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Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping
MFingS writes: According to an article at Motherboard, shortly after 9/11, NSA director Michael Hayden requested extra computing power and Carly Fiorina, then CEO of HP, responded by re-routing truckloads of servers to the agency. Fiorina acknowledged providing the servers to the NSA during an interview with Michael Isikoff in which she defended warrantless surveillance (as well as waterboarding) and framed her collaboration with the NSA in patriotic terms. Fiorina's compliance with Hayden's request for HP servers is but one episode in a long-running and close relationship between the GOP presidential hopeful and U.S. intelligence agencies.
That stuff about small government is for the chumps. The NSA and the rest of the police agencies are there to protect US capitalism. HP is a big US corporation. There's no reason in the world why she wouldn't cooperate with the NSA. Nor is there any reason why any other big corporation won't, whatever they may say publicly.
It's like she's bragging that she supplied the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and for a very reasonable fee.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I suspect that sometime between election day and inauguration day a small committee sits down with the president elect and explains to them that they will be allowed use the turn signal and the horn, but not the steering wheel or the pedals.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Dammit I don't care that I'm Godwinning but enough of my family are dead because IBM took that same bullshit, "Hey I'm just making profit lol it's not my problem!" line when selling to Germany in the '30s.
An ethical code is more fundamental than an economic practice. Whether I'm telling Bob how to get past the guards or selling him the equipment needed to get into the safe, if I have a good idea what he's up to then you better fucking believe I'm morally responsible when the bank is robbed.
The duty of every human being is to act ethically. Their "job" is constrained by their ethics. A position which requires the holder to ignore ethics is unethical to fill, and nobody should be doing it. Nobody is ever just following orders - especially not the guys at the top of the food chain who have all of the knowledge and all of the power to say no and all of the alternatives without causing them significant hardship.
Note that Carly's undergraduate degree is in medieval history. This (of course) has prepared her for her previous position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and will surely come in handy should she ever become elected to office.
I worked for HP under Carly's reign. Frankly, she'd sell her mother to get what she wants.
I find it interesting that she didn't mention any of this or the "flopping fetus" video crap when running for California Senate.
What's really scary is that some people actually believe she'd be a good President.
I guess we're scraping the bottom, given our choices.
This would assume that the outcome is not predetermined, and in the big (President, Governor, US Senate//Congress) I have come to believe it's fully controlled.
As much as you may disagree with him, look at the press coverage of Ron Paul. My kid in 7th grade noticed how any time they showed a clip on TV it portrayed him as crazy, and the commentary was always about him being crazy. Now look at Hillary who has not dropped out and the Democrats only other candidate is "Socialist Bernie Sanders". Listen to the messages, and the brainwashing becomes pretty obvious. Subtle, but obvious.
There is a whole lot of psychology involved in these campaigns, and even though people claim politicians are stupid that's not really true.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
my dream is trump carries the nomination
and sanders beats hillary (not impossible, she's weak, bland, uninspiring... i'm not sure why republicans get so upset about her, it's not possible to feel great hate nor love for someone so boring)
sanders can't beat a rubio (i don't know why, but people have a thing for plastic liars in suits, the man is a lizard)
but sanders can beat a trump
can you imagine a president sanders? i would weep for joy
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Note that Carly's undergraduate degree is in medieval history. This (of course) has prepared her for her previous position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and will surely come in handy should she ever become elected to office.
I worked for HP under Carly's reign. Frankly, she'd sell her mother to get what she wants.
I find it interesting that she didn't mention any of this or the "flopping fetus" video crap when running for California Senate.
What's really scary is that some people actually believe she'd be a good President.
I guess we're scraping the bottom, given our choices.
And she used that 'knowledge' of hers to include this priceless quote in her speech just weeks after 9/11:
I’ll end by telling a story.
There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.
It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.
Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.
While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.
Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.
And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population–that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions.
This kind of enlightened leadership — leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage — led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.
This disgraceful polemic was taken to shreds by an Assyrian who took her speech apart
Dear Madame Fiorina:
It is with great interest that I read your speech delivered on September 26, 2001, titled "Technology, Business and Our way of Life: What's Next" [sic]. I was particularly interested in the story you told at the end of your speech, about the Arab/Muslim civilization. As an Assyrian, a non-Arab, Christian native of the Middle East, whose ancestors reach back to 5000 B.C., I wish to clarify some points you made i
because benghazi and the emails are fucking jokes. she didn't do a damn thing wrong in benghazi. she did do something wrong with the emails. but it's a minor fucking thing, and the republicans treat it like she handed top of the line drones to north korea. it's such a pile of trumped up bullshit. just like with planned parenthood: lies, edited footage to suggest different meaning, pictures of unrelated miscarriages. they even tried to plead the fifth when the original footage was asked for! all to try to get rid of an organization focused on women's health, and isn't even legally able to use federal money for abortions. the republicans are pretty pathetic in how they substitute deranged outrage for reality. do they think they fool anyone besides some low iq hysterical grandma?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it