1) "everybody's doing it", I'm a sucker/loser if I don't join in
2) can I get out soon enough before it bursts
3) they can't catch and punish everyone, I'll be lucky
In this case, it seems that there were _so many_ playing the game with such high stakes that 3) is coming true and there will be bailouts (i.e., reward for bad behaviour)
MacSpeech Dictate works for me, but I'm Canadian and therefore don't have outrageous accents or pronunciation like most Americans do. I mean, really, "I live in *New Yaak*"? "What's that *Ab-owww-t*? "I'm going to drive my *core* to the *sto-ah*."
there were people lined up for about two blocks waiting
Isn't that how Trivial Pursuit got famous? By hiring people to stand in line around the block in Toronto, thus attracting the TV media to report on it?
I flew into Montreal (well, actually the plane I was on did) a couple of months ago and was looking for a taxi.
The slow moving line-up for cabs was about 150 people long, commanded by some line Nazi. I'd never seen that type of wait before, having been to the same airport at the same time many times before. The guy was letting one person/group through at a time, despite the fact that there was enough curbside space to allow 4-5 taxis to load up simultaneously and what looked like hundreds of cars waiting to pick up passengers.
Considering the state of mismanagement, I waited 15 minutes for the bus to the train station and caught a taxi from there. It was the worst experience of my life and ironically I'd just accidentally watched that video clip while sitting on a CHAIR in the SKY.
People line up in queues everywhere, and do it without even thinking. This generates several interesting questions: Why?
Is it all that difficult to understand? The vast majority of people have an innate sense of fairness when it comes to interacting in groups of others they don't know. It's built into us as children, taught by our parents, because to behave otherwise would be complete chaos.
Are you playing disconnected-alien-from-another-planet-who-is-seeing-earthling-behaviour-for-the-first-time again? Why does this need study? Are you looking for a grant?
A better study would be why/how SOME people think they're *entitled* to cut in line.
I find it kind of shocking how a good portion of slashdotters don't care much for Obama.
Yes, all good Slashdotters should think the way you do. Difference of opinion is "shocking", and likely in some people's minds, also traitorous, unsophisticated, racist, moronic and worst of all un-American.
They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.
It's not children with guns that people should be worried about, it criminals with guns that are the menace. And criminals, by definition, are the subset of society that won't follow gun laws anyway. Why is this so hard to understand for some people?
The only way to create a "gun-free" society is for authorities to assume that all citizens and residents are criminals and treat them accordingly by confiscation of private property. Even that level of authoritarianism wouldn't work anyway, but it may temporarily placate the screechers who demand that guns and violence be ended At Any Cost.
The way that thing acts while stumbling and trying to get traction on slippery ground is positively creepy. It's not that I don't like robots, it's that its reactions duplicate real, live 4-legged critters so accurately.
I'm certain that Oprah doesn't have to care about this sort of thing. She has enough money to purchase small countries and likely has staff to read books to her (or at least provide the gist of them). Not to mention filtering content, intent and political orientation of said publications.
Oprah is an industry now, not an individual.
Oh wait, sorry, I got off topic there. Personally, I prefer text printed on paper - at least that way I know I have access to the material "forever".
[Mr. Kinney points a pistol at ED-209]
ED-209: [menacingly] Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.
Dick Jones: I think you better do as he says, Mr. Kinney.
[Mr. Kinney drops the pistol on the floor]
Dick Jones: [ED-209 advances, growling]
ED-209: You now have 15 seconds to comply.
[Mr. Kinney turns to Dick Jones, who looks nervous]
ED-209: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
[Entire room of people in full panic trying to stay out of the line of fire, especially Mr. Kinney]
ED-209: You have 5 seconds to comply.
Kinney: Help me!
ED-209: Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force!
[ED-209 opens fire and shreds Mr. Kinney]
Canada uses paper ballots and counts them in a few hours. The paper ballot system is not broken. We should quit trying to fix it until we get a LOT smarter.
Follow the Canadian lead - vote conservative this election.
A lot of time? Almost all the replies will involve tracking down products, learning how to use them and uncertainty of the results. I hope things work out well.
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What if my IQ is 151 but because I'm dyslexic I *think* it's only 115? Ever thought of that, genuis?
Key considerations for the game-players:
1) "everybody's doing it", I'm a sucker/loser if I don't join in
2) can I get out soon enough before it bursts
3) they can't catch and punish everyone, I'll be lucky
In this case, it seems that there were _so many_ playing the game with such high stakes that 3) is coming true and there will be bailouts (i.e., reward for bad behaviour)
Also, make sure you're getting US dollars, not Nigerian dollars.
True - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bCuEXrU-yQ
more of my submissions are rejected than submitted.
Hey, he's a lawyer, not a mathematician, dammit!
Sounds like it should be an Apple brand.
How much energy is required to run the compressor to fill the high pressure air cylinders?
MacSpeech Dictate works for me, but I'm Canadian and therefore don't have outrageous accents or pronunciation like most Americans do. I mean, really, "I live in *New Yaak*"? "What's that *Ab-owww-t*? "I'm going to drive my *core* to the *sto-ah*."
there were people lined up for about two blocks waiting
Isn't that how Trivial Pursuit got famous? By hiring people to stand in line around the block in Toronto, thus attracting the TV media to report on it?
I flew into Montreal (well, actually the plane I was on did) a couple of months ago and was looking for a taxi.
The slow moving line-up for cabs was about 150 people long, commanded by some line Nazi. I'd never seen that type of wait before, having been to the same airport at the same time many times before. The guy was letting one person/group through at a time, despite the fact that there was enough curbside space to allow 4-5 taxis to load up simultaneously and what looked like hundreds of cars waiting to pick up passengers.
Considering the state of mismanagement, I waited 15 minutes for the bus to the train station and caught a taxi from there. It was the worst experience of my life and ironically I'd just accidentally watched that video clip while sitting on a CHAIR in the SKY.
People line up in queues everywhere, and do it without even thinking. This generates several interesting questions: Why?
Is it all that difficult to understand? The vast majority of people have an innate sense of fairness when it comes to interacting in groups of others they don't know. It's built into us as children, taught by our parents, because to behave otherwise would be complete chaos.
Are you playing disconnected-alien-from-another-planet-who-is-seeing-earthling-behaviour-for-the-first-time again? Why does this need study? Are you looking for a grant?
A better study would be why/how SOME people think they're *entitled* to cut in line.
I find it kind of shocking how a good portion of slashdotters don't care much for Obama.
Yes, all good Slashdotters should think the way you do. Difference of opinion is "shocking", and likely in some people's minds, also traitorous, unsophisticated, racist, moronic and worst of all un-American.
They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.
It's not children with guns that people should be worried about, it criminals with guns that are the menace. And criminals, by definition, are the subset of society that won't follow gun laws anyway. Why is this so hard to understand for some people?
The only way to create a "gun-free" society is for authorities to assume that all citizens and residents are criminals and treat them accordingly by confiscation of private property. Even that level of authoritarianism wouldn't work anyway, but it may temporarily placate the screechers who demand that guns and violence be ended At Any Cost.
through the 50s, the highest brakcet had a marginal tax rate of over 90% [truthandpolitics.org]
The bracket may have been there, but how many people actually paid that percentage of their income in taxes? My guess is none.
Was Bush not planning ahead before something in year 2001 caused a change in priorities?
Thank God now our Planet in Peril will be saved.
Screw that, I want to know how many angels dance on the point of Sarah Palin's hat pin.
The way that thing acts while stumbling and trying to get traction on slippery ground is positively creepy. It's not that I don't like robots, it's that its reactions duplicate real, live 4-legged critters so accurately.
I'm certain that Oprah doesn't have to care about this sort of thing. She has enough money to purchase small countries and likely has staff to read books to her (or at least provide the gist of them). Not to mention filtering content, intent and political orientation of said publications.
Oprah is an industry now, not an individual.
Oh wait, sorry, I got off topic there. Personally, I prefer text printed on paper - at least that way I know I have access to the material "forever".
[Mr. Kinney points a pistol at ED-209]
ED-209: [menacingly] Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.
Dick Jones: I think you better do as he says, Mr. Kinney.
[Mr. Kinney drops the pistol on the floor]
Dick Jones: [ED-209 advances, growling]
ED-209: You now have 15 seconds to comply.
[Mr. Kinney turns to Dick Jones, who looks nervous]
ED-209: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
[Entire room of people in full panic trying to stay out of the line of fire, especially Mr. Kinney]
ED-209: You have 5 seconds to comply.
Kinney: Help me!
ED-209: Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force!
[ED-209 opens fire and shreds Mr. Kinney]
Guinness is a meal, not a beverage.
I'm fighting cancer and growing hair right now!
Canada uses paper ballots and counts them in a few hours. The paper ballot system is not broken. We should quit trying to fix it until we get a LOT smarter.
Follow the Canadian lead - vote conservative this election.
Actually, it's half a heart, meaning possibly a couple different things.
what have you got to lose?
A lot of time? Almost all the replies will involve tracking down products, learning how to use them and uncertainty of the results. I hope things work out well.
I'm colour-blind and innumerate, you insensitive clod!