Don't think them, think just a few out of already warped social cluster. Averages they can be cruel. When you created socially distorted sub-cultures, here a culture that routinely humiliates and violates people's deeply personal space, who devalue the people they publicly abuse and who create a culture of abuse, you create even more dangerous outliers.
On one side are the people who sickened by the abuses of the TSA quit and seek work elsewhere, the other side are people who egoistically revel in the abuses they can met out against any they feel might have slighted them in the past, how ever tenuous the association with the slight.
These disturbed people will be denied their chance for psychopathic revenge, they will be further frustrated in the sadistic need to ease their rage and by nature of birth will act out on in. How destructively only remains to be seen.
A mining tax is totally logical, keep in mind you are robbing future generations to feed today's generation greed. Europe has limited primary resources not because they had few to start with but because they used the cheaply accessible and highly profitable ones up.
When it comes to essential infrastructure any sound sensible government should always, always drive local production. This establishes and maintains an essential infrastructure skills base and ensures local supplies. Where private industry does not fill that need, rather idiotically sticking ones head in the ground and pretending it's not working, government need to establish government industries to provide that localised manufacturing base for essential industries. Fuck corporate greed, Bugger psychopathic economics, shit on for profit lobbyists, this is about maintaining the essential core infrastructure elements of a country and minimising corruptive and destructive foreign debt.
Look at all the countries that were economic crippled for foreign supplied and foreign debt driven infrastructure elements. In fact that foreign driven infrastructure development was nothing more than blatant global economic slavery in order for foreign corporations to be able to strip countries of their resources.
China has a history of global market manipulation. This arises from politicians in China also being the head of corporations.
Case in point at one stage China was buying huge amounts of steel, enough to substantially drive up the price of steel. They were not actually using the steel they were stockpiling it, but why? They were going to public list the government owned steel manufacturing company and, politicians had inside running on the transaction. Once the company was sold, they stopped buying and, started using stockpile dropping the price of steel (another great insider opportunity for share profits). Once the stockpile was gone and supply and demand normalised the price of steel bounced up (yet another opportunity for insider share profits).
So politicians/corporate heads in China are more than content to manipulate government purchases and the economy of China to their personal corporate for profit advantage.
No government should ever subsidise a product unless it is fully locally produced and provides long term health and or economic advantage. Should the US subsides suburban solar and VAWT wind turbines, of course. As long as they are fully locally produced because it will reduce future energy imports and more energy is generated by non-polluting methods in metropolitan areas (healthier cities).
The best way for the government to subsidise these industries is by buying out all the associated patents, consolidating and further advancing the technology and then making them 'FREELY' available to 'LOCAL' only producers, they can still charge foreign manufacturers patent fees, this is the smart thinking way (local products are cheaper and foreign patent fees subsidise local production and product research).
You forget the MPAA and RIAA companies have many things in abundance and these things are more likely to drive egoistic psychopaths and narcissistic politicians.
Things like pseudo celebrity parties on mega-yachts, island resorts and hotel like mansions. Lots of drugs, including a full range of addictive pharmaceuticals (those plastic surgeons will sign off on any prescription) as well as illegal drugs, I'm talking lots and lots and lots of drugs. Ready to be abused music, movie and TV industry hopefuls, young and desperate, now add in the drugs and you have a typical politicians party (oxycontin, viagra, and a what ever age or sex sacrifice required to satiate the ego of the politician). Double plus benefit, post coital blackmail ensures legislative compliance. Not to forget lots and lots of cash, actually hard currency, as well as bases in tax havens and extradition free zones.
Basically the MPAA and RIAA industry is riddled with organised crime, due in large part to the cash, drugs and sex that 'er' lubricates that industry. They basically use that capability to out influence all other industries. Of course lets not forget advertising as news, pure propaganda players like Fox not-News that continually run pretend interviews that are actually political adds for favoured politicians or conversely attack pieces that are even more blatant political adds.
This is no different from a computerised classroom. Using wifi to log in the student with the smart book when the enter the school yard and then using infra-red login in the class room to exactly note their location. This in conjunction with the teachers computer, who can via their smart book, face match each students class room login, when the students connect into the individual class rooms (lecture theatre, laboratory or various offices) infra-red network.
Soon as the student logs out of the class room infra-red they switch back to wifi, in the school yard, as they leave the school are, they are logged off from the wifi, requiring a wired connection a place of residence to the school to log back in to access home work etc. You don't want to get caught in over-tracking and privacy invasion and using infra-red in the class room minimising parental concerns.
