De facto -- yes, and they're back with a brutal vengeance. They've effectively taken over Russia in conjunction with the Russian mafia to create a monstrous intelligence-gangster state, the likes the world has never seen.
For ages, the Russians attacked the "Western Establishment" (i.e. anybody in government or law enforcement who was capable and not corrupt). Now, it's our time to settle the score, and take the "Russian Establishment" (who are all Chekists and serious organised criminals), down a few pegs.
Well, the Russian "Establishment" don't like it up them, do they? BOO HOO! Sucks to be you, Chekist scum. Turnabout is fair play, and karma is a magnificent righteous, vicious BITCH. Enjoy payback, arseholes.
Hats off to the people brave enough to do this. Stinky Julian Assange, being the Russophile lickspittle he is, never had the cojones to offend his GRU masters.
I fully expect the 50 Cent Party to be here any moment to "defend China".
So if you see a lot of ACs here defending Huawei, you will understand why -- the Chinese government pays people to sit around all day and "defend China" online.
So why are they out in such numbers?
China is quite upset that Huawei (a front company for China's CIA (Ministry of State Security, MSS)) is being outed as a front company. It's founder is ex-PLA, and the company steals Western secrets to order for the Chinese Communist Party.
So, you are making the bold claim that Putin IS Russia? That I am a racist for opposing Vladimir Putin's problematic policies and behaviour? That I dislike his bullying and dirty tricks?
Anybody noticed the trolls shitposting about ANTI RUSSIAN sentiment lately?
Do NOT be misled: opposing Vladimir Putin and his vile policies is NOT racist.
The world got wise to the troll's "Russophobia" line -- it was invented by 19th century Russian racists to smear Jews, and was transformed into a general sledge against opponents of Russian fascism and criminality on the Internet. They got laughed out. Now Russian trolls have taken to the term "fascist" and "anti-Russian".
This is highly dishonest, because Putin-regime apologists want to confuse dislike of Vladimir Putin and his vicious criminal imperialism with hatred of Russians in general, which is dishonest in the extreme.
If you see this trolling and misrepresentation, don't be misled: being against Putin is NOT racist.
It wouldn't surprise me, that with China's notions of "face", and CCP desperately trying to retain legitimacy, that China is actually in much deeper shit than they're making out. It wouldn't be wise to count on it though.
We're getting to the point of 'Battlestar Galactica' -- the enemy (Russia and China) is now so good at cyber, anything attached to a network will get compromised.
Putin certainly understands this. Of the massive damage Snowden's treachery inflicted on us -- the Russians know what we're capable of, and Putin became a "technophobe" -- meaning everything on paper and typewriters, or hardwired secure telephone lines. There is a big black hole in the heart of the enemies' camp.
If our militaries and defence contractors are THIS fucking stupid, maybe we DESERVE to get our arses kicked by Russian and Chinese fascists. We'll then have a LONG time to regret not pulling our heads out of our arses and waking up to the threat, because a world ruled by Russians and Chinese will be a dark, dark place indeed.
Similar stupidity with the American obsession with aircraft carriers. Each costs upwards of $13b with 6000 sailors on each. China and Russia, when the shooting starts, will send a bunch of them to the sea floor with salvos of high-speed long-range missiles.
Even so, I doubt our fucking idiot leaders will wake up to themselves. They're all sitting around wanking each other off, playing stupid culture-war games (no doubt egged on by Russian trolls), and figuring out how to enrich themselves and their donors to get a grip on the situation.
HOW MUCH bad shit will need to happen before we get our act together? Come ON!
This is where there is a role for the public sector to oversee this process, and help redeploy resources quickly to where they can maximise value for everybody.
The most competitive countries out there see this, and the public and private sectors work hand-in-glove. Markets are generally good, but occasionally fail.
Otherwise, you get the bad situation, where you've got carpet-bagging for-profit colleges bankrupting desperate people for worthless qualifications -- and key worker shortages everywhere.
You'll probably find that anybody who's got more than a couple of million to their name, probably stepped on a lot of necks to get their wealth. Being a psychopath is almost mandatory in that line of business. You have to not care at all about the suffering and toil of others.
It's a really common business model for the vulture-capital funds which do this.
When they go shopping for failing enterprise software companies to buy out, one of the key criteria, is "stickiness" of the software, and how hard they can screw their customers on recurring license revenue before they jump ship and use something modern. For some markets, e.g. core banking software, a failed core banking migration project might be disastrous, which is why so much broken old software remains in service.
Vulture-capitalist private equity funds LOVE this sort of thing, and they are making absolutely OBSCENE amounts of money off the misery and toil of others.
