With all the wholesale raping of employee pension funds and wholesale dumping of jobs, it's only normal that any employee will cover his ass by making sure he can inflict maximum damage to a company when it will screw him.
Especially given your apparant predilection toward antisemitism.
The fact is that throughout history, jews have been hated troughout Europe, and that the jews are taking advantage of the holocaust to justify compensating by engaging in outrageous behaviour, knowing full well that any criticism will be instantly stopped by shouting "ANTISEMITE"!!!
Well, it doesn't work for me, bubba. I have no problem pointing out bullshit when it happens, and I certainly don't go around licking jewish arses like many people are very fond to do.
Must be because I live in a place where the jews don't control much of the media (thanks to a prominent State-owned media organization that is the standard against which private media is compared to) and thus the media has no problem reporting abhorrent jewish behaviour so the people can make BALANCED AND INFORMED judgments towards the jews, and thus, dismiss the customary "ANTISEMITE" accusations (such as yours) as nothing but a smokescreen of bullshit.
If you fucking stupid yankees got out of your shithole more often and see the world otherwise than through your rosy media glasses, you'd get a clue that the jews inspire a healthy dose of disdain outside the USA.
Bullshit PC description (Score:1) by Andrew Tanenbaum (896883)
I hate how, when an article comes up about a sensitive issue, 3/4 of the summary text is dedicated to doubletalk.
"[..]unfounded notions of racial superiority[..]" --- yet the linked article states that they may in fact not be so unfounded. If a group can be as a whole different, there's no reason that a group can't be as a whole superior.
How fitting the above has been written by a member of the "chosen race" that has been hated throughout Europe to unprecedented levels...
But like phrenology, a wrong idea that held a basic truth (the brain's functions are indeed localized), the concept of national character could turn out to be not entirely baseless, at least when applied to societies shaped by specific evolutionary pressures.
What bullshit! All men are the same!!! National characters are shaped by History, and very often, History is dictated by Geography.
An example: the british live on a poor island, which was soon depleted of it's natural ressources. In order to avoid starving, they simply went overseas to get the essential ressources they lacked at home. Hence they developped a commercial empire, and the ability to do trading on a global scale was elevated to a "desirable national characteristic", which explains that the anglo-saxons are the most imperialistic people on Earth.
Nearby France is a rich country, overflowing with bountiful ressources. It followed Britain by constituting an empire, yes, but this was just for copycat purposes; it never vitally needed an empire just to survive, and the best illustration of this is, after World War II, when both Britain and France lost their empires, Britain sunk into decadence and decrepitude, whilst France had the highest economic growth during the 30 years following the War.
And this is also why in France, excelling in the Arts and Science is viewed as a "desirable national characteristic", whilst commerce is viewed as a vile, unwholesome, fithy activity.
You could watch Mozart's opera, "The Magic Flute" at home on DVD or you could go to the theatre and watch it live (and you score points with your girlfriend to boot).
Feh. At home, you can actually FUCK the girlfriend during the movie.
Also, the guy behind me had stinky feet that he insisted on putting on the back of my chair, some guy at the back of the theatre stood up proclaiming that someone had farted and that it stank like shit (duh!) and stormed down to the front to sit. Admittedly the fart was pretty nasty. Anyway, the fact is, the cinematic experience can be closely replicated at home
Indeed, my feet can smell quite nasty and my farts are rather peerless when it comes to smelliness. The only thing I don't replicate from the theater is popcorn expensiveness and beer unavailability.
DRM is just one of the technical issues. The DCI specification includes transport, subtitling (via XML), compression, watermarking, multiple audio/language tracks and of course encryption. By the way, the encryption isn't just on the hard drive/fiber/satellite. It extends all the way to between the server and the projector so that a professional "hacker" can't decrypt the bit stream between the two. I understand it goes just about all the way to the imaging chip.
And, despite all this, they still think that it won't get cracked?
Poor fuckers!!! The higher they go, the higher they'll fall from...
I'm not sure why the movie industry doesn't get that one of the reasons (besides movie/story quality) that attendance is going down is because tickets cost too much, and snacks cost way too much. Price everything reasonably, and you'll get more volume. I don't need 17.3 gallons of Coca-Cola for ONLY $25!!! I want a reasonable serving that you don't gouge me for. And the same goes for everything else you're selling. Why do you think so many people cruise right on by the snack bar and straight into the theater?
