"Who are you going to believe? Me? Or your damned lying eyes!"
Right.
Which is why Jaco REHEARSES the reaction, several times BEFORE the "event" "occurs".
Metabunk is just another socially-fed channel - subject to manipulation and organised disinformation, such as that the Airforce publicly declared it runs - many others covertly.
Not as transparently fake and manipulative as CNNBCFox.
Or NYT and WashPo.
American propaganda is shaped and manufactured by the mega-corporations that captured US government, decades ago.
Example: GE. They bring you the "News" and the bombs dropped. And the planes that carried them. And the un-earned income for the former congressman who voted to both fund their development and purchase, as well as vote the extra-constitutional "authorization of force", by which they are expended.
Microsoft hubris. There was room in the market for EXACTLY ONE massively successful strategy including a mobile player, tied to an online store for popular music and podcasts. That niche was already neatly occupied by Apple.
The Zune v1 was a complete xeroxing of Apple's device form, function, business model and technology presentation. When it became a white-elephant, rather than own-up the obvious blunder, they made it again - harder and deeper. The usual Microsoft myopia kicked in, where they addressed any possible issue as a matter addressable by "features". I spent six years inside this maelstrom of arrogance and ignorance. This was typical, across divisions.
Even if the ZuneHD were hotter than Jesus' underpants, it was introduced as the iPhone began to hit stride, and standalone players were going to be a sub-market.:-)
Still, the next blunder was rubbishing ZuneHD device and UI work, in favour of WinPhone7. If MS had added a phone stack and dialpad to ZuneHD, it may have been worthwhile. Certainly better than the two generations of Nokia and HTC subbed atrocity. Again, internal politics and hubris made it impossible for Microsoft to even recognise this - much less execute against such a plan. No. The "Windows" brand was going to take command of the field, while "Zune" got pushed down the memory-hole with "Kin".
So? An even MORE diluted Windows brand - attached to new vistas of failure, in mobile...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama made it clear Friday he has no intention of stopping the daily collection of American phone records. And while he offered "appropriate reforms," he blamed government leaks for creating distrust of his domestic spying program.
In an afternoon news conference, the president acknowledged the domestic spying has troubled Americans and hurt the country's image abroad. But he called it a critical counterterrorism tool.
"I am comfortable that the program currently is not being abused," Obama said. "I am comfortable that if the American people examined exactly what was taking place, how it was being used, what the safeguards were, that they would say, 'You know what? These folks are following the law.'"
Because the program remains classified, however, it's impossible for Americans to conduct that analysis beyond the assurances his administration has given.
"Understandably, people would be concerned," the president said. "I would be, too, if I weren't inside the government."
"Flush twice, it's a long way to Watergate" and "Nixon: The Only Dope Worth Shooting"
Pity. He now - despite paranoia and megalomania - seem innocuous after what came to us at the start of the following decade - and persisted ever since.
". . . I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in; I neither took part in nor knew about any of the subsequent coverup activities; I neither authorized nor encouraged subordinates to engage in illegal or improper campaign tactics." (also: "I am not a crook.")
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
We have pervasive police-state surveillance, US Government cocaine flights from central America and "Conspiracy Realities" exposed by Snowden, Assange, Michael Hastings and Andrew Warren, among others.
This nonchalance with user passwords is one more steaming loaf for the pile:
1) Rip-off GPL and Apache license software, by exploiting the spirit of the licenses, without violation of terms.
2) Produce shiny spyware, that looks like attractive product and services.
3) Screw everybody in the way of their strategy-du-jour, especially "customers" with concerns of privacy and other user expectations. Witness "net neutrality" or their abandonment of installed bases.
4) Oxymoronism. "Android Security". GoogleTV device is more piled higher and deeper on this pile.
You know: it was invented by Lead Zeppelin, on his first record. It may be a cause of the Earth's warming, but I'll never let them take it away! Thank GOD the NRA is here to help!
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It's brand "AMERICA" (tm). Just BEEELEEEVEEE!
"Who are you going to believe? Me? Or your damned lying eyes!"
Right.
Which is why Jaco REHEARSES the reaction, several times BEFORE the "event" "occurs".
Metabunk is just another socially-fed channel - subject to manipulation and organised disinformation, such as that the Airforce publicly declared it runs - many others covertly.
"The Russian Mob" is a bunch of Israelis.
RT?
Not as transparently fake and manipulative as CNNBCFox.
Or NYT and WashPo.
American propaganda is shaped and manufactured by the mega-corporations that captured US government, decades ago.
