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I don't whether to laugh or cry when it comes to so-called "medical research". At least the medical/chemical industrial complex doesn't claim their "studies" are scientific.
The mythology told by "men in white lab coats" almost approaches the mythological tales of King Arthur (anyone watch PBS last night?). There is no scientific proof (using the scientific method) that cholesterol has anything to do with "heart dis-ease".
But heart dis-ease has become such a cash cow - almost any mythology will fly. Take the mythology from 500 "studies" that "proves that wine is good for the heart." These 500 "studies" were scrutinized and turns out that wine has nothing to do with avoiding heart disease. People who can afford to drink wine with their meals in restaurants are in the upper middle class income stream and can afford a) medical insurance for treatment b) can afford the $3000 ski trip holiday in the alps etc. c) can afford high quality food - including organic foods and so on.
So we are in a debate or is it a discussion? So if I understand you correctly, I have to prove:
"> both in the U.S.A. abd Canada. You have to remember
> in both countries the constitutions we set up so that
> originally only the rich could vote.
Care to back that assertion up with facts?"
But as Chomsky states about status quo: you don't now have to prove anything - even though you have challenged me. While I have to prove that both constitutions were set up to limit voting. As I said - the classical approach by the elites - the rich - the ruling class - just sit back and complain but don't have to prove anything " because if it ain't status quo - it ain't real".
Since you mentioned the Senate - Here's one pearl to begin with:
"Governor General shall from Time to Time... summon
qualified persons to the Senate...?. Properly qualified
persons had to be at least 30 years old, hold property,
be worth at least four thousand dollars and reside
within the province for which they were appointed"
How much was$4000 worth in 1870s?
Here's an intro to the voting issue:
"Even among those not deemed "foreign," most adults were also disqualified from voting because they did not have a sufficient stake in the community. This prejudice, though hardly unique to England, was very well established in English common law. A variety of property qualifications were enacted in all the colonies at various times to keep the riff-raff out. As we've already seen, such restrictions could either be relaxed or tightened up, as the needs of public policy, in the eyes of the establishment, required. Property qualifications were used much longer in Canada than in the United States, into the 20th century, almost as long as they were in Britain."
For example, at Confederation, voting was oral and public in all provinces but New Brunswick. The necessity of a voter standing on a platform and declaring his preference to the world at large allowed plenty of scope for intimidation, at, before, or after the poll. Efforts to bring in the secret ballot were resisted as contrary to the "manly spirit of the British people" and as contrary to the realities of electioneering. HVC quotes an MP who defended hardnosed politics in the Canadian House of Commons in 1874:
"Elections cannot be carried without money. Under an open system of voting, you can readily ascertain whether the voter has deceived you. Under vote by ballot [the secret ballot], an elector may take your money and vote as he likes without detection. "
"Indeed the Conservative party of John A. MacDonald had "a profound aversion to universal suffrage, which he considered one of the greatest evils that could befall a country." (HVC, p. 49). MacDonald, who did not lack for other achievements (including Confederation itself), considered "the greatest triumph of my life" the Electoral Franchise Act of 1885, which created a federally-administered franchise that was more restrictive than had existed earlier, when provinces defined the franchise for federal elections."
"The institutional, legal, and cultural commitment to an open political process was capped by the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. Included in its provisions was an article guaranteeing the rights of Canadian citizens to vote in federal and provincial elections and to stand for office in them. This marks a defining moment: the older British and Canadian legal and constitutional tradition held that there no fundamental right to vote."
By 1900, most women property owners across the country could vote in municipal elections, but none had the right to cast ballots in provincial or federal elections or to run for election.
1867
At the first general election after Confederation, only males over the age of 21 who met certain property qualifications were eligible to vote and run as candidates in a federal election. Women, registered Indians and members of certa
When you say "I offered to prove nothing" - but somehow I have to proof my viewpoints - this is classical facist nonsense.
Noam Chomsky talks about this issue on a regular basis. If someone (me in this case) challenges the established ideas of the ruling class - I have to provide mountains of proof to prove I am right. But anyone who challeges my viewpoint has to provide no such proof that either they are right or that I am wrong. Q.E.D. Thanks for helping me - in making this so clear.
The Canadian Constitution originally was prepared by the British for Australia - who read it over and said no thanks. Left the german queen running England in charge of the country!!Does that appear in your "proof".
It was later peddled to the Scots running Canada - who loved it! The Catholic Church would run Quebec - and the UNELECTED Senate would run Canada. As you know the Kanadian Senate is based on the British Senate whereby only the Rich born of royality may sit (where of course the Rich can also buy a seat in the Senate - e.g. the Kanadian crook Conrad Black bought one!!!) Does that appear in your proof?
