Ahh yes, Meg Whitless, a paragon of honesty and virtue. From my understanding the only thing you can rely on when a psychopath makes a statement is, that it will advantage them and disadvantage you.
"Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system). "The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Member firms include Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance.
Meg Whitless (note the spelling no one is suing me;D) is a lying sack of shit who will say anything and everything to advantage herself and screw everyone else including the company she is supposedly working for. Didn't this dill spend more on her own election than any other politician in history because practically no one else would trust her with their money and she still lost big time. The mind boggles at the thinking of the board that hired her.
Australia requires a change of leadership the current narcissist practically fawns all over US politicians when they pay her empty headed compliments. Fortunately in a parliament you don't have to wait four years, you can kick a foreign government's dupe out over night.
So what you should do is get togethor and force the government to set up a manufacturing facility to ensure that required drugs are available at reasonable prices.
Whoops, your American, you can't do that, it's socialist.
Hmm, in that case you get sick and die waiting for your free market to decide whether it's sufficiently profitable for them to treat your illness. Even if they do you still might not be able to afford their demanded profit margin. Don't worry that get sick and die option will always be there so your problems will eventually be over.
You either give your word for life or do not, there is no try;).
Really the person who asked the question has not provided sufficient information. Is the breakup amicable or hostile. Was there betrayal involved. Any violence associated with the relationship. Any real capital value in the IP in question. Presence of children and their data.
Many solutions possible eg. make a quick backup copy of everything you can, then insert very destructive viruses and trojans on everything you can. When data is all wiped out, look betraying soon to be ex-spouse in the eye and say "Bugger, some asshat script kiddy on the interent has hacked our computers and wiped out all our data". When you are at a safe legal distance from ex-spouse, restore backups;D.
Fracking can never be done safe, at least not with today's technology. You are drilling russian roulette mode, sometimes it's safe but mostly it's not.
Companies are simply making guesstimates of what will happen when they pressurise formation and, where the fractures will go and how it will affect ground water at various depths.
Here's how it works for people looking for water. They drill down a bore into likely areas, and when water flows, they test the suitability of water derived from that formation, they keep drilling till they find a suitable formation to draw water from or the reach the depth level of the equipment or they run out of money or they give up and try at another location.
Eventually they mostly find a safe suitable source. Now along comes the fracking company, they purposefully introduce largely random (the lack the ability to 'accurately define where the fractures will occur) stress fractures in the rock, the purpose to specifically allow the mixing of fluid and gas materials to mix at various levels, basically turn rock formations into massive soda fountains. Will it affect nearby wells, they don't know and they don't give a fuck.
The law was written so that they could run off with the profits and tell those whose water they contaminate to piss off and laugh at their misery. The frackers rinse and repeat as long as governments allow them to do so. They know they are playing russian roulette with other peoples lives, seriously actual russian roulette people will get sick and die, there is absolutely no denying it. They paid their lobbyists to influence Darth Cheney to write laws to protect frackers from the frackers murderously greedy activities.
The reality is there is no technology currently available to forecast what will actually happen when you try to turn rock formations into massive soda fountains, none at all, it is a straight up guess. Pretty much a safe bet for the fracker they will likely get a big profit as for everyone else around that location, let's be honest, as far as the frackers are concerned luck of the draw 'Fuck Em'.
Sometimes looking stuff up on Wikipedia will help you be more informed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Water_management_authorities_in_the_United_States. There are a whole range of supply authorities including regional, privatised and state. Then there are state based pumping permits limiting what can be drawn from public sources including lakes, rivers and groundwater (these permits defining volumes of water that can be pumped are often traded, buying a farm does not necessarily entitle you to use the water underneath or running past the farm). Where talking mass consumption of water not really your garden tap or shower.
Convenience of a good manual grinder, there is a cork to seal of the area bellow the grinder and a seal around the rim. Grind a bit extra and put the whole lot in the fridge ready for the second cup. Then of course there is the Zen of grinding coffee, focusing on a smooth grinding rhythm as you listen to the water boil, all absent the extreme noise of an electric grinder, finish the grind just after the water has boiled.
