operation of any electronic devices not certified by the FAA for use in the aircraft will technically invalidate the airplane's Airworthiness Certificate. so they are required by the FAA to tell you to turn them off.
do you think a skin tattoo or glass chip under the skin will still be visible/readable after the body is burned or mutilated? this is as opposed to the current dog tags which are cheaper and more resilient.
don't you see though? its a way to stealthily raise taxes on everyone, and still say you are "sticking to the evil corporations" and appear as a populist. its all a money grab for ${insert_favorite_program_here}
bold type? check. caps? check. using the word "sheeple"? well. two out of three ain't bad.
dude i think someone put something in your food...
i'd point out that i never said the US was a law-abiding paradise, but i bet it would do no use. even a high school student knows that only an idiot thinks that everyone gets a "fair trail" in the US, let alone other countries. i guess i figured that the average slashdot reader was mature enough to know that no political system is perfect as long as people are involved.
it sounds to me like you are a bit idealistic. you may not like the way the regulations are around IPO's but at least we make an attempt to follow them.
Bribery and corruption are accepted in many Eastern (and Middle Eastern) cultures. everyone does it, and if you don't, you don't get to play.
when someone tries the same thing in the US or Europe, they always end up facing charges or at the very least looking for work somewhere else. if money buys immunity, then why did Enron, Worldcom, Madoff, etc. all end up prosecuted?
The question you need to be asking is, if Enron, Wolrldcom, Madoff, etc. all came to light after years of milking their employees/stockholders/investors/etc., how many haven't come to light? What percentage of the scams do those represent?
Your statement is a bit like saying, "my anti-virus software says it found and removed 3 viruses. It's just lucky for me that there were only 3 there to discover! Now, I'm safe."
The correct take on bribery is that Western cultures have reached a relatively stable point where the amount of bribery and corruption is just small enough that it doesn't typically do to our economy what it just did over the past 2 years.
those are merely the public ones. cases too small to make the national news happen all the time. people will always cheat and attempt to bribe officials to get ahead.
my point is that as a culture, the West as made an effort to rein in these abuses by the rule of law, as it makes our economy a less-dangerous place to do business than, say, a country that will nullify your contracts if you don't grease the right palm.
in the US, we prosecute bribery and corruption. in China the government arguably is run through bribery and corruption.
i must caveat my post by saying that what we call "corruption" was the dominant business model around the world for a very, very long time (Renaissance Italy comes to mind). it is a recent luxury to have economic environment like we do.
Bribery and corruption are accepted in many Eastern (and Middle Eastern) cultures. everyone does it, and if you don't, you don't get to play.
when someone tries the same thing in the US or Europe, they always end up facing charges or at the very least looking for work somewhere else. if money buys immunity, then why did Enron, Worldcom, Madoff, etc. all end up prosecuted?
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to avoid upsetting them, I fully expect the location of Ry'leh to be blurred....
you know, there are areas outside the cities, where people actually live on unpaved, seasonally flooding roads.
says you. when there is foot-high mud or water that Subaru's ground clearance will suddenly be an issue.
operation of any electronic devices not certified by the FAA for use in the aircraft will technically invalidate the airplane's Airworthiness Certificate. so they are required by the FAA to tell you to turn them off.
how about addressing the substance of the rebuttal, instead of dismissing it via guilt-by-association?
well, we can always build more killbots....
gives new meaning to "AFK kill"
you're missing the difference between bandwidth and latency....
i thought i heard t-mobile was rolling out 2100mhz as part of the HSPDA+ rollout?
which BB model? i had a sprint BB that was dooooog slooooow, but it wasn't sprint - it was the crappy phone that was slow.
this.
I use liferay, and it sounds like what the TS is looking for. extremely easy to get set up, especially if you use the Social Office variant.
a godsend to you, or to the enemy looking for you? :)
do you think a skin tattoo or glass chip under the skin will still be visible/readable after the body is burned or mutilated? this is as opposed to the current dog tags which are cheaper and more resilient.
this.
mod parent up.
flawless execution. +1 internets to you sir.
it's a really simple principle:
if i invent something, i am entitled to as much money from it as i can get. if someone else invents something, it should be free for me to license.
that should describe the resulting discussion....
Oracle database is 100% Java?
Berkeley DB is 100% Java?
really?
so microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems?
microsoft is a business, not a charity. the cost of doing business, be it taxes, labor costs and even lawsuits, is passed on to the consumer.
(i think it is worthy to note that microsoft counts most of the worlds corporations as customers in some capacity)
don't you see though? its a way to stealthily raise taxes on everyone, and still say you are "sticking to the evil corporations" and appear as a populist. its all a money grab for ${insert_favorite_program_here}
the sad thing is, as soon as i saw "enceladus" i thought, "there be pirates"
don't worry, though, a common enemy will help them come around....
bold type? check.
caps? check.
using the word "sheeple"? well. two out of three ain't bad.
dude i think someone put something in your food...
i'd point out that i never said the US was a law-abiding paradise, but i bet it would do no use. even a high school student knows that only an idiot thinks that everyone gets a "fair trail" in the US, let alone other countries. i guess i figured that the average slashdot reader was mature enough to know that no political system is perfect as long as people are involved.
what are you comparing us to?
it sounds to me like you are a bit idealistic. you may not like the way the regulations are around IPO's but at least we make an attempt to follow them.
you're kidding right?
Bribery and corruption are accepted in many Eastern (and Middle Eastern) cultures. everyone does it, and if you don't, you don't get to play.
when someone tries the same thing in the US or Europe, they always end up facing charges or at the very least looking for work somewhere else. if money buys immunity, then why did Enron, Worldcom, Madoff, etc. all end up prosecuted?
The question you need to be asking is, if Enron, Wolrldcom, Madoff, etc. all came to light after years of milking their employees/stockholders/investors/etc., how many haven't come to light? What percentage of the scams do those represent?
Your statement is a bit like saying, "my anti-virus software says it found and removed 3 viruses. It's just lucky for me that there were only 3 there to discover! Now, I'm safe."
The correct take on bribery is that Western cultures have reached a relatively stable point where the amount of bribery and corruption is just small enough that it doesn't typically do to our economy what it just did over the past 2 years.
those are merely the public ones. cases too small to make the national news happen all the time. people will always cheat and attempt to bribe officials to get ahead.
my point is that as a culture, the West as made an effort to rein in these abuses by the rule of law, as it makes our economy a less-dangerous place to do business than, say, a country that will nullify your contracts if you don't grease the right palm.
in the US, we prosecute bribery and corruption. in China the government arguably is run through bribery and corruption.
i must caveat my post by saying that what we call "corruption" was the dominant business model around the world for a very, very long time (Renaissance Italy comes to mind). it is a recent luxury to have economic environment like we do.
you're kidding right?
Bribery and corruption are accepted in many Eastern (and Middle Eastern) cultures. everyone does it, and if you don't, you don't get to play.
when someone tries the same thing in the US or Europe, they always end up facing charges or at the very least looking for work somewhere else. if money buys immunity, then why did Enron, Worldcom, Madoff, etc. all end up prosecuted?