Add a camera fish eye lens in the class form random monitoring and teacher evaluation. Measuring a students grade does not measure the teachers skill, it measure the ability of the student to learn (IQ genetic, they either get good brain chemical rewards from learning or not so much), the effort the student puts in, and the amount of educational support provided by parents. Want to evaluate a teachers performance you can only do that by monitoring classes ie measuring the teachers ability to engage, control and teach as class (should be done upon a regular random basis). Also useful to corroborate disruptive students who would do better in special classes, as would the rest of the class (larger class sizes, using computers necessitates elimination a disruptive students to fairly distribute the teachers time to the rest of the students). This taking into account psychopaths and narcissists are born not made and the rest of the students and teacher should not be psychologically tortured by their presence.
The only thing BP demonstrated in psychopath corporate world, was how ownership of wells should be restructured to ensure when a well fails only the profitability of that well is affected and not the rest of the company.
Transocean made a profit out of the insurance claim and Halliburton still got paid for doing a crap job. Both companies with intimately involved in the failure.
You can expect all future oil leases to be subdivided into individual well leases owned by individual one off companies, all designed to be buried in debt and go belly at the first failure leaving all future clean up costs to the tax payer.
The quality of the content is the real problem with high definition. Ugly plastic surgery, botox overdoses, ludicrous make-up and poor acting all seem to set a resolution limit of content at about DVD quality any more than that restricted to documentaries and scenery channels. SFX and scenery often suffer under higher resolution as well.
Blue Ray was always the dead end for 'Optical Disk Drives' USB flash drives are their obvious replacement and as prices continue to drop the obvious enormous reduction in the volume of hardware required to play it and the necessary storage space for personal collections and, even the simplicity of making a very large USB hub/rack with hundreds of ports and expandable (plug it in a leave it in your USB library jukebox).
Blue-ray was always a big miss for me, I waiting for the next storage format, end of story and bugger streaming. Take a look at Steam, say you own $500 worth of content and you end up having a dispute over one $5 purchase they will cut you off from your whole library, until you buckle under. So streaming has real limits definitely for bargain bin purchases only.
Facebook, we won't let your employer force you password out of you for free, of course not, when we can sell full access to your profile to your employer for a profit.
In this case based upon the psychopathic profile of the individuals involved, this is more about something they want to sell, your personal life including all cross references and associations (even if you don't use facebook it doesn't mean you wont end up in it's databases).
So fraud based upon elitist ego. "Look at me, I'm special I pay a lot of money to eat rare endanger fish because I can afford to do so, even though there is more plentiful fish that taste's much the same."
So wanker's fraud, somehow it all seems rather appropriate;D. So people feeding their ego instead of their stomach, hmm, what difference does it make, they can still ostentatiously spend large sums on 'elitist' food, after all it's not the food, it's egoistically spending an average families weekly food budget on a single meal for one.
I don't really see the problem, smug show-offs still get to pose about at fancy restaurants and the rest of us get to laugh at them. Isn't it just like wine, most people rate the quality of the wine, not by how it tastes but by how much it costs and how great a victim of marketing they truly are.
In addition a police report should be filed against the person who made the false claim and a fine applied.
With regards to telco's not bricking pones and leaving customers, especially minors vulnerable to attack, dont bloody ask for anything, demand it of your elected representative at the Federal level.
Don't ask telcos for stuff like this, force your reps into shoving the law down the telcos throat with massive penalties for failing to do so and do it properly, including re-allowing access upon false reports.
Now a real warning needs to be issued here. Consider the TSA, consider the nature of the people involved, consider their access to highly vulnerable transport infrastructure.
What will TSA agents do to protect their jobs and their piece of petty power, how far would they go and what are they capable of doing to justify their existence.
Quite a significant percentage of TSA agents have proven to be of the very worst sort, so would these people bring down a airliner to protect their power base? This investigation could prove quite dangerous.
I've gone one step further, I have become a member rather passive of course but I do provide funding support. The Greens seem to be the only party who to stand up against corporations, not bow to foreign governments and adhere to their stated principles.
To me the Greens seem more honest in their being conservative, seeking to conserve the environment, conserve resources and conserve the people.
I can't get over how the psuedo conservative parties get away with calling themselves conservatives, when they want to, exploit the environment, exploit resources and exploit the people. The Republicans et al (all over the world) the exploiters party, they should be legally barred from using the word conservative.
