Slashdot is hosted and based in the US. The most represented country on slashdot - in terms of which country most readers are from - is the US as well. It is understood that on slashdot a reference to "this country" is referring to the US unless there is context to imply otherwise.
I am well aware that the engine distribution is vastly different for some brands - particularly European-based brands - in other countries but here in the US the Diesel is almost extinct. VW is the top seller of Diesel-powered vehicles in this country and for them it is still a minority of their vehicles by sales volume. I know there are vehicles (say, the Smart ForTwo, along with vans and small pickups) that are sold with Diesel options in other countries but cannot be purchased as Diesels here. For that matter, Jaguar and BMW are two brands that sell Diesel fairly regularly in Europe but not at all in this country. You cannot get a Diesel Jaguar or BMW sedan in the US through a dealer for any amount of money.
Between the two badges, that might be all of a few dozen cars sold in this country since 2008. Few Americans have ever even seen an Audi with a Diesel that was made since the 90s, and even fewer ever knew that Porsche has had Diesel options.
But saying Reagan conceived the ISS is a stretch. Just like saying Al Gore invented the Internet.
There is an important difference those, though; and that difference shows plainly how conservative the voice of slashdot has become.
No democrat that I have ever seen or heard from has ever tried to claim that Al Gore actually deserves credit for inventing the internet. It is understood that his wording was clumsy when he appeared to take credit for it, and it has mostly been a conservative joke since then.
Yet here, on slashdot, we just tried to give Reagan credit for inventing the space station. The actual statement here, on the front page of slashdot, was
the space station, conceived by President Ronald Reagan in 1984
If it was a misstatement here, nobody seems to be expending any effort into correcting it.
You can attack me, or attack my argument. The former doesn't help you if your goal is to show understanding of the topic - though you chose it regardless. Feel free to try to show that you have an understanding of the topic, if you would like.
I laid out simple facts that show Obama is indeed more conservative than Reagan ever was, you responded to those facts by attacking me instead of countering the facts. I presented a direct and factual argument that indeed Obama is the most conservative POTUS we have ever had. Indeed, every single GOP hopeful wants to be even more conservative still, but that doesn't change the fact that nobody who has been POTUS before was more conservative than Obama. It also does not change the fact that the GOP is drastically more conservative now than Reagan could have ever hoped to be.
As far as social issues, unions, etc. went, no of course Reagan was not more liberal than Obama, just the idea is ludicrous
There is nothing ludicrous about it.
Under which administration have we seen a greater decline in the number of workers - private or public sector - working in unions? Obama
Under which administration have we seen a greater stagnation of minimum wage? Obama
Under which administration have we seen a greater increase in the wage gap between the highest and lowest earners? Obama
Under which administration have we seen a greater increase in the number of people who are working less than 40 hours a week per job due to the lack of full time positions made available? Obama
Under which administration have we seen more people give up on dreams of going to college because they can't afford it in their income level? Obama
Under which administration have we seen the largest corporate giveaway in the history of government? Obama
I'm no fan of Reagan, but what he actually did as president - particularly in terms of social and economic policy - was actually more liberal than any president of the past couple decades. The current POTUS is the most conservative we have ever had, bar none. Reagan, on the other hand, if he were alive today would be chased out of the GOP as a "socialist".
My point is that he didn't actually have anything to do with it, and is getting credit for it just because slashdot has an overwhelming conservative majority. I actually find this somewhat amusing in a way, as of course Reagan is far too liberal to be accepted in the GOP today (in fact a solid argument can be made for him even being more liberal than our current "liberal" POTUS).
You're still pissed your side lost the Cold War, aren't you?
My "side"? What exactly do you think you are talking about with that statement? And for that matter, why do you think anyone "won" the cold war? It just happened that the US had the ability to blow more money on it than did the USSR; had it been the other way then the US would have gone bankrupt instead. Ultimately though nobody really won the cold war.
VW must have thought they were a Japanese company or something, to be allowed to get away with such a trick on the American market. I'm astonished they thought they could get away with this.
It's Mark Whittington. A nice guy, but a serious believer in the Church of Ronnie.
Well, he is in friendly hands here on slashdot. The Church of Ronnie is very popular amongst slashdot readers. It is slightly more popular than the church of Ron Paul, though sometimes slightly less vocal.
Don't forget the top tax bracket rate was 50% under pinko Ronnie.
Ronald Reagan would never make it as a republican any more, he is far too liberal on that and many other things as well. Hell, Reagan was more liberal than our "liberal" POTUS on many things.
Thank you, samzenpus. I wasn't sure what to thank Saint Ronnie for today. Did he forge the structure with the same death-ray eyes that he used to tear down the Berlin Wall?
When Air France and British Airways mothballed the Concorde, they claimed that one justification was that there was essentially no way to get parts to maintain them. How will this group get around that? You can't exactly get those parts pressed at your local machine shop if you need replacements.
As for static displays of the Concorde, there is already one on display at the Intrepid in NYC. I expect there are others on display for visitors as well.
I would presume that there wouldn't be that many with pictures on there who fail one or both of those criteria. This guy sounds like a real winner, if winners are shallow misogynists.
I know this is almost certainly not McAfee's job personally, but the "cyberparty" website has a glaring typographical error on it. Did they hire former slashdot employees to work on it and not realize it?
We have seen for some time now that the more affluent your voting district, the better chances are of having well-maintained, functional, and plentiful voting machines.
Citation?
It was widely reported in the 2004 presidential election in particular. In several cases in Ohio voters in less affluent areas had to wait several hours to vote while wealthier residents of the same state were done in mere minutes.
We have seen for some time now that the more affluent your voting district, the better chances are of having well-maintained, functional, and plentiful voting machines. Yeah there are lots of ageing voting machines, but they likely don't reside in areas that elected politicians and their cronies are concerned about.
The summary shows an underline, and my cursor changes to indicate that I can click on it. Yet, nothing happens when I click on it. Nice mangling of html there, slashdot. Is it supposed to be some sort of twisted play on the fact that the museum burned to the ground?
And most of the time, it works. There will always be bad actors, but the majority of scientists operate within the accepted ethical parameters of their field. In a similar vein, human cloning is generally accepted to be unethical.
They all have much higher tax rates. If you want to pay lower taxes and convince yourself that the government is leaving you alone, you'll need to go to Somalia or Afghanistan.
The Wikipedia page for Ashley Madison (amongst many other sources) suggest that a large number of accounts on there were made by Ashley Madison themselves. It would be interesting to know if these 11 million are all from real people, or if some of them are the phony accounts.
If they don't have computers at home, do they have internet connectivity? Otherwise it isn't very useful if you want them to be able to look stuff up online, send in papers, etc. Could you refer them to go use a local college library (which often have longer open hours than a K-12 school) where they could get online?
You're right. The bailout was to the insurance industry, which was living high on the hog and wanted a return on their investment (in the federal government). The government responded by giving them the greatest corporate handout in the history of government.
Careers, at least as we used to know them, are mostly gone now. We won't see them again any time soon. Even the industry that the federal government so lovingly bailed out back in 2010 has been laying off plenty of IT workers in recent times, and they were amongst the most stable places for IT "careers" before now. If you want to be able to retire at some point before you die, you need to be constantly looking for other job opportunities. Move up, move down, move laterally; it doesn't matter. Just keep moving or you'll be under the chopping block.
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'this country'. I'm UK-based
Slashdot is hosted and based in the US. The most represented country on slashdot - in terms of which country most readers are from - is the US as well. It is understood that on slashdot a reference to "this country" is referring to the US unless there is context to imply otherwise.
I am well aware that the engine distribution is vastly different for some brands - particularly European-based brands - in other countries but here in the US the Diesel is almost extinct. VW is the top seller of Diesel-powered vehicles in this country and for them it is still a minority of their vehicles by sales volume. I know there are vehicles (say, the Smart ForTwo, along with vans and small pickups) that are sold with Diesel options in other countries but cannot be purchased as Diesels here. For that matter, Jaguar and BMW are two brands that sell Diesel fairly regularly in Europe but not at all in this country. You cannot get a Diesel Jaguar or BMW sedan in the US through a dealer for any amount of money.
Between the two badges, that might be all of a few dozen cars sold in this country since 2008. Few Americans have ever even seen an Audi with a Diesel that was made since the 90s, and even fewer ever knew that Porsche has had Diesel options.
But saying Reagan conceived the ISS is a stretch. Just like saying Al Gore invented the Internet.
There is an important difference those, though; and that difference shows plainly how conservative the voice of slashdot has become.
No democrat that I have ever seen or heard from has ever tried to claim that Al Gore actually deserves credit for inventing the internet. It is understood that his wording was clumsy when he appeared to take credit for it, and it has mostly been a conservative joke since then.
Yet here, on slashdot, we just tried to give Reagan credit for inventing the space station. The actual statement here, on the front page of slashdot, was
the space station, conceived by President Ronald Reagan in 1984
If it was a misstatement here, nobody seems to be expending any effort into correcting it.
You can attack me, or attack my argument. The former doesn't help you if your goal is to show understanding of the topic - though you chose it regardless. Feel free to try to show that you have an understanding of the topic, if you would like.
I laid out simple facts that show Obama is indeed more conservative than Reagan ever was, you responded to those facts by attacking me instead of countering the facts. I presented a direct and factual argument that indeed Obama is the most conservative POTUS we have ever had. Indeed, every single GOP hopeful wants to be even more conservative still, but that doesn't change the fact that nobody who has been POTUS before was more conservative than Obama. It also does not change the fact that the GOP is drastically more conservative now than Reagan could have ever hoped to be.
As far as social issues, unions, etc. went, no of course Reagan was not more liberal than Obama, just the idea is ludicrous
There is nothing ludicrous about it.
