- be richer than 5% or so of the population, that controls 72% of the wealth. (in contrast you have only 15% - so its impossible - there would be enough who made it that much up till this point if it would work)
- get rid of the economic system that allows tiny minority of population to command 70-80% of economic wealth.
- get rid of the current existing political system, in which only those who are extremely rich or have the backing of extremely rich can get elected.
You know, there are those of us in the top 5% who don't like this shit TSA and their congressional masters anymore than you do. Quit demonizing and stereotyping us, please.
they do link to Chilling Effects notices when results got DMCA'ed, not sure if that kind of thing would carry over to results removed due to other types of laws in other countries.
Judging by my... buddy's... porn searches here in Switzerland, yes they do.
And do blanket filtering. never trust input. always filter to extreme, as long as you can get away with it. as much as you can get away with it.
A lot of the posters on this story talk about filtering, and that's absolutely right - but filter on a whitelist, never a blacklist! Think about what inputs or input forms are acceptable rather than trying identify all possible bad inputs. If you go the blacklist approach, it's almost certain that someone more cracking-minded than you will identify something you missed.
They don't literally steal, they just help you "conquer" your country back and then "request" "payment".
But we don't. If only we did, to some extent -- the treasury could use the funds. I might go so far as to grant that we've helped some nasty people stay in power for various reasons over the years, but we still, always, pay MARKET PRICE for oil. About the only thing we insist on is that people sell it to SOMEONE (which admittedly, does help keep market prices down SOMEWHAT, but its still ridiculously high compared to the cost in most of the countries in the middle east)
This, thank you. So many people like to talk about the US stealing oil, but no one can point me to a single incident of such. I'd almost support it if they did - at least the war would be paid for then!
The antisemitism and antizionism (which, for the most part, is really just disguised antisemitism) here is sickening.
If it was any other country in the world (except N. Korea or China perhaps) who did this, the response would be to laugh at them and move on.
I hardly think you would be so harsh on Britain if they told twitter it was violating American laws for letting the IRA plan attacks on civilians.
But because it's Israel doing this, you need to vilify them for it.
Grow the fuck up.
Is that chip on your shoulder getting a little hard to carry yet?
This is Slashdot, a land of Libertarian-to-the-excess. Any organization and/or country which orders a limit on "free speech" or the perception thereof, including white middle class non-denominational American anti-poverty groups or something ridiculously bland and non-offensive like that, would receive the same treatment.
So it's just like human behavior. Spend some time looking at themselves, then doing a video chat with someone they could just go over and talk to. If anything, they're ahead of humans just because they don't take pictures at MySpace angles.
What? No teenage chimps taking self portraits from above as they eat a banana? What do the dirt old orangutans do with all their free time, then?
I second the Dresden Files (there are 10 or so books in the universe, and I expect at least another three or more to tie up all the stuff either pending or alluded to). It's well written, funny, with lot of action, and the world is pretty well thought out too. I have to disagree on the Codex Alera though. It's pretty much generic sword and sorcery - totally exchangeable with thousands of others.
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I don't have anything informative to add except that I wholeheartedly agree with the above. Give the Codex Alera a miss - it's generic, it's poorly written, it's entirely transparent. The Dresden Files, however, had me laughing all week long when I read the first 8 or so.
> Dealing with those drug lords would require a military.
Or a pen.
"We hereby decriminalize all formerly controlled substances, and return to the Citizens their God-given right to plant, harvest, process, manufacture, buy, sell, snort, inject, swallow and/or smoke whatever narcotic, toxic, psychoactive, carcinogenic, radioactive, caustic, fungal or fecal matter they wish, as long as they limit exposure to willing, opt-in participants only."
And just like that, the Zeta's will be out of business.
Nah. Time is all that's needed. You Americans are going bust in the next few years (pulling a Greece) - pretty soon you won't be able to afford the drugs anyway!
Please read my response to the OP. It has the OFFICIAL STATEMENT of OWS in it.
You argue like Bill O'Reilly. You just put 100 million people in a group and said they haven't examined what they stand for.
A little humility, where you quit acting like you're smarter than 100 million people, might serve you some good.
Oh, it's on a web page, it must be true!
