I wish you provided a username so i could add a personal +1 modifier to your comments. You are one of few people who have not posted a rabidly frothing/polar reply regarding this.
I've seen a few really annoying sites littered with ads which could induce a seizure in the most sedated of coma patients, but the majority of sites i see don't have horribly intrusive ads.. heck even hulu commercials are about 1.5 minutes total to a full episode.
Some people just can't be satisfied until all revenue is removed from free-to-visitor web-based content.
The origins of this flu are with CAFO's in mexico where smithfield raises some of their pigs.
Given the dirty implications of a deadly infectious disease sprouting from a facility located south of the border in deliberate attempts to flout FDA and ethical labor standards, it's understandable the pork lobby (e.g. smithfield) would want the politicians no longer referring to this as the swine flu.
Of course, everyone with a brain will still call it swine flu.
I would think government officials should be up in arms about swine flu.. a pandemic would sweep through capital hill like a brush fire, dropping congressmen and lobbyists like sacks of flour.
I want all forms of fiat currency outlawed, particularly those which are combined with fractional reserve banking
Fractional reserve banking is how banking has worked since the advent of banking thousands of years ago, regardless of whether the currency was representative or not.
Your railing against fractional reserve banking betrays your lack of understanding of economics, and potential racism, as the entire movement on internet forums against fractional reserve banking has its roots in neo-nazi online propaganda.
I want all income taxes outlawed and replaced by sales taxes in a revenue-neutral way, at all levels of government, no matter what disadvantages (real or perceived) there may be to the practice of sales taxation.
thorough statistical analysis of the so-called "fair tax" show it disproportionately harms the poor and middle classes, who HAVE to borrow to whether economic storms.
The wealthy spend considerably less of their annual income than the rest of the general population.
The problem isn't science R&D, it's taking money from other worthwhile and productive investments in order to create an appearance
you mean like the manattan project? the apollo project? Nasa?
practically everything that makes our modern life modern stemmed from research in government labs, and at least 50%+ from the space program.
Are you going to tell me "girls gone wild" is worthwhile and productive? because a lot of money goes into making those vids and the commercials for them. How about all the R&D being put into more efficiently off-shoring exceedingly higher skilled jobs?
Economics does not have a "goal" of efficiency any more than nuclear physics has a "goal" of producing the biggest, most powerful bomb possible. It needs to be leveraged to the benefit of humanity.
So we should break up the large banks, and replace them with an untold number of smaller, local banks that each follow their own strategy ?
Letting them go bankrupt should have exactly this effect.
and throw out the baby with the bathwater.. e.g. the entire economy, the middle class way of life, and arguably the US as a stable nation-state.
The issue of systematic risk can be handled through intelligent regulation. Set a maximum net worth of a financially and managerially independent subsidiary.. this will make large corps more modular and less likely to suffer catastrophic failure without impacting ownership/imposing wealth caps.
So we should force the banks to follow a much more capitalist course, versus Obama's communist "fix"... well one would have to admit that's a given.
Because free market capitalism worked so well right? *cough 1929 cough* *COUGH communism as an idea didn't just arise spontaneously, but out of very real social maladies from pure free markets COUGH*
According to recent searches for news on this, TPB membership has surged since the verdict... which.. btw.. is still non-binding until it goes through the first appeals phase..
in other words.. it carries a little more weight than a US grand jury indictment, but nobody goes to prison and no damages or injunctions are yet in force.
Geist has the ear of the main stream media outlets in CA, and will be able to handily shoot down any "arguments" they try to offer to stir up "grass roots" campaigns.
I'm sorry but most of the market destruction on my realm is from no-lives who farm up everything then undercut with auctioneer until crafteds pull in less than 1/4 of their mat costs.
The ethics requirements they have are self-imposed by the industry, and they do this because without them journalists would run rampant with sensationalism and half-truths
you seem to have used the wrong grammatical and sentence structure here, allow me to correct you:
the ethics requirements they have are non-existent by the industry, and they do this because they are running rampant with sensationalism and half-truths
Bloggers aren't journalists. They don't have to live up to any standards of ethical journalism, and so they don't get protection for their sources. If that's what he's claiming, he's going to get a rude shock.
Forgive my derisive laughter.
You're going to tell me after watching so called "main stream media" for the past decade that there is such a thing as "standards of ethical journalism"?
