And on some of the Nikon cameras, you can just plug in a GPS and it will automatically record the EXIF metadata to the photo! Work on the D200, D2X and D2H I think.
The logic seems to make sense. I'm not sure why they don't just partner with one Distro and just go with it however. If someone really knows the diffence between distros then that person changing them wouldn't be an issue really. Dell doesn't NEED to support all the distros as I think the community already supports them pretty well (although I've had my share of Linux-based headaches too).
However, while slightly OT... I wouldn't want to be the IT manager at a company that I allowed everyone in a 10,000 person company to decide what distro and software they wanted to run. I mean if someone has a problem with something... supporting (as the acticle says) 100+ different distros, different kernel versions, different package/install systems, different windowing systems... hell even different text editors. It would be HELL for an IT department to support, so i could see how Dell would have a similar issue. Even simple things would become nightmares to support. Even asking the users what version they are using would confuse many.
Of course it's a basic tenant of many religions, but that doesn't mean it's an often practiced one or one that's taken to heart.
Look at the news media today. A HUGE portion of Americans claim to be Christians, but yet the news that is targeted to them is often about blaming people for little mistakes that they have made in life.
"Britany Spears Checks into Rehab" "R-Kelly caught on video with a 13 year old" "18 year old guy has sex with 17 year old girl" "14 year olds arrested for exchanging nude photos of each other"
Now all of those headslines are targeted towards the majority of people viewing them. Most of those people viewing them are claiming to be Christians. How many of those "Good Christians" are thinking about how those people just made simple mistakes that anyone could make potentially and should be forgiven? How many of them evaluate their own sins upon hearing about those say stories?
Sure they say they understand sins, mistakes and forgiveness... but if they all knew about ALL of the mistakes that one person had made would they really be so understanding and compassionate? Even if they themselves had made many similar mistakes?
You're right. I didn't mean to implicate that everyone is actually a bad person/criminal, and your example is perfectly right of how the system might abuse someone who documented too much.
I'd hate to be arrested after being on stage (recording everything I saw) and some 17 year old girl flashed her tits at the stage. Opps, then i'd be slammed for recording child porn. And you're right. Walk down the street at Mardi Gras and opps... tits again. Maybe underage? No 2257 documentation? Slammer.
God forbid I saw or smoked some weed, or left a beer bottle sitting somewhere backstage that someone that was 20 got ahold of.
I'm wondering how much a person would change their lifestyle, the things they do, watch, see, etc... if they were under this situation. Surely the person would have an understanding that the government could have a court order to seize all of this information and prosecute a person for everything they had ever done. Would they act the same under such circumstances?
A record like this almost needs to fall under the 5th amendment of non-self incrimination for a person to actually attempt this (which it does not of course).
It seems that it would either lead to a state of paranoia, or a person changing too much about their lives for it to be an accurate record of them.
I'd imagine that many people would change the people they associate with (who they wouldn't want to incriminate accidentally), the drugs they tried or saw, the women they talked to, the affairs they had, how they spent their money (and did their taxes!), the website they viewed, the books they read, the people they chatted with online or the porn they watched. Otherwise, they'd be nuts.
They would likely be arrested, dumped by their signifcant others, fired from their jobs, ridiculed by friends and family, etc..
I think the truth of it is that people (of all religions) need to realize that no one lives without fault/sin/whatever they call it, and be ready for the real brutal truth of all a person's dirty secrets.
I'm a musician/creative type and I know that I wouldn't want a hard record of everything that goes on around me. I'm sure that everyone else has seen/done things they wouldn't want expressed eventually to the entire world.
I was actually thinking about this a few days ago. Would snowflakes be good for use in encryption somehow, since they are (infrequently at best) alike?
I know one of the harder things to do is get a random seed for your number generators. Would these be potentially a good source of random information?
This guy makes them money. Hell, they will probably sue the person who put the YouTube clip together for copyright infringement and breaking some anti-copying scheme on her shitty CD. The RIAA will never look out for the little guy, ever. Of course, you already knew that:)
I really hope for once the little guy will get his, and this producer that samples shamelessly way too much (and makes some really crappy music when he's not), will get slammed.
I wonder if this will be a notice to the hip-hop community that, yes, you do need to clear your samples?
I think there was a TV show a while ago (don't really watch TV often and just saw it for a few minutes in a hotel room) about shitty and odd jobs. Late Night with Dave Atel also i believe had some rather odd jobs featured on it, including the guy that has to clean up hotel rooms after suicides.
