Time for a class action law suit perhaps. Plenty of money there and if they can prove mass invasion of privacy under disclosure (think records of people without windows 10), then M$'s money becomes the lawyer's money and it could be quite a bit. I mean does M$ produce a lawyers copy of Windows 10 which by law should be required, would be no eaves dropping systems built in, no keylogging, no listening in on microphone, no taps into the camera and no monitoring of internet and email access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (lawyers are required by law not to install windows 10). How about a doctors practice with windows 10, strictly a no no, to go prying in there, yet. The list goes on, plenty of ammo, mass disclosure of their data warehouses and a whole mountain more and you know the fuckers will have been naughty, extremely naughty, tempted by greed driven stupidity.
They already go well past that https://www.theguardian.com/po.... Necrophilia with a dead pigs head in some other blocks lap, what do they touch, some where in the back of the head and not to forget the Beeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... We all know what exactly this is, the whoops censorship laws. Whoops we censored you, when you shouldn't have, don't worry post the 90 day appeal process you'll be back up again and whoops. The way to silence the political opposition and activists. They never do anything wrong, no problem, join, log in, post a pornographic image and they immediately report it to get them banned, do it as many times as you like.
However in the case of the United States is most definitely does infringe the thirteenth amendment, specifically "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.". The courts have forced involuntary servitude upon all US citizens by that false interpretation of law, forcing people to take actions or else face punishment, so that would be hang up and struck with a bull whip how many times for disobeying you FBI overseer. It seems you can take slavery out of the law but it is not so easy to take slavery out of a country, always reaching back for it it, ain't you yanks. Your fucking secret, your fucking problem, don't want me to spread it, than don't fucking tell me, not my problem. Note this law also touches on asset forfeiture because you are stealing the capital equivalent of labour (keep in mind the legal ways money can be made) without them being convicted of a crime, stealing the value of their labour, turning that labour into involuntary servitude, slavery, without a conviction. They are attempting to force involuntary servitude on free citizens, umm.
How about you take the area of all existing roofs and make it law, that all roofing material in the future has to have solar panels incorporated in it. The total area of the burbs on their own would probably do it and fit them with larger batteries and you have an extended shared, electrical grid. That would also feed power to a larger centralised storage system. A power company could run around and offer to replace peoples roofs with solar panel roofs, supplied at a huge discount with all generated current surplus going through them and being sold by them.
Nuclear power would still be required for surety of supply, industrial and high energy recycling (getting maximum recovery but chewing up a chunk of energy to do it), due to repair times say for the bulk of a cities generation capacity being knocked out by a major hail storm (time to replace all those broken panels could be months). Bulk of normal energy generation could be by renewables, especially domestic use and of course automotive energy.
I smell fear in the air, the fear of fossil fuelers as they cry out in panic at the collapse of their investments (no money, no power, some real investigations into their lies and scams).
So what you want is a traceable untraceable currency, so that you can make anonymous registered purchases and receive anonymous fully recorded payments. So that all transfers can be tracked but kept secret because you at the core, want to do two things, cheat the tax man participating in criminal payments, whilst also participating in the who gets in early wins in the ponzi scheme coin mining scam. I'll bet you want digital currency to work when the power is out. You are not one of those survivalists with a hoard of bit coin so they will have spending money with society collapses and the power goes out. You know they will eventually ban it, because oh my, will the cheaters squirm, what can they do to get real money back (money backed by governments and entire populations plus assets of entire countries, even continents in the case of Australia, not as secure as a block chain, wow, super duper ultra block chain more secure than an entire continent of capital asset security).
News stories are not evidence bubalah. Evidence is evidence, after all the lies put out by US mainstream media to have the dear leader Clinton the corporate whore elected, the drivel coming out now is just stupid, so butt hurt about Don Don winning. On one side the trillion dollar entirety of main stream media, probably something like 200,000 agents of various stripes and colours NSA/CIA/FBI oh wait there are 16 of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (screw typing all that out) and now tadah 17 and a huge amount contracted out and out sourced. Not too mention extreme experience at hacking other countries elections including extortion of politicians and media personalities and Russia and RT fucked them over, what a crock of shit.
The current round of bullshit is only about one thing, keeping the gullible American worker subserviant, oh no, American workers can not win elections, you have no power, shut the fuck up, go crawl in the dark, obey your main stream media masters again. Well, you lost the American elections because American workers stopped fucking listening to American Main Stream media and that is it, nothing more and nothing less but the establishment will not dare to admit to American workers they have power over government, as they just demonstrated. So the message from the establishment to the American worker, listen you pathetic sacks of shit, you deplorables, you would never have won without Russian government collusion, so forget about the next election but they wont forget, they have tasted their power and they will not give it back so lightly.
