart from each other - and I'm not sure that they will 
manage to close this gap.

>>>> Nothing there to decide otherwise anytime this think it will give
>>>> them enough of an advantage.
>
>>> That wasn't the reason they chose not to do that.
>
>> Right, I forgot: It was because the US are so nice, they just simply
>> signed it because the others had so nice faces... ;-)
>
> Having fun thrashing that straw man ?

You already conceded that it was signed because it provided advantages 
for the signatory states. No straw there... :-)

>>>>>> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly
>>>>>> control them.
>
>>>>> The story always gets out eventually.
>
>>>> But possibly only at a time (decades later) when hardly anybody
>>>> bothers anymore... Standard reasoning for many secret operations... ;-)
>
>>> Not with something as important as that. They
>>> will always care about something like that.
>
>>> Just like they would if the US was actually stupid enough
>>> to try killing the leaders of their allies they didn't like etc.
>
>> Oh, it's not that that never happened... ;-) Certainly not with major
>> leaders in Europe, but the US dropped more than one leader in other
>> regions of the world once they saw better chances with somebody else...
>
> That is a different matter entirely. Those had been put in place by
> the US in the first place. That didn't happen with the european allies.
>
> Even de Gaulle who arguably did get where he got to because
> of the way the US and Britain chose to treat him during the war
> didn't get killed by either of them when they decided that they
> didn't like what he got up to once the war had ended.

And he was certainly lucky in this. Others had much less luck... :-(

>>>>>> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.
>
>>>>> Sure, but there is no viable alternative.
>
>>>> There is: Better public control over those services.
>
>>> Not even possible.
>
>> Oh yes, and there were (long) times in history where people thought
>> that better control over the ones in power (mostly kings et.al. at
>> that time) was not possible. History proved otherwise. Just one example.
>
> Kings have always had to make sure they don't get too far
> out of line otherwise they will be replaced by someone else.

Which depended on the king and on the means he was willing to use to 
stay in place.

> No one has ever come up with a way of having a democracy control
> what their spies get up to without producing a situation where they
> a no longer effective.

And that's enough reason to not even try to come up with such a way?

> We haven't even been able to work out how to do a democracy
> where the voters have a direct say on the detail of how something
> complex like taxation is done either. It isn't even possible.

Oh, it is (technically) possible. Just nobody dares to try it in 
reality, because everybody fears what might happen if the voters are 
really as stupid as some people think...

> You lot haven't even been able to work out how to give the voters a
> direct say on stuff like Bismarck's arguable invention of socialism either.

That statement is so stupid and off that I won't go there. You really 
have no idea about the differences between socialism and a social market 
economy.

>>>>>>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last
>>>>>>>> 100 years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective
>>>>>>>> secret services as well against internal 'enemies', ...
>
>>>>>>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.
>
>>>>>> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps
>>>>>> that might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.
>
>>>>> Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.
>
>>>> I surely hope you're correct on that one!
>
>>> Corse I am. You haven't even come close since the last one.
>
>> Isn't it nice how humble you are. Lovely.
>
> Humble is for wimps.

If you think so...

>>>>>> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.
>
>>>>> There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.
>
>>>> Let's hope that this claim stays true for the future...
>
>>> It isnt a claim, it's a fact
>
>> For the the past. You can state facts for the future?
>
> Didn't do anything like that.

You might want to reread my statement and then yours... Perhaps you see 
your faulty argumentation then... ;-)

>>>>>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(
>
>>>>>>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...
>
>>>>>> So you're a bad guy - good to know!
>
>>>>> No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.
>
>>>> Thank you for the confirmation of my statement. :-)
>
>>> Fraid not.
>
>> Oh, yes, you confirmed it. And you cannot talk yourself out of that! :-)
>
> Wrong.

