The only part of a countries economy that counts is the one you and your family share in. In terms of the US and the stagnation of the minimum wage versus inflation, they are far worse off.
Corporate profits are not a measure of wealth, only a blinded by greed idiot with the IQ of a bush, would try to market it to the general public as such. High corporate profits are purely and simply driven and funded by high consumer costs and low worker wages, you absolutely can not have one with out the other.
So for the consumers and the workers the economy IS is pretty darned bad. As for the stock market, I will leave you to figure out why stock valuations increase when the dollar valuation decreases (of course brokers don't really want to mention it doesn't hype that well).
Never confuse the gullibility of investors with the true worth of a company. Google has two successful products, search and it's shares. It is also quite a successful viral marketer, but in the case of mobile phones it will not really help.
PS, if you wont to promote google you shouldn't associate it with wallmart, cheap, nasty, and scams it's employees but then again;).
I found those to be some what hot and sweaty after extended use. My solution was to get a custom built over bed table with an extended base so that it would wrap around my large la-z-boy recliner. Some refinements are be to ensure the top is thin as possible and the supporting frame is embedded with in the work surface, it also would help for the leading edge to be tapered, as you will tilt the work surface towards you.
Next up make sure you have a non tilting area adjacent to the tilt adjustable work surface for the inevitable cup of coffee or green tea, ahh soothing. Generally I have the desk rotated at 30 degrees and to one side so that it wont visually interfere with the big screen background.
The reality to that is of course, since when in any country are the rich and greedy not seeking exactly that. They want complete freedom to lie cheat and steal, and then they want complete power to control every one else.
So whether it be Russia, USA or China, it really makes not difference. Democracy is the means by which they are controlled ie, caught, prosecuted and imprisoned for their basic inherent corruption (it's just a default part of the psychological make up, the only moral limit to their actions is getting caught).
Democracy takes time and effort, in fact generations to obtain and get it to run smoothly and yet, a few greedy shit heels can quite readily stuff in up in a few years.
Oddly enough when it comes to business relationships between google and yahoo, I have come across sites with google adwords advertised in yahoo supplied advertising. So google obviously considers it worth while to pay yahoo to provide advertising services.
When it comes to default search in Firefox, you can't really say google is the default as changing that is simply a matter of clicking the pull down to provide immediate access to a range of other search engines, and the last one used becomes the default on next use, so defaults really also includes wikipedia etc (I can't remember the others that turn up on an initial install).
So while it would be sensible for M$ to pay Firefox for default listing, they will not, simply because their management style reflects childish immaturity and tantrums, the billy goat is as the billy goat does. For Ballmer making sensible business decisions takes second place to drunken rants and ego driven rages.
So while google as the main customer of the.com as the main customer they have no greater input into the.org, and it really wont be all that far off until a lot of the other old world media companies realize the benefit of branding their own version of the Mozilla browser.
Online gambling is far different from local gambling as there is no means of audit or control to ensure gambling rather than fraud is occurring. Anyhow for gambling to be fair all parties should be gambling rather that one side running an illusion knowing the ignorant mug punters will lose.
The transfer of funds should be targeted or giving gamblers complete amnesty from online gambling debt with in the state and criminal prosecutions for those that seek to misrepresent gambling debts as other kinds of debt.
Let's have fun with the parasitical online gambling houses and let them gamble as to whether they will ever receive any of the money or whether the states will force a back charge upon credit card companies to recover funds illegally gambled. They can't complain, in fact they should appreciate that it is all just a bit of a gamble and the odds for a change are against them;).
No you use volunteers from each party/candidate, they check each others counting and do it for free. All you have to do is hold elections on a Saturday. It already is wildly discriminating to have elections on a week days as typical workers find it much harder to get there, long queues specifically target and penalise them (more lost wages), as a bonus there are many more places available as polling stations on a weekend.
So they can include that with in the suit, either that or force a election day public holiday, a true celebration of democracy, and eminently appropriate. Of course the rich and greedy will loathe the idea, otherwise people might get the foolish idea that elections are actually about giving the majority of people a choice rather than just a misinformed, mislead and betrayed minority.
