He did create 12 jobs with Megaupload. He cost a lot more jobs at letsbuyit.com(which might have worked 10 years later...just not then). His useful service also consisted paying people for sending punters his way. He ripped off a shareware download manager and claimed it was his own and didn't even think of scrubbing the about box.
Job creation is NOT something you can credit that man for. And if I had used his "service" I'd wonder how he ripped me off. The man is a rat. He ratted on BBSes in the '90ies just to keep his lard arse out of jail. What kind of deal do you think he will make to escape prison this time?
If you gave him an enema he'd shrivel to smurf size.
Oh yes! There's also that episode of his pointless and sordid little life.
Deal with him and you will get burned. I can't even imagine why so many people would want to jump to that assholes defense. What even astonished me is that he was free to do his usual shady thing again.
The man is scum.
Because copyright laws are so fucked up they need longer for that accusation to stick. Or even make a case. You don't have to make a case with copyright infringement.
...and then all his transgressions will be thrown together into a kettle and stirred into a nice shit soup for all of us to eat. Can you see the headlines?
Baby-raping, drug money launderer sentenced to 999 years for grand copyright theft
Nobody would dare to speak up against the likes of SOPA again.
The key is to add a little bit of both. Although I was being cynical. Or at least I thought.
Post needs more smileys, obviously. :p
Besides If I were paid in gross profit of a Hollywood movie I might just get in line at the soup kitchen. Even blockbusters barely break even. The poor things.
Probation + fined for pump and dump. IMHO he did this in an especially despicable way
Ripped off DownloadStudio for his Megaupload downloadmanager.
Toolbar that redirected you on HTTP 404 to his own website.
Didn't pass character test to buy private property in NZ.
Is presence alone caused serious questions how he actually got into the country.
Changed his name into Dotcom.
Not allowed to open a business in a couple of countries.
The only thing missing from his CV is a lengthy prison stay. Or at least his name on a lot of shards right before he gets sent into the desert.
I do NOT support a lot of laws that will be thrown at him. But I am anticipating money laundring to stick and if he gets 10-20 for that then I will gladly protest the 50+ years he will get for copyright infringement.
He may have done just that. Look, we all agree that copyright laws are absolutely bonkers at the moment. Rape a couple of babies and congress would like to put you in the same cell for as long as a pirate.
Kim Schmitz IS a brown collar criminal who also ran a service that infringes laws we deem unjust. Now how is that gonna help?
Compare him to the Pirate Bay that spawned a movement and a party that advocates sensible rules for a new millennium. That's like comparing a turd to a chocolate bar.
So yes, his profiteering and possibly money laundring did cost us any chance we might have had to get things done.
Associate with men like Kim Schmitz and you will be burned.
All this huge campaign contributing thing has gotten way out of hand.
In Germany for instance the state compensates a party for campaigning for each vote gained. It's a little bit more complicated than that but that's the gist of it.
Money contribution is heavily regulated and politicians accepting gifts find themselves in real hot water. Also, there's not so much political TV Ad pollution.
How much does all that campaigning cost in the US? How is that even remotely reasonable? No wonder you need loads of cash to float to the top. With that much money involved how is corruption even remotely surprising.
Kim Schmitz is a German serial fraudster and wouldn't be allowed to open a business in Germany again. The "millions of damages" are a stately home in NZ with a ton of expensive cars, a golf course and of course Schmitz' globulous ego. This is not the fight you want to fight. If that scumbag gets sent back to prison then that's good. He knows the drill. He'll feel right at home. Only this time he will not get probation and a 100000 Euro fine for making 1.5 mil in fraud.
He's been convicted for a pump&dump racket involving his company Kimvestor and letsbuyit.com. Made a cool 1.5 mil on that. Then there was that thing with monkey.com. And with Megaupload there was that Mega Manager that was a ripoff of some other software(forgot the name), the "premium service" and other highly shady things he did from his golf-course attached villa in NZ that he wasn't allowed to purchase himself because he didn't pass a most basic character test.
there was that Mega Upload song thing that was unjustified. Copyright law still needs reform. There is the problem of US caliming jurisdiction in NZ, but frankly NZ gladly handed him over since he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
That man symbolizes dot.com bubble profiteering like no other fraudster.
Not to ripoff your download client software without changing the about box which still contains the name of the original company that developed it.
