a true 'audit' would be combing through every piece of legislation the congressman voted for, and determining whether or not the $500,000 worth of campaign donations that helped him and his party over the past 5 years were from people who benefited from line items in the bills he sponsored or passed.
and in case you didnt notice, congressman have sweet jobs - massive salaries, free health care, pensions, and, on top of that, after they get through, they get jobs as ---- lobbyists, making untold fortunes using their contacts in washington to keep the gravy train going.
these objections people are raising here about the legitimate uses of lobbying are like someone arguing about the legitimate uses of dynamite in a banking environment.
i propose to design a machine that when pointed at an object in a retail environment, will search a database and present to the user an interactive presentation about all the points on the supply chain that led to the object's existence on that retail shelf.
for example, the overnight wal-mart stockers with no health insurance, the long haul truckers who are continually pushed by managers to drive further with less sleep, the docks where TSA irradiates everything, the chinese factory where the manager rapes the workers on a regular basis, the government run prison mines that provide input to the factory, etc etc etc.
if you would read Henry Paulson's "On the Brink" he specifically talks about how the Russian government tried to do EXACTLY this in 2008 with the help of the Chinese government. But the Chinese government told the Russians to fuck off and die in a fire. Why ?Partly because Henry Paulson had been the CEO of Goldman Sachs and heavily involved in China for the past several years, . . . his book mentions far more discussions with Chinese leaders during the crash of 2008 than he mentions people like Dick Cheney or even George Bush.
none of this has anything to do with 'hackers' or 'source code'.
there are a lot of law school graduates who are overwhelmed with debt and cannot find a job. a lot of their work has been computerized and a lot of them wind up being 'click monkeys' making barely enough to ever pay back their loans.
we had a massive over-inflated real-estate bubble for 8 years, and instead of everyone getting cheap houses, we got the Great Recession, massive numbers of vacant, rotting empty lots, and millions of unemployed people declaring bankruptcy.
alot of the 'price' of land has nothing to do with reality. its fake. its manipulated by investment banks like Goldman Sachs with fake money and fake loans and fake derivatives.
lets say you could churn out houses for 5 cents. a 1/2 acre lot near a metropolis will still cost $500,000 + taxes + sewer + water + etc etc etc.
im guessing that the main reason it seems like an 'unusual south africa thing' is because US banks never, ever talk about this kind of thing.
partly out of embarassment, partly because the entire system is based on 'security through obscurity'.
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of course, oblig. comment about how thousands of US banks failed in 2008/9/10 due to the CDO fraud system - which directly involved and benefited the ratings agencies. but its almost like nobody cares about that. they care about 5 million stolen from ATMs, but not about 2 trillion stolen from the taxpayers.
and then, have them ask the people who they bought if from
and then, they ask the people that they bought it from.
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what if someone lies?
ahh, well, you get a world wide system of tracking going. its not impossible. its done with fruit. its done with alot of stuff.
think about it. microsoft, apple, the MPAA, the RIAA, wal-mart, the NSA, the TSA, etc, are trying to 'tag' everything in existence to track where it goes, when it went there, etc.
Wal-mart has extensive tracking of product after a certain point - from the warehouse to the store shelf to the consumer to the checkout. they have computers that track all of this, cameras covering it, little RFID tags and so forth and so on.
The government can track people in countless ways - spying on phone calls, etc, then finding some alleged terrorist in the middle of nowhere and dropping a drone bomb on them.
If they can track all this junk after it enters 'the system', all they have to do is widen the system. widen the system to include stuff like Coltan.
it might be impossible for one company to do anything, but together as a species... we can do something. and companies can either be part of the solution or part of the problem.
and Apple gets the shit dumped all over it, because they are the ones who put Ghandi in their advertising.
many people said it would be impossible for India to become a democracy and throw out the British. he did it. and Apple used his image to sell their products --- but more than that, to sell the idea that thinking and creativity are penultimate. Einstein's image they also have used - and he would say similar things. it is only impossible if you accept what exists currently as inevitable - but it almost never is.
there have been several attempts to pass such a law through congress--- it gets, basically, slaughtered, i.e. voted down by all the people who take bribes from corporations + hedge funds.
in fact i spent a day or two editing the article on wikipedia about this bill, but i cant even remember what the bill was called. lols. something about the fair labor competition act or something.
taking egghead computer theories and making them into products for children
ripping out the guts of BSD and putting it into a consumer phone
working out deals with the music industry, a notoriously insular, backwards, conservative, static industry, to distribute its product over a whole new channel and create a new type of industry.
making a 8 inch 'pad' that works like a computer and people will buy
bringing back a nearly bankrupt, listing disaster of a corporation and turning it into one of the biggest companies in the world.