-Infocom games: Well, more than one game, but they are nice and fun to play. Simple, run on any platform (including my mint condition C64), etc
-Nethack: This is a dangerous game. So many hours gone, so much fun. But yet, so simple, and it can't get old. I still have to try some of it's derrivatives
-Grand Theft Auto: Because blowing up shit is cool. Never gets old to see how long I can last with the cops coming after me full throtle.
-Quake Deathmatch: Still one of the funnest FPS games ever
With Bootcamp, these should run great. My gf got a new 20" iMac with the 256mb ATI card and 1GB memory. Seemed to work fine with any reasonable settings. No it wouldn't do FEAR at max settings, but even oblivion was quite playable. I'm sure that soon enough Paralells and other companies will even have the games running natively in OS X soon enough.
Plus, you have the great options of OS X, Windows XP/Vista, and Linux. The new Duo 2 chips are killer fast, and they really are solid machines. I'm typing this on my iBook G4 that i've had since they came out. In the same time, my parents have gone through 2 Sony laptops and an HP. The iBook is still rock solid and does all my general (non gaming, non 3d intensive) day to day work perfectly. I have a good desktop, so as a laptop this is as good as it gets.
I'd say that Nintendo's first released flop was the Virtual Boy. It wasn't quite portable, but it wasn't quite a home VR system either. Sales were horrible, people had headaches, and games all in red just look bad!
I personally think that the N64 was pretty darn good! Mario 64 was great, as were the Zelda games. Ok, it wasn't a huge library of tons and tons of games, but quite a few were very high quality. Nintendo was thinking outside the box a bit with Smash Bros, and started on the 'party game' thing again, something that Sony only got a bit of with DDR and guitar hero, and MSFT has been left out mostly on IMHO. Sure Sony/MSFT can put out a lot of pretty games, but nintendo makes just fun ones that still are fun, and to my eyes don't look that dated, as they weren't made to be 'the super pretty hyper-realistic games'. They were meant to be fun. There's a reason that I still have a 8 bit, and 16 bit nintendo sitting around, AND two game boy advances. I also have a PS2, but I don't have an Xbox/Xbox 360, or a PS1. Nor will I have a PSP, etc. I just want fun games.
Of course Nintendo's first super stupid major flop, was the falling out with Sony while developing the PS1.
Sceenshots can be so easily be faked; who would accept screenshots as proof of anything? Well the judges that the RIAA has in their pocket I suppose...
If any government branch came to me as such, I'd make a submission to Digg, Slashdot, etc... detailing what they wanted (and what they had wanted to give me in return), and then tell them to F-off! I'd probably disapear promptly, for having Utopia, The Communist Manefesto, and Walden on my nightstand... but I would have told them government to screw themselves.
Agreed, but everyone can learn to read real sheet music (which they want you to purchase, and I see as a fairly reasonable request. I have probably 2000+ pieces of sheet music or books of music... but then again, I have nearly as many recordings that I've paid for), OR they can purchase tab legitimately from the publishers.
Some artists/publishing companies don't care about their stuff being put out there like this, but the majority already have the product on the market and the only thing protecting it are their IP laws. Don't say "I'll buy it when I'm a pro", because real pros for most of this stuff would probably just listen and play.
Everyone that does pick up a guitar however (i'm making an assumption) does have ears and can figure out the stuff on their own for the most part.
I don't feel that this damages guitar instructors either who should be able to figure the stuff out on their own as well by ear, or more likely request that their students legitmately purchase books. Better yet, my past... 7 guitar mentors/instructors all have published books that have their teaching theory in them.
I don't think for the most part anyway guitar teachers are there to "teach songs", but rather to give the player the musical knowledge they need to play ANY song, and assist on ones that they are having particular problems with.
I can see why on a LEGAL level they would want to shut them down, asides from the DMCA. They have in effect created and distributed a derrivative work from the music. However, it's a really minor offense IMHO. It isn't mallicious or trying to shut people out of money.
It is indirectly (perhaps directly) shutting people out of money however. Artists actually make a TON more from their publishing (which includes music in films, on the cd itself, printed stuff, etc...) than from Record Deals (which rarely make anything). In fact it's one of the easiest ways for a new artist to legitmately make money. As well as songwriters, as that's the ONLY place they get their money from. Using the DMCA is odd, as they have other things they can use against them.
