A good example being a certain BP exec who chose to race his Yacht while the environmental and economic lifelihood of our gulf coast went to shit overnight, on his watch.
Though I agree with grandparent from a philosophical standpoint, I would reluctantly mod him -1 idealist if the option existed.
re War Profiteering - Absolutely correct. Also see its superset, Disaster Capitalism, which lays out the theory of (aside of the obvious 9/11 opportunism and the subsequent war profiteering in Iraq) why drug companies are making so much money off bogus disease scares du jour like swine flu and now whooping cough, as well as Tsunami and Hurricane destruction sites and even the gulf oil spill where rich yacht owners were being paid thousands while the doomed fishermen shat bricks.
I doubt that will happen anyway, it's FUD. I loved this part:
The goals of the highly specialized detective work, known as nuclear attribution, is to clarify options for retaliation and to deter terrorists by letting them know that nuclear devices have fingerprints that atomic specialists can find and trace.
I don't know about nuclear weapons so rebuttals are welcome, but what does that matter to some rogue, nationless terrorist organization who acquired fissile material from some obscure (possibly closed) Russian nuke-plant that had poor accountability of its product? Even if we could determine the origin of a terrorist dirty-bomb's yucky stuff, does that mean we'd go and nuke Russia?
More likely we'd say its from Pakistan and go all Iraq on their ass, especially in light of the recent embarrassing Wikileaks about ISI's double-crossing us.
Ahh, scaremongering. A desperate, futile make-work program for an America whose only business model (besides sending it all to those evil Commies) is sicc'ing half the population against the other half a la the Stazi aka the DHS.
Hybrids were also twice as likely to have hit cyclists, at a rate of 0.6 percent versus 0.3 percent.
Yuppies maiming yuppies.
It's a good thing, of course. Nature always has its assholes, and so needs other assholes to keep them in check since the rest of the population is not being self-righteous, pseudo-altruist, bike-riding, iPhone buying, Swine flu-fearing, Prius-driving douchebags.
Armed rampage or suicide bomb, preferably in a Catholic, Mormon, or Scientology church, with the Slashdot logo and your user ID scrawled on a white T-shirt. Gun in one hand, boom-box playing M.C. Hawking's Fuck the Creationists in the other.
As a reward for your heroic efforts, you will get your own story, with over 1000 comments, on Slashdot.
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and you just ran out of gum.
Microsoft are like Metallica: They think that they can do anything they want because people will buy every turd they put out just because it has their name slapped on it, despite the fact that all the credible consumers ditched them in the mid '90's.
It's not news, but I'm puzzled as to why they're implementing the ban. They don't have to. The type of people who work for the TSA wouldn't bother to look up liberal garbage about "rights," and would likely rage if they stumbled upon it.
California - proof positive that we're not really any more advanced that any other backwards third-world country...California will soon be the boil on America's ass the same way Greece is a boil on Europe's ass...
As a proud native Californian who's travelled across the U.S. - I ask you all why you're so quick to rag on California when all of your dumb-asses are trying to move here and pollute our collective consciousness with your ass-backwards nazi conservatism and bullshit MTV-fueled spring-break pipe-dreams while driving up our property costs and fistfucking our job market, taking those jobs away from native Californians.
Why do so many military from dumb-shit states like Oklahoma and Georgia stationed here call us "the land of the fruits and nuts," then continue to live here after their terms are up? Why are there so many assholes from Boston moving to San Diego to chase stupid dreams like bartending and playing in ska bands?
Welcome to California. Now go home. If you weren't born here, Get the fuck out. We won't miss you.
But if you buy a subscription, then you get to preemptively compile first-post trolls which are actually relevant to the article and kick off massive flamewars.
But purchase with care: Recently it seems that the Nazis have been aggresively banning my own and other troll i.p.'s.
The appointment of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama killed two birds with one stone with appealing to women and minorities, and misleading a weary American public into thinking that the two were really about change.
Sad fact is, the guys who really dictate America's policies are still wealthy, conservative white men with large stakes in multinational mega-corporations.
Be less of an asshole and learn to think critically. Then come back.
Quoth my parent, posting anonymously:
f it's really flash, then this sort of isolation can go a long way toward mitigating it; but if it's javascript or something else, then I really hope Mozilla invests some time addressing the responsiveness problems.
Like many other posts all over the discussion, that one implicitly(and other posts more explicitly) touts Chrome's Javascript speed advantage, as if they were parroting other articles and putting all of one's eggs in one basket to shill the trivial performance gain to generate some Chrome hype. Or perhaps I'm a bit slow, and the average Slashdot reader has a 1-millisecond resolution and is sensitive to things I'm not.
I'm sure there's a cadre of people who have never seen my issue on Firefox
Yup.
but if it's javascript or something else, then I really hope Mozilla invests some time addressing the responsiveness problems.
Yeah, we get it, paid shill of Google. Chrome runs Javascript 1 millisecond faster than Firefox does. Perhaps you should upgrade from that Pentium II 233 and run an O.S. that dosen't have 1-minute rendering overhead from AV software and other crap.
What if cars were programmed to randomly stop at some random interval? GM's head would be served up on a plate.
I envision a future where all the use of all hardware and software is leased, and it can be disabled at will when the vendor changes the terms of service("terms of use are subject to change at any time") as per the EULA. Vendor just got sued for patent violations, wanna continue to run their software? Help pay their legal fees the extra $5 monthly surcharge. Wanna get back on the internet? Pay your penalty fee for posting obscenities on a forum.
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A good example being a certain BP exec who chose to race his Yacht while the environmental and economic lifelihood of our gulf coast went to shit overnight, on his watch.
Though I agree with grandparent from a philosophical standpoint, I would reluctantly mod him -1 idealist if the option existed.
