Don't take what these muppets say too seriously. The Sun and its ilk (the UK's so called "red tops") are read by people of a reading age of about 9 -- about the bottom quartile of the population. And the people who write for these papers aren't the brightest bunnies either.
The trouble with living in an open society, is that people of very low intelligence and moral character are also citizens, and are also entitled to exercise their freedom of speech. Brighter minds should (but often don't) discount what they say and think accordingly.
Could it be that the Chinese government realized that by encouraging cyber-hooliganism, they've made a huge rod for their own backs? Blind Freddy could've seen it coming.
Anyway, anything which encourages the Chinese to start 'acting their age', can only be a good thing.
The free market is WONDERFUL, until something happens that the fat cats, criminals and freeloaders of Big Content have their business interests threatened. The stench of hypocrisy is unbearable.
If they can't compete with free, then they can either 1) do something else where they CAN make money; or 2) eat shit and die.
These rather lame, piss weak dilettantes are STILL trying their old standbys, like petitions, public debates and what not, because it's "demuuuuucracy, it's Amuuuuuurican, derp derp", and that somehow, the (political) opinions of a million clueless, uneducated fuckwits transcends the truth staring us in the face -- that the Earth's climate it warming, it's caused by humans, and that it's going to cost us big time if we don't do something about it.
I see shades of the Nobel Syndrome here. The far Right aren't very bright as a group, and use -- and are sucked in by -- obvious logical fallacies, like appealing to authority.
It's an obvious far-right wing culture war stunt by a pack of idiots and cranks, and likely encouraged (and paid for) by self-interested idiots and cranks.
See, if you repeat a lie often enough, and if you can borrow some fake credibility ("I worked for NASA, I'm so intelligent and authoritive"), then you can pass off any piece of shoddy political propaganda as unvarnished fact.
P.S: righties, libertoons and Randroids, don't bother trying to fisk or debunk climate change here. No amount of regurgitated right wing talking points will change the fact that you are all shamefully, hopelessly WRONG on everything and anything to do with climate change.
I'd use those much vaunted at-will laws in your libertarian Utopia, to fire useless managers, who are incapable of motivating their staff beyond threatening them with the sack.
It's a crutch for stupid, lazy, cheap capitalists, who don't realise that if they ALL underpay their staff, nobody will be able to pay for their goods and services, as is happening RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW in Europe.
Economics-obsessed Righties should at least be able to get their own head around the Tragedy of the Commons; but then again, I've met enough rightwingers to know they're generally a naiive, silly lot -- too dumb and brainwashed to even look out for their own self-interest as a class, because acting collectively would be 'socialist'.
This typifies the attitude of the US far Right, and is not shared by anybody in any other country, except for the lunatic fringe Right in mostly Anglo-Saxon countries.
Don't be dishonest, and don't pretend this approximates anything anywhere near a majority opinion.
Amazon play their delightful tax avoidance antics in the UK too.
As businesses go transnational, so should tax collection. We could abolish tax havens and "tax competition", stop these overgrown bums from freeloading off society everywhere, and use some of the clawed-back proceeds to give every child on Earth clean water and a decent primary school education.
With the added bonus that it would drive libertarians, Randroids and social Darwinists absolutely crazy.
Nice to see that at least in some places, senior management are held accountable for their performance.
CEOs should be no different to football managers (as Chelsea fans can attest). If you get the big bucks, you have to expect greater scrutiny of your performance, be held to higher standards, and be held accountable.
Wow. Lots of people here with their heads up their arses, ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth about "RACIST" this, "RACIST" that, without even the slightest appreciation about how the worlds works.
In your fine, shiny, squeaky clean middle class utopia. people of different races, colours and creeds DO rub along nicely. I see it at work ever day, and saw it at college. Middle class people everywhere have so much in common, a lot of sheltered, privileged middle class kids think that anybody who breaks this mould has something wrong with them. They're usually the same kids out protesting against "racism" and whatnot, not realizing that underclass/working class people of colour despise them, their culture and everything they stand for because they're rich, privileged etc and in their eyes, holding the brown man down. It's the same in Britain, America, France, wherever you go, with large communities of foreign, brown, dirt-poor and very angry people.