The catch with that logic in the case of back issue comics, is those people also only go for the latest and greatest. In this case much like the Disney or Warner's cartoon character range is they simply waited to long to digitally release their products and now there is a huge range of newly created material out there. One things computers are really good at is producing endless reams of 2d cartoons and full animation is getting cheaper by the day.
Those old nearly dead cartoon characters have no where near the marketing pull they used too and a monthly subscription to the limited market is just silly. The only thing that makes sense is to animate those old comic frame stories and sell that content.
Perhaps you will feel more comfortable next time you take off or land at an airport and the police pull a bone head and decide to use this device near airports.
Nothing like a crash landing 747 to bring a speeder to a halt. Now you would think this kind of technology would be strictly controlled for obvious reasons.
Now of course if I were foolish enough to develop this product, I would also develop technology to counter act it prior to it's release, after all, that where the big profits will be, basically every plane will need it just in case.
As a side point, what happens to human cells when they are hit with such a large pulse of microwave energy, will we end up with a lot eunach cyclists. As for speeders with pace makers, they most certainly will be brought to an abrupt 'halt'.
As the power of computers increases so does the cost of creating content. Most companies would simply contract out the creation of content but only pay for it once. As for the small business players their advertising is best served by being local, that's where their customers are, and add/spam/words doesn't really work.
Don't forget a highly interactive/informative website is getting cheaper and cheaper to produce.
As for most of the Internet content not being any good, come back to me when you have actually looked at most of the 19 billion pages and still growing internet (at 1 second per view that's 500 odd years 24/7 and still counting, good luck), the truth is far better than a silly impossible lie. Using stumbleupon I have come across a huge number of interesting and diverting websites and am still coming across hundreds of new ones every week.
No. This guy should have the whole of his life, including the lives of his family made public knowledge. Every breath, every twitch, and every bowel movement. If he is so wrapped up in the lie that every man and his dog is entitled to do a full psychological break down of you for marketing purposes and future psychological marketing manipulation, let him and his family feel the full sting of complete public exposure.
The thing with privacy is, if you want to retain any part of your privacy, you simply have to fight tool and nail to retain it all, otherwise some of the most weasley, greedy, anal, privacy invasive freaks (don't forget their are real actual individuals behind all those privacy invasive moves and ideas) will go prying into every part of your life and the lives of your family, they can get away with.
There is no stage in your life when you would accept that kind of invasiveness from you neighbors, they weird people down the street, the control freak thug in uniform, so why the fuck should you accept it from a for profit marketing corporation, whose express reason for doing so is to psychologically manipulate your and your families purchasing decisions (seriously what do you think targeted marketing really means).
Let anybody including the CEO's, majority share holders and politicians who promote the lack of privacy surrender all of theirs first.
Now that is a totally false statement. There are huge numbers of people employed in the tech industry who a totally crap at coding, hopeless system demonstrators, even simple hardware assembly is beyond them. Generally, oddly enough, they like to become managers, they work many hours at making themselves noticed, are very supportive of those above them, are really good at taking credit for work whether they have done it or not and have a flair for relocating failure to other terminal employees, thats what makes them good managers (not necessarily good at the job but certainly good at being promoted).
So people take the manager job because of they cant stand the actual real jobs, that they should get paid five times as much, has nothing to do with the skills as managers but has a whole lot to do with their ability to convince people and create the illusion that they are worth that (ib fact in most managers spent as much time promoting the company as they spent promoting their own salary rises, there would likely be a whole lot more successful companies). If managers can not come up with 'new' ideas on their own (stealing them just makes a company look pathetic and untrustworthy), they are not worth one cent more than typical tech jobs, they are really just bureaucrats and paper shufflers.
So, this particular job description might entail, not only making it seem ok that mozilla.com gets most of it's money from google but that it is also housed at google's 'campus' within easy reach of the googlite marketdroids. The reality is any CEO is only worth that kind of money when they can also come up with new ideas and are readily able to expand and diversify the companies income base to ensure longterm survivability. Being tied to one controlling customers purse strings is not healthy, but hey, that is their problem, and their loss, the code is still there and if anybody else wants to set up a 'mozzila/firefox/google' equivalent they should certainly go for it, just like netscape/AOL/time warner.
