Sadly most fossils have more than one discoverer, and they might not all share the same sense of humour. Also I believe international nomenclature standards demand a certain... descriptiveness in species naming;)
Then how do you rationalize the success of businesses? They are far from your libertarian ideal in the most important respect: workers (employees, 'staff', and the ubiquitous 'associates') lack any ability to control their own lives. There is little difference in organizational principles between business and the communist states of the 20th Century except in the expected outcome of the use of resources. A small clique of people controlled the resources and means of production (board of directors, politburo) and the workers supplied the labor with little expectation of meaningful return. A few in the middle were given the impression that they were going to be elevated - some day - to a position of power. They toiled on in a middle management role controlling the lowest ranking labor so that the ruling bodies could perpetuate their hold on power.
Capitalism has been so successful essentially because one of the first things it did was to corrupt democratic politics with money. Once that was achieved, the wealthy (business owners) had far more control over the making of new laws than the masses of the poor (the workers). So laws became a tool for the rich to perpetuate the system, instead of a way for the majority to realize their will. It took a combination of mass public outcry and courageous leaders to implement things like the Pure Food and Drug Act, and labor laws (both of which have subsequently been attacked by less-courageous leaders).
Essentially, Capitalism succeeded by becoming Fascism, in the sense of "the merger of state and corporate power". Or if one is more radical, a "kleptocracy", where the rich rig the system to steal from the poor.
"It can be done, after a fasion. The complex structures that are removed can't be replaced, but with a 12-18 months of sustained effort the skin folds can be replicated."
I'm sure the average Slashdotter would have no problem with that "12-18 months of sustained effort"... As long as their carpal tunnel didn't act up.
...it is more difficult as an employer to coerce their wives into trading sex for their husband's privilege of keeping his job.
Screw that, under the New Feudal system they can bring back the "droit de siegneur" - the CEO gets to have sex with your new spouse on your wedding night.
Employees need to have their employers sign a no-sue agreement in the event they change jobs ensuring that said employer has no control over an employees employment prospects once they leave the company.
That's likely when "employees" have as much lobbying and campaign contribution influence over lawmakers as their megalithic employers. I.e. approximately the same week Hell freezes over, or if you move to Venezuela.
Make laptops sessential for school, I say! It'll help ensure that the economic underclass of the working poor/unemployed remain that way, with their children slowly falling behind at school not just because they don't have enough to eat, but also because they have no hope of affording a new "school supply" which costs 200x as much as a Finder Binder (or whatever kids use thse days) full of paper.
Honestly. I'm not saying kids shouldn't have access to computers in education, but laptops?! Unnecessary and economically discriminatory. And if the gov't can afford to buy them FOR all the poor kids, they can certainly afford to put that money into improving education in more fundamental ways instead.
These boosters are the heart of the proposal, and my only question is, do we want solid fuel rockets as the primary lifter for human crews? Don't they present special challenges and risks because they can't be shut down in case of problems?
Yeah but strapped to the sides of the stack, they can just be jettisoned if they start to misbehave. It's not like the crew & payload would survive a major liquid-fueled engine malfunction on launch anyway.
So just lose them and abort. Your ensuing news photo looks like Challenger... but with a capsule parachuting down .
And they are not easy to find either. The last one I stumbled upon was kr-hcy.com [kr-hcy.com], a known terrorist group from Pakistan that's officially banned in the country.
You can tell they're evil - all their media requires RealPlayer.
"I never said interracial sex was wrong. I said an interracial gang bang with a happy ending was unnatural."
I'd disagree that it's unnatural - if people can physically do it, it's technically "natural" even if most people wouldn't go for it. I think the point you should be emphasizing that porn often fetishizes race in a disturbing way, which should not be encouraged in a supposedly non-racist society.
Now I realize that I'd trade every scrap of porn I ever saw for a real woman, physical imperfections and all, who actually loved me. So I worry less about being "addicted to porn" and more about trying to not be a recluse spending all his time on Slashdot instead of dating (not very successful at this so far).
Does this mean I can make a game called "Assassinate The President" or "Serial Rapist" and expect the rating to determine whether Walmart will carry it or not?
Well, I don't know about "Assassinate the President" (you could always call it "JFK Hunter") but that other one has been out in Japan for ages;)
As women (and many men) started to get sick of a workplace culture where guys would think it was funny to post the Hustler centerfold above the new girl's desk, we began to recognize that sexually-related conduct causes problems in the workplace. That's why telling dirty jokes, pornographic pranks etc are usually forbidden. As for surfing pr0n, that's just stupid, do that on your own time. I goof off at work as much as anyone but I know that adult material is for my "me time" at home.
