On the whole, reasonable, intelligent parties = no ligitation = no lawyers.
Corollary: Since there are so few reasonable, intelligent parties, we have a clogged court system.
... Which is exactly why I always tell Libertarians that if their fantasy world came true, we'd all have to retain personal lawyers to haggle out every detail in life just to get by.
Just because they're European doesn't mean their morals are any better. They are hoarding money like everyone else in their economic class. They just appear to be better at hiding it. I imagine it is easier there -- the IRS is the #1 or #2 tax cop in the world (yawwnn, too tired to look it up right now)... meaning that the Euros aren't. It wasn't that long ago that Italy had negotiable tax rates -- whatever you bargained with the collectors is what you paid.
Your correction is incorrect because you are alleging I used the wrong word, which is false. The problem is I misspelled the correct word. I suggest brushing up on your usage rules.;)
The Firefox spellchecker doesn't fix all, does it? Peek/peak is not a distinction I am accustomed to making -- certainly not one of my spelling/grammar pet peeves -- despite being a decent speller for the most part. I can't even remember the last time I typed either one... checking my email, it looks like Jan 23, 2008 was the last time I wrote either peek or peak (it was peek) and now I remember that that was an email my wife and I were working on together to send to an important recipient and she had changed the spelling to be correct. She's an English major.
If there's been a continuous Monopoly game that's persisted for longer that 3 years, I'd argue that it is the result of unnatural collusion
Or, they put all the tax money in Free Parking and any time you land on it, you get what's in there. That rule makes the game take forever.
Free Parking sucks.:)
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I tried Digg for awhile, but the comments system is crap. I have never peaked at Slashcode, but IMNSHO, the Slashdot comments system is much better. I like it better than Fark and K5, too, though K5 is a close second.
My other big complaint about Digg is I hate all the pap that's always on the front page. At least with Fark, you're GOING for the funny. I don't visit Slashdot for funny. I visit it for interesting tech and science news stories that have been culled down from a great many. I also visit it because real scientists post things on Slashdot.
I can find more specialized content in a variety of blogs, but/. has a mix of things that I am interested in, with a great comments system, and that's why I come back.
I don't speak for Germany, but the unemployment rate is a direct result of higher labor costs. It's something you must live with as a society with those choices. It's something I understood when I wrote my Congressional representatives in support of the minimum wage hike of 2007.
There's one other thing that I'd like to know more about. Everyone always talks about the low salaries of European CEOs. Ya know, call me a skeptic, but I don't buy it. Greedy businessmen are the same in every country. They're getting perks elsewhere than their posted salaries or they'd be moving en masse to the USA. The only questions I have are "How much?" and "Where are they hiding them?"
There does seem to be a bipartisan blindness to actually solving this problem. In addition to taxes sending businesses out of the US, low wages do as well. A good PhD scientist in China I know makes $7000/year and so do his peers. How do we compete with that? I'm open to suggestions, but all I see from major parties in the US is a whole lot of nothing.
Nigh unbridled immigration (reject criminals, accept everyone else). There is no other fair way to do it. Labor supply screams upward, wages go down, followed by prices.
One email every 3 seconds is not a difficult task, unless you work for a lawfirm that likes to email around PDF attachments running in excess of 100 MB. Then we'll talk.
In education (USA), kids with involved parents do better across the board because it is reinforced at home. This is sought after and encouraged in elementary/middle school education.
You betcha. We're in the process of adopting a 5th grader and you can just tell he hasn't had the attention paid to his work or work habits that we put into our older son. He was shocked we wanted to go over the test questions he missed. He got really frustrated with it. It was plainly obvious he'd never had anyone even look at his work before.
He's come a long way, though, and we're very proud of him.
Yeah, even though I have a wife and kids, every now and then I get a chance to go to the pool alone. As a male, let me tell you you get some weird looks just hanging out by yourself there.
I have a Sony Ericsson P910a with latest patches and Symbian OS crashes every week on that thing. Wish I could afford a Linux phone, though I might be tempted to run Debian unstable on it and end up right back where I started.:)
I tried out Google when I first heard about it (naturally here on Slashdot). It wasn't instant love. I still went back and forth between my favorite -- Hotbot -- and Google. But eventually, Google won out.
I never understood why anyone liked Altavista after I told them about Hotbot. Hotbot was so much more consistent at bringing desired content to the top of the pile.
A review of Miles' "A Different Kind of War" in The Journal of Asian Studies discounts some of his credibility. Furthermore, it was published posthumously in 1967. I find it more likely to believe he was a little braggadocious in his notes and the text just made it worse...
Citation from jstor: H. L. Boatner The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Feb., 1969), pp. 400-401
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On the whole, reasonable, intelligent parties = no ligitation = no lawyers.
Corollary: Since there are so few reasonable, intelligent parties, we have a clogged court system.
... Which is exactly why I always tell Libertarians that if their fantasy world came true, we'd all have to retain personal lawyers to haggle out every detail in life just to get by.
$0.02USD,
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IMO, the only point of swap on a modern desktop/laptop these days is to hibernate.
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Those angle brackets do look pretty scary...
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D'oh, I thought you said "Tetris" and I was like "Tetris is a MUD?" and tried to imagine a Tetris based MUD.
Weird.
