In this case, it was not really google or telstraclear, it was really all about global awareness and the considerable harm it would have done to New Zealand's appearance and desirability as a tourist and emigration destination. So not only where New Zealanders focused on getting rid of an unjust law but the rest of the world was watching the New Zealand government and paying attention to how it treats it citizens and commenting on it. The growing trend of open global politics, as people from around the globe seek to help and support citizens from any country when their rights are being threatened, best to nip the problem in bud in some other country before it becomes a dangerous issue for you to defend against in your own country;).
As a side issue, there is also the point that "police raided his parents' home later and found they had a collection of 14 guns". There is a real trend between families who collect lethal weapons and the children of those families using them in an appalling fashion. Perhaps more care needs to be taken with monitoring families with a tendencies to collect lethal weapons than monitoring children who play with digital weapons.
That whole firearm as a substitute for male impotency or self perceived inadequacies seems to have a very high correlation for male against female violence. So crank up the per gun warning rate, one gun some danger, two guns greater danger etc. and of course once your into double digits watch out.
Now that is a silly idea, you should know the corporate Scientologists would have wrapped up the name in all sorts of spin to make themselves look good. It really comes off as one seriously deranged organisation. The end of L Ron Hubbard and the family he took with him into Scientology should be a real warning as to what those corporate types who took over Scientology are really like. Basically at the end there, it looks like the rewrote Hubbard's will, killed him the next day, launched into a Machiavellian purge where they drove out all the high level true believers and then for good measure psychologically enslaved Hubbard's last lot of children to the money making scheme. Really fucked up stuff.
Personally I would name it after the poor bugger who stayed up command module (went all that way, never got to take that last step but launched others on the final journey) when man for set his foot on the moon, now what was his name again?
Of course mass media also has a business case for IPv6, every device that connects to the internet can have a prefixed address or all individuals can be allocated a specific range of defined IP addresses much like a phone number.
I don't know but I would believe the rich and greedy don't believe your statement at all, else why would they spend all the time and money taking possession of and controlling the government while of course spending huge amounts of money convincing everyone else that ideas like yours are true.
The quality of the music or it's repetitious nature or all the bull shit advertising doesn't really matter. What totally killed it for me, and not only have I not bought any music for years and never have any intention of buying music into the future is the RIAA et al they put my right off. Now when I listen to modern music all I here is the greed and the bullshit, it is nauseating. I now prefer to drive in the car with nothing but background road noise, even listening to music that I enjoyed (or that I had been convinced that I should enjoyed) in my youth, I now find lame, shallow and pathetic, all I hear is give me money, give me more money, more, more, more, money, money, money - blah blah blah. I can still manage classical music free of lyrics and the odd genuine protest song.
Fine. Get a ballon, drop a lighter in it, partially inflate the balloon, get a grip on the lighter inside the balloon and with out igniting the lighter, turn it on so as allow the lighter fluid and the air inside the balloon to mix, ignite the balloon - boom - size of boom is dependent upon size of balloon, how much you inflate it and how big the lighter is and how good your ratio of fuel to oxygen was. I have not experimented with this, if you do and blow yourself up then you 'were' a bloody idiot;).
The real underlying definition here is, no matter what the idiots in the Texas legislator choose to call a science degree, will employers give dummies with a degree in pseudo science religious mumbo jumbo a job, will universities and other educational facilities in other US states and countries from around the globe recognise this degree or any other degrees coming out of Texas.
It could just be my twisted sense of humour but I am all for the idiot Texas Legislature legalising all the bullshit degrees they want to, so I can laugh at them and at the the buffoons that, what, buy the degrees or memorise a plagiaristic blood soaked book that has nothing at all to do with science. It is just going to be so much fun making a laughing stock of Texans for decades to some, damn ('sic') it is going to be embarrassing having a PhD from a Texas university;D.
One possible reality is that the worms chief function is the idea of driving monitoring, filtering and control of the internet. So would the same people who lie about the reasons for going to was and the result mass murder, also lie about network security and the risks to network security, so they can monitor and censor every person with a digital connection to the internet.
