the mining company (and hedge fund and investment banks) PR people are obviously loving this.
nevermind the hundreds of thousands of people over the world who are sickened and injured by toxic waste over the years. nevermind that these shareholders and boards of directors keep billions in profit while dumping this sludge cleanup bill on taxpayers.
no. this stuff "might cure cancer!"
you know what would ACTUALLY cure cancer?
if you stop pouring cancer-causing chemicals into the air and water. we know FOR A FACT that air pollution leads directly to asthma and cancer deaths, and yet every year these money sucking scumfucks push and push and bribe politicians so that they wont have to clean it up, so they can keep their profits and their mansions and their trophy wives and their cocaine habits.
fuck them, and fuck the morons who think this is going to 'cure' social problems.
If france had withdrawn from it's colonies, we wouldn't have had the French-Indochina war, the battle at Dien Ben Phu, and the Vietnam War.
there also would have been no Algerian-French war.
also there would have been no Napoleon, and his mass invasion of Russia.
there might have been no mass cadres of Communists from all over the world coming to France to study, and then spreading their bullshit over the earth like in Cambodia.
all in all, if France had taken care of it's own business in 1776 instead of trying to dominate the planet with colonialism, there would be tens of millions of people living out normal lives instead of dying in stupid wars.
then again, this demonstrates the utter stupidity of trying to say 'there would have been xyz' in history.
Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco have not 'become Islamic theocracies'. Egypt RIGHT NOW is having mass demonstrations where the MILITARY is beating the shit out of protestors and killing people. OUR ALLY IN THE WAR ON TERROR EGYPTIAN MILITARY.
besides, what the fuck do you think democracy is? its voting. if they want to vote in a bunch of theocratic illiterates, why shouldn't they be able to? thats what we in the US did in 2000 and 2004.
like the other poster said below, the 'monopolism' in this case does not come from their size, it comes from their abuse of the court system and the patent system.
the AT&T splitup was supposed to promote competition. it wasnt just about 'breaking up a big company'.
if you split Apple into an 'OS' and 'hardware' busines, you arent really busting a monopoly. your action has to help competitors to have a level playing field. otherwise you aren't really 'busting' anything, nor are you helping to promote the fairness of the marketplace.
also they invented the mouse, the GUI, the same-look-across-product-line, the idea that computers should be white, the educational computer, the floppy disk, bresenham's algorithm, microkernels,..
I don't want some muslims ripping off American technology and implementing a Muslim Caliphate. Did you know that in the Muslim World, women are raped if they drive a car? That young girls cannot go to school or their heads are cut off and fed to dogs?
This is what is at stake, when terrorist groups like Samsung attack our American values. We have to defend America first, and to hell with everyone else.
"IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black will teach you more about the mechanics of a totalitarian state than all of the dystopian novels we had to read in high school.
they have replaced it with newer stuff. see for example NSA's Thinthread, Trailblazer, and Turbulence projects.
i dont know much about the biometrics in Afghanistan, the first step would be figuring out which agency is responsible for gathering the data, then figuring out which agency is responsible for storing the data.
Oh those poor bastards! my heart bleeds, absolutely bleeds for them.
please, hold that thought while i cut the flesh off my arm so i can salt it an mail it to them, lest they go hungry.
127k/year--- not that much when you think about it!
especially considering they get most of their funding from the government. i am glad my tax dollars can go to support these poor people, earning only 127k/year.
look up any of the stories on Team Themis, Bank of America, Glenn Greenwald, etc. they were planning to character-assassinate people who were sympathetic to anonymous, including journalists.
there is a grand jury convening in boston area RIGH TNOW. they are right now convening to hear Conspiracy charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 ( 18 USC 793(g) ) . there are three people who are there ONLY because they published information like the state department dumps, the afghan war incident reports, etc.
read the actual text of the laws he is accused of violating. "having classified info on a non classified system" whats the penalty for that? it sure as hell aint the death penalty or a life sentence.
