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Other countries like Venezuela, and Australia removed guns from the plebes... and mysteriously the mass shootings stopped. Gee whiz.

Strange, it looks like the number of homicides rose steadily after the gun ban in Venezuela.

Oh look, Maduro is giving guns to his supporters

Here's an example of responsible government gun usage

And another

It's a good thing that they have a ban in Venezuela, it keeps candidates in elections from getting shot

The Gun ban is working so well with petty crime too.

all this story does is make extremely wealthy corporatists drool and jizz their stockings. the idea that the brightest minds could be coerced into working for less is all they're fucking born for. it's sad that everyone involved was not paid significantly more money.

My! Having a bad day (or bad outlook on life), are we?

I'm not one either, but: let's remodel your home, or buy a car, or write software exactly to your specs. Or just do something expensive like build a spaceship campus. Fine. The people that did your job may not be the brightest but are smart or (hopefully) they wouldn't be there

So why are YOU cheaping out on THEM ? Forget paying what they asked for, forget trying to manage or lower the costs, pay them 99.9% of your net worth -- they're worth more than the pittance they want!

Oh, don't wanna? Me either. The more you have left, the more things you can do or have done. And by the way: the engineers obviously thought it was worth it or they wouldn't have done it in the first place. Economics.

The corporate beancounters look at ROI and risks. They don't like money sinks; that's their job. Someone else gets to decide whether to actually act or not -- whether the intangibles outweigh the tangibles (beans) in their judgement. Given enough losses and everyone loses their job.

Sounds like you disagree with, well, all of them. Become a wealthy corporatist and show them the error of their ways -- but if outgo always exceeds income, you won't be there long.

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And now offtopic: Perhaps I'm a wealthy corporatist. (I'm not.) "millions of people are starving", ie the poor. Yep. Lets give them, say $74 million, that'll fix it, right? Nope? How about more? How much more? Oh, now they want to eat a second time? OK, more money still. When do you stop; when they're not hungry? OK, done. Oh, you're tired of rice and beans and want something better? OK how about steaks (India? How about fish and chicken?) Oh by the way those poor by definition can't pay, so the people DOING all this are doing it for free, as well as transportation and energy. Humanitarians! Or they're not, the Government is paying for it. But what's that? In general the people; government is simply the controlling steward. Fine. As above, this works great until you hit zero resources, then EVERYONE is now hungry with no one to "save" them. That worked well -- until it didn't.

So: how do you continually feed the poor without going broke or forcing the providers to do it for free in which case they'll become broke? Solve that and you can literally BECOME your own wealthy corporation with the accolations and adoration of billions.

News: Bakeries allowed to buy subsidized flour are supposed to use 90 percent of it for bread and only 10 percent in cakes and pastries.
Even with subsidized flour, bakers say the official bread price -- currently 250 bolivars a loaf (35 US cents) -- does not cover the cost of production.
Bakers are increasingly nervous.


Really, I feed bad for the poor and gave 10% of my income to charities. (Used to, my income has wildly changed and I've got to figure out a new number.) But I'm not a humanitarian, 10% is about as much as I'm willing to go. And that money goes exactly where *I* want it to, not someone else deciding for me. And I'm not doing anything for Venezuela -- they're not my country and too far away. I'll help my local poor here; the actual humanitarians can help them.

Regardless their race, if some morons want to live in the middle of the wildness it's not everyone else's job to spend a ton of resources getting them reliable internet.

The mining operations employing Canadians and paying royalties to the Canadian government might disagree with you here. Nevermind the fact that if you intend to regulate use of the Northwest passage, you're going to have to establish redundant wireless communications modes anyway.

Past hurricanes in the area
1794
1812
1831
1860(3 major storms)
1915
1947
1956 - Flossy
1964 - Hilda
1965 - Betsy
1969 - Camille
1992 - Tornado spawned from remnants of Andrew
2005 - Katrina

Note that probably only Camille was a Cat5. If you DON'T try to upgrade the levee's, you stand zero chance. Whatever...the build can't be done in a week.

Damn Microsoft. How dare they not support the homos!

Microsoft fails to realize the power that the homo crowd wields. Apparently, so does the island of Nevis and Cayman and Jamaica.

No homos! w00t!

"Castro inherited a very high literacy rate from the previous Cuban governments."

Everything I've ever read on the subject agrees with this Associated Press article:

"In Cuba, thousands of volunteers mobilised following Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution in a campaign that reduced illiteracy from 23 per cent of the population to 3 per cent."

Where are you getting your information?

The onboard computer was supposed to send commands to release a clamp, open the lid and begin transmission. Four, petal-like solar panels were to initiate charging of the batteries.

• Albuquerque, NM -- teen attacked parent with baseball bat on school grounds, parent shot back.
• Kingston, Jamaica -- gang fight forces school closure
• San Gabriel Valley, CA -- sniper on top of elementary school.