I hang around with a friend who comes from $SOUTHEAST_ASIA_COUNTRY_FULL_OF_CUTE_PEOPLE, where the national sport is seeing as much movie as possible on the same ticket (just kidding).
Each time we go to the movies, we see at least two movies on the same ticket (how else was I able to see "Legally Blonde II"? By not paying!!! - as of Legally Blonde, I downloaded it - no, I'm not scared of downloading stuff).
Then, some months ago, I met that high-school friend who, amongst other things, was a movie house manager. As he told me tid-bits about the job, I asked him how come it's so easy to hop from one theater to the other... He said:
Oh, we don't care much about that. As long as people get a popcorn indigestion, we don't mind if they sneak from one movie to the other...
After all, popcorn markup is on the order of 8000%... (Each time I enjoy a (downloaded) movie at home, I whip up a batch of popcorn. Not the microwave one, but the raw one in a shaken pot (not stirred). Well, my yearly popcorn bill is about $4.00). Of course, this is not a fair comparison, because we drink beer with the movie...
It's a shame that Canada is systematically telling immigrants who come to Québec that they don't need to learn french, otherwise, we would not have had to force them to do that.
(I think that Canada doesn't even have anything close to these two, except maybe Quebec language laws.)
Québec language laws have nothing to do with censorship. They only apply to COMMERCIAL SPEECH, which even in first-amendment USA is far from being absolutely and totally protected.
Québec language laws simply prohibit merchants from hinting to immigrants that they can expect to be able to live in Québec without learning french. They solely prohibit proeminence of english, and have absolutely no aim at what is said, which would be censorship.
I just dont understand the American obsession agaisnt government but not at all agaisnt big business?
This goes back to 1215, when the magna carta was extorted from a weak king by ruthless barons.
The barons managed to wrench some powers that the King had previously held. This significantly weakened the english crown, to the point that eventually, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, the bourgeois were expecting that they could not be ordered about by the State.
This is the origin of the anglo-saxon mindset where everything coming from the State is bad, corrupt and should be viewed with disdain. This attitude led to laissez-faire capitalism with it's horrid social consequences throughout the World.
Big businesses being a relatively recent development, they haven't had time to foster as much discontent and distrust as 3/4 of millenium of magna-carta has been able to do in the collective anglo-saxon psyche...
Oh, it will. As soon as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela switch to Euros to get paid for their oil, the Dollar will take such a plunge that the US economy will never recover before at least a generation, given how much the US has squandered it's own domestic manufacturing capability.
Without that, the US will **NOT** be able to generate any wealth at all to repay it's huge international debt.
Saddam was just about to switch to Euros for Irak's oil, because he found out he made more money in Euros than in dollas. This is the real reason why the US invaded: it wanted to send a clear message to other "rogue" states like Venezuela or Iran that it will not tolerate anything that could undermine it's currency that is essentially based upon what people think of it. And when more and more people dump the dollar, people will realize thatit's more and more based on bullshit.
In American, we carry the burden of our parents on our heads so much that by the time we'll retire, we'll have to pass our our expenses to the next generation. I'm not sure this is that much different. Instead of being able to provide for ourselves from the get-go, we're stuck in an endless loop of work, pay taxes, and work more. I exited the system as best as I could and have found more happiness and wealth than ever before.
Could it be that they have to have a bigger house, lawnmower, swimming pool, car than the Joneses?
I see opportunities for growth in India, I see almost none hear.
Well, why don't you go there and grow yourself, unhindered by that big bad government here that won't let you buy children (and their firstborns) as slaves???
When corporations "ran the country" decades ago, they did so because they were the government. I'm not saying end all government tomorrow, let's just start with downsizing the federal government about 90% and giving power back to the States, the Cities and the People.
You swallowed the big croporate line, hook and sinker. They made you believe that government is bad because only government can prevent them from sucking your blood and pissing in your drinking water.
Their idea is to totally discredit politics and politicians, and eventually democracy itself, so, one day, when some guy will come around saying "hey, all that democracy bullshit is not working, vote for me, and I'll get rid of it all", people will actually vote for him.
