The current problems are a direct result of the messing the British and Americans have done in decades past. Iran really is right when it blames the rest of the world for the current situation. Mind you, doesn't mean they have to kill journalists, India has been screwed with a lot too, it doesn't.
Your point is valid, but so wrong at the same time. [Invoke Godwin] You claim that the census of religion in Germany is wrong, because of the final solution. Eh, no, the final solution is wrong. The census is "harmless". It is the old, "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument and that is wrong too. Go ahead, go on a killing rampage with a butter knife. It can be done, but you better pick your first victim right, say a sick a kitten, or your killing spree starts and ends with you.
If privacy is important it is because we have allowed society to make it important. Either you can speak freely about the government, or you can't. Privacy is NOT going to allow you to speak freely, because privacy can always be broken. Do you really think that a lot of Anonymous Cowards criticizing the government is the same as a single man standing up and saying his opinion in the full public eyes is the same?
Hell NO. Think of the great leaders,the examples to all of us. Gandhi did not post anonymous, Martin Luther King used his name with pride. Anne Franks diary would have been lot less iconic if it had been sexygirl1929 with no identity.
For one thing, a common way to deal with criticism is to question the identity, the character of the criticizing person. Holocaust deniers have done this with the diary of Anna Frank and the current Iran government is claiming that the international protests are orchestrated by foreign agents, NOT real people.
So, you are right, in a society that no longer allows free speech, privacy (or rather remaining hidden) is your first line of defense, but it is a very shallow defense. Ask Anna Frank, who hid who and where she was... oh wait. You can't. That is how well privacy works.
And yes, you would be perfectly right to point out that Martin Luther King can't tell about his opposite approach either. The price for freedom is huge and one thing it demands is that you don't hide in the shadows but fight NOW, for your freedoms. Or remain hidden in the shadows and hope and prey nobody cares enough about you, or what you do or what you are to dig you out with all the resources a government nobody dares to speak out against anymore in public can bring to bear.
Every single person on slashdot who claims that Google should boycott China, uses hardware made in China. So, Google should boycott, but not themselves nor any of the other companies they use.
Free Tibet, signed on a MS machine made in China, powered by a generator that gets most of its parts from China, dressed in Chinese clothes. Nasty google however for not doing what I am not doing.
The evidence is in the reaction. If there had been no cheating, then they wouldn't have resisted a recount to the point of killing people. It is EASY to prove a fair election, all they had to do was show people, the didn't.
He claims he didn't do it... oh wow. A person on trial who claims he didn't do it. Now that is a shocker.
He claims it was done by accident, that the files magically got buried deep within the system. Yeah, because that stuff happens. Not.
I would have thought that on Slashdot, people would question computer related claims a little bit more thoroughly before swallowing some guys story.
The linked story claims that at first investigators could not find anything (in/users/Documents/Pictures) but later found something buried deep inside the harddrive (/winnt/tmp/mycp/pictures). Oh I got no idea about this, but on/. people are always so ready to assume that the police know nothing about computers, so why are you now so ready to assume that these files were magically hidden deep inside... inside what? What part of windows buries files deeply? How buried? Attached as parts to other files or simply a few directories deep?
I smell an excuse. "oh it wasn't me, it was scary computers that did it". Yeah, like people who claimed that computer games made them kill people.
The US is more worried about who might control Pakistan tomorrow. The country is in civil war and the government troops are not nearly as in control as they like to claim. And Pakistan got nukes. If its army bases can be attacked, then why not its nuclear facilities? If that happens, well the shit has hit the fan. The US would have no choice to intervene and do it very quickly before India does, nuclear style. And if the US intervenes it would not have time to ask the remaining pakistan goverment for fly-over permission and such.
The current conflict is a lot more dangerous then a lot of people in the west presume. They see a couple of towelheads shooting an AK-47 in the air or guarding someone with an RPG (really, what are you going to do Einstein, shoot your prisoner with an explosive grenade from 2 meters away?) and think "what danger could they be". Not much. Except in very large numbers to a country where the ordinary soldier is not all that motivated in the first place. And that is what Pakistan faces and the price is a nuclear arsenal that very few people in the world would tolerate even the risk of the Taliban getting their hands on it.
This ain't a message against the goverment of Pakistan, it is preperation for what goverment there might be in control tomorrow.
