Anyone care to bet that this little prick got some very sizable "Donations" from the likes of Seagate, Western digital, EMC, Data direct, Cisco, HP, IBM, Cray, etc... Bought and payed for. And the beat goes on. And by Beat I mean beat down of the civil rights of the worlds populations in general and more pointedly the American people.
The bigger picture here is that the ISP/cable companies are trying anything they can to stem the tide of cable cutters now... Choke off the bandwidth to the point that even SD video starts to look like crap and streaming becomes a bit of a stuttering strain and you got subscribers coming grudgingly back to your shitty, overpriced product and services. At this point the US tax payers have literally payed for the build out of both the telecom and a large part of, if not all of, the cable infrastructures. These companies have grown very rich and powerful over the years and this is simply another way to maintain the grossly excessive profit margins that they enjoy to this day. Next step, metered data. I am actually thinking that politics may be a place I need to explore.
The content creation does have to be payed for. At present we have been a Netflix subscriber for near 9 years. We also subscribe to Amazon Prime as well for over a year now. We do not however pay for cable TV in any form. We go off air for the local stuff as the quality is far better and I time shift it to remove the commercials.
As far as whether Netflix is getting the big numbers they claim or not doesn't matter a bit. What in fact does matter is if they are profitable and continue to offer compelling content to the subscribers. So far they have for our needs. Is their user base expanding, it seems to be. Is the REAL Top Gear crew coming to Netfilx, yes! Are they creating more and more original content, yes. The days of the TV stations and their models being profitable are nearing an end just is it is for the majority of news papers and magazines. If they fail to adapt to the changing tide they will find themselves being bought on the auction block like allot of other giants that dug in and fought rather than adapt.
So what if they succeed in getting the "back doors" be mandated in all hardware routers and devices. There will simply be a software encryption done on the data before it is sent to/out of the devices in the first place. To think that they can put the encryption genie back in the bottle at this stage is a pure waste of time, money, and effort and will effect nothing.
This is just plain stupid and shows just how out of touch with the reality of the situation out politicians and leaders really are
Any up and coming country that is honestly interested in nuclear power as a way to shed commitment to fossil fuels would be researching Thorium based reactors instead. But this removes the path to fissionable materials used to make bombs... Kinda make their statements rather questionable at the least.
Had a customer that called and had me come do an evaluation of her home for supplemental grounding etc. She explained to me that she was sensitive to electro magnet energy and the signals from WiFi, and cellphones caused her no end of trouble including seizures. I get there and she is under nourished from the looks of it. She pulls out her china special EM meter and tells me that she measures "energy" on the PEX water pipes as well as the ground. I advised her about the dubious accuracy of such devices and took measurements with my test tools to show that there was in fact a number of valid grounding conductors. Towards the end of the walk/talk/test, around 2 hours, I asked her how she was feeling? She told me that she felt great. I then pulled out my cell phone that I had in my pocket and showed her that it had been on the whole time. I explained that the area was a black hole for radio signals and that all cell phones would ramp up their power to get to the towers. I did a WiFi audit as well and found that at least 5 different routers were in range. My aim was not to mock but educate her in the hopes that she would focus on things other than imagined illnesses from phantom sources. I may be optimistic but I think a little of it maybe got through to her... Who knows with crazy people though. They will act counter to logic nearly every time.
