Quantas is like the Paraguan local bus service: only worse. It has won dubious awards for its worst service and worser aircraft maintenance. There are numerous cases of courts awarding fines against quantas in favor of customers screwed in both holes by it. Now it is trying to escape liability by blaming it on something else. People has used iPods, mouses, laptops for over a decade now. If nothing happened so far, then nothing shd happen now. Dumbass quantas. It should be criminally convicted for malicious intent to attempt murder and shd be dismembered.
You mean an asshole has only one-way traffic? Because some of the Taco bell stuff i ate produced some of the largest and longest stuff i had ever seen coming out of mine.
True. very true. The main problem is we see a lot of smoke, but no fire or atleast we can't even prove a fire started the smoke. I wish someone comes up with solid court-worthy proof of Diebold or Seqoia rigging elections in favor of any candidate.
What evidence do you have to say that voting machines are perfect? Are they Federally mandated and checked? State verified? What about california and other states totally refusing MS Access based voting machines? Would you/bank accept an ATM machine that is so blatantly poor in security? (if it was, either Sequoia CEO would be behind bars, or atlest bankrupted). Provide proof the voting machines are above suspicion and pass all security tests conducted by UN or EU.
Actually he is right. Wait and watch. That is why you have started seeing polls which state both obama and mccain as close even though we know obama is far ahead. This is to prepare us when they announce obama lost in a tight race.
Have you been living in a cave since 1960s? Shareholders have NO say in setting pay for a CEO. NONE. Its the board that decides it: Exxon got sued for that. And they won. The only duty of a shareholder to await a profitable return on his investment. The company is responsible to the shareholder only for the returns on the money he put in. In fact strictly speaking, the first and original shareholder is to whom the company is responsible to.
THis is a classic case of quality and liquidity. LIBOR, MMR rates, are all symptoms of need for quality, and not just liquidity. Because if liquidity is cause, then T-Bills should sell well. But no, people demand Gold(price of Gold is again an indicator), which is the ultimate quality investment. Asian banks and EU which hold large amounts of short term t-bills are not getting any returns on their money because the rising inflation is eating into earnings. The Fed is caught in a classic trap like you specified, and the market is shrinking back to its actual value from its inflated value. The bankers want to prevent that by blowing out the bubble once again even for a short time by getting liquid again. But, funding $700 Billion to bankers would not see any increase in living standards or even reduce the rate of mortgages or credit cards. Because that money will disappear into the banks' coffers to hold as liquid or fly out to india or australia/s.africa to buy Gold. The fed can keep the money within US by increasing the interest rates, but that would send the markets crashing once again. If the Fed keeps low rates, the fall in value of dollar would make foreign holdings of T-bills unattractive and soverign funds would start dumping them. These are interesting times.
First of all, it is NOT an economic rescue bill. It is a Financial Payout Bill where the [bought out] Govt. uses your money to buy from Wall Street some shitty assets which they cannot dispose of themselves. At present the large banks have dead weight assets on their balance sheets which no one wants to buy at the price they paid for. When you or me go to a bank for a loan, they ask us to pledge our Gold or some other HIGH security stuff like House to lend us money. And that too only half its market value. This way they are covered when the asset loses its value. But now, those assets are way below anything they have seen. This will force them to declare huge losses, which means the CEO and his cohorts do not get millions and have to live on thousands like common folk. This situation is unbearable [for them]. They tried hoodwinking these assets to foreigners by way of CDO, Tranches and crap. But the foreign banks were wiser and refused to buy them at inflated prices these banks quoted. The foreign banks know what these are worth and were willing to pay the market price for them. Now, these banks have zero cash and a lot of dead assets for which other banks and rich people are not willing to pay inflated prices.
