The worst they could do? Turn slashdot into a dice.com advertising board. Negative comments? Gone. Advertisements for "related job openings" on every article? Added. Users with lots of comments that have the word "java" in them? Your slashdot inboxes will be full with dice.com adverts.
When does a shortage of goods lead to a price cieling being initiated by the government? The only examples I can think of of price cielings are when prices rise, and people don't like it, so an opportunistic politician comes along and takes advantage of peoples' ignorance by calling for locking down prices from rising.
Rent controls in New York City? I don't know if this really qualifies as I don't know the history. I suppose this is more of a "shortage of affordable x" situation, which probably doesn't count anyhow.
The UK had both price fixing and rationing in WW2, and we lost to the United States, which didn't.
Whoever modded this up to +3 might want to crack open a history book.
Maybe he means economically? As in the UK and Germany were world powers going into WW2 and the US and USSR were world powers at the end of WW2. But even by that metric nobody "economically won" WW2, as everyone was worse off after half a decade of war. Some were just a lot more worse off than others.
"It's the government of Argentina that is "gaming the system" by artificially increasing the price of dollars. Smart people are realizing that socialist policies are going to bring high inflation as they always do and wipe away people's life savings in the name of social justice."
Why are you telling us? If you really think it will make a difference, say it to Obama. And Congress, of course.
What are Obama and Congress going to do about Argentina eroding its own currency with inflation?
So in this case the processor simply uses more power when running Linux, and has no savings at all under Windows. And yet you get claims of "Oh look how efficient Wintel is!"
I can believe it. Management hiring is all about cronyism, so much so that it is second nature to them. Oh you [drive same car / root for same sports team / drink same wine] as me? You're hired!
And when you see a geek, you see a filthy little zero with massive personality disorders, deranged sexual fetishes, completely unsupported arrogance and an impotent, hyper-ideological little shit who deserves to be kicked in the groin or punched in the face (as determined by 20 sided die roll) on an hourly basis as penance for being such an insufferably awful sack of misery.
So what are the other 18 things that deserve to be done to them?
Actually if you are determining how do beat someone up via 20 sided die roll... you probably are a geek. A geek with a lot of issues.
American spaceship, Russian spaceship: all fixed with toothbrush!
As far as I know, Salyut and Mir didn't have screws hammered into threads at an angle. Bottles of vodka smuggled inside spacesuits on Progress, botched docking while "experimenting" with manual controls for no earthly (or space-y) reason -- sure. Stripped threads on the outside structures -- no.
COCHRANE: But I'm sure as hell's not going up there sober!
I'm not American, and I can't quite understand where does the custom in the US comes from. Is it religious in origin? I know muslims, jews and americans practice it, but that's about it. Does anyone know?
As far as I know, it's not common at all on other countries.
It is pretty simple. The institution of medicine here gets quite a bit of money thrown at them for an unnecessary procedure. Of course the doctor's associations would back it as it is effectively free money for the people they represent.
Well played in a King Solomon kind of way, South Korea. However I don't think this will actually cause the companies to realize their mistakes that both are harming themselves. Companies are proving that anti-competitive tactics are the most effective way to make money. Get a temporary virtual monopoly on a market, no matter how short, if you can get enough momentum you will have a successful product.
Mining uranium from the earth is not energy free, so it is a matter of using the most efficient technique. Or using both techniques and balancing one against the other.
Also, the seas move due to ocean currents. The same water does not stay in the same place for long.
Most advertising companies do have published data collection and use policies. I think most people just assume they lie and know they cant be caught on it easily.
If we had a system for catching them breaking their policy, and if there was an actual penalty for it... No, i will still block every single ad I can, and refuse to visit any site that circumvents ad blocking in an annoying fashion. I also use whitelists for javascript blocking. If you need to enable script on their advertisers to view their page at all, then it is a page I don't need to visit. The problem is the escalation of annoying and obnoxious ads has only increased now that javascript is required for so many sites to operate, and browsers with html5 support do not need plugins for active content.
Wow, I figure if anybody had to do that for a year, they should be given a pension, a quiet place to get away from things, and a LOT of therapy.
I can't imagine being the poor bastard that has to look at the worst stuff on the internet. I've glimpsed enough to know that I wouldn't want to see any more of it. I'm frequently appalled at some of the things people choose to see.
I think even the law enforcement guys can get fucked up from this, and they understand the need for support systems. Your first job our of school? That would ruin you forever.
This is why companies farm it out to contractors. It is the same as any other dangerous work. They get mentally ill, sick, injured, etc... and the company can just cut them loose with no long term benefits to be paid out.