For example, women were not considered a person under that "Canadian" constitution (couldn't vote etc. etc. ) - and the Canadian parliament and the Canadian courts agreed. Women living in Canada would still not be a person if the complainant didn't take the case to the Queen Of England's Privy Council - who overturned the Canadian Supreme Court ruling and the Canadian Parliament stance - that a woman was not a person. Does that appear in your proof?
"Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D. (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, which challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also impacted the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). He is also credited with the establishment of the so-called Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Or is it that you don't agree with his viewpont back up with thousands of pages of data from the USA goverment documents that shows that the United States Of America is likely the biggest terrorist that ever existed!
Need to add NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to the list for going after the white collar CEO crooks who have bilked millions of investors out of billions of dollars http://www.oag.state.ny.us/
Of course the laws are their to protect the Rich against the middle class as well as the low income class - both in the U.S.A. abd Canada. You have to remember in both countries the constitutions we set up so that originally only the rich could vote. And in both cases the Senate was set up for Rich people sit and decide which laws made by the lower houses we okay for the Rich - and if not were disallowed. If it was for Nader, Chomsky, DVD Jon, ACLU, EFF and a handful of other people and organizations - we all would be royally screwed.
The rage exhibited by Sony, Apple and other Corporations and their "Trade" (no trade) associations to monpolize and control what and how we consumers live and act should be a growing concern to everyone.
This has to be just the tip of the iceberg - "we" likely only learn about 2% of these devious efforts. It's only laughable when "we" learn about how these corporations themselves are breaking all kinds of agreements, all kinds of laws - are in fact the biggest crooks. But the biggest problem is the number of apologists there are lurking amongst "us" - trying to spin away the obvious.
I was at the house of a hollywood movie mogul this weekend - who is always complaining about copied movie DVDs being sold around town. Sunday evening he showed me the new Bose box he just bought for his black and red iPod. He said someone from his last movie crew sent him the iPod with 500 songs on it. There was no hestitation in playing copied songs on the iPod! Anyone who has hing around crews on movie productions knows where those songs came from.
Rather than jumping to conclusions - here are the possible scenarios
for the alleged "reversal":
Scenario A: The first diagnostic test was/is not valid/reliable (50% of
medical diagnostic tests are not valid/reliable - they don't test for
what they are supposed to test for).
Scenario B: The results of the first diagnostic test was unclear - so
personal data collected from questionnaire that person to be tested
filled in - is used to make decision - whether positive or negative.
For example, homosexual or injection of drugs - then decision for
positive test result.
Scenario C: The person evaluating the first test results simply misread
the test results - wasn't positive.
Scenario D: The first test results were simply "cooked" - that is a lie.
Scenario E: The followup test which showed the "reversal" because the
diagnostic test was/is not valid/reliable (50% of medical
diagnostic tests are not valid/reliable - they don't test for what they
are supposed to test for).
Scenario F: The results of the followup diagnostic test was unclear -
so
personal data collected from questionnaire that person to be tested
filled in - is used to make decision - whether positive or negative.
For example, homosexual or injection of drugs - then decision for
positive test result.
Scenario G: The person evaluating the followup test results simply
misread the test results - wasn't negative... it's really positive.
Scenario H: The followup test results were simply "cooked" - that is a
lie.
Scenario I: This individual did have HIV but decided to eliminate the
HIV - "Mind Over Matter" Google medical Dr. Lewis Mehl Madrona about
"we make ourselves sick - we can make ourselves better".
This is one area where the laws in Canada suck badly compared to the USA and other countries. SLAPPs are much easier to initiate here in Canada in order to protect the rich - as well the courts are totally set up to protect the rich when it comes to basic justice issues - like "freedom of speech".
Took forever for the courts in Canada to decide that a woman was a person - because the rich didn't want any woman to be a judge, politician or to hold any kind of official government office!
So it is easy to end up behind the 8 ball. So one has to proceed with caution and video tape everything in situations similar to the one described here. However, any corporation can easily force anyone into the courts - and force bankruptcy by extended legal battles. An easy way to clean anyone out financially in court is the use of so-called expert witnesses. These "experts" do not have to produce scientific documented evident to back up any claim - they simply have to make a statement - and judges accept that as fact. Naturally the rich can bring in as many puppets (experts) as they wish - since the defendant will have to pay for them later!
Hmm lets see how many points deducted for not spelling Colombia correctly (versus Columbia) - and how many points off for missing Peru, El Salvador and Belize!! 8^) Imagine all these people are Americans - actually the original Americans. Eh! As they say in Canada.
