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I just don’t get it. Grownups complaining that their boss does what they do to their children. “But I only do that to protect my children!”

And so does your boss! And we all know that most bosses consider the business their child right?

Back in 2004 I noted that there is no privacy on the internet.

In 2006 I wrote that 1/4 of companies fired employees because of misuse of e-mail.

In 2007 the German Consulting Group released a study done with 400 German top managers about truth and fiction; 79% said their e-mail contains lies.

And yesterday I read Reading emails is among the most benign erosions of perceived privacy in the corporate world.

Companies have rules; companies explain why e-mail and phone calls are monitored.

Yet, employees still complain.

But it is the companies that have to go to court for wrongful doings of employees.

What do you think?

Who is really unethical here?

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Since days a splogger rips continuously one specific posting from one of my blogs.

The splogs about pages states that the blog is a search engine and one would hurt oneself if one asks to have the content removed.

Would you name it a search engine when a page is surrounded by at least 7 ads?

But anyway, the request to remove has been honored a few times, just to have the posting back after some hours. WTF?

Google ads are still happily displayed, despite a complain of copyright infringement. And honestly I do have a big fuzz with Google’s attitude. Blogger is full of splogs, of “blogs” that add hundreds of postings a day, but real blogs get shut down immediately: A friend of wife had her single post blog shut down within 24 hours because Google found out it’s a splog. WTF?

I had to complain 6 times before Google took action against a Blogger account that ripped my content—including the copyright note. WTF?

Which blogger can’t say they had images stolen? Or content? Had images hotlinked and get cursed at and threatened with legal action for daring to replace the hotlinked image? Get’s slammed for using their own content?

One friend got cursed at in a public forum because he is so rude to think that his copyrighted photographs are actually his. How dare him!

But what is really worst is the attitude of some hosting and blog-platform providing companies. Even with the copyright of someone else displayed you still get comments like this (since most splogs do not have any way to contact them the only option is to go to the host):

• “We are too busy to look into this right now”
• “This is not our problem”
• To make a claim of Copyright Infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), you must provide the following information per TITLE 17, CHAPTER 5, § 512, C, (3) “Elements of notification” of the “Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code” available at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
  Followed by a lot more legal stuff. Does anyone really think that the majority of bloggers can afford that?

Doesn’t that send the message: We make stealing easy and don’t care as long as we can make a profit?

And then there are those who claim they didn’t “know” or they “forgot”. WTF?

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Search engines punish the original poster by lowering their ranking. A few weeks ago I read that a search engine result had only splogs in the first 20 returned results; and almost only splogs in the first 70. WTF?

Is that the future for search engine results for blogs?

A great many of the wonderful blogs I used to read have vanished. Because of sploggers? Content theft? At least in two cases that is true.
How sad.

People stealing, changing the copyright note; claiming it is theirs and then asking for royalties for their work. (Happens way too often with open source software).

So where does this all lead us?

To a web filled with search engines and useless results. Or do you really want to visit 50 splogs before seeing a real result?

To webpages with 50 ads per 5 word sentence?

To feeds with no more than copyright notes?

What do you think?

How do your protect your copyrighted material?

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Since for so many it’s clear that Rachael Ray and Dunkin Donuts are…
Image found at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2008/05/rachel-ray-gets.html

Lauren Bush must be one too—after all she is also wearing a kaffiyeh.
Image found at http://www.gothamcityinsider.com/2007/10/lauren-bush-rocks.html

When and where will this obvious stupidity stop?

First they came for the scarf wearers and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t wearing a scarf.
They came for the pork eaters, and I did not speak up because I was not eating pork;
They came for the racists, and I did not speak up because I am not a racist;
They came for those on the terror watch list , and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t on it.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.
Free after Martin Niemöller


PS: Maybe it’s really time to add a “stupid” category!

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The Dot-com bubble burst
The real estate bubble burst

Is oil next?

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Thank you for being a valued reader.

First and foremost a big Thank You to my loyal and valued readers.

This blog and its feed have always been commercial free. And it will stay that way. For something like a year there was a “Donate button” in the side bar. Mind you—the blog never received a single donation.

But costs of maintaining the blog and keeping up the high volume of posts are increasing and something gotta give.

Having said that, after almost four years of blogging and providing free content to sploggers and other content thieves—and dealing with at least a thousand spam comments a week—this blog is undergoing a big change:

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in helping people deal with high energy prices and food prices,” said the President.

Way too little way too late.

Someone needs to tell him in something like three words or less that the stimulus is supposed to boost the economics, not to offset the cost increase we see everywhere.

But than what can one expect from the Commander Guy who spends trillions for a war that was announced to cost less than 600 billion and has its mission accomplished—5 years ago.

(I for one am tired of hearing about the progress being made. It’s years later and there are more and more American soldiers giving their lives for—yeah, for what?)

Did you read that the economic actually grew slightly in the first quarter ? One has to wonder how that can be with all the companies reporting income losses and layoffs. Oh, wait a minute—Dubya’s friends at the work: The oil companies (I am extremely disturbed by the obscene profits the oil companies are reaping. ) report new profit records every quarter.

Let’s face it: If a commander in chief needs to call himself the “commander guy ” he got his priorities wrong and is everything but a leader.

Anyway, for me the real issue about the stimulus pay is this:

By law, the stimulus payments are offset to satisfy past-due taxes, student loans, child support and certain other debts.
Child support? Yes! I fully support that—after all that money goes to a child (at least in theory…)

Past due taxes, student loans and certain other debts? You got to be kidding me!

Not only that even Dubya recognizes how useless the stimulus has become—now the pay does not even go to those who more likely would actually spend it…

What’s even worst—a family with children that has debts will not get a darn thing. Or get what children need: School supplies, clothes, etc. And those cost. But one has to guess that the debt is already so insanely high that even a little not paid stimulus helps…

But since children do not have a lobby…

Families need more support, especially in times with a rotten economics. Other countries—like Germany —pay Kindergeld an allowance for every child.

Wouldn’t it be nice if this President stopped telling and starts leading?

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