I wonder whether I shall give you a crash course on logic... No, I'll 
let you figure this one out on your own. :-)

>>>>>>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,
>
>>>>>>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.
>
>>>>>> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my
>>>>>> best (as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to
>>>>>> shape a future not allowing those things to happen again.
>
>>>>> You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your
>>>>> country.
>
>>>> It will not happen again if there are enough people in my country to
>>>> prevent it from happening.
>
>>> And there always will be, essentially
>>> because of the result you got last time.
>
>> Oh, unfortunately history shows that people may forget such lessons
>> over time
>
> Not in countrys as well organised as yours is now.

And therefore I (and many others here) try to keep an eye on keeping it 
that way. Other than you we don't take that for granted.

>> - therefore it is important to keep the memories alive.
>
> That happens regardless of anything you do.

Not necessarily - one has to do something for that to happen. You cannot 
take anything like this for granted, especially not now that the last 
people having witnessed WWII are slowly dying out.

>>> Same thing happened with Britain, they will never have a dictator
>>> again because of what happened with Cromwell.
>
> And put systems in place that ensure that it can't happen again.

And each and every system can be changed - if the people let it happen.

>>>> If nobody's there to prevent something to happen,
>
>>> That won't ever be the case.
>
>>>> it might happen eventually
>
>>> No, because those circumstances won't happen.
>
>>> We won't see a return of absolute monarchs either.
>
>>> Or slavery either.
>
>> And we will never see the communist block collapse, the wall being
>> teared down, ...
>
> No one with even half a clue ever said that.

Oh, there were people saying that. And there were even more (and 
probably more sensible ones) saying that we wouldn't see this happen in 
our lives (and that was like two years before it actually happened).

History sometimes changes its path very quickly, allowing the best 
dreams or the worst nightmares to happen. THAT is really one of the most 
important lessons one can learn from the history books.

>> Never is quite a bold world when dealing with the future as this can
>> be quite long... ;-)
>
> We've been checking what happened for millennia now
> and the systems we have put in place to ensure that that
> sort of thing won't happen again are working very well
> indeed in the most advanced societys.

They are working fairly well up to today. Let's hope that this doesn't 
change in the future...

> It took you lot quite a while to understand what needed
> to be done, but even you lot eventually woke up and
> smelt the coffee and put those systems in place too,
> essentially because of the utterly obscene result you
> got the last time you didn't have them.
>
>>>> - democracy includes as well the responsibility of everybody to be
>>>> vigilant for unwanted developments.
>
>>> Its not necessary with that.
>
>> Oh, great news, democracy doesn't need people to make it work, to keep
>> it up, ...! It can live right on its own! :-)
>
> That is a flagrantly dishonest misrepresentation of what I said there.

Then you might want to make your point clearer. For all I see this is 
precisely what you said.

>>>>> Germany won't be starting another world war either.
>
>>>> See my last statement.
>
>>> Not relevant at all to that. The reason Germany won't ever
>>> start another world war is because nukes have ensured that.
>
>> Since WWII nukes were about the least reason why Germany didn't start
>> another war.
>
> Even sillier.

Your statement is silly and you definitively overestimate the influence 
of nukes on German foreign policy. There were much better reasons for 
Germans not to start another war than those nukes.

Best regards,

Michael

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#19256

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2013-11-06 05:25 +1100
Message-ID<bdsrh8Ff125U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#19243
Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>>>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote

>>>>>>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting all 
>>>>>>>>> the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of what 
>>>>>>>>> they might tell the public...

>>>>>>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured on 
>>>>>>>> all those surveillance cameras

>>>>>>> That might be true - or not.

>>>>>> Absolutely certainly not even possible.

>>>>>>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?

>>>>>> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.

>>>>> And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations?

>>>> Everyone does.

>>> Obviously not.

>> Fraid so.

> Oh I forgot, you know exactly what everybody in the world knows.

Don't need to. The parameters needed for that very basic calculation
is readily available to anyone who wants to do that basic calculation.

> Hilarious. If it wasn't so pathetic.

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

>>>>>>> And if they can't keep the movies themselves, perhaps they already 
>>>>>>> have working face recognition to track people? ...?