The most beneficial is to try to guess which of the new language or which of the latest iterations of older languages will take the lead. The tilt to that is learning am old language which is used in existing infrastructure and has only a very narrow coder base, risky but can provide good returns. For new languages 'Ruby' looks very interesting and might become the next 'hotness'.
Of course for some being good at them all C(* - as in wildcard), Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby et al, lucky bastards, is the best solution;).
The reality is, there is no business case for IPv6 ie. 'FREE' IP addresses for everyone. Especially when a whole lot of people with vested intrests picked up all the IPv4 addressees for free and now rent them out for tens of millions of dollars.
How ever being one the schmuck end users, I am all for free IPv6 addresses ie. either give me a free IPv4 address or a free IPv6 address, I really don't care.
On the flip side of that those companies that got free IPv4 addresses and want to charge me rent it, 'fuck you';).
The thing that most drives this attitude is the disconnect from government. Where the government is the enemy, something that should be fought against, rather than the idea that you are the government and it is something that you need to do you part in controlling it. The idea of disconnections from government is driven by the rich and greedy, basically corporations that do not want the majority of people attempting to control their government rather they oppressed masses either accept being downtrodden as their lot in life or they fight against their own government and are killed or imprisoned.
Mass media feeds the public on knee jerk reactionary behaviour, driving them from pillar to post and keeping them distracted, rather than the public focussing on the idea that they must maintain a continual focus upon the behaviour of 'their government and that they must take possession of the decision of 'their' government regardless of who is acting as the current front men.
The reality is government by far the best vehicle for delivery all of a society goods and services, as long as the people keep control of it. So far the concept of the majority of people keeping control of their own government has proved to be destructively elusive but given sufficient effort and focus by the majority it looks to become possible driven by open government using the internet as the means by which the majority of people share the ideas and, monitor the activities of their government.
It is meant to be your government, you own it don't let it own you, the idea is you censor the government (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/censor 3. One who censures or condemns), don't ever let it censor (2. An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content) you or steal your right to share and express your opinions, believe it or not, most governments are sensitive to and find objectionable, public criticism of their failures.
My guess is this will be more of 'ready for Vista' underpowered desktop, now just in windows 'craps' (what version is it anyhow, up near 13 by now) for netbooks. Sure it will run windows, just barely, but run any applications on top and you'll get to re-experience that whole vista feeling all over again.
Personally I want my netbook to come basically complete with all the applications I will ever need at a very 'competitive' price, so when I drop it, drown it or some one pilfers it, I can just buy another one restore the data, not have to futz around with re-installing software or paying for B$ software licences bound to dead or missing hardware.
Netbooks are going to suffer a pretty hard life and the last thing you want to get caught up in, is buying the same software over and over again and you certainly don't want to end up paying three times the price in software versus what you are spending on hardware.
Don't confuse countries. In some countries government funding services function well and when privatised proved to turn into shit, providing less services and charging more. In other countries cronies are inserted in government funded services to bleed off as much money as possible and then run the service into the ground, forcing the belief that the service needs to be privatised due to their own incompetence (WTF) often on a non bid basis, can you recognise your country? I have even heard that for example when government provides rescue services and private industry provides rescue at a profit service, it is the difference between surviving and drowning, you of course drown in private as 'er' history as proven.
No you missed the point due to Shell business sector it would never be profitable. However manufacturers, not fuel suppliers, if given the proper incentives can develop products which people would purchase and use to generate their own energy, hence no fuel to be sold and, of course as far as 'Shell' is concerned it would have oil wells, drilling rigs, exploration ships, refineries, tanker ships, tanker trucks and service stations to dump into the market at an enormous loss.
You really have to extend you ideas on what creates profits for companies and what creates losses. Shell could create the ultimate solar panel, flexible, cheap and with high efficiency, it would lose hundreds billions of dollars no matter how profitable the solar panel was, it simply could never release it too market and as per the rules of capitalist system where greed is everything, it would do everything in it's power to keep that solar panel off the market, else it's shareholders would lose money.