I think the distinction here is one of ego. Criminals are just seeking to masquerade their activity behind an illusion of activism. Rather than being seen as petty criminals they want to be seen as activist.
Right now the government is blatantly letting that lie slide on through, is a slimy shit eating way of making political protest criminal.
Truth here is the bulk of computer hacking is done by; petty criminals, including spammers, credit fraud (no such thing as identity theft, just a corporate lie to shift the debt burden from companies who illegally accepted false credit details onto innocent third parties), Foreign intelligence services, Privacy invasive script kiddies (people suffering identity issues seeking power by prying into other people's lives and in the mind of the script kiddy gaining control over those people's lives), Hacktivism comes in way, way down the list.
Of course the push is on to criminalise all protest, to turn free speech advocates into terrorists, in the big grab for power by 20 century mass media corporations in their endless drive to push one lie after another, for the corporations over individuals internet, where over every man woman and child on the planet, is monitored, censored and controlled 24/7/365, excluding the psychopath elite of course.
Wake up. Paid of politicians approved a law to let vulture capitalists rip off as many people as possible as face as possible.
Large financial institution will set up off balance sheet companies which in turn will create hundreds even thousands of pseudo independent companies, each capable of generating a million dollars per annum and in conjunction billions of dollars.
The resources of major financial corporations will be used to fabricate the illusory companies, create the marketing material and then sell it to investors these corporations already have access to. Can't squeeze enough out of one individual per investment, no problem, have them invest in ten different companies at once, all companies owned by an off balance sheet companies of the parent corporations.
Guaranteed somewhere in that trail of ownership will be an offshore tax haven where corporate executives of the parent corporation steal most of the profits.
You can imagine all sorts of illusory investment vehicles, where pension funds (via off shore purchasing commissions) can investment in hundreds of startup at the same time to the tune hundreds of millions of dollars.
The reason it has always been so difficult for small business to get start funds up is because historically 9 out of 10 go fucking belly up, only 1 in 10 survive. This legislation is insane.
The owners don't go bankrupt, just think psychopath corporate executives. When a nuclear power station is nearing end of life, they simply split if off as an independent company and sell it to the public based on current income and buried in debt with not of zero money left in the budget but in fact negative tens of millions left in the budget for shutdown.
Reality is the only safe way to do a nuclear power station is to have them totally under government control. Taxpayers pay the bill and taxpayers get the benefit of any positive returns during the life of the nuclear power station because at the end of the day it is taxpayers who will always get lumbered with the loses, while psychopath corporate executives wander of with multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes.
I gather you have never heard of fair use. Segements of the movie many hundreds even thousands of images are fair use, let alone a single fucking one out of quarter a million images and you know that, liar. Just as paragraphs of books are fair and clips of music are fair.
The greed of the pigoplist shitheads is just getting out of control with blatant abuses of the law.
The best alternative would have been to appoint a legal guardian, to ensure the legal elements of the business can continue whilst the court case is carried out. What has happened flies in the face of one of the most important elements of justice, innocent until proven guilty. Elements of the US government have completely abandoned this principle from torturing suspects (guilty upon accusation and subject to punitive physical and psychological abuse, at the hands of mentally disturbed individuals seeking promotions and passing performance measures, all without recourse to the courts and false confessions to end the torture being treated a valid evidence) to confiscation of assets to actively prevent paying for a legal defence.
A bunch of out of control wankers, with no real appreciation of the law and justice, just their own ego of being judge, jury and execution. A closed chorus, cheering each other on in their legal abuses, gloating over the power they misuse and it all falls apart when it finally goes through the courts, unless of course they can force a confession and guilty plea out of people, via extended psychological torture.
You will just have to accept that there are only so many hours in the day and with the US governments penchant of putting everything through a legislative process including some of the most petty and nothing things. There is straight insufficient time to discuss everything individually.
It's the whole US capitalistic bullshit of performance based in everything (clearly a horrible failure in many areas), so politicians get measured by how many pieces of legislation they introduce and how many they get through, nett results a whole stupendous bunch of empty utterly pointless make the voters feel could legislation.
The NSA doesn't have to lie about spying on Americans, why else would http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap be such a major facility. Australians it seems does more spying on America than any other country in the world, cheeky Australians;D and apparently NSA/CIA returns the 'er', 'hmm', favour for ASIO, MI6 and CSIS, all in the family so to speak and all out of the same facility (the outside looking in).
