I've been following this since it was announced last Friday on Irish Radio. There is a thread on it on an Irish webboard with more details and the interview.
It clearly looks like to me as some kind of scam or marketing ploy. They already have a VC giving them a couple of million and are already making a loss on this.
It is certainly a culture thing. You will find the same thing in Korea that if you leave before your manager does it can be a sign you are not working hard enough (not sure if it is still the case).
In Ireland if your working late its a sign of one of the following. a) You where dossing during the day and need to finish up. b) You came in late. c) You have a manger who is incapable of scheduling properly.
Disturbing but your rewording is exactly what went on in the 70's in England. Even though my parents were not religous I got moved to a Catholic school in England instead of a public school after IRA attacks basically enraged locals to attack Irish people who had nothing what-so-ever to do with it.
In that they allow it to stay. I can only guess thier censoring system is not great or they are ignoring it.
To expand on this, while looking for a particular video I came across one where a Korean girl is asking people how many Quail Eggs could she fit into the birds nest as it where. o_O She was speaking Korean so its unlikely an english speaker would know what is being said (they could probably guess though).
Checking some other keywords in Korean/Chinese/Japanese I found numerous questionable videos that back linked to escort sites. The only thing that I can see would stop these from being deleted is they aren't in English.
They don't compare. We aren't talking about witholding information on a crime to protect a source. According to the police he may of video'ed people setting fire to a police car. He claims he hasn't but without showing the video how do we know he isn't lying?
Hiding behind the Shield law is a cop out to be honest.
I read it and what he thinks and what the police actually do are two different things.
If a police car was set on fire and he has footage of said police car then he is witholding evidence of a crime. This has nothing to do with the right to publish stories on a blog.
Has there ever been a case where a journalist has withheld evidence of a crime and been protected for it?
I could understand if it was a whistleblower issue but it isn't.
It wasn't so much a backdoor but as a way to comply with the export regulations at that time. You couldn't export 128bit encryption at that time but they could if NSA where given half the key.
But this isn't just US doing this. France for example around that time only allowed 40bit keys to be used and Lotus had to comply with that too.
Btw, Lotus have long since stopped doing this once it was legal to do so. (hence you post relates to 1997).
At no time have I said Hezbollah are not a terorist organisation. Just because they are a terrorist organisation doesn't automatically validates Israels actions on Lebanon.
Also "Launching attacks" and "Defending" are two completly different concepts. I suggest you look up attacking and defending in the dictionary.
Lastly the fact you have to proceed to attempt to insult me just means that your incapable of having a valid discussion with. Please come back when you grow up a bit.
> The thing is that Lebanon has allowed > Hezbollah to keep doing what they are doing
Actually Lebonese soliders can't go into that area as they are as much a target from Israel as well.
> It's not Israel's fault that Lebanon > and the UN have failed to deal with Hezbollah
True, but at the same time this does not give them the excuse to destroy Lebanons infrastructure, nor the excuse to kill civilians.
It would be like England dropping bombs on Dublin + Cork in response for an IRA attack in Northern Ireland. Thats called Collective punishment. It doesn't work.
> nor that Hezbollah is firing from populated areas, > which is the reason for all the civilian deaths.
Actually the majority of civilian deaths so far have not been because of Hezbollah being in populated areas.
> Also as for who started it, > Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers in Israel, > the Israel went into Lebanon to get them back, > and then Hezbollah bombed Israel. > As I said, Hezbollah started it all. > And it is a simple fact that they dropped the first bombs.
As I already said. It is easy to say Hezbollah started it all if you thought it all started when the Soliders where kidnapped.
It wasn't. This has been going on for decades. Hezbollah actually came into power in the 1980's to stop Israel forces that had invaded Lebanon at that time.
The soliders being kidnapped is what brought it to a boil which was in retaliation for 1,000s of Lebonese nationals being kidnapped by Israel (or detained or whatever term you want to use to justify it).
I wish people would start taking a certain point in time to prove which side is right. The truth is both sides are wrong.
Ironically it was Israels actions in Lebanon that helped form Hezbollah and its actions to date that is doing nothing but making Hezbollahs recruitment+support stronger.
Prehaps if they actually took the moral highground rather then getting 5,000+ trainee diplomats to spam an agenda they would get more sympathy.