I think it's uncool however that they do this. OLGA first of all isn't really a good representation of the music IMHO. Tabs are, well horrid, for reading music. I can't see why they are getting so bent. This isn't going to push the amount of sheet music purchased up as they hope.
The good side is that maybe for a bit people will (either google other sites or...) learn to use their ears. A real musician doesn't really need tab for playing pop tunes (which most of these songs are). Just use your ears and boom, there they go!
Funny, my falafel is much more respectable than Bill O'Reilly. I'd reserve use of his name for things that are biased, untrue, vindicative, brash, jack-assed, and right leaning. I might rename lets say.... a speech that GW makes against Stem Cell research as the 'Bill O'Reilly' speech on the Wiki.
First, it sounds like cell phones aren't being allowed on the planes at the moment, which is totally BS. I think it would be pretty hard to make my Treo still work if I had hollowed it out enough to fit a bomb into. If they just ask that I turn it on, perhaps they would see that it's pretty damn unlikely to build a bomb out of it!
Second, I think that the TSA would probably see you as being suspect #1 to them. You aren't checking anything? You aren't carrying anything? Perhaps you have a one way ticket to somewhere? What type of person would do that? Obviously someone that wants to kill themselves and everyone else around them with the explosives that are hidden in your ass. That sounds like a great way to have a 'deep search' done by a brash woman named Helga that has very large hands, likes pain, used to work for a prison, and doesn't believe in lube.
Seriously, they will probably be looking extra carefully at you these days and wondering "why doesn't a person need ANYTHING with them?" Your reasons sound sane and logical, but the people seaching you are more paranoid and impractical than anything else. It's also obvious that they are much more concerned with having an apperance of security than actual security at times. I have probably seen 100 situations that the security is more 'feel good' security than effective security.
I'm still waiting for them to handcuff anyone that's taken Martial Arts or other hand to hand combat classes to their seats and place a burly federal air marshall on either side of them. AND they might let Helga search them just for the hell of it.
Even if these terrorists were sucessful, i'd still be 10x as worried about getting in a carwreck, or having a part of the Big Dig fall on my head than something happening in the air.
Ok, so the phone company acts as if they don't know what the numbers are? I call bullshit. Do you think the list that they turn over to the NSA/CIA/FBI has 'unknown caller' written all over it? Fuck no it doesnt. It probably gives the phone number, account holders name and address of every call, if not far more.
I really really hate it when companies play stupid. I lost a cell phone a while ago and went to the store. I wanted them to stop service on that line while I got another phone, and asked them if any calls had been made from the phone in the hours since I lost it. They said that they couldn't get those records. Fuck that. Say an FBI agent went into the store and needed the same information due to "Terrorisim". The information would be instant. I also asked if there was any way to guess what city the phone was in and if it was moving. They flatly responded no. (I had lost my phone in some cab I had taken that day, and if i knew what city it was in i could have called that cab company). I know that this is possible since they have been tracking down "crimials and terrorists" by using triangulation on their cell phones.
I was a paying customer standing there and being lied to. I had another problem on a land line. I was getting calls from a fax line about 10 times per night from an 'unknown' number. I called the phone company several times. They said that since it was unknown number they couldn't do anything about it. I asked if they could block that number from calling me. Nope, since it was unknown. Now what if I had called the police/fbi and said that they last number that called my fax had sent terrorist threats, or maybe that it was a person talking about their jihad. The number could have been found out within minutes.
So on your company, I also call bullshit. I am sure your records that they are turning over to big brother are accurate, and the ones they had you are probably not. Now let me go pack my things. I am sure that for thinking too much i'll be picked up any time now by the thought police.
Firstly, I can't stand how any of these companies is just 'going along' with it. Yes, fiduciary responsiblity to investors etc but so would be dealing with the devil.
To the point however, it's funny that all of this happens only due to the world's largest communist country accepting certain capitalist ideas. What i'm saying, is that if it wasn't due to the money factor then this wouldn't be happening, and the search engines of the world might (effectively even perhaps) force China to change some of their policies a bit. However, since money IS the issue (which for some reason in reading Marx/Engles I thought that money wasn't supposed to be controlling in Communisim) then the people are being censored.
Were I a company, I'd just say "Fuck you" to China.
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And on some of the Nikon cameras, you can just plug in a GPS and it will automatically record the EXIF metadata to the photo! Work on the D200, D2X and D2H I think.
