It's not my fault that every damn candidate is a corporate cock sucker.
It's also not my fault that the corporate owned media system is never going to let fly someone waltzing in and pushing their little cozy community out into the cold where it belongs.
All it takes is a little scandal and even the most angelic of candidates will find themselves stained with some outlandish smear that enough John Q. Publics will run away from, leaving
That same corporate media engine will also make sure that John Q. Public is mesmerized by content that will keep his nose out of politics and getting educated, so he will just keep getting dumber.
Furthermore, the recent article on the ohio election just proves how low the establishment is willing to stoop to keep itself in power even among fairly educated voters, which means that using the democratic process to fix things is an exercise in futility, and serves as a nice rebuttal to all those blowhards that claim the average voter is just a lazy bum too complacent to do anything about it. If the average voter got more educated and involved, it still wouldn't matter, because the people in power are willing to cheat to win.
As long as the general population is numb, content, and naively happy, nothing is going to change, and the system has every incentive to keep it that way.
Nothing short of either a catastrophe or a miracle is going to shake them loose.
In the long run the greedy fucks benefitting from the thought monopoly will have long since laughed all the way to the bank, lived high on the hog, and left a big fat corpse.
They do not CARE about the long term for humanity.
And it also makes it easier for stifling corporate or state interests to censor those they do not approve of.
From the point of view of those in power, annoying trolls and rebel opinionists are the same, and as a practical matter they cannot be separated without somehow reading the mind of the person behind them.
Which is obviously with its own lion's share of downsides as well, and for the exact same reasons.
How much of it stays at the gas station? How much of it stays at the refinery? How much of it stays with the driller? How much of it stays with the country that owns the land?
Either that or we're a bunch of pansies that think words are good enough.
I'm of mixed opinion. Many times the elites get their way by breaking the law, and often they have corrupted the legal system that would be responsible for punishing them.
Examples include but are not limited to bribery, conflicts of interest.
I would point out that removing licenses is a deliberate action so they either think they own the copyright, or they’re a pack of sleazeballs that stole your code on purpose. Either way it establishes they are not willing to negotiate so if you want to prevail you are going to have to fight.
If you used company resources to develop it, then you were an idiot for not getting their permission in writing.
But consider also if you have more to lose by fighting this.
Suing your ex boss is probably a career ender, and your ex boss knows that.
Finally, no matter what happens, next company you work for, get an agreement in writing that makes this “work for hire” relationship (or lack thereof) explicit and don’t count on the law to side with you. Writing does something legal assumptions cannot, namely, establish facts.
If your next boss (if your legal troubles don’t make him shy about hiring you) isn’t willing to sign any such agreement, take it as a sign they are going to try to grub whatever you do.
This is a world full of cheats, liars, and thieves. You should ALWAYS get things in writing.
I'm in complete favor of the administration ducking around the political deadlock that comes from politicians trying to use this crisis as leverage, holding the country's economy hostage in exchange for pushing through their pet policies.
Our representatives should be ashamed of themselves.
How about an easy free way to transfer your data that they can't revoke the moment you fall behind on your bills or for whatever reason feel like holding you hostage?
Paying a toll to cross a drawbridge doesn't do any good if the king can just raise it and lock you inside the castle when he feels like it.
It's more of a workaround for the bug of having politicians willing to use the debt crisis to hold the country hostage in exchange for the ransom of getting their pet policies pushed through.
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It's not my fault that every damn candidate is a corporate cock sucker.
It's also not my fault that the corporate owned media system is never going to let fly someone waltzing in and pushing their little cozy community out into the cold where it belongs.
All it takes is a little scandal and even the most angelic of candidates will find themselves stained with some outlandish smear that enough John Q. Publics will run away from, leaving
That same corporate media engine will also make sure that John Q. Public is mesmerized by content that will keep his nose out of politics and getting educated, so he will just keep getting dumber.
Furthermore, the recent article on the ohio election just proves how low the establishment is willing to stoop to keep itself in power even among fairly educated voters, which means that using the democratic process to fix things is an exercise in futility, and serves as a nice rebuttal to all those blowhards that claim the average voter is just a lazy bum too complacent to do anything about it. If the average voter got more educated and involved, it still wouldn't matter, because the people in power are willing to cheat to win.
