Are we counting the US drone program when they blow the shit out of a civilian wedding? Do we count the ~1,000,000 people the US killed in Iraq? Or the hundreds of thousands of kids they killed with sanctions?
However in this case you're not even bothering to judge their ends.
You have no problem with fear, intimidation, lies and fraud. Really. Coming from the people in the gang with the guns, who can lock you up or execute you.
Specifically in case you didn't know, government officials are corrupt and are quite frequently the bad guys. They hold a monopoly on the initiation of force and that's what they always use to back up their threats. Just do a search for asset forfeiture sometime, or swat raids, free speech zones, constitution free zones, no-fly list, patriot act, NDAA, federal reserve etc.
Lulz, it's ok, they've redefined the word "collecting" to mean "using data for nefarious purposes" and so they can say all day they're not "collecting" anything on the general public and only have targeted "collecting".
The negative thinkers can turn into over-achievers. Thinking that if they're really productive, they will get promoted.
Unfortunately for them, once they realize this is not the case, they get angry, frustrated, cynical.
Meanwhile the positive thinkers become high performers, who achieve less individually and in any given week and realize that working as a group and motivating people is more important than individual contributions. They stay in the game longer and turn into good leaders. They get promoted while the negative thinkers leave in search of the recognition they've earned but don't seem to get anywhere.
I own and still use a verizon galaxy nexus. Unlocking was as simple as booting into the bios and choosing 'unlock bootloader'.
Done. No software or hacking necessary.
You must be thinking of another phone. I've run many custom roms on this one.
Which isn't really much of a problem. Many, if not most, Linux users just want Unix functionality and don't care about the Linux brand itself, don't care about the GPL and its politics, etc. Hence the popularity of Mac OS X for many *nix users. It just so happens that for commodity PC hardware Linux is one of the more convenient *nix offerings.
Speak for yourself. I don't buy your claims to be able to speak for others.
You realize there's not one single argument in your response right?
You wrote a paragraph full of opinions...
I didn't say the free market prevents monopolies. I said it prevents monopolies from acting against the interest of everyone else with impunity. Who are you to say that for a certain market you know how many companies should exist in order to best use the available means to reach the desired ends?
It is possible that in certain economic situations, the optimal number of companies serving the market is two, three, five or even one.
I won't speak to your other points because I don't have a good answer, however on the point about monopolies...
The free market ensures that monopolies can't be successful with anti-competitive practices for very long. Always.
If you study historical monopolies as some economists of the austrian school have, you will see that unless a monopoly has the backing of the government, they don't last long and they pay dearly for trying to be anti-competitive.
One example is M$ vs Netscape. M$ was the 800lb gorilla, netscape was a mouthy monkey and they were fighting for a banana. Microsoft spent many millions or billions of dollars fighting that battle. They killed Netscape, the company. But what they found was that in it's place, other challengers show up in ways you don't expect. Ultimately they've lost the fight many times over and it's a losing battle for them. The browsers go to those who serve them best, free software.
I'm sorry but the evidence just does not bear out your views at all.
There is no compelling evidence that warm temperatures are bad for battery chemistry, in fact under laboratory tests the batteries last longer with fast charging and warm temperatures.
Go look at evtv.me. Those guys actually do the experiments.
The myth that nissan leafs have problems with warm temperatures is still not backed up by anything except for whining.
The last time this came up in a big way, no one here could point to anything suggesting that flight is a necessary part of modern life, to the point that it is a constitutional right.
In fact, most people pointed to cases where travel was NOT a constitutional right.
So what will change is everyone here will now have a case to point to suggesting that the no-fly list is actually unconstitutional. Actually unconstitutional as opposed to obviously unconstitutional.
So the difference on slashdot is that people will have a case to point to, but still won't.
What the fuck?
Have you ever read the constitution?
First of all you have it all backwards my retarded son.
The constitution allows the federal government to be granted certain rights by the people to do some very specific things. The federal government is PROHIBITED from doing anything not specifically listed.
I quoteth:
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Please for the love of the spaghetti monster, where in the constitution is the federal government given the power to restrict people's travel liberties without due process?
Oh that's right, it ain't there so they don't have it.
Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Oh and the constitution does not have to list every right that belongs to the people. They belong to the people, listed on a piece of paper or not and are not granted by the government. The government is granted it's rights by the people, not the other way around.
Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
So to the parent post and those who modded it up: SuuuUUUuuuck IiiiiiiiT.
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What's a terrorist act?
Are we counting the US drone program when they blow the shit out of a civilian wedding? Do we count the ~1,000,000 people the US killed in Iraq? Or the hundreds of thousands of kids they killed with sanctions?
He also forgot about symbols and punctuation.
I call it right now. This is the name of my future language: " "
(I'll give you a hint, it's ascii 255, nbsp for short, or non-breaking space)
However in this case you're not even bothering to judge their ends.
You have no problem with fear, intimidation, lies and fraud. Really. Coming from the people in the gang with the guns, who can lock you up or execute you.
Specifically in case you didn't know, government officials are corrupt and are quite frequently the bad guys. They hold a monopoly on the initiation of force and that's what they always use to back up their threats. Just do a search for asset forfeiture sometime, or swat raids, free speech zones, constitution free zones, no-fly list, patriot act, NDAA, federal reserve etc.
