Wrong. A vote for McCain is a vote for Mussolini. Hitler was much more intelligent and won his iron cross in combat, not by letting himself be caught. Mussolini was a coward, an idiot and he certainly believed in roman fancies: same as McCain. And a vote for Obama is a vote for Eisenhower: the last True president.
The Republican party has a larger agenda than your lifetime or mine. They were steadily hammering against the bi-metallic standard from 1880s onwards...they succeded in establishing the First BUS which died. Their triumph came with Second BUS, which was vetoed much to their anger. But they did not lose heart: they continued to hammer away at public views with newspapers bought and paid, and successed in establishing the Federal Reserve, which promptly brought about the panic of 1930s and resulted in firesale of land and assets to the richest. They finally succedeed in revoking Gold Standard in 1930s when it became illegal to hold Gold. Thus was born the fiat currency which could inflate and deflate at will to bring down governments, politicians or anyone they didn't like. Social Security is a thorn, because it channels HUGE amounts into Government. As a parting present to the continued support of the richest, Paulson "gifted" them $750 billion as a rush measure. Now banks are hoarding that money and Democrats are being blamed for voting for it! The next shot Paulson will take is to privatize social security before he leaves: atleast crack it open a bit to allow the flood. By claiming the bailout didn't work, AND that treasury bonds yield so little, AND to improve the economy he would order social security to invest a part of its income in real estate or Bank Bonds....and thus will the Republic become an Empire...
You mean between McCain who jokes about how women liked gorillas, and Palin who charges for the test kits. You are right. Both these pigs, one with Botox and one with Lipstick should be hounded out.
Do you have statistics that prove that whistleblowers DO get promoted over other similar qualified individuals in SAME company? Am not saying am immune to prosecution if i commit a felony: am saying that if i do an act that turns out to be illegal when found so in court and i was acting in best interests (not ignorance, even am not that stupid), the company is bound to defend me since i acted as its agent. Am talking about protection, not immunity. Much like Enron shielded its traders even though some were proven to have discussed hanging out california dry. Whistleblower protections have been diluted a lot in pst 8 years: just ask Bush. Or take medical insurance claims, where valid claims are rejected by employees representing Aetna: Do the individual employees get sued?? NO. If the employees complain to Feds about the illegal practice, what would Aetna do? Suppose i do get Aetna convicted, get a book deal, spend the money away in LA and now come back to work, tell me which companies would rush to hire me? (am not talking about Greenpeace or EFF), even when am well qualified. Screw corporates, take Valerie Plame: she did nothing wrong, was exposed, sued Cheney, lost, and did the CIA rush to hire her in a desk job? Apart from a $2.5m book deal, she was not hired to work with any other company, let alone mercenary Blackwater. Again i repeat, law is different from real world implications: You may win every court battle, yet you lose the war: court battles, press, publicity, book deals etc. Yet Erin Brockovich still has only speech appearences and not a job.
The "I was following orders" excuse is the lamest one you can chose to protect yourself against corporate wrongdoin
The only way to force a corporate's Legal defend you is this excuse, unless you want to spend millions. Tell me, how many employees have been convicted of wrongdoing versus CEOs? Enron, WorldCom, etc., all had their CFO and CEO convicted: not the Traders or employees who clearly some things were illegal.
You are talking about the Perfect world scenario. Am talking about Real World. How many whistle blowers have been hired by other corporates and been promoted to CEOs? Legal exists to intimidate outsiders, make sure to defend the company against lawsuits: not to prevent it. Yes there are anonymous ways to contact Legal in banks, etc., but tell me how many have done so and come out on top: in America? Lets face the real world: Tipping off Legal or cops is considered betrayal and makes you untouchable. Laws that prevent you from being fired from THAT job exist: but somehow the spotlight shines in wrong way, so you end up at home. Committing a felony being an agent of corporation forces the corporation to defend you in a lawsuit. Betraying it does not.
