Oh, I see, you want to go to Guantanamo for vacation too? I hear they offer free unlimited stays. And some kind of surf boarding class called "water boarding". Should be fun.
Reminds me of the wisest thing I ever heard a hippie say:
"Hey, man, they can't, like, arrest us all, right?"
Uh, for the record, there were and are a large number of us who bitched about Bush's criminal behavior just as much as we bitch about Obama's. Problem is, the shills and sheeple bray so fucking loudly with their partisan nonsense, we end up being drowned out.
Well, plus the partisan nonsense itself - when I complained that Bush was fucking us all over and defiling the Constitution, the 'liberals' cheered while the 'conservatives' called me a traitor. Now that it's a Democrat pulling the exact same shit, when I complain the 'conservatives' are right there with me, while the 'liberals' claim the only reason I don't agree with Obama is because he's (half) black. WTF?
the 2-party system, combined with the general and willful ignorance of the population at large, are the reason we appear to be fucked.
We are nothing like 1984. 1984 reflects a society that willingly wanted the conditions told in the book to occur. That is no way the case in modern society, regardless of how your feeble thought process wants to pervert it. No one in modern society wants to be spied on.
Dear lord, but do I wish that were true...
In reality, there's actually a fair contingent of the populace who will not only bow to the governments every whim on the dubious claim of "safety," but will demand you hit your knees as well, with equal fervor.
You don't see this because you insulate yourself from them, partially by posting here on Slashdot; I implore you, go check out the comment sections on Yahoo, MSNBC, or Fox News for any of the stories about Ed Snowden. You will not like (and may have trouble believing) what you see.
Seems an intentional over complication of what should be a trivial matter to me; speaking of which... what do you do for a living? Sell fancy computerized "education enhancement" equipment?
FWIW, if you need computers and software to tell you what emotion another person is expressing, you fail as a human; reading body language is a basic skill we all (should, anyway) learn as infants.
No, that's a worthless metric. People take different amounts of time for wildly varying reasons. When I was in school, it often took me a ridiculous amount of time to actually solve problems, not because I was struggling, but because the problems were so freaking boring that I would spend ten seconds working on a problem, then five minutes daydreaming, then ten more seconds working on it, then five more minutes daydreaming, etc.
Then you would fall into the "further assistance" category.
Unfortunately, this means that your overly simplistic time-based metric would have predicted that I needed extra tutoring, extra practice work, and needed to be placed in a remedial class
Not necessarily; presuming ideal circumstances, it would actually mean that the teacher would need to take you aside for a few minutes to determine what further assistance you needed. If, in fact, the problem was that the class was too slow paced for you (and the teacher were competent enough to notice this; again, we're assuming an ideal system), then they would take the appropriate action.
The problem arises when unions decide that that collective bargaining power is not enough, and that they need to resort to lobbying the state/government to give them protection/favors.
Yea, just look at all the damage that pesky Constitution and the Bill of Rights has caused to profits! How dare those unions express their unalienable right to petition the government for redress of grievances!
FWIW, the real problem with unions is the same problem with any sufficiently large organization of people, corporations and governments included: The people at the top, running the show, start getting greedy.
You'll have to excuse parent, he's been drinking the "All-Unions-Are-Exactly-The-Same-As-The-AFL-CIO-Mobsters" Koolaid.
Personally, I was once a member of the GMP Union - it was the best-paying job I ever had, and the beer we made bottles for was and is still dirt cheap, in spite of the fact they're union-made.
Every job I've had save two were paid fortnightly; those exceptions being when I worked as a network tech at a university (paid monthly) and the 3 years I labored in a glass factory (paid weekly).
If you are poor, then you probably shouldn't bother with a car. A monthly bus pass will cost, perhaps $80 to $100... which is going to be far less than a taxi, and is probably even less than what you'd be spending on gasoline and insurance.
You must live somewhere that has decent public transit - in my town, the buses stick to an archaic hub-and-spoke system, meaning every single bus has to run through the central station at least twice a day. This is in a city that covers almost 80 square miles. In practical terms, that means if I were to take the bus to work (I live on the southwest end, and my office is on the far northwest side), I'd have to be at the bus stop by 6:30 AM in order to arrive on time by 8, wouldn't be able to catch another busy home until 6 PM (and ride it for a friggin' hour), plus having to walk at least a half-mile to each bus stop; in other words, unless the hours I'm not on someone else's dime are worthless, it's just not feasible.
don't be late with payments, and then you don't get hit with late fees or disconnection issues.
Easier said then done when your income barely meets with your expenses, many of which cannot be controlled (I don't get to set my utility rates, or the payments for my wife's student loans) and quite often rise as a result of being poor, or rather, having a low credit score.
Your post exemplifies one of the major problem with being poor in America today: instead of feeling compassion and wanting to help, many people who are better off than you just sneer and make smart-ass remarks like, "Well, it's your own fault for not budgeting better." Gee, thanks Captain Asshole, that really helps me feed my family.
To that end, a famous axiom: Do not judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. I have, and I can tell you from experience that poor shoes suck, and thanks to the royally fucked concept of modern American economics, are really hard to trade in for middle class ones.
If you don't mind me asking how did you run up debts that take away 50% of your income?
Maybe his income just sucks; it does happen, especially in a society where it's common business practice to enact an employee-harming policy to save $21,000/yr while paying the lazy-ass CEO a $21,000,000 annual bonus.
and the banks have fun with the float time. If they see a check come through for a high amount that can drain the account, it will go through fast. Instead of one bounced check, that big one magically finds its way to the front of the line so that all the little checks that had not cleared yet have insufficient balance.
Ah, but you see many employees can't have a bank account. If your history with bounced checks is bad enough, no bank will ever open an account for you. Sad but true.
Excuse me if I sound like a troll, but checks are what my parents used in the early 1980s. How the hell are these still even present in the US today, let alone a dominant form of exchanging money?
Yea, and what's with this "cash" thing, anyway? My great-great-great gran-pappy used 'cash,' so it's obviously now a uselessly antiquated technology!
FYI, just because humanity develops a new method of doing something, doesn't mean the old methods are no longer valid or useful.
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So put him in the car with the "accredited diplomats."
Simple. The hunt for him is a threat against any other would be whistleblower.
Were that the case, one would think the persecution of Bradley Manning would have sufficed.
Oh, I see, you want to go to Guantanamo for vacation too? I hear they offer free unlimited stays. And some kind of surf boarding class called "water boarding". Should be fun.
Reminds me of the wisest thing I ever heard a hippie say:
"Hey, man, they can't, like, arrest us all, right?"
Uh, for the record, there were and are a large number of us who bitched about Bush's criminal behavior just as much as we bitch about Obama's. Problem is, the shills and sheeple bray so fucking loudly with their partisan nonsense, we end up being drowned out.
Well, plus the partisan nonsense itself - when I complained that Bush was fucking us all over and defiling the Constitution, the 'liberals' cheered while the 'conservatives' called me a traitor. Now that it's a Democrat pulling the exact same shit, when I complain the 'conservatives' are right there with me, while the 'liberals' claim the only reason I don't agree with Obama is because he's (half) black. WTF?
the 2-party system, combined with the general and willful ignorance of the population at large, are the reason we appear to be fucked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_assassination
Now fuck off, sock puppet.
Your "message" seems to be, essentially, that everyone should use the same bank you do, and those who don't are stupid for it.
Between the pure silliness of the concept and your pathetic grasp of English, I'd say my pointing out your foolishness was well warranted.
Lol, I actually googled that term a while back...
Some of the videos I found were downright hilarious.
Hell, the woman's name reads like word salad.
Oh, good - I was afraid it was just me...
Only signed up with Ubi so I could play a new game I had purchased.
No important info (CC number, real name, real email) associated with the account.
Don't care.
So does that mean they're going to thaw out Walt and put his head on another person's body?
Queue up the "Hitchhikers' Guide" fans so they can really be Zaphod Beeblebrox!
It seemed like a good idea, until the first time I walked into Kosher Joe's Deli...
Head of Vecna, anyone?
Wellp, there goes my productivity for the day...
Or like a terrible pump design. Intelligent design my ass, more like idiotic design.
Better than anything you've come up with... :P
We are nothing like 1984. 1984 reflects a society that willingly wanted the conditions told in the book to occur. That is no way the case in modern society, regardless of how your feeble thought process wants to pervert it. No one in modern society wants to be spied on.
Dear lord, but do I wish that were true...
In reality, there's actually a fair contingent of the populace who will not only bow to the governments every whim on the dubious claim of "safety," but will demand you hit your knees as well, with equal fervor.
You don't see this because you insulate yourself from them, partially by posting here on Slashdot; I implore you, go check out the comment sections on Yahoo, MSNBC, or Fox News for any of the stories about Ed Snowden. You will not like (and may have trouble believing) what you see.
... Open gaming for those who would rather drop $400 on a vendor-locked console, instead of $1,200 for a bad-ass gaming box that they can upgrade.
The irony of it is like junk food: Tastes pretty good, but wreaks hell on your will to live.
See http://iaied.org/about/, http://www.educationaldatamining.org/, http://its2012.teicrete.gr/, and others for more information.
...
^ Serves to reinforce my assumption that you make your fortune selling overpriced computerized "tutoring" crap...
What does all that fancy tech do, that a properly trained human can't?
