Actually the "free market" is what caused the rolling blackouts and super high price spikes in California. You paid what the highest generation plant cost. So they shut down enough capacity so that they had to rely on very expensive plants. The energy guys wrote the legislation that put it into place, don't you think that it would rig it in their favor?
Often times when people advocate for a free market, what ends up happening is the market is not free, it's actually tilted towards someone or someone rigging the system.
More than once I've had to side step quickly to avoid a Prius in a store parking lot - I'm used to audio cues of my environment, and they just weren't paying attention while backing out.
I call bullshit on this.
I call bullshit on you calling bullshit. You try walking around a hippy college town grocery store parking lot. Odds are you will have to roll to dodge a hybrid car or two. If the car is making noise, you get a bonus to your dodge. That bonus is the difference between taking no damage or 6d6 and having to make a health roll to stay out of the hospital.
The post office is going to lose money because unlike UPS, they can't raise rates. They have to visit everyone's house 6 days a week.
It's actually a very very efficient organization. It's the constraints put upon it that make it so that it loses money. Congress won't allow this cost saving, Congress won't allow to cut service. Congress won't allow it to raise rates.
If you know anyone that's a postal carrier, you know it's a stressful job. Hence the term, going postal.
The only useful post in this whole slew of comments.
I find it hilarious that so many comments are all like, "ONLY IN AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS RETARDED, THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM, etc"
They are complaining about ignorance or perceived stupidity in society, only to be revealing their own lack of understanding of the situation. Of course I'm complaining about their own ignorance probably reveals my own. All this ignorance and complaining will probably create some sort of infinite loop or black hole where no sane discussion can escape. Ah slashdot.
"This is the same as any other distraction while driving - you can think about other things than the road while driving legally (work problems, family problems, etc). If you can still safely drive, great. "
Thinking about things doesn't remove your eyes from the road for 20 seconds. Accidents happen because people don't follow the rules of the road. They don't follow the rules because they are looking away from the road for extended periods of time. As far as I know, the laws aren't really enforced yet. There's also been no social push to make it socially unacceptable.
I get into this argument all the time with my libertarian friends. It ends with them saying that we should outlaw cars because they are dangerous. I still contend that cars are safe while people are following the rules. One of the rules is that you need to be paying attention to the road. That doesn't mean your freedom is compromised.
I get pretty worked up because one of my friends was killed by a teenage texting. The worst part is she didn't even know she hit someone, she thought she might have hit a deer. But she hit my friend who was riding his bike, ripped off his leg and he bled out trying to get help.
Yahoo mail is an example of doing it wrong. No offense, but when my small team at a university can come up with better spam defenses than yahoo has in our spare time, yahoo has a problem.
I find it pretty hilarious that the responses to this topic basically prove him right. People didn't read the article, nor the speech, they just responded with their own political bent, conspiracy theories or a knee jerk reaction that all the distraction is good.
Can you imagine any kind of protest on a college campus these days that would push for real reform? No, everyone's checking the facebook or watching videos.
I've deleted my google buzz account like 15 times now and I still have followers. How is that possible?
Yes, google fan boi'z, I went and did all the steps it took to delete it. It's still there. When I click on people's profiles, they still list me as being followed.
Google fan boi'z apologies and excuses in 5...4....3.....2.....1....
One of my friends got fired for simple pictures of him on the internet.
While it's great that you feel that you feel I shouldn't need to hide my associations from you, I have a right to privacy, especially from people who are inclined to be less than understanding.
I feel that privacy allows me to allow to carry on honest conversations.
Let's say I have some friends who despite my best efforts still do drugs. They have destructive tendencies. I try and help them out, steer them away from bad choices and towards good choices.
Do I really want someone who've I've emailed about a job to suddenly know that I am associated with people who have active drug problems?
Better yet, why should anyone else have access to the list of people I communicating with? People seem to be ignoring the privacy issue here and focusing on the 9 year old and the Google can do no harm bullshit.
I find this whole thread amusing since I commented that I didn't like the idea of smart meters, that I was worried about them being hackable in a slashdot post last week and everyone commented in response to me that I shouldn't be worried about this kind of thing. That they couldn't be hacked and if they were, there was nothing they could do except get my power information.
I wonder what those folks are saying today in this thread.
We get people responding to this kind of phishing message all the time, to a helpdesk@yahoo.com.hk address
We haven't had quotas in like 6 years.
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Actually the "free market" is what caused the rolling blackouts and super high price spikes in California. You paid what the highest generation plant cost. So they shut down enough capacity so that they had to rely on very expensive plants. The energy guys wrote the legislation that put it into place, don't you think that it would rig it in their favor?
Often times when people advocate for a free market, what ends up happening is the market is not free, it's actually tilted towards someone or someone rigging the system.
More than once I've had to side step quickly to avoid a Prius in a store parking lot - I'm used to audio cues of my environment, and they just weren't paying attention while backing out.
I call bullshit on this.
I call bullshit on you calling bullshit. You try walking around a hippy college town grocery store parking lot. Odds are you will have to roll to dodge a hybrid car or two. If the car is making noise, you get a bonus to your dodge. That bonus is the difference between taking no damage or 6d6 and having to make a health roll to stay out of the hospital.
