Massively expanded colors and included lots of unicode font WingDings formatting. Especially unicode 0x2767, ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET, at the beginning and end of every line
"Simplify my life":
I have renamed 'ls' to the much easier-to-type 'l', saving hundreds of millions of keystrokes per year.
"Make me amazing":
'ls' (or, now, 'l') comes with a built-in movie, Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Just type 'l ception' and it starts playing!
there is no need for democracy in communist China, because the people are already represented in government by the Communist Party.
funny corollary: There is no need for independent labor unions in China, because the government controlled labor union inherently represents the people's interests - after all, it too is controlled by the Communist Party.
as for the basic facts of history about unions and working conditions, well, you are just 100%, flat out wrong. i mean, its like you have tried to lecture me on mathematics by starting out with "the volume of a sphere is r cubed". no, its not r cubed. its not, its not even close, and any 3rd grader knows it from basic examination of the universe that is plain to their god given eyeballs.
heh. without unions you would see a lot of work return to the UK... like children working in coal mines and toxic garbage dumps.... just like children do in asia.
because if you go to a campus, then your education costs will increase. that means you need to take out a bigger student loan. this, in turn, means that some hedge fund or investment bank can resell your student loan to someone else, take a huge profit, and retire to Fiji.
what you need to understand, is that all of those perks of on campus life are very important to the economy of Fiji.
for violating the California Comprehensive Computer Fraud and Abuse whatever-act (sorry cant remember the exact name) in state court, sort of like Sony tried to sue GeoHotz.
im guessing the USCC has some big financial guns in it's own camp...
the two situations are not exactly the same. Manning is accused of giving information about the national defense to other parties. it would be very hard to argue that apple did that. they just gave instructions to India about how to backdoor their phones.
now the more accurate analogy would not be Bradley Manning, it would be the 'Cambridge Associates' who went under Grand Jury investigation in 2011 regarding their alleged assistance to Wikileaks (and are still under investigation). They are charged with Conspiracy to Commit Espionage. 18 USC 793 g.
now, the other law i think applies here would be the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. why? the Espionage Act only applies to 'national defense information'. but the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has its own sort of 'mini-espionage-act' inside of it... that applies to not just national defense information, but also "foreign relations" information. This is the only reason Manning could be sued on so many counts of violating the CFAA, for example the Reyjkavic 13 memo about Icelandic Bank Fraud - thats under the CFAA.
what you have here against Apple, could, theoretically, be Conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, section (1) I believe is the Computer Espionage section.
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another analogy would be George Hotz + FailOverflow, who published information about how to jailbreak the playstation 3. They were sued by Sony - but that was in civil court, not in criminal court. the DOJ never went after Hotz.
the espionage act applies to 'national defense information' of the US, and you have to have delivered it or 'retained' it .
here, apple is just providing the indian government with a backdoor. are you going to argue that the instructions on how to backdoor login to iOS are somehow 'national defense information' of the united states?
the problem with that kind of case is the DOJ sued apple, they'd have to sue a whole crapload of other business interests... and that would be a problem for the DOJ's boss - the office of president, which typically enjoys the full financial support of various tech companies.
what makes you think the investment banking "community" isn't glued at the hip to the intelligence community? some evidence:
1. the book "The Asylum" by Leah McGrath Goodman. the CIA and NSA had wires going directly to NYMEX. The government gave classified information to the guys running the New York Mercantile Exchange during the Gulf War - nevermined alot of those guys were drug addicts and alcoholics with sex addiction problems. the 'relationship' continued, but nobody knows how long. why? Nymex was the oil trading market - when people say 'the price of oil is XXX dollars', that was decided by the market of traders at NYMEX.
2. if you read the wikileaks cables, you will notice that JP Morgan is an 'intelligence source' for the state department. dozens and dozens of those cables were basically "so and so , of JP Morgan, says this and this and this about the situation in country xyz".
being leaked for iphones. there is a specific law about classified information being leaked for certain types of cryptographic information, but then only if its leaked to certain people.
the espionage act uses the phrase 'national defense information' not 'classified information'... because its a narrower concept.
but mostly, because presidents and congressmen leak classified information ALL the time to backup themselves in political fights. thats why so many news stories have the phrase "unnamed sources" or "those familiar with the matter" or "officials say that". thats pretty much all examples of someone leaking classified information.
so whenever a bill comes to congress saying 'leaking classified info is illegal', a bunch of them shit their pants because they themselves leaked it in order to make themselves look good / hurt their opponents.
because, you know, i dont know, maybe the government believes that the jewish people are a cancer on the face of a nordic europe... do you think thats ok? do you think the government has a right to do that?
made a deal with MS so that the Tunisian government would buy MS products, but IE would come shipped to accept Tunisian certificates by default (which OSes typically did not do).
if you can publish phony certs, you can snoop on people.
