If I had the points, I would mod you up simply for having the bravery to burn your own karma without using the AC checkbox. The change is actually refreshing.
You mean when I'm forced to buy electricity, gas, water, housing, or cars at ludicrously inflated prices, that's OK?
If your utilities are burdensome, you are living in the wrong place. Likewise with housing. Move to Georgia; some of the lowest cost of living in the US. As for cars; buying new with a loan is a choice you make. The car makers determined that you would opt for that rather than pay cash for a commuter clunker. You could have shown them up, but didn't.
When I'm forced to bail out poorly run banks, Wall St firms, and car companies, that's not a problem?
That's completely orthogonal to the question of regulating the relationship between consumer and vendor. Government subsidies do not have to exist in a regulated market, and aren't what makes it work (or not work). Agricultural subsidies are driving up food prices and do need to go away, but overall food prices as a percentage of household expenditure has never been lower.
When socialized medicine lets doctors and insurance companies bleed patients dry while making them such, that's not a significant interference in the market?
Look, I got friends that have been completely fucked over by the ACA market plans, and yeah, I'd like to get rid of both them and the annual penalty (or non-consumption tax, according SCOTUS); but by and large the medical care system in the US did not disintegrate the way the doomsayers said it would.
Free markets can work in microcosm, and do. The problem is one of scale. Lassaiz-faire fails at the national (or even regional level) because they cease to be free of outside intervention; instead of government intrusion, it is another private entity manipulating the transaction between the vendor and consumer. Modern regulated markets do not unduly impact the freedom of consent between vendors and consumers, but curtail the worst excesses of large corporations under lassaiz-faire.
I go to Slashdot for first-source news; the same reason I go to Ars Technica and the Verge. The problem with linking stories on other news aggregation sites is you've increased the chances that I've already seen the story (and perhaps already commented on it) to just about 90%. Let's link the original source and skip the middle man (i.e. the competition).
Jack and Jill both came up for performance review. The PHB had just had his budget slashed, and corporate instructed him to cut a staff member. During Jill's review, the PHB sighed, and gave her the bad news. "I'm sorry, Jill, but I've got to lay you or Jack off."
Jill responded, "Can you just jack off? I've got a helluva headache right now."
Every two or three years? LUXURY! I get laid off every week, two days before my first day, and every holiday my boss stabs me to death and stashes me in the trash bin.
Off the top of my head, I'd imagine they mean fresh water scarcity, as higher ocean levels could overrun natural fresh/salt transition zones and contaminate fresh water supplies.
I'm pretty sure my dog Gus thinks "Bear" from Person of Interest is a real dog, and if he just barks loud enough, he'll jump through the TV and play with him.
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PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean?
To be fair, it never actually worked. Not for me.
*BZZZZZZT* Wrong. OpenSSL isn't open source enough.
Tell us how you really feel about OpenSSL.
And they, in turn, fell under the guillotine of the Jacobins. Oh, how they howled. Every revolution eats its own last.
If I had the points, I would mod you up simply for having the bravery to burn your own karma without using the AC checkbox. The change is actually refreshing.
I'm actually working on my second billion $$ right now. I had to give up on the first, though.
No, he's right. We violated AC's safe space. We should be ashamed.
Nope. It's cultural appropriation. Off to diversity training with you!
No, they've already gone through OS/4, OS/8, and OS/16. It's been a while.
You mean when I'm forced to buy electricity, gas, water, housing, or cars at ludicrously inflated prices, that's OK?
If your utilities are burdensome, you are living in the wrong place. Likewise with housing. Move to Georgia; some of the lowest cost of living in the US. As for cars; buying new with a loan is a choice you make. The car makers determined that you would opt for that rather than pay cash for a commuter clunker. You could have shown them up, but didn't.
When I'm forced to bail out poorly run banks, Wall St firms, and car companies, that's not a problem?
That's completely orthogonal to the question of regulating the relationship between consumer and vendor. Government subsidies do not have to exist in a regulated market, and aren't what makes it work (or not work). Agricultural subsidies are driving up food prices and do need to go away, but overall food prices as a percentage of household expenditure has never been lower.
When socialized medicine lets doctors and insurance companies bleed patients dry while making them such, that's not a significant interference in the market?
Look, I got friends that have been completely fucked over by the ACA market plans, and yeah, I'd like to get rid of both them and the annual penalty (or non-consumption tax, according SCOTUS); but by and large the medical care system in the US did not disintegrate the way the doomsayers said it would.
Social programs != socialism. The countries you mentioned are capitalist countries with robust welfare.
Free markets can work in microcosm, and do. The problem is one of scale. Lassaiz-faire fails at the national (or even regional level) because they cease to be free of outside intervention; instead of government intrusion, it is another private entity manipulating the transaction between the vendor and consumer. Modern regulated markets do not unduly impact the freedom of consent between vendors and consumers, but curtail the worst excesses of large corporations under lassaiz-faire.
I go to Slashdot for first-source news; the same reason I go to Ars Technica and the Verge. The problem with linking stories on other news aggregation sites is you've increased the chances that I've already seen the story (and perhaps already commented on it) to just about 90%. Let's link the original source and skip the middle man (i.e. the competition).
Or it's the result of a successful spearfishing campaign directly against the users.
Jack and Jill both came up for performance review. The PHB had just had his budget slashed, and corporate instructed him to cut a staff member. During Jill's review, the PHB sighed, and gave her the bad news. "I'm sorry, Jill, but I've got to lay you or Jack off."
Jill responded, "Can you just jack off? I've got a helluva headache right now."
Every two or three years? LUXURY! I get laid off every week, two days before my first day, and every holiday my boss stabs me to death and stashes me in the trash bin.
Off the top of my head, I'd imagine they mean fresh water scarcity, as higher ocean levels could overrun natural fresh/salt transition zones and contaminate fresh water supplies.
FWIW, the study included accounting for elevated temperatures.
Careful. You're going to give Roko's Basilisk nightmares.
You forgot: BURMA SHAVE.
I'm pretty sure my dog Gus thinks "Bear" from Person of Interest is a real dog, and if he just barks loud enough, he'll jump through the TV and play with him.
You read it wrong. These are emails posing as coming FROM job applicants, to companies looking for hires (or just random people in said company).
This shouldn't be necessary, but [citation needed].
Nope! Those are all high ASCII.