I have had my fill of corporate cynicism in recent weeks. For once, I wish owners of corporations would pick a year (this year, maybe?) to not make a profit. Year after year, in all industries, the fruits of innovation and automation flow to the investor class. The flow appears to only go in one direction, for a slight recession and a single day of terrorism have spawned an outbreak of Layoff-itis. People everywhere are being layed off--an action with permanent results--in response to temporary conditions, all to maintain the level of profit that the Leech Class has grown accustomed to.
Now AMD joins the long list of companies perpetrating vast economic terrorism against people whose only crime is filling out a job application and working diligently day after day. Who will feed these 2,300 families and the ~100,000 families who were likewise fucked by the airline industry? Who will comfort the children whose parents commit suicide in desperation?
These are the people who make our laws, fill our heads with memes designed to guarantee permanently increasing profits, poison our water, and drag us into international conflict. Like the gods, they kill us for their sport. Have no sympathy for them--sell off all your stock and kiss those motherfuckers goodbye.
Jesus of Nazareth said something once that has perhaps never been more true: Money is the root of all evil.
I am well aware that nearly all fingers point to Usamah ibn Laden and that Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, is possibly harboring him and his cohorts. I am also aware that we (the U.S.) are about to bomb the shit out of Afghanistan to "have closure" or "send a message" or whatever the white trash meme of the day is.
Fact: The Bush Administration gave the Taliban ~$43 million only four months ago to "curtail opium production". How much could it possibly cost, in the world's poorest country, to behead someone with the sword at your side when you catch him with opium? If ibn Laden is guilty, and the Taliban guilty of supporting him, then Bush is complicit in financing him. This is the same Bush whose inheritance grows larger every time you buy a gallon of gas.
Headlines stating "Computer Crime costs U.S. business $X Billion" when a single attack causes a salaried admin to work longer hours ($0 additional cost) to install patches & virus files that are provided for free or at nominal cost with the purchase of the product.
Remember when someone DDOS'd cnn.com & ebay.com? The DoJ head (Reno?) said that the companies suffered millions of dollars in lost revenue, when the revenue was merely postponed by fewer than 24 hours.
Reagan's War on (Some) Drugs functions by seizing and selling all assets of anybody suspected of a drug offense, leaving the person unable to afford legal defense. Congress waited through nearly 20 years of constant complaints from Civil Liberties groups before admitting that the practice violates 4th Amendment rights. In the mean time, billions of dollars have been shifted to federal, state, & local police and our prison population is the world's largest by far.
Our (U.S.ians) government has its secret agenda, which is closer to the agenda of Corporate America than yours or mine. Their media (five companies) only disseminates the information favorable to its own outcome. Welcome to the machine.
By studying colonies of ants, Ghandi learned how to destroy Colonialism without violence. The sneakernet, or sandalnet to be precise, that he implemented was successful beyond compare.
I'm glad to see that wisdom being applied to packet delivery. Now we only need some witty catch phrase for the standard. Ideas, anyone?
These terrorists are a long way from any of the righteous figures you mention...
Not to start a flamewar, but your post is proof that reading comprehension in America is a thing of the past. I was not comparing the speculated terrorists to any princes of peace.
The sooner we send them to judgement day...
Apparently you are just as far from the righteous. Please explain why killing anyone sooner is better, or how killing is even good at all. "Thou shall not kill" was not a qualified statement.
It is universally accepted that today's events are tragic. Thousands of innocent people were killed and the suffering will encircle their family, friends, and others. Our nation is living in fear.
If this turns out to be the work of a Palestinian terrorist organization (and not a decorated U.S. military veteran), most Americans will rally for retaliation with the full support of our allies. This is also tragic, for we smite Jesus of Nazareth, Ghandi, and all other prophets who have tried to save us from our hatred and anger. At the same time, we commit an act that--in their hearts--must be avenged. The cycle of violence will continue, destroying more innocent lives.
If we can all learn a lesson today, I hope it is this: that all "leaders" assume responsibility for their actions and stop this millenia-long practice of littering the ground with the bodies of their followers. The time has come to upgrade our foreign policy. When political leaders disagree, let them face off in pistol duels.
I doubt that the Hotmail admins are so incompetent that they forgot to patch their own servers. What are the odds that the patch itself is defective? Their P.R. guys could just be putting a different spin on the story by blaming the admins.
876.13 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public property.--No person or persons
shall in this state, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is
so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be,
or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the state.
