Isn't a PAC an organization to trade resources and property like money and influence?
The connection between "free market" rhetoric and crony capitalism is that when allowed to work on their own corporations, whether people or otherwise, will spend their money on influencing politicians to let this happen. You're asking for some sort of sea change where massive campaign reform takes place, every member of congress becomes so thoroughly incorruptible that money doesn't matter, or some other change to let your Free Market utopia flourish. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. A lot of abuses of the free market system that lead to the lockdown of the free market was because of unregulated fraud.
There's a reason why a lot of liberals roll their eyes when they hear "Free market!" shouted by libertarians. Because as much as you can't trust Government, you can trust the private sector even less to act within the bounds of good taste and morality.
Should the markets be regulated such that business can't use money to win influence and power in Government or should congressmen be able to do as they please and let the free market of lobbying dollars succeed?
It lived with a solid core of futurism. Futurism is kind of dead now, now that we're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds. The future's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70's and 80's.
Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate. BRB. Pizza delivery girl is here.
When I owned an Acer Aspire ONE, I wanted to browse the web and fart around on the internet.
When I found out that Youtube would be hit or miss, I got a little angry, but didn't get angry with the machine because quite honestly, the price was right.
Excuse me? Shysters gaming the system happens in any market. Free markets, markets with Government oversight and regulation, completely Government controlled markets... The market is inefficient at governing morality.
Except that there are more laws than just federal. Also, state and municipal laws too. In my state, Nevada, there are state laws that enforce break periods.
Except that place isn't free. Food, water, insurance, RV payments... It's probably not the $500 figure you've come to, but you're talking about working EVERY DAY, SIX SHIFTS A WEEK(with one overnight shift and no buffer day to recover) FOR 10 HOURS A DAY, 365 DAYS A YEAR to make $54k a year.
You can go Crab Fishing for a few weeks out of the year and make that much. Sure, 20 hour days, but, lots of time off between the crabbing seasons and some seasons will be better than others, but you're not being asked to slave every day of your life.
Given that they're kicked out on their ass after the first month, it's not exactly a sustainable lifestyle.
Listen you heartless Paulite, they are abusing captive sources of labour. Yes, my computer was probably put together with, or uses components that were assembled with worse working conditions than this but that doesn't make this any better.
The job isn't particularly glamorous, the job isn't very well paying. My guess is, given the economic conditions, THEY CAN'T FIND BETTER JOBS. And after the new year, they're going to be out on their asses.
10 hour days with 2 bathroom breaks? Insane, unattainable goals? 11/hour? Have you even ever made 11 an hour in your life? Do you know how hard it is to live off of 11 an hour?
There's hard work, then there's doing this. But when you're talking about 10 hour days, with ludicrous packing quotas, limited breaks, low pay, and grueling intensive labor, we're talking about abuse. Sometimes, some jobs take 20 hour work days, but usually the pay is much better. While on one hand, this is what they're willing to work for, on the other hand, they don't have many options and that's pretty fucked up that they're abusing this situation like this.
that's great for science and math but what about fields where we're not talking about understanding systems of operation?
Libertarianism and the 9/11 truth movement is what happens when you let people decide for themselves what the hell is true in the fields of history, civics and the arts.
No, but to suggest that a given reporting firm is in the tank for one political party or the other is to give News organizations too much credit for being proactive.
During the 2000 campaign, for instance, the Media reported much more favorably for George W. Bush than it did Al Gore. There's a lazy bias in the media. Quick and easy stories that can be out the door to keep up with the ever changing 24 hour news cycle.
Yes, because Keith Olbermann has said the liberal equivalent of the WHACKED OUT CRAZY PARANOID SHIT that Beck regularly spews on the TV.
Try again with this, Fox News has no liberal counterpart. We try to find symmetry in all things, there is no symmetry here. MSNBC(former home of Michael Savage, Alan Keyes, Curtis Sliwa and Don Imus, and current home of former Republican House member Joe Scaroborough) wasn't founded with the same ideological basis that Fox was. There are a total of three shows that have an out right liberal bias. Olbermann, Schultz and Maddow. They still have Joe Scarborough, they still have a pretty lousy track record of bias in their news reporting.
Win ME wasn't much better than 98SE, but with the caveat that you had to make sure all of your system drivers were for ME, not 98.
