Bribery is a very big problem in the states. Whether you admit it or not campaigns run on $$ and laws are there to protect assets that are neither yours nor mine. But $$ to people running the show with the NSA and others.
Tons of crap about "saving the children" yet we throw them under the buss for big oil?
The war in Afghan is not a war of liberation or even a good war. They brainwash soldiers into thinking they are doing the world some good. Its a mercenary war for political interests, money, drugs, oil, power. And the U.S. is getting played like a fool. The corrupt people getting played don't care. The slaves serving their masters as mercenaries turn a blind eye or are delusional (well a very few aren't). Some are desperate.
You cite the very exact reasons why this is such a huge problem.
Oh well. Corruption runs deep and fully and has since before the railroads and Thomas Jefferson.
Yeah and well some developers cant even say "go pound sand into your little cry-holes" then you have genuine fupa's like Sim City which aught to be apologized for. But you have some corporate CEO guy from a publisher put out an article about how bad their consumers are. Yeah their going to get backlash. Its not a 1 way street this "abusive" wining crap.
Also in this day an age, I can see peoples reactions to a failure being colored very much by a companies reputation. EA for example bears very little good will. I don't understand why people buy their products. It is some kind of disorder of our culture. That someone can simultaneously be enraged at and consume a corporations products.
It seems like your studio must have made some pretty drastic mistakes.... thats some irrational and creepy behavior... and very disconcerting. But seriously? To get that kind of results from a crowd at a concert would take a lot of sheer effort in the wrong direction. Perhaps it was exacerbated by a non-apologetic response on your studios part. Regardless of the receptionists experience (would have been better to not even answer the phone at that point).
And its just propaganda for online censorship of freedom of expression. Death threats aren't the main subject, nor are they even a problem as there is already framework in place to deal with such speech.
Pretty soon it will be illegal to "criticize" any works without an agreement in writing from a pair of lawyers and "speech insurance". At the rate people are loosing their shit.
Nah but a fucking shell with an obvious files system and configuration would be great. Its also insecure as fuck... on my moms tablet you have to log the fuck out to power down with NO user credentials... thats like disabled by default in Xf86 since like 1990. No it doesn't replace physical security. But IMO its a big no no. Also wtf it takes 10 mins to find the shut down prompt cause its on the last menu you'd look for it?
Nah windows 8 is a dictatorial piece of crap. And not even designed well with many solid features. I wouldn't mind if it was layed out like a real OS. But it suffers the same issues vista did. Disorganized and obscured to kingdom come.
Lol so fucking up the OS and making it malware is the solution to looking stale? There's at least 10 different solutions to that starting with VECTOR graphics for window rendering.
Windows 8 is a piece of crap it has no excuses. Its ok to be a piece of crap but its nice when those pieces of shits admit it instead of mocking you and pretending to be the most elite leadership material known to mankind.
Windows 8 deserves whatever flack it gets. We have the right to bitch about it and flame it into oblivion.
Though I doubt it will do any good.
Though I don't blame windows 8 for being generally featureless piece of crap missing a command line and any useful IT utilities out of the box. Thats a windows problem in general.
True but you have more liberty to bribe those corrupt politicians in brazil and you have more that go unpunished in the US.
Everyone has 100% liberty. Your liberty is just organized differently from US liberty and everyone in the US has stopped excersising theirs and giving it up.
I wager in many countries theres places to live far away from the power elite who are watching everything you do.
Even China has its pros and cons. Look at the big business investment there.
As far as the human race is concerned liberty is tied directly into how much power and influence you can wield. In America the powerful hand out power to minorities to oppress the rest of us through crazy affirmative action. Welfare programs. Laws that the oppressed don't mind (walmart employees) but that kill young entrepreneurs dead in their tracks.
There is no recourse trust me. Its a lie that you can "move upwards and build empires" on an equal footing with people. You have to impress someone higher up in the food chain and get permission to use their power to oppress others. See Steve Jobs. Other countries and Aristocracies are much more honest about their oppression than the US. Feels no different being poor, having zero wealth, with no bank account in this country. There is ZERO support for me here to do anything about this situation. And I'm reasonable intelligent and able bodied.
But I have to get in line behind the idiots in this country who have fucked up worse then I, or are some perceived minority. And once I get to the front my options are to "lease" property or wealth from a bank or someone else.
