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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Lol.
There's definitely a business opportunity out there for someone to come up with DIY laptops, much like the way you can purchase parts from anybody to create your own desktop PC.
Comment · 13 years ago
Sir Ian, nice try, but we know it's you!
Comment · 13 years ago
Theresa, is that you?!
Comment · 13 years ago
The truth is, there probably is a budget for this.
"At the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret, Samantha says she lap danced with one of the terrorists. The Terrorists who hijacked a plane and crashed it are said to have stayed and played in Las Vegas." ... "Some big-man terrorist, huh?" Samantha said this week as she took a breather from the two-dozen lap dances she bestows daily upon the lonely at the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret. "He spent about $20 for a quick dance and didn't tip more."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Agents-of-terror-leave-th...
Comment · 13 years ago
It seems odd because Russia always gets demonized in the media. It's always the same: mafia, corruption, hackers... I can't remember the last time a positive story was published in the English speaking press.
The Thai government have just dissolved parliament and called new elections due to protests. Can you imagine that happening in many so-called "democratic" Western states? You can't even get a crack-smoking mayor to resign these days!
Comment · 13 years ago
> And to my Cold War-shaped mind, it is impossible to think of him as anything other than a whistleblower that this country badly, badly needed.
Imagine this was 1980 and the issue at hand was apartheid.
Jelly-fish CEOs print an open letter in newspapers, asking governments to improve race relations because unhappy black folk don't want to buy their products.
Not once is Nelson Mandela mentioned in the letter, so out of the public eye, his years in prison continue.
Are we supposed to be impressed with this?
Comment · 13 years ago
The crux of the issue for Snowden is whether he is viewed by the public as a whistle-blower or traitor.
These companies have staked out a position, off the back of his endeavors, yet lack the courage and conviction to fully support him.
It makes me cringe to see Larry Page, Marissa Mayer et al posting weasel words on a web-site, as though they are champions of the people.
In the week that Nelson Mandela passed away, the contrast between giants and dwarves could not be clearer.
Comment · 13 years ago
Not once does the name "Edward Snowden" appear anywhere on the web-page or open letter!
These companies are simply grand-standing to further their own ambition.
They don't care what happens to Snowden, they deny even his very existence.
From August this year:
Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord. “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” he allegedly said.
Prince Bandar went on to say that Chechens operating in Syria were a pressure tool that could be switched on an off. “These groups do not scare us. We use them in the face of the Syrian regime but they will have no role in Syria’s political future.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilan...