All state property taxes are wealth taxes, they tax the value of the property. So wealth taxes are legal and accepted all over the world.
So should property wealth taxes be extended to corporate property the value of the company at the location it is head quartered.
Now how about all those pigopolists who continually scream that content is property just as real as land and houses, well, shouldn't they be subject to asset taxes just the same as land and houses. Especially as they are corruptly trying to force content from a civil issue to a taxpayer criminal issue, if you want that you better be paying property taxes for it.
The reality is the greater the chunk of the common wealth you have under private control, the greater the cost to that common wealth in protecting that private control and in fact that cost is hugely exacerbated by the loss of income to the common wealth by the private income generated by the control of that now 'privatised asset'.
So how much could taxes be reduced if all essential utilities were publicly owned and they income they generated becomes part of the tax base and you get user pays in reality. How much of the common wealth should be owned and controlled by the common wealth, with the income generated by it more fairly attributing the tax base.
So main street privatised but wall street nationalised ( we end up having to pay for those shit heads when they lose and we pay them continually when they win, their profits come directly out of our pockets as well as, for some insane reason, their losses).
So stock in tech companies, meh, it's a bubble who cares. Now when it comes to roads, sewer, storm water, electricity, telecommunications, banking, finance and, postal services, public transport (buses, rail and airlines). How about if all that income substituted for taxes, user pays.
'cough', 'cough', throughout history there was more than just a gap between let's call it 'scientific postulation' and acceptance, there was burning at the stake, enforced suicide, exile, crucifixion in fact a whole range of very primitive methods of torturing people to death.
'Scientific postulation' that threatened change, always ended up being perceived as a threat to those, well let's be honest, psychopaths already in power (monarchical homicidal maniacs with grossly bloated egos and lusts and their horde ignorant thugs would be a more accurate description of the 'mainstream').
In reality of course, hmm, yes 'scientific postulation' is a excellent method for creating change within the social structure of human society. The single greatest driver for human social evolution. Throughout history the greatest enemy of 'scientific postulation' to be used for societal change and improvement have been psychopaths and lot of those societal changes have been targeted at stripping those psychopaths from position of power and influence. Do you know there is an infallible test for psychopathy that can not be cheated on regardless of training or preparedness by psychopaths.
One could postulate now could be the time to start implementing those tests and a chance for science to get revenge for thousands of years of horrific persecution.
Well let's see, you have 150 seats in the lower house, 72 are Labour, so take your pick from the 72. Better than the current one who has betrayed Australians twice to US lobbyists becuase of her own pathetic political infatuations. If she is so infatuated by the American political scence she should piss off and go there. As for approving any US led agreements without open and fair discussion, she has betrayed Australians.
Where are the legislated protections for Australian citizens to protect from arbitrary arrests, torture and execution by what will be the largest ready to be deployed military force in Australia. Under US law not only can those US marines not by arrested by Australian police authorities including rape, mass executions and public urination on the people they kill they are also legislated to treat Australian citizens as sub-human foreigners who have no rights under US law.
Until the US is forced to change it's laws to recognise the rights of Australians citizens and to subject US military to Australian law while they are there, the US military should simply be banned from Australia. It is only a treasonous Australian politician that would fail to recognise this. So Rudd in and the skank out and send her packing to the US where she can cosy up to her mates, bloody US lobbyists.
In this case the current Australian Prime Minister has a real worship fetish for the US government and simply bends over the Australia people for anything the US government requests. The sooner she is gone the better. Another decision made without consulting the Australian public and without proper discussion in parliament, she is a straight up prostitute for US lobbyists.
Of course if it is my religion to criticise, mock and insult other religions, well, who will deny me my freedom of religion. My right to non-violently express my religious beliefs, after all many of today's existing religions have a very sordid history of 'Violently' oppressing other peoples religions and in their religious texts demonify believers and the beings they believe in.
So you logically can not attack my religion to defend your religion without attacking your own religion.
So will google remove all religous texts that attack other religions in any way, shape or form, to be form or has google abandoned freedom of religion as well as freedom of speech by deciding which religions are valid and which are not.
Vote and agitate. Be annoying, be pesky, don't give up and challenge them at every opportunity. Be their boss don't let them be your boss.
