Anyone else had any interesing encounters with those people?
A friend of mine and I wandered into the local Scientology compound one evening. The creepiest thing for me was the office with "L Ron Hubbard" on the door; everything was set up in the office as if he'd just nipped out for a moment to take a whiz or get a cup of coffee. I asked the tour guide "Um, I thought he was dead...?" "Oh no, he'll be back any time now..."
The 'free market' stuff doesn't work if nobody knows about the censorship. Once the Rovians (or their successors) become more adept at censorship, nobody will know it's happening.
Honestly, when has a boycott of a company the size of Disney, NBC, CBS, ever made any sort of a difference to their bottom line? I've never seen a press release to the effect "3rd quarter profits were down 80% because of a consumer boycott..."
I think it's just a convenient excuse.
Hell, they still haven't figured out how to reliably terminate the inventory tags in use now; think about how many times you've seen the alarms go off when someone is walking out of a store with legitimatly purchased items.
Will RFID tags set off alarms if not disarmed? Most likely not. You'll think they're disarmed, though...
As someone who has spent many hours in junkyards, I know that "auto recycling" is big business. From what I've seen at the specialised recylers, they base pricing on ~50% of the dealer's price, so if the dealer gets $3000 for those xeon [sic] headlights, they'll want $1500.
Nope - they'll move the burger-flipper-robot factory to Malaysia.
Lets say someone invented a fully functional burger flipping robot. Does everything need to operate a fast food facility. The company selling them would be hugh, maybe employing as many as 50,000 people. Now we created 50,000 new jobs
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the Ruling Class wants the level of education to go down. Dumb people are more easily ruled and don't ask difficult questions, and accept statements like "outsourcing will fuel US job growth" as fact.
This needs to make mainstream press, and DAMN QUICK.
It won't. The average person in the US is more interested in who's going to bang who tonight on reality TV.
Remember the old HP Laserjet(3,4) workhorses? Those things were stout.
The III's and 4's were the VW bugs of the printer world. The new ones are like the "New Beetle": pretty, with lots of "ooh ahhh" features, but they won't last as long or perform as well over the long haul.
As opposed to what happened to the CEO & execs of Enron, HP, Lucent, WorldCom, etc, who acted immorally?
Act morally, go to jail; act immorraly, get rich beyond your wildest dreams and go wreak havoc elsewhere. Now I get it! No wonder I'm poor!
PS: it's very rare that corporations get sued by the shareholders, and even rarer that it actually effects a change.
Consider also what would happen if you managed to convince a CEO of a corporation to make his corporation "act morally" at the expense of profits. More than likely the CEO will be sued by the corporation's shareholders (many of whom are other corporations) or arrested by the SEC for fiscal irresponsibility, and replaced by a new CEO, and you're back to square one. Net result: no change in the corporation's behavior. And the old CEO in jail gives the new CEO a powerful incentive to focus on the bottom line.
Custom fuel and timing map generation has been common for a while, and there are h/w+s/w combos that let you play with the maps on the fly with a laptop.
There's a product called the UniChip, which piggybacks the stock ECU ROM, and is tuned in real-time on a dyno in 200RPM increments, giving a perfectly-matched custom setup.
That's funny, the previous year, before deregulation, there was plenty of electricity for everyone. In states with deregulated utilities, plant 'outages' increased something along the lines of 70%. It's great when you can manipulate the supply, ain't it? DeBeers learned that one years ago.
These shennanigans and others came out in the Enron debacle, which your Refumblican leader wants to you make you forget by bombing the crap out of some 3rd-world country.
Get a job that you're so good at you can negotiate the terms, or suck it up and take what they give you.
And then they hand your job to an H1-B, or ship it to India altogether. It's this smug false sense of irreplacability that got us into this mess in the first place.
Yeah, but the head honchos off all those companies made out like bandits. And the enrons/worldcoms/etc are just the ones that got *caught*. Just like on TV's "Wildest Police Chases" they're never going to show you the ones they know about but got away.
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Is that the institution founded by Dick Herts?
Looks like the gay reproductive issue is solved...
