Thank you. Of course all the inflammatory, nonsensical "bankerz are teh evilz" posts will go +5 informative while you'll sit at 1, but this is really the only reasonable post this discussion will see.
By asserting what is obvious is not true, you claim "reasonable" discussion?
This is why people are marching on the banks. Because fucksticks like YOU work so hard to keep the issues muddy when they are really quite clear.
Bankers are the main cause of our destroyed economy. They have so far failed to hold themselves accountable for that (big laugh), and our system is so rigged that it won't hold them accountable either. So the people are going to the streets to hold them accountable.
And before you start spewing anymore defensive horseshit, just keep in mind that the reason people are in the streets now is that we've fucking got nothing left to lose, 'cause you and your useless, greedy, lazy banker buddies have taken everything we have.
Adams was at one time a funny guy, but he's long past his sell date. His cartoons are uniformly boring and predictable.
And his ideas about anything outside of mocking office stupidity are simply breathtaking for their sheer wilful ignorance. I've read some of his other political blatherings. I filed them in the same bird cage where I keep David Brooks' meaningless self-aggrandizing bullshit, which is piled on top of the now thank-fucking-god-that-stupid-bastard-is-dead David Broder's similar excrescences.
God save us from over-wealthy fools who think that money equals intelligence.
Jobs wasn't a designer. All of Apple's designs were done by others. He just chose the ones he liked.
All of these analyses fail because they try to label Jobs as some kind of worker. He wasn't. Jobs didn't DO anything. He WAS the leader of what amounts to a very strange technology cult. A cult of personality that accepted the very bad design flaws and hysterical screw-ups that epitomized Apple products.
I remember about 1995 or so working as an office temp and finding that my Mac that they made me work on kept crashing after I'd used it for awhile. I was told, literally, that I wasn't working correctly. For some stupid reason, if I wanted to launch an app I went to the shortcut on the desktop where it was meant to be launched from. Apparently unlike a well-behaved Windows app, (even then) a Mac would keep launching instances of the app until it flat-out ran out of memory.
Whenever I have to listen to tiresome Apple propaganda about how much better it is, I remember that.
Maybe these shit-for-brains RIAA execs could have thought that through before they wrote the law?
I mean it's bad enough that we have these dumb-as-a-kumquat soulless automatons deciding what music the rest of us should hear. It's bad enough that they essentially rape their "not really employees" with ridiculous contracts that require them to suck out their own bone marrow in order to have a career at all (one reason I enjoy my music a a private hobby and make far more than most rock musicians as an IT guy), no they have to also insist that the entire world bend itself around their antiquated business model.
Only a complete numb-nuts moron would think of a song as a physical item, and that's been the downfall of the entire RIAA's asshole-to-the-face business model. Once they started suing their customers the game was up. People FUCKING HATE big companies. They FUCKING HATE record companies. The artists FUCKING HATE record companies.
Dear RIAA, we FUCKING HATE YOU. Signed, EVERYONE ELSE.
I was spanked with a razor belt more times than I care to count when I was growing up. Not radically different than this. You can bet I didn't do whatever caused the whipping again. Even then I didn't think it was abuse
Meaning that you likely will abuse your children in exactly the same way. It's truly sad how easily people like you justify this kind of out-of-control behavior.
Nuclear is safer, by far, than any other power source
So explain to me why 1,000+ square miles surrounding Chernobyl are unaccessable without a permit? Explain to me how that's working out for the thousands of people who live near Fukushima. Here are some of the consequences of the "far Far FAR FAR FAR" safer nuclear power:
Tokyo officials temporarily recommended that tap water should not be used to prepare food for infants.[29][30] Plutonium contamination has been detected in the soil at two sites in the plant,[31] although further analysis revealed that the detected densities are within limits from fallout generated from previous atmospheric nuclear weapons tests.[32] Two workers hospitalized with non-life threatening radiation burns on 25 March had been exposed to between 2000 and 6000 mSv of radiation at their ankles when standing in water in Unit 3. Follow-up examination at 11. april from National Institute of Radiological Sciences was without confirmation. (ref name="nisa_127" german wikipedia)[33][34][35]
Japanese officials initially assessed the accident as Level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) despite the views of other international agencies that it should be higher. The level was successively raised to 5 and eventually to 7, the maximum scale value.[36][37] The Japanese government and TEPCO have been criticized in the foreign press for poor communication with the public[38][39] and improvised cleanup efforts.[40] Foreign experts have said that a workforce in the hundreds or even thousands would take years or decades to clean up the area.[15] On 20 March, the Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano announced that the plant would be decommissioned once the crisis was over.
I don't know what "facts" you think you have, child, but it's pretty obvious that you have confused FACTS with LIES.
Nuclear power IS VERY FUCKINGUNSAFE. The relatively few and small events that have occurred so far have left wrecked communities and areas of the Earth that are not just dirty but COMPLETELY UNINHABITABLE FOR DECADES OR CENTURIES TO COME.
So, I'm not really sure what you think "safe" means, but like Inigo Montoya, I do not think that word MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS.
Solar if you do not live for example in countries too north, where for 6 month you do not have light.
Also, what percentage of the population lives where there is no sun for 6 months a year?
0.001%? 0.000001%? 0.0000000000123535332%?
I don't know. But for the same reason that 6 months of darkness a year sounds unappealing to us humans, very few of us choose or will stay in such a circumstance.
I mean, could you come up with a MORE TOTALLY FUCKING USELESS caveat?
But who's going to bother repeating the "messy workplace makes you racist" test?
An actual scientist interested in the validity of the results.
Science that is not falsifiable (subject to testing and proving false, in other words) is not science. It's gospel.
This is an indictment of the people in the field more than anything else -- it took them this long to realize this douchebag was just manufacturing phony proof to advance whatever his particular social agenda was. Sad.
It's a case of too little, too late. I have zero trust in the nuclear industry because no matter how urgent, present, demanding, and obvious the need to make double-extra super-safe reactors presents itself to the manufacturers of these facilities, they seem hell-bent on cutting corners and cheaping out on the front-end, to disastrous consequences (insert whatever link to "Japanese Reactor Meltdown / Chernobyl / Three Mile Island" you want here) which in retrospect were the result of shoddy workmanship, sloppy maintenance, wilfully stupid cost-cutting and just general all-around stupid douchebaggery of the kind you get when you give too much power and responsibility unto the hands of those fatally unprepared for the responsibility part.
While zombie-like steps continue to be made towards legitimizing this super-expensive but also unbelievably fraught with peril method of boiling fucking water the public's opinion on nuclear power seems to have solidified somewhere around the spectrum of "Holy Fucking Shit Those Things Are Massively Unsafe" and thank God and the FSM for it. There seems to be no amount of regulation or incentive that can persuade private or public nuclear power plant operators to actually operate safely, and none of that would even matter one damn bit if Mother Nature brought on sufficient catastrophe.
Can we please be done with nuclear energy? Yesterday? Solar, geothermal and wind are all coming rapidly into their own, already cost less than traditional non-renewables (especially if we take away Big Oil/Gas/Nuclear's free rides and subisdies) and it looks like about 30 years down the road give or take we could be living with a distributed power grid that takes inputs from every single solar roof/windmill/vent in the country.
Proof positive that this cultural shift in the trust of big, unaccountable institutions to manage such dangerous materials is the ever-burned-into-our-brains image of Homer Dumbass Simpson, nuclear power plant worker who routinely blows up his plant with his fumbling incompetence. THAT is what most of America and the world think of when we think "nuclear power plant."
It's PAID, moron. P-A-I-D past tense of P-A-Y which you would know if you really knew the language of your country.
But what really is stupid is your lumping of Osama in with "communists." It's as if you have had so many bullshit fears stuffed into your eagerly stupid head, you think all of your imaginary demons are the same.
About four years ago I went on a business trip. My then-wife had given me a small medallion with a chinese symbol on it. I could SEE when the cunt checked me in at the counter she noticed this medallion with a "funny foreign symbol on it" and lo and behold I was selected for a pat-down at security.
And as far as I know the cargo area of my plane was wide open to whoever the fuck wanted to get in there. That's my beef. This security theater shit is old. I did not have to take off my shoes in China or South Korea when boarding a plane (something I did 7 times in 10 days on a trip just a couple years back). It's all a sham.
We've been talked out of our privacy, our rights, and our dignity and now the elite of the world giggle and profit as we are made to parade naked in front of them like fucking zoo animals. Fuck them in the ear.
One of the main proponents of X-Ray scanners, former Bush-Era Homeland Security Secretary Michael "Jackoff" Chertoff, the man who apparently was too deaf or STUPID to hear and see the hundreds of American citizens trapped in a shopping center in New Orleans, is well-connected to the manufacturers of the body scanners.
So when Bush fell asleep on 9/11 he was not only proving for the nth time in his life that he's a useless fuckoff who shouldn't be trusted to watch grass grow, let alone the security of a nation, he was also serving a valuable function to his well-connected toadies in providing a fear-based marketing system to screw the public out of all kinds of money in the guise of making us safe.
It's the same with the "Jobs Bill." He knows it stands no chance getting past the Republicans in the House
Yeah, but now those arrogant sons of whores have to actually come out and vote against a jobs bill. Instead of idiotically grandstanding about so-called "job creators" and doing FUCK-ALL about the economy.
Given the GOP's response vs. Obama's response, I'll take the Obama approach any day, thank you. Vs. the aristocratic, arrogant, self-centered ASSHOLE approach of the GOP, which is to repeatedly do the same thing that hasn't worked for over a decade, and then stand there with their insufferable smug prick-face smiles while the rest of us drown.
I guess it comes down to whose concerns you are going to listen to. The 1%, or the rest of us.
Software patents are somewhere about 1,000,000 miles down the coast from just getting a basic dialogue going in this country among the elite that JOBS GROW THE ECONOMY, NOT RICH PEOPLE.
So, I'm not sure I share the poutraged butt-hurt that the rest of slashdot does over this issue.
That of a sudden the release of this data is linked to the fact that people like the Koch brothers will suffer just as much as the rest of us under global warming -- which I'm sure they have just recently cottoned to.
Don't presume there's any sudden great concern for the 99% coming out of these vapid clowns' activities. They are just looking after their own sweet asses, as always.
A shock wave in air was observed at Dickson settlement at 700 km; windowpanes were partially broken to distances of 900 km. All buildings in Severny (both wooden and brick), at a distance of 55 km, were completely destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometers from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, and stone ones lost their roofs, windows and doors; and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. The atmospheric disturbance generated by the explosion orbited the earth three times. A gigantic mushroom cloud rose as high as 64 kilometers (210,000 ft).
Rightly so the Soviets were accused of being incredibly irresponsible.
And frankly so is anyone who is still toying with nuclear weapons. There are no upsides to their use.
Yes. Muslims require much smaller and more numerous bombs to eradicate.
I wish you'd post under at least a real account, my murderous young fiend.
At least then we could shower your karma with the downmods it so richly deserves.
But at any rate you are probably nothing more than a garden-variety Teabagger. Maybe you are visiting this site from Stormfront. Or maybe from the depths of a prison cell.
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By asserting what is obvious is not true, you claim "reasonable" discussion?
This is why people are marching on the banks. Because fucksticks like YOU work so hard to keep the issues muddy when they are really quite clear.
Bankers are the main cause of our destroyed economy. They have so far failed to hold themselves accountable for that (big laugh), and our system is so rigged that it won't hold them accountable either. So the people are going to the streets to hold them accountable.
And before you start spewing anymore defensive horseshit, just keep in mind that the reason people are in the streets now is that we've fucking got nothing left to lose, 'cause you and your useless, greedy, lazy banker buddies have taken everything we have.
Adams was at one time a funny guy, but he's long past his sell date. His cartoons are uniformly boring and predictable.
And his ideas about anything outside of mocking office stupidity are simply breathtaking for their sheer wilful ignorance. I've read some of his other political blatherings. I filed them in the same bird cage where I keep David Brooks' meaningless self-aggrandizing bullshit, which is piled on top of the now thank-fucking-god-that-stupid-bastard-is-dead David Broder's similar excrescences.
God save us from over-wealthy fools who think that money equals intelligence.
All of these analyses fail because they try to label Jobs as some kind of worker. He wasn't. Jobs didn't DO anything. He WAS the leader of what amounts to a very strange technology cult. A cult of personality that accepted the very bad design flaws and hysterical screw-ups that epitomized Apple products.
I remember about 1995 or so working as an office temp and finding that my Mac that they made me work on kept crashing after I'd used it for awhile. I was told, literally, that I wasn't working correctly. For some stupid reason, if I wanted to launch an app I went to the shortcut on the desktop where it was meant to be launched from. Apparently unlike a well-behaved Windows app, (even then) a Mac would keep launching instances of the app until it flat-out ran out of memory.
