I assume the cheap basis comes from using cheap disposable Ukrainian workers to put it in:/. I am pretty sure that factor is built into calculations for the profit margins. If it ain't safe to live there, then it ain't safe to work there and you can bet safety measures taken will be on the minimalist side. This is pretty crude exploitation, America grabbed it because Russia didn't want it and now Europe is stuck with it, an economic basket cast that has got to be made to pay for itself somehow (especially with tens of billions of roubles in Russian subsidies now gone).
Pencil is fine. When it comes to counting those paper ballots the security is really easy to set up and pretty fool proof. A paid election official counts the vote and that count is checked and monitored by volunteers of the people seeking to get elected. The process is after all about people and as many people as possible should be involved in the process which is why in most reasonable countries elections are on weekends and are more of a social event. The idea is to put people back into the election process, to get them involved in deciding policy, to get them to pay attention to the initial selection process for representatives and of course to vote.
The reality is that politics should be the number 1 topic of discussion for everyone as everyone's does depend on it, fail to pay attention to politics and it can kill you and can on this world be considered the singular most dangerous threat to human life, not asteroid impacts, not extreme storms, not even volcanoes or even global warming, just ignoring politics until millions upon millions die in the aftermath.
Nah, bugger that. Don't like the invasion of privacy, the strive to change the law so that more of your privacy is respected as it should be. Wont happen overnight but keep pushing at it and as the years go by, so we will regain our privacy and companies will have to delete what they have or face massive fines. Get over corporate douche bags, we will get our privacy back and we will legally invade your data centres to ensure you respect that, just a matter of time, a whole bunch of fines and even a few custodial sentences.
There is a high ground in this case, just not a moral one. That high ground is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and it is exactly where this stupidity will end. They keep playing this game and eventually they will start pulling each others plugs and we will get caught in the crossfire.
Let's not get carried away with cutting cables, the idea is quite amusing when you consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so not just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Obviously hacking into the repeaters makes a lot more sense and is of course exactly what they do and that is with the cooperation of the companies involved, so the hacks go in as the cable is being laid. So at the repeater they of course copy data, delete data and more importantly inject data, think questionable attacks from questionable sources. Likely the hardware is permanently locked in place and they only maintain it when it fails.
The catch with that is any claim they make about hacks is now questionable as they inherently can and will corrupt the evidence. We you set out to so publicly corrupt global infrastructure than you will no longer be believed for any claims you make that result from attacks on that infrastructure ie you are always the initial and most likely suspect for any attack. Much like the US Navy and it's policy of not declaring which vessels have nuclear weapons and which do not. Result is when ever a US naval vessels approaches a foreign country it is not just a naval vessel approaching but a first strike city destroying nuclear threat approaching and that is the US government approach when sending vessels upon that basis, they are in fact at that moment threatening the targeted nation with a first strike nuclear attack.
It is really a messy, arrogant approach, factually the number one suspect in any cyder attack must always be the NSA/CIA, they have the greatest capability, they have declared their intent to dominate every other countries internet infrastructure and US laws claim that US government departments are not bound by other countries laws and are free to break them at any time for any reason.
It is much easier to fix than most people think. Basically you just have to allow end users to choose to make undesirable sites disappear. Basically the user should be allowed to ban those sites from say search results or advertising. A reasonable end user choice, had a bad experience with the company, don't want to deal with them any more, fine lock them out from accessing your digital mind space, no search results, no ads. Of course certain companies would have to agree or be forced to agree to end user choices, sort a digital right to your own eyeballs to not see what you do not want to see, a right corporations seem desperate to take away, as in force you to see what they want to see whether or not you want to see it. A new kind of privacy, the private right to keep you mind free of interactions with shitty companies. Individually it does not count for much but those companies do not screw over individually, they screw over everyone the meet and hence those blocks over time have real bite and kill companies over time. There should be a right to individually block content, to not be forced to see it prior to shutting it down, to enable you to choose to never see it again, that should be a real profound right of choice for all of us.
I shut down windows updates and of course the background intelligent spy er transfer service and of course windows now reports it is no longer a valid version, and now that is the daily routine. Boot up, run update, shut it down before it does anything and then turn off background intelligent spy er transfer service (because M$ are arseholes and turn it back on and reset it to automatic start instead of disabled). If you do not shut down BITS they can still force crap on you and when you shut it down, they now claim you have stolen the operating system you paid for and proceed to fuck up your system on purpose.
It is not a fraud to charge taxes. Those taxes paid, provide the economic venue to generate that income. To put it bluntly, go fuck off and try to make that money inside those tax havens where the money is hidden. Instead of allowing corrupt foreign countries to steal the social services that create the economic opportunities to generate the actual fucking income, they should brutally and forcefully crack down on those tax havens and bankrupt them, done and finished. They are economic terrorists (seriously, those fuckers handle money for terrorists, organised crime and corrupt dictators, actual economic terrorists), factually killing people where the income is being generated by forcing austerity. You make that money in a country, so you can pay your fucking taxes in the country where you made the money. You want to hide your money in a tax haven, fine fuck off and try fucking making it in that tax haven, ohh wait, you can't because those tax havens are worthless shit holes that can not generate any real revenue, hence the corrupt parasitic theft of other countries taxes and social services. That kind of tax haven terrorist economic warfare should be answered with total trade bans and forced bankruptcy (especially considering they are factually aiding terrorism, organised crime and political corruption by being global money launderers).
So which is more profitable for the judge, to get a percentage from those successfully suing M$ again and again and again (keeping in mind how much money is up for grabs, enough to pay for tens of thousands of successful claims) or taking token one time political support from M$. Keeping in mind this is not a local issue but a global one and from the M$ point of view - 'Ohh fuck, Ohh fuck, Ohh fuck, the civil suit bubble is about to burst', keep in mind M$ has many competitors with equally deep pockets and they are invading everyone's privacy, rich or poor as well as invading the privacy of their competitors employees, contractors and suppliers (a real tangible and dangerous corporate threat). I am just really surprised it took so long, so many countries courts are in a real solid legal position to really, well and truly screw over M$ to the tune of billions (and a shit bucket ton of lawyers will be salivating over the opportunities that it presents and the percentage they can gain).
The funniest part is the Democrat Party allowed themselves to be screwed over by Hillary Clinton's massive ego. They completely blew their chance to pick up more congress and senate seats and the whole idea of Hillary playing feminazi socialist to hide a right wing corporate policy stance with the aid of corporate controlled media, is now completely utterly blown (it took pretty much six years to blow away the PR=B$ surrounding the uncle tom and the fake feminazi wont even get one day of protection). Having her in place now completely and utterly pointless (people will protest her exactly as much or even more than Trump, so the charade has no value or meaning). This compounded with the reality that the President of the USA only has as much power as the Congress and Senate allow them, from corporate dictator to empty figure head. They are just meant to be the talking head of the corporate media channel that is the White House and they are sticking someone in office who utterly failed to sell anything to by far the majority of people who were paying attention (have to exclude those who would have voted the party line, even if a pig with lipstick was running, not figuratively, but an actual wild boar with makeup).
Instead they could have had Bernie Sanders, gone for a global diplomatic reset and made him completely and utterly ineffectual beyond diplomacy to prove how useless socialists were but noooo sucked in by Hillary Clinton and her ego and greed. Really political inept, stupid stuff and they completely exposed all their election scams in the process, from de-registering voters to shutting down polling places to purposeful undermining of campaigns and the current administration purposeful corruption of the law to favour the corporations chosen candidates. They spent billions to in reality lose an election, to burst the bubble, to blow the charade, to unmask the political fraud, to really lose big by winning very small (they needed to win to feed their ego even if it cost them control, ego first, psychopathic risk takers, it's their nature).
So if many people just split their votes with say the third and fourth parties, the Libertarians and the Greens, it's pretty much a wash and a major slap in the face to the establishment party, the one that just pretends to be two political parties, so in reality it is actually the establishment corporate party versus the second and third parties. It seems common ground is developing between the Greens and Libertarians with regard to privacy, freedom and liberty, less government control over individuals, reductions in military spending, cutting back on military occupation of the rest of the world, ending money controlling politics and better quality policing instead of brutal law en-force-ment.
So this election seems to be between the POS charade of main stream corporate politics and the clean and far more honest campaign of the Greens and Libertarians, this setting the stage for a much, much tougher election cycle next time round (looks to be pretty much a guaranteed record vote for the Greens and Libertarians). As for which dog picks up the corporate election candidacy, honestly what difference does it make, they will still obey the corporations, with a bias to pork barrel infrastructure spending (Trump) or a bias to banking/war corruption (Clinton). I myself feel that democrat socialism and libertarianism can get on quite well together, sharing the same country with different styled economic zones, tending more socialist for cities and more libertarians for regional zones (it is just the nature of the people involved and associated with both styles of governance and them trying to force their own upon the other is just a huge mistake, better to have different an unique economic zones that citizens are free to enter or leave, within a shared country).
I don't give a crap about either of them, as long as they supply an affordable, durable water resistant phablet, with swappable long life battery, stylus, expandable memory and 3D virtual reality glasses. I feel absolutely no need to stump for corporations unless they serve the public good, other wise fuck em (PS never ever brag about your supplier making shit bucket tons of money, just makes you look silly and gullible, as that money is coming out of your pocket. As an end user, as the customer, you should only brag about your supplier when they make bugger all money ie less money coming out of your pocket).
Of course don't forget that M$ were at the DNC, the corporate convention to pick politicians with their cheque books, to lobby for more H1B this whilst planning those layoffs or what, redundant, cough, cough too expensive, fully trained and experienced individuals. Those ass hat corporate executives are truly shameless, in public, don't care who sees it, corruption or the democratic process to feed their greed. You reckon M$ would pull it's head in a bit after the mass invasion of privacy of Windows anal probe 10 but nope, not one bit of shame or embarrassment, straight back at screwing customers and staff over, like there is no tomorrow (I will never understand why M$ employees put up with that shit, I wonder how many of them are comfortable using Windows anal probe 10 at home, looking for a job, complaining about working at M$ or just trying to relax with some pron, whilst their employer looks over their shoulder or right at their face or just what they are looking or recording their communications or doing all of that at once, M$ employees would have to be the most spied on people on the planet, ugh).
The reality is the TV networks time in history is over, no one believes the corporate propaganda any more, their marketing ability is collapsing and the actual content producers, the people who actually produce the entertainment (the writers and animators) are sick of them (and of actors). So more direct content, from content creator to end user with minimal interference from content library services (not publishers any more, just a lend lease libraries). That is the inevitable trend and time most definitely is on Apple's side. They who produce the most economical, friendly and accessible libraries will win (exclusivity whilst sounding fine in psychopathic corporate board rooms is actually a no, no and will push those companies into second and third rate status), along with the content creators (writers and animators). Actors are on the way out because of course as computers increase in capability so virtual acting bots become possible and they live forever, do not have hugely wildly bloated egos and once paid for remain paid for and do not lose that investment in a drunken, drugged up splurges involving minors (that corporate main stream media together with public relations firms can not gloss over). Keep in mind those lend lease libraries will also become social media hubs, user to user and content creators to content creator and user to content creators (a lot more content creators will appear, as a result of non-exclusive deals with libraries, more of an investment in the content creator and hence limiting their ability to trade content via other libraries, will stupidly limit returns upon that investment. Why the investment by libraries into content creators, the more the merrier or cough, cough, the cheaper they become, enabling libraries to build up masses of cheap, competitive content and the market is opened up far wider to many amateur content creators, even user to user created evolving content (no fixed story, changes over time, with specific recorded creation points). Current main stream media is just so last millennium (although that era will go done in history as creators of the most bloated and inflated egos imaginable from demanding worship, to unlimited greed, to endless celebrations of their own egos and even publicly choosing political leaders thumbing their noses at the majority, spending way beyond what the anonymous majority could ever afford, laughing at the nobodies campaign efforts).
Cough, cough, Android vs the Losephone (it would be lying to call it a Winphone). This story is about companies propping up M$ to their own destruction, basically suckers.
That comment would be a whole lot funnier if main stream media was not parroting it as the truth. Damn we need some aliens blaming everything on Russia is really losing it's bite https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
The Olympics is really losing it shine and it's once vote winning ability as the leading Government subsidised sports advertising event. The political attempt to kick out the entire Russian team for the cheating they all do is a real sign of the Olympics loss of image. Without the lock in of main stream media controlling the public mind space, the Olympic spirit is looking really rather blemished and frankly quite boring and is really losing it's ability to sell pretty much anything. All it ever really celebrated was a tiny minority of people, willing to do the same boring repetitive completely and totally unproductive (at least production line workers produce something) task, over and over and over again. So here is an interesting question in times of austerity and the public suffering it creates, what exactly is the global tax spend on the Olympics, year in and year out, 1 billion dollars, 10 billion dollars, perhaps even more, all spent to sell products the winners promote upon the basis "It ain't lying, it's acting".
Hold on a second. A corporation is saying it can not find skilled local workers, so why the fuck do they not train some. So when anyone, has to go for that training, they have to take on a massive debt to pay for the skill corporations want to exploit. So why the fuck do the corporations get that skill for fucking free. Why are not the corporations paying for training, why are those cheap arse bastards, demanding that the government pays, or the individual pays. Whilst those self same corporations refuse to pay for training and to top it all off, what to pay lower wages to those individuals who pay for that training and in addition those self same corporations cheap on their taxes by offshoring profits in tax havens. The should take the D out of DNC and just have changed it to the CNC the Corporate National Convention.