That is a SURE-FIRE way to NOT get hired next time. Look, you are an employee of a corporate: protected by its immunity. You are an agent of the corporation: The Principal (Corp) bears the full responsibility for its orders to you. If those orders are illegal, and you declare you obey them without knowing they are illegal then the corp is responsible. Most probably when the FBI or MPAA raids the corp offices you won't be charged: you can't be. The max the feds can do is to offer you protection for testifying against your boss.
Economically this joker may think he makes sense. Factually no. A walk through pages of history shows that free & selfless labor has always increased during times of economic crisis: 1. Panic of 1873 & 1893 many ex-bankers in Vienna and US turned to writing free-to-read books and articles on economic standards and the like. Some took to painting and produced good works of art which donated to museums around the world. 2. The Alexandria Library is a fine example: its burning down resulted in destruction of many books, but many more were written again from memory and scrolls and distributed free. 3. The Bible was a book that was handwritten free many times by churches during the 100-year war and the 1870 conflicts. 4. Penicillin and other medicines were produced and distributed at low cost during crisis.
To hell with Microsoft. The Feds have more bigger fish to fry. Using this as a precedent, Obama can easily seize the IP for Bank of America and Citibank: the two prime suspects in the sub-prime scandal. Hell, i would subsidize anything that allows their IP to be seized and released into public domain. I would even pay advance taxes if it results in citi IP: their special deals, data centers, etc, becoming public domain. The host of patents and trademarks they hold would make a very attractive arsenal for future banks.
Am surprised, angry and upset at seeing elected representatives trying to inhibit free will and freedom, while unelected Lords actually try to protect Freedom... The Magna Carta writers would be amazed. Hell, Disraeli would be amazed. Am disgusted with this Commons.
65% of the time it has been ruled by one family: But 25% it has been ruled by others including coalitions which include regional parties. In the past 15 years it has been 100% coalition governments with many regional parties including Leftist Communists, Right wing nut jobs, neutral minority, Green candidates, Coal candidates, and a minister who kicked US bal1s in the world trade forum and joined hands with Brazil to do it. The thing is the parties are very active and people are not naive anymore. People have become selfish to the point that they would vote for a single candidate from one party as local mayor while electing an opponent for the same seat to represent nationally. Earlier people were swayed by Family charisma and vocabulary. Those stopped when people started earning serious money and started watching cable. Unlike US, the press (TV and Print) is very very vocal and completely unbiased. In fact they are biased AGAINST whatever party is ruling at present state or federal. And since there are 13 news channels, they vie with each other to break fiascos, corruption scandals, etc. Recently 4 MPs were ejected from the parliment for taking bribes in a sting by one TV channel. The Election Commission is a fearful master: No hanging chads or no breakages into the voting machines: they are simpler, use ROM and are highly robust and accurate. Considering that every party gets to check the code and vote directly, the fear of tampering with voting machies is non-existent. Plus the EC has frightened politicians who earlier lived on vote robbing, etc. The present machines invalidate such moves. We may complain a lot, but we are proud to live in a vibrant democracy where candidates actually fear elections. And where the press is fiercely independent and unbiased, unlike FOX.
Blair was hoping to revive the Empire day glories. Thatcher would have jumped at that chance. She was a realist, but her actions in office showed her unstinting loyalty to US, especially Reagan. She would have steamrolled opposition to war and by now instead of 4,000 US soldiers it would be british who would be paying the ultimate sacrifice. Disraeli would have told W. to stick it in his ass. So would have Mountbatten, but sadly those are gone. Churchill would not have supported, but he would have allowed Gitmo to be built in Gibraltar.
I agree with most but not all. In India Democracy seems to work fine. It keeps the leaders in check and voters don't hesitate to throw out people who have ruled well. Add to the fact that instead of 2 parties, there are a zillion of them, many represent local communities and once they go national, they never forget to please their small constituency back home (they would have 2-3 seats max but it serves). Of course corruption is phenomenal, but work gets done eventually, and no one is stupid enough to propose laws that make them thrown out of power. For instance the POTA law allowed confessions made to police as valid ones. Which resulted in many innocents dead. The outcry was HUGE, and parties were thrown out of power... End result: That law NEVER comes up and those who propose such laws are swiftly booted from their own parties before they become a liability. Another attempt was increasing prices of cooking gas which swiftly resulted in the government becoming a minority. This decision was hastily reversed and the guy who proposed it was thrown out... Of course petrol prices are still controlled and this government refuses to reduce prices when international prices come down...but the threat of elections has always made parties do our bidding. Democracy flourishes when there are too many parties. It keeps everyone on their toes.