It you really want to be an asshat CO2 is part of the photo synthesis process and not a 'fertilizer', C02 must combine with other elements to be a fertiliser, second of course, any I repeat any element that is in the environment in an excess, outside of the usable range is a pollutant to that environment.
If when you burnt stuff, you only produced CO2, that wouldn't be all that bad, however the combustion process burns imperfect fuels using impure air and a range of toxic compounds are produced as a result. Even someone as fawningly blind has to admit for example that CO as in carbon monoxide is a very dangerous pollutant, ig not perhaps you would consider experimenting in a garage, with a running car.
If any one really can accept the idea of Shell generating a profit from selling polluting fuels and then charging to remove the pollutants from the atmosphere (basically, a tax on the air you breath, we all knew the corporations would get there one day), is foolish. Far more sensible solutions need to be found, even nuclear is preferable to burning anything except of course maybe 'pure' oxygen and 'pure' hydrogen.
The have written the law the way they have for one main reason, proof. it is virtually impossible to prove that a particular person has conducted copyright infringement unless a major investigation is undertaken. This is all about a complete absence of evidence, about the editable records of copyright investigators (paid upon a commission basis) and ISPs (the records are used to justify $50 odd dollars per month payments not as substantiation of criminal activity).
Google also did pick up an interesting point, the processing fee and who would be paying it. Likely the fee would be targeted at the consumer, protest the unfair accusation and you will be hit with a fine 'er' bill larger than the cost of your lost internet account, shut up, pay for a new account and let the recording industry brag about new B$ statistics, which it then use to force laws demand fines and imprisonment based upon the precedent of we say so, so you are guilty, no evidence beyond circumstantial uncorroborated vested opinions.
In this case, Shell simply decided that's it's marketing campaign of green energy investments was promoting threatening ideas and, generating insufficient advertising benefit. Bio-fuels (starving the third world) and burying pollution underground (at the tax payers expense) were far more profitable and in harsh economic times, knows that the public will be far to worried about keeping their home, feeding their family and panicking about possible medical emergencies, that they would largely ignore the end of the clean green PR=B$. Come on did anybody seriously believe shell was interested in alternative renewable energy beyond a cynical exercise in marketing.
The only source for funds for the development of cheap renewable energy has to be the government, there is no profit in it and the real benefits are the free benefits of a cleaner healthier environment, lower medical costs from a healthier population and of course cheap 'free' energy(beyond initial capital outlay and maintenance).
Chances are as the market comes under greater and greater economic pressure they are holding off on discounting the PS3 for as long as possible so the can go with a major price drop for maximum marketing impact and a major sales surge rather than minor sales price reductions. Right now a lot of the component suppliers are starting to suffer and they will be looking for any opportunity to boost sales in a significant way even if it is with very low margins.
So who knows maybe as high as a 50% drop in price right after xbox drops it price by say 10%.
The truth be told there is some really disturbing content out there on the web far beyond just porn, a lot of content that often I would be quite content to un-see. Content that you would under no circumstance voluntarily want to expose a child to.
To create a suitable basis for children to access the web, you do not filter. Filtering is stupid and virtually impossible in a IPv4 world and in a IPv6 world it is stupid. You basically block the whole of the internet and only allow access to specific sites that you as an adult have vetted. If the child needs to access a site beyond those you currently allow, they ask you and you add it to the permissions lists.
I am sure the open community can come up with a vetted list of sites suitable to each age group and region specific. So once that list is prepared you could simply download it to update you system and switch from adult mode to child age group specific mode when required. You must also consider minimising the amount of advertising a child is exposed and those should come into consideration when preparing and defining lists of age range suitable web sites.
More to the reality of the situation. Job opportunities, zip, might as well enrol in university. Enrolment is likely up across the board, with a specific focus on the degrees the provide the best job opportunities. Catch with that, it will inevitably produce a glut and supply will far exceed demand. Of course those who enrol just for the job with out any interest will find themselves considerably disadvantaged in a competitive job market as they often fail to extend their skills beyond what is taught in university and considering that education provided in university is often very thin on practical job application skills, it is a major disadvantage.
Now is a great time to commence university, for the next three years or so the job market is going to be really bad, especially this year and well into next year.
Cut profit margins, I see you buying into that whole yarn. This is all about maximising profits, this is all about maximum short term bonuses for the executive team, this is about making the companying look as attractive as possible in the short term to maximise share price and of course all about a total disregard for the future, for anything beyond the this financial year.
Lie, cheat and steal as an accepted corporate business tactic, lie to customers, lie to employees and lie to shareholders. This is about spending more on B$ marketing that on providing the customer with reliable services and products, get them in the store, try to rip them off for as much as possible and then have marketing try to fix the problem with more bullshit.
The strange thing is, this is about cops in the 50s and 60s moaning about conmen and bunko artists, saying if only those people put their intelligence to work in business everyone would be better off. Well the cops, wish came true, all those bunko artists and conmen became corporate executives, sure they were better off but every else was far worse off.
Honesty and integrity are no longer seen as being an intrinsic part of a modern society but as an anachronistic hold over and a block to the illusion of unlimited profit.
The reality is profit margins are nowhere near as low as corporations like to make out for tax purpose, between taking out of pointless loans so the capital can be milked out of a company and profits can be hidden behind debt repayments and fudging import prices where a middle man hides the profit in tax havens between the export and retail locations, of course not to forget the grossly inflated wages of the executive team and directors. In all the business I've come in contact with, the difference between rec-retail price and the wholesale discount rate was anything between 30% and 90% and companies would still manage to claim, for tax purposes barely a 5% return.
In regards to the Sci-Fi channel, it simply reflects a changing audience. Most computer geeks/nerds are higher wage earners as such free to air and cable are both losing to buying Sci-Fi content and creating your own personal channel. A lot of ex Sci-Fi viewers most likely have up around a years worth of solid viewing with their own DVD libraries so watching ad ridden content, or paying again for cable and getting a whole lot of non Sci- Fi low brow junk is really pointless.
New Sci-Fi reality, stream episodes, if the season rates well, geeks/nerds will buy the whole season on DVD (half season collections suck) often only watching some of the streams so they can make the most of first time viewing of a complete season.
So for cable and free to air 'SyFy' expect a lot of low brow content and maybe even 'SyFy' themed low cost 'reality' shows, they will of course create some good content so they can sell it on DVD at the end of the season.
Hmm, "ANONYMOUS" Swiss bank accounts and your yarn, something just doesn't add up. So when Swiss bank get 'caught' hoarding the proceeds of crime they give it back to the victims, do they also return the profits, fees and charges they generated in the interim, he he:P.
Now consider that Madoff was not a banker, that behind the Madoff run ponzi was, banks handling all that money, banks that knew where it was coming from, where it was going and what the transfers where all about. So which banks had more than an inkling of what was going on, knew pretty well by looking at the numbers how long it would last before it blew up and used to money to not only profit from the scheme but to leverage advantageous fees.
There is no hiding from the fact that the Swiss banks, the Swiss government and the Swiss people, knew exactly where that money was coming from, tax evaders, murderous dictators, major drug dealers, organised crime, war criminals, and even terrorists. They were shamelessly profiting upon the blood and suffering of people from all over the world and every concession had to forced out of them, their conscience never once dictated anything other than being global bankers to crime, each and every time they had to be forced with the threat of zeroing out their currency, of making that currency completely worthless in the rest of the world.
Swiss banking in reality is pretty much a ponzi scheme, there is no where near enough value in the country to justify the capital on paper hidden within their country, so put the pressure on and start an accelerated process of devaluing the swiss frank and any other currency which is there purely to facilitate profit management for criminals. Let the Swiss suck on the ice of their glaciers rather than the blood of victims of crime that they facilitate.
