im sick of you communist libtards throwing my tax money away on sewers. what gives you the right to take my hard earned dollars and 'redistribute the wealth' to 'those according to their needs'. you need to shit? not my problem.
what we need is a privatized toilet system; wherein everyone has their own toilet, disconnected from the centralized, marxist sewer network that is controlled by an overweilding big brother government.
imagine it; each of us free with our own chamber pots, burning our own shit as free Americans, watching it float away into the night sky.
i kneel down and i cry, i weep, when i think about our children, who will be forced to shit into the government controlled, marxist lenninist sewer system, run by do gooder liberals who want to control our 'gaseous emissions' in the name of global warming (a hoax dreamed up by saul alinsky).
furthermore i... oh fuck it. Glenn Beck, are you out there? did you get my lettters? I LOVE YOU GLENN THEY NEVER SHOuLD HAVE FIRED UUUU
thanks for the link! it reminds me of a quote about how "technology only allows us to regress faster" or something. . . was it aldus huxley? i cant rmember.
the fluid the pump down into the ground is a cocktail of chemicals dreamed up in a lab to better crack rocks apart. the levels of chemicals were even kept secret from the public for a long time.
you can get more information about the chemicals in a big mac than about what the gas companies are pumping into your water supply.
considering the tens of thousands of farmers who depend on underground aquefers for the water they use on their crops and to water their cattle, i just dont understand your post, at all.
the gasland film even has a rancher on it whose cattle are suffering becasue of contamination.
if you would watch the movies you would understand that Josh Fox is nothing like Michael Moore. he doesn't ambush any executives in order to get a video clip of him chasing after some guy in a parking lot or elevator lobby (Moore).
the executives just flat out don't talk to him. he calls and calls and calls. who will talk to him? dozens of homeowners, a handful of scientists, and an obviously conflicted regulator. Fox's film main strength is that a lot of it is very dispassionate.
the problem with Josh Fox's movie is that the Gas industry hired a bunch of PR flacks to shoot him down at every available opportunity. if you surf any internet forum comment thread on this issue, you will see post after post after post that use classic PR strategies, like avoiding the question, changing the subject, and personal attacks against Fox, (it almost reads like a page out of Team Themis' plans against Glen Greenwald), etc.
Another thing the PR flacks rely on is the lack of 'scientific proof'. They say there is no real evidence, everything is anecdotal, Josh Fox is not a scientist, etc etc etc. If they cannot get rid of their opposition, they at least try to slow it down and delay it as long as possible. This is actually a good strategy; the GOP took back the House of Representatives in 2010, so all of that delay from 2008-2010 actually accomplished something.
The PR flacks of course are moving to buy off their own scientific experts but if you have articles like this in reputable scientific journals, it is a major blow to the PR people. It destroys a lot of their arguments. They will have to move on from "there's no evidence" to "there is conflicting evidence" (see Global Warming) and "we need jobs". They also might have to stop personally attacking Josh Fox and performing character assassination. . . that is something that doesn't work quite as well with reputable scientists (although it can still be done).
according to James Bamford's book Shadow Factory, the USSID 18 is not respected like it was in the old days. he has an interview with Adrienne Kinne who worked at the NSA center in Georgia (she was military intel in the 90s thru early 2000s).
yes, the NSA IG did a report finding 'no violations' --- they didnt even interview her though.
the law can say one thing, but in practice, the AG could write something like 'i authorize anything you need to do' and away we go.
besides, Cheney's Cheney (David Addington) said basically that "[we are one bomb away from getting rid of that stupid FISA court]". i.e. if there were another terrorist attack, like the underwear bomber, that court would probably cease to exist, and so would USSID 18.
if i were the US military I wouldn't give a flying fuck about a bunch of nuclear missles. Al Qaeda is going to use a ship in a harbor or a shipping container marked "Playstation 5" to deliver their nuclear holocaust.
in my uneducated, conspiracy theory opinion, the 'other reconnaisance' uses are the real reason of this program. eventually they will have the equivalent of Dr X's machine in X-Men, a gigantic globe where you can look up anybody on the planet and kill them with a thought.
a university teaches students to create product for a private corporation.
that corporation claims fantastic profits of 1 million dollars, and the professors involved claim a massive educational success.
What the fuck is really going on here? Let's read the fucking article for some clues.
"His team’s app netted $3,000 a day and morphed into a company that later sold for a six-figure sum."
Where have i heard this shit before? Oh yes. 1999. Pets.com. What was behind that tech bubble? It sure as hell wasn't technology, students, or legitimate business activitity. Rather, it was a massive fraud perpetrated by investment bank 'equity research analysts' who were riding a gigantic speculative bubble, which was no different than any other speculative bubble in history, from Tulipmania to the CDO market.