The free market doesn't work on situations like this. They're called externalities, and covered in econ 101. A course I become more increasingly sure no libertarian has ever taken.
Externalities age overlooked by libertarians because their essential "free lunch killer" qualities...
Libertarian theory is pretty straightforward. LewRockwell.com covers this kind of issue on occasion so I'm sure you've seen all of this before. Simply put, if you don't own it, you can't pollute it, at least not without the consent of whoever does. If you do pollute it then you are responsible for cleaning it up, and appropriately compensating those harmed by it. If the harm is irreparable then it becomes a criminal matter.
And, pray tell, which inexistent government under libertarian rule will have the power to prevent and force pollution cleanup? And, more importantly, with which nonexistent taxes it will pay for that enforcement???
Industry would look very different in a libertarian society. It would exist, but with no subsidies (including no right to pollute other people's air, water, land, etc.) and no regulations save those designed to protect against imminent and irreparable harm to life, liberty or property, and even these regulations would likely be enforced by insurance entities, not a government.
Do you live in Disneyland? Which insurance company will willingly forfeit a significant portion of it's sacro-sanct bottom-line in order to enforce it's own insurance policies???
And with the zillions insurance companies out there, figuring out who is responsible for bailing-out the cleanup costs is gonna be a nightmare just like figuring out a medical procedure!!!
Pollution is a very difficult situation for me. I'm not sure what the answer is, and it is one of about 3 points that I am still trying to resolve mentally (and financially).
That's because your libertarian head is totally unable to cope with the concept of "public good" being more important than "private good".
In your head, "what is good for General Motors is good for the whole world".
In the end, pollution can ONLY be controlled through voluntary desire. If people really want to end pollution, they need to be informed by others in who is the worst polluters, and we need to boycott those companies. If no one boycotts, I can only believe that no one cares, in which case the problem needs to get bad enough for the next generation to realize the error of their parents.
Only government can control pollution, because it alone has the power to punish polluters.
The public at large does not give a flying fuck about the environment, given how ready they are to jump in their trucks to drive in the urban sprawl.
The only time they give a shit is when there's an oil spill in their backyards; they then become NIMBYies, but they will tolerate any abuse as long as they're able to drive their cars to their 'burbs.
I'll take this one step further and state that the commanders over there are actively misinforming the troops about the reason why we/they are over there. Look at Zogby's recent poll of the troops stationed in Iraq and tell me why 90% of them think they're fighting because of what Saddam did to us on 9/11. You don't get numbers like that unless there is active collusion and misinformation taking place.
This is strange. I distinctively recall some Radio-Canada (french CBC) embedded journalists interviewing some soldiers, during GWII.
One soldier simply said "... even the first Gulf war was not really justified. Britain partitionned Kuwaït off Irak in 1960, and Saddam was perfectly justified in wanting to have it back".
Dunno if the soldier was court-martialled aftwerwards for blurting-out the truth...
This is definitely the way to go. With huge hard-disks that offer capacities beyond tape drives, it is less and less feasible to use traditionnal tape-based backup systems in many organizations, if only by the time taken by the frigging tape drive...
None, whatsoever. However, users are warned that e-mail is not backed-up and subject to being erased any time. So if people want to keep stuff, it's their responsibility to save and archive the stuff (on backed-up servers).
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With all the wholesale raping of employee pension funds and wholesale dumping of jobs, it's only normal that any employee will cover his ass by making sure he can inflict maximum damage to a company when it will screw him.
Well, it doesn't work for me, bubba. I have no problem pointing out bullshit when it happens, and I certainly don't go around licking jewish arses like many people are very fond to do.
Must be because I live in a place where the jews don't control much of the media (thanks to a prominent State-owned media organization that is the standard against which private media is compared to) and thus the media has no problem reporting abhorrent jewish behaviour so the people can make BALANCED AND INFORMED judgments towards the jews, and thus, dismiss the customary "ANTISEMITE" accusations (such as yours) as nothing but a smokescreen of bullshit.
If you fucking stupid yankees got out of your shithole more often and see the world otherwise than through your rosy media glasses, you'd get a clue that the jews inspire a healthy dose of disdain outside the USA.
An example: the british live on a poor island, which was soon depleted of it's natural ressources. In order to avoid starving, they simply went overseas to get the essential ressources they lacked at home. Hence they developped a commercial empire, and the ability to do trading on a global scale was elevated to a "desirable national characteristic", which explains that the anglo-saxons are the most imperialistic people on Earth.