Here's a little share holder game. Company A has very socially responsible share holders, the require the company to pay top wages and only charge 10% profits. The income generated by the company defines it share price. Now along come a bunch of dicks led by Ritt Momney and the company he runs Cain Bapital. Now they see how well the company is run and how great it's reputation is and, they know they can really capitalise on this.
So they offer say 50% more per share than the company is worth and naturally enough buy the company. They now shift the debt, the money the borrowed to buy the company on to the company, fire all the workers and only rehire say 75% of the ones who will accept a 75% pay and demand they increase their productivity by 25%, otherwise the company will go broke trying to repay the debt Ritt Momney and Cain Bapital dumped on the company.
They also decide to screw the customers, basically running down service, support and quality of product to practically nothing. They then on sell the company to gullible investors highlighting the low labour costs and high profit margins (based on about to disappear customers due to appalling service, support and quality) and obfuscating the debt by focusing on return on capital (value of all the assets of the company less debt, you might think that is crazy but that is the way finances work). They sell the company at a huge profit and run away before it all blows up due to, appalling service, support and quality, disappearing customers as the companies reputation goes up in flames, an unhappy experienced labour force all looking to get another job and quit, and massive debt with reduced sales coming home to roost.
Basically if it ain't legislated psychopath executives will screw it up every single time (consider the about tactic would be executed with full and complete foreknowledge of the outcome, company bankrupt, all the workers fired and the gullible investors loose pretty much everything, hell, Ritt and Bain will even make financial bets that the company will go belly up, they did after all set it up that way).
It's called choice, people like it, especially customers. Suppliers who act like dicks and deny the customer a choice and force changes upon, hmm, existing purchases, in order to create annoyance and awkwardness as a motivation buy more stuff, well, they really are fucking arse holes.
Companies need to remember to let the customer choose what changes they will and will not allow. Don't want angry customers, don't blame them and act like a dick.
Come on. An uncover police officer was there the day before and spoke directly with Kim and could have arrested him there and then, unarmed and to chubby to run anywhere. Instead they had to go nuts with a full on assault to impress the FBI, get there pat on the butt and a promise to allow them into a US free trade agreement, good little lamb http://satwcomic.com/bedtime-drama-2.
So now have locked in your mind the image of the cute little lamb chasing around the everso naughty Kim Dotcom at the behest of a big burly US shepherd with a elastrator behind his back (the lamb not realising it is soon to be http://www.sheep101.info/201/dockcastrate.html, it's in the best interest of the shepherd of course, youch).
To be accurate, science in one corner and corporate greed in the other corner. Are you nuts there is no middle ground, the concept is meaningless in this case.
Scientist are using scientific principles based upon the best knowledge to date to understand and forecast what theoretically could happen.
Corporations, don't give a rat arse about what could happen and in true psychopath logic are purely interested in more profits and bonuses now, right bloody now, tomorrow is somebody else's problem.
So two completely and utterly different groups looking at two completely and utterly different problems and proposing two completely and utterly different solutions. Scientists, researching climate, proposing solutions to investigated problems. Corporations, seeking greater profits using public relations to promote those profits.
Zip, zero, zilch, nil, nul, nulla, middle ground. Straight up apples and oranges and loads and loads of corporate mass media bull shit with a heavy over seasoning of lobbyists and a dash real crazy religious thinking (that's the corporate side if you can't guess).
Simpler to locate them near the sea. Draw water from shallower depths and discharge water as deep as possible. The rising very dispersed plume of warm water offshore actually promotes healthy ecological growth in that region.
If your really smart, you actually pass the inlet water through a reverse osmosis desalination plant first and then use the waste water from the desalination plant as cooling water for the nuclear reactor (keep in mind reverse osmosis filtration is only about 25% to 30% efficient, so there is a lot of left over 25% to 30% saltier water).
This obviously is very energy efficient, as you are getting double value out of the energy used to pump water and is this case taking twice the load of fresh water resource (less water taken from the system and no excess heat burden in a reduced water supply).