As the U.S.A. brings in more and more Draconian laws (1984.... anyone?) - it may be time for Yanks to relocate to Canada. According to Dr. Richard Florida - the experts...... expert on what makes for a healthy economy - anyone who has " creative brains and as well as balls" is leaving the U.S.A. http://www.creativeclass.org/
By the way, Canadians are Americans too - America is made up of Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela.... and the U.S.A.;)
a) Yes the author of the $200 Intel/Apple box bought and put together the Intel hardware for less than $200 ( a half hour assembly time??!!) - to run the Mac OS x86. Or do you mean - the advertising/marketing costs? We know that " Well Made, Well Priced, Usable Products Sell Well Through Word Of Mouth". Apple's market share? Apple has only 4% of the computer market right now.
b) Apparantly AMD tried talking to Apple -and no go!
c) Yes encoding farms can be used - and obviously a farm of 10 of the fastest dual core AMD's will be lightening speed ahead a farm of the fastest speed Intel/Apple dual cores - several research pieces show that now. And of course10 quadra core AMDs will be even faster - n'est pa? Again http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/index.jsp has always shown that Apple G5 dual core are slower than cheaper Dells! And that the lastest AMD Dual Cores 280 whip anything Intel has to offer - whips Intel badly.
d) Yes Apple OX users will be happy to know that there will be other brands of H.264 encoders to use that are not bloated nor non-interoperable (non-monopolizing) NOTICE APPLE does not own nor display the LOGO for H.264 Interoperability.
e) Assuming your a right - that the new Intel/ Apple boxes will be cheaper but to run - but at half the speed of AMD!!! Common lets get serious here.
One of hundreds of web sites have demonstrated how to put together and install OSx86. In one case the author replicated the hardware that Apple used in the Developers Computer running OSx86. The total price for the complete computer was under $200. (not counting the monitor and keyboard). About 15 years ago MacWorld magazine went out and bought all the components than went into a Mac SE (including the monitor). The cost? A total of $350. At that time I paid $3000 for the Mac SE!!! Naturally there are a number of questions that Apple/Jobs will need to answer to consumers over the next couple of months. What's a Responsible Profit & Markup on any product/service? What's a Responsible Renumeration Ratio For Jobs Over The Lowest Paid Apple employee - or sales person in a non Apple retail store - selling Apple hardware? www.digitalpostproduction.com just ran a piece on their site which showed that 75% of all folks doing serious media stuff use Windows XP. Will 75% of the consumers who actually make money with their computers doing "media" switch to the new Intel/Apple computer new dual core - which runs at half the speed of a dual core AMD when it comes to heavy duty work when it comes to - for example, encoding H.264 (which will become a 3 trillion a year industry - once the development of H.264 encoding/decoding hardware/software? I doubt it. In my case, I am running a school to teach up and coming "web educational/corporate videographers/editors who will focus on H.264 live streaming and progressive downloads for Sony PSP, 3G and other devicess/ portable formats". We will be using AMD's quadra core hardware - which will make us at least 100% more productive than Apple/Intel users. One has to remember that Apple's implementation of H.264 is super bloated compared to Ateme's implementation. As well Apple's Quicktime H.264 has not passed the interoperability standards (more monopolizing?) So who will Apple sell it's overpriced hardware to? - "You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Apple/Jobs lastest attempt to monopolize. Maube this time even the Apple devotess/apologists will sit up and notice. What has Apple actually contributed to the invention of the desktop computer? Almost everything that makes an Apple/Jobs computer - has been taken from others - at no cost to Apple/Jobs - and is based on the inventiveness and the sweat/work of others. OS X's Darwin is based on FreeBSD. Check out the Free BSD site http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/article s/contributors/index.html and you'll see that Apple/Jobs neither contributed money or staff to the development of FreeBSD. In a similar fashion the GUI, the mouse, ICONS all came from Douglas Englebart in the early 60s and in the following years at Xerox. Check out http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars
"The combination of Smalltalk and the Alto was essentially a modern personal computer with a very similar graphical user interface to the ones we use today. Altos had networking and could send e-mail to and receive it from one another, and seemed ideal for an office environment. Many of the PARC team wanted Xerox to market the new, cost-reduced Alto III as a commercial product (the original Alto was never available for sale) but Xerox management declined."
Glad to hear voters in Dover chucked all 8 school board members trying to force creationism into the public school system. I have been following the Dover case on the online newspapers from Dover - lots of allegations floating around about several of the board members having perjured themselves. Which would be par for the course.
