FBI claims that "due to public safety" miranda rights have been suspended in this case. This just adds insult to this shutting down half of Boston. I was suspecting that government crooks will use this incident in some cynical way, yet I didn't that it will end up in such a fiasco. After installing SWAT team in every little police department around police and FBI has fucked up every possible aspect of chasing those two idiots and now they are covering their asses by revoking the suspect right to attorney. They propably know that after total fuckup they did suspect would propably go away free due to some technicality shown in court. This also establishes VERY bad precedent that will be used by police forces to lock down innocent people around the country. I can easily imagine that protesting against bankster corruption in the future will land you in jail without right to attorney "due to public safety". It's total fuckup on all possible accounts.
If those two terrorists wanted to inflict damage on USofA, they've propably achieved way more than they've imagined.
I think we need this. Maybe then this country will become so incensed as to violently take down a government so corrupt and out of control that no other means exist to change it and start again -- learning from our mistakes. Or maybe the people will become even more apathetic than they are now and just lay down and submit.
I beg to differ. At a point where most of people will want to take down government violently, you'll have fully armed drones ("Obama Drones") flying over US bombing anyone your lovely coporations want to be eliminated. Your lovely corporate media will spew lies justifying killing or will orchestrate media blackout, so no one will know about this. Pretty much like in Pakistan today. If you think that your psychopatic corporate overlords see any difference between killing US citizens and some brown people in Pakistan (except for bad PR), you'll find it out the hard way.
Either way -- major changes are coming for the people of the US, and none of them good.
It's never too late to try fighting this disease. Unfortunately, anyone trying to protest against corporate greed and corruption from now on, will propably face some jail time - just like in old communist countries, when the powers that be lose legitimacy and abilities to manipulate the public, they resort to more and more brutal tactics.
I'd say, Bush neocon cronies wouldn't be more happy on 9/11. They planned both wars a long time ago and on 9/11 they've finally got pretext for waging wars. I'm far from suggesting that they've orchestrated 9/11 (as some conspiracy theorists still believe today), yet I suspect they've known it was about to happen earlier and did nothing (on purpose). This is just suspicion. What I'm 100% sure, neocons didn't feel sorry for what happened at all and instead they started their cynical campaign leading to Afghanistan and Iraq wars (with casaulties approaching 3 millions as of today). They should be prosecuted and hanged the same way Nazis were after II WW.
The basis of my rant is that this technology is a DRM, causes problems for all non-MS participants, Microsoft controls this technology (by controlling key distribution) and Microsoft has already abused its control. All conveniently omitted by you. Regarding UEFI itself: yes, Intel designed original version of it but it was Microsoft who forced additional requirements that made Secure Boot such a pain. So I still think that anyone supporting this broken standard either misguided or is a liar. Should I add "useful idiots" to my list of "Microsoft stooges" and "paid trolls" ?
This shows what a frickin fiasco is this UEFI Secure Boot crap. It was designed by Microsoft as a DRM-like lock-in tool for their Windows OS and it shows DRM-related problems again and again. TPM chips are around for years and are capable of solving all problems Microsoft promises to "fix" with this UEFI-secure-DRM-windows-only-Boot crap. In my opinion it qualifies as abuse of monopolistic power and should be prosecuted as such. I'd expect a lot of PC vendor arm twisting evidence to show up if such prosecution would ever take place. And BTW, please don't reply to me with "any OS vendor can request a key from Microsoft" or "any vendor can request hardware vendors to install its key" crapola. These are just lies spewed around by Microsoft stooges and paid trolls. They already abused dominant position in key distribution (just before last Christmas season) and they'll do it again and again anytime it fits them. The only sensible solution would be to force Microsoft and hardware vendors to abandon this flawed standard using antitrust measures or other means.
In most cases it is corporate fascism masquerading itself as socialism. It starts up with Obama administration which is clearly a fascist government, yet media lie us about it calling them "liberal" or "socialist". The same in EU - all their commissars are corporate sock puppets, yet everyone calls them socialist. The same with greek government giving in to Goldman Sachs.
