And what has how the major parties have become a US-like collection of corrupt scum where only the name on the door is different have to do with the fact that the German Pirate Party has turned into its own parody?
When all the nutjobs came streaming into the party it basically imploded.
Nowadays they're basically just arguing over gender equality (the usual feminazis turned it from a valid objective into an insane obsession), basic income guarantees (without any idea beyond "money for nothing") and useless infighting by some self-obsessed idiots.
At the same time they're getting ass-raped by the government (new laws, selling out people's right to privacy and presumption of innocence more and more with every new week) and corporations (e.g., Deutsche Telekom's online branch recently laid the groundwork for a move away from actual flatrates to throttling beyond ridiculously outdated volume caps even though there's no technical need for it) and they don't even notice it because they've long since left behind their original goals.
Nowadays, they mainly just post press releases online where nobody but their own people will read them and they make themselves obsolete by outdoing the fringe wings of other parties.
When they do show up in the press it's members' dirty laundry dragged into the public, party-sponsored gender equality "discussion" events where you first have to sign that you won't support any opinions other than what the event organizers (the party's feminist fringe) deems acceptable (they even kicked a rather active member of the party out of the event because he dared to disagree) and inquiries whether the city state of Berlin is ready for the zombie apocalypse. But, my favorite example is a recent "online protest" where they met in some obscure voice chat to demonstrate against some cause in a place where absolutely nobody even gives a shit.
As a former supporter, I nowadays actually hope for someone to nuke that sorry mess from orbit so something useful can take its place again. Right now, what they've become is pretty much their own worst enemy.
Now that the German one has turned into a complete waste of time (taken over by all the nutjobs the Greens, Left Party and others were only too happy to get rid of) it's nice to see at least one country make more progress in the original direction.
Gave it a try and already lost interest again before any video even had a chance to start.
The German page didn't have any content, the US page wanted me to install Microsoft's Silverlight (was kinda surprised to see that this stuff is even still in use) and then ran into a region block.
Germany will most likely only get some dubbed versions with the usual delay (even their streaming services over here usually don't include access to the original audio for US-made content) and after that Silverlight crap I've already lost the interest necessary to get me to activate the proxy options.
You seem to forget that it's not just your (fake) profile data (e.g., "Name = Jack Wanker"), but the actual usage details as well (search, discussion topics, maps lookups, GPS data,... ).
The topic probably would've made more sense if the bullshit summary had actually contained a video of the experimental system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfgn6evkMpw
For quite some time Oracle couldn't even make a working Windows installer (when it tried to set up the root password and similar stuff you had to kill the installer and complete the last steps manually).
If a company can't even get a fucking installer to work I certainly don't want to find out which parts of the database engine they managed to break.
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Bloomberg made his money off the finance industry and he's in politics.
Trust him when he says that the world will never run out of assholes.
^^ It's more of a company tradition.
Most of those people aren't "anti-Europe" either. They're just against the bureaucratic cancer the "EU" has become.
Since you don't even have the slightest idea what you're talking about, do us both a favor and go back to play with your sand molds.
And what has how the major parties have become a US-like collection of corrupt scum where only the name on the door is different have to do with the fact that the German Pirate Party has turned into its own parody?
When all the nutjobs came streaming into the party it basically imploded.
Nowadays they're basically just arguing over gender equality (the usual feminazis turned it from a valid objective into an insane obsession), basic income guarantees (without any idea beyond "money for nothing") and useless infighting by some self-obsessed idiots.
At the same time they're getting ass-raped by the government (new laws, selling out people's right to privacy and presumption of innocence more and more with every new week) and corporations (e.g., Deutsche Telekom's online branch recently laid the groundwork for a move away from actual flatrates to throttling beyond ridiculously outdated volume caps even though there's no technical need for it) and they don't even notice it because they've long since left behind their original goals.
Nowadays, they mainly just post press releases online where nobody but their own people will read them and they make themselves obsolete by outdoing the fringe wings of other parties.
When they do show up in the press it's members' dirty laundry dragged into the public, party-sponsored gender equality "discussion" events where you first have to sign that you won't support any opinions other than what the event organizers (the party's feminist fringe) deems acceptable (they even kicked a rather active member of the party out of the event because he dared to disagree) and inquiries whether the city state of Berlin is ready for the zombie apocalypse. But, my favorite example is a recent "online protest" where they met in some obscure voice chat to demonstrate against some cause in a place where absolutely nobody even gives a shit.
As a former supporter, I nowadays actually hope for someone to nuke that sorry mess from orbit so something useful can take its place again.
Right now, what they've become is pretty much their own worst enemy.
Now that the German one has turned into a complete waste of time (taken over by all the nutjobs the Greens, Left Party and others were only too happy to get rid of) it's nice to see at least one country make more progress in the original direction.
Won't it be more like Oracle's next lead security guys for Java?
True, there's no need to degrade monkeys and put them on the same level as politicians.
I'm sure there's a joke about the catholic church somewhere in there.
Gave it a try and already lost interest again before any video even had a chance to start.
The German page didn't have any content, the US page wanted me to install Microsoft's Silverlight (was kinda surprised to see that this stuff is even still in use) and then ran into a region block.
Germany will most likely only get some dubbed versions with the usual delay (even their streaming services over here usually don't include access to the original audio for US-made content) and after that Silverlight crap I've already lost the interest necessary to get me to activate the proxy options.
Congratulations! You managed to completely miss the point.
You seem to forget that it's not just your (fake) profile data (e.g., "Name = Jack Wanker"), but the actual usage details as well (search, discussion topics, maps lookups, GPS data, ... ).
It's far from free. You simply pay with your personal information instead of your wallet.
Well, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving target.
The judge in question is Lucy Koh. That pretty much says it all.
True!
They're baby steps, but at least in the right direction.
The topic probably would've made more sense if the bullshit summary had actually contained a video of the experimental system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfgn6evkMpw
For quite some time Oracle couldn't even make a working Windows installer (when it tried to set up the root password and similar stuff you had to kill the installer and complete the last steps manually).
If a company can't even get a fucking installer to work I certainly don't want to find out which parts of the database engine they managed to break.
Don't know, but there was a time when Israeli soldiers even used them for target practice. ;)
Tools have become more efficient. News at eleven!
Exactly. That's barely the price of some smartphone game.
Funny thing is, I would've gladly paid Google five bucks per month for the comfort Reader's interface offered.
In my case it's newsblur.com
Only problem is that it's still a rather small operation and right now the unexpected flood of new users is wreaking havoc on its servers.
And let's add the Gundam colonies to complete the thread.
That level of honesty so soon usually means that someone was about to publish proof and they wanted to do damage control.