User: NewYork

Social mobility

On: Secession Petitions Flood White House Website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility != https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility

Our petition

On: Secession Petitions Flood White House Website

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/direct-new-delhi-regime-create-independent-nation-300-million-indias-untouchables/7WSsjJkD

Re:Oh no

On: Amid Fiscal Uncertainty, Venture Capital Is Way Down In Silicon Valley

Current Interest Rate = 0.25% http://www.worldinterestrates.info/
Current Inflation Rate = 2% http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/

Re:Oh no

On: Amid Fiscal Uncertainty, Venture Capital Is Way Down In Silicon Valley

Impose fine on idle cash.

Many sites are migrating to Disqus

On: Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus

"Diverse society is bound to fail" --Putnam.

On: Geomapping Racism With Twitter

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/

Ask for his feedback on

On: Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias

For rest of the world

On: All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Silver

$10,000 degree

On: Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force

US colleges beat down fees in drive towards $10,000 degree

Sell and

On: Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?

Start your own country

Instead of Union,

On: Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union?

I think http://www.lietaer.com/2010/03/the-worgl-experiment/ is better

Petition

On: US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time

You are not above us. You ARE us. Govern accordingly.
http://wh.gov/bl2

My lawyer said this

On: Empathy Represses Analytic Thought, and Vice Versa

1. If you kill somebody, you did it in self-defense, if you're my family member.
2. If you kill somebody, you should be hanged, if you're not my family member.

unreasonable man

On: Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw

Blind

On: Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death" --Vinge

Churchill

On: Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." --Churchill

Tell them to read

On: Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Truth versus NPOV

On: Wikipedia Is Nearing "Completion"

When I tried to disclose the truth about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India I got this warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:4thaugust1932

Prefer flight

On: China's Yearly Budget For High-Speed Rail: $100 Billion

I think traveling by flight is better/safer than traveling by high-speed trains

Prey

On: Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie?

http://preyproject.com/

Otherwise

On: The Surprising Truth About Internet Censorship In the Middle East

Middle East will witness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

Mark Twain

On: Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech

"If religion was based on real truth, there only would be one." -- Mark Twain

hegemony

On: The Surprising Truth About Internet Censorship In the Middle East

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority prefer you to be poor/subservient/defenseless so that they can promote/protect their hegemony in the pretext of patriotism/democracy.

I think

On: Saudi Arabia Calls For Global Internet Censorship Body

Politics/patriotism/democracy/religion/corporations are Ponzi/Pyramid schemes.

I think its

On: Why Are We So Rude Online?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect