I also have my own arbitration system, called "I win" which I am willing to let them use for a fee if they don't want to use the real one after they pay their back taxes and penalties.
They will just decline to do business with you and ignore you because you are a child.
Then maybe we shouldn't bother defending Google or Amazon IP, nor their properties overseas, nor defend them in our courts, or even in our country. Since they evade so much, they can self fund their own legal system, their own currency, and their own military.
When companies try to self-fund their own legal system, it's called arbitration and Slashdot readers complain. When the military does anything that might possibly help a company, Slashdot readers complain. Taxes on companies don't support the "currency". That's funded by bank fees. So it's irrelevant to the discussion.
The original question remains:
Why not just give up of trying to spend money other people earned? Why be so desperate, with the clawing and grasping and angry snarling? Save yourself the anguish by spending your own money, and by earning what you spend. Why not?
Why not just give up on spending money other people earned?
Google and Amazon don't need 50 fire departments in their town. Why should they be asked to pay more than anyone else for the same service?
(Answer: because it's not for the fire department, or the roads, or any other similar government service. It's for transfer payments to individuals and for funds that people have "ideas" how they'd like to spend it.)
Proving that they're progressive about your life and your money and the choices you should be allowed/denied. When it comes to what's good for Google, all that progressive dogma falls away and they might as well be a bank or a drug company or an oil driller. All that progressive dogma is just a show to trick the rubes. Hope none of you were gullible enough to take it seriously.
Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. Hysterical news media reporting (a.k.a. trolling) about a subject gives people a good reason to doubt any particular message regarding that subject.
If n scientists were quoted, why shouldn’t we wonder if 2n other scientists wouldn’t go along with the reporter's agenda? What would we be reading if the reporter intended to be factual? Something much different? Longer, more scientific quotes that mention uncertainties?
This is yet another bunch of jerks deciding to make trouble for yet another niche business. We seem to have a never ending supply of random complaining about anything and everything, from people who create nothing themselves (except unbelievable tales about how [whatever thing] is secretly the cause of [whatever social problem]).
Dollar stores are places to get cheap stuff. Why should people have to pay 2-3x as much to get the same stuff at the supermarket?
Yeah, Dollar Tree is good. AA batteries are 8 for $1. You can get stuff like soap and other misc household items. You pay 2x as much for the same stuff at the grocery store.
I did stop to thing about that. But then I remembered that honesty and integrity is not something they value anyway.
Nor do you, apparently. Too bad for anyone who wants honesty or integrity. Too bad for anyone who wants to have a genuine conversation or anyone who wants to live in peace, without haters threatening them over made up or exaggerated nonsense.
I don't think you'll be able to hate your way to a healthy climate. Exaggerations and lies don't seem to be effective in dealing with climate issues either.
If you actually have an objective other than spreading hatred, you're not achieving it.
...one of the first things the thugs did was remove all of the EPA's climate data from the internet.
The ultimate in thuggish violence! The bits were manhandled by ruffians!!!!!
Did you ever stop to think that this is the kind of false dramatic exaggeration that leads people to question anything related to "climate"? If you're pretending that moving data around is thuggery, then maybe everything you guys say about climate is the same sort of hate-driven hysteria. Maybe only part of it is, but then which part?
How about when you use them all at the same time? The accuracy of the position must improve considerably, right? (I don’t know the details on how they work, so I’m only guessing.)
If you decide your priority is to "care for" 7 dogs over [something else], then why should others have sympathy that you don't have [something else]? You picked 7 dogs because that's what you wanted most.
Progressives don’t care about poor people. They care about themselves.
If they cared about poor or middle class people, they would locate in places with reasonable home prices. Or they would stop opposing new home building in their area. They do neither.
Oh all knowing one I must beg to differ. Numerous studies have shown that micro and nano plastics are present in every major food group consumed in my neck of the woods so, this really is a problem that affects me even if the vast majority of the plastic in my food comes from other countries.
How did plastic get from the Pacific Ocean into your peanut butter jar? Magic? And how did this micro and nano plastic "affect" you exactly?
And why do you want to pretend that Pacific Ocean plastic affects you? Because you want to control others' lives and this is today's excuse? Are you borderline obsessive/neurotic about maintaining purity in your bodily fluids?
Don't you people ever get tired of being a victim?
Don't you get tired of victimizing people to satisfy your emotional needs? Why not just stop making everyone's life worse?
Agreed. Middle ground doesn't involve using the government to bully people whose lives, while not perfectly pure, are not causing a big problem.
Let's have conservation and practical measures not driven by zeal or emotion.
People who aren't desperate tend to choose clean over polluted. So making poor people poorer is counterproductive to a clean environment. And people who feel like they have control over their lives might think twice about throwing trash in a river, but when your life is someone else's tool or toy, then WTF difference does anything make?
So people are assholes because they want companies do such things as provide wooden coffee stirs in place of ones made of plastic?! Got it.
If you ask, then no, you're not an asshole.
If you demand and bully and send the coffee stirrer police to threaten people, then you're an asshole. And probably worse than merely an asshole.
Using a wooden coffee stirrer versus a plastic one in the US and Europe accomplishes nothing. What do you call someone who bullies others for no benefit to anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
Will they be excommunicated from the Internet for their sins against the sacred Net Neutrality?
I also have my own arbitration system, called "I win" which I am willing to let them use for a fee if they don't want to use the real one after they pay their back taxes and penalties.
They will just decline to do business with you and ignore you because you are a child.
YouTube needs to be treated like a monopoly by regulators.
Then maybe we shouldn't bother defending Google or Amazon IP, nor their properties overseas, nor defend them in our courts, or even in our country. Since they evade so much, they can self fund their own legal system, their own currency, and their own military.