Your making the assumption that Nokia supported M$ Phone for free and M$ didn't pay a significant sum to make it happen (subsidised advertising and likely a guarantee of sales).
For Nokia to regain market share is as simple as producing the hottest Android phone, Samsungs current position is by no means secure and it can quite readily be knocked off from the top of the sales charts.
Catch is Samsung like a eager new player Panasonic can play with packaged deals that just POPC (plain old phone companies) just can't compete with. With a typical family of four wanting four phones, tossing in phones with all sorts of other expensive appliances that could be controlled by those phones becomes viable, air-conditioning, big screen TVs, kitchen fitouts (microwave, stove, fridge)
So M$ and MSN are the same company (although they should really break up in order to give MSN a creative surge).
As for M$ banning the purchase of Apple products with company funds, it's only logical and really doesn't even rate a mention. In fact M$ should pretty much demand free product from Apple in order to continue development of M$ Software for Apple products. You know, straight up demand, Dear Apple you will supply 25 million dollars worth of Apple hardware (servers, desktops, phones, tablets, operating system) per annum or efforts to develop software for the base will cease and that whilst harsh is logical and acceptable.
M$ should not pay for Apple hardware or software in order to spend more money to develop software for it in order to 'LOSE SALES'.
I can't really understand why M$ marketdroids get so bent out of shape, especially considering the importance of the $ symbol in M$ basic, the use of $ in M$ is far more subtle the M$ marketdroids could ever understand (I tried to use M$ as much as possible in this comment are you eyes bleeding yet;D ).
'Erm' not to put ton fine a point on it but, management username password and an external log in are sufficient to get in on the act. Once in the world of organised crime, the simplest, most direct solutions are often the most effective.
So obtain access to and extract from, the holder of management user name and password and within the hour gain access to thousands of hours of cracking effort. You want to play you will always end up paying.
The whole thing is all about feeding the military industrial complex. The US is running around trying to goad Russia and China into expanding the military industrial complex in order to justify expansion of the US military industrial complex.
It is all crap and bullshit, nothing more and nothing less.
Want to get ballistic missiles through first launch nuclear cruise missiles. These simply fly across enemy territory at optimum altitude (not ground hugging but for destructive purposes) and once they receive sufficient damage they detonate tacking out the antimissile systems that targeted them.
All still pointless as it has nothing to do with defence and everything to do with corporate greed, corrupt campaign contributions, mass media supported deceit and, of course treasonous politicians. So war needs to be declared on the military industrial complex and it can only be won by stripping away their funding.
The whole story is one steaming pile of bullshit and crap. It's only aim to take over the internet and create a 1980 mass media version of it, where half a dozen corporations control what is allowed on it and 7 billion people are censored 24/7/365.
Just were in the fuck is are those RIAA and MPAA dickwads meant to be getting that money from, who are the imaginary folk left to spend money on content instead of food, or rent, or clothing or medical expenses.
Quite simply there is no money left in the economy especially for parasitical parts of it. It is gone and based on current economic realities it is more than gone the ability to generate further personal debt is gone. So the question to bullshit politicians and governments exactly which parts of the economy do they wish to crash to feed the insatiable greed of the pigopolists.
These corporations are basically trying to launch an economic and political war on the majority of humanity. Establish a global big brother internet, where the monitor, censor and control every man women and child that is not part of their elite circle of psychopaths.
Apple have consistently responded with PR=B$ and investigations extended enough so that everyone forgets everything and absolutely nothing has changed. You have billionaires paying people cent's per hour and complaining that it's too much and looking to shift to the next countries exploitable labour force.
The only change will be one that's forced by law. Fair competition trade laws, that take into account minimum wages, labour conditions, safety conditions, environmental conditions and apply penalties to ensure companies all over the globe compete upon a equal basis.
This of course will be ruthlessly fought by corporations in order to protect bloated profit margins, Apple is a scum public relations and marketing bullshit corporation, it will never change. It is governments that are forced to change and implement laws that put exploitative corporations out of business.
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Don't think them, think just a few out of already warped social cluster. Averages they can be cruel. When you created socially distorted sub-cultures, here a culture that routinely humiliates and violates people's deeply personal space, who devalue the people they publicly abuse and who create a culture of abuse, you create even more dangerous outliers.
