For ages, these same poor put upon privacy-deprived businesses have been pirating our personal information and trading it around.
Now it has come back home to bite them on the butt.
Maybe now we'll see them use their lobbyists to buy some privacy laws. Then everyone will want to participate in those protections. Hmmmmmm. Good idea, Jigsaw!
Their "customers" often never agreed to "do business" with them.
How many people actually consent to have their employment data stockpiled by Choicepoint? How many people actually consent to US Search storing their home addresses for stalkers to buy?
Since Democracy isn't good enough in your book, what do you want? Elected leaders with no boundaries on what they can do are now under the control of corporate statists. That's the status quo.
Perhaps we should outlaw lobbyist money? One person, one (x500) dollars?
But the gist of your post is you support suppressing the will of the many in favor of the will of the rich few. Your endless yapping about perception of value says nothing about the subject of privacy, or the fact that one person with money often get more of a voice than many people who vote. The way you sound, you'd love to have an oligarchy: a kleptocracy run by the elite few.
How about going back to less government and more liberty? Corporations do not have the right to take our liberty and more than government. They do not have the right to store our private information and use it for whatever they want.
Oh they don't have that right, eh? Tell that to Choicepoint, Lexus Nexus and so forth. They force us to involuntarily give up our personal information 24/7. You're utterly wrong about that, and that is easily demonstrated in a matter of seconds.
Furthermore, some of the richest people come from Hollywood. Lets stop buying and watching movies and listening to music. That will show them! Those greedy wealth builders!
I'm down with that. I already boycott RIAA and MPAA associated stuff.
By the way, I'm a Reagan Republican. Just so you know. I just hopped off the GOP train before it took that right turn toward 1939.
[flamebait] I kind of liked it when it was the "Revolution". But the "Wii"? That sounds like what a mage would say as he's casting an erectile dysfunction spell on some poor unsuspecting/. poster! [/flamebait]
Ok, seriously... the wii has far less power than the PS3 or 360, and frankly I'm not much of a fan of Mario Brothers style platformer games (that includes you, God of War for the PS2). I'm not interested in another Legend of Zelda remake. I like open free range games like Morrowind, Oblivion (and I hear that'll be coming out for the PS3), Half Life 2, Far Cry, and all of that stuff. I don't imagine that'll come out for the Wii.
Why, oh why did they rename the "Revolution" to the "Wii"?
Rich people need poor people to maintain their wealth. I don't know a rich person who treats a poor person as an evil scumbag (unless of course they are a known common street criminal).
That one's really easy to explain. 1) "I need $1 billion of taxpayer dollars to support my unprofitable airline but I'll be darned if I will support giving her any welfare!"
2) "American workers are lazy, unproductive and we need to send their jobs overseas!"
But you are right about one thing: rich people need poor people - or, more accurately, more middle class people - to preserve their wealth. Our economy depends on a strong middle class.
Besides, even rich people buy things, they use a credit card mostly. Those same evil marketers keep closer tabs on the guy with a $30,000+ credit limit of unsecured credit more than that Capital One customer with the $1500.00 credit limit. The rich guy just spends more money and at more places.
That doesn't mean marketers don't care about the little guy; in fact, they want to prey on their personal information a lot. Look up "targeted marketing" and get back to me. Notice how targeted marketing targets everyone, not just the guy who buys $500,000 rolexes or some woman with a love of $1M diamond rings? Yeah. Marketers want your personal information to sell more than just yachts - they want it in order to "target"-sell you food, cars, consumer electronics, and everything under the sun.
Also, why is it that middle class people get nailed by identity theft and not Donald Trump?
Who said anything about glorifying the poor? I don't want to GLORIFY the poor. Not treating them blanketly like evil scumbags is not the same thing as glorifying.
but if there's a shortage, I'm gonna buy up as many as I can via reservation and sell all but one on ebay. I made a KILLING... a texas chainsaw massacre... doing that with the 3 extra 360's. Sold two for $1100 and one for $779. Others made $1600-$2000 on those things. I expect that I could make a pile even selling them at flea markets.
Capitalism really peaked in the 1960s when respect for the middle/working class - the center of any free market economy - was at its zenith.
