i dont have proof of 'brainwashing' because nobody is sure what the word even means.
i used it for dramatic effect after pulling a near-double shift which blowed
blew
anyways.
i do not have proof as regards corporations trying to make people think any kind of 'leaking' is a huge crime.
you can start with the history of the espionage act, especially 18 USC 793(e), which has been used against everyone from Russo and Ellsberg to Wen Ho Lee to the AIPAC case.
then go and read about Barry Seal, Oliver North, and etc. don't stop there. read about how presidents and congress 'leak' information all the time to get stories going in the media.
now read about Lehman Brothers: Erin Callan leaked a deal they were planning to the media, to influence public perception. her plan failed, she was fired. she did not go to jail, she did not get excoriated by the police and get a 'crime' tag on financial blogs. she just got fired.
if michael dell ever starts telling me that he is a champion of human rights, then i will gather up a bunch of Austin homeless people and go protest in front of their call center.
Sony sued Geohot - one of the claims was that he clicked 'accept' to a PSN user agreement. somehow they claim that is a contract. its total nonsense becasue 1, he claimed he never clicked it and 2. EULAs are not contracts nor should they be considered when they are 100 pages long and nobody can understand them.
again, they are trying to brainwash humanity into thinking that ordinary human behavior is a crime.
and if you think the law is fair on this, try going after some gigantic company that breaks its contract with you.
oh wait, AT&T just got a supreme court ruling that says that.... class action lawsuits can't occur anymore if you 'agree' to the 'contract' where it says you have to accept binding arbitration.
congratulations, your legal rights are being stripped away one by one by megacorporations. pretty soon you wont be able to eat, drink, or shit without signing a fucking 100 page contract where you agree that you have no rights anymore.
there was a foxconn employee who lost a prototype or something .
he told several people that he was tortured.
he later committed suicide.
of course, if he had been on facebook and 'bullied', his case would be on Oprah and celebrities would be filming bizarre public service ads about 'how to stop bullying'.
but since he was just another replacable chinese worker, instead his case gets shouted down by mac fanboys who try to minimize what Steve Jobs and Foxconn are complicit in - Dickensian working conditions in a repressive police state.
'Leaking' is a bullshit phrase used to invent 'spies' when most 'leaked' information is either leaked by accident, incompetence, or higher up managers who are being payed. Every fucking case of espionage it works like this, from Aldrich Ames (ten+ years of spying, but he was a high up official so nobody got him until some old ladies at CIA decided to go after him) to Wen Ho Lee ( a low level nuclear weapons simulation programmer who was accused of 'espionage' for backing up his programs to tape... his persecution turned out to be entirely motivated by politics and the media cycle in washington, and had nothing to do with him ever leaking anything)
its all fucking PR, bullshit, and lies. do not fucking drink the fucking koolaid.
you are a free human being, and you have natural rights. one of them is to talk. another is to be free from inane prosecutions by incompetent bureaucrats and clueless officials. by drumming this idea into your head that 'leaking' is a 'crime', they are trying to destroy free speech by brainwashing you into thinking it doesnt really exist. it does exist. its as free as the air and as free as the mind god gave you.
A few months ago, China threw a girl in a labor camp for being sarcastic on twitter. BEfore that, they threw a guy in prison because he ran a website about the poisoned baby-milk scandal. Recently they have thrown artists and others in prison for similar bullshit reasons.
This is the system that is trying to make you believe that 'leaking' is a 'serious crime'.
the only thing criminal here are the systems themselves, and the nooses they keep tightening around the necks of humanity.
he was accusing her of having 'faked' screaming and crying that they were being dragged out of a car forcibly.
in order to disprove her version of events, he said 'we were bugging her phone, she wasnt dragged out of anywhere'
in the context of lukashenko's typical bizarre statements to the press, one has to wonder if he actually meant to do that. sort of like the time he described hitler as an admirable figure. considering belarus lost some massive percentage of its population in WWII to hitler, this was rather controversial. Lukashenko later tried to backtrack on it and act like it had been misinterpreted, but then he wound up half-way repeating his earlier statement. He trips all over his own tongue.
and as for the question. . . just because it is a 'state owned' telecom doesnt mean that it doesnt have contracts with foreign companies to do a lot of the work for it. that is the heart of the question... did foreign telecom companies help belarus dictatorship spy on journalists? are they complicit in the violations going on there?
since it is quite possible lukashenko did it without any outside help, the answer is still up in the air. perhaps it is unknowable.
many of the slashdot posters have posted interesting threads about this. see for example the person who had just been working on putting backdoors in various routers and things, who posted anonymously about it.
many of his closest associates were quickly replaced by other associates who come out of the endless poverty stricken wasteland that is run by a corrupt dictatorship who we have been allied to for the past 30 years.
i dont understand how a cell phone is going to end this war
i know i know, i hate to keep bringing it up. but you know, it's been a while, and you know. some of the people are kind of wondering. you know how it is.
some guy blows up a building and kills 3,000 people, you know, its like next thing you know, every bodys acting all impatient, wanting to 'capture' him. i know its crazy. but.. thats just how things are sometimes.
