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Comment This may backfire (Score 2) 20

Kickstarter is already providing the tools to connect innovators with investors, datamining investor information in order to target them personally like that may backfire and rather than entice them to invest more it may turn them against the very concept. Everybody needs a some degree of control over their actions and choices, stop pushing people, they are not your puppets.

Comment Sergey Brin needs a reminder (Score 4, Insightful) 345

By the way, what a horrendous summary.

Sergey Brin needs to remind himself what country he escaped as a child and stop helping American versions of the FSB from growing their powers. Of-course he hasn't been through a TSA experience himself and I am sure his and his family privacy are safe from Google's data mining operation, but he should not kid himself, he is on a special list of persons of interest, USA powers that be are certainly paying close attention to high profile targets like Brin and other influential and wealthy individuals. Does he really want to increase their powers? It would be a grave error on his part because private property rights are quite transient in the United Socialist States of Republicans (and Democrats).
Keeping all private information on line, where it can be data mined by Google and the NSA is profitable for Google but it also grows the power of the state and people should think really hard about letting the state have all that power.

Comment Re:Isn't "Cutting the Wind" cheating? (Score 2) 254

It's not cheating if it's part of the strategy of the event. See also: NASCAR, speed skating, bicycle racing, etc. It just means that in addition to raw speed, the runner needs to effectively manage the interactions with other runners.

At any rate, this arbitrary milestone would have been achieved long ago if the wavelength of light emitted by exited caesium 133 atoms were only a tiny fraction of a percent longer.

Comment Re:and people go out with people based on race too (Score 2) 293

I have seen companies go bankrupt because of insane lawsuits that made 0 sense, where an ex employee maintained contact with a client and offered the client to gamble (literally) with his money, the client provided the ex-employee with 200,000, which was lost and the company was sued for this amount because it was the last entity where this ex-employee worked and the guy who lost the money was awarded it back from the company and the company went bankrupt, and this is one of many cases where liability of the company extended beyond any reason and the jury saw it fit to award insane non-existing damages that the company was absolutely not responsible for.

I saw many situations where companies were destroyed by insane anti-business laws and court decisions. I know of people who went to jail (owners / management) because they would not cooperate with insane government demands against the clients of the company.

You may want to think hard, when was the last time an ex-employee was sued by a company for leaving?

Now compare it to this: when was the last time a company was sued for firing somebody?

Now think about that and shut up.

Comment Re:and people go out with people based on race too (Score 2) 293

Wait wait wait, never mind 'rights', you are saying that companies have 'fewer responsibilities', are you serious? Even a little bit serious?

A company that hires employees and has clients and is bound by various government regulations has fewer responsibilities than an individual who is not a company? Oh boy, I see where the problem here is, you have such a case of tunnel vision on this, it's not going to get any better any time soon.

Actually it is the case that people are losing rights as they start running businesses. As an individual you are free to discriminate as much as you like, it's not a government regulated offence.

As a business if you discriminate you are absolutely liable legally. You are liable when you hire people. You are liable when you fire people. You are liable when you build a product.

You are liable by the very fact that you are perceived to have more money than a non-company, you are sued simply because you are seeing as somebody that has money, nothing else matters and in such cases the courts are very receiving to the individuals and are very negative towards the businesses, they always see a business as a source of cash and an individual for some reason is always somebody that should get some of that cash. The anti-business environment is such that hiring people in USA is the worst possible thing you can do as a business, it's the worst idea at this point.

Comment Re:Yes yes yes (Score 1) 405

That pretty much sums up everything I've suspected about you. A closed mind is a terrible thing. Read some, nobody can experience everything. What your preaching is akin to a dark age mentality.
I've had plenty of my own experiences and I do use them to learn and hopefully provide an example to others.

Comment easy enough (Score 0) 155

all you have to do is call cops on an unsuspecting victim at night, especially if the person in question has guns in the house and may use them to attempt and protect himself from some sort of an attack. At this point cops in the US are militarised enough and are fucked in the head just enough to attack and shoot first and ask questions later, so that's a way to do it if you are into that kind of a thing.

Comment Re:Yes yes yes (Score 1) 405

Reagan-era innovation called, "supply-side economics"

- first of all it has nothing to do with 'innovation' during Reagan era, supply side is the only real economics and it made USA into the first rate producer of cheap, high quality goods in the 19th century, turned an country that used to be an afterthought to Europe into the largest producer and creditor nation.

USA lost that status in the last 40 years for the exact opposite reasons, those reasons being that USA SUPPLIES NOTHING except for ungodly amounts of paper currency. USA supplies nothing specifically because worker productivity per worker is negative, instead USA lives off of the supplies that are brought from other countries and those supplies are vendor financed. The only people that are confused here are those who can't understand the simplest of things: productive workers produce and USA doesn't produce anything.

The companies with their profits are showing inflation, not productivity. Current profits are based solely on the ability of the Federal reserve bank to create inflation via money printing and their ability to print money is actually infinite, but not their ability to do anything positive for the economy. Every newly created dollar (electronic or otherwise) only undermines USA economy specifically because it has nothing to do with any productivity whatsoever, it is not a reflection of productive output, it is only the indicator that USA economy is dying and it will choke on the dollar vomit that the Fed is producing.

USA corporations that are catering to the foreign consumers are showing some real gains, but be careful buying into them as well, as their gains will very likely be stolen from them by the government once the inevitable real collapse (dollar this time) wipes out the remaining economy in the States and then we will see just what USA government and the mob are capable of when they decide to confiscate every last penny from anybody who is still actively producing something, anything.

Good luck to you.

Comment Re:Yes yes yes (Score 1) 405

I don't care one way or another what you derive from this, given your position I am not sure you can actually derive anything from a conversation that doesn't go your way.

I have seen pretty much anything you can imagine, from multiple immigrations to wars and collapses of countries, I can say with absolute certainty that nothing compares to the risk of running a business with employees and clients, with money and years of life on the line.

I don't need any links to any lists, in my life I rely on my own experiences and knowledge and make my own decisions, so if you want to talk to me, you will have to actually have meaningful additions to the conversation that you make on your own without cheat sheets.

Comment Re:Not the first amendment. (Score 1) 742

Banks foreclosing, etc., all of this is based on government participating in the market, destroying lending standards and propping up failing business models with money that is stolen from the individuals (taxpayers). None of this is normal behaviour under free market conditions, these situations are created by government "trying to help".

Banking is government regulated.
Power is government regulated.
Health care is government regulated.
Insurance is government regulated.
Food industry is government regulated.
Money is obviously government regulated.

Find me something that is not government regulated beyond computer software and other systems (and even many of these are regulated by the government) and then lets talk about free markets and how somehow without government regulations, taxes, inflation and generally control companies 'tax people' in an actual competitive environment.

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