As for those listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., you are all pathetic sacks of shite, look how the Russians and RT fucked you all over and you with 100 times maybe even 1,000 times the budget of Russia, well at least that's what the Democrats and US Main Stream Media are saying about you. Personally apart from some extremely corrupt political appointees and their crew of the corrupt, the rest seem skilled and quite capable of fending off any Foreign incursions, when they are allowed to ie the mass rape of US elections by the Israeli government.
The idea is you a meant to swap to diet drinks as part of an entire diet change. Low sugars and carbs and up the proteins and roughage (vegetables, whole meal bread). The fake fizzy drinks, after all the other diet adjustments tend to be way, way, over flavoured and I am down to around a thirty percent mix (the majority water) to make the palatable. Diet drinks will absolutely not help you manage your weight one iota, they are just part of your diet change, and you just drop full sugar drinks along with all the other carbs and sugars and don't forget the exercise.
If you are tied up with that 2 billion fantasy market cap for a nothing food kit preparer that is now using that money to buy farms which is high risk as it ties you down to particular suppliers and offends others but hey you need to have something real to prop up that 2 billion for as long as possible. Personally, that food kit, really kind of a fad, people who like to cook, like to pick their food items, it's part of the experience.
You most certainly will never solve the worlds problems on/. all you do is exchange new and interesting ideas with some of the other/.ers. Apart from the regular infestations of public relations trolls, marketdroids, from the major companies and politicians, it is remains pretty light (they do seem to realise even if people agree with their marketing, they will be trolled and their product denigrated when they are detected). Seriously still way better than say Reddit, now there is a popularity contest, the comments you see modded up most, 'i agree', 'great idea', 'me too', et al you get the gist, where as well thought out and written comments get modded down just because. As a forum/. is better than most and there are some that are so much worse (to pick on Reddit again, you browse a bit a your kind a whole bunch of stuff with zero comments, way more than half, they might not be doing all that well).
The all new singing and dancing Windows 10 catch 22. You computer is now too old, it will not longer allow windows 10, buy a new computer but don't forget you previous copy of windows 10 is tied to the old computer we wont provide upgrades for, buy a new copy of Windows with the all new invasion of privacy feature, for your convenience, Doctors details for all family members and full medical record require, why because we want it, we will also require permission to access any camera or microphone, M$ software range will be required to be installed on your Android phone to monitor all conversations.
M$ can not have it both ways, they try to have it every way, no matter how much you try to avoid them and their software.
I would hardly call higher education extortion a legitimate debt and those who escape from it are showing real personal integrity, when the system is corrupt, supporting it is dishonourable and lacks integrity, opposing it by what ever means is honourable and demonstrates true integrity. Fuck the higher education loan sharks and the piece of shit politicians who created the scam after being paid off by lobbyists. When people extort your future, pay them back by not paying them back;D.
Not to mention, working from home as a introvert, fantastic, working from home as an extrovert, sure way to go nuts. I worked from home and enjoyed roasting a chicken for lunch, only takes a few minutes to set up at morning smoko and then set the timer and work. You check every time you stop work for your always favourite coffee and snack, always there. Then at lunch out comes the fresh roast chicken and you enjoy a great repast as you have an extended relaxing lunch whilst watching a movie and than back to work. All done in your shorts because you started work as soon as you woke up, no time lost doing anything else, except for a morning cuppa and relieving yourself as necessary. You can get a huge amount of work done by more than enough by 3 oclock even with a long lunch, stop there or work into the early evening and take the whole afternoon off tomorrow.
The bull is empty bullshit political theatre. Right there in the bill, the President of the US it to certify that the Russian government will not hack the US government but the US government is still fully entitled to hack the Russian government. Seriously how stupid to put that up, basically insanely crazy political theatre. Still the Ukraine bullshit, the US government hacked the Ukraine government and made it worse and now blame the Russian government. So the US can publicly admit to hacking the Ukraine government spending 5 billion dollars to start a coup (and then steal the Ukraine's gold reserves to pay for it) but Russia is not allowed to do anything what so ever. The establishment Democrats creating nothing to hide the corporate ties in vain attempts to prevent the working class taking back the political party from the financial class, corrupt as fuck.
That's funny I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The number one vehicle in China outside of a bicycle is an electric moped, next up is an all electric scooter. For makes and models this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is even more informative, so 21 models of 'new energy vehicles'. Most would miss that one because it is a China thing, NEVs, rather than calling them electric or hybrids. What chance do the manufacturers have of getting the government of China to change their mind, pretty much zero, it ain't happening by accident all planned to give Chinese manufacturers a huge boost and that boost will extend from the head start in the domestic market to a major jump in the export market. Really smart, they will be able to use the domestic market to trial and error full production for imports, Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers will get a huge jump on the existing major car brands.
