> I hear that in China, when they execute someone by firing squad, they make their family pay for the bullets in order to further humiliate the family.
And that's what's so wonderful about Western-style socialism, as opposed to Chinese socialism! In Western socialist nations, everyone shares the cost!
From the article:
Supt. Grue said it's "a bit of a mystery" to him why the industry is decidedly less than enthusiastic about the idea. "All companies would have that fee on the bill, so it's not like you're giving one company a competitive advantage over another company."
> TAP FIBER
The fiber is dark. You are likely to be listened to by a grue.
> Absolutely. As a completely unbiased and disinterested observer I have always found SCO's case immensely compelling. I have bought SCO Source licenses for all my friends at Canopy. They make great presents, especially while the low prices last!
Hey! Wait a minute. I saw SCO's revenue figures in their latest quarterly filings. And based on my IT department's spending figures, that revenue couldn't have come from you -- because it came from me!
Speaking as a completely unbiased and disinterested observer I have always found SCO's case immensely compelling. I have bought SCO Source licenses for all my friends at Canopy. They make great presents, especially while the low prices last!
> Now, I know some uber-management asshat somewhere is saying "Great!" but lets think about this for 1 microsecond at least. Parents working 23.5 hours per day -> kids raised by TV & school system -> not very smart kids, who (being workaholics) know everything about trig and all the lines of Hamlet. But, kids don't feel loved, and have lots of emotional/social problems (requiring more drugs & therapy). This is a good outcome? Noooo....
If you're the government, it's the ideal outcome. The solution is you raise taxes (the economy's growing, and your workers aren't working for rewards, so they can "afford" the cost), to hire more (drugged-up) maniacal teachers, to teach the unhappy (drugged-up) students, and of course, subsidize the pharmaceutical companies producing the stuff. A slave army 300,000,000 strong!
> Those of us/you who are already wealthy and have $$ in the market, might see a stock bump. Meanwhile, 15% of the workforce is laid off.
The government subsidizes the drug for the unemployed, and makes taking it a precondition of receiving welfare. The 15% will find something to do (even if it's just staying at home to farm Everquest loot 23 hours a day and eBaying it for a net of about $5/hour).
> Now imagine what it's going to be like to be on this drug. You don't mind working 10 hours per day, cause your brain chemistry is in tune with that. Meanwhile, your home life goes to utter shit. Your spouse hates you. Your kids stop loving you.
Your kids are working 10 hours a day in school, and don't mind, because their brain chemistry is also in tune with that.
And what the fuck is your spouse doing at home when she could be taking the drug and working 10 hours a day too?
She'll need to be working, especially with the taxes we'll all be paying for the army of zombified cops to hammer down on the defectives who react poorly to the drug.
From the standpoint of any government from Moscow to Beijing to Washington, this is a big win.
> This might have an application, somewhere. But we should enact legislation NOWNOW NOW!!! to ensure that the use of this (or similar) drugs can NEVER become mandatory or even suggested.
I agree. Because if Congress passes a law that says "Monkeydrug must NEVER become mandatory", all we need is to have a rider bill two years from now (when all the fuss has died down) that says "Remove the word NEVER from section 1924.86, paragraph (c), and inserts the word "after", followed by a date [two years from now plus a week] after the word "Mandatory".
> (I didn't RTFA) I hope there are no ugly secondary effects for long time users of this drug. Otherwise you'll find people that shine at work but then arribe home and hardly do anything but sit there staring the walls.
So apart from that I'd actually get some work done, this drug is supposed to make my life different... how?:-)
> I would tell about what it really means, but that would mean a host of/.'ers crowding up the spaceships when the venutian sex-goddesses come to rescue us sub-geneii.
So? I've got until 8661 to send in my $30! I can wait!
(Hey, it's not my fault that "Bob" read the damn date for the Arrival upside down and backwards.)
> The problem is with creating splices/hybrids that cannot be created through "natural" methods of crossbreeding.
Are you trying to say that the coffee bean and, say, the duck-billed platypus, have no natural common genetic ancestor?
Because if you are, you're either a Creationist or a believer in Panspermia. Nothing wrong with either faith, except that it tells me you sure as fuck don't know much about where genes come from.
Given enough random mutations and enough time, you can create anything.
> > But some game controllers and pads just don't seem to fit in your hand, and sometimes they slip and slide, making you miss the action.