The further down the social hierarchy you go, the more sharply divided people are, the more hateful they are, and the more resentful they are, regardless of who they are. Racism, bigotry, mutual suspicion and hatred is a fact of life -- even more so when you're growing up in a bad area or going to a "failing" school. Racism cuts both ways too -- most of the most disgusting bigotry I've seen has been brown-on-brown.
I dislike right-wing skinheads and anti-Semites as much as the next guy, but "anti-racists" and antifas are almost as bad, because they are naiive, and are out "protecting" people who hate them, and would mug them and stove their heads in given half a chance.
Left-wingers, the world is a hateful, unfair place, and crying and jumping down and crying "racist racist RACIST lalaLALALALA" every time somebody says something you disagree with, is not going to change anything. If anything, it drives the hatred into the shadows.
What would the telcos have to gain by not letting out-of-contract customers unlock their phones?
It would seem pointless to needlessly piss off your customers, especially when the phone in question is hopelessly obsolete in any case.
But then expecting big business (and the dickish, mediocre MBA types who run them) to see beyond the end of their noses -- and actually do something to not antagonise their paying customers -- is probably also a big ask.
Far too many religious people define themselves by what they hate, and measure their own worth by how much hatred they can stir up.
Personally, I'd like to see all these hateful "Family" outfits treated the same way as other hate mongers that are currently dealt with harshly by law, like neo-Nazis and Islamists.
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Don't take what these muppets say too seriously. The Sun and its ilk (the UK's so called "red tops") are read by people of a reading age of about 9 -- about the bottom quartile of the population. And the people who write for these papers aren't the brightest bunnies either.
The trouble with living in an open society, is that people of very low intelligence and moral character are also citizens, and are also entitled to exercise their freedom of speech. Brighter minds should (but often don't) discount what they say and think accordingly.
That's the single dumbest thing I've read all day, and something I'd expect from an american conservative.
Obama is well to the Right of any centre-left party in Europe or Australia. He'd be comfortable as a conservative in most of these places, actually.
You're either stupid, or a liar.
You voted for these rightwing extremists, you then have to accept the consequences when they make bad laws to reward their backers.
Don't like tyranny? Don't vote for extremists. Simple.
I remember the monkey-boy dance.
Developers! Developers! Developers!
Shitting on their developers will be their downfall.
Feeling butthurt?
Go to Drudge Report or something, where you can go and have your prejudiced repeatedly confirmed for you.
If Pakistan and Afghanistan want their Islamic paradise, let them have it.
Could it be that the Chinese government realized that by encouraging cyber-hooliganism, they've made a huge rod for their own backs? Blind Freddy could've seen it coming.
Anyway, anything which encourages the Chinese to start 'acting their age', can only be a good thing.
The free market is WONDERFUL, until something happens that the fat cats, criminals and freeloaders of Big Content have their business interests threatened. The stench of hypocrisy is unbearable.
If they can't compete with free, then they can either 1) do something else where they CAN make money; or 2) eat shit and die.
... welcome our new literate simian overlords.
These rather lame, piss weak dilettantes are STILL trying their old standbys, like petitions, public debates and what not, because it's "demuuuuucracy, it's Amuuuuuurican, derp derp", and that somehow, the (political) opinions of a million clueless, uneducated fuckwits transcends the truth staring us in the face -- that the Earth's climate it warming, it's caused by humans, and that it's going to cost us big time if we don't do something about it.
I see shades of the Nobel Syndrome here. The far Right aren't very bright as a group, and use -- and are sucked in by -- obvious logical fallacies, like appealing to authority.
It's an obvious far-right wing culture war stunt by a pack of idiots and cranks, and likely encouraged (and paid for) by self-interested idiots and cranks.
See, if you repeat a lie often enough, and if you can borrow some fake credibility ("I worked for NASA, I'm so intelligent and authoritive"), then you can pass off any piece of shoddy political propaganda as unvarnished fact.
P.S: righties, libertoons and Randroids, don't bother trying to fisk or debunk climate change here. No amount of regurgitated right wing talking points will change the fact that you are all shamefully, hopelessly WRONG on everything and anything to do with climate change.
That's a seriously impressive, detailed, thoughtful set of answers.
Glad that the interviewees decided not to hold back, and dumb down their responses; they know their audience.
Thanks!
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of people.
Hopefully they'll go out of business -- and show the world what happens to you when you treat your paying customers like fools and criminals.
Try Germany and their highly successful tripartite industrial relations system.