There is no frontier, no liberty, no freedom. No self made men. And no real competition.
At this point our cars don't even need to run on gasoline refined from crude oil. But we lack the freedom to do it any other way. Its been explained and cited out 500 different ways from many intelligent speakers on the issue. Yet people will still come on here and argue about the system "working as intended" still.
As well as big oil. I forgot to mention the power and energy and telecommunications monopolies. (who have a stranglehold on your transportation as well)
Even then, what they do once elected could still be 180 if they serve different interests the next time around. Right now its big business, and military industrial. Aka anti terrorism and copyright. As well as the racket that "Insurance" companies are.
Bullshit Toady One and Zach do just fine. Their community is generally less abusive than wows.
But lets face it WoW / Blizz deserves what it gets for catering to the lowest common denominator (exceptions noted). Etc... and the myriad facebook games.
How is this new? Why are you suddenly concerned? I figured this was the norm prior to it becoming mainstream knowledge.
I want to keep saying I told you so every time I see crap like this pop up. (though I would say take it off the frontpage, its not NEWS, OR NEWS FOR NERDS). Even as much as I like making the federalist liberals eat their own shit.
So essentially google retroactively downgraded the status of a majority of its workforce to mere peons.
Welcome to corporate bureaucracy Engies. Not surprised. You can only have so many "chiefs" and "innovators" on the payroll. They probably overfilled positions or used the title to attract people who were overqualified to apply.
Or the economy is doing so bad that it artificially filled low level positions with people more qualified causing them to be hired at incorrect rates. Because believe it or not people do try to throw you a bone now and then.
Life experience and personal experience. Yes its opinion. Its based in some fact. I do not have a laundry list of citations. I think it would require a great deal of research to make a "white paper" arguing for my point of view. I won't. Take it or leave it and use my idea as the basis for your own opinion.
The best place to look is pediatric psychological journals or child mental health for starters. The first 10-15 years of our life has a drastic impact on what our later lives will be. Its a very unscientific and judgmental field. I am not a psychologist. But the info is out there to back up and support my opinion.
Life goes on in many war torn countries. Just go visit the black sea. Somalia. Sure there's plenty of dysfunction. But its not because of the violence per se. The violence is mostly a symptom and other contributing factors like poverty. Inequality. Racism. Lack of freedom. Lack of education are much more directly associated to the dysfunction of those regions.
I really don't want to go argue the scientific merit of my opinion. But feel free to go down that road if you wish.
Pardon me if I'm going to hitch on to your +5 insightful. This whole idea of censoring and removing decensatizing violence from our cultures is all wrong.
In cultures with high levels of violence. People manage just fine. Violence happens and it does not create a mass stampede of stupidity. People are able to resolve their issues with no problem.
When you brainwash people and the only way they know how to deal with anything "dangerous" or "aggressive" is to seek authority. This is when you get serious psychological issues. People who loose their minds over minor problem. The lack of respect. The lack of courtesy.
Media, art, and play are not the places to "pacify" us. It will create worse psychosis than the most horrible warfare known to man. We'd be better off living in the bibles figurative hell.
No one can be enlightened by previous human experience if we cannot share that experience. Through fiction, or history. Legend, or school.
The goal of these draconian rules (regardless of what the people actually implementing them believe) is to create the ultimate strife and slavery and tyranny. The destruction of our minds. Our power. And our ability to cope with life.
Spot on. It's exactly what I would have said to spit in the face of overwhelming force without being fried even worse.
These are the words of a bitter man who has lost all hope that they have any power to do any good. They also clearly show his despise for those in power for not doing the right thing.
Were a long ways off from needing to jam... But seriously there are much better solutions to being spied on. Jamming is a bad one, and last resort. I would reserve only for a war zone. It's far to disruptive to legitimate communication and does more harm than simply switching modes of communication. (Wireless to wired, mail to in person).
Though upon further research I certainly can understand if you don't think democracy is inaccurate for describing America. The reason in the former post for me bringing up democracy, is that our officials are democratically elected.
Good point. Though I have heard it called a democratic republic. The opinion of the majority does hold some sway in our governance, or it did. It's a current point of contention whether it still does to the same affect or is even a good thing.
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Bribery is a very big problem in the states. Whether you admit it or not campaigns run on $$ and laws are there to protect assets that are neither yours nor mine. But $$ to people running the show with the NSA and others.
