I tend to concur...it is what google did that created "the bad press".
And what is up with this anthropomorphizing corporations, anyway? "Google" didn't do squat - but the people running Google did.
Anthropomorphizing corporations only makes things worse, 'cuz although it is the people who run those corporations that do the bad things, if you have a corporation wrapped around you then suddenly you're immune from responsibility for what you have the corporation do. And then with the Supreme Court and Citizens United coming along to make it even worse by naming corporations "people" who can spend money to influence the course of America's government when any jackwagon knows that it is really a handful of people in the executive suite who are spending that corporation's money to get what they want....
...they can certainly fool Homeland Security. I imagine that "certification authorities" in the Cayman Islands capable of ginning up the requisite answers and documentation began organizing even as the breath left Chertoff's mouth as he made that statement
There is absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis that Corporate America will not try to find a way to evade or defraud any regulatory requirement or "business standard" that costs them so much as a zinc penny.
By Glenn Garvin | The Miami Herald (A McClatchy Paper)
Virtually at the same moment Obama was demanding that Egypt stop monkeying with Facebook and Twitter, Maine's imitation-Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced that she plans to reintroduce a bill that died in Congress last year. Collins gave the bill a smiley-face name, the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. Internet geeks, about the only people who've noticed what the government is up to, prefer to call it the Kill-Switch Bill, because that's what it would do: Give the president the authority to turn off the Internet whenever he pleases.
The bill (assuming Collins follows through on her announced plan to keep it substantially the same as the one she sponsored previously) would give the president the right to declare "a national cyber emergency" and seize authority over any part of the Internet he decides is "vital" to the "economic security, public health or safety of the United States, any state, or any local government." And just in case that's not broad enough, the bill also allows him to snatch anything the White House deems "appropriate."
But this is America, dammit, so the bill includes safeguards for our liberties. The president can only grab stuff for four months at a time. And while the bill says his designations on which parts of the Internet are "vital" are not subject to judicial review, he will have the advice of an enormous new cyberspace bureaucracy presided over by one of our most civil-liberties-sensitive agencies... the airport-gropers of Homeland Security.
[...]
Even more ominous was an interview given last year by Collins' supporter, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. "We need the capacity for the president to say, Internet Service Provider, we've got to disconnect the American Internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country," Lieberman told CNN. "Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that here, too."
What makes me laugh is the author's pretending - downright posturing - that America's right doesn't want an internet kill switch...lollll...the right will do the "reluctantly signed of on" gig in public, and celebrate in private. You only have to watch Fox for a half hour to see that our right ain't real thrilled with the idea of the American people having untimely access to the inconvenient truth.
and have some way to handle it without exposing themselves to a lot of radiation
If they're "suicide" whatevers, they won't care about that. In fact, that might never enter into the picture. Someone might, for example, choose to detonate one portable device in the midst of it all and let the prevailing winds do the rest.
Me, I'd be rethinking above-ground storage...or at least ringing the site with some quality ground-to-air missiles.
A race to make hardware (be it high-tech, or not) and software cheaper in the East while simultaneously raising the standard of living there in order to create a replacement market at a faster rate than they lower the standard of living in the West and so destroy that market. Quite the knife-edge balancing act...if they destroy too many jobs in the West before the market in the East grows enough to make the profit loop self-sustaining...or if there is another great big financial scam that collapses...global decompression.
lolll..of course, the designated loser is the West...well, give or take between 0.2% and 1.0% of the West's population, so to be precise "labor" in the West is the designated loser.
Oh, they make another gamble: A gamble that the West will never face another military threat capable of moving across or even jumping between continents. For a nation's industrial infrastructure is its true arsenal...and the West decimates theirs to make a few people great piles of the illusion that is known as "money"...amusing, since the latter is a figment of the human imagination created solely to facilitate trade and denominate true wealth...true wealth, like the ability to take resources and transform them into useful things.
Of course, you may believe that Microsoft will change its act and go against the corporate greed/herd mentality and so won't immediately or eventually transfer the majority of Nokia's intellectual property and "work" to the East...if that is your wager, then you should stay away from places like Monte Carlo and Las Vegas.
Technology evolves, and as the reality of "flood-up/trickle-down" economics - the reality that the only thing that trickles down is pain - becomes ever more evident in ever more desperate state and local governments...
For instance, triangulation and transmission delays from cell phone towers in combination with GPS data could be used immediately to narrow down location, and privacy concerns? Heck, they just stick that label of the system is necessary to apprehend fleeing terrorists, and then soon enough it will bleed into the privacy of the individual American..coerced, perhaps, by communities desperate to fund their police forces with traffic offenses.
I wouldn't rule anything out...like, I never thought my government would lie my country into invading another nation, and then lie about the "Six days, six weeks, I doubt six months..." duration to protect some tax cuts from the application of basic math, and then lie about the need for more troops and so delay a surge until a critical Presidential election had passed, and then lie about stuffing key government departments with people chosen on the basis of their ideology, and then lie...
Taking other peoples money to create grand schemes like this is fucking immoral, if we can't understand that, then any other rational discussion is worthless.
Ahhh, now I understand. You're talking about virtual monopolies like Big Oil has developed, wherein they levy the private taxes they call "profit" upon the American people without giving the American people any voice - any choice - whatsoever?
You're talking about how highly monopolistic industries like energy can and do take other people's money whenever the whim strikes them at whatever rate they choose? A situation made possible by the American people's absolute dependence upon the products of Big Oil? A dependency that exists soley due to the nearly 40 year record of success enjoyed by the pawns of Big Oil in their efforts to block all alternative energy and conservation measures - to include blocking all attempts to develop and deploy efficient forms of mass transportation like high-speed rail? Those pawns whom the American people know as "Republicans"?
Yes, in that context...in the context of reality, rather than the context of ideology...you do indeed make sense.
I see your point...should turn the governance of America and the future of our nation over to the banks and Wall Street, who together have succeeded in demonstrating the self-correcting mechanisms inherent to capitalism at least once every 50 years - well within the lifespans of most totalitarian banana republics - and have additionally and individually confirmed that corruption is stifled by the free market before it ever has a chance to take root.
They just intentionally place two "minor" speed bumps (literally) in the road, and when your GPS tells 'em you're on the road, the timing between the bumps tells 'em you're speeding, and they send you a ticket. A failure to pay same then results in the app telling the nearest police car that you're passing by. Nifty.
Well, if it's not thermal gel, thermal compound, thermal paste, heat paste, heat sink paste, heat transfer compound, or heat sink compound, then I don't know what it is. Although if you spend enough time messing with it, I do know it makes a wonderful contraceptive - as G/Fs get tired of being ignored and move on.
I don't expect anything more than some leads as to where I can chase down further information. When viewed as a collection of knowledge, Wikipedia is actually quite a wonderful resource for its sheer breadth...and a smart person will know that it is up to them to do the further research necessary to add depth.
"Economics" is closer to astrology than it is to physics.
Particularly here in the U.S., where a tragic consequence of "flood-up/trickle-down" economics is sufficient liquidity to enable those individuals whose drive to attain yet more liquidity overwhelms any qualms they might once have had about intentionally distorting commodities markets....whether the commodity in question be corn, hog bellies, or oil.
Using mathematical formulas to predict economic trends and outcomes always did run into problems handling "fads" (although you could attack that with chaos theory). But predicting the whims of the greedy HNWI?
That's like predicting what an evil Harry Potter would do - except their magic wand is cash, both in bulk and further leveraged.
When enabled and supported by advertising networks...
For its likely effectiveness at stopping the slimeballs, I'd put voluntary support by the advertising networks right up there with the sign at the bank entrance that says "No firearms.".
Amazing how good they are at cooperating with each other when the subject at hand is a double-edged sword....one that can be used either in defense of the nation, or in the manipulation, isolation, or monitoring of the American people.
So we won the Cold War, or...did the enemy just immigrate?
A much more effective approach would be public self-immolation recorded on video for broadcasting along with an explanatory note of the no-hope situation underlying the act. The unimaginableness of this makes it something that cannot be ignored.
Oh, I don't know...the "hard right" has devolved. Our right - America's, that is, for the international viewer - would never have dared to lie us into a war once upon a time. Now I fear they would think something like "Another Muslim devil gone..." after glancing at a picture similar to the Buddhist priest of lore in Vietnam and turn to the funny pages.
And Israel's hard right? They have devolved even faster.
And that is just what Corporate America did: Shipped the plant floor overseas, so designers and engineers here in America are now living in a fictional universe with a significant delay before their ideas meet the harsh realities of production.
Likewise ideas that come from the plant floor? lollll...why would they come back to America, especially from a nation like China where neither the state's nor the people's goals have anything at all to do with making America or American corporations...well, American CEOs and major shareholders...any better/wealthier, but rather consist solely of having America bankroll their climb to global supremacy or wealth, respectively?
The great strategic weakness of America's right? As soon as somebody says something they disagree with, they dismiss it as "the liberal mindset".
Sadly for us, they think they're smarter than China, too.
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lollll...or, more likely, insider trading cases.
on my Facebook page, I'll get high-profile Mafia cases?
Like isn't polymorphism a reference to the ability to fuck anything up - with class?
I tend to concur...it is what google did that created "the bad press".
And what is up with this anthropomorphizing corporations, anyway? "Google" didn't do squat - but the people running Google did.