Since then, we've been on a long descent into crony capitalism in which corporations receive billions of dollars in welfare / bankruptcy bailouts while single parents are demonized as the destruction of society. Corporation lobbyist dollars and campaign contributions now trump votes and letters/calls from regular citizens. Corporations pollute our waters and air and aren't held liable to the people they make sick or even kill. Corporations buy politicians and laws at will, and they're getting more and more efficient at brushing aside the will of the majority.
In America, the rich are now glorified and the poor are demonized. This is absolutely positively a direct contradiction to America's much vaunted "Judeo Christian" values.
There is no God any more in the eyes of corporate America... only money.
Corporations trade your personal information and the free trade of your private information is essential to their bottom line, even more surely than free mp3's are desired by the common terrori^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmp3 pirate. If corporations - specifically marketers - could have it their way, all your transactions and whereabouts would be public information.
The old evil empire was communism, which sacrificed individuals to the state.
Capitalism fails miserably when it crosses the "profits over people" line, as it sacrifices the individual to the corporation.
What saves the Western world is DEMOCRACY, far more than capitalism. And when DEMOCRACY is threatened, as it is being threatened by the corporate state right now, neither capitalism nor communism can save you.
Slap this into the Xbox 720 or PS3/4 and you get a mondo increase in NPC performance as long as the developers put in some rudimentary "learning" routines to keep things random. All gamers buying games that desire that NPC chip, get to enjoy the fun. Not so for the PC gamers. For PC gamers, game companies that make games for the most elite configurations - namely, those requiring the PhysX processor and this one - will have a lower percentage of sales per owners of PCs.
The latest rumour is that the guy who leaked the password (the left party) had a homosexual affair with the guy who *used* the password (the right party).
This is a joke, right? If that's true we're in for more drama (and laughs) than should even be legal.
Then how is it that he got killed by one of those animals he was fscking with?
That croc could have killed him and his son. But alas it was a stingray that did him in. I guess your logic is since it was a stingray and not a croc that killed him and he wasn't holding his kid in his arms when it happened, he wasn't putting his kid in danger when he was messing with that croc. Because stingrays are unpredictable. Unlike crocodiles.
You've just explained why technology is moving so slowly nowadays.
Did you know perpendicular recording for hard disks was developed in 1976 but is only now being implemented? It's because patent law has caused hard drive makers to sit on the technology and wait for the patent to expire before researching its implementation - which, just so you know, is long before the production phase.
Many patent holders are now stuck waiting for someone to implement their ideas, while industrialists are waiting for their patents to expire. The patent holders get no money and the technology they came up with, never makes it to market for over 20 years.
The makers of the mp3 patent, thus, took advantage of something called submarine patents. They let the technology fall into the wild, where people use their technology for a while, and then they nail them with the mp3 patent when the product goes commercial and is heavily entrenched. Also see: Unisys and GIF.
Now you have companies like Intellectual Ventures which amass zillions of patents intending to ensnare anyone who blunders into their mine field.
BTW a great deal of our economy is now engulfed in patent litigation. Fear of patent litigation is slowing a lot of innovation because practically any business model based on cutting edge work is vulnerable to a lawsuit over an infringement of an obscure or broad brushing patent.
Let me put it this way for your Conservative mind: If Frauhoff (sp?) had enforced their patent from day one, you would not be seeing mp3's in existence now, or at any time until after the patent ran out.
I challenge you (or anyone else) to show me how coming close enough to feed a chicken to an unrestrained crocodile, is [i]not[/i] extremely dangerous and [i]not[/i] a major gamble with your life (and your kid's).
Crocs jump at their prey like lightning. They're highly unpredictable. They have jaws like steel beartraps. That's three points against you. I'm waiting.
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He was feeding a croc with one hand while holding his kid in the other.
I don't care if it was a "calculated" risk... crocodiles can go from sitting dead like a lump on a log to clamping their jaw around your leg in a split second. There is absolutely no calculating anything with a croc. There is no minimum safe distance from a croc except 20 feet behind a very high and thick concrete fence.
Crocs can and do nail gazelles. Was Steve Irwin faster than a gazelle? No? Then his kid was in mortal danger, and he put him there.
That and the way he molested female pigs, etc., makes me have very little respect for him.
Have you dismissed the fact that it puts your name and address on a state funded list? That removes your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and is also libel.
That, and the requirement that you register with the list for 6 years on pain of actual punishment. That's an even more dead-on removal of LLPoH right there.
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To quote Kosh from Babylon 5, "And so it begins."
