My grandfathers fought in a war to maintain our standard of living. They worked hard to improve their country, for themselves and for their children. Now I watch these dirtbag corporate execs piss it all away to people of another country and expect us to reduce our standard of living in order to "compete". These same shitcocks who live opulent lifestyles off the backs of the same people they piss on.
No. If they want to exploit all of this foreign labour, they should be forced to move their headquarters and executive officers to those countries where they do all their work, then import their product as if they were a foreign company. If they want to take advantage of all the niceties, protections, and advantages this country provides them, they can damn well show some support in return. If not, they are nothing but parasites who deserve to be removed.
No, even if it is anonymized, this is a big "do not want". You must assume that this data will make its way into the hands of Coke, Apple, the banks, and government entities.
These guys are quickly figuring out how the human brain works through methods like this, and they aren't using it for your benefit. It's being used to figure out how to sell you more crap, how to convince you to get others to buy more crap, and how to adjust your thinking patterns.
I find it amazing how well people are programmed through today's media. Even here on slashdot you have so many "individuals" who parrot media talking points to a tee, that it's unlikely they came to those conclusions on their own.
The human mind is simply another machine. Once they figure out what thought categories you fall into, they know what code path to feed you to influence you in their direction. This idea won't sit well with most folks, because they think they're too smart to fall for that, but I see it time and again with otherwise brilliant people who are suckered in by the agendas of others. I see it happen to myself as well, and it's scary.
There is no way I want my kids to be providing data for the enemy.
Exactly. The thieving scumbags immediately crawl out of the woodwork, push their way through to the front of the crowd, and like greedy little leprechauns, pocket all of that money, leaving none for the intended purpose.
Yet another example of "trickle-down" being massively overwhelmed by "hoover-up".
Bad example, because if you were given the choice of a pacemaker that used a battery and one that didn't, with the one that didn't having a significantly higher chance of not failing, which would you go for?
If you look closer at your examples, maybe you can see why there's a distinction. Lying in those situations has a direct negative impact on another person, is what differs. Someone's mere ownership of an item doesn't affect anyone else. Your argument doesn't distinguish definite harm to another compared to "potential" harm to another.
We already have laws for misuse of weapons against others. If we confiscated any item that someone could potentially use to harm another, you'd find yourself without a vehicle, kitchen knives, shovels, baseball bats, tire irons, and maybe even hands.
Yes, you can. And, to add some irony to this article, you can even play against a friend over the Internet, even though the original game had no such support. Google "vice netplay"
I don't think going private at this point would change anything for them. They're just too big.
Big companies only care about where their next dollar is coming from, and they never care about fucking over customers until there's a massive backlash that gets negative media attention. Even then, they'll only throw the most meager of bones to people to get that one incident swept under the carpet, and then go back to sipping brandy and twirling mustaches while they plot their next take-over.
I'm not surprised at all that people still play it. It is an excellent game. Video games are much like music and movies. People still watch Citizen Kane. People still listen to the Beatles. 100 years from now, if people are still around and it's still possible, people will still play Pac-Man.
What you describe is a nightmare. I sincerely hope that when my son gets older, he does not fall into some kind of trap like this where he poop-socks it for some stupid game just to get some pointless digital trinket.
I'd rather deal with just finding weed in his jacket pocket, like normal people.
They pull this hypocritical card all the time. If prices on something are high, they just dismiss with "supply and demand, econ 101, deal with it, blah blah". Then they go and purchase laws that prevent competition, and other laws to prevent you from importing the product from overseas for a cheaper price.
On the other hand, when there's a low supply of skilled of workers (or even if there isn't), rather than raising salaries to attract the talent, they again purchase laws that allow to bring overseas employees into the picture and screw over the local workers once again.
There's a cap on the President's pay though, isn't there? It's like $400k per year, if I recall. It doesn't matter if he does a great job, or a lousy job. This guy's basically the CEO of an entire country, yet his pay is about 10x the average citizen's salary, not the 100x+ you see in corporations.
Of course, this is ignoring any side and backdoor deals he gets, but we're doing that for CEO pay here as well.
Exactly. When a company provides an employee some sort of benefit, like say a parking spot, the value of that benefit is counted as income as far as your taxes go. If the exec is allowed to use a $4M dollar house that is somehow owned/rented by the corp, it should be treated as a rental that's paid for by the corp and the appropriate rent counted as income.
If I want to buy or sell any product I want, or inject any substance I want into my body, who is the government to tell me no?
Oh wait, that's exactly what happens. The government already sticks its nose into the personal business of every citizen, but when it's a rich guy's pay on the line, we'd better stop and evaluate what we're doing, right?
Those games aren't so difficult that you have to level the hell out of any particular stat to get anywhere though. I enjoyed those games thoroughly without really caring much about any particular stat and was still able to finish the game.