Get real, it is simply a Russian for profit multilingual tabloid, without ties to major US corporations, hence has no qualms about sticking it to US corporations. Of course they do tread lightly in Russian politics.
Off uniquely Russian political stance, you either sought power through wealth or through politics but not through both, to do both invites a more aggressive permanent solution to your excessive ego. In the interim http://rt.com/business/news/russia-privatization-1990-legitimacy-915/.
So is RT better or worse than US mass media, truth is, it is far better and nothing to do with politics, simply lacking ties to many multinational corporations it can stick it too them. I expect it will eventually be bought out and tow the psychopath corporate line.
That would be the governments fault, failure to regulate bankruptcy effectively. In many countries laws stipulate who gets paid first. Typically the receivers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receivership (otherwise why would they do the job), taxes, employee wages, secured creditors, unsecured creditors (Apple would be un-secured creditor and would not get a cent until everyone else got paid in full). If it doesn't work that way where you live then your government is corrupt.
All this really point too, is corporations are really lax when penalties are not applied for damaging mistakes. It seems whoops tee hee, it's just a boo boo is always enough. I bet the whole system would tighten up if they were charged for the costs generated by each and everyone of their mistakes, just like the real brick and mortar world. Ever since it went digital (supposedly to reduce errors) errors are treated like a lame joke and laughed off.
Warranties, we ain't got no warranties, we don need no warranties, I don't have to show you any stinkin warranties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU (it's all in the EULA, now why does that Mexican remind me of a typical proprietary software company).
Water ain't just water, water is all about how expensive it it at the point of use. How much energy is required to provide potable water at the point of use.
The underlying corporate psychopathic distortion, is there is a lack of water. The reality is corporation want to suck up all the cheaply accessible water and then sell it at inflated prices to match the high cost of remaining water sources. Simple straight forward psychopath economics.
Water is not too salty, too hot, too cold, too contaminated, it is just to expensive and they poor are denied access because they can not afford to potable water once they cheaply accessible resources have been consumed by greed.
Serious about reducing water usage, where is the government mandated shift too aquaponics where possible, an agriculture system with the highest water usage efficiencies, little or no waste and the highest food ouptut per land usage.
Where are the government demands that user pays, including corporations for the average total cost of producing water, rather than corporations have access to the cheapest charged water sources and everyone else getting charged much higher prices (total water cost should be averaged and then user pays at the average rate).
The only difference between a clean fresh river and reverse osmosis of sea water is cost and energy consumption. The war here is access to cheap water for the majority versus corporate greed.
In a world with limited resources and billions of people already missing out, do you really know how deeply disturbingly insane it is to mass produce products that will purposefully breakdown because it is more profitable. Truly psychotically insane.
Let's get real here, I'm talking grumpy old man, stuff dies within one month of the warranty expiring and your talking ninety day warranties. I basically gave up on coffee makers, bought a manual grinder and a french press, fuck em, I wasn't going back to the store to buy another locally branded, manufactured in China coffee maker every bloody quarter;P.
It not how much money the corporation makes or loses, it's how much the psychopathic corporate executives can suck out of the investors before it all collapses, bonus if they get to keep their multi-million dollar golden parachute as for the coders at Zynga, if they print out their stock options, punch a hole in the corner and tie the bundle together with string, next time they go to the toilet, they'll have something to use.
Why is it that companies that behave like this so often go up in flames in the great bankruptcy fire sale while the corporate executives retire to their mansions in tax havens.
Well, it's my 'God Given Right', to buy stuff that doesn't break, not ever. Buy it once, last a lifetime.
Fuck recyclable, give me government mandated, cut the testicles off the manufacturing executives, life time warranties.
Let's see evolution in action, want shoddy products out of the market, let's remove the evolutionary opportunities of people who make shoddy products.
Last a lifetime, don't need no recycling, we'll have a whole lot less rubbish to deal with. For you recyclers I will accept the compulsory recycling of packaging of life time warranty products. Now that's from the gut grump old man thinking;D.