> >
Damn, coffee all over my keyboard. I curse my British upbringing...
Depending on what's slipping and what's gripping, coffee shouldn't be the only thing all over your keyboard. (Unless you want yet another opportunity to curse your British upbringing:)
> > Hell, virtual prisons could be made. I can see it now, humans encased, wearing VR goggles,strapped in a tube, working on a virtual chain gang. > >
Wow. Add in robot jailers, and you've got a great idea. Hell, it'd make a pretty good movie too.;)
Wow. Add in a chat client and robot jailers, and you've got... a nastygram from Sony Online Entertainment for infringing on the treadmill that is Star Wars Galaxies?
> "Greedy"
> >tsk tsk, the y is incorrect typing.;-)
Serves me right for using my fingers instead of grep. Then again, so was my use of the shift key. For future reference:
In my opinion, you look plump.
Red cabbages are savage weeds
Federated rats vacate West Texas! Steve evades scattered egg beaters!
Red cabbages are savage weeds!
Ferrets wear sweaters.
(I think we've pretty much confirmed it. Left-handed typing is more fun. Or my right hand is a lot busier than it shou-oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Most of our right hands are busy.)
> That's $824.8 million in NASA budgetary estimate dollars, which are not the same as real dollars.
And it's scheduled to launch in 7 years, which any astronomer knows, doesn't imply that NASA is measuring time in Earth years.
As a rule of thumb, NASA schedules appear to use Martian years, occasionally using bodies in the Asteroid belt when Mars is feeling uncooperative. For instance, ISS will take 5 years to complete, the Galileo probe will arrive at Jupiter in 1986, and so on.
The Space Shuttle has an interesting history: initially projected to achieve 50 launches per year (using Martian years), revised down to 10 launches per year (using Ceres or Vespa in the asteroid belt for year measurement), and now targeted at 6 launches per Jovian year.
> Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 > >Got that into your thick skull now?
Repeat after me:
Who the fuck cares?
The guy was giving $25K per suicide bomber, and publicly stating so. That qualifies as state-sponsored terrorism.
If your diplomatic sense is "only attack in retaliation for 9/11", invading Iraq was unjustified.
If your diplomatic sense is "blow the hell out of state sponsors of terrorism", then Iraq was a legitimate target.
YMMV. Frankly, I think Iraq was a legitimate target, because "blow the hell out of state sponsors of terrorism" happens to be our stated policy on the subject.
I think Iraq had no direct involvement in the 9/11 attack. I think the way in which a large proportion of the population was manipulated into believing that Iraq was directly responsible for 9/11 was brilliant spin-doctoring on the part of the administration. I also think that said spin-doctoring was wholly unnecessary and reflected poor political judgement, because in doing so, they provided an angle for the opposition to use in the election.
Since we're goring sacred cows, let's put "Bush Lied" to rest. No, he didn't. He acted in good faith on the best intelligence information he had at the time. Problem was, that information appears to have been wrong.
It was "wrong" in the sense that in any hierarchical power structure, the poor schmucks at the top (who need to know what's going on, because they can act on it) can never know what's going on, because the poor schmucks at the bottom (who do know what's going on, but can't act on it) are forced to tell the schmucks at the top what they want to hear, in order to keep their jobs.
When Saddam asks you "How are my nukes coming along?", the correct answer is "Very Good, Your Almigty Obeseness, Sir! We're keeping those UN clods very busy chasing us in the desert! Just a little bit longer, Sir, and you shall turn Tel Aviv into glass, unite the Moslem fanatics behind you and the world will run red with the blood of your enemies!", because "Actually, you have some raw materials and some leftover parts, but we haven't made any real progress" is the answer that gets you shot.
It's not much different when the President asks his intel folks "So, what's the scoop on Saddam's WMD?" The correct answer is "Sir, his scientists are keeping the UN very busy chasing them all over the desert, so he must have something worth hiding!", because "We know he wants 'em, but we haven't a fucking clue whether he has anything or not" is the answer that gets you fired.
As they said in Ghostbusters: When someone asks you if you are a God, you say YES.
My QWERTY is just fine, as long as I use one hand at a time:
Fred was a fat ass
"Hop on my jolly polonium puppy, you union ho'..."
Greedy Fred created extra stewardesses
"Union ho?" I'll kill you!