Some lateral thinking, the single biggest target right now should be "TAX HAVENS". The US and Europe could shut them down overnight, ban trade in tax haven currencies and zero their value. Either cough up details and provide full access or choke or you organised criminal banking activities.
Want a sign of real change, that's exactly where it starts. Substantially reduced opportunity for political bribes. Millionaire and billionaire tax cheats fined triple gains and in jail. The proceeds of crime devalued to zero. Government intelligence agencies forever banned from subsidising organised crime to drive insane schemes to get promoted (when you cause more harm then you stop you are a bloody idiot and a danger to society and you should be in jail with the criminals you sponsored).
Until tax havens are shut down then you know it is political corruption as usual, end of story.
Damage the guidance systems and control fins and make it miss. The higher the release point the greater the opportunity of altering the computer controlled flight path. Unlike some other people who seem to lack a grasp of physics and vectors, forward velocity does not translate into vertical velocity unless you make use of aerodynamic design to achieve this. Reality is the specifically decelerate the forward momentum of the bomb and leave it up to gravity to achieve the required acceleration and final speed, plenty of time to damage it and force a miss ie turn a guided weapon into a world war 2 unguided weapon where thousands of bombs were required to hit the target. Note a miss that kills hundreds even thousands of innocent Iranians will mark the US as mass murders yet again.
Ohh bullshit. The reality is this is all down to countries without an out of control military industrial complex deciding which other countries with an out of control military industrial complex they will prop up.
Over the last 20 to thirty years these types of purchases have completely abandoned having anything at all to do with defence.
Which country can we leverage and extort purchases out of (sell side). Which countries economy should we prop up (buy side). Who is willing to pay the biggest bribe (sell side). Defence purchases are a joke having much more to do with politics and corruption, than having anything at all to do with defence. Want to know the truth, just look around and pay attention to what is going on in reality. Actually seriously want to protect you country from attack, get 'NUKES'. The US has proven time and time again they will not touch a country with 'NUKES'.
Talk quietly and carry a big stick, dump your whole military defence force in favour of tactical, strategic and especially 'covert' nukes. Not only will you save enormous amounts of money, you will largely avoid all the US military shenanigans of either opposing or being forced to support US led invasions. You'll also eliminate all defence purchase corruption. Nukes and stealthy missiles and your done.
Well, isn't that exactly what these simulations are already doing replacing HR (human resources) staff with computers.
Simulation testing does off course make sense in measuring 'part' of what makes a good employee. Trust an reliability are also off value, well, they used to be.
I mean can you ever really trust honest employees with integrity to lie to and cheat your customers for maximum profits. Nasty of greed driven catch 22 there, if they will lie and cheat for you, they will also lie and cheat from you.
When you invade a country, you have to take responsibility for all the consequences.
Now if that is not enough for you how about these juicy pieces, "The new head of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq, Paul Bremer removed members of the Ba'ath Party from senior management positions at all public institutions. Since one had to join the Ba'ath Party, in order to get ahead in Hussein's Iraq, this order had the effect of removing most of Iraq's senior university administrators and professors overnight" (stupid is as stupid does). ". "Control over Iraq's universities now lay in the hands of Andrew Erdmann, a 36-year-old American, well-connected in Republican Party patronage networks, who was senior adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Education. Erdmann spoke no Arabic and had no experience in university administration (ohh look political appointees getting paid and stealing millions). "Erdmann was succeeded by John Agresto, the former president of St. Johns College in New Mexico and a conservative opponent of multicultural education.He too spoke no Arabic and, when the Post's Chandresekaran asked what he had read to prepare for his assignment, Iraq's new top educator said he decided to read no books at all about Iraq -- so he would have an "open mind." (was that open or empty". "USAID did set aside $25 million to help revitalize Iraqi universities -- but the money went to American universities to do curriculum development (seriously WTF, ohh yeah, ignorant foreignors don't now how to set curriculum).
So a country was invaded, was tossed to the wolves local and imported, corruption was rife local and imported but hey it was all the Iraqi's fault. The US had nothing to do with it, even though the triggered it and mismanaged it. Why did it fail, mainly because all the Americans sent to manage it were only concerned with cashing in and did you give a rat's arse about actually doing anything constructive.
Not just profiling. Grossly lazy policing. It seems that many places in the world the police are simply getting lazier and stupider. Forget professionalism in policing, let's go right wing cheap and performance based.
