US Jobs Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Storms (npr.org)

The Hillary Recession is coming! by IAteFatCashews · 2017-10-06 02:42 · Score: 1, Funny

The long overdue Hillary Recession is finally coming. The end is neigh!

Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by IAteFatCashews · 2017-10-06 03:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

What does the sound a horse makes have to do with anything, Chris?

You must be a Hillary supporter. Everyone thought she was a nag.
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:20 · Score: 0

Christopher, my love,
I am deeply sorry. I didn't feel well lately but I am better now since I had my meds adjusted. I am sorry that I called you all sorts of names on /. and I feel truly ashamed of myself.
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Signed:
Your sweetee who will love you for ever.
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:28 · Score: -1

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But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!
Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.
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With "Vice President Pence Vowing US Astronauts Will Return To the Moon", we are sure they will need miracle workers up there, here is what it would look like:
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Before the sex change:
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Creimy's head, while his supervisor was talking to him, not with him, since it is impossible to do with Creimy:
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Creimy acting in educational resource document, he actually confirmed himself on Slashdot that he was handled by Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education! He is really a king Dumpty!:
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/stu...
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:31 · Score: 0

Exactly! We, at Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education, couldn't agree more with you!
For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
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To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.
The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!
Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.
I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
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Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:35 · Score: 0

Hey Creimy-Dumpty!
Your new spam signature is brilliant in the context of what happened this week in Vegas!
Congratulations, I believe that you are really a genius miracle worker.
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:48 · Score: 0

In other news:
"Slashdot User Base Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Creimy-Dumpty Affiliate Spam And Stupid Comments"
Talking about shooting people in his affiliate spam signature when in the same week, that tragedy happened in Vegas, what a king Dumpty!
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:06 · Score: 0

"Slashdot User Base Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Creimy-Dumpty Affiliate Spam And Stupid Comments"
Uh, no. That would be management purging all the fake pro-Trump accounts from Slashdot.

Talking about shooting people in his affiliate spam signature when in the same week, that tragedy happened in Vegas, what a king Dumpty!
Did something happen in Las Vegas?
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 07:21 · Score: 0

The end is neigh!
neigh: n - a characteristically high pitched sound uttered by a horse.
With attention to detail like that, it's no wonder that everybody thinks creimer is a horse's ass!
Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 07:59 · Score: 0

On the contrary, Slashdot is getting better since you post at -1. These guys are doing a tremendous job and I fully support them!
Let's make Slashdot great again!
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Re:The Hillary Recession is coming! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 08:36 · Score: 0

+5 interesting!
Nice kindergarten stuff, it goes perfectly well with creamer's IQ, especially the moon stuff, it looks just like him!

Or.. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:45 · Score: 0

The decline in Oil and Natural Gas industries... But yeah uh its the weather.

Re:Or.. by jellomizer · 2017-10-06 03:20 · Score: 2

The Gulf cost is a major area for US Oil Refineries. Being hit by a Hurricane is not good for them.
Also there isn't any noticeable trending decline in the US Oil and Gas industry. It may not be a big boom like it was a few years ago, but the US is a major Oil producer (and consumer)

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...and in a month or two... by Penguinisto · 2017-10-06 02:47 · Score: 5, Insightful

Given that the hurricane-stricken areas are in semi-tropical places where construction can (and probably does) happen year-round, I'm betting that there will be a massive boom in construction jobs coming in the next month or two, and lasting maybe 6 months or more. Someone's gotta rebuild all that stuff, after all...

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Re:...and in a month or two... by Solandri · 2017-10-06 03:08 · Score: 1, Informative

Broken window fallacy. If there hadn't been any storms, the money those places will now have to spend on repairs would've been spent on other business instead. So that construction boom comes at the cost of other business jobs. i.e. There's no net increase in number of jobs, it's just that money has been siphoned away from other jobs to pay for construction jobs.

Also see opportunity cost. Like most people, you are incorrectly calculating opportunity cost by comparing to a vacuum (construction repair jobs vs nothing). A correct analysis compares the benefits of construction vs what was given up to pay for that construction.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:21 · Score: 0

fallacy fallacy. businesses don't hire people to hire people, they hire to fill a need. money that some fatcat was going to pocket and sit on for decades is now reentering the economy.
Re:...and in a month or two... by wiggles · 2017-10-06 03:30 · Score: 3, Informative

fallacy fallacy fallacy.
Fatcats don't hoard money - they invest it, creating further economic activity. The money doesn't leave the economy unless somebody sinks it into gold, art, or real estate.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:52 · Score: 3, Interesting

Reading fallacy. This entire chain is pointless, because Solandri started it all by not reading. OP didn't say there was going to be a big economic boom because of this. He said there was going to be "a massive boom in construction jobs". He labelled a specific area that was going to have a boom.
Solandri's post was the equivalent of saying it's a fallacy that there was a dotcom boom or a housing boom or any other boom, because if those hadn't happened the money would have just been used somewhere else.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Penguinisto · 2017-10-06 03:52 · Score: 4, Informative

I never stated that hurricanes were good for the economy, nor did I recommend destruction in order to stimulate said economy. I merely stated that a frigton of temporary jobs would come of it, and why.
QED: I posted no fallacy here.