I don't know what to say...Incompetency has always been taught as something that harms its victims. But in this case it actually benefits victims... After Churchill, UK seems to have produced no Great Leader... and no Margaret Thatcher does NOT compute as a great leader. If not for oil in northern fields, UK would never have recovered its decline... Margaret thatcher's regime is best left forgotten: It will be unsung, unhonored and unwept. If the present clowns had run UK in 1930s i guess Hitler would have found it easier to bombard britain into submission... Iam jealous of you guys: you seem to have the best of both worlds: A weak incompetent government which can't do any harm however worse its intention, and a currency that is the envy of Euro.
If ministers are punished harder, then such systems will work better: but that will result in solutions against the people. So being lax actually benefits you??? For once am speechless.
PM?? That Brown ? That guy can't even decide which way to unzip around to pee, let alone make a tough decision like this. Yes, prime Minister is absolutely true.
Published??? As what? Law? By then it will be too late my friend. I cannot believe that a nation which forged Disraeli, Churchill and Shakespeare will end up in the dustbin of human rights. Government officials have a way of making common MPs sway to their demands easily: Haven't you watched Yes Minister? Stop before its too late. Even during its heyday as Empire, UK cringed when it came to violating people's privacy. There was a time when a Gentleman if stopped on the street for some ID, could whip out a post letter addressed to him and swat away the copper. These days try that and you will be very lucky to end up in the slammer or worse end up getting shot at in the head. Next day some government official will mumble some apology on TV and the stupid press will swallow it up and rush off to cover Posh's new panties or Angelina's next baby bump.
The poor guy who lost the laptop should not be prosecuted. His boss who authorized the laptop to this poor guy should be jailed. That's how the reich worked. And that's how this should work. The UK government wants to shred the last cloth of privacy and peek into our bedrooms and toilets: this is what the reich did. But the reich also handed swift punishments to those did shoddy work.
Why is NO ONE from UK protesting against this monstrous humongous assault on rights and freedom? I mean this UK government is incapable of fulfilling everything that people yet is perfectly capable of converting everyone into a criminal and shooting innocent people in subways and the like. Why doesn't the stupid holier-than-thou BBC question the government over this massive haul? First it was ISP snooping and 3-strikes law, next it was throttling, next it was email provacy gone, next it was bedroom privacy gone, next it was laptop privacy gone and now it is this. Everyday we hear massive new amounts of such assaults against human rights in UK, which puts China and even Korea to shame. Pretty soon to walk down the street with your dog, the cops would require a passport; for the dog. And instead of US where privacy and freedom is enshrined, UK depends on courts which seem more likely than ever to side with the stupid government which can't look after its own employees who visit prostitutes and lose their laptops. Why doesn't the Lords do something? The commons is made up of Common riff-raff which are more concerned with nailing down the next highest-priced whore who comes their way, while public servants regularly lose private information and then ask us to check our bank accounts. Why isn't there a law which imposes mandatory criminal jail sentences for people who lose private information. If an employee loses a laptop, he goes to serve bubba in prison for 12 months or more with free lube given by people. Why isn't there a law which prevents people from entering a home or accessing someone's private property without authorization from Lords or the Queen herself. in that way if something goes wrong and an innocent person is shot dead because he jumped over a ticket barrier, she is forced to face jail. Dumb ass citizens! Wake up! 70 years ago, a failed austrian artist did the same thing and propagated Reich. He was atleast intelligent and brilliant. Your current crop of leaders can't spell their own properly let alone build a reich. The max they can build is what Viagra builds for them!
