The IRS allows you to donate any amount above and beyond what you owe in tax each year. If you think taxes are so great, I (and the government) invite you to pay a few thousand extra each year. Put your money where your mouth is. Hell, put in $10,000 and after it gets through the layers of government waste you might buy a meal for one of those starving kids.
Wow. Insightful? It's crackrock sunday for the mods today.
Could someone please decipher the hidden message for me? I lost my gentle bunny decoder wheel. While you are at it, tell me how this qualifies as "mildly offtopic".
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Are you kidding?! Computers are everywhere! People are needed to program those things -- who's going to do it?
Like always, the lowest bidder. And I can assure you he doesn't live in Canada or the USA, or wherever this education program is in place.
If girls (or anyone) should be pushed in any career direction, it ought to be business school. The "first world" is very quickly turning in to a 1% CEO's and 99% burger flippers society.
Have you ever considered the possibility that this is how Taco and the other editors like it? I assume Slashdot is reasonably profitable as it is, so what is the motivation to change ANYTHING?
When the restaurant's doing fine, you don't change the menu or the layout of the tables.
I posted something similar about the dupes over at Fark, and the post was INSTANTLY deleted by the editors/moderators. I can only assume that it was 1. considered too off-topic, or 2. absolutely true.
The point is, terrorism is just not something ordinary average suburban America needs to worry about, yet it's the top story every single day in the media.
I repeat, there is no evidence of a vast global terror network.
There is no evidence of "sleeper cells" hidden amongst America ready to strike when commanded.
There is absolutely no reason to suspect that your Arab neighbors are terrorists.
Just like there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There is a great effort out there to make you believe lies. The simple answer is that the media just does it for ratings and money. The tin-foil hat crowd believes it's a vast right-wing conspiracy, and the government is forcing the media to lie. I think it's a little of both, and considering recent events we need to have some skepticism of what we see on the teevee.
Seriously- Nothing is going to happen to the CEO of ChoicePoint, or anyone else in charge. Worst that'll happen is a few execs are pushed out with multi-million dollar golden parachutes. They'll be retiring with their mansions and yachts, and we, the little people will be fired, homeless, or in jail because our credit report and background check says we're deadbeats and wanted criminals.
Man, linking a few WTC images and swearing isn't that convincing an argument. Roughly 3000 people died on 11 September. Each year, about 40,000 americans die from automobile accidents. Are we going to declare a War On Driving? Do you think there is some secret underground organization of cars out there plotting to destroy Americans? Do they have car sleeper cells?
There is no evidence that the world is full of terrorists all imminently threatening the USA. There is no evidence that there are all these sleeper cells in the country, just waiting to strike. 11 September was an isolated event--a bunch of sociopaths who pulled off their Islamist wet dream.
You are being sold fear and anxiety, and you are paying for it with your freedom.
"Not worried yet? Why not??? There is plenty to be afraid of, like tururists, nookular bombs, dirty bombs, Ay-rabs, tururists, environmentalists, communists, Eye-rackees, protesters... Oh, did we mention tururists yet?? There's a big, SCAAAARY world out there, filled with scary non-American people!"
"We in the US media wish to shield you from this world. We bring you only news stories from your own country, unless the story furthers the goal of making you even more freightened. Besides, who wants any real news about other countries? They don't even have NASCAR in those strange lands! Do you really care about what happens in a place without NASCAR, unless they are IMMINENTLY ready to attack! Like SHARKS, and ASBESTOS, and POWER LINES!!! News at 11!!!!!!"
The studios should make deals with the 'pirates' in the poorer parts of the world. The 'pirates' would provide reproduction, marketing, distribution, and promotion in the local market and the studios would get a percentage of the price for the product that the local market will bear.
That's great in Fantasy Land, but to the 'pirates' the decision is between:
1. Provide reproduction, marketing, distribution and promotion, and keep 100% of the profit.
and
2. Provide reproduction, marketing, distribution and promotion, and keep x% of the profit, where x is less than 100.
The point is: Open the borders and make all immigration legal. They'll be paying taxes like you and you'll have the peace of mind in knowing your precious tax money is not being wasted on sidewalks for illegal immigrants. Problem solved.
Of course politicians have always pandered to the large and growing superstitious demographic. Including gods in political speeches has always been a cheap way to rally those otherwise ignorant of your real-world policies.
Those of us against president Bush often bring up his dishonesty. But in this respect, ironically it is Bush's honesty that frightens us most. It seems like he truly believes that his god is talking to him and telling him what to do. We normally only see this psychosis in leaders of official theocracies like Iran. We can only hope that Bush doesn't wake up one day believing god wants him to push the big red button.
On strategy, well, you incorrectly assume I'm a democrat.
You're not going to "put together a 50-state victory" counting on religious zeal. It worked well for a few key states last election though. Repubs brilliantly mobilized the frothers with the gay marriage amendments, and I applaud your strategy.
The democrats were fools for getting behind gay marriage since the country is not yet ready for it. My advice to them is to back off a bit. They should distance themselves from the gay rights crowd for now, pay Jesus some lip-service, and find some pressing issues Americans actually care about.