What right of reproduction is it that you speak. I have never heard of this right, it sounds very suspiciously like some acient greek right of ownership of children, the right to do to them as you wish, to bake them and enjoy them with a dish of fava beans. The new child coming into to the world has rights and you have no rights to bring them into the world or to use them as you wish.
Hey, you want those who are least able to contribute to society to reproduce through intoxication and laziness and in far greater numbers than those who contribute the most to society, go right a fucking head. I, myself have chosen to liberate myself from that pending abuse by not reproducing, by not burdening myself with the guilt of future generations being subject to the abuse of the idiocracy. In fact I find the growth of idiocracy to be quite humorous, what the fuck do I care, I feeding victims to it (I still do my part it trying to stop it happening, it is the fair and reasonable thing to do but I burdened by the suffering the idiocracy will cause). I am sure it will be quite humorous when the idiots hit twenty billion and still counting.
Parenting and breeding licences are the common sense choice and no amount of wishing it away will make it less sensible, the earth is not infinite and as such breeding limitations are an inherent requirement.
The TSAs function is to establish a precedented and accustomise people to restrictions, all encompassing restrictions. It is a totally class structured organisations in principle. Certain people a minority get to completely avoid it, never ever experience (except to sneer at those who are forced into it, look down upon those who are being taught their place in society). The majority of course are being trained, you go only were you specifically are allowed to go, upon demand you can be stripped searching, molested, your belongings searched and taken at a whim. You are also taught that there are other people who do not go through this, superior people and you are a lessor person a nobody and you should become accustomed to this, it is your place and it you attempt to leave it watch out.
They fully plan to push it to all public transport, even local buses stopped, passengers abused, taught their place, forced to learn to obey or be physically abused as well as their families, full sexual abuse, parents in front of their children, publicly degraded so that their children learn their heroes, their parents, are zeros.
You are all being taught that those that fly in private jets are special and you are shit, they have power and privilege because they are anointed by "In Money we trust" and you are nothing. The longer you put up with this bullshit the more you sell yourself and future generations out, pathetic cowards that you are and that's a fact, if you had any real courage the TSA would have disappeared years ago.
Men, get a real job, you snooty DH;). You know the kind of job you people sneer at and say it's only a training job that deserve less than the already shitty minimum wage. Want to express your creative talents, do it in your own time, out of your own pocket and like any busker, beg for money.
Unsympathetic, yep, because to many rich geek/nerd arseholes do not give one fuck about those doing hard work, real fucking work, on shitty minimum wage, not being able to afford a reasonable place to live or much of anything else. You fuckers still demand access to their wallets. Ain't no limit on how rich anal tech types become and still greedily demand to be able empty the wallets of the poorest.
No fucking protection for advertisements unless they stick to the rules, no fucking screaming, no fucking lies, no false association and no targeting people and absolutely no targeting of minors. PS fucking off with the psuedo celebrity bullshit would also be cool, I would rather pay for some quality in the product being sold than paying the bloated wage of some egoistic dickhead lying to me about how great the product is (which it would be if they had spent the money on the product instead of paying some egoistic dickhead to lie to me about that quality of the product because that quality is missing as they had to pay the dickhead instead).
So instead you want to break your power charging plug hole, the one you now generally use once per day and that with a fixed battery. So instead a potential proprietary socket, that will wear out, destroying the phone because no it connects to nothing and you can not pull out a flat battery and replace it with a charged battery. Yep, gullibly being sold another B$ marketing line. So with an existing ear socket phone you can listen through the usb socket with the right hardware and software but not fucking while you are charging the phone but that's OK you can swap out the battery and charge it separately, oh wait no you fucking can't.
When I am sitting back at home listening to my phone with a headset, as I am not moving, I charge up the phone at the same time, it's common sense and I have decades old cd/radio players that still plug fine their headsets work fine, so worn socket, likely crappy off spec plugs.
So basically the test mode is exactly what is in my Mitsubishi Outlander when I press the eco-mode button. Which I normally leave it in 99.99% of the time (I have run with it off to test the difference, once, it is quite noticeable). Question is, is the vehicle also more fuel efficient in this mode and thus can it be forced to be active all of the time for the customers who choose that. Likely the engine management system kicks in this mode when the vehicle sustains revs with a specific range of revs for a given length of time, neither accelerating or decelerating, so revving the motor could produce honest outcomes. An honest detailed response on the programming is required from VW to produce an acceptable outcome.