Quality of service is easy, simply maintain sufficient capacity to ensure you can always deliver it. If you mean strangleband though, that is something different. Claim to sell something you can only provide if nobody uses it, now that's fraud and the ISPs and the Telecom incumbents have been getting away with it for years.
If those piece of shit fuckers ran power companies than brownouts would become a regular, daily occurrence basically selling capacity they do no have and can never provide.
So it is lies and bullshit and continuing to sell what they do not have and can never provide because it is way more profitable that way and they won the politicians to write the laws to ensure they can continue the fraud.
So how do you replace a diamond encrusted phone. Are there like nearly rich people who buy old phones that don't work well but look flashy or does it just end in a draw some where, so you can pull it out to feed you idiot ego a regular intervals. Sounds like the proper business is a concierge service for the spawn of the rich/greedy/egoistic/ugly and the poor/greedy/pretty/stupid, people to dumb and egoistic to do anything, and expert service on subscription for the useless but rich spawn.
Now you hit the nail right on it's head. Amazon has become threatening to Walmart the true destroyer of communities and Walmart's lobbyists are now out to get Amazon. Amazon is a logistics company with a retail arm and any logistics company can compete with them on the same basis. From the producers production lines to an Amazon warehouse to be picked and delivered to your home. Of course instant gratification does require click and mortar elements.
Basically apart from a period of bullshit lobbyiest crap, Walmart are screwed, first Amazon and than other logistics companies will join in and pick apart Walmart. Oddly enough Amazon can actually bring mom and pop stores into the fold as sort of franchises, providing neighbourhood stores, that provide pick up services a huge range of products to offer. So Amazon could actually create that Mom and Pop experience to out compete Walmart.
Walmart is in real trouble, than can not expand into other countries with unions because of ideological fervour on their board, seriously, religous level nut baggery ie they were looking to buy Coles Myer in Australia, which raised the price enormously but it all died when Walmart management found they would not be able to force a union free business no matter how many bribes they paid or what kind of animals their lawyers were and they had to give up.
Amazon will expand globally because it accepts unions, Walmart is crippled because of ideological fervour and can not expand into countries with unions, so in order to block Amazon, they most work the corrupt lobbyist route. For Amazon of course the USA is not the globe so they can cut back US development to focus in global development and still wipe out Walmart.
See you do not understand business at all. When it comes to creating the illusion of a business that you can sell, revenue is measured against invested capital and invested capital does not include loans because the loan balances out credit and debit (in fanciful accounting). The whole idea is to get investment bankers on side, who will help you to create the illusion of immense profitability in the future, for which they take a huge chunk of profit from selling your on paper super fantastic business. Now you can not sell it all because that looks really bad but you can sell more than enough to make yourself rich. The company then goes bellyup, you then claim your golden parachute, greed knows no bounds and you leave with the proceeds from the IPO and a lot of pension funds for some strange reason make a bad investment and screwed over their pensioners.
Now that how you make money under modern capitalism. Of course sometimes those illusory companies last long enough to turn their shares basically into junk bonds to buy companies that actually generate an income and buy enough and your company now actually makes money, not the original company of course, just the companies you bought. Under capitalism the one thing to make more money than anything else is bullshit, not always though, sometimes that shit just hits the fan and covers everyone in losses.
Mostly the investment market is lies, if you are an establishment insider you will make money, if you are not, than you will be ripped off in one way or another.
In a capitalist society, cash is freedom. Being cashless is to become a slave, you no longer buy anything, you ask permission from your master to have it, your master can say no at any time and you will never realise or accept that until it happens and you are now screwed.
Why do people claim cash is unsafe because credit card companies pay public relations and marketing agencies to fucking lie for them. They are basically a pack of parasites who scam a profit from turnover they contribute nothing to, basically stealing middle men. As such they pay millions upon millions in advertising to make their percentage thefts of your money desirable. Oh noes if you carry cash, the banditoes will hunt you down and kill you for it, on noes you wont get cash discounts when buying stuff, ohh wait that's the wrong way round, ignore that one.
Cash, it's what you use, if you want tradesmen to turn up when you want them, it's what you use when you want a good, quick job done and maybe a few extra's thrown in for free and it is also what you use when you want a way better price (often half of the alternative price) and it is also what you use when you do not want to pay the credit card parasites any real money.
Why the push for cashless, master and slaves in capitalism, that's why and slaves do not have cash, they only carry a permission slip from their master. Want a cashless society, get rid of capitalism first.
