'As long as I am president of this country the great industries are secure. We hear about millimeters, kilograms and litres. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.'
you may not have noticed this, but I'd say about 95% of people who comment on stories don't bother to read the article.
Why?
Because 95% of the time, we can guess what the article says just by reading the headline.
The other 5%, well, we'd rather just talk about whatever bug was up our ass that day in the first place; hence reading the article anyways is kind of pointless.
In conclusion, thanks for coming.. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
If you read the emails that anonymous dumped on the web, Team Themis (HB Gary, Berico, Palantir) were scraping facebook to gather information about 'radical' groups.
The even had an automated system of software to do this, slurp it into some kind of proprietary database, and analyze it.
This was all based on the idea that the government would somehow pay them for it.
considering that Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and the others perpetrated the entire Synthetic CDO mortgage pseudo ponzi scheme over TCP/IP networks, i have to wonder how long before the FBI gets around to seizing gs.com ?
there could find dozens, if not hundreds of financial experts to testify that Credit Default Swaps = gambling, and putting them in Synthetic CDOs = selling gambling in a bundle
look. PJ was posting about the Hotz case only a few days ago. She was digging into details of Caliornia vs New Jersey computer law because Sony was trying to sue Hotz in California even though he lives in New Jersey.
Now she just vanishes?
There is -more going on here-. we might not be able to know about it, for years. but something smells wrong. Someone who is as brilliant and inquisitive as PJ doesn't just dump everything for no apparent reason. The site is not called 'SCOvsLinux', it is not called 'scoville' or some other witty name, like so many other 'cause' based sites are (Operation Clambake). It was called Grok Law - > Grok the Law.
PJ obviously had a deep intellectual interest in matters of Law, Patents, and Copyright, and open source software, as well as writing and explaining it to the rest of us. That interest has not disappeared, it is like saying that Mick Jagger decided to give up singing or something. (OK, so actually some artists do stop, like Joni Mitchell. But show me anything where PJ has decided to become a painter or something).
and i would imagine that these people , who are not by any stretch 'fringe' (you can find their articles in major economics journals), would have some excuse or explanation of why it was OK...
imagine the US government simply contracted out the work?
OK, the contractor does some subcontracting as well...
and they subcontract to some company in Mexico or Bangladesh, which uses children as test pilots.
Look at hedge fund guy Jeffrey Epstein, he has tons of famous rich buddies and he is deeply into funding science research, he also had a harem of teenage prostitutes he abused. In his words, what he did was no worse than 'stealing a bagel' . This guy has put big money into some big named places, Harvard etc. Would a guy like that think twice about subcontracting a company that put kids in test aircraft?
slashdot editors put through stuff all the time that has ridiculous headlines. as long as it gets some hits and generates discussion, and is not completely nutso or bigoted, it can be considered worthy.
in the comment section the problems with wording etc usually get ironed out. in this case for example the vast majority of commenters point out exactly what you are saying.
the FBI went around spying on people they thought might be communists. the reports read pretty much like this. . . except instead of aliens it is "Subject went to the grocery store at 11pm. Subject came home. Subject met with Ms Z for 30 minutes after which Ms. Z left. Subject went to sleep"
"Subject is now pregnant and taking care of a small child. No further investigations made"
And documents are destroyed --all the time-- by the government.
Example: The torture tapes that the CIA recorded of their 'interrogation' sessions. Through FOIA we don't have the tapes, but we have the internal discussions the CIA had about how to destroy the tapes so as to 'protect' the officers doing the torturing.
Example2: the Department of Defense Inspector General did an investigation into NSA's failed Trailblazer program boondoggle; vast quantities of documents relating to that investigation have been destroyed. . . this is a problem for the defense team of Thomas Drake, an NSA officer who aided the DoD in it's investigation, because now he is being sued by the government for 'unauthorized retention of national defense information' and they are trying to prove it was part of his job to have this sort of information - but a lot of his internal emails have been erased.
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sit down you might not be ready to hear this.
there is still racism in business, and most business dudes are not hispanic
i know i know. i told you you should have sat down.
yes, i would like a 30cm tube, with aubergines, poutine, and mramite. thank you!
like the Atlas Maior by Joan Blaeu , it often comes with 3 or maybe 4 different keys... one for 'german miles', one for 'french miles', etc etc.
it was published around the same time Newton invented calculus.. just sayin. its not that big a deal.
Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. Im gonna be watching you.
First they came for the 3x5 cards and i said nothing
Then they came for the 8 1/2 x 11 paper, i was too afraid to speak
Then they came for my pound cake, i let them take it
When they came for my 10 inch... .
'As long as I am president of this country the great industries are secure. We hear about millimeters, kilograms and litres. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.'
-- President Dwight D. Rockefeller, 1950.
you may not have noticed this, but I'd say about 95% of people who comment on stories don't bother to read the article.