> Of course, who needs VirtualPC: yes, it certainly "works," > but it is a clumsy product in everything from installation > to managing environments.
Has it gotten that bad? Granted I haven't used VPC in years (about 6-7) but the installation and running I had absolutly no problems at all and even had Windows running on the external monitor while Mac was running on the laptop screen. With drag+drop between the two.
You will get no argument out of me that Hezbollah are a terrorist organisation. Also I do not disagree that Hezbollahs actions are wrong.
However Hezbollah is not Lebanon. There political wing has 10% of the government (which is actually no controlling power at all). If they had then it would be Lebonese military hitting Israel as well.
Likewise Israel has a right to defend itself. However its actions to date make them no better then the terrorists they are fighting.
> The majority? Maybe, I don't know. But Israel has > indeed hit infrastructure, to prevent Hezbollah > from easily moving around.
Sorry but thats bull. Go look up exactly what was destroyed to date. Explain how blowing up dams or commercial airports stops Hezbollah? Especially when they weren't there to begin with.
> "The cities" we are talking about > were Hezbollah strongholds, weren't they?
No. Not all of them. Actually not even the majority of them and in some cases whole housing estates where flattened when Hezbollah in that area where contained to a couple of houses.
> And destroyed roads does not make it impossible to easily get out. > It makes it difficult to move around cargo, but people could easily get out.
We aren't just talking about roads. We are also talking about bridges, add to that Israel indisriminatly targetting people trying to flee those areas.
In fact just today they have announced a few hours ago anyone in any kind of car will be killed.
> I don't think that is the case.
You don't think? How about you actually researching it. It is the case.
> These people could indeed flee. > Children aren't tied to the ground, you know.
If they could of run they would of. It wasn't possible. They had US nationals who where currently on holiday in Lebanon who where trapped in one of the cities. Reporters actually got them out (woman and two children). They where trapped in thier houses during the bombing and then where told over loudspeaker to leave the town. When they attempted to leave the city the car was fired apon. Thier neighbour who was also leaving with them was killed when his car was destroyed by a shell.
Even after being evacuated by the news crew (a week later) they couldn't leave the country as Israel was refusing to let the US boats dock to take on refugees.
But how easy would you find it to leave the city if Israel not only destroyed the roads, bridges but also the gas stations? What if you have sick/old relatives? Leave them behind?
> They did? Source? Well I was watching it on local news. IDF showed footage of missile launches from Qana as proof that they where hitting Hezbollah. After people on the ground (like Red Cross) pointed out that not only Hezbollah hadn't been there but hadn't been there in days it was discovered that the footage was actually from about a week ago. The IDF pulled it at that stage and declared Qana "a mistake".
The actual footage on the day hasn't been released by the IDF.
>Actually, what happened was that Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers, >and then Israel went after them. Hezbollah responded by bombing Israel. >So Hezbollah dropped the first bombs over Israel.
If you ignore decades of fighting up to that point then yes you would be correct. However some of us have longer memories.
> Actually, they have been targeting civilian areas.
Thier areas have been around military based areas. If you check the people killed the majority of people killed by Hezbollah have been military (despite missiles fired into civilian areas). Compare that with Israels actions.
> Yes, as I said, this tragedy is so much greater because > Hezbollah purposely hides among civilians, to sacrifice > them as involuntary "martyrs".
As mentioned and if you bothered to check up you would find that in the majority of deaths this hasn't been the case. While there have been instances of human shields by Hezbollah the sheer majority of deaths so far have not been down to this (although it is a favorite suggestion by giyus.org).
Why Hezbollah was formed isn't really relevant to the fact that this time around, Hezbollah started it all by bombing Israel. It wasn't until they started bombing that Israel was forced to respond.
> I am sure they are there for a reason.
If they are there for a reason then they should be charged. Based on your defination of one case
> Doubly that, since many of those deaths are > caused by Hezbollah forces attacking Israel > from civilian areas.
Actually if you bothered to check up on what Israel has destroyed so far in Lebanon you would find the following.
1. Majority of places hit where Infrastructure, most of which it would of been impossible to fire a missile from (ever seen someone try to fire a missile in an active commercial airport?).
2. Most of the targets hit in the first days of attacks where in areas that not only Hezbollah where not there but where also in parts of the country where it would of been impossible to fire a missile from simply because they don't have that range.
3. Israel destroyed the roads around the cities, then the cities and then told civilains to get out (making it impossible to do so easily). All the while shooting at people that did attempt to flee and then declaring that anyone left in the city is clearly a terrorist (which mostly was the old/infirmed or people with children who couldn't flee).
4. They have fired on and killed UN forces, despite being told there where no Hezbollah in the area of the attack.
5. In cases like Qana the refugees headed for that area BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HEZBOLLAH there. The second a missile truck shows up in a populated area the locals flee and have been doing so for some time. IDF claimed Hezbollah where there but used days old footage to prove it and then only told the truth once they where pulled up on it.
6. Hezbollahs initial rocket attack was in response to an attack by Israel first, and Hezbollah have been targetting military based areas.
7. Israel have killed over 30 civilians for every one civilian killed in Israel. That is not factoring in the number of Hezbollah killed (which is quite low).
8. Saying that Hezbollah started this is a joke unless your memory only goes back a month. This has been going on for decades and Hezbollah initially was formed because of Israels initial attacks on Lebanon.
You would also ignore the 1,000s of Lebnonese held in detention centres over the years in Israel without be charged.
Sorry but saying that Hezbollah are the cause of all these deaths is total BS. Israels forces are intentionally killing civilians and it makes them no better then Hezbollah.
But there are people who are using this to try and prove that using these photos.
Take a look at giyus.org. They basically have software which they are using to astro-turf/spam thier agenda as they find it. The Israeli foriegn office have hired over 5,000 trainee diplomats as well to run the software.
This is one such story that appeared a few hours back and I am seeing it spammed elsewhere. Even money said that a giyus user spammed slashdot with this story.
The fake photos doesn't detract from the fact that there are over 900 civilians dead, over 30% are children and over 800,000 people displaced from thier homes.
Israel responds by bombing Lebanon back to the stone age. Did you see what they have destroyed? The whole infrastructure is gone, an Oil depot was destroyed too which is polluting the seas around Lebabnon. The ratio of deaths is well over 10:1. Add to that Israel has taken land and plan to keep the land.
Meanwhile the US speed ships more weapons to Isreal (even sneaking them through the UK) and says There should be no ceasefire, not even a temporary one let civilians get out of the way.
You also neglected to mention how Lebanonise nationals have been kidnapped and detained without rights by Israel. They have been doing this for some time before the two soliders where kidnapped.
Hizbollah are terrorists, but so are the IDF. The only difference is the IDF have better weapons.
Once you realise the system of how to play the game it is possible to win all the time.
Years ago as a kid there was a local kid who played monopoly with us. He would win everytime. At first we would play as normal but then just give up because after an hour even though the game was far from over it was clear he would win it.
Some of the tactics used for example. 1. Buy up the first two propertys at all costs. Even sacrificing the purple spots to do so. 2. Try to aquire all the first row properties and most of the second row. Even giving up more expensive properties in order to do so.
Once this was done he would drop hotels on the lot. Its cheaper to do then the more expensive properties and the results are much better.
This would make passing Go a nightmare. You were almost guaranteed to be less cash before free parking then you were before passing go.
After that he would work on the second row properties, offering people discounts on passing go in return for properties, etc.
The only thing to stop this is the assessment card (cripples you if you have hotels) so he would watch for this card and know how many draws from the last time it was drawn so would sell all his hotels beforehand.
He probably had other tactics but these where his main ones and helped him win everytime.
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But what would be an application that would equate to William Hung ?
I've been following this since it was announced last Friday on Irish Radio. There is a thread on it on an Irish webboard with more details and the interview.
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2
It clearly looks like to me as some kind of scam or marketing ploy. They already have a VC giving them a couple of million and are already making a loss on this.
It is certainly a culture thing. You will find the same thing in Korea that if you leave before your manager does it can be a sign you are not working hard enough (not sure if it is still the case).
In Ireland if your working late its a sign of one of the following.
a) You where dossing during the day and need to finish up.
b) You came in late.
c) You have a manger who is incapable of scheduling properly.
All true but then look at Gitmo. Basically ignored the ruling and trying to get laws passed to bypass it.
Even the wiretapping case the Judge has been told to put the ruling on hold until they can pass a law to make it legal.
If this was a 3rd World Junta country we would expect this the norm of a dictator.