Do you suggest that we just let everyone go about their daily business and not bother anyone even if they look like they are doing something suspecious?
What is suspicious about taking a picture of a landmark? Is it only suspicious if the person doing it has brown skin? What if a brown-skinned person is taking pictures of a house he's thinking about buying? Is this suspicious? Maybe he's waring a scaaaaaary black jacket!!! SUSPICIOUS YET????
How about this: We set up a snitch phone number so nosey racists can call and beg for help because a Ay-rab looking guy is walking around on the sidewalk. Instead of notifying the police, I'll just record the messages and play it for laughs at my next party. I could probably make millions selling comedy CD's!
American scare-dy-cats: Please turn yourselves in to the nearest comedy club. Thank you.
Why _SHOULDN'T_ we? Are illegal immigrants somehow less human than you? Should they sit in the back of the bus too?
Do you realize that it is nearly impossible to immigrate legally to the USA, especially after 9/11? And the folks who can come in legally have 10+ years of paperwork and having to deal with the government trying to push them out. It's no wonder why people go the illegal route--it's much easier!
In the USA, the illegal immigrant population seems to be the latest dumping ground for hate, now that the gays have been throroughly dispensed with last election.
The amount of money that free food would save consumers would be incredible... free food can be implemented for a tiny fraction of the money that is spent on an individual basis.
this would eventually lead to the death of restaurants, so you can imagine the forces that want to stop this.
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Right now there are MANY P'o'd execs at Apple, and a bunch of engineers going crap (but quietly thinking man is this cool)
I don't know of any software or hardware engineer who would give a damn if one of their users coaxed something out of their product that they were told to try to hide. Most engineers understand the futility of trying to prevent users from accessing their code or data. I've never heard an engineer introduce the idea of encrypting their own data or code--the idea always comes from the bean counters or management.
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The IRS allows you to donate any amount above and beyond what you owe in tax each year. If you think taxes are so great, I (and the government) invite you to pay a few thousand extra each year. Put your money where your mouth is. Hell, put in $10,000 and after it gets through the layers of government waste you might buy a meal for one of those starving kids.
Wow. Insightful? It's crackrock sunday for the mods today.
Could someone please decipher the hidden message for me? I lost my gentle bunny decoder wheel. While you are at it, tell me how this qualifies as "mildly offtopic".
You should:
apt-get a life
Are you kidding?! Computers are everywhere! People are needed to program those things -- who's going to do it?
Like always, the lowest bidder. And I can assure you he doesn't live in Canada or the USA, or wherever this education program is in place.
If girls (or anyone) should be pushed in any career direction, it ought to be business school. The "first world" is very quickly turning in to a 1% CEO's and 99% burger flippers society.
Have you ever considered the possibility that this is how Taco and the other editors like it? I assume Slashdot is reasonably profitable as it is, so what is the motivation to change ANYTHING?
When the restaurant's doing fine, you don't change the menu or the layout of the tables.
I posted something similar about the dupes over at Fark, and the post was INSTANTLY deleted by the editors/moderators. I can only assume that it was 1. considered too off-topic, or 2. absolutely true.
The point is, terrorism is just not something ordinary average suburban America needs to worry about, yet it's the top story every single day in the media.
I repeat, there is no evidence of a vast global terror network.
There is no evidence of "sleeper cells" hidden amongst America ready to strike when commanded.
There is absolutely no reason to suspect that your Arab neighbors are terrorists.
Just like there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There is a great effort out there to make you believe lies. The simple answer is that the media just does it for ratings and money. The tin-foil hat crowd believes it's a vast right-wing conspiracy, and the government is forcing the media to lie. I think it's a little of both, and considering recent events we need to have some skepticism of what we see on the teevee.
Seriously- Nothing is going to happen to the CEO of ChoicePoint, or anyone else in charge. Worst that'll happen is a few execs are pushed out with multi-million dollar golden parachutes. They'll be retiring with their mansions and yachts, and we, the little people will be fired, homeless, or in jail because our credit report and background check says we're deadbeats and wanted criminals.
I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!
Man, linking a few WTC images and swearing isn't that convincing an argument. Roughly 3000 people died on 11 September. Each year, about 40,000 americans die from automobile accidents. Are we going to declare a War On Driving? Do you think there is some secret underground organization of cars out there plotting to destroy Americans? Do they have car sleeper cells?
There is no evidence that the world is full of terrorists all imminently threatening the USA. There is no evidence that there are all these sleeper cells in the country, just waiting to strike. 11 September was an isolated event--a bunch of sociopaths who pulled off their Islamist wet dream.
You are being sold fear and anxiety, and you are paying for it with your freedom.
US Media to citizens:
"Not worried yet? Why not??? There is plenty to be afraid of, like tururists, nookular bombs, dirty bombs, Ay-rabs, tururists, environmentalists, communists, Eye-rackees, protesters... Oh, did we mention tururists yet?? There's a big, SCAAAARY world out there, filled with scary non-American people!"
"We in the US media wish to shield you from this world. We bring you only news stories from your own country, unless the story furthers the goal of making you even more freightened. Besides, who wants any real news about other countries? They don't even have NASCAR in those strange lands! Do you really care about what happens in a place without NASCAR, unless they are IMMINENTLY ready to attack! Like SHARKS, and ASBESTOS, and POWER LINES!!! News at 11!!!!!!"
