I use Uber every time I fly out of SFO, and these shitheads want to stop it because Uber doesn't pay bribes the way the cabbies do. Fuck every last thing about this.
Uber exists because taxi service in San Francisco sucks, big time. Anywhere Uber is catching on, they're filling a public need. Customers are not property: if your competition does a better job serving them, you SHOULD be out of business.
I don't. When someone has called for a real estate bubble as a remedy for the dot-com bubble, suggested that an alien invasion would help the economy, and now calls for fucking up relations with one of our country's biggest trading partners, I'd have to say he has disqualified himself as an economist quite thoroughly. He may have had some clever observations to make about world trade once upon a time, but today he is no economist at all. He is a court astrologer, and nothing more.
It would appear that Krugman wants to do all he can to promote every possible cluster-fuck to deepen and worsen the current depression, including attacking world trade with his rehash of the Smoot-Hawley tariff.
Sounds like she's getting taxpayers' money, and there have been no actual consequences for the thugs in question. Anyone lose their job or do a day in jail for this?
We already know, thanks to Snowden, that the NSA commits billions of felony wiretaps as a matter of routine. They have no regard at all for the law, why would they comply with their duty to preserve evidence in an ongoing investigation?
The whole benefit of an autonomous car is that you can use it like an elevator. When it's perfectly safe for a drunk or a kid to use, we will have freed up a lot of time we waste today.
I purchased my Nest thermostat before the Google buyout, and I've been quite happy with it to this point. I would like to make it clear though, that this device is MY property and not Google's.
DO NOT ATTEMPT to spam me through my thermostat. The first time this happens, I will demand to return my thermostat for a full refund, and if that refund is not forthcoming, I will be the named plaintiff in a class action to compel Google to either cease and desist all advertising on devices I own, or remit a full refund of my original purchase price.
That's where the smart money is betting. NSA has a number of minions tasked with bad-mouthing the man who exposed their billions of felony wiretapping crimes. There are also a few knee-jerk bootlickers who will do likewise.
Back in the 1980s, I had the good fortune to work with a man who had started at IBM the same year I was born. He not only knew the current landscape of development tools, he also had a vast knowledge of how we got here, what things had been tried and abandoned along the way, and he was very good at spotting tasks that people hadn't realized were necessary. I learned a lot from him.
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I use Uber every time I fly out of SFO, and these shitheads want to stop it because Uber doesn't pay bribes the way the cabbies do. Fuck every last thing about this.
-jcr
Uber exists because taxi service in San Francisco sucks, big time. Anywhere Uber is catching on, they're filling a public need. Customers are not property: if your competition does a better job serving them, you SHOULD be out of business.
-jcr
I agree Paul Krugman is a expert in economics.
I don't. When someone has called for a real estate bubble as a remedy for the dot-com bubble, suggested that an alien invasion would help the economy, and now calls for fucking up relations with one of our country's biggest trading partners, I'd have to say he has disqualified himself as an economist quite thoroughly. He may have had some clever observations to make about world trade once upon a time, but today he is no economist at all. He is a court astrologer, and nothing more.
-jcr
It would appear that Krugman wants to do all he can to promote every possible cluster-fuck to deepen and worsen the current depression, including attacking world trade with his rehash of the Smoot-Hawley tariff.
-jcr
So fuck you, Krugman, and your Nobel prize, too.
Not a Nobel prize. It's a swedish bankers' prize that they pretend is a Nobel prize.
-jcr
Sounds like she's getting taxpayers' money, and there have been no actual consequences for the thugs in question. Anyone lose their job or do a day in jail for this?
-jcr
Haven't compiled any Pascal code since the mid-80s. Anyone know where you can even get a Pascal complier these days?
-jcr
We already know, thanks to Snowden, that the NSA commits billions of felony wiretaps as a matter of routine. They have no regard at all for the law, why would they comply with their duty to preserve evidence in an ongoing investigation?
-jcr
I shudder to think what they would have gotten away with if 9/11 had happened on their watch.
-jcr
The Clintons are the subject at hand. Why would you assume that they're the only depraved power-grubbing autocrats I would despise?
Try to break out of your team mentality.
-jcr
with power of the political flavor, the only honor is in exercising it as sparingly and judiciously as you can. ...which is why I despise the Clintons.
-jcr
That's a very good way to put it. Her only claim to notoriety is that she's the offspring of a pair of depraved power-seekers.
-jcr
I don't.
-jcr
Luddite.
The whole benefit of an autonomous car is that you can use it like an elevator. When it's perfectly safe for a drunk or a kid to use, we will have freed up a lot of time we waste today.
-jcr
I purchased my Nest thermostat before the Google buyout, and I've been quite happy with it to this point. I would like to make it clear though, that this device is MY property and not Google's.
DO NOT ATTEMPT to spam me through my thermostat. The first time this happens, I will demand to return my thermostat for a full refund, and if that refund is not forthcoming, I will be the named plaintiff in a class action to compel Google to either cease and desist all advertising on devices I own, or remit a full refund of my original purchase price.
I do NOT consent to spamming, ever.
-jcr
Interesting. What does your girlfriend, Morgan Fairchild have to say about it?
-jcr
I don't smoke anything myself, but I know first hand of many world-class engineers who smoke up at parties.
-jcr
It is not just the NSA with the sock puppets, all 4 branches of Military in the US have the same exact programs in addition to the CIA and the FBI.
Yeah, of all the things the government wastes our money on, propaganda is one of the ones I find really fucking offensive.
-jcr
maybe you're just an idiot or a shill.
That's where the smart money is betting. NSA has a number of minions tasked with bad-mouthing the man who exposed their billions of felony wiretapping crimes. There are also a few knee-jerk bootlickers who will do likewise.
-jcr
didn't Washington define a cyber attack as an act of war?
Yes, they did. Never mind that they do it routinely.
-jcr
Anyone at NSA who is participating in this is committing an act of war against a sovereign nation without any declaration of war.
-jcr
Yep, everything.
-jcr
Back in the 1980s, I had the good fortune to work with a man who had started at IBM the same year I was born. He not only knew the current landscape of development tools, he also had a vast knowledge of how we got here, what things had been tried and abandoned along the way, and he was very good at spotting tasks that people hadn't realized were necessary. I learned a lot from him.
-jcr
You are a couple steps behind me.
It's tragic how you Keynesians believe you're right, despite the wreckage of your beliefs that lays all around you.
-jcr
Actually, you can.
Sure. And the German economy got a huge boost from Kristallnacht, what with all the broken windows.
-jcr