>>>>>> We know they don't, because people like Snowdon and Wikileaks
>>>>>> would have spilled the beans on that because that is much more
>>>>>> dramatic information than they have bothered to expose.

>>>>> Even they don't have (or had) access to everything, AFAIK.

>>>> Don't need to with something as important as that.

>>> Oh, sure... NSA internally is just a big bazaar, where everybody sees 
>>> everything they have and do. Sure.

>> With something as important as that, it would be completely
>> impossible to stop knowledge about that spreading within
>> an operation that is into that sort of thing.

> It would be hard to keep such a secret for a long time,

For any time at all in fact. If they actually were capable
of doing that, that news would spread like wildfire in an
operation like that that would need to be able to identify
those it is snooping on to see if they were terrorists.

> but it is definitively possible to keep it for some time.

Not with something as useful as that.

>> Anyone with even half a clue would notice the situations
>> in which it wouldn't have been possible to catch various
>> terrorists without that capability. So it doesn't even need
>> to have be leaked either.

> But that takes time...

Not enough to matter.

>>>>>>> The problem with very capable secret services is (and that's been 
>>>>>>> shown many times in history) that they tend to develop a 'if I can 
>>>>>>> do it, I will do it' attitude.

>>>>>> But we still see other examples like the Five Eyes agreement
>>>>>> where they choose not to do what they can do anyway.

>>>>> What did they skip? Spying on other members of the Five Eyes?

>>>> Yep.

>>>>> If so (and at least as of today I didn't see any leakage that they 
>>>>> did)

>>>> And neither has anyone else that has looked at that much more
>>>> closely than you can.

>>>>> it was their decision because in the total cost calculation they
>>>>> deemed this behavior to be in their favor.

>>>> No, because they had agreed not to do that.

>>> And, what was the reason to sign this agreement in the first place?

>> Because it was decided that that would produce a better result.

> And that is not an advantage?

Of course it is.

>> Germany and the US have just decided to agree to that now too.

> Nope, please read the news more carefully:

Don't need to.

> They decided to take on negotiations that should lead to some agreement on 
> dos (and don'ts!) regarding the work of the intelligence services in the 
> other state.

You're behind the times on what has been agreed to.

> We're at this time not even anywhere close to any kind of agreement,

Wrong.

> least to some coming close the Five Eyes agreement.

Sure, but it is about much more than just that, it is about cooperating
on the sharing of intelligence information. It is hardly surprising that
your lot isn't interested in doing that, particularly now that they know
what the US got up to with snooping on your leader's phone calls etc.

It is hardly surprising that your lot are interested in an agreement to
stop doing that sort of thing tho.

>>> You certainly don't want to tell me (or the others around) that the US 
>>> signed it without expecting advantages from it.

>> Sure, but the advantages are obvious.

> It is irrelevant whether the advantages were obvious or not, it was signed 
> because there were advantages for the signatory states. And that's exactly 
> what I said. Thanks for the confirmation. :-)

There is no confirmation. No one ever disputed that it was
signed by the signatorys because they believed that there
were advantages in doing that.

>> Just like they are with the most recent decision to
>> have something similar with Germany and the US.

> See above.

Completely useless.

> As far as I can see the points of view of the US and of Germany with 
> regards what such an agreement should contain are still pretty much apart 
> from each other

Then you need new glasses, BAD.

> - and I'm not sure that they will manage to close this gap.

Your problem. Of course they will on snooping on each other.

>>>>> Nothing there to decide otherwise anytime this think it will give them 
>>>>> enough of an advantage.

>>>> That wasn't the reason they chose not to do that.

>>> Right, I forgot: It was because the US are so nice, they just simply 
>>> signed it because the others had so nice faces... ;-)

>> Having fun thrashing that straw man ?

> You already conceded that it was signed because it provided advantages for 
> the signatory states.

It was always obvious that that was the case.

I 'conceded' nothing. Just like I never 'conceded'
that the sun will rise tomorrow either.

> No straw there... :-)

Everyone can see for themselves that your were thrashing a straw man there.

