Why stop on 8? Make it 16! They'll make a fortune. And they can make some extra collecting all the data they handle and selling it to their criminal contacts outside jail.
Oh fuck! Now, besides having to deal with slowness, crashing applications, malware and all the usual problems, I'll have to put up with my computer forgetting stuff, showing up late and throwing tantrums?
Actually, I read an interview of a British researcher that has been studying North Korea for decades and has been there several times. He says that North Korea is actually a fascist country. Their system is based on an almost religious cult for the Dear Leader and racist belief in the superiority of the Korean race.
Communism is only in outgoing propaganda. They carefully craft some propaganda in Korean only for their own use, and a different one in English to show to the world.
I wish I could post a link to the interview, I can't remember it. Very interesting, it made my chin fall a few times.
planning a law enforcement sweep against so-called "money mules," individuals willingly or unwittingly roped into helping organized computer crooks launder money stolen through online banking fraud
So, what are they going to do? Arrest all the Wall Street executives? Invade the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Luxemburg, Switzerland, etc. etc. etc.
hard-core socialists and communists have pointed to the US trade ban with Cuba - i.e., insufficiently free trade - as the source of so many of the island's ills..
Funny, here in Europe only hard-core right-wingers and US-ass-lickers think the embargo is a good idea. I would risk saying most of the world is like that, too, since most of the UN vigorously condemns the embargo every single year. With no result, of course.
That the embargo only affects trade with the US is a lie that's repeated ad nauseam by the embargo defenders. Actually, it's a lot worse. The USA put foreign companies between the rock and a hard place by telling them they can't have any business with Cuba or they are, and all their commercial partners, forbidden to make business in the USA. Any company with a sane mind, faced with this outragous blackmail, gives in, of course. The whole fucking world has business with the USA. As a result, Cuba has a very hard time getting any supplies. They pay a premium for every little fucking thing they import. Medical equipment and medicines, for instance. They pay excruciating interest rates for any loan they make. This is making it a huge sacrifice to recover from the devastation caused by hurricane Ike in 2008, for example. They can't export the stuff they make, because nobody wants to make business with them and piss off the big bad USA. Besides, the US make pressure on all other countries to isolate Cuba diplomatically. Cuba has suffered countless terrorist attacks on its soil, from groups that operate freely in the USA.
Even so, Cuba is ahead of most Latin America (and most of the world by the way) in the Human Development Index, a fact that the Western "democratic" and "free" media forget to mention too often.
This is not a matter of defending Communism or Capitalism. The matter is, is it OK that a big, rich and powerful country treats a small, poor and weak country like this? Fuck no! And no spinning can change a basic fact like this.
Don't complain about carbon credits and carbon sequestration. It's the "marketish" way to solve things. Those were the ways the corporations and their pet politicians found to make everything stay the same while squeezing some more money from the working people.
It's fun that protecting the environment through regulation is OMG COMMIE!!!, but then the carbon credits make it all wonderful, because "Though Shall Love The Markets Above All Things!", "Though Shall Not Doubt The Markets!", etc.
Carbon credits are just free-market snake oil. Will serve only market speculation and do shit to fight global warming.
Expect the next crash to be because of carbon credits. Then the governments will be buying back toxic credits for 10 times their original value to save the speculators from drowning in their own shit. Guess who will be paying.
I don't have any hope that this will be solved. Humanity is just too stupid to get together and do anything right. Too bad I have children, they will suffer the consequences.
If cap and trade or a carbon tax increases their cost of doing business by 25%, you can bet your life they will increase the cost of their products by 25%.
With no viable alternatives to sustain our current economy and way of life, those who will pay are normal citizens, not Exxon shareholders.
If oil becomes too expensive now, the alternatives that are being developed now will become competitive and have a boom. That is a nightmare scenario for Big Oil. Also, don't forget heavy industry. They don't want to pay carbon taxes, directly or through oil price. And they sure don't want to pay for the development of alternatives, they're very happy destroying the planet and making money, thank you.
The scare will propel energy prices through the roof and said energy companies will make HUGE profits.
They WANT AGW policy to go through.
How this is not obvious to everyone is beyond me.
Exactly the opposite. They don't want oil to be made more expensive because they don't want alternatives to oil to be taken seriously. They want people to doubt global warming, so everybody will still be happily dependent of oil.
What has been inflating the price of oil is not global warming, it's the end of oil approaching. The oil industry has been doing everything to convince us that oil will last forever, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Their dream scenario is near the end of oil, when everybody is killing each other for a litre of oil, because no alternatives were developed. Then, the prices will be astronomical and the oil executives will be drinking champagne and fucking prostitutes like there's no tomorrow. Mmm, and there isn't, really.
Global warming is consensual among the vast majority of the world's scientists. Why on Earth would all these scientists have so much work to invent and defend a bogus theory, only to get money? If money's all they want, they should all take jobs in the oil companies, it would have been so much easier.
Exxon scientists have a very strong motivation to deny global warming, what is the motivation of all the others?