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Just because they're European doesn't mean their morals are any better. They are hoarding money like everyone else in their economic class. They just appear to be better at hiding it. I imagine it is easier there -- the IRS is the #1 or #2 tax cop in the world (yawwnn, too tired to look it up right now)... meaning that the Euros aren't. It wasn't that long ago that Italy had negotiable tax rates -- whatever you bargained with the collectors is what you paid.
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So you're not one of those people (er, IP lawyers) who think Star Trek style replicators will destroy the economy? :)
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Your correction is incorrect because you are alleging I used the wrong word, which is false. The problem is I misspelled the correct word. I suggest brushing up on your usage rules. ;)
The Firefox spellchecker doesn't fix all, does it? Peek/peak is not a distinction I am accustomed to making -- certainly not one of my spelling/grammar pet peeves -- despite being a decent speller for the most part. I can't even remember the last time I typed either one... checking my email, it looks like Jan 23, 2008 was the last time I wrote either peek or peak (it was peek) and now I remember that that was an email my wife and I were working on together to send to an important recipient and she had changed the spelling to be correct. She's an English major.
Idle, where you make something out of nothing.
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If there's been a continuous Monopoly game that's persisted for longer that 3 years, I'd argue that it is the result of unnatural collusion
Or, they put all the tax money in Free Parking and any time you land on it, you get what's in there. That rule makes the game take forever.
Free Parking sucks. :)
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I tried Digg for awhile, but the comments system is crap. I have never peaked at Slashcode, but IMNSHO, the Slashdot comments system is much better. I like it better than Fark and K5, too, though K5 is a close second.
My other big complaint about Digg is I hate all the pap that's always on the front page. At least with Fark, you're GOING for the funny. I don't visit Slashdot for funny. I visit it for interesting tech and science news stories that have been culled down from a great many. I also visit it because real scientists post things on Slashdot.
I can find more specialized content in a variety of blogs, but /. has a mix of things that I am interested in, with a great comments system, and that's why I come back.
Seriously, though, idle IS pants.
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Cheers, that was beautiful.
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I don't speak for Germany, but the unemployment rate is a direct result of higher labor costs. It's something you must live with as a society with those choices. It's something I understood when I wrote my Congressional representatives in support of the minimum wage hike of 2007.
There's one other thing that I'd like to know more about. Everyone always talks about the low salaries of European CEOs. Ya know, call me a skeptic, but I don't buy it. Greedy businessmen are the same in every country. They're getting perks elsewhere than their posted salaries or they'd be moving en masse to the USA. The only questions I have are "How much?" and "Where are they hiding them?"
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But you have to put up with higher unemployment rates.
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You know, I can almost see Bender leading the rape of the Sabine women.
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There does seem to be a bipartisan blindness to actually solving this problem. In addition to taxes sending businesses out of the US, low wages do as well. A good PhD scientist in China I know makes $7000/year and so do his peers. How do we compete with that? I'm open to suggestions, but all I see from major parties in the US is a whole lot of nothing.
Nigh unbridled immigration (reject criminals, accept everyone else). There is no other fair way to do it. Labor supply screams upward, wages go down, followed by prices.
$0.02USD,
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P.s., IANA economist.
You get my award for spewing coffee while laughing today.
Thanks,
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One email every 3 seconds is not a difficult task, unless you work for a lawfirm that likes to email around PDF attachments running in excess of 100 MB. Then we'll talk.
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In education (USA), kids with involved parents do better across the board because it is reinforced at home. This is sought after and encouraged in elementary/middle school education.
You betcha. We're in the process of adopting a 5th grader and you can just tell he hasn't had the attention paid to his work or work habits that we put into our older son. He was shocked we wanted to go over the test questions he missed. He got really frustrated with it. It was plainly obvious he'd never had anyone even look at his work before.
He's come a long way, though, and we're very proud of him.
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An aside: Your comment reminded me that I'm going to tag the next "Important Mathematical Theorem Proved" article with "correlationisnotcausation".
Thanks.
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P.s., this is the song I wrote to remind me to go on a very strict diet, "I'm sorry that I got fat; I will slim down". -- Wesley Willis
I think what you mean is you'll "beware of Greeks bearing gifts"...
Cheers,
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Just wondering if they used a trojan to gain access.
Only to your wife. :)
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Yeah, even though I have a wife and kids, every now and then I get a chance to go to the pool alone. As a male, let me tell you you get some weird looks just hanging out by yourself there.
Very Irritating.
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I have a Sony Ericsson P910a with latest patches and Symbian OS crashes every week on that thing. Wish I could afford a Linux phone, though I might be tempted to run Debian unstable on it and end up right back where I started. :)
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I tried out Google when I first heard about it (naturally here on Slashdot). It wasn't instant love. I still went back and forth between my favorite -- Hotbot -- and Google. But eventually, Google won out.
I never understood why anyone liked Altavista after I told them about Hotbot. Hotbot was so much more consistent at bringing desired content to the top of the pile.
And then there was Google.
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Nice troll, but we were talking about transistors.
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A review of Miles' "A Different Kind of War" in The Journal of Asian Studies discounts some of his credibility. Furthermore, it was published posthumously in 1967. I find it more likely to believe he was a little braggadocious in his notes and the text just made it worse...
Citation from jstor:
H. L. Boatner
The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Feb., 1969), pp. 400-401
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