Like any other third world municipality, it's run for strictly for the benefit of the moneyed elite. Not that they're alone in this. Every city crawling on it's belly to get the new Amazon HQ2 is right behind them. So is every city that subsidizes billionaire owned Major League Sports teams with tax breaks and stadiums that will never recover the investment made at the public's expense.
Remember it's not your world, it belongs to someone else, and you have to pay them for the privilege of breathing their air. You do have a choice: you can always choke to death for free.
Trump appointed Rick Perry, former Texas Governor and graduate of Texas A&M where he got a degree in Animal Science and was one of five "yell leaders" who lead cheers during athletic contests.
In describing his college experience Perry said "I was probably a bit of a free spirit, not particularly structured real well for life outside of a military regime, I would have not lasted at Texas Tech or the University of Texas. I would have hit the fraternity scene and lasted about one semester."
Not the first appointed president in the 21st century. George 'Shrub' Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court of the Republican Party, not to be confused with the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who will you blame at the end of the week for the titanic clusterfuck that results after this goes to hell? Will you dump it all on Kim and continue to brown nose Trump? Of course you will
I'll do my "I told you so now" to get it out of the way. Send your apology anytime, I can wait until hell freezes over.
George Bush invaded the wrong country. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11. Pre-Trump, that was the biggest lie a President and Administration sold to the American public.
Bashing Obama and ignoring Bush is means you are either suffering from an organic brain disorder that has wrecked your memory or you are delusional and should be involuntarily committed. There is a third option that applies in your case: you are a white supremacist and overt fascist.
Get the fuck out of my country and go to Russia where you can lick Putin's ass directly, rather then let Trump do it for you.
If you are too lazy to click on the chart, it shows that the Federal guilty plea rate is 97%. Only 3% go to trial.
So your position is that all the drug dealers, bank robbers, con artists, kidnappers, tax cheats, money launderers, counterfeiters, smugglers, mad bombers, interstate sex traffickers, etc were railroaded because "Indictments don't mean shit if you don't get a jury trial".
It's great to know that you support a cause that has been taken up by liberal advocacy groups all over the county. I know how hard it is to stand up for liberal causes on Slashdot because of all the right wing trolls, and I salute your commitment to freedom.
Your paranoid conspiracy characterization of "Hollywood" is pathetic. It's a area in Southern California, not some kingdom run by UNAMERICAN EVIL LIBRULS WHO WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS AND YOUR PENIS AND EAT WHITE BABIES. (Your forgot to use your cap lock key, so I'm trying to help you get your game back to full wingnut panic mode.)
Hollywood, besides being a sign on a hill, is an intermediate sized component in the media industry. It generates about as much revenue as gaming. Compared to Comcast , Time-Warner/Spectrum or worldwide Fox-Murdoch it's not the big league. Media companies own studios, not the other way around.
The media companies work like every other entrenched special interest segment of the not-very-capitalist economy. They use power and money to buy favorable legislation and subvert regulation to make as much money as possible, which is a indescribably huge amount. The media industry, telcos/ISPs, banking, energy, health, pharmaceutical, transportation, military-industrial, agribusiness all play by the same set of rules.
Media buys 1000 year copyright. Pharmaceutical companies get patents, and when they expire it is legal to pay off generic manufactures to keep prices high. And they sell as many opioids as they want, no matter who dies. The milliary industrial complex gets weapons system that cost 10 or 20 times more then originally claimed, and it is completely unknown if they really work. Wall Street destroys the world economy through incompetence and greed, gets bailed out, and is now larger and more corrupt then ever. They just got a tax break that will bankrupt the government, passed by Republicans, not Democrats. Telcos/ISPs have a cartel of four carriers and next week there will be no internet regulation.
Meanwhile you're screaming THE SKY IS FALLING DISNEY IS USING PRINCESSES TO UNDERMINE AMERICAN VALUES AND MAKE MEN WEAR DRESSES AND SHAVE THEIR LEGS AND SOCIALIZED MEDICINE AND MIND CONTROL VACCINATIONS UNDER CONTRAILS AND DEEP STATE!!! CONSPIRACY LIBURL LIBRUL LIBRUL AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Leave your parents basement now, they know who you are and where you live and are sending the mind control beams to confuse you before you are disappeared for human experimentation with anal probes. You must flee to the wilderness before it's too late.