Instead of professional police officers, we are getting failed jock strap bullies, not good for much else and obviously have to rely on methods other than real detective sleuthing to pursue criminals.
Idiots at keyboards, basically incapable of doing the job and relying on infantile data base mining to do their job for them. Which reminds me, no who was the fuck head privacy invasive database windrone who set this POS system. Some where skulking in the background is the real ass hat who is actually responsible for this, ex-spurt (drip under pressure) who set this kind of shit up.
In this case the real question is a matter of application. Was the individual watching porn or was the individual displaying porn. So is the computer display in question readily viewable by a wide variety of individuals including minors or was the monitor generally only viewable by one person at a time and out of public thoroughfares.
So did the individual not take due care to prevent the displaying of pornographic materials to minors or did the commit what in many countries would be considered a criminal act by negligence.
In reality the act is not to download porn to 'see' it in a public space but to download porn and 'display' it in a public. There is a real legal difference between seeing something and displaying something.
How about some whishy washy quotes for you "ranking often in the top ten of international countries". So what exactly is their interpretation of often. "International Country" now WTF is that meant to mean 'er', countries that are more than one country versus many domestic countries or just crappy 'fluffy' wording.
"Canada's broadband Internet metrics are often in the top quartile among these countries" they sure like that word often. Now who are 'these' countries really. Not to forget in one paragraph Canda has dropped from the top ten too the top 25%.
Also they love talking about average rather than specific and tests without defining at what 'time' bracket the tests were conducted. Perhaps the tests in say Canada were conducted at excatly the same time, say off peak in Canada, which just 'er' happened to be peak time in say Australia.
As to cost did they include the caps and $50 excess usage charge charged at $5.00/GB. For example if you were to buy and download a legal DVD for say $10, Rodgers were turn around and charge you say $20 for it, youch better be downloading pirate divxs rather than legal dvds. When it comes to steam, forget it.
This doesn't work for performance based for profit examination system. The oral on exams required experienced doctors to test and probe for knowledge weaknesses, in order to properly gauge the expertise of the new doctor.
For profit performance based tests are all about "BEING CHEAP". Here the glaring example is asking the exact exam question again and again, to cheap to even rewrite the exam or for example writing 10 to 20 times exam questions as required and randomly changing the exam within each exam period.
Why is the US having education problems, right wing cheapness, for profit education systems, tea bagging amateurs telling professionals how to do things, politicians continually telling the dumbest voters how they are just as smart as elitist intellectuals and so basically cheap solutions to complex that continually fail.
The most productive meetings I have ever participated in were mid week informal extended lunch meetings with the company supplying the meal.
They provided sufficient time to informally discuss things. People were often more willing to contribute as there was nothing really to lose and 'yes men' were more silent as there was nothing really to gain.
Any problems or ideas brought up, would launch smaller more formal meetings including only those directly involved to tackle those specific issues. How well those meetings fared success or failure etc. would then just be mentioned at the informal meeting
These meetings built repore between staff, got them discussing broader issues and allow those with outside views to informally add new ideas. Also the built focus on smaller meetings task specific meetings, were results were required and needed to be documented and made available for review to those at large.
Corporations will still want to build privacy invasive data bases and mine that information. Privacy laws means that not matter what type of business you, when you hold other peoples data you will have to adhere to those laws and when you are caught out you will be subject to prosecution.
Facebook has become a glaring example of privacy invasion. Facebook will also have to start thinking about it's users invading the privacy of other users and posting information that contravenes privacy laws.
The catch there is, whilst it is that many countries legalise the ability for governments to sign treaties at no stage what so over does that give governments the ability to sign treaties that over rule their constitutions.
So in the case of a US President signing a treaty with a foreign government that enacted a law that was against the constitution, that President would be treading dangerously close to treason.
No treaty ever over rules a countries constitution and it would be illegal to enact that treaty if it does so and the politicians who signed it would have committed a criminal act and the treaty voided.
You know what I don't mind abandoning privacy but I have to look corporations and governments in the eye and say 'YOU FUCKING FIRST'.
That's what it really all boils down to, if corporations are going to keep secrets and not tell me anything I want to know, well, that's pretty much rock solid evidence that they are not to be trusted. So measure of harm, which is likely to be more damaging and risky, me keeping secrets or corporations keeping secrets. Reality than is who should be first to give up secrecy individuals or corporations.