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Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:04 · Score: 0

Straight up, WRONG. Over $70 TRILLION has been exported from the US economy over the past 35 years.
Net worth of the Koch brothers, $19 billion in 2008, $97 billion today.
Walton Family net worth, $34 billion in 2000, $130 billion today.
These people and many like them pay comparably nothing in taxed but get far more from the government than most of the higher tax payers.
It is a rigged and unsustainable system, and anyone that can't see this obvious fact is a patsy to political rhetoric.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Green+Mountain+Bot · 2017-10-06 04:10 · Score: 1

The money doesn't leave the economy in any of those cases, either. It just changes hands.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Solandri · 2017-10-06 04:22 · Score: 3, Insightful

The money doesn't leave the economy unless somebody sinks it into gold, art, or real estate.
Money spent on gold, art, and real estate stays in the economy. The guy you paid for the gold, art, or real estate now has a bunch of money he can spend on things.

What matters is the overall productivity gain from what the money was spent on. That's why Enron's scam of selling the same equipment back and forth multiple times between two of its divisions didn't actually generate money. It inflated the accounting books, but because there was no productivity gain per transaction, it did nothing to help the company. For an economic transaction to be beneficial to the individual/company and the overall economy, it has to have a net productivity gain. The store which sells a hammer has to sell it for more than they paid for it (and to stock it). The carpenter who buys the hammer has to be able to use it to increase his carpentry business sales by more than he paid for the hammer.

Gold is pretty bad in that respect because it doesn't do anything (unless you're using it to plate electronics for corrosion resistance). And in fact buying it for decoration can be a net negative on the economy since it drives up the price for gold used for productive purposes (like anti-corrosion plating). Art can be good if exhibiting it generates additional economic activity (people wanting to make/buy more art, people traveling to view it). Real estate can be good if you build something on it that generates more economic activity, or preserve it to allow something to continue to exist which generates or protects economic activity (e.g. land for anti-flood dikes).
Re:...and in a month or two... by Billly+Gates · 2017-10-06 04:26 · Score: 1

Construction is economically bad. That is less money that could be spent on other things. For a middle income family a $25,000 repair bill means no new cars, toys, investments, etc for 2 years.
Construction jobs pay shit and the money goes to Mexico mostly anyway. I am not racist but live in Texas. Construction is no longer a middle class job here.
FYI these replaced workers are the ones who voted for Trump for obvious reasons

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Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:30 · Score: 0

Investments are done with the sole goal of earning the investor a profit. Economic activity is not a requirement for investing. This is why fatcats have like no other time in history been fueling one speculative bubble after another. Here's a quick recap of the past 20 years: the Dotcom bubble, oil bubble (remember when gas was almost 4 bucks a gallon), the housing bubble, the gold bubble. We are in a stock market bubble right now.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:38 · Score: 0

fallacy fallacy fallacy.
Fatcats don't hoard money - they invest it.
I thought they off-shored it.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:49 · Score: 0

The money doesn't leave the economy unless somebody sinks it into gold, art, or real estate.
Someone gets that money even if it goes into gold, art or real estate.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:21 · Score: 0

1. Broken Window Fallacy isn't a logical fallacy, it is a thought experiment demonstrating the difference between economic activity and economic growth. So citing it is not pointing out a fallacious argument and therefore not an example of the fallacy fallacy.
2. Wants are infinite, and replacing destroyed infrastructure is not growth. Economically there is no advantage to randomly destroying infrastructure and an apparent "construction boom" resulting from a storm destroying homes and infrastructure is systematic inefficiency not growth.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Penguinisto · 2017-10-06 05:55 · Score: 1

Depends on their deductible, really. Typical is something like $2.5-$5k or so.
A $25k deductible tells me this is either one very stupid (or rather, a stupidly skinflint) homeowner, or some massively shit insurance. Bumping to a $5k or $10 deductible and banking that cash in savings I can understand, but $25k? damn...

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Re:...and in a month or two... by tomhath · 2017-10-06 06:36 · Score: 1

Economically there is no advantage to randomly destroying infrastructure and an apparent "construction boom" resulting from a storm
That's true, but the point was that the jobs "shed" in September will be replaced quickly. The economy is still growing very nicely.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Curunir_wolf · 2017-10-06 06:50 · Score: 1

Investments are done with the sole goal of earning the investor a profit. Economic activity is not a requirement for investing. This is why fatcats have like no other time in history been fueling one speculative bubble after another. Here's a quick recap of the past 20 years: the Dotcom bubble, oil bubble (remember when gas was almost 4 bucks a gallon), the housing bubble, the gold bubble. We are in a stock market bubble right now.
I thought we were in a student load bubble...

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Re:...and in a month or two... by ixidor · 2017-10-06 11:29 · Score: 2

tell that to Apple's i dunno 200 Billion horde...
Re:...and in a month or two... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 11:56 · Score: 0

Still doesn't work that way anyway. Pretty sure Rita and Katrina showed this--rebuilding is not growth It's simply restoration of loss.
Construction is rate limited by insurance evaluation and payout rates as well as the rate which material gets onsite, limited by clearing, rebuilding roads and their contracts, as well as most plants have materials set to go at a certain rate or max rate. Most companies work more efficiently with what they have; they do not hire on more tree cutting teams so more plywood gets pumped out due to the temporary demand, they simply work more overtime and max the plant output.
Most construction actually gets awarded to companies outside the area, because the companies n the area are devastated. There is an increase in productivity per worker, not necessarily all into the number of workers. iow, the overwhelming job loss outstretches any temporary hours even if there were en masse, which they aren't, and those hires in the area are those already who would have been working anyways on new developments.
Include the farm crop loss and general lack of productivity from oil and chemical plants, which is massive in the storm areas, that'll last at least 6 months on average from what I've read.
Usually the job losses seem dividable by the months of expected reconstruction, for whatever reason. Regardless, jobs simply return, as in a restoration to previous levels, not growth or a spike.
Lastly, job numbers tend to go down for awhile because the people rebuilding re doing just that, no buying Christmas presents, and because these hurricanes tend to hit fuel areas aka the Gulf, so the increase in gas prices drags the entire economy down. Hurricane hits come at a time when refiners are switching from gasoline to fuel oil a bit more, so the increase in gas prices and home heating reduces middle income spending, which is the real job growth supplier in the US.
There are real material reasons to their areas of expertise that economists and the military hate global warming.
Re:...and in a month or two... by Gryle · 2017-10-06 19:08 · Score: 1

Two questions: 1) How are you defining middle class? 2) What do you consider construction jobs? General contractors who do their own work? Project managers? Architects? Day-laborers?

