A free and *just* market. Complete business freedom, as Jerry Pournelle said on a TWIT podcast, leads to sales of human meat.
Corporations are government creatures. Artificial structures created to shield individuals from liability for corporate actions. Without law, they have no existence. Laws DEFINE them. They are about as free as a tiger in a pit. The cute trick is that they've convinced everyone its the other way around. Time to pump a round into that tiger's leg to remind it that we've got the gun.
Capitalist leaders have spent a hundred and fifty years funding colleges and propaganda campaigns to convince us that they are somehow in charge. They've bought all the media. Federal troops have massacred strikers in living memory. We don't even question the idea that their silly customs are the law. WE MADE THEM. We can break them.
If only Americans could break free of their conditioning, they would be unstoppable.
Because a compliant Supreme Court made business law trump public good throughout the 19th century. Because of this, Yahoo, an excellent, useful, and profitable operation employing thousands will be gutted on a spit and delivered up dead to its competitor, which happens to be the biggest monopoly in the world.
We CAN make the laws change. This isn't written in the heavens. We've lost too many jobs to let this sort of thing go on. Some rules and expectations need changing, and god knows five asses on the Supreme Court need jettisoning to get such things done.
Damn straight. Icahn and his raiders have left a slash-and-burn swath of demolished and gutted companies through our nation. Yahoo is just fine as it is. The only "help" he's offering is for himself and the other bastards who've joined up with him to chew up and spit out Yahoo. They will be billionaires. Yahoo will be dead.
Al Qaeda NEVER uses electronic communications. They communicate face to face, always. No cell phones, no computers, no GPS, no mail, no land lines, nada. This is why I scream madly at every "homeland" security citation about encryption and internet use. They don't use anything of the sort. That's why we can't find them. That's why they got away. We're building a surveillance state that has no way of watching people riding horses in mountains, but does a bang-up job in keeping us from, oh, building a free hippyphone system using wifi.
Iron man was created by Stan Lee/Don Heck (artist) and Jack Kirby (artist), and the original stories were written by Stan Lee's brother, Larry Lieber (with plot credits given to Stan Lee). Perhaps Larry had a hand in the creation -- no one really remembers everything all that well, as they were really, really busy back then. And the credits were up there on screen, good on them.
Aptera Type 1h is now back up to 300 mpg. They downgraded it to 120 a year ago, but recently fixed the problem. It will be 200-300 miles per gallon as a series hybrid.
Those emails are the property of the American people, and were by law supposed to be on government-owned servers. They were not. Bush's people chose, illegally, to route all of his administration's communications through the servers of the Republican National Committee. Which did not save email pertaining to the period when the most imaginative reasoning was being formulated to attack and conquer Iraq, when they decided to let bin Laden scarper off to Pakistan, when they unveiled the supersurveillance state they had actually started building before the attack on 9-11.
If Clinton had done anything even remotely, so impossibly illegal, he would have been dragged through the streets of cable TV news for the few weeks immediately preceding his impeachment, conviction, and removal from office. Probably put in prison. But Bush, like Reagan, like McCain, do not have to hew to things like "law" or "sanity". Or submit themselves to the approval of the networks, which adore them so.
That is why no one will use it in a professional environment. It's named for the bottom in a homosexual S&M scene. Just change it. It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now.
Money? They are in it to *cheat*. No system so simple could f* up so badly unless someone wants it to. It's counting, for FSM's sake, not modeling a nuclear explosion.
Canada solved their paper ballot problems long ago. At every voting station, people from each interested party watch a manual count of paper ballots after the elections is over. The tally is checked and phoned up, and the original paper is kept for recount and audits.
The system scales to national elections, and... they finish the count in three hours or so. The whole country. Manually. No Scantron, no PC's, no networks. Examine that system.
Our US system is designed to take a long time, and provide nearly infinite possibilities to alter the count. E-voting simply finished our cheatamatic system, putting all audit capabilities into the hands of private companies beholden to the Republican party, with predictable and awe-inspiring in-your-face fraud. No meatworld games need be played anymore; they can phone in a fix now. And the evidence shows they have. A *lot*.
Well done, sir. You cannot know what code is currently running, not if it is open source, not if is not OSS. You simply cannot know if someone swapped out the code in the last few milliseconds before you examine it.
And it's obvious that someone IS doing so. The tallies are not matching. This is not the hardest system to code. To so completely fail requires malice and an inside access to the system. The Diebold and Sequoia systems are compromised, and they know it to be so, for them to fight so hard and so long to keep out independent analysts. Occam's razor. They were built to cheat undetectably.
