I dunno, turning a potentially thriving company with an illustrious history into an internet toxic waste dump while spacing 10,000 workers in a poor economy seems kind of FSCKed to me.
The only problem Yahoo has is leadership and vision. You aren't going to out Facebook Facebook or out Google Google. You need to look at the big picture, notice the human trends and come up with a selection of related new services, that others haven't seen yet. There are two dozen startups doing uber-cool things with customer information. If Yahoo had picked a couple of those up, and streamlines its offerings to unique high values services, they'd be cake walking to the bank today. Of course if it that easy, everyone would be doing it. You need to find the right geek with business acumen to carve out some new business spaces.
In a related story, Today the Arizona state legislature made Gays, Democrats, Liberals, Mexicans, Muslims, gay mixed drinks with fruit and umbrellas, small dogs, men's skin care products, evolution, gun control advocates, subcompact foreign cars, lite beer, pansies, petunias and 6 other flowers that begin with the letter 'P' illegal. When asked, leaders of the legislature said "Yeah, we know its unconstitutional, but tomorrow we're making the Constitution illegal."
Friend, a whore is a whore. Our government has been whoring for a very long time. The whole point to the checks and balances was to create an effective zero sum game pitting branches against one another and preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful. Since 1980, our government has been under attack by vested corporate interests bent on making the government a facade for promoting the wants and needs of corporations. As those corporations became multinational, those needs no longer included the welfare of the American people or the continuance of anything resembling a representative government. The courts are stuffed, the executive is a government unto itself, and the legislature is a masturbatory exercise in two party lock-up.
Our government used to whore for the American people. Now it whores for Corporate finance and influence. We are now officially a fascist state. So the government you are so contemptuous of is also the very corporations you so love... you deal with the ideological conflict of love and hate, its not my problem. If you have any doubt, please refer to the 14 defining characteristics of a Fascist State, to remedy that doubt. I don't love our government as it currently exists. The Democrats are now moderate conservatives. The Republicans have been hijacked by... I don't even know what to call them, insane? Look at Rick Santorum. Wow! What a whack job! Tell me he's not a burger shy a Happy Meal? Both sides are suckling the corporate teat. Both sides are rubber stamps for insane spending. The Dems try to pump money into social programs and the Reps try to pump money into the pockets of wealthy corporate interests. Neither is taking care of building a viable national economy, maintaining the nations infrastructure, protecting the middle class from a predatory upper class or providing a level of support that even hints at a sustainable future for the middle class let alone the physical environment. Have you not been reading the news. The ENTIRE body of government finance regulators are men who came straight from Wallstreet and go back and forth to banks and investment firms as freely as your or I cross the street. When I verbally ham-fist corporations, I gleefully pimp slap Government with the back of the same hand, because I can't see any dividing line between the players any more. So don't tell me I absolve government for its part in the crime of the century. I'm just saying you can't tell what team the players are on any more, I just know that they're not playing for you or me.
Clearly my friend you've made a preoccupation of ignoring the wrongs committed against America and the world at large by the Oil Industry. For starters, there is a long standing close relationship between Middle-East oil cartels and multinational oil companies (if you don't think they scratch each others back, your naivete may only be exceeded by your rose colored glasses.)
Under the Bush administration, the Minerals Management Service became a public toilet, staffed by friends of Oil Interests and filled with such profound graft and bribery that it became known as the federal office joke without a decent punchline. Oil executives were invited to closed door sessions where they effectively wrote laws regarding their own oversight, regulation and freedom to act. Ultimately they've gone on to ignore safety laws, resulting in a number of high profile disasters along the gulf coast and Texas, and to date have received nothing more that a wrist slap from Federal agencies.
As for corporate welfare, you would only have had to do a simple search on "Oil subsidies" to find that the Oil Industry has been receiving record amounts of money from your federal tax dollars at a time when they are already pulling down record profits. This is maybe one of the best examples I've ever seen of the phrase "Adding insult to injury...".