I still maintain contacts with some folks I know in Texas who are involved in light (domestic) construction. No one's getting filthy rich, but they've put kids through college and no one's going hungry. I'll grant that day-laborers are a different story, but qualified and competent skilled workers (electricians, concrete men, carpenters, roofers, etc) make decent wages.

I'd estimate at least 50% of construction, in terms of money made, is remodeling of some kind, not repair work. This can be anything from deciding your backyard needs a patio or a deck to upgrading your kitchen with new cabinetry and fixtures to adding a new room to the house. Remodeling is generally only done by people with enough disposable income, so in that sense construction can be economically good.

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Re:...and in a month or two... by dywolf · 2017-10-07 05:55 · Score: 1

bullshit.
spending is spending whether its invested or spent on consumer goods.
the richer people are, the the smaller a % of their income or wealth they spend.
poor people spend 100% (or greater, thanks to credit) of their funds, ie, every dollar.
the top 1% spends on average only 32 cents of every dollar.
in total, the majority of funds in teh economy, driving demand and driving job creation, come from the bottom 90% of americans.
not the rich. and hte rich DO hoard their money. their spending is not the engine of hte economy, and they dont create jobs out of hte good ness of their hearts.
it is done in response to consumber demand for goods beyond their current ability to provide. thus they create more jobs to meet that demand.

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Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:51 · Score: -1

Trump will blame Obama and Clinton.

He excels at taking credit for stuff other people did, and blaming others for stuff that he did.

How's it feel to have a lying clown as president? Do you feel all bigly and warm inside?

But, fear not, he's gonna cut taxes for the wealthy and keep fucking up your country,

Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:59 · Score: 1

Can you really blame us for voting him in? I mean this is a guy who has a hurricane machine since he obviously caused the bad weather this article is talking about. Would you want to vote against someone with a hurricane machine? We had no choice!
Re: Don't worry ... by jellomizer · 2017-10-06 03:27 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Well the fact that he is a Climate Denier with the Major Problems being wave after wave of Hurricane due to global warming. So yes I can and will blame all the people who voted him in. Because their attitudes based on stupidity or just blind party loyalty had for generations created a culture where these disasters happen, because they wanted short term profits.
Is Trump directly responsible for these Hurricanes no. But he is part of the culture that is.

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Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:38 · Score: 1

Wait what? Hurricanes are caused by global warming now? What caused Hurricanes Andrew, Betsy, and Camille then?
We've been lucky to have a long stretch without any major hurricanes hitting the US. So I guess any hurricane now has to fit the agenda?
Re: Don't worry ... by ScentCone · 2017-10-06 03:50 · Score: 1, Insightful

wave after wave of Hurricane due to global warming
Whew! It's a good thing we haven't been having any global warming for so long, with that huge stretch of no major hurricanes of any kind landing in the US despite the climate alarm industry telling us year after year that THAT year was going to be the one with a huge number of record hurricanes. During which we got exact none. Year after year. Or was it that global warming was WORSE decades ago, when there were more storms landing then during all of those recent years? Gotcha.

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Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:06 · Score: 0

What is really pathetic is that someone modded up your moronic post.
Re: Don't worry ... by Layzej · 2017-10-06 05:02 · Score: 2

Wait what? Hurricanes are caused by global warming now?

Here's what has happened over the last few decades: "it is virtually certain that intense tropical cyclone activity has increased in the North Atlantic since 1970."
Here's what we expect with global warming:
Although projections under 21st century greenhouse warming indicate that it is likely that the global frequency of tropical cyclones will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged, concurrent with a likely increase in both global mean tropical cyclone maximum wind speed and rainfall rates, there is low confidence in region-specific projections of frequency and intensity. Still, based on high-resolution modelling studies, the frequency of the most intense storms, which are associated with particularly extensive physical effects, will more likely than not increase substantially in some basins under projected 21st century warming and there is medium confidence that tropical cyclone rainfall rates will increase in every affected region. - http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessm...
Rainfall is what caused most of the damage this year AFAIKT, so that seems in line with our expectations for a warmed world, though these are early days and large impacts are not anticipated until later in the century. Possibly this was just bad luck. Possibly the impact was enhanced by global warming. Either way it's probably it is something we should learn to get used to.
Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:37 · Score: 0

You do understand that there actually were more hurricanes right? That the 12 year "drought" is completely made up. The world is a much bigger place than just the gulf coast and Florida. Look at the number of hurricanes hitting south America during that 12 year "drought" Here's a hint, more storms in the last decade and than in all record keeping prior.
I'm tired of this same old stupid-assed argument that is easily dis-proven over and and over with a simple google search. Anyone still believing this tripe is willfully ignorant or blinded for various other reasons.
My grand-father talked about WW2 and how cold Germany would get in the winter. That is no longer the norm and hasn't been for 30 years. There are parts of the world seeing the effects of global warming. There are entire island nations having to relocate due to sea rise. It is time to stop debating whether it exists and start debating about what to do about it. Rolling back environmental regulations is counterproductive as well, if you're headed for a rocky terrain you don't slam on the gas harder to get their quicker.
Re: Don't worry ... by Curunir_wolf · 2017-10-06 06:53 · Score: 1

There sure are a lot of weasel words in that IPCC quote.

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Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 09:54 · Score: 0

Warmer water gives storms more activity, cool water lessens them.
Temp of the oceans is going up.
Seasons with the most named storms in the Atlantic, 1851 - Present
https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/top10.asp
Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 10:08 · Score: 0

That's how you report a scientific finding, genius.
Re: Don't worry ... by Layzej · 2017-10-06 11:11 · Score: 1

Words like "confidence" and "Likely" have very specific meanings here: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/suppor... . Of course we want them to communicate the level of certainty on each item. Where there is uncertainty there is risk as things may be better or worse than we anticipate. If we know with certainty what we are in for then we can plan for it.
Re: Don't worry ... by Curunir_wolf · 2017-10-06 15:01 · Score: 1

not really

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Re: Don't worry ... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:53 · Score: 0

Let me guess: you're one of those people who says that evolution is "only a theory".
Re: Don't worry ... by Curunir_wolf · 2017-10-07 00:16 · Score: 1

did you just "other" me?

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Re: Don't worry ... by ScentCone · 2017-10-08 04:15 · Score: 1

Wow, that's a lot of work to go to in order to completely and deliberately miss the point. The followers of St. Gore were telling us (the domestic, US audience) that we here in the US, especially on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, would be experiencing year after year of increasingly huge, increasingly frequent hurricane landfalls. Followed of course by the complete absence of such. But sure, go ahead, pretend you weren't noticing when the guy getting rich selling carbon offsets from his mansion didn't harp on such things endlessly, to a fan base of swooning alarmists intent on leveraging those predictions for political power and cash distribution programs.

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well... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:55 · Score: 0

Less jobs, but also less unemployment. I can only conclude that means we also have less people now. Thanks Harvey?

Re:well... by Layzej · 2017-10-06 03:18 · Score: 1

Less immigration possibly?
Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:20 · Score: 0

Nah, increasingly deadly and frequent mass shootings.
Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:54 · Score: 0

That's the real reason the NRA and Republican party want guns everywhere - it's always human-season.
Re:well... by Curunir_wolf · 2017-10-06 06:56 · Score: 1

Unemployment is calculated based on the number of people eligible for unemployment insurance. Just because someone exhausted their UI benefits or simply gave up looking for a job it will lower the government "unemployment" rate. They're not employed, they just are no longer counted.

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Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 09:02 · Score: 0

This is false.
Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 09:44 · Score: 0

What you are looking for is U-6 -- https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
U-3 is the official unemployment rate you see the media talk about, and that the government talks about.
* U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force -- 8.0 for Sept 2017
* U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate) -- 4.1 for Sept 2017
NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

A shit storm of incompetence by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:55 · Score: -1

If you think hurricanes are bad, just wait until Trump's shit storm of incompetence and treason crashes the economy...

Re:A shit storm of incompetence by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:10 · Score: 1

Ok. I'm holding my breath for exactly that. I'm sure it will happen any day now.
Yep. Any time now.
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Re:A shit storm of incompetence by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:33 · Score: 0

I'm waiting for the State of the Union where Trump plows Ivanka then eats the baby and he is applauded for loving his family and letting that baby not be aborted.

Construction gigs by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:55 · Score: 0

In spite of having a BSEE (and MS courses) I do mostly construction "gigs". Gigs are ramping up, due to storm damage rebuilding, and lots of people in the HR / hiring world know about it. I wonder if Bureau of Labor Statistics has any clue about what's really happening out in the real world?

Re:Construction gigs by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:41 · Score: 0

They have way more a clue about it than you do bub
Re:Construction gigs by jabuzz · 2017-10-06 03:45 · Score: 1

Duh, it's October now. These are historical figures for September. What's happening today means jack shit for what happened last month.
Re:Construction gigs by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:46 · Score: 0

Thank you! If /. gives me my login back, I will mod you up- informative. Makes perfect sense.
It would be wonderful if the govt. could compile data faster.

Here comes the Butt Hurt Parade! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 02:55 · Score: 0

ACs and other Haters flinging poo.

Be sure to duck.

Storms? by argStyopa · 2017-10-06 02:56 · Score: 1, Insightful

Aren't we pretty sure it's Trump's fault?

Or the Russians?

Or Global Warming. Ah...that works "storms" = global warming. NOW I can fit this news into my preconceived worldview.

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Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Global warming increases ocean temperatures.
Higher ocean temperatures directly cause the severity of storms to increase. You fucking retard.
The fact that you are standing up as an eager defender of Trump's treasonous collusion with Russia's attack on America is the icing on the retard cake.
Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:04 · Score: 0

but what a tasty, ignorant cake it is...
Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:04 · Score: -1

Whew. My worldview was shaken, but you've set be straight. Thank you Mr. Liberal guy!
Re:Storms? by bluefoxlucid · 2017-10-06 03:13 · Score: 2

The Unemployment Rate this year since January has been 4.8%, 4.7%, 4.5%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.4%, 4.3%, 4.4%, 4.2%. Jobs dropped by 33,000 but unemployment went down...? FAKE NEWS!!!
Seriously though, what? Labor force participation rate went up from 62.9% in August to 63.1% in September. Labor force went from 160,571,000 to 161,146,000. Number of employed went from 153,439,000 to 154,345,000. Where do you see 33,000 jobs reduced?

