Nothing us average, ordinary folks need to worry about. The DJs will just pay the record companies through the payment service they are currently using.
FIX: (Really? A single tab open to slashdot requires 300,000 [kilo]bytes of RAM?) I don't expect # 10 to be any better and will continue using Firefox or Opera.
>>>Republicans and democrats are equally complicit in this act of corruption.
Oh I agree. The point I'm making is that the Democrats are commonly viewed as being anti-corporate. And yet it was the Democrats that voted overwhelmingly (near 80%) in favor of bailouts and corporate welfare. While the Republicans voted against it (only 30% were in favor). Our commonly-held beliefs about these two parties are no longer true.
>>>google is simply a company. companies are never there for your benefit. never.
I agree with the first sentence, because companies should not be worshipped like football teams. They are inaminate entities and nothing more. But disagree with the second. Companies ARE there to serve the customer and keep him/her happy, because it they don't they end-up like Montgomery Wards or Circuit Shitty (bankrupt).
I visited Wards during its final selloff. The employees there looked extremely depressed, and it was kinda sad, but that's how a free market works. You either win the "votes" of the customers' dollars, or you don't and get removed. The market is a democracy where the Demos (the People) decide who wins and loses. (Except when government interfere with bailouts/stimulus/corporate welfare.) So far Google has been winning the votes, while other ad agencies like Youtube struggle to survive.
They run slow as heck when loading pages (load half the page but then pause before loading the other half), randomly freeze for 30 seconds while "thinking", and gobble-up tons of memory. (Really? A single tab open to slashdot requires 300,000 bytes of RAM?) I don't expect # 10 to be any better and will continue using Firefox or Opera (the latter of which has instant-draw).
>>>It works on my PS2? Or my Nintendo Wii? Or Xbox360? >> >>Those are nothing, except the xbox360
The PS2 hold the record for the best-selling console ever. And the Wii is the best-selling of this generation.... outselling the other two by 40 million units. I wouldn't call that "nothing" unless you're just trolling because you hate Nintendo and Sony.
>>>in return for that money the shareholders of the bank pretty much get wiped out
Well that sucks for laborers who have their 401K retirements invested in the bank. But hey.... who gives a fuck about the commoners? Just screw them up the arse and save the gambling..... er, I mean investment bank/rich people from dying! (Obviously I prefer my solution of letting Bear-Stearns and other gambling houses either survive or die.)
Not really. If it is perceived that Google phones are insecure or too-costly to own, Microsoft phones could easily win over the consumers just as Microsoft browser convinced people to switch from Netscape browser in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Let's ask the author of the constitution (quoting from memory): "There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and qualify it with particulars. The phrase 'provide general welfare' is qualified by the list of specifically enumerated power below it. Congress may only exercise those powers.
"To suppose Congress might do anything that falls within the 'general welfare' would give the central government unlimited power to do whatever it pleases, and there is a whole host of proofs that was never intended by the original framers, nor by myself." - James Madison, author of the Constitution.
He also authored, with Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which state the powers of the central government are few, while the bulk of the power is reserved to the People and their Legislatures (amendment 10). The Congress may not mandate you buy car insurance. But the States can. It is a power reserved to them, and the same is true of any other form of insurance.
And finally: Congress has the power to regulate commerce AMONG the states. Not inside the states, and most-definitely not commerce between two individuals (me and my doctor). They can NOT force me to buy insurance if I would rather pay cash directly to my physician.
-1 Troll. Nooooo... I was sharing a fact I heard stated on the news several times. The German government has a low unemployment rate because it has a policy of cutting hours, rather than laying off.
>>>destroying the staple crop of much of the world's poor. I think there is a huge arrogance popping its head up again
Given a recent RT News report about the UK government & other NGOs funding sterilization in poor countries like India, I don't think they care about killing potato crops. It's just another long-term method of reducing the world population to a "sustainable" level. (About 1 billion.)
I've noticed people have a tendency to turn-on lights when they don't really need them. Like turning on all the lights in the kitchen, and then sitting in the living room watching TV. The lights in the kitchen burn for hours with nobody using them. Why is that?
I turn-off the lights when I'm not in a room..... and even if I'm in a room, I typically just use the glow from the TV and my computer's CRT. That's probably why I have a lightbulb that's nearing 20 years old and still working.
>>>it means he has interviewed either the president, the vice president, or Panetta on this. Fat fucking chance.
Which of course means it will be on Alex Jones radio show (and website) as if it were official news. That guy needs to learn to be more discriminating.
Well almost every time. Like the damming of rivers which kills fish and blocks the natural flow of sediment. Or levees that make rivers flow faster and, when the flood happens, is far worse than a natural un-leveed flood. Or putting-out forest fires such that, when a fire happens now there's massive overgrowth that turns a small blaze into an inferno that makes the ground into glass.
