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Its not that at all. If FED 'sets' interest it also sets a component of inflation in the economy. Business leverages/expands credit to operate, if the baseline interest is raised this follows through to increased cost to build things and increased cost of living so the net effect is zero. The problem is that there is not enough real value adding being done in capitalism. Eg: where work builds something that makes profit. The private sector looks for investment and ultimately government spending creates areas where profit is higher yield than other areas. Eg: Lucrative profit for companies in China is not just operating costs its government creating money by keystroke to grow the economy. Now look at the efficiency of the financial sector that is supposed to make retirement stable: "The job of finance is to provide capital to companies. We do it to the tune of $250 billion a year in IPO's and secondary offerings" "What else do we do? We encourage investors to trade about 32 trillion a year. So by the way i calculate it, 99% of what we do in the industry is people trading with one another, with a gain only to the middleman.It's a waste of resources" -john bogle. Public pensions where the aggregate savings expand M1 of the money supply, where people DONT Have to take risks with a financial system that does not invest in real production or innovation IS THE PROBLEM nothing to do with interest rates. Also here are facts about millenials savings. They cant save enough because they dont earn enough. NO matter how you partition the income one of the basic living expenses is going to be defficient. https://www.principal.com/abou... https://www.forbes.com/sites/m... Employment participation rate is worse in the USA after every recession: https://i0.wp.com/bilbo.econom... http://bilbo.economicoutlook.n... https://i2.wp.com/bilbo.econom... https://i1.wp.com/bilbo.econom... People are poorer/earn less/more part time work replacing full time work: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.n... Not JUST evident in the USA: https://i2.wp.com/bilbo.econom...

Its not that at all. If FED 'sets' interest it also sets a component of inflation in the economy. Business leverages/expands credit to operate, if the baseline interest is raised this follows through to increased cost to build things and increased cost of living so the net effect is zero. The problem is that there is not enough real value adding being done in capitalism. Eg: where work builds something that makes profit. The private sector looks for investment and ultimately government spending creates areas where profit is higher yield than other areas. Eg: Lucrative profit for companies in China is not just operating costs its government creating money by keystroke to grow the economy. Now look at the efficiency of the financial sector that is supposed to make retirement stable: "The job of finance is to provide capital to companies. We do it to the tune of $250 billion a year in IPO's and secondary offerings" "What else do we do? We encourage investors to trade about 32 trillion a year. So by the way i calculate it, 99% of what we do in the industry is people trading with one another, with a gain only to the middleman.It's a waste of resources" -john bogle. Public pensions where the aggregate savings expand M1 of the money supply, where people DONT Have to take risks with a financial system that does not invest in real production or innovation IS THE PROBLEM nothing to do with interest rates. Also here are facts about millenials savings. They cant save enough because they dont earn enough. NO matter how you partition the income one of the basic living expenses is going to be defficient. https://www.principal.com/abou... https://www.forbes.com/sites/m... Employment participation rate is worse in the USA after every recession: https://i0.wp.com/bilbo.econom... http://bilbo.economicoutlook.n... https://i2.wp.com/bilbo.econom... https://i1.wp.com/bilbo.econom... People are poorer/earn less/more part time work replacing full time work: http://bilbo.economicoutlook.n... Not JUST evident in the USA: https://i2.wp.com/bilbo.econom...

. . .and yet the electrolyte in a fully charged lead acid battery doesn't freeze until about -90F (~-65C). The battery continues to provide lesser current down to the freezing point. I can personally attest that there's enough juice in a good battery to start a car at -55F without either having been warmed or charged. (I only started a car that cold once.) My wife forgot to plug her car into the timer last night, and I started it this morning at -25F.

Lithium-ion batteries stop functioning at -40C, and are pretty useless at temperatures below -20C. Despite the recommendations you cite, lead-acid has a safe working range that covers a pretty darn wide temperature range.

p.s. I went looking and found a pretty chart for you: https://i2.wp.com/mathscinotes.... The chart shows a slightly lower freezing temperature than I recollect.

Anything that increases productivity raises output, and therefore value, of the people producing. You'd expect that to make them richer.

Well, it doesn't make people richer. We are already living in that world for a while now and it's just not true:

http://i1.wp.com/andrewmcafee....