Add the billions they've spent to prevent renewable energy technology, and dump FUD on the American public, and I say to you in all earnest, these people are not your friends, and apparently you're not bright enough to see that.
Its maybe time to put the failed beliefs aside. Private Enterprise has dug us all into a very neat hole, and separating it from Government is probably one of the few answers that holds any hope of saving this smoking hole that is the remains of our economy. On the other hand DARPA is one of the few things our government has gotten right. The list of truly cool things that DARPA has invested in is nothing less than impressive. We all enjoy the benefits of those things brought into existence as a function of DARPA investments.
Let's say DARPA invests in perfecting the Hammer, because a hammer can bang your enemy up real good. By the way those hammers are great at building houses, mining mineral, shaping metal and forgings, wood working, and sculpting artwork. So that one investment has huge social implications and tremendous collateral value. I worked with a company in 1997, that was lead by a small team of engineers fresh out of MIT. They had developed a processor with a hundred processing units on a three level network, which could be reconfigured to perform a vast variety of task (our use at the time however was signal processing, many simultaneous signal processors and CPUs existing in software operating on a single chip.) DARPA invested several million to help get the technology off the ground, and ultimately Broadcom bought the technology (Cisco had their fingers in it too.) Today's VOIP takeover is the result of that technology, and it would never have happened without DARPA seeing that this made many new interesting things possible (including a single chip synthetic aperture processor for high resolution imaging from directed radar emissions.)
I don't know if there is a Karmic debt for taking money from warriors. I'd prefer to look at the fruit the tree bears and judge it from what it contributes. In this case, DARPA has served us well, and is one of the few government organizations that I would welcome to any group of creators and inventors. This is a fine use of our tax dollars and is one area where government serves us well.
But many of the oil multinational corporations have their roots in the US, and are only too happy to manipulate our government with petrodollars. When Oil companies pass laws regarding their own regulation and dictate energy policy to our government (up to and including the taking tens of billions of dollars of corporate welfare at a time when they are making record profits), I would have to say its fair to say whatever illegal acts they conspire to do, there appears to be no interest from our government in holding them to account.
Let's rate sociopoltical issues by IQ/Intellectual Age, thereby preventing politicians at large from voicing any opinions/legislation about topics for which they are ignorant, ill informed or simply pandering for votes.
For someone to create a personal firewall that prevents unwanted access to your appliances and unwanted data transmission from your appliances. It should be reasonably easy to build such a device, sell it for a reasonable price and let everyone know that they now have complete control over what their appliance does and when. I'd buy one in a minute!
The only way to prevent oher people from taking inappropriate advantage is to eliminate the opportunity.
About "what came naturally": The argument here is that homosexuality isn't normal. The argument goes along the lines of a male is designed for a female. and the union there of is a symbol of the relationship of God to Jews and Jesus to Gentiles.
Because some closed closet homos decided to rewrite verse to make homos not listed there, doesn't subtract to what was written.
Say you don't like homosexuality, say you don't agree with the practice, but don't call it unnatural. Virtually every species that has a sex practices homosexuality. In fact every single human being starts out female and it takes a very specific process at a very specific time to distinguish an embryo as male and if everything doesn't happen exactly right, brain gender or preference may be impacted. That my friend is God at work. There is now strong evidence that a number of social animals use homosexuality as a means to control overpopulation (that is, when a population approaches its carrying capacity the instance of homosexuality increases noticeably.)
It makes perfect sense that when Jews numbered in the thousands that "God" informed them it was time go forth and multiply, and clearly homosexuality would have been a wrench in the works. Now that there are 7,000,000,000 of us, perhaps being gay might not be such a sin anymore.
...God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
- Romans 1:26-27
This one is trickier to interpret correctly. What is an "indecent act" or a "natural relation"? For gay men, an indecent or unnatural act would be sex with a woman.
I call BS on that. There isn't Male, Female, Gay, Les, there are only Male & Female. For a gay man it's still an unnatural act even if he prefers & love doing it.