Probably Tesla motors would be sold to Chrysler or Ford. Both GM and Chrysler have EVs today. Ford doesn't. If Ford had brains, it would acquire Tesla and work it into its brand pretty easily. They could have another Mustang on their hands. But sadly, ford is dumber than Jessica Simpson. So Tesla would be acquired by either Honda or Hyndai.
Sure, show me ONE instance where the responsible MP or CP or a minister has been jailed by the overzealous courts who seem intent on taking away the common man's rights.
Interesting example. Let me give you another one: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2907495.ece/ Imagine it is your child's personal information that is lost. Someone tracks her down to her school identify her, and god forbid, assaults her; so badly she can't have a child: ever. Would you accept the fact that the Government can't be trusted to "monitor" people? Would you agree to a law that ensures government pays the ultimate price for leaking your daughter's personal information? Would you love to keep the government's grubby hands from your information? Would you not demand the government be prevented from storing personal data about you, get out of your hair and lives, and pay a criminal price for its lapse? There are two sides to every story my friend. Compromising on your freedom to feel safe is also such a thing.
Am sorry for misunderstanding what you said earlier. But tell me, how far is it going from this draconian law to becoming a Gestapo state? Fifty years ago such laws would be have been shouted down by the press and people, not to mention the government itself, but today everyone is silent. Plus, today if am jailed for forgetting an encryption key, tomorrow my neighbors may be jailed for not telling the government i encrypt my disks! Freedom is a fragile delicate flower. Once lost, regaining it is a lost cause. The more we allow government into our private lives, the more we will be pushed out of our homes. Soon, the schools will be teaching that spying on parents for seditious thoughts is a necessity for security. They will also teach that Security over Freedom is more preferable and that in order to prevent terrorists it is necessary to spy on everyone's bedroom activities since if terrorists can be stopped from being conceived, then the State has ensured security for all. Tell me where will it stop.
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Wrong.
A vote for McCain is a vote for Mussolini. Hitler was much more intelligent and won his iron cross in combat, not by letting himself be caught.
Mussolini was a coward, an idiot and he certainly believed in roman fancies: same as McCain.
And a vote for Obama is a vote for Eisenhower: the last True president.
The Republican party has a larger agenda than your lifetime or mine. ...and thus will the Republic become an Empire...
They were steadily hammering against the bi-metallic standard from 1880s onwards...they succeded in establishing the First BUS which died.
Their triumph came with Second BUS, which was vetoed much to their anger.
But they did not lose heart: they continued to hammer away at public views with newspapers bought and paid, and successed in establishing the Federal Reserve, which promptly brought about the panic of 1930s and resulted in firesale of land and assets to the richest.
They finally succedeed in revoking Gold Standard in 1930s when it became illegal to hold Gold.
Thus was born the fiat currency which could inflate and deflate at will to bring down governments, politicians or anyone they didn't like.
Social Security is a thorn, because it channels HUGE amounts into Government.
As a parting present to the continued support of the richest, Paulson "gifted" them $750 billion as a rush measure. Now banks are hoarding that money and Democrats are being blamed for voting for it!
The next shot Paulson will take is to privatize social security before he leaves: atleast crack it open a bit to allow the flood.
By claiming the bailout didn't work, AND that treasury bonds yield so little, AND to improve the economy he would order social security to invest a part of its income in real estate or Bank Bonds.
You mean between McCain who jokes about how women liked gorillas, and Palin who charges for the test kits.
You are right.
Both these pigs, one with Botox and one with Lipstick should be hounded out.
These MTF publishers would next want royalties from brick and mortar buildings where people browse thro' their books without permission.
Do you have statistics that prove that whistleblowers DO get promoted over other similar qualified individuals in SAME company?
Am not saying am immune to prosecution if i commit a felony: am saying that if i do an act that turns out to be illegal when found so in court and i was acting in best interests (not ignorance, even am not that stupid), the company is bound to defend me since i acted as its agent. Am talking about protection, not immunity.
Much like Enron shielded its traders even though some were proven to have discussed hanging out california dry.
Whistleblower protections have been diluted a lot in pst 8 years: just ask Bush.