Even when he breaks the rules nothing happens.
Clinton blew an intern.
Bush blew America.
At least people will remember Clinton as being the last real President of the USA just before it stopped being a superpower.
> Oh and flashback to last century anyone?
Disturbing but your rewording is exactly what went on in the 70's in England. Even though my parents were not religous I got moved to a Catholic school in England instead of a public school after IRA attacks basically enraged locals to attack Irish people who had nothing what-so-ever to do with it.
In that they allow it to stay. I can only guess thier censoring system is not great or they are ignoring it.
To expand on this, while looking for a particular video I came across one where a Korean girl is asking people how many Quail Eggs could she fit into the birds nest as it where. o_O She was speaking Korean so its unlikely an english speaker would know what is being said (they could probably guess though).
Checking some other keywords in Korean/Chinese/Japanese I found numerous questionable videos that back linked to escort sites. The only thing that I can see would stop these from being deleted is they aren't in English.
Do you have any like actual proof to back that up?
> Take watergate as an example.
They don't compare. We aren't talking about witholding information on a crime to protect a source. According to the police he may of video'ed people setting fire to a police car. He claims he hasn't but without showing the video how do we know he isn't lying?
Hiding behind the Shield law is a cop out to be honest.
I read it and what he thinks and what the police actually do are two different things.
If a police car was set on fire and he has footage of said police car then he is witholding evidence of a crime. This has nothing to do with the right to publish stories on a blog.
Has there ever been a case where a journalist has withheld evidence of a crime and been protected for it?
I could understand if it was a whistleblower issue but it isn't.
You should of been modded funny. But then not everyone knows the mickey mouse song. :)
/. that allowed you know what keys where being pressed by the sound of the keys in relation to a microphone?
On a similar topic wasn't there a story on
It wasn't so much a backdoor but as a way to comply with the export regulations at that time. You couldn't export 128bit encryption at that time but they could if NSA where given half the key.
But this isn't just US doing this. France for example around that time only allowed 40bit keys to be used and Lotus had to comply with that too.
Btw, Lotus have long since stopped doing this once it was legal to do so. (hence you post relates to 1997).
At no time have I said Hezbollah are not a terorist organisation. Just because they are a terrorist organisation doesn't automatically validates Israels actions on Lebanon.
Also "Launching attacks" and "Defending" are two completly different concepts. I suggest you look up attacking and defending in the dictionary.
Lastly the fact you have to proceed to attempt to insult me just means that your incapable of having a valid discussion with. Please come back when you grow up a bit.
> The thing is that Lebanon has allowed
> Hezbollah to keep doing what they are doing
Actually Lebonese soliders can't go into that area as they are as much a target from Israel as well.
> It's not Israel's fault that Lebanon
> and the UN have failed to deal with Hezbollah
True, but at the same time this does not give them the excuse to destroy Lebanons infrastructure, nor the excuse to kill civilians.
It would be like England dropping bombs on Dublin + Cork in response for an IRA attack in Northern Ireland. Thats called Collective punishment. It doesn't work.
> nor that Hezbollah is firing from populated areas,
> which is the reason for all the civilian deaths.
Actually the majority of civilian deaths so far have not been because of Hezbollah being in populated areas.
> Also as for who started it,
> Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers in Israel,
> the Israel went into Lebanon to get them back,
> and then Hezbollah bombed Israel.
> As I said, Hezbollah started it all.
> And it is a simple fact that they dropped the first bombs.
As I already said. It is easy to say Hezbollah started it all if you thought it all started when the Soliders where kidnapped.
It wasn't. This has been going on for decades. Hezbollah actually came into power in the 1980's to stop Israel forces that had invaded Lebanon at that time.
The soliders being kidnapped is what brought it to a boil which was in retaliation for 1,000s of Lebonese nationals being kidnapped by Israel (or detained or whatever term you want to use to justify it).
I wish people would start taking a certain point in time to prove which side is right. The truth is both sides are wrong.
Ironically it was Israels actions in Lebanon that helped form Hezbollah and its actions to date that is doing nothing but making Hezbollahs recruitment+support stronger.
Prehaps if they actually took the moral highground rather then getting 5,000+ trainee diplomats to spam an agenda they would get more sympathy.
This is a bit of a noob question. But are you saying all I need is the Mac OS and I can install it onto any of my PCs? Or is there a catch?