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Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:14 · Score: 1

Ah, if you have no legitimate argument...resort to name calling.
1) The link between AGW and tropical storm intensity is in no way certain.
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
"It is premature to conclude that human activities–and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming–have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity."
2) If anyone in power had found even a shred of evidence of any collusion between Trump and the Russians, the MSM would have made sure everybody on the planet knew and Trump would be hanging from a yardarm.
Re:Storms? by will_die · 2017-10-06 03:16 · Score: 2, Insightful

Yet the actual scientists who study hurricanes and forecasted last year that this years hurricanes would be worse than recent norms say it the warming is caused by El Nino not global warming.
The people who are saying it was caused by global warming are the people who are paid to raise the fear level about global warming.
Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:16 · Score: 0

NOW I can fit this news into my preconceived worldview.
You already have. Your preconceived world view is that it's not global warming, and nothing can change your mind.
Re:Storms? by Kierthos · 2017-10-06 03:21 · Score: 1

I'm guessing from this:
"People who have jobs but weren't paid during the survey period don't count as "employed" in the BLS statistics. That would include, for instance, a restaurant worker who is paid hourly and could not work for an extended period because of a storm."

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Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:23 · Score: 0

Again, the severity of storms is increased. El Nino spawns storms and global warming increases their intensity.
This is really not difficult to understand for anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty.
Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:26 · Score: 1

el nino = pacific ocean.
hurricanes = atlantic ocean.
Re:Storms? by nospam007 · 2017-10-06 03:33 · Score: 4, Funny

"Aren't we pretty sure it's Trump's fault?"
That's just Twitter storms.
Re:Storms? by PopeRatzo · 2017-10-06 03:34 · Score: 1, Interesting

Yet the actual scientists who study hurricanes and forecasted last year that this years hurricanes would be worse than recent norms say it the warming is caused by El Nino not global warming.
You better check that again. Wrong ocean.

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Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:08 · Score: 0

You better think a little more and do some research. Sections of the world are not isolated. They affect each other.
https://weather.com/news/news/...
Read page 2 - Atlantic Hurricane Season Impact?
The conclusion there is that historically we see a drop in number of hurricanes in the atlantic during an el nino. Yes, that's counter to what some posters above suggested, but I'm just pointing out the error in your suggestion that what goes on in one ocean doesn't affect the other oceans.
Re:Storms? by Cyberax · 2017-10-06 04:35 · Score: 1

There is no El Nino this year. El Niños actually reduce the intensity of Atlantic hurricanes through increased wind shear and other effects. Actual climatologists were alarmed this year by extremely high (probably the record high) heat content and temperature of seawater in Atlantic. Meanwhile, global temperatures are rising: https://www.wunderground.com/c...
Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:36 · Score: 0

what an astounding insight. Do you also deny climate change because it's sometimes cold where you are?
Jesus, how basic intelligence are you?
Re:Storms? by bluefoxlucid · 2017-10-06 05:27 · Score: 1

Yes but the BLS statistics show an increase in jobs and an increase in labor participation rate.

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Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:49 · Score: 0

Ah, you have no argument so you just spam out claims as if you had evidence for them.
1) Nope, the link between them is pretty simple and well understood: they get their energy from evaporating water, so the warmer the water, the more energy it has. And the warmer the air, the more it can hold.
2) If there were no link between trump and the Russians, he would not have fired the investigator and stonewalled their replacement.
Re:Storms? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 07:49 · Score: 0

Please, show me where you have provided evidence for your claims? I provided a link to a NOAA website that directly refutes your comment. Should I believe NOAA (a far cry from a AGW denier) who states that there is no detectable impact, or a random person on the internet who says there is?
Robert Mueller is the current investigator. Not only has he not been "fired' (which Trump is perfectly within his rights to do), he hates Trump, he has hired a team comprised almost entirely of Democrats, he has essentially a bottomless bucket of money, and has found NOTHING credible in many months after continuing an investigation that has been going on for a year. Again, if there was something to find...it would have been found. In fact, there is a much more concrete link between Hillary Clinton and the Russians.

I Blame by dcw3 · 2017-10-06 03:13 · Score: 2, Insightful

Plug in your political affiliation and start pointing fingers now...

Democrat
Trump
Climate Change
Misogyny
Russia

Republican
Obama/Clinton
Abortion
Snowflakes
BLM

Or maybe, instead of picking sides, and listening to the talking heads, we could just for a moment stop and realize that "the other side" isn't all evil/crazy, and that they just see things through a different lens that we should try to understand instead of listening to our individual echo chambers.

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Re:I Blame by iprayfatcashewd · 2017-10-06 03:23 · Score: 1

Republican
Obama/Clinton
Funny. The Wall Street Journal had a recent article that Obama is/was "too conservative" for the Democrats. I've always thought Obama and Clinton were moderate conservatives.
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:28 · Score: 0

It's October.
its the new fiscal year.
ie the earliest the new admin could concretely affect the economy.
they own this on their own, no sides required.
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:33 · Score: 0

CBS [vice president and senior counsel] Fired For Denouncing Vegas Victims As Republicans

I’m actually not even sympathetic b/c country music fans are often Republican gun toters.
Sorry bro. Your kumbaya fantasy world isn't viable. Daily we're presented with undeniable evidence of the contempt and disdain the powers the be and all their left wing sycophants have nurtured in their hate filled hearts.
Headline from yesterday: Decades of Sexual Harassment Accusations Against Harvey Weinstein
And how does he play it?

