I, for one, am glad that my earnings, meagre as they are, are not going to keep some wasteful mine open, but are instead are being used to support the much needier banking sector.
All money is other peoples money; it's a virtual social contract between two or more people acknowledging debt. Good luck with all the monies when you're the last man standing. Profits, the "new" money that didn't really come from anywhere is for a large part the blood, sweat and tears from off-shore/outsourced slaves. Once you subtract all the shenanigans with the raw materials and the energy, it's all about paying people less than the work is worth afaic.
"The problem with the world is eventually you run into people like Thatcher". - MRe_nl
All money is other people's money: my expenditure is your income and vice versa. Thatcher was a whip used on the lower and middle-classes in the UK. Her continued praising leaves me baffled.
Puritans, puritanical people, as in offended by penis, vagina etc.: this is not a regular expressions where you're from? As for the rest of your comment I mostly agree, but it wasn't an "ordinary" dance routine. It was a"horribly bad" dance routine : ).
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassm
News that Stratfor, the "private intelligence service," has been whacked by Anonymous has brought the former organization and its reputation into sharp focus. The fact that Stratfor hadn't bothered to fulfill one of the lowest requirements of cybernetic security -- encrypting sensitive client data -- is one of the most damaging things that can be said about any company in the digital age, much less an "international security organization." This intrusion went quite a bit farther than most -- the Guy Fawkes boys actually managed to extract funds (a reported $500,000 worth) from Stratfor's clients (whom the company insists on calling "members"), which they then gave to charities. The humiliation here is total, and Stratfor will be lucky to survive.
At issue is whether a small group of individuals and corporations can dictate through political and military influence the economic, energy, and environmental policies of the entire planet.
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Is there a subsurface water ocean on Arrakis?
The Major had been missing for a week.
"Bill, the Galactic Hero" by H.H. is also good kiddiesoftware.
And some of Jack Vances simpler stuff, Dying Earth/Planet of Adventure (maybe not sci-fi enough).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
would be more fitting imho.
I, for one, am glad that my earnings, meagre as they are, are not going to keep some wasteful mine open, but are instead are being used to support the much needier banking sector.
signed
Lord British Capitalist, Peer of the Realm
All money is other peoples money; it's a virtual social contract between two or more people acknowledging debt. Good luck with all the monies when you're the last man standing.
Profits, the "new" money that didn't really come from anywhere is for a large part the blood, sweat and tears from off-shore/outsourced slaves. Once you subtract all the shenanigans with the raw materials and the energy, it's all about paying people less than the work is worth afaic.
"The problem with the world is eventually you run into people like Thatcher". - MRe_nl
All money is other people's money: my expenditure is your income and vice versa.
Thatcher was a whip used on the lower and middle-classes in the UK. Her continued praising leaves me baffled.
Banking, on the other hand...
Puritans, puritanical people, as in offended by penis, vagina etc.: this is not a regular expressions where you're from? As for the rest of your comment I mostly agree, but it wasn't an "ordinary" dance routine. It was a"horribly bad" dance routine : ).
"IfYouCanReadThisYou'reTooCloseToMyPrivats".
"PrivacyIsDeadDon'tYouAgree".
"YouWin,NowFckOff".
"BeingParanoidDoesn'tMeanNobodyIsReadingThis".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm
But that dance routine WAS a disaster.
Also, that's not Techno.
Yes! Kill all Poor Children!
We'd royally screw the pedophiles, save a ton of money AND raise the test scores. Brilliant!
One man's genius is another man's sociopath.
"I don't know any prostitute(s)".
"Prostitution is gross".
"They are not common among the lives of most people".
"And they are sad and unsexy".
Wow, that's quite a lot of opinions about people you don't even know a single one of.
Are you always this prejudiced?
"Never in the history of Slashdot have so many spam posts been posted by so few in such a short time".
Winston Smith.
(Perhaps triggered by "botnet author" in the articles title?)
To try and have a reasonable discussion with Osama bin Laden.
There's three types of police-officers: Stupid, Frustrated and Criminal.
All of them are doing the job because they think it needs doing and someone else would do it worse.
How is this an accolade?
(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.
(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.
(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?
(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.
(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!
(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.
(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.
(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.
(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.
What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassm
What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger.
Unsupervised false positives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_sucker_born_every_minute
News that Stratfor, the "private intelligence service," has been whacked by Anonymous has brought the former organization and its reputation into sharp focus. The fact that Stratfor hadn't bothered to fulfill one of the lowest requirements of cybernetic security -- encrypting sensitive client data -- is one of the most damaging things that can be said about any company in the digital age, much less an "international security organization." This intrusion went quite a bit farther than most -- the Guy Fawkes boys actually managed to extract funds (a reported $500,000 worth) from Stratfor's clients (whom the company insists on calling "members"), which they then gave to charities. The humiliation here is total, and Stratfor will be lucky to survive.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/the_stratfor_scandal.html
At issue is whether a small group of individuals and corporations can dictate through political and military influence the economic, energy, and environmental policies of the entire planet.
The story would have been more aptly named
"Rick Falkvinge believes judge to be corrupt".