The logic seems to make sense. I'm not sure why they don't just partner with one Distro and just go with it however. If someone really knows the diffence between distros then that person changing them wouldn't be an issue really. Dell doesn't NEED to support all the distros as I think the community already supports them pretty well (although I've had my share of Linux-based headaches too).
However, while slightly OT... I wouldn't want to be the IT manager at a company that I allowed everyone in a 10,000 person company to decide what distro and software they wanted to run. I mean if someone has a problem with something... supporting (as the acticle says) 100+ different distros, different kernel versions, different package/install systems, different windowing systems... hell even different text editors. It would be HELL for an IT department to support, so i could see how Dell would have a similar issue. Even simple things would become nightmares to support. Even asking the users what version they are using would confuse many.
Of course it's a basic tenant of many religions, but that doesn't mean it's an often practiced one or one that's taken to heart.
Look at the news media today. A HUGE portion of Americans claim to be Christians, but yet the news that is targeted to them is often about blaming people for little mistakes that they have made in life.
"Britany Spears Checks into Rehab"
"R-Kelly caught on video with a 13 year old"
"18 year old guy has sex with 17 year old girl"
"14 year olds arrested for exchanging nude photos of each other"
Now all of those headslines are targeted towards the majority of people viewing them. Most of those people viewing them are claiming to be Christians. How many of those "Good Christians" are thinking about how those people just made simple mistakes that anyone could make potentially and should be forgiven? How many of them evaluate their own sins upon hearing about those say stories?
Sure they say they understand sins, mistakes and forgiveness... but if they all knew about ALL of the mistakes that one person had made would they really be so understanding and compassionate? Even if they themselves had made many similar mistakes?
You're right. I didn't mean to implicate that everyone is actually a bad person/criminal, and your example is perfectly right of how the system might abuse someone who documented too much.
I'd hate to be arrested after being on stage (recording everything I saw) and some 17 year old girl flashed her tits at the stage. Opps, then i'd be slammed for recording child porn. And you're right. Walk down the street at Mardi Gras and opps... tits again. Maybe underage? No 2257 documentation? Slammer.
God forbid I saw or smoked some weed, or left a beer bottle sitting somewhere backstage that someone that was 20 got ahold of.
I'm wondering how much a person would change their lifestyle, the things they do, watch, see, etc... if they were under this situation. Surely the person would have an understanding that the government could have a court order to seize all of this information and prosecute a person for everything they had ever done. Would they act the same under such circumstances?
A record like this almost needs to fall under the 5th amendment of non-self incrimination for a person to actually attempt this (which it does not of course).
It seems that it would either lead to a state of paranoia, or a person changing too much about their lives for it to be an accurate record of them.
I'd imagine that many people would change the people they associate with (who they wouldn't want to incriminate accidentally), the drugs they tried or saw, the women they talked to, the affairs they had, how they spent their money (and did their taxes!), the website they viewed, the books they read, the people they chatted with online or the porn they watched. Otherwise, they'd be nuts.
They would likely be arrested, dumped by their signifcant others, fired from their jobs, ridiculed by friends and family, etc..
I think the truth of it is that people (of all religions) need to realize that no one lives without fault/sin/whatever they call it, and be ready for the real brutal truth of all a person's dirty secrets.
I'm a musician/creative type and I know that I wouldn't want a hard record of everything that goes on around me. I'm sure that everyone else has seen/done things they wouldn't want expressed eventually to the entire world.
glaciers melt you.
Hmm, actually no... nothing melts.
I was actually thinking about this a few days ago. Would snowflakes be good for use in encryption somehow, since they are (infrequently at best) alike? I know one of the harder things to do is get a random seed for your number generators. Would these be potentially a good source of random information?
This guy makes them money. Hell, they will probably sue the person who put the YouTube clip together for copyright infringement and breaking some anti-copying scheme on her shitty CD. The RIAA will never look out for the little guy, ever. Of course, you already knew that :)
Maybe you'd give him props if he asked beforehand, but afterwards like this... you'd do the same thing anyone would. Sue him and his label.
I really hope for once the little guy will get his, and this producer that samples shamelessly way too much (and makes some really crappy music when he's not), will get slammed.
I wonder if this will be a notice to the hip-hop community that, yes, you do need to clear your samples?
I think there was a TV show a while ago (don't really watch TV often and just saw it for a few minutes in a hotel room) about shitty and odd jobs. Late Night with Dave Atel also i believe had some rather odd jobs featured on it, including the guy that has to clean up hotel rooms after suicides.