These other banks and other people are willing to pay market prices: Obviously that is a LOT less than what the banks paid for them. Naturally the banks don't want to lose money: i mean which bank does. Now, since the wiser guys have refused to be fooled by banks, who can the banks fool into buying their dead weights??? *cha*ching* Our Incredibly Corrupt and Stupid Government! So they hire paulson so scare-monger the public into approving a HUGE payout to these JPMs, Citi, etc., so that they can unload their dead weights to the stupid government, get REAL money and start enjoying the party life! Now, since it is neither paulson's personal money or Pelosi's personal money, they are more than willing to spend OUR money to pay to the rich bankers. After all, we can't take back our taxes or file court cases against Pelosi. We are the ultimate sheep.
The whole assload went directly to line up the CEO's pockets so that they could afford the cheapest condo across the 'bay and the cheapest yacht, you cheapstake. Because of your constant meddling, my CEO was unable to purchase the BEST yacht for $2.3 million and instead settled for something far less worth. Damn you customers. Damn you users. May you all rot in Net Neutrality Hell. -signed/- CEOs Group of Telecoms In America
If japan had used those to retake saipan and Guam, they probably would not have succeeded. Because while the land troops would have been mauled, the ships would have pummeled the japs who tried to retake them. Plus, Truman would have probably dropped both of the Big Boys on Tokyo, ending their emperor's reign in a blinding flash of light one wonderful morning.
This would just result in one bunch of corrupt, spineless, thoughtless, clueless tube-savvy idiots to be replaced by another bunch of corrupt, blah blah, guys. Look, every single senator and congressman has at some point got some money from corporates, etc. No one uses his money anymore to get elected. You can keep kicking them out every 2 years, but the same type of guys will return every time. Until such time a legislation is passed outlawing ALL outside funding for elections, except that provided by Government. I mean if Ted Stevens got a contribution from Exxon for campaign, it SHOULD result in a 20-year jail term with no parole for BOTH Stevens and the CEO for Exxon. The government funding should kick in once the candidate submits 1,000 signatures or 1% of the registered voters whichever is lesser, on paper. Federal and State income taxes SHOULD fund the elections. No donations, no campaign contributions, no crap. Do that, and immediately you will see lobbyists losing their jobs and Senators suddenly balking on supporting bailouts and RIAA. Until then, until their hand remains inside their pants, they will be corrupt. You can do NOTHING as a voter. New candidates would be "broken" before they reach some maturity. Take even Obama for example. He is accepting donations from corporates, while initially he acted as if he is the true messiah and accepted donations from people only. Now he has backtracked knowing well people are tapped out.
Why should there be a distinction between big companies doing it for commercial reasons or individual hackers doing it?
Simple reason: Campaign Contributions and Money. Natural persons (you & me), don't have enough money to influence even one congress-critter. Artificial persons (aka Vampires) have enough money to influence a dozen congressmen easily. Who do you think the congressmen/AG will listen to?
Why is it that EA who subversively plant malware on your PC that permanently occupies resources and damages your access rights can get away with it?
Because the british bloke was not incorporated! If he had incorporated himself, the maximum US could do was to seize his assets. But no, that foolish idiot did it himself and pays the price sitting in a 4x4 cell in Gitmo with hurricane Ike splashing all over him... Remember: corporates CANNOT and WILL NOT be arrested or sentenced for hacking: they simply cannot. Because our congress-critters and Republicans made the law to such an effect: corporates cannot be criminally sentenced and their executives cannot be sentenced for any criminal activity, including murder. Comprende???
Actually big companies should be much more strongly punished as it generally a much larger-scale crime, given the sheer number of users they infect.
