Remember the last election when the mining companies ran ads talking about how the mining super tax would hurt aussie jobs? A lot of aussies ate it up.
Yet some mining companies had their best years EVER for profits in 2010 - iirc one of them made about DOUBLE in profits than the prior term. So I'm really not surprised that we're seeing this from other sectors as well. I hope Costco kicks ass on the east coast and spreads to all of the capital cities - I'm tired of paying stupidly high prices for basic items and never being able to buy anything in bulk. Honestly, who ever only needs 16 rolls of TP? Give me a 64 pack, a 100 pack, I don't care. I'm not going to stop using it anytime soon.
I don't have a PS3 and I'm debating on whether or not it's worth it to buy one just for this game. I have zero interest in every other PS3 game. I don't think the number of people in the same situation as sdguero and myself are very few.
1) Man earns millions from oil industry.
2) He dies.
3) His son inherits the money.
4) His son dies.
5) His grandson inherits the money.
6) His grandson gets scammed and loses the money.
7) His grandson's scammers spend some of the money.
8) His grandson's lawyers are paid to fight the scammers.
9) His grandson's lawyers buy a new Mercedes.
See? It *does* trickle down! It just takes 2 generations and some scamming to get it spread around!
"A spokesperson for Verizon has issued a report correcting the FCC, stating their settlement with the FCC was at a rate of 0.002 cents, not 0.002 dollars, bringing their total liability to $0.25M."
Wow thanks a lot. You just crashed my video card driver in Windows 7. That's the first time that's happened to me. And it was because I clicked a Youtube link in a thread talking about Adobe Flash and why Apple won't ship it on their computers.
I was trying to think of a good example of why 0-click ordering is a bad idea, and I think I just sent a bunch of UPS and DHL boxes to your house. Sorry about that.
The theory is that it will be cheaper to buy from a shop than from a dealer - more suppliers. Plus you'd be able to grow your own. So the dealers getting it illegally from over the border or some local illegal grower would just be put out of business essentially.
IIRC, our Phillips Magnavox large screen CRT TV had a "Smart Sound" feature that basically just normalized the volume all the time. I have to say it worked pretty well. I'd always notice watching TV at someone elses house that some ads played REALLY loud compared to the program. We had that TV from about the mid 90's I think.
Why don't more TVs have it? (rather, I know "cost" is probably the main reason, but it should be a good enough feature to be fairly standard today, you'd think)
Does anyone else remember those ads on TV that tried to get you to sell your excess gold for cash? I think it was about a decade ago.
Interesting how now that the price of gold is three times what it was 10 years ago*, they're trying to sell it back to us. And by interesting I mean not surprising. Those ads always seem sleezy to me. Some guy in his 50's with glasses on a wooden desk blabbing on for like 3 minutes about gold and why you should sell it.
Of course, I don't have any gold nor have I purchased any, so I can't really complain. And I could be totally wrong since I don't follow these kinds of things. Someone correct me if I am.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_price_in_USD.png
"The blurb is intentionally misleading here. The govt gave the OK for the book but then upon a later review they were worried about some names released and a 2nd printing has already been agreed upon by both parties. They are just deciding what to do with 10k books that were already printed. Obviously the publisher spent money to already print them so they aren't going to just destroy them."
I was going to disagree with you until I read one of the Facebook comments on the blog post talking about the error:
"John Marshall: how do i get job workin with facebook i live in newcastle in uk can any one from facebook staff get or can some one give me a email address that i can use to contact facebook please"
and now that video's source is getting slashdotted. it's basically loading the video at about.5KB/s for me. any more mirrors? i'm not seeing any with a quick search.
When I was going to school, some people with laptops were playing games in class, too. Does this mean employers should avoid graduates from the classes of 2002-2008 as well?
You've summed up the reason for our high unemployement rate with two sentences. Congratulations!
When the price of [used] textbooks at Uni bookstore for two semesters/quarters equal the price of a tablet computer [which does considerably more than the textbooks], can you really blame them?
