Certainty?
Are you sure it was the Kremlin. Identity is a tricky thing nowadays.
The Reg parts ways with imagineer and thought pathfinder Steve Bong
The Register has severed ties with columnist and Shoreditch entrepreneur Mr Steve Bong MBE after Mr Bong admitted to having a close working relationship with the Kremlin this week, in a piece titled Yes, I took Putin's roubles to undermine Western democracy. This is my story Mr Bong rose to prominence after The Register …
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Friday 17th November 2017 12:31 GMT Hollerithevo
Mr Bong
Sir you have been a towering inspiration to all who would succeed in the dizzying new world of future digital. I hope to have the honour and pleasure of meeting you in (a) Brasil (b) a small but heavily guarded Kazakhstan prison, when I visit as part of a fact-finding mission (c) an exo-planet, should I follow my compatriot Chris Hadfield into space.
You have enlightened us and shown us the way I salute you!
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Friday 17th November 2017 12:53 GMT SVV
Kremlin
"Mr Bong admitted to having a close working relationship with the Kremlin this week, in a piece titled Yes, I took Putin's roubles to undermine Western democracy. This is my story"
Fake News!
An article with that title doesn't prove that Russia had any involvement! Those 26 meetings with Russian officials were just friendly chts amongst fellow vodka officionados...
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Friday 17th November 2017 13:06 GMT Anonymous Coward
You idiots!
Do you run anything past Human Remains? You start out saying Bong's position is under review and by the end of the article say he's fired, all the while posting under his name. I'm sure he's a freelancer, but even this is a bit much. Expect a writ from Moscow, probably with some sexual harassment allegations thrown in for good measure :-(
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Friday 17th November 2017 13:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Whutnow...?!
so was he really terminated, is he writing his own termination for his laughs, or is it about something else entirely? Trouble with taking a piss is that you never know where it stops, and where serious business begins.
p.s. was it about taste, or did you get a call? (not from apple, from an office in London?)
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Friday 17th November 2017 13:34 GMT Alistair
Venture Capitalist going on a venture?
Perhaps, now that the other fella has been retrieved from the deepest woods of PNG, Bong should seek him out and set up a new gig, hooking deep forest dwelling tribal cultures with 5G based, ad supported, solar powered, fully recyclable green 'portotablets' in order to monetize this unique set of cultures and accelerate acceptance of alternative cultural diets in the modern world.
Either that or Steve just needs a long vacation in the specialty resort on the south western edge of Cuba.
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Friday 17th November 2017 15:36 GMT amanfromMars 1
Re: Venture Capitalist going on a venture?
Sawadee, Alistair,
Has I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! called on Steve Bong to Perform? Now would that be TV Gold surely certainly. :-)
Although Somewhere/Anywhere/Everywhere Hot Jungly and Sticky Sweet/Erotic and Exotic can So Beautifully and Easily Ascend and Transcend into the Prime Pornographic. :-) An Addictive Field for the Practising of XSSXXXXual Excellence for Heavenly Satisfaction in Immaculate Reward.
You might to consider why anyone/anything would wish to leave that NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive Program and Super Nova Domain Application?
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Saturday 18th November 2017 03:49 GMT Flocke Kroes
Re: Terrifying
When I first came across amanfromMars I found it difficult to read. After a few posts I could spot the travesty generator's style in the first sentence and move on to the next comment. TheU+1F426Register now has a significant number of commentards producing output less sane than a travesty generator while still passing a Turing test. I can now read amanfromMars straight through without pausing. The most obvious reason for this is I have got used to the style from the plentiful supply of new commentards who exemplify Poe's law. The more scary possibility is that amanfromMars is improving. Perhaps the age of machine learning really has arrived and that the machines are learning from travesty generators.
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Saturday 18th November 2017 09:15 GMT amanfromMars 1
Terrific, and Moving Surely and Steadily Delivers Stealth to Anonymous Parties and Unknown Elements
The most obvious reason for this is I have got used to the style from the plentiful supply of new commentards who exemplify Poe's law. The more scary possibility is that amanfromMars is improving. .... Flocke Kroes
You might like to explore the notion you/we are Joint AIVenturing, Flocke Kroes, and you are also much improved.
