clearly provides a superior nutritional experience for the young people of this great nation, which our troops fight so bravely to defend. it's science. you can't argue with science.
-sincerely, the orange juice growers group of greater floridia
You stick your poo in one end, and out of the other end comes rainbows. I assure you there are no hidden APIs or undocumented features. Except for CALEA. Or that thing they are going to require in Canada. Or that thing that we set up with the Chinese Communist Party to promote harmonious communications amongst the people. Or that thing we did for Tunisia back when Ali was in power... anyways.
and it smacks of a massively corrupt, medieval style social organization in which 'might makes right', and trial by combat was the norm. if we have 'trial by most lawyers', completely disregarding any principles of legal ethics or empiricism, we have not really advanced past the state described in the Viking Sagas of the 11th century .
their bonuses for the current quarter, telling everyone they 'made 100 billion dollar profit' for ATT. then they quit ATT and move to some other 'finance' job where they pull similar tricks. now maybe ATT later goes bankrupt because what it had book as 100 billion in assets could never be sold for 100 billion, and one weekend everyone realizes this at once and there is a massive selloff and dis-investment. (hey, its the mortgage meltdown all over again).
then we get the ATT bailout, and a bunch of other bailouts for the commercial real estate investors, etc etc. yay capitalism. yay efficiency.
those old industries were replaced by new ones. well, now, there are no new industries. and the social safety net, to keep people afloat between careers, is being destroyed by ideologues.
you can argue all you want about efficiency, but at some point, when you have 50% unemployment, and you just have masses of people wandering the streets with nothing to do and no opportunity to work, they either have to depend on their parents, or starve to death. in that case, efficiency is not 'better'. its a recipe for a violent, horrific, bloody revolution, brought about by mass starvation. see Russia, 1917
as soon as we can print out our own chips, none of this will matter.
you know the 'Arab Spring'? Well, most of it was in Africa. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya - all African countries. The guy who started Ubuntu? African. These folks are on the forefront of tech, they just have been barred from access to capital by corruption.
see... the 'average reader' is going to do the 'average thing', which is think that they have some insight because they read Forbes, and get in on some bandwagon trend thing. they pour their money into some account like Schwab or Scottrade. i think the gambling analogy fits here too.
now, the hedge funder watches the pumping and dumping action going on in the pages of forbes (and WSJ and etc), and tries to tell which way the 'market pscyhology' is headed. by predicting this they can get in on the various pump and dump deals. take the Dot Com bubble. the 'buzz' around it sends the masses to put their money into it, in hopes they too can get rich by riding the up and down of the market.
a good example of how hedge funds interact with the media to get rich off of bad investors is probably that screaming guy on the financial network. Jim Cramer. there is a great book about him - "Trading with the Enemy" by some kid who managed to get a job inside Cramer's fund because his dad knew a guy who knew a guy who... anyways. The 'news' is not to give out information, its also to help manipulate public opinion for the purpose of improving predictability for certain deals that certain people are working on.
1. a lot of financial institutions would rather not it be public knowledge that they have problems in their security systems, etc. they try to hush things up without getting the cops involved.
2. the cops sometimes will collude with them to hush things up. see 'The Asylum' by Leah McGrath Goodman and NYMEX (yes, NYMEX from Trading Places)
3. at the highest echelon, the notion of what is legal and illegal gets distorted and fooled with, by lobbyists, payed-for intellectuals, and the super rich. so that to date there has been little-to-no prosecution of the people in the CDO, mortgage securities, robo signing, foreclosure fraud, and housing bubble system. experts and authors like Roger Lowenstein spill buckets of ink trying to prove that no crime took place, even though 2 trillion dollars magically disappeared into hedge funds and investment banks offshore accounts in 2008, with the help of the taxpayer.
