tell me another profession on this planet, which produces 1-2 items, and can sit on them for entirety of their lives and into their retirement.
i code every day to earn my living. i dont see the right of a musician or artist, to write one song a year, go to 1-2 concerts, and take the rest of the year off.
until i can also have that kind of thing, i dont recognize their right to do it. period.
They won't win. Eventually the case will make it to a high court and the party will make sure things go in favor of Apple. Proview may very well be a Chinese company, but Apple does a lot of business in China and indirectly provides a lot of employment for Chinese citizens.
do you think chinese need apple ?
hahahahahaha.
dude. chinese do almost all the manufacturing on the planet already. and apple's sales numbers are not that high to be considered a major factor in china. if apple goes away, others will take its place.
apple cant go away. they cant find cheaper production anywhere else.
im calling you idiot. because, you either have to be an ignorant fuck, or an idiot to come up and attempt to contest history.
u.s. funded 100s of islamist groups in middle east and afghanistan over 2 decades. al qaeda is one of them. everything ranging from their core leaders' training to their means of funding themselves were set up by u.s.
u.s. does not need to give them money. probably they havent been giving them money since close to a decade. instead they set up them with many means to fund themselves, one of which being drug trade.
The equation the guy proposes, looks sound. Moreover, observational data supports the equation. There is nothing overstated in that.
Facebook is de facto the evil intermediary in between people, just like how record companies are the evil, unneeded intermediary in between artist and the fan.
What we need to do is strike back at the politicians and remind them that they are serving the interests of all the population
they know very well who they should be serving. they are NOT choosing to serve who they should be serving. instead, they choose whomever pays them.
the difference of the central european countries is that, there is still a lot of generations currently at the age of running government, corporations etc, who has grown up during the communist era with at least some ideals. you wont find those in anglo-american countries. hence, the opposition from central europe.
Tell it to the numerous muslim terrorist groups out to burn the world.
all of them are either remnants of the era in which u.s. funded and armed islamist to 'counter' soviet influence, or groups propped up by usa and israel later, in order to replace the threat they lost with the warsaw pact with something else to be able to justify military spending, freedom-restriction and invasions.
if you check them out, you will find out that almost all of the leaders of those organizations have been educated neatly in either britain or usa. and their relatives have ties with cia or mossad.
cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs
why that fixation to have hard, heavy metal casings on handheld devices ? isnt it stupid to haul around something heavy ? or, 'shiny' is more important than 'light' for you ?
'....... where users can SNAG software......' really. this wordage makes it sound as if the store will operate as charity and not with profit oriented sales. makes it sound as if we arent going to pay anything.
however capitalism itself is just allowing everyone to attempt to set up their own feudal domains. its just feudalism not limited to a particular class, and bondage of serfs removed in theory
nerds are on the edge of ruling the world, and the only thing that is preventing them are the media dinosaurs ?
most of what was 'nerd' 5 years ago has become the cultural norm already. all that is left are the old ways of doing things. in media, economics and politics. the new culture had half-taken over media already, but they are fighting back to keep the status quo.
taking down whole mafiaa out is not necessary. what's needed is to break the cartel. and from among those, the only ones needed are the ones holding the news hostage. take out news corp, and you got not only a major news channel which was previously used for attacks on internet, but also a major hollywood propaganda corporation in the mix.
just using one major news channel to broadcast the opposition perspective in these copyright shit, would totally balance and offset the easy and surefire attempts the media cartels were doing.
see, even the sopa thing was not broadcast longer than 2 minutes or so in these channels, and that is after the shit hit the fan. if, news corp or another news channel was owned by silicon valley, and started broadcasting about sopa 2 months ago, there wouldnt even be a sopa hitting the house floors.
in addition realize that you dont need to buy entirety of a corporation to control it. news corp is worth 50 bn in total, everything included. just google's cash is 44 billion. acquiring controlling shares of news corp, would be enough, and google has more than enough cash at hand to do it.
google has the finances to buy out entire u.s. legal system. why have not they set up their own shark team yet ?............
really. the way silicon valley takes these threats to the digital age - like copyright/big media, patent trolls etc, anti-net neutrality etc - is WAY too carefree and lighthearted. even, totally oblivious.
for example, sopa/pipa thwarted, another is being cooked, acta already being pushed, and silicon valley is not doing shit.
but it was inevitable to go from industrial capitalism to rentier capitalism. there was industrial capitalism before, only because there werent any better fast-moneymaking means available. once they became available........
those islamist terrorists were already using messages hidden in ordinary digital images to communicate before 2001. now you are saying that in 2011, they reverted back to plain text messages.
either learn up, or shut up. stupidity of people like you is allowing those fools in administration to these stupid things to america.
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tell me another profession on this planet, which produces 1-2 items, and can sit on them for entirety of their lives and into their retirement.
i code every day to earn my living. i dont see the right of a musician or artist, to write one song a year, go to 1-2 concerts, and take the rest of the year off.
until i can also have that kind of thing, i dont recognize their right to do it. period.
