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  1. Re:Here goes the Sinophobia again on China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I look forward to the day America is not beset with Chicom propagandists who support the offshoring of all jobs to China, China's rampant forced organ harvesting of their political and religious prisoner populations, and their disappeared human rights attorneys and pro-democracy activists, etc., etc.

  2. the best movie on China: on China Gets on the Bandwagon To Provide Global Satellite Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 1
  3. CenturyLink and pensions on CenturyLink Blocked Its Customers' Internet Access in Order To Show an Ad (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Isn't CenturyLink the telecom with the extensive history in secretly downsizing employees' pensions?

  4. Re:Funny how they can "determine" that on Chinese Spies Reportedly Behind Massive Marriott Hack (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They can ALREADY CONFIRM it from those security clearance records they stole along with over 25 million personnel records (latest actual number as released from the gov't) and the fingerprint records: those having security clearances --- especially upper-level type clearances --- but no security clearance file at the OPM obviously received theirs with another agency (as in CIA, NSA, DIA, etc.).

  5. As other commenters have said, only the approved "conspiracy theories" will be allowed.

    Be nice if we saw more of the obvious facts such as the profits from stock speculation on 9/11 (on the airlines involved, and businesses residing in the WTC Twin Towers) went into an account with investment firm, Alex. Brown and Sons, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bank, and that an inactive partner with Alex. Brown was CIA executive director, Buzz Krongard, whose wife was a partner with Apollo Asset Management which owned EurekaGGN, a fiber optics cabling company, which had just installed dark (still inactive) fiber optic cabling in the top 20 to 40 stories of the WTC's Twin Towers, and that aboard Flight 77 was a physicist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center who had previously worked on a research project about destroying building by injecting nanothermite into fiber optics cabling, then triggering it with a single laser pulse. Sadly, that physicist died aboard Flight 77, which crashed into the west wall of the Pentagon, killing almost all the auditors of the DIA's Financial Management Group who had recently discovered that $2.3 trillion in funds were missing from the DoD.

    With several months, the asset values of hedge funds would double from $2 trillion to $4 trillion and we know after the fact that the stock speculation on those 9/11 business took place on the investment firm computer systems located in the Twin Towers. Now would facts like this be allowed???

    https://www.foreignpolicyjourn...

  6. Was this the female who has never coded before in her life????? Most peculiar . . .

  7. Re:Melinda and Sheryl? on Driveway Encounter With Microsoft's President Led To $25 Million For Code.org · · Score: 2

    Melinda was well known to write even worse code than BillG, her almost-never used (actually three people did end up purchasing and using it for awhile) user interface was the major joke at Micro$oft.

  8. Why am I not surprised . . . on How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop (forbes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yet another Obama jackhole is involved with American jobs offshoring??? The Clintons and Obama are biggest neocon P.O.S.es out there --- with the R-cons we know they are anti-worker crooks, with the faux crats they are lying swine who claim to be something other than what they are: anti-worker crooks!

  9. Some of the commenters here actually get it, but those raised (indoctrinated) by the Bipolar TV/entertainment narratives won't be able to functionally comprehend the seriousness of China's uber-Orwellian Social Credit System!

    Their Confucian Institutes --- their massive human rights abuses in the PRC, itself --- their OBOR strategy, that canal being built through Nicaragua, etc., etc., etc.!!!!

    Recommended Reading:
    China RX by Rosemary Gibson
    Crack99 by David Locke Hall
    People's Republic of the Disappeared by Michael Caster

  10. Worser and worser on Chinese News Agency Adds AI Anchors To Its Broadcast Team (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And within the past several days the government of China has cancelled numerous reporters' access to Hong Kong, including the appearance of an author there, all to bring Hong Kong more closely into China's totalitarian sphere of absolute censorship!

  11. Re:Yes, that has worked so well in the past on Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If Standard had actually been split up --- it would have worked quite nicely. Not sure how reality-based the split of AT&T was, but since they've reconstituted it is almost irrelevant.

  12. Re:Yes breakups did work --- WRONG! on Tim Berners-Lee Says Tech Giants May Have To Be Split Up (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense! Standard Oil was broken up ONLY on paper --- not in actuality! And that paper breakup greatly profited John D. Rockefeller! I would posit that AT&T is back stronger than ever, having been reconstituted thanks to Clinton's signing of the Telecommunications Act of 1996! (The attorney general at the time of the so-called breakup of Standard Oil was Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the grandnephew of Napoleon --- you know, that French conqueror dude --- who also gave us the Bureau of Investigation, that political police created to squash the growing socialist/anti-predatory capitalist movement in the USA --- later to be known as the FBI!)

  13. Re:It should be obvious . . . on China Halts Special Approval Process for New Games (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet you love those totalitarian state rules in the People's Republic of the Disappeared, right? One of those retired American military pukes, are you? Or another sleazy jobs offshorer. . . . -- sgt_doom

  14. It should be obvious . . . on China Halts Special Approval Process for New Games (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    . . . game players tend to be independent thinkers, which is what game playing tends to foster.

    Can't have any independent thought in a country ruled by Emperor Xi Jinping!

  15. Fully agree on Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    This was both my opinion and impression but regardless of whether humans are adding tremendously to climate change, my readings in paleogeology suggest that our planet goes through 23,000 to 26,000 year cycles, and we are now at the 13,000 year half-way point, so change may be inevitable since we're now on the downside. 2050 looks bad, with the possibility of eternal summers, which then kicks into another ice age . . . .