Far more likely, dozy authorities suddenly realised bringing in a whole lot of vaccinated refugees from Africa would spread a whole range of diseases throughout their population and put any citizens children who have not been vaccinated at great risk. Likely the is a real story underneath the story about the spread of once conquered diseases in the EU and the number of citizens children who have suffered and or died as a result of government incompetence. This is just one of the reason you do not let unvetted refugees wander through your towns and cities and why they should go to refugee camps and stay there. Likely there is a much worse problem going on here.
The lawyer will have a field day with searches for insider trading. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse (then why isn't everyone treated as a lawyer) so he had information which he thought might have been insider trading, so they did searches on the internet to make sure the trades they did would not break the law and well, they got it wrong. What authorities are claiming is if you are doing legal searches to not break the law, then you are breaking the law because the law claims no citizen has ignorance of any law or it's details or it's legal interpretation which by law are of equal skill to judges of the highest appointments. To search the law is not breaking the regardless of the absurdity of 'ignorance of the law is not excuse' no matter how obscure the law.
Ohh, it's a look at the other hand story, a magic trick. Folks they are not searching you phones for data, they grab it search your identity and then decide whether or not they install software onto your phone. They do not want to search your phone once, they want to search it for as long as it lasts. If it was about searching your phone, they would do it too your face, to watch reaction as they searched each directory. Nope, they hide the search from you, don't let you see it because they are not taking off but adding on and they most definitely do not want you to see that.
You can store a lot on phones nowadays and creating a copy via a USB (searching is not copying everything for ever) and getting a 100mb off a phone takes quite some time, queues at airports would be many kilometres long and really they only take enough time to add software rather than copy data.
I think people are starting to realise and hence are becoming far more cautious and are not travelling through US espionage customs with zero digital devices. Cheaper to buy a burner phone at the new location than attempt to clean a spy ridden one. When travelling overseas leave your personal phone at home and buy a new one when you get there. When you want to bring your digital data back from over seas, encrypt it and send it back to your localised ISP storage or on a device you had hooked up to your home network. When they ask, do you have anything to declare, answer in a proud voice, I like me privacy and I have nothing for you to search or add spyware to.
Who cares about, bases or camps or what ever they can come up with. All taxes should be paid at the point of revenue. They create the conditions that promote that revenue, hence the taxes should be paid there. All claims of cost at foreign locations should be substantiated and only, non-profit cost should be deducted, all remote profit, claimed as costs should be ignored and tax should be paid locally on those shifted profits. Where offshore costs can be effectively established, than those cost should be ignored and tax charged on full revenues being treated as profit.
All taxes should be paid in the country where the revenue is generated and corporations who mass cheat should be broken up and the executives responsible given life sentences, tax short falls, result in social services austerity, which results in death and suffering and those that mass cheat should pay the full penalty for the harm they have caused.
I though a better answer is, it's what married men do in the toilet when they are in there too long and what married women do in the shower when they are in there to long. Being a bachelor and not knowing why, how come married men do it in the toilet and married women do it in the shower, of course that could be all old stuff from the days of stick books that would of course get wet in the shower and women apparently just need their imagination and to be able to drown out the outside world.
One can understand the earlier prohibition to self hormonal adjustment, where higher breeding numbers were required to feed endless wars but you would think we would be able to calm things down now. Of course with the opposites sexes becoming so demanding off each other, self hormonal adjustment might become too popular.
The smarter move is GMO algae only. Fully genetically customised kelp, as the food source. Pretty much near anything is possible, with customised flavour, texture and trace elements, designed to grow in low light conditions. Large, multi story growing tanks, producing very high volumes of food, with hugely reduced land use and largely recycling water. Don't think stupid soylent green, think customised leaves large, plate sized, thick, with adjusted flavour and texture, peel and you have a steak. Storage pods, the size of your fist and filled with a high protein, low sugar banana custard substitute. Land use would be hugely reduced, allowing the planet to clean itself up.
The GMO crap they produce now is crap, built in pesticides to kill pests and harm people, herbicide resistant to pass tolerance to closely related species, long life with poor digestibility, basically all the crap ideas. The environment is a real, problem a lot have been damaged well beyond the idea of restoring to the original state, which is really not the wisest idea anyhow.
Something we need to look at is how to redo damaged environment, not to an original state, but to a more managed, healthy and productive environment, things like do you want the original river back or do you want a good clean productive river, filled with the best species the planet has to offer in a balanced state. (where productive is, cleaning up air and water, promoting quality managed bio-diversity, with low allergens and toxicity).
Parenting licences are a grand idea, both for having and for looking after, but if you have them in your country, how do you look at other mismanaged countries without them, looking to breed and dump refugees on your country, an interesting problem to solve, prevention an extremely violent thought and of course exclusion, still violent but not as violent or just give up trying to manage your country and just let it go to rot. Refugees should always be a problem solved at it's source and not a problem allowed to spread.
