Paranoia / Politics News Comments 2006-08-23
Well, It looks like Apple runs sweatshops too… And like Nike and Rebok, the Manufacturing is outsourced and the management has little control over standards outside of remote institutional policies. At least it appears that no childeren are being used in the sweatshop and that the violations are no where near as bad as Nike. An Ipod Sweatshop is just one of the better, more sanitary, less abusive ones. The sweatshop mostly employs desparate rural women working 15 hour shifts and paying 65-75% taxes (50% is room & board) out of their probably $2/hr wages in a corporate-socialist environment. I’m guessing the taxes are in the form of the ‘allowance’ portions of their wages. Apple’s policies are 12 hrs per day, 6 days per week, which is way long for many american jobs. But not Jobing IT, Graphics, and TV, and especially, Electronic Arts. But at least, if talented enough, you don’t get busted for refusing and resisting the hours, which the expectation is 50min, 60rms, 80peak usually, but is expressed as do what it takes to get it done, but it is still better than this iPod sweatshop. Most of the overtime at the Ipod sweatshop seemed voluntary and most of the volunteering was driven by the low wage (40 hrs/wk cannot pay the family’s bills even at a relativitly low standard of living), which was at the low, local minimum wage.
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Apple wants to own the word ‘Pod’ in reference to any portable electronic device. They are threatening companies who were around before the IPod came out. They may be fucked if they couldn’t get a registered trademark around their own, older name. Apple is EVIL, just like the RIAA.
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Until they start having legal home-invasions for colelctions/reposession, the best way to avoid post-judgment garnishment without giving it all away is to buy expensive toys that don’t need legal registration (computers, home theater, DVD factories, etc..), assuming you are an apartment renter and not a homeowner, otherwise they’ll probably reposess the stuff when they reposess the house unless you can move it all out pretty quickly. Also address/identity ambiguity on your credit report helps too (attempted identity theft or identity confusion with somebody with same first+last name), as long as their is no unrecognized accounts also. Private-party liens from buying stuff from family members having them let you make payments but put a lien on the title incase you wreck the car or default on the loan seem to provide some red-tape barrier protection for 4-figures collections amounts. The probably with ditching court is that if you don’t bother showing up, the plaintiff can pull complete bullshit out of their ass and they will get a default judgement no matter what the amount. Judgements clear the way to garnishments, not summonses, threat letters, or threatening phone calls from paralegals. Usually its 2-4 weeks between judgement and the first garnishment orders (wages, bank accounts, non-exempt assets like cars+houses+boats+investments+commodities). If the collections amount is under 20-50K and you rent and don’t own a car or any investments (probably 1 in 4 people in the USA), you’re not very sueable. If its more than 20-50K then you will only be able to live like an illegal immigrant – under the table work (easier in the east coast) and cash-only spending.
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Hey if the injunction looks imminent, dump the game and source onto Emule!
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I’m keeping my Wikipedia, and much non-cheat plagarism makes it past most college instructors. I’m more likely to get busted for using Wikipedia anyway by citing the source than I would for plagarizing it. Lie-credits from overlapping sources work well with all instructors that havn’t read the source themselves, even one like Ron Sarner at SUNY Tech, who is a anti-plagarism fanatic. Maybe people can make some wikipededia-proxies. Wikipedia will be banned eventually anyway, as the USA becomes more and more a facist police state.
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I don’t like deception. I agree with the article. However, propaganda can be embedded in regular TV shows, legit commercials, and legit movies, also.
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Why would I care if Tom and Jerry are smoking ciggarettes and using them to court females. This stuff was made ’60s and ’70s. Who cares. If they censor it, got get your uncensored episodes off of Emule and to hell with the regular TV.
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Bush will be determined to overthow that. He wants to be supreme dictator.
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Can you say hack job? Quick fixes fixes nothing in the long run. Wait until those recruits have to deal with the beauracracy from hell. At least FBIs too busy with terrorists will be too bothered with file sharers and warez groups (but hopefully they’ll have some time for the selling bootleggers / counterfeiters) and leave the RIAA and MPAA to their defective outsourced lawsuit compaigns.
The lawsuit campaigns work by using outsourced detectives like netsentry to spider for evidence, then the evidence, often only filename / ip address pairs, is sold to paralegal-heavy law-firm empowered collections agencies, probably for $2000 each. These cases have a high enough fear-tactic settlement ratio for this thing to be profitable for the collections agency to buy more cases from the RIAA. There are plenty of commercials on day-time TV that summer-vacation couch potato kids and the unemployed / disabled / retired would see that show companies that will buy your litigation claim and pay you a highly discounted sum up front with no obligation for victory. The main way that you actually personally be a victim of one of these collection outside a file share suit is a defaulted debt over $1000, but probably less than $10,000.
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Well any of you who have versions of documents containing some of these de-classified and then re-classified tidbits should be putting them up online and on Emule! Recompiling and re-organizing with emphasis on the re-classified bits would be nice! Lets exploit the internet to defy America Police-State becoming before it gets banned (Cuba-like because China’s method doesn’t work well)! I do have a web-rip of the Nuclear weapons FAQ. It pop up on the web and then has the life expectency of a crappy warez site (weeks to months). I’ll put it up on Emule this week.
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So much for the cease-fire. Maybe the Nukes will fly in the middle east? Probably a few big strategic ones and several dozen little tactical ones. Probably not by the ‘prophecy’ published by English.pravda.ru. Only got one day left for that. I wouldn’t mind Isreal as America’s 51st state though if America wanted to expand it might make more sense to take over Canada (Land), Mexico (Land), Peru (Oil), Venezuela (Oil), Brazil (Land, Oil), and the countries in the way first, assuming denying oil to China is not an objective in addition to hoarding/corning it, but it is.
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Hezbollah did start the war with the rockets and kidnappings. I guess he’s got his own, unrecognized by the world, country going there. He’ll probably conquer all of lebanon and then go from their. At least he ain’t got no nukes or bio-bombs yet and doesn’t have a nice bounty-fraud system like Pakistan’s to eventually be able to buy them, say, from Russia and Maybe China.