The hardest jobs are the under paid manual ones and don't let any crap head manager tell you different, I have done both styles of work and I wont bull shit anybody about which is the hardest, most monotonous, tedious, back breaking and not only that the pay absolutely sucks.
Only in a very few states is the EULA actually enforceable. In the majority of locations any conditions of contract have to be available and visible at the point of sale. The fair and logical reason for this is the customers cost in going to the store to get the product, returning home and installing and setting up the product only to find the conditions unacceptable and then having to return the product. So in the case of M$ windows O$ say an hour to get the product, and hour return trip home, four hours to install the product in between and seriously what criminally corrupt anti-consumer state would consider that all the customer is entitled to is a "fuck you", sintead of a fair a vaild 6 hour payment for the labour, plus the ancillary costs, so be be legally fair, for the EULA to be legally binding, if the customer refuses to accept the EULA, M$ should pay the customer cost for the purchase and return.
What the Internet does along with high powered low cost computer systems and CGI do, allow companies to create and distribute their own creative content with in which they place their own adds.
Why would a company pay repeatedly for an add to be placed in some one else's content when it can create it's own and get people to redistribute it for free.
The Internet creates a whole new range of interesting possibilities, content coming from every where and going every where. Of course the old world media companies still have a lot of experience and likely will regain most of their marketing edge, much to the chagrin of the new comer fresh round of advertising dot.bombs.
The only thing IBM missed is the greater growth of consumer privacy legislation and as a result customer analytics are a dead end. Target the adds at the content, not the customer, the customer will find the content they want just match the add to it (forget the google anal-ytics B$, sounds good but it is totally meaningless, it's just advertising targeted at advertisers).
No country has to create it's own Internet. If they want to subsume control of the domain name system with in their own countries boundaries all they have to do is legislate that local ISPs, must use it and until such time as it is up and running basically mirror ICANN services with only a few redirections, obviously all.gov addresses would be local and only.gov.us etc. addresses would go to the US.
As for the most popular.com and.net, well, if they want to auction them for local profit then there is nothing to stop them from doing it.
DNS is just a data base entry, as for IPv4 the sooner it is completely replaced with IPv6 the better (apart from blocking miscreants) it will automatically solve a lot of problems.
By the way the US legislating criminal actions as being legal in other countries is a terrible thing, especially when private contractors are used and blackmail, industrial espionage as well as for profit political subversion seem to be the main reasons for it's use.
You have failed to consider the gap between windows 1 and windows vista, 5 years is definitely not enough for M$ and considering vista somehow managed to be a backwards step against xp, perhaps a 25 year development cycle is more appropriate for M$, besides it coincides with their never ending user pays upgrade policy. The next one will really work, promise, both secure, stable and use friendly. With M$ you are both the user and the used at the same time;).
Although this clearly points out the corrupt corporate manufacturing polices of profits first. The other big issue is of course the safety of all products coming from China and those products being manufactured in such a heavily polluted environment.
While repeated chemical poisonings they kill and maim people are occurring upon a regular basis, these products are eventually withdrawn. The real worry over the long term will be the cancer causing trace pollutants that are not discovered and that will cause long term health issues, like the ones the workers in China are already suffering, producing those products in such heavily polluted environments.
So what it really want is not email that is encrypted but email that will report that is has been opened and read between the sender and the defined recipient, much like a sealed envelope.
Email that can be readily opened but not be opened or read with out specific criminal intent, of course beyond that you are fully entitled to encrypt your private data. After all if they have nothing to hide, why won't they tell you when they are reading your mail and listening to your phone calls, and exactly who is doing, what their name is, and of course provide you with access to their mail and phone calls.
After all why should they complain only criminals want to keep their privacy and members of law enforcement agencies should be the first to step forward and surrender their and their families privacy, in the intrests of public safety to ensure they do not abuse their power, unless they already are and just want to hide their and their families criminal activities.