>>>>>>> And due to the secrecy they put around them public can hardly 
>>>>>>> control them.

>>>>>> The story always gets out eventually.

>>>>> But possibly only at a time (decades later) when hardly anybody
>>>>> bothers anymore... Standard reasoning for many secret operations... 
>>>>> ;-)

>>>> Not with something as important as that. They
>>>> will always care about something like that.

>>>> Just like they would if the US was actually stupid enough
>>>> to try killing the leaders of their allies they didn't like etc.

>>> Oh, it's not that that never happened... ;-) Certainly not with major
>>> leaders in Europe, but the US dropped more than one leader in other
>>> regions of the world once they saw better chances with somebody else...

>> That is a different matter entirely. Those had been put in place by
>> the US in the first place. That didn't happen with the european allies.

>> Even de Gaulle who arguably did get where he got to because
>> of the way the US and Britain chose to treat him during the war
>> didn't get killed by either of them when they decided that they
>> didn't like what he got up to once the war had ended.

> And he was certainly lucky in this.

Nothing whatever to do with luck.

> Others had much less luck... :-(

Not within europe. Just a few pimples on the bum of the world
where the US or Britain had put a puppet in place for their own ends.

Didn't happen with Japan or Singapore or India or Pakistan either.

>>>>>>> And that's definitively not how a democracy should work.

>>>>>> Sure, but there is no viable alternative.

>>>>> There is: Better public control over those services.

>>>> Not even possible.

>>> Oh yes, and there were (long) times in history where people thought
>>> that better control over the ones in power (mostly kings et.al. at that 
>>> time) was not possible. History proved otherwise. Just one example.

>> Kings have always had to make sure they don't get too far
>> out of line otherwise they will be replaced by someone else.

> Which depended on the king and on the means he was willing to use to stay 
> in place.

None of them could ever have enough of the means to stay in place
once the populace had decided he had passed his useby date.

Even in Germany that was very late to realise what was possible.

>> No one has ever come up with a way of having a democracy control what 
>> their spies get up to without producing a situation where they a no 
>> longer effective.

> And that's enough reason to not even try to come up with such a way?

It is when it has been tried for more than a century now and no
one has ever been able to come up with any way of doing that.

>> We haven't even been able to work out how to do a democracy
>> where the voters have a direct say on the detail of how something
>> complex like taxation is done either. It isn't even possible.

> Oh, it is (technically) possible.

No. You will never be able to get very many of the voters to
understand the complexity of what modern tax systems are about.

> Just nobody dares to try it in reality, because everybody fears what might 
> happen if the voters are really as stupid as some people think...

No, because they realise that hardly any of the
voters will ever be able to understand the basics.

Have a look at how VATs were introduced. There is just one country
in the entire world that spelt out what was proposed, put it to the
voters in an election and asked them how they felt about that.

Everyone else just sprang it on the voters well before an election,
so that the voters got to see how it worked in practice and then
got to kick those who had forced it on the country out the door
if they hated it enough.

>> You lot haven't even been able to work out how to give the voters a
>> direct say on stuff like Bismarck's arguable invention of socialism 
>> either.

> That statement is so stupid and off that I won't go there.

What a stunning line in rational argument you have there.

> You really have no idea about the differences between socialism and a 
> social market economy.

You don't have a fucking clue about how differently
the word socialism is used around the world.

I don't even object to what he did, I just rubbed your nose
in the fact that that was imposed by him, not put to a vote.

>>>>>>>>> you never lived in a country that had experienced in its last 100 
>>>>>>>>> years two dictatorships, both making use of very effective secret 
>>>>>>>>> services as well against internal 'enemies', ...

>>>>>>>> But which is very unlikely to be that stupid again.

>>>>>>> Oh, unfortunately I see 'interested parties' trying to take steps
>>>>>>> that might open possibilities for such (mis-)behavior again.

>>>>>> Doesn't mean they have any possibility of succeeding.

>>>>> I surely hope you're correct on that one!

