I worked as a prison guard for about 6 months and don't let anyone fool you.

once you enter prison you are no longer part of the judicial system

prison guards and correctional officers are not cops, are not parts of the judicial system at all they are all private corporations.

The prison I worked at was in southern Georgia, and here's a little known secret for most. Big corporations like the Pepsico, Coke, Proctor & Gamble and many others own prisons. The one I worked with a subsidiary of Pepsico paid my check.

The reason they get into prisons is it's "insurance" and "free money" The government gives money for each inmate for care and housing/health. The more you can crowd into your prison the more money the government will pay.

So big corporations who primarily do other things, will also own prisons around the country as insurance cause it's guaranteed money, so during economic recessions and when your sales are down you know you are guaranteed xxx amount of money due to the prison income. Now add onto that fact making prisoners work for you making products like license plates for the states and other such products you get even more income from states by using your slave labor force for them.

There is an old documentary on the prison system and who really runs it, in the documentary corporations from Microsoft and Apple to Proctor & Gamble all had stake in private prisons around the country. It's free tax free money.

I know for fact that part of the documentary was true as my check was from pepsico for working for a prison. That was until I finished college and moved to Orlando to work for an ISP.

spam television was why I cut cable in the mid 90's and turned to piracy of television.

in the early and mid 90's I worked for DirecTV and we had entire scripts to explain to complainers about commercials and also spam ranked by channel, at the time espn ranked #1 in spam. with like 10 mins of content to 20 mins of spam ratio.

We'd have these groups come in from the networks to explain to us and give us talks on marketing and such with commercials, and I finally woke up.

After I left the job to move onto working in network operations admin for ISP, I turned off pay for tv, and have been a television pirate ever since.

no commercials, no annoyances, ever. And it doesn't affect ratings, as I was on the inside and worked closely with nielson families at one point in my career. Which the ratings system is a joke anyhow. Which is why half the scifi stuff gets cancelled when it has huge support, most nielson families the ratings box is ran by the older father or mother who don't really care for the scifi stuff in the first place and would rather watch Andy Griffith reruns.


the networks of course hate me from 1996 to today non stop pirating, and thanks to companies like Western Digital who make set top box for pirates by pirates is their unofficial motto in the forums.

The WD TV live box supports all codecs normally used by pirates, it's like the vlc player of set top boxes, costs 100 bucks and will stream any downloaded video files off a shared folder on your pc or you can plug in a usb thumbdrive or hard drive. Or with added app you can install a torrent program that lets you stream while torrenting all in 1080p HD.

@marbles

Thanks for sharing your sources with us, I have not followed details of Syria's events, but I can respond to the articles about Iran.

Re: US trains activists to evade security forces
Offering tools that circumvent government censorship firewalls, is not instigation. Iran's government has strict rules for ISPs to share information with the government, much like the warrantless wiretapping in US. If HTTPS circumvents the wiretapping, then is IETF instigating revolution in US?

Re: 'US trains Jundullah members'
Jundullah is a terrorist group, has nothing to do with peaceful protests and civil movements in Iran.

Re: 'has intelligence agents working in Iran'
Duh, of course and Iran has intelligence working in US. Is the Wisconsin labour movement instigated by Iran? http://www.presstv.com/detail/168937.html

Re: Kissinger threatens regime change in Iran if coup fails
Kissinger said that if the government is NOT democratic, then US would work for regime change. US is doing that right now with the global sanctions on Iran. You can't take his words and say that the millions that protested after the election were all tricked by US propaganda and spies!

Re: Proof: Israeli Effort to Destabilize Iran Via Twitter #IranElection
Online activities such as twitter and facebook are reports of what's going on, not the actual events. People went to the streets and protested, they were shot, killed and prisoned. You need to look at the number of people that risked their lives to measure their force and influence, not twittes!

Re: Iranian Unrest: Evidence Of Western Intelligence Meddling
"CIA/Mossad flooding Iranians with contradicting SMS messages"
I never hear of any broadcast SMS messages in support of the protestors. Government did send threatening SMS messages to discourage people from going to protests. People SMSed each other, but that way you know the person that SMSed you. If I get a SMS from a number I don't recognize, I would just ignore it, but if my friend tells me something, then I would listen!