Now there is a misconception, that the OLPC was only developed for poor kids. It is obviously the logical use in not only third world but also second and first world countries. Low cost, readily replaceable and providing all the power and usability required for children's educational programs all over the world.
Now combine that with the open platform hardware and software design to ensure that a quality educational experience can be developed and shared upon a global basis and you have the opportunity to start sharing mutual under standing at an early age.
Of course the side benefit is that you are also significantly reducing the cost of providing technological knowledge and education for everybody also is a plus. It is really good to see companies getting behind the concept and pushing it forward to the mutual advantage of us all.
Proof, PROOF, you don't need proof to hide, you only need blind faith. People have been using it for years to hide from knowledge and the truth.
You don't need to spend money on SETI, obviously more money spent on the ministers of faith and truthiness will do more to advance ignorance and stupidity, then wasting it on scientific intellectual pursuits.
We humans should preserve the right to be stupid, mass consumers of idiocy, down with the intellectual 'elite' and their pursuit of intelligence;))). When it comes to figuring ways to hide from the rest of the universe, we need to be spending more money on yoga experts to ensure we can more effectively bend over and stick our heads up our own collective backsides.
When it comes to intelligent life in the rest of the galaxy, I rely on statistics, 100% of the stellar systems we have, to some extent explored, contain intelligent life. Based upon that is it really logical to assume that for the other billion or so stars in this galaxy (not to forget the other one that is currently intersecting our general region) do not, really that is just such arse about face logic.
Hey when we have visited and explored a few hundred other stars systems and find them uninhabited, I might accept those statistics, until then, I'll accept the fact of our limited intelligence and technological social development and the we reason have not yet discovered sentient life in other star systems is not because it isn't there but because we don't know how yet.
Don't confuse a government with a corrupt politician. More likely you get your government to spend millions of tax payer dollars and we will give you a sales commission of thousands of dollars. Stand proud M$ you have just publicly demonstrated who you really are yet again and why companies and governments should definitely not trust you or trust the future of their technological infrastructure with you.
It is not like it will all come out in the wash and all the corrupt officials along with the corrupt M$ representatives will end up spending and extended period of time in close proximity to each other in the hotel where all the windows have bars.
Now that is just completely untrue. It is all about the game play, it has always been all about the game play and it will always be all about the game play. Licenced content games have proved to be some of the crappiest games of all time and have demonstrated that paying for crap licence content is just throwing money away. Game play sells games beyond the first week, not licensed content, the Internet and real players opinions kill, crap, bullshit, licensed content marketing once the first players start complaining about the crap they just bought.
EA is just forecasting they are losing market share and others are gaining on them, oh yeah, and underpaid workers in china earning some many cents per hour can not afford to by $50 dollar computer games, so much for corporate mass hysteria about the profit coming from a market with a billion consumers, they ain't consumers if they can't afford to consume.
Computer games are a broad market, there is not one miraculous model, there is a very wide range of game play choices, price points, game play time, content quality, depth of multi-player experience, on line or off line, game complexity and replay ability. So the long term model is simply a depth of game types, how extensive the game library is and being able to sell a game beyond the initial first few months of release.
The other thing is of course is game studios just like movie studios will have off seasons and be looking to blame their failures on pixies at the end of the garden rather than incompetent, overpaid, corporate executives.
Consider the old analogue phone line, you in fact did have your own line from point to point, now that you can get thousands of times the same traffic down the line, that somehow entitles companies to lie and only sell you a fraction of that line and claim it is selling the full amount.
Solution is simple, don't lie, don't claim to sell what you don't have to sell.
Now who is using racist language. You have no idea who I am, but you immediately go for prejudiced and racist language, you define yourself by your words, your racism, your prejudice, your demands that people obey, your ethnic divide instead of ethnic convergence.
Fool, I only take responsibility for my actions, when others abuse humanity for the own greed, I oppose them, whether they try to hide it behind nationalism, ethnic 'rightness', or various historical references for which they contributed absolutely nothing and under which they did not suffer but which they try to wrap around themselves like some kind of self righteous flag of racial perfection.
