Not if you start it, than it is a straight up ponzi scheme. Late comers greed, creates the false sense of credibility about your imaginary pile of loot. Real problem in getting rid of your hoard a billion of dollars of fake currency is a real tough sell (kind of really, really, collapses the value of your imaginary currency). Take the US dollar, is keeps the entire US defence force to back the illusion of the made up money and the US Fed, don't want to play and they will pretty much kill you (on a country level of course, not an individual level).
If the product you are making is just a scam and you know, spending any of your profits on quality control is basically just throwing it away. That is the nature of the manufacturers and distributors of the product. Do the minimum amount to squeeze by the law and be ready to jump ship to a tax haven when it all blows up, after a trail of death. Extend the whole process out by paying lobbyists to pay off politicians, to get them to turn a blind eye in your direction. Basic US business practice, it's like modern economics 101.
Even easier than that, just say 'NO', done and finished. Can not find trained stuff, than fucking train them your fucking self, why expect the tax payers to do it for you, user pays corporations, pay for the fucking training.
I doubt very much you are allowed to do your or gas, electrical or plumbing. A poorly made or installed hot water service can blow up and destroy the home as well as neighbours properties putting all surrounding neighbours at risk. Home made electrical again a fantasy, no electricity supply company will allow amateurs to install their metres and they do not want amateur systems destroying it either, nor starting a fire putting the neighbourhood at risk. Gas services, amateur job, good way to demolish a whole bunch of houses at once. Getting away with something does not make it legal, failing to get inspections done or getting work approved does not make it legal. Doing amateur stuff, does kill, collapsing structures, domestic fires, electrocutions, and hot water service explosions.
Most countries laws demand electronic locks, unlock upon power failure and people can not be locked in. I find it very unusual that when they admitted to locking in guests, they were not immediately visited by the applicable regulatory agency and immediately penalised, heavily.
Consider what M$ is renting, they are not renting an operating system or basic application suite, what they renting is access to the computer you own and access to the content you created, you are not paying rent, you are paying extortion, pay of will kill you computer and prevent you from accessing your data. Basically ransom ware via subscription.
If they were running 1960s equipment they would not have a problem. It's like collapsing on the floor when you pencil breaks, dude, not a problem get a sharpener and sharpen that pencil and away you go.
The problem is companies in the insane greed who think they can completely abandon manual backups. When digital fails and it always will, always, not maybe will fail but always will fail, just a matter of when and how bad. No manual systems to fall back on and you shut down.
The US is heading for a major fall, next time a solar flare heads their way, Complete economic collapse because it will take months to repaid because of a complete absence of manual systems to fall back on.
It is even harder to survive if you have a pre-existing condition and company will provide health insurance and you simply can not afford to pay for treatment at that time and the bank considers you to great a risk to lend money to you to pay for treatment to survive because you might die and not be able to pay it back, so you die. So basically it's the I'm alright jack, screw you solution, fine until you are the one caught and oh boy, I'll bet your tune would change super fast then.
Want honest feed back, pay for it, the free ride is over. Blame no one but the abusive corporations, all good will dead, due to endless false marketing, bad customer support and services and failing products. Why should consumers serve companies who do not serve them, suck it up or get rid of the psychopaths in corporations.
It enables the creation of content, this has been covered many times before. With high speed broadband, content can be readily shuffled back and forth between people, as they work on it. This allows cheaper content creation from home, many people, in many homes, working together without office costs, a huge fiscal burden. They can meet online, organise online and share creation on line, does not even need to be full time, can all be done part time, hugely reducing the need for early capital investment.
Of course none of this happens if you have shitty broadband like New Zealand's neighbour. I am really surprised that the New Zealand government in not rubbing it in the Australian governments face, especially as the Australian government great new upgrade NBN (that delivered billions into the hands of the people who provided free election campaigning and who all have offshore bank accounts in tax havens) is actually a huge downgrade compared to the New Zealand network. The network that Toxic Tony just had to have and those that remain behind are too embarrassed to scrap instead keeping the scam going to save face.
How about this for a time line. Russian forced out of the Crimea by global censure. Russians start dying in the Crimea (keep in mind the number of Russians who have died protecting the Crimea when it was part of Russia prior to being stolen by the Soviet Union, which according to US history was a very bad government). Russian government destabilised (US goal to open it for exploitation once again by US corporations) and then replaced by new government (government seen as weak get replaced by more aggressive governments, not sometimes, always). Russian government to mollify the very angry Russian population invades the Crimea. US government claims invasion of Europe, attacks, badly underestimating Russian military (as well as US military competence, a military driven by corporate profits, it only needs to look like it works and only really needs to work against primitives). NATO starts losing badly, really badly, panics and the US fires off a tactical nuke into the Crimea, claiming it is not a strike against Russia but a defensive strike into their own territory. Russia disagrees and fires off a strategic nuke, target, Pearl Harbour (to match the strike on the Crimea, considering the significance of the Crimea to the Russian people, plus it's an easy target) and everyone is hosed. Don't forget China will be forced to join in (might as well, US targets Russia they certainly wont leave the Chinese military intact and the government of China knows it), well, not everyone but a whole bunch, including surprisingly nations.
Want sick how likely is it that the US targets all South American capitals, consider how weakened the US would be after a full Russian retaliatory strike, how vulnerable to a no longer controlled South America, you think those sick fucks at the top would take that chance, nope. For similar reason China would target surrounding Asian countries but so would the US, just in case.
Aftermath, significant global armies would mutiny (their families were just killed), form an international junta and execute all those involved in nuclear Armageddon, including those in the military that used the weapons, all the politicians that failed to strive to prevent it (if you were anything other than totally opposed, they would hang you) and all the corporate executives tied to it (as many as possible, somebody always has to be blamed). Military trials, so they a guilty before the trial even begins (no bribes possible they take it all anyhow and tax havens and hidey holes, if they refuse to hand you over, exactly what do you think a global military junta would do. Attack, kill all the politicians and take those attempting to escape justice).
Barack Hussein Obama the president who was thwarted in starting world war three, that is the uncle toms only true heritage.
Who cares what it looks like, if they can not deliver privacy and security (those two go hand in hand), then they in reality have nothing to offer, well, not to normal people. To psychopathic dictators of course, windows 10 the dream operating system, (would this indicate the board of M$ is composed of potential psychopathic dictators with delusions of controlling the world via a global extortion scheme, all your secrets belong to us).
Why should you get a choice, in the world of corporate invasions of privacy and corporate controlled flow of information, you'll get what you bloody told to get and shut the fuck up about it. I want through that whole laborious process of clearing and deleting my Facebook account many years ago and glad I did. I'll get my news from whom I choose and not have a corporation only choose the news provided by other corporate propaganda cartels. So fuck fake news, like the ass hats at Google delivered to me, pseudo celebrity confesses - 'to new makeup line' fuck you google news, that is not fucking news, that is advertising. So now trending advertisements from Facebook masquerading as news, as is the current bullshit industry trend.
Due to the growing abusiveness or corporations, invasions of privacy, and wide spread deceit, I have decided to follow the principles that many corporations expose and purposefully lie in feedback to companies I dislike. They want quality consulting services, well, the fuckers can bloody well pay for them, nothing is for free according to them, for free, they just get lies. Turnabout is fair play after all, lie to me, well I'll lie to you;) (only for poorly behaved corporations, which seems to be the majority, especially multi-nationals).
So what this study actually does indicate is the areas of the brain that you exercise the most grow the biggest, whilst other areas shrink. It does not indicate why that change is originally trigged which is far more likely to be triggered in the cerebellum and temporal lobe, which will induce activity changes due to genetic biases (these thought preferences the cause certain parts of the brain to grow due to being repeatedly exercised). So a lack of an autonomic empathic response will cause many areas of the brain to shrink due to lack of activity whilst other areas grow, due to singular focus of the narcissist (those affected by a lack of an autonomic empathic response). Never forget diet and environment for also causing major cerebral differences and social biases ie lead poising in the majority of the US population, some worse than others, with a resulting high crime rate and a bias to anti-social politics (through use in fuels, lead water pipes and a love of firing lead at gun ranges).
So not every job is meant to provide a living wage, so what does those suckers simply cease to live when they are not working? Every job should provide a living wage, end of story, only the sickest most selfish think that people should work to death.