Statistic, approximately 15 of the human population are psychopaths, between 15% and 25% of the prison population are psychopaths, majority of them repeat offenders with many victims apiece. When they get in leadership positions the damage they cause escalates beyond all reason and all wars, each and every single one of them can be laid right at the feet of psychopaths. So harmless is only a shameless lie that only a psychopath could spread, considering hard facts and reality. Victims of psychopaths literally number in the hundreds of millions and ever worse that have an overall negative impact upon the whole of humanity, in corrupted laws, and a dog eat dog (human eat human) socio-economic environment.
I think I mentioned that but it is parliament and there are solutions that avoid handing over power to what seems for all the world to be a manipulative psychopath not to be trusted (he wanted to US military bases with out any legislative oversight, according to US law US soldiers can indefinitely detain Australians in Australia and subject them to enhanced interrogation/torture and Australian police can not arrest those soldiers for any crimes they commit). Unless laws change there is no way any significant number of US soldiers should be in Australia.
So Kevin Rudd is a better choice, doesn't require an election and can pretty much happen over night problem solved and some problems caused by the previous dupe (didn't bother to check anything just lapped up US lobbyist dogma, things that the majority of Americans themselves oppose) investigated and altered to align with Australian requirements not US lobbyists requirements
So the question is then, would they have a better standard of living if they revolted an executed the current pack of leaders and executives.
The reality is conditions are so bad because labour is cheaper and more disposable than automation.
Peoples long term health, their ability to use their hand is bring ground away in some of the worst imaginable repetitious task 10 to 12 hours a days a week.
Conditions never improve, corporations just shift elsewhere and shut down the existing factories (after smugly selling those 'contracting' to gullible local investors, to only see the contract end and the factory turn into an abandoned building. Rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat.
The only difference with China is they are demanding a major piece of the action early on and make no mistake they will protect their own market from overseas competition while demanding those debts generated vulture capitalism corporations.
Everyone knows this is just another Apple delaying action, just like their patent suits. Push of the gullible users for long enough, feed them some yarn and they forget all about. Has everyone already forgotten that this is not the first time this issued cropped up and this is most certainly not the first Apple public relations investigation.
Name the exploited labour market countries that have risen to first world status, zero. Forget Japan, that little lie, considering their industrial technology was as advanced as the western world, even more advanced in many instances.
Now name all those countries who labour market collapsed into economic collapse and violence with union leaders executed at the behest of western corporations and the United States amongst other Countries heavily implicated in the worst crimes against humanity to keep the labour exploitation going (training of death squads, funding, supply of weapons and ammunition, drug running to hide everything).
Not once have conditions improved without violence, without government orchestrated murder, without corporations hiring gangs to attack the families of workers. Not once in human history, not even in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union (just look at the picture and see the difference between corporate lies and over a hundred years of reality).
Of course their is always obfuscation with other cancer causing toxins, not our pollution their pollution.
The real decision here is twelve years plus of schooling, eight hours a day, for about 220 days per year, plus all other loads, inlcuding being out in the sun (I never get how some people reckon an existing natural load, eliminates new lesser radiation sources, isn't marketing wonderful, somehow cumulative effects cease to exist).
Want to add more loads other than those under which people evolved a resistance too, let's start getting rid of existing artificial loads before adding more on.
Again you go with the corporate lie. Airport radars, high power transmission lines, microwave ovens, xrays, mobile phones, flourescent light fittings, high power radio and TV transmissions, lighting, none of this things exist they are just in your imagination. Only the wifi in your notebook in front of you exists, forget the rest, look at the bright shiny watch as I wave it in your face forget everything else, only the wifi in your notebook exists.
Sorry chump, but I won't bite, cumulative load is real and is the problem. Eliminating elements of that load is a real and needed priority. Listening to corporate toads who sell their crap while pretending the rest doesn't exist is a sure path to disaster.
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Ahh yes, Meg Whitless, a paragon of honesty and virtue. From my understanding the only thing you can rely on when a psychopath makes a statement is, that it will advantage them and disadvantage you.
"Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system). "The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a consortium of 84 firms to develop open standards for mobile devices. Member firms include Google, HTC, Sony, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, T-Mobile, Nvidia, and Wind River Systems." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Handset_Alliance.
Meg Whitless (note the spelling no one is suing me ;D) is a lying sack of shit who will say anything and everything to advantage herself and screw everyone else including the company she is supposedly working for. Didn't this dill spend more on her own election than any other politician in history because practically no one else would trust her with their money and she still lost big time. The mind boggles at the thinking of the board that hired her.
Australia requires a change of leadership the current narcissist practically fawns all over US politicians when they pay her empty headed compliments. Fortunately in a parliament you don't have to wait four years, you can kick a foreign government's dupe out over night.
So what you should do is get togethor and force the government to set up a manufacturing facility to ensure that required drugs are available at reasonable prices.
Whoops, your American, you can't do that, it's socialist.
Hmm, in that case you get sick and die waiting for your free market to decide whether it's sufficiently profitable for them to treat your illness. Even if they do you still might not be able to afford their demanded profit margin. Don't worry that get sick and die option will always be there so your problems will eventually be over.
You either give your word for life or do not, there is no try ;).
Really the person who asked the question has not provided sufficient information. Is the breakup amicable or hostile. Was there betrayal involved. Any violence associated with the relationship. Any real capital value in the IP in question. Presence of children and their data.
Many solutions possible eg. make a quick backup copy of everything you can, then insert very destructive viruses and trojans on everything you can. When data is all wiped out, look betraying soon to be ex-spouse in the eye and say "Bugger, some asshat script kiddy on the interent has hacked our computers and wiped out all our data". When you are at a safe legal distance from ex-spouse, restore backups ;D.
Fracking can never be done safe, at least not with today's technology. You are drilling russian roulette mode, sometimes it's safe but mostly it's not.
Companies are simply making guesstimates of what will happen when they pressurise formation and, where the fractures will go and how it will affect ground water at various depths.
Here's how it works for people looking for water. They drill down a bore into likely areas, and when water flows, they test the suitability of water derived from that formation, they keep drilling till they find a suitable formation to draw water from or the reach the depth level of the equipment or they run out of money or they give up and try at another location.
Eventually they mostly find a safe suitable source. Now along comes the fracking company, they purposefully introduce largely random (the lack the ability to 'accurately define where the fractures will occur) stress fractures in the rock, the purpose to specifically allow the mixing of fluid and gas materials to mix at various levels, basically turn rock formations into massive soda fountains. Will it affect nearby wells, they don't know and they don't give a fuck.
The law was written so that they could run off with the profits and tell those whose water they contaminate to piss off and laugh at their misery. The frackers rinse and repeat as long as governments allow them to do so. They know they are playing russian roulette with other peoples lives, seriously actual russian roulette people will get sick and die, there is absolutely no denying it. They paid their lobbyists to influence Darth Cheney to write laws to protect frackers from the frackers murderously greedy activities.
The reality is there is no technology currently available to forecast what will actually happen when you try to turn rock formations into massive soda fountains, none at all, it is a straight up guess. Pretty much a safe bet for the fracker they will likely get a big profit as for everyone else around that location, let's be honest, as far as the frackers are concerned luck of the draw 'Fuck Em'.
Sometimes looking stuff up on Wikipedia will help you be more informed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Water_management_authorities_in_the_United_States. There are a whole range of supply authorities including regional, privatised and state. Then there are state based pumping permits limiting what can be drawn from public sources including lakes, rivers and groundwater (these permits defining volumes of water that can be pumped are often traded, buying a farm does not necessarily entitle you to use the water underneath or running past the farm). Where talking mass consumption of water not really your garden tap or shower.
Convenience of a good manual grinder, there is a cork to seal of the area bellow the grinder and a seal around the rim. Grind a bit extra and put the whole lot in the fridge ready for the second cup. Then of course there is the Zen of grinding coffee, focusing on a smooth grinding rhythm as you listen to the water boil, all absent the extreme noise of an electric grinder, finish the grind just after the water has boiled.