The extreme violence the US suffers is the result of NOT having the nanny-state. Except it has NOTHING to do with censorship on its own, but rather the "I want to do everything I want to do and nobody can stop me or expect anything from me" attitude. It is the attitude where the Simpsons are not seen as a parody but as a role model.
Since the 19th century we have moved slowly to a society where parents want things to be different from how things were for them. And I am NOT talking about improved living standards, schooling etc etc. Rather, more and more parents want fewer rules for their kids, to be more friendly with them and even, remain kids themselves. In previous times, kids were mini-adults, dressing the same as their elders as soon as possible and giving gradually the some responsibilities and chores. A kid was an adult to be. Now remaining a child has become an option.
On its own, there seems little wrong with this, until you realize what being a teenage rebel is all about. A teenager must rebel against the rules of his society. What people then get wrong is that they think it matters what those rules are. It does not. You can give a teenager a curfew of 21:00, 23:00 or even 3:00. A teen WILL attempt to push beyond it. Give the teen no curfew whatsoever and what must they then break? Stay out for several days?
It is in a way like the speed limit. It doesn't really matter how high you set it, people will still speed. You can of course argue to remove the speed limit altogether, but then people will just drive on the wrong side of the road. Remove all road rules? We introduced them for a reason. Ain't very handy to drive 120km/h and not be certain others will NOT be coming your way at the same speed.
When you see stories like "kid kills brother for x-box", this has NOTHING to do with gaming. You just have a kid who has never learned restraint. That you can't always get what you want when you want it. Censorship of games doesn't work, after all the same things happen over shoes and how violent can shoes be?
Violence doesn't teach kids to be violent, it is parents who are still acting as children themselves who haven't taught their kids ANYTHING, that causes violence. And this is not an instant process, it has been going on for many generations.
To those who applaud the increased rebellion and lack of rules, you forget, you can't rebel against no rules whatsoever. Society needs people who defy the rules but it also needs people to create new rules to keep society working.
"If I have furthest, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants". Nice quote, but most people then think those giants are other great visionaries, leaders, rebels. Nope. Einstein stood on the shoulders of the baker who baked his bread. His mother, who breastfed him. His teacher who changed his pants when he peed himself on his first day in school. The cop that kept him from being killed by highwaymen (what highwaymen you ask? Exactly) long before he even started thinking.
Society needs a core that works well. On it, a small group of people can rebel, push the limits etc etc. Hippies need the protection of the soldiers willing to die to defend them. Those soldiers of course also need someone to speak out against their lives being used for political gaines. It is how society works, or rather worked.
Or maybe it still works and we just pay more attention to the rumblings of the machinery these days. Extreme violence has gone on since the dawn of humanity, even chimps hunt and slaughter not for food but for the thrill of it.
But knee-jerk reactions by blaming something for all societies wrongs are as old as time as well. Society is collapsing, kill some christians!
Interesting that in your rant to show how much of a non-loser you are, you list playing on Facebook. Think you kinda shot yourself in the foot there buddy.
Losers come oi all forms, and defending on a loser site that you are not a loser... well... welcome brother.
If the book is as old as it is claimed, then it would be as making a fake golden iPhone today just to confuse people a hundred years from now. Paper hasn't always been a throw away article.
Neither is it really that easy to create random writing that still looks legit, try it. Hell, even try it with just hitting random keys on yourkeyboard and still have it look like a real language. now do it for 200 pages, written by hand on expensive paper.
Anyway, it would be a first. There are plenty of known encoding tricks, where people encoded something purely for the challenge, but pure gibberish just to fool people? I don't know of any big example (as in 200 pages of work).
Actually, that story happened, at least it was wildly [no, not misspelled, though other words are] reported at the time. It was a huge scam with a PLAYER run bank doing something nasty. I would give more details, but that would mean having to give a rats arse about Eve.
But yeah, the summary makes it out like it was a CEO of the company behind Eve that did this. I was with that company I would sue Slashdot for slander in England (sure a brit read it).
BOTH happened when I was at home and there was clear activity. One in the morning, busy getting ready and suddenly someone was in the kitchen who ran out.
Other time 3 people tried to climb on the balcony while 4 people were in the house.
The fast majority of crime in holland is committed by imigrants (don't bother telling me otherwise, all attempts were made by dark-skinned people) who have the combined IQ of a raisin.
/. nerds come up with all kinds of clever tricks to steal things, that is not how criminals do it. Brutality and a surety that the legal system has been gutted makes them attempt break ins where there is no point because they want cash now. Planning... that just doesn't feature. It is opportunity crime, when you are home, you got doors and windows unlocked, when you are away, you double bolt everything.
