Part of that effort this week apparently involved reaching out to Nielsen to demand the company fiddle with its cord cutting numbers, which ESPN then peddled to reporters in the hopes of creating an artificial, rosier tomorrow: ...
At what point does the SEC step up and demand of these liars, "WTF are you guys trying to pull on your shareholders and potential investors?!?"
I suspect there's at least a couple of other regulators that could do it instead, but the SEC ought to most easily get the attention of boards of directors and investors.
Too bad the FBI's busy manufacturing plots with mental defectives, or they might find something fitting into their mandate too.
... and it's well overdue for a military coup to restore power to the public.
If you're really expecting the second part of that to actually happen, you're delusional. There's going to be a lot of casualties following the first part before the second part has even a chance of happening.
I envy the authors and creative types of a few centuries from now. What incredible raw material they're going to have to play with. Look what "Life of Brian" did with the Bible.
You bribe the first and screw the latter. Like with any political system, this makes the most efficient use of money.
Something like that ought to get you beyond the orbit of Pluto, and expecting change.
In this case, it's a democracy. You can try getting elected and getting your turn to sign things in exchange for bribes and screwing over your countrymen.
So, the old game of "Fuck your buddy", on steroids.
I'm thinking life as a wildebeast on the African plains watching hungry lions circling the herd isn't all that better than what we've managed so far with this civilization thing of ours. That'll bring you back down to Earth.
The majority of Americans are tools and continue to support this huge deception.
In their (USA) defense, if this actually flies it'll be German MPs who're supporting this travesty. They don't have to, and why they would, I can't imagine.
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If I was a German MP offered this deal, I'd be so incensed my actions would be (sorry buddy) shoot (or disarm, if possible) the guard, connect to war-driver in a van outside, transmit all documents to hell and back, and die in a hail of bullets with a satisfied smile on my face as US forces still on German soil storm the door.
This is the deal offered MPs?!? Chutzpah, methinks. They wrangled with them for two years to get this much, for MPs!?!
You want that badly to hide what's in it, I think it likely stinks to high heaven. Run. Away.
The police are nothing but last resort, last minute, after the fact officials with guns on their belts most of the time.
Often, all that's left for them is to clean up the mess.
Citizens should be no less capably equipped for dealing with crime than the police, no less armed, no less empowered.
Hell, what's wrong with driving a pickup truck around that's dragging a German eighty-eight with a box full of ammo? It's just a gun, right?
I'm being sarcastic, in case it isn't obvious. There's a quantitative difference between a handgun or rifle and anti-aircraft artillery that can destroy a Sherman tank or a building or shoot down an airliner.
NO MORE "SPIES FOR THE KING." They are a department of the military, nothing more.
They're supposed to be spying on potential enemies (to protect us from them). They're supposed to accept that they're constrained from spying on us domestically. That job is for the *civilian* (non-military) police. This distinction appears to have been lost in recent years.
Given some events of which I'll here not detail, their souls are also very much at stake.
Uh huh. Believes souls are a real thing. Maybe you need a nap.
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Not necessarily. He may have been asking all and sundry "let's debate this", and all he got back was "" so he knew that dog wasn't going to hunt. You don't flog a dead horse.
That doesn't mean he was in on the fix, just that he was powerless to do anything about it.
Give up just a little bit of control, it seems, and you spur on sales.
See? It's all about control. Absolute control is more important than profit. Also see: MAFIAA.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's hard to understand how they managed to grow to adulthood and go into business yet still get this simple thing so badly wrong. A corollary to this is bad PR certainly does drive business away, and this is a worst case example of bad PR. Nobody wants to have anything to do with greedy control freaks, except lawyers I suppose.
So what concessions has Obama been making in order to avoid conflict?
He finally conceded it would be insane to invade Iran because it would be both un-winnable and turn the entire Middle East into a bonfire from which none would escape, and possibly bankrupt all those involved. Besides, he was already busy cooking up a NATO backed coup in Ukraine to tweak Putin's nose for failing to respect his "authoritay."
But apparently she is above the law along with every other government employee.
I've been trying to understand this phenomenon too. Experts say it's unlikely Hillary Clinton will be charged with anything because they believe she thought she wasn't breaking any law.
Why didn't that excuse work for Aaron Swartz? He didn't believe he was doing anything wrong either.
Was the vendor working for the university, or for the FBI/NSA/Homeland Security?
The CIA's been known for a long time for owning front companies and hiding that ownership from everyone. This wouldn't be the first time. This is a pretty sleazy way to make an end run around the Constitution.
