What is really sickening about it, is US mass media and the US government seem to be taking pride in the apology, it's like they have completely and totally lost connection with real people and the real world and how they will view that forced apology. Should Bradley Manning have made that apology, of course, they are empty words to feed to the ugly beast that the US government has become, one that thrives on lies and false compliments, a Hollywood charade where bullshit trumps the truth. Lets see what pride Uncle Tom Obama the choom gang coward can suck out of that apology, let's see the US joint chiefs of staff puff out their chests at being able to force, let's see US corporate mass media trumpet it out to the whole planet.
Truly mind boggling, something the US would have mocked and derided just thirty odd years ago coming out of the Soviet Union is something these shit heads now take pride in, their lack of shame, hides from the the true public feelings about the sickness on display.
Take one guess where I got this from "However, the AppleCare Protection Plan for notebook computers does not cover batteries that have failed or are exhibiting diminished capacity except when the failure or diminished capacity is the result of a manufacturing defect.". So Apple analyses consumer complaints over previous product cycles and seeing a chance for profit reduces quality of batteries base upon how often complain and push publicly for failed battery replacement. Will batteries be replaced, NO, because reduced price and increased profits based upon reduced quality is not a manufacturing defect.
Actually giving notice, really slacking off and also making sure you got paid every last cent owed to you by the company is the biggest and longest way of showing the middle finger. Once you have given notice, you no longer have any fear of dismissal, so relax and have fun without being offensive, you'll enjoy getting paid off earlier, for the full period of notice and everything owed you without having to be there. Just walking out the door seems to be cutting off your nose to spite your face, if the company owes you money.
The real question is will US three letter agencies bloated top heavy with for profit corporate contractors, simply indulge themselves in industrial espionage, there are just hundreds of billions to be made. Will they see an opportunity for inside trading on shares again billions to be made and just a key press away on the cloud.
How many countries will be stupid enough to allow this to happen, not just in global markets but locally in their markets. How destructive could the US become in economic warfare, how destructive could all the for profit corporate contractors neck deep in US intelligence agencies in their quest for profits.
Seriously will they resist the temptation to strip mine other countries economies, buy up all the assets and leave everyone beholding to the US. Stop and really think about what can be fiscally done when you have free access to the business cloud, every business email, every business phone call and can hack into every business network. Total global financial control and can't US corporations be trusted with that, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT.
Actually this patent really stinks of it to the point that it is not an application for a single patent, but a grab bag for a whole bunch of patents for all the steps in between, more than a hundred patents jammed in there for the cost of one. When you start to look at the steps, you can start to see how dangerous this patent application is. Will the USPTO pass it, off course, it doesn't give a crap about anything except generating a ton of legal fees within the US.
You have just described pretty much the problem they fear. Via the publicly available data, those individuals most likely to accept bribes or those most likely to be readily blackmailed can be tracked down and exploited. No matter how good your security when someone sells company passwords, or someone is extorted into handing it over, your security defunct. A whole range of direct access hacks become available once those weal links have been exposed.
'ER' I was specifically referring to the shirts, including short sleeved polo shirts. Perhaps the name of the company fooled you, of course they seem well overpriced and thanks to the inept USPTO they have managed to patent the obvious but clothing manufacturers will catch up to public needs with regards to pockets eventually.
And the US corportocracy propaganda flows. Apparently freedom of speech is limited to corporations, their flunkies and their lies. Anyone that tells the truth is traitors.
Jesus Christ America, blow it out your arse. Britain has the BBC, Australia has the ABC, Canada has CBC and Russia has RT. Grow the fuck up, just because you treat PBS like some pathetic disturbed third cousin, doesn't highlight how bad other countries publicly funded television channels are, it just points out how sucked into corporate marketing the US market really is.
What the truth in news, the only way you will ever get it, in a mass distribution system, is via a publicly funded organisation, with a clearly and publicly laid out set of rules and subject to regular and routine audits of it's content.
What does RT really do for Russia, it makes Russia a more interesting and desirable location, for holidays, for business and for possible changes in residence.
A quick search around dug up this company http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/subindex_mens.shtml and their range of clothing (male assumed) with extra pockets. It seems only a matter of time that most manufacturers will start to add in a phablet pocket somewhere, it makes a lot more sense than a holster.