Yeah, right. Scientists don't know nuthing. I always discuss global warming with my neighbour Joe. He hasn't finished high school, but he knows a lot more than them puffed nuts, with them numbers and formulas, specially after he downs a few beers. He's a fuckin' genius!
And what if he's wrong? It ain't like global warming's gonna affect us, anyway. Not like that Big Bang thingy, if that ain't a lie, oceans will rise and we're all gonna die!
We have to treat 74 year old white-haired grandmothers *exactly* the same way as we treat 20-something guys with a bread and a strong middle-eastern accent when everyone knows that the odds of someone from either of these two groups doing something harmful on a flight are massively skewed towards the latter group.
Yes, because the several billions of people that match that description are all dangerous terrorists seeking how to destroy the West. Even I fit that description, and I haven't even been near the Middle East. To a TSA employee my accent could be from anywhere.
You need to drop TV and go out more. Stupid bigot.
The effect of giving the Windows source code to China seems to have been that people in China used it to break into Google and tens of other major corporations.
What does one thing have to do with the other? What have you been smoking?
Why should this be any different? There are expert groups in China who will find vulnerabilities in the systems and then, instead of having to have trojanised equipment from their own vendors, they will be able to attack the other vendor's equipment just as well.
Great, so let's make all encryption algorithms secret. Security through obscurity has worked sooooo well in the past...
What's really funny is that India is stopping buying Chinese made teleco equipment whilst other countries like the US; also great friends of China (when will you stop blocking their discipline against the rebel province of Taiwan???) still continue to buy Chinese.
Can India afford that, or are they just bluffing? And why do you think it's your job to "block" a sovereign country on an internal issue? Would you like the Chinese to "block" you if California wanted to become independent? Mind your own fucking business!
The fact that you were modded 5+ Insigthful for this crazy post makes me think you're not the only one smoking weird stuff.
the planet has been here for what? 4 and a half billion years, and we've been here a hundred thousand years, maybe 200 thousand. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200.
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Why stop on 8? Make it 16! They'll make a fortune. And they can make some extra collecting all the data they handle and selling it to their criminal contacts outside jail.
Oh fuck! Now, besides having to deal with slowness, crashing applications, malware and all the usual problems, I'll have to put up with my computer forgetting stuff, showing up late and throwing tantrums?
It's the same guy, but I read an interview with him elsewhere.
GP is full of shit. The most possimistic estimates point to a maximum of 11 billions. Check this
"Let them"? Dude, you "let" your kids do this or do that, you don't "let" other people reproduce, it's not your position to "let" anyone anything.
Actually, I read an interview of a British researcher that has been studying North Korea for decades and has been there several times. He says that North Korea is actually a fascist country. Their system is based on an almost religious cult for the Dear Leader and racist belief in the superiority of the Korean race. Communism is only in outgoing propaganda. They carefully craft some propaganda in Korean only for their own use, and a different one in English to show to the world.
I wish I could post a link to the interview, I can't remember it. Very interesting, it made my chin fall a few times.
Yyyyyyesss! Jobs!
planning a law enforcement sweep against so-called "money mules," individuals willingly or unwittingly roped into helping organized computer crooks launder money stolen through online banking fraud
So, what are they going to do? Arrest all the Wall Street executives? Invade the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Luxemburg, Switzerland, etc. etc. etc.
hard-core socialists and communists have pointed to the US trade ban with Cuba - i.e., insufficiently free trade - as the source of so many of the island's ills..
Funny, here in Europe only hard-core right-wingers and US-ass-lickers think the embargo is a good idea. I would risk saying most of the world is like that, too, since most of the UN vigorously condemns the embargo every single year. With no result, of course.
That the embargo only affects trade with the US is a lie that's repeated ad nauseam by the embargo defenders. Actually, it's a lot worse. The USA put foreign companies between the rock and a hard place by telling them they can't have any business with Cuba or they are, and all their commercial partners, forbidden to make business in the USA. Any company with a sane mind, faced with this outragous blackmail, gives in, of course. The whole fucking world has business with the USA. As a result, Cuba has a very hard time getting any supplies. They pay a premium for every little fucking thing they import. Medical equipment and medicines, for instance. They pay excruciating interest rates for any loan they make. This is making it a huge sacrifice to recover from the devastation caused by hurricane Ike in 2008, for example. They can't export the stuff they make, because nobody wants to make business with them and piss off the big bad USA. Besides, the US make pressure on all other countries to isolate Cuba diplomatically. Cuba has suffered countless terrorist attacks on its soil, from groups that operate freely in the USA.
Even so, Cuba is ahead of most Latin America (and most of the world by the way) in the Human Development Index, a fact that the Western "democratic" and "free" media forget to mention too often.
This is not a matter of defending Communism or Capitalism. The matter is, is it OK that a big, rich and powerful country treats a small, poor and weak country like this? Fuck no! And no spinning can change a basic fact like this.
Try beautiful girls with big boobs. That should work not only with Germans, but any army.
Don't complain about carbon credits and carbon sequestration. It's the "marketish" way to solve things. Those were the ways the corporations and their pet politicians found to make everything stay the same while squeezing some more money from the working people.
