To be fair to Wikileaks, they actually let you see all of the source documents if you don't like their shitty editing.
There's nothing preventing people from going all "answers.com" and using Wikileaks' material as sources for their reports.
If they didn't summarize things at all and were just a clearinghouse of information, would as many people read it? Would you read Slashdot if there was no summary, just a title and a link? (You may now proceed to make fun of Slashdot's editorial quality.)
Agreed, but even the shit we know about - Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq AGAIN, Iran Contra, Panama, etc. is more than enough fuckups. The GP's is just a more comprehensive list.
This bad thinking is endemic in our short-term society.
For example, let's say you ran a business printing t-shirts. For an expense you can get a brand new shirt printer that will make your shirts look better than the competitions as well as cost less to print. The downside is that they are pricey enough where you would show a loss this quarter. Would you take this deal? You'd give up short-term profits on the books, but ultimately you'd get greater profits in the long run.
There's this culture of growth growth growth. If you're not growing (and by growing, I mean making profit), you're failing - even if it's for a good reason. I honestly don't think it's a sustainable way to do business in the long term.
The board of directors and its officers are in control of the corporation - what it does, when it does it, etc.
Q.E.D. the actions of the corporation are the responsibility of the board of directors and its officers, and therefore they should be liable for anything relating to imprisonment.
During the housing boom there were cookie cutter townhouses that were built in my city (Newark, NJ). A few of them burned down due to shoddy electrical work. Beware of cookie cutter houses!
What we really need is someone to keep up with the most recent proposals and break everything down from legalese into talking points more understandable to the layman. That's how we'll get people to care about it.
A large portion of previous economic fuckups were poor investment (which the government can't really control) and poor regulation (which the government can control.
If there were sufficient regulation in place to make any highly unwise or unethical financial practices (offshore tax shelters, the shit that allowed the sub-prime catastrophe, etc.) impossible without breaking the law, would this in effect protect the economy from everything other than a mass of bad investments (like the tech boom of the early 2000s)?
I've also vacationed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. They have tons of life preservers strewn about in cases that sound an alarm when you open it. Those things have MAYBE a 20 foot range if you get a good throw. If someone is in trouble from the coastline you'd better hope that an Olympic discus champion sees you in the water...
Convertible tablet laptops would have been fine for this had they become more ubiquitous, but manufacturers massively screwed up the early designs IMO.
The "public good" went out the window a looooong time ago.
Thankfully there's still decent people out there trying to make things better, but I imagine a lot of our problems are simply a fact of how goddamn huge our country is. So many issues involve matters of infrastructure (distance relating to response times for firefighters, police, ambulance, etc.) that it's amazing anything works as well as it does today.
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Thank you for being the only person here who gets what the hell I meant.
That was an excellent post that described my thoughts better than I did! Thanks for articulating my general point so wonderfully.
To be fair to Wikileaks, they actually let you see all of the source documents if you don't like their shitty editing.
There's nothing preventing people from going all "answers.com" and using Wikileaks' material as sources for their reports.
If they didn't summarize things at all and were just a clearinghouse of information, would as many people read it? Would you read Slashdot if there was no summary, just a title and a link? (You may now proceed to make fun of Slashdot's editorial quality.)
Agreed, but even the shit we know about - Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq AGAIN, Iran Contra, Panama, etc. is more than enough fuckups. The GP's is just a more comprehensive list.
Legalese is to lawyers as Latin is to 16th century Catholic priests - only they can really understand it and they like it that way.
Could you tell us the formula for converting femtobarns into Libraries of Congress so the rest of us can understand this?
I doubt kdawson has any intelligence whatsoever.
This bad thinking is endemic in our short-term society.
For example, let's say you ran a business printing t-shirts. For an expense you can get a brand new shirt printer that will make your shirts look better than the competitions as well as cost less to print. The downside is that they are pricey enough where you would show a loss this quarter. Would you take this deal? You'd give up short-term profits on the books, but ultimately you'd get greater profits in the long run.
There's this culture of growth growth growth. If you're not growing (and by growing, I mean making profit), you're failing - even if it's for a good reason. I honestly don't think it's a sustainable way to do business in the long term.
Of course, you can always look at the lolcat bible.
(1) Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
(2) Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
(3) At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.
Amen to this. I'm 6' 5", and the "huge" Xbox controllers were perfect for me.
So if you hear a gun but you can't remotely figure out where exactly in a large crowd it was fired from, you would just open fire on the crowd?
Corporate entity does something stupid.
The board of directors and its officers are in control of the corporation - what it does, when it does it, etc.
Q.E.D. the actions of the corporation are the responsibility of the board of directors and its officers, and therefore they should be liable for anything relating to imprisonment.
During the housing boom there were cookie cutter townhouses that were built in my city (Newark, NJ). A few of them burned down due to shoddy electrical work. Beware of cookie cutter houses!
Mod Parent "+1, Like, You're a Cool Guy Man, And... And And I Like What You Said Dude, It Reached Me. Really Reached Me."
What other parts need scrutiny?
The entire godawful document, cover to cover.
What we really need is someone to keep up with the most recent proposals and break everything down from legalese into talking points more understandable to the layman. That's how we'll get people to care about it.
One thing I've always wondered:
A large portion of previous economic fuckups were poor investment (which the government can't really control) and poor regulation (which the government can control.
If there were sufficient regulation in place to make any highly unwise or unethical financial practices (offshore tax shelters, the shit that allowed the sub-prime catastrophe, etc.) impossible without breaking the law, would this in effect protect the economy from everything other than a mass of bad investments (like the tech boom of the early 2000s)?
Dear competitors of the people who hire Thud457, I will gladly accept a competitive rate to counteract every post he makes for your corporate rivals.
The parent post isn't remotely offtopic to the conversation at hand and he should not have been modded as such.
Remember folks, there's no "-1, I Disagree" option.
I've also vacationed in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. They have tons of life preservers strewn about in cases that sound an alarm when you open it. Those things have MAYBE a 20 foot range if you get a good throw. If someone is in trouble from the coastline you'd better hope that an Olympic discus champion sees you in the water...
You can use an acetylene torch with just one hand, I'm sure.
Wouldn't this be more for beaches? 150m is about as far out as most people would go on a beach AFAIK.
Is that website 200 years old as well?
A "BONK!" graphic appears above their head, at which point you may opt to say "DOOOWN TOWN!" in your best Brooklyn accent.
(Sorry, been playing a lot of TF2 lately...)
Convertible tablet laptops would have been fine for this had they become more ubiquitous, but manufacturers massively screwed up the early designs IMO.
Best of both worlds if its done right.
Well, the highest district court of our nation's capital ruled that police are in no way obligated to protect the citizens - or more specifically, they're not liable for failure to provide adequate police protection.
The "public good" went out the window a looooong time ago.
Thankfully there's still decent people out there trying to make things better, but I imagine a lot of our problems are simply a fact of how goddamn huge our country is. So many issues involve matters of infrastructure (distance relating to response times for firefighters, police, ambulance, etc.) that it's amazing anything works as well as it does today.