"any accounting firm would view that as an ethical violation..."
bwa ha ha ha haaaaaaaa you're funny: AS IF nearly ALL the big acctg firms are not in bed with their clients and doing ALL THEY CAN to avoid ANY accountability, cook the books, and bend the laws like an iphone... wait, bend like a cooked spaghetti noodle, i meant...
no, this had NOTHING to do with maintaining their 'sterling' (*cough*bullshit*cough*) reputation; and ALL about NOT upsetting clients with possible investigations that will NO DOUBT reveal slime...
but the thing is, since the (in)justice system is effectively a handmaiden of Big Korporations, i doubt PWC/comcast had ANY reason to be really scared...
hee hee hee ho ho ho ha ha ha ak ak ak
now, grampa, tell us the story about how the war on terror is to protect us po' schlubs at home, that's a real funny one, too...
Re: This is why everyone should fear governmental power
thank you, a non cow...
kind of disappointed only 9 comments here: THIS is HUGELY disturbing on a number of levels, *mostly* having to do with *OF COURSE* The They (tm) would *INSIST* that no, nyet, nein, non, nebber ebber would they use their UNSUPERVISED spying powers against the media to spy, influence, squelch, censor it... nebber ebber, honest injun, cross my fingers and hope to die... nebber... oh, except The They (tm) have and are and shut up about it already... THIS story is infinitely more important than any silly copymaximalist going full bull-goose looney... those are a dime a dozen, THIS is a blow to humanity...
really, one of the horrifying aspects of what was/is being done to risen et al, is that they were both tapping lawyers and story sources...
um, that is THE END for ANY hope of ANY real, honest, truth-to-power, afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted type of investigative journalism... THE END .
2. for one thing, about half the eligible voters don't vote, so 'we' is not so many people... not to mention that eligible voters only constitute a portion of the population...
3. your premise ASSUMES there are REAL choices besides the two branches of the ONE Korporate Money Party; there are not: we get korporate flack A, or korporate flack B; there is essentially ZERO choice for a NON-korporate flack, PERIOD...
4. which leads to: the current election system is BROKEN and CORRUPTED on many levels; you have a snowball's chance in hell of fixing a broken system by using a broken system...
1. thanks to rikuo & john for trying to make points which just slide off the teflon eduardo...
2. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT what the 'laws' of europa (OR the US) 'say', THEY ARE WRONG as a matter of principle... YOU CAN'T just erase his story because you don't like the outcome...
3. jeezus fucking kee-rist, can't you see how this is DIRECTLY analogous to the USSR literally air-brushing their his story ? ? ?
4. as screwed up as OUR laws protecting free speech are becoming, they are GOLDEN compared to stupid fucking eurotards with their idiotic 'hate speech' and nazi-phobic laws RESTRICTING speech for NO GOOD END...
5. pearl-clutching scaredy cats who are afraid of their own shadow, AND THEN want to eliminate any mention of the FACT they are afraid of their own shadow are ANTI-FREE SPEECH, PERIOD...
Re: Re: but sadly no '5 Second Rule' for police shootings
nope, not going to let this stand: GIVEN the HUGE asymmetrical response of donut eaters to LAW ABIDING citizens, i think WE would end up with a NET POSITIVE number of live citizens IF WE TOOK FIREARMS/KILLING TOOLS AWAY from the piggies... they have PROVEN they are NOT responsible gun owners/users...
would one in a MILLION people die because piggies could not mow down a real perp who was really killing people ? yes, i'm willing to live with that one 'preventable' death for the HUNDREDS -if not thousands- of lives SAVED by piggies not being to roll up, blow up, and skate away with ZERO consequences...
again, i have ZERO doubt it would be a NET POSITIVE number of citizens ALIVE IF we took the guns away from the killers: kops...
maybe you've missed some stories where -in various combinations- home OWNERS (in AT LEAST one case, the house was OUTRIGHT OWNED, no mortgage, no debts, no liens) who are kicked out of their houses, and the house either sold or taken over by the banksters, whatever, AND THEY HAVE NO FUCKING RECOURSE... EVERYONE agrees the seizure was wrong and had no basis, BUT THE PEOPLE can't get any relief, much less be made whole...
it is just so much naked 'might makes right'... these people were 100% 'in the legal right', but it doesn't matter because the (in)justice system is slanted to the haves...
oh bull fucking shit... podunk ferguson PD charges THOUSANDS of dollars for stuff that would be given FOR FREE from the defense dept, cia, nsa, etc ? ? ? bull fucking shit, this is NOTHING but a snow job to keep from responding...
@ rich k- i think you are giving the evil minions of doom too much credit... i *seriously* doubt they choose an email system based on how difficult it may be to retrieve emails, etc... i am pretty sure there are a number of other confounding factors that are at play: 1. whatever was there... (never underestimate bureaucratic inertia) 2. whatever one of the big cheeses wants... ('i hear tell that XYZ email is the best, my nephew says so...') 3. whatever one of the big cheeses gets a kickback from buying/specifying... NOT that i don't doubt that evil minions of doom WOULD do some underhanded crap like that to avoid accountability; its just that i don't think they are far-sighted and smart enough to actually *plan* something like that... that they can point to a crap email system for 'why' they supposedly can't retrieve emails easily, is an 'undocumented feature', not the original intention... the evil minions of doom operate mostly ad hoc, not only are they generally not that smart, they DON'T HAVE TO BE... they simply call upon bullying by law, or otherwise ignoring requests with impunity; no need to be clever when you have a'because mother fucking eagles!' sledgehammer to hit everyone with whenever you want...
you don't think the NSA is plucking ALL this crap out of the aether ? ? ? besides, as you mention, MERELY the 'private' korporations who collect this shit, are -in some ways- MORE worrisome than gummint entities since they are not (THEORETICALLY) restrained in some of their usage and dissemination as (THEORETICALLY) gummint agencies would be...
@ bent- even though i am first in line to mercilessly mock my adversaries (and my allies, too, actually, hhh), i *kind of* agree with you here... there is enough to not like about the situation that getting snarky about the web site design is kind of piling on...
on the other paw, i see the point of the situation, where THEY are claiming technological expertise, and then have crap web sites...
so, perhaps there is a moral reason to excoriate them for that, but i think to non-techies it could seem petty and/or besides the point (even if it isn't)... rhetorically: justified; tactically: perhaps offputting
i'll just parasitize off of your post to remind kampers of this factoid: after columbine and the sheeple went apeshit (can sheep even *do* that?) at the behest of the propaganda masters stirring the pot to have us accept our handcuffs and barred rooms, there was ONE school district which did NOT follow lockstep and introduce metal detectors in their schools... do you know which school system? columbine...
that's right, THE VERY VICTIMS were smart enough to know that installing metal detectors and going full swat on the schools was NOT the right approach and only fed fuel to the fire... AFTER suffering that tragedy, they STILL had the balls to REFUSE to turn THEIR school into a prison, because they understood the ramifications of such extreme -and useless- actions...
good on you, columbinians, the only ones to show restraint and uncommon sense in the face of real horror...
1. they're vain celebutards with nothing but money and time on their hands... idle hands = devil's workshop... 2. meh, it's not 'unnatural' (especially when you are young and good looking) to be interested in your own body, how it 'stacks up' (no pun intended) against others, and to 'show it off' to your intimate friends, lovers... 3. BUT, i do see your point, it is WEIRD to see SO MANY obsessed with this shit; but then i don't 'get' all the twitter, instagram, facebook crap: do ANY of those people have a REAL job ? ? ? who has time for time-wasting nonsense like that, except for otherwise useless members of society...
yes, exactly... i'm a medium tee vee/movie/sports/etc watcher, but SIMPLY because Big Media has fucked people over so long and so hard, i don't want to watch their shit SIMPLY FOR THE PRINCIPLE of it...
would dump satellite TOMORROW, FOREVER if it wasn't for SWMBO who simply can't live without the glass teat... shit, i'm not sure we are 'living', WITH it...
well, you can ABSOLUTELY tell they set their bundles up so you are FORCED to 'upgrade' to a bundle you don't want 90% of the crap on it, because it has the one or two programs you really do want... there is virtually NO BUSINESS in amerika which operates along the lines of responding to and respecting their customers; it is ALL ABOUT FORCING you to make choices you don't want, buy shit you don't want, and making it IMPOSSIBLE to get the same/similar goods/services by any other means...
the so-called 'free market' is a fucking sick joke...
IF they had a la carte pricing that was REASONABLE, i'd probably only have about a dozen or so channels; WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY they will NEVER have reasonable a la carte pricing: EVERYONE would get their top 10-20 channels, and they could shove their useless bundles up their cloaca...
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Re: Please don't make me defend Comcast
bwa ha ha ha haaaaaaaa
you're funny: AS IF nearly ALL the big acctg firms are not in bed with their clients and doing ALL THEY CAN to avoid ANY accountability, cook the books, and bend the laws like an iphone...
wait, bend like a cooked spaghetti noodle, i meant...
no, this had NOTHING to do with maintaining their 'sterling' (*cough*bullshit*cough*) reputation; and ALL about NOT upsetting clients with possible investigations that will NO DOUBT reveal slime...
but the thing is, since the (in)justice system is effectively a handmaiden of Big Korporations, i doubt PWC/comcast had ANY reason to be really scared...
hee hee hee
ho ho ho
ha ha ha
ak ak ak
now, grampa, tell us the story about how the war on terror is to protect us po' schlubs at home, that's a real funny one, too...
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fucking dickless worm with the mind of a 5 year old...
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you'll 'win' every time ! ! !
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Re: This is why everyone should fear governmental power
kind of disappointed only 9 comments here: THIS is HUGELY disturbing on a number of levels, *mostly* having to do with *OF COURSE* The They (tm) would *INSIST* that no, nyet, nein, non, nebber ebber would they use their UNSUPERVISED spying powers against the media to spy, influence, squelch, censor it...
nebber ebber, honest injun, cross my fingers and hope to die...
nebber...
oh, except The They (tm) have and are and shut up about it already...
THIS story is infinitely more important than any silly copymaximalist going full bull-goose looney... those are a dime a dozen, THIS is a blow to humanity...
really, one of the horrifying aspects of what was/is being done to risen et al, is that they were both tapping lawyers and story sources...
um, that is THE END for ANY hope of ANY real, honest, truth-to-power, afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted type of investigative journalism...
THE
END
.
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2. for one thing, about half the eligible voters don't vote, so 'we' is not so many people... not to mention that eligible voters only constitute a portion of the population...
3. your premise ASSUMES there are REAL choices besides the two branches of the ONE Korporate Money Party; there are not: we get korporate flack A, or korporate flack B; there is essentially ZERO choice for a NON-korporate flack, PERIOD...
4. which leads to: the current election system is BROKEN and CORRUPTED on many levels; you have a snowball's chance in hell of fixing a broken system by using a broken system...
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2. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT what the 'laws' of europa (OR the US) 'say', THEY ARE WRONG as a matter of principle... YOU CAN'T just erase his story because you don't like the outcome...
3. jeezus fucking kee-rist, can't you see how this is DIRECTLY analogous to the USSR literally air-brushing their his story ? ? ?
4. as screwed up as OUR laws protecting free speech are becoming, they are GOLDEN compared to stupid fucking eurotards with their idiotic 'hate speech' and nazi-phobic laws RESTRICTING speech for NO GOOD END...
5. pearl-clutching scaredy cats who are afraid of their own shadow, AND THEN want to eliminate any mention of the FACT they are afraid of their own shadow are ANTI-FREE SPEECH, PERIOD...
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Re: Re: but sadly no '5 Second Rule' for police shootings
GIVEN the HUGE asymmetrical response of donut eaters to LAW ABIDING citizens, i think WE would end up with a NET POSITIVE number of live citizens IF WE TOOK FIREARMS/KILLING TOOLS AWAY from the piggies...
they have PROVEN they are NOT responsible gun owners/users...
would one in a MILLION people die because piggies could not mow down a real perp who was really killing people ? yes, i'm willing to live with that one 'preventable' death for the HUNDREDS -if not thousands- of lives SAVED by piggies not being to roll up, blow up, and skate away with ZERO consequences...
again, i have ZERO doubt it would be a NET POSITIVE number of citizens ALIVE IF we took the guns away from the killers: kops...
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EVERYONE agrees the seizure was wrong and had no basis, BUT THE PEOPLE can't get any relief, much less be made whole...
it is just so much naked 'might makes right'...
these people were 100% 'in the legal right', but it doesn't matter because the (in)justice system is slanted to the haves...