And I call B.S. on your calling B.S. Clearly you have NO knowledge of the huge number of intersexed children born every year. As I mentioned before, everyone starts out female. It is guessed that over 2% (some suggest as much as 4%, but that's probably pushing some of the minor deformities) of the population is born with some degree of intersexing, and that for the most part doctor make surgical changes at birth to cover up anomalies without ever telling the parent (except in those cases where the anomaly is significant.) There is clearly a genetic component to homosexuality so indeed God does make Gays and Lesbians, but on top of that, research indicate that Transsexuals have brain structures consistent with their gender of choice and not their somatic sex (literally brain of one sex in body of another.) There are even chimera walking around, people composed of the genetic components of 2 even 3 different fertilized eggs, sometimes even having different genetic sex. When it come to sex and preference my friend, God has an incredible sense of humor and there are literally hundred of combinations and permutations. So when you say Male and Female, its clear that A) You haven't got the foggiest clue of which you speak and B) You put your personal beliefs ahead of any kind of logic, understanding, enlightenment or pragmatic view of the real world in which you live. Silly child.
The men under discussion were essentially going "gay for pay". Again, the men I was thinking about were completely gay for each other.
[On a serious note, I have no idea how some modern denominations rationalize away the above passages. I certainly wasn't able to without just calling the whole thing a load of crap.]
BTW, As a Christian, I love the gay man but I dont want him to butt fuck me. (Love the man, not the sin)
I am very surprise you can quo
You need to read a little more... this is China, you work because you're told to, its not a "Choice" thing. Think labor camp... the phrase "slave labor" keeps popping up because these people are for all intents and purposes slaves. The suicide rate in these places is shocking. If I found out a company I was outsourcing my work to was treating its captive workforce badly, I'd say something to them "BECAUSE I HAVE A FRIGGING CONSCIENCE!", and if they didn't comply, I would take my business elsewhere. To hell with the profit.
Okay let me make it simple for you. You're an American steel worker in a country that doesn't make steel any more, so we say we're going to help you out. We are going to give you a job for a couple dollars an hour, which is way more than you're making now on welfare, and you will work the hours we tell you, you will live in a dormitory we provide for you. You will eat what we feed you. You will do what we say with serious repercussions to your future health, happiness and longevity if you don't comply... and any thought of worker's rights, safe working conditions or personal time are fantasies you can give up right now.
I understand having a job is better than not, doesn't change the fact that this work is less than humane.
So what Wang is complaining about is that after they tax him, take money out for his room and board (we call that working for the company store here in the U.S.) and all the other ways they nickel and dime the poor bugger there's nothing left to send home unless he's working a 60 hour week.
Its not that he wants more hours, its that he needs more hours if he's to have anything left after being financially raped by his keepers. That's not exactly a powerful argument for humane treatment.
As distasteful as Foxconn's working conditions may be to your delicate sensibilities, they represent a vast improvement in the average chinese worker's living conditions. That doesn't mean there won't be room for improvement, but you're kidding yourself if you think they take (and continue to work) these jobs unwillingly.
Exactly... and the Chinese are hard at work trying to get worker's suicide entered as an Olympic sport for this Summer's competitions in London, and they're certain they can snatch a gold!
Yeah, but look at what unions are fighting for now and what workers are going on strike for. People are striking for a living wage and to be able to take their kids to a doctor and not be financially ruined by doing so. American workers are quick becoming third world workers thanks to a corporate monolith that is reducing the global work force to the lowest common denominator. I too would fight tooth and nail too to be able to get a high enough wage to only have to work one job and have both a roof and not starve (or have my family starve.) Look at Walmart, a company that trades heavily in China, and pays its worker so little that their health plan is Federal and State Health Care plans for people below the poverty line and these folks get food stamps. Americans subsidize Walmart's bottom line by paying their employees their basic benefits. What part of that isn't obscene?