It was 2001. Putting DOS realmode support back into it is like putting OS9 compatibility into OSX. Big deal. DOS real mode didn't do much for the 32bit Windows subsystems that *were* the problem.
Please. Pod raing? George Lucas has had an extraordinary career paying homage to everyone else. This time, it was movies like Gran Prix and Le Mans. The thing about Lucas is, when he goes for it, he makes the mark. Spectacular crashes, nip and tuck racing scenes, and generally well executed action sequences. If you can't understand why the pod racing scene was supposed to be fun, whether or not you agree, if you at least identify why it's in there, maybe you shouldn't be a Star Wars fan. The Expanded Universe ruined everything for hardcore fans who expected more EU style story telling than the original star wars experience.
The age of WebOS and the Pre has nothing to do with why it sucks. If the company that gave life to the PDA can't put together a decent smart phone, and the reason why it has problems aren't teething and maturity issues, maybe maturity isn't what the OS needs. It needs newer, fresher management that's not trying to go after the fringes of disappointed iPhone users. While there are disappointed iPhone users and devs, they're vastly out numbered by the number of iPhone owners and zealots.
The more competition isn't always better. Volume doesn't equate to quality.
The part about the mobile userspace that Google doesn't get is that handset manufacturers are a bunch of useless lousy assholes.
If lockdowns were a problem, no mobile provider on earth would supply smart phones. Period.
After owning a few Windows Mobile devices, what became quite clear to me was that in an emergency the last thing I want to do is reboot to clear rogue processes just so I can make calls or heaven forbid use Google Maps.
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Isn't a PAC an organization to trade resources and property like money and influence?
The connection between "free market" rhetoric and crony capitalism is that when allowed to work on their own corporations, whether people or otherwise, will spend their money on influencing politicians to let this happen. You're asking for some sort of sea change where massive campaign reform takes place, every member of congress becomes so thoroughly incorruptible that money doesn't matter, or some other change to let your Free Market utopia flourish. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. A lot of abuses of the free market system that lead to the lockdown of the free market was because of unregulated fraud.
There's a reason why a lot of liberals roll their eyes when they hear "Free market!" shouted by libertarians. Because as much as you can't trust Government, you can trust the private sector even less to act within the bounds of good taste and morality.
so my question to you is
Should the markets be regulated such that business can't use money to win influence and power in Government or should congressmen be able to do as they please and let the free market of lobbying dollars succeed?
These are Darwin award worthy?
First off, the rigor. Minor complaint, but it'd be neat if they linked to a police report, or a newspaper article on these incidents.
Second off, the stupid. These are by far not the stupidest deaths I've read about last year. the DAs are getting weak.
I take off my wizard robe and hat.
It lived with a solid core of futurism. Futurism is kind of dead now, now that we're using phones to surf the web and cops are using sonic weapons against crowds. The future's here and Omni guessed a lot of it right in the 70's and 80's.
Only if Letters to Penthouse could be this accurate. BRB. Pizza delivery girl is here.
Would you give an iPhone to a kid who is constantly throwing things around and having temper tantrums?
No, because he'd be the CEO in charge of the company that gave us the Zune and Windows Mobile.
When I owned an Acer Aspire ONE, I wanted to browse the web and fart around on the internet.
When I found out that Youtube would be hit or miss, I got a little angry, but didn't get angry with the machine because quite honestly, the price was right.
"This doesn't happen in a free market."
Excuse me? Shysters gaming the system happens in any market. Free markets, markets with Government oversight and regulation, completely Government controlled markets... The market is inefficient at governing morality.
You mean like how sub prime derivatives were innovative?
Innovation isn't always a great thing.
Except that there are more laws than just federal. Also, state and municipal laws too. In my state, Nevada, there are state laws that enforce break periods.
Except that place isn't free. Food, water, insurance, RV payments... It's probably not the $500 figure you've come to, but you're talking about working EVERY DAY, SIX SHIFTS A WEEK(with one overnight shift and no buffer day to recover) FOR 10 HOURS A DAY, 365 DAYS A YEAR to make $54k a year.
You can go Crab Fishing for a few weeks out of the year and make that much. Sure, 20 hour days, but, lots of time off between the crabbing seasons and some seasons will be better than others, but you're not being asked to slave every day of your life.