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Time for a class action law suit perhaps. Plenty of money there and if they can prove mass invasion of privacy under disclosure (think records of people without windows 10), then M$'s money becomes the lawyer's money and it could be quite a bit. I mean does M$ produce a lawyers copy of Windows 10 which by law should be required, would be no eaves dropping systems built in, no keylogging, no listening in on microphone, no taps into the camera and no monitoring of internet and email access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (lawyers are required by law not to install windows 10). How about a doctors practice with windows 10, strictly a no no, to go prying in there, yet. The list goes on, plenty of ammo, mass disclosure of their data warehouses and a whole mountain more and you know the fuckers will have been naughty, extremely naughty, tempted by greed driven stupidity.
They already go well past that https://www.theguardian.com/po.... Necrophilia with a dead pigs head in some other blocks lap, what do they touch, some where in the back of the head and not to forget the Beeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... We all know what exactly this is, the whoops censorship laws. Whoops we censored you, when you shouldn't have, don't worry post the 90 day appeal process you'll be back up again and whoops. The way to silence the political opposition and activists. They never do anything wrong, no problem, join, log in, post a pornographic image and they immediately report it to get them banned, do it as many times as you like.
However in the case of the United States is most definitely does infringe the thirteenth amendment, specifically "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.". The courts have forced involuntary servitude upon all US citizens by that false interpretation of law, forcing people to take actions or else face punishment, so that would be hang up and struck with a bull whip how many times for disobeying you FBI overseer. It seems you can take slavery out of the law but it is not so easy to take slavery out of a country, always reaching back for it it, ain't you yanks. Your fucking secret, your fucking problem, don't want me to spread it, than don't fucking tell me, not my problem. Note this law also touches on asset forfeiture because you are stealing the capital equivalent of labour (keep in mind the legal ways money can be made) without them being convicted of a crime, stealing the value of their labour, turning that labour into involuntary servitude, slavery, without a conviction. They are attempting to force involuntary servitude on free citizens, umm.
How about you take the area of all existing roofs and make it law, that all roofing material in the future has to have solar panels incorporated in it. The total area of the burbs on their own would probably do it and fit them with larger batteries and you have an extended shared, electrical grid. That would also feed power to a larger centralised storage system. A power company could run around and offer to replace peoples roofs with solar panel roofs, supplied at a huge discount with all generated current surplus going through them and being sold by them.
Nuclear power would still be required for surety of supply, industrial and high energy recycling (getting maximum recovery but chewing up a chunk of energy to do it), due to repair times say for the bulk of a cities generation capacity being knocked out by a major hail storm (time to replace all those broken panels could be months). Bulk of normal energy generation could be by renewables, especially domestic use and of course automotive energy.
I smell fear in the air, the fear of fossil fuelers as they cry out in panic at the collapse of their investments (no money, no power, some real investigations into their lies and scams).
So what you want is a traceable untraceable currency, so that you can make anonymous registered purchases and receive anonymous fully recorded payments. So that all transfers can be tracked but kept secret because you at the core, want to do two things, cheat the tax man participating in criminal payments, whilst also participating in the who gets in early wins in the ponzi scheme coin mining scam. I'll bet you want digital currency to work when the power is out. You are not one of those survivalists with a hoard of bit coin so they will have spending money with society collapses and the power goes out. You know they will eventually ban it, because oh my, will the cheaters squirm, what can they do to get real money back (money backed by governments and entire populations plus assets of entire countries, even continents in the case of Australia, not as secure as a block chain, wow, super duper ultra block chain more secure than an entire continent of capital asset security).
News stories are not evidence bubalah. Evidence is evidence, after all the lies put out by US mainstream media to have the dear leader Clinton the corporate whore elected, the drivel coming out now is just stupid, so butt hurt about Don Don winning. On one side the trillion dollar entirety of main stream media, probably something like 200,000 agents of various stripes and colours NSA/CIA/FBI oh wait there are 16 of them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (screw typing all that out) and now tadah 17 and a huge amount contracted out and out sourced. Not too mention extreme experience at hacking other countries elections including extortion of politicians and media personalities and Russia and RT fucked them over, what a crock of shit.
The current round of bullshit is only about one thing, keeping the gullible American worker subserviant, oh no, American workers can not win elections, you have no power, shut the fuck up, go crawl in the dark, obey your main stream media masters again. Well, you lost the American elections because American workers stopped fucking listening to American Main Stream media and that is it, nothing more and nothing less but the establishment will not dare to admit to American workers they have power over government, as they just demonstrated. So the message from the establishment to the American worker, listen you pathetic sacks of shit, you deplorables, you would never have won without Russian government collusion, so forget about the next election but they wont forget, they have tasted their power and they will not give it back so lightly.