Now lets look at governments, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning anyone. This is unto itself damming evidence that government should not be trusted with too many if any secrets at all. The individuals within government, those actual, lying cheating and stealing political appointees and those dissembling politicians who routinely lie with false claims of national security are proof that's its a top down change in rules about secrecy that is required not bottom up.
I gather from this report that the FBI is making a public statement that the 'far too many secrets keeping government of the United States of America', can not be trusted and is very likely a terrorist organisation.
I see you have no idea at all how, let's shift our factories 'around' and 'around' in third world labour markets works. If workers get uppity, lets get some contractors to shoot a few and if that doesn't work will shift the factory to the next country and start again.
The reality is this is all about making things in working in poverty labour markets, funnelling the paperwork through tax havens to hide the profit and then selling the goods at first world prices.
Corporations don't give a crap about workers anywhere. Those corporate executives will kill and main as many people as necessary so they can add another wing to their mansion or by a fifth home in another location, or trade in their tiny 60 foot yacht for the 90 foot version.
It is all greed and bloated ego's nothing more and nothing less. The sooner those psychopathic and narcissistic asshats a prevented form gaining positions of control, governance and influence the far better off will the majority of us be.
The reason a company like Foxcon owned and run by 'BILLIONAIRES' needs to hire so many people paying them cents per hour is not expansion but burnout and churn. They get people doing worst most repetitious and psychologically damaging jobs imaginable because it is cheaper than designing and installing a machine to do that job, which is what would have happened in more 'progressive' labour markets.
Quite correct. The progressive solution to a fight is avoid punishment all together. Sit the involved children down, spend some time to find out what really happened in a calm non-confrontational manner. Attempt to find the root cause of the problem and threat the problem not punish the result of the problem.
So for school bullies, find whether the problem is as a result of parental abuse or an inherent psychological defect. In either case that child needs to be placed under greater supervision and their opportunities to act out against other students limited.
So rather the the victims requiring closer parent\ guardian supervision, being picked up and dropped off to school by a parent and remaining close to teachers during meal times, the opposite should be true. Troubled offenders should be forced to remain close to adult supervision during meal times and picked up and dropped off to school by a responsible adult.
All in all, of course video games remain the safest form of entertainment for children. Need exercise buy them a Wii http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2011/45337.html or the various other more exercise bound games and monitor their scores. Of course parents could also join in. Want them outside, point the TV screen out the back patio door (at least the screen will be protected from flying nunchuks).
Now stories when presented by web media sites, need to contain a broad range of elements to appeal to a mixed audience. The science in them also needs to be expressed in more literary terms and be entertaining as well as educational.
So have some empathy for the other people of this planet, it seems you are offended by their lack of intellect and ability to absorb more accurate scientific reports.
News at 11, light scientific stories and light and lack the intellectual mass to keep intellectual helium heads bound to the earth.
Of course the elephants would be located a bit further north than that.
The problem with elephants of course is whislt they might eat the gamba grass they won't limit their diet to eat. So all the other elephant palatable vegetation will also suffer.
You are confusing stop with being stopped. A subtle difference in language but in social reality, one that is often drenched in blood. Censorship once started does not stop and always grows. Those outside the body that control censorship must use force to limit, reduce or eliminate censorship.
Do you think the first amendment was a freeby, that those in power gave it away for free or did those that want it have to fight and die for it.
Do you remember glasnost and the turmoil that caused. One leader at the right place and at the right time managed to sneek it in but it teetered there for a while under the threat of what could have been an enormously destructive civil war.
Now every country will argue, if goggle can do it with the amount of traffic they generate all of you can do it for everything else. You will argue technicalities, a different protocols and they will ignore it all and say, see it can be done.
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All state property taxes are wealth taxes, they tax the value of the property. So wealth taxes are legal and accepted all over the world.
So should property wealth taxes be extended to corporate property the value of the company at the location it is head quartered.
Now how about all those pigopolists who continually scream that content is property just as real as land and houses, well, shouldn't they be subject to asset taxes just the same as land and houses. Especially as they are corruptly trying to force content from a civil issue to a taxpayer criminal issue, if you want that you better be paying property taxes for it.
The reality is the greater the chunk of the common wealth you have under private control, the greater the cost to that common wealth in protecting that private control and in fact that cost is hugely exacerbated by the loss of income to the common wealth by the private income generated by the control of that now 'privatised asset'.
So how much could taxes be reduced if all essential utilities were publicly owned and they income they generated becomes part of the tax base and you get user pays in reality. How much of the common wealth should be owned and controlled by the common wealth, with the income generated by it more fairly attributing the tax base.
So main street privatised but wall street nationalised ( we end up having to pay for those shit heads when they lose and we pay them continually when they win, their profits come directly out of our pockets as well as, for some insane reason, their losses).
So stock in tech companies, meh, it's a bubble who cares. Now when it comes to roads, sewer, storm water, electricity, telecommunications, banking, finance and, postal services, public transport (buses, rail and airlines). How about if all that income substituted for taxes, user pays.
'cough', 'cough', throughout history there was more than just a gap between let's call it 'scientific postulation' and acceptance, there was burning at the stake, enforced suicide, exile, crucifixion in fact a whole range of very primitive methods of torturing people to death.
'Scientific postulation' that threatened change, always ended up being perceived as a threat to those, well let's be honest, psychopaths already in power (monarchical homicidal maniacs with grossly bloated egos and lusts and their horde ignorant thugs would be a more accurate description of the 'mainstream').
In reality of course, hmm, yes 'scientific postulation' is a excellent method for creating change within the social structure of human society. The single greatest driver for human social evolution. Throughout history the greatest enemy of 'scientific postulation' to be used for societal change and improvement have been psychopaths and lot of those societal changes have been targeted at stripping those psychopaths from position of power and influence. Do you know there is an infallible test for psychopathy that can not be cheated on regardless of training or preparedness by psychopaths.
One could postulate now could be the time to start implementing those tests and a chance for science to get revenge for thousands of years of horrific persecution.
Well let's see, you have 150 seats in the lower house, 72 are Labour, so take your pick from the 72. Better than the current one who has betrayed Australians twice to US lobbyists becuase of her own pathetic political infatuations. If she is so infatuated by the American political scence she should piss off and go there. As for approving any US led agreements without open and fair discussion, she has betrayed Australians.
Where are the legislated protections for Australian citizens to protect from arbitrary arrests, torture and execution by what will be the largest ready to be deployed military force in Australia. Under US law not only can those US marines not by arrested by Australian police authorities including rape, mass executions and public urination on the people they kill they are also legislated to treat Australian citizens as sub-human foreigners who have no rights under US law.
Until the US is forced to change it's laws to recognise the rights of Australians citizens and to subject US military to Australian law while they are there, the US military should simply be banned from Australia. It is only a treasonous Australian politician that would fail to recognise this. So Rudd in and the skank out and send her packing to the US where she can cosy up to her mates, bloody US lobbyists.
In this case the current Australian Prime Minister has a real worship fetish for the US government and simply bends over the Australia people for anything the US government requests. The sooner she is gone the better. Another decision made without consulting the Australian public and without proper discussion in parliament, she is a straight up prostitute for US lobbyists.
Of course if it is my religion to criticise, mock and insult other religions, well, who will deny me my freedom of religion. My right to non-violently express my religious beliefs, after all many of today's existing religions have a very sordid history of 'Violently' oppressing other peoples religions and in their religious texts demonify believers and the beings they believe in.
So you logically can not attack my religion to defend your religion without attacking your own religion.
So will google remove all religous texts that attack other religions in any way, shape or form, to be form or has google abandoned freedom of religion as well as freedom of speech by deciding which religions are valid and which are not.
Vote and agitate. Be annoying, be pesky, don't give up and challenge them at every opportunity. Be their boss don't let them be your boss.
Some lateral thinking, the single biggest target right now should be "TAX HAVENS". The US and Europe could shut them down overnight, ban trade in tax haven currencies and zero their value. Either cough up details and provide full access or choke or you organised criminal banking activities.
Want a sign of real change, that's exactly where it starts. Substantially reduced opportunity for political bribes. Millionaire and billionaire tax cheats fined triple gains and in jail. The proceeds of crime devalued to zero. Government intelligence agencies forever banned from subsidising organised crime to drive insane schemes to get promoted (when you cause more harm then you stop you are a bloody idiot and a danger to society and you should be in jail with the criminals you sponsored).
Until tax havens are shut down then you know it is political corruption as usual, end of story.