Big difference. If I shoot them with a gun, they will die. If I send them on "vacation" to Russia, they will be imprisoned for the criminal act of selling software that does not allow the user to make a single backup--they still get to live. The important thing is that they will learn a lesson: It's not nice to write laws that make criminals out of foreigners.
The.us giveaway doesn't differ much from the American tradition of irrevocably giving blocks of broadcast frequences to commercial entities. The average American is screwed in the process, and the rich get richer. With their extra money, they can buy more politicians^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H donate more money to political campaigns and continue to dictate our national policy
We can bitch, we can moan, we can hang politicians by their ankles, but we can't prevent this from happening. History, however, will judge this as it really is.
I distrust fnord someone like fnord Nader, who has never held a fnord "real" job in his life
Were you going for an ad hominem attack here? Consider this: Is CEO a "real" job? Nader and other consumer advocates are at least responsible enough to do for consumers what consumers should be doing for themselves.
, and like knows less about
computers fnord than the average marketer to now suddenly want to fnord author regulations for software production
He's not trying to tell them how to design their products. He is making our government aware that there is a minimum acceptable level of safety for any and all consumer products. We all have become too complacent after years and years of buying and using defective commercial software. If you read slashdot at all, you will know how just how defective these products are and the havoc that they can wreak.
We are taking this action as a result of our continuing efforts
to improve the quality and reliability...
That statement is to Corporate America what "It's for the Children..." is to our elected Government. It's the ultimate example of Newspeak-- they can now improve service by restricting service?
Similarly, what the hell kind of services does the County of Los Angeles provide in outer space? There sure ain't no curb-side (satellite-side?) recycling..
And don't even think about calling 911 from space.
Obviously the satellites are also violating peeping-tom statutes within the confines of Los Angeles county. Let's see...one count for each pass--that's gonna be a hefty sentence if they ever manage to apprehend those filthy criminal satellites.
Some chemicals are demonstrably more dangerous than others, so addictive that they'll drive people to
committ crimes to pay for their next fix
If tobacco was illegal, about 30% of American adults would instantly become thieves in order to support their $200/day cigarette habits. The crime associated with illegal drugs is strictly a result of their illegality. Same with the abuse: no drug became popular with children until several years after it became illegal.
whenever new measures such as this are
introduced, the criminals get smarter - witness the discovery of an almost-finished submarine in Columbia for
smuggling drugs!
We have lost the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments, as well as the States' Rights Amendment(10th?) in the nearly 20 years since Reagan stepped up Nixon's War on (Some) Drugs. Chipping money will erode our right to Assembly. I don't feel any safer now.
To get back to the topic, our current currency is counterfeit-proof. I worked in various financial institutions for several years and firmly believe that even our old currency is distinguishable from counterfeit currency 100% of the time. We had a training session with some SS agents ~1991. They passed around some of their best examples of counterfeit bills. I was surrounded by people who couldn't detect them. I instructed them to close their eyes and feel the bills. All noticed the difference and could detect genuine bills slipped to them in their closed-eye state. Anyone else can too.
The new currency extends this by allowing even a machine to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit bills. Surely any human could, if properly trained to focus his/her attention on the bill: its weight, its feel, its colors, etc... Do people really have so many other things going on in their mind that they can't even focus their attention on the dollar bill in their hand?
It seemed like such a successful business model. Maybe Bill decided he finally has enough money. This abrupt transition from "Embrace and Extend" to outright non-use of open source code probably has analysts worried. I'm not--maybe we are at the dawn of a new age in which Microsoft's products have reached unprecedented reliability and their coders write everything from scratch.
It's really quite simple. All over Japan are billboards depicting the rogue software entrepreneur so eager to steal customers away from Japanese conglomerates. The villain, a light-skinned blonde man, has been given the moniker "Cats". The text of the billboard, roughly translated from Kanjii, encourages conglomerate developers to "make their time".
The ASVAB is the U.S. Military's placement test. If this computer does well, it could be a candidate for the elite S.E.A.L. team.
I could picture it now:
Subordinate:Sir! Ensign computer is drowning! Officer:Well I guess he's not cut out for the S.E.A.L.S. Subordinate:But Sir--he aced the ASVAB! Officer:God-damn pencil necked geek!!!
Is anybody surprised that this happens?
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No one ever asked for SUVs to be invented. They have become ubiquitous through the power of marketing. But does that justify their existence? We must remember that one of the most effective--yet most horrible--marketing campaigns ever was Adolf Hitler's crusade against Jews.
