the true source of $15 million in secret donations made last year to influence two bitterly fought ballot propositions in California
The Koch's have been shafting the political process for years, nobody cared before. What is this? Some sort of fo-public Koch exposure? We all know that the Koch's will remain hidden until the heat dies off then they'll come and fuck something else up.
NSA's job to spy on me because being a foreigner makes me a terrorist risk
Being a foreigner has nothing to do with it, nor does terrorism. Those are just excuses to excercise extreme control.
After over 50 years of perverse corruption, the US population is finally waking up to the fact that the US political system is a hot bed of plutocratic corruption. The very few people pulling the strings are totally shit scared of the population realising this, so they're trying to keep a lid on their carefully manufactured system falling to pieces. They do this by monitoring the population's communications and pointing the boney finger of 'terrorism' at anyone who speaks out.
So why the hell should I believe you without any kind of evidence or any kind of ability to verify your claims?
Pffft.. because you're a gullible twit of course. You should definitely believe what the government tells you, after all.. you can trust the government.
So death porn is fine, but if you try to post a picture of a woman breastfeeding, they'll crap-can it and threaten to close your account faster than a businessman can pick a pocket.
What if it was a video of a breast feeding woman having her head cut off? That would be a real tizzy.
.. and at risk of being modded a Troll and losing any rep.
Office 365 is a good piece of software. Okay, so it's complete shite to use but it's not just an office suite, it's a platform on which you can run your business. IMO for the first time in 20 years, Microsoft has actually come up with a good piece of software. They've certainly leveraged their proprietary format lockin in order to get businesses to use the platform, but using the platform isn't any particular problem.
The platform itself provides the fundamentals of what businesses need to get up and running. It's pretty stable and not horribly expensive. There are other competing platforms out there (some even much better) but they still don't fully support Microsoft's proprietary format. So Microsoft leverages that format but creates something that not only provides the tools you need, it empowers small business. They've done an excellent job to keep the Office brand running and kudos to them for that.
Any open source competitor will need to be hosted, provide better facilities, have a clear migration path and have format compatibility for any hope in the future.
So to avoid locking our data into a Windows-only proprietary format, we'll lock it into a Windows-centric Microsoft-owned proprietary format cloud? Oh yeah, that's going to work much better.
Where are we going? Is this a borg society where people are going to be continuously plugged into some sort of network grid and that's the most important thing in the world?
There are scientists and engineers pushing this idea of wearable computing because it seems cool. What we need isn't the opinion of scientists and engineers, we need to focus on philosophy. Adjust society for computer? Bah, what a load of hogwash. Adjust computing for society! Stop thinking like a computer engineer and start thinking like a human being.. not a human doing.
the domino that could trigger the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression
Since the US is so outrageously in debt and has no way to reduce it without selling the rest of the government assets, there's going to be plenty more opportunities for a global financial catastrophy. Then the knights in shining globalization armour will have the opportunity to save us all from terrible governmental mis-management, handing world power over to a single central body with another currency not backed by anything real or stable. Much in the same way as bitcoin isn't backed by anything real or stable, just demand.
This demand will continue to fluctuate wildly based on the extraction of gold deposits, the bribery of 13 lower house members of the United States congress and ancient religious predictions about the four horsemen of the apocolypse.
It's easy. You setup a headless linux system with VirtualBox and script it to load an XP Virtual machine on boot. Take a regular backup of the virtual machine, if it gets owned.. roll back.
the creation of a new international reserve currency to replace the present reliance on U.S. dollars
Wow! Didn't see that coming, how about everyone else in the world??
OMGoshness, US debt crisis constructed by US officials.. quickly! Hand power over to the UN, they can be the martial law for the whole world AND control all of the money. Anyone who thinks that this wasn't contrived is kidding themselves.
I don't know if the US should have gotten involved to stop it, but it didn't. Now we're sanctimonious about a mall shooting? That's called a political agenda, not a concern for human life.
They're fighting over who is going to sell the Coltan not if they're going to sell it. Why would the US get involved in such a war?
We know why the US hates on Al Shabaab, it's to incite the American public to revile muslims, promote the agendas of the military industrial complex, drive fear into the hearts of the US citizenry, focus people's attention externally and unite the US citizens around a common enemy. Hating Al Shabaab and non-Christian extremists makes complete sense! Saving the lives of the population of the Congo makes no sense whatsoever.
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how much pressure the PM is getting from Washington?
Well .. Obama is a black man. I'm not saying that all of the stereotypes are true, but where there's smoke..
Don't they have their own subscription to The Guardian?
If the Guardian processed payments from the bank of moscow, they'd be aiding terrorism.
86% of statistical analysis companies get their results via electronic survey. The other 14% make them up.
the true source of $15 million in secret donations made last year to influence two bitterly fought ballot propositions in California
The Koch's have been shafting the political process for years, nobody cared before. What is this? Some sort of fo-public Koch exposure? We all know that the Koch's will remain hidden until the heat dies off then they'll come and fuck something else up.
NSA's job to spy on me because being a foreigner makes me a terrorist risk
Being a foreigner has nothing to do with it, nor does terrorism. Those are just excuses to excercise extreme control.