Americans are desperate. We've been taking a beating so long, we'll settle for just not standing in food lines or having to ask for food stamps. That's not a rampant sign of unions out of control. Corporations have pushed the American worker to the edge of extinction. If we lack an infrastructure for production its not because we lack skilled labor. Its because American Corporations abandoned American for higher profit margins and bigger bonuses for their Boards of Directors. The United States has been in economic free-fall for most of 3 decades. American corporations have been cannibalizing America making trillions as they siphon off the flood of wealth leaving our country. How long before America has been bled dry. From what I can see, not long.
Global Corporations are now predicated on the fallacy that they can do unlimited social, moral and environmental damage without ever having to pay the price. This doesn't seem crazy only because they've gotten away with it up until now. There is a carrying capacity, and human economies are quick reaching that barrier. There is no indication that those who steer our economies will address the insanity of their behavior until they succeed in crashing the world. Therefore it is up to men and women of vision and conscience to say enough. It is time to re-engineer society, humanity and global enterprise.
Part 2 is; Hacking is defined as anything we don't want you inspecting too closely. We'll be using the first million prisoners to build the prisons for the next million and so on and so on. Once society is imprisoned, people will be much more easily controlled.
What would a person have to believe in these days to even get a rise out of society... perhaps this?
More important, why are we letting the mouth breathers and knuckle draggers dictate what our children will experience? Are we in fact trying to homogenize our young into a consistent state of profound stupidity? Is that now the goal of public education?
Sorry, no can do... the earth is only 6,000 years old, in fact the universe is only 6,000 years old and all them fossils were the result of the great flood! God has an incredible sense of humor... he created a brand new universe that was already 14 billion years old, just to test our faith. Who do you believe, your eyes or God?
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My question is "Why does it seem a state's density of liberal thinking is inversely proportional to the number of adult teeth and sum IQ?"
I dunno, turning a potentially thriving company with an illustrious history into an internet toxic waste dump while spacing 10,000 workers in a poor economy seems kind of FSCKed to me.
The only problem Yahoo has is leadership and vision. You aren't going to out Facebook Facebook or out Google Google. You need to look at the big picture, notice the human trends and come up with a selection of related new services, that others haven't seen yet. There are two dozen startups doing uber-cool things with customer information. If Yahoo had picked a couple of those up, and streamlines its offerings to unique high values services, they'd be cake walking to the bank today. Of course if it that easy, everyone would be doing it. You need to find the right geek with business acumen to carve out some new business spaces.
In a related story, Today the Arizona state legislature made Gays, Democrats, Liberals, Mexicans, Muslims, gay mixed drinks with fruit and umbrellas, small dogs, men's skin care products, evolution, gun control advocates, subcompact foreign cars, lite beer, pansies, petunias and 6 other flowers that begin with the letter 'P' illegal. When asked, leaders of the legislature said "Yeah, we know its unconstitutional, but tomorrow we're making the Constitution illegal."
Actually 2D surgery is perfectly viable... for steamroller accident patients...
And her Brother Blue-Balls
Friend, a whore is a whore. Our government has been whoring for a very long time. The whole point to the checks and balances was to create an effective zero sum game pitting branches against one another and preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful. Since 1980, our government has been under attack by vested corporate interests bent on making the government a facade for promoting the wants and needs of corporations. As those corporations became multinational, those needs no longer included the welfare of the American people or the continuance of anything resembling a representative government. The courts are stuffed, the executive is a government unto itself, and the legislature is a masturbatory exercise in two party lock-up.