I think that people are waking up to the empty values of Capitalism. Apolitical, it deifies money, steals from the living, and destroys the future.
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I have had my fill of corporate cynicism in recent weeks. For once, I wish owners of corporations would pick a year (this year, maybe?) to not make a profit. Year after year, in all industries, the fruits of innovation and automation flow to the investor class. The flow appears to only go in one direction, for a slight recession and a single day of terrorism have spawned an outbreak of Layoff-itis. People everywhere are being layed off--an action with permanent results--in response to temporary conditions, all to maintain the level of profit that the Leech Class has grown accustomed to.
Now AMD joins the long list of companies perpetrating vast economic terrorism against people whose only crime is filling out a job application and working diligently day after day. Who will feed these 2,300 families and the ~100,000 families who were likewise fucked by the airline industry? Who will comfort the children whose parents commit suicide in desperation?
These are the people who make our laws, fill our heads with memes designed to guarantee permanently increasing profits, poison our water, and drag us into international conflict. Like the gods, they kill us for their sport. Have no sympathy for them--sell off all your stock and kiss those motherfuckers goodbye.
Jesus of Nazareth said something once that has perhaps never been more true: Money is the root of all evil.
I am well aware that nearly all fingers point to Usamah ibn Laden and that Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, is possibly harboring him and his cohorts. I am also aware that we (the U.S.) are about to bomb the shit out of Afghanistan to "have closure" or "send a message" or whatever the white trash meme of the day is.
Fact: The Bush Administration gave the Taliban ~$43 million only four months ago to "curtail opium production". How much could it possibly cost, in the world's poorest country, to behead someone with the sword at your side when you catch him with opium? If ibn Laden is guilty, and the Taliban guilty of supporting him, then Bush is complicit in financing him. This is the same Bush whose inheritance grows larger every time you buy a gallon of gas.
Our (U.S.ians) government has its secret agenda, which is closer to the agenda of Corporate America than yours or mine. Their media (five companies) only disseminates the information favorable to its own outcome. Welcome to the machine.
By studying colonies of ants, Ghandi learned how to destroy Colonialism without violence. The sneakernet, or sandalnet to be precise, that he implemented was successful beyond compare.
I'm glad to see that wisdom being applied to packet delivery. Now we only need some witty catch phrase for the standard. Ideas, anyone?
Not to start a flamewar, but your post is proof that reading comprehension in America is a thing of the past. I was not comparing the speculated terrorists to any princes of peace.
Apparently you are just as far from the righteous. Please explain why killing anyone sooner is better, or how killing is even good at all. "Thou shall not kill" was not a qualified statement.
It is universally accepted that today's events are tragic. Thousands of innocent people were killed and the suffering will encircle their family, friends, and others. Our nation is living in fear.
If this turns out to be the work of a Palestinian terrorist organization (and not a decorated U.S. military veteran), most Americans will rally for retaliation with the full support of our allies. This is also tragic, for we smite Jesus of Nazareth, Ghandi, and all other prophets who have tried to save us from our hatred and anger. At the same time, we commit an act that--in their hearts--must be avenged. The cycle of violence will continue, destroying more innocent lives.
If we can all learn a lesson today, I hope it is this: that all "leaders" assume responsibility for their actions and stop this millenia-long practice of littering the ground with the bodies of their followers. The time has come to upgrade our foreign policy. When political leaders disagree, let them face off in pistol duels.
Now that would be scary. Imagine if they start to emulate the cast:
Prosecutor: Dammit, the defendant ate my peanut butter again!
Judge: Yeah, he's just so selfish. Maybe I should add an extra two years to his sentence. Hmmm--that way I'll get the bedroom with the balcony.
Prosecutor: Great! Let's go get a latte.
I doubt that the Hotmail admins are so incompetent that they forgot to patch their own servers. What are the odds that the patch itself is defective? Their P.R. guys could just be putting a different spin on the story by blaming the admins.
Not in Florida:
876.13 Wearing mask, hood, or other device on public property.--No person or persons shall in this state, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer, enter upon, or be, or appear upon or within the public property of any municipality or county of the state.
History.--s. 3, ch. 26542, 1951.
Now I wonder about Halloween?
Big difference. If I shoot them with a gun, they will die. If I send them on "vacation" to Russia, they will be imprisoned for the criminal act of selling software that does not allow the user to make a single backup--they still get to live. The important thing is that they will learn a lesson: It's not nice to write laws that make criminals out of foreigners.
We should give each of the Adobe execs a free airline ticket to Russia.
The .us giveaway doesn't differ much from the American tradition of irrevocably giving blocks of broadcast frequences to commercial entities. The average American is screwed in the process, and the rich get richer. With their extra money, they can buy more politicians^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H donate more money to political campaigns and continue to dictate our national policy
We can bitch, we can moan, we can hang politicians by their ankles, but we can't prevent this from happening. History, however, will judge this as it really is.
Were you going for an ad hominem attack here? Consider this: Is CEO a "real" job? Nader and other consumer advocates are at least responsible enough to do for consumers what consumers should be doing for themselves.
He's not trying to tell them how to design their products. He is making our government aware that there is a minimum acceptable level of safety for any and all consumer products. We all have become too complacent after years and years of buying and using defective commercial software. If you read slashdot at all, you will know how just how defective these products are and the havoc that they can wreak.
That statement is to Corporate America what "It's for the Children..." is to our elected Government. It's the ultimate example of Newspeak-- they can now improve service by restricting service?
I'm not surprised--they bought Bush and Gore last year. It's hard to lose when you bet on every team.
New Mexico is also where Bill Gates got arrested way back when.
He must have pictures of some powerful politician and a goat, donkey, etc...
And don't even think about calling 911 from space.
Obviously the satellites are also violating peeping-tom statutes within the confines of Los Angeles county. Let's see...one count for each pass--that's gonna be a hefty sentence if they ever manage to apprehend those filthy criminal satellites.
What you say !!
If tobacco was illegal, about 30% of American adults would instantly become thieves in order to support their $200/day cigarette habits. The crime associated with illegal drugs is strictly a result of their illegality. Same with the abuse: no drug became popular with children until several years after it became illegal.
Alcohol--the Date Rape Drug©--was demonized during Prohibition just as today's illegal drugs are. If you seek the truth, you will see that there is no difference between that Dark Age and this one.
You have forgotten something: a drug smuggler isn't a criminal. The only difference between marijuana, coffee, alcohol, MDMA, LSD, crack, Tylenol©, heroin, Prozac, and Mountain Dew is political. The U.S. Government has made arbitrary distinctions between all drugs and convinced millions of people, yourself included, that some drugs are "bad" and that anyone involved with the bad "drugs" is a "criminal".
We have lost the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments, as well as the States' Rights Amendment(10th?) in the nearly 20 years since Reagan stepped up Nixon's War on (Some) Drugs. Chipping money will erode our right to Assembly. I don't feel any safer now.
To get back to the topic, our current currency is counterfeit-proof. I worked in various financial institutions for several years and firmly believe that even our old currency is distinguishable from counterfeit currency 100% of the time. We had a training session with some SS agents ~1991. They passed around some of their best examples of counterfeit bills. I was surrounded by people who couldn't detect them. I instructed them to close their eyes and feel the bills. All noticed the difference and could detect genuine bills slipped to them in their closed-eye state. Anyone else can too.
The new currency extends this by allowing even a machine to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit bills. Surely any human could, if properly trained to focus his/her attention on the bill: its weight, its feel, its colors, etc... Do people really have so many other things going on in their mind that they can't even focus their attention on the dollar bill in their hand?
It seemed like such a successful business model. Maybe Bill decided he finally has enough money. This abrupt transition from "Embrace and Extend" to outright non-use of open source code probably has analysts worried. I'm not--maybe we are at the dawn of a new age in which Microsoft's products have reached unprecedented reliability and their coders write everything from scratch.
It's really quite simple. All over Japan are billboards depicting the rogue software entrepreneur so eager to steal customers away from Japanese conglomerates. The villain, a light-skinned blonde man, has been given the moniker "Cats". The text of the billboard, roughly translated from Kanjii, encourages conglomerate developers to "make their time".
The ASVAB is the U.S. Military's placement test. If this computer does well, it could be a candidate for the elite S.E.A.L. team.
I could picture it now:No one ever asked for SUVs to be invented. They have become ubiquitous through the power of marketing. But does that justify their existence? We must remember that one of the most effective--yet most horrible--marketing campaigns ever was Adolf Hitler's crusade against Jews.
I think that people are waking up to the empty values of Capitalism. Apolitical, it deifies money, steals from the living, and destroys the future.