Seems an intentional over complication of what should be a trivial matter to me; speaking of which... what do you do for a living? Sell fancy computerized "education enhancement" equipment?
FWIW, if you need computers and software to tell you what emotion another person is expressing, you fail as a human; reading body language is a basic skill we all (should, anyway) learn as infants.
No, that's a worthless metric. People take different amounts of time for wildly varying reasons. When I was in school, it often took me a ridiculous amount of time to actually solve problems, not because I was struggling, but because the problems were so freaking boring that I would spend ten seconds working on a problem, then five minutes daydreaming, then ten more seconds working on it, then five more minutes daydreaming, etc.
Then you would fall into the "further assistance" category.
Unfortunately, this means that your overly simplistic time-based metric would have predicted that I needed extra tutoring, extra practice work, and needed to be placed in a remedial class
Not necessarily; presuming ideal circumstances, it would actually mean that the teacher would need to take you aside for a few minutes to determine what further assistance you needed. If, in fact, the problem was that the class was too slow paced for you (and the teacher were competent enough to notice this; again, we're assuming an ideal system), then they would take the appropriate action.
The problem arises when unions decide that that collective bargaining power is not enough, and that they need to resort to lobbying the state/government to give them protection/favors.
Yea, just look at all the damage that pesky Constitution and the Bill of Rights has caused to profits! How dare those unions express their unalienable right to petition the government for redress of grievances!
FWIW, the real problem with unions is the same problem with any sufficiently large organization of people, corporations and governments included: The people at the top, running the show, start getting greedy.
You'll have to excuse parent, he's been drinking the "All-Unions-Are-Exactly-The-Same-As-The-AFL-CIO-Mobsters" Koolaid.
Personally, I was once a member of the GMP Union - it was the best-paying job I ever had, and the beer we made bottles for was and is still dirt cheap, in spite of the fact they're union-made.
Every job I've had save two were paid fortnightly; those exceptions being when I worked as a network tech at a university (paid monthly) and the 3 years I labored in a glass factory (paid weekly).
Never been on salary.
If you are poor, then you probably shouldn't bother with a car. A monthly bus pass will cost, perhaps $80 to $100... which is going to be far less than a taxi, and is probably even less than what you'd be spending on gasoline and insurance.
You must live somewhere that has decent public transit - in my town, the buses stick to an archaic hub-and-spoke system, meaning every single bus has to run through the central station at least twice a day. This is in a city that covers almost 80 square miles. In practical terms, that means if I were to take the bus to work (I live on the southwest end, and my office is on the far northwest side), I'd have to be at the bus stop by 6:30 AM in order to arrive on time by 8, wouldn't be able to catch another busy home until 6 PM (and ride it for a friggin' hour), plus having to walk at least a half-mile to each bus stop; in other words, unless the hours I'm not on someone else's dime are worthless, it's just not feasible.
don't be late with payments, and then you don't get hit with late fees or disconnection issues.
Easier said then done when your income barely meets with your expenses, many of which cannot be controlled (I don't get to set my utility rates, or the payments for my wife's student loans) and quite often rise as a result of being poor, or rather, having a low credit score.
Your post exemplifies one of the major problem with being poor in America today: instead of feeling compassion and wanting to help, many people who are better off than you just sneer and make smart-ass remarks like, "Well, it's your own fault for not budgeting better." Gee, thanks Captain Asshole, that really helps me feed my family.
To that end, a famous axiom: Do not judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. I have, and I can tell you from experience that poor shoes suck, and thanks to the royally fucked concept of modern American economics, are really hard to trade in for middle class ones.
If you don't mind me asking how did you run up debts that take away 50% of your income?
Maybe his income just sucks; it does happen, especially in a society where it's common business practice to enact an employee-harming policy to save $21,000/yr while paying the lazy-ass CEO a $21,000,000 annual bonus.
and the banks have fun with the float time. If they see a check come through for a high amount that can drain the account, it will go through fast. Instead of one bounced check, that big one magically finds its way to the front of the line so that all the little checks that had not cleared yet have insufficient balance.
This is why I no longer bank with Commerce.
Why can't we replace the crack users in prison with these guys?
Because crack users can't afford their own Congresscritters.
Ah, but you see many employees can't have a bank account. If your history with bounced checks is bad enough, no bank will ever open an account for you. Sad but true.
Excuse me if I sound like a troll, but checks are what my parents used in the early 1980s. How the hell are these still even present in the US today, let alone a dominant form of exchanging money?
Yea, and what's with this "cash" thing, anyway? My great-great-great gran-pappy used 'cash,' so it's obviously now a uselessly antiquated technology!
FYI, just because humanity develops a new method of doing something, doesn't mean the old methods are no longer valid or useful.