Capital gains tax when you dump the shares at the end of the 'pump & dump' cycle. That's all this is, just like those spams you see sometimes touting a random 'penny stock'. Yeah, there's movement up, as new suckers jump on the bandwagon til it just about peaks, then the brokerage house's robobroker's algorithm kicks in and takes the suckers for a ride. Rinse and repeat.
NASA plans a deep space mission, and Congress immediately cuts its budget.
We could have already had a full blown colony on the moon if we haddn't gone 'quick & dirty' with Apollo. A lot of the Gemini missions, particularly those involving Skylab, were equally applicable to building a construction shack/outpost in NEO as they were to get the expertise needed for the Apollo LEM docking once the ascent stage got off the moon. We could have had dozens of missions to the moon with durations of weeks not hours, but to do it right meant we would have lost the race to the moon. The only way to make it in time was to 'Plan B' it with Apollo. Problem was, when Apollo was done, there was nothing to come after it, and no logical 'next step'.
The obvious implications bother me. When I was driving from northwest Arizona to western Colorado on a regular basis, I regularly drove I-15. Interstate highways are supposed to make interstate movement easier, right? So driving interstate now makes me a suspected drug smuggler? Just fucking lovely. How many thousands of vehicles drive I-15? Of those thousands, how many are drug smugglers? And how many of those drug smugglers are smart enough to change vehicles between runs?
Lobbyists aren't elected. They're hired by their Political Action Committee, i.e., private citizens. The Supremes aren't elected, either. They're appointed.
The Legislative branch deserves the blame for crafting these shitty laws in the first place.
The lobbyists deserve blame for writing these shitty laws. The legislature deserves blame for rubberstamping them. The executive branch deserves blame for not vetoing them.
That makes no sense. You are entitled to a jury in any criminal case and in any major civil case.
Unless you're in the military. Then you get a tribunal.
or declared an 'enemy combatant' (whatever that is this week), then you get a 4x6 cell minus the view of a tropical 'worker's paradise' and the best medical care on the planet to make sure you stay alive for tomorrow's waterboarding.
My first though, pre-caffiene, when reading the article title was of Darth Vader telling El Presidente "Do this, and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!"
Even the 40 hp VW Beetle could do 70 on the freeway. Took awhile to get it up to speed, but you could do it. Main problems I experienced with them was the lack of a real live oil filter & cooler (though aftermarket parts fixed that) and a tendency to forget to lube the heat exchanger gates. The gates freeze closed (IIRC), the engine had a tendency to fry.
Five, six years ago, MySpace was 'da shitzz', everybody who was 'anybody' had a MySpace page.
Last time I logged into MySpace was something on the order of 2, 3 years ago. Anybody know if it's still even up??
I still remember when 'the smart money' said AOL would practically take over the world. Now they're just a chunk of a large media company. I'm thinkin FB might be pulling that off as well.
You'd think so, but most corporations don't like spending money unless they're required to by law. Remember, the ones who make these decisions are the same ones that refuse to change their passwords and then scream at IT when they get hacked.
The question is cost and result of destroying all electronics in building versus destroying whole building - blowing up people will surely bring more emotional response than destroying people's computers. The only somewhat viable scenario for EMP terror somewhere on this page was disrupting stock market, and even there it probably won't have much more effect than conventional explosives.
I'm not so sure about that.
Wipe the electronics, you stand a reasonable chance of wiping computer storage as well. Money these days isn't folding green, it's little 1s and 0s on a computer someplace. Identify and target said computer and you have the chance to put somebody's whole country into a depression. Backups, you say? By the time you get new gear into place and the backups online, they'll be so outdated they're likely to be worthless. Remember, EMPs will trash the electronics in most cars and trucks today. And with your bank accounts zeroed out, how you gonna pay for the replacement gear?
Um, actually, North Korea did start a war about 60 years ago. They haven't done much lately except taunt the South Koreans from the safety of China's skirts.
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Capital gains tax when you dump the shares at the end of the 'pump & dump' cycle. That's all this is, just like those spams you see sometimes touting a random 'penny stock'. Yeah, there's movement up, as new suckers jump on the bandwagon til it just about peaks, then the brokerage house's robobroker's algorithm kicks in and takes the suckers for a ride. Rinse and repeat.
I have my home directory on a 100 gb partition, and it's 75% full already. The more space you have, the more space you'll use.
Dude, that's the stuff you SELL.