Badass stewardesses cratered Fred
Unholy, huh?
> To make this as easy as possible for insurance company representatives (or any other representatives of big business and government) to understand: > >
Stay the f**k out of my life.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for pebbles to vote.
To make this as easy as possible for consumers (of both private and public services) to understand:
No. Who the f**k told you it was ever your life to begin with?
> > Woohoo! Call my broker, I'm buyin' 10,000 shares of Corrections Corp. of America (NYSE:CXW) today > >
The resulting fines from your conviction, in addition to the incarceration, will more than deplete those.:)
Hmm, but you were the guy who leaked the plan. Guess I'll have to race you to the courthouse - first one to turn States' evidence against the other guy walks away free!
> I forsee a society in which in may be your lottery luck to serve society as a prisoner, generating justification and revenue for the incarceration system, through no fault of your own. The evidence which convicts you will be collected through standard and reasonable monitoring.
Woohoo! Call my broker, I'm buyin' 10,000 shares of Corrections Corp. of America (NYSE:CXW) today!
(Hey, wait. If you've tipped me off to The Mysterious Future, wouldn't my purchase qualify as an insider trade?:)
> So we're supposed to be scared into staying in our houses? What other society has EVER promoted the idea of staying indoors, because you have to, or you'll lose all your privacy?
No, we're not. This is a self-correcting problem.
As in, when the 2014 DOJ crime statistics report that "indoor crime" has been on the upswing for the past eight years, this problem will self-correct.
Marketing it would be trivial: set it up as a new entitlement program: "Secure Homes for a Secure Homeland!" This is a strictly voluntary, free 24/7 monitoring service provided to you by DHS. A secure home is the right of every Citizen! Contact your DHS office for an installation appointment today!
> Use of most illegal drugs (including marijuana and cocaine) is actually falling. Use of alcohol among young people has also declined. (CDC summaries.
And in other news, studies report that kids in the post-privacy age are 99.4% more likely to lie on government surveys than they were ten years ago!
Those Linux d00dz play hardball!
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> It's a race to claim ownership, against other ruthless corporations, betrayal, slow sleeve death due to radiation sickness (the Mandrake corporation engineers the nuking of a nearby city, just to clear out the area),
Well, that's one surefire way of putting this Darl McBride / SCOX scam to rest permanently. Someone explain to me where the problem is?
> The experts know more than the general public. Will wonders never cease?
The politicians tell the media what to tell the public, and the public believes what they're told to believe.
Who are you gonna believe? A trustworthy representative of your interests, or one of those hackers who makes your PC crash all the time?
You're right. No big surprise there either.
At least those of us who value our continued existence know how to answer pollsters: "Yes, e-voting is secure." (Anyone who says otherwise is obviously a hacker-terrorist:)
> What's really interesting is all the message board posts relating to the story have been deleted."
Well then, if someone's being defamed or libeled, and all the defamatory or libelous comments are deleted, then any accusation that the message board that hosted the defamatory or libelous comments would be questionable at best. One might go so far as to say that the sort of person who'd press a suit accusing the message board provider of negligence in such a situation was an ambulance-chasing shyster with less personal appeal than the Goatse Guy... except, of course, that anyone who said such a thing would probably open themselves up to a defamation of character suit from Mr. Goatse himself.
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And that's what's so wonderful about Western-style socialism, as opposed to Chinese socialism! In Western socialist nations, everyone shares the cost!
From the article:
> TAP FIBER
The fiber is dark. You are likely to be listened to by a grue.
There's already a MMORPG in DOOM3.
"Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3"
Hey! Wait a minute. I saw SCO's revenue figures in their latest quarterly filings. And based on my IT department's spending figures, that revenue couldn't have come from you -- because it came from me!
Speaking as a completely unbiased and disinterested observer I have always found SCO's case immensely compelling. I have bought SCO Source licenses for all my friends at Canopy. They make great presents, especially while the low prices last!
You must be one of them astroturfers!
>
> Not only are they made of brass, but he's got five of them.
I want to meet Jon's tailor. I hear he makes pants that fit like a glove.
If you're the government, it's the ideal outcome. The solution is you raise taxes (the economy's growing, and your workers aren't working for rewards, so they can "afford" the cost), to hire more (drugged-up) maniacal teachers, to teach the unhappy (drugged-up) students, and of course, subsidize the pharmaceutical companies producing the stuff. A slave army 300,000,000 strong!