Damage the guidance systems and control fins and make it miss. The higher the release point the greater the opportunity of altering the computer controlled flight path. Unlike some other people who seem to lack a grasp of physics and vectors, forward velocity does not translate into vertical velocity unless you make use of aerodynamic design to achieve this. Reality is the specifically decelerate the forward momentum of the bomb and leave it up to gravity to achieve the required acceleration and final speed, plenty of time to damage it and force a miss ie turn a guided weapon into a world war 2 unguided weapon where thousands of bombs were required to hit the target. Note a miss that kills hundreds even thousands of innocent Iranians will mark the US as mass murders yet again.
Ohh bullshit. The reality is this is all down to countries without an out of control military industrial complex deciding which other countries with an out of control military industrial complex they will prop up.
Over the last 20 to thirty years these types of purchases have completely abandoned having anything at all to do with defence.
Which country can we leverage and extort purchases out of (sell side). Which countries economy should we prop up (buy side). Who is willing to pay the biggest bribe (sell side). Defence purchases are a joke having much more to do with politics and corruption, than having anything at all to do with defence. Want to know the truth, just look around and pay attention to what is going on in reality. Actually seriously want to protect you country from attack, get 'NUKES'. The US has proven time and time again they will not touch a country with 'NUKES'.
Talk quietly and carry a big stick, dump your whole military defence force in favour of tactical, strategic and especially 'covert' nukes. Not only will you save enormous amounts of money, you will largely avoid all the US military shenanigans of either opposing or being forced to support US led invasions. You'll also eliminate all defence purchase corruption. Nukes and stealthy missiles and your done.
Well, isn't that exactly what these simulations are already doing replacing HR (human resources) staff with computers.
Simulation testing does off course make sense in measuring 'part' of what makes a good employee. Trust an reliability are also off value, well, they used to be.
I mean can you ever really trust honest employees with integrity to lie to and cheat your customers for maximum profits. Nasty of greed driven catch 22 there, if they will lie and cheat for you, they will also lie and cheat from you.
When you invade a country, you have to take responsibility for all the consequences.
Now if that is not enough for you how about these juicy pieces, "The new head of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq, Paul Bremer removed members of the Ba'ath Party from senior management positions at all public institutions. Since one had to join the Ba'ath Party, in order to get ahead in Hussein's Iraq, this order had the effect of removing most of Iraq's senior university administrators and professors overnight" (stupid is as stupid does). ". "Control over Iraq's universities now lay in the hands of Andrew Erdmann, a 36-year-old American, well-connected in Republican Party patronage networks, who was senior adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Education. Erdmann spoke no Arabic and had no experience in university administration (ohh look political appointees getting paid and stealing millions). "Erdmann was succeeded by John Agresto, the former president of St. Johns College in New Mexico and a conservative opponent of multicultural education.He too spoke no Arabic and, when the Post's Chandresekaran asked what he had read to prepare for his assignment, Iraq's new top educator said he decided to read no books at all about Iraq -- so he would have an "open mind." (was that open or empty". "USAID did set aside $25 million to help revitalize Iraqi universities -- but the money went to American universities to do curriculum development (seriously WTF, ohh yeah, ignorant foreignors don't now how to set curriculum).
So a country was invaded, was tossed to the wolves local and imported, corruption was rife local and imported but hey it was all the Iraqi's fault. The US had nothing to do with it, even though the triggered it and mismanaged it. Why did it fail, mainly because all the Americans sent to manage it were only concerned with cashing in and did you give a rat's arse about actually doing anything constructive.
Not just profiling. Grossly lazy policing. It seems that many places in the world the police are simply getting lazier and stupider. Forget professionalism in policing, let's go right wing cheap and performance based.
Instead of professional police officers, we are getting failed jock strap bullies, not good for much else and obviously have to rely on methods other than real detective sleuthing to pursue criminals.
Idiots at keyboards, basically incapable of doing the job and relying on infantile data base mining to do their job for them. Which reminds me, no who was the fuck head privacy invasive database windrone who set this POS system. Some where skulking in the background is the real ass hat who is actually responsible for this, ex-spurt (drip under pressure) who set this kind of shit up.
In this case the real question is a matter of application. Was the individual watching porn or was the individual displaying porn. So is the computer display in question readily viewable by a wide variety of individuals including minors or was the monitor generally only viewable by one person at a time and out of public thoroughfares.