Only a -1! "You" are falling down on the job - must be slaves.;) Chomsky said there would be people like you:)
The Chomsky interview about employees being slaves is University Of California at San Diego web site is at:
http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.asp?showID=6568
One of Chomsky's statements on this issue:
"The most obvious form of control . . . is differential wages. . . . Since the industrial revolution, [socialism] has been much concerned with the problems of 'wage slavery' and the 'benign' forms of control that rely on deprivation and reward rather than direct punishment." And: "There is, of course, no doubt that behavior can be controlled, for example, by threat of violence or a pattern of deprivation and reward. . . . Sanctions backed by force restrict freedom, as does differential reward. . . . [I]t would be absurd . . . to overlook [as does Skinner] the distinction between a person who chooses to conform in the face of threat, or force, or deprivation and differential reward and a person who 'chooses' to obey Newtonian principles as he falls from a high tower."
I wonder if Apple were worker (slave) owned - if it would hate it's consumers as much? I got the worker as a slave from an interview with Noam Chomsky. Once a worker isn't a slave to one person - then I would expect the worker/owners would "Be All They Could Be!" and make Apple a totally different company - where the customer came first. Its obvious that a multi-billion dollar company could have produced the multipurpose mobile product that we all want - that can do video/audio/telephoney/browsing/TV as well as running the desktop at home - and maybe be a good still and video camcorder blah blah. We might even get into the public realm more often and watch the unexpected - and maybe even talk to a complete stranger. Instead Apple plays the game of coning people to be "cool" - with products that have been castrated in one way or another.
The USA is becoming the laughing stock of the world - as it slides down the thin razor blade of life. Torture chambers - Unitelligent Design - Mens National Basketball gets knocked of by beef ranchers in Argentina - and on and on.It looks like the Empire (The Evil Empire) is over.
This is all about Penis Envy - my penis is bigger than your penis - type arguement. My god is bigger than your god - so you must listen to what my god says that you MUST do - and of course god just talks to me. Now just don't listen to me - but give me your money - so that I can live the life of the rich and famous (including the hookers). And by the way here's a list of people to kill in my gods name.
Does make any sense?! Only if you are an Apple Apologist. Again you asked me how Apple/Jobs is damaging me. So I switch over to FreeBSD OS (which Apple OS X is) or Windows XP (like 75% of multimedia content producers for the web) - will Apple refund me the $6000 for the Apple OS software I own? By the way, in Canada it is fraudulent to advertise a product - that in reality - does not do what a manufacturer says it does (G5 faster than Intel box).
First of all - stop sounding like an Apple Lemming Devotee Apologist - and attack anyone who questions what Apple does to consumers. In my opinion, Apple does not operate in the best interests of consumers - at least we can agree on that - yes/no? You want a specific example how Apple's monopolistic agenda is damaging my ability to do what I want to do? Well here's one. I have invest about 15 years in trying to use Apple products effectively and about $20,000 in Apple hardware. My focus - Tv on the web. Apple has a history of producing hardware that has been anywhere from 25 to 35 percent slower than similar priced Dell/ Intel boxes (check http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/ ). So Apple will be producing "special Intel boxes" to run the next Mac Os x. Unfortunately the best dual core Intel box is anywhere from 30% to 50% slower than a dual core AMD when encoding H.264. From Znet UK: "AMD currently offers the most attractive dual core option. The entry level Athlon 64 X2 3800+ may cost $87 more than its Intel counterpart, the Pentium D 820, but the AMD chip is a much better performer. It also uses considerably less power. A typical Athlon 64 X2 3800+ system uses less than 100W, while an equivalent Intel-based system uses about 50 per cent more, so it will be easier to build a quiet office PC around an AMD dual core chip. The lower electricity cost could also be a significant factor in enterprises with several thousand PCs." As well check out (http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmem ory/0,39024015,39233885-5,00.htm ) to see that a $900 Intel CPU chip is 50% to 80% slower than dual Athalon 4800+ when encoding H.264!!!!! That means I can be twice as productive on and AMD than on an Intel's high end CPU chip!!! Simply Eh! (as we say in Canada). Will I be able to install the next Mac OSX I buy on a AMD!? Who are the idiots who consider this issue flame bate - what jerk-offs.
There are several ways to price anything. One approach comes from a notion of Right Livihood. How much would you charge your best friend for the product/service?
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Of course I am only kidding ;) But...... you never know.
I don't whether to laugh or cry when it comes to so-called "medical research". At least the medical/chemical industrial complex doesn't claim their "studies" are scientific.
The mythology told by "men in white lab coats" almost approaches the mythological tales of King Arthur (anyone watch PBS last night?). There is no scientific proof (using the scientific method) that cholesterol has anything to do with "heart dis-ease".