Our government used to whore for the American people. Now it whores for Corporate finance and influence. We are now officially a fascist state. So the government you are so contemptuous of is also the very corporations you so love... you deal with the ideological conflict of love and hate, its not my problem. If you have any doubt, please refer to the 14 defining characteristics of a Fascist State, to remedy that doubt. I don't love our government as it currently exists. The Democrats are now moderate conservatives. The Republicans have been hijacked by... I don't even know what to call them, insane? Look at Rick Santorum. Wow! What a whack job! Tell me he's not a burger shy a Happy Meal? Both sides are suckling the corporate teat. Both sides are rubber stamps for insane spending. The Dems try to pump money into social programs and the Reps try to pump money into the pockets of wealthy corporate interests. Neither is taking care of building a viable national economy, maintaining the nations infrastructure, protecting the middle class from a predatory upper class or providing a level of support that even hints at a sustainable future for the middle class let alone the physical environment. Have you not been reading the news. The ENTIRE body of government finance regulators are men who came straight from Wallstreet and go back and forth to banks and investment firms as freely as your or I cross the street. When I verbally ham-fist corporations, I gleefully pimp slap Government with the back of the same hand, because I can't see any dividing line between the players any more. So don't tell me I absolve government for its part in the crime of the century. I'm just saying you can't tell what team the players are on any more, I just know that they're not playing for you or me.
Clearly my friend you've made a preoccupation of ignoring the wrongs committed against America and the world at large by the Oil Industry. For starters, there is a long standing close relationship between Middle-East oil cartels and multinational oil companies (if you don't think they scratch each others back, your naivete may only be exceeded by your rose colored glasses.)
Under the Bush administration, the Minerals Management Service became a public toilet, staffed by friends of Oil Interests and filled with such profound graft and bribery that it became known as the federal office joke without a decent punchline. Oil executives were invited to closed door sessions where they effectively wrote laws regarding their own oversight, regulation and freedom to act. Ultimately they've gone on to ignore safety laws, resulting in a number of high profile disasters along the gulf coast and Texas, and to date have received nothing more that a wrist slap from Federal agencies.
As for corporate welfare, you would only have had to do a simple search on "Oil subsidies" to find that the Oil Industry has been receiving record amounts of money from your federal tax dollars at a time when they are already pulling down record profits. This is maybe one of the best examples I've ever seen of the phrase "Adding insult to injury...".
Add the billions they've spent to prevent renewable energy technology, and dump FUD on the American public, and I say to you in all earnest, these people are not your friends, and apparently you're not bright enough to see that.
Government Bad... Private Enterprise Good....
Its maybe time to put the failed beliefs aside. Private Enterprise has dug us all into a very neat hole, and separating it from Government is probably one of the few answers that holds any hope of saving this smoking hole that is the remains of our economy. On the other hand DARPA is one of the few things our government has gotten right. The list of truly cool things that DARPA has invested in is nothing less than impressive. We all enjoy the benefits of those things brought into existence as a function of DARPA investments.
Let's say DARPA invests in perfecting the Hammer, because a hammer can bang your enemy up real good. By the way those hammers are great at building houses, mining mineral, shaping metal and forgings, wood working, and sculpting artwork. So that one investment has huge social implications and tremendous collateral value. I worked with a company in 1997, that was lead by a small team of engineers fresh out of MIT. They had developed a processor with a hundred processing units on a three level network, which could be reconfigured to perform a vast variety of task (our use at the time however was signal processing, many simultaneous signal processors and CPUs existing in software operating on a single chip.) DARPA invested several million to help get the technology off the ground, and ultimately Broadcom bought the technology (Cisco had their fingers in it too.) Today's VOIP takeover is the result of that technology, and it would never have happened without DARPA seeing that this made many new interesting things possible (including a single chip synthetic aperture processor for high resolution imaging from directed radar emissions.)
I don't know if there is a Karmic debt for taking money from warriors. I'd prefer to look at the fruit the tree bears and judge it from what it contributes. In this case, DARPA has served us well, and is one of the few government organizations that I would welcome to any group of creators and inventors. This is a fine use of our tax dollars and is one area where government serves us well.
But many of the oil multinational corporations have their roots in the US, and are only too happy to manipulate our government with petrodollars. When Oil companies pass laws regarding their own regulation and dictate energy policy to our government (up to and including the taking tens of billions of dollars of corporate welfare at a time when they are making record profits), I would have to say its fair to say whatever illegal acts they conspire to do, there appears to be no interest from our government in holding them to account.
