- Apr 2024
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human.libretexts.org human.libretexts.org
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Essentially, the studios would force theaters to buy a block of several films to screen (block booking), sometimes without even knowing what they were paying for (blind bidding). One or two might be prestige films with well-known actors and higher production values, but the rest would be low-budget westerns or thrillers that theaters would be forced to exhibit. The studios made money regardless.
Films were sold "like a box of chocolates . You never know what you'll get "(Forest Gump). The production companies took advantage of the theatres and the people. The terms 'block booking' and 'blind bidding' were the practices of bulk selling films to theatres ,even if they weren't 'good'.
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- Jun 2023
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www.stephendiehl.com www.stephendiehl.com
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there are historical cases of “pseudo-commodities” that, like crypto, have no intrinsic value and which are sold as collectibles, and where market liquidity arises out of more complicated social phenomena.
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- Mar 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Bad Vaccine Takes. (2022, January 26). This account is fake https://t.co/r5SXmzuPQj [Tweet]. @BadVaccineTakes. https://twitter.com/BadVaccineTakes/status/1486445924071129097
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- Oct 2021
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www.canadaland.com www.canadaland.com
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Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining.
Canadaland: Commons
Introducing our new season… Mining
Stories about the dirty business of Canadian mining.
Mining is a dirty business, but it is what Canada does best. Three-quarters of the world’s mining companies are best right here in the Great White North.
In our new season, Commons: Mining, we’ll be digging deep into the practices and the history of the extractive industry. From the gold rushes that shaped the country to the cover-ups and the outright frauds at home and abroad.
Canada was built on extracting what lay under the land, no matter the damage it did or who it ended up hurting.
The first episode of Commons: Mining comes out on October 13th.
Canada is fake
Canada is not an accident or a work in progress or a thought experiment. I mean that Canada is a scam — a pyramid scheme, a ruse, a heist. Canada is a front. And it’s a front for a massive network of resource extraction companies, oil barons, and mining magnates.
Extraction Empire
Globally, more than 75% of prospecting and mining companies on the planet are based in Canada. Seemingly impossible to conceive, the scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada’s historical legacy as state, nation, and now, as global resource empire.
Canada’s Indian Reserve System served, officially, as a strategy of Indigenous apartheid (preceding South African apartheid) and unofficially, as a policy of Indigenous genocide (preceding the Nazi concentration camps of World War II).
Theft on a grand scale
It’s really been about theft on a grand scale. Look at how the United Kingdom became rich, or England and then Britain as it was, at the time. It was through bleeding India dry, we bled $45 trillion out of India. We taxed the subcontinent until there was virtually nothing left, then used a small amount of that tax money to buy its goods. So we were buying goods with their own money. And then we used the phenomenal profits — 100% profits — from that enterprise to finance the capture of other nations, and the colonization of those nations and the citizens, the railways and the other things we built in order to drain wealth out of them.
— George Monbiot
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theoutline.com theoutline.com
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Canada is not an accident or a work in progress or a thought experiment. I mean that Canada is a scam — a pyramid scheme, a ruse, a heist. Canada is a front. And it’s a front for a massive network of resource extraction companies, oil barons, and mining magnates.
Extraction Empire
Globally, more than 75% of prospecting and mining companies on the planet are based in Canada. Seemingly impossible to conceive, the scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada’s historical legacy as state, nation, and now, as global resource empire.
Canada’s Indian Reserve System served, officially, as a strategy of Indigenous apartheid (preceding South African apartheid) and unofficially, as a policy of Indigenous genocide (preceding the Nazi concentration camps of World War II).
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- Aug 2021
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thebulletin.org thebulletin.org
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We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/
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- May 2020
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krebsonsecurity.com krebsonsecurity.com
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golden rule: If someone calls saying they’re from your bank, just hang up and call them back — ideally using a phone number that came from the bank’s Web site or from the back of your payment card.
Golden rule of talking to your bank
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“When the representative finally answered my call, I asked them to confirm that I was on the phone with them on the other line in the call they initiated toward me, and so the rep somehow checked and saw that there was another active call with Mitch,” he said. “But as it turned out, that other call was the attackers also talking to my bank pretending to be me.”
Phishing situation scenario:
- a person is called by attackers who identify as his bank
- the victim tell them to hold the line
- in the meantime, the victim calls his bank representative who confirms after a while that he is with them on another line
- in reality, the another line is done by attackers pretending to be him
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- Apr 2020
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www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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Basically, the attackers don't actually have video of you or access to your contacts, and they haven't been able to install malicious code on your computer. In reality, they're taking a password from a database that's available online, sending it to you, and hoping you're scared enough to believe their story and send them bitcoin.
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- Jun 2019
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Craig Steven Wright
Please leave us in piece
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- Apr 2019
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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Facebook users are being interrupted by an interstitial demanding they provide the password for the email account they gave to Facebook when signing up. “To continue using Facebook, you’ll need to confirm your email,” the message demands. “Since you signed up with [email address], you can do that automatically …”A form below the message asked for the users’ “email password.”
So, Facebook tries to get users to give them their private and non-Facebook e-mail-account password.
This practice is called spear phishing.
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- Mar 2019
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www.ftc.gov www.ftc.gov
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Office Depot, Inc. and a California-based tech support software provider have agreed to pay a total of $35 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the companies tricked customers into buying millions of dollars’ worth of computer repair and technical services by deceptively claiming their software had found malware symptoms on the customers’ computers.Office Depot has agreed to pay $25 million while its software supplier, Support.com, Inc., has agreed to pay $10 million as part of their settlements with the FTC. The FTC intends to use these funds to provide refunds to consumers.
Lovely fraud scheme. Good thing that Office Depot and support.com are paying for this.
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www.consumer.ftc.gov www.consumer.ftc.gov
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Many customers who took their computers in for a free “PC Health Check” at Office Depot or OfficeMax stores between 2009 and November 2016 were told their computers had malware symptoms or infections — but that wasn’t true. The FTC says Office Depot and OfficeMax ran PC Health Check, a diagnostic scan program created and licensed by Support.com, that tricked those consumers into thinking their computers had symptoms of malware or actual “infections,” even though the scan hadn’t found any such issues. Many consumers who got false scan results bought computer diagnostic and repair services from Office Depot and OfficeMax that cost up to $300.
Office Depot scammed people all over the USA, tricking them into believing something was wrong with their computers.
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- Jun 2017
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www.florencescoveljewelry.com www.florencescoveljewelry.com
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This company is a rip off. My friend ordered from them in November 16 and still hasnt received her jewelry
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- Jan 2017
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www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
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The “can you hear me” con is actually a variation on earlier scams aimed at getting the victim to say the word “yes” in a phone conversation. That affirmative response is recorded by the fraudster and used to authorize unwanted charges on a phone or utility bill or on a purloined credit card.
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- Aug 2016
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tinderbtc.com tinderbtc.com
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Home About Profit Plan Referral Plan FAQ Contact us
This site is a scam. After a certain period of time the website stop working and they refuse to respond to emails about the issue. Therefore whatever money you "invested" in it is just gone
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