Now watch the various interviews that have been held with OWS squatters. Wait for the question, "Why are you here?" Tell me how many people come up with anything close to that statement.
You realize that there are many people who can't meet loans because they've lost their jobs?
Also, there was *a lot* of fraud in the no-income-verification home loans. Not just by borrowers, but by mortgage brokers who knew the system and intentionally gamed it, representing to banks that borrowers had income X and representing to borrowers that documents Y covered the loan they had discussed and just to sign them.
How is that relevant? The lenders should not have provided those people with loans, and he borrowers should not have taken them.
In other words, you weren't one of the smart kids and you're jealous.
High school was easy. I had straight As in the honors/AP courses and rarely did my homework - the teachers just weren't bright enough to avoid crafting questions that could lead me directly to the answers. The bit of memorization I needed happened as a side effect of sitting in class.
Don't make sweeping generalizations about other groups of people, please.
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Thanks Slashdot. It's nice to finally see a News for Nerds story again!
People think I'm nuts for using GVIM on my MacBook, but sometimes, it's just so much faster than the alternatives... I hope VIM is still around in another 20!
That's probably only true if they bought it. If they silently obtain it from elsewhere (the producers don't even know about it), then I don't see how that is.
If, for example, they download it for free from a site that makes money through advertising other porn sites, then they have provided a financial incentive to that website to obtain more of the child porn, and thus more will be produced. So on and so forth.
These people are the best chance we've had to turn around a country that's been headed in the wrong direction for at least the past 30 years. We live in a country where Goldman Sachs can commit thousands of acts of felony perjury, and not one person stands trial. They create fraudulent financial instruments, and pay back a small portion of their ill gotten gains as "fines" (bribes). Yet if I were to write a bad check to cover some groceries, I'd be going straight to jail. There's no way to describe this but tyranny.
Or exaggeration.
Barack Obama, the greatest hope in a generation, is either unable or unwilling to do anything about this. If he's unwilling we have a severe political problem. He was elected to bring us change he refuses to deliver, and we have no way to hold him accountable.
On the other hand, if he's unable, we have a much more serious problem. That means democracy is well and truly dead in this country. The corporations have a complete stranglehold on our government. Unfortunately, this is more likely to be the truth.
You're assuming, of course, that everyone voted for him to change the system the way you see fit, and that his mandate from the many millions of people who voted for him is identical. I voted for him, and I don't want a knee jerk reaction to a couple thousand protestors resulting in a collapse of our economy. You certainly have the means to hold him accountable - if you can find enough people that agree with you.
People are smart enough to recognize rhetoric - tone it down and focus on facts, and you might actually achieve something.
I honestly believe that the root cause of all this is the casino we call the stock market. People no longer buy stocks for long term gains; instead, speculators and HFTers trade in the very short term.they're gambling, not investing.
This means that the shareholders have a short term interest. As the BoD's duty is to the shareholders, they are actually doing their job when igoring the long-term and focusing on the short. Thus, you see idiotic actions focused on share price rather than value creation.
The right answer might be to make all stock purchases a minimum of 2 years or something, I don't know.
I'm a software consultant. The difference is that I come to them.
As opposed to most Slashdotters* who suffer race conditions and therefore likely come on them.
*Sorry, I haven't done an obligatory Slashdotter reference in the while, and I apologize for the child-unfriendly humor, but my karma's probably too good anyway...
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Damn good point. I've never caught a virus from a porn site in 20+ years.
In fact, they've only fired the anti-virus on REGULAR sites that had drive-by malware ad-banners hosted by GOOGLE of all places!
In fact, porn has probably helped me not catch many a virus from the local gentleman's establishment...
- be richer than 5% or so of the population, that controls 72% of the wealth. (in contrast you have only 15% - so its impossible - there would be enough who made it that much up till this point if it would work)
- get rid of the economic system that allows tiny minority of population to command 70-80% of economic wealth.
- get rid of the current existing political system, in which only those who are extremely rich or have the backing of extremely rich can get elected.
You know, there are those of us in the top 5% who don't like this shit TSA and their congressional masters anymore than you do. Quit demonizing and stereotyping us, please.
they do link to Chilling Effects notices when results got DMCA'ed, not sure if that kind of thing would carry over to results removed due to other types of laws in other countries.