I've been there. I see getting raped by vulture-capitalists as a punishment for failure. Not much you can do about it as an individual software developer, but it does go to show how bad managers can really destroy a lot of value, if allowed to.
This model works best for crappy near-end-of-life "enterprise" software, where all the original developers are long gone, and you're in maintenance mode.
These private-equity types buy up loads of failing enterprise software companies and offshore everything. They fund the purchase by loading up the victim companies with the debt used to purchase them.
It works best with _sticky_ software -- systems which are very, very hard for customers to get rid of. Bend over your customers, fuck them hard on recurring license revenue, do a little "labour cost arbitrage".
The spivs who are doing this are making BANK. The insiders are getting something like 40% return on capital, even accounting for losing bets. Investors are bashing down doors to invest in these equity funds.
I saw this with another notorious (and VERY large) San Francisco-based private equity outfit, who've pulls a similar caper, although not quite as draconian -- they have just opened an enormous development centre in Bucharest instead of pimping out contract developers online. Eventually, they'll wise up after chasing the cheapest competent developers in the world, and implement a digital treadmill, as these amoral worms have.
If you're running or working for an enterprise software company, here's a hard home truth: if you embrace mediocrity or fail outright, this is your fate: you'll be bought out by these vultures, cut up for scrap, and everything you've worked for will be worth ought, while these fat cats walk away laughing.
The Russians are stupid backwards-ass hooligans. They're like urban idiots who smash things up and beat people for the sheer fun of it. Because they're stupid, spiteful peasant trash, who just get off on that sort of thing.
Russia does it, simply because they're scum, and simply because they can. It's note more sophisticated than that.
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De jure, no.
De facto -- yes, and they're back with a brutal vengeance. They've effectively taken over Russia in conjunction with the Russian mafia to create a monstrous intelligence-gangster state, the likes the world has never seen.
That's right.
Hybrid warfare is only okay when Russian three-letter agencies do it.
Right, got it ;-)
You are a Russia shill.
For ages, the Russians attacked the "Western Establishment" (i.e. anybody in government or law enforcement who was capable and not corrupt). Now, it's our time to settle the score, and take the "Russian Establishment" (who are all Chekists and serious organised criminals), down a few pegs.
Well, the Russian "Establishment" don't like it up them, do they? BOO HOO! Sucks to be you, Chekist scum. Turnabout is fair play, and karma is a magnificent righteous, vicious BITCH. Enjoy payback, arseholes.
Hats off to the people brave enough to do this. Stinky Julian Assange, being the Russophile lickspittle he is, never had the cojones to offend his GRU masters.
Everything is cheap when you use slave labour and save on R&D by stealing all your IP.
Yep. China pushed its luck a bit too far, and it was the last straw for America. They've finally had a gutful.
I fully expect the 50 Cent Party to be here any moment to "defend China".
So if you see a lot of ACs here defending Huawei, you will understand why -- the Chinese government pays people to sit around all day and "defend China" online.
So why are they out in such numbers?
China is quite upset that Huawei (a front company for China's CIA (Ministry of State Security, MSS)) is being outed as a front company. It's founder is ex-PLA, and the company steals Western secrets to order for the Chinese Communist Party.
LOL.
If you're a black guy from Chicago, then I'm the Queen of fucking Sheba.
Nice try, bot.
So, you are making the bold claim that Putin IS Russia? That I am a racist for opposing Vladimir Putin's problematic policies and behaviour? That I dislike his bullying and dirty tricks?
"L'Etat c'cest moi!!"
Do you have ANY idea how arrogant that sounds?
Por que no los dos?
Anybody noticed the trolls shitposting about ANTI RUSSIAN sentiment lately?
Do NOT be misled: opposing Vladimir Putin and his vile policies is NOT racist.
The world got wise to the troll's "Russophobia" line -- it was invented by 19th century Russian racists to smear Jews, and was transformed into a general sledge against opponents of Russian fascism and criminality on the Internet. They got laughed out. Now Russian trolls have taken to the term "fascist" and "anti-Russian".
This is highly dishonest, because Putin-regime apologists want to confuse dislike of Vladimir Putin and his vicious criminal imperialism with hatred of Russians in general, which is dishonest in the extreme.
If you see this trolling and misrepresentation, don't be misled: being against Putin is NOT racist.
It wouldn't surprise me, that with China's notions of "face", and CCP desperately trying to retain legitimacy, that China is actually in much deeper shit than they're making out. It wouldn't be wise to count on it though.
Do you defend China stealing $US 1 trillion worth of IP then? Do you believe China has the right to steal other peoples' hard work and investment?
Better idea.
