The people the Right are dismissing as being "progressives" and "liberals" today are to the right of Everett Dirksen. I'm not sure Strom Thurmond would pass one of today's conservative litmus test suites.
Yes, that's exactly how "Free Trade" works. It's a global race to the bottom. Companies everywhere lower their costs by leveraging modern communication and shipping to continually move jobs to the places where they can pay the lowest possible amount for labor. Multinational companies have no loyalty to the nations that spawned them. As short-sighted greedoids, they don't realize (or care, what the fuck, they're getting rich) that by impoverishing and reducing their workers, they're chipping away at their own customer base. It's just another case of corporations fouling the Commons, in this case, the global Labor Commons. So we get situations like Wal-Mart workers being paid such low wages that they qualify for food stamps. Remember kids, privatize profits, socialize losses.
Better yet, how about a tiny tiny tax on each trade? We bitch and moan about deficit this and tax-the-rich that, how about we tax the fuckers who are causing the problem for the behavior that's causing the problem? If financial markets weren't such a short-term crapshoot, and we really DID care about "long-term" capital gains, we wouldn't have the boom-and-bust economy we've been living in.
Yes, it's absolutely true. You (EVERYBODY) is required to supply "Secure Flight Passenger Data" (SFPD) either 72 hours before flying, or when booking the ticket, if departing in less than 72 hours.
You just supplied this information for your recent trip, else you would not have been allowed to fly. You are required to give:
Name (as it appears on government-issued ID the passenger plans to use when traveling)
Date of Birth
Gender
The airline submits this information to Secure Flight, which uses it to perform watch list matching. This serves to prevent individuals on the No Fly List from boarding an aircraft and to identify individuals on the Selectee List for enhanced screening. After matching passenger information against government watch lists, Secure Flight transmits the matching results back to airlines so they can issue passenger boarding passes.
In other words, YOU are required to tell the government you plan to travel, and they get to decide, in advance, whether you can. Assuming you're not, in their own words, on any "government watch lists".
It's so much worse than that. It means that you are required by law to notify the government at least three days in advance before you plan to travel (by air) from state to state.
Nah. It's only CONSUMERS who are forced into these binding arbitration contracts, i.e. the card holders. There's zero probability that the card issuing bankers will be forced to put up with what they inflict on the public.
Dear DICE:
We're not "your audience", we're your CONTRIBUTERS. You're just the chalkboard we have our discussions on. Shut the fuck up, display a few ads, and stay the fuck out of the way.
You should be happy for the ones who died and don't have to look at beta any more. You should probably kill the rest of them and put them out of their agony.
Well, YOU may think you're Slashdot, but Dice thinks you're "our audience" - you know, the people who come here for the stellar, dupe-free, award-winning editing of up-to-the-minute tech stories.
THAT's the problem right there. They think we're the AUDIENCE and not the CONTRIBUTERS.
NEWSFLASH: We don't come here for the stellar editing, we come here to make and read and reply to each other's comments. YOU'RE not supplying the content, WE are. Display some ads and stay out of the way, or expect most of us to "migrate" to another site.
As an example, you just linked to 4 different, individual posts within threads. The Beta site doesn't even have post IDs, even on the user's home page, so linking to an individual comment is impossible. SID and CID are GONE in the new Slashdot.
Once you've filled it out, you can't go back, you get redirected to the beta front page. There were several "WTF does that mean???" questions that REQUIRED yes/no answers. Even the QUESTIONS about the beta site suck.
Beta can lick my salty balls. If slashdot classic (read marginally usable slashdot, as opposed to this COMPLETELY unusable beta crap) goes away, I'm gone too.
I was an HP-Certified HP-UX admin back in the late 90's, early 00's, running lots of HP-9000s (mostly PA-RISC, but a few early Itanics), all running HP-UX. **Operating system** (including security) patches were only available for machines under service contracts. Patch application/management, at least those not requiring a reboot, basically consumed one day out of each week. Having a patch I applied last week superceded by this week's batch was not at all unusual. As others have mentioned, recieving a big box full of little boxes each holding an individual piece of paper and/or CD, one per machine, was a regular occurance as well.
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The people the Right are dismissing as being "progressives" and "liberals" today are to the right of Everett Dirksen. I'm not sure Strom Thurmond would pass one of today's conservative litmus test suites.