Corporation don't care if it is "left" or "right". Their only concern is money. JP Morgan and Walmart earn gobs of money on foodstamps program after all...
I'd rather expect attempts to delegalize Bitcoin under some murky pretext that it is somehow used for some (more or less unspecified) illegal activities. Our corporate overlords are using US dollar and forcing everyone else to use it. It's their grip on us and they won't surrender it so easily. Quite a few countries have been invaded and destroyed to make sure US dollar is King after all...
It is almost an anthithesis to the word "justice". Consequences (punishment) depend only on two things: 1) who you are 2) whose fingers did you stomp on. Actual damages does not matter much (if at all).
If you're a big bank, corporation or some awfully rich individual with political connections, you propably get away with anything (be it drug money laundering, like HSBC, scamming an awful lot of people like in fraudclosure fiasco or stealing private e-mails and passwords en masse, like Google). If you're an ordinary folk and you anger some police mob, you're toast, whenever you did something illegal or not.
If you harm ordinary people, it will propably be ignored (try calling police when some burglar robs your house). If you stand in the way of some big fat corporation interests, your "justice" department will smash you immediately. Just ask Dotcom. Or even better - compare Google's fine for collecting Wifi data ($7m) with Google's fine for stomping on big pharma interests and displaying canadian pharmacies commercials in the US ($500m).
Now try to explain me that this is NOT a rigged system.
meanwhile the line of unedited cables line is full of shit. minstrelmike is clearly trolling. Whereas NYT can't even get basic information right, wikileaks actually edited the information before releasing it.
I think it was intentional lie, not just an omission or lack of fact checking on behalf of NYT. After all this is corporate media producing corporate propaganda on behalf of your corporate government. A while ago they boasted that they "fact checked" all their wikileaks-related publications with Obama administration itself. "Mr President, can we publish this or that ?" I urge to NOT believe anything NYT writes without confronting it with other sources (preferably non-corporate and non-US).
Price for TLD registration has been set high enough to eliminate many (if not most) small businesses. This move pushes Internet into corporate hands even more.
The same asshole claims that no criminal prosecutions should be launched against big banks because this would "jeopardize whole financial system". Even if this is HSBC laundering drug cartels money en masse and financing Al-Queida terrorist operations (I'm not joking - just search through news from last 3 monts and read this yourself!).
So you see who this asshole is working for - certainly not for you. Not for me. His view of "justice" means serving US oligarchic elites and fuck everyone else. Whole justice system of US is fucked up far beyond repair and if Eric Holder's isn't clear manifestation of this rotteness, then I don't know what is.
Don't force users to install browser plugin crapola. One simple checkbox in setup program (unchecked by default) would make lives better for many, many people (mainly developers). Unfortunately, Oracle chose to use JDK to force lots of crap down our throats (JavaFX, browser plugin plus some other browser crapola), so virtually everyone using Java for any purose is affected by Java security holes. Unfortunate situation that boils down to by stubborn Oracle managos... is there anything in the world that Larry won't be able to turn into crap just by touching it ?
A dictator backed by US gets toppled by his own citizens. Typical response from US government is to support dictator to the last possible moment. If it does not help, US politicians with their mouths full of lies about "democracy and freedom" attempt to reinstall the old regime with another frontman. This scenario played well in Egypt. In Libya, US and EU did much worse things: old dictator has been removed and whole country has been pushed into permanent civil war. We don't hear nor see anything about it because of media blackout instated by fucking corporate media. Some 150 thousands of people died in Libya just in first year of this "bringing democracy" excercise - propably more than Lybia's old dictator killed in his entire career. And we still perceive ourselves as being "good" except that we are no better than nazis were. Just our warmongering elites learned that masquerading killing with crap about "democracy" and "freedom" is better than being explicit and grotesque as Hitler was. This is propably the greatest mass hipocrisy excercise in history...
Extradition into US "Justice" system means indenfinite detention, likely abuses and possible tortures for anyone US government (or US corporations) do not like.