Mythbusters had a few of those Mission Impossible style break in attempts, meanwhile the biggest diamond heist that really happened, just involved driving up, loading the bags and driving away. No complex stuff, no sci-fi. Just the arrogance to think you can get away with it, and you often can. And when you don't, the law has so little change to catch you, it is worth the risk (conviction rate in Holland is less then 10% of REPORTED crimes, only a fraction of crimes are known to be reported, so do the math).
Do you really think a criminal who is going to sell your new plasma for at most a 100 dollars (think about it, even if you buy blackmarket, you want a box, you steal TV's from the warehous factory, not somebodies house) is going to bother keeping track of potential photo's that might show a plasma you had then and corrolate that with when you CLAIM to be away?
Real burglars just walk past and LOOK. And they are a hell of lot more interested in a place that is dark where they can get inside very quickly and away very quickly. And even then, what are they going to do with a 50inch plasma screen? Takes ages to unplug, get off the wall, into a car and then you got what? A 2nd hand tv. Oh yeah, fences pay big bucks for that.
I swear slashdot is the nerds fox news. You know those jokes:
amount of pedophiles in the entire world: -
amount of pedophiles on myspace according to Fox: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA broken up because of crap filter AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Slashdot is like that with privacy
Real world criminals tracking you: -
Criminals tracking you according to the privacy crazies on/.: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA broken up because of crap filter AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It is like the crappy filter/. uses: Real spam stopped 0. Jokes and valid points ruined: zillion.
The article is a complete piece of crap. Because it never dives INTO the money flows. It doesn't show what that 150 dollars the chinese get MEANS. For instance the idiot who wrote this never touches on the most basic point. That 150 dollars to china is a LOT more then 150 dollars to the US. The average wages are completly different, based on a quick google it seems to be about 100 dollar vs 2000 dollars. So 1 iPod sales generates enough money to pay for 1 months work in china but only a... few days in the US.
This is to say nothing about the effect on the workforce, in China, the jobs are spread out. You both need directors to run the factories and janitors to clean the toilets. In the US, far fewer people are involved. Especially in that section of the economy were the most people fit, the blue-color laborers, the factory workers. So a few designers and Steve Jobs are swimming in it, doesn't help the millions of unemployed, doesn't breath live into ghosts towns were the only jobs are handing out unemployment stamps. And where do these people who longer can find a job get the money to buy an iPod? They don't, they buy a cheapo MP3 designed in China, build in China.
Thank you Mr Idiot from the guardian, we KNOW how the economy works, the exact same idiotic posts were made about Japan. Don't worry, Japan will only take a tiny bit of cash at the bottom, all the real money will be earned by the west. Yeah, this worked SO well, that Japan is now conveniently lumped with the west. He happily lists that core components with lots of IP come from Japan so that those pesky chinese won't make a penny of it. Eheh, so what is China to stop from doing to Japan what Japan has done to the west? If his theory about IP holds up, then those IP could never have become possible in Japan.
If the iPhone was made in the US, the US economy would be richer by 150 dollars as well.
FLAWS:
A dollar does not have the same value across the globe.
This same argument was held for Japan as country with cheap labor and no IP, now Japan is suddenly listed as an example of a country with IP so that it is safe from cheap labor.
Forgets that the shift of money has an effect not just on the whole of the economy, but on different sectors and in different ways, no more factory jobs in the US.
If you want to see the effect of the global economy, look around. I life in Utrecht, and that has an industrial park called "Lage weide". There is a LOT of distrubution activity, lots of shifting around of good but almost no production. One produces big metal thingies and the building looks ready to collapse and that is about it. Everything else is warehouses, with the contents, "produced in China". And warehouses are easy to automate. Hema (dutch retailer) has opened one of the most advanced warehouses in the world recently, yet fewer people working and the work there requires no skill (and therefor no pay and no security).
Look around, why do you think the economy is in the crapper? Because nothing is being produced anymore. The factory towns may not be glamorous but it is where the core of a country makes its living. Not the rich who rule the country, not the super poor, but the average worker who pays the taxes that allow the government to function, who deliver the soldiers for the army.