Agree with Zoolook. Not really a fan of the Alien ware rigs, over priced for the hardware. As others point out it is also likely to be a bit more expensive to roll our own rig. That said and understood, you control the quality and the build. I just built a new computer to replace the one I built near ten years ago. I used the best in class parts at the time including a server mother board and processors, reg ecc memory, and water cooled dual video cards, processors, and chipset. The entire build cost me just under $4,000.00 in total. This sounds expensive until you remember that I used it without issue for just under TEN years. My latest rig is also water cooled and with all parts, not bleeding edge but just under it I am in for around $3600 USD. I have a 4K, 40" monitor and can push world of tanks at 4K with everything cranked at 60FPS from a single GTX980SC card. I have the option of a second card to extend the usable life of the box. Another option that can be had for reasonable is the likes of an HP Z800 work station used. These usually can be gotten used off lease for less than a few hundred dollars, come with at least 8-16GB of RAM, have an LSI SAS/SATA RAID controller on board, are modular and tooless. I got one off Ebay for less than $510 with dual Quad core 2.4GHz Zeons, 96GB of RAM, two 1TB 7200RPM drives, a Quadro 2000 video card and a windows 7 pro 64bit key. Threw in a GTX960 card and it is a great work and gaming computer for under $750 USD. Throw in the fastest pair of Zeons 3.6GHz the thing will take for another $150 and swap out the 850Watt PS for the 1100W unit and you are still under $1200 for a rocking rig that will likely keep up with most desktop machines for at least the next 5-7 years.
Not worried at all. The cell sites are generally very poorly protected and monitored leaving them open to attack. Piss enough users off and you are bound to get more than a few that are willing to "free up spectrum" from the hijackers that run the cellular companies. These assholes have already managed to grab nearly half of the old UHF TV spectrum after the next auction to verizon and at&t is completed. I suspect that it will only be a matter of time before the cellular companies are able to get the FCC to relegate WiFi to secondary use status behind their own services. In this though they may have a fight on their hands from the cable companies like Time Warner and others that use the installed cable/WiFi routers of their customers to extend their "free" WiFi services to their customer base. Speaking of which, we are aware that cable companies not only charge us to rent their cable routers with WiFi but then turn around and open a WiFi link to service their customers and make you pay for the power to run the service to boot?
Really? To bad it has to come to this. The reality is that this is being driven by the fucking assholes being distracted by the driving from their all important texting. The car should punch the assholes in the face every time is has to save them and the innocent other driver/s from an accident. I drive allot and dodge at least a couple of idiots a month while they are busy texting.
Really the two options are Verizon and AT&T. Verizon generally seems to have the better coverage and is a bit more reliable. AT&T by far has the faster network if you are looking to move data. Both are stupid expensive for what they provide which is very little to be honest. To the best of my knowledge there really is no option from any of the carriers here that doesn't include a hefty serving of ass rape.
Likely this is true until the trackers built into the base go tits up. There were a number of these systems in the California desert in the 80s, don't hear about them any do we? To complicated and maintenance intensive to be practical and ultimately damages the reputation of solar. Simple high efficiency solar panels are most likely to disrupt the present power generation monopolies and allow us a bit more freedom from the handful of those that literally have the power in their hands. Consider this, where is the greatest growth in power generation happening throughout Europe and America, It ain't heliostats!
Really? Temptation is when you randomly connect with someone at say a store and feel an attraction to them that you may or may not resist. In the case of these assholes we have a group of generally deceitful individuals that not only actively signed up for and payed for the service but chose to seek out the very temptation. I feel no sorrow for those caught by this, only for the manner in which their partners are likely to be finding out about the shitty person they have been living with. Let us also keep in mind that there are medical consequences to cheating too. How many innocent partners have found their lives turned upside down permanently by an unfaithful partners transmission of an STD for which there is no cure. I will not get into the tearing up of the family and the hurt to the children at having to go through this. I suspect that a number of your a on that list, not hard to pick you out though.
Just like the telephone companies, the cable companies, the big oil companies, and the military industrial complex etc... Need I continue?
Business as usual, move along, nothing to see here.
In other news, taxes are going to be going up. Oh, sorry, meant to say that the middle classes taxes are going to be going up. Wealthy corporations and the 1% who offshore profits are going to be paying less.
Their coffee sucks anyway, I piss better coffee after drinking my vacuum brewed Kona or blue mountain.
The guys needs to post the info anonymously now and let slip the dogs of war on the stupid assholes running starbucks.
See just how reactive they are after that!