I don't get it. In the world of mobile where battery durability is everything, why the hell is the wifi chip powered and running if you are not specifically attempting to gain a wifi connection, sounds like a crock of shit marketing scam, set up by the manufacturers to exploit their customers. There should be no hardware or service running on mobile phones that the customer is not specifically attempting to use. Off should be off, for the phone as a whole as well as for any hardware or service on that phone eg not using blue tooth blue tooth should be off. Faster boot, quicker operation of what you are actually using and extended battery life. With capitalist life endless array of privacy invasive marketing douches not able to leak away your battery life.
Ahhh of course, just look at all the prisons completely free of crime, er, wait, what, ohhh bullshit.
Lets look at the US example, how many terrorist attacks are committed per year in the US versus how many innocent US citizens are attacked by US law en-FORCE-ment, including lethal attacks per year.
Shit, seems to me, US citizens of the US have for more to fear from it's rapidly deteriorating police force then from any and all terrorist organisations combined. So, hmm, how closely is the NSA monitoring US law enforcement, the far greater threat or have they given them the big ol thumbs up to abuse US citizens.
The court is not entitled to force silence upon anyone for any reason. As a citizen you are not a slave to the government hence the government does not have the right to force silence upon you. It is time for companies and individuals to challenge those rulings in a constitutional court. Sure they can force their way to listen in but they can not legally force you remain silent about it under the US constitution.
It was a huge M$ marketing stunt at the time. Why the switch because it was profitable to do so. Now the real question is about market share. Should the Go Daddy site plus all the web sites it servers be considered one site in terms of choice of server to in reality more effectively measure choice by people who actually administer web sites. It seems at the very least two sets of statistics should be presented to more accurately show choices made.
Different rules in different countries in more advanced societies companies must substantiate and provide legal reasons for dismissal, this to prevent extortion of employees either to remit part of their salary to supervisors, sexual favours or a requirement to commit criminal acts. Also special consideration should be given to public companies. No executive has the right to fire employees for any personal reason, as those employees are assets of that company and the executive is destroying value, not only in the loss of the employee but in destruction of company reputation as a desirable place to work.
A society has the right to prevent any organisation from operating. Never forget employees are a part of that society and have the right to work with that society to, FIRE THAT COMPANY.
Excuse but what could not be clearer than, "The companies policy regarding sick leave and the evidence obtained by the company to determine that she broke that policy", I didn't make any claim about validity of policy or nature of evidence. Just quite simply prove the reason they claimed for firing the individual, nothing more nor nothing less. As for your silly 'what ifs' I could fire back with a whole range of pointless what if but reality is what ifs are just pointless bullshit this is a matter going before a system of public review all that counts is facts and substantiation about what actually happened not what might have happened in some alternate reality.
P.S. Facebook is proof of nothing, it is bland social marketing representation of the way people wish to be viewed, absolutely chock a block full of lies and exaggerations. People trying to look cool and win as many 'er' Facebook friends, likes, follows or what ever other silly social addiction motivations Facebook chose to employ to click counts going. Facebook is 'PROOF', c'mon seriously, that brass rod you have shoved up there would be really uncomfortable if not for the pharmaceuticals you seem to be on.
What is surprising here us the court is making a summary judgement as to who is guilty until the prove their innocence. The unbelievable stretch in that allowing the airline access to information they didn't have in making their judgement to fire someone, as now somehow being proof of validity for firing them, is shockingly biased towards the airline and against the individual ie. we didn't know that but that's the reason why we sacked them. All that was required and should have been allowed was the companies policy regarding sick leave and the evidence obtained by the company to determine that she broke that policy, no further court ordered investigation should have been allowed.
The patent is obvious bullshit. The designer and engineer of the touchscreen incorporated within the design the ability to detect motion on the screen. To then layer an additional patent on there that particular motions are total complete and utter USPTO patent bullshit. It's like saying that touch screen designer didn't design in the ability to detect where on the screen you are touching or what motion you make post touch basically a touch screen that doesn't work at all. That the US Patent passed that is total and complete corruption of the patent system.
As for detecting what is plugged in, seriously what the fuck passed for obvious with the USPTO, seriously. Again a blatantly lawyer titled patent designed to run up fees.
Forget phones. The memory wars mean the end of the optical disk drive and of course any spinning storage.
Blue ray didn't bring it about but the memory wars will have you replacing your dvd collection (or at the very least the big rip and write of shifting your content to new media).
Still trying to imagine that huge box to allow the pretty label with this tiny postage stamp sized storage media containing the actual content be it game, music or movie or combinations and multiples of them all.
Yep, pretty much the way it has always been, 'er', PRIOR TO COASTAL CITIES HOUSING BILLIONS.
Capitals to bring the point home. If it was a natural event, we still would be forced to attempt to prevent it because of it's impact. As a man made event, it is logical to stop carrying out the action that is causing it. No we can not simply twiddle our thumbs and let our major coastal cities flood out, whether natural or man made. Seriously any person who actively works to bring it about should have their assets confiscated and be imprisoned for the rest of their life.
The current administration is certainly transparent about one thing, how they will treat any and all whistle blowers. Whistle blowers will be sexually humiliated and abused, threatened with death and subject to life imprisonment. Any country that harbours US whistle blowers will be threatened with economic warfare and other political targeted 'sanctions'.
So the Uncle Tom Obama administration is pretty transparent when it comes down to it and all the slick, teleprompter bullshit about anything they publicly say is, typical corporate marketing, about the way they want to be seen rather than the ugly reality of who they are.
Apart from the whistle blower stuff, that they are truly transparent about, as a US whistle blower you have no rights under law, you have no right to life and the government will do everything in it's power to completely and utterly fuck you up. A big ol thumbs up to the choom gang coward for that defence of the US constitution.
The issue is, once the market stops expanding that shrinking market share tends to turn around and slap (non insider) investors straight in the bank balance. Also you should not look at income, because for company income implies revenue not profits so rising income with faster rising costs, say, as a result of huge blunders and losses in new products, also ain't very nice either. For the more business minded, who do look at increased revenue, well, they like to deduct inflation out of the story, otherwise it is just that, a fanciful story with no real substance.
Yes we all know M$ knows how to squeeze profits out of a monopoly, how it globally likes to lobby and distort government purchases, how it lies, cheat and steals with patents and, how it corrupts international standards. You know what they say, all bad things must come to an end and substantially ramping up prices on customers currently locked into your products looks like a desperate last bid attempt to raise revenue because current management is truly desperately trying to cling onto the positions.
Honestly this extreme price rise seems like, Uncle Fester and co and desperate to raise revenue in order to prevent being tossed out.
If you are the military or a an intelligence agency, professionally paranoid, likely living in fear if Electron Magnetic Pulse, either generated by human activity of solar activity, how many spare parts for your computer system would you carry, 100% total replacement or as you think none?
More encryption slows down everything enormously, not only that but, ohh look, they will have less money to do it with' Reducing US computer business revenue, reduced tax base and who are they going to blame for the lost 'BILLIONS OF DOLLARS' and what are they going to do with their budget. Basically the message has gone out, absolutely do not host your data in the US,even if you are a US company and especially if you are not.
You can fully expect the next equivalent of secret Swiss Banks, new government regulation protected secret servers, so which countries will become the new Government gauranteed secured data centres of the world.
Only one question needs to be asked and one answer sought. What are the targeted price points for each inch of screen real estate. You could ask a second question, how much will it look and feel like Android so that M$ can sue Google for patent fees.
For PC you do local multi-player by cheating a bit. You deal with a good ISP that does game servers and you take your PC all to one location with good bandwidth and log onto a particular game server at your ISP at the same time (there are always less popular servers at any particular time simply because they lack players). Bit of carrying about and setting up but far better than crappy split screen. If you use steam there are also game servers available as long as you have one free PC to load it onto and do the serving.
It really is far more simple than that. New games have to compete for gamers time with old games. There are just so many old games out there that is really has slowed down the purchase of new games because a gamer when they have the time to sit down and play a game can just pick up one the ones they already own.
So in the greed obsessed fashion of the typical psychopath, modern gaming corporations are trying to come up with ways for charging gamers to pay to play for game they already own. Things like banning the second hand market. I really don't understand console buyers, you pay through the nose for every game you buy, in one year your typical console gamer could pay for a gaming PC in licence fee charges on games, why?