Tons of crap about "saving the children" yet we throw them under the buss for big oil?
The war in Afghan is not a war of liberation or even a good war. They brainwash soldiers into thinking they are doing the world some good. Its a mercenary war for political interests, money, drugs, oil, power. And the U.S. is getting played like a fool. The corrupt people getting played don't care. The slaves serving their masters as mercenaries turn a blind eye or are delusional (well a very few aren't). Some are desperate.
You cite the very exact reasons why this is such a huge problem.
Oh well. Corruption runs deep and fully and has since before the railroads and Thomas Jefferson.
This would just give us a reason to fight/struggle one last time. Not worried about it.
Prison might be a career move up for half of us scrubs with no power/money/influence. Think of the opportunities...
Yeah and well some developers cant even say "go pound sand into your little cry-holes" then you have genuine fupa's like Sim City which aught to be apologized for. But you have some corporate CEO guy from a publisher put out an article about how bad their consumers are. Yeah their going to get backlash. Its not a 1 way street this "abusive" wining crap.
Also in this day an age, I can see peoples reactions to a failure being colored very much by a companies reputation. EA for example bears very little good will. I don't understand why people buy their products. It is some kind of disorder of our culture. That someone can simultaneously be enraged at and consume a corporations products.
It seems like your studio must have made some pretty drastic mistakes.... thats some irrational and creepy behavior... and very disconcerting. But seriously? To get that kind of results from a crowd at a concert would take a lot of sheer effort in the wrong direction. Perhaps it was exacerbated by a non-apologetic response on your studios part. Regardless of the receptionists experience (would have been better to not even answer the phone at that point).
And its just propaganda for online censorship of freedom of expression. Death threats aren't the main subject, nor are they even a problem as there is already framework in place to deal with such speech.
Pretty soon it will be illegal to "criticize" any works without an agreement in writing from a pair of lawyers and "speech insurance". At the rate people are loosing their shit.
My mom thinks its a piece of shit too. And she rarely steps foot in my basement.
Nah but a fucking shell with an obvious files system and configuration would be great. Its also insecure as fuck... on my moms tablet you have to log the fuck out to power down with NO user credentials... thats like disabled by default in Xf86 since like 1990. No it doesn't replace physical security. But IMO its a big no no. Also wtf it takes 10 mins to find the shut down prompt cause its on the last menu you'd look for it?
Nah windows 8 is a dictatorial piece of crap. And not even designed well with many solid features. I wouldn't mind if it was layed out like a real OS. But it suffers the same issues vista did. Disorganized and obscured to kingdom come.
Lol so fucking up the OS and making it malware is the solution to looking stale? There's at least 10 different solutions to that starting with VECTOR graphics for window rendering.
Windows 8 is a piece of crap it has no excuses. Its ok to be a piece of crap but its nice when those pieces of shits admit it instead of mocking you and pretending to be the most elite leadership material known to mankind.
Windows 8 deserves whatever flack it gets. We have the right to bitch about it and flame it into oblivion.
Though I doubt it will do any good.
Though I don't blame windows 8 for being generally featureless piece of crap missing a command line and any useful IT utilities out of the box. Thats a windows problem in general.
Well there is just one option. Go to prison so I can get some of that affirmative action.
True but you have more liberty to bribe those corrupt politicians in brazil and you have more that go unpunished in the US.
Everyone has 100% liberty. Your liberty is just organized differently from US liberty and everyone in the US has stopped excersising theirs and giving it up.
I wager in many countries theres places to live far away from the power elite who are watching everything you do.
Even China has its pros and cons. Look at the big business investment there.
As far as the human race is concerned liberty is tied directly into how much power and influence you can wield. In America the powerful hand out power to minorities to oppress the rest of us through crazy affirmative action. Welfare programs. Laws that the oppressed don't mind (walmart employees) but that kill young entrepreneurs dead in their tracks.
There is no recourse trust me. Its a lie that you can "move upwards and build empires" on an equal footing with people. You have to impress someone higher up in the food chain and get permission to use their power to oppress others. See Steve Jobs. Other countries and Aristocracies are much more honest about their oppression than the US. Feels no different being poor, having zero wealth, with no bank account in this country. There is ZERO support for me here to do anything about this situation. And I'm reasonable intelligent and able bodied.
