With a big check in your hand? These people were offered on average $1.7 million for (again, on average).1 acres of land.
So what, if the people don't want to sell the land they own, why should the government be able to force them to sell it TO A PRIVATE COMPANY.
Read the last part again.
Goodbye America. A country built to great heights on the idea of private property ownership. What incentive is there now to develop or own land when the government can come in and take it from you just so they can eek out more in taxes?
There was never a threat to our "freedoms" in WWII.
Jesus, are you kidding me?
Yeah, no threat to our freedoms, only a threat to all of our allies, by a madman who thought nothing of exterminating millions of people. Germany was also working on the bomb. If Japan could fly to Pearl Harbor and bomb it conventionally, what do you think Germany would have done to us once they defeated our allies, got the bomb working, and looked at "who's next" on the invasion list? Maybe we should have waited until German uboats nuked the east coast off the face of the earth before getting involved?
I would join, too, to fight a war on American soil. However, leaders of the world have more difficult decisions to make, sometimes based on shit intelligence. And sometimes, waiting for the other side to strike you is not the best course of action if you want to save lives.
If we had recognized the threat from Hitler in 1936, and acted on it, we could have prevented World War II and saved millions of lives. But we didn't.
Who is to say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn't avert a similar future tragedy? Who is to say what will happen in the future if we didn't start applying similar pressure to Iran and North Korea?
It is easier to react rather than act, but many right decisions are not easy. Do you think Bush honestly wants people to die, or do you think he is honestly trying to save lives? Occam's razor tells me he is trying to save lives, even if history may show he went about it the wrong way.
I've had three pretty close friends enlist in the services -- two in the Navy, one in the Marines. The levels of alcohol and drug use they described were frighteningly high. That's anecdotal, okay -- but these were straight arrows going in, and they weren't anywhere near clean while they were in uniform. One at least was more Boy Scout than was maybe good for him before he joined. Two of them have returned to those selves after leaving, but the third is a hard drinking, hard smoking, heavily-tattooed and generally scary fellah now. Wants to talk about how cynical he is about "how things work," mostly.
How exactly is this different from all my friends who were clean-cut, straight arrows in high school, and then turned into similar beasts as you've described above once in college and on their own?
This of course glosses over the entire problem that any media authoring tool is going to expose choices to the end user that's likely to overwhelm them.
Have you ever used iLife? Or any Apple software, for that matter? Honestly, I'd like to know.
Americans have such a twisted & skewed idea of what being 'liberal' means, or even 'leftist.'
Uhhh this terminology is very localized to whatever system it is commenting on. We are not saying a politician is liberal or conservative based on UK politics, only based on the American scale.
We also have people that would rate on your scale as being leftist, they just don't tend to win elections because if the nature of America.
It's not that the satellite image normally shows anything secret, only that it could.
The posters have most definitely been vetted to make sure they don't reveal anything secretive.
However, satellite photos are regularly updated, so they are probably required to turn on "mosaic mode" for certain latitude/longitude ranges, that way if something was going on outside or on top of the building as the satellite took the picture, it wouldn't be revealed.
For instance, if I said something really outrageous, I'd be worried the government might come after me, That's Unpossible! You know, that's no pseudonym, it's my real name, so I must be careful about what I say.
And if an AC posts something, they are completely anonymous. I am positive Slashdot doesn't log their IP address or timestamp of activity or anything. Feel free to post anything at all as AC.
I went to Home Depot to make a return without a receipt and with a swipe of my cc the cashier had the transaction on screen in just a couple of seconds. Scary! Cash at HD from now on for me!
Personally, I think all credit card transactions should be PIN based rather then simply signature.
Sounds good for offline, but you will get dumbass programmers storing your PIN in their database when you purchase online, just like they do now for the CVV codes.
Let's increase the digits a bit in length?
Nah, they are long enough, just increase the alphabet. I mean, as long as we're breaking every shopping cart on the internet, we might as well go for broke and start using hex (or better).
Or if you want to opt for an online-only card #. You can get a new one every month or two months.