Could not agree more. We cut the cord over 8 years ago and time shift every program we take off air to delete the commercials. Only thing we have is internet, not even basic cable. It is via legal streaming services like Netflix and Amazon prime as well as off air that we partake of any entertainment. No Hulu since they expect that we pay for the service and endure commercials to boot, What a racket that one is! Off air programming in HD is far and away better than that delivered by the cable companies too. Sports, never watch them unless you consider F1 cars and bikes a sport, which I don't. More of a Nerd VS. Nerd competition with backing by really wealthy companies. Point is this, when I can choose the channels, AND ONLY THE CHANNELS, I want for a reasonable price then I may be enticed back. Now we all know this is not really going to happen from the cable and satellite companies. Sooner or later though the content providers will figure it out and simply bypass the cable and satellite companies completely by having the likes of Netflix or others host and serve up the content. The NFL, the NBA, the NHL, are all milking everyone for all they can get right now and this includes ESPN who in turn does that same the cable/satellite providers who in turn do the same to the average stupid subscriber to their crappy sub par service. In the end it is likely that if those that actually watch the sports now have to fit the vast majority of bill for the service at the ridiculously elevated rates charged right now, the viewership would fall very quickly indeed. If more were to cut the cord, really more of a paring down as it were, they all would have to adapt to the desires of the consumer.
Hollywood is incapable of taking what is a truly great story and putting it to the screen in a more or less complete fashion. Reality is that this is the kind of book that would be better split into 2 or even 3 movies. Frankly it would have been far better if they did a mini series on TV instead. With high hopes but low expectations.
This is an easy one. You can't remove them, they will just be uploaded again and again. What you can do is simply not watch or otherwise acknowledge their existence at all and in doing so you strip the power and motive as well to make such crap. There will always be those that seek out and enjoy this kind of imagery, they need help. But they are in the small minority. I have not seen any of the beheadings nor the pilot being burned and have managed to miss two girls one cup to boot! I have far better things to watch. Is there not enough killing and filth on the TV and in the movies to satisfy people without seeking out the videos of those stupid and unfortunate enough to go to one of these third world shit holes and get taken by these sick fucks and ultimately killed by them for fun and profit? As the years progress entertainment more and more is tailored to the lowest common denominator, look at all the reality shows. With the exception of maybe four or five the rest are all total shit. We would not remove them though a strong case could be made that they do a great deal of harm to society when the idiots that seek them out and watch later emulate. It all comes back to education, we have shit for schools here in the USofA and turn out some of the dumbest kids now. Smart people don't watch this crap nor do they seek it out. For fucks sake, pick up a god damned book for once!
'This uncertainty is not good for investment, and it's not good for jobs here in America.' Really now? How is this not good for American jobs? These assholes can't outsource the infrastructure. They can't outsource the plant, the fibre, the maintenance workers and installers... I fail to see how this is really bad for the consumer at all. Here is the fact. In wireless they are able to sell you small chunks of data at criminally marked up rates where as in wire line and fibre they generally are not able to limit you thanks to the FCC rules and laws. As long as they are basically unregulated in the wireless arena they will stay there and fight to keep it that way. Another thing to keep in mind is that they are going to start to feel the push at their sphincters more and more from Google in major metro markets as they roll fibre. Fact is having 1Gb symmetrical is not really of much use to you or me 99.9999% of the time, it is really just a marketing gimmick. Companies like Google can push into markets like this since they can simply run their lines after buying off the relevant parties in the area of interest. No so with wireless as there is no bandwidth to be bought since only a few of the major wireless companies have all of it bought and payed for. Essentially these are government sanctioned and supported monopolies, just the same as cities with only one broad band provider. This is Verizon management admitting that they can't buy their way out of this and so they are cutting and running. Simply put, a new more forward looking and creative management group will be able to make a go of it. If they invest in the last mile and compete with or better the cable companies in the area at the game they will be very profitable
I simply can not believe that yet another major US tech company like IBM would lay off so many employees like this... COUGH COUGH, General Electric, COUGH. In other news they still are off shoring their income to shield it from paltry US taxes they are asked to pay but still enjoy major US tax payer support through subsidies and tax breaks. Irony... Get used to this people, this is only going to be getting worse after the next election when they will have all their people in place and pass laws allowing them to really take advantage of the common hard working person. Hard work, dedication, honesty, and integrity, are not really valued like they should be any more. Sensible, modest, long term growth and stability are being sacrificed in favor of short term profits to satisfy the investors and line the pockets of the top few execs. The one sunny thing about this is that in another twenty years they will be on the auction block to have their patent portfolio sold to pay off creditors.
