Have it run by the government. remove shareholders, C*O bonuses, and you remove the incentive to cut corners.
You really can't think of a government bureau that cuts corners? Aren't all bureaucracies famous for inefficiency? The incentives will just be driven underground, in the form of graft for special interest groups.
Actually, the single vector I've personally experienced for this kind of malware is FLASH PLAYER. You can keep your browser, OS, and AV up to date, but Flash will still betray you if it's mere days old.
The "interstate commerce" clause died when the Supreme Court declared that crops you grow for your own use could be regulated because it was POSSIBLE to sell them across state lines.
Al Qaeda *wanted* us (I'm in canada) in Afghanistan, they went so far as to declare war, and they kept trying to goad us into a fight, sept 11 got what they wanted.
Well, gee... what would they have done if we hadn't responded? After all, there wasn't an earlier incident that may have indicated an escalation of hostilities.
let US warships through the Suez to bomb more muslims
OK... I assume you're referring to Desert Storm. Arabs were attacking Arabs. Are we supposed to pick sides, or not?
It doesn't say that Congress must wear pants, or meet indoors, or converse in English, either. I appreciate your "out of the box" thinking, but failure to acknowledge the harsh realities of existence explains why we make so many naive decisions.
English speakers are hamstrung by having essentially only one word for love, although we can usually get our point across with a few adjectives. The greeks have several:
Agape, which is slightly modified now to include romance but traditionally meant a deep, unselfish love reserved for one's spouse or children. In the Bible, it is used to describe the relationship with God.
Eros, a passionate love. "Romantic", "erotic".
Philia, "brotherly" love. This is compassion, felt through a sense of duty, honor, or to family outside of one's nuclear family.
So what's robot love, anyway? Robophilia? Err.. Autoeros? Ok, I guess when you find yourself in a hole, you'd better stop digging.
I agree with Bartle about the facebook games. It blows my mind that the most popular SOCIAL NETWORK has games in which the most social interaction that goes on happens by having annoying requests piped though the walls of people who mostly don't give a crap. And I also think they're ultimately boring. I think you can have a successful game with enduring popularity if it's also a social one. A lot of people back in the heyday of MUDs used to chat more than they played. I made a few modifications to Galactic Trader just to make it more social. It's basically a text-mode version of Elite, but that simplification makes it more accessible. And anyone who can get past the lack of eye-candy will probably enjoy the social aspects of cooperative play.
We spend about $500 per year on heating and cooling.
Must be nice! I spent that much in one month during the winter, and my house is properly sealed and insulated (by 1990s standards). Obviously, you either live in an ideal climate or have a house that is already very efficient. Certainly in your case, new windows do not have a short ROI and this is true for most houses.
Everything that helps to disarm the conservative, "fuck your grandchildren and their environment" types, when they try to paint environmentalism as some commie-liberal evil plot, is a welcome addition to the dialogue.
Nice straw man. Do you really believe that? Conservation (hey, that looks like "conservative") is positive when it's performed voluntarily, or agreed on by a community-- not when it's imposed on people at their own cost of property and freedom. That's what conservatives think.
Obama: "You'll still be able to ride on your corporate jet. You're just going to have to pay a little more. Now, if you'll excuse me..." *gets on Air Force One*
The results may surprise you. Increasing taxes on big business actually increases economic activity because you force people to reinvest in their business as opposed to just pocketing the money as income.
They certainly won't be investing in anything that would create jobs, and that's what we need right now. Increased payroll means increased taxes paid by the employer.
Yes, unemployment is very high, but that hasn't stopped businesses from being profitable.
So you didn't notice all the failed businesses? The loss of jobs aren't all due to greedy capitalists cutting payroll.
If the economy is so bad, why are stock indexes back to prerecession levels?
The deflation of the dollar. By the way, they're not back to "prerecession levels". The Dow was over 14,000 and the S&P over 1,500.
And the leftists trot out the police, fire, roads, and military every time a tax argument comes up-- not realizing that these are the BASIC services that we have come to expect and pay for in order to maintain a society. Meanwhile, in many (most?) places the fire department is volunteer; the military is required by the US Constitution; and the roads are a clear use of the "general welfare" since everyone uses them. No, the left isn't really thinking of these when they speak with a forked tongue. They're thinking about the entitlements given to the constituents to maintain their power. Their dream is to increase the numbers of those who are dependent on the government until they are a majority, and THEN to destroy the republic and replace it with mob rule "democracy".
How many of those 25k affiliates "forgot" to include their affiliate income?
Well, then shouldn't they be putting laws in place to catch the income tax cheats? Just like states like California to lazily throw legislation at an enforcement problem. This punishes the law-abiding instead of the criminal.
A commune is not "communist". Communism describes an authoritarian government. Anarchism describes the lack of government. A commune is a voluntary social order. If a commune enforces redistribution of wealth by law, it becomes authoritarian like Communism.
Three axes? Totally unnecessary. The bigger the government, the fewer freedoms for the people-- or "authoritarian-ness" as you say. An authoritarian government that allows comprehensive freedoms to its citizens is a contradiction in terms.
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You really can't think of a government bureau that cuts corners? Aren't all bureaucracies famous for inefficiency? The incentives will just be driven underground, in the form of graft for special interest groups.
Actually, the single vector I've personally experienced for this kind of malware is FLASH PLAYER. You can keep your browser, OS, and AV up to date, but Flash will still betray you if it's mere days old.
The "interstate commerce" clause died when the Supreme Court declared that crops you grow for your own use could be regulated because it was POSSIBLE to sell them across state lines.
Well, gee... what would they have done if we hadn't responded? After all, there wasn't an earlier incident that may have indicated an escalation of hostilities.
OK... I assume you're referring to Desert Storm. Arabs were attacking Arabs. Are we supposed to pick sides, or not?
Thanks for that, Captain Straw Man.
It doesn't say that Congress must wear pants, or meet indoors, or converse in English, either. I appreciate your "out of the box" thinking, but failure to acknowledge the harsh realities of existence explains why we make so many naive decisions.
So what's robot love, anyway? Robophilia? Err.. Autoeros? Ok, I guess when you find yourself in a hole, you'd better stop digging.
What could better exemplify the unfeeling machine than unrelenting pedantry?
Jar Jar is only a stereotype of black men who look like tan and mauve muppets. In other words, Sinbad.
Low UID, did you say?
I agree with Bartle about the facebook games. It blows my mind that the most popular SOCIAL NETWORK has games in which the most social interaction that goes on happens by having annoying requests piped though the walls of people who mostly don't give a crap. And I also think they're ultimately boring. I think you can have a successful game with enduring popularity if it's also a social one. A lot of people back in the heyday of MUDs used to chat more than they played. I made a few modifications to Galactic Trader just to make it more social. It's basically a text-mode version of Elite, but that simplification makes it more accessible. And anyone who can get past the lack of eye-candy will probably enjoy the social aspects of cooperative play.
Must be nice! I spent that much in one month during the winter, and my house is properly sealed and insulated (by 1990s standards). Obviously, you either live in an ideal climate or have a house that is already very efficient. Certainly in your case, new windows do not have a short ROI and this is true for most houses.
Nice straw man. Do you really believe that? Conservation (hey, that looks like "conservative") is positive when it's performed voluntarily, or agreed on by a community-- not when it's imposed on people at their own cost of property and freedom. That's what conservatives think.
Obama: "You'll still be able to ride on your corporate jet. You're just going to have to pay a little more. Now, if you'll excuse me..."
*gets on Air Force One*
They certainly won't be investing in anything that would create jobs, and that's what we need right now. Increased payroll means increased taxes paid by the employer.
So you didn't notice all the failed businesses? The loss of jobs aren't all due to greedy capitalists cutting payroll.
The deflation of the dollar. By the way, they're not back to "prerecession levels". The Dow was over 14,000 and the S&P over 1,500.
And the leftists trot out the police, fire, roads, and military every time a tax argument comes up-- not realizing that these are the BASIC services that we have come to expect and pay for in order to maintain a society. Meanwhile, in many (most?) places the fire department is volunteer; the military is required by the US Constitution; and the roads are a clear use of the "general welfare" since everyone uses them. No, the left isn't really thinking of these when they speak with a forked tongue. They're thinking about the entitlements given to the constituents to maintain their power. Their dream is to increase the numbers of those who are dependent on the government until they are a majority, and THEN to destroy the republic and replace it with mob rule "democracy".
Well, then shouldn't they be putting laws in place to catch the income tax cheats? Just like states like California to lazily throw legislation at an enforcement problem. This punishes the law-abiding instead of the criminal.
A commune is not "communist". Communism describes an authoritarian government. Anarchism describes the lack of government. A commune is a voluntary social order. If a commune enforces redistribution of wealth by law, it becomes authoritarian like Communism.
Three axes? Totally unnecessary. The bigger the government, the fewer freedoms for the people-- or "authoritarian-ness" as you say. An authoritarian government that allows comprehensive freedoms to its citizens is a contradiction in terms.
This story tells me that more women need to carry firearms or pepper spray.
That's true, but union abuses do exist. We're paying for GM's bailout that was mostly due to ridiculously generous pensions given to union workers.
They DID leave. That's one reason why it took 7 years. RTFA.
You mean like this?
... electric boogaloo.
The cool thing is that when you type your PIN on slashdot, it just shows asterisks to everyone else, see? ****