all these things were impossible. all these things were accomplished.
honestly, do you really need to pirate another Creed album or the latest transformers movie? I mean, jesus christ, why dont you read a fucking book or something?
life must be very hard indeed, if, in the course of downloading films and music without paying the creators, you accidentally have to watch an advertisement. how can you survive? what gives you hope? how do you wake up in the morning and face each day? knowing that somewhere out there, there might be ads, RIGHT NEXT to your magnet links, just waiting for you to accidentally click the wrong thing.
surely there is something we, as Americans, can do about this horrible problem. maybe if we all wrote our congressmen...
having spiders crawling over the private data of tens of millions of people could be incredibly lucrative. not only to sell to businesses, but to sell to the various governments of the world who are interested in spying on people. every year the governments of earth spend billions collecting and gathering data on people to analyze 'security threats'.
now, that data is being collected for them. facebook is a good start, but it's mostly just trivial personal stuff. here, at a file storage site, we have the big fish. spreadsheets from companies, investigation reports from corporate analysts, stock trading information, debt trading information, etc etc etc.
i dont think i am part of this 'we' you are talking about. the only terrorist bombing ive ever seen was done by a buzz-cut army vet with blond hair and blue eyes.
as anyone who has actually tried to build that pile of ass knows, the apple 'open source' project is complete horse shit. they use an incredibly obfuscated build system that makes it impossible for anyone except Apple to actually compile their projects.
that is why there are no open source operating systems based off the Darwin Kernel, except for the highly alpha-level PureDarwin , and the completely abandoned OpenDarwin -- here we are ten years after OsX, and PureDarwin only recently announced "The dawn of network and audio support" in their OS.
GNU Hurd and Haiku are both farther along the way to being usable Operating Systems than any open system based on Darwin.
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a true 'audit' would be combing through every piece of legislation the congressman voted for, and determining whether or not the $500,000 worth of campaign donations that helped him and his party over the past 5 years were from people who benefited from line items in the bills he sponsored or passed.
and in case you didnt notice, congressman have sweet jobs - massive salaries, free health care, pensions, and, on top of that, after they get through, they get jobs as ---- lobbyists, making untold fortunes using their contacts in washington to keep the gravy train going.
these objections people are raising here about the legitimate uses of lobbying are like someone arguing about the legitimate uses of dynamite in a banking environment.
because thats the only place where 'education on a complex topic' is what is going on with lobbyists in washington.
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i propose to design a machine that when pointed at an object in a retail environment, will search a database and present to the user an interactive presentation about all the points on the supply chain that led to the object's existence on that retail shelf.
for example, the overnight wal-mart stockers with no health insurance, the long haul truckers who are continually pushed by managers to drive further with less sleep, the docks where TSA irradiates everything, the chinese factory where the manager rapes the workers on a regular basis, the government run prison mines that provide input to the factory, etc etc etc.
if you would read Henry Paulson's "On the Brink" he specifically talks about how the Russian government tried to do EXACTLY this in 2008 with the help of the Chinese government. But the Chinese government told the Russians to fuck off and die in a fire. Why ?Partly because Henry Paulson had been the CEO of Goldman Sachs and heavily involved in China for the past several years, . . . his book mentions far more discussions with Chinese leaders during the crash of 2008 than he mentions people like Dick Cheney or even George Bush.
none of this has anything to do with 'hackers' or 'source code'.
soooooo yeah.
there are a lot of law school graduates who are overwhelmed with debt and cannot find a job. a lot of their work has been computerized and a lot of them wind up being 'click monkeys' making barely enough to ever pay back their loans.
we had a massive over-inflated real-estate bubble for 8 years, and instead of everyone getting cheap houses, we got the Great Recession, massive numbers of vacant, rotting empty lots, and millions of unemployed people declaring bankruptcy.
alot of the 'price' of land has nothing to do with reality. its fake. its manipulated by investment banks like Goldman Sachs with fake money and fake loans and fake derivatives.
lets say you could churn out houses for 5 cents. a 1/2 acre lot near a metropolis will still cost $500,000 + taxes + sewer + water + etc etc etc.
im guessing that the main reason it seems like an 'unusual south africa thing' is because US banks never, ever talk about this kind of thing.
partly out of embarassment, partly because the entire system is based on 'security through obscurity'.
----
of course, oblig. comment about how thousands of US banks failed in 2008/9/10 due to the CDO fraud system - which directly involved and benefited the ratings agencies. but its almost like nobody cares about that. they care about 5 million stolen from ATMs, but not about 2 trillion stolen from the taxpayers.
you can look up MVACIS, there is a pic of one in the wikipedia article on backscatter x-rays (hmm wonder how that got there)
and then, have them ask the people who they bought if from
and then, they ask the people that they bought it from.