To be fair, that's not true. I find his remarks more abhorrent because of the underlying thesis:
Akin's argument is essentially that when a woman is "legitimately raped" i.e. doesn't want to have sex with the man forcing himself on her, there can be no pregnancy. Therefore, whenever a rape victim gets pregnant, she actually wanted to have sex with that man, so it wasn't "really" rape, because secretly deep down she wanted it. Therefore, since she wanted to have sex, she should be responsible for the product of that act -- the baby. And thus, its okay to put her in jail if she aborts the rapists baby.
That's why the Republicans have been out there trying to split hairs between "rape rape" "forcible rape" "legitimate rape" and the term us commie hippie pinkos use (i.e. RAPE). Because, as any republican pastor could tell you, deep down that every feminist secretly wants a good round of "illegitimate raping" at least once a year.
This might actually explain a lot. In the olden days that these people yearn for, if a man rapes a woman and gets caught, he would have to marry her, thus it is no longer rape or some bullshit line of thinking. Perhaps because fundamentalists believe women are property or figure that things were better in the old days and that is how thing were done.
. . . about a year and a half ago, and while it's not all bad, it's not quite as glowing as TFA.
“You have people signed up on paper, but there are no doctors, no medicine, no hospital beds,” said Miguel Pulido, the executive director of Fundar, a Mexican watchdog group that has studied the poor southern states of Guerrero and Chiapas.
The result is that how Mexicans are treated is very much a function of where they live. Lucila Rivera Díaz, 36, comes from one of the poorest regions in Guerrero. She said doctors there told her to take her mother, who they suspected had liver cancer, for tests in the neighboring state of Morelos.
Sounds like the problems the opponents to universal health care in the States are always worried about.
As opposed to people living in the US 2 hours away from any major city? Guess what, those people need to travel to get important or complicated procedures done too. Or do you think that every hospital and clinic can perform every medical procedure possible.
The firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II; greater than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.
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I don't java what you mean.
When does a shortage of goods lead to a price cieling being initiated by the government? The only examples I can think of of price cielings are when prices rise, and people don't like it, so an opportunistic politician comes along and takes advantage of peoples' ignorance by calling for locking down prices from rising.
Rent controls in New York City? I don't know if this really qualifies as I don't know the history. I suppose this is more of a "shortage of affordable x" situation, which probably doesn't count anyhow.
The UK had both price fixing and rationing in WW2, and we lost to the United States, which didn't.
Whoever modded this up to +3 might want to crack open a history book.
Maybe he means economically? As in the UK and Germany were world powers going into WW2 and the US and USSR were world powers at the end of WW2. But even by that metric nobody "economically won" WW2, as everyone was worse off after half a decade of war. Some were just a lot more worse off than others.
Artificial price cielings cause shortages. There's no free lunch; you don't get to wave a pen and magically lower prices by fiat.
Econ 101
Or shortages cause people to set artificial price ceilings. Which cause people to produce less of the item or product... which causes... aw crap.
"It's the government of Argentina that is "gaming the system" by artificially increasing the price of dollars. Smart people are realizing that socialist policies are going to bring high inflation as they always do and wipe away people's life savings in the name of social justice ."
Why are you telling us? If you really think it will make a difference, say it to Obama. And Congress, of course.
What are Obama and Congress going to do about Argentina eroding its own currency with inflation?
So in this case the processor simply uses more power when running Linux, and has no savings at all under Windows. And yet you get claims of "Oh look how efficient Wintel is!"
No. Grandma's grave. Really happens.
I can believe it. Management hiring is all about cronyism, so much so that it is second nature to them. Oh you [drive same car / root for same sports team / drink same wine] as me? You're hired!
And when you see a geek, you see a filthy little zero with massive personality disorders, deranged sexual fetishes, completely unsupported arrogance and an impotent, hyper-ideological little shit who deserves to be kicked in the groin or punched in the face (as determined by 20 sided die roll) on an hourly basis as penance for being such an insufferably awful sack of misery.
So what are the other 18 things that deserve to be done to them?
Actually if you are determining how do beat someone up via 20 sided die roll... you probably are a geek. A geek with a lot of issues.
Remember: Pillage, then Burn!
Unless you are in a hurry... and hope they come running out of their burning house with their valuables
Ah heck, another baby...
All data gathered will be destroyed after the match with this particular murder.
Here is what Data thinks of that statement.
American spaceship, Russian spaceship: all fixed with toothbrush!
As far as I know, Salyut and Mir didn't have screws hammered into threads at an angle. Bottles of vodka smuggled inside spacesuits on Progress, botched docking while "experimenting" with manual controls for no earthly (or space-y) reason -- sure. Stripped threads on the outside structures -- no.
COCHRANE: But I'm sure as hell's not going up there sober!
Yes. I remember on of the main threats to submarines being fires....
Wait, were you being sarcastic? The number one main most dangerous thing about being on a submarine is a fire breaking out.