It's fun that protecting the environment through regulation is OMG COMMIE!!!, but then the carbon credits make it all wonderful, because "Though Shall Love The Markets Above All Things!", "Though Shall Not Doubt The Markets!", etc.
Carbon credits are just free-market snake oil. Will serve only market speculation and do shit to fight global warming.
Expect the next crash to be because of carbon credits. Then the governments will be buying back toxic credits for 10 times their original value to save the speculators from drowning in their own shit. Guess who will be paying.
I don't have any hope that this will be solved. Humanity is just too stupid to get together and do anything right. Too bad I have children, they will suffer the consequences.
If cap and trade or a carbon tax increases their cost of doing business by 25%, you can bet your life they will increase the cost of their products by 25%.
With no viable alternatives to sustain our current economy and way of life, those who will pay are normal citizens, not Exxon shareholders.
If oil becomes too expensive now, the alternatives that are being developed now will become competitive and have a boom. That is a nightmare scenario for Big Oil. Also, don't forget heavy industry. They don't want to pay carbon taxes, directly or through oil price. And they sure don't want to pay for the development of alternatives, they're very happy destroying the planet and making money, thank you.
The scare will propel energy prices through the roof and said energy companies will make HUGE profits.
They WANT AGW policy to go through.
How this is not obvious to everyone is beyond me.
Exactly the opposite. They don't want oil to be made more expensive because they don't want alternatives to oil to be taken seriously. They want people to doubt global warming, so everybody will still be happily dependent of oil.
What has been inflating the price of oil is not global warming, it's the end of oil approaching. The oil industry has been doing everything to convince us that oil will last forever, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Their dream scenario is near the end of oil, when everybody is killing each other for a litre of oil, because no alternatives were developed. Then, the prices will be astronomical and the oil executives will be drinking champagne and fucking prostitutes like there's no tomorrow. Mmm, and there isn't, really.
Global warming is consensual among the vast majority of the world's scientists. Why on Earth would all these scientists have so much work to invent and defend a bogus theory, only to get money? If money's all they want, they should all take jobs in the oil companies, it would have been so much easier.
Exxon scientists have a very strong motivation to deny global warming, what is the motivation of all the others?
I don't think the remaining decades I have to live will be enough for widespread acceptance or rejection of AGW.
It's not widely accepted in your country. In mine, is pretty much common sense.
Yeah, right. Scientists don't know nuthing. I always discuss global warming with my neighbour Joe. He hasn't finished high school, but he knows a lot more than them puffed nuts, with them numbers and formulas, specially after he downs a few beers. He's a fuckin' genius!
And what if he's wrong? It ain't like global warming's gonna affect us, anyway. Not like that Big Bang thingy, if that ain't a lie, oceans will rise and we're all gonna die!
Wherever the money goes, wherever politicians make it go, it probably shouldnt have gone there.
So, who should make it go? Blood-sucking corporations nobody has elected?
I happen to agree to the AC. And your reply to his post is just as incoherent as your original post.
If nothing else, I would expect the /. crowd to be at least a little skeptical of *anything* that causes vast sums of money to change hands.
Yeah, like the oil business.
We have to treat 74 year old white-haired grandmothers *exactly* the same way as we treat 20-something guys with a bread and a strong middle-eastern accent when everyone knows that the odds of someone from either of these two groups doing something harmful on a flight are massively skewed towards the latter group.
Yes, because the several billions of people that match that description are all dangerous terrorists seeking how to destroy the West. Even I fit that description, and I haven't even been near the Middle East. To a TSA employee my accent could be from anywhere.
You need to drop TV and go out more. Stupid bigot.
The effect of giving the Windows source code to China seems to have been that people in China used it to break into Google and tens of other major corporations.
What does one thing have to do with the other? What have you been smoking?
Why should this be any different? There are expert groups in China who will find vulnerabilities in the systems and then, instead of having to have trojanised equipment from their own vendors, they will be able to attack the other vendor's equipment just as well.
Great, so let's make all encryption algorithms secret. Security through obscurity has worked sooooo well in the past...
What's really funny is that India is stopping buying Chinese made teleco equipment whilst other countries like the US; also great friends of China (when will you stop blocking their discipline against the rebel province of Taiwan???) still continue to buy Chinese.
Can India afford that, or are they just bluffing? And why do you think it's your job to "block" a sovereign country on an internal issue? Would you like the Chinese to "block" you if California wanted to become independent? Mind your own fucking business!
The fact that you were modded 5+ Insigthful for this crazy post makes me think you're not the only one smoking weird stuff.
Why not -1 Bigot?
Yeah, and while they are learning the corporations pocket some big fat millions.
I can't understand how advertising addressed to children is legal in any developed country.
makes you a narrow-minded egoist.
What?
the planet has been here for what? 4 and a half billion years, and we've been here a hundred thousand years, maybe 200 thousand. And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200.
Not according to the next US president.
As someone who has asthma, this pisses me off. I like breathing, thanks.
100% percent with you, brother. Clean air regulations and indoor smoking ban made a huge difference in my well-being. And a lot is still to do...