>>>> Corse I am. You haven't even come close since the last one.

>>> Isn't it nice how humble you are. Lovely.

>> Humble is for wimps.

> If you think so...

I know so.

>>>>>>> On both sides of the Atlantic, btw.

>>>>>> There's a reason there has never been a dictatorship in the US.

>>>>> Let's hope that this claim stays true for the future...

>>>> It isnt a claim, it's a fact

>>> For the the past. You can state facts for the future?

>> Didn't do anything like that.

> You might want to reread my statement and then yours...

No. I know what we both said.

> Perhaps you see your faulty argumentation then... ;-)

The only faulty argumentation is yours.

>>>>>>>>> So much for 'We're only after the bad guys...' :-(

>>>>>>>> All foreigners are bad guys by definition...

>>>>>>> So you're a bad guy - good to know!

>>>>>> No, my country is one of the signatorys to the Five Eyes agreement.

>>>>> Thank you for the confirmation of my statement. :-)

>>>> Fraid not.

>>> Oh, yes, you confirmed it. And you cannot talk yourself out of that! :-)

>> Wrong.

> I wonder whether I shall give you a crash course on logic... No, I'll let 
> you figure this one out on your own. :-)

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

>>>>>>>>> Best regards, and keep on dreaming,

>>>>>>>> You're the one with the fantasys of more dictators at all likely.

>>>>>>> I certainly don't have fantasies about them - but I try to do my 
>>>>>>> best (as little as I can influence it at all) nevertheless to
>>>>>>> shape a future not allowing those things to happen again.

>>>>>> You're wasting your time, it isn't going to happen again in your 
>>>>>> country.

>>>>> It will not happen again if there are enough people in my country to 
>>>>> prevent it from happening.

>>>> And there always will be, essentially
>>>> because of the result you got last time.

>>> Oh, unfortunately history shows that people may forget such lessons over 
>>> time

>> Not in countrys as well organised as yours is now.

> And therefore I (and many others here) try to keep an eye on keeping it 
> that way.

It will stay that way regardless of anything you or
anyone else has your eye on. Essentially because of
the utterly unspeakable result you lot got the last time.

Same thing happened in Britain with Cromwell.

> Other than you we don't take that for granted.

Your problem.

>>> - therefore it is important to keep the memories alive.

>> That happens regardless of anything you do.

> Not necessarily

Fraid so.

> - one has to do something for that to happen.

No, the system will carry on regardless of anything you personally do.

> You cannot take anything like this for granted,

Yes you can with the result you lot got the last time.

> especially not now that the last people having witnessed WWII are slowly 
> dying out.

You don't need to have personally witnessed it.

No one who personally witnessed what Cromwell
got up to is around anymore and the British system
got reorganised so that it can't happen again anyway.

Britain didn't even come close to having another
even with two world wars and the great depression.

>>>> Same thing happened with Britain, they will never have a dictator again 
>>>> because of what happened with Cromwell.

>> And put systems in place that ensure that it can't happen again.

> And each and every system can be changed

But not to allow another dictator again.

> - if the people let it happen.

It's got nothing to do with people. It isnt even possible
for Britain or the US for the legislature to vote itself out of
existence the way you lot were actually stupid enough to do.

It isnt even possible in Germany now either.

>>>>> If nobody's there to prevent something to happen,

>>>> That won't ever be the case.

>>>>> it might happen eventually

>>>> No, because those circumstances won't happen.

>>>> We won't see a return of absolute monarchs either.

>>>> Or slavery either.

>>> And we will never see the communist block collapse, the wall being 
>>> teared down, ...

>> No one with even half a clue ever said that.

> Oh, there were people saying that.

Only those who didn't have even half a clue.

> And there were even more (and probably more sensible ones) saying that we 
> wouldn't see this happen in our lives (and that was like two years before 
> it actually happened).

Sure, its harder to say when something will happen.

> History sometimes changes its path very quickly,

Not with something like the return of
absolute monarchs or slavery they don't.