A friend of mine and I wandered into the local Scientology compound one evening. The creepiest thing for me was the office with "L Ron Hubbard" on the door; everything was set up in the office as if he'd just nipped out for a moment to take a whiz or get a cup of coffee. I asked the tour guide "Um, I thought he was dead...?" "Oh no, he'll be back any time now..."
What kind of moron gambles online anyway? You're just begging to get ripped off...
Ever been in a Turkish prison?
Ever see a grown man naked?
Yeah, but some day your parents are going to make you move out of the basement - then what?
"Where's the elevation? It's fucking stupid!" --Freddie got Fingered
Honestly, when has a boycott of a company the size of Disney, NBC, CBS, ever made any sort of a difference to their bottom line? I've never seen a press release to the effect "3rd quarter profits were down 80% because of a consumer boycott..."
I think it's just a convenient excuse.
Will RFID tags set off alarms if not disarmed? Most likely not. You'll think they're disarmed, though...
The cheapest pussy is the pussy you pay for in cash.
As someone who has spent many hours in junkyards, I know that "auto recycling" is big business. From what I've seen at the specialised recylers, they base pricing on ~50% of the dealer's price, so if the dealer gets $3000 for those xeon [sic] headlights, they'll want $1500.
Lets say someone invented a fully functional burger flipping robot. Does everything need to operate a fast food facility. The company selling them would be hugh, maybe employing as many as 50,000 people. Now we created 50,000 new jobs
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the Ruling Class wants the level of education to go down. Dumb people are more easily ruled and don't ask difficult questions, and accept statements like "outsourcing will fuel US job growth" as fact.
Did they block 127 mail servers, or just 127.0.0.1, because the amount of spam I'm getting hasn't diminished.
This needs to make mainstream press, and DAMN QUICK.
It won't. The average person in the US is more interested in who's going to bang who tonight on reality TV.
The III's and 4's were the VW bugs of the printer world. The new ones are like the "New Beetle": pretty, with lots of "ooh ahhh" features, but they won't last as long or perform as well over the long haul.
As opposed to what happened to the CEO & execs of Enron, HP, Lucent, WorldCom, etc, who acted immorally?
Act morally, go to jail; act immorraly, get rich beyond your wildest dreams and go wreak havoc elsewhere. Now I get it! No wonder I'm poor!
PS: it's very rare that corporations get sued by the shareholders, and even rarer that it actually effects a change.
Consider also what would happen if you managed to convince a CEO of a corporation to make his corporation "act morally" at the expense of profits. More than likely the CEO will be sued by the corporation's shareholders (many of whom are other corporations) or arrested by the SEC for fiscal irresponsibility, and replaced by a new CEO, and you're back to square one. Net result: no change in the corporation's behavior.
And the old CEO in jail gives the new CEO a powerful incentive to focus on the bottom line.
Custom fuel and timing map generation has been common for a while, and there are h/w+s/w combos that let you play with the maps on the fly with a laptop. There's a product called the UniChip, which piggybacks the stock ECU ROM, and is tuned in real-time on a dyno in 200RPM increments, giving a perfectly-matched custom setup.
In Russia...
More Americans have used file-sharing software than voted for the President
So how many of the Supreme Court jurists use p2p s/w...
Non-sunroof coupes are actually highly sought after, and, believe it or not, command a premium.
That's funny, the previous year, before deregulation, there was plenty of electricity for everyone. In states with deregulated utilities, plant 'outages' increased something along the lines of 70%. It's great when you can manipulate the supply, ain't it? DeBeers learned that one years ago.
These shennanigans and others came out in the Enron debacle, which your Refumblican leader wants to you make you forget by bombing the crap out of some 3rd-world country.
Get a job that you're so good at you can negotiate the terms, or suck it up and take what they give you. And then they hand your job to an H1-B, or ship it to India altogether. It's this smug false sense of irreplacability that got us into this mess in the first place.
Yeah, but the head honchos off all those companies made out like bandits. And the enrons/worldcoms/etc are just the ones that got *caught*. Just like on TV's "Wildest Police Chases" they're never going to show you the ones they know about but got away.