Wait, you mean that the FCC actually came down on the side of the consumers and against a very minor special interest? Wow, just WOW!
In other news, the FTC and the FCC are likely going to finally allow the acquisition of Time Warner by Comcast in the next few months. For the customers this will be a really great thing since it will allow them to be fleeced more efficiently and have their service issues better ignored. It will also allow the Cable companies to better lobby the FCC and the Congress to pass laws finally and forever end any hopes of net neutrality. This should finally guarantee continued control of commerce, ad dollars, and media revenues etc. by only the largest incumbent and most financially flush companies.
Pop those pain pills people and call your petrologist, the ass rape they are about to release on we the average internet user is going to be nothing short of epic!
Wow, really surprised by this. Am I the only one that knows that Apple pushes their suppliers to the limit to maximize profits? I suspect that GT had hoped to use apple to fund the cost of the fabrication facilities at a break even point and make money selling excess production to third parties. Guess they bet wrong on this one. To bad they are not the first or the last.
I wonder how he is going to be coming down on net neutrality? Anyone care to bet that it will be on the side of the internet providers? Give us a little sugar and then fuck us up the poop shoot!
One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand... that should be about right if the bill I get each month from the greedy pricks is any indication.
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Anyone care to bet that this little prick got some very sizable "Donations" from the likes of Seagate, Western digital, EMC, Data direct, Cisco, HP, IBM, Cray, etc... Bought and payed for. And the beat goes on. And by Beat I mean beat down of the civil rights of the worlds populations in general and more pointedly the American people.
The bigger picture here is that the ISP/cable companies are trying anything they can to stem the tide of cable cutters now... Choke off the bandwidth to the point that even SD video starts to look like crap and streaming becomes a bit of a stuttering strain and you got subscribers coming grudgingly back to your shitty, overpriced product and services. At this point the US tax payers have literally payed for the build out of both the telecom and a large part of, if not all of, the cable infrastructures. These companies have grown very rich and powerful over the years and this is simply another way to maintain the grossly excessive profit margins that they enjoy to this day. Next step, metered data. I am actually thinking that politics may be a place I need to explore.
The content creation does have to be payed for. At present we have been a Netflix subscriber for near 9 years. We also subscribe to Amazon Prime as well for over a year now. We do not however pay for cable TV in any form. We go off air for the local stuff as the quality is far better and I time shift it to remove the commercials. As far as whether Netflix is getting the big numbers they claim or not doesn't matter a bit. What in fact does matter is if they are profitable and continue to offer compelling content to the subscribers. So far they have for our needs. Is their user base expanding, it seems to be. Is the REAL Top Gear crew coming to Netfilx, yes! Are they creating more and more original content, yes. The days of the TV stations and their models being profitable are nearing an end just is it is for the majority of news papers and magazines. If they fail to adapt to the changing tide they will find themselves being bought on the auction block like allot of other giants that dug in and fought rather than adapt.
So what if they succeed in getting the "back doors" be mandated in all hardware routers and devices. There will simply be a software encryption done on the data before it is sent to/out of the devices in the first place. To think that they can put the encryption genie back in the bottle at this stage is a pure waste of time, money, and effort and will effect nothing. This is just plain stupid and shows just how out of touch with the reality of the situation out politicians and leaders really are
Any up and coming country that is honestly interested in nuclear power as a way to shed commitment to fossil fuels would be researching Thorium based reactors instead. But this removes the path to fissionable materials used to make bombs... Kinda make their statements rather questionable at the least.
Had a customer that called and had me come do an evaluation of her home for supplemental grounding etc. She explained to me that she was sensitive to electro magnet energy and the signals from WiFi, and cellphones caused her no end of trouble including seizures. I get there and she is under nourished from the looks of it. She pulls out her china special EM meter and tells me that she measures "energy" on the PEX water pipes as well as the ground. I advised her about the dubious accuracy of such devices and took measurements with my test tools to show that there was in fact a number of valid grounding conductors. Towards the end of the walk/talk/test, around 2 hours, I asked her how she was feeling? She told me that she felt great. I then pulled out my cell phone that I had in my pocket and showed her that it had been on the whole time. I explained that the area was a black hole for radio signals and that all cell phones would ramp up their power to get to the towers. I did a WiFi audit as well and found that at least 5 different routers were in range. My aim was not to mock but educate her in the hopes that she would focus on things other than imagined illnesses from phantom sources. I may be optimistic but I think a little of it maybe got through to her... Who knows with crazy people though. They will act counter to logic nearly every time.
Agree with Zoolook. Not really a fan of the Alien ware rigs, over priced for the hardware. As others point out it is also likely to be a bit more expensive to roll our own rig. That said and understood, you control the quality and the build. I just built a new computer to replace the one I built near ten years ago. I used the best in class parts at the time including a server mother board and processors, reg ecc memory, and water cooled dual video cards, processors, and chipset. The entire build cost me just under $4,000.00 in total. This sounds expensive until you remember that I used it without issue for just under TEN years. My latest rig is also water cooled and with all parts, not bleeding edge but just under it I am in for around $3600 USD. I have a 4K, 40" monitor and can push world of tanks at 4K with everything cranked at 60FPS from a single GTX980SC card. I have the option of a second card to extend the usable life of the box. Another option that can be had for reasonable is the likes of an HP Z800 work station used. These usually can be gotten used off lease for less than a few hundred dollars, come with at least 8-16GB of RAM, have an LSI SAS/SATA RAID controller on board, are modular and tooless. I got one off Ebay for less than $510 with dual Quad core 2.4GHz Zeons, 96GB of RAM, two 1TB 7200RPM drives, a Quadro 2000 video card and a windows 7 pro 64bit key. Threw in a GTX960 card and it is a great work and gaming computer for under $750 USD. Throw in the fastest pair of Zeons 3.6GHz the thing will take for another $150 and swap out the 850Watt PS for the 1100W unit and you are still under $1200 for a rocking rig that will likely keep up with most desktop machines for at least the next 5-7 years.
Not worried at all. The cell sites are generally very poorly protected and monitored leaving them open to attack. Piss enough users off and you are bound to get more than a few that are willing to "free up spectrum" from the hijackers that run the cellular companies. These assholes have already managed to grab nearly half of the old UHF TV spectrum after the next auction to verizon and at&t is completed. I suspect that it will only be a matter of time before the cellular companies are able to get the FCC to relegate WiFi to secondary use status behind their own services. In this though they may have a fight on their hands from the cable companies like Time Warner and others that use the installed cable/WiFi routers of their customers to extend their "free" WiFi services to their customer base. Speaking of which, we are aware that cable companies not only charge us to rent their cable routers with WiFi but then turn around and open a WiFi link to service their customers and make you pay for the power to run the service to boot?
Really? To bad it has to come to this. The reality is that this is being driven by the fucking assholes being distracted by the driving from their all important texting. The car should punch the assholes in the face every time is has to save them and the innocent other driver/s from an accident. I drive allot and dodge at least a couple of idiots a month while they are busy texting.
Really the two options are Verizon and AT&T. Verizon generally seems to have the better coverage and is a bit more reliable. AT&T by far has the faster network if you are looking to move data. Both are stupid expensive for what they provide which is very little to be honest. To the best of my knowledge there really is no option from any of the carriers here that doesn't include a hefty serving of ass rape.
Likely this is true until the trackers built into the base go tits up. There were a number of these systems in the California desert in the 80s, don't hear about them any do we? To complicated and maintenance intensive to be practical and ultimately damages the reputation of solar. Simple high efficiency solar panels are most likely to disrupt the present power generation monopolies and allow us a bit more freedom from the handful of those that literally have the power in their hands. Consider this, where is the greatest growth in power generation happening throughout Europe and America, It ain't heliostats!
Really? Temptation is when you randomly connect with someone at say a store and feel an attraction to them that you may or may not resist. In the case of these assholes we have a group of generally deceitful individuals that not only actively signed up for and payed for the service but chose to seek out the very temptation. I feel no sorrow for those caught by this, only for the manner in which their partners are likely to be finding out about the shitty person they have been living with. Let us also keep in mind that there are medical consequences to cheating too. How many innocent partners have found their lives turned upside down permanently by an unfaithful partners transmission of an STD for which there is no cure. I will not get into the tearing up of the family and the hurt to the children at having to go through this. I suspect that a number of your a on that list, not hard to pick you out though.
And in other news, my penis just grew 4 inches simply by the force of my will!!!
Just like the telephone companies, the cable companies, the big oil companies, and the military industrial complex etc... Need I continue? Business as usual, move along, nothing to see here. In other news, taxes are going to be going up. Oh, sorry, meant to say that the middle classes taxes are going to be going up. Wealthy corporations and the 1% who offshore profits are going to be paying less.
Their coffee sucks anyway, I piss better coffee after drinking my vacuum brewed Kona or blue mountain. The guys needs to post the info anonymously now and let slip the dogs of war on the stupid assholes running starbucks. See just how reactive they are after that!
Could not agree more. We cut the cord over 8 years ago and time shift every program we take off air to delete the commercials. Only thing we have is internet, not even basic cable. It is via legal streaming services like Netflix and Amazon prime as well as off air that we partake of any entertainment. No Hulu since they expect that we pay for the service and endure commercials to boot, What a racket that one is! Off air programming in HD is far and away better than that delivered by the cable companies too. Sports, never watch them unless you consider F1 cars and bikes a sport, which I don't. More of a Nerd VS. Nerd competition with backing by really wealthy companies. Point is this, when I can choose the channels, AND ONLY THE CHANNELS, I want for a reasonable price then I may be enticed back. Now we all know this is not really going to happen from the cable and satellite companies. Sooner or later though the content providers will figure it out and simply bypass the cable and satellite companies completely by having the likes of Netflix or others host and serve up the content. The NFL, the NBA, the NHL, are all milking everyone for all they can get right now and this includes ESPN who in turn does that same the cable/satellite providers who in turn do the same to the average stupid subscriber to their crappy sub par service. In the end it is likely that if those that actually watch the sports now have to fit the vast majority of bill for the service at the ridiculously elevated rates charged right now, the viewership would fall very quickly indeed. If more were to cut the cord, really more of a paring down as it were, they all would have to adapt to the desires of the consumer.
Hollywood is incapable of taking what is a truly great story and putting it to the screen in a more or less complete fashion. Reality is that this is the kind of book that would be better split into 2 or even 3 movies. Frankly it would have been far better if they did a mini series on TV instead. With high hopes but low expectations.
