So you are saying, it's ok to break the law, as long as everyone are doing it?
When speed limits are designed to be 10MPH lower than what people are expected to drive, then yes. The law makers assume that people will cheat by that much, and set the limits artificially low.
The corporations can easily outspend this PAC with a small increase. On top of that, they are trying to buy corrupt politicians, who are just as likely to turn again when someone offers them better coke and prostitutes. I smell a get rich scheme, nothing more.
Rich people are not "harming" anybody. Much on the contrary. Someone with employees is providing the employees jobs that otherwise wouldn't exist. He can "screw them over" and they can decide to go elsewhere. That is how a free society works.
Except that riches come by taking from everyone else, including the poor. Rich is only relative and it is only when the disparity between the rich and poor is so absurdly large that it can only harm society in general. That is where we are now. The rich would need to donate 90% of their opulence to the public good in order to get the US back on its feet, and that ain't happening any time soon. Think of a spider sucking its prey dry.
Now they are strip-mining what's left and when the country is a empty husk, ready to collapse into a third-world nation, they will get in their private jets, and fly off to their private, gated, guarded compound in Costa Rica or Belize, and live off the interest in their Bermuda bank accounts for the next 12 or 20 generations.
Arrogant American's seem to think they are immune to this, because it's what happens to OTHER countries. The Mexican Peso was devalued directly into the pockets of Wall Street traders a few decades back. And the same way, as soon as the US Dollar is vulnerable, it is going to be a feeding frenzy, and Americans will end up lining up for toilet paper. "Told you so" feels kind of hollow in a situation like that.
Damn, everyone and his brother should accuse their worse enemy. $10,000 is $10,000. Oh wait, no one is actually going to prosecuted and this is all just a mind fuck? Say it isn't so.
Too bad fear rules all. MDMA was highly effective in couples therapy, leading to years of progress in hours.
Until two days later when they went back to hating each other again but twice as bad. MDMA can give you some short term breakthroughs in communication, but the side effects are counter productive. The experiments were far from "highly effective." Now if we can just get a drug that ratchets up serotonin production without the re-uptake "hacks" like Prozac or short term "dumps" like MDMA we would have something.
Because this whole discussion is silly. Plenty of nerds are misogynistic jerks. But plenty of non-nerds are as well, and I have seen NO evidence that it is any more common among nerds than among the population in general.
Do you see the problem then? Your perception is WRONG. That is the problem. I'm not saying to are a bad person, or even ignorant. It's just that the geek work view is hard to see outside of. Perception is reality. If you do not want to come across as a misogynist bastard, then you have to change. If you don't care how you come across, because that's "not how you meant it," then you are one of the problems.
ePay is so hostile for anyone selling casually its no longer worth your time.
All fascinating since I've been selling small lots since forever, and those problems are not common at all. I guess you must just be completely cursed.
At 16 you're a moron -- you have some inkling of the consequences but you don't really *get* it.)
Only in the US, where we try to extend "innocence" as long as possible. In a lot of cultures 16 year old are working and starting families. I'm not saying that's the preferred path, just that a 16 year old SHOULD be able to make adult decisions. The fact that they can't means that society is not raising them correctly.
If this is all it takes to provoke this sort of reaction, and if a few phone calls can get someone "swatted", then why the hell does al-Qaeda bother with bombings and flying planes into things? Send over a few sleeper cells with nondescript bags and boxes and watch the panic fly.
Because they don't operate like that. Their goal is not to inconvenience Americans, it's to get international attention and power over their own people. The US is just a convenient punching bag. Or do you really think that they are "jealous of our freedoms."
I don't think Elon expected to win that easy, but look how much publicity he got for filing a simple claim and getting a temporary injunction. He got to say a few times how they are 4x cheaper than the old guys, that might be remembered by some press and politicians the next time there is a big contract up for grabs.
Huh? The goal of every politician is to spend the MOST money. Money is power.
What does it matter? Both parties serve the corporations.
They serve different corporations, and that is why they fight against each other. Republicans are oil and military. Democrats are internet and entertainment. Of course there is overlap, but if I had to choose, Republican would lose every time.
Passwords are security through obscurity. We need a better system altogether.
Absolute hogwash. That is not what "security through obscurity" means at all. Security through obscurity refers to security based on an algorithm being secret, not specific per-user information.
Nah, it means putting ssh on port 2222, or having to type in a URL instead of clicking on a link. An algorithm being secret is called proprietary.
Oh, fantastic - yet another "sport" to distract the future generations of our planet from receiving an actual education.
Maybe it's time we consider creating separate "athletic schools" for the kids who want to be sports-stars, so the rest of the population can focus on, you know, learning important shit.
It's too late for that. Only a handful of top schools do not put athletics before all else. A good start would be to make all schools give any athletics profits to charity, instead of using it to fund a never ending cycle of high priced coaches and player kick backs.