  16. Re: Chinarussia Alliance on China Makes a Big Play In Silicon Valley (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    China is a whole 'nother ballgame, dood!

  17. Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared! on China Makes a Big Play In Silicon Valley (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared!

    Evidently I am one of many in North America who was unaware of the status of the Interpol chief, incorrectly assuming when I heard his name that he was a Chinese-European --- and appalled to learn he was a Chinese national and member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been number man at their intelligence organization, the Ministry of Public Security!
    Holy Mother of God !!!!!
    And there are still fools --- and minions of the oligarchy --- who question and criticize Brexit!
    The devil with those jackals!
    The government of China is a vile, despicable totalitarian capitalist state full of corruption of the princelings, the spawn of the founders of the Communist Party in that country and it is obvious that the Interpol chief, Meng, was with the competitor political faction to Xi Jinping's political gang --- Xi Jinping being China's self-appointed emperor. (Jinping's daddy was the author of the original Chinese constitution which Xi amended.)
    This is a most blatant and public insult from China to the EU --- suggestive of China's bellicose and warlike stance against the democracies of the world!
    Let us not forget the many recent disappearances performed by China: against pro-democracy academic critics, journalists, and the wholesale disappearance of most --- if not all --- of China's human rights attorneys of several years ago!
    In America, those jackals of the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and too many other viper nests, assured us that if all the jobs, technology and investment were offshored to China they would have long since morphed into a democracy by now.
    So much for the feckless self-serving assertions of jackals!
    With China's program of "soft" intelligence penetration by way of their Confucius Institutes (from a decidedly anti-Confucius government) coupled with their Trojan horse of foreign property acquisition through debt warfare (their One Belt One Road (One Ruler) Initiative) --- and their militarization of artificial islands in the seas of the Pacific, especially the South China Sea, of which two-thirds of the oil shipments traverse --- their global martial strategy is evident.
    Add to that their insidious implementation of an ultra-Orwellian control system: their Social Credit System, to further subvert any possibility of human rights in China and the future is obvious and cannot be disputed! Supporters of China's government spew nothing more than red dragon droppings: giant piles of crap! Suggested reading:
    https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
    https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
    https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
    https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
    https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
    https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
    https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
    https:/

  18. Who has the better track record for reporting factually-based truths: Bloomberg or those tech companies?

    Sadly, Bloomberg. Don't know what's going on as I haven't seen one opened --- so until that time I am withholding judgment as the hardware hacks have grown increasingly more sophisticated over the many years and have attended too many users forums in the past when technoid users discovered much of what the hardware was capable of, completely unknown to the designers.

    I remember the naysayers about an academic (believe it was at a university in North Carolina or thereabouts) who uncovered a compromised dll file in Windows which was an NSA backdoor --- and found it to be correct.

    I will continue to tune in . . .

  19. Re:I did this to myself a long time ago on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You are exactly on target ---- and the IT industry has a very bad habit of firing their product, i.e., their coders.

  20. Strange how . . . on Amazon Is Eliminating Bonuses, Stock Awards to Help Pay for Raises (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    in all the gushing about Amazon raising their salary minimum, nothing is said about their employee turnover numbers??????

  21. I recall two unbelievably obnoxious and rude job interviews --- the only two I ever ended with a curt word and booked from!

    The first one the interviewer was an East Coast Jewish-American-princess type, who accused me (who grew up in a Catholic orphanage, fought the wars and did the chores, etc.) of having all this infinite male privilege unlike this scion of wealth from NY --- she was certain I had the advantage in everything technical simply from being a male. I walked out of this Jewish-owned and operated (not being anti-Semitic, but it is pertinent to this story) biopharmaceutical firm in Rockville, MD, only a few years later to learn they had sold those Anthrax samples to Saddam Hussein of Iraq in use in the genocide against the Kurds!

    The second interview I ended due to the obnoxious female interviewing me was with a cretin with Aon Consulting --- she was then in Seattle, I believe, but would transfer to the WTC in NYC before 9/11/01. I heard her voice some months after 9/11 when she had phoned in to the 911 operator, asking if she should remain in a building just hit by a Boeing passenger airliner? She was not only obnoxious, but stupid until that day she died!

  22. BEWARE the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ignoring the rogues' gallery of their global advisory board in times past [jailbird, Rajat Gupta {and major jobs offshorer}, Philip Zelikow of the 9/11 Commission and Ernesto Zedillo, whom the Mexican gov't justifiably but unsuccessfully attempted to extradite back to Mexico to stand trial] the last stuff they funded, Oxitec, just happened to cause an explosion in the Zika virus wherever they released their engineered mosquitoes!

    We judge the most corrupt here in Seattle by the highly paid positions they are eventually offered at the Gates Foundation . . . .

  23. Tyler Cowen isn't an economist, simply a Koch brothers paid-stooge.

    Sure, you can call him a pseudo-economist, but please never call him a real economist.

  24. Exactly on target, alvinrod !!! on Study Finds 58% of Tech Employees Feel Like Frauds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever since OS programs began running into millions of lines of code, we've all been out of our depth, I sincerely believe. It used to be one could study and memorize the OSes; those days are long gone!

    Knowing 90% to 100% of any program today is an awesome undertaking!