It helped that I played a Tanker,
Well that's a new role: dps, heal, tank and tanker. How does ship-based tanker combat mesh with the other three roles?
It's a support role... until you spring a leak.
I'm not American, and I can't quite understand where does the custom in the US comes from. Is it religious in origin? I know muslims, jews and americans practice it, but that's about it. Does anyone know?
As far as I know, it's not common at all on other countries.
It is pretty simple. The institution of medicine here gets quite a bit of money thrown at them for an unnecessary procedure. Of course the doctor's associations would back it as it is effectively free money for the people they represent.
1999 called, they want their useless waste of resources techniques back. Nice try Kent trying to jam Extreme Programming on us again.
AFAIK nobody is preventing you from making your own computer that will run any program you want.
Except an army patent lawyers at every major computer and software company.
Well played in a King Solomon kind of way, South Korea. However I don't think this will actually cause the companies to realize their mistakes that both are harming themselves. Companies are proving that anti-competitive tactics are the most effective way to make money. Get a temporary virtual monopoly on a market, no matter how short, if you can get enough momentum you will have a successful product.
Research in electrical engineering in 2050 will be done by kids visiting this museum now and realising how awesome it is.
If they can time travel, why not go back and visit the original 1917 lab?
Mining uranium from the earth is not energy free, so it is a matter of using the most efficient technique. Or using both techniques and balancing one against the other.
Also, the seas move due to ocean currents. The same water does not stay in the same place for long.
Most advertising companies do have published data collection and use policies. I think most people just assume they lie and know they cant be caught on it easily.
If we had a system for catching them breaking their policy, and if there was an actual penalty for it... No, i will still block every single ad I can, and refuse to visit any site that circumvents ad blocking in an annoying fashion. I also use whitelists for javascript blocking. If you need to enable script on their advertisers to view their page at all, then it is a page I don't need to visit. The problem is the escalation of annoying and obnoxious ads has only increased now that javascript is required for so many sites to operate, and browsers with html5 support do not need plugins for active content.
Wow, I figure if anybody had to do that for a year, they should be given a pension, a quiet place to get away from things, and a LOT of therapy.
I can't imagine being the poor bastard that has to look at the worst stuff on the internet. I've glimpsed enough to know that I wouldn't want to see any more of it. I'm frequently appalled at some of the things people choose to see.
I think even the law enforcement guys can get fucked up from this, and they understand the need for support systems. Your first job our of school? That would ruin you forever.
This is why companies farm it out to contractors. It is the same as any other dangerous work. They get mentally ill, sick, injured, etc... and the company can just cut them loose with no long term benefits to be paid out.
To be fair, that's not true. I find his remarks more abhorrent because of the underlying thesis:
Akin's argument is essentially that when a woman is "legitimately raped" i.e. doesn't want to have sex with the man forcing himself on her, there can be no pregnancy. Therefore, whenever a rape victim gets pregnant, she actually wanted to have sex with that man, so it wasn't "really" rape, because secretly deep down she wanted it. Therefore, since she wanted to have sex, she should be responsible for the product of that act -- the baby. And thus, its okay to put her in jail if she aborts the rapists baby.
That's why the Republicans have been out there trying to split hairs between "rape rape" "forcible rape" "legitimate rape" and the term us commie hippie pinkos use (i.e. RAPE). Because, as any republican pastor could tell you, deep down that every feminist secretly wants a good round of "illegitimate raping" at least once a year.
This might actually explain a lot. In the olden days that these people yearn for, if a man rapes a woman and gets caught, he would have to marry her, thus it is no longer rape or some bullshit line of thinking. Perhaps because fundamentalists believe women are property or figure that things were better in the old days and that is how thing were done.
. . . about a year and a half ago, and while it's not all bad, it's not quite as glowing as TFA.
“You have people signed up on paper, but there are no doctors, no medicine, no hospital beds,” said Miguel Pulido, the executive director of Fundar, a Mexican watchdog group that has studied the poor southern states of Guerrero and Chiapas.
The result is that how Mexicans are treated is very much a function of where they live. Lucila Rivera Díaz, 36, comes from one of the poorest regions in Guerrero. She said doctors there told her to take her mother, who they suspected had liver cancer, for tests in the neighboring state of Morelos.
Sounds like the problems the opponents to universal health care in the States are always worried about.
As opposed to people living in the US 2 hours away from any major city? Guess what, those people need to travel to get important or complicated procedures done too. Or do you think that every hospital and clinic can perform every medical procedure possible.
What, they are urging us, the community of Slashdot, to punish them?
How about no, you hypocritical Deutsche bastard?
Firebombing does not equal genocide.
It does if you are the one on fire.
Though seriously, look at it.
The firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II; greater than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.