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In this case, it was not really google or telstraclear, it was really all about global awareness and the considerable harm it would have done to New Zealand's appearance and desirability as a tourist and emigration destination. So not only where New Zealanders focused on getting rid of an unjust law but the rest of the world was watching the New Zealand government and paying attention to how it treats it citizens and commenting on it. The growing trend of open global politics, as people from around the globe seek to help and support citizens from any country when their rights are being threatened, best to nip the problem in bud in some other country before it becomes a dangerous issue for you to defend against in your own country ;).
As a side issue, there is also the point that "police raided his parents' home later and found they had a collection of 14 guns". There is a real trend between families who collect lethal weapons and the children of those families using them in an appalling fashion. Perhaps more care needs to be taken with monitoring families with a tendencies to collect lethal weapons than monitoring children who play with digital weapons.
That whole firearm as a substitute for male impotency or self perceived inadequacies seems to have a very high correlation for male against female violence. So crank up the per gun warning rate, one gun some danger, two guns greater danger etc. and of course once your into double digits watch out.
Now that is a silly idea, you should know the corporate Scientologists would have wrapped up the name in all sorts of spin to make themselves look good. It really comes off as one seriously deranged organisation. The end of L Ron Hubbard and the family he took with him into Scientology should be a real warning as to what those corporate types who took over Scientology are really like. Basically at the end there, it looks like the rewrote Hubbard's will, killed him the next day, launched into a Machiavellian purge where they drove out all the high level true believers and then for good measure psychologically enslaved Hubbard's last lot of children to the money making scheme. Really fucked up stuff.
Personally I would name it after the poor bugger who stayed up command module (went all that way, never got to take that last step but launched others on the final journey) when man for set his foot on the moon, now what was his name again?
Of course mass media also has a business case for IPv6, every device that connects to the internet can have a prefixed address or all individuals can be allocated a specific range of defined IP addresses much like a phone number.
I don't know but I would believe the rich and greedy don't believe your statement at all, else why would they spend all the time and money taking possession of and controlling the government while of course spending huge amounts of money convincing everyone else that ideas like yours are true.
The quality of the music or it's repetitious nature or all the bull shit advertising doesn't really matter. What totally killed it for me, and not only have I not bought any music for years and never have any intention of buying music into the future is the RIAA et al they put my right off. Now when I listen to modern music all I here is the greed and the bullshit, it is nauseating. I now prefer to drive in the car with nothing but background road noise, even listening to music that I enjoyed (or that I had been convinced that I should enjoyed) in my youth, I now find lame, shallow and pathetic, all I hear is give me money, give me more money, more, more, more, money, money, money - blah blah blah. I can still manage classical music free of lyrics and the odd genuine protest song.
Fine. Get a ballon, drop a lighter in it, partially inflate the balloon, get a grip on the lighter inside the balloon and with out igniting the lighter, turn it on so as allow the lighter fluid and the air inside the balloon to mix, ignite the balloon - boom - size of boom is dependent upon size of balloon, how much you inflate it and how big the lighter is and how good your ratio of fuel to oxygen was. I have not experimented with this, if you do and blow yourself up then you 'were' a bloody idiot ;).
The real underlying definition here is, no matter what the idiots in the Texas legislator choose to call a science degree, will employers give dummies with a degree in pseudo science religious mumbo jumbo a job, will universities and other educational facilities in other US states and countries from around the globe recognise this degree or any other degrees coming out of Texas.
It could just be my twisted sense of humour but I am all for the idiot Texas Legislature legalising all the bullshit degrees they want to, so I can laugh at them and at the the buffoons that, what, buy the degrees or memorise a plagiaristic blood soaked book that has nothing at all to do with science. It is just going to be so much fun making a laughing stock of Texans for decades to some, damn ('sic') it is going to be embarrassing having a PhD from a Texas university ;D.
One possible reality is that the worms chief function is the idea of driving monitoring, filtering and control of the internet. So would the same people who lie about the reasons for going to was and the result mass murder, also lie about network security and the risks to network security, so they can monitor and censor every person with a digital connection to the internet.