Why?
Because 95% of the time, we can guess what the article says just by reading the headline.
The other 5%, well, we'd rather just talk about whatever bug was up our ass that day in the first place; hence reading the article anyways is kind of pointless.
In conclusion, thanks for coming.. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
just kidding.
not really.
If you read the emails that anonymous dumped on the web, Team Themis (HB Gary, Berico, Palantir) were scraping facebook to gather information about 'radical' groups.
The even had an automated system of software to do this, slurp it into some kind of proprietary database, and analyze it.
This was all based on the idea that the government would somehow pay them for it.
That's the "value" proposition of facebook.
if you do not like money, i will be happy to take it off your hands.
then you will be free of this accursed tyranny!
why the outrage at reporters doing something the government is doing all the time?
for certain things. they have to tell someone when they've had enough.
what is a swell at epsom? what does that even mean?
half-wrong button holes, half-wrong tube socks.
i thought everyone knew what these meant!
there is a medicine for parkinsons' disease that has the side effect of causing brain chemistry changes that induce a pathological gambling addiction.
google it.
considering that Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and the others perpetrated the entire Synthetic CDO mortgage pseudo ponzi scheme over TCP/IP networks, i have to wonder how long before the FBI gets around to seizing gs.com ?
there could find dozens, if not hundreds of financial experts to testify that Credit Default Swaps = gambling, and putting them in Synthetic CDOs = selling gambling in a bundle
chmod is a unix command to modify file permissions.
android is based on unix(linux).
the android chmod doesnt work properly.
look. PJ was posting about the Hotz case only a few days ago. She was digging into details of Caliornia vs New Jersey computer law because Sony was trying to sue Hotz in California even though he lives in New Jersey.
Now she just vanishes?
There is -more going on here-. we might not be able to know about it, for years. but something smells wrong. Someone who is as brilliant and inquisitive as PJ doesn't just dump everything for no apparent reason. The site is not called 'SCOvsLinux', it is not called 'scoville' or some other witty name, like so many other 'cause' based sites are (Operation Clambake). It was called Grok Law - > Grok the Law.
PJ obviously had a deep intellectual interest in matters of Law, Patents, and Copyright, and open source software, as well as writing and explaining it to the rest of us. That interest has not disappeared, it is like saying that Mick Jagger decided to give up singing or something. (OK, so actually some artists do stop, like Joni Mitchell. But show me anything where PJ has decided to become a painter or something).
dude. do you really think they are going to let comments critical of sony on the playstation.com website?
what if -they- want you to think that its what -they- want you to think?
and then, what if -they- want you think that -they- want you to think that it is what -they- want you to think?
and also, what if -they- want you to think that -they- want you to think that -they- want you to think that this is what -they- want you to think?
its a good question! Think about it!
and i would imagine that these people , who are not by any stretch 'fringe' (you can find their articles in major economics journals), would have some excuse or explanation of why it was OK...
imagine the US government simply contracted out the work?
OK, the contractor does some subcontracting as well...
and they subcontract to some company in Mexico or Bangladesh, which uses children as test pilots.
Look at hedge fund guy Jeffrey Epstein, he has tons of famous rich buddies and he is deeply into funding science research, he also had a harem of teenage prostitutes he abused. In his words, what he did was no worse than 'stealing a bagel' . This guy has put big money into some big named places, Harvard etc. Would a guy like that think twice about subcontracting a company that put kids in test aircraft?
slashdot editors put through stuff all the time that has ridiculous headlines. as long as it gets some hits and generates discussion, and is not completely nutso or bigoted, it can be considered worthy.
in the comment section the problems with wording etc usually get ironed out. in this case for example the vast majority of commenters point out exactly what you are saying.
usually don't last very long in government jobs
the FBI went around spying on people they thought might be communists. the reports read pretty much like this. . . except instead of aliens it is "Subject went to the grocery store at 11pm. Subject came home. Subject met with Ms Z for 30 minutes after which Ms. Z left. Subject went to sleep"
"Subject is now pregnant and taking care of a small child. No further investigations made"
And documents are destroyed --all the time-- by the government.
Example: The torture tapes that the CIA recorded of their 'interrogation' sessions. Through FOIA we don't have the tapes, but we have the internal discussions the CIA had about how to destroy the tapes so as to 'protect' the officers doing the torturing.
Example2: the Department of Defense Inspector General did an investigation into NSA's failed Trailblazer program boondoggle; vast quantities of documents relating to that investigation have been destroyed. . . this is a problem for the defense team of Thomas Drake, an NSA officer who aided the DoD in it's investigation, because now he is being sued by the government for 'unauthorized retention of national defense information' and they are trying to prove it was part of his job to have this sort of information - but a lot of his internal emails have been erased.
so basically the Greater German Reich would have had no flatscreens and Xbox.