So did the individual not take due care to prevent the displaying of pornographic materials to minors or did the commit what in many countries would be considered a criminal act by negligence.
In reality the act is not to download porn to 'see' it in a public space but to download porn and 'display' it in a public. There is a real legal difference between seeing something and displaying something.
How about some whishy washy quotes for you "ranking often in the top ten of international countries". So what exactly is their interpretation of often. "International Country" now WTF is that meant to mean 'er', countries that are more than one country versus many domestic countries or just crappy 'fluffy' wording.
"Canada's broadband Internet metrics are often in the top quartile among these countries" they sure like that word often. Now who are 'these' countries really. Not to forget in one paragraph Canda has dropped from the top ten too the top 25%.
Also they love talking about average rather than specific and tests without defining at what 'time' bracket the tests were conducted. Perhaps the tests in say Canada were conducted at excatly the same time, say off peak in Canada, which just 'er' happened to be peak time in say Australia.
As to cost did they include the caps and $50 excess usage charge charged at $5.00/GB. For example if you were to buy and download a legal DVD for say $10, Rodgers were turn around and charge you say $20 for it, youch better be downloading pirate divxs rather than legal dvds. When it comes to steam, forget it.
Rodgers' rodgering http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rodgering it's customers at every opportunity, including making them pay for junk reports and feeling good about it.
This doesn't work for performance based for profit examination system. The oral on exams required experienced doctors to test and probe for knowledge weaknesses, in order to properly gauge the expertise of the new doctor.
For profit performance based tests are all about "BEING CHEAP". Here the glaring example is asking the exact exam question again and again, to cheap to even rewrite the exam or for example writing 10 to 20 times exam questions as required and randomly changing the exam within each exam period.
Why is the US having education problems, right wing cheapness, for profit education systems, tea bagging amateurs telling professionals how to do things, politicians continually telling the dumbest voters how they are just as smart as elitist intellectuals and so basically cheap solutions to complex that continually fail.
The most productive meetings I have ever participated in were mid week informal extended lunch meetings with the company supplying the meal.
They provided sufficient time to informally discuss things. People were often more willing to contribute as there was nothing really to lose and 'yes men' were more silent as there was nothing really to gain.
Any problems or ideas brought up, would launch smaller more formal meetings including only those directly involved to tackle those specific issues. How well those meetings fared success or failure etc. would then just be mentioned at the informal meeting
These meetings built repore between staff, got them discussing broader issues and allow those with outside views to informally add new ideas. Also the built focus on smaller meetings task specific meetings, were results were required and needed to be documented and made available for review to those at large.
Corporations will still want to build privacy invasive data bases and mine that information. Privacy laws means that not matter what type of business you, when you hold other peoples data you will have to adhere to those laws and when you are caught out you will be subject to prosecution.
Facebook has become a glaring example of privacy invasion. Facebook will also have to start thinking about it's users invading the privacy of other users and posting information that contravenes privacy laws.
The catch there is, whilst it is that many countries legalise the ability for governments to sign treaties at no stage what so over does that give governments the ability to sign treaties that over rule their constitutions.
So in the case of a US President signing a treaty with a foreign government that enacted a law that was against the constitution, that President would be treading dangerously close to treason.
No treaty ever over rules a countries constitution and it would be illegal to enact that treaty if it does so and the politicians who signed it would have committed a criminal act and the treaty voided.
You know what I don't mind abandoning privacy but I have to look corporations and governments in the eye and say 'YOU FUCKING FIRST'.
That's what it really all boils down to, if corporations are going to keep secrets and not tell me anything I want to know, well, that's pretty much rock solid evidence that they are not to be trusted. So measure of harm, which is likely to be more damaging and risky, me keeping secrets or corporations keeping secrets. Reality than is who should be first to give up secrecy individuals or corporations.
Now lets look at governments, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning anyone. This is unto itself damming evidence that government should not be trusted with too many if any secrets at all. The individuals within government, those actual, lying cheating and stealing political appointees and those dissembling politicians who routinely lie with false claims of national security are proof that's its a top down change in rules about secrecy that is required not bottom up.
I gather from this report that the FBI is making a public statement that the 'far too many secrets keeping government of the United States of America', can not be trusted and is very likely a terrorist organisation.
