I know this was meant as a joke... But I do wonder if this is a major reason Surveillance Valley has been so eager to exclude Americans in favor of imported labor.
Tech company business models have become hostile to freedom and privacy. Perhaps American workers are less willing to obediently implement anti-privacy and anti-freedom software, compared with workers from certain other countries.
Thing is, most candidates who say they want to raise taxes also support every anti-worker bill that comes along. And most candidates who say they want to lower taxes, are lying.
You really do spend a *lot* of time thinking about pedophilia, don't you?
I go through US customs frequently. Visit the consulate a fair bit too. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear - as stasi apologists like you are fond of repeating. =)
I guess it just blows your mind that a deplorable redneck like me might enjoy living in a prosperous, socially conservative, family-oriented Communist country. With great weather and delicious food.
So you get lost in an elaborate autistic fantasy of what *you* would do if you lived in a version of Phnom Penh you read about once in a book and somehow imagine is located in Vietnam.
Stalker troll uses Russian adjectives (hmmmm), makes vague threats (creepy!), and openly admires the Stasi (not surprising)... Hey, wait a minute... is this all part of President Trump's reelection campaign? Are you just trying to make people think Democrat Party activists are deranged, sociopathic nutcases? Good job, it's working!
Broham, you're a hired troll. Presumably funded by a Democrat party affiliate, given the lame political line you push. Not a Stasi agent like in your fantasies. NSA & friends know *exactly* who I am.
Obviously healthcare costs are out of control. Their crazy skyrocketing seems to have begun around the same time the big insurers were demutualized. So yes, corporate profit- and rent-seeking seem to be the big causes.
On the other hand, despite what the well-meaning propagandists at Pravda.. er, NPR.. have to say, I frankly don't believe their bullshit line about the cost of food decreasing. I know some folks implicitly trust all official statistics.. but c'mon, sometimes they are so far removed from lived experience that they beggar belief.
Every VC-backed tech/surveillance company pays lip service to how much they value their employees. Then they force their employees to work on-site in an open office hellhole.
'Cuz talk is cheap, and real estate is real fucking expensive.
One of the cool features of repressive police states is that they're both heinously expensive to operate, and tend to severely retard the economy. So over a longish timeframe they are self-limiting.
First the disinfo operator states some true but inconvenient (to his employers) information. In this case mentioning the baseband radio with its factory-pwned, snooping-enabled OS.
Then the disinfo operator spews out some batshit crazy nonsense. Here this new trope about deleterious effects of "photons" from IR-equipped surveillance cameras.
By juxtaposing inconvenient truth with contrived nutty bullshit, the operation brings discredit to the former. Disinformation achieved!
Nah. People freely give away boring data. Like photos of their lunch.
For the interesting data - location history, call history, contents of your messages, live mic/camera feeds - they still have to collect it surreptitiously.
At this point, pretty much everyone knows that Big Brother Google is always watching, and that Creepy Facebook just wants to stalk you. They don't even hide their data slurping anymore.
But there are dozens of other companies that make their money by snooping and stealing your data. Try the Exodus Privacy scanner - it's FOSS - for some enlightening results. https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/
Kim made millions by making the world happier and more cultured. He (perhaps foolishly) didn't anticipate being dragged to an authoritarian country where he didn't live and didn't do business, for persecution and torture.
When you start an online business, do you ask yourself if you're in compliance with the the laws of North Korea? What about Saudi Arabia? Venezuela?
Even if you love copywrong and intellectual monopoly; even if you hate the idea of the masses having access to culture; even if you think Mr Dotcom is a flatulent shitlord - how can you support his extradition to a country he's never even visited? To a country like ours that's famed for the wickedness of its courts and the cruelty of its vast Gulag?
I strongly prefer the Android user interface over iOS. But Google has kinda jumped the shark. They're just pure evil now. And their software quality is declining fast - almost like they fired all their talented engineers.
I have hated Apple for a long time. I don't like their shitty software, I don't like their ugly design, I don't like their gay marketing image. But Google has gotten so bad that my next phone may be an iPhone. Sad.
'"basic service" is exactly what is being provided here.'
That's too generous an assessment. Pretty much every other hosting provider out there - from local small businesses to giants like AWS - offers superior customer service.
"Substandard service" seems like a more accurate description.
Since we've already got a Gulag, might as well get some productive use out of it. I say toss these mad doctors behind this barbaric "research" into the Gulag and throw away the key.
Whoa - the fifty cent armies are out in force for this one! 100+ idiotic posts arguing back & forth about TRUMP!!!!!11!!!! All posted by the same two astroturfers, using augmented trolling software to circumvent Slashdot's antispam features.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think it's about China per se. Big Brother Google just really loves censorship.
Microsoft can afford to astroturf Glassdoor.
The inbred upper class Damasos running the VC cabal have a strong social interest in reducing or eliminating upward mobility of the middle classes.
http://sasamat.xen.prgmr.com/m...
I know this was meant as a joke... But I do wonder if this is a major reason Surveillance Valley has been so eager to exclude Americans in favor of imported labor.
Tech company business models have become hostile to freedom and privacy. Perhaps American workers are less willing to obediently implement anti-privacy and anti-freedom software, compared with workers from certain other countries.
