Really? I don't see Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert hawking gold companies during commercial breaks.
Beck *scares* people into thinking the country is moments away from civil-war, and then gets on the air as a spokesman for a company that'll buy your gold. At low-low prices, so they can resell it for high-high prices!
Way to go. Snookering the very idiots he claims to be representing during his show! How very capitalistic of him. At least he's not a socialist, right?
Agreed. Myself and many of my friends are planning to attend this rally, and none of us have ever gone to a political rally before. If anything, anecdotal evidence is pointing to Stewart/Colbert having a rally that far exceeds their 25,000 limit, and could equal Woodstock.
This is all just a way to make you pay for more and more. Card companies/Banks have to write off fraud, usually, and they hate doing this, so every new card gimmick that comes along will be aimed at making fraud more your problem and less theirs.
But it will also be used to make you pay for everything big companies won't. Let's create an example: Say you walk into Walmart and buy a pair of Calvin Klein jeans. You pay for the Jeans at the checkout. However, Walmart never pays the supplier, Calvin Klein (or the distributor). Thanks to all these shared records, the databases can track everything and one day you get a bill from Calvin Klein for the jeans you purchased at Walmart.
Sounds implausible right? I'm right now fighting with Direct TV for services I purchased through Verizon. Verizon didn't pay Direct TV, so Direct TV is billing me instead, even though I paid Verizon. I never got a Direct TV bill before this one. I was never their customer (directly), I was a Verizon customer. And yet here I am, stuck with the bill.
Trust me, my above example at Walmart may be implausible now, but 5 years from now it'll be commonplace to see the average joes being shafted at both ends by large companies. This card is one more step towards that end.
So, just so we've got all that straight now... What they've has done is revolutionary. They have changed the game. The patent game that is... Instead of patenting "blah blah blah" ON THE INTERNET, they've gone and patented "blah blah blah" AT THE MOVIES.
So now we need to start the gold-rush of "simple business concept" AT THE MOVIES. Now that "choose your own adventure" will happen in a theater, who will be the first to patent "One-click" AT THE MOVIES?
And replaced by something else. In the meantime, Google is jealous that they got a movie made about Facebook, but nobody's rushing to make a movie about Google. Even Apple and Microsoft have have movies 9TV movies anyhow) made about them, so they are feeling left out.
In the mantime, this whole "social networking" thing will die out in about 3 years, that's the general timeframe before everyone gets bored and moves on to something else. I mean, how many time can you post a picture of your cat?
Blogs are already dying out because they oversaturated themselves, it should take Facebook about that much time to oversaturate themselves as well. eBay is dying also as everyone now hates them, Google is now viewed as "evil", let's face it, things change fast in web-time, the WWW has only been around for slightly less than 2 decades (publicly), and one of the first sites here was Yahoo. Does Yahoo make the news every day? No. Nobody gives a crap about Yahoo. They are a dull company. And so it will go with every other internet firm.
And speaking as someone who lives near PA, I don't want your refugees when the company fucks up on safety and starts a fire they can't put out and then it burns for the next 250 years. Great that they are fracking the Natural Gas, 'cause it brings in jobs, but I'm sure that's what those folks on the Gulf Coast thought too, just BEFORE Deep Horizon blew a gasket.
Point is: Sooner or later, they *will* screw up, and either start a fire, or poison the area so badly, that the jobs go away, hell, whole towns will go away, and then those people will invade my state looking to resettle and take our jobs.
I believe it's already the case that many people are reporting that the water coming out of the tap smells badly, or is a funny color.. So, I'm going for the poisoning the landscape. And remember, folks from NY and NJ, that a lot of the food you're eating comes from PA, so, whatever's getting into the water is goiing into your food.
Chew on that for a while while you come down with lymphoma.
It looks like a popular brand of MP3 player, but it's actually a lead-lined box big enough to transport throwing stars! And next year, we'll be introducing a tablet-sized iHide for larger items you don't want security to know about.
The iHide from Apple... Because *you* don't need no stinking badges.