Not to have a "premium service".
Not to buy a huge villa with money that came from god knows where. (hence the money laundering allegations)
Megaupload was the fat kid that didn't only piss into the pool but also shat into it.
The real bummer is that they still had that false DMCA takedown and the international copyright extortion racket of **AA going against them. So we also need to protest their closure. Even if everything about that racket was rotten.
Of course the D is there. He isn't Chris Odd. Or even Chris O. There's Ds all over the place and yet you demand more? Chris Ddodd is a little bit symetrical, I grant you that. But you really need to do something about that OCD.
Megaupload was run by that arch scumbag Kim Schmitz. It makes me sick that I'd have to pick up the mantle for him. Also he made quite a lot of money on that thing. Nothing noble or free about it.
I've decided for myself to side with the prosecuters on this. New Zealand is asking itsself how a serial felon, business fraudster and all around fat gasbag actually made it into the country. Forget about Megaupload and look for things that are actually worth defending.
I for one will not use my activism to line the coffers of a man who by all rights should still sit in a German prison for the business frauds alone he comitted.
England(can't speak for the UK because I've never been everywhere) uses a weird mixture of both.
Fatties still weigh their arses in stone because that number is lower than when you use kilograms. And a pint is a pint. In daily use the metric system is simply not there. It's all imperial AND not driving on the right side of the road. Doubly screwed, I say.
I don't think the kind of labour described here involves a lot of thought process. It's more like pasting iPart one to iPart two and enjoy the iFumes that need inhaling.
Also you may find that US engineers are quite fluent in imperial, metric and whatever other random system you come up. There are quite a few things to laugh about(imperial system possibly being one) but this actually is the least of anyones worries. At least the US drives on the right side of the road(got it, huh? Nudge, nudge, say no more).
My thoughts exactly. Sombody paid for their shoddy process with a lot of other people's blood. Propably got a fucking bonus for being so clever, too.
I'd say thank god I don't buy anything Apple but I suspect this is comnmon place. Could we please get some background information and names? Let's send them to the Foxconn factories so the workers there can give their proper thanks for the admiration(but not money) their extra dedication got them.
It started with Reagan and went downhill afterwards. Whenever I hear somebody wanting to glorify those times I don't rightly know into which direction to puke first.
We got rid of the employee/employer relationship and replaced that with HR. Just the other day I was at a friends home who had pinned a drawing of his daughter to the fridge. She had scribbled stuff in kindergarden over some kind of Powerpoint HR mission statement from some multi-national conglomerate.
Boy, at a glance I totally won each and every bullshit bingo ever played. They even had the audacity to use the words "mission statement".
If hard work doesn't pay off and you are just a number on some Excel sheet(measured in FTE possibly just a fragment of a number) and you can't provide for you and yours and need another income just to pay the dog food you eat each day and serve to your children...isn't it heartwarming to listen to Reagan worshippers preaching of "family values" and jobs?
I need to brush the sick from the back of my teeth.
I'm feeling lame, so I'll be responding to myself.
If you don't think good craftmanship and good treatment of the people involved isn't worth the extra 100 quid then you go on shopping at your wall markets and stop complaining about people jumping off factory roofs and the decline of your homeland. This is not directed at you, dear GP. If you blindly want to trust into "market forces" AKA "fat arsed bastards who need electric trolleys for even the most basic shopping" then you might find yourself a bit screwed. Also, you might want to buy a pair of glasses since you seem to be rather shortsighted.
Go to a local carpenter to have a kitchen fitted. Made of proper wood and not some IKEA pressed cardboard stuff and be amazed what proper material and proper craftmanship cost. I don't understand why everybody expects everything to be cheap. Cheerful doesn't always follow suit.
WallMart set up shop in my hometown. They closed it after two years because nobody went there. Yay, European style socialism. Whatever that is. It dosn't seem to come with a proper manual.
Labour cost don't factor in so highly when you move to a much more automated and sophisticated production facility. But like the pharaos in the olden time had discovered: when human life is cheap, labour is cheap.
Well, the West had discovered a couple of centuries ago that an individual's live is important as is his wellbeing. Now we got the likes of Apple WHO DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT PROPER ENGINEERING AND USE LAST MINUTE SPEC CHANGES to justify valuing human wellbeing lower than the rounded corners of iDevices.