The most beneficial is to try to guess which of the new language or which of the latest iterations of older languages will take the lead. The tilt to that is learning am old language which is used in existing infrastructure and has only a very narrow coder base, risky but can provide good returns. For new languages 'Ruby' looks very interesting and might become the next 'hotness'.
Of course for some being good at them all C(* - as in wildcard), Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby et al, lucky bastards, is the best solution ;).
The reality is, there is no business case for IPv6 ie. 'FREE' IP addresses for everyone. Especially when a whole lot of people with vested intrests picked up all the IPv4 addressees for free and now rent them out for tens of millions of dollars.
How ever being one the schmuck end users, I am all for free IPv6 addresses ie. either give me a free IPv4 address or a free IPv6 address, I really don't care.
On the flip side of that those companies that got free IPv4 addresses and want to charge me rent it, 'fuck you' ;).
The thing that most drives this attitude is the disconnect from government. Where the government is the enemy, something that should be fought against, rather than the idea that you are the government and it is something that you need to do you part in controlling it. The idea of disconnections from government is driven by the rich and greedy, basically corporations that do not want the majority of people attempting to control their government rather they oppressed masses either accept being downtrodden as their lot in life or they fight against their own government and are killed or imprisoned.
Mass media feeds the public on knee jerk reactionary behaviour, driving them from pillar to post and keeping them distracted, rather than the public focussing on the idea that they must maintain a continual focus upon the behaviour of 'their government and that they must take possession of the decision of 'their' government regardless of who is acting as the current front men.
The reality is government by far the best vehicle for delivery all of a society goods and services, as long as the people keep control of it. So far the concept of the majority of people keeping control of their own government has proved to be destructively elusive but given sufficient effort and focus by the majority it looks to become possible driven by open government using the internet as the means by which the majority of people share the ideas and, monitor the activities of their government.
It is meant to be your government, you own it don't let it own you, the idea is you censor the government (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/censor 3. One who censures or condemns), don't ever let it censor (2. An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content) you or steal your right to share and express your opinions, believe it or not, most governments are sensitive to and find objectionable, public criticism of their failures.
My guess is this will be more of 'ready for Vista' underpowered desktop, now just in windows 'craps' (what version is it anyhow, up near 13 by now) for netbooks. Sure it will run windows, just barely, but run any applications on top and you'll get to re-experience that whole vista feeling all over again.
Personally I want my netbook to come basically complete with all the applications I will ever need at a very 'competitive' price, so when I drop it, drown it or some one pilfers it, I can just buy another one restore the data, not have to futz around with re-installing software or paying for B$ software licences bound to dead or missing hardware.
Netbooks are going to suffer a pretty hard life and the last thing you want to get caught up in, is buying the same software over and over again and you certainly don't want to end up paying three times the price in software versus what you are spending on hardware.
Don't confuse countries. In some countries government funding services function well and when privatised proved to turn into shit, providing less services and charging more. In other countries cronies are inserted in government funded services to bleed off as much money as possible and then run the service into the ground, forcing the belief that the service needs to be privatised due to their own incompetence (WTF) often on a non bid basis, can you recognise your country? I have even heard that for example when government provides rescue services and private industry provides rescue at a profit service, it is the difference between surviving and drowning, you of course drown in private as 'er' history as proven.
No you missed the point due to Shell business sector it would never be profitable. However manufacturers, not fuel suppliers, if given the proper incentives can develop products which people would purchase and use to generate their own energy, hence no fuel to be sold and, of course as far as 'Shell' is concerned it would have oil wells, drilling rigs, exploration ships, refineries, tanker ships, tanker trucks and service stations to dump into the market at an enormous loss.
You really have to extend you ideas on what creates profits for companies and what creates losses. Shell could create the ultimate solar panel, flexible, cheap and with high efficiency, it would lose hundreds billions of dollars no matter how profitable the solar panel was, it simply could never release it too market and as per the rules of capitalist system where greed is everything, it would do everything in it's power to keep that solar panel off the market, else it's shareholders would lose money.