I don't care if it's made to be poop color...there are never enough images from the Hubble. Anything they are willing to present is good in my book!
and this is exactly why, even after reading TFS and TFA, consciously saying to myself "I know I don't have 3D glasses of *any* kind", I still watched the video.
In full screen.
And told myself "actually it does look a little 3D."
Government officials can have opinions. They can express those opinions publically. What they can't do is dream up a law and have the country do their bidding without due process.
George Bush can quote the bible and talk about what God says the country *should* do. But if he tried to make the 10 commandments the 0th amendment, he'd get his ass handed to him.
Obama can say "I don't agree with this church. This church does not represent Americans. If I found out I was somehow helping this guy say what he is saying, I'd do whatever was reasonable to stop supporting him."
And did you ever stop to think that since the media has been on a fucking FRENZY on this story, surely some of them have been asking Obama about his opinions on the matter? You'd probably also notice that a lot of other people have "given their opinions" on this church. If someone kept asking YOU for comment on something, after a while you'd probably finally give your opinion on it, too. Did you not realize there's a parade of people following around the POTUS asking for his thoughts on *everything* going on in the world?
I was under the impression Craigslist adult ads were safer than other forms of [illegal] prostitution. You could email potential clients for as long as you wanted (and as long as they'd put up with!) before meeting them. And you could even do a webcam session from the safety of your own home. Not getting a good vibe about a potential client? Don't even need to see him in person. The safe filtering possibilities were beyond anything we'd seen before.
I know I read an article/blog by a CL prostitute who basically had a "how-to" on posting ads and meeting clients, but I can't seem to find it now. It was years ago. But basically she had a close call with an iffy client and vowed to play it safer from that point on. She made a guide that made it dead easy to spot clients who were obviously dangerous and how to find out more about them by only exchanging typed words.
Of course there was the potential that a client would work really *really* hard acting like a good guy and then doing something truly evil, but anyone could be a victim to someone like that - whether you're posting an ad online, meeting someone in a bar, or even dating a friend of a friend.
TYT frequently rips open arguments with facts - and they do it to "both sides" [sorry if the links I posted don't have a lot of fact checking in them. I've been very critical of TYT but past clips do have plenty of facts to back up their claims]. Though lately it has been a lot of Fox News and republican bashing (can't really say there isn't a good reason for it lately).
Does anyone know what that private server was giving when you paid them?
I can understand playing on private servers if it's free, but if you're going to pay money to play on a private server, why not just pay Blizzard and play on official servers? Usually the private servers are a little behind on content anyway.
Even though I didn't really expect China to do things like this (at least this early), it looks like they're willing to raise the standards of their production at the cost of business; something that most "western" societies have been doing for some time (and hence why they now import these goods from countries willing to produce from the cheap labor and lax restrictions).
If this continues, it will slow their growth. Some other country will be able to produce the same things China has without these same restrictions. I know people talk about India being similar or replacing China in this regard, but won't India follow a similar path of cleaning up their own "manufacturing ethics" as they grow? What happens when *all* countries have tighter manufacturing limits in place?
Not only you. The whole human species would be extinct by then. We have global warming, pollution, fuel shortage, wars, corruption. These are enough to finish us by 2100. What happens in 2182 is irrelevant.
Yeah hi, can I also get the pollution with no cheese and add bacon? And can you make the drink with the wars just a bottle of water instead of a Coke?
Also can you throw in some of those Chinese takeovers of Western society and the LHC creating a blackhole which will eat all of France?
Thanks.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember the last election when the mining companies ran ads talking about how the mining super tax would hurt aussie jobs? A lot of aussies ate it up.
Yet some mining companies had their best years EVER for profits in 2010 - iirc one of them made about DOUBLE in profits than the prior term.
So I'm really not surprised that we're seeing this from other sectors as well. I hope Costco kicks ass on the east coast and spreads to all of the capital cities - I'm tired of paying stupidly high prices for basic items and never being able to buy anything in bulk. Honestly, who ever only needs 16 rolls of TP? Give me a 64 pack, a 100 pack, I don't care. I'm not going to stop using it anytime soon.