Empires collapsed before, the western empire will get a rude suprise sooner or later when China changes its tune. And no, I don't mean in an evil plot kinda way, I mean when China does what Japan did ages ago. Become an economic power with its own IP. Quick check, how many high-tech gadgets in your house are produced in cheap labor country Japan? PS3, Wii, Sony-Ericson phone and countless others where you might not even think they came from Japan? Ask your daddy what the China of their day was (or maybe your granddad if you aren't as old as me).
If ISP's are responsible for what happens with and because of the service they offer, then doesn't the same apply to movie-makers?
So, if someone kills someone inspired by a movie, then the producers of the movie are responsible? All movie makers should from now on take full responsibility for their product?
I don't think anyone wants to open up that cesspool.
Why should only ISP's be responsible for dealing with what their customers do with the product? If I buy a gun, is the gun company responsible for what happens with the gun?
If I use candy to lure a child (everyone has to have a hobby) is the candy company? If I show an adult movie to a child, if a child buys an adult rated movie, is the movie company responsible?
For that matter, a lot of cars ads advertise speed. Speeding is illegal.
Where would it end? I am fairly certain no content producer, like say a rap artist, wants to be held responsible for the content they produce. So why only ISP's.
So anyone who might commit suicide, gets a "get out jail free" card from you. At what crime do you draw the line I wonder? If I killed you and then said "oh I am going to end it all" should I walk free?
I don't think the world can work as you seem to want it to work. Oh and if he was going to kill himself over the stress, why hasn't he killed himself yet, over the stress?
You are breaking my heart here. If it was left up to people like you, nobody would ever go to jail anymore for anything.
Anyone with a family, collective punishment of family.
Anyone without a family, extra punishment because nobody would visit them.
Bam, all jails are empty.
It reminds me of a case where british newspapers were complaining about drunk drivers not being dealed with harshly enough, then the police arrest a drunken woman and cry that locking her up is mean because she had kids.
Can't do the time, don't do the crime. And if this guy is so incapable of overseeing the consequences of his own actions, then he should be in permanent care. To me an insanity plea has never sounded right "Hi, I killed someone because I am insane so I had no motive, and I could do it randomly again and again with no cure possible". Most people would say "awh, that is so sad, let him off". I say "fry him".
Oh and you are also insulting all the REAL asperger sufferers who do NOT commit crimes.
Actually, this story is REALLY about the italians who keep electing these corrupt politicians over and over. Berlusconi makes Bush look competent and a nice guy and italians just can't seem to get enough of him.
How many republicans are against Obama's plans because they don't believe in them and how many because he is black? Like the "you lie" outcry that has not been done to any white president, this case is still to sensitive.
The movie "white man can't jump" could also have been titled "black men can't shoot without trying to look good even it means missing", a point made in the movie itself. Both are racial slurs and yet... there is a difference.
In a movie, writers typically show a bad guy is truly evil by having him kill an unarmed woman who is totally defenseless. Yet in "Apocalypse Now" the "hero" does exactly this while he is not treated as truly evil by either the writers or the audience for the rest of the movie. Because asian women are not truly human perhaps? American-japaense were interred during WW2, American-Italian and American-german were not. There were no neutralized japanese civilian spies. There were PLENTY of neutralized german and italian spies. So why was the loyal group rounded up?
Racism exist, and might never be truly eliminated. Until that it does, we need to be careful claiming that all should be treated equal when this isn't happening.
I don't know if this was unique to holland but there was a racism awareness event that tried to show how stupid racism was by claiming blue-eyed people were less intelligent. Fake docu's showing blue-eyed people being rounded up and put in special accommodations where there lower intelligence could be accounted for. Why blue-eyed? Because bigger noses or dark skin would not be clearly as idiotic perhaps?
Think about it for second. If you had to come up with such a campaign and select a body characteristic that was clearly not linked with someones social value yet obvious to everyone, what would you pick? I would stick with a white characteristic. Else people MIGHT just believe your campaign. Same as people believed Archie Bunker and the actor who played him were for real, while his character was supposed to be a parody and the actor was a well known anti-racist (just played a racist on tv and a movie)
Scamming someone who can answer the question, "you and what army". Oh okay, so their answer is "not army, marines" but still. Takes guts.
And with the US being involved in two wars, I think the sentence for this might actually be a cigarette, against a nice sunny wall. Blindfold optional.
Please lets us do our fucking business, and you do your fucking business for once of controlling your banks so they don't blow up the world economy, for the Xth time. We all know what happened last time the US argued for LESS government oversight.
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Quick question: what is the mileage on your car? Or on your mom's car as she drives you the 1 mile to school?