I've decided I'm going to give the NRA my full attention. I hope Wayne LaPierre will enjoy his retirement party.
Left wing shitheels coming at us one way or another Every. Single. Day.
So no, if we hadn't already picked a side we're left with no choice but to get on one;
Re:I Blame by JoshuaZ · 2017-10-06 03:34 · Score: 2, Insightful

No, the other side isn't evil or crazy, but that doesn't mean that climate change isn't real, that Donald Trump isn't a sexist asshole who literally bragged about sexually assaulting women, and that he very likely collaborated with Russia in if not illegal, certainly questionable ways. And of course, there are Republicans out there who are willing to stand up to him, but that doesn't make Trump less bad.
Every Presidential election since I was old enough to care except this one, I've sent time arguing with people that it wouldn't be terrible if the candidate from the major other party they were opposed to won. I didn't do that where Trump was concerned, because he really is that bad. It is true that people are often much too willing to assume that the politicians they dislike are somehow absolutely awful, but it doesn't mean that that doesn't sometime genuinely occur.
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:51 · Score: 0

Keep taking the bait, you weak-minded sheep. Wouldn't want the responsibility of actually thinking for yourself, now would you?
Re:I Blame by Solandri · 2017-10-06 04:05 · Score: 2

If just 10% of the energy people spent on blaming others with different political affiliation was instead spent on work, growing a business, or starting a new business, most of the problems we complain about would disappear on their own.

The entire reason we developed representative government with elected officials is so we would only need to take a few days out of our lives every couple years to worry about politics. Instead of having to learn the minutiae of every political issue every day so we can make an informed decision about all of them, we choose a few people to do it for us. That frees us up to do our regular productive jobs the rest of the time. But instead of using that free time to get more work done or for recreational activities, for some odd reason we use huge portions of it to follow what our elected officials do and argue with each other about the rightness or wrongness of it. That's not our job. That's the job of the politicians we elected. We made those elected offices so everyone wouldn't have to waste time dealing with all that stuff.

Do your research before the elections and vote your conscience. Follow up on it just enough to make sure the people you voted for are doing what you expected them to do, and so you're prepared for the next election. Otherwise, get on with your life. That's how the system was designed to work. If you feel strongly enough about politics that you must follow it every day, then you should probably be running for office. And if the electorate decides you aren't suitable for office, go back to your regular job.

Do you want to know the best way to heal the political divisiveness currently afflicting the country? Get to know some people with different political opinions. Go on vacation together, go hiking with them, play some sports with them, go to a concert together, take your kids to the park together, go fishing together. Discuss anything but politics. You'll find that you're both regular people, and you have a lot more in common with each other than differences. And when a divisive political issue comes up, your imagination won't be working with a vacuum so it can run wild and cast the other guy as evil incarnate so it's OK to punch him, throw things at him, shoot him, or even think it's OK that he's been shot.. He'll be the neighbor you hang out with - a real person with a life just like you who has his own personal reasons for disagreeing with you, just like you have your own personal reasons for disagreeing with him. And maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to sit down and have a civilized conversation about how best to resolve or live with our differences, instead of calling each other stupid/crazy/evil and doing everything we can to impede each other.
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:37 · Score: 0

What I really like about your reply is your supporting evidence...
Re:I Blame by hawk · 2017-10-06 04:52 · Score: 1

>The entire reason we developed representative government with elected officials is so we would
>only need to take a few days out of our lives every couple years to worry about politics.
No, that just isn't correct.
Britain developed it much by accident.
Coming out of the feudal period, the king couldn't simply impose taxes; Parliaments were about getting the consent he needed for those/
Over time, Parliament came up with a "grievances before revenues" policy in which they wouldn't approve the revenues until the king met their other concerns. Over the years, this became legislation, and Parliament ultimately took the leading (now exclusive) role.
The Prime Minister arose when the king discovered he couldn't govern without a majority in Parliament--and over time shifted from Lords to Commons.
It is relatively recent that more than about 5% of Britain can vote for Commons.
In the US, representative government was not chosen for its own value, but as the most likely way to secure our liberty: its the means, not the ends.
hawk
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:08 · Score: 0

Yeah, playing a victim again. Both sides are looking at the other as "coming at us". Both side always bring up some sort of extreme event to illustrate that the other side is the one at fault. They never ever try to understand but rather play a victim all the time. No one will ever be able to convince them to step back a bit to look at the issue from others' lens because they will ALWAYS give an excuse that "Because the other side did this, it is their fault!".
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:22 · Score: 0

some sort of extreme event
When it's daily it's not extreme.
Your self-righteous advice is the sort of thing that one never sees offered to, for instance, BLM types. You accept every tenet of their accusations and every grievance they claim in silence, and you know it.
Re:I Blame by tbannist · 2017-10-06 05:48 · Score: 2

I've always thought Obama and Clinton were moderate conservatives.
You only think that because they are moderate conservatives.

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Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:32 · Score: 0

Sorry bro. Your kumbaya fantasy world isn't viable. Daily we're presented with undeniable evidence of the contempt and disdain the powers the be and all their left wing sycophants have nurtured in their hate filled hearts.
Oh noes!
Like this guy?.
Or perhaps?
Or maybe?
Or him?
Or maybe him??
I got a sense here that you don't realize what's really going on in this country is nothing new or surprising, but at least you could be honest about it being bipartisan.

Left wing shitheels coming at us one way or another Every. Single. Day.
So no, if we hadn't already picked a side we're left with no choice but to get on one;
Why? Because you're too sensitive to handle the fact that there are uncouth and vicious people in this world? Or because you're such a hypocrite you can't deal with your own?

some sort of extreme event
When it's daily it's not extreme.
You know, your glass house is very messy. Everybody can see the dirty clothes inside.