I see you have no idea at all how, let's shift our factories 'around' and 'around' in third world labour markets works. If workers get uppity, lets get some contractors to shoot a few and if that doesn't work will shift the factory to the next country and start again.
The reality is this is all about making things in working in poverty labour markets, funnelling the paperwork through tax havens to hide the profit and then selling the goods at first world prices.
Corporations don't give a crap about workers anywhere. Those corporate executives will kill and main as many people as necessary so they can add another wing to their mansion or by a fifth home in another location, or trade in their tiny 60 foot yacht for the 90 foot version.
It is all greed and bloated ego's nothing more and nothing less. The sooner those psychopathic and narcissistic asshats a prevented form gaining positions of control, governance and influence the far better off will the majority of us be.
The reason a company like Foxcon owned and run by 'BILLIONAIRES' needs to hire so many people paying them cents per hour is not expansion but burnout and churn. They get people doing worst most repetitious and psychologically damaging jobs imaginable because it is cheaper than designing and installing a machine to do that job, which is what would have happened in more 'progressive' labour markets.
Quite correct. The progressive solution to a fight is avoid punishment all together. Sit the involved children down, spend some time to find out what really happened in a calm non-confrontational manner. Attempt to find the root cause of the problem and threat the problem not punish the result of the problem.
So for school bullies, find whether the problem is as a result of parental abuse or an inherent psychological defect. In either case that child needs to be placed under greater supervision and their opportunities to act out against other students limited.
So rather the the victims requiring closer parent\ guardian supervision, being picked up and dropped off to school by a parent and remaining close to teachers during meal times, the opposite should be true. Troubled offenders should be forced to remain close to adult supervision during meal times and picked up and dropped off to school by a responsible adult.
All in all, of course video games remain the safest form of entertainment for children. Need exercise buy them a Wii http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2011/45337.html or the various other more exercise bound games and monitor their scores. Of course parents could also join in. Want them outside, point the TV screen out the back patio door (at least the screen will be protected from flying nunchuks).
Perhaps I can help you with a problem you seem to be having ie. story http://www.thefreedictionary.com/story vs. report http://www.thefreedictionary.com/report.
Now stories when presented by web media sites, need to contain a broad range of elements to appeal to a mixed audience. The science in them also needs to be expressed in more literary terms and be entertaining as well as educational.
So have some empathy for the other people of this planet, it seems you are offended by their lack of intellect and ability to absorb more accurate scientific reports.
News at 11, light scientific stories and light and lack the intellectual mass to keep intellectual helium heads bound to the earth.
There are many ski resorts in Victoria and in NSW, http://www.snowholidays.com.au/, so take your pick. Afterwards if you like you can enjoy the tropical north http://www.territorydiscoveries.com/ to warm up. As you come off as a bit whiny, I suggest you go for a swim in Kakadu http://www.kakadunationalparkaustralia.com/Crocodiles-in-Kakadu-National-Park.htm and save a lot of holiday location staff some annoyance.
Personally I've heard New Zealand http://www.nzski.com/ makes for the best ski holidays http://www.heliski.co.nz/.
All the while low altitudes will be free of snow ensuring accessible holiday travel and access to other types of holiday venues while you are there.
Australia has fine snow fields http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_Australia_have_more_snow-covered_land_than_Switzerland.
Of course the elephants would be located a bit further north than that.
The problem with elephants of course is whislt they might eat the gamba grass they won't limit their diet to eat. So all the other elephant palatable vegetation will also suffer.
You are confusing stop with being stopped. A subtle difference in language but in social reality, one that is often drenched in blood. Censorship once started does not stop and always grows. Those outside the body that control censorship must use force to limit, reduce or eliminate censorship.
Do you think the first amendment was a freeby, that those in power gave it away for free or did those that want it have to fight and die for it.
Do you remember glasnost and the turmoil that caused. One leader at the right place and at the right time managed to sneek it in but it teetered there for a while under the threat of what could have been an enormously destructive civil war.
Now every country will argue, if goggle can do it with the amount of traffic they generate all of you can do it for everything else. You will argue technicalities, a different protocols and they will ignore it all and say, see it can be done.
Once censorship starts it doesn't ever stop. Next up ISP blocking. You are watching the creation of the new internet piece by rotting piece.