How many universities have a president or other senior officer who used to work for the US government?
There was a lot of silly stuff that came out of those hippies in Berkeley back in the sixties. Seeing this level of fascist dumbth come out of there too is pretty surprising. That pendulum sure has swung.
I am a firm [believer] in the idea that just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
I've been telling people for decades to get their own net connection and not simply mooch it off their employer. There are far too many ways for that to blow up in your face, and rightly so. Employers have both the right and the duty to protect their network. Our privacy and security, not so much.
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Paramount.
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Yoohoo, SEC?
At what point does the SEC step up and demand of these liars, "WTF are you guys trying to pull on your shareholders and potential investors?!?"
I suspect there's at least a couple of other regulators that could do it instead, but the SEC ought to most easily get the attention of boards of directors and investors.
Too bad the FBI's busy manufacturing plots with mental defectives, or they might find something fitting into their mandate too.
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If you're really expecting the second part of that to actually happen, you're delusional. There's going to be a lot of casualties following the first part before the second part has even a chance of happening.
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Something like that ought to get you beyond the orbit of Pluto, and expecting change.
So, the old game of "Fuck your buddy", on steroids.
I'm thinking life as a wildebeast on the African plains watching hungry lions circling the herd isn't all that better than what we've managed so far with this civilization thing of ours. That'll bring you back down to Earth.
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I dunno, Putin and the Iranian leaders are looking better to me every minute. Even the Chinese (though jerks) appear to have their !@#$ together.
"Even"? He'll be co-opted any minute now, if he isn't already.
I wake up every morning wondering whether the USA is rebelling again or WWIII has finally begun. It can't be much longer now.
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In their (USA) defense, if this actually flies it'll be German MPs who're supporting this travesty. They don't have to, and why they would, I can't imagine.
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This is the deal offered MPs?!? Chutzpah, methinks. They wrangled with them for two years to get this much, for MPs!?!
You want that badly to hide what's in it, I think it likely stinks to high heaven. Run. Away.
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Often, all that's left for them is to clean up the mess.
Hell, what's wrong with driving a pickup truck around that's dragging a German eighty-eight with a box full of ammo? It's just a gun, right?
I'm being sarcastic, in case it isn't obvious. There's a quantitative difference between a handgun or rifle and anti-aircraft artillery that can destroy a Sherman tank or a building or shoot down an airliner.
They're supposed to be spying on potential enemies (to protect us from them). They're supposed to accept that they're constrained from spying on us domestically. That job is for the *civilian* (non-military) police. This distinction appears to have been lost in recent years.
Uh huh. Believes souls are a real thing. Maybe you need a nap.
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Harumph. :-|
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Not necessarily. He may have been asking all and sundry "let's debate this", and all he got back was "" so he knew that dog wasn't going to hunt. You don't flog a dead horse.
That doesn't mean he was in on the fix, just that he was powerless to do anything about it.
I'm just speculating though.
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Exactly what I was thinking. It's hard to understand how they managed to grow to adulthood and go into business yet still get this simple thing so badly wrong. A corollary to this is bad PR certainly does drive business away, and this is a worst case example of bad PR. Nobody wants to have anything to do with greedy control freaks, except lawyers I suppose.
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He finally conceded it would be insane to invade Iran because it would be both un-winnable and turn the entire Middle East into a bonfire from which none would escape, and possibly bankrupt all those involved. Besides, he was already busy cooking up a NATO backed coup in Ukraine to tweak Putin's nose for failing to respect his "authoritay."
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I've been trying to understand this phenomenon too. Experts say it's unlikely Hillary Clinton will be charged with anything because they believe she thought she wasn't breaking any law.
Why didn't that excuse work for Aaron Swartz? He didn't believe he was doing anything wrong either.
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Re: Re: But...the IT staff
The CIA's been known for a long time for owning front companies and hiding that ownership from everyone. This wouldn't be the first time. This is a pretty sleazy way to make an end run around the Constitution.
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It can be, but it's usually not very good at it.
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There was a lot of silly stuff that came out of those hippies in Berkeley back in the sixties. Seeing this level of fascist dumbth come out of there too is pretty surprising. That pendulum sure has swung.
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Re: Just the tip of the iceberg
I've been telling people for decades to get their own net connection and not simply mooch it off their employer. There are far too many ways for that to blow up in your face, and rightly so. Employers have both the right and the duty to protect their network. Our privacy and security, not so much.
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I think that horse's ass is causing Betty a loss of reputation. PETA should sue her; the horse's ass, I mean.
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