If the Chinese (or whoever) invade, and Trump orders the army to repel them, will that also be 'cuz racism?
Thing is, most candidates who say they want to raise taxes also support every anti-worker bill that comes along. And most candidates who say they want to lower taxes, are lying.
You really do spend a *lot* of time thinking about pedophilia, don't you?
I go through US customs frequently. Visit the consulate a fair bit too. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear - as stasi apologists like you are fond of repeating. =)
I guess it just blows your mind that a deplorable redneck like me might enjoy living in a prosperous, socially conservative, family-oriented Communist country. With great weather and delicious food.
So you get lost in an elaborate autistic fantasy of what *you* would do if you lived in a version of Phnom Penh you read about once in a book and somehow imagine is located in Vietnam.
Stalker troll uses Russian adjectives (hmmmm), makes vague threats (creepy!), and openly admires the Stasi (not surprising)... Hey, wait a minute... is this all part of President Trump's reelection campaign? Are you just trying to make people think Democrat Party activists are deranged, sociopathic nutcases? Good job, it's working!
Broham, you're a hired troll. Presumably funded by a Democrat party affiliate, given the lame political line you push. Not a Stasi agent like in your fantasies. NSA & friends know *exactly* who I am.
Obviously healthcare costs are out of control. Their crazy skyrocketing seems to have begun around the same time the big insurers were demutualized. So yes, corporate profit- and rent-seeking seem to be the big causes.
On the other hand, despite what the well-meaning propagandists at Pravda.. er, NPR.. have to say, I frankly don't believe their bullshit line about the cost of food decreasing. I know some folks implicitly trust all official statistics.. but c'mon, sometimes they are so far removed from lived experience that they beggar belief.
Cheap plastic junk from China (iPhones) and pretty websites are irrelevant. The cost of food, housing, and fuel remain paramount.
Disarm the plebs! Bow down before the Owners!
Yup.
Every VC-backed tech/surveillance company pays lip service to how much they value their employees. Then they force their employees to work on-site in an open office hellhole.
'Cuz talk is cheap, and real estate is real fucking expensive.
I like Ike.
But, but, but... Free Markets! The Invisible Hand! Muh profits!!
One of the cool features of repressive police states is that they're both heinously expensive to operate, and tend to severely retard the economy. So over a longish timeframe they are self-limiting.
Observe this clever disinformation technique:
First the disinfo operator states some true but inconvenient (to his employers) information. In this case mentioning the baseband radio with its factory-pwned, snooping-enabled OS.
Then the disinfo operator spews out some batshit crazy nonsense. Here this new trope about deleterious effects of "photons" from IR-equipped surveillance cameras.
By juxtaposing inconvenient truth with contrived nutty bullshit, the operation brings discredit to the former. Disinformation achieved!
Nah. People freely give away boring data. Like photos of their lunch.
For the interesting data - location history, call history, contents of your messages, live mic/camera feeds - they still have to collect it surreptitiously.
At this point, pretty much everyone knows that Big Brother Google is always watching, and that Creepy Facebook just wants to stalk you. They don't even hide their data slurping anymore.
But there are dozens of other companies that make their money by snooping and stealing your data. Try the Exodus Privacy scanner - it's FOSS - for some enlightening results. https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/
Kim made millions by making the world happier and more cultured. He (perhaps foolishly) didn't anticipate being dragged to an authoritarian country where he didn't live and didn't do business, for persecution and torture.
When you start an online business, do you ask yourself if you're in compliance with the the laws of North Korea? What about Saudi Arabia? Venezuela?
Even if you love copywrong and intellectual monopoly; even if you hate the idea of the masses having access to culture; even if you think Mr Dotcom is a flatulent shitlord - how can you support his extradition to a country he's never even visited? To a country like ours that's famed for the wickedness of its courts and the cruelty of its vast Gulag?
I strongly prefer the Android user interface over iOS. But Google has kinda jumped the shark. They're just pure evil now. And their software quality is declining fast - almost like they fired all their talented engineers.
I have hated Apple for a long time. I don't like their shitty software, I don't like their ugly design, I don't like their gay marketing image. But Google has gotten so bad that my next phone may be an iPhone. Sad.
'"basic service" is exactly what is being provided here.'
That's too generous an assessment. Pretty much every other hosting provider out there - from local small businesses to giants like AWS - offers superior customer service.
"Substandard service" seems like a more accurate description.
Since we've already got a Gulag, might as well get some productive use out of it. I say toss these mad doctors behind this barbaric "research" into the Gulag and throw away the key.
Whoa - the fifty cent armies are out in force for this one! 100+ idiotic posts arguing back & forth about TRUMP!!!!!11!!!! All posted by the same two astroturfers, using augmented trolling software to circumvent Slashdot's antispam features.
Nice topic dilution, gentlemen - well done!
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/g...
BTW: does anyone know the name of the software tool(s) used by these astroturfers?
Google sells lotsa personal data to Uncle Sam and other repressive governments.
So much more lucrative than selling advertisements no one looks at for products no one wants...
"There is no legislative process"
A strong data privacy law would put Creepy Facebook out of business overnight.