As for those listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., you are all pathetic sacks of shite, look how the Russians and RT fucked you all over and you with 100 times maybe even 1,000 times the budget of Russia, well at least that's what the Democrats and US Main Stream Media are saying about you. Personally apart from some extremely corrupt political appointees and their crew of the corrupt, the rest seem skilled and quite capable of fending off any Foreign incursions, when they are allowed to ie the mass rape of US elections by the Israeli government.
The idea is you a meant to swap to diet drinks as part of an entire diet change. Low sugars and carbs and up the proteins and roughage (vegetables, whole meal bread). The fake fizzy drinks, after all the other diet adjustments tend to be way, way, over flavoured and I am down to around a thirty percent mix (the majority water) to make the palatable. Diet drinks will absolutely not help you manage your weight one iota, they are just part of your diet change, and you just drop full sugar drinks along with all the other carbs and sugars and don't forget the exercise.
If you are tied up with that 2 billion fantasy market cap for a nothing food kit preparer that is now using that money to buy farms which is high risk as it ties you down to particular suppliers and offends others but hey you need to have something real to prop up that 2 billion for as long as possible. Personally, that food kit, really kind of a fad, people who like to cook, like to pick their food items, it's part of the experience.
You most certainly will never solve the worlds problems on /. all you do is exchange new and interesting ideas with some of the other /.ers. Apart from the regular infestations of public relations trolls, marketdroids, from the major companies and politicians, it is remains pretty light (they do seem to realise even if people agree with their marketing, they will be trolled and their product denigrated when they are detected). Seriously still way better than say Reddit, now there is a popularity contest, the comments you see modded up most, 'i agree', 'great idea', 'me too', et al you get the gist, where as well thought out and written comments get modded down just because. As a forum /. is better than most and there are some that are so much worse (to pick on Reddit again, you browse a bit a your kind a whole bunch of stuff with zero comments, way more than half, they might not be doing all that well).
The all new singing and dancing Windows 10 catch 22. You computer is now too old, it will not longer allow windows 10, buy a new computer but don't forget you previous copy of windows 10 is tied to the old computer we wont provide upgrades for, buy a new copy of Windows with the all new invasion of privacy feature, for your convenience, Doctors details for all family members and full medical record require, why because we want it, we will also require permission to access any camera or microphone, M$ software range will be required to be installed on your Android phone to monitor all conversations.
M$ can not have it both ways, they try to have it every way, no matter how much you try to avoid them and their software.
I would hardly call higher education extortion a legitimate debt and those who escape from it are showing real personal integrity, when the system is corrupt, supporting it is dishonourable and lacks integrity, opposing it by what ever means is honourable and demonstrates true integrity. Fuck the higher education loan sharks and the piece of shit politicians who created the scam after being paid off by lobbyists. When people extort your future, pay them back by not paying them back ;D.
Not to mention, working from home as a introvert, fantastic, working from home as an extrovert, sure way to go nuts. I worked from home and enjoyed roasting a chicken for lunch, only takes a few minutes to set up at morning smoko and then set the timer and work. You check every time you stop work for your always favourite coffee and snack, always there. Then at lunch out comes the fresh roast chicken and you enjoy a great repast as you have an extended relaxing lunch whilst watching a movie and than back to work. All done in your shorts because you started work as soon as you woke up, no time lost doing anything else, except for a morning cuppa and relieving yourself as necessary. You can get a huge amount of work done by more than enough by 3 oclock even with a long lunch, stop there or work into the early evening and take the whole afternoon off tomorrow.
The bull is empty bullshit political theatre. Right there in the bill, the President of the US it to certify that the Russian government will not hack the US government but the US government is still fully entitled to hack the Russian government. Seriously how stupid to put that up, basically insanely crazy political theatre. Still the Ukraine bullshit, the US government hacked the Ukraine government and made it worse and now blame the Russian government. So the US can publicly admit to hacking the Ukraine government spending 5 billion dollars to start a coup (and then steal the Ukraine's gold reserves to pay for it) but Russia is not allowed to do anything what so ever. The establishment Democrats creating nothing to hide the corporate ties in vain attempts to prevent the working class taking back the political party from the financial class, corrupt as fuck.
That's funny I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... The number one vehicle in China outside of a bicycle is an electric moped, next up is an all electric scooter. For makes and models this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is even more informative, so 21 models of 'new energy vehicles'. Most would miss that one because it is a China thing, NEVs, rather than calling them electric or hybrids. What chance do the manufacturers have of getting the government of China to change their mind, pretty much zero, it ain't happening by accident all planned to give Chinese manufacturers a huge boost and that boost will extend from the head start in the domestic market to a major jump in the export market. Really smart, they will be able to use the domestic market to trial and error full production for imports, Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers will get a huge jump on the existing major car brands.