In fact there are some studies that show there is no relationship! Here's one source that doubts the whole notion http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/hd.html .
But heart dis-ease has become such a cash cow - almost any mythology will fly. Take the mythology from 500 "studies" that "proves that wine is good for the heart." These 500 "studies" were scrutinized and turns out that wine has nothing to do with avoiding heart disease. People who can afford to drink wine with their meals in restaurants are in the upper middle class income stream and can afford a) medical insurance for treatment b) can afford the $3000 ski trip holiday in the alps etc. c) can afford high quality food - including organic foods and so on.
The silence is deafening. Eh!
So we are in a debate or is it a discussion? So if I understand you correctly, I have to prove:
"> both in the U.S.A. abd Canada. You have to remember > in both countries the constitutions we set up so that > originally only the rich could vote. Care to back that assertion up with facts?"
But as Chomsky states about status quo: you don't now have to prove anything - even though you have challenged me. While I have to prove that both constitutions were set up to limit voting. As I said - the classical approach by the elites - the rich - the ruling class - just sit back and complain but don't have to prove anything " because if it ain't status quo - it ain't real".
Since you mentioned the Senate - Here's one pearl to begin with:
"Governor General shall from Time to Time... summon qualified persons to the Senate...?. Properly qualified persons had to be at least 30 years old, hold property, be worth at least four thousand dollars and reside within the province for which they were appointed"
How much was$4000 worth in 1870s?
Here's an intro to the voting issue:
"Even among those not deemed "foreign," most adults were also disqualified from voting because they did not have a sufficient stake in the community. This prejudice, though hardly unique to England, was very well established in English common law. A variety of property qualifications were enacted in all the colonies at various times to keep the riff-raff out. As we've already seen, such restrictions could either be relaxed or tightened up, as the needs of public policy, in the eyes of the establishment, required. Property qualifications were used much longer in Canada than in the United States, into the 20th century, almost as long as they were in Britain."
For example, at Confederation, voting was oral and public in all provinces but New Brunswick. The necessity of a voter standing on a platform and declaring his preference to the world at large allowed plenty of scope for intimidation, at, before, or after the poll. Efforts to bring in the secret ballot were resisted as contrary to the "manly spirit of the British people" and as contrary to the realities of electioneering. HVC quotes an MP who defended hardnosed politics in the Canadian House of Commons in 1874:
"Elections cannot be carried without money. Under an open system of voting, you can readily ascertain whether the voter has deceived you. Under vote by ballot [the secret ballot], an elector may take your money and vote as he likes without detection. "
"Indeed the Conservative party of John A. MacDonald had "a profound aversion to universal suffrage, which he considered one of the greatest evils that could befall a country." (HVC, p. 49). MacDonald, who did not lack for other achievements (including Confederation itself), considered "the greatest triumph of my life" the Electoral Franchise Act of 1885, which created a federally-administered franchise that was more restrictive than had existed earlier, when provinces defined the franchise for federal elections."
"The institutional, legal, and cultural commitment to an open political process was capped by the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. Included in its provisions was an article guaranteeing the rights of Canadian citizens to vote in federal and provincial elections and to stand for office in them. This marks a defining moment: the older British and Canadian legal and constitutional tradition held that there no fundamental right to vote."
By 1900, most women property owners across the country could vote in municipal elections, but none had the right to cast ballots in provincial or federal elections or to run for election.
1867 At the first general election after Confederation, only males over the age of 21 who met certain property qualifications were eligible to vote and run as candidates in a federal election. Women, registered Indians and members of certa
When you say "I offered to prove nothing" - but somehow I have to proof my viewpoints - this is classical facist nonsense.
Noam Chomsky talks about this issue on a regular basis. If someone (me in this case) challenges the established ideas of the ruling class - I have to provide mountains of proof to prove I am right. But anyone who challeges my viewpoint has to provide no such proof that either they are right or that I am wrong. Q.E.D. Thanks for helping me - in making this so clear.
Facts!?
The Canadian Constitution originally was prepared by the British for Australia - who read it over and said no thanks. Left the german queen running England in charge of the country!!Does that appear in your "proof".
It was later peddled to the Scots running Canada - who loved it! The Catholic Church would run Quebec - and the UNELECTED Senate would run Canada. As you know the Kanadian Senate is based on the British Senate whereby only the Rich born of royality may sit (where of course the Rich can also buy a seat in the Senate - e.g. the Kanadian crook Conrad Black bought one!!!) Does that appear in your proof?
