Wayving cash around usually leads people to think that you are up to someting improper, unethical or illegal.
A important criterea in social engineering is to get a person's help, hell, even goodwill, without them realizing that you up to any skullduggery. If you're really lucky, they won't even remember aiding you.
The fact that the average citizen needs to hire a guru or buy some fancy software every year in order to determine their responsibility to society is a TRAVESTY.
Let the corps have their 8,000 page tax code, with their carefully lobbied for loopholes -- they can afford to hire professional accountants. And lobbiests. And lawyers.
Simplfy the tax code for normal, flesh-and-blood, breathing, REAL PERSONS.
There should be a viable mechanism for anyone to charge for things they put on the net.
This does not, of course, prevent you from setting a charge of $0.00 on your data.
A more interesting option, however, would be to set your $/page = bandwith costs. So when you put up your amature goat pr0n collection online as a boon to humanity, you don't end up holding the bag for $16,000 in bandwith charges when your site is profiled on FARK.
You could have taken one of the tubs (20% off!) and put another tub in it! (40% off)
And then put another one inside that (60% off)!
If you nested five of them, anything that you could fit inside would be free!
In these modern times, most shoes are made entirely or in part of plastics. These are not safe to eat.
If you find yourself looking for a good zapata dinner, be sure to only select a shoe made entirely of natural materials. The traditional leather shoe is the preferred choice. The animal-based glues create a tasty sauce.
Other natural materials such as cotton canvas or, if your are really lucky, hemp are also edible. Be sure to allow plenty of time to boil the shoe. The longer it is boiled, the more tender it will be.
Thunderbird should be served with leather shoes, ripple with cloth shoes.
You know, if this wasn't so damn serious, I would consider it hilarious that my crazy 'nam vet uncle Frank's paranoid fantasies once more prove correct!
He used to spout crazy shit about the CIA running drugs too.
It's a sad commentary on the world when current events seem like a cheap rehash of "Illuminatus!"
Crap, he's probably right about the aliens, too.
I guess us libertarian geeks will just have to set up our own channels of communications. Unfortunately, my neighborhood association won't let me set up a tower, and we have lots of trees, so my LOS is severely limited.
AFAIK, the FCC's jurisdiction is over teh airwaves. Why do they have to approve anything dealing with cable?
Does anyone, anywhere, actually view broadcast anymore? (You know, with a set of good old rabbit ears?) If you're getting the local channels via cable, that doesn't count!
The US has certainly gone to hell in the last 25 years. The government used to at least pretend to be looking out for the interests of the public. Now it's all about maximizing the bottom line.
Whatever happened to the rule that one owner can't own more that X% of the stations in any one market? Whatever happened to the idea that in order to get a license, a station had to serve the public interest?
It's sad the our government has been infiltrated by the corporate idea that people are CONSUMERS , and forgotten the ideal that government is concerned with the welfare of its CITIZENS.
YAABOIAIHYA![*]
(In today's modern world, I feel the need to state "You're All A Bunch Of Idiots, And I Hate You All!" so often, I decided to coin this nifty, hip acronymn.
FOX : "Lab slab cures non-existant global warming"
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I can see it now : get rid of all those gassey cows, and the econazis can stop trying to make us feel guilty for wanting our wives to drive safe SUVs!
WWMVD? (What would Michael Valentine do?)
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Ok, for example, so, like, I'm this totally comitted ethical person that doesn't feel it's right to exploit other living beings for sustanence. In a couple more years, I can just give the lab a DNA sample, and then they can grow all the Thud457 that I can eat! (I wonder if that would be a nutrionally complete diet?!!)
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A important criterea in social engineering is to get a person's help, hell, even goodwill, without them realizing that you up to any skullduggery. If you're really lucky, they won't even remember aiding you.
Remember kids, prior to a thorough slashdotting, always remember to mount a scratch BARMONKEY!
hmmmm.... I wonder if they're set up so I can use paypal to buy those guys a drink?
(Mods: go ahead, I'll just have to take one for the team...)
Let the corps have their 8,000 page tax code, with their carefully lobbied for loopholes -- they can afford to hire professional accountants. And lobbiests. And lawyers.
Simplfy the tax code for normal, flesh-and-blood, breathing, REAL PERSONS.
Curse you, you've foiled my evil plan with rationality!
Maybe if they chose a tile based graphics architecture, they wouldn't need to buy ludicriously expensive 100 gb/s RAM.
Planet X!
When are we going?
Real soon!
So, since my Karma is "Excellent", slashdot should pay me as a "writer".
Now you idiots and trolls should have to pay.
(Damn, I'm sure to get downmodded for a snarky comment like that!)
This does not, of course, prevent you from setting a charge of $0.00 on your data.
A more interesting option, however, would be to set your $/page = bandwith costs. So when you put up your amature goat pr0n collection online as a boon to humanity, you don't end up holding the bag for $16,000 in bandwith charges when your site is profiled on FARK.
You could have taken one of the tubs (20% off!) and put another tub in it! (40% off)
And then put another one inside that (60% off)!
If you nested five of them, anything that you could fit inside would be free !
err.... no, wait, Christmas is in December!
If you find yourself looking for a good zapata dinner, be sure to only select a shoe made entirely of natural materials. The traditional leather shoe is the preferred choice. The animal-based glues create a tasty sauce.
Other natural materials such as cotton canvas or, if your are really lucky, hemp are also edible. Be sure to allow plenty of time to boil the shoe. The longer it is boiled, the more tender it will be.
Thunderbird should be served with leather shoes, ripple with cloth shoes.
and to head off any smart alecs at the pass:
He used to spout crazy shit about the CIA running drugs too.
It's a sad commentary on the world when current events seem like a cheap rehash of "Illuminatus!"
Crap, he's probably right about the aliens, too.
Oh fuck!
I guess us libertarian geeks will just have to set up our own channels of communications. Unfortunately, my neighborhood association won't let me set up a tower, and we have lots of trees, so my LOS is severely limited.
Big Brother wears mouseears.
AFAIK, the FCC's jurisdiction is over teh airwaves. Why do they have to approve anything dealing with cable?
Does anyone, anywhere, actually view broadcast anymore? (You know, with a set of good old rabbit ears?) If you're getting the local channels via cable, that doesn't count!
The US has certainly gone to hell in the last 25 years. The government used to at least pretend to be looking out for the interests of the public. Now it's all about maximizing the bottom line.
Whatever happened to the rule that one owner can't own more that X% of the stations in any one market? Whatever happened to the idea that in order to get a license, a station had to serve the public interest?
It's sad the our government has been infiltrated by the corporate idea that people are CONSUMERS , and forgotten the ideal that government is concerned with the welfare of its CITIZENS .
YAABOIAIHYA![*]
(In today's modern world, I feel the need to state "You're All A Bunch Of Idiots, And I Hate You All!" so often, I decided to coin this nifty, hip acronymn.
I can see it now : get rid of all those gassey cows, and the econazis can stop trying to make us feel guilty for wanting our wives to drive safe SUVs!
Ok, for example, so, like, I'm this totally comitted ethical person that doesn't feel it's right to exploit other living beings for sustanence. In a couple more years, I can just give the lab a DNA sample, and then they can grow all the Thud457 that I can eat! (I wonder if that would be a nutrionally complete diet?!!)
"Dear God, it's full of meat!"
MC5 was a rightfully underrated band beloved to Discordians and evil malcontents of any ilk.
Canada's not a real country, that's just the big empty space where we keep our strategic snow reserve!
The Professor unequivocally states that Baird invented television. And I believe him because he's an American.
I'm watching the latest Gemini launch on our big three coconut projection TV right now!