OT: apart from your signature, your comment fit exactly in the stupidly-small-buffer-with-no-standard-deviation. I clicked "read the rest of the fucking comment" and only saw your signature. I liked your comment, and thank you for the insight; I'm not happy about Slashdot's idiocy.
Thank you, "Trading Places" (how do you give THAT possession???) costumed train priest/butler, who said almost exactly that ("itself" was not part of his quote).
The landlord did not own the crack den; did not own the explosives. In both cases, these were moved in by the tenant. So you think landlords should have 24x7 cameras on the insides of their rental properties at all times as well?
I can count the number of times I have accepted this kind offer on the fingers of one foot.
Somewhat OT, but: in Portuguese, "toes" are literally "foot-fingers" (they have no separate word for "toe"). So, this sort of joke would fall down in translation. (I love the perspective that knowing another language gives one.)
I am rather glad I didn't give the esteemed Mr. Perens my $100,000 when we were negotiating. (Instead, I invested in a different "private placement" and lost it all, so I guess I'm not glad at all -- but at least the one I invested in had a chance of recovering through a court case, until that folded -- unlike the Linux opportunity, which just burned all the money.) But anyway: an accredited investor is someone who makes more than $200,000 per year, or has a net worth of over a million (at least, back in the 90s that was the case).
Just like it didn't want it getting out that [neocons] have been systematically destroying democratic institutions, from Iran to Vietnam to Argentina to Palestine [to the US]
I saved a fortune cookie that I got a year or so ago, which is particularly apt: "A huge fortune at home is not as good as money in use."
I completely agree with the taxation; back in the 50s and 60s, the highest tax rate was 90%, and they gladly paid it because it meant they were doing so well, and contributing to society as well.
Two failed wars ten years in with trillions in debt, and the goal is to lower the morale of the civil servants? WTF are they smoking, and do they share?
If you have a security clearance, you are not allowed to talk about classified materials, even if you only know of those materials from an out of channel source (the news).
Ludicrous on its face, but: this sounds like we can figure out every single government official! That old "are you a cop" routine; "Read this article; then, comment on it."
Not so sure I agree; an affluent society should be able to afford a leeching class. Saudi Arabia, for example, had a "negative tax" at one point: the government actually paid the people. Especially as we get closer to the singularity, and more and more industries become "copying victims".
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OT: apart from your signature, your comment fit exactly in the stupidly-small-buffer-with-no-standard-deviation. I clicked "read the rest of the fucking comment" and only saw your signature. I liked your comment, and thank you for the insight; I'm not happy about Slashdot's idiocy.
Thank you, "Trading Places" (how do you give THAT possession???) costumed train priest/butler, who said almost exactly that ("itself" was not part of his quote).
The landlord did not own the crack den; did not own the explosives. In both cases, these were moved in by the tenant. So you think landlords should have 24x7 cameras on the insides of their rental properties at all times as well?
Yes, yes I did. Which is why your sales pitch didn't move me. Is that what you were looking for with your negative comment?
Good thing we still pay InstallShield, then, I guess...
Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me!
Yeah, I'm auto-sexual now going on a decade.
Yeah, all that and, to my government: "If you haven't done anything wrong, then you don't have anything to hide." Turnabout, etc.
And, like RICO, it has been abused and twisted by the authorities to deprive legitimate owners of their property.
Somewhat OT, but: in Portuguese, "toes" are literally "foot-fingers" (they have no separate word for "toe"). So, this sort of joke would fall down in translation. (I love the perspective that knowing another language gives one.)
4) Are you still lacking in confidence, after reading this post?
I am rather glad I didn't give the esteemed Mr. Perens my $100,000 when we were negotiating. (Instead, I invested in a different "private placement" and lost it all, so I guess I'm not glad at all -- but at least the one I invested in had a chance of recovering through a court case, until that folded -- unlike the Linux opportunity, which just burned all the money.) But anyway: an accredited investor is someone who makes more than $200,000 per year, or has a net worth of over a million (at least, back in the 90s that was the case).
I think you might have had a case for emphasizing "implemented" as well. :)
Copyright law actually got easier of late: if the original work was written before 1923, you're in the clear. Otherwise, you have to pay Disney.
So your first one's free? Sorry, not my drug dealer model for governance...
Sorry, not ridged enough...
Just like it didn't want it getting out that [neocons] have been systematically destroying democratic institutions, from Iran to Vietnam to Argentina to Palestine [to the US]
"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place." -- Gordon Gekko
I saved a fortune cookie that I got a year or so ago, which is particularly apt: "A huge fortune at home is not as good as money in use."
I completely agree with the taxation; back in the 50s and 60s, the highest tax rate was 90%, and they gladly paid it because it meant they were doing so well, and contributing to society as well.
Mod parent up please, excellent analysis.
Zeitgeist, FTW.
Two failed wars ten years in with trillions in debt, and the goal is to lower the morale of the civil servants? WTF are they smoking, and do they share?
Ludicrous on its face, but: this sounds like we can figure out every single government official! That old "are you a cop" routine; "Read this article; then, comment on it."
At the first point of divergence, perhaps?
Not so sure I agree; an affluent society should be able to afford a leeching class. Saudi Arabia, for example, had a "negative tax" at one point: the government actually paid the people. Especially as we get closer to the singularity, and more and more industries become "copying victims".