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  1. Re:It's to keep upstarts down and themselves in po on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    This is called enlightened self interests. They know full well they have pushed the limits of enriching the rich and impoverishing the poor, at the current course a French styled revolution is in the offing and they are trying to avoid a meeting with mademoiselle guillotine. Other idiots think they can still push harder because they want to feed chaos for it's own sake and think they can escape with their wealth. Angry Trump supports are a solid indication of how betrayed the ignorant right is feeling, they are waking up to the idea they have by betrayed by both Democrats and Republicans and are really, really angry and that is the public face of their anger, the private one is even worse and barely being constrained. Lots of real cracks have appeared in the social binding of the US and those cracks are leading to breakdown and this will occur unless a new course is steered. Want to see money wasted like never before, start actively fighting amongst yourselves to feed insatiable greeds and you will see trillions wasted. Want to kill an economy, look at the lessons being taught globally, quite simply bury that economy in violent civil unrest and you will kill that economy.

  2. Re: Don't Let Him Back! on Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The global balance is totally recognised. Universal health care is centrists, anything more than that is left, ie universal dental care and anything less than that is right. Barack Obama based upon activity is far right, based upon the puppet prompter and his lying mouth he is centre right and based upon election speeches he is centre left, no different to Hillary Clinton or Bill Clinton. There is no way in hell any government can pretend to call itself centre left without universal health care, just a straight up lie.

  3. Re:But if we don't spy on everyone 24/7/365 on Paris Terrorists Used Burner Phones, Not Encryption, To Evade Detection (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The 24/7 spying is not about terrorists, it is all about tracking peaceful political activists, those people who do actively effect political change. Also all potential politicians, union leaders, government officials, anyone who could be potentially extorted at a latter date to empower the espionage/military industrial complex. As for the terrorist seeming to be so smart and effectively neutralising the investigative techniques that are being kept secret from the majority, ever consider that they were being too smart, smarter than in fact they should, smarter than they would be without professional assistance and this professional assistance working with the full knowledge of the investigative techniques being applied. The global espionage/military industrial complex worth trillions desperately needs enemies to fight and we know full well they have been purposefully creating them for decades and this corrupt activity is escalating.

  4. How about no sales, just straight up library swaps. So have a swap library, you put up the games you want to trade away and the games you are looking for and match those with other people looking to trade away the game you are looking for and seeking the game you are willing to swap, first to match wins. No currency need change hands. So a games exchange. 10% what a joke not even the MS demanded xbox licence fee.

  5. Re:Last we will hear of that.... on FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    OHH bullshit, everyone knew it was all about punching a permanent back door into all iphones and not this particular one. The more extensive goal was to force Apple to allow the backdoor from here on in and that to protect M$ and the permanent back door put into windows and specifically protect it from Apple selling privacy as a feature. They were losing the case and are going to do exactly what they could have done in the very beginning but were pretending to not be able to do and oh yeah, the password change did not occur by accident but was part of the over scam. They were forced to back down from implementing a permanent back door into all Apple products and ensuring Apple could not market privacy against M$'s Windows anal probe 10 permanent back door. M$ spying on your children.

  6. Damn you just wont drop you marketdroid bullshit will you. The average consumer will stop buying PCs fullstop and only power users and businesses will, end of story. No matter what the fuck you do with Windows anal probe, it makes no difference, there is no market to sell it to. M$ is dead as shit on the TV and on the tablet and on the phone, dead, rotting, done (and still managing to make it worse). As for those devices all Apple has to say is M$ is watching you masturbate on a windows device and we don't ;D.

  7. What you really want to say is, I am old and have got set in my ways and trying to force change on me, makes me want to go all GOD (grumpy old dude or dudette) on your ass. Not that there is anything wrong with that and I personally do agree with you but sometimes the more informal response is the better response. So forcing changes to stuff people have spent decades getting used to, practising and doing without even thinking about it any more. So they can focus on what they are doing and not how they are doing it. It really and I mean really fucking pisses them off, it hugely disrupts what had become their natural use of computer technology. I think Ubuntu got off really lightly because people were choosing to be forgiving rather than expressing their true opinion, that didn't seem to work that well, though.

  8. Re:He has a point on Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Change over time is key. So the current market is defined by the current technology. As bandwidth increases and processing power increases and storage capability increases. So the internet will localise. So rather than a file server et al, you end up with much smarter, globally interlinked, router/firewall/server/modems. So a user get's one, dresses up their bits of the internet. Their voice/text/mail server, their web server, their internet server, not alone of course but with the assistance of their ISP or router/firewall, server supplier or internet web sites or interlinking social media networks. So they join their hardware to the social network they like and share everything they can digitally. The causes they promote, the social interactions they enjoy, the advertising they are willing to participate in, the content they are willing to share or want to sell, all are supported by the social network, those groups connecting those devices in a truly distributed cloud network (those services would also provide backup and standby operations) with the social network providing the interlinking. For most users this will be done in the background, simply buy the device and plug it in, they will be happy with colouring in the defaults and going with the default social networks, perhaps over time make changes. Gate keepers prying into everything and trying to control everything, simply get squeezed out of the market, they have huge negative impact and provide no real end user benefit.

  9. Re:Oil prices on Obama Rejects New Atlantic Ocean Oil Drilling (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Our refuse can supply that market and only the very cheapest, oil fields will survive but their share price will be a small fraction of what it is today and the rest will go bankrupt, the bulk of them will go bankrupt (because we eat organic products and poop carbon and various other waste products). We stop burning fossil fuels and we need a huge amount less of fossil fuels and supply and demand will technically bankrupt them all even the cheapest producers will go under due to current over valuation and debt, but the cheapest will be picked up out of the bankruptcy bin and brought back to life. Right now, there is just a whole bunch of corrupt collusion to socialise those losses via government and pension funds. This will fail and corrupt individuals will exposed and pay huge penalties.

  10. The average consumer will not buy WindowsSE edition, wake up to your self. The average consumer will buy an Android or Apple tablet and an Android or Apple Big Screen all in one and an Android or Apple smart phone and an educational and knowledge tool Android or Apple notebook (simple near disposable product for school and work). Only power users and companies will be buying PCs, so M$ are fucking with them to try to sell a brand of product to people that quite simply will no longer be buying that product, now that's stupid. Basically to try to sell a brand of product to the average consumer who will no longer be buying that particular product they are pissing off the market base that still will be buying that product but now will be forced by M$s idiocy to buy a different brand of that product. So the M$ market droids are so far up their collective asses prying into every ones else's arse, they are trying to win a market that is ceasing to exist (average consumers buying personal computers) and doing so by destroying their share of the market that will still exist (power and business users who will still buy personal computers). Good luck with that morons ;D.

  11. The big problem with large bladed wind turbines is wing tip velocity and the subsequent noise. So the limit is that and nothing else and most certainly not appearance. So the trick is large blade but at a slow rotation. This is why there is a focus on engineering better vertical wind turbines rather that rather than large bladed horizontal axis wind turbines. The vertical wind turbines also have a huge advantage of having the generator at ground level, as well as being able to be placed much closer together and are not a hazard to bird life.

  12. Re:Maturing = controlling? on Netflix CEO Says Blocking Proxy Services Is Maturation of Internet TV (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, straight of the bat with a lie. Content is not stuff, stuff is stuff. Content is a licence, not stuff, it is a government produced fabrication brought about by greed and has nothing at all to do with need. You basically shoot yourself in the foot and shove that foot in your mouth. You make it with you stuff and I copy it with my stuff, and make more copies ie more stuff, should I not be able to pay my bills, to feed my family from the stuff I produced. So government produced licences are not the same as manufactured stuff, they are a restriction of trade to create false value and these false value has been repeatedly inflated and extended out of nothing but sheer myopic greed. Especially as a huge amount of the licensed crap actually does harm to society rather than producing a benefit.

  13. Re:Fair that money was awarded, amount excessive on Jury Orders Gawker To Pay $115 Million To Hulk Hogan In Sex Tape Lawsuit (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    So the damage is the result of him marketing himself as a sexual powerhouse and the reality of being exposed as a 'er' little finger and thus he is no longer able to lie and make money by putting down other men as little fingers http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuf..., so is this court rage by a similarly afflicted judge and jury. So should you really be able to claim damages for no longer be able to tell lies and profit by doing so whilst damaging the psychology of 'er' little finger afflicted males. So who should be paying damages for the harm caused in reality.

  14. Re:The cash grab is basically complete on Workers In China, India, USA Believe AI and Robots Will Replace Them (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You have to remember the bulk of the actions are based around self serving ego and that ego is not satisfied by a robot doing the work, it requires that a human be forced to do the work and then punished at whim in the most brutal ways for the most shallow reasons. So global elite will want the robots not to to the work but manage the forced labour camps and ensure that enslaved human labour carries out the work in a fashion that those approve. Remember they do not feel guilt when they see a person working hard and being abused, whilst the rich and greedy wallow in luxury, they find that sexually stimulating and want to exploit the children of the workers they abuse.

  15. Re:Is she anatomically correct? on Could You Fall In Love With This Robot? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ?, what's perverted about SUDO make me sandwich.

  16. If that were true, they would produce WindowsSE a secure edition that you buy with all the crap missing and guaranteed to remain missing. They choose not to do this, so yeah, huge stinking conspiracy and they are no longer to be trusted.

  17. Re:They also might quit if.... on Apple Employees, If Ordered To Unlock iPhone, Might Quit (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The rebellion grows. The tighter they squeeze the more power that slips through the fingers. Better to be arrested and fight and win in the public courts now than be enslaved latter in a private court.

  18. Re:Turs out the US of A is no different! on US Government Pushed Many Tech Firms To Hand Over Source Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is how it works, you vote for the one who you think will best serve the public interest, do not cheer lead, do not get sucked in by marketing, basically keep a little informed about the various players actual actions and vote based upon those actions. Now it doesn't stop there, if they turn out to be back stabbing liars, vote them out of office by voting for whom you now believe is the best candidate the most likely to serve the public interest. You do this from 18 till the day you die, it is your responsibility as a citizen to do this and this is the minimum effort.

    To do more, form a party party, where you and a bunch of like minded friends get togethor, eat a meal and discuss politics, say once a week or month, not just politics but proper social interaction ie have fun. Based up that decide who the group will more actively support, perhaps even, shock horror pick someone out of your own group to run for office or the group can pick someone else and twist their arm to run for office. This is the much better solition.

    Win, lose or draw, FUCK THEM UP, wreak their political games, make them spend billions more trying to steal power, have fun being a political pest believe it or not, it is really fun to Loki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... around making life really fucking hard for corrupt politicians. Play with "Anonymous", have fun being political active, have protest parties, even get arrested and then fight it in court. Do not believe the bullshit, those dickheads at the top are just empty egotistic dickheads and they have no more power than what we give them or take away. You can do exactly what they do, they are no more than you. The electorate in a Democracy is always way more powerful than the politicians they elect.

    Being politically active is not a chore, it is fun and there is a huge amount of satisfaction in fucking up their corrupt plans, they go through all that time and effort, conspiring and spending millions to steal billions and you can just stroll in a fuck it all up, if you have a mind to, not alone of course but sharing this fun with others ;D.

  19. Re:I saw this coming on Uber Seeking To Buy Self-Driving Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    News flash exactly why would the automakers bother with selling cars to Uber. Seriously auto executives would simply say, fuck Uber, we will make our own auto taxi service direct and keep those profits, let the morons at Uber make their own cars. Uber has a tiny limited window in the transportation market and it is doomed, expect it to go public ASAP, so the insiders can sell out and watch it go boom from some tax haven.

  20. Re:Get one Get Many on Docs With Malicious Macros Deliver Fileless Malware (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, no, I use Libre Office because it provides all I need, they do not dick around with GUI changes to stick in patent protections to prevent competition, I do not need to relearn it every few years, to avoid document lock in, and basic is a shit macro language (I actually much preferred the program specific macros that aligned with the command structure and I feel a spread sheet is a better programming environment, it creates a better mind map of the program, different sheets, different areas in sheets, linking sheets, it provided a much more cellular approach to programming), I don't have to keep buying it again and again and again or else loose the ability to share documents with others and I got really, really, pissed of with changes that M$ purposefully introduced that improved their profits at the expense of user experience and usability. The only M$ program I use is the operating system and that is tied to game playing and nothing else, simply because it provides access to the greatest number of discounted games and my existing game library.

    I will, never, I repeat never use a losephone(winphone a marketdroid joke) or tablet or TV or any other M$ program, not browsing, not email, not anything. Quite simply they are just too much of a pain in the arse to bother worth dealing with, the fuck around is just endless with them and now the privacy invasiveness to steal creative ideas, to spy on citizens for government for profit, to steal insider business secrets (make no mistake that is core of windows 10, think of the billions of profits in insider trading monitoring the home computers of business executives, what they a buying, what they are planning, what kind of mood they are in confident or worried, chatter about their employment and the government is letting them get away with it because insiders will share in it). As far as I am concerned they are shit eating scum and I will avoid all possible interactions with them and there is no coming back from that.

  21. Re:They're not concerned about user experience on Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Windows 10 Mobile To Older Phones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Whilst that is accurate for mobile phones and tablets it is no longer holding true for desktops which are pretty much reverting to the late 1990s and early 2000s power users. So M$ choosing to dick those users about in a shrinking PC market really doesn't make any sense.

  22. At the moment the really hot one is picking on NATO. Referring to them as the North American Territorial Occupation farce, gets you an immediate probe. Especially pointing out how NATO is purposefully poking Russia, so that the Russian government will react and NATO can use that reaction to push more countries into NATO. Basically surrendering their defence forces to US control, privatising their defences industries to US/UK corporations, ceasing all investigations of corrupt NATO activities and being prepared to surrender control of their borders and cyber security http://www.nicp.nato.int/index.... Final recruitment into senior positions of corruption within NATO are conducted by corporate representatives at the NATO school http://www.natoschool.nato.int... where military officers and political representatives are screened for suitability for agents of mass corruption.

    If you are wandering why a mutual defence treaty needs all that crap, the obvious answer is, well, without it how will the profits flow https://diweb.hq.nato.int/niag.... Of course try to leave NATO and expect regime change of the most egregious sort, there is no leaving NATO. The US military industrial complex is basically taking over the world one country at a time be leveraging them into NATO and then taking over.

  23. You dungeons and dragons knowledge is appalling Hillary Clinton is a low level shadow monster cast by Cabalist Illusionists. Only low level because she requires to be constant feed by tiny magic green scrolls which she consumes at a prodigious rate in order to produce the required prismatic spray with fog and hypnotic modifiers. Even then she still requires a cadre of bards to provide extensive support, casting beguiling ballads and songs of hope and change. Without all that support she is more a flatulent miasma of no real consequence.

  24. Re:Enemies of anonymity on Anonymous Doxes Trump, But Leaked Info Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    Being able to be political active anonymously is necessary where those who have to money and power to subvert democracy would subvert the lives of those who are politically active against them. Get them fired by threatening their employers, the employer firing them because the employer prefers government favouring them, get them arrested on spurious charges, government declares them a security risk and denies them or their company employment and that is just for a start, there is also threatening family members in similar manner and never forget early morning law enforcement raids at gunpoint with law enforcers eager to fire, typically with seconds of issuing a warning or even firing simultaneously to the warning. "Anonymous" exists because there are enormously corrupt psychopathic authoritarians who would attack and destroy them or even kill them. "Anonymous" is not the problem, "Anonymous" is the symptom of the problem. The problems a secret conspiracies and corruption, perversion of justice and the laws, corrupt main stream media and the willingness of those involved in the corruption to resort to extremes of violence, especially of the "Stop Resisting" variety even when the victims are unconscious they are still further beaten for refusing to move. Houses trashed, goods stolen for investigation, families brutalised, joke all you want idiot, you wont be laughing when it's your turn and that level of corruption means it more random chance than any act you do, that provokes an attack.

  25. Forcing upgrades against the users choice behind their backs is nuts, really right out their crazy, basically taking over end user computers. Do you not realise that is a criminal act, it's their computer, it's their connection to the internet and M$ are committing a computer crime by hacking it, especially considering the privacy invasive nature of the hack pretty much the equivalent to installing back orifice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... There is no sound logical reason to do so, to so push the bounds of law. They have well and truly crossed the line with regard to class action law suit and are into the territory of criminal prosecution. There is no sane logical reason to carry on in such a stupid fashion and that brings to mind conspiracy.