The post office is going to lose money because unlike UPS, they can't raise rates. They have to visit everyone's house 6 days a week.
It's actually a very very efficient organization. It's the constraints put upon it that make it so that it loses money. Congress won't allow this cost saving, Congress won't allow to cut service. Congress won't allow it to raise rates.
If you know anyone that's a postal carrier, you know it's a stressful job. Hence the term, going postal.
The only useful post in this whole slew of comments.
I find it hilarious that so many comments are all like, "ONLY IN AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS RETARDED, THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM, etc"
They are complaining about ignorance or perceived stupidity in society, only to be revealing their own lack of understanding of the situation. Of course I'm complaining about their own ignorance probably reveals my own. All this ignorance and complaining will probably create some sort of infinite loop or black hole where no sane discussion can escape. Ah slashdot.
Funny that I saw this article earlier today.
"CHILDREN have grown too big for their school chairs, a survey of 750 schools revealed.
Teachers said "desk and chair sizes were often inappropriate".
It is understood the NSW Education Department has been taking orders for custom-sized chairs.
Paediatric dietician Susie Burrell said children who were overweight often didn't carry obvious fat but instead looked older than their age."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/school-children-are-now-becoming-too-fat-to-fit-in-class-chairs/story-e6frf7l6-1225944436838
"This is the same as any other distraction while driving - you can think about other things than the road while driving legally (work problems, family problems, etc). If you can still safely drive, great. "
Thinking about things doesn't remove your eyes from the road for 20 seconds. Accidents happen because people don't follow the rules of the road. They don't follow the rules because they are looking away from the road for extended periods of time. As far as I know, the laws aren't really enforced yet. There's also been no social push to make it socially unacceptable.
I get into this argument all the time with my libertarian friends. It ends with them saying that we should outlaw cars because they are dangerous. I still contend that cars are safe while people are following the rules. One of the rules is that you need to be paying attention to the road. That doesn't mean your freedom is compromised.
I get pretty worked up because one of my friends was killed by a teenage texting. The worst part is she didn't even know she hit someone, she thought she might have hit a deer. But she hit my friend who was riding his bike, ripped off his leg and he bled out trying to get help.
Yahoo mail is an example of doing it wrong. No offense, but when my small team at a university can come up with better spam defenses than yahoo has in our spare time, yahoo has a problem.
Posting after each meteor will kill your night vision, making it harder to see meteors, which is why you are standing out in the dark.
agreed. mod up.
This is slashdot. People never RTFM.
" It cost me about 500$ to build and deploy a personal storage server, and it doubles as an HTPC. ( I already had most of the drives, and some parts)"
What's the cost if you didn't have those parts laying around?
I find it pretty hilarious that the responses to this topic basically prove him right. People didn't read the article, nor the speech, they just responded with their own political bent, conspiracy theories or a knee jerk reaction that all the distraction is good.
Can you imagine any kind of protest on a college campus these days that would push for real reform? No, everyone's checking the facebook or watching videos.
What's that over there? Something shiny?
According to gizmodo they were teasing him for an entire year.
So much for the obfuscation that's promised. Or maybe it was obfuscated and they just decided to pick on him.
Hedgefund shorting the PG engineered something. That's my guess.
Use a browser dedicated to facebook. I upped my privacy settings as high as they go and I use a browser specifically only for facebook.
I've deleted my google buzz account like 15 times now and I still have followers. How is that possible?
Yes, google fan boi'z, I went and did all the steps it took to delete it. It's still there. When I click on people's profiles, they still list me as being followed.
Google fan boi'z apologies and excuses in 5...4....3.....2.....1....
One of my friends got fired for simple pictures of him on the internet.
While it's great that you feel that you feel I shouldn't need to hide my associations from you, I have a right to privacy, especially from people who are inclined to be less than understanding.
I feel that privacy allows me to allow to carry on honest conversations.
Let's say I have some friends who despite my best efforts still do drugs. They have destructive tendencies. I try and help them out, steer them away from bad choices and towards good choices.
Do I really want someone who've I've emailed about a job to suddenly know that I am associated with people who have active drug problems?
Better yet, why should anyone else have access to the list of people I communicating with? People seem to be ignoring the privacy issue here and focusing on the 9 year old and the Google can do no harm bullshit.
I find this whole thread amusing since I commented that I didn't like the idea of smart meters, that I was worried about them being hackable in a slashdot post last week and everyone commented in response to me that I shouldn't be worried about this kind of thing. That they couldn't be hacked and if they were, there was nothing they could do except get my power information.
I wonder what those folks are saying today in this thread.
What if I switched to using a browser only for facebook?
Probably won't matter because they'll find a new way to share my info.
Am I the only one who is skeptical of these smart meter devices? I don't want hackers to be shut off my power or anything else.
We get people responding to this kind of phishing message all the time, to a helpdesk@yahoo.com.hk address
We haven't had quotas in like 6 years.
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can you explain your comment further? i'm curious why you say ibm's screwed the hudson valley and the special favors that new york state has given it.
There was enough accidents that State Farm notified the NHTSA that there was a problem.