If it makes you fell good and racialy perfect, go for it, insult all Europeans to your hearts content, no matter from which country from around the globe the originated or their original nationality or ethnicity. Personally I like to blame those nasty Minoans or even the Atlanteans for all of humanities faults, yeah, only they started wars, only they exploited the weak, only they set up corrupt governments, only they wallow in nationalistic bullshit
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Corporate profits are not a measure of wealth, only a blinded by greed idiot with the IQ of a bush, would try to market it to the general public as such. High corporate profits are purely and simply driven and funded by high consumer costs and low worker wages, you absolutely can not have one with out the other.
So for the consumers and the workers the economy IS is pretty darned bad. As for the stock market, I will leave you to figure out why stock valuations increase when the dollar valuation decreases (of course brokers don't really want to mention it doesn't hype that well).
PS, if you wont to promote google you shouldn't associate it with wallmart, cheap, nasty, and scams it's employees but then again ;).
Next up make sure you have a non tilting area adjacent to the tilt adjustable work surface for the inevitable cup of coffee or green tea, ahh soothing. Generally I have the desk rotated at 30 degrees and to one side so that it wont visually interfere with the big screen background.
So whether it be Russia, USA or China, it really makes not difference. Democracy is the means by which they are controlled ie, caught, prosecuted and imprisoned for their basic inherent corruption (it's just a default part of the psychological make up, the only moral limit to their actions is getting caught).
Democracy takes time and effort, in fact generations to obtain and get it to run smoothly and yet, a few greedy shit heels can quite readily stuff in up in a few years.
When it comes to default search in Firefox, you can't really say google is the default as changing that is simply a matter of clicking the pull down to provide immediate access to a range of other search engines, and the last one used becomes the default on next use, so defaults really also includes wikipedia etc (I can't remember the others that turn up on an initial install).
So while it would be sensible for M$ to pay Firefox for default listing, they will not, simply because their management style reflects childish immaturity and tantrums, the billy goat is as the billy goat does. For Ballmer making sensible business decisions takes second place to drunken rants and ego driven rages.
So while google as the main customer of the .com as the main customer they have no greater input into the .org, and it really wont be all that far off until a lot of the other old world media companies realize the benefit of branding their own version of the Mozilla browser.
The transfer of funds should be targeted or giving gamblers complete amnesty from online gambling debt with in the state and criminal prosecutions for those that seek to misrepresent gambling debts as other kinds of debt.
Let's have fun with the parasitical online gambling houses and let them gamble as to whether they will ever receive any of the money or whether the states will force a back charge upon credit card companies to recover funds illegally gambled. They can't complain, in fact they should appreciate that it is all just a bit of a gamble and the odds for a change are against them ;).
So they can include that with in the suit, either that or force a election day public holiday, a true celebration of democracy, and eminently appropriate. Of course the rich and greedy will loathe the idea, otherwise people might get the foolish idea that elections are actually about giving the majority of people a choice rather than just a misinformed, mislead and betrayed minority.
Those old nearly dead cartoon characters have no where near the marketing pull they used too and a monthly subscription to the limited market is just silly. The only thing that makes sense is to animate those old comic frame stories and sell that content.
Nothing like a crash landing 747 to bring a speeder to a halt. Now you would think this kind of technology would be strictly controlled for obvious reasons.
Now of course if I were foolish enough to develop this product, I would also develop technology to counter act it prior to it's release, after all, that where the big profits will be, basically every plane will need it just in case.
As a side point, what happens to human cells when they are hit with such a large pulse of microwave energy, will we end up with a lot eunach cyclists. As for speeders with pace makers, they most certainly will be brought to an abrupt 'halt'.
I am now post manager slack and idle, I knew and understood most of my competitors, jaded no, just experienced.
Don't forget a highly interactive/informative website is getting cheaper and cheaper to produce.
As for most of the Internet content not being any good, come back to me when you have actually looked at most of the 19 billion pages and still growing internet (at 1 second per view that's 500 odd years 24/7 and still counting, good luck), the truth is far better than a silly impossible lie. Using stumbleupon I have come across a huge number of interesting and diverting websites and am still coming across hundreds of new ones every week.