...I'm not a trekkie, but I can't forget when mr. Shatner told his fans to get a life http://www.myvideo.de/watch/12......yeah yeah...that's probably a humorous parody, but he really "killed" it for a lot of people back then. The no #1 rule of Hollywood is to always cherish your fans, never spit on them. He always told in interviews after that, that trekkies really don't have a life etc. You can find this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
It was funny, because it is so true. The people he inspired are those that excelled in sciences and in school, not people who are so obsessed with belonging to the "community" that they have to go dress up and go to conventions. Bill inspired me to get my degree in Physics. And I also laugh at the so-called-fans who can quote lines from the show, but never understand or even care to understand the science underlying it.
Seems like it is only a matter of time until coal power goes away. It will be a long time, granted, but in the next decade or two solar will get so cheap that the impact on traditional centralized generation will be quite severe.
That's what they said in the 70's. And the 80's. And the 90's. You get my drift.
Death is a part of life. I'd rather live with that than trying to force a 100 year old body to keep it's heart beating just because some family member doesn't know how to cope any other way.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you. I'm grabbing every second of consciousness that I can. My grandfather dealt with crippling arthritis, and kept going. I have no plan to cash it in for health reasons. Is it possible to be productive to society with a worn out body? Ask Steven Hawking.
At some point you have to accept that you are living in the last days of Rome, and nothing is going to turn it around. The USA will be burned to the ground, economically, by the uber rich, and they will not leave a scrap of meat on the carcass. The barbarians are already at the gates. It's over. It's time to start planning what comes after. It's the rebuilding that will be exciting.
The "bad cop busted" is still news, and the "hero cop does the bust" just makes it better news. I have NEVER heard of a "bad cop" bust (and there have been many over my lifetime) where it was a "good cop" on his force that did it. It has always been outsiders.
You are young then. I try to keep explaining to people that things were NOT always this bad. From Wiki. I could see this station from my front porch growing up:
1980s - "Marquette Ten": 10 police officers in Chicago's Marquette District were convicted of taking bribes from drug dealers. Among those was Chicago police officer Thomas Ambrose, the father of former U.S. Marshall John Ambrose, who was convicted 20-years later of leaking information to the Chicago Outfit about federal informant Nick Calabrese, who testified against top Chicago mobsters in the "Family Secrets" trial.
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So you are saying, it's ok to break the law, as long as everyone are doing it?
When speed limits are designed to be 10MPH lower than what people are expected to drive, then yes. The law makers assume that people will cheat by that much, and set the limits artificially low.
They fundamentally believe that your physical safety is more important than our individual rights.
You were great until that line. "Safety" is purely a PR term. They are protecting corporate interests, not individual's safety.
The corporations can easily outspend this PAC with a small increase. On top of that, they are trying to buy corrupt politicians, who are just as likely to turn again when someone offers them better coke and prostitutes. I smell a get rich scheme, nothing more.
Rich people are not "harming" anybody. Much on the contrary. Someone with employees is providing the employees jobs that otherwise wouldn't exist. He can "screw them over" and they can decide to go elsewhere. That is how a free society works.
Except that riches come by taking from everyone else, including the poor. Rich is only relative and it is only when the disparity between the rich and poor is so absurdly large that it can only harm society in general. That is where we are now. The rich would need to donate 90% of their opulence to the public good in order to get the US back on its feet, and that ain't happening any time soon. Think of a spider sucking its prey dry.
What an incredibly stupid thing to post on Slashdot. the ONLY link to technology is Ballmer's name.
Maybe you understand now that this is NOT a tech site.
Now they are strip-mining what's left and when the country is a empty husk, ready to collapse into a third-world nation, they will get in their private jets, and fly off to their private, gated, guarded compound in Costa Rica or Belize, and live off the interest in their Bermuda bank accounts for the next 12 or 20 generations.
Arrogant American's seem to think they are immune to this, because it's what happens to OTHER countries. The Mexican Peso was devalued directly into the pockets of Wall Street traders a few decades back. And the same way, as soon as the US Dollar is vulnerable, it is going to be a feeding frenzy, and Americans will end up lining up for toilet paper. "Told you so" feels kind of hollow in a situation like that.
If they are lucky. We need to get over the myth of the "blood relative."
Damn, everyone and his brother should accuse their worse enemy. $10,000 is $10,000. Oh wait, no one is actually going to prosecuted and this is all just a mind fuck? Say it isn't so.
Too bad fear rules all. MDMA was highly effective in couples therapy, leading to years of progress in hours.
Until two days later when they went back to hating each other again but twice as bad. MDMA can give you some short term breakthroughs in communication, but the side effects are counter productive. The experiments were far from "highly effective." Now if we can just get a drug that ratchets up serotonin production without the re-uptake "hacks" like Prozac or short term "dumps" like MDMA we would have something.
Because this whole discussion is silly. Plenty of nerds are misogynistic jerks. But plenty of non-nerds are as well, and I have seen NO evidence that it is any more common among nerds than among the population in general.
Do you see the problem then? Your perception is WRONG. That is the problem. I'm not saying to are a bad person, or even ignorant. It's just that the geek work view is hard to see outside of. Perception is reality. If you do not want to come across as a misogynist bastard, then you have to change. If you don't care how you come across, because that's "not how you meant it," then you are one of the problems.