I raise your Reagonomics capitalism by my Renaissance. At least humanism doesn't bite you in the ass in the long run.
Yeah, well, the specific example with last minute spec changing to hardware is rather telling. That is a piss-poor design process by apple and they still expect results and find that's only achievable by what I call slave labour.
Using this as a reason why factories in the US can't compete is despicable and IMHO grounds to heavily agitate against Apple if one is so inclined. For me the piss-poor design process described is reason enough not to by Apple. Well, that and their tendency to sell you their own iCash registers.
The really funny part is that every bit of cash that flows into cheaply producing countries has over the last 20 years or so resulted in the People demanding more pay and more benefits and them getting both. So those jobs might come back and Apple will have to deal with real people having real lives and not living on their whim and changing hardware specs at the very last moment will cause more faulty and sub-par iStuff making headlines.
THAT'S PEOPLE JUMPING OFF THE ROOVES OF THE FACTORY BUILDING FOR $DEITY'S SAKE!
If slave labour is what keeps you afloat you deserve to go down like a lead zeppelin.
But essentially she says we are all doomed. The only consolation is that we are not the only ones who will be able to proudly wear what essentially is a badge of shit. Every turd has its silver lining, as the saying goes. Don't ask me to search for it.
Have you ever personally been voting for EU Parliament? Have you ever cared about voting for it? I never had.
We only notice the EU whenever we pay with Euro coins from exotic countries, some money seems to be missing in some Euro countries, there are new member states or there is some huge scandal within the EU Comission which will promptly be reported on page 5 of your newspaper. Somewhere in the Male/Male/Nutella classified ads.
No wonder that nobody will notice this. And it is an issue that is percieved as a technical issue and what do we care about technical issues? That's the silent majority for you.
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He did create 12 jobs with Megaupload. He cost a lot more jobs at letsbuyit.com(which might have worked 10 years later...just not then). His useful service also consisted paying people for sending punters his way. He ripped off a shareware download manager and claimed it was his own and didn't even think of scrubbing the about box.
Job creation is NOT something you can credit that man for. And if I had used his "service" I'd wonder how he ripped me off. The man is a rat. He ratted on BBSes in the '90ies just to keep his lard arse out of jail. What kind of deal do you think he will make to escape prison this time?
If you gave him an enema he'd shrivel to smurf size.
Oh yes! There's also that episode of his pointless and sordid little life.
Deal with him and you will get burned. I can't even imagine why so many people would want to jump to that assholes defense. What even astonished me is that he was free to do his usual shady thing again.
The man is scum.
I was? How clever of me :p
There is also the accusation of money laundry.
...and then all his transgressions will be thrown together into a kettle and stirred into a nice shit soup for all of us to eat. Can you see the headlines?
Because copyright laws are so fucked up they need longer for that accusation to stick. Or even make a case. You don't have to make a case with copyright infringement.
Baby-raping, drug money launderer sentenced to 999 years for grand copyright theft
Nobody would dare to speak up against the likes of SOPA again.
The key is to add a little bit of both. Although I was being cynical. Or at least I thought.
:p
Post needs more smileys, obviously.
Besides If I were paid in gross profit of a Hollywood movie I might just get in line at the soup kitchen. Even blockbusters barely break even. The poor things.
Probation + fined for pump and dump. IMHO he did this in an especially despicable way
Ripped off DownloadStudio for his Megaupload downloadmanager.
Toolbar that redirected you on HTTP 404 to his own website.
Didn't pass character test to buy private property in NZ.
Is presence alone caused serious questions how he actually got into the country.
Changed his name into Dotcom.
Not allowed to open a business in a couple of countries.
The only thing missing from his CV is a lengthy prison stay. Or at least his name on a lot of shards right before he gets sent into the desert.
I do NOT support a lot of laws that will be thrown at him. But I am anticipating money laundring to stick and if he gets 10-20 for that then I will gladly protest the 50+ years he will get for copyright infringement.
He may have done just that. Look, we all agree that copyright laws are absolutely bonkers at the moment. Rape a couple of babies and congress would like to put you in the same cell for as long as a pirate.
Kim Schmitz IS a brown collar criminal who also ran a service that infringes laws we deem unjust. Now how is that gonna help?
Compare him to the Pirate Bay that spawned a movement and a party that advocates sensible rules for a new millennium. That's like comparing a turd to a chocolate bar.
So yes, his profiteering and possibly money laundring did cost us any chance we might have had to get things done.
Associate with men like Kim Schmitz and you will be burned.
All this huge campaign contributing thing has gotten way out of hand.
In Germany for instance the state compensates a party for campaigning for each vote gained. It's a little bit more complicated than that but that's the gist of it.
Money contribution is heavily regulated and politicians accepting gifts find themselves in real hot water. Also, there's not so much political TV Ad pollution.
How much does all that campaigning cost in the US? How is that even remotely reasonable? No wonder you need loads of cash to float to the top. With that much money involved how is corruption even remotely surprising.
How is Dodd not little people? The members of MPAA hardly make any profit on their movies so their value for the US economy can't be that high.
Maybe Teh Interwebz has more money to bribe the guy he bribed since he is cash starved?
Given Kim Schmitz was involved I wouldn't be surprised if the money laundering accusation stuck. He is a convicted fraudster and deemed unfit to run a business in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz The lawyer he hired has just dropped the case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Bennett
Here's to hoping Kim Schmitz is going down for good. I don't want that turd to surface in sight anymore.
Enough with the Megaupload.
Kim Schmitz is a German serial fraudster and wouldn't be allowed to open a business in Germany again. The "millions of damages" are a stately home in NZ with a ton of expensive cars, a golf course and of course Schmitz' globulous ego. This is not the fight you want to fight. If that scumbag gets sent back to prison then that's good. He knows the drill. He'll feel right at home. Only this time he will not get probation and a 100000 Euro fine for making 1.5 mil in fraud.
He's been convicted for a pump&dump racket involving his company Kimvestor and letsbuyit.com. Made a cool 1.5 mil on that. Then there was that thing with monkey.com. And with Megaupload there was that Mega Manager that was a ripoff of some other software(forgot the name), the "premium service" and other highly shady things he did from his golf-course attached villa in NZ that he wasn't allowed to purchase himself because he didn't pass a most basic character test.
there was that Mega Upload song thing that was unjustified. Copyright law still needs reform. There is the problem of US caliming jurisdiction in NZ, but frankly NZ gladly handed him over since he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
For one: never do business with Kim Schmitz.
That man symbolizes dot.com bubble profiteering like no other fraudster.
Not to ripoff your download client software without changing the about box which still contains the name of the original company that developed it.
Not to have a "premium service".
Not to buy a huge villa with money that came from god knows where. (hence the money laundering allegations)
Megaupload was the fat kid that didn't only piss into the pool but also shat into it.
The real bummer is that they still had that false DMCA takedown and the international copyright extortion racket of **AA going against them. So we also need to protest their closure. Even if everything about that racket was rotten.
Of course the D is there. He isn't Chris Odd. Or even Chris O. There's Ds all over the place and yet you demand more? Chris Ddodd is a little bit symetrical, I grant you that. But you really need to do something about that OCD.
Megaupload was run by that arch scumbag Kim Schmitz. It makes me sick that I'd have to pick up the mantle for him. Also he made quite a lot of money on that thing. Nothing noble or free about it.
I've decided for myself to side with the prosecuters on this. New Zealand is asking itsself how a serial felon, business fraudster and all around fat gasbag actually made it into the country. Forget about Megaupload and look for things that are actually worth defending.
I for one will not use my activism to line the coffers of a man who by all rights should still sit in a German prison for the business frauds alone he comitted.
England(can't speak for the UK because I've never been everywhere) uses a weird mixture of both.
Fatties still weigh their arses in stone because that number is lower than when you use kilograms. And a pint is a pint. In daily use the metric system is simply not there. It's all imperial AND not driving on the right side of the road. Doubly screwed, I say.
I don't think the kind of labour described here involves a lot of thought process. It's more like pasting iPart one to iPart two and enjoy the iFumes that need inhaling.
Also you may find that US engineers are quite fluent in imperial, metric and whatever other random system you come up. There are quite a few things to laugh about(imperial system possibly being one) but this actually is the least of anyones worries. At least the US drives on the right side of the road(got it, huh? Nudge, nudge, say no more).
My thoughts exactly. Sombody paid for their shoddy process with a lot of other people's blood. Propably got a fucking bonus for being so clever, too.