4. take number 3 and just... multiply it. well. did you know, for example, that the guy who ran Nymex was, directly before he ran Nymex, the head government regulator of Nymex? And that he let Nymex do stuff that it shouldn't have been doing, and then they hired him out of his government job and gave him a huge raise? there are thousands of cases like that that never receive media attention.
in other words, people DO get away with that sort of thing, all the time. and the best way to get away with it is to have something like 'CEO' or 'Board Chairman' on your resume.
you are probably a hedge fund guy, or friends with a hedge fund guy, or some other type of person who makes money by buying and selling big chunks of other people.
you see a story about an electronics retailer.
they see a story about an opportunity to short sell or buy credit default swaps against a company's debt. imagine if you are sitting at a poker table and instead of chips you are playing with coins that each say '1 million dollars'. you can start to get an inkling of the mindset here. you dont care if the other people at the table are nurses, waiters, hairdressers, authors, poets, politicians, soldiers, etc. all you care about is what is in their hand, and which way the game is going to go, because you can get rich off of it, but more importantly, you can get the high you get from winning. thats what the "their stock price is down" thing means. it doesnt pretend to have any intelligent commentary on cause and effect. its poker information for poker players.
if you tried to do what this guy is doing for NES with a Sony Playstation or IPhone you would sued and threatened with millions in legal bills. If you don't believe me, ask George Hotz.
slashdot didn't move away from geeky stuff... certain corporate interests decided to attack the entire principle of DIY at its core. you can't expect slashdot to be silent about that.
Microsoft: your government is buying PCs with linux.
Tunisia: so what?
Microsoft: those obviously just get wiped and installed with Windows. thats a violation of laws or something
Tunisia: and?
Microsoft: And... if you buy from us, we will put auto-certification into our browser so your dictatorial government can hijack the SSL system and spy on dissidents
Tunisia: go on...
Microsoft: and, we will cut you a deal, and Bill Gates himself will sign the contract
Tunisia: OK!
Meanwhile on some street corner:
Mohamed Bouazizi: f* me i cant find a job, im selling baubles in the street
Tunisian govt: Mohamed, you dont have a permit, you owe us a bazillion dollars and you are a criminal
Mohamed Bouazizi: F* you i will set myself on fire
Tunisian population: Yeah! F* that! We are going to throw out this dictator!
Microsoft: Oh s****
Anonymous: Lolz we h4xed and found the Tunisian-Microsoft contract, lets put it on the InterWeb!
InterWeb: Oh my goodness. Throw it on the pile of other bad stuff MS has done, like the time they destroyed Dr. Dos on purpose, like the time they threatened OEMs to not sell competing OSes on purpose, like the time they tried to destroy Linux through the SCO v IBM lawsuit on purpose, like the time they etc etc etc.
Lenovo does not have a free choice. They can either refuse Microsoft's thuggish demands (do not sell linux or we will cut off all supplies of Windows to you), or they can give in to Microsoft's thuggish demands. They have no power.
They can't take Microsoft to court.
Now, the consumer can't take Microsoft to court either. Why? They have no standing to bring a case - Microsoft did not bully or threaten the consumer, it bullied and threatened Lenovo.
IE, even though Microsoft is distorting the free market, they could never get sued.
You might say that the government should sue them... ha ha ha ah ha. The same governments that just bailed out Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Deutschebank, Credit Suisse, UBS, RBS, etc, when they all blatantly broke the law? When the regulators that work for the government get payed huge salaries to to join industry as soon as they 'retire' from government service? When campaign contributions are now completely unlimited and these companies can give a billion dollars to someone to be president?
of what you want, since the 'world is flat'. ask anyone who worked in any industry that was outsourced what happened to wages - your job can be outsourced too.
the union will strike for working conditions, not just wages. actually it might be best to completely forget about wages, and go for working conditions since that is something everyone can agree on.
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clearly provides a superior nutritional experience for the young people of this great nation, which our troops fight so bravely to defend. it's science. you can't argue with science.
-sincerely, the orange juice growers group of greater floridia
or, to put it more accurately, slashdot sends the lunch home.
sparkfun iirc has some interesting stories on their site where they visit China and the lines that make some of their stuff. note: its not foxconn.
you can also buy used.