all over the country there were people working in jobs they had never worked in before, doing things they had never done before. they were working with materials that had only been invented recently, and with techniques that they had to make up as they went along.
that includes the software people, not just the code breakers and the cryptologists, the radio designers and aerodynamicists, but also the massive bureaucracy that had to organize and mobilize tens of millions of people - they did it with IBM punch card machines, using brand new algorithms that had probably never been used before.
and somehow things got done. incredible, they didnt even have 8 page questionnaires about your experience or background, they didnt ask you if you had 5 years of experience in something that was only invneted 2 years ago, etc.
bullet, if the bullet is fired from a WWII period carbine with standard powder load. More powerful than a locomotive, specifically an R100 with a half-load of diesel traveling on level ground, with standard moisture conditions. Able to leap tall buildings, that is any vertical structure with a height of 2,000 meters or less, in a single bound, a bound beind defined as a vertical motion impelled by a single push of the foot against the earth, being level with the first floor of the building's entrance, and also considering stable wind conditions, standard humidity, temperature, and pressure, and no precipitation.
by taking ordinary people, and asking them do extraordinary things
i wonder, if modern corporate douchebags had been in charge of wwii, would we have ever stormed the beach at normandy ? or would they sit around with their thumb up their ass for 5 years waiting for 'good soldiers' to apply to the army.
they can ask a bunch of questions about the latest fad in academia, which is doubly easy now because universities all put their senior class syllabuses online.
then they only take people who pass.
is this age discrimination? oh but of course not, inspector! we are only taking people who know their stuff!
result: much less costs for google, in health insurance, in wages, in ability to tell people what to do (old folks tend to know their rights more), etc etc etc.
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i dont have proof of 'brainwashing' because nobody is sure what the word even means.
i used it for dramatic effect after pulling a near-double shift which blowed
blew
anyways.
i do not have proof as regards corporations trying to make people think any kind of 'leaking' is a huge crime.
you can start with the history of the espionage act, especially 18 USC 793(e), which has been used against everyone from Russo and Ellsberg to Wen Ho Lee to the AIPAC case.
then go and read about Barry Seal, Oliver North, and etc. don't stop there. read about how presidents and congress 'leak' information all the time to get stories going in the media.
now read about Lehman Brothers: Erin Callan leaked a deal they were planning to the media, to influence public perception. her plan failed, she was fired. she did not go to jail, she did not get excoriated by the police and get a 'crime' tag on financial blogs. she just got fired.
when Steve Jobs fucking straight out balls up stole XEROX's GUI not to mention its basic design elements.
did i mention he got his start selling blueboxes, illegal telephone system hacking equipment?
It was made in 1784 by Monks from St Thomas the Redeemer. It lasted several years until the Visigoths burned it down.
were also, essentially, sorting machines.
they counted census cards, and sorted them into stacks.
thats the first step a dictatorship takes IIRC. viewing not foreigners as the enemy, but its own internal population.
maybe leaks are occuring at the same rate they always have.
maybe what has changed is that government and corporations are trying to criminalize more behavior.
evidence: Obama has prosecuted more non-spy 'espionage' cases than the last dozen or so presidents put together.
Obama: Drake, Kim, Sterling, Leibowitz, and Manning
BushII: Ford, Franklin, Rosen, Weissman
Clinton: Lee
Bush I: none???
Reagan: Morison
Carter: none???
Ford: none?
Nixon: Russo / Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) ...
I'm not as knowledgable about corporations. Im sure someone can fill us in. From DvdJon to George Hotz
if michael dell ever starts telling me that he is a champion of human rights, then i will gather up a bunch of Austin homeless people and go protest in front of their call center.
Sony sued Geohot - one of the claims was that he clicked 'accept' to a PSN user agreement. somehow they claim that is a contract. its total nonsense becasue 1, he claimed he never clicked it and 2. EULAs are not contracts nor should they be considered when they are 100 pages long and nobody can understand them.
again, they are trying to brainwash humanity into thinking that ordinary human behavior is a crime.
and if you think the law is fair on this, try going after some gigantic company that breaks its contract with you.
oh wait, AT&T just got a supreme court ruling that says that .... class action lawsuits can't occur anymore if you 'agree' to the 'contract' where it says you have to accept binding arbitration.
congratulations, your legal rights are being stripped away one by one by megacorporations. pretty soon you wont be able to eat, drink, or shit without signing a fucking 100 page contract where you agree that you have no rights anymore.
there was a foxconn employee who lost a prototype or something .
he told several people that he was tortured.
he later committed suicide.
of course, if he had been on facebook and 'bullied', his case would be on Oprah and celebrities would be filming bizarre public service ads about 'how to stop bullying'.
but since he was just another replacable chinese worker, instead his case gets shouted down by mac fanboys who try to minimize what Steve Jobs and Foxconn are complicit in - Dickensian working conditions in a repressive police state.