They won't win. Eventually the case will make it to a high court and the party will make sure things go in favor of Apple. Proview may very well be a Chinese company, but Apple does a lot of business in China and indirectly provides a lot of employment for Chinese citizens.
do you think chinese need apple ?
hahahahahaha.
dude. chinese do almost all the manufacturing on the planet already. and apple's sales numbers are not that high to be considered a major factor in china. if apple goes away, others will take its place.
apple cant go away. they cant find cheaper production anywhere else.
so ....
So, it wasnt possible to buy justice in chinese courts as an u.s. company after all ?
too bad. too bad. for apple, of course. for us rest, this may be a good thing.
im calling you idiot. because, you either have to be an ignorant fuck, or an idiot to come up and attempt to contest history.
u.s. funded 100s of islamist groups in middle east and afghanistan over 2 decades. al qaeda is one of them. everything ranging from their core leaders' training to their means of funding themselves were set up by u.s.
u.s. does not need to give them money. probably they havent been giving them money since close to a decade. instead they set up them with many means to fund themselves, one of which being drug trade.
they would take your money AND track you.
The equation the guy proposes, looks sound. Moreover, observational data supports the equation. There is nothing overstated in that.
Facebook is de facto the evil intermediary in between people, just like how record companies are the evil, unneeded intermediary in between artist and the fan.
what does 'having presence' mean ?
What we need to do is strike back at the politicians and remind them that they are serving the interests of all the population
they know very well who they should be serving. they are NOT choosing to serve who they should be serving. instead, they choose whomever pays them.
the difference of the central european countries is that, there is still a lot of generations currently at the age of running government, corporations etc, who has grown up during the communist era with at least some ideals. you wont find those in anglo-american countries. hence, the opposition from central europe.
It certainly does. if you dont know what it is, google it.
Tell it to the numerous muslim terrorist groups out to burn the world.
all of them are either remnants of the era in which u.s. funded and armed islamist to 'counter' soviet influence, or groups propped up by usa and israel later, in order to replace the threat they lost with the warsaw pact with something else to be able to justify military spending, freedom-restriction and invasions.
if you check them out, you will find out that almost all of the leaders of those organizations have been educated neatly in either britain or usa. and their relatives have ties with cia or mossad.
you probably meant capitalism aka unrestricted feudalism. or, you dont know the definition of communism.
is google obeying any orders from any north korean goverment agency or court ? no. or abu dhabi ? or, yemen ?
google and others are obeying the 'state' only in countries they are making money.
in short, its basic capitalism. and its symptom is lack of spine and principles - do no evil, until your market share is in danger.
See, now instantly they have a 'thriving security industry' in australia too. $28 mil just the initial setup.
cheap Chinese tablet, with plastic screen and low specs
why that fixation to have hard, heavy metal casings on handheld devices ? isnt it stupid to haul around something heavy ? or, 'shiny' is more important than 'light' for you ?
'....... where users can SNAG software ......' really. this wordage makes it sound as if the store will operate as charity and not with profit oriented sales. makes it sound as if we arent going to pay anything.
'oh, we can just SNAG software eh ?' ..........
why not directly use 'buy'.
however capitalism itself is just allowing everyone to attempt to set up their own feudal domains. its just feudalism not limited to a particular class, and bondage of serfs removed in theory
you have been challenged properly by the guy you responded to, dude. now reply to him.
nerds are on the edge of ruling the world, and the only thing that is preventing them are the media dinosaurs ?
most of what was 'nerd' 5 years ago has become the cultural norm already. all that is left are the old ways of doing things. in media, economics and politics. the new culture had half-taken over media already, but they are fighting back to keep the status quo.
taking down whole mafiaa out is not necessary. what's needed is to break the cartel. and from among those, the only ones needed are the ones holding the news hostage. take out news corp, and you got not only a major news channel which was previously used for attacks on internet, but also a major hollywood propaganda corporation in the mix.
just using one major news channel to broadcast the opposition perspective in these copyright shit, would totally balance and offset the easy and surefire attempts the media cartels were doing.
see, even the sopa thing was not broadcast longer than 2 minutes or so in these channels, and that is after the shit hit the fan. if, news corp or another news channel was owned by silicon valley, and started broadcasting about sopa 2 months ago, there wouldnt even be a sopa hitting the house floors.
in addition realize that you dont need to buy entirety of a corporation to control it. news corp is worth 50 bn in total, everything included. just google's cash is 44 billion. acquiring controlling shares of news corp, would be enough, and google has more than enough cash at hand to do it.
take the giant portrait pic in your homepage down dammit.
google has the finances to buy out entire u.s. legal system. why have not they set up their own shark team yet ? ............
really. the way silicon valley takes these threats to the digital age - like copyright/big media, patent trolls etc, anti-net neutrality etc - is WAY too carefree and lighthearted. even, totally oblivious.
for example, sopa/pipa thwarted, another is being cooked, acta already being pushed, and silicon valley is not doing shit.
but it was inevitable to go from industrial capitalism to rentier capitalism. there was industrial capitalism before, only because there werent any better fast-moneymaking means available. once they became available ........
is the parent post modded down. because it speaks of uncomfortable truth ?
those islamist terrorists were already using messages hidden in ordinary digital images to communicate before 2001. now you are saying that in 2011, they reverted back to plain text messages.
either learn up, or shut up. stupidity of people like you is allowing those fools in administration to these stupid things to america.
It explains why most free software or community projects fail and how to avoid that.