Fact checking is so 1980's.. now it's just get it to the front page and then cover up the massive calls of fraud from the those educated on the subject and the blogosphere.
Your entire demeanor is indicative of someone drunk with power.
I'm sorry, but not everyone is a criminal, and speaking out against you and "ruining your day" is not criminal, nor does it excuse or mitigate in any way the despicable behavior exhibited by the police.
This is what happens when panic'd decisions are made. The police force thinks they can go in and silence the whole thing with a BS warrant and put an end to it, only for the story to be picked up nation wide and now they're drawing way more attention than ever.
Serves them right. This looks like a clear cut abuse of power by the department and now that the story is national, hopefully some heads will roll.
What national media?
A quick search of google news for "arizona blogger raid" produces one result from "prison planet".
whooo.. national media attention!
I think the "national media" has been throughly co-opted by multinational conglomerates for decades now, and is conspicuously silent.
the great spoiler in your second article is energy.
we are quickly approaching a serious energy bottleneck which will test our evolutionary niche--technological innovation. If we fail to provide our ever hungrier society with energy, innovations such as precision farming will fall by the wayside as we enter a retrograde track.
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I wish you provided a username so i could add a personal +1 modifier to your comments. You are one of few people who have not posted a rabidly frothing/polar reply regarding this.
I've seen a few really annoying sites littered with ads which could induce a seizure in the most sedated of coma patients, but the majority of sites i see don't have horribly intrusive ads.. heck even hulu commercials are about 1.5 minutes total to a full episode.
Some people just can't be satisfied until all revenue is removed from free-to-visitor web-based content.
They would make a lot more money by making the world's tiniest violin with nano-tubes, and mailing it to, in order:
bank executives
auto executives
the **AA and member companies
right-wing talking heads seen in recent clips on episodes of the daily show.
The origins of this flu are with CAFO's in mexico where smithfield raises some of their pigs.
Given the dirty implications of a deadly infectious disease sprouting from a facility located south of the border in deliberate attempts to flout FDA and ethical labor standards, it's understandable the pork lobby (e.g. smithfield) would want the politicians no longer referring to this as the swine flu.
Of course, everyone with a brain will still call it swine flu.
Usually when you have too much work for your workforce to accomplish in a deadline it means you need to hire more people.
wait.. "hire" and "people" in the same sentence without "india" when talking about a tech related corporation.. does not compute.. does not *asplodes*
I dont eat pork, care to apologize to me?
I would think government officials should be up in arms about swine flu.. a pandemic would sweep through capital hill like a brush fire, dropping congressmen and lobbyists like sacks of flour.
Why are these astroturfers modded so high.. mid parent up, he puts them in their place!
I want all forms of fiat currency outlawed, particularly those which are combined with fractional reserve banking
Fractional reserve banking is how banking has worked since the advent of banking thousands of years ago, regardless of whether the currency was representative or not.
Your railing against fractional reserve banking betrays your lack of understanding of economics, and potential racism, as the entire movement on internet forums against fractional reserve banking has its roots in neo-nazi online propaganda.
I want all income taxes outlawed and replaced by sales taxes in a revenue-neutral way, at all levels of government, no matter what disadvantages (real or perceived) there may be to the practice of sales taxation.
thorough statistical analysis of the so-called "fair tax" show it disproportionately harms the poor and middle classes, who HAVE to borrow to whether economic storms.
The wealthy spend considerably less of their annual income than the rest of the general population.
the war on drugs and terrorism are not r&d.
And what makes you think that politicians and bureaucrats are better motivated and have all the necessary information than private individuals?
well, the government has something private individuals don't have:
a modicum of constitutional accountability.
The problem isn't science R&D, it's taking money from other worthwhile and productive investments in order to create an appearance
you mean like the manattan project? the apollo project? Nasa?
practically everything that makes our modern life modern stemmed from research in government labs, and at least 50%+ from the space program.
Are you going to tell me "girls gone wild" is worthwhile and productive? because a lot of money goes into making those vids and the commercials for them. How about all the R&D being put into more efficiently off-shoring exceedingly higher skilled jobs?
Economics does not have a "goal" of efficiency any more than nuclear physics has a "goal" of producing the biggest, most powerful bomb possible. It needs to be leveraged to the benefit of humanity.
VPN services are going to become HUGE in the UK.
There will likely be marketing campaigns.
After all, once you get a VPN to another country, the only thing the UK isp sees is one encrypted connection.
Why employ real people when you can annoy the hell out of everyone who calls in by subjecting them to yet another tier of phone-bots.
So we should break up the large banks, and replace them with an untold number of smaller, local banks that each follow their own strategy ?
Letting them go bankrupt should have exactly this effect.
and throw out the baby with the bathwater.. e.g. the entire economy, the middle class way of life, and arguably the US as a stable nation-state.
The issue of systematic risk can be handled through intelligent regulation. Set a maximum net worth of a financially and managerially independent subsidiary.. this will make large corps more modular and less likely to suffer catastrophic failure without impacting ownership/imposing wealth caps.
So we should force the banks to follow a much more capitalist course, versus Obama's communist "fix" ... well one would have to admit that's a given.
Because free market capitalism worked so well right? *cough 1929 cough* *COUGH communism as an idea didn't just arise spontaneously, but out of very real social maladies from pure free markets COUGH*
Recent stories suggest the servers are managed on the pacific rim now, in nations beyond the reach of DMCA/EUCD.
According to recent searches for news on this, TPB membership has surged since the verdict... which.. btw.. is still non-binding until it goes through the first appeals phase..
in other words.. it carries a little more weight than a US grand jury indictment, but nobody goes to prison and no damages or injunctions are yet in force.
I wish the MAFIAA good luck.
Geist has the ear of the main stream media outlets in CA, and will be able to handily shoot down any "arguments" they try to offer to stir up "grass roots" campaigns.
I'm sorry but most of the market destruction on my realm is from no-lives who farm up everything then undercut with auctioneer until crafteds pull in less than 1/4 of their mat costs.
My friend was once banned for buying gold while his computer was away for repair.
They held his account hostage for 4 weeks until a copy of his service receipt finally filtered up the chain of command.
If people are buying gold it's indicative the game has costs which are out of proportion with the rest of the gameplay experience.
They made a poor game design choice, and it's given rise to a third party market to correct it.
When will game designers learn to stop penalizing their customers and start listening to the community.
The ethics requirements they have are self-imposed by the industry, and they do this because without them journalists would run rampant with sensationalism and half-truths
you seem to have used the wrong grammatical and sentence structure here, allow me to correct you:
the ethics requirements they have are non-existent by the industry, and they do this because they are running rampant with sensationalism and half-truths
Bloggers aren't journalists. They don't have to live up to any standards of ethical journalism, and so they don't get protection for their sources. If that's what he's claiming, he's going to get a rude shock.
Forgive my derisive laughter.
You're going to tell me after watching so called "main stream media" for the past decade that there is such a thing as "standards of ethical journalism"?
Fact checking is so 1980's.. now it's just get it to the front page and then cover up the massive calls of fraud from the those educated on the subject and the blogosphere.
I predict that they "find" kiddie porn on his computer.
This guy has predicted the future.
I can't wait to see it on the news.
Your entire demeanor is indicative of someone drunk with power.
I'm sorry, but not everyone is a criminal, and speaking out against you and "ruining your day" is not criminal, nor does it excuse or mitigate in any way the despicable behavior exhibited by the police.
This is what happens when panic'd decisions are made. The police force thinks they can go in and silence the whole thing with a BS warrant and put an end to it, only for the story to be picked up nation wide and now they're drawing way more attention than ever.
Serves them right. This looks like a clear cut abuse of power by the department and now that the story is national, hopefully some heads will roll.
What national media?
A quick search of google news for "arizona blogger raid" produces one result from "prison planet".
whooo.. national media attention!
I think the "national media" has been throughly co-opted by multinational conglomerates for decades now, and is conspicuously silent.
the great spoiler in your second article is energy.
we are quickly approaching a serious energy bottleneck which will test our evolutionary niche--technological innovation. If we fail to provide our ever hungrier society with energy, innovations such as precision farming will fall by the wayside as we enter a retrograde track.
Numbers can't be copyrighted.
An mp3 is a number.
Now gimme a fat sack o' cash and I'll shut up.
They already tried this defense, and the courts suddenly developed a very selective common sense (of course, only in the plaintiff's favor)