Under which administration have we seen a greater decline in the number of workers - private or public sector - working in unions? Obama
Under which administration have we seen a greater stagnation of minimum wage? Obama
Under which administration have we seen a greater increase in the wage gap between the highest and lowest earners? Obama
Under which administration have we seen a greater increase in the number of people who are working less than 40 hours a week per job due to the lack of full time positions made available? Obama
Under which administration have we seen more people give up on dreams of going to college because they can't afford it in their income level? Obama
Under which administration have we seen the largest corporate giveaway in the history of government? Obama
I'm no fan of Reagan, but what he actually did as president - particularly in terms of social and economic policy - was actually more liberal than any president of the past couple decades. The current POTUS is the most conservative we have ever had, bar none. Reagan, on the other hand, if he were alive today would be chased out of the GOP as a "socialist".
Ronald Reagan was mentioned for any reason
My point is that he didn't actually have anything to do with it, and is getting credit for it just because slashdot has an overwhelming conservative majority. I actually find this somewhat amusing in a way, as of course Reagan is far too liberal to be accepted in the GOP today (in fact a solid argument can be made for him even being more liberal than our current "liberal" POTUS).
You're still pissed your side lost the Cold War, aren't you?
My "side"? What exactly do you think you are talking about with that statement? And for that matter, why do you think anyone "won" the cold war? It just happened that the US had the ability to blow more money on it than did the USSR; had it been the other way then the US would have gone bankrupt instead. Ultimately though nobody really won the cold war.
VW must have thought they were a Japanese company or something, to be allowed to get away with such a trick on the American market. I'm astonished they thought they could get away with this.
It's Mark Whittington. A nice guy, but a serious believer in the Church of Ronnie.
Well, he is in friendly hands here on slashdot. The Church of Ronnie is very popular amongst slashdot readers. It is slightly more popular than the church of Ron Paul, though sometimes slightly less vocal.
Don't forget the top tax bracket rate was 50% under pinko Ronnie.
Ronald Reagan would never make it as a republican any more, he is far too liberal on that and many other things as well. Hell, Reagan was more liberal than our "liberal" POTUS on many things.
conceived by President Ronald Reagan in 1984
Thank you, samzenpus. I wasn't sure what to thank Saint Ronnie for today. Did he forge the structure with the same death-ray eyes that he used to tear down the Berlin Wall?
When Air France and British Airways mothballed the Concorde, they claimed that one justification was that there was essentially no way to get parts to maintain them. How will this group get around that? You can't exactly get those parts pressed at your local machine shop if you need replacements.
As for static displays of the Concorde, there is already one on display at the Intrepid in NYC. I expect there are others on display for visitors as well.
Shallow indeed, but are the female characteristics that a person finds attractive automatically make them a misogynist?
If you are choosing whether or not to even talk to someone based only on their looks then you are, at the very least, shallow.
Let me guess: female and alive.
I would presume that there wouldn't be that many with pictures on there who fail one or both of those criteria. This guy sounds like a real winner, if winners are shallow misogynists.
I know this is almost certainly not McAfee's job personally, but the "cyberparty" website has a glaring typographical error on it. Did they hire former slashdot employees to work on it and not realize it?
We have seen for some time now that the more affluent your voting district, the better chances are of having well-maintained, functional, and plentiful voting machines.
Citation?
It was widely reported in the 2004 presidential election in particular. In several cases in Ohio voters in less affluent areas had to wait several hours to vote while wealthier residents of the same state were done in mere minutes.
We have seen for some time now that the more affluent your voting district, the better chances are of having well-maintained, functional, and plentiful voting machines. Yeah there are lots of ageing voting machines, but they likely don't reside in areas that elected politicians and their cronies are concerned about.
The summary shows an underline, and my cursor changes to indicate that I can click on it. Yet, nothing happens when I click on it. Nice mangling of html there, slashdot. Is it supposed to be some sort of twisted play on the fact that the museum burned to the ground?
And most of the time, it works. There will always be bad actors, but the majority of scientists operate within the accepted ethical parameters of their field. In a similar vein, human cloning is generally accepted to be unethical.
Which isn't all of what you need, but it is a better start than nothing at all. I'd rather see a link to a journal I can't read than no link at all.
They all have much higher tax rates. If you want to pay lower taxes and convince yourself that the government is leaving you alone, you'll need to go to Somalia or Afghanistan.
I'd be really happy with that.
The Wikipedia page for Ashley Madison (amongst many other sources) suggest that a large number of accounts on there were made by Ashley Madison themselves. It would be interesting to know if these 11 million are all from real people, or if some of them are the phony accounts.
If they don't have computers at home, do they have internet connectivity? Otherwise it isn't very useful if you want them to be able to look stuff up online, send in papers, etc. Could you refer them to go use a local college library (which often have longer open hours than a K-12 school) where they could get online?
The medical system didn't receive a bailout,
You're right. The bailout was to the insurance industry, which was living high on the hog and wanted a return on their investment (in the federal government). The government responded by giving them the greatest corporate handout in the history of government.
Careers, at least as we used to know them, are mostly gone now. We won't see them again any time soon. Even the industry that the federal government so lovingly bailed out back in 2010 has been laying off plenty of IT workers in recent times, and they were amongst the most stable places for IT "careers" before now. If you want to be able to retire at some point before you die, you need to be constantly looking for other job opportunities. Move up, move down, move laterally; it doesn't matter. Just keep moving or you'll be under the chopping block.