Quality of service is easy, simply maintain sufficient capacity to ensure you can always deliver it. If you mean strangleband though, that is something different. Claim to sell something you can only provide if nobody uses it, now that's fraud and the ISPs and the Telecom incumbents have been getting away with it for years.
If those piece of shit fuckers ran power companies than brownouts would become a regular, daily occurrence basically selling capacity they do no have and can never provide.
So it is lies and bullshit and continuing to sell what they do not have and can never provide because it is way more profitable that way and they won the politicians to write the laws to ensure they can continue the fraud.
So how do you replace a diamond encrusted phone. Are there like nearly rich people who buy old phones that don't work well but look flashy or does it just end in a draw some where, so you can pull it out to feed you idiot ego a regular intervals. Sounds like the proper business is a concierge service for the spawn of the rich/greedy/egoistic/ugly and the poor/greedy/pretty/stupid, people to dumb and egoistic to do anything, and expert service on subscription for the useless but rich spawn.
Now you hit the nail right on it's head. Amazon has become threatening to Walmart the true destroyer of communities and Walmart's lobbyists are now out to get Amazon. Amazon is a logistics company with a retail arm and any logistics company can compete with them on the same basis. From the producers production lines to an Amazon warehouse to be picked and delivered to your home. Of course instant gratification does require click and mortar elements.
Basically apart from a period of bullshit lobbyiest crap, Walmart are screwed, first Amazon and than other logistics companies will join in and pick apart Walmart. Oddly enough Amazon can actually bring mom and pop stores into the fold as sort of franchises, providing neighbourhood stores, that provide pick up services a huge range of products to offer. So Amazon could actually create that Mom and Pop experience to out compete Walmart.
Walmart is in real trouble, than can not expand into other countries with unions because of ideological fervour on their board, seriously, religous level nut baggery ie they were looking to buy Coles Myer in Australia, which raised the price enormously but it all died when Walmart management found they would not be able to force a union free business no matter how many bribes they paid or what kind of animals their lawyers were and they had to give up.
Amazon will expand globally because it accepts unions, Walmart is crippled because of ideological fervour and can not expand into countries with unions, so in order to block Amazon, they most work the corrupt lobbyist route. For Amazon of course the USA is not the globe so they can cut back US development to focus in global development and still wipe out Walmart.
See you do not understand business at all. When it comes to creating the illusion of a business that you can sell, revenue is measured against invested capital and invested capital does not include loans because the loan balances out credit and debit (in fanciful accounting). The whole idea is to get investment bankers on side, who will help you to create the illusion of immense profitability in the future, for which they take a huge chunk of profit from selling your on paper super fantastic business. Now you can not sell it all because that looks really bad but you can sell more than enough to make yourself rich. The company then goes bellyup, you then claim your golden parachute, greed knows no bounds and you leave with the proceeds from the IPO and a lot of pension funds for some strange reason make a bad investment and screwed over their pensioners.
Now that how you make money under modern capitalism. Of course sometimes those illusory companies last long enough to turn their shares basically into junk bonds to buy companies that actually generate an income and buy enough and your company now actually makes money, not the original company of course, just the companies you bought. Under capitalism the one thing to make more money than anything else is bullshit, not always though, sometimes that shit just hits the fan and covers everyone in losses.
Mostly the investment market is lies, if you are an establishment insider you will make money, if you are not, than you will be ripped off in one way or another.
In a capitalist society, cash is freedom. Being cashless is to become a slave, you no longer buy anything, you ask permission from your master to have it, your master can say no at any time and you will never realise or accept that until it happens and you are now screwed.
Why do people claim cash is unsafe because credit card companies pay public relations and marketing agencies to fucking lie for them. They are basically a pack of parasites who scam a profit from turnover they contribute nothing to, basically stealing middle men. As such they pay millions upon millions in advertising to make their percentage thefts of your money desirable. Oh noes if you carry cash, the banditoes will hunt you down and kill you for it, on noes you wont get cash discounts when buying stuff, ohh wait that's the wrong way round, ignore that one.
Cash, it's what you use, if you want tradesmen to turn up when you want them, it's what you use when you want a good, quick job done and maybe a few extra's thrown in for free and it is also what you use when you want a way better price (often half of the alternative price) and it is also what you use when you do not want to pay the credit card parasites any real money.
Why the push for cashless, master and slaves in capitalism, that's why and slaves do not have cash, they only carry a permission slip from their master. Want a cashless society, get rid of capitalism first.