The motivation for seizing the reporter's electronic communications back to her college days is payback for the seizure of Cohen's legal records. That's why they chose a reporter for the NYT. Trump's style as a petty tyrant is to lash out and use his power to punish those who oppose him. He's angry at Bezos for funding the New York Post, so he goes after Amazon on Twitter and by personally pushing the Postmaster General to raise Amazon's postal rates. Same for his insane move to impose tariffs on allies. They disrespected him so he's willing to start multiple trade wars.
He and Sessions are on the same page when it comes to freedom of the press, and the right to free speech in general. They hate it. Anyone who questions or opposes them in public becomes their personal enemy, and they'll try to crush them. That's what the raving over "fake news" is really about. Destruction of a free society.
Unlike the court supervised vetting of Cohen's documents to determine what is relevant and admissible, all this information will go into secret databases and be used without reviewing if it was legally obtained. Just like the Facebook data leaked to Cambridge Analytica is now in the hands of Russian intelligence. Putin and Trump follow the same playbook.
"70 times the normal level of fraud attacks were seen last month"
If it was your personal account it would be a 100% failure. Why are you trying to make it seem less incompetent and damaging then it actually is? Do you have a personal interest in promoting electronic theft?
Assume that someone takes an existing open source FPS platform and mods it to make gameplay occur at Valve HQ. All you have to do is change the name to Vasevalve (Vaseline + Valve) or some such and get some game developer nerd models as targets. Name the targets after the board of directors and all the current and former c-suite office holders. The most points for a kill are assigned to the two targets Eric and Johnson. No relation to any person living or dead. Honestly.
Do you think they would happily host that game? What about a game shooting kindergartners and puppies? Or making the targets only women. How about KillAChristian or KillAHonkey? The latter would feature a shooter who could be black, "Mexican" (whatever that means) or some obviously Asian guy. How would your average AltRight/closet KKK Slashdot reader respond? (sarcasm)I'm sure none of them would be uncomfortable at all.(/sarcasm)
Even though I don't play FPS games, there is one that I would play, and I think it would be a big hit: KillSlashdot. Scrape user id names for all the targets. Hours and hours of harmless amusement.
Because they are Microsoft and they live and die by NIH. That is why they have strangled so may other projects they acquired. They are even better at destroying other peoples work then Oracle, and that is world class competition.
In Microsoft Land the sequence is acquisition => integration => brain death. For example if they buy GitHub then they will "integrate" it with Linkedin, and it will be like using Facebook as a development platform. Good luck with that.
So you listed everything but the guns. That's so logical! But your list is clearly not long enough, because the world is full of things that could be the real cause.
Come on, be a bit more creative. So far we've heard it blamed on too many doors, Ritalin, and pornography. What about sugar and/or sugar substitutes. Soft drinks. Oooh, I know: THE INTERNET! Maybe it's Hi-Def TV. Or standardized testing. Go old school and blame fluoridation of water. Something in the packaging of cheap Chinese imports. No (Christian) prayers in schools, although you did imply that. Evil spirits, heavy metal devil worship, comic books/movies. (Very old school, check out Dr. Wertham.) Space aliens or Spanish speaking aliens, same thing really. The hole in the ozone layer. Cell phone radiation. LED lighting. Gluten. Smog. Rap music. Dogs with hypnotic powers. Con trails. The Deep State. The Illuminati. George Soros. Nazi ghosts. Sauron. Lex Luthor. Your dead grandmother, or maybe your not-dead grandmother. Loki. Progressive taxation. Vampires. Shrimp. The new moon or the dark side of the moon.
There are so many possibilities, STEP UP YOUR GAME. Honestly, it's your job to find excuses, and I'm tired thinking of things. Do your own dirty work.
Let's apply that argument to your body. Just consider it as a thought experiment, not a threat IRL.
If I were to lop off a limb, you would not bleed to death right away. The blood vessels automatically contract to keep you alive. But that only helps you with short term survival. You still might not make it.
If I chop off all your limbs at once, even if the blood stops flowing out where your arms and legs used to be, your chance of survival go way down, obviously. There are military personal who have lost multiple limbs and lived.
If your limbs are off and I keep hacking so you keep bleeding, you become dead meat.
Apply the analogy to the Great Barrier Reef. Loosing a limb is like rising/falling sea levels. Loosing all limbs is like ocean acidification. Changing sea levels plus acidification plus rising water temperature plus plastic ocean waste plus... is like hacking up your body without stopping. And it's not just the Great Barrier Reef, it's all the oceans, the Amazon Basin, the atmosphere, basically the entire planetary ecosystem.
Do you get the picture? If this doesn't convince you them perhaps you could volunteer and we could do the experiment. Or course you would have to buy a coffin and a burial plot first...
So how much does the useless automated solution cost?
We need to define a new unit of uselessness. It can't be a ratio, because 0/X is zero, and X/0 is undefined. And it has to include dollars (or whatever currency unit is appropriate for localization).
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Like any other third world municipality, it's run for strictly for the benefit of the moneyed elite. Not that they're alone in this. Every city crawling on it's belly to get the new Amazon HQ2 is right behind them. So is every city that subsidizes billionaire owned Major League Sports teams with tax breaks and stadiums that will never recover the investment made at the public's expense.
Remember it's not your world, it belongs to someone else, and you have to pay them for the privilege of breathing their air. You do have a choice: you can always choke to death for free.
Trump appointed Rick Perry, former Texas Governor and graduate of Texas A&M where he got a degree in Animal Science and was one of five "yell leaders" who lead cheers during athletic contests.
In describing his college experience Perry said "I was probably a bit of a free spirit, not particularly structured real well for life outside of a military regime, I would have not lasted at Texas Tech or the University of Texas. I would have hit the fraternity scene and lasted about one semester."
You choose who was more science oriented.
I look forward to your death by E. Coli from contaminated food.
I double down on Fox News and raise you a Breitbart.
Which tattoo do you have? Swastika, SS lightning bolts, KKK, Putan's face, or something you came up with yourself?
When Trump hears of this and announces his new plan he will roast the Brits for stealing his idea.
Not the first appointed president in the 21st century. George 'Shrub' Bush was appointed by the Supreme Court of the Republican Party, not to be confused with the Supreme Court of the United States.
I'll do my "I told you so now" to get it out of the way. Send your apology anytime, I can wait until hell freezes over.
No one on Slashdot.
Bashing Obama and ignoring Bush is means you are either suffering from an organic brain disorder that has wrecked your memory or you are delusional and should be involuntarily committed. There is a third option that applies in your case: you are a white supremacist and overt fascist.
Get the fuck out of my country and go to Russia where you can lick Putin's ass directly, rather then let Trump do it for you.
If you are too lazy to click on the chart, it shows that the Federal guilty plea rate is 97%. Only 3% go to trial.
So your position is that all the drug dealers, bank robbers, con artists, kidnappers, tax cheats, money launderers, counterfeiters, smugglers, mad bombers, interstate sex traffickers, etc were railroaded because "Indictments don't mean shit if you don't get a jury trial".
It's great to know that you support a cause that has been taken up by liberal advocacy groups all over the county. I know how hard it is to stand up for liberal causes on Slashdot because of all the right wing trolls, and I salute your commitment to freedom.
Wait, is that right or is it the thing that goes in the bathroom right next to the toilet?
Hollywood, besides being a sign on a hill, is an intermediate sized component in the media industry. It generates about as much revenue as gaming. Compared to Comcast , Time-Warner/Spectrum or worldwide Fox-Murdoch it's not the big league. Media companies own studios, not the other way around.
The media companies work like every other entrenched special interest segment of the not-very-capitalist economy. They use power and money to buy favorable legislation and subvert regulation to make as much money as possible, which is a indescribably huge amount. The media industry, telcos/ISPs, banking, energy, health, pharmaceutical, transportation, military-industrial, agribusiness all play by the same set of rules.
Media buys 1000 year copyright. Pharmaceutical companies get patents, and when they expire it is legal to pay off generic manufactures to keep prices high. And they sell as many opioids as they want, no matter who dies. The milliary industrial complex gets weapons system that cost 10 or 20 times more then originally claimed, and it is completely unknown if they really work. Wall Street destroys the world economy through incompetence and greed, gets bailed out, and is now larger and more corrupt then ever. They just got a tax break that will bankrupt the government, passed by Republicans, not Democrats. Telcos/ISPs have a cartel of four carriers and next week there will be no internet regulation.
Meanwhile you're screaming THE SKY IS FALLING DISNEY IS USING PRINCESSES TO UNDERMINE AMERICAN VALUES AND MAKE MEN WEAR DRESSES AND SHAVE THEIR LEGS AND SOCIALIZED MEDICINE AND MIND CONTROL VACCINATIONS UNDER CONTRAILS AND DEEP STATE!!! CONSPIRACY LIBURL LIBRUL LIBRUL AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Leave your parents basement now, they know who you are and where you live and are sending the mind control beams to confuse you before you are disappeared for human experimentation with anal probes. You must flee to the wilderness before it's too late.
He and Sessions are on the same page when it comes to freedom of the press, and the right to free speech in general. They hate it. Anyone who questions or opposes them in public becomes their personal enemy, and they'll try to crush them. That's what the raving over "fake news" is really about. Destruction of a free society.
Unlike the court supervised vetting of Cohen's documents to determine what is relevant and admissible, all this information will go into secret databases and be used without reviewing if it was legally obtained. Just like the Facebook data leaked to Cambridge Analytica is now in the hands of Russian intelligence. Putin and Trump follow the same playbook.
If it was your personal account it would be a 100% failure. Why are you trying to make it seem less incompetent and damaging then it actually is? Do you have a personal interest in promoting electronic theft?
Do you think they would happily host that game? What about a game shooting kindergartners and puppies? Or making the targets only women. How about KillAChristian or KillAHonkey? The latter would feature a shooter who could be black, "Mexican" (whatever that means) or some obviously Asian guy. How would your average AltRight/closet KKK Slashdot reader respond? (sarcasm)I'm sure none of them would be uncomfortable at all.(/sarcasm)
Even though I don't play FPS games, there is one that I would play, and I think it would be a big hit: KillSlashdot. Scrape user id names for all the targets. Hours and hours of harmless amusement.
Translation. "Washington State Sues Business Rivals of Microsoft"
Now it makes sense.
The Sun emits lots of neutrinos.
Bayer is now the biotechnology migraine headache of the 21st century.
Because they are Microsoft and they live and die by NIH. That is why they have strangled so may other projects they acquired. They are even better at destroying other peoples work then Oracle, and that is world class competition.
In Microsoft Land the sequence is acquisition => integration => brain death. For example if they buy GitHub then they will "integrate" it with Linkedin, and it will be like using Facebook as a development platform. Good luck with that.
What about permanent remote shock collars. What could possibly go wrong.
Come on, be a bit more creative. So far we've heard it blamed on too many doors, Ritalin, and pornography. What about sugar and/or sugar substitutes. Soft drinks. Oooh, I know: THE INTERNET! Maybe it's Hi-Def TV. Or standardized testing. Go old school and blame fluoridation of water. Something in the packaging of cheap Chinese imports. No (Christian) prayers in schools, although you did imply that. Evil spirits, heavy metal devil worship, comic books/movies. (Very old school, check out Dr. Wertham.) Space aliens or Spanish speaking aliens, same thing really. The hole in the ozone layer. Cell phone radiation. LED lighting. Gluten. Smog. Rap music. Dogs with hypnotic powers. Con trails. The Deep State. The Illuminati. George Soros. Nazi ghosts. Sauron. Lex Luthor. Your dead grandmother, or maybe your not-dead grandmother. Loki. Progressive taxation. Vampires. Shrimp. The new moon or the dark side of the moon.
There are so many possibilities, STEP UP YOUR GAME. Honestly, it's your job to find excuses, and I'm tired thinking of things. Do your own dirty work.
If I were to lop off a limb, you would not bleed to death right away. The blood vessels automatically contract to keep you alive. But that only helps you with short term survival. You still might not make it.
If I chop off all your limbs at once, even if the blood stops flowing out where your arms and legs used to be, your chance of survival go way down, obviously. There are military personal who have lost multiple limbs and lived.
If your limbs are off and I keep hacking so you keep bleeding, you become dead meat.
Apply the analogy to the Great Barrier Reef. Loosing a limb is like rising/falling sea levels. Loosing all limbs is like ocean acidification. Changing sea levels plus acidification plus rising water temperature plus plastic ocean waste plus ... is like hacking up your body without stopping. And it's not just the Great Barrier Reef, it's all the oceans, the Amazon Basin, the atmosphere, basically the entire planetary ecosystem.
Do you get the picture? If this doesn't convince you them perhaps you could volunteer and we could do the experiment. Or course you would have to buy a coffin and a burial plot first...
We need to define a new unit of uselessness. It can't be a ratio, because 0/X is zero, and X/0 is undefined. And it has to include dollars (or whatever currency unit is appropriate for localization).
Got any ideas, Slashdot Pundits?
It's not closed because the secret cabal that runs Slashdot wants to piss you off. Thank you for letting us know how well it's working.