"Venture capitalists also began rethinking their approach. Some created investment funds tailored to the new, bare-bones start-ups."
Ahh yes. The same shitbags who drove VA Linux to become the largest IPO in history, selling shares to the clueless masses. If you want to know what an IPO is, read Running Money by Andy Kessler, and Trading with the Enemy by Nicholas Maier. IPOs like this nothing but a fucking scam. They are the transfer of wealth from the ignorant to the well connected.
I know that 'true techies' like to harsh on Best Buy for selling people 'extended warranties' and Kaspersky's Smirking Douchebag Suite 9.5 but think about it; the IPO scam is no different than what Best Buy does. It sells shit product to ignorant people for profit. It is not much different than from any other street hustle.
Now, let's look at what kind of 'income' these people are bringing in. "Their apps caught on with millions of people and were soon bringing in nearly $100,000 a month in ads."
What kind of ads do you see on facebook? "One tip for a flat belly". "Acai berry revealed". "Obama gives mom's money for college". "Earn your bachelors degree from Diplomamill Subprime University".
The whole fucking edicife of this 'app industry' is propped up by bullshit and intellectual prostitution.
Am I Jealous? Yes I'm fucking jealous. I will sit on my shitty treadmill of a job at my evil corporation where It is timed to the minute when I take a piss and where my email is monitored, and I wish I could make $1000 a day selling 'hug apps' on facebook. Yes I'm jealous.
But I am glad for one thing. At least I understand what I am doing, and why I'm doing it, and don't lie to myself about the true nature of my work.
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im sick of you communist libtards throwing my tax money away on sewers. what gives you the right to take my hard earned dollars and 'redistribute the wealth' to 'those according to their needs'. you need to shit? not my problem.
what we need is a privatized toilet system; wherein everyone has their own toilet, disconnected from the centralized, marxist sewer network that is controlled by an overweilding big brother government.
imagine it; each of us free with our own chamber pots, burning our own shit as free Americans, watching it float away into the night sky.
i kneel down and i cry, i weep, when i think about our children, who will be forced to shit into the government controlled, marxist lenninist sewer system, run by do gooder liberals who want to control our 'gaseous emissions' in the name of global warming (a hoax dreamed up by saul alinsky).
furthermore i... oh fuck it. Glenn Beck, are you out there? did you get my lettters? I LOVE YOU GLENN THEY NEVER SHOuLD HAVE FIRED UUUU
thanks for the link! it reminds me of a quote about how "technology only allows us to regress faster" or something. . . was it aldus huxley? i cant rmember.
thanks again
this needs a score of at least 3
those terror alerts are so useful... i am so happy that i will be forced to answer them now on my cellphone.
also, id love it if the TSA could blast-email us with photos of 'suspected persons'.
maybe we can even 'crowdsource' the body scanners at airports, and make a face book 'app' out of it! wouldnt that be fun?
clearly "Attila Dimedici (1036002) ", has not actually read the article before responding to it.
but that doesn't matter. they KNOW they are right.
the fluid the pump down into the ground is a cocktail of chemicals dreamed up in a lab to better crack rocks apart. the levels of chemicals were even kept secret from the public for a long time.
you can get more information about the chemicals in a big mac than about what the gas companies are pumping into your water supply.
considering the tens of thousands of farmers who depend on underground aquefers for the water they use on their crops and to water their cattle, i just dont understand your post, at all.
the gasland film even has a rancher on it whose cattle are suffering becasue of contamination.
if the PR flacks are paying you based on how many anonymous bullshit 'rebuttals' you spray all over the internet.
if you would watch the movies you would understand that Josh Fox is nothing like Michael Moore. he doesn't ambush any executives in order to get a video clip of him chasing after some guy in a parking lot or elevator lobby (Moore).
the executives just flat out don't talk to him. he calls and calls and calls. who will talk to him? dozens of homeowners, a handful of scientists, and an obviously conflicted regulator. Fox's film main strength is that a lot of it is very dispassionate.
the problem with Josh Fox's movie is that the Gas industry hired a bunch of PR flacks to shoot him down at every available opportunity. if you surf any internet forum comment thread on this issue, you will see post after post after post that use classic PR strategies, like avoiding the question, changing the subject, and personal attacks against Fox, (it almost reads like a page out of Team Themis' plans against Glen Greenwald), etc.
Another thing the PR flacks rely on is the lack of 'scientific proof'. They say there is no real evidence, everything is anecdotal, Josh Fox is not a scientist, etc etc etc. If they cannot get rid of their opposition, they at least try to slow it down and delay it as long as possible. This is actually a good strategy; the GOP took back the House of Representatives in 2010, so all of that delay from 2008-2010 actually accomplished something.
