Note, I am aware that GreatBunzinni could in effect be sockpuppet attacking himself in some sort of reverse-psycology attack on his enemies. In that case he will end up getting himself modded down often enough to make it a Pyrrhic victory. If everyone involved gets modded to oblivion, I will consider it... Mission Fucking Accomplished.
I attempted to sign in with Firefox on windows and was unable to get the "sign" button to activate with any combination of scripts enabled. I tried again with both IE7 and IE8 and neither of those worked as well.
Even more strange, is that in each browser a different number of total signatures appeared. In IE it showed several hundred less than Firefox. What is going on here?
Not necessarily... For instance, nearby my hometown they've installed several street lights... at a pass, at 1800 meters high, with nothing within at least 1km around. Would be eager to learn about the safety improvement of such an investment. At least since then I am now completely unable to observe anything from that location that used to have a pretty clear sky
In my head I am picturing a giant tower 1800 meters high, with nothing but a lightbulb on top of it.
SOPA wont hurt organizations like this. If they cant fight him with standard laws, and they use SOPA to blast his site off the internet, it is trivial for him to emerge on a new domain at a new hosting site.
In the meantime all the other customers of the hosting site will be removed from the internet. Collateral damage abound hurts everyone except and the intended target escapes with only a minor inconvenience.
Granted I don't think Megasearch has any legal purposes, and they are qualifying themselves for an internet Darwin award by announcing their intent... but the government will for certain use this against sites and services that do have legal uses.
Even if every one of the bottom 90% put all the money they could towards bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H "contributions" for our lovely leaders, we wouldn't even come close to what interested corporations/conglomerates "contribute".
The solution is for the people to bribe the politicians? If we could get just 51% of us to agree on something, we could simply vote their asses out.
IIRC, the register estimated that BT owned copper cables worth more than the company itself (current day's copper prices). Obviously, would all that copper come out on the market, copper prices would fall down to essentially nothing.
If telcos start digging up their copper cables, replacing it with the steel cables with less copper contents. The telcos need to sell their excess copper; and so the copper price will plummet, eliminating the need for digging out the cables...
Yeah the same was said about Bell in the early days. However I highly doubt that (BT's copper + cost of digging them up) > (BT's net worth) Hell probably (BT's copper) (cost of digging it up)
The return can be quite well if you know what you are doing. When I worked in Springfield, IL as an apartment maintenance guy, we had a rash of air conditioner coil thefts. So much so that on a lot of our buildings we had moved to roof mounted units. The guy stealing the copper knew exactly what to unbolt to slide that coil right out and run. We were not the only apartments to lose these, either. Even businesses were getting hit. -- furries did it!
One would think seeing the guy in the mascot suit with carrying wire cutters would tip you off.
In the long run the universe will achieve heat death.
The only guarantee is that in the long run we are all going to be dead. In the short run (say, millions of years) the earth has such a collosal amount of heat that humanity is not going to run it out.
Besides the Earth's heat is going leak out by erupting volcanoes anyhow. A big one going off is like a million megatons of TNT going off. If we can extract that heat energy slowly we could power the entire world for it for hundreds of years... from the energy that is released in a single eruption.
I think you underestimate just how insignificant humanity's energy needs are.
And if you had RTFA you would know that the plan involves recovering the steam, condensing it back to water to send back down. It is a mostly closed system. Their chief issue is whether or not they can get the steam back fast enough to keep the system going. Just throwing water in a volcano and letting the steam dissipate wouldn't actually generate any energy.
I want to be like Mitt, who would convince his cronies to invest 10% in a fund, and then borrow the remaining 90% from the banks, using the targeted company in the leveraged buyout as collateral -- that means transferring the 90% debt to the target company. (I’m going to buy a car, what’s your collateral, the bank asks me, the car I’m buying, I reply, try the bank next store, they reply.)
Not that I love Mitt Romney or anything, but isn't that how ALL car loans work?