I'd say thank god I don't buy anything Apple but I suspect this is comnmon place. Could we please get some background information and names? Let's send them to the Foxconn factories so the workers there can give their proper thanks for the admiration(but not money) their extra dedication got them.
That's also how I remember it.
It started with Reagan and went downhill afterwards. Whenever I hear somebody wanting to glorify those times I don't rightly know into which direction to puke first.
We got rid of the employee/employer relationship and replaced that with HR. Just the other day I was at a friends home who had pinned a drawing of his daughter to the fridge. She had scribbled stuff in kindergarden over some kind of Powerpoint HR mission statement from some multi-national conglomerate.
Boy, at a glance I totally won each and every bullshit bingo ever played. They even had the audacity to use the words "mission statement".
If hard work doesn't pay off and you are just a number on some Excel sheet(measured in FTE possibly just a fragment of a number) and you can't provide for you and yours and need another income just to pay the dog food you eat each day and serve to your children...isn't it heartwarming to listen to Reagan worshippers preaching of "family values" and jobs?
I need to brush the sick from the back of my teeth.
I'm feeling lame, so I'll be responding to myself.
If you don't think good craftmanship and good treatment of the people involved isn't worth the extra 100 quid then you go on shopping at your wall markets and stop complaining about people jumping off factory roofs and the decline of your homeland. This is not directed at you, dear GP. If you blindly want to trust into "market forces" AKA "fat arsed bastards who need electric trolleys for even the most basic shopping" then you might find yourself a bit screwed. Also, you might want to buy a pair of glasses since you seem to be rather shortsighted.
Go to a local carpenter to have a kitchen fitted. Made of proper wood and not some IKEA pressed cardboard stuff and be amazed what proper material and proper craftmanship cost. I don't understand why everybody expects everything to be cheap. Cheerful doesn't always follow suit.
WallMart set up shop in my hometown. They closed it after two years because nobody went there. Yay, European style socialism. Whatever that is. It dosn't seem to come with a proper manual.
Labour cost don't factor in so highly when you move to a much more automated and sophisticated production facility. But like the pharaos in the olden time had discovered: when human life is cheap, labour is cheap.
Well, the West had discovered a couple of centuries ago that an individual's live is important as is his wellbeing. Now we got the likes of Apple WHO DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT PROPER ENGINEERING AND USE LAST MINUTE SPEC CHANGES to justify valuing human wellbeing lower than the rounded corners of iDevices.
I raise your Reagonomics capitalism by my Renaissance. At least humanism doesn't bite you in the ass in the long run.
Yeah, well, the specific example with last minute spec changing to hardware is rather telling. That is a piss-poor design process by apple and they still expect results and find that's only achievable by what I call slave labour.
Using this as a reason why factories in the US can't compete is despicable and IMHO grounds to heavily agitate against Apple if one is so inclined. For me the piss-poor design process described is reason enough not to by Apple. Well, that and their tendency to sell you their own iCash registers.
The really funny part is that every bit of cash that flows into cheaply producing countries has over the last 20 years or so resulted in the People demanding more pay and more benefits and them getting both. So those jobs might come back and Apple will have to deal with real people having real lives and not living on their whim and changing hardware specs at the very last moment will cause more faulty and sub-par iStuff making headlines.
THAT'S PEOPLE JUMPING OFF THE ROOVES OF THE FACTORY BUILDING FOR $DEITY'S SAKE!
If slave labour is what keeps you afloat you deserve to go down like a lead zeppelin.
Yay for the Welsh. At least they stand by us.
But essentially she says we are all doomed. The only consolation is that we are not the only ones who will be able to proudly wear what essentially is a badge of shit. Every turd has its silver lining, as the saying goes. Don't ask me to search for it.
Sorry, I made this up on the spot because that's the only excuse I could think of.
Have you ever personally been voting for EU Parliament? Have you ever cared about voting for it? I never had.
We only notice the EU whenever we pay with Euro coins from exotic countries, some money seems to be missing in some Euro countries, there are new member states or there is some huge scandal within the EU Comission which will promptly be reported on page 5 of your newspaper. Somewhere in the Male/Male/Nutella classified ads.
No wonder that nobody will notice this. And it is an issue that is percieved as a technical issue and what do we care about technical issues? That's the silent majority for you.
Technically they are very much not male.
Female XX vs. Male XY.
I guess your feminine side is on her morning coffee break, yes?