The thing with privacy is, if you want to retain any part of your privacy, you simply have to fight tool and nail to retain it all, otherwise some of the most weasley, greedy, anal, privacy invasive freaks (don't forget their are real actual individuals behind all those privacy invasive moves and ideas) will go prying into every part of your life and the lives of your family, they can get away with.
There is no stage in your life when you would accept that kind of invasiveness from you neighbors, they weird people down the street, the control freak thug in uniform, so why the fuck should you accept it from a for profit marketing corporation, whose express reason for doing so is to psychologically manipulate your and your families purchasing decisions (seriously what do you think targeted marketing really means).
Let anybody including the CEO's, majority share holders and politicians who promote the lack of privacy surrender all of theirs first.
So people take the manager job because of they cant stand the actual real jobs, that they should get paid five times as much, has nothing to do with the skills as managers but has a whole lot to do with their ability to convince people and create the illusion that they are worth that (ib fact in most managers spent as much time promoting the company as they spent promoting their own salary rises, there would likely be a whole lot more successful companies). If managers can not come up with 'new' ideas on their own (stealing them just makes a company look pathetic and untrustworthy), they are not worth one cent more than typical tech jobs, they are really just bureaucrats and paper shufflers.
So, this particular job description might entail, not only making it seem ok that mozilla.com gets most of it's money from google but that it is also housed at google's 'campus' within easy reach of the googlite marketdroids. The reality is any CEO is only worth that kind of money when they can also come up with new ideas and are readily able to expand and diversify the companies income base to ensure longterm survivability. Being tied to one controlling customers purse strings is not healthy, but hey, that is their problem, and their loss, the code is still there and if anybody else wants to set up a 'mozzila/firefox/google' equivalent they should certainly go for it, just like netscape/AOL/time warner.
The hardest jobs are the under paid manual ones and don't let any crap head manager tell you different, I have done both styles of work and I wont bull shit anybody about which is the hardest, most monotonous, tedious, back breaking and not only that the pay absolutely sucks.
Only in a very few states is the EULA actually enforceable. In the majority of locations any conditions of contract have to be available and visible at the point of sale. The fair and logical reason for this is the customers cost in going to the store to get the product, returning home and installing and setting up the product only to find the conditions unacceptable and then having to return the product. So in the case of M$ windows O$ say an hour to get the product, and hour return trip home, four hours to install the product in between and seriously what criminally corrupt anti-consumer state would consider that all the customer is entitled to is a "fuck you", sintead of a fair a vaild 6 hour payment for the labour, plus the ancillary costs, so be be legally fair, for the EULA to be legally binding, if the customer refuses to accept the EULA, M$ should pay the customer cost for the purchase and return.
Why would a company pay repeatedly for an add to be placed in some one else's content when it can create it's own and get people to redistribute it for free.
The Internet creates a whole new range of interesting possibilities, content coming from every where and going every where. Of course the old world media companies still have a lot of experience and likely will regain most of their marketing edge, much to the chagrin of the new comer fresh round of advertising dot.bombs.
The only thing IBM missed is the greater growth of consumer privacy legislation and as a result customer analytics are a dead end. Target the adds at the content, not the customer, the customer will find the content they want just match the add to it (forget the google anal-ytics B$, sounds good but it is totally meaningless, it's just advertising targeted at advertisers).
As for the most popular .com and .net, well, if they want to auction them for local profit then there is nothing to stop them from doing it.
DNS is just a data base entry, as for IPv4 the sooner it is completely replaced with IPv6 the better (apart from blocking miscreants) it will automatically solve a lot of problems.
By the way the US legislating criminal actions as being legal in other countries is a terrible thing, especially when private contractors are used and blackmail, industrial espionage as well as for profit political subversion seem to be the main reasons for it's use.
You have failed to consider the gap between windows 1 and windows vista, 5 years is definitely not enough for M$ and considering vista somehow managed to be a backwards step against xp, perhaps a 25 year development cycle is more appropriate for M$, besides it coincides with their never ending user pays upgrade policy. The next one will really work, promise, both secure, stable and use friendly. With M$ you are both the user and the used at the same time ;).
While repeated chemical poisonings they kill and maim people are occurring upon a regular basis, these products are eventually withdrawn. The real worry over the long term will be the cancer causing trace pollutants that are not discovered and that will cause long term health issues, like the ones the workers in China are already suffering, producing those products in such heavily polluted environments.
Email that can be readily opened but not be opened or read with out specific criminal intent, of course beyond that you are fully entitled to encrypt your private data. After all if they have nothing to hide, why won't they tell you when they are reading your mail and listening to your phone calls, and exactly who is doing, what their name is, and of course provide you with access to their mail and phone calls.
After all why should they complain only criminals want to keep their privacy and members of law enforcement agencies should be the first to step forward and surrender their and their families privacy, in the intrests of public safety to ensure they do not abuse their power, unless they already are and just want to hide their and their families criminal activities.
Now combine that with the open platform hardware and software design to ensure that a quality educational experience can be developed and shared upon a global basis and you have the opportunity to start sharing mutual under standing at an early age.
Of course the side benefit is that you are also significantly reducing the cost of providing technological knowledge and education for everybody also is a plus. It is really good to see companies getting behind the concept and pushing it forward to the mutual advantage of us all.
You don't need to spend money on SETI, obviously more money spent on the ministers of faith and truthiness will do more to advance ignorance and stupidity, then wasting it on scientific intellectual pursuits.
We humans should preserve the right to be stupid, mass consumers of idiocy, down with the intellectual 'elite' and their pursuit of intelligence ;))). When it comes to figuring ways to hide from the rest of the universe, we need to be spending more money on yoga experts to ensure we can more effectively bend over and stick our heads up our own collective backsides.
When it comes to intelligent life in the rest of the galaxy, I rely on statistics, 100% of the stellar systems we have, to some extent explored, contain intelligent life. Based upon that is it really logical to assume that for the other billion or so stars in this galaxy (not to forget the other one that is currently intersecting our general region) do not, really that is just such arse about face logic.
Hey when we have visited and explored a few hundred other stars systems and find them uninhabited, I might accept those statistics, until then, I'll accept the fact of our limited intelligence and technological social development and the we reason have not yet discovered sentient life in other star systems is not because it isn't there but because we don't know how yet.
It is not like it will all come out in the wash and all the corrupt officials along with the corrupt M$ representatives will end up spending and extended period of time in close proximity to each other in the hotel where all the windows have bars.
EA is just forecasting they are losing market share and others are gaining on them, oh yeah, and underpaid workers in china earning some many cents per hour can not afford to by $50 dollar computer games, so much for corporate mass hysteria about the profit coming from a market with a billion consumers, they ain't consumers if they can't afford to consume.
Computer games are a broad market, there is not one miraculous model, there is a very wide range of game play choices, price points, game play time, content quality, depth of multi-player experience, on line or off line, game complexity and replay ability. So the long term model is simply a depth of game types, how extensive the game library is and being able to sell a game beyond the initial first few months of release.
The other thing is of course is game studios just like movie studios will have off seasons and be looking to blame their failures on pixies at the end of the garden rather than incompetent, overpaid, corporate executives.
Solution is simple, don't lie, don't claim to sell what you don't have to sell.
Fool, I only take responsibility for my actions, when others abuse humanity for the own greed, I oppose them, whether they try to hide it behind nationalism, ethnic 'rightness', or various historical references for which they contributed absolutely nothing and under which they did not suffer but which they try to wrap around themselves like some kind of self righteous flag of racial perfection.
If it makes you fell good and racialy perfect, go for it, insult all Europeans to your hearts content, no matter from which country from around the globe the originated or their original nationality or ethnicity. Personally I like to blame those nasty Minoans or even the Atlanteans for all of humanities faults, yeah, only they started wars, only they exploited the weak, only they set up corrupt governments, only they wallow in nationalistic bullshit