Or take medical insurance claims, where valid claims are rejected by employees representing Aetna: Do the individual employees get sued?? NO.
If the employees complain to Feds about the illegal practice, what would Aetna do? Suppose i do get Aetna convicted, get a book deal, spend the money away in LA and now come back to work, tell me which companies would rush to hire me? (am not talking about Greenpeace or EFF), even when am well qualified.
Screw corporates, take Valerie Plame: she did nothing wrong, was exposed, sued Cheney, lost, and did the CIA rush to hire her in a desk job? Apart from a $2.5m book deal, she was not hired to work with any other company, let alone mercenary Blackwater.
Again i repeat, law is different from real world implications:
You may win every court battle, yet you lose the war: court battles, press, publicity, book deals etc. Yet Erin Brockovich still has only speech appearences and not a job.
The "I was following orders" excuse is the lamest one you can chose to protect yourself against corporate wrongdoin
The only way to force a corporate's Legal defend you is this excuse, unless you want to spend millions.
Tell me, how many employees have been convicted of wrongdoing versus CEOs?
Enron, WorldCom, etc., all had their CFO and CEO convicted: not the Traders or employees who clearly some things were illegal.
You are talking about the Perfect world scenario.
Am talking about Real World.
How many whistle blowers have been hired by other corporates and been promoted to CEOs?
Legal exists to intimidate outsiders, make sure to defend the company against lawsuits: not to prevent it.
Yes there are anonymous ways to contact Legal in banks, etc., but tell me how many have done so and come out on top: in America?
Lets face the real world: Tipping off Legal or cops is considered betrayal and makes you untouchable. Laws that prevent you from being fired from THAT job exist: but somehow the spotlight shines in wrong way, so you end up at home.
Committing a felony being an agent of corporation forces the corporation to defend you in a lawsuit. Betraying it does not.
That is a SURE-FIRE way to NOT get hired next time.
Look, you are an employee of a corporate: protected by its immunity.
You are an agent of the corporation: The Principal (Corp) bears the full responsibility for its orders to you.
If those orders are illegal, and you declare you obey them without knowing they are illegal then the corp is responsible.
Most probably when the FBI or MPAA raids the corp offices you won't be charged: you can't be.
The max the feds can do is to offer you protection for testifying against your boss.
Economically this joker may think he makes sense. Factually no.
A walk through pages of history shows that free & selfless labor has always increased during times of economic crisis:
1. Panic of 1873 & 1893 many ex-bankers in Vienna and US turned to writing free-to-read books and articles on economic standards and the like. Some took to painting and produced good works of art which donated to museums around the world.
2. The Alexandria Library is a fine example: its burning down resulted in destruction of many books, but many more were written again from memory and scrolls and distributed free.
3. The Bible was a book that was handwritten free many times by churches during the 100-year war and the 1870 conflicts.
4. Penicillin and other medicines were produced and distributed at low cost during crisis.
To hell with Microsoft. The Feds have more bigger fish to fry.
Using this as a precedent, Obama can easily seize the IP for Bank of America and Citibank: the two prime suspects in the sub-prime scandal.
Hell, i would subsidize anything that allows their IP to be seized and released into public domain.
I would even pay advance taxes if it results in citi IP: their special deals, data centers, etc, becoming public domain. The host of patents and trademarks they hold would make a very attractive arsenal for future banks.
Am surprised, angry and upset at seeing elected representatives trying to inhibit free will and freedom, while unelected Lords actually try to protect Freedom...
The Magna Carta writers would be amazed.
Hell, Disraeli would be amazed.
Am disgusted with this Commons.
65% of the time it has been ruled by one family: But 25% it has been ruled by others including coalitions which include regional parties.
In the past 15 years it has been 100% coalition governments with many regional parties including Leftist Communists, Right wing nut jobs, neutral minority, Green candidates, Coal candidates, and a minister who kicked US bal1s in the world trade forum and joined hands with Brazil to do it.
The thing is the parties are very active and people are not naive anymore.
People have become selfish to the point that they would vote for a single candidate from one party as local mayor while electing an opponent for the same seat to represent nationally.
Earlier people were swayed by Family charisma and vocabulary. Those stopped when people started earning serious money and started watching cable.
Unlike US, the press (TV and Print) is very very vocal and completely unbiased.
In fact they are biased AGAINST whatever party is ruling at present state or federal.
And since there are 13 news channels, they vie with each other to break fiascos, corruption scandals, etc. Recently 4 MPs were ejected from the parliment for taking bribes in a sting by one TV channel.
The Election Commission is a fearful master: No hanging chads or no breakages into the voting machines: they are simpler, use ROM and are highly robust and accurate. Considering that every party gets to check the code and vote directly, the fear of tampering with voting machies is non-existent. Plus the EC has frightened politicians who earlier lived on vote robbing, etc. The present machines invalidate such moves.
We may complain a lot, but we are proud to live in a vibrant democracy where candidates actually fear elections.
And where the press is fiercely independent and unbiased, unlike FOX.
Blair was hoping to revive the Empire day glories.
Thatcher would have jumped at that chance.
She was a realist, but her actions in office showed her unstinting loyalty to US, especially Reagan.
She would have steamrolled opposition to war and by now instead of 4,000 US soldiers it would be british who would be paying the ultimate sacrifice.
Disraeli would have told W. to stick it in his ass.
So would have Mountbatten, but sadly those are gone.
Churchill would not have supported, but he would have allowed Gitmo to be built in Gibraltar.
I agree with most but not all.
In India Democracy seems to work fine.
It keeps the leaders in check and voters don't hesitate to throw out people who have ruled well.
Add to the fact that instead of 2 parties, there are a zillion of them, many represent local communities and once they go national, they never forget to please their small constituency back home (they would have 2-3 seats max but it serves).
Of course corruption is phenomenal, but work gets done eventually, and no one is stupid enough to propose laws that make them thrown out of power.
For instance the POTA law allowed confessions made to police as valid ones. Which resulted in many innocents dead. The outcry was HUGE, and parties were thrown out of power... End result: That law NEVER comes up and those who propose such laws are swiftly booted from their own parties before they become a liability. Another attempt was increasing prices of cooking gas which swiftly resulted in the government becoming a minority. This decision was hastily reversed and the guy who proposed it was thrown out...
Of course petrol prices are still controlled and this government refuses to reduce prices when international prices come down...but the threat of elections has always made parties do our bidding.
Democracy flourishes when there are too many parties. It keeps everyone on their toes.
I don't know what to say...Incompetency has always been taught as something that harms its victims.
But in this case it actually benefits victims...
After Churchill, UK seems to have produced no Great Leader... and no Margaret Thatcher does NOT compute as a great leader. If not for oil in northern fields, UK would never have recovered its decline...
Margaret thatcher's regime is best left forgotten: It will be unsung, unhonored and unwept. If the present clowns had run UK in 1930s i guess Hitler would have found it easier to bombard britain into submission...
Iam jealous of you guys: you seem to have the best of both worlds: A weak incompetent government which can't do any harm however worse its intention, and a currency that is the envy of Euro.
If ministers are punished harder, then such systems will work better: but that will result in solutions against the people.
So being lax actually benefits you???
For once am speechless.
PM?? That Brown ?
That guy can't even decide which way to unzip around to pee, let alone make a tough decision like this.
Yes, prime Minister is absolutely true.
Published??? As what? Law?
By then it will be too late my friend.
I cannot believe that a nation which forged Disraeli, Churchill and Shakespeare will end up in the dustbin of human rights.
Government officials have a way of making common MPs sway to their demands easily: Haven't you watched Yes Minister?
Stop before its too late.
Even during its heyday as Empire, UK cringed when it came to violating people's privacy. There was a time when a Gentleman if stopped on the street for some ID, could whip out a post letter addressed to him and swat away the copper.
These days try that and you will be very lucky to end up in the slammer or worse end up getting shot at in the head. Next day some government official will mumble some apology on TV and the stupid press will swallow it up and rush off to cover Posh's new panties or Angelina's next baby bump.