Judging by my ... buddy's ... porn searches here in Switzerland, yes they do.
And do blanket filtering. never trust input. always filter to extreme, as long as you can get away with it. as much as you can get away with it.
A lot of the posters on this story talk about filtering, and that's absolutely right - but filter on a whitelist, never a blacklist! Think about what inputs or input forms are acceptable rather than trying identify all possible bad inputs. If you go the blacklist approach, it's almost certain that someone more cracking-minded than you will identify something you missed.
They don't literally steal, they just help you "conquer" your country back and then "request" "payment".
But we don't. If only we did, to some extent -- the treasury could use the funds. I might go so far as to grant that we've helped some nasty people stay in power for various reasons over the years, but we still, always, pay MARKET PRICE for oil. About the only thing we insist on is that people sell it to SOMEONE (which admittedly, does help keep market prices down SOMEWHAT, but its still ridiculously high compared to the cost in most of the countries in the middle east)
This, thank you. So many people like to talk about the US stealing oil, but no one can point me to a single incident of such. I'd almost support it if they did - at least the war would be paid for then!
The antisemitism and antizionism (which, for the most part, is really just disguised antisemitism) here is sickening.
If it was any other country in the world (except N. Korea or China perhaps) who did this, the response would be to laugh at them and move on.
I hardly think you would be so harsh on Britain if they told twitter it was violating American laws for letting the IRA plan attacks on civilians.
But because it's Israel doing this, you need to vilify them for it.
Grow the fuck up.
Is that chip on your shoulder getting a little hard to carry yet?
This is Slashdot, a land of Libertarian-to-the-excess. Any organization and/or country which orders a limit on "free speech" or the perception thereof, including white middle class non-denominational American anti-poverty groups or something ridiculously bland and non-offensive like that, would receive the same treatment.
So it's just like human behavior. Spend some time looking at themselves, then doing a video chat with someone they could just go over and talk to. If anything, they're ahead of humans just because they don't take pictures at MySpace angles.
What? No teenage chimps taking self portraits from above as they eat a banana? What do the dirt old orangutans do with all their free time, then?
Completely agree with that. His professional career in that field should likely be ended.
I apologize for misinterpreting what you said.
You just demonstrated a rather basic skill which Christoforo apparently lacks.
either Dresden Files or Codex Alera
I second the Dresden Files (there are 10 or so books in the universe, and I expect at least another three or more to tie up all the stuff either pending or alluded to). It's well written, funny, with lot of action, and the world is pretty well thought out too. I have to disagree on the Codex Alera though. It's pretty much generic sword and sorcery - totally exchangeable with thousands of others.
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I don't have anything informative to add except that I wholeheartedly agree with the above. Give the Codex Alera a miss - it's generic, it's poorly written, it's entirely transparent. The Dresden Files, however, had me laughing all week long when I read the first 8 or so.
Google is (or should be) your friend. Type ifitness and it's about the sixth link down: http://itsmichaelw.com/review/why-was-ifitness-removed-from-the-app-store/
No need to start apple-is-evil conspiracy theories.
Not to mention it's completely ripped off from a reddit post here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/mat1s/there_appears_to_be_a_monumental_militaryscience/
Wait, reddit has text???
I'm an American, and I love my country.
But if I were offered an opportunity to emigrate to Iceland tomorrow, I'd probably take it. (Who brought Eastern Europe into this?)
I'm American and emigrated years afoot a better place. Hopp Schweiz!
> Dealing with those drug lords would require a military.
Or a pen.
"We hereby decriminalize all formerly controlled substances, and return to the Citizens their God-given right to plant, harvest, process, manufacture, buy, sell, snort, inject, swallow and/or smoke whatever narcotic, toxic, psychoactive, carcinogenic, radioactive, caustic, fungal or fecal matter they wish, as long as they limit exposure to willing, opt-in participants only."
And just like that, the Zeta's will be out of business.
Nah. Time is all that's needed. You Americans are going bust in the next few years (pulling a Greece) - pretty soon you won't be able to afford the drugs anyway!
How is posting on the Internet showing balls, exactly?