This has caused a rash outbreak of people "sniping" or hiding out in bushes that sometimes decorate offices and awaiting an unsuspecting employee to briefly brush past a site holding pornographic material. Google.com is a good example. In this instant they leap from the previously hidden sniping bush and proclaim that the barest hint of an unclothed nipple has hurt their "feelings"
Now that's just paranoia, and smacks of thinly-veiled anti-feminist hysteria too.
That "wardrobe malfunction"... that was wildly overreacted-to. How is that different? Well, you have to go to work, but nobody's forcing you to watch the Superbowl. That incident might have warranted a "you guys are morons" letter from the FCC, but not a big fine.
(and it looks like they spent some money on that movie too, and they never bothere relesing it in the theatres)!
Apparently it was only made so the studio could cash in on having the movie rights - it was never meant to be released. From IMDB:
One of the reasons behind the making of the film on such short notice was that Chris Columbus was set to make a big budget version of the comic, but had to wait for the option to expire. The producers rushed this film into production knowing it would never get released, as the makers of the big budget version wouldn't want a cheaper version out there before them. The plan worked, and the film was bought for many times the cost of the option and production, just so that it would never see the light of day. Ultimately, a big-budget version would be released in 2005.
So, essentially extortion: buy out our shitty movie, or we'll release it and taint your future movie.
The genome is ALL the genetic material, both transcribed genes (which make RNA molecules and then proteins) and the so-called "junk DNA". The latter, it turns out, is not remotely "junk", but contains important regulatory sequences which control gene activation/deactivation and the physical structure of the chromosomes.
If you see an old lady being kicked on the ground by someone trying to rob her, that's everybodys business.
If you help that lady, you're a hero. You don't need a cape or a mask to do good in the world. You don't even need to be bulletproof, as long as you choose the right way to help ("Hey! I just called the police!") and don't run in swinging.
The cape and mask just make you look cooler while doing it.
No, the Location Field would only be the new CL, if people bragged about using it, and whined that people who DON'T use it "don't understand how their computers work, did you know some users can barely write a simple device driver!"
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Sadly most fossils have more than one discoverer, and they might not all share the same sense of humour. Also I believe international nomenclature standards demand a certain... descriptiveness in species naming ;)
Imagine a world with out "Friends"?
I am, and the feeling is so warm... and fuzzy...
Then how do you rationalize the success of businesses? They are far from your libertarian ideal in the most important respect: workers (employees, 'staff', and the ubiquitous 'associates') lack any ability to control their own lives. There is little difference in organizational principles between business and the communist states of the 20th Century except in the expected outcome of the use of resources. A small clique of people controlled the resources and means of production (board of directors, politburo) and the workers supplied the labor with little expectation of meaningful return. A few in the middle were given the impression that they were going to be elevated - some day - to a position of power. They toiled on in a middle management role controlling the lowest ranking labor so that the ruling bodies could perpetuate their hold on power.
Capitalism has been so successful essentially because one of the first things it did was to corrupt democratic politics with money. Once that was achieved, the wealthy (business owners) had far more control over the making of new laws than the masses of the poor (the workers). So laws became a tool for the rich to perpetuate the system, instead of a way for the majority to realize their will. It took a combination of mass public outcry and courageous leaders to implement things like the Pure Food and Drug Act, and labor laws (both of which have subsequently been attacked by less-courageous leaders).
Essentially, Capitalism succeeded by becoming Fascism, in the sense of "the merger of state and corporate power". Or if one is more radical, a "kleptocracy", where the rich rig the system to steal from the poor.
"It can be done, after a fasion. The complex structures that are removed can't be replaced, but with a 12-18 months of sustained effort the skin folds can be replicated."
I'm sure the average Slashdotter would have no problem with that "12-18 months of sustained effort"... As long as their carpal tunnel didn't act up.
...it is more difficult as an employer to coerce their wives into trading sex for their husband's privilege of keeping his job.
Screw that, under the New Feudal system they can bring back the "droit de siegneur" - the CEO gets to have sex with your new spouse on your wedding night.
Employees need to have their employers sign a no-sue agreement in the event they change jobs ensuring that said employer has no control over an employees employment prospects once they leave the company.
That's likely when "employees" have as much lobbying and campaign contribution influence over lawmakers as their megalithic employers. I.e. approximately the same week Hell freezes over, or if you move to Venezuela.
