Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today (geekwire.com) 143
reifman writes: Amazon is warning employees not to wear clothing with company logos, and telling them to keep their badges out of sight as hundreds of people loyal to the hacktivist group Anonymous plan to march on the tech giant's Seattle headquarters this afternoon. A Facebook message from the Seattle-based group reads, "On November 5th, we will be rallying at Westlake Park in Seattle at 2pm, and then marching to the Federal Courthouse at 3pm, and from there, we shall march to Amazon for some serious lulz!. Teach-ins and rallies will continue throughout the remainder of the day."
Article is full of crap (Score:3, Informative)
I just walked from Westlake to the Weston, and I saw no protesters.
Imagine If (Score:4, Insightful)
Imagine if, instead of buying into reflexive ideology, that slashdot readers weighed all sides of an argument, to get to the truth.
Imagine if, the slashdot readers were not so intellectually cowardly, that they could read from multiple sources and perspectives.
Imagine if, the slashdot readers would have taken a three, to go to Foxnews, and see that there is not an article about millions people hordes protesting amazon and pillaging. In fact, there is no article at all.
Imagine if, slashdot readers could turn the same critical eye reserved only for foxiness, toward other sources such as the New York times and MSNBC. Imagine if, slashdot readers did not treat politics as a team sport, where one side is always good and the other is always bad. Instead, tried to see the the actors of life as they really are, not your teammate.
Or, Imagine if, slashdot once again because a forum of ideas, not ideology.
Imagine that.
Re: Imagine If (Score:1)
About as good as msnbc ?
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If Fox could rise to the standards of TMZ it would represent a sea change for that organization.
I think you just proved their point...
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It's bitch's turn. I thought we all agreed.
Re: Article is full of crap (Score:1)
I was just there 20 mins ago.. .shit is getting real. Cops are in riot gear.
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Re:Kids (Score:5, Funny)
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Anonymous has no case. It is a catch-all for people who wish to act under that name. There can't be be a case if *everyone* is allowed to assume the moniker and there is no qualification based on philosophy.
Anonymous is an expression of what people can do, if they are able to hide their identities and act as a spontaneously self-coordinating group.
However, what is done will become increasingly random as more and more people wish to use the name and the methods.
Someone comes up with an idea, and whoever li
Re:Kids (Score:5, Funny)
There can't be be a case if *everyone* is allowed to assume the moniker and there is no qualification based on philosophy.
Nonsense, they define their agenda very clearly right here:
Why are we protesting, you ask?
Here is a list of many of the things we are protesting against...
* The White House's continued attacks on 'whistleblowers'.
* The NSA's illegal and unconstitutional spying on ALL American citizens.
* The corrupt courts and unconstitutional rulings against us.
* Our City, County, State, and Federal politicians creating unjust and unconstitutional taxes, laws, and fees against the people without any representation or regard for our rights and freedoms.
* The continued arrests of the people for exercising our constitutional rights.
* The detainment of political prisoners who risked everything to keep the American people informed, safe, and free.
* The continued physical, verbal, and emotional abuse being brought upon the people by law enforcement personnel.
* The use and expansion of the FBI, DHS, NSA, and other government agencies for the sole purpose of silencing free speech, and treating us like terrorists.
* The use of the media to mislead us and divide the people into warring factions, or to keep the masses uninformed and blissfully ignorant of the truth about what is happening in the world around us.
* The continuing wars that have no purpose except to keep the elite wealthy and powerful, while the rest of the world suffers from death, poverty, disease, famine, etc.
* The corporate control of all aspects of our daily lives.
* The constant poisoning of our food, water, and air.
* The allowance of rapists, molesters, and pedophiles to harm our children, while innocents are treated like criminals.
* The use of propaganda to spread fear, lies, and distrust among the people.
* The continued mistreatment of indigenous people around the world and illegal occupations of tribal lands for the sake of global expansion and development.
* The recent government shutdown without any regard for the well-being of the people.
* The mistreatment of war veterans.
* The allowance of rape culture and lack of any real justice in our courtrooms.