I don't have a PS3 and I'm debating on whether or not it's worth it to buy one just for this game. I have zero interest in every other PS3 game. I don't think the number of people in the same situation as sdguero and myself are very few.
1) Man earns millions from oil industry.
2) He dies.
3) His son inherits the money.
4) His son dies.
5) His grandson inherits the money.
6) His grandson gets scammed and loses the money.
7) His grandson's scammers spend some of the money.
8) His grandson's lawyers are paid to fight the scammers.
9) His grandson's lawyers buy a new Mercedes.
See? It *does* trickle down! It just takes 2 generations and some scamming to get it spread around!
"A spokesperson for Verizon has issued a report correcting the FCC, stating their settlement with the FCC was at a rate of 0.002 cents, not 0.002 dollars, bringing their total liability to $0.25M."
Wow thanks a lot. You just crashed my video card driver in Windows 7. That's the first time that's happened to me. And it was because I clicked a Youtube link in a thread talking about Adobe Flash and why Apple won't ship it on their computers.
Like a black fly in my chardonnay.
It's a space station.
I was trying to think of a good example of why 0-click ordering is a bad idea, and I think I just sent a bunch of UPS and DHL boxes to your house.
Sorry about that.
The theory is that it will be cheaper to buy from a shop than from a dealer - more suppliers. Plus you'd be able to grow your own. So the dealers getting it illegally from over the border or some local illegal grower would just be put out of business essentially.
Maybe he should have protected his work. Perhaps with some kind of ... encryption?
IIRC, our Phillips Magnavox large screen CRT TV had a "Smart Sound" feature that basically just normalized the volume all the time. I have to say it worked pretty well. I'd always notice watching TV at someone elses house that some ads played REALLY loud compared to the program. We had that TV from about the mid 90's I think.
Why don't more TVs have it? (rather, I know "cost" is probably the main reason, but it should be a good enough feature to be fairly standard today, you'd think)
Does anyone else remember those ads on TV that tried to get you to sell your excess gold for cash? I think it was about a decade ago.
Interesting how now that the price of gold is three times what it was 10 years ago*, they're trying to sell it back to us. And by interesting I mean not surprising. Those ads always seem sleezy to me. Some guy in his 50's with glasses on a wooden desk blabbing on for like 3 minutes about gold and why you should sell it.
Of course, I don't have any gold nor have I purchased any, so I can't really complain. And I could be totally wrong since I don't follow these kinds of things. Someone correct me if I am.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_price_in_USD.png
From the previous /. story that covered this, in the comments:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1784344&cid=33547938
"The blurb is intentionally misleading here. The govt gave the OK for the book but then upon a later review they were worried about some names released and a 2nd printing has already been agreed upon by both parties. They are just deciding what to do with 10k books that were already printed. Obviously the publisher spent money to already print them so they aren't going to just destroy them."
So nothing to see here, move along...
Actually, there are more Subways than there are McDonalds. For the US at least. Has been that way for a few years IIRC.
I was going to disagree with you until I read one of the Facebook comments on the blog post talking about the error:
"John Marshall: how do i get job workin with facebook i live in newcastle in uk can any one from facebook staff get or can some one give me a email address that i can use to contact facebook please"
:|
very doomed.
and now that video's source is getting slashdotted. it's basically loading the video at about .5KB/s for me. any more mirrors? i'm not seeing any with a quick search.
When I was going to school, some people with laptops were playing games in class, too. Does this mean employers should avoid graduates from the classes of 2002-2008 as well?
You've summed up the reason for our high unemployement rate with two sentences. Congratulations!
When the price of [used] textbooks at Uni bookstore for two semesters/quarters equal the price of a tablet computer [which does considerably more than the textbooks], can you really blame them?
I don't care if it's made to be poop color...there are never enough images from the Hubble. Anything they are willing to present is good in my book!
and this is exactly why, even after reading TFS and TFA, consciously saying to myself "I know I don't have 3D glasses of *any* kind", I still watched the video.
In full screen.
And told myself "actually it does look a little 3D."
What?
Government officials can have opinions. They can express those opinions publically. What they can't do is dream up a law and have the country do their bidding without due process.
George Bush can quote the bible and talk about what God says the country *should* do. But if he tried to make the 10 commandments the 0th amendment, he'd get his ass handed to him.
Obama can say "I don't agree with this church. This church does not represent Americans. If I found out I was somehow helping this guy say what he is saying, I'd do whatever was reasonable to stop supporting him."
And did you ever stop to think that since the media has been on a fucking FRENZY on this story, surely some of them have been asking Obama about his opinions on the matter? You'd probably also notice that a lot of other people have "given their opinions" on this church. If someone kept asking YOU for comment on something, after a while you'd probably finally give your opinion on it, too. Did you not realize there's a parade of people following around the POTUS asking for his thoughts on *everything* going on in the world?
I was under the impression Craigslist adult ads were safer than other forms of [illegal] prostitution. You could email potential clients for as long as you wanted (and as long as they'd put up with!) before meeting them. And you could even do a webcam session from the safety of your own home. Not getting a good vibe about a potential client? Don't even need to see him in person. The safe filtering possibilities were beyond anything we'd seen before.
I know I read an article/blog by a CL prostitute who basically had a "how-to" on posting ads and meeting clients, but I can't seem to find it now. It was years ago. But basically she had a close call with an iffy client and vowed to play it safer from that point on. She made a guide that made it dead easy to spot clients who were obviously dangerous and how to find out more about them by only exchanging typed words.
Of course there was the potential that a client would work really *really* hard acting like a good guy and then doing something truly evil, but anyone could be a victim to someone like that - whether you're posting an ad online, meeting someone in a bar, or even dating a friend of a friend.
Allow me to respond to your inquiry with youtube links!
Glenn Beck on 9/11 victims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruzvmqbTpPI
That pretty much sums up the ridiculousness of his message. Also may I point you to the Daily Show link which basically rips the "WHO IS FUNDING THIS TERRORIST MOSQUE!?!?" to shreds:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-23-2010/the-parent-company-trap
And here's a few more of The Young Turks on Glenn Beck:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bbgsYV9DXk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-aBUoO7aSA
TYT frequently rips open arguments with facts - and they do it to "both sides" [sorry if the links I posted don't have a lot of fact checking in them. I've been very critical of TYT but past clips do have plenty of facts to back up their claims]. Though lately it has been a lot of Fox News and republican bashing (can't really say there isn't a good reason for it lately).
Does anyone know what that private server was giving when you paid them?
I can understand playing on private servers if it's free, but if you're going to pay money to play on a private server, why not just pay Blizzard and play on official servers? Usually the private servers are a little behind on content anyway.
Even though I didn't really expect China to do things like this (at least this early), it looks like they're willing to raise the standards of their production at the cost of business; something that most "western" societies have been doing for some time (and hence why they now import these goods from countries willing to produce from the cheap labor and lax restrictions).
If this continues, it will slow their growth. Some other country will be able to produce the same things China has without these same restrictions. I know people talk about India being similar or replacing China in this regard, but won't India follow a similar path of cleaning up their own "manufacturing ethics" as they grow? What happens when *all* countries have tighter manufacturing limits in place?
Not only you. The whole human species would be extinct by then. We have global warming, pollution, fuel shortage, wars, corruption. These are enough to finish us by 2100. What happens in 2182 is irrelevant.
Yeah hi, can I also get the pollution with no cheese and add bacon? And can you make the drink with the wars just a bottle of water instead of a Coke?
Also can you throw in some of those Chinese takeovers of Western society and the LHC creating a blackhole which will eat all of France?
Thanks.
Since when did NASA get sharks into satellites in space?