NASA plans a deep space mission, and Congress immediately cuts its budget.
We could have already had a full blown colony on the moon if we haddn't gone 'quick & dirty' with Apollo. A lot of the Gemini missions, particularly those involving Skylab, were equally applicable to building a construction shack/outpost in NEO as they were to get the expertise needed for the Apollo LEM docking once the ascent stage got off the moon. We could have had dozens of missions to the moon with durations of weeks not hours, but to do it right meant we would have lost the race to the moon. The only way to make it in time was to 'Plan B' it with Apollo. Problem was, when Apollo was done, there was nothing to come after it, and no logical 'next step'.
The obvious implications bother me. When I was driving from northwest Arizona to western Colorado on a regular basis, I regularly drove I-15. Interstate highways are supposed to make interstate movement easier, right? So driving interstate now makes me a suspected drug smuggler? Just fucking lovely. How many thousands of vehicles drive I-15? Of those thousands, how many are drug smugglers? And how many of those drug smugglers are smart enough to change vehicles between runs?
Hm...
I use Ubuntu. I never paid anybody that $699 'license' fee that SCO claims I owe for some reason or other.
Guess that makes me a software pirate.
Anybody got any tips on getting parrot shit outta my shirts?
Lobbyists aren't elected. They're hired by their Political Action Committee, i.e., private citizens. The Supremes aren't elected, either. They're appointed.
The lobbyists deserve blame for writing these shitty laws. The legislature deserves blame for rubberstamping them. The executive branch deserves blame for not vetoing them.
or declared an 'enemy combatant' (whatever that is this week), then you get a 4x6 cell minus the view of a tropical 'worker's paradise' and the best medical care on the planet to make sure you stay alive for tomorrow's waterboarding.
My first though, pre-caffiene, when reading the article title was of Darth Vader telling El Presidente "Do this, and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!"
Even the 40 hp VW Beetle could do 70 on the freeway. Took awhile to get it up to speed, but you could do it. Main problems I experienced with them was the lack of a real live oil filter & cooler (though aftermarket parts fixed that) and a tendency to forget to lube the heat exchanger gates. The gates freeze closed (IIRC), the engine had a tendency to fry.
Five, six years ago, MySpace was 'da shitzz', everybody who was 'anybody' had a MySpace page.
Last time I logged into MySpace was something on the order of 2, 3 years ago. Anybody know if it's still even up??
I still remember when 'the smart money' said AOL would practically take over the world. Now they're just a chunk of a large media company. I'm thinkin FB might be pulling that off as well.
Correct. They hit me with double wide trailers, retirement condos in Boca, and duck hunting gear.
Guess I'm channelling my inner redneck a bit much on FB...
And a duck is gonna help us how?
Oh, Affleck not Aflac. Sorry, need more coffee here...
Or, in the words of Microsoft, "That's not a bug, it's a feature!"
Nd here I was, all set to go with:
It's not dead yet!
It's just a flesh wound.
It's feeling BETTAH!
Story of my life. A day late & a dollar short...
You'd think so, but most corporations don't like spending money unless they're required to by law. Remember, the ones who make these decisions are the same ones that refuse to change their passwords and then scream at IT when they get hacked.
Yeah, just what we need. More damp porn. As if we don't get enough of it...
Alos, the Sun has oil, and is known to harbor al-Qaeda terrorists.
I'm not so sure about that.
Wipe the electronics, you stand a reasonable chance of wiping computer storage as well. Money these days isn't folding green, it's little 1s and 0s on a computer someplace. Identify and target said computer and you have the chance to put somebody's whole country into a depression. Backups, you say? By the time you get new gear into place and the backups online, they'll be so outdated they're likely to be worthless. Remember, EMPs will trash the electronics in most cars and trucks today. And with your bank accounts zeroed out, how you gonna pay for the replacement gear?
Um, actually, North Korea did start a war about 60 years ago. They haven't done much lately except taunt the South Koreans from the safety of China's skirts.
As Nixon once said, "Once you got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
Have you taken a good look around lately? The people got cut out of the loop decades ago. Time to wake up and smell the napalm.
It's called 'broadcast tv'. Yes, the movie is paid for, but not paid for by you. All you have to do is sit through the commercials.
Pretty much yeah. That's the whole point.
Microsoft's been cozying up to Big Media the last few years. And the next version, Windows 8, won't even play your media files unless you pay extra.