No 14 year old kid is going to be taking over cities and slaughtering thousands of people
Wait 40 years and then elect him president. Then he can do it with impunity.
The studios should make deals with the 'pirates' in the poorer parts of the world. The 'pirates' would provide reproduction, marketing, distribution, and promotion in the local market and the studios would get a percentage of the price for the product that the local market will bear.
That's great in Fantasy Land, but to the 'pirates' the decision is between:
1. Provide reproduction, marketing, distribution and promotion, and keep 100% of the profit.
and
2. Provide reproduction, marketing, distribution and promotion, and keep x% of the profit, where x is less than 100.
The choice seems pretty obvious to me.
The submitter SHOULD have mentioned that Mozilla has decided to disable internationalIZED domain names, ones made of "funny" unicode characters.
.uk .au, and our favorite, .cx, are of course still supported.
International domain names like
The point is: Open the borders and make all immigration legal. They'll be paying taxes like you and you'll have the peace of mind in knowing your precious tax money is not being wasted on sidewalks for illegal immigrants. Problem solved.
Of course politicians have always pandered to the large and growing superstitious demographic. Including gods in political speeches has always been a cheap way to rally those otherwise ignorant of your real-world policies.
Those of us against president Bush often bring up his dishonesty. But in this respect, ironically it is Bush's honesty that frightens us most. It seems like he truly believes that his god is talking to him and telling him what to do. We normally only see this psychosis in leaders of official theocracies like Iran. We can only hope that Bush doesn't wake up one day believing god wants him to push the big red button.
On strategy, well, you incorrectly assume I'm a democrat.
You're not going to "put together a 50-state victory" counting on religious zeal. It worked well for a few key states last election though. Repubs brilliantly mobilized the frothers with the gay marriage amendments, and I applaud your strategy.
The democrats were fools for getting behind gay marriage since the country is not yet ready for it. My advice to them is to back off a bit. They should distance themselves from the gay rights crowd for now, pay Jesus some lip-service, and find some pressing issues Americans actually care about.
He admits in public to taking advice from a magical man in the sky.
He admits in public to speaking to someone who's been dead for 2000 years.
Do you suggest that we just let everyone go about their daily business and not bother anyone even if they look like they are doing something suspecious?
What is suspicious about taking a picture of a landmark? Is it only suspicious if the person doing it has brown skin? What if a brown-skinned person is taking pictures of a house he's thinking about buying? Is this suspicious? Maybe he's waring a scaaaaaary black jacket!!! SUSPICIOUS YET????
How about this: We set up a snitch phone number so nosey racists can call and beg for help because a Ay-rab looking guy is walking around on the sidewalk. Instead of notifying the police, I'll just record the messages and play it for laughs at my next party. I could probably make millions selling comedy CD's!
American scare-dy-cats: Please turn yourselves in to the nearest comedy club. Thank you.
"become more cultural, learn portugese". right, learn a language and very few people speak in the world...
The parent Anonymous Coward is the winner of this thread. I don't think I've read anything this funny for weeks.
Well done. Nice troll. I salute you.
If someone knows they just "go with the flow" and doesn't care enough to spell-check their posts, why should anyone care enough what they have to say?
How siriusly can you take somewon who awlays rites like this and blames it on deslixea or typos?
Bad analogy. You rob him, then he loses and you gain. You lose nothing by letting more people immigrate to the USA to live the good life.
Why _SHOULDN'T_ we? Are illegal immigrants somehow less human than you? Should they sit in the back of the bus too?
Do you realize that it is nearly impossible to immigrate legally to the USA, especially after 9/11? And the folks who can come in legally have 10+ years of paperwork and having to deal with the government trying to push them out. It's no wonder why people go the illegal route--it's much easier!
In the USA, the illegal immigrant population seems to be the latest dumping ground for hate, now that the gays have been throroughly dispensed with last election.
Doesn't matter if it's not 100%, it ships that day, regardless.
This is not the best environment to create software in.
This is the environment in which 99.9% of the products you use everyday are created. Why should software be treated differently?
Great story! Sounds liks something straight out of Terry Gilliam's _Brazil_!
The sputtering woman probably had a nervous breakdown after you hung up. I know the type.
The amount of money that free food would save consumers would be incredible... free food can be implemented for a tiny fraction of the money that is spent on an individual basis.
this would eventually lead to the death of restaurants, so you can imagine the forces that want to stop this.
Right now there are MANY P'o'd execs at Apple, and a bunch of engineers going crap (but quietly thinking man is this cool)
I don't know of any software or hardware engineer who would give a damn if one of their users coaxed something out of their product that they were told to try to hide. Most engineers understand the futility of trying to prevent users from accessing their code or data. I've never heard an engineer introduce the idea of encrypting their own data or code--the idea always comes from the bean counters or management.
You must not have put in the correct coordinates. In decimal degrees:
-77.1455555555555555 lon
38.95180555555555555 lat
which is a courtyard right smack in the middle of CIA headquarters.