Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Online iCloud is required when synchronizing contacts and calendars between iPhone and iTunes in the new Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:28:50 +1100 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <281020131608171168%star@sky.net> <291020130628514487%michelle@michelle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net o+B22rleDU0+IwvGX8PPawXeJKfvg1KneZPCw3i+67j2J6nq8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:2xXeBdWstaqlWTuEPxV8Xe7URtM= In-Reply-To: <291020130628514487%michelle@michelle.org> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:18982 comp.sys.mac.comm:1840 comp.sys.mac.system:51236 Michelle Steiner wrote > Michael Eyd 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.