Many banks/card companies offer a way to get a temporary card number that works only for a month, that is linked to your main card. So you can give your real number out to those you trust, and use the temp ones for sites you don't trust.
I buy from amazon.com a lot, no way am I typing the damn card number in every time I go. In addition, changing the card number every X months means having to deal with any company you subscribe to... PITA.
I really hate keeping the same card number for years. It almost gurantees that some asshat will store my data and get it ripped off like this.
I don't really give a shit, I'm not liable for purchases I don't make. The convenience is therefore worth the (small) risk to me.
Assuming what you said is even true, let me ask, SO WHAT? AID is AID. Would you prefer we not offer it?
I swear, it's truly amazing how people can bitch about someone giving AID to other countries.
I don't suppose you've heard the latest, that the US and some other countries are working on debt forgiveness, right? Thought not. Let's not let the facts stand in the way of bitching about those exploitative Americans.
Modify the properties of the bookmark, replacing "batman%20begins" with %s. This is a placeholder.
Give the bookmark a keyword, such as "imdb."
Now you can type "imdb X" in the url bar in firefox, hit enter, and it will do a search for whatever you enter for "X." Much easier than using yubnub.org.
I have bookmark searches setup for all kinds of stuff. Whois, nslookup, tracert, imdb, dictionary, gg (google groups), gi (google image), gm (google maps), yyp (Yahoo Yellow Pages), the list goes on and on. Any URL that accepts query words will work for you.
Yeah, because commuting to an office 2 hours each way and sitting in a cubicle isn't soul destroying at all.
What does your commute have to do with capitalism?
Capitalism is almost as much a lie as communism. The people at the top completely get to screw over the ordinary worker.
In capitalism, there is no such thing as "the ordinary worker." If you're fed up with doing menial, unsatisfying work, then start your own business or find a job elsewhere that you like better. That's capitalism.
It may not look entirely bad in the US, but have you seen capitalism in action in places where people (including kids) work half the day (12hrs+) in appalling conditions for pittance?
Yes. And have YOU seen the other 3rd world countries where there is no capitalist enterprise, and people slave a way and don't even make a pittance? Without capitalism, what would those people be doing? Most likely their leaders are corrupt, which is why their countries are destitute. Don't blame how fucked up some countries are on capitalism.
They're coming to places like the UK and Ireland (full work permitted by new EU members there) where for now they can get better paying jobs, but it's a system in decline. Wages will have to continue to decline in the West too - and wages will only go up slowly and to a lower plateau elsewhere.
Uhhh, what exactly are you basing these highly insightful claims on? Capitalism is not a zero-sum game. Capitalism is like a pie. You can always make a bigger pie and feed more people from that pie. Making a bigger pie doesn't mean someone else has to make a smaller pie.
Ultimately, capitalism and the Western system will fall too. It is a lie (look at the US deficit - an entire economy running on a gaping overdraft).
Again, you are blaming capitalism for something it had nothing to do with. Our fucked up deficit is based on the stupidity of our elected officials, who spend more money on bullshit than they take in. They use the money to buy votes through pork-barrel spending.
It will just take longer - and may be propped up for more than a century through the continued exploitation of the rest of the world.
Yes, the terrible exploitation performed by America.
Do you really want me to list all the billions in AID we give the rest of the world? It's convenient to leave that part out when you want to pillory the US, isn't it?
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With a big check in your hand? These people were offered on average $1.7 million for (again, on average) .1 acres of land.
So what, if the people don't want to sell the land they own, why should the government be able to force them to sell it TO A PRIVATE COMPANY.
Read the last part again.
Goodbye America. A country built to great heights on the idea of private property ownership. What incentive is there now to develop or own land when the government can come in and take it from you just so they can eek out more in taxes?
This is the worst thing I've heard all year.
There was never a threat to our "freedoms" in WWII.
Jesus, are you kidding me?
Yeah, no threat to our freedoms, only a threat to all of our allies, by a madman who thought nothing of exterminating millions of people. Germany was also working on the bomb. If Japan could fly to Pearl Harbor and bomb it conventionally, what do you think Germany would have done to us once they defeated our allies, got the bomb working, and looked at "who's next" on the invasion list? Maybe we should have waited until German uboats nuked the east coast off the face of the earth before getting involved?
There's pacificism, and then there's suicide.
At one time, Japan and Germany posed no threat to us whatsoever. Or so we thought. Food for thought.
I would join, too, to fight a war on American soil. However, leaders of the world have more difficult decisions to make, sometimes based on shit intelligence. And sometimes, waiting for the other side to strike you is not the best course of action if you want to save lives.
If we had recognized the threat from Hitler in 1936, and acted on it, we could have prevented World War II and saved millions of lives. But we didn't.
Who is to say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq didn't avert a similar future tragedy? Who is to say what will happen in the future if we didn't start applying similar pressure to Iran and North Korea?
It is easier to react rather than act, but many right decisions are not easy. Do you think Bush honestly wants people to die, or do you think he is honestly trying to save lives? Occam's razor tells me he is trying to save lives, even if history may show he went about it the wrong way.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Not likely. Can you see your local Colege Republicans running off to fight the war that they cheer?
Ummm, the majority of enlisted men are republican or right-leaning, so the answer to your question is: DUH!
I've had three pretty close friends enlist in the services -- two in the Navy, one in the Marines. The levels of alcohol and drug use they described were frighteningly high. That's anecdotal, okay -- but these were straight arrows going in, and they weren't anywhere near clean while they were in uniform. One at least was more Boy Scout than was maybe good for him before he joined. Two of them have returned to those selves after leaving, but the third is a hard drinking, hard smoking, heavily-tattooed and generally scary fellah now. Wants to talk about how cynical he is about "how things work," mostly.
How exactly is this different from all my friends who were clean-cut, straight arrows in high school, and then turned into similar beasts as you've described above once in college and on their own?
This of course glosses over the entire problem that any media authoring tool is going to expose choices to the end user that's likely to overwhelm them.
Have you ever used iLife? Or any Apple software, for that matter? Honestly, I'd like to know.
Yet Firefox is more popular than Opera, and doesn't identify itself as IE.
So your point was...?
So? The average member of Congress is Republican right now.
No, the median member of Congress is Republican. There is a huge difference.
I would also like to point out that if they were basing this point system on amount of spending, the average member of Congress would be liberal.
Americans have such a twisted & skewed idea of what being 'liberal' means, or even 'leftist.'
Uhhh this terminology is very localized to whatever system it is commenting on. We are not saying a politician is liberal or conservative based on UK politics, only based on the American scale.
We also have people that would rate on your scale as being leftist, they just don't tend to win elections because if the nature of America.
No, the locations aren't usually the secret nowadays.
This isn't ridiculous at all.
It's not that the satellite image normally shows anything secret, only that it could.
The posters have most definitely been vetted to make sure they don't reveal anything secretive.
However, satellite photos are regularly updated, so they are probably required to turn on "mosaic mode" for certain latitude/longitude ranges, that way if something was going on outside or on top of the building as the satellite took the picture, it wouldn't be revealed.
You said "cue the classists," and then you proceeded to show how you yourself are a classist.
Irony?
I totally agree.
For instance, if I said something really outrageous, I'd be worried the government might come after me, That's Unpossible! You know, that's no pseudonym, it's my real name, so I must be careful about what I say.
And if an AC posts something, they are completely anonymous. I am positive Slashdot doesn't log their IP address or timestamp of activity or anything. Feel free to post anything at all as AC.
You used apostrophes where you should have used quotation marks.
Someone put a rider on the senate rules that allows you to ignore them if you are paid enough under the table. Duh....
I went to Home Depot to make a return without a receipt and with a swipe of my cc the cashier had the transaction on screen in just a couple of seconds. Scary! Cash at HD from now on for me!
Why?
Personally, I think all credit card transactions should be PIN based rather then simply signature.
Sounds good for offline, but you will get dumbass programmers storing your PIN in their database when you purchase online, just like they do now for the CVV codes.
Let's increase the digits a bit in length?
Nah, they are long enough, just increase the alphabet. I mean, as long as we're breaking every shopping cart on the internet, we might as well go for broke and start using hex (or better).
Or if you want to opt for an online-only card #. You can get a new one every month or two months.
Many banks/card companies offer a way to get a temporary card number that works only for a month, that is linked to your main card. So you can give your real number out to those you trust, and use the temp ones for sites you don't trust.
I buy from amazon.com a lot, no way am I typing the damn card number in every time I go. In addition, changing the card number every X months means having to deal with any company you subscribe to... PITA.
I really hate keeping the same card number for years. It almost gurantees that some asshat will store my data and get it ripped off like this.
I don't really give a shit, I'm not liable for purchases I don't make. The convenience is therefore worth the (small) risk to me.
Assuming what you said is even true, let me ask, SO WHAT? AID is AID. Would you prefer we not offer it?
I swear, it's truly amazing how people can bitch about someone giving AID to other countries.
I don't suppose you've heard the latest, that the US and some other countries are working on debt forgiveness, right? Thought not. Let's not let the facts stand in the way of bitching about those exploitative Americans.
I never noticed that, very cool.
Just bookmark any page that is from a GET query. E.g. an IMDB search for "Batman Begins" gives you this:
b egins
http://www.imdb.com/Find?select=All&for=batman%20
Modify the properties of the bookmark, replacing "batman%20begins" with %s. This is a placeholder.
Give the bookmark a keyword, such as "imdb."
Now you can type "imdb X" in the url bar in firefox, hit enter, and it will do a search for whatever you enter for "X." Much easier than using yubnub.org.
I have bookmark searches setup for all kinds of stuff. Whois, nslookup, tracert, imdb, dictionary, gg (google groups), gi (google image), gm (google maps), yyp (Yahoo Yellow Pages), the list goes on and on. Any URL that accepts query words will work for you.
Yeah, because commuting to an office 2 hours each way and sitting in a cubicle isn't soul destroying at all.
What does your commute have to do with capitalism?
Capitalism is almost as much a lie as communism. The people at the top completely get to screw over the ordinary worker.
In capitalism, there is no such thing as "the ordinary worker." If you're fed up with doing menial, unsatisfying work, then start your own business or find a job elsewhere that you like better. That's capitalism.
It may not look entirely bad in the US, but have you seen capitalism in action in places where people (including kids) work half the day (12hrs+) in appalling conditions for pittance?
Yes. And have YOU seen the other 3rd world countries where there is no capitalist enterprise, and people slave a way and don't even make a pittance? Without capitalism, what would those people be doing? Most likely their leaders are corrupt, which is why their countries are destitute. Don't blame how fucked up some countries are on capitalism.
They're coming to places like the UK and Ireland (full work permitted by new EU members there) where for now they can get better paying jobs, but it's a system in decline. Wages will have to continue to decline in the West too - and wages will only go up slowly and to a lower plateau elsewhere.
Uhhh, what exactly are you basing these highly insightful claims on? Capitalism is not a zero-sum game. Capitalism is like a pie. You can always make a bigger pie and feed more people from that pie. Making a bigger pie doesn't mean someone else has to make a smaller pie.
Ultimately, capitalism and the Western system will fall too. It is a lie (look at the US deficit - an entire economy running on a gaping overdraft).
Again, you are blaming capitalism for something it had nothing to do with. Our fucked up deficit is based on the stupidity of our elected officials, who spend more money on bullshit than they take in. They use the money to buy votes through pork-barrel spending.
It will just take longer - and may be propped up for more than a century through the continued exploitation of the rest of the world.
Yes, the terrible exploitation performed by America.
Do you really want me to list all the billions in AID we give the rest of the world? It's convenient to leave that part out when you want to pillory the US, isn't it?
to calculate the algorithm to blow awe inspiring shapes
Uhh, care to share one of these "algorithms"?
Yes there have been changes there and no not everybody is happy, but the leaders of the company are still good leaders. That's a rarity these days.
No it isn't. However that perception is there because you generally only hear about when a company does something shitty. If it bleeds, it leads.
Governments aren't the only people who can subjugate you.
True, but they're the ones with the guns.