Here's a little share holder game. Company A has very socially responsible share holders, the require the company to pay top wages and only charge 10% profits. The income generated by the company defines it share price. Now along come a bunch of dicks led by Ritt Momney and the company he runs Cain Bapital. Now they see how well the company is run and how great it's reputation is and, they know they can really capitalise on this.
So they offer say 50% more per share than the company is worth and naturally enough buy the company. They now shift the debt, the money the borrowed to buy the company on to the company, fire all the workers and only rehire say 75% of the ones who will accept a 75% pay and demand they increase their productivity by 25%, otherwise the company will go broke trying to repay the debt Ritt Momney and Cain Bapital dumped on the company.
They also decide to screw the customers, basically running down service, support and quality of product to practically nothing. They then on sell the company to gullible investors highlighting the low labour costs and high profit margins (based on about to disappear customers due to appalling service, support and quality) and obfuscating the debt by focusing on return on capital (value of all the assets of the company less debt, you might think that is crazy but that is the way finances work). They sell the company at a huge profit and run away before it all blows up due to, appalling service, support and quality, disappearing customers as the companies reputation goes up in flames, an unhappy experienced labour force all looking to get another job and quit, and massive debt with reduced sales coming home to roost.
Basically if it ain't legislated psychopath executives will screw it up every single time (consider the about tactic would be executed with full and complete foreknowledge of the outcome, company bankrupt, all the workers fired and the gullible investors loose pretty much everything, hell, Ritt and Bain will even make financial bets that the company will go belly up, they did after all set it up that way).
It's called choice, people like it, especially customers. Suppliers who act like dicks and deny the customer a choice and force changes upon, hmm, existing purchases, in order to create annoyance and awkwardness as a motivation buy more stuff, well, they really are fucking arse holes.
Companies need to remember to let the customer choose what changes they will and will not allow. Don't want angry customers, don't blame them and act like a dick.
Come on. An uncover police officer was there the day before and spoke directly with Kim and could have arrested him there and then, unarmed and to chubby to run anywhere. Instead they had to go nuts with a full on assault to impress the FBI, get there pat on the butt and a promise to allow them into a US free trade agreement, good little lamb http://satwcomic.com/bedtime-drama-2.
So now have locked in your mind the image of the cute little lamb chasing around the everso naughty Kim Dotcom at the behest of a big burly US shepherd with a elastrator behind his back (the lamb not realising it is soon to be http://www.sheep101.info/201/dockcastrate.html, it's in the best interest of the shepherd of course, youch).
To be accurate, science in one corner and corporate greed in the other corner. Are you nuts there is no middle ground, the concept is meaningless in this case.
Scientist are using scientific principles based upon the best knowledge to date to understand and forecast what theoretically could happen.
Corporations, don't give a rat arse about what could happen and in true psychopath logic are purely interested in more profits and bonuses now, right bloody now, tomorrow is somebody else's problem.
So two completely and utterly different groups looking at two completely and utterly different problems and proposing two completely and utterly different solutions. Scientists, researching climate, proposing solutions to investigated problems. Corporations, seeking greater profits using public relations to promote those profits.
Zip, zero, zilch, nil, nul, nulla, middle ground. Straight up apples and oranges and loads and loads of corporate mass media bull shit with a heavy over seasoning of lobbyists and a dash real crazy religious thinking (that's the corporate side if you can't guess).
Simpler to locate them near the sea. Draw water from shallower depths and discharge water as deep as possible. The rising very dispersed plume of warm water offshore actually promotes healthy ecological growth in that region.
If your really smart, you actually pass the inlet water through a reverse osmosis desalination plant first and then use the waste water from the desalination plant as cooling water for the nuclear reactor (keep in mind reverse osmosis filtration is only about 25% to 30% efficient, so there is a lot of left over 25% to 30% saltier water).