(some products have become cheaper so maybe your buying power went up, but I doubt it)

“Even though the human influence on climate was much smaller in the past, the models do not account for the fact that the rate of global sea-level rise 70 years ago was as large as what we observe today.”

Skeuomorphism is to aid people in understanding the metaphor quickly. It has nothing to do with the discoverability of the controls.

The trash can looks like a trash can so you know immediately what it's for. If it were sitting there in the Dock or on the desktop but looked like just an empty cardboard box, its function wouldn't be obvious at all.

I think the tipping point when Apple started to go overboard with skeuomorphism was with the brushed metal in QuickTime 4.0 player.

there are people who have been burned by a woman and have sworn them off.

The rest of us call such people, "losers".

But there is a legitimate argument that our marriage laws and courts advantage women.

Hoo-boy. So what you're trying to say is, "All Genders Matter"?

Our dating culture also advantages women, though I am bothered by this less, because you can always just ignore the culture and have your own sense of fairness.

You mean you only recently realized that you can establish your own ethics and direct your own life and relationships? Most people learn this in puberty.

I don't endorse these movements, but they have a well thought out perspective that shouldn't just be summarily dismissed like you've done:

I have yet to meet an MRA with a "well thought out perspective". Or maybe I was unable to hear the well thought out perspective amidst all the sniveling and whining from those sensitive snowflakes.

Here is an unretouched photo of an MRA:

https://i1.wp.com/www.wehunted...

There appears to be a new trend. http://i1.wp.com/espnfivethirt... http://i0.wp.com/espnfivethirt...

There appears to be a new trend. http://i1.wp.com/espnfivethirt... http://i0.wp.com/espnfivethirt...

I'm genuinely curious as to the origins of this with regards to the Trump fanboys. Who sat down and flipped through the dictionary to settle on 'cuck'? Is that the most insulting thing you could come up with to get under the skin of people you disagreed with?

It's a mixture of things. Much of it centres on rather broken ideas of how things should be and cuck (cuckold) is about the most devastating insult they can think of to themselves, so they try and use it on other people.

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth....

The trouble is that no one except them cares, so they just end up sounding like a bunch of chickens

PS sorry about the thing the other day. I was thinking of the OTHER guy with lots of 1's and 0's in his name. I dobule checked, it wasn't you, so please accept my apologies.

The plant overlord future isn't looking very "rosy" any more, is it . . . ?

More like "carroty", maybe.

When Lost the Dongle was a plus.

Nobody who's making stuff up for the purpose of harming a candidate is going to pretend it happened decades ago, they're going to pretend it happened recently so they can show the guy hasn't changed.

Of course, there are recent incidents too. And this kind of thing has been going on recently.

This is one sick perv, and so close to the nuclear codes.

Assange is an admitted Hillary hater. His goal is not transparency and it has nothing to do with public service or the public good. The man's a walking colostomy bag.

Oh, be fair. Clinton wanted to kill Assange, and spend an entire meeting discussing how to do it.

Clinton never followed up the "drone strike" comment with "seriously", or anything to indicate that she was kidding - she just went on as if it was an option.

“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States.

Also, the meeting prompted one of her staffers to write a followup memo with the subject "legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks"

Immediately following the conclusion of the wild brainstorming session, one of Clinton’s top aides, State Department Director of Policy Planning Ann-Marie Slaughter, penned an email to Clinton, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and aides Huma Abebin and Jacob Sullivan at 10:29 a.m. entitled “an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.”

Give Julian a break, Hillary Clinton conspired to kill him.

"True Pundit’s unconfirmed report alleges "

Assange is an admitted Hillary hater. His goal is not transparency and it has nothing to do with public service or the public good. The man's a walking colostomy bag.

Oh, be fair. Clinton wanted to kill Assange, and spend an entire meeting discussing how to do it.

Clinton never followed up the "drone strike" comment with "seriously", or anything to indicate that she was kidding - she just went on as if it was an option.

“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States.

Also, the meeting prompted one of her staffers to write a followup memo with the subject "legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks"

Immediately following the conclusion of the wild brainstorming session, one of Clinton’s top aides, State Department Director of Policy Planning Ann-Marie Slaughter, penned an email to Clinton, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and aides Huma Abebin and Jacob Sullivan at 10:29 a.m. entitled “an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.”