The current problems are a direct result of the messing the British and Americans have done in decades past. Iran really is right when it blames the rest of the world for the current situation. Mind you, doesn't mean they have to kill journalists, India has been screwed with a lot too, it doesn't.
Your point is valid, but so wrong at the same time. [Invoke Godwin] You claim that the census of religion in Germany is wrong, because of the final solution. Eh, no, the final solution is wrong. The census is "harmless". It is the old, "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument and that is wrong too. Go ahead, go on a killing rampage with a butter knife. It can be done, but you better pick your first victim right, say a sick a kitten, or your killing spree starts and ends with you.
If privacy is important it is because we have allowed society to make it important. Either you can speak freely about the government, or you can't. Privacy is NOT going to allow you to speak freely, because privacy can always be broken. Do you really think that a lot of Anonymous Cowards criticizing the government is the same as a single man standing up and saying his opinion in the full public eyes is the same?
Hell NO. Think of the great leaders,the examples to all of us. Gandhi did not post anonymous, Martin Luther King used his name with pride. Anne Franks diary would have been lot less iconic if it had been sexygirl1929 with no identity.
For one thing, a common way to deal with criticism is to question the identity, the character of the criticizing person. Holocaust deniers have done this with the diary of Anna Frank and the current Iran government is claiming that the international protests are orchestrated by foreign agents, NOT real people.
So, you are right, in a society that no longer allows free speech, privacy (or rather remaining hidden) is your first line of defense, but it is a very shallow defense. Ask Anna Frank, who hid who and where she was... oh wait. You can't. That is how well privacy works.
And yes, you would be perfectly right to point out that Martin Luther King can't tell about his opposite approach either. The price for freedom is huge and one thing it demands is that you don't hide in the shadows but fight NOW, for your freedoms. Or remain hidden in the shadows and hope and prey nobody cares enough about you, or what you do or what you are to dig you out with all the resources a government nobody dares to speak out against anymore in public can bring to bear.
Every single person on slashdot who claims that Google should boycott China, uses hardware made in China. So, Google should boycott, but not themselves nor any of the other companies they use.
Free Tibet, signed on a MS machine made in China, powered by a generator that gets most of its parts from China, dressed in Chinese clothes. Nasty google however for not doing what I am not doing.
Daring fellow.
The evidence is in the reaction. If there had been no cheating, then they wouldn't have resisted a recount to the point of killing people. It is EASY to prove a fair election, all they had to do was show people, the didn't.
So, how does it then get burried deep inside the hard drive where a first inspection does not find it?
He claims he didn't do it... oh wow. A person on trial who claims he didn't do it. Now that is a shocker.
He claims it was done by accident, that the files magically got buried deep within the system. Yeah, because that stuff happens. Not.
I would have thought that on Slashdot, people would question computer related claims a little bit more thoroughly before swallowing some guys story.
The linked story claims that at first investigators could not find anything (in /users/Documents/Pictures) but later found something buried deep inside the harddrive (/winnt/tmp/mycp/pictures). Oh I got no idea about this, but on /. people are always so ready to assume that the police know nothing about computers, so why are you now so ready to assume that these files were magically hidden deep inside... inside what? What part of windows buries files deeply? How buried? Attached as parts to other files or simply a few directories deep?
I smell an excuse. "oh it wasn't me, it was scary computers that did it". Yeah, like people who claimed that computer games made them kill people.
Smell the bullshit.
The current conflict is a lot more dangerous then a lot of people in the west presume. They see a couple of towelheads shooting an AK-47 in the air or guarding someone with an RPG (really, what are you going to do Einstein, shoot your prisoner with an explosive grenade from 2 meters away?) and think "what danger could they be". Not much. Except in very large numbers to a country where the ordinary soldier is not all that motivated in the first place. And that is what Pakistan faces and the price is a nuclear arsenal that very few people in the world would tolerate even the risk of the Taliban getting their hands on it.
This ain't a message against the goverment of Pakistan, it is preperation for what goverment there might be in control tomorrow.
The extreme violence the US suffers is the result of NOT having the nanny-state. Except it has NOTHING to do with censorship on its own, but rather the "I want to do everything I want to do and nobody can stop me or expect anything from me" attitude. It is the attitude where the Simpsons are not seen as a parody but as a role model.