Eh. And nothing of value was lost anyway. 'Cept for trollin' Slashdot.
I doubt that will happen anyway, it's FUD. I loved this part:
I don't know about nuclear weapons so rebuttals are welcome, but what does that matter to some rogue, nationless terrorist organization who acquired fissile material from some obscure (possibly closed) Russian nuke-plant that had poor accountability of its product? Even if we could determine the origin of a terrorist dirty-bomb's yucky stuff, does that mean we'd go and nuke Russia?
More likely we'd say its from Pakistan and go all Iraq on their ass, especially in light of the recent embarrassing Wikileaks about ISI's double-crossing us.
Ahh, scaremongering. A desperate, futile make-work program for an America whose only business model (besides sending it all to those evil Commies) is sicc'ing half the population against the other half a la the Stazi aka the DHS.
They had to remove those features to make room for new ones.
Heh.
Yuppies maiming yuppies.
It's a good thing, of course. Nature always has its assholes, and so needs other assholes to keep them in check since the rest of the population is not being self-righteous, pseudo-altruist, bike-riding, iPhone buying, Swine flu-fearing, Prius-driving douchebags.
Armed rampage or suicide bomb, preferably in a Catholic, Mormon, or Scientology church, with the Slashdot logo and your user ID scrawled on a white T-shirt. Gun in one hand, boom-box playing M.C. Hawking's Fuck the Creationists in the other.
As a reward for your heroic efforts, you will get your own story, with over 1000 comments, on Slashdot. It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum...and you just ran out of gum.
Wow, even Slashdot posts are XML now...
Most nerds have a more targetted, efficient method of keeping their nuts hot:
Laptop computers.
Also, nerds are averse to bathing.
Uh, Bechtel makes Nucular reactors. Now connect the dots and think for a minute. What is more powerful than the U.S. Government? The energy companies! Ding ding DING!
You poor, naive sap.
Microsoft are like Metallica: They think that they can do anything they want because people will buy every turd they put out just because it has their name slapped on it, despite the fact that all the credible consumers ditched them in the mid '90's.
No, I learned that from living in America.
Would it have been that difficult to say, "Make a Shazam substute" or "Shazam-like" program in Java?
Or he could have simply named it after the most powerful negro in the world*, Kazaam.
* whose energy I channeled while having sex with a woman last night.
Compared to the vast tutorials and examples found on the internet, O-Reilly books are relatively useless.
Buying them is like buying forty-dollar training wheels for the bike you learned to ride years ago.
It's not news, but I'm puzzled as to why they're implementing the ban. They don't have to. The type of people who work for the TSA wouldn't bother to look up liberal garbage about "rights," and would likely rage if they stumbled upon it.
As a proud native Californian who's travelled across the U.S. - I ask you all why you're so quick to rag on California when all of your dumb-asses are trying to move here and pollute our collective consciousness with your ass-backwards nazi conservatism and bullshit MTV-fueled spring-break pipe-dreams while driving up our property costs and fistfucking our job market, taking those jobs away from native Californians.
Why do so many military from dumb-shit states like Oklahoma and Georgia stationed here call us "the land of the fruits and nuts," then continue to live here after their terms are up? Why are there so many assholes from Boston moving to San Diego to chase stupid dreams like bartending and playing in ska bands?
Welcome to California. Now go home.
If you weren't born here, Get the fuck out. We won't miss you.
What happen? Did Apple set you up the bomb?
Main screen turn on.
You have no reception make your time.
Ching-chong-chang-wong-bong-dong.
But if you buy a subscription, then you get to preemptively compile first-post trolls which are actually relevant to the article and kick off massive flamewars.
But purchase with care: Recently it seems that the Nazis have been aggresively banning my own and other troll i.p.'s.
More seriously, Facebook will be immune for the same reasons that AT&T and the other big telecoms already are...
It's funny how Twitter could get a 20-year moratorium because somebody "hacked" Barack Hussein Obama's twitter while Big Oil(TM) gets only a 6 month moratorium, if even that.
The appointment of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama killed two birds with one stone with appealing to women and minorities, and misleading a weary American public into thinking that the two were really about change.
Sad fact is, the guys who really dictate America's policies are still wealthy, conservative white men with large stakes in multinational mega-corporations.
Be less of an asshole and learn to think critically. Then come back.
Quoth my parent, posting anonymously:
f it's really flash, then this sort of isolation can go a long way toward mitigating it; but if it's javascript or something else, then I really hope Mozilla invests some time addressing the responsiveness problems.
Like many other posts all over the discussion, that one implicitly(and other posts more explicitly) touts Chrome's Javascript speed advantage, as if they were parroting other articles and putting all of one's eggs in one basket to shill the trivial performance gain to generate some Chrome hype. Or perhaps I'm a bit slow, and the average Slashdot reader has a 1-millisecond resolution and is sensitive to things I'm not.
And my hardware is a 6 year-old laptop.
I'm sure there's a cadre of people who have never seen my issue on Firefox
Yup.
but if it's javascript or something else, then I really hope Mozilla invests some time addressing the responsiveness problems.
Yeah, we get it, paid shill of Google. Chrome runs Javascript 1 millisecond faster than Firefox does. Perhaps you should upgrade from that Pentium II 233 and run an O.S. that dosen't have 1-minute rendering overhead from AV software and other crap.
Then come back.
I envision a future where all the use of all hardware and software is leased, and it can be disabled at will when the vendor changes the terms of service("terms of use are subject to change at any time") as per the EULA. Vendor just got sued for patent violations, wanna continue to run their software? Help pay their legal fees the extra $5 monthly surcharge. Wanna get back on the internet? Pay your penalty fee for posting obscenities on a forum.
Etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
But will you sell ice cream too?