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I assume the cheap basis comes from using cheap disposable Ukrainian workers to put it in :/. I am pretty sure that factor is built into calculations for the profit margins. If it ain't safe to live there, then it ain't safe to work there and you can bet safety measures taken will be on the minimalist side. This is pretty crude exploitation, America grabbed it because Russia didn't want it and now Europe is stuck with it, an economic basket cast that has got to be made to pay for itself somehow (especially with tens of billions of roubles in Russian subsidies now gone).
Pencil is fine. When it comes to counting those paper ballots the security is really easy to set up and pretty fool proof. A paid election official counts the vote and that count is checked and monitored by volunteers of the people seeking to get elected. The process is after all about people and as many people as possible should be involved in the process which is why in most reasonable countries elections are on weekends and are more of a social event. The idea is to put people back into the election process, to get them involved in deciding policy, to get them to pay attention to the initial selection process for representatives and of course to vote.
The reality is that politics should be the number 1 topic of discussion for everyone as everyone's does depend on it, fail to pay attention to politics and it can kill you and can on this world be considered the singular most dangerous threat to human life, not asteroid impacts, not extreme storms, not even volcanoes or even global warming, just ignoring politics until millions upon millions die in the aftermath.
Nah, bugger that. Don't like the invasion of privacy, the strive to change the law so that more of your privacy is respected as it should be. Wont happen overnight but keep pushing at it and as the years go by, so we will regain our privacy and companies will have to delete what they have or face massive fines. Get over corporate douche bags, we will get our privacy back and we will legally invade your data centres to ensure you respect that, just a matter of time, a whole bunch of fines and even a few custodial sentences.
There is a high ground in this case, just not a moral one. That high ground is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and it is exactly where this stupidity will end. They keep playing this game and eventually they will start pulling each others plugs and we will get caught in the crossfire.
Let's not get carried away with cutting cables, the idea is quite amusing when you consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so not just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Obviously hacking into the repeaters makes a lot more sense and is of course exactly what they do and that is with the cooperation of the companies involved, so the hacks go in as the cable is being laid. So at the repeater they of course copy data, delete data and more importantly inject data, think questionable attacks from questionable sources. Likely the hardware is permanently locked in place and they only maintain it when it fails.
The catch with that is any claim they make about hacks is now questionable as they inherently can and will corrupt the evidence. We you set out to so publicly corrupt global infrastructure than you will no longer be believed for any claims you make that result from attacks on that infrastructure ie you are always the initial and most likely suspect for any attack. Much like the US Navy and it's policy of not declaring which vessels have nuclear weapons and which do not. Result is when ever a US naval vessels approaches a foreign country it is not just a naval vessel approaching but a first strike city destroying nuclear threat approaching and that is the US government approach when sending vessels upon that basis, they are in fact at that moment threatening the targeted nation with a first strike nuclear attack.
It is really a messy, arrogant approach, factually the number one suspect in any cyder attack must always be the NSA/CIA, they have the greatest capability, they have declared their intent to dominate every other countries internet infrastructure and US laws claim that US government departments are not bound by other countries laws and are free to break them at any time for any reason.
It is much easier to fix than most people think. Basically you just have to allow end users to choose to make undesirable sites disappear. Basically the user should be allowed to ban those sites from say search results or advertising. A reasonable end user choice, had a bad experience with the company, don't want to deal with them any more, fine lock them out from accessing your digital mind space, no search results, no ads. Of course certain companies would have to agree or be forced to agree to end user choices, sort a digital right to your own eyeballs to not see what you do not want to see, a right corporations seem desperate to take away, as in force you to see what they want to see whether or not you want to see it. A new kind of privacy, the private right to keep you mind free of interactions with shitty companies. Individually it does not count for much but those companies do not screw over individually, they screw over everyone the meet and hence those blocks over time have real bite and kill companies over time. There should be a right to individually block content, to not be forced to see it prior to shutting it down, to enable you to choose to never see it again, that should be a real profound right of choice for all of us.
I shut down windows updates and of course the background intelligent spy er transfer service and of course windows now reports it is no longer a valid version, and now that is the daily routine. Boot up, run update, shut it down before it does anything and then turn off background intelligent spy er transfer service (because M$ are arseholes and turn it back on and reset it to automatic start instead of disabled). If you do not shut down BITS they can still force crap on you and when you shut it down, they now claim you have stolen the operating system you paid for and proceed to fuck up your system on purpose.
It is not a fraud to charge taxes. Those taxes paid, provide the economic venue to generate that income. To put it bluntly, go fuck off and try to make that money inside those tax havens where the money is hidden. Instead of allowing corrupt foreign countries to steal the social services that create the economic opportunities to generate the actual fucking income, they should brutally and forcefully crack down on those tax havens and bankrupt them, done and finished. They are economic terrorists (seriously, those fuckers handle money for terrorists, organised crime and corrupt dictators, actual economic terrorists), factually killing people where the income is being generated by forcing austerity. You make that money in a country, so you can pay your fucking taxes in the country where you made the money. You want to hide your money in a tax haven, fine fuck off and try fucking making it in that tax haven, ohh wait, you can't because those tax havens are worthless shit holes that can not generate any real revenue, hence the corrupt parasitic theft of other countries taxes and social services. That kind of tax haven terrorist economic warfare should be answered with total trade bans and forced bankruptcy (especially considering they are factually aiding terrorism, organised crime and political corruption by being global money launderers).
So which is more profitable for the judge, to get a percentage from those successfully suing M$ again and again and again (keeping in mind how much money is up for grabs, enough to pay for tens of thousands of successful claims) or taking token one time political support from M$. Keeping in mind this is not a local issue but a global one and from the M$ point of view - 'Ohh fuck, Ohh fuck, Ohh fuck, the civil suit bubble is about to burst', keep in mind M$ has many competitors with equally deep pockets and they are invading everyone's privacy, rich or poor as well as invading the privacy of their competitors employees, contractors and suppliers (a real tangible and dangerous corporate threat). I am just really surprised it took so long, so many countries courts are in a real solid legal position to really, well and truly screw over M$ to the tune of billions (and a shit bucket ton of lawyers will be salivating over the opportunities that it presents and the percentage they can gain).
The funniest part is the Democrat Party allowed themselves to be screwed over by Hillary Clinton's massive ego. They completely blew their chance to pick up more congress and senate seats and the whole idea of Hillary playing feminazi socialist to hide a right wing corporate policy stance with the aid of corporate controlled media, is now completely utterly blown (it took pretty much six years to blow away the PR=B$ surrounding the uncle tom and the fake feminazi wont even get one day of protection). Having her in place now completely and utterly pointless (people will protest her exactly as much or even more than Trump, so the charade has no value or meaning). This compounded with the reality that the President of the USA only has as much power as the Congress and Senate allow them, from corporate dictator to empty figure head. They are just meant to be the talking head of the corporate media channel that is the White House and they are sticking someone in office who utterly failed to sell anything to by far the majority of people who were paying attention (have to exclude those who would have voted the party line, even if a pig with lipstick was running, not figuratively, but an actual wild boar with makeup).
Instead they could have had Bernie Sanders, gone for a global diplomatic reset and made him completely and utterly ineffectual beyond diplomacy to prove how useless socialists were but noooo sucked in by Hillary Clinton and her ego and greed. Really political inept, stupid stuff and they completely exposed all their election scams in the process, from de-registering voters to shutting down polling places to purposeful undermining of campaigns and the current administration purposeful corruption of the law to favour the corporations chosen candidates. They spent billions to in reality lose an election, to burst the bubble, to blow the charade, to unmask the political fraud, to really lose big by winning very small (they needed to win to feed their ego even if it cost them control, ego first, psychopathic risk takers, it's their nature).
So if many people just split their votes with say the third and fourth parties, the Libertarians and the Greens, it's pretty much a wash and a major slap in the face to the establishment party, the one that just pretends to be two political parties, so in reality it is actually the establishment corporate party versus the second and third parties. It seems common ground is developing between the Greens and Libertarians with regard to privacy, freedom and liberty, less government control over individuals, reductions in military spending, cutting back on military occupation of the rest of the world, ending money controlling politics and better quality policing instead of brutal law en-force-ment.
So this election seems to be between the POS charade of main stream corporate politics and the clean and far more honest campaign of the Greens and Libertarians, this setting the stage for a much, much tougher election cycle next time round (looks to be pretty much a guaranteed record vote for the Greens and Libertarians). As for which dog picks up the corporate election candidacy, honestly what difference does it make, they will still obey the corporations, with a bias to pork barrel infrastructure spending (Trump) or a bias to banking/war corruption (Clinton). I myself feel that democrat socialism and libertarianism can get on quite well together, sharing the same country with different styled economic zones, tending more socialist for cities and more libertarians for regional zones (it is just the nature of the people involved and associated with both styles of governance and them trying to force their own upon the other is just a huge mistake, better to have different an unique economic zones that citizens are free to enter or leave, within a shared country).
I don't give a crap about either of them, as long as they supply an affordable, durable water resistant phablet, with swappable long life battery, stylus, expandable memory and 3D virtual reality glasses. I feel absolutely no need to stump for corporations unless they serve the public good, other wise fuck em (PS never ever brag about your supplier making shit bucket tons of money, just makes you look silly and gullible, as that money is coming out of your pocket. As an end user, as the customer, you should only brag about your supplier when they make bugger all money ie less money coming out of your pocket).
Of course don't forget that M$ were at the DNC, the corporate convention to pick politicians with their cheque books, to lobby for more H1B this whilst planning those layoffs or what, redundant, cough, cough too expensive, fully trained and experienced individuals. Those ass hat corporate executives are truly shameless, in public, don't care who sees it, corruption or the democratic process to feed their greed. You reckon M$ would pull it's head in a bit after the mass invasion of privacy of Windows anal probe 10 but nope, not one bit of shame or embarrassment, straight back at screwing customers and staff over, like there is no tomorrow (I will never understand why M$ employees put up with that shit, I wonder how many of them are comfortable using Windows anal probe 10 at home, looking for a job, complaining about working at M$ or just trying to relax with some pron, whilst their employer looks over their shoulder or right at their face or just what they are looking or recording their communications or doing all of that at once, M$ employees would have to be the most spied on people on the planet, ugh).
The reality is the TV networks time in history is over, no one believes the corporate propaganda any more, their marketing ability is collapsing and the actual content producers, the people who actually produce the entertainment (the writers and animators) are sick of them (and of actors). So more direct content, from content creator to end user with minimal interference from content library services (not publishers any more, just a lend lease libraries). That is the inevitable trend and time most definitely is on Apple's side. They who produce the most economical, friendly and accessible libraries will win (exclusivity whilst sounding fine in psychopathic corporate board rooms is actually a no, no and will push those companies into second and third rate status), along with the content creators (writers and animators). Actors are on the way out because of course as computers increase in capability so virtual acting bots become possible and they live forever, do not have hugely wildly bloated egos and once paid for remain paid for and do not lose that investment in a drunken, drugged up splurges involving minors (that corporate main stream media together with public relations firms can not gloss over). Keep in mind those lend lease libraries will also become social media hubs, user to user and content creators to content creator and user to content creators (a lot more content creators will appear, as a result of non-exclusive deals with libraries, more of an investment in the content creator and hence limiting their ability to trade content via other libraries, will stupidly limit returns upon that investment. Why the investment by libraries into content creators, the more the merrier or cough, cough, the cheaper they become, enabling libraries to build up masses of cheap, competitive content and the market is opened up far wider to many amateur content creators, even user to user created evolving content (no fixed story, changes over time, with specific recorded creation points). Current main stream media is just so last millennium (although that era will go done in history as creators of the most bloated and inflated egos imaginable from demanding worship, to unlimited greed, to endless celebrations of their own egos and even publicly choosing political leaders thumbing their noses at the majority, spending way beyond what the anonymous majority could ever afford, laughing at the nobodies campaign efforts).
Cough, cough, Android vs the Losephone (it would be lying to call it a Winphone). This story is about companies propping up M$ to their own destruction, basically suckers.
As it turns out, just the BIC Cristal Pen sold one hundred billion by 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/radionat....
That comment would be a whole lot funnier if main stream media was not parroting it as the truth. Damn we need some aliens blaming everything on Russia is really losing it's bite https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
The Olympics is really losing it shine and it's once vote winning ability as the leading Government subsidised sports advertising event. The political attempt to kick out the entire Russian team for the cheating they all do is a real sign of the Olympics loss of image. Without the lock in of main stream media controlling the public mind space, the Olympic spirit is looking really rather blemished and frankly quite boring and is really losing it's ability to sell pretty much anything. All it ever really celebrated was a tiny minority of people, willing to do the same boring repetitive completely and totally unproductive (at least production line workers produce something) task, over and over and over again. So here is an interesting question in times of austerity and the public suffering it creates, what exactly is the global tax spend on the Olympics, year in and year out, 1 billion dollars, 10 billion dollars, perhaps even more, all spent to sell products the winners promote upon the basis "It ain't lying, it's acting".
Hold on a second. A corporation is saying it can not find skilled local workers, so why the fuck do they not train some. So when anyone, has to go for that training, they have to take on a massive debt to pay for the skill corporations want to exploit. So why the fuck do the corporations get that skill for fucking free. Why are not the corporations paying for training, why are those cheap arse bastards, demanding that the government pays, or the individual pays. Whilst those self same corporations refuse to pay for training and to top it all off, what to pay lower wages to those individuals who pay for that training and in addition those self same corporations cheap on their taxes by offshoring profits in tax havens. The should take the D out of DNC and just have changed it to the CNC the Corporate National Convention.
What right of reproduction is it that you speak. I have never heard of this right, it sounds very suspiciously like some acient greek right of ownership of children, the right to do to them as you wish, to bake them and enjoy them with a dish of fava beans. The new child coming into to the world has rights and you have no rights to bring them into the world or to use them as you wish.
Hey, you want those who are least able to contribute to society to reproduce through intoxication and laziness and in far greater numbers than those who contribute the most to society, go right a fucking head. I, myself have chosen to liberate myself from that pending abuse by not reproducing, by not burdening myself with the guilt of future generations being subject to the abuse of the idiocracy. In fact I find the growth of idiocracy to be quite humorous, what the fuck do I care, I feeding victims to it (I still do my part it trying to stop it happening, it is the fair and reasonable thing to do but I burdened by the suffering the idiocracy will cause). I am sure it will be quite humorous when the idiots hit twenty billion and still counting.
Parenting and breeding licences are the common sense choice and no amount of wishing it away will make it less sensible, the earth is not infinite and as such breeding limitations are an inherent requirement.
The TSAs function is to establish a precedented and accustomise people to restrictions, all encompassing restrictions. It is a totally class structured organisations in principle. Certain people a minority get to completely avoid it, never ever experience (except to sneer at those who are forced into it, look down upon those who are being taught their place in society). The majority of course are being trained, you go only were you specifically are allowed to go, upon demand you can be stripped searching, molested, your belongings searched and taken at a whim. You are also taught that there are other people who do not go through this, superior people and you are a lessor person a nobody and you should become accustomed to this, it is your place and it you attempt to leave it watch out.
They fully plan to push it to all public transport, even local buses stopped, passengers abused, taught their place, forced to learn to obey or be physically abused as well as their families, full sexual abuse, parents in front of their children, publicly degraded so that their children learn their heroes, their parents, are zeros.
You are all being taught that those that fly in private jets are special and you are shit, they have power and privilege because they are anointed by "In Money we trust" and you are nothing. The longer you put up with this bullshit the more you sell yourself and future generations out, pathetic cowards that you are and that's a fact, if you had any real courage the TSA would have disappeared years ago.
Men, get a real job, you snooty DH ;). You know the kind of job you people sneer at and say it's only a training job that deserve less than the already shitty minimum wage. Want to express your creative talents, do it in your own time, out of your own pocket and like any busker, beg for money.
Unsympathetic, yep, because to many rich geek/nerd arseholes do not give one fuck about those doing hard work, real fucking work, on shitty minimum wage, not being able to afford a reasonable place to live or much of anything else. You fuckers still demand access to their wallets. Ain't no limit on how rich anal tech types become and still greedily demand to be able empty the wallets of the poorest.
No fucking protection for advertisements unless they stick to the rules, no fucking screaming, no fucking lies, no false association and no targeting people and absolutely no targeting of minors. PS fucking off with the psuedo celebrity bullshit would also be cool, I would rather pay for some quality in the product being sold than paying the bloated wage of some egoistic dickhead lying to me about how great the product is (which it would be if they had spent the money on the product instead of paying some egoistic dickhead to lie to me about that quality of the product because that quality is missing as they had to pay the dickhead instead).
So instead you want to break your power charging plug hole, the one you now generally use once per day and that with a fixed battery. So instead a potential proprietary socket, that will wear out, destroying the phone because no it connects to nothing and you can not pull out a flat battery and replace it with a charged battery. Yep, gullibly being sold another B$ marketing line. So with an existing ear socket phone you can listen through the usb socket with the right hardware and software but not fucking while you are charging the phone but that's OK you can swap out the battery and charge it separately, oh wait no you fucking can't.
When I am sitting back at home listening to my phone with a headset, as I am not moving, I charge up the phone at the same time, it's common sense and I have decades old cd/radio players that still plug fine their headsets work fine, so worn socket, likely crappy off spec plugs.
The only thing that pops in my mind regarding this story is https://www.youtube.com/watch?... or possibly this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... or even https://www.youtube.com/watch?.... Just a funny thought, all those blockers of continuous narrow beam laser light transmissions ;D.
So basically the test mode is exactly what is in my Mitsubishi Outlander when I press the eco-mode button. Which I normally leave it in 99.99% of the time (I have run with it off to test the difference, once, it is quite noticeable). Question is, is the vehicle also more fuel efficient in this mode and thus can it be forced to be active all of the time for the customers who choose that. Likely the engine management system kicks in this mode when the vehicle sustains revs with a specific range of revs for a given length of time, neither accelerating or decelerating, so revving the motor could produce honest outcomes. An honest detailed response on the programming is required from VW to produce an acceptable outcome.