After over 50 years of perverse corruption, the US population is finally waking up to the fact that the US political system is a hot bed of plutocratic corruption. The very few people pulling the strings are totally shit scared of the population realising this, so they're trying to keep a lid on their carefully manufactured system falling to pieces. They do this by monitoring the population's communications and pointing the boney finger of 'terrorism' at anyone who speaks out.
So why the hell should I believe you without any kind of evidence or any kind of ability to verify your claims?
Pffft .. because you're a gullible twit of course. You should definitely believe what the government tells you, after all .. you can trust the government.
We have not had any willful or knowing violations in those programs,' he says referring to sections 215 and 702 of the Patriot Act
That's good news. It's just the NSA spying on me. I was getting worried for a moment.
Why is he not in prison?
Why would they send him to prison for doing what he's paid to do?
its users should be free to watch and condemn, but not celebrate, such videos
So the opinion of the people watching the video is relevant to the content? Should I ask Facebook if making this comment is appropriate or not?
So death porn is fine, but if you try to post a picture of a woman breastfeeding, they'll crap-can it and threaten to close your account faster than a businessman can pick a pocket.
What if it was a video of a breast feeding woman having her head cut off? That would be a real tizzy.
Quite possibly the stupidest thing ever said on the Internet. Congratulations.
I'd send you a postcard to thank you for your comment but I'm not sure which bridge you live under.
.. and at risk of being modded a Troll and losing any rep.
Office 365 is a good piece of software. Okay, so it's complete shite to use but it's not just an office suite, it's a platform on which you can run your business. IMO for the first time in 20 years, Microsoft has actually come up with a good piece of software. They've certainly leveraged their proprietary format lockin in order to get businesses to use the platform, but using the platform isn't any particular problem.
The platform itself provides the fundamentals of what businesses need to get up and running. It's pretty stable and not horribly expensive. There are other competing platforms out there (some even much better) but they still don't fully support Microsoft's proprietary format. So Microsoft leverages that format but creates something that not only provides the tools you need, it empowers small business. They've done an excellent job to keep the Office brand running and kudos to them for that.
Any open source competitor will need to be hosted, provide better facilities, have a clear migration path and have format compatibility for any hope in the future.
So to avoid locking our data into a Windows-only proprietary format, we'll lock it into a Windows-centric Microsoft-owned proprietary format cloud? Oh yeah, that's going to work much better.
FTFY
Where are we going? Is this a borg society where people are going to be continuously plugged into some sort of network grid and that's the most important thing in the world?
.. not a human doing.
There are scientists and engineers pushing this idea of wearable computing because it seems cool. What we need isn't the opinion of scientists and engineers, we need to focus on philosophy. Adjust society for computer? Bah, what a load of hogwash. Adjust computing for society! Stop thinking like a computer engineer and start thinking like a human being
the domino that could trigger the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression
Since the US is so outrageously in debt and has no way to reduce it without selling the rest of the government assets, there's going to be plenty more opportunities for a global financial catastrophy. Then the knights in shining globalization armour will have the opportunity to save us all from terrible governmental mis-management, handing world power over to a single central body with another currency not backed by anything real or stable. Much in the same way as bitcoin isn't backed by anything real or stable, just demand.
This demand will continue to fluctuate wildly based on the extraction of gold deposits, the bribery of 13 lower house members of the United States congress and ancient religious predictions about the four horsemen of the apocolypse.
how hard would it be to harden an XP install?
It's easy. You setup a headless linux system with VirtualBox and script it to load an XP Virtual machine on boot. Take a regular backup of the virtual machine, if it gets owned .. roll back.
Going from XP to XFCE or Mint/Cinnamon is far less of a shock than Windows8 or Unity.
That's the benchmark. Even next to Windows 8, Unity is shocking.
Doesn't crash, doesn't blue screen
How does such blatent trolling get a +5 Insightful?
Curiosity Confirms Origins of Martian Meteorites
I'm not surprised nobody is paying attention to the post
Only two things are different: the employee’s motivation, and the destination of the data after it leaves the company
The government won't generally kill you, just lock you up. The cartels won't generally lock you up, they just kill you. Not much difference really.
The planet would likely have a massive radiation belt (similar to our gas giants) that would sterilize any moons
Sounds lovely. We should definitely send the politicians first.
the creation of a new international reserve currency to replace the present reliance on U.S. dollars
Wow! Didn't see that coming, how about everyone else in the world??
.. quickly! Hand power over to the UN, they can be the martial law for the whole world AND control all of the money. Anyone who thinks that this wasn't contrived is kidding themselves.
OMGoshness, US debt crisis constructed by US officials
Why did ours have to come wrapped in this particular package
Because the charming and whitty people spend all their time trolling /.
Georg Lukas concluded that the blame goes to Oracle
No matter what, you have to take responsibility. You've destroyed the hopes of leagues of loyal fans.
I don't know if the US should have gotten involved to stop it, but it didn't. Now we're sanctimonious about a mall shooting? That's called a political agenda, not a concern for human life.
They're fighting over who is going to sell the Coltan not if they're going to sell it. Why would the US get involved in such a war?
We know why the US hates on Al Shabaab, it's to incite the American public to revile muslims, promote the agendas of the military industrial complex, drive fear into the hearts of the US citizenry, focus people's attention externally and unite the US citizens around a common enemy. Hating Al Shabaab and non-Christian extremists makes complete sense! Saving the lives of the population of the Congo makes no sense whatsoever.