It just reflects the difference between being rich in scientology and being poor in scientology. Scientology as a corporation intent is to extract as much money as possible for the insiders, the non-believers that run scientology for the own personal benefit, from the asthmatic dwarf (miscavige's nickname given by those he abuses) down. So there are two distinct tracks, one for the wealthy and one for the rest. The wealthy are more carefully handled to extract the greater wealth and of course draw others in as duped figure heads.
It all seemed to have ended all rather pitifully for L Ron Hubbard, apparently his will was changed and strangely enough he died the very next day without much investigation at all. The revised will basically handed over financial control to the asthmatic dwarf and his cronies who then proceeded to drive out all true believers in senior positions. It also basically handed over Hubbard's grandchildren as psychological slaves of scientology (rather than inheritors).
At that point is basically changed into a two streams or more correctly three streams counting the controlling non-believers. Wealthy never ended up virtual slave labour on 'e-meter' production lines, nor body servants aboard the double speak named ship freewinds, their function was to provide wealth and credibility as such their experience with scientology was carefully scripted.
Of course conscience should still play a role in seeing those exploited around them but they would not be in scientology in the first place unless they are were psychological vulnerable whether temporarily or over a more extended basis.
Based upon prison population percentages, the ratio is in fact far higher for crimes against person. The number I am postulating is addition to and or exacerbated the nature of the crime. Purely an arbitrary number to demonstrate the extreme difficulty of evaluating those risks based upon the real and significant consequences and the inevitable percentages that will result.
So something no to be thrown flippant off because some adult gamers want easy access to gratuitously violent games and some corporations want to make more money from games by pretending they are for adult when they market them at children. So as in all societal evaluations what are the real societal benefits versus the risks.
Benefits to society, hmm, pretty much nil as those games would be replaced with less violent alternatives. What are the risks, death and suffering of innocent victims. The only questions seems to be how many innocent victims are considered unacceptable, so you tell me, 1 10 100 1000 10,000 where do you draw the line, how many parents must lose their children to equal the profit generated by those games beyond what would have been generated by less violent games. I personally enjoy first person shooters would I bemoan their tuning down, meh, not really it is all about the game play, not blood and gore graphics.
Yeah, they are called eyeballs, expensive but by far the most effective anti-SEO method. SEO is only meant to align your site with people likely to search for it, any more than that and you end up doing nothing but pissing people off. When using google there is this http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ and when combined with stylish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ , those crappy SEO sites disappear all together.
Now if google were less invasive and more polite and sought the output from OptimizeGoogle and all those annoying filtered website, it would go a long way to providing a far cheaper algorithmic method of clearing out SEO cheats.
The sun is an extremely active fusion reaction kept in check gravity, with extremely dynamic forces in play, driven by an-imaginable flows of energy. From the article "The new finding was made by Japan's Hinode sun-watching satellite which has been observing sun since 2006', so recent holes in the magnetic field which generate a visible presence.
Now is it cause for concern, well that would depend upon the movement of the holes, in relation to the orbit of the time and the time it takes from projected matter from the sun to reach the earth.
One day, probability only knows when, a mass ejection of matter from the sun will cause enormous problems on the earth, suck it up and get over it. Fore warning will of course be really handy in attempting to minimise the impact upon human society. BS ostrich head in the ground or God will save us, will do nothing but punish us for our ignorance and stupidity, forewarned is forearmed.
Next time there is a fire, try making a fire engine, rather than just calling one that is sitting there idle wasting taxpayer dollars or heaven forbid called by an automatic fire alarm system that in the majority of instances, 90 percent or do nothing but waste profits for the majority of buildings. Now think of all those profit wasting fire sprinkler system, hundreds of millions of dollars every year, I'm sure given the chance Tea Partiers will make them non-compulsory. How many peoples lives are too high a price to gamble with.
Are you kidding, Anonymous did nothing, it does not exist, it is an activism meme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group). People do things using the Anonymous name, nothing more.
To say Anonymous has possession of the stuxnet virus, is meaningless nonsense. Anyone at any time can say they are and are not a member of Anonymous, as there is no membership, no leadership, just temporary causes. In fact any false flag event can be named as Anonymous activity if the government professionally paranoid choose to do so, they are of course very unlikely to get much or any support from people who choose to commit reasonable acts of activism in the name of Anonymous.