Isn't it about time we learn to LIVE with nature, instead of trying to engineer it and screwing up? Over millions-of-years nature has reached a natural balance with its flow-of-rivers, floods, and the occasional fire (trees developed fire-retardant bark). All we humans manage to do is frak it up.
>>>Austerity has failed everywhere it has been tried
It worked just fine for the U.S. Depression of 1921-22. The Congress made huge cuts in spending, thereby freeing up cash in the private economy, and ending the depression in less than two years. Fastest recovery on record. (Austerity also works on the personal level; cut your spending, pay off your bills, and then you have free cash for investing.)
>>>They employ two people to do the job of one person here
That's because of a German government mandate. Rather than lay people off, the government chose to cut full time hours to 35. They have near-full employment but nobody is working a full week..... not until the economy improves.
Sorry to break-up your 5 minutes hate, but this is how unions work. The rich states subsidize the poor states. In the U.S. that means the rich east/west coasts subsidize the poorer middle, and when a state like California needs a bailout the private central bank prints wads of dollars to help them out.
In the EU it means the center subsidizes the southeast periphery, and when a state like Greece needs a bailout the ECB prints wads of euros to help them out.
Welcome Europeans. You're now just like Americans - part of one gigantic whole rather than individual states.
>>> have been signed no further questions asked by Nixon
Yeah you're probably right, but the Supreme Court would strike it down. Per the Constitution's 10th amendment only the Member States of the union have the power to provide government heatlhcare and/or forced mandates to purchase insurance. NOT the Congress.
Yes that's an inconvenient facet of the law, nevertheless it IS the supreme law of the land. If Democrats (or socialists) don't like it then they should amend the constitution to allow Congress to provide healthcare (or mandate insurance purchases).
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>>>if someone is sitting in the passenger sit (be the front or back sits!)
Eh?
Nothing us average, ordinary folks need to worry about. The DJs will just pay the record companies through the payment service they are currently using.
>>>Ask my family on how that one worked out.
If people are calling when you are on the Do Not Call list, then you can report them to the state. They will be fined many thousands of dollars.
FIX: (Really? A single tab open to slashdot requires 300,000 [kilo]bytes of RAM?) I don't expect # 10 to be any better and will continue using Firefox or Opera.
Ooops left out the "kilo".
BTW where did you get 9MB? I come-up with 300,000 bytes == ~292KB == ~ 0.29MB. Nowhere near 9MB.
"idiot."
>>>Republicans and democrats are equally complicit in this act of corruption.
Oh I agree. The point I'm making is that the Democrats are commonly viewed as being anti-corporate. And yet it was the Democrats that voted overwhelmingly (near 80%) in favor of bailouts and corporate welfare. While the Republicans voted against it (only 30% were in favor). Our commonly-held beliefs about these two parties are no longer true.
>>>google is simply a company. companies are never there for your benefit. never.
I agree with the first sentence, because companies should not be worshipped like football teams. They are inaminate entities and nothing more. But disagree with the second. Companies ARE there to serve the customer and keep him/her happy, because it they don't they end-up like Montgomery Wards or Circuit Shitty (bankrupt).
I visited Wards during its final selloff. The employees there looked extremely depressed, and it was kinda sad, but that's how a free market works. You either win the "votes" of the customers' dollars, or you don't and get removed. The market is a democracy where the Demos (the People) decide who wins and loses. (Except when government interfere with bailouts/stimulus/corporate welfare.) So far Google has been winning the votes, while other ad agencies like Youtube struggle to survive.
They run slow as heck when loading pages (load half the page but then pause before loading the other half), randomly freeze for 30 seconds while "thinking", and gobble-up tons of memory. (Really? A single tab open to slashdot requires 300,000 bytes of RAM?) I don't expect # 10 to be any better and will continue using Firefox or Opera (the latter of which has instant-draw).
>>>It works on my PS2? Or my Nintendo Wii? Or Xbox360?
>>
>>Those are nothing, except the xbox360
The PS2 hold the record for the best-selling console ever. And the Wii is the best-selling of this generation.... outselling the other two by 40 million units. I wouldn't call that "nothing" unless you're just trolling because you hate Nintendo and Sony.
>>>in return for that money the shareholders of the bank pretty much get wiped out
Well that sucks for laborers who have their 401K retirements invested in the bank. But hey.... who gives a fuck about the commoners? Just screw them up the arse and save the gambling..... er, I mean investment bank/rich people from dying! (Obviously I prefer my solution of letting Bear-Stearns and other gambling houses either survive or die.)