The actual agreement between MS and Ben Ali was leaked on line, you can go read it.
"we have used a bunch of bullshit phrases and PR garbage to somehow make a press announcement about the concept of having long term, ordinary safety inspections, and shutting down plants that are unsafe, because holy shit, thats how things are fucking supposed to operate, if we werent a bunch of corrupt, grab assing douchebag 1 percenters"
look guy, this is not what happened. just take a few minutes and read the article. its not about products, its not about business models. its about one gangster mowing down a bunch of innocent people, robbing them, taking their money, and selling their clothes for a profit.
this child like fairyland view of how high-stakes capitalism works: "build a good product, people will buy it, therefore if you go bankrupt, your product must have been bad", is just absolutely hilarious, and sad.
all of the threads complaining about how it was not a profitable company, etc, are wrong. this guy has hit the nail on the head. capitalism doesnt care if you are profitable, it only cares if you could be sold off for MORE profit than you are making.
the personal profit of a very powerful group is often behind these things. its the whole point of corporate raiding. 'mergers and acquisitions'. private equity firms.
the 'linux companies' are not competing on quality, they are competing on who can survive the monopoly in Redmond without getting sued for patent infringement. its not about building products for customers. its about raw, naked, animal aggression, as microsoft has always been, ever since the days of Dr Dos and before.
there are a large number of profitable, and/or revenue neutral businesses that are closed all the time. why?
because profit and revenue are not the only things that matter. sometimes politics matters more. and sometimes someone thinks they can make 'more profit' for themselves by closing down a profitable company than by keeping it open.
shuttleworth's meddling is the only reason people dont have to spend 20 hours fucking with/etc/X11.conf just to get X running.
debian has had to up its game to match ubuntu. people who dont understand this are just living in fantasy land, and do not remember the 1990s.
if you want to know what its like without ubuntu, go install NetBSD and see if you can get gnome working in under 10 hours, with 200KBPS internet link and an old computer. good luck. that's what debian used to be like.
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"Enchant me":
Massively expanded colors and included lots of unicode font WingDings formatting. Especially unicode 0x2767, ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET, at the beginning and end of every line
"Simplify my life":
I have renamed 'ls' to the much easier-to-type 'l', saving hundreds of millions of keystrokes per year.
"Make me amazing":
'ls' (or, now, 'l') comes with a built-in movie, Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Just type 'l ception' and it starts playing!
apple does not use foxconn as a supplier.
foxconn doesn't collude with state security to torture people who lose apple prototypes.
foxconn has great relations with its employees and they have great working conditions
apple products dont pollute the environment
apple does not abuse its monopoly nor bully competitors with patent lawsuits
all of apple's IP claims are legitimate and represent true innovation
we have always been at war with eurasia
and also apple never gave backdoor access to the government to its systems. even though under CALEA it is required to for all US products.
there is no need for democracy in communist China, because the people are already represented in government by the Communist Party.
funny corollary: There is no need for independent labor unions in China, because the government controlled labor union inherently represents the people's interests - after all, it too is controlled by the Communist Party.
as for the basic facts of history about unions and working conditions, well, you are just 100%, flat out wrong. i mean, its like you have tried to lecture me on mathematics by starting out with "the volume of a sphere is r cubed". no, its not r cubed. its not, its not even close, and any 3rd grader knows it from basic examination of the universe that is plain to their god given eyeballs.
heh. without unions you would see a lot of work return to the UK ... like children working in coal mines and toxic garbage dumps.... just like children do in asia.
as long as you keep all the 'prison labor' and 'no environmental groups, no labor unions' stuff, and get rid of all the 'social safety net stuff'.
.... look like demo scene?
i.e. do you do business with IBM? because when that situation happened with them, they said 'ok, we will fire some jews'.
because if you go to a campus, then your education costs will increase. that means you need to take out a bigger student loan. this, in turn, means that some hedge fund or investment bank can resell your student loan to someone else, take a huge profit, and retire to Fiji.
what you need to understand, is that all of those perks of on campus life are very important to the economy of Fiji.
for violating the California Comprehensive Computer Fraud and Abuse whatever-act (sorry cant remember the exact name) in state court, sort of like Sony tried to sue GeoHotz.
im guessing the USCC has some big financial guns in it's own camp...
the two situations are not exactly the same. Manning is accused of giving information about the national defense to other parties. it would be very hard to argue that apple did that. they just gave instructions to India about how to backdoor their phones.
now the more accurate analogy would not be Bradley Manning, it would be the 'Cambridge Associates' who went under Grand Jury investigation in 2011 regarding their alleged assistance to Wikileaks (and are still under investigation). They are charged with Conspiracy to Commit Espionage. 18 USC 793 g.
now, the other law i think applies here would be the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. why? the Espionage Act only applies to 'national defense information'. but the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act has its own sort of 'mini-espionage-act' inside of it... that applies to not just national defense information, but also "foreign relations" information. This is the only reason Manning could be sued on so many counts of violating the CFAA, for example the Reyjkavic 13 memo about Icelandic Bank Fraud - thats under the CFAA.
what you have here against Apple, could, theoretically, be Conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, section (1) I believe is the Computer Espionage section.
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another analogy would be George Hotz + FailOverflow, who published information about how to jailbreak the playstation 3. They were sued by Sony - but that was in civil court, not in criminal court. the DOJ never went after Hotz.
were possible because someone inside the Soviet Union, for some reason, reused a bunch of 'one time' pads.
the government. how can it be considered stealing?
the espionage act applies to 'national defense information' of the US, and you have to have delivered it or 'retained' it .
here, apple is just providing the indian government with a backdoor. are you going to argue that the instructions on how to backdoor login to iOS are somehow 'national defense information' of the united states?
the problem with that kind of case is the DOJ sued apple, they'd have to sue a whole crapload of other business interests ... and that would be a problem for the DOJ's boss - the office of president, which typically enjoys the full financial support of various tech companies.
what makes you think the investment banking "community" isn't glued at the hip to the intelligence community? some evidence:
1. the book "The Asylum" by Leah McGrath Goodman. the CIA and NSA had wires going directly to NYMEX. The government gave classified information to the guys running the New York Mercantile Exchange during the Gulf War - nevermined alot of those guys were drug addicts and alcoholics with sex addiction problems. the 'relationship' continued, but nobody knows how long. why? Nymex was the oil trading market - when people say 'the price of oil is XXX dollars', that was decided by the market of traders at NYMEX.
2. if you read the wikileaks cables, you will notice that JP Morgan is an 'intelligence source' for the state department. dozens and dozens of those cables were basically "so and so , of JP Morgan, says this and this and this about the situation in country xyz".
being leaked for iphones. there is a specific law about classified information being leaked for certain types of cryptographic information, but then only if its leaked to certain people.
the espionage act uses the phrase 'national defense information' not 'classified information'... because its a narrower concept.
but mostly, because presidents and congressmen leak classified information ALL the time to backup themselves in political fights. thats why so many news stories have the phrase "unnamed sources" or "those familiar with the matter" or "officials say that". thats pretty much all examples of someone leaking classified information.
so whenever a bill comes to congress saying 'leaking classified info is illegal', a bunch of them shit their pants because they themselves leaked it in order to make themselves look good / hurt their opponents.
who knows. i always knew there was something funny about QString though.
because, you know, i dont know, maybe the government believes that the jewish people are a cancer on the face of a nordic europe... do you think thats ok? do you think the government has a right to do that?
made a deal with MS so that the Tunisian government would buy MS products, but IE would come shipped to accept Tunisian certificates by default (which OSes typically did not do).
if you can publish phony certs, you can snoop on people.
The actual agreement between MS and Ben Ali was leaked on line, you can go read it.
"we have used a bunch of bullshit phrases and PR garbage to somehow make a press announcement about the concept of having long term, ordinary safety inspections, and shutting down plants that are unsafe, because holy shit, thats how things are fucking supposed to operate, if we werent a bunch of corrupt, grab assing douchebag 1 percenters"
look guy, this is not what happened. just take a few minutes and read the article. its not about products, its not about business models. its about one gangster mowing down a bunch of innocent people, robbing them, taking their money, and selling their clothes for a profit.
this child like fairyland view of how high-stakes capitalism works: "build a good product, people will buy it, therefore if you go bankrupt, your product must have been bad", is just absolutely hilarious, and sad.
all of the threads complaining about how it was not a profitable company, etc, are wrong. this guy has hit the nail on the head. capitalism doesnt care if you are profitable, it only cares if you could be sold off for MORE profit than you are making.
the personal profit of a very powerful group is often behind these things. its the whole point of corporate raiding. 'mergers and acquisitions'. private equity firms.
the 'linux companies' are not competing on quality, they are competing on who can survive the monopoly in Redmond without getting sued for patent infringement. its not about building products for customers. its about raw, naked, animal aggression, as microsoft has always been, ever since the days of Dr Dos and before.
there are a large number of profitable, and/or revenue neutral businesses that are closed all the time. why?
because profit and revenue are not the only things that matter. sometimes politics matters more. and sometimes someone thinks they can make 'more profit' for themselves by closing down a profitable company than by keeping it open.
the article explains all this very simply.
very mature.
shuttleworth's meddling is the only reason people dont have to spend 20 hours fucking with /etc/X11.conf just to get X running.
debian has had to up its game to match ubuntu. people who dont understand this are just living in fantasy land, and do not remember the 1990s.
if you want to know what its like without ubuntu, go install NetBSD and see if you can get gnome working in under 10 hours, with 200KBPS internet link and an old computer. good luck. that's what debian used to be like.