This is just nothing more than a beat up driven by mass media and in this case likely paid for by Bank of America to obscure it's criminality in invading the privacy of people and their families and BoA's disclosed willingness to fabricate evidence. All in same vain effort to bury a certain hard disk drive likely full of criminal culpability. It isn't in Forbes by accident.
No person can stand up and publicly state they are a 'member' of anonymous, as that act refutes their anonymity and logically any association with the Anonymous activism meme. At the very most people can say, they have done some 'Anonymous' stuff, hmm, which is what you are doing right now on the internet in this forum.
The catch with your rant of course, it does not resolve the issue of parent's who dump the children in front of electronic babysitter's only to have them run amok once their thought processes and judgements have been distorted.
The reality it is only a small percentage that are affected, some more than others, now that result's in innocent victims. It is not so much about allowing lazy parents, on protecting children from lazy parents. It is about protecting everyone else from 'impressionable' children who go on to become violent offenders.
Damn, those percentages are a bitch, even 1 in 10,000 children at risk means, yumpin yiminy, 30,700 (US) victims of those violent children. So do something about it or let it slide, safe or sorry, from the victims perspective gamble with their lives or not.
It has everything to do with context. For example you could state "I wish ex-President Bush was killed, executed by firing squad, after being found guilty in a court of law for murder by starting an illegal war in which innocent people died". In a country that allowed capital punishment that would be quite legal, of course those legal clarifications are required to create the correct context.
In the case of the blog, satire as an excuse does not protect you from everything you might decide to write. In this case the blogger did go a little over the top. So investigation hardly surprising. Seizing the blog a bit of a failure as it was bound to generate far greater interest making things worse. Smarter to have requested some artful editing or threaten the writer with reasonable risk of prosecution.
Note. I oppose capital punishment, you do not prevent murder by murdering people, the wrong message is sent ie. that premeditated psychological torture and murder is justifiable. Better that the offender spend the rest of the life as a testament to justice and just in case justice failed (as it often does) be in a condition to be compensated and released.
More importantly with Linux you can create far more secure appliances. Where unnecessary services are completely removed and only what is required to run the appliance based server and workstations is installed and available on the installation software.
The dispatch machines need only handle bookings, dispatch, arrival, return etc. (database) and then pass that data to accounting, nothing else. With Linux it is fairly easy for a skilled person to create a custom appliance distribution, all without infringing copyright.
That is the biggest problem with windows the impossibility of creating completely custom installs with everything you didn't need, not just maybe, most likely, disabled but actually completely absent, on the machine and on installation software, all because go to jail copyright infringement.
Just to frustrate you further compare the crime rates for income disparity, the US most definitely pays a lethal price for the greed of the psychopathic minority nut then they thrive on the death and chaos they cause, it feeds their ego and lusts. As for the minions and dupes, well, no amount of truth makes a difference, all they hear is what they want to hear, they can be greedy sociopathic billionaires too, they can pollute as much as they want and, they can waste as much as they want, all of them.
It also has been extensively bullshited by several think-tanks (for profit marketing stink tanks), that black is white and rich is poor and letting people starve to death solves their economic problems without the resorting to crime and revolution and the Somali pirates do not exist.
Everybody can guess exactly what is going on. M$ is paying off Nokia to install windows in a desperate bid to gain market share. How this back hander is being managed to effectively reduce the retail price of Nokia phones, is anyone's guess. perhpas M$ will pay all of Nokia's marketing costs, perhaps M$ is going to buy a whole lot of Nokia gear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia at inflated prices, as they do more than just make phones.
Of course M$ can't be telling it's shareholders that they have to pay companies to install their windows mobile platform as that is not going to assure people of the value of M$ shares, especially when a certain ex-CEO ex-Chairman is selling a whole bunch of them (could this be insider trading if that ex-CEO ex-Chairman is aware of the impact upon investors of the actual details M$ Nokia.agreement).
Nokia of course will continue internal development of Android as a software platform for their phones and have an escape clause for when M$ deal goes tits up, they aren't that silly.
So all in all, yet another cynical exercise in marketing by M$ to promote it's operating system and of course it's share price.
More accurately 1. Pay off politicians to borrow unnecessary money to buy unnecessary stuff 2. Eventual change of government 3. Investigation and prosecution 4. Go to jail 5. Proceeds of crime confiscated. 6. Debt disappears.
All it requires is the inevitable, eventual change of government as the system collapses through greed.Of course proceeds of crime confiscated is often disrupted by other countries hiding the wealth of corruption and refusing to return it, oh yeah, that's normally the US and UK, so in this case no problem.
Properly done means one thing and one thing only. People leak documents to wikileaks and wikileaks publishes them, end of story. No censorship, no editing, no adjusting, no claims that the documents are valid, however if the documents are substantiated as invalid they are withdrawn.
If the leaker wishes to redact documents they should do it prior to release. Likely the diplomatic release is a one off simply based upon US security incompetence and should not be the basis for future management of a internet publishing site for leaked documents.
So wikileaks is opposed to censorship, the hiding of the truth and lies, categorically in can not turn around and commit those same infringements upon the truth as it is directly opposed to their philosophy of being. The problem is not the truth the problem has always been lies and the conflicts those lies create.
So expose the truth and let the cards fall where they may. If the truth threatens people, then they should be informed prior to release or their handlers and those people can be removed from harms way.
Gees, silly me and I thought it all started here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun, with a bunch of terrorist attacks upon the British by Jewish Palestinians and those terrorists seeking to establish a Jewish apartheid state in the middle east. Apparently the US got drawn into this by the cold war on the side of the terrorists (go figure), which really pissed off the Saudis, who have ever since worked to gain revenge for a diplomatic betrayal (they have oddly enough been protected in doing this by American politicians who get rich doing so, sick stuff).
The US has a history of supporting terrorists groups only to have those self same terrorists turn around and bite the hand that fed them. The current crop of course were created and supported by the US during http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan. Which makes you think, were we would be now if the US had simply minded it's own fucking business and let the Soviets win in Afghanistan and re-establish law and order and work to achieve cultural modernisation.
Least we forget, a constitution fulfils two roles it establishes the basis upon which governments are formed and establishes the means by which laws are created.
Those laws define how goods are distributed amongst the citizens. All the citizens 'own' the goods, the laws establish the means by which citizens can control and take possession of the goods. Re-distribution of the wealth occurs at the initiation of the constitution and the subsequent legislated laws.It is obvious that this re-distribution from collective wealth to individual wealth of the countries assets has gone wildly out of control.
A minority has used greater accumulation of control, to corrupt the political process and warp legislation so that they can gain even greater possession of the collective assets of all of the citizens. People need to keep in mind, that they and their fellow citizens and citizens of the whole of the country and not just the parts that haven't been privatised, which is the propaganda being out out by corporations, that citizens have no constitutional rights upon private property, dangerous stuff indeed.
Well that is the hint at the real problem, being better at innovation than the rest of the world. Sorry Mr President but, brown skinned, slanted eyed people, slavs etc.are not all born stupid and most of them do not celebrate ignorant redneck thinking from the gut. Innovation is a competition with IP laws, the rest of the world caught up (excluding those that were already there) and as such reality means, the numbers have pushed the US from the lead, apart from of course financial chicanery, the military industrial complex and the whole mass media lobbyist propaganda machine.
The biggest problem with the US right now can quite simply be detailed in one statement 'Greed Is God' the solution is just as simple, make it illegal to tell lies to generate a profit and that would be across the board but, especially mass media and, politicians.
More important domain names are utterly immaterial, no matter what bullshit they want to pile on them, at the end of the day, if they fuck around with them too much, everyone will just point their browser a a different domain name server that the corporations via governments have no control over.
Only IP addresses really count, the majority of people just point their network connection at a different DNS server and those controls all go kablowie and with them goes the investment value in that domain name entry in a data base.
So a pirate primary domain name service for sites that, well, we want and that major corporations are excluded from and use the public one as secondary no match on the primary server. That let's you start off the service small and build it up.
Obviously these crooks still fail to understand computers and likely just managed to gain additional criminal charges. If they are hiding computer based information there is always the other side of communications to consider and if they were corporate, there is the corporate server in between recording everything.
So getting rid of evidence in a wired world is far harder than people really know, as there isn't just one copy but quite a few of them. Whilst the one local copy most likely has it all in one place for easier investigation, computers are really, really good at accessing multiple sources to put it all back together again.
In this case, track down all transaction, search all affected corporations for communications to the suspects and you are there, match the communications, to transactions prior to company information releases and you are there. All the evidence is still out there it just needs to be put back together again.