> allowing the best dreams or the worst nightmares to happen. THAT is really 
> one of the most important lessons one can learn from the history books.

Not with absolute monarchs or slavery or dictators.

Even Germany wont be that stupid again, you watch.

Just like Britain wasn't post Cromwell.

>>> Never is quite a bold world when dealing with the future as this can be 
>>> quite long... ;-)

>> We've been checking what happened for millennia now
>> and the systems we have put in place to ensure that that
>> sort of thing won't happen again are working very well
>> indeed in the most advanced societys.

> They are working fairly well up to today.

Very well in fact. You western europeans have
even stopped trying to rip each others throats
out in every single generation now.

Corse the north americans came to their senses
on that quite a bit earlier than you lot did.

And many of the eastern europeans still haven't
managed to come to their senses on that even now.

> Let's hope that this doesn't change in the future...

Those basics won't you watch.

You lot won't be allowed to do another holocaust again either.

>> It took you lot quite a while to understand what needed
>> to be done, but even you lot eventually woke up and
>> smelt the coffee and put those systems in place too,
>> essentially because of the utterly obscene result you
>> got the last time you didn't have them.

>>>>> - democracy includes as well the responsibility of everybody to be 
>>>>> vigilant for unwanted developments.

>>>> Its not necessary with that.

>>> Oh, great news, democracy doesn't need people to make it work, to keep 
>>> it up, ...! It can live right on its own! :-)

>> That is a flagrantly dishonest misrepresentation of what I said there.

> Then you might want to make your point clearer.

We've worked out how to put controls in placed that
stop the worst insanitys like legislatures voting themselves
out of existence like you lot were once stupid enough to do.

> For all I see this is precisely what you said.

Then you need new glasses, BAD.

>>>>>> Germany won't be starting another world war either.

>>>>> See my last statement.

>>>> Not relevant at all to that. The reason Germany won't ever
>>>> start another world war is because nukes have ensured that.

>>> Since WWII nukes were about the least reason why Germany didn't start 
>>> another war.

>> Even sillier.

> Your statement is silly and you definitively overestimate the influence of 
> nukes on German foreign policy. There were much better reasons for Germans 
> not to start another war than those nukes.

But the reason that no one will attempt to do what Adolf tried again is
because the result would be even worse for you lot than when he tried that.
 

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#19274

FromMichael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Date2013-11-06 12:41 +0100
Message-ID<l5d9u2$r76$1@news.sap-ag.de>
In reply to#19256
Am 05.11.2013 19:25, schrieb Rod Speed:
> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>>>>> Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de> wrote
>>>>>>>>>> Davoud wrote
>>>>>>>>>>> Michael Eyd wrote
>
>>>>>>>>>> And believe me, NSA *is* capable (quantitywise) of collecting
>>>>>>>>>> all the information they can get their hands on. Regardless of
>>>>>>>>>> what they might tell the public...
>
>>>>>>>>> But just not even possible to keep all the video ever captured
>>>>>>>>> on all those surveillance cameras
>
>>>>>>>> That might be true - or not.
>
>>>>>>> Absolutely certainly not even possible.
>
>>>>>>>> Who (outside the NSA) can tell for sure?
>
>>>>>>> Anyone who does even the most basic calculations on that.
>
>>>>>> And you do have the necessary parameters for those calculations?
>
>>>>> Everyone does.
>
>>>> Obviously not.
>
>>> Fraid so.
>
>> Oh I forgot, you know exactly what everybody in the world knows.
>
> Don't need to. The parameters needed for that very basic calculation
> is readily available to anyone who wants to do that basic calculation.
>
>> Hilarious. If it wasn't so pathetic.
>
> You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

And here we go again. You certainly can't stop yourself from insulting 
people - or at least from trying to. Actually, I was already wondering 
at what point you would start going there, again... :-)

Feel free to continue that way, just that I will stop taking part in 
this discussion (anyways, most of your answers are now only repetitive 
claims that you were right, without any argument to back that up).

Have fun,

Michael

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