Give Julian a break, Hillary Clinton conspired to kill him.

ironically, nobody can find where that was leaked.

Assange is an admitted Hillary hater. His goal is not transparency and it has nothing to do with public service or the public good. The man's a walking colostomy bag.

Oh, be fair. Clinton wanted to kill Assange, and spend an entire meeting discussing how to do it.

Clinton never followed up the "drone strike" comment with "seriously", or anything to indicate that she was kidding - she just went on as if it was an option.

“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States.

Also, the meeting prompted one of her staffers to write a followup memo with the subject "legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks"

Immediately following the conclusion of the wild brainstorming session, one of Clinton’s top aides, State Department Director of Policy Planning Ann-Marie Slaughter, penned an email to Clinton, Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, and aides Huma Abebin and Jacob Sullivan at 10:29 a.m. entitled “an SP memo on possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks.”

Give Julian a break, Hillary Clinton conspired to kill him.

(I posted a comment but it seems it got lost, because it doesn't exist anymore. So this is actually a shorter version)

OK, so let me be clear I'm in Europe. So I might have it wrong, but I'll give my perspective.

I totally agree things like ISIS are a total fuck up. I'm just saying, you have a 2 party system and both parties and their candidates suck.

It's a history of fucks ups, something like 40 years of them, the parties don't seem to matter at all.

My perspective is: the system is currently fundamentally broken. And I see to few people in the US trying to fix it. I haven't done even hours of research, but maybe something like Wolf PAC might solve your problems. It might be a small step and it will take a long time, but at least people would be doing something.

I wouldn't be surprised that the problems you are having now with racism and protests are just a small in comparison to what is coming if this graph is to be believed: http://i1.wp.com/andrewmcafee....

Here is the tweet he faked: https://i0.wp.com/fusion.net/w...

Full story here: http://fusion.net/story/327103...

Faking tweets to enrage your followers and get them to continue attacking her with their racist tripe is what got him banned.

he does things like post fake tweets purporting to be from his victims

So posting made up things on the internet is grounds for banishment from a service? If that were the standard, I'd imagine some non trivial # of twitter accounts needing to be shut down.

Given some of the rather racist posting history of Leslie Jones... as Dan Rather would call them... 'fake but accurate'

and uses them to encourage others to harass them

So you know what he was thinking better than he did? It's not possible he was just posting something he found funny about an ongoing issue?

You can tell it's fake, by the way, because he forgot to edit out the delete button.

The delete button is easy to miss... doubly so if you are not the person who created the image. Do you have specific information that Milo was the one who created the image?

Please stop with this meme. When we talk about CGI we are talking about complete computer remakes of entire scenes for no reason, often even rendering the main cast themselves.

So they drove through a giant fire tornado?
http://animation-boss.com/imag...
There is a large formation of rocks with a giant waterfall spout built into it?
http://animation-boss.com/imag...
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/wp...
The main character's robotic arm was a real prosthetic?
https://hardinthecity.files.wo...
The cars weren't composited in for safety?
http://www.gizmodo.jp/images/2...
http://i2.wp.com/www.cgmeetup....
http://i2.wp.com/www.cgmeetup....

Entire canyon environments weren't created in CG?
http://www.konbini.com/en/wp-c...
The wheels weren't entirely replaced and the entire ground moving under the vehicles wasn't added in post to make shots of parked vehicles look like they were driving fast?
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/wp...

It's not a meme that a substantial portion of Mad Max Fury Road was shot on greenscreen. As much as any other big blockbuster like The Avengers. The only difference is that many Mad Max Fury Road (which I loved) are in plain denial about the extent of the CG in the film. There is a reason it was nominated for VFX.

https://vimeo.com/132806170

Please stop with this meme. When we talk about CGI we are talking about complete computer remakes of entire scenes for no reason, often even rendering the main cast themselves.

So they drove through a giant fire tornado?
http://animation-boss.com/imag...
There is a large formation of rocks with a giant waterfall spout built into it?
http://animation-boss.com/imag...
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/wp...
The main character's robotic arm was a real prosthetic?
https://hardinthecity.files.wo...
The cars weren't composited in for safety?
http://www.gizmodo.jp/images/2...
http://i2.wp.com/www.cgmeetup....
http://i2.wp.com/www.cgmeetup....