This is exactly how it happen (eye witness report), after they announced that Ahmadinejad won the election, it was late in the evening, people were in disbelieve, they walked out of their houses and talked with neighbors, once they saw that all around them were Mousavi supporters and no one that was cheering Ahmadinejad's victory. If Ahmadinejad has majority support in their riding, as the polling stations had reported, then where are those supporters? After that evening people knew that they has cheated, from talking to neighbors face to face, and NOT from a twitter fed for god's sake. The west learned about it from twitter, not people inside Iran!

Re: Iran busts another CIA network
Iran's government labels any dissenters as US backed agents or drug dealers. Are the people working to free Bradley Manning agents of foreign governments? Now the hard liners in Iran are accusing Ahmadinejad of initiating negotiations with US and are calling for his impeachment. US is the boogyman used to justify any action that the regime wants to take. Like the "terrorist" threat in america, used to take away people's freedoms, its not REAL!

Re: Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran
This article is a rehash of the previous ones, no new points here.

Just because governments are spreading propaganda against each other, it doesn't mean that the civil movements inside those countries are made up of manipulated and instigated people!
US caught off-guard by Iran sanctions
Iran to sue US over human rights abuse

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>> ^deathcow:

Movies come out so quick now on blu-ray and DVD that there is practically no reason to expose oneself to the risk of getting logged as a copyright infringer.

Except the big part of not wanting to pay for a movie that you haven't seen.

I have four kids 7 and under, we hardly ever get to go to the movies any more, so that avenue of seeing a movie before buying is out of the question for most movies. Going to a DVD store and hiring discs, and then having to find the time to take them back is just fricken painful to the extreme, can't remember the last time we did that.

>> ^deathcow:

It would take less time to dupe a bluray from BB and leave out all the ads and unskippables than it does to download and burn it.
Bah and humbug. Setting a movie to download and forgetting about it until it's there, waiting to watch on my media server is WAAAAAY less time consuming than going to a video store, bringing it home, waiting for it to rip, then choosing the bits you do and don't want etc. etc.... man, that takes TIME man.

I have been downloading torrents for 7 or 8 years now, and have had ONE notice from a movie company emailed to me via my ISP at the time, and that was years ago. Nothing AT ALL came of that, and the ISP I'm with now, iiNet is on the forefront of battling the movie companies in court against them having to do anything at all to customers who download. So I don't think I'll be seeing much from them.

Again. I really DO download as a precursor to buying IF I actually like the film. If I didn't like it then they didn't lose anything by me doing so because, as I said, I never get time to watch them any other way.

>> ^LarsaruS:

>> ^gwiz665:
Oh you glorious Swedish bastard, why do you have such cheap awesome internet while I have to prostitute myself for my measly 4/1 Mbps!
>> ^LarsaruS:
Long live my 100Mbps/100Mbps uncapped internet for 26.7 US dollars/month (165 Sek/month)


We have it so that you can't have it, because that is the way the Internet works! Right?
Also because you are a Danskjävel It helps to live in a university town though as there are about 7 different ISPs competing against each other here...
Just for fun I checked up on some North American ISPs (Since I'm not in NA I might have found only the crappiest of ISPs there after my exhaustive 2 minute google-fu exercise) and man are they robbing you guys over there... broadband with the "amazing" speed of 0.5-4Mbps for a similar amount or more than I pay for 100/100... I mean WTF mate?
There is a saying in Sweden: Freedom starts at 100Mbps


That's pretty awesome. I pay $59.99/month for 20/2.

>> ^gwiz665:

Oh you glorious Swedish bastard, why do you have such cheap awesome internet while I have to prostitute myself for my measly 4/1 Mbps!
>> ^LarsaruS:
Long live my 100Mbps/100Mbps uncapped internet for 26.7 US dollars/month (165 Sek/month)



We have it so that you can't have it, because that is the way the Internet works! Right?
Also because you are a Danskjävel It helps to live in a university town though as there are about 7 different ISPs competing against each other here...