Cough, cough, upload not download. Download what ever, just do not upload, especially not target protocols or ips. You are not required to personally ensure that every website you can possibly connect is not uploading copyrighted content to you that they do not have licence to, that is their responsibility and not yours. Keep in mind every paragraph of writing, every picture, every graphic as well as of course sound and video recording is all copyrighted, except that which is already in the public domain. So you are not required to keep track of the trillions of pieces of content on the internet to track content licensing arrangements.
In terms of politics, right at this moment, main stream media are stuck, not to the lie of liberal media or to the lie of conservative media but to the reality of corporate media, what are the stuck with, identity politics. Where all political discourse is tied down to identity politics with celebrity politicians (those politicians promoted by main stream media). What policies are they meant to discuss none of real import, none what so ever and those important policy areas only make a tiny showing when corporate media are forced to do it, else they loose all relevance.
They want bullshit empty politics and you vote for who they tell you to vote for and you hate who they tell you to hate and those celebrity politicians they elect do as they are told by the owners of those main stream media entities, the corrupt slime skulking in the background.
Everything being hammered home in main stream media is all about pushing policy right to the back of the room behind screaming identity politics and identity politicians. They are trying to force the public mind state into a pathetic mindless fugue and weak and politically ineffective state that keeps all the power with a psychopathic minority. Real policy discussion within the public mind space, all the way down to family level is what they fear the most.
Policy, policy, policy, fuck empty identity politics and throw out those fake arse identity politicians, the uncle toms and the political whores (to be fare to the identity wags, political whore is not feminine but the more the description tied to reality with the politician as the whore, the lobbyists as the pimps and the corporation executives as the johns, male or female or any combination there to. Uncle tom as in the more international recognised norm as the betrayer, who uses their identity to pretend to be one thing whilst opposing exactly what they using their identity to pretend to be).
So the big push to get economic policy out of public discussion and force identity politics back into dominance and vote for who you are told (so all about ignore Trumps policies just hate Trump and yeah they have not yet picked the corporate whore that you will be required to love, else you are a deplorable, not kidding, already be used and publicly and cheered, really sick fucking stuff).
This is an example of the growing problem of government security agencies contracting out services to corporations. Those corporations will always use those associations between individuals built by the contact associated with those contracts to specifically and on purpose corrupt those government officials and agents they work with to serve the short term interests of the corporations and especially the executive teams of those corporations, regardless of the short, medium or long term interests of the country (in fact in crazed risk taking they are more than content to risk the future of the country as whole). So were they spying for foreign government agencies or a multinational corporations with it's corrupt hooks in many countries. The over sized multi-national corporation represent a far greater threat than most other countries, far greater, with objectives like war for war profits sake being by far the greatest threat versus say the somewhat lessor threat of corrupt economic policy designed to impoverish the majority and empower the minority, one power the specifically seek is the power of life or death over others, the thrill kill upon a mass scale.
Government security agencies contract out at the peril of their country and only promote it as a result of in place corruption and corrupt associations, much like the NATO school, where corrupt corporations seek out corrupt individuals in government to promote into higher and higher places of authority to promote the profits of the corporations and as many need to die as need to die in order to maximise the power of those corporate executives (keep in mind we are talking the murder of millions in fake wars constructed in corporate boardrooms).
In the wild wild west of data and digital privacy, the corporations could do what ever the fuck they felt like but me thinks I am hearing the hoof beats of the arriving marshal and accompanying cavalry troop. M$ simply went to fucking far and now every data corporation must pay the price for M$s excess. Watch new hard privacy and data laws coming into place, the anti-softies probe laws.
Of course biometric data security simply present the new problem. People can pretty much steal your identity in reality by the simple exchange of a few bytes of data. Those particular bytes being the ones that match your biometric data to your legal identity. So to steal your identity, they just need to point your legal identity to their biometric data and you are hosed, seriously, proving that theft would require major legal effort in a world driven by that biometric data. There is also the idea of hacks to destroy biometric databases and thus force costly reconstruction of that data, whilst provision of services has been completely halted.
Sounds good but when it goes wrong it can be enormously wrong and computers are really, really, good at repeating a mistake over and over again super fast ie http://www.smh.com.au/federal-... and when the automated digital system is all there is, then you are well and truly done.
Stable manual, people controllable systems need to remain in place in critical areas, else failures quite readily become system catastrophic. It's like the idiots are begging for the society to be crippled by an extended digital outage which is guaranteed in a world hit by solar flares, earthquakes or US government driven cyber attacks.
More simply, extradition laws could be extended to include data, catch, no secret extraditions must be public because the affected citizen has the right to defend it, not a warrant but a data extradition request. The local government would than serve the warrant for that data in order to provide the data requested under the legally fulfilled data extradition request.
The negative reviews are the most worthwhile, bad luck, that is just the way it is. Even developers can get dirt cheap advertising by buying their own products and ohh look, reviewing it and various different phone accounts, pretty cheap advertising even when you talk hundreds of low cost barely used phone accounts. Every possible B$ marketing scam is running all of the time on the internet, from politics to all other crap product reviews, the worse the product, the bigger the advertising spend ie decades worth of US elections as proof (they also push hate messaging).
Advertising has gone over-saturation and is starting to generate negative responses, excessive product exposure generating anti-barker like responses (it's ok for a bit, like a sideshow but all of the time in your own private places and product hate is developed).
Actually the way it most often happens is. New company with good management provides quality services at a low price with tight profit margins and grows and grows. Along comes a dick bag douche psychopath and quite simply pays more for the company than it is worth with the cooperation or corrupt psychopathic banksters. Once bought they, cut services, cheapen and offshore labour, force up prices, get rid of support and basically trade on betrayed trust with the customer base. Once the profits have been bumped up high enough and just prior to collapse, the banskters dress up the turkey to dump on the market, sell and some short time latter the major collapse, with the psychopaths wandering off with the inevitably offshored profits.
Those people left holding the bag of shite company, then try to fix it, either by going back to the original quality model (generally the original owners buying it back at a much lower price than they sold it for) or simply trying to force the exploitative model to work (company limps along until bought out at a major discount).
This is done on purpose with forethought and planning, a corporate scam enabled and protected by government corruption. This is done again and again to virtually every company at one time or another. Which is why the all eventually fail. Corporations that do not test for and exclude psychopathy are fools, eventually those tools will bring down the company, just a matter of time.
I barely tolerate Google voice and that is only on the basis that it only listens when it actively allow it. Let me guess where the big upgrade in google voice has been focused, i spy with my, well, you get the drift. Real privacy laws are required as soon as possible.
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Not if you start it, than it is a straight up ponzi scheme. Late comers greed, creates the false sense of credibility about your imaginary pile of loot. Real problem in getting rid of your hoard a billion of dollars of fake currency is a real tough sell (kind of really, really, collapses the value of your imaginary currency). Take the US dollar, is keeps the entire US defence force to back the illusion of the made up money and the US Fed, don't want to play and they will pretty much kill you (on a country level of course, not an individual level).
If the product you are making is just a scam and you know, spending any of your profits on quality control is basically just throwing it away. That is the nature of the manufacturers and distributors of the product. Do the minimum amount to squeeze by the law and be ready to jump ship to a tax haven when it all blows up, after a trail of death. Extend the whole process out by paying lobbyists to pay off politicians, to get them to turn a blind eye in your direction. Basic US business practice, it's like modern economics 101.
Even easier than that, just say 'NO', done and finished. Can not find trained stuff, than fucking train them your fucking self, why expect the tax payers to do it for you, user pays corporations, pay for the fucking training.
I doubt very much you are allowed to do your or gas, electrical or plumbing. A poorly made or installed hot water service can blow up and destroy the home as well as neighbours properties putting all surrounding neighbours at risk. Home made electrical again a fantasy, no electricity supply company will allow amateurs to install their metres and they do not want amateur systems destroying it either, nor starting a fire putting the neighbourhood at risk. Gas services, amateur job, good way to demolish a whole bunch of houses at once. Getting away with something does not make it legal, failing to get inspections done or getting work approved does not make it legal. Doing amateur stuff, does kill, collapsing structures, domestic fires, electrocutions, and hot water service explosions.
Most countries laws demand electronic locks, unlock upon power failure and people can not be locked in. I find it very unusual that when they admitted to locking in guests, they were not immediately visited by the applicable regulatory agency and immediately penalised, heavily.
Consider what M$ is renting, they are not renting an operating system or basic application suite, what they renting is access to the computer you own and access to the content you created, you are not paying rent, you are paying extortion, pay of will kill you computer and prevent you from accessing your data. Basically ransom ware via subscription.
If they were running 1960s equipment they would not have a problem. It's like collapsing on the floor when you pencil breaks, dude, not a problem get a sharpener and sharpen that pencil and away you go.
The problem is companies in the insane greed who think they can completely abandon manual backups. When digital fails and it always will, always, not maybe will fail but always will fail, just a matter of when and how bad. No manual systems to fall back on and you shut down.
The US is heading for a major fall, next time a solar flare heads their way, Complete economic collapse because it will take months to repaid because of a complete absence of manual systems to fall back on.
It is even harder to survive if you have a pre-existing condition and company will provide health insurance and you simply can not afford to pay for treatment at that time and the bank considers you to great a risk to lend money to you to pay for treatment to survive because you might die and not be able to pay it back, so you die. So basically it's the I'm alright jack, screw you solution, fine until you are the one caught and oh boy, I'll bet your tune would change super fast then.
Want honest feed back, pay for it, the free ride is over. Blame no one but the abusive corporations, all good will dead, due to endless false marketing, bad customer support and services and failing products. Why should consumers serve companies who do not serve them, suck it up or get rid of the psychopaths in corporations.
It enables the creation of content, this has been covered many times before. With high speed broadband, content can be readily shuffled back and forth between people, as they work on it. This allows cheaper content creation from home, many people, in many homes, working together without office costs, a huge fiscal burden. They can meet online, organise online and share creation on line, does not even need to be full time, can all be done part time, hugely reducing the need for early capital investment.
Of course none of this happens if you have shitty broadband like New Zealand's neighbour. I am really surprised that the New Zealand government in not rubbing it in the Australian governments face, especially as the Australian government great new upgrade NBN (that delivered billions into the hands of the people who provided free election campaigning and who all have offshore bank accounts in tax havens) is actually a huge downgrade compared to the New Zealand network. The network that Toxic Tony just had to have and those that remain behind are too embarrassed to scrap instead keeping the scam going to save face.
How about this for a time line. Russian forced out of the Crimea by global censure. Russians start dying in the Crimea (keep in mind the number of Russians who have died protecting the Crimea when it was part of Russia prior to being stolen by the Soviet Union, which according to US history was a very bad government). Russian government destabilised (US goal to open it for exploitation once again by US corporations) and then replaced by new government (government seen as weak get replaced by more aggressive governments, not sometimes, always). Russian government to mollify the very angry Russian population invades the Crimea. US government claims invasion of Europe, attacks, badly underestimating Russian military (as well as US military competence, a military driven by corporate profits, it only needs to look like it works and only really needs to work against primitives). NATO starts losing badly, really badly, panics and the US fires off a tactical nuke into the Crimea, claiming it is not a strike against Russia but a defensive strike into their own territory. Russia disagrees and fires off a strategic nuke, target, Pearl Harbour (to match the strike on the Crimea, considering the significance of the Crimea to the Russian people, plus it's an easy target) and everyone is hosed. Don't forget China will be forced to join in (might as well, US targets Russia they certainly wont leave the Chinese military intact and the government of China knows it), well, not everyone but a whole bunch, including surprisingly nations.
Want sick how likely is it that the US targets all South American capitals, consider how weakened the US would be after a full Russian retaliatory strike, how vulnerable to a no longer controlled South America, you think those sick fucks at the top would take that chance, nope. For similar reason China would target surrounding Asian countries but so would the US, just in case.
Aftermath, significant global armies would mutiny (their families were just killed), form an international junta and execute all those involved in nuclear Armageddon, including those in the military that used the weapons, all the politicians that failed to strive to prevent it (if you were anything other than totally opposed, they would hang you) and all the corporate executives tied to it (as many as possible, somebody always has to be blamed). Military trials, so they a guilty before the trial even begins (no bribes possible they take it all anyhow and tax havens and hidey holes, if they refuse to hand you over, exactly what do you think a global military junta would do. Attack, kill all the politicians and take those attempting to escape justice).
Barack Hussein Obama the president who was thwarted in starting world war three, that is the uncle toms only true heritage.
Who cares what it looks like, if they can not deliver privacy and security (those two go hand in hand), then they in reality have nothing to offer, well, not to normal people. To psychopathic dictators of course, windows 10 the dream operating system, (would this indicate the board of M$ is composed of potential psychopathic dictators with delusions of controlling the world via a global extortion scheme, all your secrets belong to us).
Why should you get a choice, in the world of corporate invasions of privacy and corporate controlled flow of information, you'll get what you bloody told to get and shut the fuck up about it. I want through that whole laborious process of clearing and deleting my Facebook account many years ago and glad I did. I'll get my news from whom I choose and not have a corporation only choose the news provided by other corporate propaganda cartels. So fuck fake news, like the ass hats at Google delivered to me, pseudo celebrity confesses - 'to new makeup line' fuck you google news, that is not fucking news, that is advertising. So now trending advertisements from Facebook masquerading as news, as is the current bullshit industry trend.
Due to the growing abusiveness or corporations, invasions of privacy, and wide spread deceit, I have decided to follow the principles that many corporations expose and purposefully lie in feedback to companies I dislike. They want quality consulting services, well, the fuckers can bloody well pay for them, nothing is for free according to them, for free, they just get lies. Turnabout is fair play after all, lie to me, well I'll lie to you ;) (only for poorly behaved corporations, which seems to be the majority, especially multi-nationals).
So what this study actually does indicate is the areas of the brain that you exercise the most grow the biggest, whilst other areas shrink. It does not indicate why that change is originally trigged which is far more likely to be triggered in the cerebellum and temporal lobe, which will induce activity changes due to genetic biases (these thought preferences the cause certain parts of the brain to grow due to being repeatedly exercised). So a lack of an autonomic empathic response will cause many areas of the brain to shrink due to lack of activity whilst other areas grow, due to singular focus of the narcissist (those affected by a lack of an autonomic empathic response). Never forget diet and environment for also causing major cerebral differences and social biases ie lead poising in the majority of the US population, some worse than others, with a resulting high crime rate and a bias to anti-social politics (through use in fuels, lead water pipes and a love of firing lead at gun ranges).
So not every job is meant to provide a living wage, so what does those suckers simply cease to live when they are not working? Every job should provide a living wage, end of story, only the sickest most selfish think that people should work to death.
Cough, cough, upload not download. Download what ever, just do not upload, especially not target protocols or ips. You are not required to personally ensure that every website you can possibly connect is not uploading copyrighted content to you that they do not have licence to, that is their responsibility and not yours. Keep in mind every paragraph of writing, every picture, every graphic as well as of course sound and video recording is all copyrighted, except that which is already in the public domain. So you are not required to keep track of the trillions of pieces of content on the internet to track content licensing arrangements.
In terms of politics, right at this moment, main stream media are stuck, not to the lie of liberal media or to the lie of conservative media but to the reality of corporate media, what are the stuck with, identity politics. Where all political discourse is tied down to identity politics with celebrity politicians (those politicians promoted by main stream media). What policies are they meant to discuss none of real import, none what so ever and those important policy areas only make a tiny showing when corporate media are forced to do it, else they loose all relevance.
They want bullshit empty politics and you vote for who they tell you to vote for and you hate who they tell you to hate and those celebrity politicians they elect do as they are told by the owners of those main stream media entities, the corrupt slime skulking in the background.
Everything being hammered home in main stream media is all about pushing policy right to the back of the room behind screaming identity politics and identity politicians. They are trying to force the public mind state into a pathetic mindless fugue and weak and politically ineffective state that keeps all the power with a psychopathic minority. Real policy discussion within the public mind space, all the way down to family level is what they fear the most.
Policy, policy, policy, fuck empty identity politics and throw out those fake arse identity politicians, the uncle toms and the political whores (to be fare to the identity wags, political whore is not feminine but the more the description tied to reality with the politician as the whore, the lobbyists as the pimps and the corporation executives as the johns, male or female or any combination there to. Uncle tom as in the more international recognised norm as the betrayer, who uses their identity to pretend to be one thing whilst opposing exactly what they using their identity to pretend to be).
So the big push to get economic policy out of public discussion and force identity politics back into dominance and vote for who you are told (so all about ignore Trumps policies just hate Trump and yeah they have not yet picked the corporate whore that you will be required to love, else you are a deplorable, not kidding, already be used and publicly and cheered, really sick fucking stuff).