For example, women were not considered a person under that "Canadian" constitution (couldn't vote etc. etc. ) - and the Canadian parliament and the Canadian courts agreed. Women living in Canada would still not be a person if the complainant didn't take the case to the Queen Of England's Privy Council - who overturned the Canadian Supreme Court ruling and the Canadian Parliament stance - that a woman was not a person. Does that appear in your proof?
Hmm do you mean you don't agree with:
"Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D. (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, which challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also impacted the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). He is also credited with the establishment of the so-called Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
Or is it that you don't agree with his viewpont back up with thousands of pages of data from the USA goverment documents that shows that the United States Of America is likely the biggest terrorist that ever existed!
Or is his veiwpoint that people are fools not to own the company the work "at"? Rather than being a slave working for some mindless corporate CEO - of whom fortunately a handful are now serving time in prison, For example, see http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?t ype=businessNews&storyID=2005-11-10T230907Z_01_FLE 083316_RTRUKOC_0_UK-FINANCIAL-REFCO.xml
Need to add NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to the list for going after the white collar CEO crooks who have bilked millions of investors out of billions of dollars http://www.oag.state.ny.us/
Looks like the beginning of the end is beginning.
Of course the laws are their to protect the Rich against the middle class as well as the low income class - both in the U.S.A. abd Canada. You have to remember in both countries the constitutions we set up so that originally only the rich could vote. And in both cases the Senate was set up for Rich people sit and decide which laws made by the lower houses we okay for the Rich - and if not were disallowed. If it was for Nader, Chomsky, DVD Jon, ACLU, EFF and a handful of other people and organizations - we all would be royally screwed.
The rage exhibited by Sony, Apple and other Corporations and their "Trade" (no trade) associations to monpolize and control what and how we consumers live and act should be a growing concern to everyone.
This has to be just the tip of the iceberg - "we" likely only learn about 2% of these devious efforts. It's only laughable when "we" learn about how these corporations themselves are breaking all kinds of agreements, all kinds of laws - are in fact the biggest crooks. But the biggest problem is the number of apologists there are lurking amongst "us" - trying to spin away the obvious.
I was at the house of a hollywood movie mogul this weekend - who is always complaining about copied movie DVDs being sold around town. Sunday evening he showed me the new Bose box he just bought for his black and red iPod. He said someone from his last movie crew sent him the iPod with 500 songs on it. There was no hestitation in playing copied songs on the iPod! Anyone who has hing around crews on movie productions knows where those songs came from.
Rather than jumping to conclusions - here are the possible scenarios for the alleged "reversal":
... it's really positive.
Scenario A: The first diagnostic test was/is not valid/reliable (50% of medical diagnostic tests are not valid/reliable - they don't test for what they are supposed to test for).
Scenario B: The results of the first diagnostic test was unclear - so personal data collected from questionnaire that person to be tested filled in - is used to make decision - whether positive or negative. For example, homosexual or injection of drugs - then decision for positive test result.
Scenario C: The person evaluating the first test results simply misread the test results - wasn't positive.
Scenario D: The first test results were simply "cooked" - that is a lie.
Scenario E: The followup test which showed the "reversal" because the diagnostic test was/is not valid/reliable (50% of medical diagnostic tests are not valid/reliable - they don't test for what they are supposed to test for).
Scenario F: The results of the followup diagnostic test was unclear - so personal data collected from questionnaire that person to be tested filled in - is used to make decision - whether positive or negative. For example, homosexual or injection of drugs - then decision for positive test result.
Scenario G: The person evaluating the followup test results simply misread the test results - wasn't negative
Scenario H: The followup test results were simply "cooked" - that is a lie.
Scenario I: This individual did have HIV but decided to eliminate the HIV - "Mind Over Matter" Google medical Dr. Lewis Mehl Madrona about "we make ourselves sick - we can make ourselves better".
Other Scenarios?
This is one area where the laws in Canada suck badly compared to the USA and other countries. SLAPPs are much easier to initiate here in Canada in order to protect the rich - as well the courts are totally set up to protect the rich when it comes to basic justice issues - like "freedom of speech".
Took forever for the courts in Canada to decide that a woman was a person - because the rich didn't want any woman to be a judge, politician or to hold any kind of official government office!
So it is easy to end up behind the 8 ball. So one has to proceed with caution and video tape everything in situations similar to the one described here. However, any corporation can easily force anyone into the courts - and force bankruptcy by extended legal battles. An easy way to clean anyone out financially in court is the use of so-called expert witnesses. These "experts" do not have to produce scientific documented evident to back up any claim - they simply have to make a statement - and judges accept that as fact. Naturally the rich can bring in as many puppets (experts) as they wish - since the defendant will have to pay for them later!