As exporters and high-tech manufacturers, they are an unstoppable powerhouse. They're pissing all over America. What does that tell you?
I'd use those much vaunted at-will laws in your libertarian Utopia, to fire useless managers, who are incapable of motivating their staff beyond threatening them with the sack.
It's a crutch for stupid, lazy, cheap capitalists, who don't realise that if they ALL underpay their staff, nobody will be able to pay for their goods and services, as is happening RIGHT FRIGGIN NOW in Europe.
Economics-obsessed Righties should at least be able to get their own head around the Tragedy of the Commons; but then again, I've met enough rightwingers to know they're generally a naiive, silly lot -- too dumb and brainwashed to even look out for their own self-interest as a class, because acting collectively would be 'socialist'.
Retarded, partisan drivel.
This typifies the attitude of the US far Right, and is not shared by anybody in any other country, except for the lunatic fringe Right in mostly Anglo-Saxon countries.
Don't be dishonest, and don't pretend this approximates anything anywhere near a majority opinion.
The French have a HUGE government -- they're still a world power. The system works very well for them.
Guess that's why you righties hate the French so much. The threat of a good example.
Right, Ayatollah Khomenei and his friends just sprung out of the Earth fully formed, like dragon's teeth.
... taken to its logical conclusion.
And the Iranians have only themselves to blame for fostering and tolerating religious and political extremism in their midst.
America, take note.
Amazon play their delightful tax avoidance antics in the UK too.
As businesses go transnational, so should tax collection. We could abolish tax havens and "tax competition", stop these overgrown bums from freeloading off society everywhere, and use some of the clawed-back proceeds to give every child on Earth clean water and a decent primary school education.
With the added bonus that it would drive libertarians, Randroids and social Darwinists absolutely crazy.
Nice to see that at least in some places, senior management are held accountable for their performance.
CEOs should be no different to football managers (as Chelsea fans can attest). If you get the big bucks, you have to expect greater scrutiny of your performance, be held to higher standards, and be held accountable.
A step in the right direction, I think.
Wow. Lots of people here with their heads up their arses, ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth about "RACIST" this, "RACIST" that, without even the slightest appreciation about how the worlds works.
In your fine, shiny, squeaky clean middle class utopia. people of different races, colours and creeds DO rub along nicely. I see it at work ever day, and saw it at college. Middle class people everywhere have so much in common, a lot of sheltered, privileged middle class kids think that anybody who breaks this mould has something wrong with them. They're usually the same kids out protesting against "racism" and whatnot, not realizing that underclass/working class people of colour despise them, their culture and everything they stand for because they're rich, privileged etc and in their eyes, holding the brown man down. It's the same in Britain, America, France, wherever you go, with large communities of foreign, brown, dirt-poor and very angry people.
The further down the social hierarchy you go, the more sharply divided people are, the more hateful they are, and the more resentful they are, regardless of who they are. Racism, bigotry, mutual suspicion and hatred is a fact of life -- even more so when you're growing up in a bad area or going to a "failing" school. Racism cuts both ways too -- most of the most disgusting bigotry I've seen has been brown-on-brown.
I dislike right-wing skinheads and anti-Semites as much as the next guy, but "anti-racists" and antifas are almost as bad, because they are naiive, and are out "protecting" people who hate them, and would mug them and stove their heads in given half a chance.
Left-wingers, the world is a hateful, unfair place, and crying and jumping down and crying "racist racist RACIST lalaLALALALA" every time somebody says something you disagree with, is not going to change anything. If anything, it drives the hatred into the shadows.
What would the telcos have to gain by not letting out-of-contract customers unlock their phones?
It would seem pointless to needlessly piss off your customers, especially when the phone in question is hopelessly obsolete in any case.
But then expecting big business (and the dickish, mediocre MBA types who run them) to see beyond the end of their noses -- and actually do something to not antagonise their paying customers -- is probably also a big ask.
Far too many religious people define themselves by what they hate, and measure their own worth by how much hatred they can stir up.
Personally, I'd like to see all these hateful "Family" outfits treated the same way as other hate mongers that are currently dealt with harshly by law, like neo-Nazis and Islamists.
You'd think that if cancer rates skyrocketed alongside the takeup of GM food, that somebody would notice?
I seriously doubt it. Apple are far too addicted to secrecy and lack of transparency for that to happen.