You stick your poo in one end, and out of the other end comes rainbows. I assure you there are no hidden APIs or undocumented features. Except for CALEA. Or that thing they are going to require in Canada. Or that thing that we set up with the Chinese Communist Party to promote harmonious communications amongst the people. Or that thing we did for Tunisia back when Ali was in power... anyways.
for a large number of computer problems?
and it smacks of a massively corrupt, medieval style social organization in which 'might makes right', and trial by combat was the norm. if we have 'trial by most lawyers', completely disregarding any principles of legal ethics or empiricism, we have not really advanced past the state described in the Viking Sagas of the 11th century .
i think i will stick with it for 5 years if i have to.
no other organization on the planet shows video of people being killed and then brags about what a great accomplishment it is.
entitled "lax attitudes towards child labor", then we could throw in the entire tech industry and the mountain of factories in china.
finally done something productive and contributory to society. i am gobsmacked.
their bonuses for the current quarter, telling everyone they 'made 100 billion dollar profit' for ATT. then they quit ATT and move to some other 'finance' job where they pull similar tricks. now maybe ATT later goes bankrupt because what it had book as 100 billion in assets could never be sold for 100 billion, and one weekend everyone realizes this at once and there is a massive selloff and dis-investment. (hey, its the mortgage meltdown all over again).
then we get the ATT bailout, and a bunch of other bailouts for the commercial real estate investors, etc etc. yay capitalism. yay efficiency.
those old industries were replaced by new ones. well, now, there are no new industries. and the social safety net, to keep people afloat between careers, is being destroyed by ideologues.
you can argue all you want about efficiency, but at some point, when you have 50% unemployment, and you just have masses of people wandering the streets with nothing to do and no opportunity to work, they either have to depend on their parents, or starve to death. in that case, efficiency is not 'better'. its a recipe for a violent, horrific, bloody revolution, brought about by mass starvation. see Russia, 1917
as soon as we can print out our own chips, none of this will matter.
you know the 'Arab Spring'? Well, most of it was in Africa. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya - all African countries. The guy who started Ubuntu? African. These folks are on the forefront of tech, they just have been barred from access to capital by corruption.
built on the foundation of a religion free state. just avert your eyes to the prisons full of journalists.
see... the 'average reader' is going to do the 'average thing', which is think that they have some insight because they read Forbes, and get in on some bandwagon trend thing. they pour their money into some account like Schwab or Scottrade. i think the gambling analogy fits here too.
now, the hedge funder watches the pumping and dumping action going on in the pages of forbes (and WSJ and etc), and tries to tell which way the 'market pscyhology' is headed. by predicting this they can get in on the various pump and dump deals. take the Dot Com bubble. the 'buzz' around it sends the masses to put their money into it, in hopes they too can get rich by riding the up and down of the market.
a good example of how hedge funds interact with the media to get rich off of bad investors is probably that screaming guy on the financial network. Jim Cramer. there is a great book about him - "Trading with the Enemy" by some kid who managed to get a job inside Cramer's fund because his dad knew a guy who knew a guy who... anyways. The 'news' is not to give out information, its also to help manipulate public opinion for the purpose of improving predictability for certain deals that certain people are working on.
1. a lot of financial institutions would rather not it be public knowledge that they have problems in their security systems, etc. they try to hush things up without getting the cops involved.
2. the cops sometimes will collude with them to hush things up. see 'The Asylum' by Leah McGrath Goodman and NYMEX (yes, NYMEX from Trading Places)
3. at the highest echelon, the notion of what is legal and illegal gets distorted and fooled with, by lobbyists, payed-for intellectuals, and the super rich. so that to date there has been little-to-no prosecution of the people in the CDO, mortgage securities, robo signing, foreclosure fraud, and housing bubble system. experts and authors like Roger Lowenstein spill buckets of ink trying to prove that no crime took place, even though 2 trillion dollars magically disappeared into hedge funds and investment banks offshore accounts in 2008, with the help of the taxpayer.
4. take number 3 and just ... multiply it. well. did you know, for example, that the guy who ran Nymex was, directly before he ran Nymex, the head government regulator of Nymex? And that he let Nymex do stuff that it shouldn't have been doing, and then they hired him out of his government job and gave him a huge raise? there are thousands of cases like that that never receive media attention.
in other words, people DO get away with that sort of thing, all the time.
and the best way to get away with it is to have something like 'CEO' or 'Board Chairman' on your resume.
you are probably a hedge fund guy, or friends with a hedge fund guy, or some other type of person who makes money by buying and selling big chunks of other people.
you see a story about an electronics retailer.
they see a story about an opportunity to short sell or buy credit default swaps against a company's debt. imagine if you are sitting at a poker table and instead of chips you are playing with coins that each say '1 million dollars'. you can start to get an inkling of the mindset here. you dont care if the other people at the table are nurses, waiters, hairdressers, authors, poets, politicians, soldiers, etc. all you care about is what is in their hand, and which way the game is going to go, because you can get rich off of it, but more importantly, you can get the high you get from winning. thats what the "their stock price is down" thing means. it doesnt pretend to have any intelligent commentary on cause and effect. its poker information for poker players.
"A few days ago, I visited a Best Buy store in Pinole, CA with a friend. He’s a devoted consumer electronics and media shopper, "
oh yes, i forgot, the 'devoted consumer electronics shopper'.
if you tried to do what this guy is doing for NES with a Sony Playstation or IPhone you would sued and threatened with millions in legal bills. If you don't believe me, ask George Hotz.
slashdot didn't move away from geeky stuff... certain corporate interests decided to attack the entire principle of DIY at its core. you can't expect slashdot to be silent about that.
Microsoft: your government is buying PCs with linux.
Tunisia: so what?
Microsoft: those obviously just get wiped and installed with Windows. thats a violation of laws or something
Tunisia: and?
Microsoft: And... if you buy from us, we will put auto-certification into our browser so your dictatorial government can hijack the SSL system and spy on dissidents
Tunisia: go on...
Microsoft: and, we will cut you a deal, and Bill Gates himself will sign the contract
Tunisia: OK!
Meanwhile on some street corner:
Mohamed Bouazizi: f* me i cant find a job, im selling baubles in the street
Tunisian govt: Mohamed, you dont have a permit, you owe us a bazillion dollars and you are a criminal
Mohamed Bouazizi: F* you i will set myself on fire
Tunisian population: Yeah! F* that! We are going to throw out this dictator!
Microsoft: Oh s****
Anonymous: Lolz we h4xed and found the Tunisian-Microsoft contract, lets put it on the InterWeb!
InterWeb: Oh my goodness. Throw it on the pile of other bad stuff MS has done, like the time they destroyed Dr. Dos on purpose, like the time they threatened OEMs to not sell competing OSes on purpose, like the time they tried to destroy Linux through the SCO v IBM lawsuit on purpose, like the time they etc etc etc.
on the one hand, this guy has re-implemented assembler with lisp syntax.
on the other hand, this guy has re-implemented assembler with lisp syntax.
Lenovo does not have a free choice. They can either refuse Microsoft's thuggish demands (do not sell linux or we will cut off all supplies of Windows to you), or they can give in to Microsoft's thuggish demands. They have no power.
They can't take Microsoft to court.
Now, the consumer can't take Microsoft to court either. Why? They have no standing to bring a case - Microsoft did not bully or threaten the consumer, it bullied and threatened Lenovo.
IE, even though Microsoft is distorting the free market, they could never get sued.
You might say that the government should sue them... ha ha ha ah ha. The same governments that just bailed out Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Deutschebank, Credit Suisse, UBS, RBS, etc, when they all blatantly broke the law? When the regulators that work for the government get payed huge salaries to to join industry as soon as they 'retire' from government service? When campaign contributions are now completely unlimited and these companies can give a billion dollars to someone to be president?
having just lived through the 'girl with the dragon tattoo' i can go another 5 years without an extended anal rape scene
and their army was mostly made of horses.
of what you want, since the 'world is flat'. ask anyone who worked in any industry that was outsourced what happened to wages - your job can be outsourced too.
the union will strike for working conditions, not just wages. actually it might be best to completely forget about wages, and go for working conditions since that is something everyone can agree on.