information. there are certain types of classified information that are a crime in certain situations, and none of them apply to manning.
you can go read the actual laws, starting with the Espionage Act, which doesnt even use the word 'classified' until you get to the SIGINT part (and he isnt charged with the SIGINT part)
then you can read the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is an embarassement, but also doesnt use the word 'classified'.
if you want to know WHY there is no law, its because most congressmen and presidents leak classified information all the time, every news story you have ever read or book containing words like 'senior officials tell us' and so forth and so on is someone leaking classified information for a political purpose.
demands blood, for socialist... i mean capitalist legality! truly the fascist.. i mean terrorist ally manning must feel the wrath of SMERSH... i mean JAG
according to James Bamford's books, especially the last two, they actually did have a chip foundry, they have been at the top of several supercomputer programs, and they are the only reason that CRAY survived in a capitalist economy where massive supercomputing R&D doesn't have a quick ROI.
we don't know what they have today. but we know what they had in the past, vs what everyone thought was going on in the past. and what everyone thought was wrong.
the article is about consumers being mailed USB sticks to reflash the cars by themselves.
i know what youre thinking. 'they cant fuck that up. how can they fuck that up?'
consumers are smart. they can fuck up anything. a-n-y-thing.
the difference here is that Ford is pretending that a 12 year old frying his motherboard while trying to improve his Call of Duty framerate is going to have the same safety and legal consequences as someone half-frying their car's computer systems, leaving it with partially updated software or some other kind of screwed up half-installed patch.
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the mining company (and hedge fund and investment banks) PR people are obviously loving this.
nevermind the hundreds of thousands of people over the world who are sickened and injured by toxic waste over the years. nevermind that these shareholders and boards of directors keep billions in profit while dumping this sludge cleanup bill on taxpayers.
no. this stuff "might cure cancer!"
you know what would ACTUALLY cure cancer?
if you stop pouring cancer-causing chemicals into the air and water. we know FOR A FACT that air pollution leads directly to asthma and cancer deaths, and yet every year these money sucking scumfucks push and push and bribe politicians so that they wont have to clean it up, so they can keep their profits and their mansions and their trophy wives and their cocaine habits.
fuck them, and fuck the morons who think this is going to 'cure' social problems.
If france had withdrawn from it's colonies, we wouldn't have had the French-Indochina war, the battle at Dien Ben Phu, and the Vietnam War.
there also would have been no Algerian-French war.
also there would have been no Napoleon, and his mass invasion of Russia.
there might have been no mass cadres of Communists from all over the world coming to France to study, and then spreading their bullshit over the earth like in Cambodia.
all in all, if France had taken care of it's own business in 1776 instead of trying to dominate the planet with colonialism, there would be tens of millions of people living out normal lives instead of dying in stupid wars.
then again, this demonstrates the utter stupidity of trying to say 'there would have been xyz' in history.
Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco have not 'become Islamic theocracies'. Egypt RIGHT NOW is having mass demonstrations where the MILITARY is beating the shit out of protestors and killing people. OUR ALLY IN THE WAR ON TERROR EGYPTIAN MILITARY.
besides, what the fuck do you think democracy is? its voting. if they want to vote in a bunch of theocratic illiterates, why shouldn't they be able to? thats what we in the US did in 2000 and 2004.
like the other poster said below, the 'monopolism' in this case does not come from their size, it comes from their abuse of the court system and the patent system.
the AT&T splitup was supposed to promote competition. it wasnt just about 'breaking up a big company'.
if you split Apple into an 'OS' and 'hardware' busines, you arent really busting a monopoly. your action has to help competitors to have a level playing field. otherwise you aren't really 'busting' anything, nor are you helping to promote the fairness of the marketplace.
also they invented the mouse, the GUI, the same-look-across-product-line, the idea that computers should be white, the educational computer, the floppy disk, bresenham's algorithm, microkernels, ..
i dont know who i should congratulate... the spambot?
but what you have here is a spam post that is somehow, bizarrely, appropriate.
im glad it half-way entertained one person
although it was over the top and completely irresponsible
this is how Hitler was allowed to invade the Sudetenland, annex Austria, and crash those planes into the Trade Towers.