Mine are:
-Infocom games: Well, more than one game, but they are nice and fun to play. Simple, run on any platform (including my mint condition C64), etc
-Nethack: This is a dangerous game. So many hours gone, so much fun. But yet, so simple, and it can't get old. I still have to try some of it's derrivatives
-Grand Theft Auto: Because blowing up shit is cool. Never gets old to see how long I can last with the cops coming after me full throtle.
-Quake Deathmatch: Still one of the funnest FPS games ever
-Metal Gear series: These are just so damn good.
With Bootcamp, these should run great. My gf got a new 20" iMac with the 256mb ATI card and 1GB memory. Seemed to work fine with any reasonable settings. No it wouldn't do FEAR at max settings, but even oblivion was quite playable. I'm sure that soon enough Paralells and other companies will even have the games running natively in OS X soon enough.
Plus, you have the great options of OS X, Windows XP/Vista, and Linux. The new Duo 2 chips are killer fast, and they really are solid machines. I'm typing this on my iBook G4 that i've had since they came out. In the same time, my parents have gone through 2 Sony laptops and an HP. The iBook is still rock solid and does all my general (non gaming, non 3d intensive) day to day work perfectly. I have a good desktop, so as a laptop this is as good as it gets.
I'd say that Nintendo's first released flop was the Virtual Boy. It wasn't quite portable, but it wasn't quite a home VR system either. Sales were horrible, people had headaches, and games all in red just look bad!
I personally think that the N64 was pretty darn good! Mario 64 was great, as were the Zelda games. Ok, it wasn't a huge library of tons and tons of games, but quite a few were very high quality. Nintendo was thinking outside the box a bit with Smash Bros, and started on the 'party game' thing again, something that Sony only got a bit of with DDR and guitar hero, and MSFT has been left out mostly on IMHO. Sure Sony/MSFT can put out a lot of pretty games, but nintendo makes just fun ones that still are fun, and to my eyes don't look that dated, as they weren't made to be 'the super pretty hyper-realistic games'. They were meant to be fun. There's a reason that I still have a 8 bit, and 16 bit nintendo sitting around, AND two game boy advances. I also have a PS2, but I don't have an Xbox/Xbox 360, or a PS1. Nor will I have a PSP, etc. I just want fun games.
Of course Nintendo's first super stupid major flop, was the falling out with Sony while developing the PS1.
Sceenshots can be so easily be faked; who would accept screenshots as proof of anything?
Well the judges that the RIAA has in their pocket I suppose...
And what branch is above all others, and stops at no ends to beat terrorisim?
The executive branch!
If any government branch came to me as such, I'd make a submission to Digg, Slashdot, etc... detailing what they wanted (and what they had wanted to give me in return), and then tell them to F-off! I'd probably disapear promptly, for having Utopia, The Communist Manefesto, and Walden on my nightstand... but I would have told them government to screw themselves.
Agreed, but everyone can learn to read real sheet music (which they want you to purchase, and I see as a fairly reasonable request. I have probably 2000+ pieces of sheet music or books of music... but then again, I have nearly as many recordings that I've paid for), OR they can purchase tab legitimately from the publishers.
Some artists/publishing companies don't care about their stuff being put out there like this, but the majority already have the product on the market and the only thing protecting it are their IP laws. Don't say "I'll buy it when I'm a pro", because real pros for most of this stuff would probably just listen and play.
Everyone that does pick up a guitar however (i'm making an assumption) does have ears and can figure out the stuff on their own for the most part.
I don't feel that this damages guitar instructors either who should be able to figure the stuff out on their own as well by ear, or more likely request that their students legitmately purchase books. Better yet, my past... 7 guitar mentors/instructors all have published books that have their teaching theory in them.
I don't think for the most part anyway guitar teachers are there to "teach songs", but rather to give the player the musical knowledge they need to play ANY song, and assist on ones that they are having particular problems with.
I can see why on a LEGAL level they would want to shut them down, asides from the DMCA. They have in effect created and distributed a derrivative work from the music. However, it's a really minor offense IMHO. It isn't mallicious or trying to shut people out of money.
It is indirectly (perhaps directly) shutting people out of money however. Artists actually make a TON more from their publishing (which includes music in films, on the cd itself, printed stuff, etc...) than from Record Deals (which rarely make anything). In fact it's one of the easiest ways for a new artist to legitmately make money. As well as songwriters, as that's the ONLY place they get their money from. Using the DMCA is odd, as they have other things they can use against them.