Entire canyon environments weren't created in CG?
http://www.konbini.com/en/wp-c...
The wheels weren't entirely replaced and the entire ground moving under the vehicles wasn't added in post to make shots of parked vehicles look like they were driving fast?
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/wp...

It's not a meme that a substantial portion of Mad Max Fury Road was shot on greenscreen. As much as any other big blockbuster like The Avengers. The only difference is that many Mad Max Fury Road (which I loved) are in plain denial about the extent of the CG in the film. There is a reason it was nominated for VFX.

https://vimeo.com/132806170

Or Hackers, and thinks all data is in 3-D columns in those computer cases.

http://i0.wp.com/www.gottabemo... ... I don't understand.

LOL now I know you are trolling. You provided that second link with no context whatsoever as to what it is.

You were commenting on the complexity of implementing networks; I showed a distributed network.

the cost of the uplink was the minority

The uplink to what?

The answer: the uplink to the big, complex, EXPENSIVE, distributed back-end network run by the major Tier-1 providers.

You're trying to claim this is just an uplink, a cable you plug into somewhere. What it is is thousands of miles of fiber run between regions, into regional hubs which distribute out to other regional hubs, which talk to each other so a break in connection between Region 1 Hub 13 and Region 1 Central can route to Region 1 Central via Region 1 Hub 7 (and so Region 1 Central has 6 paths to Region 2, or Region 3, or so forth). The last mile is the last mile of fiber run to a little cable on a pole trailing all the way to a little box in a closet at a hub data center, which is part of a sizable data center, which has thousands of miles of fiber uplinking it to other, bigger, more-complex data centers.

The problem is your experience is sitting on the last mile. You're looking down at the run to the end user and saying, "Damn, that's a lot more than the three-foot run to the uplink behind me. It's way expensive. 99% of our cost goes to that last mile." Then you're turning around, looking at the uplink, and going, "That's so cheap. Upstream providers have so little to do." You aren't looking at the upstream provider's network, which is a little three-foot cable running down to you and, on the other end, a massive, distributed, highly-complex network of large data centers spanning the entire fucking country.

How much do you think it costs to expand that back-end with new fiber, new equipment, and new capacity when demand goes up?

That's like asking to get raped twice! What a filthy corrupt shithole! The Brits really need to go back in and civilize those people. Otherwise it will be like medieval Europe forever.

I remember. Absolutely Classic. R.I.P. Hank. Second only to the great Peter Jennings OJ spoof.

Did you get to vote? Hopefully you did, because that was a defining moment of the early internet.

I remember. Absolutely Classic. R.I.P. Hank. Second only to the great Peter Jennings OJ spoof.

Or this: https://i2.wp.com/jillsommer.w...

This is a picture of Jessica Wardell's tits, it is obviously NSFW:
http://i2.wp.com/freekeene.com...

(AC probably meant topless as opposed to tonelessness.) Also, I have no idea why Ross was in with that but I did remember her name and the Free The Nipple bit. So, my fellow Slashdotters - the boobies are yours to behold!

Meh, they're not bad boobies, especially for her age.

Back in the days when you bought a phone, battery lasted until new model came out. Like this one: nokia 1100: http://i1.wp.com/pictures.joko...

NASA and NOAA have been putting in unexplained adjustments into their data, by cooling the past and warming the present:
https://i1.wp.com/realclimates... [wp.com]

That's comparing two different adjusted datasets. When you compare adjusted data to unadjusted data the adjusted data actually shows a lower warming trend.

True, but utterly irrelevant. Both sets of satellites (UAH and RSS) do not show it is the 'hottest year evah!" and ground records show that it has been hotter in the USA and many other countries in the past.

NASA and NOAA have been putting in unexplained adjustments into their data, by cooling the past and warming the present:
https://i1.wp.com/realclimates...

This is the greatest (anti-)scientific fraud in history. And you are defending the fraudsters.

Don't believe NASA scientists would like to keep funding going? Richard Feynman disagrees with you (1986-06-11):
https://i1.wp.com/realclimates...

True, but utterly irrelevant. Both sets of satellites (UAH and RSS) do not show it is the 'hottest year evah!" and ground records show that it has been hotter in the USA and many other countries in the past.

NASA and NOAA have been putting in unexplained adjustments into their data, by cooling the past and warming the present:
https://i1.wp.com/realclimates...

This is the greatest (anti-)scientific fraud in history. And you are defending the fraudsters.

Don't believe NASA scientists would like to keep funding going? Richard Feynman disagrees with you (1986-06-11):
https://i1.wp.com/realclimates...

Percentage of USHCN Stations to reach 35 C
https://i2.wp.com/realclimates...

Average Percentage of Days over 35 C for All USHCN Stations
https://i2.wp.com/realclimates...

https://stevengoddard.wordpres...

The 1930s and 1940s were much hotter. This data is NOT in dispute.

Percentage of USHCN Stations to reach 35 C
https://i2.wp.com/realclimates...

Average Percentage of Days over 35 C for All USHCN Stations
https://i2.wp.com/realclimates...

https://stevengoddard.wordpres...

The 1930s and 1940s were much hotter. This data is NOT in dispute.

You're a goddamn idiot.

Typical "liberal" response.

Can't construct a cogent argument, so you resort to name-calling. I bet third-grade was a wonderful decade for you, wasn't it?

Can't figure out why unskilled worker unemployment goes up after enacting a $15 minimum wage? Gotta be a "liberal".

Can't figure out why an unsecured student loan to someone on the "Would you want fries with that?" job track has a higher interest rate than a secured mortgage to someone with a 25-year track record of six-figure income? Gotta be a "liberal".

When you take your head out of your ass and your fingers out of your ears and start sucking your thumb, does it taste like shit or ear wax?

Oh wait, I'm sorry. You NEVER take your fingers out of your ears nor your head out of your ass.

Or perhaps she is taking a round about way of saying that funding cuts have reduced NASA to the ranks of The Cutters in the race for extra-orbital manned space exploration.

This "rover" is a replica knocked together from junk the owner had in the junkyard when this story hit the wire.
The "original" "rover" may or may not have been melted down, sold to the Chinese or some pets.com mogul or turned into a bitchin' electric dunebuggy.

http://i1.wp.com/media.boingbo...

http://i1.wp.com/www.bitsandpi...

I spent four years in Central America, in Costa Rica and Panama. I only wonder why this is news.

If you take a look at the Panama City skyline, it's pretty impressive. The population for the metropolitan area is only about 1.5 million though, so why all the skyscrapers? Who lives there?

No one. The government started investing in infrastructure after the Canal changed hands and they actually started getting money from it, and this fostered a booming construction trade. The construction companies thought that this government money was a grand idea, and the best way to keep it flowing is obviously to kick some of it back to the government officials. The government has spend the last decade trying to hide the debt that has been piling up as a result of this, and the only thing that I can say is that at least some of the money went into infrastructure.

Corruption is the expected norm in the entirety of Central America. It's how things are done there. I've bribed police there myself, and one of my friends was elected Representante de Panama while I was there: I can confirm that this operates the same way on all levels. The only reason I can think of why this would show up in the news at all is that someone didn't get paid enough. Where is the story here?

I grew up in the US but live in Iceland, and there are indeed cultural differences along these lines, for places that don't have the historical baggage of certain forms of racism. I've seen Mammút go on stage several times in blackface, people couldn't understand why asian immigrants got mad at the "Tong Monitor" sketch where a standup commedian taped his eyes into a slant, there's a candy here called Sambó, etc. There's very little history of racial diversity here, it's a modern thing for the most part, and so people don't come from a background context of people using these sorts of stereotypes in association with a culture of bigotry and discrimination. People "hear" that some people get offended by this sort of stuff, but without the context, most have trouble understanding it.

I think whether people were offended really comes down to their level of familiarity with the minstrel show portrayal of african-americans. Because Jar-Jar was a classic example, every last bloody detail except being an alien (and even at that they made sure to style him with a big bottom and lips). Actually, they went even further than a typical minstrel show, adding in your standard "spear chucker" stuff as well. If a person has little familiarity with that past presentation, then I can see why they wouldn't find the Jar-Jar performance offensive. It's not about a character being intelligent or not.

Then again, we have a candy here called Sambó, so....