Nope. The bigger the company is, the slower they are prosecuted. The money they shovel out clogs down the AG, the courts and the lawyers to such effect that the suers become bankrupt. take the case of Exxon's Valdez. No other company has fought so viciously in whittling down the damages. So what's the answer you ask? Simple: extend the sarbannes-oxley act to all institutions applicable at all levels: CEO's personally are held responsible for any criminal activity of the company, and the board is collectively and individually responsible for such acts. Plus, change the law so that class-action suits cannot be "settled" out of court. The case MUST be prosecuted to its conclusion. Any attempt at withdrawing the class action suit SHOULD result in perjury indictment against the initiators. This will deter those who sue for money, and those who are tempted for it. Should a company like EA be convicted for hacking, the CEO is sent to jail: much like sarbannes act holds the CFO and CEO personally responsible for any financial statements. Short term answer: This case will be settled out of court, and EA will provide a WHOLE $10 rebate against Red Alert 3.
Comcast consumers have introduced a new policy for paying comcast, Every 15 mins, the consumer's application sends out a tracer request identifying the speed at which comcast is providing internet access. If the speeds are lower than the amount as specified in the contract, the application calculates and updates the payment sheet accordingly. At the end of the month, the consumer sends the calculated sheet along with the check, to comcast. If comcast has not provided the contracted speed, the payment sent is substantially less based on the consumer's calculations.
Nope. You see, the artist is like the ditch digger, the brick layer, the janitor kinda guy. He does all the work, but always ends up with nothing. Its always the suits who get to earn it. 10.5% of total revenue? Not profit... but revenue, wow! The RIAA is brilliant. I dearly hope artists sue the RIAA for 10.5% of its revenue per year.
78 Billion??? Where the fuck did you get that number? But before that, what were you smoking? Plus, for past 8 long years the Bush administration has always insisted the Government should NOT interfere in business. Let's continue to keep it that way, shall we? Your example, am sure Paulson, is to fear-monger like the way you did with Iraq and tried to do with Iran: economy will collapse...what bullshit. Banks are the only institutions funding the economy. Lots of non-banks do fund it: you and me for instance. Anyways, as a study shows, arguing with a neocon is dangerous for my heart, am resisting the temptation, plus hey, you are an anonymous coward ! If you had balls/hole, you would have posted it under a name.
The Dark Matter in US is pulling a ball busting amount of money away from tax payers to Large Banks. In this area of Universe known as Capitol Hill and White House, the normal laws of space-time continumm is suspended so that banks which screw up your money get your money to bail out themselves.
Exactly. Perceptions matter: On the outside DVD and BD players look the same size the same and even act the same. So why the heck would i pay $180 extra to buy the same size box which plays the same DVD. DVD is like Xerox. It has become a verb. BD is like...unknown. People still call it as BlueRay DVD. At least HD-DVD was better... but sony has another Aibo on its hands.
Screw the predictors' predictions. 10 years from now...20 years from now... blah, blah... WHERE THE FUCK is my Flying car promised to me 50 years ago??? Bring that first, and we will talk about stupid mobile internet... As if enough AOL morons don't exist already... The predictors should be drafted and send to Iraq: they can get to experience mobile artillery very much...
Are you really so callous that you'd torpedo the whole economy
How come??? Only 72 hours ago The Great God Bush and his Great Deputy Cheney swore up and down the economy was healthy as a pig on a fat diet. Are you so callous as to claim yourself as more knowledgeable than the P'sident and his D'puty??
If one idiot defaults, it's his own problem. But if a hundred million idiots default, it's a problem for us all.
Its not a million. Its just couple of people: the banks. And technically they are people as per law. So according to you, we should not help that one idiot(large bank) because he defaults.
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Now you have given 3 more things for TSA to ban from flights permanently.
Next time they catch you with a mouse, you go straight to Gitmo,
Quantas is like the Paraguan local bus service: only worse.
It has won dubious awards for its worst service and worser aircraft maintenance.
There are numerous cases of courts awarding fines against quantas in favor of customers screwed in both holes by it.
Now it is trying to escape liability by blaming it on something else.
People has used iPods, mouses, laptops for over a decade now.
If nothing happened so far, then nothing shd happen now.
Dumbass quantas.
It should be criminally convicted for malicious intent to attempt murder and shd be dismembered.