Really? If they lock things down even more, there won't be any "honest consumers". Law changes when enough people break the law. Remember prohibition? Well, maybe you're too young to remember (I know I am), but hey, if you're old enough to drink, look it up as it's important between you and your beer.
The point is: When *everyone* is breaking the law, the law ceases to be useful. There simply aren't enough cops in the world to arrest everyone. And the more media companies attempt to strengthen their grasp, the more consumers will slip through their fingers (apologies to Princess Leia for mangling her quote).
I predict Sony will announce Blu-Ray2 tomorrow, and now you have to dump all your existing HD equipment and buy their newfangled crap with a different master key. All your existing investment in HD crap must be tossed in the trash.
Think of the boom to the economy if every American has to buy their movies ALL OVER AGAIN, for the 4th time, as well as replace their player, TV and the expensive cable between them.
Oh yeah, firmware update to PS3's that prevent playing Blu-Ray. Sony changes tagline for PS3 commercials to "It only does nothing".
Either that, or here comes Toshiba with HD-dvd-2... Div-X anyone?
This could signal the end of physical media. My prediction is that media companies will start selling only executable packages that contain player-code, the movie itself, and rootkit, and the player program will erase the movie after it's been watched, leaving the rootkit installed, so they can monitor if the player program is altered by the user, or the movie is watched again.
And then Orrin Hatch will allow Sony to blow up your computer if you tamper with their movie.
You dialied? I picked up the handset and tapped out the number I wanted on the hook. Ahhh, crossbar. So dependable. And never had a call dropped from my old western electric. Built to survive a nuclear attack. Try that with your cheap-ass cell phone kiddies.
That's probably because they didn't want to be sued by some irate parent when little johnny was searching for hints for the game portal but as he typed "por" he was suggested porn.
Oh yeah, amen brother. You know how many web pages now have images that are linked 1MB BMP files that could have been optimized down to 30k JPGs? Oh my god, and how many people now design sites assuming you've got a 1240 by 1024 monitor?
I still surf using a Pentium 3 and a CRT that doesn't support any more than 1024x768. Slowly but surely, I am being locked out of the web. I think it's high time to fire up the NeXT station, load up Omniweb and see what little still works.
What annoys me most is that the same kids making these enormous web errors tend to look at the internet mostly through their iPhones, and yet, they never "get" that there's a discrepancy. The current crop of 17yr olds is the stupidest generation since cavemen.
Google has locked out thousands of businesses that have never upgraded browsers. Of course, that's the new trend. Weather.com doesn't work with IE6 either. Pretty soon Slashdot will not support ^^&#$%&... NO CARRIER
You left out a really important one... "Copy anything off a well-known blog."
This is what annoys me the most... They are claiming that Wikileaks doesn't deserve protection because it's not "journalism", and yet the mainstream press thinks journalism is "copy shit off the web with zero fact-checking". Just think about the woman who was fired because some blog re-cut her speech so she sounded racist. Did *anyone* check that before airing it? No.
It's so easy to prank the media it's not even funny. All you have to do is put some story onto a well-trafficked-blog and five minutes later CNN is reporting it as news. And then it's in the paper the next day. I'd be willing to be a good amount that at least 10% of the news you read/hear/see each day is false, or at least substantially incorrect because no checking is done, it's just a race to scoop the other guy for ratings/readership.
No wonder everyone believes Faux News/Glenn Beck. If you see it on TV, it must be true!
None. No jobs would come back to the USA, regardless of tax laws. Businesses are ONLY interested in one thing, profits. They will *always* go to cheaper labor.
Hey, how many jobs would come back to the US if we re-instituted slavery?
Why do corporate shills think that big businesses should have all the rights of citizens, but none of the responsibilities? Businesses should pay taxes, and as for your story regarding how much consumer goods would cost as a result, all I have to say is bull -- we're getting shafted no matter what.
Just look at any Verizon bill. They make up half the taxes they list on your bill, and pocket that money. You can bet your ass that Verizon doesn't pay any of that to the government, but they sure make you pay it.
