I'm one of those people. People like me drive down the demand and raise the price for quality audio. Ha ha bitches! Suck on my stuttering Real Audio stream.
Oh come on, I doubt the increase would be enough to argue about.
And think if that attitude had been prevalent during the rural electrification of America in the 1930s, how it would have hindered development of the country.
Americans are obsessed with the idea that somebody somewhere might be getting more than their fair share, that they might subsidizing, even just a little bit somebody who isn't like them. You know what, it's not the end of the world. Its a niggardly mindset. Get over it.
The one story of the woman classified as a sex offender for performing oral sex as a teenager is unbelievable. It's hard to argue that at the very least a threat level classification for sex offenders wouldn't be a good idea
Make electricity cheap enough and the market will find a way to put it into cars at prices that people will willingly pay instead of being forced into it.
And who made the roads those cars will run on? The free market?
create artificial scarcity for the purpose of reshaping society in ways Greens think wiser than the choices people acting in a free market would make.
There is no such thing as a purely free market. The government makes decisions that help create the environment that people make choices within. From military expenditures in the Middle East to taxbreaks for home owners, it shapes the market. So why not shape it in a way that encourages sustainable behaviour?
Thats funny. Blue states are where innovation and new industries come from. Red states for all their talk of self-reliance and small government survive by sucking tax-dollars from the blue states via the federal government.
That was a bit of a misleading rant. You were all over the place as well so I'll just address a few things.
First Islam - its not a caste based system, don't mix up slavery with caste. Islam doesn't ban slavery but freeing slaves is heavily encouraged in the Qu'ran - which I suppose was the pragmatic policy given the feudal realities of 7th centure Arabia. Modern slavery problems in Muslim countries (Africa & Persian Gulf countries to be specific) are more a matter of their spluttering human rights movements and oppressive political systems.
Second Christianity - always been anti-slavery? Give me a break. When the practice of Europeans enslaving Africans was first started by the Portugese, they were give *official* permission by the Pope who said the injustice of slavery was discounted by the fact the slaves forcibly converted to Christianity now had chance of getting into heaven. Perhaps the first case of Western self-interest covered with a fig leaf of moral justification??
And Americans dying to free blacks in the civil war was commendable but if you think it wipes the stain of slavery from U.S history you really are delusional.
I think the WSJ's politics appeal to a certain sort of archaic country club Republican and/or free market zealot. Helpfully that demographic tends to have money to spend.
Private industry doesn't spend on much money on basic research. This is not even a debatable point. Government funds things that don't have a necessarily forseeable payoff.
Any private business that did that would be doing it's shareholders a disservice.
Are you serious? "Offloading the environmental footprint to the electric generation station" is a *HUGE* step forward for automobiles.
And their vision is far more than a sports car. Its about using cash flow and experience gained from high end luxury cars to create mass market electric vehicles that normal people would want to drive. Not to knock Aptera, but Tesla is creating a new kind of car company. Aptera is creating an interesting device.
Scaling to that size is a solved problem with Java/PHP.
With Ruby the problem is still very much open and will remain so until a better implementation comes along. Read the interview, they talk about Ruby using green threads - that alone means that it will never scale the way Java can.
We in the West can speed up the process by demanding that the companies we buy from enforce minimum labor standards from their suppliers.
Consumer boycotts and NGO campaigns have been effective with apparel companies like Nike and the Gap. Maybe its time to turn activist efforts to electronics firms.
It's called research, genius. It's not a product announcement. This is Slashdot. If you want to drool over things you can't afford go read Engadget and the like.
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These days KaBOOL tends to go KaBOOM as well. If you spell it "Kabul" that is.
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They complain now because of the historical linking of black people and monkeys by racists. I can't believe I just had to explain that.
Context is everything.
Did I summarize it right?
No, but you did use Beck's style of argument. Selective and sneering. Good Brown Shirt, good.
Isn't this odd for slashdot to discuss the news that old...
You must be new here
I accuse you of none of those things. Instead I accuse you of trying to pass off cynicism as insight.