By the way, the ends don't justify the means.
Lulz, it's ok, they've redefined the word "collecting" to mean "using data for nefarious purposes" and so they can say all day they're not "collecting" anything on the general public and only have targeted "collecting".
I give a fuck, actually. I'd like a wife. I'd like her to be a colleague. I'd like to think I'm not the only one.
To be honest that sounds fucking rapey as fuck.
The negative thinkers can turn into over-achievers. Thinking that if they're really productive, they will get promoted.
Unfortunately for them, once they realize this is not the case, they get angry, frustrated, cynical.
Meanwhile the positive thinkers become high performers, who achieve less individually and in any given week and realize that working as a group and motivating people is more important than individual contributions. They stay in the game longer and turn into good leaders. They get promoted while the negative thinkers leave in search of the recognition they've earned but don't seem to get anywhere.
I own and still use a verizon galaxy nexus. Unlocking was as simple as booting into the bios and choosing 'unlock bootloader'. Done. No software or hacking necessary.
You must be thinking of another phone. I've run many custom roms on this one.
How can you ever really have rules, if you have rulers?
FreeBSD is not Linux though.
Which isn't really much of a problem. Many, if not most, Linux users just want Unix functionality and don't care about the Linux brand itself, don't care about the GPL and its politics, etc. Hence the popularity of Mac OS X for many *nix users. It just so happens that for commodity PC hardware Linux is one of the more convenient *nix offerings.
Speak for yourself. I don't buy your claims to be able to speak for others.
Cover up, incompetence, and Government. Why am I not surprised at all.
and somehow twist it to interpret it as making the claim that it's limited to government?
You must be very very dumb.
Now I'm wondering why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Because these professional victim-hood stories are starting to make me want to unsubscribe this piece of shit website right about now.
Professional victim that scammed people of $150k is back for more money.
Apparently people are dumb and she likes to fleece them.
You wrote a paragraph full of opinions...
I didn't say the free market prevents monopolies. I said it prevents monopolies from acting against the interest of everyone else with impunity. Who are you to say that for a certain market you know how many companies should exist in order to best use the available means to reach the desired ends?
It is possible that in certain economic situations, the optimal number of companies serving the market is two, three, five or even one.
I won't speak to your other points because I don't have a good answer, however on the point about monopolies...
The free market ensures that monopolies can't be successful with anti-competitive practices for very long. Always.
If you study historical monopolies as some economists of the austrian school have, you will see that unless a monopoly has the backing of the government, they don't last long and they pay dearly for trying to be anti-competitive.
Tom Woods has a good talk on this.
One example is M$ vs Netscape. M$ was the 800lb gorilla, netscape was a mouthy monkey and they were fighting for a banana. Microsoft spent many millions or billions of dollars fighting that battle. They killed Netscape, the company. But what they found was that in it's place, other challengers show up in ways you don't expect. Ultimately they've lost the fight many times over and it's a losing battle for them. The browsers go to those who serve them best, free software.
Your logic sounds flawed.
All science are models, all maths are models, therefore all maths are science?
Nay.
Do you think lead acid chemistry results automatically apply to the types of batteries in the leaf?
I'm sorry but the evidence just does not bear out your views at all. There is no compelling evidence that warm temperatures are bad for battery chemistry, in fact under laboratory tests the batteries last longer with fast charging and warm temperatures.
Go look at evtv.me. Those guys actually do the experiments.
The myth that nissan leafs have problems with warm temperatures is still not backed up by anything except for whining.
It's not about taxes, it's about spending.
Because when they spend, they'll come up with the money one way or another, indebt future generations, print money, sell government power.
But then again, take away the power to spend and you have a solution.
Or even better, just take away their power.
GPL. Nuff Said.
Actually, the length of a meter is based on the distance between the pole and the equator of the earth. It has nothing to do with the speed of light.
The last time this came up in a big way, no one here could point to anything suggesting that flight is a necessary part of modern life, to the point that it is a constitutional right.
In fact, most people pointed to cases where travel was NOT a constitutional right.
So what will change is everyone here will now have a case to point to suggesting that the no-fly list is actually unconstitutional. Actually unconstitutional as opposed to obviously unconstitutional.
So the difference on slashdot is that people will have a case to point to, but still won't.
What the fuck?
Have you ever read the constitution?
First of all you have it all backwards my retarded son.
The constitution allows the federal government to be granted certain rights by the people to do some very specific things. The federal government is PROHIBITED from doing anything not specifically listed.
I quoteth:
Tenth Amendment
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Please for the love of the spaghetti monster, where in the constitution is the federal government given the power to restrict people's travel liberties without due process? Oh that's right, it ain't there so they don't have it.
Fifth Amendment
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Oh and the constitution does not have to list every right that belongs to the people. They belong to the people, listed on a piece of paper or not and are not granted by the government. The government is granted it's rights by the people, not the other way around.
Ninth Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
So to the parent post and those who modded it up: SuuuUUUuuuck IiiiiiiiT.
Piketty's work has already been found to be lacking in basic economics 101 level stuff.
Who cares about his spreadsheets.
People think this is funny because it's disgusting, no it's funny because it's like mitt romney saying he'll bet $10k in cash on a whim.