So 18 perl scripts to run the entire site. Sounds about right. What's the rest of that code for?
is to congratulate the NSA and FBI on what a fine job they are doing spying on us. How safe they kept us with ever intrusive nets
The spying has nothing to do with keep US citizens safe. That's an absurd idea.
ePay is so hostile for anyone selling casually its no longer worth your time.
All fascinating since I've been selling small lots since forever, and those problems are not common at all. I guess you must just be completely cursed.
It used to be fairly common to have a couple drinks at lunch.
And smoke a pack of cigarettes at your desk. And only hire people of the correct religion or race. And fire the secretary for not putting out.
At 16 you're a moron -- you have some inkling of the consequences but you don't really *get* it.)
Only in the US, where we try to extend "innocence" as long as possible. In a lot of cultures 16 year old are working and starting families. I'm not saying that's the preferred path, just that a 16 year old SHOULD be able to make adult decisions. The fact that they can't means that society is not raising them correctly.
If this is all it takes to provoke this sort of reaction, and if a few phone calls can get someone "swatted", then why the hell does al-Qaeda bother with bombings and flying planes into things? Send over a few sleeper cells with nondescript bags and boxes and watch the panic fly.
Because they don't operate like that. Their goal is not to inconvenience Americans, it's to get international attention and power over their own people. The US is just a convenient punching bag. Or do you really think that they are "jealous of our freedoms."
I don't think Elon expected to win that easy, but look how much publicity he got for filing a simple claim and getting a temporary injunction. He got to say a few times how they are 4x cheaper than the old guys, that might be remembered by some press and politicians the next time there is a big contract up for grabs.
Huh? The goal of every politician is to spend the MOST money. Money is power.
What does it matter? Both parties serve the corporations.
They serve different corporations, and that is why they fight against each other. Republicans are oil and military. Democrats are internet and entertainment. Of course there is overlap, but if I had to choose, Republican would lose every time.
Passwords are security through obscurity. We need a better system altogether.
Absolute hogwash. That is not what "security through obscurity" means at all. Security through obscurity refers to security based on an algorithm being secret, not specific per-user information.
Nah, it means putting ssh on port 2222, or having to type in a URL instead of clicking on a link. An algorithm being secret is called proprietary.
Oh, fantastic - yet another "sport" to distract the future generations of our planet from receiving an actual education.
Maybe it's time we consider creating separate "athletic schools" for the kids who want to be sports-stars, so the rest of the population can focus on, you know, learning important shit.
It's too late for that. Only a handful of top schools do not put athletics before all else. A good start would be to make all schools give any athletics profits to charity, instead of using it to fund a never ending cycle of high priced coaches and player kick backs.
...I'm not a trekkie, but I can't forget when mr. Shatner told his fans to get a life http://www.myvideo.de/watch/12... ...yeah yeah...that's probably a humorous parody, but he really "killed" it for a lot of people back then. The no #1 rule of Hollywood is to always cherish your fans, never spit on them. He always told in interviews after that, that trekkies really don't have a life etc. You can find this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
It was funny, because it is so true. The people he inspired are those that excelled in sciences and in school, not people who are so obsessed with belonging to the "community" that they have to go dress up and go to conventions. Bill inspired me to get my degree in Physics. And I also laugh at the so-called-fans who can quote lines from the show, but never understand or even care to understand the science underlying it.
Seems like it is only a matter of time until coal power goes away. It will be a long time, granted, but in the next decade or two solar will get so cheap that the impact on traditional centralized generation will be quite severe.
That's what they said in the 70's. And the 80's. And the 90's. You get my drift.
Death is a part of life. I'd rather live with that than trying to force a 100 year old body to keep it's heart beating just because some family member doesn't know how to cope any other way.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you. I'm grabbing every second of consciousness that I can. My grandfather dealt with crippling arthritis, and kept going. I have no plan to cash it in for health reasons. Is it possible to be productive to society with a worn out body? Ask Steven Hawking.
start by losing the cynicism
At some point you have to accept that you are living in the last days of Rome, and nothing is going to turn it around. The USA will be burned to the ground, economically, by the uber rich, and they will not leave a scrap of meat on the carcass. The barbarians are already at the gates. It's over. It's time to start planning what comes after. It's the rebuilding that will be exciting.
Nonsense.
The "bad cop busted" is still news, and the "hero cop does the bust" just makes it better news. I have NEVER heard of a "bad cop" bust (and there have been many over my lifetime) where it was a "good cop" on his force that did it. It has always been outsiders.
You are young then. I try to keep explaining to people that things were NOT always this bad. From Wiki. I could see this station from my front porch growing up:
1980s - "Marquette Ten": 10 police officers in Chicago's Marquette District were convicted of taking bribes from drug dealers. Among those was Chicago police officer Thomas Ambrose, the father of former U.S. Marshall John Ambrose, who was convicted 20-years later of leaking information to the Chicago Outfit about federal informant Nick Calabrese, who testified against top Chicago mobsters in the "Family Secrets" trial.