I've given up with "Party affiliation" as if *that* matters anymore. They are all crooks, regardless of which side they claim to be on. There is only one "side" in Washington DC, the side that represents yourself, and how much you can take from the country.
There's no politician actually representing "the people", without fail, all these guys are elite, wealthy, went-to-the-right-school, skull and bones club, lawyers or businessmen who only wanted to get elected so they could become part of the corruption process.
And they will do or say whatever it takes to "get in", they will promise you the world, hawk wedge issues, and destroy their opponent, all so that they can get in and take as much of the pie as they can get their hands on. It's all a power game.
None of it is about doing anything for the American People.
Once any business gets large enough, they do creative accounting or move all their "official" offices offshore (do you kow how many businesses are incorporated in Bermuda as a tax haven?) to avoid taxes.
Thousands of hackers across the globe send their malware, virii, and trojans to Microsoft, where it is collected, pieced together and compiled. Then MS puts it in a box and calls it an OS.
If you notice, there is a direct correlation between the number of hackers sending their code to MS and the amount of bloat in each new software package released by MS.
For the last... 30 years, at least, almost all laws passed in the USA have been about protecting and enriching large corporations at the expense of the American people.
After all, the large corporations and special interests are the ones with lobbying groups, and they are the ones who pay Senators and Congressmen under the table, provide them with lavish vacations (aka hookers and blow), and generally provide the corruption needed to grease the wheels in their favor.
And then you wonder how this country has gotten into the mess it's in...
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Really? I don't see Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert hawking gold companies during commercial breaks.
Beck *scares* people into thinking the country is moments away from civil-war, and then gets on the air as a spokesman for a company that'll buy your gold. At low-low prices, so they can resell it for high-high prices!
Way to go. Snookering the very idiots he claims to be representing during his show! How very capitalistic of him. At least he's not a socialist, right?
I swear, Joe McCarthy had more moral integrity.
Agreed. Myself and many of my friends are planning to attend this rally, and none of us have ever gone to a political rally before. If anything, anecdotal evidence is pointing to Stewart/Colbert having a rally that far exceeds their 25,000 limit, and could equal Woodstock.
This is all just a way to make you pay for more and more. Card companies/Banks have to write off fraud, usually, and they hate doing this, so every new card gimmick that comes along will be aimed at making fraud more your problem and less theirs.
But it will also be used to make you pay for everything big companies won't. Let's create an example: Say you walk into Walmart and buy a pair of Calvin Klein jeans. You pay for the Jeans at the checkout. However, Walmart never pays the supplier, Calvin Klein (or the distributor). Thanks to all these shared records, the databases can track everything and one day you get a bill from Calvin Klein for the jeans you purchased at Walmart.
Sounds implausible right? I'm right now fighting with Direct TV for services I purchased through Verizon. Verizon didn't pay Direct TV, so Direct TV is billing me instead, even though I paid Verizon. I never got a Direct TV bill before this one. I was never their customer (directly), I was a Verizon customer. And yet here I am, stuck with the bill.
Trust me, my above example at Walmart may be implausible now, but 5 years from now it'll be commonplace to see the average joes being shafted at both ends by large companies. This card is one more step towards that end.
That's also why, when women hit you with their purse, the injury is now fatal.
So, just so we've got all that straight now... What they've has done is revolutionary. They have changed the game. The patent game that is... Instead of patenting "blah blah blah" ON THE INTERNET, they've gone and patented "blah blah blah" AT THE MOVIES.
So now we need to start the gold-rush of "simple business concept" AT THE MOVIES. Now that "choose your own adventure" will happen in a theater, who will be the first to patent "One-click" AT THE MOVIES?
And replaced by something else. In the meantime, Google is jealous that they got a movie made about Facebook, but nobody's rushing to make a movie about Google. Even Apple and Microsoft have have movies 9TV movies anyhow) made about them, so they are feeling left out.
In the mantime, this whole "social networking" thing will die out in about 3 years, that's the general timeframe before everyone gets bored and moves on to something else. I mean, how many time can you post a picture of your cat?
Blogs are already dying out because they oversaturated themselves, it should take Facebook about that much time to oversaturate themselves as well. eBay is dying also as everyone now hates them, Google is now viewed as "evil", let's face it, things change fast in web-time, the WWW has only been around for slightly less than 2 decades (publicly), and one of the first sites here was Yahoo. Does Yahoo make the news every day? No. Nobody gives a crap about Yahoo. They are a dull company. And so it will go with every other internet firm.
Thank you for the Daria reference.
I really need to remember the pick up the DVDs now that they are out. Lah-la-la, la-la.
And speaking as someone who lives near PA, I don't want your refugees when the company fucks up on safety and starts a fire they can't put out and then it burns for the next 250 years. Great that they are fracking the Natural Gas, 'cause it brings in jobs, but I'm sure that's what those folks on the Gulf Coast thought too, just BEFORE Deep Horizon blew a gasket.
Point is: Sooner or later, they *will* screw up, and either start a fire, or poison the area so badly, that the jobs go away, hell, whole towns will go away, and then those people will invade my state looking to resettle and take our jobs.
I believe it's already the case that many people are reporting that the water coming out of the tap smells badly, or is a funny color.. So, I'm going for the poisoning the landscape. And remember, folks from NY and NJ, that a lot of the food you're eating comes from PA, so, whatever's getting into the water is goiing into your food.
Chew on that for a while while you come down with lymphoma.
Apple Product Announcement:
Coming soon from Apple, the iHide!
It looks like a popular brand of MP3 player, but it's actually a lead-lined box big enough to transport throwing stars! And next year, we'll be introducing a tablet-sized iHide for larger items you don't want security to know about.
The iHide from Apple... Because *you* don't need no stinking badges.
Really? If they lock things down even more, there won't be any "honest consumers". Law changes when enough people break the law. Remember prohibition? Well, maybe you're too young to remember (I know I am), but hey, if you're old enough to drink, look it up as it's important between you and your beer.
The point is: When *everyone* is breaking the law, the law ceases to be useful. There simply aren't enough cops in the world to arrest everyone. And the more media companies attempt to strengthen their grasp, the more consumers will slip through their fingers (apologies to Princess Leia for mangling her quote).
I predict Sony will announce Blu-Ray2 tomorrow, and now you have to dump all your existing HD equipment and buy their newfangled crap with a different master key. All your existing investment in HD crap must be tossed in the trash.
Think of the boom to the economy if every American has to buy their movies ALL OVER AGAIN, for the 4th time, as well as replace their player, TV and the expensive cable between them.
Oh yeah, firmware update to PS3's that prevent playing Blu-Ray. Sony changes tagline for PS3 commercials to "It only does nothing".
Either that, or here comes Toshiba with HD-dvd-2... Div-X anyone?
This could signal the end of physical media. My prediction is that media companies will start selling only executable packages that contain player-code, the movie itself, and rootkit, and the player program will erase the movie after it's been watched, leaving the rootkit installed, so they can monitor if the player program is altered by the user, or the movie is watched again.
And then Orrin Hatch will allow Sony to blow up your computer if you tamper with their movie.
You dialied? I picked up the handset and tapped out the number I wanted on the hook. Ahhh, crossbar. So dependable. And never had a call dropped from my old western electric. Built to survive a nuclear attack. Try that with your cheap-ass cell phone kiddies.
That's probably because they didn't want to be sued by some irate parent when little johnny was searching for hints for the game portal but as he typed "por" he was suggested porn.
Oh yeah, amen brother. You know how many web pages now have images that are linked 1MB BMP files that could have been optimized down to 30k JPGs? Oh my god, and how many people now design sites assuming you've got a 1240 by 1024 monitor?
I still surf using a Pentium 3 and a CRT that doesn't support any more than 1024x768. Slowly but surely, I am being locked out of the web. I think it's high time to fire up the NeXT station, load up Omniweb and see what little still works.
What annoys me most is that the same kids making these enormous web errors tend to look at the internet mostly through their iPhones, and yet, they never "get" that there's a discrepancy. The current crop of 17yr olds is the stupidest generation since cavemen.
Oh yeah, and for the record... "Get off my lawn"
Google has locked out thousands of businesses that have never upgraded browsers. Of course, that's the new trend. Weather.com doesn't work with IE6 either. Pretty soon Slashdot will not support ^^&#$%&... NO CARRIER
It's clear from this class that Universities feel they need to cultivate ... MORE BRAINS!!!!
You left out a really important one... "Copy anything off a well-known blog."
This is what annoys me the most... They are claiming that Wikileaks doesn't deserve protection because it's not "journalism", and yet the mainstream press thinks journalism is "copy shit off the web with zero fact-checking". Just think about the woman who was fired because some blog re-cut her speech so she sounded racist. Did *anyone* check that before airing it? No.
It's so easy to prank the media it's not even funny. All you have to do is put some story onto a well-trafficked-blog and five minutes later CNN is reporting it as news. And then it's in the paper the next day. I'd be willing to be a good amount that at least 10% of the news you read/hear/see each day is false, or at least substantially incorrect because no checking is done, it's just a race to scoop the other guy for ratings/readership.
No wonder everyone believes Faux News/Glenn Beck. If you see it on TV, it must be true!
There is, but it involves throwing a chair *at* Steve Ballmer...
Because the Chinese person, living in China, can't staff the MacDonalds in Boise, Idaho... yet.
Please, point out a TV set manufactured in America, and I'll buy it.
None. No jobs would come back to the USA, regardless of tax laws. Businesses are ONLY interested in one thing, profits. They will *always* go to cheaper labor.
Hey, how many jobs would come back to the US if we re-instituted slavery?
Why do corporate shills think that big businesses should have all the rights of citizens, but none of the responsibilities? Businesses should pay taxes, and as for your story regarding how much consumer goods would cost as a result, all I have to say is bull -- we're getting shafted no matter what.
Just look at any Verizon bill. They make up half the taxes they list on your bill, and pocket that money. You can bet your ass that Verizon doesn't pay any of that to the government, but they sure make you pay it.
I've given up with "Party affiliation" as if *that* matters anymore. They are all crooks, regardless of which side they claim to be on. There is only one "side" in Washington DC, the side that represents yourself, and how much you can take from the country.
There's no politician actually representing "the people", without fail, all these guys are elite, wealthy, went-to-the-right-school, skull and bones club, lawyers or businessmen who only wanted to get elected so they could become part of the corruption process.
And they will do or say whatever it takes to "get in", they will promise you the world, hawk wedge issues, and destroy their opponent, all so that they can get in and take as much of the pie as they can get their hands on. It's all a power game.
None of it is about doing anything for the American People.
Apparently this guy has never heard of Exxon!
Once any business gets large enough, they do creative accounting or move all their "official" offices offshore (do you kow how many businesses are incorporated in Bermuda as a tax haven?) to avoid taxes.
http://blogs.forbes.com/energysource/2010/04/07/exxon-says-it-does-pay-u-s-income-taxes/
If the USA could actually collect what it is owed by big business, we wouldn't *have* a national debt!
Thousands of hackers across the globe send their malware, virii, and trojans to Microsoft, where it is collected, pieced together and compiled. Then MS puts it in a box and calls it an OS.
If you notice, there is a direct correlation between the number of hackers sending their code to MS and the amount of bloat in each new software package released by MS.
Another mystery solved! You're welcome.
Don't forget the Borg modifications along the way that will speed up the trip.
You must be new here.
For the last... 30 years, at least, almost all laws passed in the USA have been about protecting and enriching large corporations at the expense of the American people.
After all, the large corporations and special interests are the ones with lobbying groups, and they are the ones who pay Senators and Congressmen under the table, provide them with lavish vacations (aka hookers and blow), and generally provide the corruption needed to grease the wheels in their favor.
And then you wonder how this country has gotten into the mess it's in...