Yes!  People are just pretending to care about what the NSA is doing, while their actions say they don't give a crap about what happens to their private data.

Ah. I had the issue were the fan wouldn't spin because the ulps setting needed to be disabled. Its some power saving mode and the card doesn't look like its works but the computer see it. That was my case. If it put a load to the card the fan you start to spin. Since your rig does recognize the 3rd card in devices I would put the 3rd card in the 2nd card slot and see if it works. That will have you narrow down the issue

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This can't be real...  

It has to be some sort of Swiftian satire.  This supposed enlightened "womyn" has no understanding of the most basic tenants....
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"Report themselves", lol that's great. I really do find it stupid that people feel the need to publish every detail of their lives and what they are doing as each and every day goes on. The total depth of this crap is show in exhibit A below:

"John Doe is at the car wash"

"Michelle Q. - I'm @ McDonald's yaaay "

"Mike M. - Taking a huge shit right now at my house!!!"

Pointless, unintelligible garbage.

lol you think you are the only one with guns? Good luck defeating bandits/mobs with guns.

Does the computer recognize the card? Have you tired to put a load to the card?

I agree. In practice it is not possible.

I agree, pension system is absolute bullshit.

....Basicly the stump and roots rot in the ground, providing long term fertilizer and water retention for the seedling fruit tree.

.....Some pawpaws, apples, pears, etc; mixed into the forest, and in a decade or so the 'food forest' will produce a great deal of food.  Problem is, permaculure doesn't produce on a modern industrial timescale.

If the hackers steal all the fiat money, the fiat money doesn't have any value.
Same goes for Bitcoin...

I can't dare to use chrome/chromium anymore after Google sold his soul to NSA.

I'm back to my old and beloved Firefox wife.

I should have never betrayed her...LOL

There's also Startpage.com (also provided by Ixquick) where they claim to provide "complete privacy" as mentioned in their words as follows:

"Startpage offers you Web search results from Google in complete privacy!"

"When you search with Startpage, we remove all identifying information from your query and submit it anonymously to Google ourselves. We get the results and return them to you in total privacy."

"Your IP address is never recorded, your visit is not logged, and no tracking cookies are placed on your browser. When it comes to protecting your privacy, Startpage runs the tightest ship on the Internet. Our outstanding privacy policy and thoughtful engineering give you great search results in total anonymity."

Good luck trying...

There are over 800 prison camps in the United States. ....

Well I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but anyway.

The world is in a serious serious mess. I don't think anybody understands, or will admit, HOW bad things are now (but they will soon). Even the more enlightened on these forums. The problem is, when you realize that the last 10, 20, 30 years - even more - have not been normal, you have to realize that there is no normal anymore. Markets of all nature have been propped up by governments everywhere. Markets are at the root of modern day capitalism, which is the systematic process that allows 6 billion humans (which share 99% of their DNA with a chimp) to exist together peacefully on earth. What governments have been doing in recent history is not normal and is not right. It appears that now we are at the beginning of the end of this "phony capitalism". It sounds almost out of this world to be talking about things like this.

How will the end look like? I really don't want to find out. I guess it's normal to fear the future - but, when the present looks this bad. It's almost better not to think of it. Capitalism has been the driving mechanism for human society, progress and prosperity in modern history. It is this driving engine that is now about to fail completely.

At the very minimum, I think every good thing that we have taken for granted in our western lifestyle - and there are so many things that it's almost impossible to imagine how we would live without them - will soon come under question. At the maximum, we are looking at total social collapse in all countries, anarchy and war never seen before on this planet. It's my opinion that every one of us will feel the effects of the coming economic and social meltdown. What is coming could easily be worse than anything seen before in modern history. The only comparison we have is the 1930's or early 1940's .... well, things can get alot worse than that.

What did we all do to deserve this? Nothing. We just had the misfortune to be alive on planet earth during this deeply troubling period.

The world is starting down the barrel of a loaded gun right now. Every human being is on the verge of having his/her society and social fabric completely destroyed and (taking an optimistic view about the future) re-written.

I really hope something good comes out of all of the pain and suffering that is about to arrive on our doorsteps.

Not sure what good can come from posting this message of doom here on the forums. I guess I'd like to be proved wrong.

The Founding Fathers actually took personal accountability with their comms privacy.  They were all [justifiably] paranoid that postmasters and others would intercept their messages. These pioneers continue to put modern day girlie-man politicians, with their fake e-mails and nudie picture hacking, to shame.

I was surfing around to learn more about steganography, nomenclators, and ciphers (for blockchain data holding applications). I stumbled upon this little gem in the Library of Congress.  I knew Jefferson and Franklin dabbled in ciphers & cryptography, but had never heard of James Madison's (father of the constitution) penchant for code.

This is funny to read in the prism of our current US privacy debate.

From Lib of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/mjmciphers.html

"As a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, while secretary of state, and in his personal correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison feared constantly that unauthorized people would seek to read his private and public correspondence. To deter such intrusions, he resorted to a variety of codes and ciphers…

"Like others, Madison often tired of using the time-consuming Lovell ciphers. As a result, he and Randolph tried to circumvent the codes with a secret seal…

"In his correspondence with James Monroe, a fellow Virginia delegate and another future president, Madison used a major 600-element nomenclator. A nomenclator is a list with numbers keyed to the same number of words or parts of words (elements) in a random pattern and then used as their substitutes in an encoded message. Madison thought that such a code "will answer every purpose"…

"Madison and Jefferson regularly used a 1,700-element nomenclator called "Jefferson's Third Cypher." As Madison wrote to Jefferson on October 17, 1784, "My two last neither of which were in cypher were written as will be all future ones in the same situation, in expectation of their being read by the postmasters. I am well assured that this is the fate of all the other Countries of Europe. Having now the use of my cypher I can write without restraint.

"When Jefferson returned from France, he and Madison abandoned their ciphers until the heated political animosities of the 1790s led them to resume the use of the one devised in 1785. (See, for example, Jefferson to Madison, August 11 and 18, 1793.) Fearing that their letters would be read by postmasters of the opposing Federalist Party, they relied on private conversations for most of their political discussions, left letters unsigned, and began to encipher their letters when forced to put pen to paper about a potentially embarrassing or controversial topic."

Since this is gonna inevitably happen in the next decade, this should be something we should at least be aware of. Where would you want to be if this happens, and where would you most definitely NOT want to be?

I think everyone in their right mind is disgusted by this. 

Speaking of which...I'd love to start browsing pretty exclusively with Tor just for more privacy, but Google searches don't work in Tor for me.  Does anyone know how to fix this, or alternatively, a different search engine that doesn't have this problem?

You SERIOUSLY need to spend much more time in the Economics/Politics section of this forum. You have a lot to learn. This was a very long and very thought out post, and you should be proud of it, but there are just so many misconceptions in it regarding the way people and markets work that it would take for ever to address them all. Sorry.