No, the NSA spying began a lot earlier than GWB. I first heard of it during the Clinton era. No idea how long it had already been going on at that time.
I see Skinny Puppy's billing of the government to be a sign that they condone the use of their music in such a way. I know that's not true but a C&D letter would have been a much better political statement.
Sounds like you don't know how music licensing works. Remember when Heart got all pissy with the Republicans for using their song "Barracuda" at the GOP convention? Yeah, they didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Anybody can play your song in their venue, anywhere, as long as they've paid the license fee.
Getting bag of weed delivered with your pizza sounds like a pretty good idea.
Hmmm. I'm in Colorado. You've just given me an idea!
Then I can use the pizza parlor / weed shop to launder the money I'll be making from my underground drug tunnel that I'm digging under the New Mexico state line.
Ah, yes, Comrade! Those of us true to the Collective have always known that the Hooligans and Reactionaries had something wrong in their heads! Probably from a vodka deficiency or something.
I, for one, welcome this! It's time we lock away all the dissidents until they learn to love Big Brother -- er, I mean, Dear Leader.
Here we have at least three replies to my original post who think that "sucking off of the Government teat" is a valid part of a viable business plan.
Listen, if you can't generate enough income to pay your own way in the world, then you don't belong in business. Forcing other people to pay your expenses is not a sustainable plan.
Plus the fact remains that Obamacare has already killed more startups than it will ever incubate.
Sheesh. Some of you people need to read your Bastiat. Better yet, just keep your day job.
My first thought on reading the summary: "Holy crap, is Slashdot getting paid to shill for Obama / DNC? now" Because this whole thing is not only ridiculously absurd (people afraid to start up a business because they can't afford health care -- yah r-i-i-i-i-g-h-t), it's straight out of the DNC talking points memo.
The truth is that no one wants to start a business with the Obamacare mandates hanging over their heads.
The "Climate Change" that threatens these companies is the economic climate of the former Golden State.
At 3.25 inches per century (the current rate of sea level rise in California), by the time those campi have been inundated some tens of thousands of years from now, all of those companies will have either moved or gone under -- not from water, but by the flood of taxes and regulations in the Golden [Fleece] State.
oh, wait, I'm talking to a right-winger. Never mind.
Thank you for that little ad hominem pejorative directed against someone you don't know, have never met, and know nothing about. At least now I know what kind of person I'm dealing with here.
Thanks for playing, and have a good day... oh, wait, your kind never has a good day. Never mind.
Yes, the city-county of Nashville/Davidson County is one the two blue spots in a red state. But the people I knew and worked with, and the people who staff the radio stations, and the people you talk to on the street, don't all live in the Blue Hole known as Davidson County.
I see that you're not from there, and have probably never set foot on the ground there, so I'll give you a hint: check the "doughnut" counties.
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No, the NSA spying began a lot earlier than GWB. I first heard of it during the Clinton era. No idea how long it had already been going on at that time.
No, son. The OTHER fold. A little further --
Oh, never mind.
I see Skinny Puppy's billing of the government to be a sign that they condone the use of their music in such a way. I know that's not true but a C&D letter would have been a much better political statement.
Sounds like you don't know how music licensing works. Remember when Heart got all pissy with the Republicans for using their song "Barracuda" at the GOP convention? Yeah, they didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Anybody can play your song in their venue, anywhere, as long as they've paid the license fee.
Nobody should need to go below the fold for a highly desirable feature.
I ALWAYS go "below the fold!" With my tongue. That's where the most desirable, uh, "feature" is.
Last Tuesday? No, you old-Earth Creationist, His Noodliness created it along with the rest of the Universe five minutes ago.
What, you remember events in your life that happened longer ago than five minutes? Well, He created you with those memories already in your brain!
Go ahead, prove it ain't true meanwhile, I'll have another plate of spaghetti, please.
There is much wrong with this article.
Yeah. Starting with the fact that it's written at about a sixth-grade reading level.
If you can't come up with anything better (and dodges aren't better), "geologic formations" is good enough for laymen.
When I see the phrase "good enough for laymen" on slashdot, I know that /. has gone a LONG way downhill.
I think the word that Timothy was looking for is "feature."
A formation is a layer of sediment that has been compacted into rock. There's more to the formal definition, but that will suffice for now.
The Grand Canyon cuts through dozens of formations, but cannot, itself, be a formation.
So much for "news for nerds."
It seems that Michael Mann spends half of his time suing people for defaming him, and the other half defaming others on Twitter.
h/t Judith Curry
Getting bag of weed delivered with your pizza sounds like a pretty good idea.
Hmmm. I'm in Colorado. You've just given me an idea!
Then I can use the pizza parlor / weed shop to launder the money I'll be making from my underground drug tunnel that I'm digging under the New Mexico state line.
While durian smells terrible, the taste isn't that bad.
I remember hearing the same thing about pussy, as a young man
Ah, yes, Comrade! Those of us true to the Collective have always known that the Hooligans and Reactionaries had something wrong in their heads! Probably from a vodka deficiency or something.
I, for one, welcome this! It's time we lock away all the dissidents until they learn to love Big Brother -- er, I mean, Dear Leader.
Your robot is also your urinal. No energy expended in transportation or gathering, any expended energy is already expended.
Next up: Sex robots that drink your pee!
The name Hillary Clinton does not belong in the same sentence with the phrase "sensible adult conversation."
... when I read Atlas Shrugged and learned to empathize with others a lot LESS.
Wow. Just fucking wow.
Here we have at least three replies to my original post who think that "sucking off of the Government teat" is a valid part of a viable business plan.
Listen, if you can't generate enough income to pay your own way in the world, then you don't belong in business. Forcing other people to pay your expenses is not a sustainable plan.
Plus the fact remains that Obamacare has already killed more startups than it will ever incubate.
Sheesh. Some of you people need to read your Bastiat. Better yet, just keep your day job.
Precisely.
My first thought on reading the summary: "Holy crap, is Slashdot getting paid to shill for Obama / DNC? now" Because this whole thing is not only ridiculously absurd (people afraid to start up a business because they can't afford health care -- yah r-i-i-i-i-g-h-t), it's straight out of the DNC talking points memo.
The truth is that no one wants to start a business with the Obamacare mandates hanging over their heads.
Precisely.
The "Climate Change" that threatens these companies is the economic climate of the former Golden State.
At 3.25 inches per century (the current rate of sea level rise in California), by the time those campi have been inundated some tens of thousands of years from now, all of those companies will have either moved or gone under -- not from water, but by the flood of taxes and regulations in the Golden [Fleece] State.
the ... destruction of human civilization 50 years from now.
Ah, yes, that's the REAL goal, isn't it? And it takes a heap o' fearmongering to herd people into voting for that...
...the politician jokes!
In other words: "People aren't sufficiently scared, so we'll have to do what Stephen Schneider told us to do."
Fear. The tool of every dictatorial tyrant. Sigh.
So... let's see...
The sixteen-year period of global warming from 1980 to 1996, which was cause for great alarm, isn't cherrypicking, but --
-- the nearly seventeen-year period since then IS cherrypicking?
Got it. I think.
Taking a two-decade-old trend is not cherry-picking.
oh, wait, I'm talking to a right-winger. Never mind.
Thank you for that little ad hominem pejorative directed against someone you don't know, have never met, and know nothing about. At least now I know what kind of person I'm dealing with here.
Thanks for playing, and have a good day ... oh, wait, your kind never has a good day. Never mind.
Yes, the city-county of Nashville/Davidson County is one the two blue spots in a red state. But the people I knew and worked with, and the people who staff the radio stations, and the people you talk to on the street, don't all live in the Blue Hole known as Davidson County.
I see that you're not from there, and have probably never set foot on the ground there, so I'll give you a hint: check the "doughnut" counties.