...each other that a human can eavesdrop
You working for the NSA by any chance??? or probably AT&T?
You mean an asshole has only one-way traffic? Because some of the Taco bell stuff i ate produced some of the largest and longest stuff i had ever seen coming out of mine.
True. very true. The main problem is we see a lot of smoke, but no fire or atleast we can't even prove a fire started the smoke.
I wish someone comes up with solid court-worthy proof of Diebold or Seqoia rigging elections in favor of any candidate.
Diebold donated atleast $195,000 to Republican Party in 2000-2002.
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/08/diebold_finally.html/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0211/S00081.htm/
Senator Hagel: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0301/S00166.htm/
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/011106_diebold_hbo.html/
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/061106_hacking_democracy.html/
What evidence do you have to say that voting machines are perfect?
Are they Federally mandated and checked? State verified?
What about california and other states totally refusing MS Access based voting machines?
Would you/bank accept an ATM machine that is so blatantly poor in security? (if it was, either Sequoia CEO would be behind bars, or atlest bankrupted).
Provide proof the voting machines are above suspicion and pass all security tests conducted by UN or EU.
Actually he is right.
Wait and watch.
That is why you have started seeing polls which state both obama and mccain as close even though we know obama is far ahead.
This is to prepare us when they announce obama lost in a tight race.
Oh... My bad. Am Sorry.
Have you been living in a cave since 1960s?
Shareholders have NO say in setting pay for a CEO. NONE.
Its the board that decides it: Exxon got sued for that. And they won.
The only duty of a shareholder to await a profitable return on his investment.
The company is responsible to the shareholder only for the returns on the money he put in. In fact strictly speaking, the first and original shareholder is to whom the company is responsible to.
THis is a classic case of quality and liquidity.
LIBOR, MMR rates, are all symptoms of need for quality, and not just liquidity.
Because if liquidity is cause, then T-Bills should sell well. But no, people demand Gold(price of Gold is again an indicator), which is the ultimate quality investment.
Asian banks and EU which hold large amounts of short term t-bills are not getting any returns on their money because the rising inflation is eating into earnings.
The Fed is caught in a classic trap like you specified, and the market is shrinking back to its actual value from its inflated value.
The bankers want to prevent that by blowing out the bubble once again even for a short time by getting liquid again.
But, funding $700 Billion to bankers would not see any increase in living standards or even reduce the rate of mortgages or credit cards.
Because that money will disappear into the banks' coffers to hold as liquid or fly out to india or australia/s.africa to buy Gold.
The fed can keep the money within US by increasing the interest rates, but that would send the markets crashing once again.
If the Fed keeps low rates, the fall in value of dollar would make foreign holdings of T-bills unattractive and soverign funds would start dumping them.
These are interesting times.
First of all, it is NOT an economic rescue bill.
It is a Financial Payout Bill where the [bought out] Govt. uses your money to buy from Wall Street some shitty assets which they cannot dispose of themselves.
At present the large banks have dead weight assets on their balance sheets which no one wants to buy at the price they paid for.
When you or me go to a bank for a loan, they ask us to pledge our Gold or some other HIGH security stuff like House to lend us money. And that too only half its market value. This way they are covered when the asset loses its value.
But now, those assets are way below anything they have seen.
This will force them to declare huge losses, which means the CEO and his cohorts do not get millions and have to live on thousands like common folk.
This situation is unbearable [for them].
They tried hoodwinking these assets to foreigners by way of CDO, Tranches and crap. But the foreign banks were wiser and refused to buy them at inflated prices these banks quoted. The foreign banks know what these are worth and were willing to pay the market price for them.
Now, these banks have zero cash and a lot of dead assets for which other banks and rich people are not willing to pay inflated prices.
These other banks and other people are willing to pay market prices: Obviously that is a LOT less than what the banks paid for them.
Naturally the banks don't want to lose money: i mean which bank does.