On one side are the people who sickened by the abuses of the TSA quit and seek work elsewhere, the other side are people who egoistically revel in the abuses they can met out against any they feel might have slighted them in the past, how ever tenuous the association with the slight.
These disturbed people will be denied their chance for psychopathic revenge, they will be further frustrated in the sadistic need to ease their rage and by nature of birth will act out on in. How destructively only remains to be seen.
A mining tax is totally logical, keep in mind you are robbing future generations to feed today's generation greed. Europe has limited primary resources not because they had few to start with but because they used the cheaply accessible and highly profitable ones up.
When it comes to essential infrastructure any sound sensible government should always, always drive local production. This establishes and maintains an essential infrastructure skills base and ensures local supplies. Where private industry does not fill that need, rather idiotically sticking ones head in the ground and pretending it's not working, government need to establish government industries to provide that localised manufacturing base for essential industries. Fuck corporate greed, Bugger psychopathic economics, shit on for profit lobbyists, this is about maintaining the essential core infrastructure elements of a country and minimising corruptive and destructive foreign debt.
Look at all the countries that were economic crippled for foreign supplied and foreign debt driven infrastructure elements. In fact that foreign driven infrastructure development was nothing more than blatant global economic slavery in order for foreign corporations to be able to strip countries of their resources.
China has a history of global market manipulation. This arises from politicians in China also being the head of corporations.
Case in point at one stage China was buying huge amounts of steel, enough to substantially drive up the price of steel. They were not actually using the steel they were stockpiling it, but why? They were going to public list the government owned steel manufacturing company and, politicians had inside running on the transaction. Once the company was sold, they stopped buying and, started using stockpile dropping the price of steel (another great insider opportunity for share profits). Once the stockpile was gone and supply and demand normalised the price of steel bounced up (yet another opportunity for insider share profits).
So politicians/corporate heads in China are more than content to manipulate government purchases and the economy of China to their personal corporate for profit advantage.
No government should ever subsidise a product unless it is fully locally produced and provides long term health and or economic advantage. Should the US subsides suburban solar and VAWT wind turbines, of course. As long as they are fully locally produced because it will reduce future energy imports and more energy is generated by non-polluting methods in metropolitan areas (healthier cities).
The best way for the government to subsidise these industries is by buying out all the associated patents, consolidating and further advancing the technology and then making them 'FREELY' available to 'LOCAL' only producers, they can still charge foreign manufacturers patent fees, this is the smart thinking way (local products are cheaper and foreign patent fees subsidise local production and product research).
You forget the MPAA and RIAA companies have many things in abundance and these things are more likely to drive egoistic psychopaths and narcissistic politicians.
Things like pseudo celebrity parties on mega-yachts, island resorts and hotel like mansions. Lots of drugs, including a full range of addictive pharmaceuticals (those plastic surgeons will sign off on any prescription) as well as illegal drugs, I'm talking lots and lots and lots of drugs. Ready to be abused music, movie and TV industry hopefuls, young and desperate, now add in the drugs and you have a typical politicians party (oxycontin, viagra, and a what ever age or sex sacrifice required to satiate the ego of the politician). Double plus benefit, post coital blackmail ensures legislative compliance. Not to forget lots and lots of cash, actually hard currency, as well as bases in tax havens and extradition free zones.
Basically the MPAA and RIAA industry is riddled with organised crime, due in large part to the cash, drugs and sex that 'er' lubricates that industry. They basically use that capability to out influence all other industries. Of course lets not forget advertising as news, pure propaganda players like Fox not-News that continually run pretend interviews that are actually political adds for favoured politicians or conversely attack pieces that are even more blatant political adds.
This is no different from a computerised classroom. Using wifi to log in the student with the smart book when the enter the school yard and then using infra-red login in the class room to exactly note their location. This in conjunction with the teachers computer, who can via their smart book, face match each students class room login, when the students connect into the individual class rooms (lecture theatre, laboratory or various offices) infra-red network.
Soon as the student logs out of the class room infra-red they switch back to wifi, in the school yard, as they leave the school are, they are logged off from the wifi, requiring a wired connection a place of residence to the school to log back in to access home work etc. You don't want to get caught in over-tracking and privacy invasion and using infra-red in the class room minimising parental concerns.
Add a camera fish eye lens in the class form random monitoring and teacher evaluation. Measuring a students grade does not measure the teachers skill, it measure the ability of the student to learn (IQ genetic, they either get good brain chemical rewards from learning or not so much), the effort the student puts in, and the amount of educational support provided by parents. Want to evaluate a teachers performance you can only do that by monitoring classes ie measuring the teachers ability to engage, control and teach as class (should be done upon a regular random basis). Also useful to corroborate disruptive students who would do better in special classes, as would the rest of the class (larger class sizes, using computers necessitates elimination a disruptive students to fairly distribute the teachers time to the rest of the students). This taking into account psychopaths and narcissists are born not made and the rest of the students and teacher should not be psychologically tortured by their presence.
The only thing BP demonstrated in psychopath corporate world, was how ownership of wells should be restructured to ensure when a well fails only the profitability of that well is affected and not the rest of the company.
Transocean made a profit out of the insurance claim and Halliburton still got paid for doing a crap job. Both companies with intimately involved in the failure.
You can expect all future oil leases to be subdivided into individual well leases owned by individual one off companies, all designed to be buried in debt and go belly at the first failure leaving all future clean up costs to the tax payer.
The quality of the content is the real problem with high definition. Ugly plastic surgery, botox overdoses, ludicrous make-up and poor acting all seem to set a resolution limit of content at about DVD quality any more than that restricted to documentaries and scenery channels. SFX and scenery often suffer under higher resolution as well.
Blue Ray was always the dead end for 'Optical Disk Drives' USB flash drives are their obvious replacement and as prices continue to drop the obvious enormous reduction in the volume of hardware required to play it and the necessary storage space for personal collections and, even the simplicity of making a very large USB hub/rack with hundreds of ports and expandable (plug it in a leave it in your USB library jukebox).
Blue-ray was always a big miss for me, I waiting for the next storage format, end of story and bugger streaming. Take a look at Steam, say you own $500 worth of content and you end up having a dispute over one $5 purchase they will cut you off from your whole library, until you buckle under. So streaming has real limits definitely for bargain bin purchases only.
Facebook, we won't let your employer force you password out of you for free, of course not, when we can sell full access to your profile to your employer for a profit.
In this case based upon the psychopathic profile of the individuals involved, this is more about something they want to sell, your personal life including all cross references and associations (even if you don't use facebook it doesn't mean you wont end up in it's databases).
So fraud based upon elitist ego. "Look at me, I'm special I pay a lot of money to eat rare endanger fish because I can afford to do so, even though there is more plentiful fish that taste's much the same."
So wanker's fraud, somehow it all seems rather appropriate ;D. So people feeding their ego instead of their stomach, hmm, what difference does it make, they can still ostentatiously spend large sums on 'elitist' food, after all it's not the food, it's egoistically spending an average families weekly food budget on a single meal for one.
I don't really see the problem, smug show-offs still get to pose about at fancy restaurants and the rest of us get to laugh at them. Isn't it just like wine, most people rate the quality of the wine, not by how it tastes but by how much it costs and how great a victim of marketing they truly are.
In addition a police report should be filed against the person who made the false claim and a fine applied.
With regards to telco's not bricking pones and leaving customers, especially minors vulnerable to attack, dont bloody ask for anything, demand it of your elected representative at the Federal level.
Don't ask telcos for stuff like this, force your reps into shoving the law down the telcos throat with massive penalties for failing to do so and do it properly, including re-allowing access upon false reports.
Now a real warning needs to be issued here. Consider the TSA, consider the nature of the people involved, consider their access to highly vulnerable transport infrastructure.
What will TSA agents do to protect their jobs and their piece of petty power, how far would they go and what are they capable of doing to justify their existence.
Quite a significant percentage of TSA agents have proven to be of the very worst sort, so would these people bring down a airliner to protect their power base? This investigation could prove quite dangerous.
I've gone one step further, I have become a member rather passive of course but I do provide funding support. The Greens seem to be the only party who to stand up against corporations, not bow to foreign governments and adhere to their stated principles.
To me the Greens seem more honest in their being conservative, seeking to conserve the environment, conserve resources and conserve the people.
I can't get over how the psuedo conservative parties get away with calling themselves conservatives, when they want to, exploit the environment, exploit resources and exploit the people. The Republicans et al (all over the world) the exploiters party, they should be legally barred from using the word conservative.
I think the distinction here is one of ego. Criminals are just seeking to masquerade their activity behind an illusion of activism. Rather than being seen as petty criminals they want to be seen as activist.
Right now the government is blatantly letting that lie slide on through, is a slimy shit eating way of making political protest criminal.