Ahh, yes but they owe the money to someone. So debt solution can be readily solved by simply nationalising the assets of say the top 100 richest Americans and then throwing them into a fiery pit so that they don't complain.
It seems rather fair, as those self same richest Americans, paid lobbyists to ensure politicians were elected who would run up that debt by buying pointless crap from the rich and borrowing money from the rich to pay for it.
It is pretty obvious the one thing American can least afford right now is excessively rich corrupt Americans, who can afford to buy politicians to strip mine the treasury in their favour.
Point of fact, watch the stream and you will see no students were named, so unless the parents agree with the comments they have no idea about which comments are about which students.
Whilst a teacher venting their frustrations trying to teach modern students more interested in empty texting than learning, especially English, when current trends indicate they find even email all to bothersome, is somewhat immature, it is understandable.
Of course english teacher's have struck me as always being pretty, well, anal about expression and the use of language ie. grammar nazis.
So yet another offline mountain about an online molehill. The real answer is of course, if you must vent on line to relieve frustrations, create two identities and cultivate them to your heart's content, one to create a good public image and the other to rant.
Yet they have no qualms against throwing away money on defence spending to an absurd degree. Obviously the airline industry would be opposed and of course the Koch(heads) being big in oil would also be opposed, less cars on the road (trains are just too efficient).
High speed rail will also provide better jobs than blowing that money upon military expenditure, so jobs that provide future advantage, rather than military waste.
There is every likely hood that those high speed rail routes that seem unlikely to generate high returns, might do what good rail connections have done, provide economic growth to the regions they connect to.
Of course reality is that Republicans will likely block it, just to block it and prevent the Democrats from gaining any political advantage from it. The real economic solution to the current problems is for every $2 removed from defence spending $1 should be spent upon upgrading infrastructure, thus providing double the benefit, especially as infrastructure spending is far more evenly distributed (excluding Cheney no bid contracts to Halliburton) than concentrated in a handful of major defence contractors.
Your country must be weird. I have to tell you that my neighbourhood is full of down to earth reasonable people, jerks are definitely in the minority. Most of them are trustworthy, most of them are friendly, most of them can be relied on in a pinch and given access to the truth most of them would vote in the countries interest for the best politicians available.
Overall the Australian government ain't too bad, although it could definitely do better. It is working hard and spending big to provide the majority of Australians with fibre optic net neutral 100Mbit broadband, in the face of rabid mass media, incumbent telco and right wing politics of the rich and greedy hostility (feed in large part by 'er' foreign interests).
Truth is I have found that people who see everyone as greedy are in fact greedy ones (they see the whole world as people who charge too much or won't pay enough, regardless of how little they charge or how much they pay) and of course people who see everyone as untrustworthy tend just to be burdened by guilt distorting their perception of social reality.
More like a mass media story plant by the professional paranoid to taint judges and juries by getting them to believe that anonymous is a formal group with structure. Boss of Bosses, captains, lieutenants, infiltrations cells, enforcement arm, protection racket wing, nerd prostitution, cyber terrorists, secret underground multi level laboratories, orbiting spy satellites and any other Mafioso and Saturday morning cartoon international conspiracy crap they can jam in there.
Make no mistake this is a serious misinformation attempt by some real ass hats seeking promotions by destroying the lives of some pretty harmless people. HBGary Federal, web page dead, nothing on Wikipedia and apparently Aaron Barr is CEO and head of security, most likely also chief cook and bottle washer.
So some information is dumped on a security patsy to pimp to mass media so that a mountain out of a mole hill because mass media rarely bothers to fact check any more trying to keep up with the blogs. It is really some pretty sick and nasty stuff considering the ramifications, sending people to prison for ten to twenty years just so some dickwad can primp up their resume.
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It just reflects the difference between being rich in scientology and being poor in scientology. Scientology as a corporation intent is to extract as much money as possible for the insiders, the non-believers that run scientology for the own personal benefit, from the asthmatic dwarf (miscavige's nickname given by those he abuses) down. So there are two distinct tracks, one for the wealthy and one for the rest. The wealthy are more carefully handled to extract the greater wealth and of course draw others in as duped figure heads.