Now, since the wiser guys have refused to be fooled by banks, who can the banks fool into buying their dead weights???
*cha*ching*
Our Incredibly Corrupt and Stupid Government!
So they hire paulson so scare-monger the public into approving a HUGE payout to these JPMs, Citi, etc., so that they can unload their dead weights to the stupid government, get REAL money and start enjoying the party life!
Now, since it is neither paulson's personal money or Pelosi's personal money, they are more than willing to spend OUR money to pay to the rich bankers. After all, we can't take back our taxes or file court cases against Pelosi. We are the ultimate sheep.
The whole assload went directly to line up the CEO's pockets so that they could afford the cheapest condo across the 'bay and the cheapest yacht, you cheapstake.
Because of your constant meddling, my CEO was unable to purchase the BEST yacht for $2.3 million and instead settled for something far less worth.
Damn you customers. Damn you users.
May you all rot in Net Neutrality Hell.
-signed/- CEOs Group of Telecoms In America
It can't be cloned especially by MS. The iPhone and Apple is exact opposite of MS.
Apple squeezed Unix into a Mobile.
Microsoft squeezed a Mobile into Windows.
That's the difference.
If japan had used those to retake saipan and Guam, they probably would not have succeeded. Because while the land troops would have been mauled, the ships would have pummeled the japs who tried to retake them.
Plus, Truman would have probably dropped both of the Big Boys on Tokyo, ending their emperor's reign in a blinding flash of light one wonderful morning.
This would just result in one bunch of corrupt, spineless, thoughtless, clueless tube-savvy idiots to be replaced by another bunch of corrupt, blah blah, guys.
Look, every single senator and congressman has at some point got some money from corporates, etc. No one uses his money anymore to get elected.
You can keep kicking them out every 2 years, but the same type of guys will return every time.
Until such time a legislation is passed outlawing ALL outside funding for elections, except that provided by Government.
I mean if Ted Stevens got a contribution from Exxon for campaign, it SHOULD result in a 20-year jail term with no parole for BOTH Stevens and the CEO for Exxon.
The government funding should kick in once the candidate submits 1,000 signatures or 1% of the registered voters whichever is lesser, on paper.
Federal and State income taxes SHOULD fund the elections.
No donations, no campaign contributions, no crap.
Do that, and immediately you will see lobbyists losing their jobs and Senators suddenly balking on supporting bailouts and RIAA.
Until then, until their hand remains inside their pants, they will be corrupt.
You can do NOTHING as a voter.
New candidates would be "broken" before they reach some maturity.
Take even Obama for example. He is accepting donations from corporates, while initially he acted as if he is the true messiah and accepted donations from people only. Now he has backtracked knowing well people are tapped out.
Oh... i love such a good discussion about ethics:
Why should there be a distinction between big companies doing it for commercial reasons or individual hackers doing it?
Simple reason: Campaign Contributions and Money. Natural persons (you & me), don't have enough money to influence even one congress-critter. Artificial persons (aka Vampires) have enough money to influence a dozen congressmen easily. Who do you think the congressmen/AG will listen to?
Why is it that EA who subversively plant malware on your PC that permanently occupies resources and damages your access rights can get away with it?
Because the british bloke was not incorporated! If he had incorporated himself, the maximum US could do was to seize his assets. But no, that foolish idiot did it himself and pays the price sitting in a 4x4 cell in Gitmo with hurricane Ike splashing all over him...
Remember: corporates CANNOT and WILL NOT be arrested or sentenced for hacking: they simply cannot. Because our congress-critters and Republicans made the law to such an effect: corporates cannot be criminally sentenced and their executives cannot be sentenced for any criminal activity, including murder. Comprende???
Actually big companies should be much more strongly punished as it generally a much larger-scale crime, given the sheer number of users they infect.
