the fact that a company is publically traded does not mean that a majority of the shares is in the hands of the public, that only happens when more than 50 % of the stock is 'floated'.
war tends to destroy stuff - infrastructure, materiel and people - in vast quantities, money gets moved from the tax payers to the producers of these war toys in equally vast quantities, they are *not* going to use it to improve the state of affairs in the country that does the spending. Most of it will end up in numbered accounts in.ch.
Spending an extra 10 billion every month on education or infrastructural improvements *is* going to put that money back in to circulation.
oh, don't worry about it, the people lining their pockets with war profits are winning just fine. Four more years of it and they'll be home free. Never mind the effect on the rest of America (or the world for that matter).
Catch-22 was *much* too friendly in it's spoof on war profiteering. Reality is so much harsher.
I always figured that there never was an all-out effort to catch OBL simply because if it were succesful then there would be no more need to continue all these crazy expenses.
Speaking of expenses, simply shutting down this crazy war will give Obama more money than he could hope to raise through taxation, if all the money destroyed in Iraq would have been used for good the USA would be in a completely different position right now.
Really that piece of tripe is one reason why I think/. may have to rethink the 'we don't edit the discussion' rule. Enough stuff like that and people will just leave.
Well, if you forbid your populace to visit a certain island but at the same time you annex a part of it and commit all kinds of crimes there (I hope we can at least agree on that) then I think it raises hypocrisy to a new level.
Guantanamo bay is a blot on American history and it will take generations before it will be erased.
Look, not to burst your bubble, I don't care if you came up with it one fine sunday morning or if you really spent years 'developing this theory' (shades of dr. Stranglove there) but it sounds like nonsense to me.
for some reason there seems to be a historical error that we have made over and over and again, which is to consider our position somehow 'special'.
Time and again further information has shown these assumptions to be wrong. I would expect this to fail in much the same way, it simply would be too much of a coincidence.
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he's a poet, it makes perfect sense (that it's nonsense).
tell that to the mercenary-formerly-known as 'Prince'.
the fact that a company is publically traded does not mean that a majority of the shares is in the hands of the public, that only happens when more than 50 % of the stock is 'floated'.
Not sure if mods are still reading this article, but in case you do please mod parent up, that's exactly where it's at.
Hussein probably killed less iraqis than Americans did, and that includes the people murdered in the Iran Iraq war (when he was still on 'our' side).
war tends to destroy stuff - infrastructure, materiel and people - in vast quantities, money gets moved from the tax payers to the producers of these war toys in equally vast quantities, they are *not* going to use it to improve the state of affairs in the country that does the spending. Most of it will end up in numbered accounts in .ch.
Spending an extra 10 billion every month on education or infrastructural improvements *is* going to put that money back in to circulation.
oh, don't worry about it, the people lining their pockets with war profits are winning just fine. Four more years of it and they'll be home free. Never mind the effect on the rest of America (or the world for that matter).
Catch-22 was *much* too friendly in it's spoof on war profiteering. Reality is so much harsher.
I always figured that there never was an all-out effort to catch OBL simply because if it were succesful then there would be no more need to continue all these crazy expenses.
Speaking of expenses, simply shutting down this crazy war will give Obama more money than he could hope to raise through taxation, if all the money destroyed in Iraq would have been used for good the USA would be in a completely different position right now.
seconded.
Really that piece of tripe is one reason why I think /. may have to rethink the 'we don't edit the discussion' rule. Enough stuff like that and people will just leave.
not sure if I'd prefer him to be shafted or sacked... maybe both ?
that'd be one very bad vector for an attack.
now who names their file '; delete from files ;
?
asshole.
That's exactly how I configure clusters (only then I only have the one image for everything, not several specialized ones).
It works like a charm and the best bit is if a machine dies you just replace it or let it sit there.
Shared storage is a bit of an issue with such a setup, look at glusterfs if this stuff interests you.
this one. I fell for it too a couple of days ago. Quite easy to fix too... wonder why nobody cares.
just one word: wow
Well, if you forbid your populace to visit a certain island but at the same time you annex a part of it and commit all kinds of crimes there (I hope we can at least agree on that) then I think it raises hypocrisy to a new level.
Guantanamo bay is a blot on American history and it will take generations before it will be erased.
No, sorry it wasn't. This was using the 'new' and improved submission form.
I noticed... :)
I also noticed that the dunce that wrote the code to take the content of this box can't program.
It can't be too hard to parse those brackets...
it was supposed to be:
#include <rick-n-roll.h>
America also doesn't own a piece of Cuba, it's leased, and the lease is disputed.
after the above comment I believe that should be:
#include
hehe, Insightful ? Hilarious, I think mods are confused today, THHGTTG is definitely *not* a textbook on cosmology.
> I've been chewing on this concept for years:
I'm sure that makes it more likely to be true.
Look, not to burst your bubble, I don't care if you came up with it one fine sunday morning or if you really spent years 'developing this theory' (shades of dr. Stranglove there) but it sounds like nonsense to me.
someone has been writing too much code lately :)
'new' ??
for some reason there seems to be a historical error that we have made over and over and again, which is to consider our position somehow 'special'.
Time and again further information has shown these assumptions to be wrong. I would expect this to fail in much the same way, it simply would be too much of a coincidence.
Imagine this bathtub, see, made of ebony...