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  1. Re:God forgive me, but.... by gbjbaanb · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Anatomy of Pump n' Dump Stock Spamming

    in reality, not trading for years is the key to making money - forget the dodgy, daytrading, low cap, high risk stocks, and stick to established ones that pay a decent dividend, have decent cover, forecast growth and you can just forget them for years.

    As a perfect example, read this about a stock tipping newsletter

    or, the Story of Doris, for further elucidation.

  2. Nothing compared to Tuesday's Dictatorship Bill by UpnAtom · · Score: 5, Informative · on UK Government Wants Private Encryption Keys

    Or the human cattle ID cards Act, which creates by far the world's most intrusive Big Brother database on citizens by linking up 5+ previously unconnected databases...

    The Dictatorship Bill, also called the Abolition of Parliament Bill, Totalitarianism Bill or (by the Govt) the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill is nothing less than a naked grab for power. After being amended 3x, the Bill was passed in the form described here.

    LRRB enables ministers to rewrite our constitution with only rudimentary scrutiny. Consider the extraordinary mass surveillance / coersion implications of the ID Cards Act. Even the well-organised opposition could not stop this legislation.

    What chance then of:
    1. Spotting obscure but deeply damaging clauses hidden in the boring legislation?
    2. Motivating the Tories, LibDems and enough New Labour drones to subsequently block it?

    LRRB is then carte blanche for Blair to do what he will with this country. What can we deduce of his plans?

    New Labour already rejected an amendment to stop LRRB re-writing our most important constitutional laws. They then promised to introduce new amendments fulfilling the same thing. Our skepticism was once again justified. This is more than enough evidence that Blair wants dictatorial powers.

    LRRB is obviously a precursor to passing laws which Parliament wouldn't otherwise pass.

    Considering the deeply scary laws he's got through Parliament, the likelihood is that he wants something so badly, and so unpalatable that he won't even risk presenting it for proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

    - He does not need Parliamentary approval to invade Iran
    - He already has Hitler's Enabling Act.
    - He has already passed RIPA and the ID Cards Act for more Big Brother snooping than anything China or North Korea have.
    - He already has locked up people for 3 years without trial or even being questioned - although he has been twice been 'told off' for breaching the Human Rights Act in this way.

    I did not believe that he needs LRRB to repeal the HRA - indeed one welcome amendment was to exclude the HRA from being amended. When every other explanation has been ruled out, whatever remains, however unlikely, must be considered. I think something much worse is coming although I dread to think what.

  3. Re:No, no, no... by An+Onerous+Coward · · Score: 1 · on Cleaner Air Adds To Global Warming
    Yeah, it's so hard to do business in the U.S.
    GLOBAL corporate profits are set to continue to boom this year... led again by Wall Street where the past few weeks have seen companies putting investors on notice that earnings are going to be better, not worse, than expected.

    US corporate profits boomed again in 2005, rising 14.6%...
    If the government is to blame for anything here, it's for sitting on their asses and watching inflation eat the minimum wage into irrelevance.

    Conserving energy and reducing our need for resources will not "strangle our economies." Quite the contrary, it will prepare us for a much richer and cleaner life down the road. Stripping the environment of its long-term health all in the name of God, Oil, and Suburban Tract Housing isn't making life any better for us, much less for those who will have to clean up the mess we've left behind.

    We don't want to halt industrial progress. We want to guarantee the future happiness of mankind. That requires that we learn to do more with less, and preserve large amounts of land in its natural state. But despite your mealy-mouthed niceties about "being good stewards", we simply haven't been. We've burned through environmental capital like a dot-com with VC funding and nerf guns.

    Oh, and your whole spiel about how we can't know the environmental devastation we might wreak by reducing our CO2 emissions is just hot air.
  4. Did anyone read the original? by Wengero · · Score: 1 · on Single-play DVDs a Hoax

    In the original article http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?Micr osoft%20invents%20a%20'one-play%20only'%20DVD%20to %20combat%20Hollywood%20piracy&StoryID=B7480068-F1 F6-4C7B-A7A5-EEFCED0320CB&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991- 4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE it says: Chairman Bill Gates has been working on a solution to the film industry's piracy problem since making a now legendary pitch to the industry in September 2002. Showing a video of himself dressed in a sailor suit pretending to audition for the blockbuster Titanic, Gates pitched Hollywood with the proposition that only Microsoft could solve its piracy problem by making its DRM software a standard across every home entertainment playback and recording device.

  5. Re:Galileo? by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 3, Informative · on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown

    That was the original intention, however the US threw a strop over the fact that they couldn't blackout chunks of galileo (probably thanks to US threats to destroy the satellites if they couldn't turn them off). The EU caved over the issue and agreed to "harmonise the technology of the networks" - essentially, Galileo will work in sync with GPS and the US blackout of GPS will work on Galileo

  6. It's not about the oil being all gone... by Scareduck · · Score: 1 · on Environmentally Friendly Race Cars, Military Vehicles
    ... it's about the cheap oil being all gone.

    Quite frankly, I'm surprised /. hasn't had any discussion on the subject of Peak Oil. Geologists following the models of King Hubbert have projected that oil production will peak within about two years, never to increase again. With India and China becoming big oil consumers, we don't have a choice anymore but to think about the energy cost of everything we do. When oil company executives start telling you we're running out of oil, soon, and forever, why isn't anyone listening?