Hmm lets see how many points deducted for not spelling Colombia correctly (versus Columbia) - and how many points off for missing Peru, El Salvador and Belize!! 8^) Imagine all these people are Americans - actually the original Americans. Eh! As they say in Canada.
As the U.S.A. brings in more and more Draconian laws (1984 .... anyone?) - it may be time for Yanks to relocate to Canada. According to Dr. Richard Florida - the experts...... expert on what makes for a healthy economy - anyone who has " creative brains and as well as balls" is leaving the U.S.A. http://www.creativeclass.org/
By the way, Canadians are Americans too - America is made up of Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela.... and the U.S.A. ;)
a) Yes the author of the $200 Intel/Apple box bought and put together the Intel hardware for less than $200 ( a half hour assembly time??!!) - to run the Mac OS x86. Or do you mean - the advertising/marketing costs? We know that " Well Made, Well Priced, Usable Products Sell Well Through Word Of Mouth". Apple's market share? Apple has only 4% of the computer market right now.
b) Apparantly AMD tried talking to Apple -and no go!
c) Yes encoding farms can be used - and obviously a farm of 10 of the fastest dual core AMD's will be lightening speed ahead a farm of the fastest speed Intel/Apple dual cores - several research pieces show that now. And of course10 quadra core AMDs will be even faster - n'est pa? Again http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/index.jsp has always shown that Apple G5 dual core are slower than cheaper Dells! And that the lastest AMD Dual Cores 280 whip anything Intel has to offer - whips Intel badly.
d) Yes Apple OX users will be happy to know that there will be other brands of H.264 encoders to use that are not bloated nor non-interoperable (non-monopolizing) NOTICE APPLE does not own nor display the LOGO for H.264 Interoperability.
e) Assuming your a right - that the new Intel/ Apple boxes will be cheaper but to run - but at half the speed of AMD!!! Common lets get serious here.
One of hundreds of web sites have demonstrated how to put together and install OSx86. In one case the author replicated the hardware that Apple used in the Developers Computer running OSx86. The total price for the complete computer was under $200. (not counting the monitor and keyboard). About 15 years ago MacWorld magazine went out and bought all the components than went into a Mac SE (including the monitor). The cost? A total of $350. At that time I paid $3000 for the Mac SE!!! Naturally there are a number of questions that Apple/Jobs will need to answer to consumers over the next couple of months. What's a Responsible Profit & Markup on any product/service? What's a Responsible Renumeration Ratio For Jobs Over The Lowest Paid Apple employee - or sales person in a non Apple retail store - selling Apple hardware? www.digitalpostproduction.com just ran a piece on their site which showed that 75% of all folks doing serious media stuff use Windows XP. Will 75% of the consumers who actually make money with their computers doing "media" switch to the new Intel/Apple computer new dual core - which runs at half the speed of a dual core AMD when it comes to heavy duty work when it comes to - for example, encoding H.264 (which will become a 3 trillion a year industry - once the development of H.264 encoding/decoding hardware/software? I doubt it. In my case, I am running a school to teach up and coming "web educational/corporate videographers/editors who will focus on H.264 live streaming and progressive downloads for Sony PSP, 3G and other devicess/ portable formats". We will be using AMD's quadra core hardware - which will make us at least 100% more productive than Apple/Intel users. One has to remember that Apple's implementation of H.264 is super bloated compared to Ateme's implementation. As well Apple's Quicktime H.264 has not passed the interoperability standards (more monopolizing?) So who will Apple sell it's overpriced hardware to? - "You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at Apple/Jobs lastest attempt to monopolize. Maube this time even the Apple devotess/apologists will sit up and notice. What has Apple actually contributed to the invention of the desktop computer? Almost everything that makes an Apple/Jobs computer - has been taken from others - at no cost to Apple/Jobs - and is based on the inventiveness and the sweat/work of others. OS X's Darwin is based on FreeBSD. Check out the Free BSD site http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/article s/contributors/index.html and you'll see that Apple/Jobs neither contributed money or staff to the development of FreeBSD. In a similar fashion the GUI, the mouse, ICONS all came from Douglas Englebart in the early 60s and in the following years at Xerox. Check out http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars
"The combination of Smalltalk and the Alto was essentially a modern personal computer with a very similar graphical user interface to the ones we use today. Altos had networking and could send e-mail to and receive it from one another, and seemed ideal for an office environment. Many of the PARC team wanted Xerox to market the new, cost-reduced Alto III as a commercial product (the original Alto was never available for sale) but Xerox management declined."
