That might set an interesting precedent. Obama doesn't even bother campaigning in seats he knows he's going to lose, like Texas, and McCain gives up California and New York. They both just focus on swings. Which is pretty much what they do now, but it doesn't really cost them that much to put their name on the ballot even if they're most likely going to lose.
Yeah, but shareholders can and have successfully argued that management did not put their priorities, as owners, high enough - receiving compensation. Not only is that a right enshrined in law, common law has tested it quite a few times.
Laws about drugs are mostly _internal_ laws. E.g., US citizens tell other US citizens what they can't do. Fair enough.
Right, which is why the US never goes into South America and targets drug production and/or manufacturing. And there's definitely no push to eradicate poppy farming in Afghanistan.
Newsflash - It isn't Columbians and Afghanis doing heroin and cocaine, it's Americans. And it's the US telling those countries what they can and can't do because they don't know how to deal with their own citizens when it comes to drugs.
Flagging works when you have a decent ratio of moderators to content, because you have to work on the assumption that some percentage of your userbase are idiots and are going to flag everything. But when we get into scale of every page Google presents and the number of users who use it, the potential for not only abuse but actually checking everything that's been flagged is going to be very difficult.
Ahahahaha it's the same guy, obviously. Don't worry man, I've got karma to burn. Modding posts flamebait doesn't make you right. It makes me feel honoured that you can't construct a decent argument but have to resort to modding instead.
Relatively peaceful? India has been involved in about 10 conflicts over the past 60 years, with two nuclear powers, including continuing civil insurgencies within the country and the war over Kashmir. Iran has been involved in one.
Where do you get off calling a country with a rigid caste-system, extreme levels of poverty and corruption a "stable democracy"? It might suit the US agenda to pretend that some developing world countries are more "democratic" than others but that doesn't make it true. Democracy does not equal the ballot box, least of all in a country where most people are still tied to certain people/parties either through land or religion.
The article's extrapolation that Palin is pro net-neutrality is really drawing a long bow. The only thing it's based on is a completely irrelevant point that she started a bidding process for an infrastructure project, something that's pretty much a pre-requisite to not being corrupt. How you can go from "bidding process" to "she may be in favor of not having any one provider be given preference to build out broadband pipes to a specific area" like the article has is beyond me.
I was talking about actual data caps, not speed. My connection is ADSL2+ so dependant on distance from the telephone exchange. I sync at around 12mbps. The data cap is 150GB a month. ie. I am allowed to download 150GB a month after that I get slowed to 62k.
Ok so one 1080P is 8GB+ and 720P is almost 5GB. Average that to about 7GB per film. I do watch a lot of movies. Also TV shows like all the seasons of The Soprano's, Battlestar Galatica etc. Then there's high quality music downloads and the programs and ISO's that I mentioned. And of course, general browsing. Which these days is pretty damn bandwidth intensive.
There's more parties represented in the Russian parliament than in the American Congress and more Russian presidential candidates achieve a higher proportion of the vote than in the US. Who's turned whose government into a personal fiefdom?
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Why is a story about rocks in Canada tagged "McCain"?
That might set an interesting precedent. Obama doesn't even bother campaigning in seats he knows he's going to lose, like Texas, and McCain gives up California and New York. They both just focus on swings. Which is pretty much what they do now, but it doesn't really cost them that much to put their name on the ballot even if they're most likely going to lose.
Yeah, but shareholders can and have successfully argued that management did not put their priorities, as owners, high enough - receiving compensation. Not only is that a right enshrined in law, common law has tested it quite a few times.
Not only "capitalist dogma" but the obligation to shareholders and stock price is a legal one.
Laws about drugs are mostly _internal_ laws. E.g., US citizens tell other US citizens what they can't do. Fair enough.
Right, which is why the US never goes into South America and targets drug production and/or manufacturing. And there's definitely no push to eradicate poppy farming in Afghanistan.
Newsflash - It isn't Columbians and Afghanis doing heroin and cocaine, it's Americans. And it's the US telling those countries what they can and can't do because they don't know how to deal with their own citizens when it comes to drugs.
Is this the new way to farm karma on Slashdot? Pretend that you not only sat through a relatively long Microsoft commercial, but actually liked it?
Flagging works when you have a decent ratio of moderators to content, because you have to work on the assumption that some percentage of your userbase are idiots and are going to flag everything. But when we get into scale of every page Google presents and the number of users who use it, the potential for not only abuse but actually checking everything that's been flagged is going to be very difficult.
Psht, I read Slashdot for the comments, not the summary!
Ubuntu goes alphabetically does it now? ...Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron... Jaunty Jackalope? Where's the I!?!?
Ahahahaha it's the same guy, obviously. Don't worry man, I've got karma to burn. Modding posts flamebait doesn't make you right. It makes me feel honoured that you can't construct a decent argument but have to resort to modding instead.
Irate Indian mod marking the post as Troll? Have some balls and respond.
India is doing better as far as democracy then some of the other "BIG" countries that have recently invaded a smaller one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1947
Relatively peaceful? India has been involved in about 10 conflicts over the past 60 years, with two nuclear powers, including continuing civil insurgencies within the country and the war over Kashmir. Iran has been involved in one.
Where do you get off calling a country with a rigid caste-system, extreme levels of poverty and corruption a "stable democracy"? It might suit the US agenda to pretend that some developing world countries are more "democratic" than others but that doesn't make it true. Democracy does not equal the ballot box, least of all in a country where most people are still tied to certain people/parties either through land or religion.
The article's extrapolation that Palin is pro net-neutrality is really drawing a long bow. The only thing it's based on is a completely irrelevant point that she started a bidding process for an infrastructure project, something that's pretty much a pre-requisite to not being corrupt. How you can go from "bidding process" to "she may be in favor of not having any one provider be given preference to build out broadband pipes to a specific area" like the article has is beyond me.
Since when does a Slashdot comment have to be relevant to the story?
I pay $69.95 a month and I'm with TPG. http://www.tpg.com.au/
What makes you think I'm downloading infringing copies?
I was talking about actual data caps, not speed. My connection is ADSL2+ so dependant on distance from the telephone exchange. I sync at around 12mbps. The data cap is 150GB a month. ie. I am allowed to download 150GB a month after that I get slowed to 62k.
Care to share one of these reasons?
So has there been an election since this initiative began? I don't think so. How do you expect them to "throw them out"?
Since when do citizens "Give up" their privacy? In this case, and in most cases, they're having it taken from them by the government...
Ok so one 1080P is 8GB+ and 720P is almost 5GB. Average that to about 7GB per film. I do watch a lot of movies. Also TV shows like all the seasons of The Soprano's, Battlestar Galatica etc. Then there's high quality music downloads and the programs and ISO's that I mentioned. And of course, general browsing. Which these days is pretty damn bandwidth intensive.
There's more parties represented in the Russian parliament than in the American Congress and more Russian presidential candidates achieve a higher proportion of the vote than in the US. Who's turned whose government into a personal fiefdom?
Yep, TPG.