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podunk ferguson PD charges THOUSANDS of dollars for stuff that would be given FOR FREE from the defense dept, cia, nsa, etc ? ? ?
bull fucking shit, this is NOTHING but a snow job to keep from responding...
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Re: Incompetence as an excuse for stonewalling
i think you are giving the evil minions of doom too much credit...
i *seriously* doubt they choose an email system based on how difficult it may be to retrieve emails, etc...
i am pretty sure there are a number of other confounding factors that are at play:
1. whatever was there... (never underestimate bureaucratic inertia)
2. whatever one of the big cheeses wants... ('i hear tell that XYZ email is the best, my nephew says so...')
3. whatever one of the big cheeses gets a kickback from buying/specifying...
NOT that i don't doubt that evil minions of doom WOULD do some underhanded crap like that to avoid accountability; its just that i don't think they are far-sighted and smart enough to actually *plan* something like that...
that they can point to a crap email system for 'why' they supposedly can't retrieve emails easily, is an 'undocumented feature', not the original intention...
the evil minions of doom operate mostly ad hoc, not only are they generally not that smart, they DON'T HAVE TO BE... they simply call upon bullying by law, or otherwise ignoring requests with impunity; no need to be clever when you have a'because mother fucking eagles!' sledgehammer to hit everyone with whenever you want...
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besides, as you mention, MERELY the 'private' korporations who collect this shit, are -in some ways- MORE worrisome than gummint entities since they are not (THEORETICALLY) restrained in some of their usage and dissemination as (THEORETICALLY) gummint agencies would be...
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even though i am first in line to mercilessly mock my adversaries (and my allies, too, actually, hhh), i *kind of* agree with you here...
there is enough to not like about the situation that getting snarky about the web site design is kind of piling on...
on the other paw, i see the point of the situation, where THEY are claiming technological expertise, and then have crap web sites...
so, perhaps there is a moral reason to excoriate them for that, but i think to non-techies it could seem petty and/or besides the point (even if it isn't)...
rhetorically: justified; tactically: perhaps offputting
just sayin'...
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Re: "Things would be different with columbine"
do you know which school system?
columbine...
that's right, THE VERY VICTIMS were smart enough to know that installing metal detectors and going full swat on the schools was NOT the right approach and only fed fuel to the fire... AFTER suffering that tragedy, they STILL had the balls to REFUSE to turn THEIR school into a prison, because they understood the ramifications of such extreme -and useless- actions...
good on you, columbinians, the only ones to show restraint and uncommon sense in the face of real horror...
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2. meh, it's not 'unnatural' (especially when you are young and good looking) to be interested in your own body, how it 'stacks up' (no pun intended) against others, and to 'show it off' to your intimate friends, lovers...
3. BUT, i do see your point, it is WEIRD to see SO MANY obsessed with this shit; but then i don't 'get' all the twitter, instagram, facebook crap: do ANY of those people have a REAL job ? ? ? who has time for time-wasting nonsense like that, except for otherwise useless members of society...
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i'm a medium tee vee/movie/sports/etc watcher, but SIMPLY because Big Media has fucked people over so long and so hard, i don't want to watch their shit SIMPLY FOR THE PRINCIPLE of it...
would dump satellite TOMORROW, FOREVER if it wasn't for SWMBO who simply can't live without the glass teat...
shit, i'm not sure we are 'living', WITH it...
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Re: Re: What we want is bundling
there is virtually NO BUSINESS in amerika which operates along the lines of responding to and respecting their customers; it is ALL ABOUT FORCING you to make choices you don't want, buy shit you don't want, and making it IMPOSSIBLE to get the same/similar goods/services by any other means...
the so-called 'free market' is a fucking sick joke...
IF they had a la carte pricing that was REASONABLE, i'd probably only have about a dozen or so channels; WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY they will NEVER have reasonable a la carte pricing: EVERYONE would get their top 10-20 channels, and they could shove their useless bundles up their cloaca...
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1. FUCK YOU
2. FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS WITH A PINEAPPLE
3. you MISSED the POINT in YOUR rush TO condemn, DICKLESS...
ARTguerrillaATwindstreamDOTnet
have at it, ASSWIPE
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TBP, dingleberry...
*kaboom* is the sound of your 'argument' exploding all over you...
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