I'm one of those people. People like me drive down the demand and raise the price for quality audio. Ha ha bitches! Suck on my stuttering Real Audio stream.
Oh come on, I doubt the increase would be enough to argue about.
And think if that attitude had been prevalent during the rural electrification of America in the 1930s, how it would have hindered development of the country.
Americans are obsessed with the idea that somebody somewhere might be getting more than their fair share, that they might subsidizing, even just a little bit somebody who isn't like them. You know what, it's not the end of the world. Its a niggardly mindset. Get over it.
They said the same thing about parachutes in WWI.
....And yet they left the Asian guy in
On the cover of the Economist this week:
America's Unfair Sex Laws
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14164614
The one story of the woman classified as a sex offender for performing oral sex as a teenager is unbelievable.
It's hard to argue that at the very least a threat level classification for sex offenders wouldn't be a good idea
A quibble with your underlying philosophy.
Make electricity cheap enough and the market will find a way to put it into cars at prices that people will willingly pay instead of being forced into it.
And who made the roads those cars will run on? The free market?
create artificial scarcity for the purpose of reshaping society in ways Greens think wiser than the choices people acting in a free market would make.
There is no such thing as a purely free market. The government makes decisions that help create the environment that people make choices within. From military expenditures in the Middle East to taxbreaks for home owners, it shapes the market. So why not shape it in a way that encourages sustainable behaviour?
7. Alive
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Thats funny. Blue states are where innovation and new industries come from. Red states for all their talk of self-reliance and small government survive by sucking tax-dollars from the blue states via the federal government.
Yeah, Limbaugh is already all over the Net, just like I was all over your mom last night.
That was a bit of a misleading rant. You were all over the place as well so I'll just address a few things.
First Islam - its not a caste based system, don't mix up slavery with caste. Islam doesn't ban slavery but freeing slaves is heavily encouraged in the Qu'ran - which I suppose was the pragmatic policy given the feudal realities of 7th centure Arabia. Modern slavery problems in Muslim countries (Africa & Persian Gulf countries to be specific) are more a matter of their spluttering human rights movements and oppressive political systems.
Second Christianity - always been anti-slavery? Give me a break. When the practice of Europeans enslaving Africans was first started by the Portugese, they were give *official* permission by the Pope who said the injustice of slavery was discounted by the fact the slaves forcibly converted to Christianity now had chance of getting into heaven. Perhaps the first case of Western self-interest covered with a fig leaf of moral justification??
And Americans dying to free blacks in the civil war was commendable but if you think it wipes the stain of slavery from U.S history you really are delusional.
So please spare us the self-congratulation.
I think the WSJ's politics appeal to a certain sort of archaic country club Republican and/or free market zealot. Helpfully that demographic tends to have money to spend.
Private industry doesn't spend on much money on basic research. This is not even a debatable point. Government funds things that don't have a necessarily forseeable payoff.
Any private business that did that would be doing it's shareholders a disservice.
Your argument is crap and you got schooled. Deal.
Are you serious? "Offloading the environmental footprint to the electric generation station" is a *HUGE* step forward for automobiles.
And their vision is far more than a sports car. Its about using cash flow and experience gained from high end luxury cars to create mass market electric vehicles that normal people would want to drive. Not to knock Aptera, but Tesla is creating a new kind of car company. Aptera is creating an interesting device.
Scaling to that size is a solved problem with Java/PHP.
With Ruby the problem is still very much open and will remain so until a better implementation comes along. Read the interview, they talk about Ruby using green threads - that alone means that it will never scale the way Java can.
We in the West can speed up the process by demanding that the companies we buy from enforce minimum labor standards from their suppliers.
Consumer boycotts and NGO campaigns have been effective with apparel companies like Nike and the Gap. Maybe its time to turn activist efforts to electronics firms.
Who the hell modded this wild-eyed rant insightful?
Looking at any situation only through the lens of their ideology's beliefs and fears is what has made the right so irrelevant today.
I've heard good things about RCA flat indoor antennas and they pass the Wife Acceptance test.
It's called research, genius. It's not a product announcement. This is Slashdot. If you want to drool over things you can't afford go read Engadget and the like.