As long as the general population is numb, content, and naively happy, nothing is going to change, and the system has every incentive to keep it that way.
Nothing short of either a catastrophe or a miracle is going to shake them loose.
The corrupt scumbags that got into office will make sure that doesn't happen.
The deck isn't merely stacked against them, the casino management got paid off to kick them out.
The fuckups were incompetence.
The failure of oversight that was designed to prevent it was malice.
All they have to do is retain plausible deniability long enough to survive initial scrutiny.
By the time anyone starts digging up the public's already lost interest and nobody cares enough.
Also, by that time the regime's most likely entrenched enough to whitewash whatever doesn't look good.
Not really.
The moment you start pissing off the elite with such tricks, you'll find that any legal support you may have will mysteriously evaporate.
In the long run the greedy fucks benefitting from the thought monopoly will have long since laughed all the way to the bank, lived high on the hog, and left a big fat corpse.
They do not CARE about the long term for humanity.
Google couldn't get away with it.
The establishment would never let it go.
And it also makes it easier for stifling corporate or state interests to censor those they do not approve of.
From the point of view of those in power, annoying trolls and rebel opinionists are the same, and as a practical matter they cannot be separated without somehow reading the mind of the person behind them.
Which is obviously with its own lion's share of downsides as well, and for the exact same reasons.
I would see it as a clever move to sidestep bureaucrats intent on holding the country hostage to push their policies through.
Or George Orwell.
Using a lmgtfy link only works if one can reasonably be expected to know exactly what to google for.
That and I was intending to provoke a discussion, not merely solicit facts.
Smartass.
I'm staying out of G+ because of their big fuckup with Buzz.
We probably DO use more hydrogen than anything else.
We use about 650 million tons of it per second.
The problem is we let most of it go to waste.
So how exactly does an oil dollar get divvied up?
How much of it stays at the gas station?
How much of it stays at the refinery?
How much of it stays with the driller?
How much of it stays with the country that owns the land?
Either that or we're a bunch of pansies that think words are good enough.
I'm of mixed opinion. Many times the elites get their way by breaking the law, and often they have corrupted the legal system that would be responsible for punishing them.
Examples include but are not limited to bribery, conflicts of interest.
I'd rather the state grab it and put it to good use, rather than crooks grabbing it and putting it to uses that only benefit themselves.
For an ironic twist, if I was a governor, I'd create a lottery and put the proceeds into education :)
Quite right.
It's rather hard to prosecute someone under a law that hasn't been passed yet.
Ex post facto and all that good stuff.
Get a lawyer and be prepared to fight.
I would point out that removing licenses is a deliberate action so they either think they own the copyright, or they’re a pack of sleazeballs that stole your code on purpose. Either way it establishes they are not willing to negotiate so if you want to prevail you are going to have to fight.
If you used company resources to develop it, then you were an idiot for not getting their permission in writing.
But consider also if you have more to lose by fighting this.
Suing your ex boss is probably a career ender, and your ex boss knows that.
Finally, no matter what happens, next company you work for, get an agreement in writing that makes this “work for hire” relationship (or lack thereof) explicit and don’t count on the law to side with you. Writing does something legal assumptions cannot, namely, establish facts.
If your next boss (if your legal troubles don’t make him shy about hiring you) isn’t willing to sign any such agreement, take it as a sign they are going to try to grub whatever you do.
This is a world full of cheats, liars, and thieves. You should ALWAYS get things in writing.
If it was proprietary code in the first place he has no authority to dictate licensing terms.
Putting a GPL license on code that you don't have the copyright to is ultra vires, and consequently any such attempt is null and void.
I'm in complete favor of the administration ducking around the political deadlock that comes from politicians trying to use this crisis as leverage, holding the country's economy hostage in exchange for pushing through their pet policies.
Our representatives should be ashamed of themselves.
If he was one of the good guys the politicians would never have hired him to begin with.
How about an easy free way to transfer your data that they can't revoke the moment you fall behind on your bills or for whatever reason feel like holding you hostage?
Paying a toll to cross a drawbridge doesn't do any good if the king can just raise it and lock you inside the castle when he feels like it.
It's more of a workaround for the bug of having politicians willing to use the debt crisis to hold the country hostage in exchange for the ransom of getting their pet policies pushed through.
We devalued our currency when we spent more than we brought in.
This hack only makes public what the politicians already know.