They know very well their "reforms" will hurt everyone but their corporate sponsors. Their only concern is to push it down everyone's throat by any means possible - cheats, lies, threats, bribes etc., so they'll get their money for next elections or at least some well paid jobs in one of corporations they "represent" in the Congress. Educating those two fucke is pointless excercise - the only possible outcome is that their lies and cheats will be more sophiscated. Educating people in their districts makes more sense - the only thing they're afraid of is possiblity of losing next elections.
This is especially troublesome for US. US student has to get into hundreds of thousands dollars of (non-dischargable) debt in order to get his degree in order to have a job in a corporation (even if it means flipping burgers). On the other hand corporations are sucking nearly every bit of fresh air and war between big and small business is pretty much open nowadays with big business winning this war (as mr. Buffet told us that some time ago). In such environment getting a decent job without becoming a debt slave becomes harder every passing day. Welcome to a new feudalism.
They've recently killed most important activist standing in the way of pushing this down the citizenry's throat. By killing Shwartz they've made an example for anyone wishing to oppose and now they're trying again again to get it through. This tells me a lot about US political class. Mentally they seem to be the same kind of crap you normally see in all those petty dicatorships around the world (most installed by the USofA, BTW). I'd urge you to protest this as strongly as you can right from the beginning. Otherwise with CISPA pushed through the Senate and NDAA pushed through courts US will be officially a military dictatorship.
It's fault of whoever designed this crap in the first place (Microsoft?). My opinion is that it does NOT serve any useful purpose, abd it doesn't improve overall security of a PC. It only causes problems. The only purpose of this thing is to reinforce Microsoft lock-in on PC consumer market.
Don't count on innovation in a world where big, lazy corporation are calling the shots and everything is patented to death. Today we tend to take IT-related stuff as "invention" or "technology" and we repeat like a mantra that this is "THE innovation". In fact IT is just a small part of whole technological landscape (albeit it's ubiquitous). Those real ones (eg. energy, medicine, materials etc.) are in virtual standstill due to patents. Biotechnology does some progress but in a very bad direction thanks to Monsanto and similiar entities.
After bringing this to dozens of other countries it comes back to bite you. Back then, when your lovely government did yet another excuse to invade another country (or stage a military coup), you should be marching Washington streets protesting. "What goes around, comes around", they say after all. It is never too late, yet now dealing with your government and its corporate sponsors spinning out of control, it will be much harder. Get up your lazy asses and protest against militarization at home AND abroad !
Seems we have a BIG problem with some corporate fucks running Boeing company. They knowingly pushed flawed airplane design through FAA, influencing and bribing whoever stands their way. In order to get bonuses whey chose to ignore safety concerns overall. Human lives seem to be less valuable to than their profits and bonuses. Given that their "latest and greatest" aircraft turns out to be a flying coffin, should start avoiding Boeing crap ??
Even arguing whether torture was effective or not is a sign that US propaganda in this regard did very well. Now supported by Hollywood they seem to beat Goebbels to the punch. Torturing people is forbidden by Geneva convetions and international law, period. Anyone using torture under any pretext should be prosecuted, period. This ban has its reason: if you allow your government to torture some "brown people" your govt claims being dangerous, a precedent is being set and very soon the very same government will torture just about anyone they don't like (including their own citizens).
Stop talking about effectiveness of torturing people - your government propaganda division can't be happier hearing this.
Carmen Oritz routinely destroys other people lives in order to advance her career without any signs of conscience. For me this is psychopatic behavior. And if her career is the only thing she actually cares of, I'd even call her narcissistic psychopath. Unfortunately, the economic and political system in US promotes psychopaths at the cost of basically everyone else.
I wouldn't pay much attention to what she has to say, she just covers her ass. Psychopaths typically don't show any remorse for their actions - when caught on misbehaviors and lies, they tend to cover it with even bigger bunch of lies.