For ages, these same poor put upon privacy-deprived businesses have been pirating our personal information and trading it around.
Now it has come back home to bite them on the butt.
Maybe now we'll see them use their lobbyists to buy some privacy laws. Then everyone will want to participate in those protections. Hmmmmmm. Good idea, Jigsaw!
Their "customers" often never agreed to "do business" with them.
How many people actually consent to have their employment data stockpiled by Choicepoint? How many people actually consent to US Search storing their home addresses for stalkers to buy?
Now you're talkin'.
I'd love to see someone show a difference between lobbyist "gifts" and multimillion dollar campaign contributions and bribery.
Since Democracy isn't good enough in your book, what do you want? Elected leaders with no boundaries on what they can do are now under the control of corporate statists. That's the status quo.
Perhaps we should outlaw lobbyist money? One person, one (x500) dollars?
you're on another planet.
But the gist of your post is you support suppressing the will of the many in favor of the will of the rich few. Your endless yapping about perception of value says nothing about the subject of privacy, or the fact that one person with money often get more of a voice than many people who vote. The way you sound, you'd love to have an oligarchy: a kleptocracy run by the elite few.
In your universe, why even have voting rights?
Oh they don't have that right, eh? Tell that to Choicepoint, Lexus Nexus and so forth. They force us to involuntarily give up our personal information 24/7. You're utterly wrong about that, and that is easily demonstrated in a matter of seconds.
I'm down with that. I already boycott RIAA and MPAA associated stuff.
By the way, I'm a Reagan Republican. Just so you know. I just hopped off the GOP train before it took that right turn toward 1939.
Identity thieves stand a 1 in 7000 chance of being caught when they nail a regular citizen. 1 in 7000.
[flamebait] I kind of liked it when it was the "Revolution". But the "Wii"? That sounds like what a mage would say as he's casting an erectile dysfunction spell on some poor unsuspecting /. poster! [/flamebait]
Ok, seriously... the wii has far less power than the PS3 or 360, and frankly I'm not much of a fan of Mario Brothers style platformer games (that includes you, God of War for the PS2). I'm not interested in another Legend of Zelda remake. I like open free range games like Morrowind, Oblivion (and I hear that'll be coming out for the PS3), Half Life 2, Far Cry, and all of that stuff. I don't imagine that'll come out for the Wii.
Why, oh why did they rename the "Revolution" to the "Wii"?
That one's really easy to explain.
1) "I need $1 billion of taxpayer dollars to support my unprofitable airline but I'll be darned if I will support giving her any welfare!"
2) "American workers are lazy, unproductive and we need to send their jobs overseas!"
But you are right about one thing: rich people need poor people - or, more accurately, more middle class people - to preserve their wealth. Our economy depends on a strong middle class.
That doesn't mean marketers don't care about the little guy; in fact, they want to prey on their personal information a lot. Look up "targeted marketing" and get back to me. Notice how targeted marketing targets everyone, not just the guy who buys $500,000 rolexes or some woman with a love of $1M diamond rings? Yeah. Marketers want your personal information to sell more than just yachts - they want it in order to "target"-sell you food, cars, consumer electronics, and everything under the sun.
Also, why is it that middle class people get nailed by identity theft and not Donald Trump?
Who said anything about glorifying the poor? I don't want to GLORIFY the poor. Not treating them blanketly like evil scumbags is not the same thing as glorifying.
but if there's a shortage, I'm gonna buy up as many as I can via reservation and sell all but one on ebay. I made a KILLING... a texas chainsaw massacre ... doing that with the 3 extra 360's. Sold two for $1100 and one for $779. Others made $1600-$2000 on those things. I expect that I could make a pile even selling them at flea markets.
I'm so evil.
Capitalism really peaked in the 1960s when respect for the middle/working class - the center of any free market economy - was at its zenith.
Since then, we've been on a long descent into crony capitalism in which corporations receive billions of dollars in welfare / bankruptcy bailouts while single parents are demonized as the destruction of society. Corporation lobbyist dollars and campaign contributions now trump votes and letters/calls from regular citizens. Corporations pollute our waters and air and aren't held liable to the people they make sick or even kill. Corporations buy politicians and laws at will, and they're getting more and more efficient at brushing aside the will of the majority.
In America, the rich are now glorified and the poor are demonized. This is absolutely positively a direct contradiction to America's much vaunted "Judeo Christian" values.