>>>here it is on every major platform
It works on my PS2?
Or my Nintendo Wii?
Or Xbox360?
Only heard of "Psychonauts" which I have on my PS2 (or Gamecube...I forget which). Are the other games worth wasting my time on? If not I'll skip it.
Not really. If it is perceived that Google phones are insecure or too-costly to own, Microsoft phones could easily win over the consumers just as Microsoft browser convinced people to switch from Netscape browser in the late 90s/early 2000s.
Let's ask the author of the constitution (quoting from memory): "There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and qualify it with particulars. The phrase 'provide general welfare' is qualified by the list of specifically enumerated power below it. Congress may only exercise those powers.
"To suppose Congress might do anything that falls within the 'general welfare' would give the central government unlimited power to do whatever it pleases, and there is a whole host of proofs that was never intended by the original framers, nor by myself." - James Madison, author of the Constitution.
He also authored, with Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which state the powers of the central government are few, while the bulk of the power is reserved to the People and their Legislatures (amendment 10). The Congress may not mandate you buy car insurance. But the States can. It is a power reserved to them, and the same is true of any other form of insurance.
And finally:
Congress has the power to regulate commerce AMONG the states. Not inside the states, and most-definitely not commerce between two individuals (me and my doctor). They can NOT force me to buy insurance if I would rather pay cash directly to my physician.
-1 Troll.
Nooooo... I was sharing a fact I heard stated on the news several times. The German government has a low unemployment rate because it has a policy of cutting hours, rather than laying off.
>>>destroying the staple crop of much of the world's poor. I think there is a huge arrogance popping its head up again
Given a recent RT News report about the UK government & other NGOs funding sterilization in poor countries like India, I don't think they care about killing potato crops. It's just another long-term method of reducing the world population to a "sustainable" level. (About 1 billion.)
I've noticed people have a tendency to turn-on lights when they don't really need them. Like turning on all the lights in the kitchen, and then sitting in the living room watching TV. The lights in the kitchen burn for hours with nobody using them. Why is that?
I turn-off the lights when I'm not in a room..... and even if I'm in a room, I typically just use the glow from the TV and my computer's CRT. That's probably why I have a lightbulb that's nearing 20 years old and still working.
>>>it means he has interviewed either the president, the vice president, or Panetta on this. Fat fucking chance.
Which of course means it will be on Alex Jones radio show (and website) as if it were official news. That guy needs to learn to be more discriminating.
No taxation without representation in the UN government.
No topdown control either.
Well almost every time. Like the damming of rivers which kills fish and blocks the natural flow of sediment. Or levees that make rivers flow faster and, when the flood happens, is far worse than a natural un-leveed flood. Or putting-out forest fires such that, when a fire happens now there's massive overgrowth that turns a small blaze into an inferno that makes the ground into glass.
Isn't it about time we learn to LIVE with nature, instead of trying to engineer it and screwing up? Over millions-of-years nature has reached a natural balance with its flow-of-rivers, floods, and the occasional fire (trees developed fire-retardant bark). All we humans manage to do is frak it up.
>>>Austerity has failed everywhere it has been tried
It worked just fine for the U.S. Depression of 1921-22. The Congress made huge cuts in spending, thereby freeing up cash in the private economy, and ending the depression in less than two years. Fastest recovery on record. (Austerity also works on the personal level; cut your spending, pay off your bills, and then you have free cash for investing.)
>>>They employ two people to do the job of one person here
That's because of a German government mandate. Rather than lay people off, the government chose to cut full time hours to 35. They have near-full employment but nobody is working a full week..... not until the economy improves.
Sorry to break-up your 5 minutes hate, but this is how unions work. The rich states subsidize the poor states. In the U.S. that means the rich east/west coasts subsidize the poorer middle, and when a state like California needs a bailout the private central bank prints wads of dollars to help them out.
In the EU it means the center subsidizes the southeast periphery, and when a state like Greece needs a bailout the ECB prints wads of euros to help them out.
Welcome Europeans. You're now just like Americans - part of one gigantic whole rather than individual states.
>>> have been signed no further questions asked by Nixon
Yeah you're probably right, but the Supreme Court would strike it down. Per the Constitution's 10th amendment only the Member States of the union have the power to provide government heatlhcare and/or forced mandates to purchase insurance. NOT the Congress.
Yes that's an inconvenient facet of the law, nevertheless it IS the supreme law of the land. If Democrats (or socialists) don't like it then they should amend the constitution to allow Congress to provide healthcare (or mandate insurance purchases).
Yeah just like "Nobody will opt for Microsoft Explorer because Netscape has 90% of the browser share!"
Oh wait.
Nvrmnd.