This obviously is very energy efficient, as you are getting double value out of the energy used to pump water and is this case taking twice the load of fresh water resource (less water taken from the system and no excess heat burden in a reduced water supply).
Get real, it is simply a Russian for profit multilingual tabloid, without ties to major US corporations, hence has no qualms about sticking it to US corporations. Of course they do tread lightly in Russian politics.
Off uniquely Russian political stance, you either sought power through wealth or through politics but not through both, to do both invites a more aggressive permanent solution to your excessive ego. In the interim http://rt.com/business/news/russia-privatization-1990-legitimacy-915/.
So is RT better or worse than US mass media, truth is, it is far better and nothing to do with politics, simply lacking ties to many multinational corporations it can stick it too them. I expect it will eventually be bought out and tow the psychopath corporate line.
That would be the governments fault, failure to regulate bankruptcy effectively. In many countries laws stipulate who gets paid first. Typically the receivers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receivership (otherwise why would they do the job), taxes, employee wages, secured creditors, unsecured creditors (Apple would be un-secured creditor and would not get a cent until everyone else got paid in full). If it doesn't work that way where you live then your government is corrupt.
All this really point too, is corporations are really lax when penalties are not applied for damaging mistakes. It seems whoops tee hee, it's just a boo boo is always enough. I bet the whole system would tighten up if they were charged for the costs generated by each and everyone of their mistakes, just like the real brick and mortar world. Ever since it went digital (supposedly to reduce errors) errors are treated like a lame joke and laughed off.
Warranties, we ain't got no warranties, we don need no warranties, I don't have to show you any stinkin warranties http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU (it's all in the EULA, now why does that Mexican remind me of a typical proprietary software company).
Water ain't just water, water is all about how expensive it it at the point of use. How much energy is required to provide potable water at the point of use.
The underlying corporate psychopathic distortion, is there is a lack of water. The reality is corporation want to suck up all the cheaply accessible water and then sell it at inflated prices to match the high cost of remaining water sources. Simple straight forward psychopath economics.
Water is not too salty, too hot, too cold, too contaminated, it is just to expensive and they poor are denied access because they can not afford to potable water once they cheaply accessible resources have been consumed by greed.
Serious about reducing water usage, where is the government mandated shift too aquaponics where possible, an agriculture system with the highest water usage efficiencies, little or no waste and the highest food ouptut per land usage.
Where are the government demands that user pays, including corporations for the average total cost of producing water, rather than corporations have access to the cheapest charged water sources and everyone else getting charged much higher prices (total water cost should be averaged and then user pays at the average rate).
The only difference between a clean fresh river and reverse osmosis of sea water is cost and energy consumption. The war here is access to cheap water for the majority versus corporate greed.
In a world with limited resources and billions of people already missing out, do you really know how deeply disturbingly insane it is to mass produce products that will purposefully breakdown because it is more profitable. Truly psychotically insane.
Let's get real here, I'm talking grumpy old man, stuff dies within one month of the warranty expiring and your talking ninety day warranties. I basically gave up on coffee makers, bought a manual grinder and a french press, fuck em, I wasn't going back to the store to buy another locally branded, manufactured in China coffee maker every bloody quarter ;P.
It not how much money the corporation makes or loses, it's how much the psychopathic corporate executives can suck out of the investors before it all collapses, bonus if they get to keep their multi-million dollar golden parachute as for the coders at Zynga, if they print out their stock options, punch a hole in the corner and tie the bundle together with string, next time they go to the toilet, they'll have something to use.
Why is it that companies that behave like this so often go up in flames in the great bankruptcy fire sale while the corporate executives retire to their mansions in tax havens.
Well, it's my 'God Given Right', to buy stuff that doesn't break, not ever. Buy it once, last a lifetime.
Fuck recyclable, give me government mandated, cut the testicles off the manufacturing executives, life time warranties.
Let's see evolution in action, want shoddy products out of the market, let's remove the evolutionary opportunities of people who make shoddy products.
Last a lifetime, don't need no recycling, we'll have a whole lot less rubbish to deal with. For you recyclers I will accept the compulsory recycling of packaging of life time warranty products. Now that's from the gut grump old man thinking ;D.
Statistic, approximately 15 of the human population are psychopaths, between 15% and 25% of the prison population are psychopaths, majority of them repeat offenders with many victims apiece. When they get in leadership positions the damage they cause escalates beyond all reason and all wars, each and every single one of them can be laid right at the feet of psychopaths. So harmless is only a shameless lie that only a psychopath could spread, considering hard facts and reality. Victims of psychopaths literally number in the hundreds of millions and ever worse that have an overall negative impact upon the whole of humanity, in corrupted laws, and a dog eat dog (human eat human) socio-economic environment.
I think I mentioned that but it is parliament and there are solutions that avoid handing over power to what seems for all the world to be a manipulative psychopath not to be trusted (he wanted to US military bases with out any legislative oversight, according to US law US soldiers can indefinitely detain Australians in Australia and subject them to enhanced interrogation/torture and Australian police can not arrest those soldiers for any crimes they commit). Unless laws change there is no way any significant number of US soldiers should be in Australia.
So Kevin Rudd is a better choice, doesn't require an election and can pretty much happen over night problem solved and some problems caused by the previous dupe (didn't bother to check anything just lapped up US lobbyist dogma, things that the majority of Americans themselves oppose) investigated and altered to align with Australian requirements not US lobbyists requirements
So the question is then, would they have a better standard of living if they revolted an executed the current pack of leaders and executives.
The reality is conditions are so bad because labour is cheaper and more disposable than automation.
Peoples long term health, their ability to use their hand is bring ground away in some of the worst imaginable repetitious task 10 to 12 hours a days a week.
Conditions never improve, corporations just shift elsewhere and shut down the existing factories (after smugly selling those 'contracting' to gullible local investors, to only see the contract end and the factory turn into an abandoned building. Rinse and repeat and rinse and repeat.
The only difference with China is they are demanding a major piece of the action early on and make no mistake they will protect their own market from overseas competition while demanding those debts generated vulture capitalism corporations.
Everyone knows this is just another Apple delaying action, just like their patent suits. Push of the gullible users for long enough, feed them some yarn and they forget all about. Has everyone already forgotten that this is not the first time this issued cropped up and this is most certainly not the first Apple public relations investigation.
Name the exploited labour market countries that have risen to first world status, zero. Forget Japan, that little lie, considering their industrial technology was as advanced as the western world, even more advanced in many instances.
Now name all those countries who labour market collapsed into economic collapse and violence with union leaders executed at the behest of western corporations and the United States amongst other Countries heavily implicated in the worst crimes against humanity to keep the labour exploitation going (training of death squads, funding, supply of weapons and ammunition, drug running to hide everything).
Not once have conditions improved without violence, without government orchestrated murder, without corporations hiring gangs to attack the families of workers. Not once in human history, not even in the United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union (just look at the picture and see the difference between corporate lies and over a hundred years of reality).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10926722, http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/magnetic-fields.
Of course their is always obfuscation with other cancer causing toxins, not our pollution their pollution.
The real decision here is twelve years plus of schooling, eight hours a day, for about 220 days per year, plus all other loads, inlcuding being out in the sun (I never get how some people reckon an existing natural load, eliminates new lesser radiation sources, isn't marketing wonderful, somehow cumulative effects cease to exist).
Want to add more loads other than those under which people evolved a resistance too, let's start getting rid of existing artificial loads before adding more on.
Again you go with the corporate lie. Airport radars, high power transmission lines, microwave ovens, xrays, mobile phones, flourescent light fittings, high power radio and TV transmissions, lighting, none of this things exist they are just in your imagination. Only the wifi in your notebook in front of you exists, forget the rest, look at the bright shiny watch as I wave it in your face forget everything else, only the wifi in your notebook exists.
Sorry chump, but I won't bite, cumulative load is real and is the problem. Eliminating elements of that load is a real and needed priority. Listening to corporate toads who sell their crap while pretending the rest doesn't exist is a sure path to disaster.