Yes, they do, as we have to alter web page code to work on MS IE Explorer, else most of the computers in the world won't parse it correctly. And in medical records systems, I can say personally, the printed CD output is "only" readable by Genuine Microsoft Internet Explorer. No other browser will load the images properly, unless of course you navigate to the CD drive and explicitly open "default.htm", which of course no one will do, because no one tells them the option is available. Splash screen of the CD says output is readable only by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, yadda yadda. The hell they don't control the browser code market. The put Netscape out of business for a reason.
Pretend it's a negro with a gun taking your money instead of rich white men with briefcases. OH MY GOD! Move out of the neighborhood!
Try: using the patents they mendaciously pursued while helpfully making them a standard. Refuse to pay royalties. Refuse after they file suit. Refuse to pay damages after a court awards them your money. Refuse to go to jail. Refuse the armed and armored cops entry to your house. Resist arrest. Be shot. Die. You see, rich white men CAN kill you as dead as the scary poor negroes. They just use the government to shoot you if you don't hand it over.
Is there ANY vile act a rich man can perform that won't garner praise and defense from Americans? The same people that go on about the Ten Commandments being the law of the land are the same people that declare that lying, stealing and even murder is okay under the banner of business.
I've heard the libertarian-ish idea that all crime is theft of property - even murder, as the thief steals your life. I've one better. All crimes start with lying. The lie that the liar tells, the lie that what belongs to you belongs to him. The lie that lying is okay as long as he is wealthy and made a lot of money telling the lie. The lie that only poor people should go to jail for lying.
Just tossing it in, here. Intel fathered USB. Apple created Firewire. Intel hated Apple and Firewire, as it was a contemporaneous standard and a superior one. So, what's a near-monopoly gonna do? Make it known that putting Firewire on a motherboard wouldn't be a good move on a manufacturer's part, not good at all. Putting USB on would be a goood idea. So any sane company put USB on and ignored Firewire. Done. And to take care of the two old canards, no, Apple didn't make it expensive to license. It was a buck a device at first, and very soon they waved the license fee. And a chip set that controls Firewire may be more complex than a USB chip set, but in the electronic manufacturing world that complexity doesn't cost any more, not more than pennies. A chip set is a chip set; they cost nothing to make after the investment is recovered. We're stuck with a slow, tortured external bus 'cause it was Intel's baby.
Homeland Security would simply make it illegal to encrypt without giving them the keys. The UK already makes it criminal to refuse to cough up your decrypt password. The US would geek to the HS Lords in seconds and give them the same power.
Like most electric car coverage, the article was poorly written.
They are NOT BUILDING the old car. They are reviving the nameplate. The Detroit Electrics will not be 25 mph buggies. They will be modern small cars running on battery power.
We've the same problem Statesside. Where can we go? The US infected all the English-speaking nations. Norway? Iceland? The Netherlands? Where? This is about power, not safety. Politicians and military wonks all over the world are seeing the benefits - to them - of the Panoptikon, and they are making their own as fast as they can. Fascism grows like a crystal.
How muchya wanna bet that the reason Bush has fought so hard to keep the phone companies immune from suit is the list of people he and his cronies have been spying on? Cheney is a Nixonian, and I will bet every ice cream cone I will ever eat again that they have been listening in on the Democrats's phones, reading their email, and tracking their GPS-equipped phones. And any cranky reporters, all peace activists. With no warrants and no oversight, they could do this forever. With an investigation through a lawsuit, well, oops... we might find out the "enemy" was anyone who opposed George Bush.
It's amazing that so many people don't know this, still, but: they don't need to ping you, or triangulate, or build their own towers. ALL phone sold 2005 and later are equipped with a GPS system hard-wired and intertwined with your phone's OS. The phone can give precise coordinate of your location 24/7 if someone cares to tell the phone via the phone company to start keeping logs in the phone itself, or the phone company simply logs the coordinates constantly uploaded to them by the phone. And yes, I know there is a menu option to disable the GPS. I have some insurance to sell you if you think for one moment that the tracker cannot be reactivated unbeknownst to you. And notice a trend, say as in Apple's iPhone, to have a permanent battery wired to the mainboard and the GPS? Unplugging your battery will eventually have no effect on the mb battery and the tracker. I've one of the last un-GPSed phones, and of course I am told that I have 'til November to get rid of it. All cell phones will be tracking devices by law. I've seen two type of opinions of this: those that shrug, and those that don't believe it, call you a paranoid. One guy thinks the GPS tracker is a myth. Ah, my stupid people...
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A free and *just* market. Complete business freedom, as Jerry Pournelle said on a TWIT podcast, leads to sales of human meat.
Corporations are government creatures. Artificial structures created to shield individuals from liability for corporate actions. Without law, they have no existence. Laws DEFINE them. They are about as free as a tiger in a pit. The cute trick is that they've convinced everyone its the other way around. Time to pump a round into that tiger's leg to remind it that we've got the gun.