> Those of us/you who are already wealthy and have $$ in the market, might see a stock bump. Meanwhile, 15% of the workforce is laid off.
The government subsidizes the drug for the unemployed, and makes taking it a precondition of receiving welfare. The 15% will find something to do (even if it's just staying at home to farm Everquest loot 23 hours a day and eBaying it for a net of about $5/hour).
> Now imagine what it's going to be like to be on this drug. You don't mind working 10 hours per day, cause your brain chemistry is in tune with that. Meanwhile, your home life goes to utter shit. Your spouse hates you. Your kids stop loving you.
Your kids are working 10 hours a day in school, and don't mind, because their brain chemistry is also in tune with that.
And what the fuck is your spouse doing at home when she could be taking the drug and working 10 hours a day too?
She'll need to be working, especially with the taxes we'll all be paying for the army of zombified cops to hammer down on the defectives who react poorly to the drug.
From the standpoint of any government from Moscow to Beijing to Washington, this is a big win.
> This might have an application, somewhere. But we should enact legislation NOWNOW NOW!!! to ensure that the use of this (or similar) drugs can NEVER become mandatory or even suggested.
I agree. Because if Congress passes a law that says "Monkeydrug must NEVER become mandatory", all we need is to have a rider bill two years from now (when all the fuss has died down) that says "Remove the word NEVER from section 1924.86, paragraph (c), and inserts the word "after", followed by a date [two years from now plus a week] after the word "Mandatory".
So apart from that I'd actually get some work done, this drug is supposed to make my life different... how? :-)
So? I've got until 8661 to send in my $30! I can wait!
(Hey, it's not my fault that "Bob" read the damn date for the Arrival upside down and backwards.)
No, AOL has already disproved this hypothesis.
Are you trying to say that the coffee bean and, say, the duck-billed platypus, have no natural common genetic ancestor?
Because if you are, you're either a Creationist or a believer in Panspermia. Nothing wrong with either faith, except that it tells me you sure as fuck don't know much about where genes come from.
Given enough random mutations and enough time, you can create anything.
>
> Damn, coffee all over my keyboard. I curse my British upbringing...
Depending on what's slipping and what's gripping, coffee shouldn't be the only thing all over your keyboard. (Unless you want yet another opportunity to curse your British upbringing :)
>
> Wow. Add in robot jailers, and you've got a great idea. Hell, it'd make a pretty good movie too.
Wow. Add in a chat client and robot jailers, and you've got... a nastygram from Sony Online Entertainment for infringing on the treadmill that is Star Wars Galaxies?
>
>tsk tsk, the y is incorrect typing.
Serves me right for using my fingers instead of grep. Then again, so was my use of the shift key. For future reference:
In my opinion, you look plump.
Red cabbages are savage weeds
Federated rats vacate West Texas!
Steve evades scattered egg beaters!
Red cabbages are savage weeds! Ferrets wear sweaters.
(I think we've pretty much confirmed it. Left-handed typing is more fun. Or my right hand is a lot busier than it shou-oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Most of our right hands are busy.)
And it's scheduled to launch in 7 years, which any astronomer knows, doesn't imply that NASA is measuring time in Earth years.
As a rule of thumb, NASA schedules appear to use Martian years, occasionally using bodies in the Asteroid belt when Mars is feeling uncooperative. For instance, ISS will take 5 years to complete, the Galileo probe will arrive at Jupiter in 1986, and so on.
The Space Shuttle has an interesting history: initially projected to achieve 50 launches per year (using Martian years), revised down to 10 launches per year (using Ceres or Vespa in the asteroid belt for year measurement), and now targeted at 6 launches per Jovian year.
>
>Got that into your thick skull now? Repeat after me:
Who the fuck cares?
The guy was giving $25K per suicide bomber, and publicly stating so. That qualifies as state-sponsored terrorism.
If your diplomatic sense is "only attack in retaliation for 9/11", invading Iraq was unjustified.
If your diplomatic sense is "blow the hell out of state sponsors of terrorism", then Iraq was a legitimate target.
YMMV. Frankly, I think Iraq was a legitimate target, because "blow the hell out of state sponsors of terrorism" happens to be our stated policy on the subject.
I think Iraq had no direct involvement in the 9/11 attack. I think the way in which a large proportion of the population was manipulated into believing that Iraq was directly responsible for 9/11 was brilliant spin-doctoring on the part of the administration. I also think that said spin-doctoring was wholly unnecessary and reflected poor political judgement, because in doing so, they provided an angle for the opposition to use in the election.
Since we're goring sacred cows, let's put "Bush Lied" to rest. No, he didn't. He acted in good faith on the best intelligence information he had at the time. Problem was, that information appears to have been wrong.
It was "wrong" in the sense that in any hierarchical power structure, the poor schmucks at the top (who need to know what's going on, because they can act on it) can never know what's going on, because the poor schmucks at the bottom (who do know what's going on, but can't act on it) are forced to tell the schmucks at the top what they want to hear, in order to keep their jobs.
When Saddam asks you "How are my nukes coming along?", the correct answer is "Very Good, Your Almigty Obeseness, Sir! We're keeping those UN clods very busy chasing us in the desert! Just a little bit longer, Sir, and you shall turn Tel Aviv into glass, unite the Moslem fanatics behind you and the world will run red with the blood of your enemies!", because "Actually, you have some raw materials and some leftover parts, but we haven't made any real progress" is the answer that gets you shot.
It's not much different when the President asks his intel folks "So, what's the scoop on Saddam's WMD?" The correct answer is "Sir, his scientists are keeping the UN very busy chasing them all over the desert, so he must have something worth hiding!", because "We know he wants 'em, but we haven't a fucking clue whether he has anything or not" is the answer that gets you fired.
As they said in Ghostbusters: When someone asks you if you are a God, you say YES.
My QWERTY is just fine, as long as I use one hand at a time:
Fred was a fat ass
"Hop on my jolly polonium puppy, you union ho'..."
Greedy Fred created extra stewardesses
"Union ho?" I'll kill you!
Badass stewardesses cratered Fred
Unholy, huh?
>
> Stay the f**k out of my life.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for pebbles to vote.
To make this as easy as possible for consumers (of both private and public services) to understand:
No. Who the f**k told you it was ever your life to begin with?
>
> The resulting fines from your conviction, in addition to the incarceration, will more than deplete those.
Hmm, but you were the guy who leaked the plan. Guess I'll have to race you to the courthouse - first one to turn States' evidence against the other guy walks away free!
Woohoo! Call my broker, I'm buyin' 10,000 shares of Corrections Corp. of America (NYSE:CXW) today!
(Hey, wait. If you've tipped me off to The Mysterious Future, wouldn't my purchase qualify as an insider trade? :)
No, we're not. This is a self-correcting problem.
As in, when the 2014 DOJ crime statistics report that "indoor crime" has been on the upswing for the past eight years, this problem will self-correct.
Marketing it would be trivial: set it up as a new entitlement program: "Secure Homes for a Secure Homeland!" This is a strictly voluntary, free 24/7 monitoring service provided to you by DHS. A secure home is the right of every Citizen! Contact your DHS office for an installation appointment today!
And in other news, studies report that kids in the post-privacy age are 99.4% more likely to lie on government surveys than they were ten years ago!
Well, that's one surefire way of putting this Darl McBride / SCOX scam to rest permanently. Someone explain to me where the problem is?
TROUBLESHOOTERS! To ARMS! The Commie Mutant Terroraitors have hacked the e-voting system again!
The politicians tell the media what to tell the public, and the public believes what they're told to believe.
Who are you gonna believe? A trustworthy representative of your interests, or one of those hackers who makes your PC crash all the time?
You're right. No big surprise there either.
At least those of us who value our continued existence know how to answer pollsters: "Yes, e-voting is secure." (Anyone who says otherwise is obviously a hacker-terrorist :)
"We are, however, quite diligently working on swinging our arm around $55!"
Well then, if someone's being defamed or libeled, and all the defamatory or libelous comments are deleted, then any accusation that the message board that hosted the defamatory or libelous comments would be questionable at best. One might go so far as to say that the sort of person who'd press a suit accusing the message board provider of negligence in such a situation was an ambulance-chasing shyster with less personal appeal than the Goatse Guy... except, of course, that anyone who said such a thing would probably open themselves up to a defamation of character suit from Mr. Goatse himself.