One requires you to bring coke to the afterparty and one requires your daddy to go to the same dentist as an official in NOVA, can pass a background check, and you can keep a straight face talking about national security theater.
By airboat on a thumbdrive that gives you the PO box where you can retrieve the encrypted CD with password to website (the password is "cat" and its already in a hidden field if you view source) that tells you how to call their IT department in Bangladesh who will give you unclear and contradictory instructions on how to use the RSA dongle who's key changes every 3 seconds and is 47 characters long. (RSA stands for Ron, Stan, and Adam the guys who wrote the "Algorithm" that generates the key. Its actually just 3 strings of random gibberish that rotate. (Adam's cat got on the keyboard and they thought it would be a nifty way to get random numbers)) Even if you managed to type all 47 characters in 3 seconds it wouldn't work because the strings don't match what's on the production servers, only "Staging" which isn't really staging, its dev, and dev is staging.
That article was unreadable. Like. It made me nauseous reading it. Like VR from 1990s. Like word vomit! I love it! I hate it! I don't know its trying to say.
More articles should be unwritten in this ungood (FABULOUS!) manner.
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The joke is that such political, legal, and commercial avenues are equally pointless. Even throwing huge sums of money, such as what the Koch brothers do, won't change the fundamental messages or opinions of average people.
What an art project like this does is embrace that apathy and nihilism and simply express the artist's defeatist joy. It is a prank in the style of Banksy more than an art project. A scrawl on the wall to be painted over tomorrow, but who cares. The adventure is the doing, not the owning.
If you want to know more about how the command and control structures of the military align with and compare to modern capitalism you can read up on "Creative Destruction"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction) for a 1000 foot view of capitalism in general, but more importantly you should research the ways in which the unique brand of capitalism expressed by massive American conglomerations stifle competition. There is a wealth of information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy) about how the militaristic, "Grow and Destroy" mentality undermines traditional competition in capitalism and stems from the military model of management. Command and Control and Grow and Destroy capitalism is, in a sense, the antithesis of real capitalism which requires competition to function.
An engineering school that teaches a course in PHP instead of more fundamental and core languages such as C, Java, or even Python is shortchanging their students because they don't learn fundamentals. If I may offer an analogy... There is lots of money to be made in the field of IT and computer science work, just like there is a lot of money to be made in drilling for oil. Teaching C, Java, or Python is like teaching Geology and how to find the oil and how to refine it. It is fundamental. It is the process and the core of the business. PHP is like teaching your students how to work on an oil rig. Fast money. They will probably never have a real stake in the business. They will always be stuck as just, "workers".
I keep thinking about these two buzz words that came out of the last two elections... Social Media and Big Data... its like Karl Rove and Richard Nixon. I can't help thinking the next BIG THING is going to be Total Awareness and Strom Thurmond.
We hear you, barely, inside our filter bubble of pushing Google's corporate social media agenda. You, just like us, want your own filter bubble where you don't have to hear anything you don't want to hear.
The thing about throwing rich people in jail is that while they're in prison, and after they get out, they're still rich. They just have lost all pretense to "reputation" and are now infinitely more willing to use their money to enact revenge and illegal means to that end.