Anthropomorphizing corporations only makes things worse, 'cuz although it is the people who run those corporations that do the bad things, if you have a corporation wrapped around you then suddenly you're immune from responsibility for what you have the corporation do. And then with the Supreme Court and Citizens United coming along to make it even worse by naming corporations "people" who can spend money to influence the course of America's government when any jackwagon knows that it is really a handful of people in the executive suite who are spending that corporation's money to get what they want....
It's getting weird out.
Was an accident, really; Dick Cheney wanted to sound like Donald Duck, but since he's three-faced...
...they can certainly fool Homeland Security. I imagine that "certification authorities" in the Cayman Islands capable of ginning up the requisite answers and documentation began organizing even as the breath left Chertoff's mouth as he made that statement
There is absolutely no evidence to support the hypothesis that Corporate America will not try to find a way to evade or defraud any regulatory requirement or "business standard" that costs them so much as a zinc penny.
By Glenn Garvin | The Miami Herald (A McClatchy Paper)
... the airport-gropers of Homeland Security.
Virtually at the same moment Obama was demanding that Egypt stop monkeying with Facebook and Twitter, Maine's imitation-Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced that she plans to reintroduce a bill that died in Congress last year. Collins gave the bill a smiley-face name, the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. Internet geeks, about the only people who've noticed what the government is up to, prefer to call it the Kill-Switch Bill, because that's what it would do: Give the president the authority to turn off the Internet whenever he pleases.
The bill (assuming Collins follows through on her announced plan to keep it substantially the same as the one she sponsored previously) would give the president the right to declare "a national cyber emergency" and seize authority over any part of the Internet he decides is "vital" to the "economic security, public health or safety of the United States, any state, or any local government." And just in case that's not broad enough, the bill also allows him to snatch anything the White House deems "appropriate."
But this is America, dammit, so the bill includes safeguards for our liberties. The president can only grab stuff for four months at a time. And while the bill says his designations on which parts of the Internet are "vital" are not subject to judicial review, he will have the advice of an enormous new cyberspace bureaucracy presided over by one of our most civil-liberties-sensitive agencies
[...]
Even more ominous was an interview given last year by Collins' supporter, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. "We need the capacity for the president to say, Internet Service Provider, we've got to disconnect the American Internet from all traffic coming in from another foreign country," Lieberman told CNN. "Right now, China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in a case of war. We need to have that here, too."
What makes me laugh is the author's pretending - downright posturing - that America's right doesn't want an internet kill switch...lollll...the right will do the "reluctantly signed of on" gig in public, and celebrate in private. You only have to watch Fox for a half hour to see that our right ain't real thrilled with the idea of the American people having untimely access to the inconvenient truth.
and have some way to handle it without exposing themselves to a lot of radiation
If they're "suicide" whatevers, they won't care about that. In fact, that might never enter into the picture. Someone might, for example, choose to detonate one portable device in the midst of it all and let the prevailing winds do the rest.
Me, I'd be rethinking above-ground storage...or at least ringing the site with some quality ground-to-air missiles.
A race to make hardware (be it high-tech, or not) and software cheaper in the East while simultaneously raising the standard of living there in order to create a replacement market at a faster rate than they lower the standard of living in the West and so destroy that market. Quite the knife-edge balancing act...if they destroy too many jobs in the West before the market in the East grows enough to make the profit loop self-sustaining...or if there is another great big financial scam that collapses...global decompression.
lolll..of course, the designated loser is the West...well, give or take between 0.2% and 1.0% of the West's population, so to be precise "labor" in the West is the designated loser.
Oh, they make another gamble: A gamble that the West will never face another military threat capable of moving across or even jumping between continents. For a nation's industrial infrastructure is its true arsenal...and the West decimates theirs to make a few people great piles of the illusion that is known as "money"...amusing, since the latter is a figment of the human imagination created solely to facilitate trade and denominate true wealth...true wealth, like the ability to take resources and transform them into useful things.
Of course, you may believe that Microsoft will change its act and go against the corporate greed/herd mentality and so won't immediately or eventually transfer the majority of Nokia's intellectual property and "work" to the East...if that is your wager, then you should stay away from places like Monte Carlo and Las Vegas.
Technology evolves, and as the reality of "flood-up/trickle-down" economics - the reality that the only thing that trickles down is pain - becomes ever more evident in ever more desperate state and local governments...
For instance, triangulation and transmission delays from cell phone towers in combination with GPS data could be used immediately to narrow down location, and privacy concerns? Heck, they just stick that label of the system is necessary to apprehend fleeing terrorists, and then soon enough it will bleed into the privacy of the individual American..coerced, perhaps, by communities desperate to fund their police forces with traffic offenses.