Truth here is the bulk of computer hacking is done by;
petty criminals, including spammers, credit fraud (no such thing as identity theft, just a corporate lie to shift the debt burden from companies who illegally accepted false credit details onto innocent third parties),
Foreign intelligence services,
Privacy invasive script kiddies (people suffering identity issues seeking power by prying into other people's lives and in the mind of the script kiddy gaining control over those people's lives),
Hacktivism comes in way, way down the list.
Of course the push is on to criminalise all protest, to turn free speech advocates into terrorists, in the big grab for power by 20 century mass media corporations in their endless drive to push one lie after another, for the corporations over individuals internet, where over every man woman and child on the planet, is monitored, censored and controlled 24/7/365, excluding the psychopath elite of course.
Wake up. Paid of politicians approved a law to let vulture capitalists rip off as many people as possible as face as possible.
Large financial institution will set up off balance sheet companies which in turn will create hundreds even thousands of pseudo independent companies, each capable of generating a million dollars per annum and in conjunction billions of dollars.
The resources of major financial corporations will be used to fabricate the illusory companies, create the marketing material and then sell it to investors these corporations already have access to. Can't squeeze enough out of one individual per investment, no problem, have them invest in ten different companies at once, all companies owned by an off balance sheet companies of the parent corporations.
Guaranteed somewhere in that trail of ownership will be an offshore tax haven where corporate executives of the parent corporation steal most of the profits.
You can imagine all sorts of illusory investment vehicles, where pension funds (via off shore purchasing commissions) can investment in hundreds of startup at the same time to the tune hundreds of millions of dollars.
The reason it has always been so difficult for small business to get start funds up is because historically 9 out of 10 go fucking belly up, only 1 in 10 survive. This legislation is insane.
The owners don't go bankrupt, just think psychopath corporate executives. When a nuclear power station is nearing end of life, they simply split if off as an independent company and sell it to the public based on current income and buried in debt with not of zero money left in the budget but in fact negative tens of millions left in the budget for shutdown.
Reality is the only safe way to do a nuclear power station is to have them totally under government control. Taxpayers pay the bill and taxpayers get the benefit of any positive returns during the life of the nuclear power station because at the end of the day it is taxpayers who will always get lumbered with the loses, while psychopath corporate executives wander of with multi-million dollar bonuses and golden parachutes.
I gather you have never heard of fair use. Segements of the movie many hundreds even thousands of images are fair use, let alone a single fucking one out of quarter a million images and you know that, liar. Just as paragraphs of books are fair and clips of music are fair.
The greed of the pigoplist shitheads is just getting out of control with blatant abuses of the law.
The best alternative would have been to appoint a legal guardian, to ensure the legal elements of the business can continue whilst the court case is carried out. What has happened flies in the face of one of the most important elements of justice, innocent until proven guilty. Elements of the US government have completely abandoned this principle from torturing suspects (guilty upon accusation and subject to punitive physical and psychological abuse, at the hands of mentally disturbed individuals seeking promotions and passing performance measures, all without recourse to the courts and false confessions to end the torture being treated a valid evidence) to confiscation of assets to actively prevent paying for a legal defence.
A bunch of out of control wankers, with no real appreciation of the law and justice, just their own ego of being judge, jury and execution. A closed chorus, cheering each other on in their legal abuses, gloating over the power they misuse and it all falls apart when it finally goes through the courts, unless of course they can force a confession and guilty plea out of people, via extended psychological torture.
You will just have to accept that there are only so many hours in the day and with the US governments penchant of putting everything through a legislative process including some of the most petty and nothing things. There is straight insufficient time to discuss everything individually.
It's the whole US capitalistic bullshit of performance based in everything (clearly a horrible failure in many areas), so politicians get measured by how many pieces of legislation they introduce and how many they get through, nett results a whole stupendous bunch of empty utterly pointless make the voters feel could legislation.
The NSA doesn't have to lie about spying on Americans, why else would http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap be such a major facility. Australians it seems does more spying on America than any other country in the world, cheeky Australians ;D and apparently NSA/CIA returns the 'er', 'hmm', favour for ASIO, MI6 and CSIS, all in the family so to speak and all out of the same facility (the outside looking in).
Your making the assumption that Nokia supported M$ Phone for free and M$ didn't pay a significant sum to make it happen (subsidised advertising and likely a guarantee of sales).
For Nokia to regain market share is as simple as producing the hottest Android phone, Samsungs current position is by no means secure and it can quite readily be knocked off from the top of the sales charts.
Catch is Samsung like a eager new player Panasonic can play with packaged deals that just POPC (plain old phone companies) just can't compete with. With a typical family of four wanting four phones, tossing in phones with all sorts of other expensive appliances that could be controlled by those phones becomes viable, air-conditioning, big screen TVs, kitchen fitouts (microwave, stove, fridge)
MS is reserved for http://www.msaustralia.org.au/, http://mssociety.ca/en/, http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ and http://www.nationalmssociety.org/index.aspx. Get over it already. M$ is for for the whiney softies and MS is for multiple sclerosis. Not that I mind the complaints because every time I see it it gives me the opportunity to promote organisation that are of direct interest to geeks and nerds due the impact of the disease upon our most valuable asset our minds.
So M$ and MSN are the same company (although they should really break up in order to give MSN a creative surge).
As for M$ banning the purchase of Apple products with company funds, it's only logical and really doesn't even rate a mention. In fact M$ should pretty much demand free product from Apple in order to continue development of M$ Software for Apple products. You know, straight up demand, Dear Apple you will supply 25 million dollars worth of Apple hardware (servers, desktops, phones, tablets, operating system) per annum or efforts to develop software for the base will cease and that whilst harsh is logical and acceptable.
M$ should not pay for Apple hardware or software in order to spend more money to develop software for it in order to 'LOSE SALES'.
I can't really understand why M$ marketdroids get so bent out of shape, especially considering the importance of the $ symbol in M$ basic, the use of $ in M$ is far more subtle the M$ marketdroids could ever understand (I tried to use M$ as much as possible in this comment are you eyes bleeding yet ;D ).
'Erm' not to put ton fine a point on it but, management username password and an external log in are sufficient to get in on the act. Once in the world of organised crime, the simplest, most direct solutions are often the most effective.
So obtain access to and extract from, the holder of management user name and password and within the hour gain access to thousands of hours of cracking effort. You want to play you will always end up paying.
The whole thing is all about feeding the military industrial complex. The US is running around trying to goad Russia and China into expanding the military industrial complex in order to justify expansion of the US military industrial complex.
It is all crap and bullshit, nothing more and nothing less.
Want to get ballistic missiles through first launch nuclear cruise missiles. These simply fly across enemy territory at optimum altitude (not ground hugging but for destructive purposes) and once they receive sufficient damage they detonate tacking out the antimissile systems that targeted them.
All still pointless as it has nothing to do with defence and everything to do with corporate greed, corrupt campaign contributions, mass media supported deceit and, of course treasonous politicians. So war needs to be declared on the military industrial complex and it can only be won by stripping away their funding.
The whole story is one steaming pile of bullshit and crap. It's only aim to take over the internet and create a 1980 mass media version of it, where half a dozen corporations control what is allowed on it and 7 billion people are censored 24/7/365.
Want proof, http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/72606/Experts-worry-over-household-debt, http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/3/20/business/10946706&sec=business, http://www.whocrashedtheeconomy.com/blog/intro/household-debt/, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/27880.html. Stories from all over the world of household debt at record unsustainable levels.
Just were in the fuck is are those RIAA and MPAA dickwads meant to be getting that money from, who are the imaginary folk left to spend money on content instead of food, or rent, or clothing or medical expenses.
Quite simply there is no money left in the economy especially for parasitical parts of it. It is gone and based on current economic realities it is more than gone the ability to generate further personal debt is gone. So the question to bullshit politicians and governments exactly which parts of the economy do they wish to crash to feed the insatiable greed of the pigopolists.
These corporations are basically trying to launch an economic and political war on the majority of humanity. Establish a global big brother internet, where the monitor, censor and control every man women and child that is not part of their elite circle of psychopaths.
Apple have consistently responded with PR=B$ and investigations extended enough so that everyone forgets everything and absolutely nothing has changed. You have billionaires paying people cent's per hour and complaining that it's too much and looking to shift to the next countries exploitable labour force.
The only change will be one that's forced by law. Fair competition trade laws, that take into account minimum wages, labour conditions, safety conditions, environmental conditions and apply penalties to ensure companies all over the globe compete upon a equal basis.
This of course will be ruthlessly fought by corporations in order to protect bloated profit margins, Apple is a scum public relations and marketing bullshit corporation, it will never change. It is governments that are forced to change and implement laws that put exploitative corporations out of business.