Yeah, the car analogy was bad. (hard to believe, on slashdot)
The problem is the company has no intrinsic value if it has no assets or products. Borrowing against the stock value might be legal when all you plan on doing with the company is diverting funds to your pocket and letting the company go bankrupt; but it is dishonest and is exactly what is wrong with our financial system.
A) They don't want you to know who is spying on you. B) You wont know who to sue when one crashes into your property, or causes an aerial accident. C) This is easier than finding out if it is legal for them to be performing this kind of surveillance.
Probably pilots of regular aircraft resenting having the drones piloted by lowly "non-comms". After all the regular pilots are seemingly on the way out and thus its likely that many are being converted over to drone piloting. RHIP
Also when they started arming the drones. Originally they were scout-only.
It's very very very little more complicated. He issued a statement specifically stating that he didn't like it, but then signed it in anyway. If no one stands up to "the f**ked up federal legislature", then it'll just continue to get worse.
I mean, yay, he says stuff I agree with (for the most part), but if he's not going to act on that, then it doesn't mean shit. I'm not sure if it's better or worse that he's not even trying to hide the fact that he's not doing what he says. He might as well be fully supporting it because that's the end result - he'll be out of there in 1-5 years, and the decisions he's making will stick around long after that.
Agreed. What happened to the line item veto, anyhow? I thought Bush's friends gave him that power and now all Presidents can use it. Perhaps there is some built in loophole to prevent it from being used on pork-spending. I am sure Congress would prefer it that way.
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Note, I am aware that GreatBunzinni could in effect be sockpuppet attacking himself in some sort of reverse-psycology attack on his enemies. In that case he will end up getting himself modded down often enough to make it a Pyrrhic victory. If everyone involved gets modded to oblivion, I will consider it... Mission Fucking Accomplished.
I attempted to sign in with Firefox on windows and was unable to get the "sign" button to activate with any combination of scripts enabled. I tried again with both IE7 and IE8 and neither of those worked as well.
Even more strange, is that in each browser a different number of total signatures appeared. In IE it showed several hundred less than Firefox. What is going on here?
Not necessarily... For instance, nearby my hometown they've installed several street lights... at a pass, at 1800 meters high, with nothing within at least 1km around. Would be eager to learn about the safety improvement of such an investment. At least since then I am now completely unable to observe anything from that location that used to have a pretty clear sky
In my head I am picturing a giant tower 1800 meters high, with nothing but a lightbulb on top of it.
SOPA wont hurt organizations like this. If they cant fight him with standard laws, and they use SOPA to blast his site off the internet, it is trivial for him to emerge on a new domain at a new hosting site.
In the meantime all the other customers of the hosting site will be removed from the internet. Collateral damage abound hurts everyone except and the intended target escapes with only a minor inconvenience.
Granted I don't think Megasearch has any legal purposes, and they are qualifying themselves for an internet Darwin award by announcing their intent... but the government will for certain use this against sites and services that do have legal uses.
Sites like this are why the general public thinks that laws like SOPA are ok.
Or let me put it another way, if you are creating a search engine for it... it isn't underground.
Could you shut down the Disney site as The Lion King is a copy of Kimba?
Loophole in the law. It cannot be used to target anyone that paid for the law.
Even if every one of the bottom 90% put all the money they could towards bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H "contributions" for our lovely leaders, we wouldn't even come close to what interested corporations/conglomerates "contribute".
The solution is for the people to bribe the politicians? If we could get just 51% of us to agree on something, we could simply vote their asses out.
... its just accidental memory usage.
Oh good, I was starting to get worried there.
Why stop here? Why not death penalty even if you get one little tiny hamburger. And his/her relatives in prison. For life.
One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time.
Missed a < on the last line. Guess I should have looked at the preview.
(BT's copper) < (cost of digging it up)
IIRC, the register estimated that BT owned copper cables worth more than the company itself (current day's copper prices). Obviously, would all that copper come out on the market, copper prices would fall down to essentially nothing.
If telcos start digging up their copper cables, replacing it with the steel cables with less copper contents. The telcos need to sell their excess copper; and so the copper price will plummet, eliminating the need for digging out the cables...