> Of course, who needs VirtualPC: yes, it certainly "works,"
> but it is a clumsy product in everything from installation
> to managing environments.
Has it gotten that bad? Granted I haven't used VPC in years (about 6-7) but the installation and running I had absolutly no problems at all and even had Windows running on the external monitor while Mac was running on the laptop screen. With drag+drop between the two.
Granted games sucked at that time.
Just wanted to add.
You will get no argument out of me that Hezbollah are a terrorist organisation. Also I do not disagree that Hezbollahs actions are wrong.
However Hezbollah is not Lebanon. There political wing has 10% of the government (which is actually no controlling power at all). If they had then it would be Lebonese military hitting Israel as well.
Likewise Israel has a right to defend itself. However its actions to date make them no better then the terrorists they are fighting.
> The majority? Maybe, I don't know. But Israel has
> indeed hit infrastructure, to prevent Hezbollah
> from easily moving around.
Sorry but thats bull. Go look up exactly what was destroyed to date. Explain how blowing up dams or commercial airports stops Hezbollah? Especially when they weren't there to begin with.
> "The cities" we are talking about
> were Hezbollah strongholds, weren't they?
No. Not all of them. Actually not even the majority of them and in some cases whole housing estates where flattened when Hezbollah in that area where contained to a couple of houses.
> And destroyed roads does not make it impossible to easily get out.
> It makes it difficult to move around cargo, but people could easily get out.
We aren't just talking about roads. We are also talking about bridges, add to that Israel indisriminatly targetting people trying to flee those areas.
In fact just today they have announced a few hours ago anyone in any kind of car will be killed.
> I don't think that is the case.
You don't think? How about you actually researching it. It is the case.
> These people could indeed flee.
> Children aren't tied to the ground, you know.
If they could of run they would of. It wasn't possible. They had US nationals who where currently on holiday in Lebanon who where trapped in one of the cities. Reporters actually got them out (woman and two children). They where trapped in thier houses during the bombing and then where told over loudspeaker to leave the town. When they attempted to leave the city the car was fired apon. Thier neighbour who was also leaving with them was killed when his car was destroyed by a shell.
Even after being evacuated by the news crew (a week later) they couldn't leave the country as Israel was refusing to let the US boats dock to take on refugees.
But how easy would you find it to leave the city if Israel not only destroyed the roads, bridges but also the gas stations? What if you have sick/old relatives? Leave them behind?
> They did? Source?
Well I was watching it on local news. IDF showed footage of missile launches from Qana as proof that they where hitting Hezbollah. After people on the ground (like Red Cross) pointed out that not only Hezbollah hadn't been there but hadn't been there in days it was discovered that the footage was actually from about a week ago. The IDF pulled it at that stage and declared Qana "a mistake".
The actual footage on the day hasn't been released by the IDF.
>Actually, what happened was that Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers,
>and then Israel went after them. Hezbollah responded by bombing Israel.
>So Hezbollah dropped the first bombs over Israel.
If you ignore decades of fighting up to that point then yes you would be correct. However some of us have longer memories.
> Actually, they have been targeting civilian areas.
Thier areas have been around military based areas. If you check the people killed the majority of people killed by Hezbollah have been military (despite missiles fired into civilian areas). Compare that with Israels actions.
> Yes, as I said, this tragedy is so much greater because
> Hezbollah purposely hides among civilians, to sacrifice
> them as involuntary "martyrs".
As mentioned and if you bothered to check up you would find that in the majority of deaths this hasn't been the case. While there have been instances of human shields by Hezbollah the sheer majority of deaths so far have not been down to this (although it is a favorite suggestion by giyus.org).
Why Hezbollah was formed isn't really relevant to the fact that this time around, Hezbollah started it all by bombing Israel. It wasn't until they started bombing that Israel was forced to respond.
> I am sure they are there for a reason.
If they are there for a reason then they should be charged. Based on your defination of one case
> Doubly that, since many of those deaths are
> caused by Hezbollah forces attacking Israel
> from civilian areas.
Actually if you bothered to check up on what Israel has destroyed so far in Lebanon you would find the following.
1. Majority of places hit where Infrastructure, most of which it would of been impossible to fire a missile from (ever seen someone try to fire a missile in an active commercial airport?).