This is an easy one. You can't remove them, they will just be uploaded again and again. What you can do is simply not watch or otherwise acknowledge their existence at all and in doing so you strip the power and motive as well to make such crap. There will always be those that seek out and enjoy this kind of imagery, they need help. But they are in the small minority. I have not seen any of the beheadings nor the pilot being burned and have managed to miss two girls one cup to boot! I have far better things to watch. Is there not enough killing and filth on the TV and in the movies to satisfy people without seeking out the videos of those stupid and unfortunate enough to go to one of these third world shit holes and get taken by these sick fucks and ultimately killed by them for fun and profit? As the years progress entertainment more and more is tailored to the lowest common denominator, look at all the reality shows. With the exception of maybe four or five the rest are all total shit. We would not remove them though a strong case could be made that they do a great deal of harm to society when the idiots that seek them out and watch later emulate. It all comes back to education, we have shit for schools here in the USofA and turn out some of the dumbest kids now. Smart people don't watch this crap nor do they seek it out. For fucks sake, pick up a god damned book for once!
'This uncertainty is not good for investment, and it's not good for jobs here in America.' Really now? How is this not good for American jobs? These assholes can't outsource the infrastructure. They can't outsource the plant, the fibre, the maintenance workers and installers... I fail to see how this is really bad for the consumer at all. Here is the fact. In wireless they are able to sell you small chunks of data at criminally marked up rates where as in wire line and fibre they generally are not able to limit you thanks to the FCC rules and laws. As long as they are basically unregulated in the wireless arena they will stay there and fight to keep it that way. Another thing to keep in mind is that they are going to start to feel the push at their sphincters more and more from Google in major metro markets as they roll fibre. Fact is having 1Gb symmetrical is not really of much use to you or me 99.9999% of the time, it is really just a marketing gimmick. Companies like Google can push into markets like this since they can simply run their lines after buying off the relevant parties in the area of interest. No so with wireless as there is no bandwidth to be bought since only a few of the major wireless companies have all of it bought and payed for. Essentially these are government sanctioned and supported monopolies, just the same as cities with only one broad band provider. This is Verizon management admitting that they can't buy their way out of this and so they are cutting and running. Simply put, a new more forward looking and creative management group will be able to make a go of it. If they invest in the last mile and compete with or better the cable companies in the area at the game they will be very profitable
I simply can not believe that yet another major US tech company like IBM would lay off so many employees like this... COUGH COUGH, General Electric, COUGH. In other news they still are off shoring their income to shield it from paltry US taxes they are asked to pay but still enjoy major US tax payer support through subsidies and tax breaks. Irony... Get used to this people, this is only going to be getting worse after the next election when they will have all their people in place and pass laws allowing them to really take advantage of the common hard working person. Hard work, dedication, honesty, and integrity, are not really valued like they should be any more. Sensible, modest, long term growth and stability are being sacrificed in favor of short term profits to satisfy the investors and line the pockets of the top few execs. The one sunny thing about this is that in another twenty years they will be on the auction block to have their patent portfolio sold to pay off creditors.
Wait, you mean that the FCC actually came down on the side of the consumers and against a very minor special interest? Wow, just WOW! In other news, the FTC and the FCC are likely going to finally allow the acquisition of Time Warner by Comcast in the next few months. For the customers this will be a really great thing since it will allow them to be fleeced more efficiently and have their service issues better ignored. It will also allow the Cable companies to better lobby the FCC and the Congress to pass laws finally and forever end any hopes of net neutrality. This should finally guarantee continued control of commerce, ad dollars, and media revenues etc. by only the largest incumbent and most financially flush companies. Pop those pain pills people and call your petrologist, the ass rape they are about to release on we the average internet user is going to be nothing short of epic!
Wow, really surprised by this. Am I the only one that knows that Apple pushes their suppliers to the limit to maximize profits? I suspect that GT had hoped to use apple to fund the cost of the fabrication facilities at a break even point and make money selling excess production to third parties. Guess they bet wrong on this one. To bad they are not the first or the last.
I wonder how he is going to be coming down on net neutrality? Anyone care to bet that it will be on the side of the internet providers? Give us a little sugar and then fuck us up the poop shoot!
One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand... that should be about right if the bill I get each month from the greedy pricks is any indication.
Couldn't have happened to a bigger asshole. Don't wish to see people out of work but I would love to see that prick poor.