I don't want some muslims ripping off American technology and implementing a Muslim Caliphate. Did you know that in the Muslim World, women are raped if they drive a car? That young girls cannot go to school or their heads are cut off and fed to dogs?
This is what is at stake, when terrorist groups like Samsung attack our American values. We have to defend America first, and to hell with everyone else.
good description of whats going on here.
"IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black will teach you more about the mechanics of a totalitarian state than all of the dystopian novels we had to read in high school.
echelon is old. it has evolved into other things.
they have replaced it with newer stuff. see for example NSA's Thinthread, Trailblazer, and Turbulence projects.
i dont know much about the biometrics in Afghanistan, the first step would be figuring out which agency is responsible for gathering the data, then figuring out which agency is responsible for storing the data.
Oh those poor bastards! my heart bleeds, absolutely bleeds for them.
please, hold that thought while i cut the flesh off my arm so i can salt it an mail it to them, lest they go hungry.
127k/year--- not that much when you think about it!
especially considering they get most of their funding from the government. i am glad my tax dollars can go to support these poor people, earning only 127k/year.
look up any of the stories on Team Themis, Bank of America, Glenn Greenwald, etc. they were planning to character-assassinate people who were sympathetic to anonymous, including journalists.
there is a grand jury convening in boston area RIGH TNOW. they are right now convening to hear Conspiracy charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 ( 18 USC 793(g) ) . there are three people who are there ONLY because they published information like the state department dumps, the afghan war incident reports, etc.
glenn greenwald has written about it.
so your entire argument is basically moot.
read the actual text of the laws he is accused of violating. "having classified info on a non classified system" whats the penalty for that? it sure as hell aint the death penalty or a life sentence.
information. there are certain types of classified information that are a crime in certain situations, and none of them apply to manning.
you can go read the actual laws, starting with the Espionage Act, which doesnt even use the word 'classified' until you get to the SIGINT part (and he isnt charged with the SIGINT part)
then you can read the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which is an embarassement, but also doesnt use the word 'classified'.
if you want to know WHY there is no law, its because most congressmen and presidents leak classified information all the time, every news story you have ever read or book containing words like 'senior officials tell us' and so forth and so on is someone leaking classified information for a political purpose.
demands blood, for socialist... i mean capitalist legality! ... i mean JAG
truly the fascist.. i mean terrorist ally manning must feel the wrath of SMERSH
im not talking about a fantasy of where we might be in 10 years. im talking about actual, real people sitting in jail in china, right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Jianping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents
according to James Bamford's books, especially the last two, they actually did have a chip foundry, they have been at the top of several supercomputer programs, and they are the only reason that CRAY survived in a capitalist economy where massive supercomputing R&D doesn't have a quick ROI.
we don't know what they have today. but we know what they had in the past, vs what everyone thought was going on in the past. and what everyone thought was wrong.
hahahaha awesome
who are there because they tweeted some small phrase or something.
is a bunch of middle aged bureaucratic dudes sitting around a table saying "What do you think about "Monkey dick".. should we ban that?"
the NSA has always been at the forefront of supercomputing, and it has always been incredibly secretive about it.
who knows about other nations intelligence agencies
the article is about consumers being mailed USB sticks to reflash the cars by themselves.
i know what youre thinking. 'they cant fuck that up. how can they fuck that up?'
consumers are smart. they can fuck up anything. a-n-y-thing.
the difference here is that Ford is pretending that a 12 year old frying his motherboard while trying to improve his Call of Duty framerate is going to have the same safety and legal consequences as someone half-frying their car's computer systems, leaving it with partially updated software or some other kind of screwed up half-installed patch.