2. Most of the targets hit in the first days of attacks where in areas that not only Hezbollah where not there but where also in parts of the country where it would of been impossible to fire a missile from simply because they don't have that range.
3. Israel destroyed the roads around the cities, then the cities and then told civilains to get out (making it impossible to do so easily). All the while shooting at people that did attempt to flee and then declaring that anyone left in the city is clearly a terrorist (which mostly was the old/infirmed or people with children who couldn't flee).
4. They have fired on and killed UN forces, despite being told there where no Hezbollah in the area of the attack.
5. In cases like Qana the refugees headed for that area BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HEZBOLLAH there. The second a missile truck shows up in a populated area the locals flee and have been doing so for some time. IDF claimed Hezbollah where there but used days old footage to prove it and then only told the truth once they where pulled up on it.
6. Hezbollahs initial rocket attack was in response to an attack by Israel first, and Hezbollah have been targetting military based areas.
7. Israel have killed over 30 civilians for every one civilian killed in Israel. That is not factoring in the number of Hezbollah killed (which is quite low).
8. Saying that Hezbollah started this is a joke unless your memory only goes back a month. This has been going on for decades and Hezbollah initially was formed because of Israels initial attacks on Lebanon.
You would also ignore the 1,000s of Lebnonese held in detention centres over the years in Israel without be charged.
Sorry but saying that Hezbollah are the cause of all these deaths is total BS. Israels forces are intentionally killing civilians and it makes them no better then Hezbollah.
But there are people who are using this to try and prove that using these photos.
Take a look at giyus.org. They basically have software which they are using to astro-turf/spam thier agenda as they find it. The Israeli foriegn office have hired over 5,000 trainee diplomats as well to run the software.
This is one such story that appeared a few hours back and I am seeing it spammed elsewhere. Even money said that a giyus user spammed slashdot with this story.
The fake photos doesn't detract from the fact that there are over 900 civilians dead, over 30% are children and over 800,000 people displaced from thier homes.
I have also wondered why the mega boss always leaves tons of ammo for weapons possible enemies might have sitting outside thier door.
Although I am not sure what the point of it being in this state protects more? Does it weigh less?
:D
Anyway kids if you want to create your own non-newtonian fluid fluid at home heres how.
1. Get your custard power, or corn starch (think baking soda can be used too).
2. Get a dish or a cup. More fun with a large jar though.
3. Add some water to the container and proceed to mix as much powder as possible into the water until it gets to a weird creamy/solid state.
You now have something which is a liquid and solid at the same time. Enjoy!
> Disproportionality is the only way to deal with terrorists.
Can you actually prove that? Please feel free to find at least one instance where killing large numbers of civilians helped stop terrorism.
Here is what you are missing...
Israel responds by bombing Lebanon back to the stone age. Did you see what they have destroyed? The whole infrastructure is gone, an Oil depot was destroyed too which is polluting the seas around Lebabnon. The ratio of deaths is well over 10:1. Add to that Israel has taken land and plan to keep the land.
Meanwhile the US speed ships more weapons to Isreal (even sneaking them through the UK) and says There should be no ceasefire, not even a temporary one let civilians get out of the way.
You also neglected to mention how Lebanonise nationals have been kidnapped and detained without rights by Israel. They have been doing this for some time before the two soliders where kidnapped.
Hizbollah are terrorists, but so are the IDF. The only difference is the IDF have better weapons.
Once you realise the system of how to play the game it is possible to win all the time.
Years ago as a kid there was a local kid who played monopoly with us. He would win everytime. At first we would play as normal but then just give up because after an hour even though the game was far from over it was clear he would win it.
Some of the tactics used for example.
1. Buy up the first two propertys at all costs. Even sacrificing the purple spots to do so.
2. Try to aquire all the first row properties and most of the second row. Even giving up more expensive properties in order to do so.
Once this was done he would drop hotels on the lot. Its cheaper to do then the more expensive properties and the results are much better.
This would make passing Go a nightmare. You were almost guaranteed to be less cash before free parking then you were before passing go.
After that he would work on the second row properties, offering people discounts on passing go in return for properties, etc.
The only thing to stop this is the assessment card (cripples you if you have hotels) so he would watch for this card and know how many draws from the last time it was drawn so would sell all his hotels beforehand.
He probably had other tactics but these where his main ones and helped him win everytime.