Nearby France is a rich country, overflowing with bountiful ressources. It followed Britain by constituting an empire, yes, but this was just for copycat purposes; it never vitally needed an empire just to survive, and the best illustration of this is, after World War II, when both Britain and France lost their empires, Britain sunk into decadence and decrepitude, whilst France had the highest economic growth during the 30 years following the War.
And this is also why in France, excelling in the Arts and Science is viewed as a "desirable national characteristic", whilst commerce is viewed as a vile, unwholesome, fithy activity.
Poor fuckers!!! The higher they go, the higher they'll fall from...
Each time we go to the movies, we see at least two movies on the same ticket (how else was I able to see "Legally Blonde II"? By not paying!!! - as of Legally Blonde, I downloaded it - no, I'm not scared of downloading stuff).
Then, some months ago, I met that high-school friend who, amongst other things, was a movie house manager. As he told me tid-bits about the job, I asked him how come it's so easy to hop from one theater to the other... He said:
After all, popcorn markup is on the order of 8000%... (Each time I enjoy a (downloaded) movie at home, I whip up a batch of popcorn. Not the microwave one, but the raw one in a shaken pot (not stirred). Well, my yearly popcorn bill is about $4.00). Of course, this is not a fair comparison, because we drink beer with the movie...It's a shame that Canada is systematically telling immigrants who come to Québec that they don't need to learn french, otherwise, we would not have had to force them to do that.
Québec language laws simply prohibit merchants from hinting to immigrants that they can expect to be able to live in Québec without learning french. They solely prohibit proeminence of english, and have absolutely no aim at what is said, which would be censorship.
The barons managed to wrench some powers that the King had previously held. This significantly weakened the english crown, to the point that eventually, at the time of the Industrial Revolution, the bourgeois were expecting that they could not be ordered about by the State.
This is the origin of the anglo-saxon mindset where everything coming from the State is bad, corrupt and should be viewed with disdain. This attitude led to laissez-faire capitalism with it's horrid social consequences throughout the World.
Big businesses being a relatively recent development, they haven't had time to foster as much discontent and distrust as 3/4 of millenium of magna-carta has been able to do in the collective anglo-saxon psyche...
Without that, the US will **NOT** be able to generate any wealth at all to repay it's huge international debt.
Saddam was just about to switch to Euros for Irak's oil, because he found out he made more money in Euros than in dollas. This is the real reason why the US invaded: it wanted to send a clear message to other "rogue" states like Venezuela or Iran that it will not tolerate anything that could undermine it's currency that is essentially based upon what people think of it. And when more and more people dump the dollar, people will realize thatit's more and more based on bullshit.
Their idea is to totally discredit politics and politicians, and eventually democracy itself, so, one day, when some guy will come around saying "hey, all that democracy bullshit is not working, vote for me, and I'll get rid of it all", people will actually vote for him.
Just like the germans voted for Hitler in 1933.
And with the zillions insurance companies out there, figuring out who is responsible for bailing-out the cleanup costs is gonna be a nightmare just like figuring out a medical procedure!!!
In your head, "what is good for General Motors is good for the whole world".
Only government can control pollution, because it alone has the power to punish polluters.The public at large does not give a flying fuck about the environment, given how ready they are to jump in their trucks to drive in the urban sprawl.
The only time they give a shit is when there's an oil spill in their backyards; they then become NIMBYies, but they will tolerate any abuse as long as they're able to drive their cars to their 'burbs.
One soldier simply said "... even the first Gulf war was not really justified. Britain partitionned Kuwaït off Irak in 1960, and Saddam was perfectly justified in wanting to have it back".
Dunno if the soldier was court-martialled aftwerwards for blurting-out the truth...
We are NOT legally obligated to keep any e-mail. Period.
Here is the idea behind the setup I am currently using: Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync.
None, whatsoever. However, users are warned that e-mail is not backed-up and subject to being erased any time. So if people want to keep stuff, it's their responsibility to save and archive the stuff (on backed-up servers).
Could this be the sign of yet another bubble forming???
Let me guess. It's serial number will be "8080"...
They're all spending of money you didn't earn!!!