There is no God any more in the eyes of corporate America... only money.
Corporations trade your personal information and the free trade of your private information is essential to their bottom line, even more surely than free mp3's are desired by the common terrori^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmp3 pirate. If corporations - specifically marketers - could have it their way, all your transactions and whereabouts would be public information.
The old evil empire was communism, which sacrificed individuals to the state.
Capitalism fails miserably when it crosses the "profits over people" line, as it sacrifices the individual to the corporation.
What saves the Western world is DEMOCRACY, far more than capitalism. And when DEMOCRACY is threatened, as it is being threatened by the corporate state right now, neither capitalism nor communism can save you.
I've been using nvidia forever and a day since I switched out from the Matrox Parhelia.
When is Matrox coming out with something new?
Slap this into the Xbox 720 or PS3/4 and you get a mondo increase in NPC performance as long as the developers put in some rudimentary "learning" routines to keep things random. All gamers buying games that desire that NPC chip, get to enjoy the fun. Not so for the PC gamers. For PC gamers, game companies that make games for the most elite configurations - namely, those requiring the PhysX processor and this one - will have a lower percentage of sales per owners of PCs.
Short sell! Short sell!!!
This is a joke, right? If that's true we're in for more drama (and laughs) than should even be legal.
Your SSN is fair game for companies to trade without your consent, but a mp3 isn't.
Go figure.
We need a DMCA for personal information. But that won't happen as long as the Corporate State and its Republican lackeys are running the show.
Then how is it that he got killed by one of those animals he was fscking with?
That croc could have killed him and his son. But alas it was a stingray that did him in. I guess your logic is since it was a stingray and not a croc that killed him and he wasn't holding his kid in his arms when it happened, he wasn't putting his kid in danger when he was messing with that croc. Because stingrays are unpredictable. Unlike crocodiles.
Oh wait a minute, that is your logic...
all sex is rape. So sayeth Andrea Dworkin.
You've just explained why technology is moving so slowly nowadays.
Did you know perpendicular recording for hard disks was developed in 1976 but is only now being implemented? It's because patent law has caused hard drive makers to sit on the technology and wait for the patent to expire before researching its implementation - which, just so you know, is long before the production phase.
Many patent holders are now stuck waiting for someone to implement their ideas, while industrialists are waiting for their patents to expire. The patent holders get no money and the technology they came up with, never makes it to market for over 20 years.
The makers of the mp3 patent, thus, took advantage of something called submarine patents. They let the technology fall into the wild, where people use their technology for a while, and then they nail them with the mp3 patent when the product goes commercial and is heavily entrenched. Also see: Unisys and GIF.
Now you have companies like Intellectual Ventures which amass zillions of patents intending to ensnare anyone who blunders into their mine field.
BTW a great deal of our economy is now engulfed in patent litigation. Fear of patent litigation is slowing a lot of innovation because practically any business model based on cutting edge work is vulnerable to a lawsuit over an infringement of an obscure or broad brushing patent.
Let me put it this way for your Conservative mind:
If Frauhoff (sp?) had enforced their patent from day one, you would not be seeing mp3's in existence now, or at any time until after the patent ran out.
Just as I'm quite sure there are drunken drivers out there who are experts at driving and who don't get into accidents.
Yet.
I challenge you (or anyone else) to show me how coming close enough to feed a chicken to an unrestrained crocodile, is [i]not[/i] extremely dangerous and [i]not[/i] a major gamble with your life (and your kid's).
Crocs jump at their prey like lightning. They're highly unpredictable. They have jaws like steel beartraps. That's three points against you. I'm waiting.
He was feeding a croc with one hand while holding his kid in the other.
I don't care if it was a "calculated" risk... crocodiles can go from sitting dead like a lump on a log to clamping their jaw around your leg in a split second. There is absolutely no calculating anything with a croc. There is no minimum safe distance from a croc except 20 feet behind a very high and thick concrete fence.
Crocs can and do nail gazelles. Was Steve Irwin faster than a gazelle? No? Then his kid was in mortal danger, and he put him there.
That and the way he molested female pigs, etc., makes me have very little respect for him.
Have you dismissed the fact that it puts your name and address on a state funded list? That removes your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and is also libel.
That, and the requirement that you register with the list for 6 years on pain of actual punishment. That's an even more dead-on removal of LLPoH right there.