Nope. The bigger the company is, the slower they are prosecuted. The money they shovel out clogs down the AG, the courts and the lawyers to such effect that the suers become bankrupt. take the case of Exxon's Valdez. No other company has fought so viciously in whittling down the damages.
So what's the answer you ask?
Simple: extend the sarbannes-oxley act to all institutions applicable at all levels: CEO's personally are held responsible for any criminal activity of the company, and the board is collectively and individually responsible for such acts. Plus, change the law so that class-action suits cannot be "settled" out of court. The case MUST be prosecuted to its conclusion. Any attempt at withdrawing the class action suit SHOULD result in perjury indictment against the initiators. This will deter those who sue for money, and those who are tempted for it.
Should a company like EA be convicted for hacking, the CEO is sent to jail: much like sarbannes act holds the CFO and CEO personally responsible for any financial statements.
Short term answer:
This case will be settled out of court, and EA will provide a WHOLE $10 rebate against Red Alert 3.
Comcast consumers have introduced a new policy for paying comcast,
Every 15 mins, the consumer's application sends out a tracer request identifying the speed at which comcast is providing internet access.
If the speeds are lower than the amount as specified in the contract, the application calculates and updates the payment sheet accordingly.
At the end of the month, the consumer sends the calculated sheet along with the check, to comcast.
If comcast has not provided the contracted speed, the payment sent is substantially less based on the consumer's calculations.
Nope. You see, the artist is like the ditch digger, the brick layer, the janitor kinda guy. He does all the work, but always ends up with nothing.
Its always the suits who get to earn it.
10.5% of total revenue? Not profit... but revenue, wow! The RIAA is brilliant.
I dearly hope artists sue the RIAA for 10.5% of its revenue per year.
78 Billion??? Where the fuck did you get that number? But before that, what were you smoking?
Plus, for past 8 long years the Bush administration has always insisted the Government should NOT interfere in business.
Let's continue to keep it that way, shall we?
Your example, am sure Paulson, is to fear-monger like the way you did with Iraq and tried to do with Iran: economy will collapse...what bullshit.
Banks are the only institutions funding the economy. Lots of non-banks do fund it: you and me for instance.
Anyways, as a study shows, arguing with a neocon is dangerous for my heart, am resisting the temptation, plus hey, you are an anonymous coward ! If you had balls/hole, you would have posted it under a name.
The Dark Matter in US is pulling a ball busting amount of money away from tax payers to Large Banks.
In this area of Universe known as Capitol Hill and White House, the normal laws of space-time continumm is suspended so that banks which screw up your money get your money to bail out themselves.
Exactly.
Perceptions matter:
On the outside DVD and BD players look the same size the same and even act the same.
So why the heck would i pay $180 extra to buy the same size box which plays the same DVD.
DVD is like Xerox.
It has become a verb.
BD is like...unknown. People still call it as BlueRay DVD.
At least HD-DVD was better... but sony has another Aibo on its hands.
Screw the predictors' predictions.
10 years from now...20 years from now... blah, blah...
WHERE THE FUCK is my Flying car promised to me 50 years ago???
Bring that first, and we will talk about stupid mobile internet...
As if enough AOL morons don't exist already...
The predictors should be drafted and send to Iraq: they can get to experience mobile artillery very much...
It definitely won't happen. He doesn't have a wife. He's on Slashdot.
Hey! That's not fair. I have a wife and am on slashdot. Which is to say i didn't get it for a long time now...
Are you really so callous that you'd torpedo the whole economy
How come??? Only 72 hours ago The Great God Bush and his Great Deputy Cheney swore up and down the economy was healthy as a pig on a fat diet.
Are you so callous as to claim yourself as more knowledgeable than the P'sident and his D'puty??
If one idiot defaults, it's his own problem. But if a hundred million idiots default, it's a problem for us all.
Its not a million. Its just couple of people: the banks. And technically they are people as per law. So according to you, we should not help that one idiot(large bank) because he defaults.