It all seemed to have ended all rather pitifully for L Ron Hubbard, apparently his will was changed and strangely enough he died the very next day without much investigation at all. The revised will basically handed over financial control to the asthmatic dwarf and his cronies who then proceeded to drive out all true believers in senior positions. It also basically handed over Hubbard's grandchildren as psychological slaves of scientology (rather than inheritors).
At that point is basically changed into a two streams or more correctly three streams counting the controlling non-believers. Wealthy never ended up virtual slave labour on 'e-meter' production lines, nor body servants aboard the double speak named ship freewinds, their function was to provide wealth and credibility as such their experience with scientology was carefully scripted.
Of course conscience should still play a role in seeing those exploited around them but they would not be in scientology in the first place unless they are were psychological vulnerable whether temporarily or over a more extended basis.
Based upon prison population percentages, the ratio is in fact far higher for crimes against person. The number I am postulating is addition to and or exacerbated the nature of the crime. Purely an arbitrary number to demonstrate the extreme difficulty of evaluating those risks based upon the real and significant consequences and the inevitable percentages that will result.
So something no to be thrown flippant off because some adult gamers want easy access to gratuitously violent games and some corporations want to make more money from games by pretending they are for adult when they market them at children. So as in all societal evaluations what are the real societal benefits versus the risks.
Benefits to society, hmm, pretty much nil as those games would be replaced with less violent alternatives. What are the risks, death and suffering of innocent victims. The only questions seems to be how many innocent victims are considered unacceptable, so you tell me, 1 10 100 1000 10,000 where do you draw the line, how many parents must lose their children to equal the profit generated by those games beyond what would have been generated by less violent games. I personally enjoy first person shooters would I bemoan their tuning down, meh, not really it is all about the game play, not blood and gore graphics.
Yeah, they are called eyeballs, expensive but by far the most effective anti-SEO method. SEO is only meant to align your site with people likely to search for it, any more than that and you end up doing nothing but pissing people off. When using google there is this http://www.optimizegoogle.com/ and when combined with stylish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/ , those crappy SEO sites disappear all together.
Now if google were less invasive and more polite and sought the output from OptimizeGoogle and all those annoying filtered website, it would go a long way to providing a far cheaper algorithmic method of clearing out SEO cheats.
The sun is an extremely active fusion reaction kept in check gravity, with extremely dynamic forces in play, driven by an-imaginable flows of energy. From the article "The new finding was made by Japan's Hinode sun-watching satellite which has been observing sun since 2006', so recent holes in the magnetic field which generate a visible presence.
Now is it cause for concern, well that would depend upon the movement of the holes, in relation to the orbit of the time and the time it takes from projected matter from the sun to reach the earth.
One day, probability only knows when, a mass ejection of matter from the sun will cause enormous problems on the earth, suck it up and get over it. Fore warning will of course be really handy in attempting to minimise the impact upon human society. BS ostrich head in the ground or God will save us, will do nothing but punish us for our ignorance and stupidity, forewarned is forearmed.
Next time there is a fire, try making a fire engine, rather than just calling one that is sitting there idle wasting taxpayer dollars or heaven forbid called by an automatic fire alarm system that in the majority of instances, 90 percent or do nothing but waste profits for the majority of buildings. Now think of all those profit wasting fire sprinkler system, hundreds of millions of dollars every year, I'm sure given the chance Tea Partiers will make them non-compulsory. How many peoples lives are too high a price to gamble with.
Are you kidding, Anonymous did nothing, it does not exist, it is an activism meme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group). People do things using the Anonymous name, nothing more.
To say Anonymous has possession of the stuxnet virus, is meaningless nonsense. Anyone at any time can say they are and are not a member of Anonymous, as there is no membership, no leadership, just temporary causes. In fact any false flag event can be named as Anonymous activity if the government professionally paranoid choose to do so, they are of course very unlikely to get much or any support from people who choose to commit reasonable acts of activism in the name of Anonymous.
This is just nothing more than a beat up driven by mass media and in this case likely paid for by Bank of America to obscure it's criminality in invading the privacy of people and their families and BoA's disclosed willingness to fabricate evidence. All in same vain effort to bury a certain hard disk drive likely full of criminal culpability. It isn't in Forbes by accident.
No person can stand up and publicly state they are a 'member' of anonymous, as that act refutes their anonymity and logically any association with the Anonymous activism meme. At the very most people can say, they have done some 'Anonymous' stuff, hmm, which is what you are doing right now on the internet in this forum.