Just for fun I checked up on some North American ISPs (Since I'm not in NA I might have found only the crappiest of ISPs there after my exhaustive 2 minute google-fu exercise) and man are they robbing you guys over there... broadband with the "amazing" speed of 0.5-4Mbps for a similar amount or more than I pay for 100/100... I mean WTF mate?

There is a saying in Sweden: Freedom starts at 100Mbps

blankfist is using internet not provided by an anarchist or rouge ISP, he's therefore paying sales tax on that ISP, therefore...statist.

I really don't care what ISPs suffer from when they post huge profits and don't invest back into their infrastructure to handle the demand. When you have the same technology in place for 10 years and there's no news about them rolling out new hardware tech in trial runs to test it's limits and cost effectiveness....there's a problem. I see them testing packet shaping and whatever else allows them to continue to use the same old lines they put in 15-20 or more years ago...but never talk about running improved lines or higher capacity trunk lines to homes.

And I also don't care for the practice of having one maintainer/"provider" in an area with no opportunity for competition because the laws support the existing companies hold on areas.

I mean the uptime for my net connection was pretty abysmal for over 3 years because they couldn't find the issue causing my problems. They kept blaming it on my house wiring when I'd call them. Except they ran the wiring, they hooked it up, and they gave me the hardware to use. I showed them where the neighbor had dug up lines, I explained to them that he had a fence company out years back who dug into both the phone lines and the cable trunk line. I let them tour the house multiple times. I had so many problems they assigned an advocate to my case to make sure the problem was fixed. Which I thought was great until this woman never called me back once, or called again after initially calling to tell me she was assigned to helping me resolve the issue.

I mean if they can't offer good uptimes or better than average speeds or less costly packages.....how are they competitive? The answer is, they aren't...they don't have to. There's no one else around to give them competition unless you switch into an entirely different medium.....where they have the same horrible repair/troubleshooting, pricing and speeds. And then you look into using your cell provider, and you'll get....worse speeds, worse pricing and as far as my experience goes with my cell provider.....piss poor service and rude as hell reps unless you are buying something.

> 2gb a day is two hours of hd on demand streaming video. What's at risk here?

Your infinite plan is at risk here. If everyone thinks they can consume 2 GB a day and not decimate the ISP, they're high.

No, I have no horse in this race. I know lots of telecom analysts though.

>> ^deathcow:

> No they're not. Bell/Rogers/CRTC would like everyone to think so, but they're not.
I'm telling you, with absolute 100% certainty, that a small percentage of people are using up the largest percentage of your ISP's bandwidth. That's a fact. Probably 80% of your ISP's costs (their costs), are due to 5% or 10% of the users. This stuff is all fact. Not everyone wants to download gigs of warez and movies. Perhaps everyone should get as much Netflix as they want, and the ISP should just be forced by law to continue to haul more bandwidth, and prevented by law from charging for it? Or, cap limits?
The general philosophy (by people who manage ISPs and administrate networks...) is that 5% of subscribers use 80% of bandwidth.


The telecomm people repeat that 5 year old stat like a mantra. It's fucking old. It's not 5% of users using 80% of the network. Bullshit.

2gb a day is two hours of hd on demand streaming video. What's at risk here? The average internet user updating facebook, or bell/rogers duopoly on T.V.

Do you work for Bell or somethin'? You're awfully sympathetic...

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You can trust DC on this - he's in a position to know.>> ^deathcow:

> No they're not. Bell/Rogers/CRTC would like everyone to think so, but they're not.
I'm telling you, with absolute 100% certainty, that a small percentage of people are using up the largest percentage of your ISP's bandwidth. That's a fact. Probably 80% of your ISP's costs (their costs), are due to 5% or 10% of the users. This stuff is all fact. Not everyone wants to download gigs of warez and movies. Perhaps everyone should get as much Netflix as they want, and the ISP should just be forced by law to continue to haul more bandwidth, and prevented by law from charging for it? Or, cap limits?
The general philosophy (by people who manage ISPs and administrate networks...) is that 5% of subscribers use 80% of bandwidth.

> No they're not. Bell/Rogers/CRTC would like everyone to think so, but they're not.

I'm telling you, with absolute 100% certainty, that a small percentage of people are using up the largest percentage of your ISP's bandwidth. That's a fact. Probably 80% of your ISP's costs (their costs), are due to 5% or 10% of the users. This stuff is all fact. Not everyone wants to download gigs of warez and movies. Perhaps everyone should get as much Netflix as they want, and the ISP should just be forced by law to continue to haul more bandwidth, and prevented by law from charging for it? Or, cap limits?

The general philosophy (by people who manage ISPs and administrate networks...) is that 5% of subscribers use 80% of bandwidth.

>> ^deathcow:

> Everything except their networks seems to increase in size and capability, which is an odd thing.
All the ISP's I'm aware of have RADICALLY increased bandwidth and package offerings. It's called survival.


Sorry, you're way outta line here, deathcow.

What are they surviving from? The deadly competitive world of telecommunications? What a joke. There are TWO networks in Canada, TWO. That's a duopoly. Bell and Rogers. That's it. They don't need to have illegal closed door meetings whereby they can be accused of collusion. No, all Bell needs to do is release a statement saying hey, we're capping our lines at 25g/b a month, Rogers will quickly follow suit.

Furthermore, they've only slightly increased the speed of their lines. And what's the point of increasing the speed of your lines if you put in place a deterrent so strong that no one maxes out their speed. It's a fucking joke,

"Oh good news insects! We've increased the speed of your lines from 750kB/s to 3MB/s! We're so first world, we make Ugandans faint. Oh, but remember, though we've quadrupled your speed, if you actually use your connection at the speed we've sold you, for more than 12 hours in a month, your bill will increase eightfold." That's just spitting in our faces.

Lastly, increasing the number of available packages is a scam. I know firsthand it's a scam, because when they first started rolling out UBB about a year ago, they unsolicitously called my mother to discuss some new plans.

You see, it turns out that even though they were allowed to go forward with UBB, they weren't allowed to impose it upon customers who already had agreements.

So they called my mother and told her they have greatly improved plans, they told her they could switch her to a plan where her connection would be more reliable, faster and her computer would get infected with fewer viruses. You tell me of an ISP who can eliminate viruses from the internet. Yeah, that's right, they threatened her with viruses. So, she says,

"Why thank you kind sir, I really appreciate the time you've taken to call me with the aim of improving my internet experience. I'd love this new package."

The scum never told her that in doing so she forfeits her "grandfathered" unlimited account and would go from an infinite amount of download, to 60gb/month. I haven't yet succeeded in calculating infinity, but I can say with infrangible certainty that it is A LOT more than 60gb/month.

My mother has lived in Canada her whole life, and thus has been a paying customer of Bell for over 40 years. They spit in their customers' faces as if we should be writing them thank you notes for providing us with phone and internet, when we subsidized the infrastructure they now dangle in front of us.

And you wanna talk about surviving competition? Businesses that are in competition for customers, don't shit in their customers' faces.

Bell's Motto? "You don't like it? Fuck you, we'll cancel your shit. You can write a fucking letter to Rogers.

I feel bad that things I write are assumed to be facetious...I guess it's nobody's fault but my own

In reply to this comment by Skeeve:
I'm not sure if your comment was facetious or not, but you were pretty close to the mark. It's not the television networks (per se), but the television providers. The television providers are also the major ISPs and they know that if they can throttle the internet enough, or make it prohibitively expensive to use services like Netflix, then people will buy television service instead.

As I have said before, this is a pure money grab by the telecoms who have supported it. Luckily there are those few, like Telus, who have refused to change to UBB and have decried it as the money grab it is.
>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^marinara:
40 gigabit for 5$ that's shit.
that's like 8 movies on netflix. or 63 cents a movie.
lucky i'm in america don't see these costs.

That would change the dynamic of services like Netflix online. I wonder if the television networks have anything to do with this decision.