However, if it did come down to "you need 100 in these 3 stats to have a hope in hell of finishing the following quests," then I'd bypass that stupid rubber band trick altogether and just modify the character stats in the save game and continue on.
Who in their right mind would believe such a promise though? If you suspect a country would resort to torture or execution of a simple whistleblower, you're already way past assuming they'd do something comparatively mundane such as lying.
That's why they also have an anti-gun slant on everything now. They know that once people realize who fucked them over, they're going to be coming for them, and they sure has hell don't want them armed.
What country do you live in, where they practice some utopian Econ 101 principles? I'd like to move there, because I currently live in a country where it's some twisted variant of that. A place where instead of paying higher wages when demand for workers goes up, they bribe (sorry, "lobby") the government into changing the rules so that low-wage workers from another country come in to do the job, then go back home where that money is worth much more.
I, on the other hand, have to deal with higher costs of living here and there is no way to compete with that labor, short of leaving this country for that same 3rd world hell-hole. This leaves this country with a smaller tax-base as well as myself and others who leave not buying products from this country any longer. See a long term outcome here as this happens to more and more people?
And if I manage to find some way to get cheap products from abroad rather than buying them here, companies are screaming bloody murder that they're being cheated and that the government has to do something about it. Check out the recent case with the guy reselling textbooks. I'm frankly shocked that the courts ruled the right way on that one. I'm sure companies are working hard on closing that loophole. They already did it with movies and games using region protection.
The game is rigged against the middle class right now. Governments want more taxes from you, companies want more money for all of their products, banks and govt's devaluing what money you get via inflation, and employers looking to reduce what you earn. No wonder there's so many scammers out there looking for a get rich quick scheme. The classic means of earning are all being squashed.
It also depends on how the cops intend to get this malware onto someone's computer. Are they doing a little B&E escapade while you're away and stuffing it in locally? If so, that could be pretty hard to detect unless you have hidden cameras or you diligently check logs on a regular basis. Or is it some weak trick where they email the guy an with some pornoesque.exe attachment and cross their fingers, hoping he'll give it a double-click?
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My grandfathers fought in a war to maintain our standard of living. They worked hard to improve their country, for themselves and for their children. Now I watch these dirtbag corporate execs piss it all away to people of another country and expect us to reduce our standard of living in order to "compete". These same shitcocks who live opulent lifestyles off the backs of the same people they piss on.
No. If they want to exploit all of this foreign labour, they should be forced to move their headquarters and executive officers to those countries where they do all their work, then import their product as if they were a foreign company. If they want to take advantage of all the niceties, protections, and advantages this country provides them, they can damn well show some support in return. If not, they are nothing but parasites who deserve to be removed.
No, even if it is anonymized, this is a big "do not want". You must assume that this data will make its way into the hands of Coke, Apple, the banks, and government entities.
These guys are quickly figuring out how the human brain works through methods like this, and they aren't using it for your benefit. It's being used to figure out how to sell you more crap, how to convince you to get others to buy more crap, and how to adjust your thinking patterns.
I find it amazing how well people are programmed through today's media. Even here on slashdot you have so many "individuals" who parrot media talking points to a tee, that it's unlikely they came to those conclusions on their own.
The human mind is simply another machine. Once they figure out what thought categories you fall into, they know what code path to feed you to influence you in their direction. This idea won't sit well with most folks, because they think they're too smart to fall for that, but I see it time and again with otherwise brilliant people who are suckered in by the agendas of others. I see it happen to myself as well, and it's scary.
There is no way I want my kids to be providing data for the enemy.
Exactly. The thieving scumbags immediately crawl out of the woodwork, push their way through to the front of the crowd, and like greedy little leprechauns, pocket all of that money, leaving none for the intended purpose.
Yet another example of "trickle-down" being massively overwhelmed by "hoover-up".
I've also read that I have won $500,000 and I should email some guy to claim my reward. It must be true!
Bad example, because if you were given the choice of a pacemaker that used a battery and one that didn't, with the one that didn't having a significantly higher chance of not failing, which would you go for?
If you look closer at your examples, maybe you can see why there's a distinction. Lying in those situations has a direct negative impact on another person, is what differs. Someone's mere ownership of an item doesn't affect anyone else. Your argument doesn't distinguish definite harm to another compared to "potential" harm to another.
We already have laws for misuse of weapons against others. If we confiscated any item that someone could potentially use to harm another, you'd find yourself without a vehicle, kitchen knives, shovels, baseball bats, tire irons, and maybe even hands.
Yes, you can. And, to add some irony to this article, you can even play against a friend over the Internet, even though the original game had no such support. Google "vice netplay"
I don't think going private at this point would change anything for them. They're just too big.
Big companies only care about where their next dollar is coming from, and they never care about fucking over customers until there's a massive backlash that gets negative media attention. Even then, they'll only throw the most meager of bones to people to get that one incident swept under the carpet, and then go back to sipping brandy and twirling mustaches while they plot their next take-over.