Your self-righteous advice is the sort of thing that one never sees offered to, for instance, BLM types. You accept every tenet of their accusations and every grievance they claim in silence, and you know it.
That's been happening for 50-60 years. Just ask Al Sharpton. The problem is, you deny every single grievance, refuse to recognize any validity to their accusations, and you know it.
There's a reason why you freak out over EVERY protest.
But too bad for you, you done made the stank yourself.
Re:I Blame by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 12:04 · Score: 0

'Or maybe, instead of picking sides, and listening to the talking heads, we could just for a moment stop and realize that "the other side" isn't all evil/crazy, and that they just see things through a different lens that we should try to understand instead of listening to our individual echo chambers.'
And maybe you need to realize some of us are very well versed in what is going on and understand the others arguments well. We don't agree. I'm sort of tired of people thinking all other people aren't listening. Some of us do. It's people like you who aren't, because you are worried about what others are failing at instead of shoring up your own failings.
When you improve yourself, you;ll realize which side is more correct these days. It's not as if facebook, twitter, /., news.yahooa, and breitbart comments are hiding from the world how people think and process the world they see these days.

Climate change! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:17 · Score: 0

Make Earth Bake Again

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still waiting by micahraleigh · 2017-10-06 03:39 · Score: 1, Informative

Still waiting for slashdot to post an article about the growth rate surpassing 3% as described in that nasty conservative rag USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/28/u-s-economic-growth-revised-up-3-1-rate-q-2/711674001/
That 3.1% growth was higher than anything under Obama, as confirmed by far, alt-right Nazi organization politifact:
http://www.politifact.com/illi...

Oh snap, they're MSM and left wing hacks respectively

Re:still waiting by werepants · 2017-10-06 05:18 · Score: 1

Still waiting for slashdot to post an article about the growth rate surpassing 3% as described in that nasty conservative rag USA Today:
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
That 3.1% growth was higher than anything under Obama, as confirmed by far, alt-right Nazi organization politifact:
http://www.politifact.com/illi...
Oh snap, they're MSM and left wing hacks respectively
Is that news for nerds, stuff that matters? This story is marginal, and that one would be no better.
Re:still waiting by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 07:01 · Score: 0

you are a fucking retard and you suck that faggot Putin's cock every day
Re:still waiting by smooth+wombat · 2017-10-06 08:54 · Score: 0

Well yeah. Thanks to Obama.
It's funny that people such as yourself who use the term MSM as a pejorative, claiming their "fake", are quick to use those same "fake" news sources to bolster your misguided claim the con artist has had anything to do with growth or employment.
It's even funnier, perhaps pathetic is the correct word, when in March of 2009 when Obama took office, you were quick to blame him for the bad economy, loss of jobs and the banking crisis when only a few months before it was Bush handing out $700 billion of taxpayer money to banks and Wall Street so they could pay out their bonuses.
Apparently in your world the moment someone takes office there is a clear and sharp cut off from what the guy before did. There is no overlap, no continuation of policies, no continuation of anything. It's as if you have no common sense on how reality works.

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Re:still waiting by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 10:55 · Score: 0

... It's as if you have no common sense on how reality works.
I'm not really sure what else you expected from the alternative facts and fake news crowd.
It's pretty much comical watching these same people use the phrase "liberal logic". They take an argument, apply their own logic to completely change the argument and then present it as "liberal logic".
Re:still waiting by micahraleigh · 2017-10-09 05:26 · Score: 1

Obama is making the economic growth rate HIGHER a year into the Trump administration than it ever was during his administration?

Fascinating. I didn't realize economic growth was such a delayed thing or he was still pulling the strings in secret. Too bad the voters probably won't pick up on that.

Didn't Keep Their Skills Up by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:49 · Score: 0

Old useless turds don't keep their skills up.

Storm or no storm, we the elite tech gods of Slashdot always have jobs, and we always earn six figures or more, because we keep our skills up.

One for every occasion by PopeRatzo · 2017-10-06 03:53 · Score: 1

Let's get in the wayback machine and go back to May 4, 2012.

https://twitter.com/realDonald...

You will notice that in this tweet, Donald Trump is complaining about a labor force participation rate of 64.3%, and that there should be 300,000 new jobs per month.

Last month, the labor force participation rate was 63.1% and the economy lost 33,000 jobs.

Before you say, "but, hurricanes!", let me remind you that before last month, there were 83 consecutive months of job growth in the US. The longest uninterrupted period in US history. There was a little storm called "Sandy" that hit the Northeast in October of 2012...and we still had job growth. The labor participation rate was higher then, too.

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In case of an emergency... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 03:55 · Score: 0

Get yourself a couple of American Red Cross hand-crank flashlight/smart phone charger in case of emergencies.

Unemployment rate doesn't mean anything. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:14 · Score: 0

Can we please stop quoting the unemployment rate. It doesn't mean anything.

Over the past 15 years I was unemployed for about 6 years, but was only counted as unemployed for about 6 months.
If you don't apply for unemployment, you don't count. If you make ANY money, you don't count. If you don't qualify for unemployment, you don't count. If your unemployment expires, you don't count.
Actual unemployment is likely closer to 20%, with underemployment at a whopping 26% past that. That is almost half the country not employed at the level they should be. Add in our degraded education system and our deregulated swinging economy, and we are fucked.

84 months of growth by Billly+Gates · 2017-10-06 04:20 · Score: 1

We are finally finally seeing rising wages after the sevre Great Recession eliminated so many jobs.

33,000 lost is no biggie in the grand scheme. Now if we loose more next month then I will worry as it shows a trend of contraction

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Nope! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 04:38 · Score: 0

Obviously that's still Obamas fault?

10K baby boomers retire every day. by cnaumann · 2017-10-06 04:47 · Score: 1

A loss of 33K jobs in a month is pretty much in the noise level.

