What we currently have is corporations acting as arms of the government, and government acting as an arm of corporations, to the point where they aren't very distinguishable.
The one obvious telltale is the size of the Golden Parachute.
If there is a core of deep, personal knowledge about early upsets in the NCAA BB Tourney, it would definitely be at Kansas University (KU). Oh; I meant University of Kansas: UK. No, wait... what?
Beancounters would have whined the Spanish didn't steal *enough* gold from the New World (even though they stole so much, it devalued Au in Western Europe).
Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing fits comfortably into the school of craven greed that nearly created a global depression.
By drug free, they are referring to not requiring life-long treatment with immune suppressants. That's a REALLY big deal.
And a really bad deal for Big Pharma profits, so I'm not expecting this to become ubiqutious anytime soon. No drug dealer likes losing their lifetime customers.
when he will get the visit from humorless dicks in dark suits wearing mirrored sunglasses, asking about his finances and political leanings - assuming he hasn't already.
If it really was anonymous, who's a loose group of hackers trying to change/make things better, what was their goal?
Mainly - if AnonymousRC is to be beleved - Panda's head was talking shit about their helping the FBI and all the arrests, thus the karma blowback.
Putting politics (if their actions and the overkill reactions can be termed politics) aside, should anyone be using the antivirus products of a company that got pwned hard by hackers? At least they announced it, but it makes you wonder how many black hats have already picked Panda's cheeseball locks.
Frank Herbert's - no, not Dune - Destination: Void. The tech really isn't central to the story, so it holds up pretty well, IMHO. This the only sci-fi story I can think of that could successfuly be turned into a play. 1000+ comments; shame no one will read this. Ah, well.
BTW: why is Adobe allowed to - by default - check the box on their flash updates to also install Norton on the victims computer? How many trusting civilians (think: grandmothers) end up with borked computers with conflicting AV programs solely due to corporate greed? I'm willing to bet this check box (if it even appears) is NOT checked by default in the EU market. Man, I miss government FOR the people...
You could go around 100 years back and comment on the decline of the British Empire. On the whole, the UK weathered this dramatic change fairly well (no viking hordes or precursor Red Dawn equivalent). We can only hope (and prepare for) the same in the US - though we might have too many selfish greedy bastards to survive our transistion without landing in the third world.
I forget where, but somewhere in the Souteast US, they erected a statue of a Boll Weevil bug, honoring the unintended consequence of the weevils destroying the cotton crop, which forced them to deversify their crops, thus avoiding anymore destructive, near universal crop failures.
Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan. Maybe not that 'forgotten', but the characters' process of discovering the real story was interesting (though I despise US procedural cop shows).
if the grocery chains stuck to their current policies, the delivery folks wouldn't be paid dick, nor would they be full time (to avoid paying them any benefits including health insurance). But now they know where all the well-healed folks in town live - and when they won't be home, or are home... alone.
After losing their anti-science suppression fight, they are now breezily dismissing these findings as irrelevant, as Tier 3 and 4 engines are so much cleaner now, due to regulations they also bitterly fought against.
It has always struck me as such a waste of time and effort to place items in a shopping cart only to have to take them out to scan them, and put them right back in. If we could have them 'pre-scanned' when placed in the cart, leaving only a final review and payment, we could put the items in our own bags from the get go. I can only assume this still hasn't come to pass for the fear of shoplifters and bar code fakery.
The only parents who have such luxuries of time and money will be (and have always been) fine. You don't re-do (or reading between the lines: kill) public education for their benefit. You adequately fund public education (decouple spending from property taxes which are always cut by the already rich) for the ever-increasing sector of the contemporary US economy: the working poor - who literally don't have time for such niceties as attending school district or local government meetings (almost always held in suburban enclaves, btw).
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The one obvious telltale is the size of the Golden Parachute.
If there is a core of deep, personal knowledge about early upsets in the NCAA BB Tourney, it would definitely be at Kansas University (KU). Oh; I meant University of Kansas: UK. No, wait... what?
Beancounters would have whined the Spanish didn't steal *enough* gold from the New World (even though they stole so much, it devalued Au in Western Europe).
Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing fits comfortably into the school of craven greed that nearly created a global depression.
But it is an Mammon nation - which explains why we have a percentage-wise prison population larger than even China. Follow the money.
And a really bad deal for Big Pharma profits, so I'm not expecting this to become ubiqutious anytime soon. No drug dealer likes losing their lifetime customers.
to the rapidly-approaching day when I will enjoy the same safety and security as the citizens of North Korea.
Zounds! Next, you'll be showing me an ebook about Gambling in Casablanca (for an exorbitant fee)!
when he will get the visit from humorless dicks in dark suits wearing mirrored sunglasses, asking about his finances and political leanings - assuming he hasn't already.
"Apple Steals from OpenStreetMap"
Given the products and services they sell, of course that's their spin.
Mainly - if AnonymousRC is to be beleved - Panda's head was talking shit about their helping the FBI and all the arrests, thus the karma blowback.
Putting politics (if their actions and the overkill reactions can be termed politics) aside, should anyone be using the antivirus products of a company that got pwned hard by hackers? At least they announced it, but it makes you wonder how many black hats have already picked Panda's cheeseball locks.
Frank Herbert's - no, not Dune - Destination: Void. The tech really isn't central to the story, so it holds up pretty well, IMHO. This the only sci-fi story I can think of that could successfuly be turned into a play. 1000+ comments; shame no one will read this. Ah, well.
BTW: why is Adobe allowed to - by default - check the box on their flash updates to also install Norton on the victims computer? How many trusting civilians (think: grandmothers) end up with borked computers with conflicting AV programs solely due to corporate greed? I'm willing to bet this check box (if it even appears) is NOT checked by default in the EU market. Man, I miss government FOR the people...
You could go around 100 years back and comment on the decline of the British Empire. On the whole, the UK weathered this dramatic change fairly well (no viking hordes or precursor Red Dawn equivalent). We can only hope (and prepare for) the same in the US - though we might have too many selfish greedy bastards to survive our transistion without landing in the third world.
I forget where, but somewhere in the Souteast US, they erected a statue of a Boll Weevil bug, honoring the unintended consequence of the weevils destroying the cotton crop, which forced them to deversify their crops, thus avoiding anymore destructive, near universal crop failures.
Sounds kinda hot.
Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan. Maybe not that 'forgotten', but the characters' process of discovering the real story was interesting (though I despise US procedural cop shows).
if the grocery chains stuck to their current policies, the delivery folks wouldn't be paid dick, nor would they be full time (to avoid paying them any benefits including health insurance). But now they know where all the well-healed folks in town live - and when they won't be home, or are home... alone.
After losing their anti-science suppression fight, they are now breezily dismissing these findings as irrelevant, as Tier 3 and 4 engines are so much cleaner now, due to regulations they also bitterly fought against.
It has always struck me as such a waste of time and effort to place items in a shopping cart only to have to take them out to scan them, and put them right back in. If we could have them 'pre-scanned' when placed in the cart, leaving only a final review and payment, we could put the items in our own bags from the get go. I can only assume this still hasn't come to pass for the fear of shoplifters and bar code fakery.
"And if that overhead whooshing sound doesn't stop, I will have to terminate this press conference."
I miss the Ferengi...
1: Bush was neither fairly elected (appointed), nor re-elected (Diebold, Ohio).
2: Believing Bush was actually in charge.
Not to be insulting, but he looks like the possible result of David Letterman crossed with Thomas Dolby.
The only parents who have such luxuries of time and money will be (and have always been) fine. You don't re-do (or reading between the lines: kill) public education for their benefit. You adequately fund public education (decouple spending from property taxes which are always cut by the already rich) for the ever-increasing sector of the contemporary US economy: the working poor - who literally don't have time for such niceties as attending school district or local government meetings (almost always held in suburban enclaves, btw).