Category: Perversion

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Cpt Obvious sends his regards

So it shows, that privatisation is not a solution at all, in fact, it generally makes things worse, where monopolies are concerned. A study by the US NGO “In the Public Interest” details failings and catastrophies around a varierty of public private partnerships, privatisations and however else the sellout of public property is called in newspeak.

You can read about the reasons for the abject failure of privatisation schemes here, or you can proceed to amuse yourself with the gory details by reading the full report here.

Also: Yes, I am still here.

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Isn’t it ironic

They all have the data, they all know for a long time whats going wrong. Its not the first time, its not the second, and all of it has happened before. They are young, and angry, and for many a good reason. By now even the weirdest insults become to be found to be true.

But it still seems the role of old farts like me to remember (and go unheeded) that all these troubles have been here before, and have been analyzed and studied in detail, and have found resolution, and lament all those experiences that were forgotten, and have to be learned anew.

But this is not another round of the 18. Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, this is more of a hamster wheel of generations we’re in. And sad as it sounds, forgetting past failures and achievements is probably the best way to come round and get out on the streets. Which is where we we should be right now.

 

 

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Terms and Conditions

So… Imagine someone is trying to make a business model from invading others peoiples privacy. Lets say they sell access to some of the gaziollion CCTV cameras ditributed all over Britain threse days, cause you know, if you have nothing to hide… And obviously people are interested in watching their neigbours and catch them while… well, whatever people do that might be worth catching them at.  And lets even go further and suggest that that might be a viable business model, charging people for watching surveillance cams in the hope of winning a jackpot of a whopping 1.000 Pounds.

Then, of course, you would want to protect at least the companys privacy – or that of its stakeholders, from all this Stasi mob you’ve just unleashed on your fellow countrymen, right? So you’d probably add somephrase like the following to your website:

You must not print, save, copy, modify, transmit or otherwise disclose or share any image or other information you view on our website with any other person, including a family member. In the unlikely event that you recognise a business customer of ours, or a person you know on camera, you agree not to communicate with that person or any other person at those premises.

Now that should make sure the company gets to decide which crimes actually end up at the police, right?

And of course, since we are already facilitating general nosiness around neigbours and public spaces, we can also abandon users privacy on the website, as well, right?

6. The personal information we disclose may include your Viewer ID and Viewer ID history, name, address, telephone number, alerts or anything else that we in our sole discretion deem relevant.

But of course that snippet we better put in some “Privacy Policy” Statement, thats even more difficult to find.

Of couse, all this has nothing to do with http://interneteyes.co.uk/terms-conditions.html

Oups, I forgot:

You may not link any other site to our website.

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Surviving Germany

Today I’d like to sing praise of a newspaper that has accompanied me for the past 20 years or so and actually contributes more than the occasional laughter to my well-being. By putting its finger in sores few people in Germany actually bother to even notice or be upset about, by constantly pointing out the blatant idiocy of Germanys “political culture” and some of the smartest, angriest and most precise political analytical texts published here the titanic magazine has been an indispensable tool for me to maintain perspective and sanity in this country.

If you think that is me being overdramatic, than explain to me why all the world is up in arms about the racist statements of a Bundesbank board member, while at the same time no-one seems to be bothered at the open comparison of a black to an ape?

If you think thats a sad point of view, entertain me and lets play the following game with a very simple rule: Name a progressive (liberal, communist, anarchist, your pick) german writer or philosopher of statue that was NOT driven to exile or suicide, incarcerated or murdered in the past two centuries. You win if you can name two.

Heine? Marx? Adorno? Horkheimer? Stephan Zweig? Walter Benjamin? And please don’t even try to name Böll or Grass, I said: statue. Gottfried Benn is the only one that actually comes to my mind.

And if you think I am lacking in patriotism: I am glad to be born in a western country with all its possibilities, public services, riches and securites. It just doesnt make me proud. For if it is me, I do not carry the burden of the past, I did not participate in war and genocide. But if there is talk of “we”, then this “we” includes this past, and in this case “we” should shut the fuck up.

And of course there are other countries which are worse, and there are other places presenting just the same amount of reasons to be angry and sad. If I move there, I will let you know. Until then: Three cheers to the titanic, may they live long and proseper, and not stop to cause outrage and be outraged.

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What he said

“Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.”

Taliban?

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”

Terrorists?

“Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny […] we will not tamely submit — appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free.”

Suicide Bombers?

Nope, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Warren, respectively. Different times, same words. And I think the British generals of the time would have understood this man in his rage too well:

What I don’t think people that aren’t in the military, and aren’t in conflict, understand is that the danger of these kinds of leaks.  I think that it’s irresponsible and could very well end up in loss of lives.

Oh and don’t take that as me saying the West should pull out of Afghanistan ASAP and leave the Taliban to beat veil their wives and shoot any infidels. I have no answer to this war, really.  Damned if you stay, damned if you leave.  I am happy not to be asked for advice here.  But what I note is what war does to language and minds: It makes even otherwise smart people think like terrorists:  (and that in the Washington Post): “It is your fault that those people died, you forced us to pull the trigger. We have to kill you, too, and you are yourself to blame.”  Oh land of the free.

As if the soldiers weren’t there on their own free will, as if the terrorists weren’t there by their own decision, as if weren’t the women, the children, the old those who suffer the most.