When companies try to self-fund their own legal system, it's called arbitration and Slashdot readers complain.
When the military does anything that might possibly help a company, Slashdot readers complain.
Taxes on companies don't support the "currency". That's funded by bank fees. So it's irrelevant to the discussion.
The original question remains:
Why not just give up of trying to spend money other people earned? Why be so desperate, with the clawing and grasping and angry snarling? Save yourself the anguish by spending your own money, and by earning what you spend. Why not?
Why not just give up on spending money other people earned?
Google and Amazon don't need 50 fire departments in their town. Why should they be asked to pay more than anyone else for the same service?
(Answer: because it's not for the fire department, or the roads, or any other similar government service. It's for transfer payments to individuals and for funds that people have "ideas" how they'd like to spend it.)
Proving that they're progressive about your life and your money and the choices you should be allowed/denied. When it comes to what's good for Google, all that progressive dogma falls away and they might as well be a bank or a drug company or an oil driller. All that progressive dogma is just a show to trick the rubes. Hope none of you were gullible enough to take it seriously.
Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. Hysterical news media reporting (a.k.a. trolling) about a subject gives people a good reason to doubt any particular message regarding that subject.
If n scientists were quoted, why shouldn’t we wonder if 2n other scientists wouldn’t go along with the reporter's agenda? What would we be reading if the reporter intended to be factual? Something much different? Longer, more scientific quotes that mention uncertainties?
At "big tobacco". Try posting articles without adding such ridiculous flamebait.
It seems like you fail to understand the wider implications outside of your own situation
Maybe he merely doesn't believe every idea someone with an agenda is trying to sell him.
This is yet another bunch of jerks deciding to make trouble for yet another niche business. We seem to have a never ending supply of random complaining about anything and everything, from people who create nothing themselves (except unbelievable tales about how [whatever thing] is secretly the cause of [whatever social problem]).
Dollar stores are places to get cheap stuff. Why should people have to pay 2-3x as much to get the same stuff at the supermarket?
Yeah, Dollar Tree is good. AA batteries are 8 for $1. You can get stuff like soap and other misc household items. You pay 2x as much for the same stuff at the grocery store.
This article is ridiculous.
I did stop to thing about that. But then I remembered that honesty and integrity is not something they value anyway.
Nor do you, apparently. Too bad for anyone who wants honesty or integrity. Too bad for anyone who wants to have a genuine conversation or anyone who wants to live in peace, without haters threatening them over made up or exaggerated nonsense.
I don't think you'll be able to hate your way to a healthy climate. Exaggerations and lies don't seem to be effective in dealing with climate issues either.
If you actually have an objective other than spreading hatred, you're not achieving it.
...one of the first things the thugs did was remove all of the EPA's climate data from the internet.
The ultimate in thuggish violence! The bits were manhandled by ruffians!!!!!
Did you ever stop to think that this is the kind of false dramatic exaggeration that leads people to question anything related to "climate"? If you're pretending that moving data around is thuggery, then maybe everything you guys say about climate is the same sort of hate-driven hysteria. Maybe only part of it is, but then which part?
How does it feel to have your geek card revoked for confusing Star Trek and Star Wars?
Worse than that time General Grievous took his star destroyers into the neutral zone.
How many points do I need to earn before I qualify for a parachute?
Midichlorians! No more Star Trek references or I'll say Midichlorians again. I'm serious.
How about when you use them all at the same time? The accuracy of the position must improve considerably, right? (I don’t know the details on how they work, so I’m only guessing.)
It's trolling. They're trolling for page views.
If you decide your priority is to "care for" 7 dogs over [something else], then why should others have sympathy that you don't have [something else]? You picked 7 dogs because that's what you wanted most.
Progressives don’t care about poor people. They care about themselves.
If they cared about poor or middle class people, they would locate in places with reasonable home prices. Or they would stop opposing new home building in their area. They do neither.
Except when they don't.
Oh all knowing one I must beg to differ. Numerous studies have shown that micro and nano plastics are present in every major food group consumed in my neck of the woods so, this really is a problem that affects me even if the vast majority of the plastic in my food comes from other countries.
How did plastic get from the Pacific Ocean into your peanut butter jar? Magic? And how did this micro and nano plastic "affect" you exactly?
And why do you want to pretend that Pacific Ocean plastic affects you? Because you want to control others' lives and this is today's excuse? Are you borderline obsessive/neurotic about maintaining purity in your bodily fluids?
Don't you people ever get tired of being a victim?
Don't you get tired of victimizing people to satisfy your emotional needs? Why not just stop making everyone's life worse?
Agreed. Middle ground doesn't involve using the government to bully people whose lives, while not perfectly pure, are not causing a big problem.
Let's have conservation and practical measures not driven by zeal or emotion.
People who aren't desperate tend to choose clean over polluted. So making poor people poorer is counterproductive to a clean environment. And people who feel like they have control over their lives might think twice about throwing trash in a river, but when your life is someone else's tool or toy, then WTF difference does anything make?
But that I doubt everyone could afford the current alternatives.
Environmental religious zealots don't care about how their demands hurt poor people.
Jesus, you must be a joy to be around at parties.
So people are assholes because they want companies do such things as provide wooden coffee stirs in place of ones made of plastic?! Got it.
If you ask, then no, you're not an asshole.
If you demand and bully and send the coffee stirrer police to threaten people, then you're an asshole. And probably worse than merely an asshole.
Using a wooden coffee stirrer versus a plastic one in the US and Europe accomplishes nothing. What do you call someone who bullies others for no benefit to anyone?