Far more likely, dozy authorities suddenly realised bringing in a whole lot of vaccinated refugees from Africa would spread a whole range of diseases throughout their population and put any citizens children who have not been vaccinated at great risk. Likely the is a real story underneath the story about the spread of once conquered diseases in the EU and the number of citizens children who have suffered and or died as a result of government incompetence. This is just one of the reason you do not let unvetted refugees wander through your towns and cities and why they should go to refugee camps and stay there. Likely there is a much worse problem going on here.
The lawyer will have a field day with searches for insider trading. Ignorance of the law is not an excuse (then why isn't everyone treated as a lawyer) so he had information which he thought might have been insider trading, so they did searches on the internet to make sure the trades they did would not break the law and well, they got it wrong. What authorities are claiming is if you are doing legal searches to not break the law, then you are breaking the law because the law claims no citizen has ignorance of any law or it's details or it's legal interpretation which by law are of equal skill to judges of the highest appointments. To search the law is not breaking the regardless of the absurdity of 'ignorance of the law is not excuse' no matter how obscure the law.
Ohh, it's a look at the other hand story, a magic trick. Folks they are not searching you phones for data, they grab it search your identity and then decide whether or not they install software onto your phone. They do not want to search your phone once, they want to search it for as long as it lasts. If it was about searching your phone, they would do it too your face, to watch reaction as they searched each directory. Nope, they hide the search from you, don't let you see it because they are not taking off but adding on and they most definitely do not want you to see that.
You can store a lot on phones nowadays and creating a copy via a USB (searching is not copying everything for ever) and getting a 100mb off a phone takes quite some time, queues at airports would be many kilometres long and really they only take enough time to add software rather than copy data.
I think people are starting to realise and hence are becoming far more cautious and are not travelling through US espionage customs with zero digital devices. Cheaper to buy a burner phone at the new location than attempt to clean a spy ridden one. When travelling overseas leave your personal phone at home and buy a new one when you get there. When you want to bring your digital data back from over seas, encrypt it and send it back to your localised ISP storage or on a device you had hooked up to your home network. When they ask, do you have anything to declare, answer in a proud voice, I like me privacy and I have nothing for you to search or add spyware to.
Who cares about, bases or camps or what ever they can come up with. All taxes should be paid at the point of revenue. They create the conditions that promote that revenue, hence the taxes should be paid there. All claims of cost at foreign locations should be substantiated and only, non-profit cost should be deducted, all remote profit, claimed as costs should be ignored and tax should be paid locally on those shifted profits. Where offshore costs can be effectively established, than those cost should be ignored and tax charged on full revenues being treated as profit.
All taxes should be paid in the country where the revenue is generated and corporations who mass cheat should be broken up and the executives responsible given life sentences, tax short falls, result in social services austerity, which results in death and suffering and those that mass cheat should pay the full penalty for the harm they have caused.
I though a better answer is, it's what married men do in the toilet when they are in there too long and what married women do in the shower when they are in there to long. Being a bachelor and not knowing why, how come married men do it in the toilet and married women do it in the shower, of course that could be all old stuff from the days of stick books that would of course get wet in the shower and women apparently just need their imagination and to be able to drown out the outside world.
One can understand the earlier prohibition to self hormonal adjustment, where higher breeding numbers were required to feed endless wars but you would think we would be able to calm things down now. Of course with the opposites sexes becoming so demanding off each other, self hormonal adjustment might become too popular.
The smarter move is GMO algae only. Fully genetically customised kelp, as the food source. Pretty much near anything is possible, with customised flavour, texture and trace elements, designed to grow in low light conditions. Large, multi story growing tanks, producing very high volumes of food, with hugely reduced land use and largely recycling water. Don't think stupid soylent green, think customised leaves large, plate sized, thick, with adjusted flavour and texture, peel and you have a steak. Storage pods, the size of your fist and filled with a high protein, low sugar banana custard substitute. Land use would be hugely reduced, allowing the planet to clean itself up.
The GMO crap they produce now is crap, built in pesticides to kill pests and harm people, herbicide resistant to pass tolerance to closely related species, long life with poor digestibility, basically all the crap ideas. The environment is a real, problem a lot have been damaged well beyond the idea of restoring to the original state, which is really not the wisest idea anyhow.
Something we need to look at is how to redo damaged environment, not to an original state, but to a more managed, healthy and productive environment, things like do you want the original river back or do you want a good clean productive river, filled with the best species the planet has to offer in a balanced state. (where productive is, cleaning up air and water, promoting quality managed bio-diversity, with low allergens and toxicity).
Parenting licences are a grand idea, both for having and for looking after, but if you have them in your country, how do you look at other mismanaged countries without them, looking to breed and dump refugees on your country, an interesting problem to solve, prevention an extremely violent thought and of course exclusion, still violent but not as violent or just give up trying to manage your country and just let it go to rot. Refugees should always be a problem solved at it's source and not a problem allowed to spread.