Capitalist leaders have spent a hundred and fifty years funding colleges and propaganda campaigns to convince us that they are somehow in charge. They've bought all the media. Federal troops have massacred strikers in living memory. We don't even question the idea that their silly customs are the law. WE MADE THEM. We can break them.
If only Americans could break free of their conditioning, they would be unstoppable.
Because a compliant Supreme Court made business law trump public good throughout the 19th century. Because of this, Yahoo, an excellent, useful, and profitable operation employing thousands will be gutted on a spit and delivered up dead to its competitor, which happens to be the biggest monopoly in the world.
We CAN make the laws change. This isn't written in the heavens. We've lost too many jobs to let this sort of thing go on. Some rules and expectations need changing, and god knows five asses on the Supreme Court need jettisoning to get such things done.
Damn straight. Icahn and his raiders have left a slash-and-burn swath of demolished and gutted companies through our nation. Yahoo is just fine as it is. The only "help" he's offering is for himself and the other bastards who've joined up with him to chew up and spit out Yahoo. They will be billionaires. Yahoo will be dead.
Shrug. Killing the joke, but:
Al Qaeda NEVER uses electronic communications. They communicate face to face, always. No cell phones, no computers, no GPS, no mail, no land lines, nada. This is why I scream madly at every "homeland" security citation about encryption and internet use. They don't use anything of the sort. That's why we can't find them. That's why they got away. We're building a surveillance state that has no way of watching people riding horses in mountains, but does a bang-up job in keeping us from, oh, building a free hippyphone system using wifi.
Robert A. Heinlein got there first. Tailored isotopes, novella "Blowups Happen". 1930's.
Bush refused all foreign aid during and after the Katrina flooding. Said we didn't need it.
Now they're evicting what few people managed to get trailers.
Iron man was created by Stan Lee/Don Heck (artist) and Jack Kirby (artist), and the original stories were written by Stan Lee's brother, Larry Lieber (with plot credits given to Stan Lee). Perhaps Larry had a hand in the creation -- no one really remembers everything all that well, as they were really, really busy back then. And the credits were up there on screen, good on them.
Aptera Type 1h is now back up to 300 mpg. They downgraded it to 120 a year ago, but recently fixed the problem. It will be 200-300 miles per gallon as a series hybrid.
We don't count the pollution generated by drilling, refining, and transporting billions of gallons of gasoline, either.
Those emails are the property of the American people, and were by law supposed to be on government-owned servers. They were not. Bush's people chose, illegally, to route all of his administration's communications through the servers of the Republican National Committee. Which did not save email pertaining to the period when the most imaginative reasoning was being formulated to attack and conquer Iraq, when they decided to let bin Laden scarper off to Pakistan, when they unveiled the supersurveillance state they had actually started building before the attack on 9-11.
If Clinton had done anything even remotely, so impossibly illegal, he would have been dragged through the streets of cable TV news for the few weeks immediately preceding his impeachment, conviction, and removal from office. Probably put in prison. But Bush, like Reagan, like McCain, do not have to hew to things like "law" or "sanity". Or submit themselves to the approval of the networks, which adore them so.
That is why no one will use it in a professional environment. It's named for the bottom in a homosexual S&M scene. Just change it. It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now.
No offense. Hate chatting.
Democrats in public office. Solves the problem perfectly.
Money? They are in it to *cheat*. No system so simple could f* up so badly unless someone wants it to. It's counting, for FSM's sake, not modeling a nuclear explosion.
Canada solved their paper ballot problems long ago. At every voting station, people from each interested party watch a manual count of paper ballots after the elections is over. The tally is checked and phoned up, and the original paper is kept for recount and audits.
The system scales to national elections, and... they finish the count in three hours or so. The whole country. Manually. No Scantron, no PC's, no networks. Examine that system.
Our US system is designed to take a long time, and provide nearly infinite possibilities to alter the count. E-voting simply finished our cheatamatic system, putting all audit capabilities into the hands of private companies beholden to the Republican party, with predictable and awe-inspiring in-your-face fraud. No meatworld games need be played anymore; they can phone in a fix now. And the evidence shows they have. A *lot*.
Well done, sir. You cannot know what code is currently running, not if it is open source, not if is not OSS. You simply cannot know if someone swapped out the code in the last few milliseconds before you examine it.
And it's obvious that someone IS doing so. The tallies are not matching. This is not the hardest system to code. To so completely fail requires malice and an inside access to the system. The Diebold and Sequoia systems are compromised, and they know it to be so, for them to fight so hard and so long to keep out independent analysts. Occam's razor. They were built to cheat undetectably.