Glad to hear voters in Dover chucked all 8 school board members trying to force creationism into the public school system. I have been following the Dover case on the online newspapers from Dover - lots of allegations floating around about several of the board members having perjured themselves. Which would be par for the course.
Only a -1! "You" are falling down on the job - must be slaves. ;) Chomsky said there would be people like you :)
The Chomsky interview about employees being slaves is University Of California at San Diego web site is at:
http://www.ucsd.tv/search-details.asp?showID=6568
One of Chomsky's statements on this issue:
"The most obvious form of control . . . is differential wages. . . . Since the industrial revolution, [socialism] has been much concerned with the problems of 'wage slavery' and the 'benign' forms of control that rely on deprivation and reward rather than direct punishment." And: "There is, of course, no doubt that behavior can be controlled, for example, by threat of violence or a pattern of deprivation and reward. . . . Sanctions backed by force restrict freedom, as does differential reward. . . . [I]t would be absurd . . . to overlook [as does Skinner] the distinction between a person who chooses to conform in the face of threat, or force, or deprivation and differential reward and a person who 'chooses' to obey Newtonian principles as he falls from a high tower."
I wonder if Apple were worker (slave) owned - if it would hate it's consumers as much? I got the worker as a slave from an interview with Noam Chomsky. Once a worker isn't a slave to one person - then I would expect the worker/owners would "Be All They Could Be!" and make Apple a totally different company - where the customer came first. Its obvious that a multi-billion dollar company could have produced the multipurpose mobile product that we all want - that can do video/audio/telephoney/browsing/TV as well as running the desktop at home - and maybe be a good still and video camcorder blah blah. We might even get into the public realm more often and watch the unexpected - and maybe even talk to a complete stranger. Instead Apple plays the game of coning people to be "cool" - with products that have been castrated in one way or another.
The USA is becoming the laughing stock of the world - as it slides down the thin razor blade of life. Torture chambers - Unitelligent Design - Mens National Basketball gets knocked of by beef ranchers in Argentina - and on and on.It looks like the Empire (The Evil Empire) is over.
This is all about Penis Envy - my penis is bigger than your penis - type arguement. My god is bigger than your god - so you must listen to what my god says that you MUST do - and of course god just talks to me. Now just don't listen to me - but give me your money - so that I can live the life of the rich and famous (including the hookers). And by the way here's a list of people to kill in my gods name.
Does make any sense?! Only if you are an Apple Apologist. Again you asked me how Apple/Jobs is damaging me. So I switch over to FreeBSD OS (which Apple OS X is) or Windows XP (like 75% of multimedia content producers for the web) - will Apple refund me the $6000 for the Apple OS software I own? By the way, in Canada it is fraudulent to advertise a product - that in reality - does not do what a manufacturer says it does (G5 faster than Intel box).
First of all - stop sounding like an Apple Lemming Devotee Apologist - and attack anyone who questions what Apple does to consumers. In my opinion, Apple does not operate in the best interests of consumers - at least we can agree on that - yes/no? You want a specific example how Apple's monopolistic agenda is damaging my ability to do what I want to do? Well here's one. I have invest about 15 years in trying to use Apple products effectively and about $20,000 in Apple hardware. My focus - Tv on the web. Apple has a history of producing hardware that has been anywhere from 25 to 35 percent slower than similar priced Dell/ Intel boxes (check http://www.digitalpostproduction.com/ ). So Apple will be producing "special Intel boxes" to run the next Mac Os x. Unfortunately the best dual core Intel box is anywhere from 30% to 50% slower than a dual core AMD when encoding H.264. From Znet UK: "AMD currently offers the most attractive dual core option. The entry level Athlon 64 X2 3800+ may cost $87 more than its Intel counterpart, the Pentium D 820, but the AMD chip is a much better performer. It also uses considerably less power. A typical Athlon 64 X2 3800+ system uses less than 100W, while an equivalent Intel-based system uses about 50 per cent more, so it will be easier to build a quiet office PC around an AMD dual core chip. The lower electricity cost could also be a significant factor in enterprises with several thousand PCs." As well check out (http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmem ory/0,39024015,39233885-5,00.htm ) to see that a $900 Intel CPU chip is 50% to 80% slower than dual Athalon 4800+ when encoding H.264!!!!! That means I can be twice as productive on and AMD than on an Intel's high end CPU chip!!! Simply Eh! (as we say in Canada). Will I be able to install the next Mac OSX I buy on a AMD!? Who are the idiots who consider this issue flame bate - what jerk-offs.
There are several ways to price anything. One approach comes from a notion of Right Livihood. How much would you charge your best friend for the product/service?