It's a great way to make money off idiots during times of economic uncertainty. When demand drops after the crisis passes, you buy it back cheap for next time.
Why not hoard a commodity whose price is more stable? I'm amazed that in this day and age there are still people who think gold has inherent value and will suddenly be the default currency when everything goes Max Max Real Soon Now.
Let me guess, you bought a bunch of Ron Paul Liberty Dollars from NORFED too.
Just because the state security services don't use a public network does not mean that attacks on that network don't affect the security of the nation.
I mean, the NSA doesn't use municipal water supplies for anything sensitive, so does it follow that there would be no national security concerns if pumps and reservoirs were sabotaged? This type of reasoning is stupid even for slashdot.
I don't think anyone ever could have guessed in a billion years that contagion models could be applied to internet memes. And heaven forbid someone spend some time examining their life and writing about it in an entertaining way instead of throwing sheep at all their friends.
Welcome to Slashdot, where intellectual achievement is simply the feeling of superiority you get from knowing more about computers than most people care to.
Does not mean it is suitable for large-scale development projects. People who have done projects in better languages understand this, and I fully expect to be flamed by people who need PHP to get anything done.
I didn't find it disturbing and objectionable so much as humiliating for whoever thought it was funny.
There's no point in being offended by stupidity. Rather, we should pity the type of adult man-child that makes such jokes, even ironically, for they know not how much they embarrass themselves.
Whoever tagged this "badscience" should take an introductory neuroscience course sometime.
For those whose curiosity hasn't entirely been replaced by fashionable knee-jerk skepticism, your optic nerve does not only terminate in what we think of as primary visual cortex, it sends projections to other areas as well, though these areas do not contribute to what most of us think of as "sight"
Sorry, over 80% of these crap loans were made by private companies. Freddie and Fannie were basically railroaded into participating in this twisted market because of pressure to be profitable. It's hard to compete when all your private sector brethren are bending the rules beyond all reasonable standards of ethics.
This canard of blaming the current crisis on poor minorities and the CRA is hilariously ignorant and borders on bigoted. I'll be charitable and assume you're just repeating what you read in the echo chambers on freerepublic but you still embarass yourself.
Clearly the solution is to not attempt to regulate anything. After all, if there's anything we have learned from free market fundamentalists it's that businesses will never risk wrongdoing because the market won't allow it!
If for some reason a business turns out to have completely betrayed the public trust, then government is always at fault.
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It's a great way to make money off idiots during times of economic uncertainty. When demand drops after the crisis passes, you buy it back cheap for next time.
Why not hoard a commodity whose price is more stable? I'm amazed that in this day and age there are still people who think gold has inherent value and will suddenly be the default currency when everything goes Max Max Real Soon Now.
Let me guess, you bought a bunch of Ron Paul Liberty Dollars from NORFED too.
Just because the state security services don't use a public network does not mean that attacks on that network don't affect the security of the nation.
I mean, the NSA doesn't use municipal water supplies for anything sensitive, so does it follow that there would be no national security concerns if pumps and reservoirs were sabotaged? This type of reasoning is stupid even for slashdot.
Are you really this dumb?
Ah yes, the "human beings are avatars of pure rationality" argument for unfettered free markets. Yawn.
Yeah that guy who cleans the bathrooms at the old folks home should work harder if he wants to succeed.
Anyone who believes there is some kind of nefarious systemic bias in academia towards liberals needs to read or listen to this debate transcript between David Horowitz and Peter Steinberger at Reed College: http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/news/2210/ReedCollegeSteinbergerDebate082806.htm
lol, you refer to you car as a $20,000 "investment"
MOD PARENT UP (and adapt for future generations!)
You mean less energy is coming out than going in.
I don't think anyone ever could have guessed in a billion years that contagion models could be applied to internet memes. And heaven forbid someone spend some time examining their life and writing about it in an entertaining way instead of throwing sheep at all their friends.
Remember this the next time you see an apoplectic rant against "big government"
Welcome to Slashdot, where intellectual achievement is simply the feeling of superiority you get from knowing more about computers than most people care to.
That's not grammar it's semantics
Two of the slowest sites on the internet whose infrastructure needs are embarrassingly huge for the service they provide.
Does not mean it is suitable for large-scale development projects. People who have done projects in better languages understand this, and I fully expect to be flamed by people who need PHP to get anything done.
I'm sure they'll think twice before uploading mp3s of all the phone calls Bush tapped to the iTunes Store :-)
Your balls are showing
I didn't find it disturbing and objectionable so much as humiliating for whoever thought it was funny.
There's no point in being offended by stupidity. Rather, we should pity the type of adult man-child that makes such jokes, even ironically, for they know not how much they embarrass themselves.
WOW INSIGHTFUL
Young Republicans want to be John Galt.
When my butt sneezes my nose smells poop?
For those whose curiosity hasn't entirely been replaced by fashionable knee-jerk skepticism, your optic nerve does not only terminate in what we think of as primary visual cortex, it sends projections to other areas as well, though these areas do not contribute to what most of us think of as "sight"
Sorry, over 80% of these crap loans were made by private companies. Freddie and Fannie were basically railroaded into participating in this twisted market because of pressure to be profitable. It's hard to compete when all your private sector brethren are bending the rules beyond all reasonable standards of ethics.
This canard of blaming the current crisis on poor minorities and the CRA is hilariously ignorant and borders on bigoted. I'll be charitable and assume you're just repeating what you read in the echo chambers on freerepublic but you still embarass yourself.
Clearly the solution is to not attempt to regulate anything. After all, if there's anything we have learned from free market fundamentalists it's that businesses will never risk wrongdoing because the market won't allow it!
If for some reason a business turns out to have completely betrayed the public trust, then government is always at fault.