Comment Business Opportunity in San Mateo? (Score 1) 145
So, knowingly purchasing/receiving stolen product is now legal now? Fence you way to legal riches ($$$) in sunny San Mateo!!!!
So, knowingly purchasing/receiving stolen product is now legal now? Fence you way to legal riches ($$$) in sunny San Mateo!!!!
Yes, they'll need to spend money to do it, but how is that different from any other R&D to advance your product?
Parent nails the issue I feel. This world is full of corporations that act as if R&D is a waste. The business environment has changed so that once a company makes a profitable something, they act if they shouldn't have to continue to evolve and adapt. It is laziness and greed all wrapped up with lawyers, lobbyists and the never ending patent/trademark extension scam.
The problem at this point isn't the Republicans or the Democrats. The problem is the Republicans AND the Democrats. Don't matter who is in charge.
Considering the ease in which the entertainment industry (lobbyists) are able to write our laws these days, pretty soon you will be financially responsible for getting a tune stuck in your head.
Once again you have proved to me that I was wrong in supporting you (both in time and financially). It doesn't matter who we elect here as either party is beholding to special interests above all. And, hell, it is almost always the same ones - those that pay well. The only "change" I am seeing is the change I am going to keep in my pocket and never donate to any national political group or candidate in the future.
If Joe Public ever learns this, Best Buy would be out of business within a year.
In the case of Three Mile Island, and with approximately 50% of the rods in meltdown, the walls of the reactor pressure vessel were ablated about 5/8" (out of of a total wall thickness of 9"). So, yes a containment vessel can contain the material. Actually, considering that in just about 2 minutes, 15,000lbs of Corium (that molten mass of melted fuel, cladding, steel, and other fun stuff) was formed and pooled in the pressure vessel, a loss of just 5/8" of thickness is pretty impressive.
Now in the case of Chernobyl, the Corium was released and flowed downward. This Corium flow didn't make it outside of the facility build and into native earth though.
No, what Wikileaks did was more productive and helpful.
It's not right from wrong, it's about the world moving on while the dinosaurs lie, cheat and steal to keep their power. A bunch of citizens in the middle east just figured that out. I suspect the average American will get to that point as well - especially as the middle class continues to be herded into the lower class. Government is supposed to fear their people...not the other way around.
Wikileaks shining a light on the lies, cover-ups and dirty dealing that is SOP for most governments is not only a good thing, but a necessary thing given that your vaulted profession of true journalism is pretty much dead - especially from the investigative side. Reporting on Charlie Sheen and Lindsey Lohan just isn't going to cut it. Wikileaks is just filling a need that used to be met by that profession. It might look and feel different, but the need for transparency hasn't left and something will always fill it. And transparency sure as hell isn't going to come from our government - no matter which party is in charge.
Oh, that...yeah, we can't have people letting out the names of, say, CIA operatives for political gain. No...that would be a horrible thing and no upstanding person or government would ever do that. Only a-holes like Assange would do that...right? Give me a break. The emperor (be it Bush, be it Obama, be whomever is running the United Corporations of America at the time) wears no clothes. Some are just mad that the masses are figuring that out finally.
I'm talking about the well-known fact that Wikileaks unnecessarily released secrets that put innocent people's lives in danger.
Huh? Source please. You pulling that out of your ass (or repeating someone's BS) hardly makes that a "well-known fact". Please point to the innocent people that are now in danger or the resulting damage to said people's health.
Wikileaks should deal with its legal troubles and pass off the business of keeping governments honest to someone who is still trustworthy.
Not trying to defend Wikileaks, but please do tell who that trustworthy group/individual would be...I can't think of anyone or any group. Maybe if journalism had not become just another corporate business interest. Maybe...
Well said. Mod parent up.
Maybe because the two (three?) main "competitors" behave and fee in such a similar way that is seems more than a little suspect they are actually working together and not really competing as a free market would dictate?
Maybe a little of both - cheers and fears. I think they fill a void that isn't being addressed by any existing group in this day and age. And just maybe they will help bring a balance back to the notion that governments need to fear the people (seemingly lost on most western leaders) more than people fearing their government. If Anon (et al) shine a much needed light on that, then cheer away I say.
As far as WBC goes, never forget that anyone (literally) can claim something in the name of Anon (think of literal free speech), but only if it fires up enough other members (lacking a better word) will much in the way of any action occur.
Their business, their rules. And hardly anything new. Victoria's Secret loves it if I bring in my wife...not so much if I bring my video camera...
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol