Nothing unexpected ... as more power you have less fear you have about the consequences of getting caught lying; also, the ethical and moral burden is not anymore an issue as we are brain washed for decades that lying is the normality when the liar must show leadership or has political reasoning. So, welcome to the future where things are well established that the ones owning the power will own it and pass it to the ones they will choose as fit to perpetuate the same status quo. Hooray to the glory of the North American Bison Citizen ...

Well said; agree totally,

You are right; apologize for making the socialism sound like the klu-klux-klan scary crow - there is nothing wrong with it but in the head of the purportedly ultra-ego-centric-brain-washed-NA-bison voter. Mental sick people can't see how important is mental health for them :-)

hihihi, me too ... but not for so much, just 8 :-); also, some more than 5 on US before Germi; I think I had a grasp of both of them quite deep :-)

Because Romanians went trough the most atrocious dictator of the end of the century right in the middle of Europe - and they had to pay with thousands of lives and lots of blood for their freedom - the sad true is that only after experiencing on yourself slavery you learn to value the freedom.

On the political capital market in Germany - this is burning; it is hard to get it looking at it from inside of the US boundaries and social habits. Germans are socialist by nature - well, with a little bit of an extreme even today:-), they will let you down as politician is you show extreme preference for the money focus in your message vs the social focus message.

It's such a fine line between being *well intended* and *purportedly well intended*. The article is about how the system-in-place burned the politicians who where owned by the *Corporate*. Of course that this type of thing is going to happen everywhere and any time but the big question is does the *people/society* have the functional mechanism in place to defend its freedom? This article proves the Germans have it - and USA doesn't. " To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. " (George Orwell)

See, the difference is that in Germany the people own their society and their politicians are accountable to the people. In North America, it is the opposite - the Corporate owns the politicians and the society, the people are just a mass of slaves.

So, if you feel pity for the poor, or have christian believes you want to follow - this will be illegal? Being compassionate towards your fellow will be a crime? Giving help will be punishable? Good planning Corporate America for the *Zombing the nation* project

this is what it means; it means that all the crap on the Wall Street is nothing else but genuine *Poker*; and, as the Poker, the *Bank* drives the game and cheats as it wishes; you, the f&%^#$er on the main street just have to play for giving them the money. did someone expected something else?! not me,

of course there is nothing like the perfect solution - but worse is going to continue to make use of the more damaging one than the less damaging one just because of the purpose of perpetrating a status quo. it is about switching the balance and sharing - that's why the current status quo is going to stay as it is, just because the ones who should have a change of position will not do it because it will imply diminishing of their wealth and power and transfer it to the ones they need as servants of the system.

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1564476&cid=31286192 just that we are too few and the others are too many :-); also, the *many* ones give no shit on your long term vision or risk assessment 'cause they can't grasp it - literally; this is the perfect blend for continuing the status quo of the energy*car&war industry. The blend can brake only when the variable 'the *many* ones' will gets changed to be defined by individuals having a different thinking pattern. are you betting on seeing this change? me not,

Ha, I'm not surprised; this is the result of a bogus, old-dated paradigm we submitted to for the sake of backward compatibility - the processing model based on state management. Everybody knows that when the system passes a certain level of complexity it becomes unstable and highly unpredictable because its state management becomes much more harder than the programmers can handle without errors - thanks Turing :-)! So, expect to see more and more BSDs while driving your new, smart, highly expensive and highly inefficient and useless toy. Maybe this will be another good case for refresh and start thinking from the core how we deal in our society with the dependencies on a system which is proven unsustainable ... and becomes deadly dangerous.

i was wondering how that it didn't happen yet?! no problem, no need to wait anymore LOL :-) the corporate smashing machine moved really slowly on it ...

add them to the luggage - on the current state of the market only Java is not going to get you a job. write a toy j2ee app with all the mvc buz in it - keep on the standards so that you learn the core - jsp, servlets, jdbc, leave the candies like spring/hibernate/struts/wicket for the icing at the end of handling the core like a pro.