Such is an inalienable right that exercises intelligence, whilst also perversely exasperating and exposing in earlier conceived and perceived secure and secret intelligence services, systemic vulnerabilities for exhausting and expansive 0day exploitation ...... Dark Web and Rigged Market Trading.
You know, vulnerable systems business like its always been with proprietary information insider trading creating explosive bubble machines which implode on the escape of alternative truths which are able and/or enabled to paint an altogether quite different surreal picture for presentation ........ Globalised Knowledge.
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Monday 20th November 2017 04:38 GMT amanfromMars 1
Dead Skunk Works* .... Stinking to High Heaven
....systemic vulnerabilities for exhausting and expansive 0day exploitation ...... Dark Web and Rigged Market Trading.
You know, vulnerable systems business like its always been with proprietary information insider trading creating explosive bubble machines which implode on the escape of alternative truths which are able and/or enabled to paint an altogether quite different surreal picture for presentation ........ Globalised Knowledge.
Wake up to the sub-prime bullshit you're being peddled and all for the greater good of a very select few, and that's the real bad, for you don't have any part in their pictures .....
He doesn't think that the elements within the intelligence community which are promoting the Russiagate allegations can possibly be so stupid as to actually believe what they are saying. He claims that they know that what they are saying is false, because if it weren’t false, then they could provide, to the public, evidence that it is true, and do it without violating anyone’s rights, nor revealing any legitimate US national-security information.
Basically, he is saying that the keepers of the keys are blocking the public from the truth, because they know that the truth will expose the fact that they’ve been lying to the public, all along. ....http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-19/top-nsa-whistleblower-claims-russiagate-fake-increase-war-spending
Why do you and the likes of a Maybot accept all that sub-prime bullshit as if true? Are you so easily programmed to believe and not question more?
Too damned right you are. And it aint difficult with IT and media riding shotgun by your side.
Aint that all right, El Reg. Words Create, Command and Control and Collapse Worlds with Pictures Presenting the Virtual Reality.
* More DARPA/IARPA than Lockheed Martin ..... https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/aeronautics/skunkworks.html
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Sunday 19th November 2017 19:30 GMT jake
Re: Actually sorry to see Bong go
Nah. Sources tell me that Steve, John and Ted Dziuba are convening on a small island in the Caribbean to write the script for a movie detailing their lives. The outline has been leaked to my publisher, who assures me it'll be "The best movie ever made for millennials!". I suspect I'm going to sit this one out.
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Friday 17th November 2017 16:27 GMT amanfromMars 1
The Money Shot Question for Honest Answering
Who and/or what says it is wrong to accept roubles? They can be planted and sown into any alien space for the energy and growth that primed currencies provide.
Don't you wish your own personal bank account was holding Russian folding for spending extravagantly? The natives certainly appear to enjoy the attention and riches it brings.
And just like any and all primed currencies, if you aint spending it brilliantly, the power of its virtual magic disappears and reappears with Resources in Greater Control in the Hearts and Minds of A.N.Others. That's the way things are working now.
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Friday 17th November 2017 21:48 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: ...Answering
Hi Doc :-)
Few people know how much sense the first post has. I believe, the sense of this one shall know just one human being more (-;
Welcome aboard for accumulating and wise distribution of roubles, whatever noble or irrational gain one has in its/their venturing project/action.
ConnQual: Solid, with riffs.
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Saturday 18th November 2017 17:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
Miles
This is a tragedy, a complete tragedy.
The first time I remember a reference to the departing columnist was on the passing of the famous quizmaster Michael Miles, he of "Take Your Pick" fame.
A TV pundit was asked "Did you know that Michael Miles had died" he responded "No" = Bong.
I took that as a reference to the columnist and part time confidence trickster that we all now love.
If my memory serves me correctly it was sometime in the 1970s which would make Mr Bong precocious as well as criminally inclined. My memory is probably at fault.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
