You forgot how troops were sent into the Iraq war without body armor, and the families of soldiers had to take up collections of donations to buy body armor for their sons and daughters because the military wouldn't supply it to the troops. That's our federal government right there.
Hey, the GOP has offered EXACTLY the same regarding Obamacare -- they want to get rid of it, but have offered no replacement, no alternative. Apparently, the only thing they want is for us to go back to the way things were, where you were denied coverage unless you were exceedingly healthy.
Apparently; Tory Belleci from MYTHBUSTERS was there, and called in to CNN not that long after the incident was being covered by the network. Not sure if other Mythbusters were there also as I couldn't hear the entire conversation (TV is on low at work).
Technically the NSA has been downloading copyrighted material, and very likely has more than a few MP3s of popular songs filed away in their datacenters.
I suggest we lobby the RIAA to sue the NSA for $10,000,000,000,000,000 because that's what 50 or so songs are worth, so they say.
The only trouble with this strategy of course, is that I don't know who to root for. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? No, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy dammit.
There was a company, I think it was EEStor, that claimed they were building a Supercap that could be used to electric cars, I believe some Canadian carmaker (zep?) even licensed the tech, but the company never once displayed a working product, claiming that their process wasn't yet patented or some other kind of hand-waving. All very shady, and their press releases seem to be geared towards getting venture capital and producing nothing.
So the question: Is this a real breakthrough that will actually result in a real tech leap, or is this yet another bit of snakeoil meant to attract dumb people with fat wallets?
If Exxon Mobil or Chevron buys the tech, and then suppresses it, then it's real, we know that from experience.
So, if I can tie all the pieces together from various Slashdot stories about Facebook....
Zuckerberg is building In-Campus housing to warehouse all his H1B slave labor, whom he essentially locks into the building until they solve some tech problem.
They slaves can't leave the building, and also can't leave the campus, because their home is in-campus, and chances are, he's keeping all their documentation hostage, since his "plantation" is private property probably patroled by Private Security (the overseers)....
So when a fire wipes out his locked-in garment workers (erm, javascrpt slingers); Zuckerberg has essentially killed his own company.
Or, his slaves will eventually rebel, and there will be some campus-wide mass slaying of VPs.
So remember boys and girls, if you use facebook, you're supporting SLAVE LABOR....
And screw-ups like this morning will get more and more prevelant as Facebook's code gets more and more convoluted and patched together and hacked together and messy and unreadable. And Zuckerberg's race to the bottom brings him less and less smart people and more and more "Foxconn-Like" assembly workers who only follow orders and are unable to think on their own.
You can't post, comment or like anything. Finally. This is the official start of Facebook's slow decline. Next up. Video ads in your newsfeed that you cannot turn off and then starts the great migration to the next big thing.
Parents all tell their kids they are great, they never hit them for being bad, and those kids start to grow into toddlers who think they are immune to life, and then they get into the real world and have to start dealing with other kids in school who *also* think they shit roses, except these kids are a bit tougher, and so the less tough one kills herself. Oh boy.
These kids don't even know what it's really like to be bullied. Not only was I beaten up every day in elementary school, I had an older brother who liked to test out his fists on me as well.
And as for insults, I developed a way to deal with it -- I laughed; in fact, I still laugh at pain, I still laugh at insults, and I cut off the insulter usually by insulting myself first so the other guy has no ammo.
I make it clear to the bully that I'm tougher than they are; and they soon give up. However, it's made me callous to other people's suffering -- therefore, this 12 year old girl that offed herself should have grown a tougher skin and sucked it up, and learned to develop a way to deal with it or better develop a strategy to put the bully in her place. If I could do it, anyone could. She was weak to kill herself, so maybe the world is better off without her -- Darwin said only the strong and adaptable survive.
"Many Christians flying planes into building loaded with people?" ---- That's a particularly offensive remark when you consider that a Christian president, without provocation, invaded a sovereign nation recently, and murdered well over 100,000 civilians, which is way more than a few thousand in a building.
Try having 9/11 happen to you EVERY WEEK FOR A YEAR, and that's what your Bush did in Iraq. Screw you and your religion.
A very american-centric point of view. Try leaving your hometown for a while and get out into the world, and I don't mean just those areas that are safe for tourists, and find out just how many people throughout history and currently are being killed in the name of a christian god.
All religion is bad, but the Christians are surely the worst because they feel that their way has to be applied to everyone the world over --- or else....
Long answer: Gravity is about as close as Hollywood's *ever* come to doing it right, and will probably be as close as anyone's ever going to get, until the day you can actually shoot your movie in space itself.
But by then it'll probably be a reality TV show -- "the real housewives of the moon", or something like that....
So at what temperature does an e-book burn? Montag, you're a fireman!
So, lemme get this straight, they are going to ban all erotica, but "50 Shades of Grey" is still a top seller, right?
Only books from relatively unknown authors, eh? Yeah, that's not showing any favoritism... Why not shut down the entire Amazon self-publishing arm?
There's this book I'd like to ban... It's called the Bible, and more people have been murdered via this book than all the guns, videogames, territorial wars, and other sources combined. It is truly evil and needs to be abolished.
I remember reading "War By Other Means" (http://www.amazon.com/War-Other-Means-Economic-Espionage/dp/0393318214/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1381510831&sr=8-3&keywords=war+by+other+means) more than 10 years ago.
The book starts off with how the USA, during it's early years, sent "spies" to European nations to gather their technology regarding weaving and agriculture, as well as the start of the industrial revolution, and how that enabled the USA to become a superpower, and now it's being turned around on us that other countries such as China are doing the same thing, except that they are doing it on a much larger scale.
That this is happening on a small scale in the valley is no surprise, since the lead-time on new tech is now incredibly small. Look how Samsung introduced a "smartwatch" based on a RUMOR that Apple was doing that.
We're here poo-pooing Saudi Arabia while the US exhibits exactly the same asinine policies *and* has a non-functional government?
How about Virginia, which tried to pass a law outlawing any kind of sexual activity that wasn't straight vaginal intercourse? This means a private couple enjoying a blowjob could be arrested. Sounds like Saudi Arabia as well to me. North Carolina has the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation, essentially bringing most women into the fray of 'property' regarding their own bodies should they ever find themselves impregnated, regardless of circumstance. Hell, it looks as though the rapist now has visitation rights to the offspring if he so choses.
And the federal government, millionaires that only represent other millionaires, is run by a fanatical faction called the Tea Party that would like to run our entire country like Saudi Arabia. Women have no rights, only the rich can rule, moochers have no place in society, and we'd be better off if they were all executed. We're here only to provide a labor force to corporations and we are required to give them our money so that they can have the profits they feel entitled to.
USA, fix your own house first before you denigrate the actions of any other government or society. But of course, you think you're perfect -- "murica fuck yeah!" -- half your population lives in trailer parks and 20 million children live in poverty, Walmart is your biggest employer, and *you're* telling other people how to run their countries? You've got to be kidding me.
Even China will eventually replace a half billion workers with robots.
When the global population is 10 billion, 7 billion of those people will have no job and either have to rely on handouts or they still starve (or start to eat each other).
There will not be enough natural resources, and even if there were, all those resources would be retained by the upper echelons, essentially the top 5%.
I predict a global version of the French Revolution, and there will be a lot of head chopping after the authorities have run out of bullets to control the mobs.
So long term, we're contaminating the underground water table, which will eventually rise to the surface, and contaminate the food supply -- Can't you just wait until corn, even grown for livestock feed starts showing trace amount of these chemicals?
Or should we not worry since America doesn't make anything anymore, not even food, and we'll import all of our food from China?
People right now are all up in arms over Fukishima, but I see this fracking as much much worse for us long term -- so bad that it'll make nuclear energy look incredibly clean by comparison.
It's as simple as that. The 3 hedge fund managers are interested in looting the company's bank account, saddling the company with outrageous debt, and then cutting it up and selling off the pieces. It's the Mitt Romney strategy. Or rather, and more accurately, the standard wall-street tactic. It's why America doesn't make anything anymore, and the greedy bastard 1% fuckers should all be lined up against a wall and executed.
During the last round of elections in the USA, I heard from some brain surgeons, particularly from the right-wing, claiming similar lunacy, including the idea that women don't get pregnant from rape -- that a woman's body has ways to shut that whole thing down during a legitimate rape.
Then there was the allegation that children develop autism from vaccinations.
And yet, the number of comments from the holier than thou, American number one fuck yeah! crowd completely dismiss that their religious leaders and their politicians say PRECISELY the same stupid crap, and yet, I'm willing to bet that some here swallow it hook line and sinker, as long as it was said on Fox News.....
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You forgot how troops were sent into the Iraq war without body armor, and the families of soldiers had to take up collections of donations to buy body armor for their sons and daughters because the military wouldn't supply it to the troops. That's our federal government right there.
Hey, the GOP has offered EXACTLY the same regarding Obamacare -- they want to get rid of it, but have offered no replacement, no alternative. Apparently, the only thing they want is for us to go back to the way things were, where you were denied coverage unless you were exceedingly healthy.
Apparently; Tory Belleci from MYTHBUSTERS was there, and called in to CNN not that long after the incident was being covered by the network. Not sure if other Mythbusters were there also as I couldn't hear the entire conversation (TV is on low at work).
So, could be an interesting next season???
Technically the NSA has been downloading copyrighted material, and very likely has more than a few MP3s of popular songs filed away in their datacenters.
I suggest we lobby the RIAA to sue the NSA for $10,000,000,000,000,000 because that's what 50 or so songs are worth, so they say.
The only trouble with this strategy of course, is that I don't know who to root for. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? No, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy dammit.
There was a company, I think it was EEStor, that claimed they were building a Supercap that could be used to electric cars, I believe some Canadian carmaker (zep?) even licensed the tech, but the company never once displayed a working product, claiming that their process wasn't yet patented or some other kind of hand-waving. All very shady, and their press releases seem to be geared towards getting venture capital and producing nothing.
So the question: Is this a real breakthrough that will actually result in a real tech leap, or is this yet another bit of snakeoil meant to attract dumb people with fat wallets?
If Exxon Mobil or Chevron buys the tech, and then suppresses it, then it's real, we know that from experience.
So, if I can tie all the pieces together from various Slashdot stories about Facebook....
Zuckerberg is building In-Campus housing to warehouse all his H1B slave labor, whom he essentially locks into the building until they solve some tech problem.
They slaves can't leave the building, and also can't leave the campus, because their home is in-campus, and chances are, he's keeping all their documentation hostage, since his "plantation" is private property probably patroled by Private Security (the overseers)....
So when a fire wipes out his locked-in garment workers (erm, javascrpt slingers); Zuckerberg has essentially killed his own company.
Or, his slaves will eventually rebel, and there will be some campus-wide mass slaying of VPs.
So remember boys and girls, if you use facebook, you're supporting SLAVE LABOR....
And screw-ups like this morning will get more and more prevelant as Facebook's code gets more and more convoluted and patched together and hacked together and messy and unreadable. And Zuckerberg's race to the bottom brings him less and less smart people and more and more "Foxconn-Like" assembly workers who only follow orders and are unable to think on their own.
You can't post, comment or like anything.
Finally. This is the official start of Facebook's slow decline. Next up. Video ads in your newsfeed that you cannot turn off and then starts the great migration to the next big thing.
Yeah, good luck driving that thing to the supermarket.
If you want to see a "flying car", it will look more like the "Air Mule" (you'll have to google that folks) being developed by the Israelis.
It's basically a ducted fan in front of the passenger space, and a ducted fan behind the passenger space. Chances are, it doesn't have much range.
Parents all tell their kids they are great, they never hit them for being bad, and those kids start to grow into toddlers who think they are immune to life, and then they get into the real world and have to start dealing with other kids in school who *also* think they shit roses, except these kids are a bit tougher, and so the less tough one kills herself. Oh boy.
These kids don't even know what it's really like to be bullied. Not only was I beaten up every day in elementary school, I had an older brother who liked to test out his fists on me as well.
And as for insults, I developed a way to deal with it -- I laughed; in fact, I still laugh at pain, I still laugh at insults, and I cut off the insulter usually by insulting myself first so the other guy has no ammo.
I make it clear to the bully that I'm tougher than they are; and they soon give up. However, it's made me callous to other people's suffering -- therefore, this 12 year old girl that offed herself should have grown a tougher skin and sucked it up, and learned to develop a way to deal with it or better develop a strategy to put the bully in her place. If I could do it, anyone could. She was weak to kill herself, so maybe the world is better off without her -- Darwin said only the strong and adaptable survive.
You forgot the part where they are building a 40 square-mile, 70 billion dollar warehouse in Utah to house everyone's garbage.
"Many Christians flying planes into building loaded with people?"
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That's a particularly offensive remark when you consider that a Christian president, without provocation, invaded a sovereign nation recently, and murdered well over 100,000 civilians, which is way more than a few thousand in a building.
Try having 9/11 happen to you EVERY WEEK FOR A YEAR, and that's what your Bush did in Iraq. Screw you and your religion.
A very american-centric point of view. Try leaving your hometown for a while and get out into the world, and I don't mean just those areas that are safe for tourists, and find out just how many people throughout history and currently are being killed in the name of a christian god.
All religion is bad, but the Christians are surely the worst because they feel that their way has to be applied to everyone the world over --- or else....
Long answer: Gravity is about as close as Hollywood's *ever* come to doing it right, and will probably be as close as anyone's ever going to get, until the day you can actually shoot your movie in space itself.
But by then it'll probably be a reality TV show -- "the real housewives of the moon", or something like that....
And you know, now that I think about it, the Bible has an awful lot of "begats" with underage women. Think it's time to ban that for sure!
So at what temperature does an e-book burn?
Montag, you're a fireman!
So, lemme get this straight, they are going to ban all erotica, but "50 Shades of Grey" is still a top seller, right?
Only books from relatively unknown authors, eh? Yeah, that's not showing any favoritism... Why not shut down the entire Amazon self-publishing arm?
There's this book I'd like to ban... It's called the Bible, and more people have been murdered via this book than all the guns, videogames, territorial wars, and other sources combined. It is truly evil and needs to be abolished.
I remember reading "War By Other Means" (http://www.amazon.com/War-Other-Means-Economic-Espionage/dp/0393318214/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1381510831&sr=8-3&keywords=war+by+other+means) more than 10 years ago.
The book starts off with how the USA, during it's early years, sent "spies" to European nations to gather their technology regarding weaving and agriculture, as well as the start of the industrial revolution, and how that enabled the USA to become a superpower, and now it's being turned around on us that other countries such as China are doing the same thing, except that they are doing it on a much larger scale.
That this is happening on a small scale in the valley is no surprise, since the lead-time on new tech is now incredibly small. Look how Samsung introduced a "smartwatch" based on a RUMOR that Apple was doing that.
We're here poo-pooing Saudi Arabia while the US exhibits exactly the same asinine policies *and* has a non-functional government?
How about Virginia, which tried to pass a law outlawing any kind of sexual activity that wasn't straight vaginal intercourse? This means a private couple enjoying a blowjob could be arrested. Sounds like Saudi Arabia as well to me. North Carolina has the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation, essentially bringing most women into the fray of 'property' regarding their own bodies should they ever find themselves impregnated, regardless of circumstance. Hell, it looks as though the rapist now has visitation rights to the offspring if he so choses.
And the federal government, millionaires that only represent other millionaires, is run by a fanatical faction called the Tea Party that would like to run our entire country like Saudi Arabia. Women have no rights, only the rich can rule, moochers have no place in society, and we'd be better off if they were all executed. We're here only to provide a labor force to corporations and we are required to give them our money so that they can have the profits they feel entitled to.
USA, fix your own house first before you denigrate the actions of any other government or society. But of course, you think you're perfect -- "murica fuck yeah!" -- half your population lives in trailer parks and 20 million children live in poverty, Walmart is your biggest employer, and *you're* telling other people how to run their countries? You've got to be kidding me.
So, the obvious solution is to counterfeit $1 bills.
Let's see if I can educate the Slashdot crowd today, be sure to Google my headline "Mr. 880".
Even China will eventually replace a half billion workers with robots.
When the global population is 10 billion, 7 billion of those people will have no job and either have to rely on handouts or they still starve (or start to eat each other).
There will not be enough natural resources, and even if there were, all those resources would be retained by the upper echelons, essentially the top 5%.
I predict a global version of the French Revolution, and there will be a lot of head chopping after the authorities have run out of bullets to control the mobs.
And CNN is 48 hours behind facebook.
Which means that anything I see on Facebook is reported by Slashdot a week late. Holy fracking catfish, it's time to stop coming to this website.
So long term, we're contaminating the underground water table, which will eventually rise to the surface, and contaminate the food supply -- Can't you just wait until corn, even grown for livestock feed starts showing trace amount of these chemicals?
Or should we not worry since America doesn't make anything anymore, not even food, and we'll import all of our food from China?
People right now are all up in arms over Fukishima, but I see this fracking as much much worse for us long term -- so bad that it'll make nuclear energy look incredibly clean by comparison.
I guess someone went too far even on the comments page, because on the link you provided, there are no comments.
It's as simple as that. The 3 hedge fund managers are interested in looting the company's bank account, saddling the company with outrageous debt, and then cutting it up and selling off the pieces. It's the Mitt Romney strategy. Or rather, and more accurately, the standard wall-street tactic. It's why America doesn't make anything anymore, and the greedy bastard 1% fuckers should all be lined up against a wall and executed.
During the last round of elections in the USA, I heard from some brain surgeons, particularly from the right-wing, claiming similar lunacy, including the idea that women don't get pregnant from rape -- that a woman's body has ways to shut that whole thing down during a legitimate rape.
Then there was the allegation that children develop autism from vaccinations.
And yet, the number of comments from the holier than thou, American number one fuck yeah! crowd completely dismiss that their religious leaders and their politicians say PRECISELY the same stupid crap, and yet, I'm willing to bet that some here swallow it hook line and sinker, as long as it was said on Fox News.....