Also, the ants aren't actually strong enough to do a damned thing about it, since only people laws can restrain people.
Ants are scum, they have no value to humans, so it is not illegal to torture them or even kill them. In fact, we PAY people to get rid of them. It will never be illegal to hurt them, simply because they have no apparent value to humans. This, btw, is why it usually IS illegal to hurt bigger animals, like cute puppies and cute kittens.
There are powerful people that get away with squashing little people all the time, and they are for all practical purposes people stepping on ants. This includes the rich fatcats with huge lobby budgets who are effectively untouchable.
People are put in prison to punish them and to isolate them from society. Not to let them fend for themselves, or worse yet, let them have free victims.
I still don't get why people think prison rape, or prison violence in general, is part and parcel of going to prison.
I am against tough guys getting free punching bags.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The problem with privatization is that it puts corporate profits ahead of the mission.
And unfortunately people have proven that if they can get away with cheating, they will do it. Look at all the money swallowed by the telecom industry.
That's one thing I like about government. It might be bureaucracy, but it's about as close to "interest in the common good" as we're ever going to get, seeing as the bureaucrats, at least in theory, still have to answer to the voters that put them in office. With corporations, the "voters" are shareholders who probably don't give two shits about anything except dividends and stock value.
How about we have universal government health care, and fund it by taxing the crap out of high fat foods?
Or how about this?
Tax everyone by how much they weigh, but give them a tax credit based on how fit they are?
Seriously, every problem has a root somewhere, and I'd bet many, if not most, of america's health problems that are requiring such expensive coverage to begin with are by and large preventable with good sensible nutrition, exercise, and common sense stuff like that.
Eat your fruits and veggies, get some sunshine and exercise, and most of all, stop subsidizing companies like McDonalds that serve tasty but grossly unhealthy food.
Shop at a farmer's market every once in awhile, give some support to the lowly grower who is probably struggling against the subsidized-out-the-wazoo soybean/corn/cattle farms they have to compete with.
I for one have an orange farmer that comes around every so often with orchard fresh oranges. I buy POUNDS from him when I can. They are so fresh theystill have the leaves on them from being picked. And they are quite tasty.
Indeed, since MAD doesn't work against someone who has nothing to lose by dying.
Which means that going balls to the wall with a nuke threat is entirely rational as a dominant strategy, particularly if you have 72 virgins waiting for you when you die.
Except that nowadays the "nukes", also known as multithousand node botnets, are in the hands of "terrorists", also known as spammers and botnet operators.
And terrorists are not exactly known for being rational.
Anyone who pisses them off is going to face mega retaliation...
A lession that Blue Security unfortunately had to learn the hard way.
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Practice makes perfect?
When a company gets big enough to start pushing people around willy nilly, it's big enough to invite antitrust scrutiny.
They are...if you can catch them.
Problem is they hide where they can't be touched.
If I was running my botnet from a country without extradition, I'd feel pretty smug too.
Also, the ants aren't actually strong enough to do a damned thing about it, since only people laws can restrain people.
Ants are scum, they have no value to humans, so it is not illegal to torture them or even kill them. In fact, we PAY people to get rid of them. It will never be illegal to hurt them, simply because they have no apparent value to humans. This, btw, is why it usually IS illegal to hurt bigger animals, like cute puppies and cute kittens.
There are powerful people that get away with squashing little people all the time, and they are for all practical purposes people stepping on ants. This includes the rich fatcats with huge lobby budgets who are effectively untouchable.
I agree, but for a different reason.
People are put in prison to punish them and to isolate them from society. Not to let them fend for themselves, or worse yet, let them have free victims.
I still don't get why people think prison rape, or prison violence in general, is part and parcel of going to prison.
I am against tough guys getting free punching bags.
They are stealing your CPU cycles.
They are stealing the share of your electricity that is supporting their botnet.
People doing life without parole might not fear anything but the needle almost by definition have nothing to lose by misbehaving in prison.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Yeah, tear up the market share of one of the biggest and therefore politically entrenched companies.
Not happening.
The problem with privatization is that it puts corporate profits ahead of the mission.
And unfortunately people have proven that if they can get away with cheating, they will do it. Look at all the money swallowed by the telecom industry.
That's one thing I like about government. It might be bureaucracy, but it's about as close to "interest in the common good" as we're ever going to get, seeing as the bureaucrats, at least in theory, still have to answer to the voters that put them in office. With corporations, the "voters" are shareholders who probably don't give two shits about anything except dividends and stock value.
Considering that the data being processed is most likely confidential in some way I'm not sure that's an option.
If Vivendi already gave them permission then what right does Activision have, as acquisitional inheritor of their obligations, to renege on that?
What good is having a voice, if everyone's ears are plugged?
I voted for Kodos because I didn't want to vote for Kang...
Stop wasting all those antibiotics on beefing up our cattle and giving a bunch of supergerms a tolerance for the stuff?
How about we have universal government health care, and fund it by taxing the crap out of high fat foods?
Or how about this?
Tax everyone by how much they weigh, but give them a tax credit based on how fit they are?
Seriously, every problem has a root somewhere, and I'd bet many, if not most, of america's health problems that are requiring such expensive coverage to begin with are by and large preventable with good sensible nutrition, exercise, and common sense stuff like that.
Eat your fruits and veggies, get some sunshine and exercise, and most of all, stop subsidizing companies like McDonalds that serve tasty but grossly unhealthy food.
Shop at a farmer's market every once in awhile, give some support to the lowly grower who is probably struggling against the subsidized-out-the-wazoo soybean/corn/cattle farms they have to compete with.
I for one have an orange farmer that comes around every so often with orchard fresh oranges. I buy POUNDS from him when I can. They are so fresh theystill have the leaves on them from being picked. And they are quite tasty.
That's the trouble with "voting the fuckers out"
Corporate interests cherry-pick which candidates they allow the media to give face-time to.
How do you run it on a jacked box?
Doesn't microsoft know what a rootkit is?
I'm still waiting to see how March 8th turns out.
Indeed, since MAD doesn't work against someone who has nothing to lose by dying.
Which means that going balls to the wall with a nuke threat is entirely rational as a dominant strategy, particularly if you have 72 virgins waiting for you when you die.
Who exactly would spank them if they did?
Rules are no good unless they can be enforced.
Sounds like a breach of contract between Godaddy and whoever gave them their "regisrar license", yes?
Or is it Verisign's job to police godaddy?
Except that nowadays the "nukes", also known as multithousand node botnets, are in the hands of "terrorists", also known as spammers and botnet operators.
And terrorists are not exactly known for being rational.
Anyone who pisses them off is going to face mega retaliation...
A lession that Blue Security unfortunately had to learn the hard way.
When you're bleeding and drowning, you learn to expect sharks to show up.
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