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What is really sickening about it, is US mass media and the US government seem to be taking pride in the apology, it's like they have completely and totally lost connection with real people and the real world and how they will view that forced apology. Should Bradley Manning have made that apology, of course, they are empty words to feed to the ugly beast that the US government has become, one that thrives on lies and false compliments, a Hollywood charade where bullshit trumps the truth. Lets see what pride Uncle Tom Obama the choom gang coward can suck out of that apology, let's see the US joint chiefs of staff puff out their chests at being able to force, let's see US corporate mass media trumpet it out to the whole planet.
Truly mind boggling, something the US would have mocked and derided just thirty odd years ago coming out of the Soviet Union is something these shit heads now take pride in, their lack of shame, hides from the the true public feelings about the sickness on display.
Take one guess where I got this from "However, the AppleCare Protection Plan for notebook computers does not cover batteries that have failed or are exhibiting diminished capacity except when the failure or diminished capacity is the result of a manufacturing defect.". So Apple analyses consumer complaints over previous product cycles and seeing a chance for profit reduces quality of batteries base upon how often complain and push publicly for failed battery replacement. Will batteries be replaced, NO, because reduced price and increased profits based upon reduced quality is not a manufacturing defect.
Actually giving notice, really slacking off and also making sure you got paid every last cent owed to you by the company is the biggest and longest way of showing the middle finger. Once you have given notice, you no longer have any fear of dismissal, so relax and have fun without being offensive, you'll enjoy getting paid off earlier, for the full period of notice and everything owed you without having to be there. Just walking out the door seems to be cutting off your nose to spite your face, if the company owes you money.
The real question is will US three letter agencies bloated top heavy with for profit corporate contractors, simply indulge themselves in industrial espionage, there are just hundreds of billions to be made. Will they see an opportunity for inside trading on shares again billions to be made and just a key press away on the cloud.
How many countries will be stupid enough to allow this to happen, not just in global markets but locally in their markets. How destructive could the US become in economic warfare, how destructive could all the for profit corporate contractors neck deep in US intelligence agencies in their quest for profits.
Seriously will they resist the temptation to strip mine other countries economies, buy up all the assets and leave everyone beholding to the US. Stop and really think about what can be fiscally done when you have free access to the business cloud, every business email, every business phone call and can hack into every business network. Total global financial control and can't US corporations be trusted with that, ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT.
Actually this patent really stinks of it to the point that it is not an application for a single patent, but a grab bag for a whole bunch of patents for all the steps in between, more than a hundred patents jammed in there for the cost of one. When you start to look at the steps, you can start to see how dangerous this patent application is. Will the USPTO pass it, off course, it doesn't give a crap about anything except generating a ton of legal fees within the US.
You have just described pretty much the problem they fear. Via the publicly available data, those individuals most likely to accept bribes or those most likely to be readily blackmailed can be tracked down and exploited. No matter how good your security when someone sells company passwords, or someone is extorted into handing it over, your security defunct. A whole range of direct access hacks become available once those weal links have been exposed.
'ER' I was specifically referring to the shirts, including short sleeved polo shirts. Perhaps the name of the company fooled you, of course they seem well overpriced and thanks to the inept USPTO they have managed to patent the obvious but clothing manufacturers will catch up to public needs with regards to pockets eventually.
And the US corportocracy propaganda flows. Apparently freedom of speech is limited to corporations, their flunkies and their lies. Anyone that tells the truth is traitors.
Jesus Christ America, blow it out your arse. Britain has the BBC, Australia has the ABC, Canada has CBC and Russia has RT. Grow the fuck up, just because you treat PBS like some pathetic disturbed third cousin, doesn't highlight how bad other countries publicly funded television channels are, it just points out how sucked into corporate marketing the US market really is.
What the truth in news, the only way you will ever get it, in a mass distribution system, is via a publicly funded organisation, with a clearly and publicly laid out set of rules and subject to regular and routine audits of it's content.
What does RT really do for Russia, it makes Russia a more interesting and desirable location, for holidays, for business and for possible changes in residence.
A quick search around dug up this company http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/subindex_mens.shtml and their range of clothing (male assumed) with extra pockets. It seems only a matter of time that most manufacturers will start to add in a phablet pocket somewhere, it makes a lot more sense than a holster.
I don't get it. In the world of mobile where battery durability is everything, why the hell is the wifi chip powered and running if you are not specifically attempting to gain a wifi connection, sounds like a crock of shit marketing scam, set up by the manufacturers to exploit their customers. There should be no hardware or service running on mobile phones that the customer is not specifically attempting to use. Off should be off, for the phone as a whole as well as for any hardware or service on that phone eg not using blue tooth blue tooth should be off. Faster boot, quicker operation of what you are actually using and extended battery life. With capitalist life endless array of privacy invasive marketing douches not able to leak away your battery life.
Ahhh of course, just look at all the prisons completely free of crime, er, wait, what, ohhh bullshit.
Lets look at the US example, how many terrorist attacks are committed per year in the US versus how many innocent US citizens are attacked by US law en-FORCE-ment, including lethal attacks per year.
Shit, seems to me, US citizens of the US have for more to fear from it's rapidly deteriorating police force then from any and all terrorist organisations combined. So, hmm, how closely is the NSA monitoring US law enforcement, the far greater threat or have they given them the big ol thumbs up to abuse US citizens.
The court is not entitled to force silence upon anyone for any reason. As a citizen you are not a slave to the government hence the government does not have the right to force silence upon you. It is time for companies and individuals to challenge those rulings in a constitutional court. Sure they can force their way to listen in but they can not legally force you remain silent about it under the US constitution.
It was a huge M$ marketing stunt at the time. Why the switch because it was profitable to do so. Now the real question is about market share. Should the Go Daddy site plus all the web sites it servers be considered one site in terms of choice of server to in reality more effectively measure choice by people who actually administer web sites. It seems at the very least two sets of statistics should be presented to more accurately show choices made.
Different rules in different countries in more advanced societies companies must substantiate and provide legal reasons for dismissal, this to prevent extortion of employees either to remit part of their salary to supervisors, sexual favours or a requirement to commit criminal acts. Also special consideration should be given to public companies. No executive has the right to fire employees for any personal reason, as those employees are assets of that company and the executive is destroying value, not only in the loss of the employee but in destruction of company reputation as a desirable place to work.
A society has the right to prevent any organisation from operating. Never forget employees are a part of that society and have the right to work with that society to, FIRE THAT COMPANY.
Excuse but what could not be clearer than, "The companies policy regarding sick leave and the evidence obtained by the company to determine that she broke that policy", I didn't make any claim about validity of policy or nature of evidence. Just quite simply prove the reason they claimed for firing the individual, nothing more nor nothing less. As for your silly 'what ifs' I could fire back with a whole range of pointless what if but reality is what ifs are just pointless bullshit this is a matter going before a system of public review all that counts is facts and substantiation about what actually happened not what might have happened in some alternate reality.
P.S. Facebook is proof of nothing, it is bland social marketing representation of the way people wish to be viewed, absolutely chock a block full of lies and exaggerations. People trying to look cool and win as many 'er' Facebook friends, likes, follows or what ever other silly social addiction motivations Facebook chose to employ to click counts going. Facebook is 'PROOF', c'mon seriously, that brass rod you have shoved up there would be really uncomfortable if not for the pharmaceuticals you seem to be on.
What is surprising here us the court is making a summary judgement as to who is guilty until the prove their innocence. The unbelievable stretch in that allowing the airline access to information they didn't have in making their judgement to fire someone, as now somehow being proof of validity for firing them, is shockingly biased towards the airline and against the individual ie. we didn't know that but that's the reason why we sacked them. All that was required and should have been allowed was the companies policy regarding sick leave and the evidence obtained by the company to determine that she broke that policy, no further court ordered investigation should have been allowed.
The patent is obvious bullshit. The designer and engineer of the touchscreen incorporated within the design the ability to detect motion on the screen. To then layer an additional patent on there that particular motions are total complete and utter USPTO patent bullshit. It's like saying that touch screen designer didn't design in the ability to detect where on the screen you are touching or what motion you make post touch basically a touch screen that doesn't work at all. That the US Patent passed that is total and complete corruption of the patent system.
As for detecting what is plugged in, seriously what the fuck passed for obvious with the USPTO, seriously. Again a blatantly lawyer titled patent designed to run up fees.
Forget phones. The memory wars mean the end of the optical disk drive and of course any spinning storage.
Blue ray didn't bring it about but the memory wars will have you replacing your dvd collection (or at the very least the big rip and write of shifting your content to new media).
Still trying to imagine that huge box to allow the pretty label with this tiny postage stamp sized storage media containing the actual content be it game, music or movie or combinations and multiples of them all.
Yep, pretty much the way it has always been, 'er', PRIOR TO COASTAL CITIES HOUSING BILLIONS.
Capitals to bring the point home. If it was a natural event, we still would be forced to attempt to prevent it because of it's impact. As a man made event, it is logical to stop carrying out the action that is causing it. No we can not simply twiddle our thumbs and let our major coastal cities flood out, whether natural or man made. Seriously any person who actively works to bring it about should have their assets confiscated and be imprisoned for the rest of their life.
The current administration is certainly transparent about one thing, how they will treat any and all whistle blowers. Whistle blowers will be sexually humiliated and abused, threatened with death and subject to life imprisonment. Any country that harbours US whistle blowers will be threatened with economic warfare and other political targeted 'sanctions'.
So the Uncle Tom Obama administration is pretty transparent when it comes down to it and all the slick, teleprompter bullshit about anything they publicly say is, typical corporate marketing, about the way they want to be seen rather than the ugly reality of who they are.
Apart from the whistle blower stuff, that they are truly transparent about, as a US whistle blower you have no rights under law, you have no right to life and the government will do everything in it's power to completely and utterly fuck you up. A big ol thumbs up to the choom gang coward for that defence of the US constitution.
The issue is, once the market stops expanding that shrinking market share tends to turn around and slap (non insider) investors straight in the bank balance. Also you should not look at income, because for company income implies revenue not profits so rising income with faster rising costs, say, as a result of huge blunders and losses in new products, also ain't very nice either. For the more business minded, who do look at increased revenue, well, they like to deduct inflation out of the story, otherwise it is just that, a fanciful story with no real substance.
Yes we all know M$ knows how to squeeze profits out of a monopoly, how it globally likes to lobby and distort government purchases, how it lies, cheat and steals with patents and, how it corrupts international standards. You know what they say, all bad things must come to an end and substantially ramping up prices on customers currently locked into your products looks like a desperate last bid attempt to raise revenue because current management is truly desperately trying to cling onto the positions.
Honestly this extreme price rise seems like, Uncle Fester and co and desperate to raise revenue in order to prevent being tossed out.
If you are the military or a an intelligence agency, professionally paranoid, likely living in fear if Electron Magnetic Pulse, either generated by human activity of solar activity, how many spare parts for your computer system would you carry, 100% total replacement or as you think none?
More encryption slows down everything enormously, not only that but, ohh look, they will have less money to do it with' Reducing US computer business revenue, reduced tax base and who are they going to blame for the lost 'BILLIONS OF DOLLARS' and what are they going to do with their budget. Basically the message has gone out, absolutely do not host your data in the US,even if you are a US company and especially if you are not.
You can fully expect the next equivalent of secret Swiss Banks, new government regulation protected secret servers, so which countries will become the new Government gauranteed secured data centres of the world.
Only one question needs to be asked and one answer sought. What are the targeted price points for each inch of screen real estate. You could ask a second question, how much will it look and feel like Android so that M$ can sue Google for patent fees.
For PC you do local multi-player by cheating a bit. You deal with a good ISP that does game servers and you take your PC all to one location with good bandwidth and log onto a particular game server at your ISP at the same time (there are always less popular servers at any particular time simply because they lack players). Bit of carrying about and setting up but far better than crappy split screen. If you use steam there are also game servers available as long as you have one free PC to load it onto and do the serving.
It really is far more simple than that. New games have to compete for gamers time with old games. There are just so many old games out there that is really has slowed down the purchase of new games because a gamer when they have the time to sit down and play a game can just pick up one the ones they already own.
So in the greed obsessed fashion of the typical psychopath, modern gaming corporations are trying to come up with ways for charging gamers to pay to play for game they already own. Things like banning the second hand market. I really don't understand console buyers, you pay through the nose for every game you buy, in one year your typical console gamer could pay for a gaming PC in licence fee charges on games, why?