I'm a mac guy at home, but my employer gives me a PC. Until that changes, I'll keep using Windows...
Please read my response to the OP. It has the OFFICIAL STATEMENT of OWS in it.
You argue like Bill O'Reilly. You just put 100 million people in a group and said they haven't examined what they stand for.
A little humility, where you quit acting like you're smarter than 100 million people, might serve you some good.
Oh, it's on a web page, it must be true!
Now watch the various interviews that have been held with OWS squatters. Wait for the question, "Why are you here?" Tell me how many people come up with anything close to that statement.
You realize that there are many people who can't meet loans because they've lost their jobs?
Also, there was *a lot* of fraud in the no-income-verification home loans. Not just by borrowers, but by mortgage brokers who knew the system and intentionally gamed it, representing to banks that borrowers had income X and representing to borrowers that documents Y covered the loan they had discussed and just to sign them.
How is that relevant? The lenders should not have provided those people with loans, and he borrowers should not have taken them.
In other words, you weren't one of the smart kids and you're jealous.
High school was easy. I had straight As in the honors/AP courses and rarely did my homework - the teachers just weren't bright enough to avoid crafting questions that could lead me directly to the answers. The bit of memorization I needed happened as a side effect of sitting in class.
Don't make sweeping generalizations about other groups of people, please.
Thanks Slashdot. It's nice to finally see a News for Nerds story again!
People think I'm nuts for using GVIM on my MacBook, but sometimes, it's just so much faster than the alternatives... I hope VIM is still around in another 20!
They do all sorts of profiling all right -- where it makes sense. There aren't all that many suicide bombers with, say, nordic features.
But there are Nordic gunmen who like to use bombs, so that's perhaps an invalid argument.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/08/14/norway-gunman-visit.html
Anyone who has it is fueling that abuse.
That's probably only true if they bought it. If they silently obtain it from elsewhere (the producers don't even know about it), then I don't see how that is.
If, for example, they download it for free from a site that makes money through advertising other porn sites, then they have provided a financial incentive to that website to obtain more of the child porn, and thus more will be produced. So on and so forth.
These people are the best chance we've had to turn around a country that's been headed in the wrong direction for at least the past 30 years. We live in a country where Goldman Sachs can commit thousands of acts of felony perjury, and not one person stands trial. They create fraudulent financial instruments, and pay back a small portion of their ill gotten gains as "fines" (bribes). Yet if I were to write a bad check to cover some groceries, I'd be going straight to jail. There's no way to describe this but tyranny.
Or exaggeration.
Barack Obama, the greatest hope in a generation, is either unable or unwilling to do anything about this. If he's unwilling we have a severe political problem. He was elected to bring us change he refuses to deliver, and we have no way to hold him accountable.
On the other hand, if he's unable, we have a much more serious problem. That means democracy is well and truly dead in this country. The corporations have a complete stranglehold on our government. Unfortunately, this is more likely to be the truth.
You're assuming, of course, that everyone voted for him to change the system the way you see fit, and that his mandate from the many millions of people who voted for him is identical. I voted for him, and I don't want a knee jerk reaction to a couple thousand protestors resulting in a collapse of our economy. You certainly have the means to hold him accountable - if you can find enough people that agree with you.
People are smart enough to recognize rhetoric - tone it down and focus on facts, and you might actually achieve something.
And not because Apple did the same thing to Samsung using a German court to block sales of the Galaxy Tablet in Europe?
Two wrongs and a right - ever hear that one? ;)
I honestly believe that the root cause of all this is the casino we call the stock market. People no longer buy stocks for long term gains; instead, speculators and HFTers trade in the very short term.they're gambling, not investing.
This means that the shareholders have a short term interest. As the BoD's duty is to the shareholders, they are actually doing their job when igoring the long-term and focusing on the short. Thus, you see idiotic actions focused on share price rather than value creation.
The right answer might be to make all stock purchases a minimum of 2 years or something, I don't know.
I'm a software consultant. The difference is that I come to them.
As opposed to most Slashdotters* who suffer race conditions and therefore likely come on them. *Sorry, I haven't done an obligatory Slashdotter reference in the while, and I apologize for the child-unfriendly humor, but my karma's probably too good anyway...