---
what if someone lies?
ahh, well, you get a world wide system of tracking going. its not impossible. its done with fruit. its done with alot of stuff.
think about it. microsoft, apple, the MPAA, the RIAA, wal-mart, the NSA, the TSA, etc, are trying to 'tag' everything in existence to track where it goes, when it went there, etc.
Wal-mart has extensive tracking of product after a certain point - from the warehouse to the store shelf to the consumer to the checkout. they have computers that track all of this, cameras covering it, little RFID tags and so forth and so on.
The government can track people in countless ways - spying on phone calls, etc, then finding some alleged terrorist in the middle of nowhere and dropping a drone bomb on them.
If they can track all this junk after it enters 'the system', all they have to do is widen the system. widen the system to include stuff like Coltan.
it might be impossible for one company to do anything, but together as a species... we can do something. and companies can either be part of the solution or part of the problem.
its just highly improbable.
and Apple gets the shit dumped all over it, because they are the ones who put Ghandi in their advertising.
many people said it would be impossible for India to become a democracy and throw out the British. he did it. and Apple used his image to sell their products --- but more than that, to sell the idea that thinking and creativity are penultimate. Einstein's image they also have used - and he would say similar things. it is only impossible if you accept what exists currently as inevitable - but it almost never is.
they probably think they are gnomes sprinkling magic pixie dust.
there have been several attempts to pass such a law through congress--- it gets, basically, slaughtered, i.e. voted down by all the people who take bribes from corporations + hedge funds.
in fact i spent a day or two editing the article on wikipedia about this bill, but i cant even remember what the bill was called. lols. something about the fair labor competition act or something.
a few other things that are impossible:
taking egghead computer theories and making them into products for children
ripping out the guts of BSD and putting it into a consumer phone
working out deals with the music industry, a notoriously insular, backwards, conservative, static industry, to distribute its product over a whole new channel and create a new type of industry.
making a 8 inch 'pad' that works like a computer and people will buy
bringing back a nearly bankrupt, listing disaster of a corporation and turning it into one of the biggest companies in the world.
all these things were impossible. all these things were accomplished.
all of a sudden you download transformers 4, and find out that its really an old episode of The Waltons. what do you do then?
honestly, do you really need to pirate another Creed album or the latest transformers movie? I mean, jesus christ, why dont you read a fucking book or something?
life must be very hard indeed, if, in the course of downloading films and music without paying the creators, you accidentally have to watch an advertisement. how can you survive? what gives you hope? how do you wake up in the morning and face each day? knowing that somewhere out there, there might be ads, RIGHT NEXT to your magnet links, just waiting for you to accidentally click the wrong thing.
surely there is something we, as Americans, can do about this horrible problem. maybe if we all wrote our congressmen...
now the biomedical companies that make profits from selling to blood banks are suddenly going to have a whole new revenue stream.
having spiders crawling over the private data of tens of millions of people could be incredibly lucrative. not only to sell to businesses, but to sell to the various governments of the world who are interested in spying on people. every year the governments of earth spend billions collecting and gathering data on people to analyze 'security threats'.
now, that data is being collected for them. facebook is a good start, but it's mostly just trivial personal stuff. here, at a file storage site, we have the big fish. spreadsheets from companies, investigation reports from corporate analysts, stock trading information, debt trading information, etc etc etc.
when Microsoft decides to punish everyone from OEMs to retailers for not towing the company line, that is an ideology of 'profits over everything'.
i dont think i am part of this 'we' you are talking about. the only terrorist bombing ive ever seen was done by a buzz-cut army vet with blond hair and blue eyes.
i was responding to the original post by JBMbC, who wrote this:
"Here's the source code to all the open source software in MacOSX, along with any patches they did to the source."
"Here the sources for a bunch of the core system components, including the kernel."
to me, this is very misleading. "a bunch of core system components" -- except for, you know, little stuff like network drivers, graphics drivers, etc.
as anyone who has actually tried to build that pile of ass knows, the apple 'open source' project is complete horse shit. they use an incredibly obfuscated build system that makes it impossible for anyone except Apple to actually compile their projects.
that is why there are no open source operating systems based off the Darwin Kernel, except for the highly alpha-level PureDarwin , and the completely abandoned OpenDarwin -- here we are ten years after OsX, and PureDarwin only recently announced "The dawn of network and audio support" in their OS.
GNU Hurd and Haiku are both farther along the way to being usable Operating Systems than any open system based on Darwin.
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