The PR flacks of course are moving to buy off their own scientific experts but if you have articles like this in reputable scientific journals, it is a major blow to the PR people. It destroys a lot of their arguments. They will have to move on from "there's no evidence" to "there is conflicting evidence" (see Global Warming) and "we need jobs". They also might have to stop personally attacking Josh Fox and performing character assassination. . . that is something that doesn't work quite as well with reputable scientists (although it can still be done).
and that time that Pakistan blew up Omaha, then there was the time that India invaded North Dakota.
according to James Bamford's book Shadow Factory, the USSID 18 is not respected like it was in the old days.
he has an interview with Adrienne Kinne who worked at the NSA center in Georgia (she was military intel in the 90s thru early 2000s).
yes, the NSA IG did a report finding 'no violations' --- they didnt even interview her though.
the law can say one thing, but in practice, the AG could write something like 'i authorize anything you need to do' and away we go.
besides, Cheney's Cheney (David Addington) said basically that "[we are one bomb away from getting rid of that stupid FISA court]". i.e. if there were another terrorist attack, like the underwear bomber, that court would probably cease to exist, and so would USSID 18.
if i were the US military I wouldn't give a flying fuck about a bunch of nuclear missles. Al Qaeda is going to use a ship in a harbor or a shipping container marked "Playstation 5" to deliver their nuclear holocaust.
in my uneducated, conspiracy theory opinion, the 'other reconnaisance' uses are the real reason of this program. eventually they will have the equivalent of Dr X's machine in X-Men, a gigantic globe where you can look up anybody on the planet and kill them with a thought.
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oh well. there's no "delete comment" on slashdot. guess ill go join the ranks of disobey.com and fade into obscure lunatic ranting .
a university teaches students to create product for a private corporation.
that corporation claims fantastic profits of 1 million dollars, and the professors involved claim a massive educational success.
What the fuck is really going on here? Let's read the fucking article for some clues.
"His team’s app netted $3,000 a day and morphed into a company that later sold for a six-figure sum."
Where have i heard this shit before? Oh yes. 1999. Pets.com. What was behind that tech bubble? It sure as hell wasn't technology, students, or legitimate business activitity. Rather, it was a massive fraud perpetrated by investment bank 'equity research analysts' who were riding a gigantic speculative bubble, which was no different than any other speculative bubble in history, from Tulipmania to the CDO market.
"Venture capitalists also began rethinking their approach. Some created investment funds tailored to the new, bare-bones start-ups."
Ahh yes. The same shitbags who drove VA Linux to become the largest IPO in history, selling shares to the clueless masses. If you want to know what an IPO is, read Running Money by Andy Kessler, and Trading with the Enemy by Nicholas Maier. IPOs like this nothing but a fucking scam. They are the transfer of wealth from the ignorant to the well connected.
I know that 'true techies' like to harsh on Best Buy for selling people 'extended warranties' and Kaspersky's Smirking Douchebag Suite 9.5 but think about it; the IPO scam is no different than what Best Buy does. It sells shit product to ignorant people for profit. It is not much different than from any other street hustle.
Now, let's look at what kind of 'income' these people are bringing in. "Their apps caught on with millions of people and were soon bringing in nearly $100,000 a month in ads."
What kind of ads do you see on facebook? "One tip for a flat belly". "Acai berry revealed". "Obama gives mom's money for college". "Earn your bachelors degree from Diplomamill Subprime University".
The whole fucking edicife of this 'app industry' is propped up by bullshit and intellectual prostitution.
Am I Jealous? Yes I'm fucking jealous. I will sit on my shitty treadmill of a job at my evil corporation where It is timed to the minute when I take a piss and where my email is monitored, and I wish I could make $1000 a day selling 'hug apps' on facebook. Yes I'm jealous.
But I am glad for one thing. At least I understand what I am doing, and why I'm doing it, and don't lie to myself about the true nature of my work.
Linus Torvalds has rejected patch after patch after patch that would make Linux into BeOS style latency. He has rejected them all. Why?
because he wants to goose the server performance numbers. thats basically the story of the last 20 years of linux.
i mean within 50 years. if first products were in 1890s.
you could argue the first 'real IBM' was in the 20s when Watson took over.
anyways.
thanks
there is an old story by art buchwald , he has a conversation that goes something like this
buchwald - "general, how can we prevent peace from breaking out?"
general - "well, thats just a risk we have to take. it could happen at any moment, and we have to be ready for it. "
can we go back to being america ?
goddamn motherfuck shit ass pussy cock
corporations do not have a right to privacy like people do, so at least they arent 'totally people'
everything is de-facto becoming open source, with all the automatic tools that do reverse engineering.
1. corporations don't have a right to privacy
2. governments don't either
3. people do. thus, HIPPA, and various laws about stealing my info from a bank
The basic idea here is that the individual person has rights, and corporations and governments cannot usurp those rights.
they have a right to free speech, and a right to privacy.