The catch with your rant of course, it does not resolve the issue of parent's who dump the children in front of electronic babysitter's only to have them run amok once their thought processes and judgements have been distorted.
The reality it is only a small percentage that are affected, some more than others, now that result's in innocent victims. It is not so much about allowing lazy parents, on protecting children from lazy parents. It is about protecting everyone else from 'impressionable' children who go on to become violent offenders.
Damn, those percentages are a bitch, even 1 in 10,000 children at risk means, yumpin yiminy, 30,700 (US) victims of those violent children. So do something about it or let it slide, safe or sorry, from the victims perspective gamble with their lives or not.
It has everything to do with context. For example you could state "I wish ex-President Bush was killed, executed by firing squad, after being found guilty in a court of law for murder by starting an illegal war in which innocent people died". In a country that allowed capital punishment that would be quite legal, of course those legal clarifications are required to create the correct context.
In the case of the blog, satire as an excuse does not protect you from everything you might decide to write. In this case the blogger did go a little over the top. So investigation hardly surprising. Seizing the blog a bit of a failure as it was bound to generate far greater interest making things worse. Smarter to have requested some artful editing or threaten the writer with reasonable risk of prosecution.
Note. I oppose capital punishment, you do not prevent murder by murdering people, the wrong message is sent ie. that premeditated psychological torture and murder is justifiable. Better that the offender spend the rest of the life as a testament to justice and just in case justice failed (as it often does) be in a condition to be compensated and released.
More importantly with Linux you can create far more secure appliances. Where unnecessary services are completely removed and only what is required to run the appliance based server and workstations is installed and available on the installation software.
The dispatch machines need only handle bookings, dispatch, arrival, return etc. (database) and then pass that data to accounting, nothing else. With Linux it is fairly easy for a skilled person to create a custom appliance distribution, all without infringing copyright.
That is the biggest problem with windows the impossibility of creating completely custom installs with everything you didn't need, not just maybe, most likely, disabled but actually completely absent, on the machine and on installation software, all because go to jail copyright infringement.
Just to frustrate you further compare the crime rates for income disparity, the US most definitely pays a lethal price for the greed of the psychopathic minority nut then they thrive on the death and chaos they cause, it feeds their ego and lusts. As for the minions and dupes, well, no amount of truth makes a difference, all they hear is what they want to hear, they can be greedy sociopathic billionaires too, they can pollute as much as they want and, they can waste as much as they want, all of them.
MS http://www.msaustralia.org.au/, get over it already but, don;t get me wrong, I have no problem with pointing it out time and time again and of course http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ , http://mssociety.ca/en/ or http://www.msassociation.org/ (oh look they have chickened out in the US, I wonder why). Suck it up ass hat and give generously, as a geek/nerd MS should be in your thoughts lest it end up in your mind
Just for you M$, M$, M$, oh the humanity (if you had any idea of history you would also know what the $ plays in the history of M$ Basic)..
You really love to make stuff up don't you, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality, please note the colour of the US on the CIA prepared Map. So compared to other modern democracies the US is doing worse and in fact has been doing worse and worse over the last over the last 30 years http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States.
It also has been extensively bullshited by several think-tanks (for profit marketing stink tanks), that black is white and rich is poor and letting people starve to death solves their economic problems without the resorting to crime and revolution and the Somali pirates do not exist.
Everybody can guess exactly what is going on. M$ is paying off Nokia to install windows in a desperate bid to gain market share. How this back hander is being managed to effectively reduce the retail price of Nokia phones, is anyone's guess. perhpas M$ will pay all of Nokia's marketing costs, perhaps M$ is going to buy a whole lot of Nokia gear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia at inflated prices, as they do more than just make phones.
Of course M$ can't be telling it's shareholders that they have to pay companies to install their windows mobile platform as that is not going to assure people of the value of M$ shares, especially when a certain ex-CEO ex-Chairman is selling a whole bunch of them (could this be insider trading if that ex-CEO ex-Chairman is aware of the impact upon investors of the actual details M$ Nokia .agreement).
Nokia of course will continue internal development of Android as a software platform for their phones and have an escape clause for when M$ deal goes tits up, they aren't that silly.
So all in all, yet another cynical exercise in marketing by M$ to promote it's operating system and of course it's share price.
Satire is missed on you isn't it.