You wouldn't download a car

Just you fucking wait

That's quite a rant there - assumptions, ad hominems, sweeping declarations, invective, ironic projection, the lot. In fact, pretty much everything except data.

Oh you want peer reviewed rebuttals? Done:

Science & Education, really? Remember what I said earlier about crap publications that would publish anything? Yeah. It's not exactly Nature, is it? Where is its peer-review policy anyway?

Shame the article is paywalled so we can't examine it, but these guys did. And if it's the article I think it is, applying Monckton's own peculiar standards for handwaving-away any papers that aren't explicit enough for him, only makes the numbers for rejection of AGW look even tinier, at a mere 9 out of 11,944 papers reviewed. And nowhere is there anything to back your claim that the consensus figures "included papers that argued against climate change".

And of course, Cook's paper isn't the only one that arrived at ~97% consensus - from Oreskes to Powell, they all give similar results. Plus, of course, the long list of scientific institutions that have confirmed the findings of AGW, and none dissenting.

[vague accusations & unsourced claims of bias & corruption omitted]

ice age predictions from the 1970s [...] New York was supposed to be under water by 2015

Ah, specifics. Cite the papers that predicted these, please. Or are you getting misled by bad reporting again?

Every year you get weaker and look more foolish

Every year, the surface temperatures rise, ocean temperatures keep going up, sea levels rise some more, global ice mass keeps decreasing - the ongoing trend is obvious everywhere to anyone who opens their eyes, and comes from climate scientists around the globe who couldn't care less about all that Republicans vs Democrats nonsense. The argument about what to do about global warming is certainly political - but the data aren't, and wild, unsourced claims of massive political bias in the field only make the accusers look like the foolish ones.

You don't know what they are thinking or what they are basing their position on so how can we

Yes, we do know, because they have told us. The people who denied service to the gay couples were asked why and they weren't shy about saying that it was because homosexuality violates God's teachings as expressed in the Bible.

They didn't mention whether baking a cake or a pizza also somehow violates God's teachings.

Just walk away and forget about it, take your business someplace else and be done with it.

That's right, the back of the bus is every bit as good as the front of the bus, amirite? I mean, the front and back of the bus go to the same place. The funny thing with bigotry, is that it seems to whisper all sorts of compelling rationalizations into the ear of the bigot.

Just walk away and forget about it, take your business someplace else and be done with it.

I'm sure there were perfectly good lunch counters that would have been happy to serve colored people back in Greensboro, NC in 1960. They could have just taken their business someplace else and been done with it.

Just walk away and forget about it, take your business someplace else and be done with it.

Get the picture?

. How uncivil, rude and combative have we become about this.

Why would blacks want to go to an Alabama school where they're not wanted? They should just walk away and forget about it, and get their education someplace else and be done with it.

Oh yes, my friend. Bigotry has been whispering in your ear.

. How uncivil, rude and combative have we become about this.

"We"? Do you have a mouse in your pocket? Speak for yourself:

https://i1.wp.com/listverse.co...

Right

Get yer robot firefighter here

An internet bully's power is the attention he is given. Ignore her and he'll go away unsatisfied. I want to believe this can be a force for good; that only real, credible threats that deserve the attention of the police will be reported. But I know that won't be the case. Either this will generate so many reports that it will be utterly ignored or, much worse, there will be political pressure to respond inappropriately to tweets that should be ignored.

Anyone seriously intent on harassing someone using Twitter will spend the tens of dollars for an account or, more likely, make a zero day egg account from a throw-away email address. It costs surprisingly little to buy a fake Twitter account. In fact I would wager this whole exercise is a cynical attempt to get Twitter into the news again. So bravo, Slashdot. As for reporting functionality there just isn't the manpower, on twitter or on government payrolls, to filter from the mass of hurt feelings the few actually actionable reports. The most this can accomplish is a slight chance to catch the very stupidest/youngest harassers and/or build a case against them after they're caught by other means.

Head and shouldes above the rest? Yes, if you like to go bankrupt on the simplest procedure.

The USA spends more on health care than most other countries, and gets less "health" in return.

Heck, even the French pay less per person than the US, and gets better results. Don't believe me? Fine, read it and weep.

Also totally relevant: Breaking Bad could not happen in Europe. Wrap your mind around this one.