Thanks. Here, let me just click on your spam link. Fuckwit.
Yes, that's exactly how "Free Trade" works. It's a global race to the bottom. Companies everywhere lower their costs by leveraging modern communication and shipping to continually move jobs to the places where they can pay the lowest possible amount for labor. Multinational companies have no loyalty to the nations that spawned them. As short-sighted greedoids, they don't realize (or care, what the fuck, they're getting rich) that by impoverishing and reducing their workers, they're chipping away at their own customer base. It's just another case of corporations fouling the Commons, in this case, the global Labor Commons. So we get situations like Wal-Mart workers being paid such low wages that they qualify for food stamps. Remember kids, privatize profits, socialize losses.
I think Frank Herbert's The White Plague (1982) is more likely.
Don't be silly. It boils down to "who has the most money". The "best lawyer" (just like any other prostitute) is ALWAYS for sale
Better yet, how about a tiny tiny tax on each trade? We bitch and moan about deficit this and tax-the-rich that, how about we tax the fuckers who are causing the problem for the behavior that's causing the problem? If financial markets weren't such a short-term crapshoot, and we really DID care about "long-term" capital gains, we wouldn't have the boom-and-bust economy we've been living in.
Golf clap.
Name (as it appears on government-issued ID the passenger plans to use when traveling)
Date of Birth
Gender
Here's how American Airlines, as an example, implements it.
From the TSA website
In other words, YOU are required to tell the government you plan to travel, and they get to decide, in advance, whether you can. Assuming you're not, in their own words, on any "government watch lists".
You can read all about the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
You're missing the point. EVERYONE is required to notify the government in advance before they fly.
You mispelled *Republican* asshats, which is the part someone calling him "Glorious Leader" needs to be reminded of.
It's so much worse than that. It means that you are required by law to notify the government at least three days in advance before you plan to travel (by air) from state to state.
Nah. It's only CONSUMERS who are forced into these binding arbitration contracts, i.e. the card holders. There's zero probability that the card issuing bankers will be forced to put up with what they inflict on the public.
LOAD MOAR
Burn it with fire, sprinkle the ashes with holy water and rock salt and bury them in the Love Canal.
That's the problem right there.
Dear DICE:
We're not "your audience", we're your CONTRIBUTERS. You're just the chalkboard we have our discussions on. Shut the fuck up, display a few ads, and stay the fuck out of the way.
You should be happy for the ones who died and don't have to look at beta any more. You should probably kill the rest of them and put them out of their agony.
Well, YOU may think you're Slashdot, but Dice thinks you're "our audience" - you know, the people who come here for the stellar, dupe-free, award-winning editing of up-to-the-minute tech stories.
Nope. They think it sucks balls, too.
THAT's the problem right there. They think we're the AUDIENCE and not the CONTRIBUTERS.
NEWSFLASH: We don't come here for the stellar editing, we come here to make and read and reply to each other's comments. YOU'RE not supplying the content, WE are. Display some ads and stay out of the way, or expect most of us to "migrate" to another site.
Now if only anybody over there gave a fuck.
As an example, you just linked to 4 different, individual posts within threads. The Beta site doesn't even have post IDs, even on the user's home page, so linking to an individual comment is impossible. SID and CID are GONE in the new Slashdot.
The Marketing Department at DICE Cybernetics Corporation are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Once you've filled it out, you can't go back, you get redirected to the beta front page. There were several "WTF does that mean???" questions that REQUIRED yes/no answers. Even the QUESTIONS about the beta site suck.
Beta can lick my salty balls. If slashdot classic (read marginally usable slashdot, as opposed to this COMPLETELY unusable beta crap) goes away, I'm gone too.
I was an HP-Certified HP-UX admin back in the late 90's, early 00's, running lots of HP-9000s (mostly PA-RISC, but a few early Itanics), all running HP-UX. **Operating system** (including security) patches were only available for machines under service contracts. Patch application/management, at least those not requiring a reboot, basically consumed one day out of each week. Having a patch I applied last week superceded by this week's batch was not at all unusual. As others have mentioned, recieving a big box full of little boxes each holding an individual piece of paper and/or CD, one per machine, was a regular occurance as well.