Oxygene and Equinoxe, Tres Magnifique!
I don't get it, is this some new British euphemism for an illicit sex act???
...No Doctor... all I had was a little "Hosptality by Phorm!" Well that explains it son, you're lucky it didn't fall off!"
Let's rate sociopoltical issues by IQ/Intellectual Age, thereby preventing politicians at large from voicing any opinions/legislation about topics for which they are ignorant, ill informed or simply pandering for votes.
For someone to create a personal firewall that prevents unwanted access to your appliances and unwanted data transmission from your appliances. It should be reasonably easy to build such a device, sell it for a reasonable price and let everyone know that they now have complete control over what their appliance does and when. I'd buy one in a minute!
The only way to prevent oher people from taking inappropriate advantage is to eliminate the opportunity.
The Robo-Bonobo-Hobo!!!! with his Android sidekick and his ability to tell killer jokes with sign language!!!
About "what came naturally": The argument here is that homosexuality isn't normal. The argument goes along the lines of a male is designed for a female. and the union there of is a symbol of the relationship of God to Jews and Jesus to Gentiles. Because some closed closet homos decided to rewrite verse to make homos not listed there, doesn't subtract to what was written.
Say you don't like homosexuality, say you don't agree with the practice, but don't call it unnatural. Virtually every species that has a sex practices homosexuality. In fact every single human being starts out female and it takes a very specific process at a very specific time to distinguish an embryo as male and if everything doesn't happen exactly right, brain gender or preference may be impacted. That my friend is God at work. There is now strong evidence that a number of social animals use homosexuality as a means to control overpopulation (that is, when a population approaches its carrying capacity the instance of homosexuality increases noticeably.) It makes perfect sense that when Jews numbered in the thousands that "God" informed them it was time go forth and multiply, and clearly homosexuality would have been a wrench in the works. Now that there are 7,000,000,000 of us, perhaps being gay might not be such a sin anymore.
This one is trickier to interpret correctly. What is an "indecent act" or a "natural relation"? For gay men, an indecent or unnatural act would be sex with a woman.
I call BS on that. There isn't Male, Female, Gay, Les, there are only Male & Female. For a gay man it's still an unnatural act even if he prefers & love doing it.
And I call B.S. on your calling B.S. Clearly you have NO knowledge of the huge number of intersexed children born every year. As I mentioned before, everyone starts out female. It is guessed that over 2% (some suggest as much as 4%, but that's probably pushing some of the minor deformities) of the population is born with some degree of intersexing, and that for the most part doctor make surgical changes at birth to cover up anomalies without ever telling the parent (except in those cases where the anomaly is significant.) There is clearly a genetic component to homosexuality so indeed God does make Gays and Lesbians, but on top of that, research indicate that Transsexuals have brain structures consistent with their gender of choice and not their somatic sex (literally brain of one sex in body of another.) There are even chimera walking around, people composed of the genetic components of 2 even 3 different fertilized eggs, sometimes even having different genetic sex. When it come to sex and preference my friend, God has an incredible sense of humor and there are literally hundred of combinations and permutations. So when you say Male and Female, its clear that A) You haven't got the foggiest clue of which you speak and B) You put your personal beliefs ahead of any kind of logic, understanding, enlightenment or pragmatic view of the real world in which you live. Silly child.
The men under discussion were essentially going "gay for pay". Again, the men I was thinking about were completely gay for each other.
[On a serious note, I have no idea how some modern denominations rationalize away the above passages. I certainly wasn't able to without just calling the whole thing a load of crap.]
BTW, As a Christian, I love the gay man but I dont want him to butt fuck me. (Love the man, not the sin) I am very surprise you can quo
You need to read a little more... this is China, you work because you're told to, its not a "Choice" thing. Think labor camp... the phrase "slave labor" keeps popping up because these people are for all intents and purposes slaves. The suicide rate in these places is shocking. If I found out a company I was outsourcing my work to was treating its captive workforce badly, I'd say something to them "BECAUSE I HAVE A FRIGGING CONSCIENCE!", and if they didn't comply, I would take my business elsewhere. To hell with the profit.