Since the 19th century we have moved slowly to a society where parents want things to be different from how things were for them. And I am NOT talking about improved living standards, schooling etc etc. Rather, more and more parents want fewer rules for their kids, to be more friendly with them and even, remain kids themselves. In previous times, kids were mini-adults, dressing the same as their elders as soon as possible and giving gradually the some responsibilities and chores. A kid was an adult to be. Now remaining a child has become an option.
On its own, there seems little wrong with this, until you realize what being a teenage rebel is all about. A teenager must rebel against the rules of his society. What people then get wrong is that they think it matters what those rules are. It does not. You can give a teenager a curfew of 21:00, 23:00 or even 3:00. A teen WILL attempt to push beyond it. Give the teen no curfew whatsoever and what must they then break? Stay out for several days?
It is in a way like the speed limit. It doesn't really matter how high you set it, people will still speed. You can of course argue to remove the speed limit altogether, but then people will just drive on the wrong side of the road. Remove all road rules? We introduced them for a reason. Ain't very handy to drive 120km/h and not be certain others will NOT be coming your way at the same speed.
When you see stories like "kid kills brother for x-box", this has NOTHING to do with gaming. You just have a kid who has never learned restraint. That you can't always get what you want when you want it. Censorship of games doesn't work, after all the same things happen over shoes and how violent can shoes be?
Violence doesn't teach kids to be violent, it is parents who are still acting as children themselves who haven't taught their kids ANYTHING, that causes violence. And this is not an instant process, it has been going on for many generations.
To those who applaud the increased rebellion and lack of rules, you forget, you can't rebel against no rules whatsoever. Society needs people who defy the rules but it also needs people to create new rules to keep society working.
"If I have furthest, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants". Nice quote, but most people then think those giants are other great visionaries, leaders, rebels. Nope. Einstein stood on the shoulders of the baker who baked his bread. His mother, who breastfed him. His teacher who changed his pants when he peed himself on his first day in school. The cop that kept him from being killed by highwaymen (what highwaymen you ask? Exactly) long before he even started thinking.
Society needs a core that works well. On it, a small group of people can rebel, push the limits etc etc. Hippies need the protection of the soldiers willing to die to defend them. Those soldiers of course also need someone to speak out against their lives being used for political gaines. It is how society works, or rather worked.
Or maybe it still works and we just pay more attention to the rumblings of the machinery these days. Extreme violence has gone on since the dawn of humanity, even chimps hunt and slaughter not for food but for the thrill of it.
But knee-jerk reactions by blaming something for all societies wrongs are as old as time as well. Society is collapsing, kill some christians!
Interesting that in your rant to show how much of a non-loser you are, you list playing on Facebook. Think you kinda shot yourself in the foot there buddy.
Losers come oi all forms, and defending on a loser site that you are not a loser... well... welcome brother.
If the book is as old as it is claimed, then it would be as making a fake golden iPhone today just to confuse people a hundred years from now. Paper hasn't always been a throw away article.
Neither is it really that easy to create random writing that still looks legit, try it. Hell, even try it with just hitting random keys on yourkeyboard and still have it look like a real language. now do it for 200 pages, written by hand on expensive paper.
Anyway, it would be a first. There are plenty of known encoding tricks, where people encoded something purely for the challenge, but pure gibberish just to fool people? I don't know of any big example (as in 200 pages of work).
Actually, that story happened, at least it was wildly [no, not misspelled, though other words are] reported at the time. It was a huge scam with a PLAYER run bank doing something nasty. I would give more details, but that would mean having to give a rats arse about Eve.
But yeah, the summary makes it out like it was a CEO of the company behind Eve that did this. I was with that company I would sue Slashdot for slander in England (sure a brit read it).
BOTH happened when I was at home and there was clear activity. One in the morning, busy getting ready and suddenly someone was in the kitchen who ran out.
Other time 3 people tried to climb on the balcony while 4 people were in the house.
The fast majority of crime in holland is committed by imigrants (don't bother telling me otherwise, all attempts were made by dark-skinned people) who have the combined IQ of a raisin.
/. nerds come up with all kinds of clever tricks to steal things, that is not how criminals do it. Brutality and a surety that the legal system has been gutted makes them attempt break ins where there is no point because they want cash now. Planning... that just doesn't feature. It is opportunity crime, when you are home, you got doors and windows unlocked, when you are away, you double bolt everything.
Mythbusters had a few of those Mission Impossible style break in attempts, meanwhile the biggest diamond heist that really happened, just involved driving up, loading the bags and driving away. No complex stuff, no sci-fi. Just the arrogance to think you can get away with it, and you often can. And when you don't, the law has so little change to catch you, it is worth the risk (conviction rate in Holland is less then 10% of REPORTED crimes, only a fraction of crimes are known to be reported, so do the math).
Do you really think a criminal who is going to sell your new plasma for at most a 100 dollars (think about it, even if you buy blackmarket, you want a box, you steal TV's from the warehous factory, not somebodies house) is going to bother keeping track of potential photo's that might show a plasma you had then and corrolate that with when you CLAIM to be away?
Real burglars just walk past and LOOK. And they are a hell of lot more interested in a place that is dark where they can get inside very quickly and away very quickly. And even then, what are they going to do with a 50inch plasma screen? Takes ages to unplug, get off the wall, into a car and then you got what? A 2nd hand tv. Oh yeah, fences pay big bucks for that.
I swear slashdot is the nerds fox news. You know those jokes:
amount of pedophiles in the entire world: -
amount of pedophiles on myspace according to Fox: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA broken up because of crap filter AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Slashdot is like that with privacy
Real world criminals tracking you: -
Criminals tracking you according to the privacy crazies on /.: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA broken up because of crap filter AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
It is like the crappy filter /. uses: Real spam stopped 0. Jokes and valid points ruined: zillion.
The article is a complete piece of crap. Because it never dives INTO the money flows. It doesn't show what that 150 dollars the chinese get MEANS. For instance the idiot who wrote this never touches on the most basic point. That 150 dollars to china is a LOT more then 150 dollars to the US. The average wages are completly different, based on a quick google it seems to be about 100 dollar vs 2000 dollars. So 1 iPod sales generates enough money to pay for 1 months work in china but only a ... few days in the US.
This is to say nothing about the effect on the workforce, in China, the jobs are spread out. You both need directors to run the factories and janitors to clean the toilets. In the US, far fewer people are involved. Especially in that section of the economy were the most people fit, the blue-color laborers, the factory workers. So a few designers and Steve Jobs are swimming in it, doesn't help the millions of unemployed, doesn't breath live into ghosts towns were the only jobs are handing out unemployment stamps. And where do these people who longer can find a job get the money to buy an iPod? They don't, they buy a cheapo MP3 designed in China, build in China.
Thank you Mr Idiot from the guardian, we KNOW how the economy works, the exact same idiotic posts were made about Japan. Don't worry, Japan will only take a tiny bit of cash at the bottom, all the real money will be earned by the west. Yeah, this worked SO well, that Japan is now conveniently lumped with the west. He happily lists that core components with lots of IP come from Japan so that those pesky chinese won't make a penny of it. Eheh, so what is China to stop from doing to Japan what Japan has done to the west? If his theory about IP holds up, then those IP could never have become possible in Japan.
If the iPhone was made in the US, the US economy would be richer by 150 dollars as well.
FLAWS:
If you want to see the effect of the global economy, look around. I life in Utrecht, and that has an industrial park called "Lage weide". There is a LOT of distrubution activity, lots of shifting around of good but almost no production. One produces big metal thingies and the building looks ready to collapse and that is about it. Everything else is warehouses, with the contents, "produced in China". And warehouses are easy to automate. Hema (dutch retailer) has opened one of the most advanced warehouses in the world recently, yet fewer people working and the work there requires no skill (and therefor no pay and no security).
Look around, why do you think the economy is in the crapper? Because nothing is being produced anymore. The factory towns may not be glamorous but it is where the core of a country makes its living. Not the rich who rule the country, not the super poor, but the average worker who pays the taxes that allow the government to function, who deliver the soldiers for the army.
Empires collapsed before, the western empire will get a rude suprise sooner or later when China changes its tune. And no, I don't mean in an evil plot kinda way, I mean when China does what Japan did ages ago. Become an economic power with its own IP. Quick check, how many high-tech gadgets in your house are produced in cheap labor country Japan? PS3, Wii, Sony-Ericson phone and countless others where you might not even think they came from Japan? Ask your daddy what the China of their day was (or maybe your granddad if you aren't as old as me).
If ISP's are responsible for what happens with and because of the service they offer, then doesn't the same apply to movie-makers?
So, if someone kills someone inspired by a movie, then the producers of the movie are responsible? All movie makers should from now on take full responsibility for their product?
I don't think anyone wants to open up that cesspool.
Why should only ISP's be responsible for dealing with what their customers do with the product? If I buy a gun, is the gun company responsible for what happens with the gun?
If I use candy to lure a child (everyone has to have a hobby) is the candy company? If I show an adult movie to a child, if a child buys an adult rated movie, is the movie company responsible?
For that matter, a lot of cars ads advertise speed. Speeding is illegal.
Where would it end? I am fairly certain no content producer, like say a rap artist, wants to be held responsible for the content they produce. So why only ISP's.
Brackish water is released into the Eco-system all the time. Don't you have rivers running into the sea in your area?
the natural place for such a power plant would be in areas where this process already takes place, and then tap the power of it.
Your assessment is a lot like saying "Won't solar plants cause a lot of sunshine?"
So anyone who might commit suicide, gets a "get out jail free" card from you. At what crime do you draw the line I wonder? If I killed you and then said "oh I am going to end it all" should I walk free?
I don't think the world can work as you seem to want it to work. Oh and if he was going to kill himself over the stress, why hasn't he killed himself yet, over the stress?
You are breaking my heart here. If it was left up to people like you, nobody would ever go to jail anymore for anything.
Anyone with a family, collective punishment of family.
Anyone without a family, extra punishment because nobody would visit them.
Bam, all jails are empty.
It reminds me of a case where british newspapers were complaining about drunk drivers not being dealed with harshly enough, then the police arrest a drunken woman and cry that locking her up is mean because she had kids.
Can't do the time, don't do the crime. And if this guy is so incapable of overseeing the consequences of his own actions, then he should be in permanent care. To me an insanity plea has never sounded right "Hi, I killed someone because I am insane so I had no motive, and I could do it randomly again and again with no cure possible". Most people would say "awh, that is so sad, let him off". I say "fry him".
Oh and you are also insulting all the REAL asperger sufferers who do NOT commit crimes.
Actually, this story is REALLY about the italians who keep electing these corrupt politicians over and over. Berlusconi makes Bush look competent and a nice guy and italians just can't seem to get enough of him.
How many republicans are against Obama's plans because they don't believe in them and how many because he is black? Like the "you lie" outcry that has not been done to any white president, this case is still to sensitive.
The movie "white man can't jump" could also have been titled "black men can't shoot without trying to look good even it means missing", a point made in the movie itself. Both are racial slurs and yet... there is a difference.
In a movie, writers typically show a bad guy is truly evil by having him kill an unarmed woman who is totally defenseless. Yet in "Apocalypse Now" the "hero" does exactly this while he is not treated as truly evil by either the writers or the audience for the rest of the movie. Because asian women are not truly human perhaps? American-japaense were interred during WW2, American-Italian and American-german were not. There were no neutralized japanese civilian spies. There were PLENTY of neutralized german and italian spies. So why was the loyal group rounded up?
Racism exist, and might never be truly eliminated. Until that it does, we need to be careful claiming that all should be treated equal when this isn't happening.
I don't know if this was unique to holland but there was a racism awareness event that tried to show how stupid racism was by claiming blue-eyed people were less intelligent. Fake docu's showing blue-eyed people being rounded up and put in special accommodations where there lower intelligence could be accounted for. Why blue-eyed? Because bigger noses or dark skin would not be clearly as idiotic perhaps?
Think about it for second. If you had to come up with such a campaign and select a body characteristic that was clearly not linked with someones social value yet obvious to everyone, what would you pick? I would stick with a white characteristic. Else people MIGHT just believe your campaign. Same as people believed Archie Bunker and the actor who played him were for real, while his character was supposed to be a parody and the actor was a well known anti-racist (just played a racist on tv and a movie)
Scamming someone who can answer the question, "you and what army". Oh okay, so their answer is "not army, marines" but still. Takes guts.
And with the US being involved in two wars, I think the sentence for this might actually be a cigarette, against a nice sunny wall. Blindfold optional.
Dear US senators,
Please lets us do our fucking business, and you do your fucking business for once of controlling your banks so they don't blow up the world economy, for the Xth time. We all know what happened last time the US argued for LESS government oversight.
With kind regards,
The EU.
P.S. Isn't it about time you paid of your debt.
More expensive, and if you need to replace a PS3, simply go to any electronics store, replace a custom part for a custom PC...
It is cheaper and more reliable and been tested already so you know it works.
You will see that with the increase in child-seat usage there is a sharp decline in child injuries, explain that away then sherlock?