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I am a programmer who sucks at marketing
That's the mission critical bug that will kill your business ;)
Read these three books ~many~ times:
-> The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
-> Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
-> No B.S. Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy
Then split your overall time 50% dev, 50% marketing.
Plan B: keep an eye on the contracting market in your area of expertise ...
Good luck!
but how do we stop it? Can it be stopped, or is corruption in government, just something we're forced to live with forever?
Excellent question - the question of our time.
I think you'd have to learn what lessons you can from the peace movements of South Africa, East Germany, the color revolutions and so on.
However, this raises the question: if the government has unofficially declared war on the civilian public - should the public declare war on the government?
These books by Gene Sharpe are worthy of further study (especially "From Dictatorship to Democracy"):
http://www.aeinstein.org/english
Perhaps a new form of government entirely? e.g. decision making using the jury system:
http://equalitybylot.wordpress.com
Very encouraging that more people are becoming aware of the machinations of power. The real terrorists are much closer to home unfortunately ...
I note that not one comment below addresses the substantive issues arising from this article:
Who had the means, motive & opportunity to disrupt the Syrian internet traffic?
Most likely one of the NATO intelligence agencies.
> The regime is still alive because no outside force is really doing anything.
Do you even read the news?
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/05/killing-syria...
You clearly haven't got a clue about the events of the past 2 years.
Gotcha!
You are clearly not who you claim to be. You're either a liar or a shill. You created your profile a day ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dsaber
I note that you are unable to engage in any of the critical issues.
> Had you even lived in Syria
You've never lived in Syria - you're a fake.
Contact me directly & I'll get one of my Syrian friends to have a chat with you.
What were the main electoral issues for the 2012 elections?
> Yes, many of those videos have been verified.
You have failed to provide any evidence of this. You dont seem to understand the difference between assertion & fact.
Facts & evidence please - not assertion.
> There's around 275 intelligence officers for each Syrian citizen
275 * 20.82 million citizens = 5500 million intelligence officers? You're an idiot.
> You very well know my position about advocating for the rights and freedom of civilians.
NO, we don't know your position.
> , that question demonstrates many of the classic logical fallacies in your entire argument.
Such as?
Yeah, didn't think so. If you even knew what a logical fallacy was you would have stated it.
> What a ridiculous question.
You don't seem to understand a rhetorical question. So I'll put it more clearly for you:
You are supporting killing civilians to aid a propaganda effort.
Again, we note that you do not acknowledge the fact that: - NATO backed death squads were responsible for the Houla massacre; - western media tried to blame the Syrian government; - western media ignored the UN report exonerating the Syrian government;
> your claimed propaganda efforts
There's nothing claimed - the propaganda effort is a FACT.
Also the death & destruction on the ground is not claimed, it's a fact.
> the main responsible party in the destruction of the country is the Syrian regime
Yet again, incorrect.
Snipers from Dagestan armed with US produced M40A3 rifles started shooting civilians in 2011.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27955.htm
http://www.ozyism.com/2011/12/us-sniper-squad-caught-on-vide...
There are over 300 European mercenaries languishing in Syrian jails:
http://www.ozyism.com/2012/06/40-german-arms-smugglers-arres...
There are over 20000 Foreign Mercenaries in Syria:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-uncleared-war-nearly-2...
http://www.kurdnas.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&v...
A United Nations Independent Commission, has confirmed that: - contractors hired by the Pentagon were training the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons; - terrorists possess sarin nerve gas, which they are using against the civilian population
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=United+Nations+Independent...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/pentagon-contractors-have-train...
Furthermore, Qatar has been implicated in a plot to procure chemical weapons from a UK security company for use by the death squads, hoping to blame the government.
http://www.infowars.com/hack-reveals-washington-approved-pla...
All of which you seem quite happy with.
It is obvious you have no empathy for the suffering of the Syrian people & fully support the killing of civilians by NATO death squads.
> several militias of (mostly) Syrians. So it's a civil war.
Incorrect: this is an external destablisation by NATO, Qatar et al. & a heroic defence by the Syrian people.
Who is training, funding & supporting the death squads in Syria? NATO, under the supervision of Robert Stephen Ford:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-salvador-option-for-syria-u...
Negroponte/Ford were resposible for running the death squads in central America in the 80's & Iraq in 2004 onwards.
If Mexico & Canada were sending snipers to the US & some libertarians joined in - would you call that a civil war?
FACT: the overwhelming majority of Syrians support the current government & voted for them in independently observed free elections.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-...
> the regime was brutally terrorizing its own citizens. There are countless of videos that prove it.
Where are videos - have you verified them? Didn't think so.
Re: Houla - carried out by NATO backed terrorists, confirmed in a UN report.
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2012...
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2012...
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2012...
This is part of massacre marketing strategy by NATO, Qatar et al:
Writing in Bild, [2] longtime German war correspondent Jurgen Todenhofer accused the rebels of "deliberately killing civilians and then presenting them as victims of the government". He described this "massacre-marketing strategy" as being "among the most disgusting things that I have ever experienced in an armed conflict"
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html
So you fully support killing civilians to aid a propaganda effort?
> There is civil war.
There is NO civil war in Syria.
There is a campaign of terrorism waged by NATO, specifically Turkey , Qatar, Isreal, UK, France to secure the transit for the South Pars/North Dome gas field.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/08/20128513344...
What's at stake? About $200 billion annual output between Iran & Qatar. That's about $360,000 per SECOND.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars_/_North_Dome_Gas-Con...
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