More accurately
1. Pay off politicians to borrow unnecessary money to buy unnecessary stuff
2. Eventual change of government
3. Investigation and prosecution
4. Go to jail
5. Proceeds of crime confiscated.
6. Debt disappears.
All it requires is the inevitable, eventual change of government as the system collapses through greed.Of course proceeds of crime confiscated is often disrupted by other countries hiding the wealth of corruption and refusing to return it, oh yeah, that's normally the US and UK, so in this case no problem.
Properly done means one thing and one thing only. People leak documents to wikileaks and wikileaks publishes them, end of story. No censorship, no editing, no adjusting, no claims that the documents are valid, however if the documents are substantiated as invalid they are withdrawn.
If the leaker wishes to redact documents they should do it prior to release. Likely the diplomatic release is a one off simply based upon US security incompetence and should not be the basis for future management of a internet publishing site for leaked documents.
So wikileaks is opposed to censorship, the hiding of the truth and lies, categorically in can not turn around and commit those same infringements upon the truth as it is directly opposed to their philosophy of being. The problem is not the truth the problem has always been lies and the conflicts those lies create.
So expose the truth and let the cards fall where they may. If the truth threatens people, then they should be informed prior to release or their handlers and those people can be removed from harms way.
Gees, silly me and I thought it all started here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun, with a bunch of terrorist attacks upon the British by Jewish Palestinians and those terrorists seeking to establish a Jewish apartheid state in the middle east. Apparently the US got drawn into this by the cold war on the side of the terrorists (go figure), which really pissed off the Saudis, who have ever since worked to gain revenge for a diplomatic betrayal (they have oddly enough been protected in doing this by American politicians who get rich doing so, sick stuff).
The US has a history of supporting terrorists groups only to have those self same terrorists turn around and bite the hand that fed them. The current crop of course were created and supported by the US during http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan. Which makes you think, were we would be now if the US had simply minded it's own fucking business and let the Soviets win in Afghanistan and re-establish law and order and work to achieve cultural modernisation.
Least we forget, a constitution fulfils two roles it establishes the basis upon which governments are formed and establishes the means by which laws are created.
Those laws define how goods are distributed amongst the citizens. All the citizens 'own' the goods, the laws establish the means by which citizens can control and take possession of the goods. Re-distribution of the wealth occurs at the initiation of the constitution and the subsequent legislated laws.It is obvious that this re-distribution from collective wealth to individual wealth of the countries assets has gone wildly out of control.
A minority has used greater accumulation of control, to corrupt the political process and warp legislation so that they can gain even greater possession of the collective assets of all of the citizens. People need to keep in mind, that they and their fellow citizens and citizens of the whole of the country and not just the parts that haven't been privatised, which is the propaganda being out out by corporations, that citizens have no constitutional rights upon private property, dangerous stuff indeed.
Well that is the hint at the real problem, being better at innovation than the rest of the world. Sorry Mr President but, brown skinned, slanted eyed people, slavs etc.are not all born stupid and most of them do not celebrate ignorant redneck thinking from the gut. Innovation is a competition with IP laws, the rest of the world caught up (excluding those that were already there) and as such reality means, the numbers have pushed the US from the lead, apart from of course financial chicanery, the military industrial complex and the whole mass media lobbyist propaganda machine.
The biggest problem with the US right now can quite simply be detailed in one statement 'Greed Is God' the solution is just as simple, make it illegal to tell lies to generate a profit and that would be across the board but, especially mass media and, politicians.
More important domain names are utterly immaterial, no matter what bullshit they want to pile on them, at the end of the day, if they fuck around with them too much, everyone will just point their browser a a different domain name server that the corporations via governments have no control over.
Only IP addresses really count, the majority of people just point their network connection at a different DNS server and those controls all go kablowie and with them goes the investment value in that domain name entry in a data base.
So a pirate primary domain name service for sites that, well, we want and that major corporations are excluded from and use the public one as secondary no match on the primary server. That let's you start off the service small and build it up.
Obviously these crooks still fail to understand computers and likely just managed to gain additional criminal charges. If they are hiding computer based information there is always the other side of communications to consider and if they were corporate, there is the corporate server in between recording everything.
So getting rid of evidence in a wired world is far harder than people really know, as there isn't just one copy but quite a few of them. Whilst the one local copy most likely has it all in one place for easier investigation, computers are really, really good at accessing multiple sources to put it all back together again.