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FBI claims that "due to public safety" miranda rights have been suspended in this case. This just adds insult to this shutting down half of Boston. I was suspecting that government crooks will use this incident in some cynical way, yet I didn't that it will end up in such a fiasco. After installing SWAT team in every little police department around police and FBI has fucked up every possible aspect of chasing those two idiots and now they are covering their asses by revoking the suspect right to attorney. They propably know that after total fuckup they did suspect would propably go away free due to some technicality shown in court. This also establishes VERY bad precedent that will be used by police forces to lock down innocent people around the country. I can easily imagine that protesting against bankster corruption in the future will land you in jail without right to attorney "due to public safety". It's total fuckup on all possible accounts.
If those two terrorists wanted to inflict damage on USofA, they've propably achieved way more than they've imagined.
I think we need this. Maybe then this country will become so incensed as to violently take down a government so corrupt and out of control that no other means exist to change it and start again -- learning from our mistakes. Or maybe the people will become even more apathetic than they are now and just lay down and submit.
I beg to differ. At a point where most of people will want to take down government violently, you'll have fully armed drones ("Obama Drones") flying over US bombing anyone your lovely coporations want to be eliminated. Your lovely corporate media will spew lies justifying killing or will orchestrate media blackout, so no one will know about this. Pretty much like in Pakistan today. If you think that your psychopatic corporate overlords see any difference between killing US citizens and some brown people in Pakistan (except for bad PR), you'll find it out the hard way.
Either way -- major changes are coming for the people of the US, and none of them good.
It's never too late to try fighting this disease. Unfortunately, anyone trying to protest against corporate greed and corruption from now on, will propably face some jail time - just like in old communist countries, when the powers that be lose legitimacy and abilities to manipulate the public, they resort to more and more brutal tactics.
I'd say, Bush neocon cronies wouldn't be more happy on 9/11. They planned both wars a long time ago and on 9/11 they've finally got pretext for waging wars. I'm far from suggesting that they've orchestrated 9/11 (as some conspiracy theorists still believe today), yet I suspect they've known it was about to happen earlier and did nothing (on purpose). This is just suspicion. What I'm 100% sure, neocons didn't feel sorry for what happened at all and instead they started their cynical campaign leading to Afghanistan and Iraq wars (with casaulties approaching 3 millions as of today). They should be prosecuted and hanged the same way Nazis were after II WW.
The basis of my rant is that this technology is a DRM, causes problems for all non-MS participants, Microsoft controls this technology (by controlling key distribution) and Microsoft has already abused its control. All conveniently omitted by you. Regarding UEFI itself: yes, Intel designed original version of it but it was Microsoft who forced additional requirements that made Secure Boot such a pain. So I still think that anyone supporting this broken standard either misguided or is a liar. Should I add "useful idiots" to my list of "Microsoft stooges" and "paid trolls" ?
This shows what a frickin fiasco is this UEFI Secure Boot crap. It was designed by Microsoft as a DRM-like lock-in tool for their Windows OS and it shows DRM-related problems again and again. TPM chips are around for years and are capable of solving all problems Microsoft promises to "fix" with this UEFI-secure-DRM-windows-only-Boot crap. In my opinion it qualifies as abuse of monopolistic power and should be prosecuted as such. I'd expect a lot of PC vendor arm twisting evidence to show up if such prosecution would ever take place. And BTW, please don't reply to me with "any OS vendor can request a key from Microsoft" or "any vendor can request hardware vendors to install its key" crapola. These are just lies spewed around by Microsoft stooges and paid trolls. They already abused dominant position in key distribution (just before last Christmas season) and they'll do it again and again anytime it fits them. The only sensible solution would be to force Microsoft and hardware vendors to abandon this flawed standard using antitrust measures or other means.
In most cases it is corporate fascism masquerading itself as socialism. It starts up with Obama administration which is clearly a fascist government, yet media lie us about it calling them "liberal" or "socialist". The same in EU - all their commissars are corporate sock puppets, yet everyone calls them socialist. The same with greek government giving in to Goldman Sachs.
Corporation don't care if it is "left" or "right". Their only concern is money. JP Morgan and Walmart earn gobs of money on foodstamps program after all...
I'd rather expect attempts to delegalize Bitcoin under some murky pretext that it is somehow used for some (more or less unspecified) illegal activities. Our corporate overlords are using US dollar and forcing everyone else to use it. It's their grip on us and they won't surrender it so easily. Quite a few countries have been invaded and destroyed to make sure US dollar is King after all ...
It is almost an anthithesis to the word "justice". Consequences (punishment) depend only on two things: 1) who you are 2) whose fingers did you stomp on. Actual damages does not matter much (if at all).
If you're a big bank, corporation or some awfully rich individual with political connections, you propably get away with anything (be it drug money laundering, like HSBC, scamming an awful lot of people like in fraudclosure fiasco or stealing private e-mails and passwords en masse, like Google). If you're an ordinary folk and you anger some police mob, you're toast, whenever you did something illegal or not.
If you harm ordinary people, it will propably be ignored (try calling police when some burglar robs your house). If you stand in the way of some big fat corporation interests, your "justice" department will smash you immediately. Just ask Dotcom. Or even better - compare Google's fine for collecting Wifi data ($7m) with Google's fine for stomping on big pharma interests and displaying canadian pharmacies commercials in the US ($500m).
Now try to explain me that this is NOT a rigged system.
meanwhile the line of unedited cables line is full of shit. minstrelmike is clearly trolling. Whereas NYT can't even get basic information right, wikileaks actually edited the information before releasing it.
I think it was intentional lie, not just an omission or lack of fact checking on behalf of NYT. After all this is corporate media producing corporate propaganda on behalf of your corporate government. A while ago they boasted that they "fact checked" all their wikileaks-related publications with Obama administration itself. "Mr President, can we publish this or that ?" I urge to NOT believe anything NYT writes without confronting it with other sources (preferably non-corporate and non-US).
Price for TLD registration has been set high enough to eliminate many (if not most) small businesses. This move pushes Internet into corporate hands even more.
Is there any way for non-US citizens to get their hands on Google Glasses ?
The same asshole claims that no criminal prosecutions should be launched against big banks because this would "jeopardize whole financial system". Even if this is HSBC laundering drug cartels money en masse and financing Al-Queida terrorist operations (I'm not joking - just search through news from last 3 monts and read this yourself!).
So you see who this asshole is working for - certainly not for you. Not for me. His view of "justice" means serving US oligarchic elites and fuck everyone else. Whole justice system of US is fucked up far beyond repair and if Eric Holder's isn't clear manifestation of this rotteness, then I don't know what is.
Don't force users to install browser plugin crapola. One simple checkbox in setup program (unchecked by default) would make lives better for many, many people (mainly developers). Unfortunately, Oracle chose to use JDK to force lots of crap down our throats (JavaFX, browser plugin plus some other browser crapola), so virtually everyone using Java for any purose is affected by Java security holes. Unfortunate situation that boils down to by stubborn Oracle managos... is there anything in the world that Larry won't be able to turn into crap just by touching it ?
A dictator backed by US gets toppled by his own citizens. Typical response from US government is to support dictator to the last possible moment. If it does not help, US politicians with their mouths full of lies about "democracy and freedom" attempt to reinstall the old regime with another frontman. This scenario played well in Egypt. In Libya, US and EU did much worse things: old dictator has been removed and whole country has been pushed into permanent civil war. We don't hear nor see anything about it because of media blackout instated by fucking corporate media. Some 150 thousands of people died in Libya just in first year of this "bringing democracy" excercise - propably more than Lybia's old dictator killed in his entire career. And we still perceive ourselves as being "good" except that we are no better than nazis were. Just our warmongering elites learned that masquerading killing with crap about "democracy" and "freedom" is better than being explicit and grotesque as Hitler was. This is propably the greatest mass hipocrisy excercise in history...
Extradition into US "Justice" system means indenfinite detention, likely abuses and possible tortures for anyone US government (or US corporations) do not like.