'Leaking' is a bullshit phrase used to invent 'spies' when most 'leaked' information is either leaked by accident, incompetence, or higher up managers who are being payed. Every fucking case of espionage it works like this, from Aldrich Ames (ten+ years of spying, but he was a high up official so nobody got him until some old ladies at CIA decided to go after him) to Wen Ho Lee ( a low level nuclear weapons simulation programmer who was accused of 'espionage' for backing up his programs to tape... his persecution turned out to be entirely motivated by politics and the media cycle in washington, and had nothing to do with him ever leaking anything)
its all fucking PR, bullshit, and lies. do not fucking drink the fucking koolaid.
you are a free human being, and you have natural rights. one of them is to talk. another is to be free from inane prosecutions by incompetent bureaucrats and clueless officials. by drumming this idea into your head that 'leaking' is a 'crime', they are trying to destroy free speech by brainwashing you into thinking it doesnt really exist. it does exist. its as free as the air and as free as the mind god gave you.
A few months ago, China threw a girl in a labor camp for being sarcastic on twitter. BEfore that, they threw a guy in prison because he ran a website about the poisoned baby-milk scandal. Recently they have thrown artists and others in prison for similar bullshit reasons.
This is the system that is trying to make you believe that 'leaking' is a 'serious crime'.
the only thing criminal here are the systems themselves, and the nooses they keep tightening around the necks of humanity.
this is exactly the kind of discussion that makes slashdot worthwhile
he was accusing her of having 'faked' screaming and crying that they were being dragged out of a car forcibly.
in order to disprove her version of events, he said 'we were bugging her phone, she wasnt dragged out of anywhere'
in the context of lukashenko's typical bizarre statements to the press, one has to wonder if he actually meant to do that. sort of like the time he described hitler as an admirable figure. considering belarus lost some massive percentage of its population in WWII to hitler, this was rather controversial. Lukashenko later tried to backtrack on it and act like it had been misinterpreted, but then he wound up half-way repeating his earlier statement. He trips all over his own tongue.
and as for the question. . . just because it is a 'state owned' telecom doesnt mean that it doesnt have contracts with foreign companies to do a lot of the work for it. that is the heart of the question... did foreign telecom companies help belarus dictatorship spy on journalists? are they complicit in the violations going on there?
since it is quite possible lukashenko did it without any outside help, the answer is still up in the air. perhaps it is unknowable.
many of the slashdot posters have posted interesting threads about this. see for example the person who had just been working on putting backdoors in various routers and things, who posted anonymously about it.
anonleaks.ch
you can read their dumped internal emails where they discuss how to 'disrupt' journalists who have expressed positive opinions of wikileaks.
team themis man. google it.
light is at the end of the tunnel? victory is around the corner?
i did not mean to equate them with those whose level of schmuck is on an average or sub average level
many of his closest associates were quickly replaced by other associates who come out of the endless poverty stricken wasteland that is run by a corrupt dictatorship who we have been allied to for the past 30 years.
i dont understand how a cell phone is going to end this war
clearly, not schmucks. nope.
i know i know, i hate to keep bringing it up. but you know, it's been a while, and you know. some of the people are kind of wondering. you know how it is.
some guy blows up a building and kills 3,000 people, you know, its like next thing you know, every bodys acting all impatient, wanting to 'capture' him. i know its crazy. but.. thats just how things are sometimes.
all over the country there were people working in jobs they had never worked in before, doing things they had never done before. they were working with materials that had only been invented recently, and with techniques that they had to make up as they went along.
that includes the software people, not just the code breakers and the cryptologists, the radio designers and aerodynamicists, but also the massive bureaucracy that had to organize and mobilize tens of millions of people - they did it with IBM punch card machines, using brand new algorithms that had probably never been used before.
and somehow things got done. incredible, they didnt even have 8 page questionnaires about your experience or background, they didnt ask you if you had 5 years of experience in something that was only invneted 2 years ago, etc.
bullet, if the bullet is fired from a WWII period carbine with standard powder load. More powerful than a locomotive, specifically an R100 with a half-load of diesel traveling on level ground, with standard moisture conditions. Able to leap tall buildings, that is any vertical structure with a height of 2,000 meters or less, in a single bound, a bound beind defined as a vertical motion impelled by a single push of the foot against the earth, being level with the first floor of the building's entrance, and also considering stable wind conditions, standard humidity, temperature, and pressure, and no precipitation.
that was like the beatles and elvis together
by some of the most immature, fucktarded morons on the entire planet. or did you miss that whole 'greatest recession in the history of the planet' ?
might i suggest 'The Zeroes' by Randall Lane to get insight into 'corporate management' philosophy.
by taking ordinary people, and asking them do extraordinary things
i wonder, if modern corporate douchebags had been in charge of wwii, would we have ever stormed the beach at normandy ? or would they sit around with their thumb up their ass for 5 years waiting for 'good soldiers' to apply to the army.
they can ask a bunch of questions about the latest fad in academia, which is doubly easy now because universities all put their senior class syllabuses online.
then they only take people who pass.
is this age discrimination? oh but of course not, inspector! we are only taking people who know their stuff!
result: much less costs for google, in health insurance, in wages, in ability to tell people what to do (old folks tend to know their rights more), etc etc etc.
god man, dont you know your history?