This is an example of the growing problem of government security agencies contracting out services to corporations. Those corporations will always use those associations between individuals built by the contact associated with those contracts to specifically and on purpose corrupt those government officials and agents they work with to serve the short term interests of the corporations and especially the executive teams of those corporations, regardless of the short, medium or long term interests of the country (in fact in crazed risk taking they are more than content to risk the future of the country as whole). So were they spying for foreign government agencies or a multinational corporations with it's corrupt hooks in many countries. The over sized multi-national corporation represent a far greater threat than most other countries, far greater, with objectives like war for war profits sake being by far the greatest threat versus say the somewhat lessor threat of corrupt economic policy designed to impoverish the majority and empower the minority, one power the specifically seek is the power of life or death over others, the thrill kill upon a mass scale.
Government security agencies contract out at the peril of their country and only promote it as a result of in place corruption and corrupt associations, much like the NATO school, where corrupt corporations seek out corrupt individuals in government to promote into higher and higher places of authority to promote the profits of the corporations and as many need to die as need to die in order to maximise the power of those corporate executives (keep in mind we are talking the murder of millions in fake wars constructed in corporate boardrooms).
In the wild wild west of data and digital privacy, the corporations could do what ever the fuck they felt like but me thinks I am hearing the hoof beats of the arriving marshal and accompanying cavalry troop. M$ simply went to fucking far and now every data corporation must pay the price for M$s excess. Watch new hard privacy and data laws coming into place, the anti-softies probe laws.
Of course biometric data security simply present the new problem. People can pretty much steal your identity in reality by the simple exchange of a few bytes of data. Those particular bytes being the ones that match your biometric data to your legal identity. So to steal your identity, they just need to point your legal identity to their biometric data and you are hosed, seriously, proving that theft would require major legal effort in a world driven by that biometric data. There is also the idea of hacks to destroy biometric databases and thus force costly reconstruction of that data, whilst provision of services has been completely halted.
Sounds good but when it goes wrong it can be enormously wrong and computers are really, really, good at repeating a mistake over and over again super fast ie http://www.smh.com.au/federal-... and when the automated digital system is all there is, then you are well and truly done.
Stable manual, people controllable systems need to remain in place in critical areas, else failures quite readily become system catastrophic. It's like the idiots are begging for the society to be crippled by an extended digital outage which is guaranteed in a world hit by solar flares, earthquakes or US government driven cyber attacks.
More simply, extradition laws could be extended to include data, catch, no secret extraditions must be public because the affected citizen has the right to defend it, not a warrant but a data extradition request. The local government would than serve the warrant for that data in order to provide the data requested under the legally fulfilled data extradition request.
The negative reviews are the most worthwhile, bad luck, that is just the way it is. Even developers can get dirt cheap advertising by buying their own products and ohh look, reviewing it and various different phone accounts, pretty cheap advertising even when you talk hundreds of low cost barely used phone accounts. Every possible B$ marketing scam is running all of the time on the internet, from politics to all other crap product reviews, the worse the product, the bigger the advertising spend ie decades worth of US elections as proof (they also push hate messaging).
Advertising has gone over-saturation and is starting to generate negative responses, excessive product exposure generating anti-barker like responses (it's ok for a bit, like a sideshow but all of the time in your own private places and product hate is developed).
Actually the way it most often happens is. New company with good management provides quality services at a low price with tight profit margins and grows and grows. Along comes a dick bag douche psychopath and quite simply pays more for the company than it is worth with the cooperation or corrupt psychopathic banksters. Once bought they, cut services, cheapen and offshore labour, force up prices, get rid of support and basically trade on betrayed trust with the customer base. Once the profits have been bumped up high enough and just prior to collapse, the banskters dress up the turkey to dump on the market, sell and some short time latter the major collapse, with the psychopaths wandering off with the inevitably offshored profits.
Those people left holding the bag of shite company, then try to fix it, either by going back to the original quality model (generally the original owners buying it back at a much lower price than they sold it for) or simply trying to force the exploitative model to work (company limps along until bought out at a major discount).
This is done on purpose with forethought and planning, a corporate scam enabled and protected by government corruption. This is done again and again to virtually every company at one time or another. Which is why the all eventually fail. Corporations that do not test for and exclude psychopathy are fools, eventually those tools will bring down the company, just a matter of time.
I barely tolerate Google voice and that is only on the basis that it only listens when it actively allow it. Let me guess where the big upgrade in google voice has been focused, i spy with my, well, you get the drift. Real privacy laws are required as soon as possible.