I wouldn't rule anything out...like, I never thought my government would lie my country into invading another nation, and then lie about the "Six days, six weeks, I doubt six months..." duration to protect some tax cuts from the application of basic math, and then lie about the need for more troops and so delay a surge until a critical Presidential election had passed, and then lie about stuffing key government departments with people chosen on the basis of their ideology, and then lie...
Taking other peoples money to create grand schemes like this is fucking immoral, if we can't understand that, then any other rational discussion is worthless.
Ahhh, now I understand. You're talking about virtual monopolies like Big Oil has developed, wherein they levy the private taxes they call "profit" upon the American people without giving the American people any voice - any choice - whatsoever?
You're talking about how highly monopolistic industries like energy can and do take other people's money whenever the whim strikes them at whatever rate they choose? A situation made possible by the American people's absolute dependence upon the products of Big Oil? A dependency that exists soley due to the nearly 40 year record of success enjoyed by the pawns of Big Oil in their efforts to block all alternative energy and conservation measures - to include blocking all attempts to develop and deploy efficient forms of mass transportation like high-speed rail? Those pawns whom the American people know as "Republicans"?
Yes, in that context...in the context of reality, rather than the context of ideology...you do indeed make sense.
I see your point...should turn the governance of America and the future of our nation over to the banks and Wall Street, who together have succeeded in demonstrating the self-correcting mechanisms inherent to capitalism at least once every 50 years - well within the lifespans of most totalitarian banana republics - and have additionally and individually confirmed that corruption is stifled by the free market before it ever has a chance to take root.
Give or take.
They just intentionally place two "minor" speed bumps (literally) in the road, and when your GPS tells 'em you're on the road, the timing between the bumps tells 'em you're speeding, and they send you a ticket. A failure to pay same then results in the app telling the nearest police car that you're passing by. Nifty.
Well, if it's not thermal gel, thermal compound, thermal paste, heat paste, heat sink paste, heat transfer compound, or heat sink compound, then I don't know what it is. Although if you spend enough time messing with it, I do know it makes a wonderful contraceptive - as G/Fs get tired of being ignored and move on.
But I think I'll stick to running Folding@Home on all cores to burn in thermal paste. Seems more productive, you know?
I don't expect anything more than some leads as to where I can chase down further information. When viewed as a collection of knowledge, Wikipedia is actually quite a wonderful resource for its sheer breadth...and a smart person will know that it is up to them to do the further research necessary to add depth.
...devalues Citizens United.
"Economics" is closer to astrology than it is to physics.
Particularly here in the U.S., where a tragic consequence of "flood-up/trickle-down" economics is sufficient liquidity to enable those individuals whose drive to attain yet more liquidity overwhelms any qualms they might once have had about intentionally distorting commodities markets....whether the commodity in question be corn, hog bellies, or oil.
Using mathematical formulas to predict economic trends and outcomes always did run into problems handling "fads" (although you could attack that with chaos theory). But predicting the whims of the greedy HNWI?
That's like predicting what an evil Harry Potter would do - except their magic wand is cash, both in bulk and further leveraged.
When enabled and supported by advertising networks...
For its likely effectiveness at stopping the slimeballs, I'd put voluntary support by the advertising networks right up there with the sign at the bank entrance that says "No firearms.".
Amazing how good they are at cooperating with each other when the subject at hand is a double-edged sword....one that can be used either in defense of the nation, or in the manipulation, isolation, or monitoring of the American people.
So we won the Cold War, or...did the enemy just immigrate?
Think he could balance our nation's budget on that?
A much more effective approach would be public self-immolation recorded on video for broadcasting along with an explanatory note of the no-hope situation underlying the act. The unimaginableness of this makes it something that cannot be ignored.
Oh, I don't know...the "hard right" has devolved. Our right - America's, that is, for the international viewer - would never have dared to lie us into a war once upon a time. Now I fear they would think something like "Another Muslim devil gone..." after glancing at a picture similar to the Buddhist priest of lore in Vietnam and turn to the funny pages.
And Israel's hard right? They have devolved even faster.
And that is just what Corporate America did: Shipped the plant floor overseas, so designers and engineers here in America are now living in a fictional universe with a significant delay before their ideas meet the harsh realities of production.
Likewise ideas that come from the plant floor? lollll...why would they come back to America, especially from a nation like China where neither the state's nor the people's goals have anything at all to do with making America or American corporations...well, American CEOs and major shareholders...any better/wealthier, but rather consist solely of having America bankroll their climb to global supremacy or wealth, respectively?
The great strategic weakness of America's right? As soon as somebody says something they disagree with, they dismiss it as "the liberal mindset". Sadly for us, they think they're smarter than China, too.
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