Given that they're kicked out on their ass after the first month, it's not exactly a sustainable lifestyle.
Other than the useless libertarian Wharrrgarbl, what's the problem with Government protectionism for it's own citizens?
Listen you heartless Paulite, they are abusing captive sources of labour. Yes, my computer was probably put together with, or uses components that were assembled with worse working conditions than this but that doesn't make this any better.
The job isn't particularly glamorous, the job isn't very well paying. My guess is, given the economic conditions, THEY CAN'T FIND BETTER JOBS. And after the new year, they're going to be out on their asses.
10 hour days with 2 bathroom breaks? Insane, unattainable goals? 11/hour? Have you even ever made 11 an hour in your life? Do you know how hard it is to live off of 11 an hour?
Fuck that shit.
How about reading it?
There's hard work, then there's doing this. But when you're talking about 10 hour days, with ludicrous packing quotas, limited breaks, low pay, and grueling intensive labor, we're talking about abuse. Sometimes, some jobs take 20 hour work days, but usually the pay is much better. While on one hand, this is what they're willing to work for, on the other hand, they don't have many options and that's pretty fucked up that they're abusing this situation like this.
that's great for science and math but what about fields where we're not talking about understanding systems of operation?
Libertarianism and the 9/11 truth movement is what happens when you let people decide for themselves what the hell is true in the fields of history, civics and the arts.
No, but to suggest that a given reporting firm is in the tank for one political party or the other is to give News organizations too much credit for being proactive.
During the 2000 campaign, for instance, the Media reported much more favorably for George W. Bush than it did Al Gore. There's a lazy bias in the media. Quick and easy stories that can be out the door to keep up with the ever changing 24 hour news cycle.
Yes, because Keith Olbermann has said the liberal equivalent of the WHACKED OUT CRAZY PARANOID SHIT that Beck regularly spews on the TV.
Try again with this, Fox News has no liberal counterpart. We try to find symmetry in all things, there is no symmetry here. MSNBC(former home of Michael Savage, Alan Keyes, Curtis Sliwa and Don Imus, and current home of former Republican House member Joe Scaroborough) wasn't founded with the same ideological basis that Fox was. There are a total of three shows that have an out right liberal bias. Olbermann, Schultz and Maddow. They still have Joe Scarborough, they still have a pretty lousy track record of bias in their news reporting.
Win ME wasn't much better than 98SE, but with the caveat that you had to make sure all of your system drivers were for ME, not 98.
It was 2001. Putting DOS realmode support back into it is like putting OS9 compatibility into OSX. Big deal. DOS real mode didn't do much for the 32bit Windows subsystems that *were* the problem.
I still own a Nokia 3390 you insensitive clod.
(I love my iPhone, but I also loved my 3390.)
Please. Pod raing? George Lucas has had an extraordinary career paying homage to everyone else. This time, it was movies like Gran Prix and Le Mans. The thing about Lucas is, when he goes for it, he makes the mark. Spectacular crashes, nip and tuck racing scenes, and generally well executed action sequences. If you can't understand why the pod racing scene was supposed to be fun, whether or not you agree, if you at least identify why it's in there, maybe you shouldn't be a Star Wars fan. The Expanded Universe ruined everything for hardcore fans who expected more EU style story telling than the original star wars experience.
Didn't you read Acts? I'm an atheist, but I know that the Apostles were setting up a religion under the Creative Commons license
The age of WebOS and the Pre has nothing to do with why it sucks. If the company that gave life to the PDA can't put together a decent smart phone, and the reason why it has problems aren't teething and maturity issues, maybe maturity isn't what the OS needs. It needs newer, fresher management that's not trying to go after the fringes of disappointed iPhone users. While there are disappointed iPhone users and devs, they're vastly out numbered by the number of iPhone owners and zealots.
The more competition isn't always better. Volume doesn't equate to quality.
only if I could get Emacs as a Firefox plugin...
hey! When I was in middle school I could swing a hammer at my own arm at a 10th grade level.
The part about the mobile userspace that Google doesn't get is that handset manufacturers are a bunch of useless lousy assholes.
If lockdowns were a problem, no mobile provider on earth would supply smart phones. Period.
After owning a few Windows Mobile devices, what became quite clear to me was that in an emergency the last thing I want to do is reboot to clear rogue processes just so I can make calls or heaven forbid use Google Maps.