Okay let me make it simple for you. You're an American steel worker in a country that doesn't make steel any more, so we say we're going to help you out. We are going to give you a job for a couple dollars an hour, which is way more than you're making now on welfare, and you will work the hours we tell you, you will live in a dormitory we provide for you. You will eat what we feed you. You will do what we say with serious repercussions to your future health, happiness and longevity if you don't comply... and any thought of worker's rights, safe working conditions or personal time are fantasies you can give up right now.
I understand having a job is better than not, doesn't change the fact that this work is less than humane.
So what Wang is complaining about is that after they tax him, take money out for his room and board (we call that working for the company store here in the U.S.) and all the other ways they nickel and dime the poor bugger there's nothing left to send home unless he's working a 60 hour week.
Its not that he wants more hours, its that he needs more hours if he's to have anything left after being financially raped by his keepers. That's not exactly a powerful argument for humane treatment.
Exactly... and the Chinese are hard at work trying to get worker's suicide entered as an Olympic sport for this Summer's competitions in London, and they're certain they can snatch a gold!
Have you ever seen the slave labor camps in Redmond! It'd make a Marine Drill Sergeant cry like a baby!
Yeah, but look at what unions are fighting for now and what workers are going on strike for. People are striking for a living wage and to be able to take their kids to a doctor and not be financially ruined by doing so. American workers are quick becoming third world workers thanks to a corporate monolith that is reducing the global work force to the lowest common denominator. I too would fight tooth and nail too to be able to get a high enough wage to only have to work one job and have both a roof and not starve (or have my family starve.) Look at Walmart, a company that trades heavily in China, and pays its worker so little that their health plan is Federal and State Health Care plans for people below the poverty line and these folks get food stamps. Americans subsidize Walmart's bottom line by paying their employees their basic benefits. What part of that isn't obscene?
Americans are desperate. We've been taking a beating so long, we'll settle for just not standing in food lines or having to ask for food stamps. That's not a rampant sign of unions out of control. Corporations have pushed the American worker to the edge of extinction. If we lack an infrastructure for production its not because we lack skilled labor. Its because American Corporations abandoned American for higher profit margins and bigger bonuses for their Boards of Directors. The United States has been in economic free-fall for most of 3 decades. American corporations have been cannibalizing America making trillions as they siphon off the flood of wealth leaving our country. How long before America has been bled dry. From what I can see, not long.
Global Corporations are now predicated on the fallacy that they can do unlimited social, moral and environmental damage without ever having to pay the price. This doesn't seem crazy only because they've gotten away with it up until now. There is a carrying capacity, and human economies are quick reaching that barrier. There is no indication that those who steer our economies will address the insanity of their behavior until they succeed in crashing the world. Therefore it is up to men and women of vision and conscience to say enough. It is time to re-engineer society, humanity and global enterprise.
Part 2 is; Hacking is defined as anything we don't want you inspecting too closely. We'll be using the first million prisoners to build the prisons for the next million and so on and so on. Once society is imprisoned, people will be much more easily controlled.
Governments everywhere, rejoice!
What would a person have to believe in these days to even get a rise out of society... perhaps this?
More important, why are we letting the mouth breathers and knuckle draggers dictate what our children will experience? Are we in fact trying to homogenize our young into a consistent state of profound stupidity? Is that now the goal of public education?
These are thoughts that happen independent of you and are non of your concern, you can find more information on page 1272 of your citizens handbook.
Sorry, no can do... the earth is only 6,000 years old, in fact the universe is only 6,000 years old and all them fossils were the result of the great flood! God has an incredible sense of humor... he created a brand new universe that was already 14 billion years old, just to test our faith. Who do you believe, your eyes or God?