So, even Americans realize that US can get rid of most of its military, use now-free resources to build a viable, independent economy at home, and it would be still under no threat from abroad?
Then you guys are even MORE disgusting for not doing it.
300 millions. It will never be sufficiently impressive unless the number of "victims of Stalin" exceeds total population of the country (and I would therefore not exist because my ancestors would be all dead).
Really, it's around two millions (actually persecuted by Stalin who actually died as a result of it -- executed or while imprisoned). It's still two millions too many, but it places Stalin among some pretty ordinary mass-murdering heads of states, does not turn him into some Hitler-eclipsing monster that US propaganda portrays him. For comparison, WWII in Europe (entirely Nazi's fault) killed 60-70 millions of people.
That's pretty much the origin of all anti-Russian and anti-Soviet Holodomor-related propaganda. The rest of "sources" are Ukrainian from early 2000's -- the time when Ukrainian Nationalists were closest to power.
If you lose a sniper you've lost many years of training and have to deal with political fallout back home
Isn't it lovely how Americans can only imagine wars of aggression on a foreign soil? It doesn't even occur to them that the defense from such aggression is a legitimate use of the military. What a bunch of disgusting scumbags!
This should never be possible if transaction model is properly implemented -- data in memory would have to be stored and confirmed to be stored, or transaction should be cleanly reverted before anything is moved.
What it does do, however, is recognize that companies can specify terms of how disputes will be settled in their contracts.Those terms, still have to be lawful (for instance, an employment contract cannot specify that employees cannot sue for discrimination or unsafe work conditions as those rights are under other federal laws).
And how would anyone know if they are lawful or not if they can be only "arbitrated" by what amounts to the lawyers working for the same company?
And HOW THE HELL does such a procedure cause data loss?!
Are those geniuses using the service transfer procedures that do not perform clean transaction handling and instead just send stuff to be copied expecting that it will sync soon enough?
So you are preferring the system where you as a consumer will receive a pittance in a class action suit and some attorneys will receive millions?
Yes!
Class action lawsuits aren't supposed to compensate customers for companies' wrongdoings, that's impossible to begin with. They are supposed to discourage companies from continuing the practice they were sued for.
I guess, we are lucky that it's computers and not Poland. Maybe. Some programmers with art education would do less damage to the world if they applied their efforts somewhere else -- ANYWHERE else.
Except employers aren't going to pay that price -- student's parents will do that. It would actually work if there were extremely cheap student loans available, and students were at least at some extent protected from a massive financial disaster that their lives would turn into in the case of even slightest hiccup in economy after their graduation.
But this is not the case, and there is no way US government will make this happen. Therefore direct subsidies to education in high-demand areas is the only way to achieve anything positive -- even though it's also an unlikely for US government to do.
Oh but it will. How, do you think, all the idiotic decisions that end up leaving millions of people injured, sick or dead, are made in the first place? Why healthcare in US is most expensive in the world despite its low to mediocre quality, to begin with?
Most of "construction industry" is an equivalent of cancer -- its growth was supported by artificial supply of easy real estate loans, and it sucked all investment and supply chain development from everything that actually produced something useful. That shit has to end if there is any hope for developing any kind of healthy economy in US.
So in China, a minister complained about his (government) institution having too much debt (handled by the government) to local banks (almost completely controlled by the government) in local currency (completely manipulated by the same government), and Americans are trying to present it as a failure of a wildly successful infrastructure development project, and making headlines that suggest some actual disasters happening?
Someone here still argues that American journalism is anything other than propaganda, wishful thinking and wankery.
the most technologically and economically successful nation
I see -- more American patriots.
And we weren't talking about capitalism, son. We were talking about Economics, which applies to any market, free or not. Thinking you can't sell derivatives in a socialist structure is called "missing the point."
Emphasized role of control over production and society through accumulation of capital is specific to Capitalism -- this is why it's called Capitalism in the first place. If you don't like comparing it with various forms of Socialism (Americans have irrational fear of thinking about such things, thanks to half a century of propaganda demonizing it), you can compare it with, say, development of economy under Feudalism, and find lack of the same defining characteristic.
Slashdot Mirror
While I am the closest thing to a Communist you can find on Slashdot, it does not make Robert Conquest anything other than a propaganda writer.
So, even Americans realize that US can get rid of most of its military, use now-free resources to build a viable, independent economy at home, and it would be still under no threat from abroad?
Then you guys are even MORE disgusting for not doing it.
Our singing witches are better (or at least funnier): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0CY3CA30Do
Oh, for fuck sake... I go to Slashdot and learn more about that ridiculous crap with "Hohols" and "Moskals"...
At some time I will get so sick of it, I will organize The Real Jewish Conspiracy just to spite them.
300 millions. It will never be sufficiently impressive unless the number of "victims of Stalin" exceeds total population of the country (and I would therefore not exist because my ancestors would be all dead).
Really, it's around two millions (actually persecuted by Stalin who actually died as a result of it -- executed or while imprisoned). It's still two millions too many, but it places Stalin among some pretty ordinary mass-murdering heads of states, does not turn him into some Hitler-eclipsing monster that US propaganda portrays him. For comparison, WWII in Europe (entirely Nazi's fault) killed 60-70 millions of people.
Robert Conquest
That's pretty much the origin of all anti-Russian and anti-Soviet Holodomor-related propaganda. The rest of "sources" are Ukrainian from early 2000's -- the time when Ukrainian Nationalists were closest to power.
If you lose a sniper you've lost many years of training and have to deal with political fallout back home
Isn't it lovely how Americans can only imagine wars of aggression on a foreign soil? It doesn't even occur to them that the defense from such aggression is a legitimate use of the military. What a bunch of disgusting scumbags!
It's ICANN...
Spolsky
Oh.
This should never be possible if transaction model is properly implemented -- data in memory would have to be stored and confirmed to be stored, or transaction should be cleanly reverted before anything is moved.
pwnt
What it does do, however, is recognize that companies can specify terms of how disputes will be settled in their contracts.Those terms, still have to be lawful (for instance, an employment contract cannot specify that employees cannot sue for discrimination or unsafe work conditions as those rights are under other federal laws).
And how would anyone know if they are lawful or not if they can be only "arbitrated" by what amounts to the lawyers working for the same company?
And HOW THE HELL does such a procedure cause data loss?!
Are those geniuses using the service transfer procedures that do not perform clean transaction handling and instead just send stuff to be copied expecting that it will sync soon enough?
Yes! DRM'ed murals!
So you are preferring the system where you as a consumer will receive a pittance in a class action suit and some attorneys will receive millions?
Yes!
Class action lawsuits aren't supposed to compensate customers for companies' wrongdoings, that's impossible to begin with. They are supposed to discourage companies from continuing the practice they were sued for.
Ass-Enter a.k.a. Andersen Consulting.
Not this "free market" crap again...
I guess, we are lucky that it's computers and not Poland. Maybe. Some programmers with art education would do less damage to the world if they applied their efforts somewhere else -- ANYWHERE else.
Except employers aren't going to pay that price -- student's parents will do that. It would actually work if there were extremely cheap student loans available, and students were at least at some extent protected from a massive financial disaster that their lives would turn into in the case of even slightest hiccup in economy after their graduation.
But this is not the case, and there is no way US government will make this happen. Therefore direct subsidies to education in high-demand areas is the only way to achieve anything positive -- even though it's also an unlikely for US government to do.
A bad/expensive education won't kill me.
Oh but it will. How, do you think, all the idiotic decisions that end up leaving millions of people injured, sick or dead, are made in the first place? Why healthcare in US is most expensive in the world despite its low to mediocre quality, to begin with?
s/construction industry/infrastructure development/
Most of "construction industry" is an equivalent of cancer -- its growth was supported by artificial supply of easy real estate loans, and it sucked all investment and supply chain development from everything that actually produced something useful. That shit has to end if there is any hope for developing any kind of healthy economy in US.
like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
No, actually it is like cutting off your nose and implanting it into your penis to make yourself more attractive to potential mates.
So in China, a minister complained about his (government) institution having too much debt (handled by the government) to local banks (almost completely controlled by the government) in local currency (completely manipulated by the same government), and Americans are trying to present it as a failure of a wildly successful infrastructure development project, and making headlines that suggest some actual disasters happening?
Someone here still argues that American journalism is anything other than propaganda, wishful thinking and wankery.
the most technologically and economically successful nation
I see -- more American patriots.
And we weren't talking about capitalism, son. We were talking about Economics, which applies to any market, free or not. Thinking you can't sell derivatives in a socialist structure is called "missing the point."
Emphasized role of control over production and society through accumulation of capital is specific to Capitalism -- this is why it's called Capitalism in the first place. If you don't like comparing it with various forms of Socialism (Americans have irrational fear of thinking about such things, thanks to half a century of propaganda demonizing it), you can compare it with, say, development of economy under Feudalism, and find lack of the same defining characteristic.
PBXes are not "landlines" -- they use digital interfaces everywhere, and formally don't support tone dialing, either.