They know very well their "reforms" will hurt everyone but their corporate sponsors. Their only concern is to push it down everyone's throat by any means possible - cheats, lies, threats, bribes etc., so they'll get their money for next elections or at least some well paid jobs in one of corporations they "represent" in the Congress. Educating those two fucke is pointless excercise - the only possible outcome is that their lies and cheats will be more sophiscated. Educating people in their districts makes more sense - the only thing they're afraid of is possiblity of losing next elections.
This is especially troublesome for US. US student has to get into hundreds of thousands dollars of (non-dischargable) debt in order to get his degree in order to have a job in a corporation (even if it means flipping burgers). On the other hand corporations are sucking nearly every bit of fresh air and war between big and small business is pretty much open nowadays with big business winning this war (as mr. Buffet told us that some time ago). In such environment getting a decent job without becoming a debt slave becomes harder every passing day. Welcome to a new feudalism.
They've recently killed most important activist standing in the way of pushing this down the citizenry's throat. By killing Shwartz they've made an example for anyone wishing to oppose and now they're trying again again to get it through. This tells me a lot about US political class. Mentally they seem to be the same kind of crap you normally see in all those petty dicatorships around the world (most installed by the USofA, BTW). I'd urge you to protest this as strongly as you can right from the beginning. Otherwise with CISPA pushed through the Senate and NDAA pushed through courts US will be officially a military dictatorship.
... and trolling as usual. A Micro$oft mole or some $CO crook ?
It's fault of whoever designed this crap in the first place (Microsoft?). My opinion is that it does NOT serve any useful purpose, abd it doesn't improve overall security of a PC. It only causes problems. The only purpose of this thing is to reinforce Microsoft lock-in on PC consumer market.
Don't count on innovation in a world where big, lazy corporation are calling the shots and everything is patented to death. Today we tend to take IT-related stuff as "invention" or "technology" and we repeat like a mantra that this is "THE innovation". In fact IT is just a small part of whole technological landscape (albeit it's ubiquitous). Those real ones (eg. energy, medicine, materials etc.) are in virtual standstill due to patents. Biotechnology does some progress but in a very bad direction thanks to Monsanto and similiar entities.
After bringing this to dozens of other countries it comes back to bite you. Back then, when your lovely government did yet another excuse to invade another country (or stage a military coup), you should be marching Washington streets protesting. "What goes around, comes around", they say after all. It is never too late, yet now dealing with your government and its corporate sponsors spinning out of control, it will be much harder. Get up your lazy asses and protest against militarization at home AND abroad !
Seems we have a BIG problem with some corporate fucks running Boeing company. They knowingly pushed flawed airplane design through FAA, influencing and bribing whoever stands their way. In order to get bonuses whey chose to ignore safety concerns overall. Human lives seem to be less valuable to than their profits and bonuses. Given that their "latest and greatest" aircraft turns out to be a flying coffin, should start avoiding Boeing crap ??
Even arguing whether torture was effective or not is a sign that US propaganda in this regard did very well. Now supported by Hollywood they seem to beat Goebbels to the punch. Torturing people is forbidden by Geneva convetions and international law, period. Anyone using torture under any pretext should be prosecuted, period. This ban has its reason: if you allow your government to torture some "brown people" your govt claims being dangerous, a precedent is being set and very soon the very same government will torture just about anyone they don't like (including their own citizens).
Stop talking about effectiveness of torturing people - your government propaganda division can't be happier hearing this.
Carmen Oritz routinely destroys other people lives in order to advance her career without any signs of conscience. For me this is psychopatic behavior. And if her career is the only thing she actually cares of, I'd even call her narcissistic psychopath. Unfortunately, the economic and political system in US promotes psychopaths at the cost of basically everyone else.
I wouldn't pay much attention to what she has to say, she just covers her ass. Psychopaths typically don't show any remorse for their actions - when caught on misbehaviors and lies, they tend to cover it with even bigger bunch of lies.