I think it's uncool however that they do this. OLGA first of all isn't really a good representation of the music IMHO. Tabs are, well horrid, for reading music. I can't see why they are getting so bent. This isn't going to push the amount of sheet music purchased up as they hope.
The good side is that maybe for a bit people will (either google other sites or...) learn to use their ears. A real musician doesn't really need tab for playing pop tunes (which most of these songs are). Just use your ears and boom, there they go!
Funny, my falafel is much more respectable than Bill O'Reilly.
I'd reserve use of his name for things that are biased, untrue, vindicative, brash, jack-assed, and right leaning. I might rename lets say.... a speech that GW makes against Stem Cell research as the 'Bill O'Reilly' speech on the Wiki.
First, it sounds like cell phones aren't being allowed on the planes at the moment, which is totally BS. I think it would be pretty hard to make my Treo still work if I had hollowed it out enough to fit a bomb into. If they just ask that I turn it on, perhaps they would see that it's pretty damn unlikely to build a bomb out of it!
Second, I think that the TSA would probably see you as being suspect #1 to them. You aren't checking anything? You aren't carrying anything? Perhaps you have a one way ticket to somewhere? What type of person would do that? Obviously someone that wants to kill themselves and everyone else around them with the explosives that are hidden in your ass. That sounds like a great way to have a 'deep search' done by a brash woman named Helga that has very large hands, likes pain, used to work for a prison, and doesn't believe in lube.
Seriously, they will probably be looking extra carefully at you these days and wondering "why doesn't a person need ANYTHING with them?" Your reasons sound sane and logical, but the people seaching you are more paranoid and impractical than anything else. It's also obvious that they are much more concerned with having an apperance of security than actual security at times. I have probably seen 100 situations that the security is more 'feel good' security than effective security.
I'm still waiting for them to handcuff anyone that's taken Martial Arts or other hand to hand combat classes to their seats and place a burly federal air marshall on either side of them. AND they might let Helga search them just for the hell of it.
Even if these terrorists were sucessful, i'd still be 10x as worried about getting in a carwreck, or having a part of the Big Dig fall on my head than something happening in the air.
cheaper bulletproof cars might be a real blessing. I wonder if this stuff could be made to work on glass windows as well.
Ok, so the phone company acts as if they don't know what the numbers are? I call bullshit. Do you think the list that they turn over to the NSA/CIA/FBI has 'unknown caller' written all over it? Fuck no it doesnt. It probably gives the phone number, account holders name and address of every call, if not far more.
I really really hate it when companies play stupid. I lost a cell phone a while ago and went to the store. I wanted them to stop service on that line while I got another phone, and asked them if any calls had been made from the phone in the hours since I lost it. They said that they couldn't get those records. Fuck that. Say an FBI agent went into the store and needed the same information due to "Terrorisim". The information would be instant. I also asked if there was any way to guess what city the phone was in and if it was moving. They flatly responded no. (I had lost my phone in some cab I had taken that day, and if i knew what city it was in i could have called that cab company). I know that this is possible since they have been tracking down "crimials and terrorists" by using triangulation on their cell phones.
I was a paying customer standing there and being lied to. I had another problem on a land line. I was getting calls from a fax line about 10 times per night from an 'unknown' number. I called the phone company several times. They said that since it was unknown number they couldn't do anything about it. I asked if they could block that number from calling me. Nope, since it was unknown. Now what if I had called the police/fbi and said that they last number that called my fax had sent terrorist threats, or maybe that it was a person talking about their jihad. The number could have been found out within minutes.
So on your company, I also call bullshit. I am sure your records that they are turning over to big brother are accurate, and the ones they had you are probably not. Now let me go pack my things. I am sure that for thinking too much i'll be picked up any time now by the thought police.
Firstly, I can't stand how any of these companies is just 'going along' with it. Yes, fiduciary responsiblity to investors etc but so would be dealing with the devil.
To the point however, it's funny that all of this happens only due to the world's largest communist country accepting certain capitalist ideas. What i'm saying, is that if it wasn't due to the money factor then this wouldn't be happening, and the search engines of the world might (effectively even perhaps) force China to change some of their policies a bit. However, since money IS the issue (which for some reason in reading Marx/Engles I thought that money wasn't supposed to be controlling in Communisim) then the people are being censored.
Were I a company, I'd just say "Fuck you" to China.
Holy crap! A parking space in Boston is easily 3x what that house cost.