Wall them off -- online and offline. No internet. No visas. No trade. No food. No energy. No nothing.
The tyrants want "sovereignty". We should show the authoritarians what absolute sovereignty, i.e. grinding poverty and starvation looks like.
Fuck them. They want to attack us? They can live without the benefits of trade and travel with civilized countries.
We're getting to the point of 'Battlestar Galactica' -- the enemy (Russia and China) is now so good at cyber, anything attached to a network will get compromised.
Putin certainly understands this. Of the massive damage Snowden's treachery inflicted on us -- the Russians know what we're capable of, and Putin became a "technophobe" -- meaning everything on paper and typewriters, or hardwired secure telephone lines. There is a big black hole in the heart of the enemies' camp.
The enemy has wised up. Why aren't we?
If our militaries and defence contractors are THIS fucking stupid, maybe we DESERVE to get our arses kicked by Russian and Chinese fascists. We'll then have a LONG time to regret not pulling our heads out of our arses and waking up to the threat, because a world ruled by Russians and Chinese will be a dark, dark place indeed.
Similar stupidity with the American obsession with aircraft carriers. Each costs upwards of $13b with 6000 sailors on each. China and Russia, when the shooting starts, will send a bunch of them to the sea floor with salvos of high-speed long-range missiles.
Even so, I doubt our fucking idiot leaders will wake up to themselves. They're all sitting around wanking each other off, playing stupid culture-war games (no doubt egged on by Russian trolls), and figuring out how to enrich themselves and their donors to get a grip on the situation.
HOW MUCH bad shit will need to happen before we get our act together? Come ON!
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And who's going to pay for all this retraining.
This is where there is a role for the public sector to oversee this process, and help redeploy resources quickly to where they can maximise value for everybody.
The most competitive countries out there see this, and the public and private sectors work hand-in-glove. Markets are generally good, but occasionally fail.
Otherwise, you get the bad situation, where you've got carpet-bagging for-profit colleges bankrupting desperate people for worthless qualifications -- and key worker shortages everywhere.
You'll probably find that anybody who's got more than a couple of million to their name, probably stepped on a lot of necks to get their wealth. Being a psychopath is almost mandatory in that line of business. You have to not care at all about the suffering and toil of others.
The soup is rarely eaten as hot as it's served. Everyone knows that.
It's a really common business model for the vulture-capital funds which do this.
When they go shopping for failing enterprise software companies to buy out, one of the key criteria, is "stickiness" of the software, and how hard they can screw their customers on recurring license revenue before they jump ship and use something modern. For some markets, e.g. core banking software, a failed core banking migration project might be disastrous, which is why so much broken old software remains in service.
Vulture-capitalist private equity funds LOVE this sort of thing, and they are making absolutely OBSCENE amounts of money off the misery and toil of others.
I've been there. I see getting raped by vulture-capitalists as a punishment for failure. Not much you can do about it as an individual software developer, but it does go to show how bad managers can really destroy a lot of value, if allowed to.
This model works best for crappy near-end-of-life "enterprise" software, where all the original developers are long gone, and you're in maintenance mode.
These private-equity types buy up loads of failing enterprise software companies and offshore everything. They fund the purchase by loading up the victim companies with the debt used to purchase them.
It works best with _sticky_ software -- systems which are very, very hard for customers to get rid of. Bend over your customers, fuck them hard on recurring license revenue, do a little "labour cost arbitrage".
The spivs who are doing this are making BANK. The insiders are getting something like 40% return on capital, even accounting for losing bets. Investors are bashing down doors to invest in these equity funds.
I saw this with another notorious (and VERY large) San Francisco-based private equity outfit, who've pulls a similar caper, although not quite as draconian -- they have just opened an enormous development centre in Bucharest instead of pimping out contract developers online. Eventually, they'll wise up after chasing the cheapest competent developers in the world, and implement a digital treadmill, as these amoral worms have.
If you're running or working for an enterprise software company, here's a hard home truth: if you embrace mediocrity or fail outright, this is your fate: you'll be bought out by these vultures, cut up for scrap, and everything you've worked for will be worth ought, while these fat cats walk away laughing.
Julian Assange is a terrible human being, who has everything coming to him.
BTW, you lot know that in addition to being a traitor, he's also a child abuser too?
Sorry about your "hero".
They're welcome to keep thinking that ;-)
The Russians NEVER learn. It'll cost them.
The Russians are stupid backwards-ass hooligans. They're like urban idiots who smash things up and beat people for the sheer fun of it. Because they're stupid, spiteful peasant trash, who just get off on that sort of thing.
Russia does it, simply because they're scum, and simply because they can. It's note more sophisticated than that.