It you really want to be an asshat CO2 is part of the photo synthesis process and not a 'fertilizer', C02 must combine with other elements to be a fertiliser, second of course, any I repeat any element that is in the environment in an excess, outside of the usable range is a pollutant to that environment.
If when you burnt stuff, you only produced CO2, that wouldn't be all that bad, however the combustion process burns imperfect fuels using impure air and a range of toxic compounds are produced as a result. Even someone as fawningly blind has to admit for example that CO as in carbon monoxide is a very dangerous pollutant, ig not perhaps you would consider experimenting in a garage, with a running car.
If any one really can accept the idea of Shell generating a profit from selling polluting fuels and then charging to remove the pollutants from the atmosphere (basically, a tax on the air you breath, we all knew the corporations would get there one day), is foolish. Far more sensible solutions need to be found, even nuclear is preferable to burning anything except of course maybe 'pure' oxygen and 'pure' hydrogen.
The have written the law the way they have for one main reason, proof. it is virtually impossible to prove that a particular person has conducted copyright infringement unless a major investigation is undertaken. This is all about a complete absence of evidence, about the editable records of copyright investigators (paid upon a commission basis) and ISPs (the records are used to justify $50 odd dollars per month payments not as substantiation of criminal activity).
Google also did pick up an interesting point, the processing fee and who would be paying it. Likely the fee would be targeted at the consumer, protest the unfair accusation and you will be hit with a fine 'er' bill larger than the cost of your lost internet account, shut up, pay for a new account and let the recording industry brag about new B$ statistics, which it then use to force laws demand fines and imprisonment based upon the precedent of we say so, so you are guilty, no evidence beyond circumstantial uncorroborated vested opinions.
In this case, Shell simply decided that's it's marketing campaign of green energy investments was promoting threatening ideas and, generating insufficient advertising benefit. Bio-fuels (starving the third world) and burying pollution underground (at the tax payers expense) were far more profitable and in harsh economic times, knows that the public will be far to worried about keeping their home, feeding their family and panicking about possible medical emergencies, that they would largely ignore the end of the clean green PR=B$. Come on did anybody seriously believe shell was interested in alternative renewable energy beyond a cynical exercise in marketing.
The only source for funds for the development of cheap renewable energy has to be the government, there is no profit in it and the real benefits are the free benefits of a cleaner healthier environment, lower medical costs from a healthier population and of course cheap 'free' energy(beyond initial capital outlay and maintenance).
Chances are as the market comes under greater and greater economic pressure they are holding off on discounting the PS3 for as long as possible so the can go with a major price drop for maximum marketing impact and a major sales surge rather than minor sales price reductions. Right now a lot of the component suppliers are starting to suffer and they will be looking for any opportunity to boost sales in a significant way even if it is with very low margins.
So who knows maybe as high as a 50% drop in price right after xbox drops it price by say 10%.
The truth be told there is some really disturbing content out there on the web far beyond just porn, a lot of content that often I would be quite content to un-see. Content that you would under no circumstance voluntarily want to expose a child to.
To create a suitable basis for children to access the web, you do not filter. Filtering is stupid and virtually impossible in a IPv4 world and in a IPv6 world it is stupid. You basically block the whole of the internet and only allow access to specific sites that you as an adult have vetted. If the child needs to access a site beyond those you currently allow, they ask you and you add it to the permissions lists.
I am sure the open community can come up with a vetted list of sites suitable to each age group and region specific. So once that list is prepared you could simply download it to update you system and switch from adult mode to child age group specific mode when required. You must also consider minimising the amount of advertising a child is exposed and those should come into consideration when preparing and defining lists of age range suitable web sites.
More to the reality of the situation. Job opportunities, zip, might as well enrol in university. Enrolment is likely up across the board, with a specific focus on the degrees the provide the best job opportunities. Catch with that, it will inevitably produce a glut and supply will far exceed demand. Of course those who enrol just for the job with out any interest will find themselves considerably disadvantaged in a competitive job market as they often fail to extend their skills beyond what is taught in university and considering that education provided in university is often very thin on practical job application skills, it is a major disadvantage.
Now is a great time to commence university, for the next three years or so the job market is going to be really bad, especially this year and well into next year.
Cut profit margins, I see you buying into that whole yarn. This is all about maximising profits, this is all about maximum short term bonuses for the executive team, this is about making the companying look as attractive as possible in the short term to maximise share price and of course all about a total disregard for the future, for anything beyond the this financial year.
Lie, cheat and steal as an accepted corporate business tactic, lie to customers, lie to employees and lie to shareholders. This is about spending more on B$ marketing that on providing the customer with reliable services and products, get them in the store, try to rip them off for as much as possible and then have marketing try to fix the problem with more bullshit.
The strange thing is, this is about cops in the 50s and 60s moaning about conmen and bunko artists, saying if only those people put their intelligence to work in business everyone would be better off. Well the cops, wish came true, all those bunko artists and conmen became corporate executives, sure they were better off but every else was far worse off.
Honesty and integrity are no longer seen as being an intrinsic part of a modern society but as an anachronistic hold over and a block to the illusion of unlimited profit.
The reality is profit margins are nowhere near as low as corporations like to make out for tax purpose, between taking out of pointless loans so the capital can be milked out of a company and profits can be hidden behind debt repayments and fudging import prices where a middle man hides the profit in tax havens between the export and retail locations, of course not to forget the grossly inflated wages of the executive team and directors. In all the business I've come in contact with, the difference between rec-retail price and the wholesale discount rate was anything between 30% and 90% and companies would still manage to claim, for tax purposes barely a 5% return.
In regards to the Sci-Fi channel, it simply reflects a changing audience. Most computer geeks/nerds are higher wage earners as such free to air and cable are both losing to buying Sci-Fi content and creating your own personal channel. A lot of ex Sci-Fi viewers most likely have up around a years worth of solid viewing with their own DVD libraries so watching ad ridden content, or paying again for cable and getting a whole lot of non Sci- Fi low brow junk is really pointless.
New Sci-Fi reality, stream episodes, if the season rates well, geeks/nerds will buy the whole season on DVD (half season collections suck) often only watching some of the streams so they can make the most of first time viewing of a complete season.
So for cable and free to air 'SyFy' expect a lot of low brow content and maybe even 'SyFy' themed low cost 'reality' shows, they will of course create some good content so they can sell it on DVD at the end of the season.
Hmm, "ANONYMOUS" Swiss bank accounts and your yarn, something just doesn't add up. So when Swiss bank get 'caught' hoarding the proceeds of crime they give it back to the victims, do they also return the profits, fees and charges they generated in the interim, he he :P.
Now consider that Madoff was not a banker, that behind the Madoff run ponzi was, banks handling all that money, banks that knew where it was coming from, where it was going and what the transfers where all about. So which banks had more than an inkling of what was going on, knew pretty well by looking at the numbers how long it would last before it blew up and used to money to not only profit from the scheme but to leverage advantageous fees.
There is no hiding from the fact that the Swiss banks, the Swiss government and the Swiss people, knew exactly where that money was coming from, tax evaders, murderous dictators, major drug dealers, organised crime, war criminals, and even terrorists. They were shamelessly profiting upon the blood and suffering of people from all over the world and every concession had to forced out of them, their conscience never once dictated anything other than being global bankers to crime, each and every time they had to be forced with the threat of zeroing out their currency, of making that currency completely worthless in the rest of the world.
Swiss banking in reality is pretty much a ponzi scheme, there is no where near enough value in the country to justify the capital on paper hidden within their country, so put the pressure on and start an accelerated process of devaluing the swiss frank and any other currency which is there purely to facilitate profit management for criminals. Let the Swiss suck on the ice of their glaciers rather than the blood of victims of crime that they facilitate.