Yes, they do, as we have to alter web page code to work on MS IE Explorer, else most of the computers in the world won't parse it correctly. And in medical records systems, I can say personally, the printed CD output is "only" readable by Genuine Microsoft Internet Explorer. No other browser will load the images properly, unless of course you navigate to the CD drive and explicitly open "default.htm", which of course no one will do, because no one tells them the option is available. Splash screen of the CD says output is readable only by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, yadda yadda. The hell they don't control the browser code market. The put Netscape out of business for a reason.
Pretend it's a negro with a gun taking your money instead of rich white men with briefcases. OH MY GOD! Move out of the neighborhood!
Try: using the patents they mendaciously pursued while helpfully making them a standard. Refuse to pay royalties. Refuse after they file suit. Refuse to pay damages after a court awards them your money. Refuse to go to jail. Refuse the armed and armored cops entry to your house. Resist arrest. Be shot. Die. You see, rich white men CAN kill you as dead as the scary poor negroes. They just use the government to shoot you if you don't hand it over.
Is there ANY vile act a rich man can perform that won't garner praise and defense from Americans? The same people that go on about the Ten Commandments being the law of the land are the same people that declare that lying, stealing and even murder is okay under the banner of business.
I've heard the libertarian-ish idea that all crime is theft of property - even murder, as the thief steals your life. I've one better. All crimes start with lying. The lie that the liar tells, the lie that what belongs to you belongs to him. The lie that lying is okay as long as he is wealthy and made a lot of money telling the lie. The lie that only poor people should go to jail for lying.
Just tossing it in, here. Intel fathered USB. Apple created Firewire. Intel hated Apple and Firewire, as it was a contemporaneous standard and a superior one. So, what's a near-monopoly gonna do? Make it known that putting Firewire on a motherboard wouldn't be a good move on a manufacturer's part, not good at all. Putting USB on would be a goood idea. So any sane company put USB on and ignored Firewire. Done. And to take care of the two old canards, no, Apple didn't make it expensive to license. It was a buck a device at first, and very soon they waved the license fee. And a chip set that controls Firewire may be more complex than a USB chip set, but in the electronic manufacturing world that complexity doesn't cost any more, not more than pennies. A chip set is a chip set; they cost nothing to make after the investment is recovered. We're stuck with a slow, tortured external bus 'cause it was Intel's baby.
Homeland Security would simply make it illegal to encrypt without giving them the keys. The UK already makes it criminal to refuse to cough up your decrypt password. The US would geek to the HS Lords in seconds and give them the same power.
But he was CAUGHT. Show the pockets in an e-voting system that we can search. And his pockets weren't "intellectual property".
Like most electric car coverage, the article was poorly written.
They are NOT BUILDING the old car. They are reviving the nameplate. The Detroit Electrics will not be 25 mph buggies. They will be modern small cars running on battery power.
We've the same problem Statesside. Where can we go? The US infected all the English-speaking nations. Norway? Iceland? The Netherlands? Where? This is about power, not safety. Politicians and military wonks all over the world are seeing the benefits - to them - of the Panoptikon, and they are making their own as fast as they can. Fascism grows like a crystal.
How muchya wanna bet that the reason Bush has fought so hard to keep the phone companies immune from suit is the list of people he and his cronies have been spying on? Cheney is a Nixonian, and I will bet every ice cream cone I will ever eat again that they have been listening in on the Democrats's phones, reading their email, and tracking their GPS-equipped phones. And any cranky reporters, all peace activists. With no warrants and no oversight, they could do this forever. With an investigation through a lawsuit, well, oops... we might find out the "enemy" was anyone who opposed George Bush.
It's amazing that so many people don't know this, still, but: they don't need to ping you, or triangulate, or build their own towers. ALL phone sold 2005 and later are equipped with a GPS system hard-wired and intertwined with your phone's OS. The phone can give precise coordinate of your location 24/7 if someone cares to tell the phone via the phone company to start keeping logs in the phone itself, or the phone company simply logs the coordinates constantly uploaded to them by the phone. And yes, I know there is a menu option to disable the GPS. I have some insurance to sell you if you think for one moment that the tracker cannot be reactivated unbeknownst to you. And notice a trend, say as in Apple's iPhone, to have a permanent battery wired to the mainboard and the GPS? Unplugging your battery will eventually have no effect on the mb battery and the tracker. I've one of the last un-GPSed phones, and of course I am told that I have 'til November to get rid of it. All cell phones will be tracking devices by law. I've seen two type of opinions of this: those that shrug, and those that don't believe it, call you a paranoid. One guy thinks the GPS tracker is a myth. Ah, my stupid people...