Yeah the same was said about Bell in the early days. However I highly doubt that (BT's copper + cost of digging them up) > (BT's net worth)
Hell probably (BT's copper) (cost of digging it up)
The return can be quite well if you know what you are doing. When I worked in Springfield, IL as an apartment maintenance guy, we had a rash of air conditioner coil thefts. So much so that on a lot of our buildings we had moved to roof mounted units. The guy stealing the copper knew exactly what to unbolt to slide that coil right out and run. We were not the only apartments to lose these, either. Even businesses were getting hit.
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furries did it!
One would think seeing the guy in the mascot suit with carrying wire cutters would tip you off.
In the long run the universe will achieve heat death.
The only guarantee is that in the long run we are all going to be dead. In the short run (say, millions of years) the earth has such a collosal amount of heat that humanity is not going to run it out.
Besides the Earth's heat is going leak out by erupting volcanoes anyhow. A big one going off is like a million megatons of TNT going off. If we can extract that heat energy slowly we could power the entire world for it for hundreds of years... from the energy that is released in a single eruption.
I think you underestimate just how insignificant humanity's energy needs are.
And if you had RTFA you would know that the plan involves recovering the steam, condensing it back to water to send back down. It is a mostly closed system. Their chief issue is whether or not they can get the steam back fast enough to keep the system going. Just throwing water in a volcano and letting the steam dissipate wouldn't actually generate any energy.
And if you had tentacles your technology would only need to reach the stage where you can trap helpless human females.
In which case you would need technology to travel to Earth. Problem solved, alien tentacle creatures must be able to produce advanced technology.
And Iron is an amazingly reactive fuel if you get it hot enough in the right concentrations.
I want to be like Mitt, who would convince his cronies to invest 10% in a fund, and then borrow the remaining 90% from the banks, using the targeted company in the leveraged buyout as collateral -- that means transferring the 90% debt to the target company. (I’m going to buy a car, what’s your collateral, the bank asks me, the car I’m buying, I reply, try the bank next store, they reply.)
Not that I love Mitt Romney or anything, but isn't that how ALL car loans work?
Yeah, the car analogy was bad. (hard to believe, on slashdot)
The problem is the company has no intrinsic value if it has no assets or products. Borrowing against the stock value might be legal when all you plan on doing with the company is diverting funds to your pocket and letting the company go bankrupt; but it is dishonest and is exactly what is wrong with our financial system.
A) They don't want you to know who is spying on you.
B) You wont know who to sue when one crashes into your property, or causes an aerial accident.
C) This is easier than finding out if it is legal for them to be performing this kind of surveillance.
Probably pilots of regular aircraft resenting having the drones piloted by lowly "non-comms". After all the regular pilots are seemingly on the way out and thus its likely that many are being converted over to drone piloting. RHIP
Also when they started arming the drones. Originally they were scout-only.
1970 - Waterfall
2000 - Iterative
2010 - Agile
Actually this explains exponential version growth quite well.
2013 - SQL edition (based on Forth misspelling)
1974 - First edition
1989 - Second edition
2000 - Third edition
2008 - Forth edition
2012 - Fifth edition
You could literally tell from the pixels?
In this case he could tell from the lack of visible pixels.
I'll celebrate when netcraft confirms it.
An instance where Netcraft rightly should be confirming something. My head exploded.
It's very very very little more complicated. He issued a statement specifically stating that he didn't like it, but then signed it in anyway. If no one stands up to "the f**ked up federal legislature", then it'll just continue to get worse.
I mean, yay, he says stuff I agree with (for the most part), but if he's not going to act on that, then it doesn't mean shit. I'm not sure if it's better or worse that he's not even trying to hide the fact that he's not doing what he says. He might as well be fully supporting it because that's the end result - he'll be out of there in 1-5 years, and the decisions he's making will stick around long after that.
Agreed. What happened to the line item veto, anyhow? I thought Bush's friends gave him that power and now all Presidents can use it. Perhaps there is some built in loophole to prevent it from being used on pork-spending. I am sure Congress would prefer it that way.