* Lack of transparency within our government, and the illegal use of secret courts to detain and prosecute innocent civilians.
This is, by far, not a complete list of the grievances we hold against our own government bodies, or the governments of other nations, but it shows a great and severe illness within our society; a global systemic failure that cannot continue.
You don't support the constant poisoning of our food, water, and air, do you? What about distrust among the people, are you one of those pro-distrust non-persons? I bet you are...
I would support Anonymous, but it doesn't look like they're protesting against that orca that was caught on video punting that seal. I can't really get behind a cause that is pro-seal-punting.
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Re:Kids (Score:4, Informative)
I am curious about the bit where it says "allowance of rape culture."
I must have missed some headlines or something. What events are prompting that concern?
How about this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... [telegraph.co.uk]
"The hacking group Anonymous has threatened to make public the identities of four boys accused of gang-raping a Canadian teenager who later killed herself after images of the attack went viral."
Or this? http://www.rollingstone.com/cu... [rollingstone.com]
A summary of all the things above states essentially that Anonymous will defend the weak and preyed upon by exposing their tormentors.
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Same as the occutards?
Why Amazon? (Score:3)
No real reasoning or anything meaningful.
Plus since when has Anon worked in meatspace? Seems like an easy way to get caught or otherwise expose yourself (fellow Anons, let's self-dox!)
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This could be Anonymous's way of "Jack Welshing" its own ranks (thinning the weakest 10%). Have nothing better to do in the middle of the day than hang out in public at a "teach-in"? You're fired!
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Plus since when has Anon worked in meatspace?
I think it was when they had a lot of people running around in Guy Fawkes masks back when they were protesting Scientology. I don't really know if those people were the same Anonymous that does a lot of the other stuff Anonymous does (probably not) but I recall some of the protest meetups were pretty big.
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Methinks thou dost Protestant too many?
Plus, if you order early, you can get it wrapped in gift-Papist.
about anonymous (Score:3)
What ever happened to them? The last time I remember them making headlines they declared war on ISIS.
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Any group of retards can call themselves Anonymous. The name is literally nothing.
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Says an Anonymous Coward.
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"Anonymous marches on Slashdot offices for calling them cowards."
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Well, whatever affiliation this group ever had with 4chan has been dead for at least three years.
Take "The allowance of rape culture and lack of any real justice in our courtrooms." as an example from a post further up. This isn't 4chan culture, it's tumblr/SJW culture. And if you don't believe me, feel free to visit 4chan any time and try to argue for that statement/position. You'll be lucky if you don't get a 400 post thread full of people calling you a cuck.
Whoever is organizing this "hacktivist" (ugh) g
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Not ISIS, the KKK (Score:2)
ISIS might actually fight back, so they decided to prop up the dying KKK by claiming Anon is fighting them, thus giving the KKK free publicity to attract new members.... I give it a 50% chance the core of Anon are secretly in favor of the KKK.
amazon? (Score:2)
amazon, really?
is the Seattle group just blatantly anti-commerce, or is there something Amazon did to lump them in with all the government injustices they're protesting against?
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> is there something Amazon did
You mean apart from being Amazon? [wikipedia.org]
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wait, so Amazon shuts down transactions after existential threats from regulators and you blame Amazon?
Re:amazon? (Score:5, Informative)
the WTO riots were in my neighborhood. it was a bunch of assholes from california with nothing better to do than destroy a bunch of local businesses and stand around circle-jerking while morons set fire to trash cans.
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As long as our books come in time we'll kiss Bezos' O.T.O. ring
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i'm not kissing anyone's ring. i will pay someone to deliver goods to my door, though. if you think that makes me some kind of slave, you need to get a perspective, seriously.
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A tool? How come?
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if you don't like the tax incentives, you need to protest the corrupt government agencies that gave them out. news flash: everyone's trying to get free stuff from the government. you can't blame those that get it. only those that give it out.
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It's wrong to offer employment to people free to turn it down? WTF?
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I believe people are free to make their own decisions and accept the consequences of previous ones.
If the conditions were as bad as some claim, the jobs would go unfilled. They don't.
If a job is filled, it's fairly paid.
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If a job is filled, it's fairly paid.
Does that statement mean you worship satan?
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If we lived in your 'ideal' world there would be no way to get anybody to put forth more than minimal effort. It would suck.
The fact is you get more of anything you subsidize, if you subsidize non-working, non-studying, goof offs you will get many more of them.
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don't like the working conditions there? GO FUCKING WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE!
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If everyone is entirely selfish then it quickly becomes a race to the bottom. If consumers buy from the cheapest warehouse then the warehouses that treat their employees well go out of business and all that you're left with is the warehouses where the working conditions are horrific.
On the other hand, if the government passes laws to require decent working conditions then a warehouse can provide decent working conditions without going out of business - because all the other warehouses have to provide the sa
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A business with higher wages and/or better working conditions can be selective about whom it hires. It gets fewer screwoffs, more people who work efficiently, effectively, accurately.
Part of Henry Ford's success was offering wages far above the competition. He got the best employees, and the result was massive growth and profit.
Re:amazon?: They sold them their masks at a profit (Score:2)
To buy masks? (Score:5, Funny)
Hiding corporate logos predicted in Neuromancer (Score:1)
"Friday night on Ninsei.
He passed yakitori stands and massage parlors, a franchised
coffee shop called Beautiful Girl, the electronic thunder of an
arcade. He stepped out of the way to let a dark-suited sarariman
by, spotting the Mitsubishi-Genentech logo tattooed across the
back of the man's right hand.
Was it authentic? lf that's for real, he thought, he's in for
trouble. If it wasn't, served him right. M-G employees above
a certain level were implanted with advanced microprocessors
that monitored mutagen levels
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The first 13 characters of Anonymous Coward are Anonymous Cow. Coincidence? I think not!
Fight for your bitcoins! [coinbrawl.com]
So... (Score:1)
Because capitalism! (Score:1)
Amazon sounds as bad as eBay... (Score:2)
Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay... (Score:4, Informative)
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"Prime costs a lot less than the shipping charges it replaces."
It doesn't. Unless you are ordering everything including your groceries from it every week, you are spending more at the end of the year on your prime membership than just ordering more than $35 worth of stuff and selecting free shipping. I've personally worked out the numbers and two day shipping isn't worth the cost of prime for me. I probably order $2000-$3000 worth of stuff from Amazon every year and I probably pay shipping charges of bet
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honestly don't know how they turn a profit.
This worries me because I use them so much, maybe a few times a month. I'm sure I spend thousands of dollars a year there. Once I ordered product that I needed in an emergency and got next day delivery. I got a low end cheap model because I was not ready yet for the real thing that cost a few thousand (though it was on my wish list).
Anyway, the cheapo product arrived next day as promised, but was DOA. I wrote to amazon who immediately shipped out the replacement. When I received that early the next day, t
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^^^^ this.
amazon gets customer satisfaction. they understand that eating $30 on rush shipping, or a hundred bucks or whatever on a mis-ship once will get them a lifetime customer that spends thousands or more a year and spreads the good word to all their friends and family.
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Yep - a few months ago, a package didn't show up when it was supposed to. I likewise waited a couple extra days just in case, then opened a chat. Got a new package with the same contents delivered the next day, a free month of Prime, and bonus: the original package *did* show up, about a week later, and they said I could keep it.
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Back in 2003 or 2004 ...
i am really curious how you could possibly think this is relevant.
Newegg has worked for me.
does newegg have garden shovels, dog food, halloween costumes, and sanitary wipes?
I rarely see things that I would buy on Amazon for more then a few dollars cheaper
i don't think anyone claims amazon is always the cheapest. it is always close to the cheapest, convenient, fast, dependable, a wide variety, and has great customer service (since 2004 anyway).
How many short of a million will it be (Score:3)
50 people showed up (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.seattletimes.com/se... [seattletimes.com]
And yes, at least some of the masks were purchased off Amazon.com - using one guy's mom's credit card.
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Bwahahahahahaha!
Well, this will certainly (Score:2)
Been there, done that. (Score:1)
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