This is just another wonderful example of hot Governments and large corporations interact these days.
The no so veiled thread to cough up some tribute or new laws or we'll axe jobs is pretty standard. Since governments are 'responsible' to the people governed, while the corporations are only reaponsible to their shareholders, corporations can look at the small picture, and even intentionally plan to harm the public good in order to increase market share/profits/the general operating environment.
Add in the ability to travel across political boundries at will adding or withdrawing economic support based on the short term self interest a small entity, and you end up with the kind f situation descrobed in the article.
"Repeal environmental clean-up laws or peopel will gewt laid off"; "Build is a new stadium with public funds, or we'll move the team to another city"; "Give our for profit company huge government tax and hadnouts or we'll move to another region, or another country - and heck, we might move there anyway after we've grabbed the cash".
These are all pretty standard business practices these days.
has spyware on a user's computer today while I was in a staff meeting, and a tech at the Helpdesk started the new Microsoft "anti-spyware" to scan for problems.
When I got to the PC it had finished scanning.
After rebooting, several pop-ups appeared, including one that was recommending changing the user's Hope Page to www.msn.com.
Keep in mind that this is supposed to be an ANTI spyware app. We use a specific intranet page for the Home Page for all the users here, so the page was NOT, as this app suggested, a 'possible indication of an unauthorized change ib the Onternet explorer settings' or some such nonsense.
I suppose that since Bill Gates didn't actually grant us permission to use our own home page, I can inderstand why a MS product might see it as 'unauthorized'. It also, of course, wanted to make the default search engine search.msn.com.
I feel really sorry for the home users out there who computers are attacked by adware and spyware, and end up going to Microsoft to be rescued.
I also can already see the next round of anti-trust lawsuits getting fired up.
I always try to curse out the company I'm holding for while I'm on hold. It's really satisfying to know that someone might actually get to hear this negative feedback - because Service Sucks these days. Considering the fact that the US has moved to a 'service economy', this is a really bad thing.
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Plus Beakman has a more effective use of the rimshot
For the record, Beakman Classic was better than the revamped version.
Someone beat you to it.
When Darl heard the phrase it thought they said "The customer is always ripe.
For now.
Spyware, adware, trojans, viruses, it's all a bunch of scummy crap that peopel don't want on their PC's.
9. SCO insists that it cannot be expected to file its 10K until IBM fully complies with discovery order
8. Too much Valentine's Day chocolate left SCO feeling bloated and sluggish
7. Cost cutting measure reduced staff to 3 workers and 4,200 lawyers
6. Mean Mister Mustard sleeps in the park, Shaves in the dark trying to save paper
5. Cancellation of Star Trek Enterprise taking a great emotional toll
4. Printers were too busy laughing hysterically to actually print the damn thing
3. Final Draft had to be recalled after failure to secure the rights to the copyrighted phrase "SCO is Toast"
2. Company in turmoil after being introduced to Darl's replacement, Carly Fiorina
. . And the number one reason the 10-K deadline was missed:
1) Everytime SCO tries to file, it's pants catch fire.
(reposted from my Yahoo post)
The no so veiled thread to cough up some tribute or new laws or we'll axe jobs is pretty standard. Since governments are 'responsible' to the people governed, while the corporations are only reaponsible to their shareholders, corporations can look at the small picture, and even intentionally plan to harm the public good in order to increase market share/profits/the general operating environment.
Add in the ability to travel across political boundries at will adding or withdrawing economic support based on the short term self interest a small entity, and you end up with the kind f situation descrobed in the article.
"Repeal environmental clean-up laws or peopel will gewt laid off"; "Build is a new stadium with public funds, or we'll move the team to another city"; "Give our for profit company huge government tax and hadnouts or we'll move to another region, or another country - and heck, we might move there anyway after we've grabbed the cash".
These are all pretty standard business practices these days.
They only re-real your envelope with a sticker when they want you to know that they opened it.
Once they put the chips in our heads they won't have to worry about putting DRM on the media or players.
When I got to the PC it had finished scanning.
After rebooting, several pop-ups appeared, including one that was recommending changing the user's Hope Page to www.msn.com.
Keep in mind that this is supposed to be an ANTI spyware app. We use a specific intranet page for the Home Page for all the users here, so the page was NOT, as this app suggested, a 'possible indication of an unauthorized change ib the Onternet explorer settings' or some such nonsense.
I suppose that since Bill Gates didn't actually grant us permission to use our own home page, I can inderstand why a MS product might see it as 'unauthorized'. It also, of course, wanted to make the default search engine search.msn.com.
I feel really sorry for the home users out there who computers are attacked by adware and spyware, and end up going to Microsoft to be rescued.
I also can already see the next round of anti-trust lawsuits getting fired up.
I always try to curse out the company I'm holding for while I'm on hold. It's really satisfying to know that someone might actually get to hear this negative feedback - because Service Sucks these days. Considering the fact that the US has moved to a 'service economy', this is a really bad thing.
and installs Linux.
I'm shocked, shocked I say.
That simplistic dualistic thinking drives really gets on my nerves.
'You don't like A therefore you must like B because the mainstream mindset defines A and B as opposites.'
Yeah well you repeated what I said - but you get a '5' and I get '0' 'TROLL'. Go figure.
Obviously someone who never listened to the WinAmp sample file modded the above message down.
I apologize deeply to anyone I might have offended.
Like any good (or even mediocre) super-power, China is only hostiel when they don't get when they want.
That's still a scummy way to do business, even if it is legal.
WTF?
If they can't be recruited.
(In Soviet Russia, code breaks YOU!)
In the commune on the moon, does Supreme Power derive from a mandate from the masses? Are there and strange women lying in ponds, distibuting swords?
And what if AOL (Time-Warner-AOL-Turner) then links to Microsoft?
Eventually we will reach the Event Link Horizon, and the MPRIAA will be entitled [b]1to all the money in the world[/b], plus court costs.
So I guess that asking if pr0n is considered 'educational' is a little obvious.