The poor guy who lost the laptop should not be prosecuted.
His boss who authorized the laptop to this poor guy should be jailed.
That's how the reich worked. And that's how this should work.
The UK government wants to shred the last cloth of privacy and peek into our bedrooms and toilets: this is what the reich did.
But the reich also handed swift punishments to those did shoddy work.
Why is NO ONE from UK protesting against this monstrous humongous assault on rights and freedom?
I mean this UK government is incapable of fulfilling everything that people yet is perfectly capable of converting everyone into a criminal and shooting innocent people in subways and the like.
Why doesn't the stupid holier-than-thou BBC question the government over this massive haul?
First it was ISP snooping and 3-strikes law, next it was throttling, next it was email provacy gone, next it was bedroom privacy gone, next it was laptop privacy gone and now it is this.
Everyday we hear massive new amounts of such assaults against human rights in UK, which puts China and even Korea to shame.
Pretty soon to walk down the street with your dog, the cops would require a passport; for the dog.
And instead of US where privacy and freedom is enshrined, UK depends on courts which seem more likely than ever to side with the stupid government which can't look after its own employees who visit prostitutes and lose their laptops.
Why doesn't the Lords do something?
The commons is made up of Common riff-raff which are more concerned with nailing down the next highest-priced whore who comes their way, while public servants regularly lose private information and then ask us to check our bank accounts.
Why isn't there a law which imposes mandatory criminal jail sentences for people who lose private information.
If an employee loses a laptop, he goes to serve bubba in prison for 12 months or more with free lube given by people.
Why isn't there a law which prevents people from entering a home or accessing someone's private property without authorization from Lords or the Queen herself. in that way if something goes wrong and an innocent person is shot dead because he jumped over a ticket barrier, she is forced to face jail.
Dumb ass citizens! Wake up!
70 years ago, a failed austrian artist did the same thing and propagated Reich. He was atleast intelligent and brilliant.
Your current crop of leaders can't spell their own properly let alone build a reich. The max they can build is what Viagra builds for them!
Probably Tesla motors would be sold to Chrysler or Ford.
Both GM and Chrysler have EVs today.
Ford doesn't.
If Ford had brains, it would acquire Tesla and work it into its brand pretty easily.
They could have another Mustang on their hands.
But sadly, ford is dumber than Jessica Simpson. So Tesla would be acquired by either Honda or Hyndai.
Sure, show me ONE instance where the responsible MP or CP or a minister has been jailed by the overzealous courts who seem intent on taking away the common man's rights.
...and you are OK with your own government treating you worse than some no-good bribe-taking prince???
Interesting example. Let me give you another one: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2907495.ece/
Imagine it is your child's personal information that is lost. Someone tracks her down to her school identify her, and god forbid, assaults her; so badly she can't have a child: ever.
Would you accept the fact that the Government can't be trusted to "monitor" people? Would you agree to a law that ensures government pays the ultimate price for leaking your daughter's personal information?
Would you love to keep the government's grubby hands from your information? Would you not demand the government be prevented from storing personal data about you, get out of your hair and lives, and pay a criminal price for its lapse?
There are two sides to every story my friend.
Compromising on your freedom to feel safe is also such a thing.
Am sorry for misunderstanding what you said earlier.
But tell me, how far is it going from this draconian law to becoming a Gestapo state?
Fifty years ago such laws would be have been shouted down by the press and people, not to mention the government itself, but today everyone is silent.
Plus, today if am jailed for forgetting an encryption key, tomorrow my neighbors may be jailed for not telling the government i encrypt my disks!
Freedom is a fragile delicate flower. Once lost, regaining it is a lost cause.
The more we allow government into our private lives, the more we will be pushed out of our homes.
Soon, the schools will be teaching that spying on parents for seditious thoughts is a necessity for security. They will also teach that Security over Freedom is more preferable and that in order to prevent terrorists it is necessary to spy on everyone's bedroom activities since if terrorists can be stopped from being conceived, then the State has ensured security for all.
Tell me where will it stop.