But I have to get in line behind the idiots in this country who have fucked up worse then I, or are some perceived minority. And once I get to the front my options are to "lease" property or wealth from a bank or someone else.
There is no frontier, no liberty, no freedom. No self made men. And no real competition.
At this point our cars don't even need to run on gasoline refined from crude oil. But we lack the freedom to do it any other way. Its been explained and cited out 500 different ways from many intelligent speakers on the issue. Yet people will still come on here and argue about the system "working as intended" still.
As well as big oil. I forgot to mention the power and energy and telecommunications monopolies. (who have a stranglehold on your transportation as well)
Even then, what they do once elected could still be 180 if they serve different interests the next time around. Right now its big business, and military industrial. Aka anti terrorism and copyright. As well as the racket that "Insurance" companies are.
And aerospace.
Bullshit Toady One and Zach do just fine. Their community is generally less abusive than wows.
But lets face it WoW / Blizz deserves what it gets for catering to the lowest common denominator (exceptions noted). Etc... and the myriad facebook games.
How is this new? Why are you suddenly concerned? I figured this was the norm prior to it becoming mainstream knowledge.
I want to keep saying I told you so every time I see crap like this pop up. (though I would say take it off the frontpage, its not NEWS, OR NEWS FOR NERDS). Even as much as I like making the federalist liberals eat their own shit.
So essentially google retroactively downgraded the status of a majority of its workforce to mere peons.
Welcome to corporate bureaucracy Engies. Not surprised. You can only have so many "chiefs" and "innovators" on the payroll. They probably overfilled positions or used the title to attract people who were overqualified to apply.
Or the economy is doing so bad that it artificially filled low level positions with people more qualified causing them to be hired at incorrect rates. Because believe it or not people do try to throw you a bone now and then.
Life experience and personal experience. Yes its opinion. Its based in some fact. I do not have a laundry list of citations. I think it would require a great deal of research to make a "white paper" arguing for my point of view. I won't. Take it or leave it and use my idea as the basis for your own opinion.
The best place to look is pediatric psychological journals or child mental health for starters. The first 10-15 years of our life has a drastic impact on what our later lives will be. Its a very unscientific and judgmental field. I am not a psychologist. But the info is out there to back up and support my opinion.
Life goes on in many war torn countries. Just go visit the black sea. Somalia. Sure there's plenty of dysfunction. But its not because of the violence per se. The violence is mostly a symptom and other contributing factors like poverty. Inequality. Racism. Lack of freedom. Lack of education are much more directly associated to the dysfunction of those regions.
I really don't want to go argue the scientific merit of my opinion. But feel free to go down that road if you wish.
Pardon me if I'm going to hitch on to your +5 insightful. This whole idea of censoring and removing decensatizing violence from our cultures is all wrong.
In cultures with high levels of violence. People manage just fine. Violence happens and it does not create a mass stampede of stupidity. People are able to resolve their issues with no problem.
When you brainwash people and the only way they know how to deal with anything "dangerous" or "aggressive" is to seek authority. This is when you get serious psychological issues. People who loose their minds over minor problem. The lack of respect. The lack of courtesy.
Media, art, and play are not the places to "pacify" us. It will create worse psychosis than the most horrible warfare known to man. We'd be better off living in the bibles figurative hell.
No one can be enlightened by previous human experience if we cannot share that experience. Through fiction, or history. Legend, or school.
The goal of these draconian rules (regardless of what the people actually implementing them believe) is to create the ultimate strife and slavery and tyranny. The destruction of our minds. Our power. And our ability to cope with life.
Spot on. It's exactly what I would have said to spit in the face of overwhelming force without being fried even worse.
These are the words of a bitter man who has lost all hope that they have any power to do any good. They also clearly show his despise for those in power for not doing the right thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus
Were a long ways off from needing to jam... But seriously there are much better solutions to being spied on. Jamming is a bad one, and last resort. I would reserve only for a war zone. It's far to disruptive to legitimate communication and does more harm than simply switching modes of communication. (Wireless to wired, mail to in person).
*** if you think democracy is inaccurate - sorry for the bad communication.
Though upon further research I certainly can understand if you don't think democracy is inaccurate for describing America. The reason in the former post for me bringing up democracy, is that our officials are democratically elected.
Good point. Though I have heard it called a democratic republic. The opinion of the majority does hold some sway in our governance, or it did. It's a current point of contention whether it still does to the same affect or is even a good thing.