I'm not surprised at all that people still play it. It is an excellent game. Video games are much like music and movies. People still watch Citizen Kane. People still listen to the Beatles. 100 years from now, if people are still around and it's still possible, people will still play Pac-Man.
They'll probably set it up like a video rental. If you don't return it, you get a bill for some outrageous amount in the mail.
Most people don't get how law works. It's designed that way, so that lawyers have jobs, and anyone can be considered a "perp" when it's convenient.
What you describe is a nightmare. I sincerely hope that when my son gets older, he does not fall into some kind of trap like this where he poop-socks it for some stupid game just to get some pointless digital trinket.
I'd rather deal with just finding weed in his jacket pocket, like normal people.
They pull this hypocritical card all the time. If prices on something are high, they just dismiss with "supply and demand, econ 101, deal with it, blah blah". Then they go and purchase laws that prevent competition, and other laws to prevent you from importing the product from overseas for a cheaper price.
On the other hand, when there's a low supply of skilled of workers (or even if there isn't), rather than raising salaries to attract the talent, they again purchase laws that allow to bring overseas employees into the picture and screw over the local workers once again.
This is absolutely the best post under this article. Sadly, few will see it because it's so far down and moderators rarely make it this far.
There's a cap on the President's pay though, isn't there? It's like $400k per year, if I recall. It doesn't matter if he does a great job, or a lousy job. This guy's basically the CEO of an entire country, yet his pay is about 10x the average citizen's salary, not the 100x+ you see in corporations.
Of course, this is ignoring any side and backdoor deals he gets, but we're doing that for CEO pay here as well.
Exactly. When a company provides an employee some sort of benefit, like say a parking spot, the value of that benefit is counted as income as far as your taxes go. If the exec is allowed to use a $4M dollar house that is somehow owned/rented by the corp, it should be treated as a rental that's paid for by the corp and the appropriate rent counted as income.
If I want to buy or sell any product I want, or inject any substance I want into my body, who is the government to tell me no?
Oh wait, that's exactly what happens. The government already sticks its nose into the personal business of every citizen, but when it's a rich guy's pay on the line, we'd better stop and evaluate what we're doing, right?
Those games aren't so difficult that you have to level the hell out of any particular stat to get anywhere though. I enjoyed those games thoroughly without really caring much about any particular stat and was still able to finish the game.
However, if it did come down to "you need 100 in these 3 stats to have a hope in hell of finishing the following quests," then I'd bypass that stupid rubber band trick altogether and just modify the character stats in the save game and continue on.
I was just a child when my innocence was lost
in a mobile army whorehouse
a gift of the army, free of cost
Next! Next! Next!
- Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Who in their right mind would believe such a promise though? If you suspect a country would resort to torture or execution of a simple whistleblower, you're already way past assuming they'd do something comparatively mundane such as lying.
You are ignorant if you do not realize that supply can be manipulated, or that a "free market" doesn't actually exist.
That's why they also have an anti-gun slant on everything now. They know that once people realize who fucked them over, they're going to be coming for them, and they sure has hell don't want them armed.
What country do you live in, where they practice some utopian Econ 101 principles? I'd like to move there, because I currently live in a country where it's some twisted variant of that. A place where instead of paying higher wages when demand for workers goes up, they bribe (sorry, "lobby") the government into changing the rules so that low-wage workers from another country come in to do the job, then go back home where that money is worth much more.
I, on the other hand, have to deal with higher costs of living here and there is no way to compete with that labor, short of leaving this country for that same 3rd world hell-hole. This leaves this country with a smaller tax-base as well as myself and others who leave not buying products from this country any longer. See a long term outcome here as this happens to more and more people?
And if I manage to find some way to get cheap products from abroad rather than buying them here, companies are screaming bloody murder that they're being cheated and that the government has to do something about it. Check out the recent case with the guy reselling textbooks. I'm frankly shocked that the courts ruled the right way on that one. I'm sure companies are working hard on closing that loophole. They already did it with movies and games using region protection.
The game is rigged against the middle class right now. Governments want more taxes from you, companies want more money for all of their products, banks and govt's devaluing what money you get via inflation, and employers looking to reduce what you earn. No wonder there's so many scammers out there looking for a get rich quick scheme. The classic means of earning are all being squashed.
A shame your business is now going to have to pay higher wages to attract talent instead of sending the Amistad for another pickup run.
It also depends on how the cops intend to get this malware onto someone's computer. Are they doing a little B&E escapade while you're away and stuffing it in locally? If so, that could be pretty hard to detect unless you have hidden cameras or you diligently check logs on a regular basis. Or is it some weak trick where they email the guy an with some pornoesque .exe attachment and cross their fingers, hoping he'll give it a double-click?