In this case, track down all transaction, search all affected corporations for communications to the suspects and you are there, match the communications, to transactions prior to company information releases and you are there. All the evidence is still out there it just needs to be put back together again.
Ahh, yes but they owe the money to someone. So debt solution can be readily solved by simply nationalising the assets of say the top 100 richest Americans and then throwing them into a fiery pit so that they don't complain.
It seems rather fair, as those self same richest Americans, paid lobbyists to ensure politicians were elected who would run up that debt by buying pointless crap from the rich and borrowing money from the rich to pay for it.
It is pretty obvious the one thing American can least afford right now is excessively rich corrupt Americans, who can afford to buy politicians to strip mine the treasury in their favour.
Point of fact, watch the stream and you will see no students were named, so unless the parents agree with the comments they have no idea about which comments are about which students.
Whilst a teacher venting their frustrations trying to teach modern students more interested in empty texting than learning, especially English, when current trends indicate they find even email all to bothersome, is somewhat immature, it is understandable.
Of course english teacher's have struck me as always being pretty, well, anal about expression and the use of language ie. grammar nazis.
So yet another offline mountain about an online molehill. The real answer is of course, if you must vent on line to relieve frustrations, create two identities and cultivate them to your heart's content, one to create a good public image and the other to rant.
Yeah, but it all can be pretty much summed up as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtMV44yoXZ0 and, comes off as such u[on a global scale , sheer political stupidity.
Yet they have no qualms against throwing away money on defence spending to an absurd degree. Obviously the airline industry would be opposed and of course the Koch(heads) being big in oil would also be opposed, less cars on the road (trains are just too efficient).
High speed rail has the advantage over air in being able to carry far higher mass. So private cabin http://www.mapplr.com/2010/12/14/thalys-high-speed-train-private-cabins-with-wifi/ with access to the restaurant car would be the optimum mode of travel.
High speed rail will also provide better jobs than blowing that money upon military expenditure, so jobs that provide future advantage, rather than military waste.
There is every likely hood that those high speed rail routes that seem unlikely to generate high returns, might do what good rail connections have done, provide economic growth to the regions they connect to.
Of course reality is that Republicans will likely block it, just to block it and prevent the Democrats from gaining any political advantage from it. The real economic solution to the current problems is for every $2 removed from defence spending $1 should be spent upon upgrading infrastructure, thus providing double the benefit, especially as infrastructure spending is far more evenly distributed (excluding Cheney no bid contracts to Halliburton) than concentrated in a handful of major defence contractors.
Your country must be weird. I have to tell you that my neighbourhood is full of down to earth reasonable people, jerks are definitely in the minority. Most of them are trustworthy, most of them are friendly, most of them can be relied on in a pinch and given access to the truth most of them would vote in the countries interest for the best politicians available.
Overall the Australian government ain't too bad, although it could definitely do better. It is working hard and spending big to provide the majority of Australians with fibre optic net neutral 100Mbit broadband, in the face of rabid mass media, incumbent telco and right wing politics of the rich and greedy hostility (feed in large part by 'er' foreign interests).
Truth is I have found that people who see everyone as greedy are in fact greedy ones (they see the whole world as people who charge too much or won't pay enough, regardless of how little they charge or how much they pay) and of course people who see everyone as untrustworthy tend just to be burdened by guilt distorting their perception of social reality.
More like a mass media story plant by the professional paranoid to taint judges and juries by getting them to believe that anonymous is a formal group with structure. Boss of Bosses, captains, lieutenants, infiltrations cells, enforcement arm, protection racket wing, nerd prostitution, cyber terrorists, secret underground multi level laboratories, orbiting spy satellites and any other Mafioso and Saturday morning cartoon international conspiracy crap they can jam in there.
Make no mistake this is a serious misinformation attempt by some real ass hats seeking promotions by destroying the lives of some pretty harmless people. HBGary Federal, web page dead, nothing on Wikipedia and apparently Aaron Barr is CEO and head of security, most likely also chief cook and bottle washer.
So some information is dumped on a security patsy to pimp to mass media so that a mountain out of a mole hill because mass media rarely bothers to fact check any more trying to keep up with the blogs. It is really some pretty sick and nasty stuff considering the ramifications, sending people to prison for ten to twenty years just so some dickwad can primp up their resume.