Make laptops sessential for school, I say! It'll help ensure that the economic underclass of the working poor/unemployed remain that way, with their children slowly falling behind at school not just because they don't have enough to eat, but also because they have no hope of affording a new "school supply" which costs 200x as much as a Finder Binder (or whatever kids use thse days) full of paper.
Honestly. I'm not saying kids shouldn't have access to computers in education, but laptops?! Unnecessary and economically discriminatory. And if the gov't can afford to buy them FOR all the poor kids, they can certainly afford to put that money into improving education in more fundamental ways instead.
Screw that! Rocket-jump, baby!
Libertarian capitalism, like communism, looks good on paper but fails utterly in reality.
I'll save all the 14-year-old armchair Libertarians, whose parents pay for their internet access, some effort by saying "Shut Up, Hippy".
These boosters are the heart of the proposal, and my only question is, do we want solid fuel rockets as the primary lifter for human crews? Don't they present special challenges and risks because they can't be shut down in case of problems?
Yeah but strapped to the sides of the stack, they can just be jettisoned if they start to misbehave. It's not like the crew & payload would survive a major liquid-fueled engine malfunction on launch anyway.
So just lose them and abort. Your ensuing news photo looks like Challenger... but with a capsule parachuting down .
And they are not easy to find either. The last one I stumbled upon was kr-hcy.com [kr-hcy.com], a known terrorist group from Pakistan that's officially banned in the country.
You can tell they're evil - all their media requires RealPlayer.
"I never said interracial sex was wrong. I said an interracial gang bang with a happy ending was unnatural."
I'd disagree that it's unnatural - if people can physically do it, it's technically "natural" even if most people wouldn't go for it. I think the point you should be emphasizing that porn often fetishizes race in a disturbing way, which should not be encouraged in a supposedly non-racist society.
Now I realize that I'd trade every scrap of porn I ever saw for a real woman, physical imperfections and all, who actually loved me. So I worry less about being "addicted to porn" and more about trying to not be a recluse spending all his time on Slashdot instead of dating (not very successful at this so far).
Does this mean I can make a game called "Assassinate The President" or "Serial Rapist" and expect the rating to determine whether Walmart will carry it or not?
;)
Well, I don't know about "Assassinate the President" (you could always call it "JFK Hunter") but that other one has been out in Japan for ages
Strategically, this is an awful decision.
But at least it's consistent with all the other strategically awful decisions.
As women (and many men) started to get sick of a workplace culture where guys would think it was funny to post the Hustler centerfold above the new girl's desk, we began to recognize that sexually-related conduct causes problems in the workplace. That's why telling dirty jokes, pornographic pranks etc are usually forbidden. As for surfing pr0n, that's just stupid, do that on your own time. I goof off at work as much as anyone but I know that adult material is for my "me time" at home.
This has caused a rash outbreak of people "sniping" or hiding out in bushes that sometimes decorate offices and awaiting an unsuspecting employee to briefly brush past a site holding pornographic material. Google.com is a good example. In this instant they leap from the previously hidden sniping bush and proclaim that the barest hint of an unclothed nipple has hurt their "feelings"
Now that's just paranoia, and smacks of thinly-veiled anti-feminist hysteria too.
That "wardrobe malfunction"... that was wildly overreacted-to. How is that different? Well, you have to go to work, but nobody's forcing you to watch the Superbowl. That incident might have warranted a "you guys are morons" letter from the FCC, but not a big fine.
"Marcus Garvey". Make sure to spray the control console bright pink too.
Apparently it was only made so the studio could cash in on having the movie rights - it was never meant to be released. From IMDB:
So, essentially extortion: buy out our shitty movie, or we'll release it and taint your future movie.
The genome is ALL the genetic material, both transcribed genes (which make RNA molecules and then proteins) and the so-called "junk DNA". The latter, it turns out, is not remotely "junk", but contains important regulatory sequences which control gene activation/deactivation and the physical structure of the chromosomes.
Comments like this are WHY Wil's gonna browse this thread at +5...
You know, those girls who tease guys into buying them stuff off Amazon.com by showing their underwear on the Internet.
I hear Aruba isn't so safe these days...
Jeez, you had to go and TELL him? He was feeling so good about his device :P
If you see an old lady being kicked on the ground by someone trying to rob her, that's everybodys business.
If you help that lady, you're a hero. You don't need a cape or a mask to do good in the world. You don't even need to be bulletproof, as long as you choose the right way to help ("Hey! I just called the police!") and don't run in swinging.
The cape and mask just make you look cooler while doing it.
No, the Location Field would only be the new CL, if people bragged about using it, and whined that people who DON'T use it "don't understand how their computers work, did you know some users can barely write a simple device driver!"