Re:10K baby boomers retire every day. by tomhath · 2017-10-06 06:29 · Score: 1

There was a net decrease of 33K jobs, compared to the net increase of ~175K that would have been expected without the storms. How many people enter the workforce, change jobs, or retire isn't the issue here.

this doesn't include Puerto Rico by WillAffleckUW · 2017-10-06 05:05 · Score: 1

Neither Puerto Rico nor US Virgin Islands are part of this measure.

It's far worse.

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Dow Jones up 27% in less than one year. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 05:08 · Score: 0

Dow Jones up 27% in less than one year.

Yeah, real terrible. I bet you think Clinton would have the market up 50% or more?

Re:Dow Jones up 27% in less than one year. by JoshuaZ · 2017-10-06 06:19 · Score: 2

Not particularly; I also don't think that the short term growth of the stock market is the only metric of how things are going; I personally do quite well from the current stock market, that doesn't mean that there aren't serious problems with this administration.
Re:Dow Jones up 27% in less than one year. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:25 · Score: 0

Dow Jones up 27% in less than one year.
Yeah, real terrible. I bet you think Clinton would have the market up 50% or more?
the idiocy being that Trump is riding the wave of Obama's hard work.

So much winning... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 06:22 · Score: 0

Are we tired of winning yet?

WHY DO YOU PRETEND TO BE STUPID? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 07:20 · Score: 0

PROLOG: This post will contain ACTUAL ASSEMBLY FROM MS-DOS COMMAND.COM making it possibly one of the best AC comments on slashdot today despite being creimer related so stick around.

It's so cute when he says
"Did something happen in Las Vegas?"
"What the fuck is a creimer?"

I am sure he plays dumb like this in real life as it got him out of trouble back when he was in special education. It probably gets him out of trouble today too.
Except when he does it now as a 50 year old man with a 20 year career behind him it makes him look like an incompetent dipshit, mean his "contracts are not renewed" (FIRED) and he's passed up for promotions and interesting work. Good work creimer you didn't just shoot yourself in the foot. You shot yourself in the foot and when people laughed you said THAT'S NOT TRUE. then you changed socks and shot yourself in the dick so nobody would think you were stupid enough to shoot your own toes off.

Earlier creimer claimed he deleted his roomate's 1996 thinkpad that was for some reason running pure DOS as it required command.com to use and he somehow broke it by typing del *.* in C:\>. He claims this was the first time he used DOS. Only reposting because this contains actual DOS asm code! This feature alone means it may well be one of the best things posted to slashdot all day long.

1) c64 supports wildcards so certainly you'd recognize the foolishness of typing something as obviously fucking stupid as del *.*
2) Your dos is weak as fuck because you can type >DEL. and save yourself 3 keystrokes.
3) All versions of MS-DOS command.com have asked you if you are sure you want to delete everything since version 1.1 and you have to press the Y key ./msdos/v11source/COMMAND.ASM:179:SUREMES DB "Are you sure (Y/N)? $" ./msdos/v11source/COMMAND.ASM:1253: MOV DX,OFFSET TRANGROUP:SUREMES ;"Are you sure (Y/N)?"

In all subsequent versions of COMMAND.COM's DEL you have to press Y and hit return.

So you typed DEL *.* like a jackass. Then it asked you if you were sure and you had two more chances not to fuck up your buddy's work computer.

Jesus christ with friends like you... well why not kys?

Re:WHY DO YOU PRETEND TO BE STUPID? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 07:37 · Score: 0

Cute that you think everyone is c[*]reimer, I[*]FatCashews, 110010001000 and/or APK.
Re:WHY DO YOU PRETEND TO BE STUPID? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 08:46 · Score: 0

You are full of shit creimer.
Everybody on /. knows that you lie as you breathe and we can spot your posts miles away due to your writing skills.
Beside, there is nobody left to defend you here except yourself ;-)
Re:WHY DO YOU PRETEND TO BE STUPID? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 09:15 · Score: 0

Jesus christ with friends like you... well why not kys?
Don't believe creimer's stories! They are all made up!
Since nobody reads his stupid books, he has to post his imaginary stories on /. so he can think of himself as being important and think that he grabs attention.
It's the only way he found to convince himself that he wasn't a total failure.

Please God! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 08:59 · Score: 0

Please God, make creimer forget to breathe. This would take of major problems that we experience on our beautiful planet nowadays, methane emissions being only one of them.

He is so dumb that nobody will ask any questions if that happens.

WAHHHTCH OUT FOR DMCA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 10:47 · Score: 0

Since you like DMCA so much I'm scouring your ebooks and websites for trademarks so that I can report them!!!
You'll be hearing from the cabbage patch people soon!!! YaY!

I've also notified the FTC of your posts that admit deliberate misuse of DMCA which carries a heavy penalty.

--Minna Giovanna

Thanks Obama! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:32 · Score: 0

In more positive news the economy has added 50,000 coal mining jobs which brings us up to a total of 50,000 coal mining jobs!

Thunderstorm by stooo · 2017-10-06 23:42 · Score: 1

>> US Jobs Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Storms

It's likely to be caused by this storm : http://droit-public.ulb.ac.be/...
Does this storm have a name already ?

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Unemployment elsewhere: by iq145 · 2017-10-07 15:08 · Score: 1

This'll make you feel better, or worse... Afghanistan 35%, American Samoa 50%, Kenya 42%, Senegal 48%, Yemen 35%, Syria 40%, Zimbabwe 95%

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US Jobs Dropped By 33,000 In September, Likely Due To Storms (npr.org)

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