Whenever I have to listen to tiresome Apple propaganda about how much better it is, I remember that.
Maybe these shit-for-brains RIAA execs could have thought that through before they wrote the law?
I mean it's bad enough that we have these dumb-as-a-kumquat soulless automatons deciding what music the rest of us should hear. It's bad enough that they essentially rape their "not really employees" with ridiculous contracts that require them to suck out their own bone marrow in order to have a career at all (one reason I enjoy my music a a private hobby and make far more than most rock musicians as an IT guy), no they have to also insist that the entire world bend itself around their antiquated business model.
Only a complete numb-nuts moron would think of a song as a physical item, and that's been the downfall of the entire RIAA's asshole-to-the-face business model. Once they started suing their customers the game was up. People FUCKING HATE big companies. They FUCKING HATE record companies. The artists FUCKING HATE record companies.
Dear RIAA, we FUCKING HATE YOU. Signed, EVERYONE ELSE.
Meaning that you likely will abuse your children in exactly the same way. It's truly sad how easily people like you justify this kind of out-of-control behavior.
Its fucking child abuse. Stop making fucking excuses for violent, savage behavior under the guise of "discipline," you fucking Neanderthal asswipe.
So explain to me why 1,000+ square miles surrounding Chernobyl are unaccessable without a permit? Explain to me how that's working out for the thousands of people who live near Fukushima. Here are some of the consequences of the "far Far FAR FAR FAR" safer nuclear power:
I don't know what "facts" you think you have, child, but it's pretty obvious that you have confused FACTS with LIES.
Nuclear power IS VERY FUCKINGUNSAFE. The relatively few and small events that have occurred so far have left wrecked communities and areas of the Earth that are not just dirty but COMPLETELY UNINHABITABLE FOR DECADES OR CENTURIES TO COME.
So, I'm not really sure what you think "safe" means, but like Inigo Montoya, I do not think that word MEANS WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS.
Also, what percentage of the population lives where there is no sun for 6 months a year?
0.001%? 0.000001%? 0.0000000000123535332%?
I don't know. But for the same reason that 6 months of darkness a year sounds unappealing to us humans, very few of us choose or will stay in such a circumstance.
I mean, could you come up with a MORE TOTALLY FUCKING USELESS caveat?
You must have missed the "grid" part of what I was saying.
My Taekwondo/Judo Grandmaster used to say "Empty Can Rattle."
An actual scientist interested in the validity of the results.
Science that is not falsifiable (subject to testing and proving false, in other words) is not science. It's gospel.
This is an indictment of the people in the field more than anything else -- it took them this long to realize this douchebag was just manufacturing phony proof to advance whatever his particular social agenda was. Sad.
It's a case of too little, too late. I have zero trust in the nuclear industry because no matter how urgent, present, demanding, and obvious the need to make double-extra super-safe reactors presents itself to the manufacturers of these facilities, they seem hell-bent on cutting corners and cheaping out on the front-end, to disastrous consequences (insert whatever link to "Japanese Reactor Meltdown / Chernobyl / Three Mile Island" you want here) which in retrospect were the result of shoddy workmanship, sloppy maintenance, wilfully stupid cost-cutting and just general all-around stupid douchebaggery of the kind you get when you give too much power and responsibility unto the hands of those fatally unprepared for the responsibility part.
While zombie-like steps continue to be made towards legitimizing this super-expensive but also unbelievably fraught with peril method of boiling fucking water the public's opinion on nuclear power seems to have solidified somewhere around the spectrum of "Holy Fucking Shit Those Things Are Massively Unsafe" and thank God and the FSM for it. There seems to be no amount of regulation or incentive that can persuade private or public nuclear power plant operators to actually operate safely, and none of that would even matter one damn bit if Mother Nature brought on sufficient catastrophe.
Can we please be done with nuclear energy? Yesterday? Solar, geothermal and wind are all coming rapidly into their own, already cost less than traditional non-renewables (especially if we take away Big Oil/Gas/Nuclear's free rides and subisdies) and it looks like about 30 years down the road give or take we could be living with a distributed power grid that takes inputs from every single solar roof/windmill/vent in the country.
Proof positive that this cultural shift in the trust of big, unaccountable institutions to manage such dangerous materials is the ever-burned-into-our-brains image of Homer Dumbass Simpson, nuclear power plant worker who routinely blows up his plant with his fumbling incompetence. THAT is what most of America and the world think of when we think "nuclear power plant."
Butt-head Republican ideology trumps sanity.
It's no wonder the Middle East is still such a conflagration -- the US actively prevents any kind of normal relations there.
It's almost as if right-wing fundamentalists are trying to bring about Armageddon so they can all get Raptured up into Asshole Heaven.
I HATE right-wingers. They are so GOD-DAMN STUPID.
It's PAID, moron. P-A-I-D past tense of P-A-Y which you would know if you really knew the language of your country.
But what really is stupid is your lumping of Osama in with "communists." It's as if you have had so many bullshit fears stuffed into your eagerly stupid head, you think all of your imaginary demons are the same.
What would God have to fear from a true accounting of the night's events?
It doesn't sound like this so-called man of God has much faith in his own opinions, if he's such a coward that he can't bear seeing them challenged.
What a loser.
About four years ago I went on a business trip. My then-wife had given me a small medallion with a chinese symbol on it. I could SEE when the cunt checked me in at the counter she noticed this medallion with a "funny foreign symbol on it" and lo and behold I was selected for a pat-down at security.
And as far as I know the cargo area of my plane was wide open to whoever the fuck wanted to get in there. That's my beef. This security theater shit is old. I did not have to take off my shoes in China or South Korea when boarding a plane (something I did 7 times in 10 days on a trip just a couple years back). It's all a sham.
We've been talked out of our privacy, our rights, and our dignity and now the elite of the world giggle and profit as we are made to parade naked in front of them like fucking zoo animals. Fuck them in the ear.
One of the main proponents of X-Ray scanners, former Bush-Era Homeland Security Secretary Michael "Jackoff" Chertoff, the man who apparently was too deaf or STUPID to hear and see the hundreds of American citizens trapped in a shopping center in New Orleans, is well-connected to the manufacturers of the body scanners.
So when Bush fell asleep on 9/11 he was not only proving for the nth time in his life that he's a useless fuckoff who shouldn't be trusted to watch grass grow, let alone the security of a nation, he was also serving a valuable function to his well-connected toadies in providing a fear-based marketing system to screw the public out of all kinds of money in the guise of making us safe.
Heckuva job, Bush!
Yeah, but now those arrogant sons of whores have to actually come out and vote against a jobs bill. Instead of idiotically grandstanding about so-called "job creators" and doing FUCK-ALL about the economy.
Given the GOP's response vs. Obama's response, I'll take the Obama approach any day, thank you. Vs. the aristocratic, arrogant, self-centered ASSHOLE approach of the GOP, which is to repeatedly do the same thing that hasn't worked for over a decade, and then stand there with their insufferable smug prick-face smiles while the rest of us drown.
I guess it comes down to whose concerns you are going to listen to. The 1%, or the rest of us.
Software patents are somewhere about 1,000,000 miles down the coast from just getting a basic dialogue going in this country among the elite that JOBS GROW THE ECONOMY, NOT RICH PEOPLE.
So, I'm not sure I share the poutraged butt-hurt that the rest of slashdot does over this issue.
So you didn't bother to understand how your system works, or do any active maintenance of it, and it stopped working?
What a shock!
That of a sudden the release of this data is linked to the fact that people like the Koch brothers will suffer just as much as the rest of us under global warming -- which I'm sure they have just recently cottoned to.
Don't presume there's any sudden great concern for the 99% coming out of these vapid clowns' activities. They are just looking after their own sweet asses, as always.
Like it is for people who are forced to work with sub-IQ nitwits.
If you don't want a programmer, what in the hell is your business doing developing software?
That's nothing. Beavis & Butthead built a self-propelled giant truck tire that took out half of Highland.
After I read about the aftermath of the Tsar Bomba, I would think another concern would be cracking the fucking crust of the fucking planet.
Rightly so the Soviets were accused of being incredibly irresponsible.
And frankly so is anyone who is still toying with nuclear weapons. There are no upsides to their use.
I wish you'd post under at least a real account, my murderous young fiend.
At least then we could shower your karma with the downmods it so richly deserves.
But at any rate you are probably nothing more than a garden-variety Teabagger. Maybe you are visiting this site from Stormfront. Or maybe from the depths of a prison cell.
One can only hope.
Your thirst for blood is powerful, young Teabagger.
I suggest you try eating your own.