Except next week they will "discover" the opposite, and the following week alcohol will cause cancer, and the week after that it will help you lose weight, and next month they'll find that it causes Parkinson's, and then next spring it will be therapeutic for the same illness, and then...
Basically, because you have to stick your neck out more to actually filibuster vs. to refuse to vote for cloture.
I don't agree at all. There's nothing to it. They get up there and one of them drones on and on, and then someone else steps up. There are at least 40-45 people who can rotate. Meanwhile, all the expenses per hour it costs to run the US Capitol are accumulating. And it's completely, utterly futile. Can anyone name a filibuster that failed because they simply couldn't find anyone to talk anymore?
No amount of malware could ever suck as much bandwidth or create as much annoyance as Norton or McAfee, et al. At least malware isn't always demanding updates and upgrades.
The point is, as the original post stated, putting useless one-liner comments just to get his sig on as many screens as possible. Do the majority of the posts add little to the discussion? Do the majority contain some kind of blog promotion, sig included?
My favorite is how they usually describe the gun on the news as "black". "The man in the ski mask threatened the store owner with a black semi-automatic handgun" BINGO! I'VE GOT (scary buzzword) BINGO!"
As if the gun being chrome or blue or purple or pink makes any difference.
I don't care if people want to waste $1 per episode to watch TV.
What I will care about is when Apple starts to exclusively lock down certain shows making them impossible to get through other services like In Demand, Netflix, etc
Slashdot Mirror
WHOOOSH!
All of which are probably outdone and overdone by the corresponding weight gain in most people.
Heavy drinkers outliving everyone else? We have a conclusive train of evidence dating back 40 years on that?
Me too. Lately they have been putting something in eggs that's making them scrumpdiddlyicious!
Except next week they will "discover" the opposite, and the following week alcohol will cause cancer, and the week after that it will help you lose weight, and next month they'll find that it causes Parkinson's, and then next spring it will be therapeutic for the same illness, and then...
Publicity.
Basically, because you have to stick your neck out more to actually filibuster vs. to refuse to vote for cloture.
I don't agree at all. There's nothing to it. They get up there and one of them drones on and on, and then someone else steps up. There are at least 40-45 people who can rotate. Meanwhile, all the expenses per hour it costs to run the US Capitol are accumulating. And it's completely, utterly futile. Can anyone name a filibuster that failed because they simply couldn't find anyone to talk anymore?
It's a ridiculous waste of time and money.
If they have the votes to filibuster, why waste everyone's time by making them go up there and read the telephone book?
Just agree that it's a fait accompli, and get on with the people's business.
We're paying these people hundreds of thousands a year - how about they actually work?
I'm confused. What is Microsoft trying to EEE by doing this?
on Slashdot meme memes YOU!
And the malware developers don't give you popups and sound effects and nag screens about it. :)
Money is a great motivator but not necessarily the only one.
best way to make Soviet Russia is to watch YOU!
Must not be, or he would propose invade&occupy
No amount of malware could ever suck as much bandwidth or create as much annoyance as Norton or McAfee, et al. At least malware isn't always demanding updates and upgrades.
Spam works on a gullible minority. If it didn't, spammers wouldn't spam. You know this as well as anyone.
It's a good example of the Streissand effect, in a way.
Well, it seems to be France has much better leadership than we've been dealing with for the last several years. Especially now.
The point is, as the original post stated, putting useless one-liner comments just to get his sig on as many screens as possible. Do the majority of the posts add little to the discussion? Do the majority contain some kind of blog promotion, sig included?
No, no, no. You shall be modded down for not expressing allegiance to ubuntu.
The way to get modded up is to snort about how Ubuntu's native interface is 500 times better, and only an idiot would want otherwise.
Or if you want to be more avant-garde about being modded down, rant about how Ubuntu is vastly inferior to your favored microdistro.
Then again, maybe you are even ahead of the avant-garde in the first place.
wasn't "Baywatch" highly rated in Europe? I don't think that the general public has a very accurate picture of who the average American is.
Your credit problems - AWAY!
My favorite is how they usually describe the gun on the news as "black". "The man in the ski mask threatened the store owner with a black semi-automatic handgun" BINGO! I'VE GOT (scary buzzword) BINGO!"
As if the gun being chrome or blue or purple or pink makes any difference.
$1 an episode x 20 episodes = $20 ...About half or three-quarters of the normal price, right?
So for the discount, you don't get to keep the product.
I don't care if people want to waste $1 per episode to watch TV.
What I will care about is when Apple starts to exclusively lock down certain shows making them impossible to get through other services like In Demand, Netflix, etc