Example:
GE. They bring you the "News" and the bombs dropped. And the planes that carried them. And the un-earned income for the former congressman who voted to both fund their development and purchase, as well as vote the extra-constitutional "authorization of force", by which they are expended.
Or you never saw the fake Scud feed? Or the "first gulf war" Charles Jaco, CNN fake?
Welcome to your paradise.
If you want a Microsoft vision of the future, imagine a Nike boot stamping on a Maybeline human facebook - forever.
Do one thing well. :-)
1 - Landfills currently in danger of eroding, need rapid supplementary deposit.
2 - Microsoft execs have restriction period expire - and swapped for Intel stock last month. Now need to inflate H2 units shipped on CPUs.
3 - Three words: "BALLMER, BALLMER, BALLMER"!
PPM dictates user interest, fool - not mere users.
It takes BALLS the size of CANADA to TRIPLE-DOWN!
Lady and gentlemen, Microsoft is about to show you how it's done. This is like RIM, without the spending cap or reality check.
It's not as graphic as you might imagine, but the scene still got cut in the US version.
Franco or D'Amato, I'm thinking, but I'm not really sure...
'Zactly.
All beasts.
It was a good device.
That should never have existed.
Not for any valid business reason, anyway.
Microsoft hubris. There was room in the market for EXACTLY ONE massively successful strategy including a mobile player, tied to an online store for popular music and podcasts. That niche was already neatly occupied by Apple.
The Zune v1 was a complete xeroxing of Apple's device form, function, business model and technology presentation. When it became a white-elephant, rather than own-up the obvious blunder, they made it again - harder and deeper. The usual Microsoft myopia kicked in, where they addressed any possible issue as a matter addressable by "features". I spent six years inside this maelstrom of arrogance and ignorance. This was typical, across divisions.
Even if the ZuneHD were hotter than Jesus' underpants, it was introduced as the iPhone began to hit stride, and standalone players were going to be a sub-market. :-)
Still, the next blunder was rubbishing ZuneHD device and UI work, in favour of WinPhone7. If MS had added a phone stack and dialpad to ZuneHD, it may have been worthwhile. Certainly better than the two generations of Nokia and HTC subbed atrocity. Again, internal politics and hubris made it impossible for Microsoft to even recognise this - much less execute against such a plan. No. The "Windows" brand was going to take command of the field, while "Zune" got pushed down the memory-hole with "Kin".
So? An even MORE diluted Windows brand - attached to new vistas of failure, in mobile...
Carol Lee, WSJ: "Can you understand, though, why some people might not trust what you're saying right now about wanting to --"
Obama: "No, I can't."
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/09/210574114/transcript-president-obamas-news-conference
Obama says phone spying not abused, will continue
Outlook, not so good...
Microsoft meets at least one of the definitions for insanity: Keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Really. SO f-ing arrogant! "We weren't mistaken, and will double down."
How's all them ZuneHD's been doing?
For differing values of "We".
http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/57775093467/tricky
Who else remembers the graffiti?
"Flush twice, it's a long way to Watergate"
and
"Nixon: The Only Dope Worth Shooting"
Pity. He now - despite paranoia and megalomania - seem innocuous after what came to us at the start of the following decade - and persisted ever since.
"we should all curl up in a fetal position next to you, suck our thumbs and cry and wait to die."
Not my position.
I'm just suggesting that it is GOOD that a new OMNI doesn't want to have conspiracy theory articles.
They'd never be able to keep up with actual facts.
And what do you get?
Now?
We have pervasive police-state surveillance, US Government cocaine flights from central America and "Conspiracy Realities" exposed by Snowden, Assange, Michael Hastings and Andrew Warren, among others.
The dark future of Stanislaw Lem's "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" is here.
Blue Danube Waltz.
I hear that water is wet. Does this so-called "expert" have any advice on solving this pernicious problem?
Google is horrible, that's all there is to it.
This nonchalance with user passwords is one more steaming loaf for the pile:
1) Rip-off GPL and Apache license software, by exploiting the spirit of the licenses, without violation of terms.
2) Produce shiny spyware, that looks like attractive product and services.
3) Screw everybody in the way of their strategy-du-jour, especially "customers" with concerns of privacy and other user expectations. Witness "net neutrality" or their abandonment of installed bases.
4) Oxymoronism. "Android Security". GoogleTV device is more piled higher and deeper on this pile.
What's my response? "Send me to heaven".
What about Lead Guitar?
You know: it was invented by Lead Zeppelin, on his first record. It may be a cause of the Earth's warming, but I'll never let them take it away! Thank GOD the NRA is here to help!