It seems to be a reprint from The Independent (original URL is on the Rense page), a slightly more mainstream source.
For exceptionally small values of "mainstream". In terms of accuracy I'd put them in the same league as the New York Post but with the opposite political slant.
It's funny but unfortunately true. My father does this for a living, and part of his job is dealing with ijits who send classified reports to their Hotmail accounts so they can work on them at home. (If you knew the ranks of some of the guys who do that, you'd be building a bomb shelter right now.)
Not neccessarily a time limit, but it does come with interest. You essentially borrow the stock from guy 1, then sell it to guy 2 at the price you bought it for. Now you have a lot of money in your pocket, but you owe guy 1 all that stock (currently the value of your money). He charges you interest on that,
And to make it more complicated, you're supposed to (I'm not sure if it's just standard practice or an FEC rule) keep the money in escrow -- but you can put it somewhere where it'll draw interest and counterbalance at least some of what you owe the original owner. Also, if the price goes down, you can remove some money from escrow, but if it goes up you have to put some of your own into the account.
And this is why most small investors don't short stocks (if they even know what it is).
What we need is a MMO Peace sim for the Neo-Con so-called think tanks (think? tanks!).
Please, if you're going to use a damn word, learn what it means. Neocons are former leftists (real leftists like Trotskyites, not Democrats) who've concluded that the spread of democracy around the world is in the best interests of mankind and the United States (and specifically the Republican party) is the best vehicle for that.
Irving Kristol was a neocon. Wolfowitz and Perle are. Christopher Hitchens is pretty close to being one. George Orwell would probably be an honorary member if he were still alive. But Rumsfeld isn't. Condoleeza Rice -- nope. George Bush -- not even close.
So please stop using the word as a catch-all for any Republican you disagree with on foreign policy.
except using humans as energy generators is a really good idea when you don't have much choices as how to produce energy. Humans do a remarkable job at converting complex fuels (e.g., food) into usable energy.
Key Word: Food
Without the sun, there is no food unless machines produce it. And the Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that the amount of energy they expend in creating the food will be greater than the energy stored in the food; and the energy stored in the food will be greater than the energy put out by the human body. Even if they pumped all the energy back into making more food, the system would quickly run down to zero. And if they had another power source that didn't require them to manufacture fuel (nuclear generators, hydrocarbon burners) then keeping humans alive would be an energy sink.
I must confess that when I visited my American colleagues I was, to put it mildly, nonplussed by their relaxed attitude to actually doing any f'ing work at all while at the office.
Yes, only Americans behave like that. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant didn't base The Office on any personal experiences. Nope, no one but Americans and Gervais would think to put a cow-orker's stapler in Jello.
She reportedly did give Lucas a hard time over the quality of his writing while filming Episode II. Rumor is he wanted to replace her with Kiera Knightley (who, if you recall, played Amidala's double in Episode I) but she was unavailable.
This woman sounds like a capital... (insert word that I don't want to say). People should always try to be as accurate as they can be, and the fact that she doesn't care astounds me.
Have you actually looked at her site? It's filled with articles speculating on John Kerry's penis size and whether GWB is a friend of Dorothy. Anyone who takes it as more than satire and gossip is on crack.
Slashdot does not produce or report news. So, just as the editorial section of a newspaper, by default, gets to say whatever the editor wants to say, regardless of fact or spin
So if some op-ed writer starts making up facts to support his argument, you're down with that?
The funny part is that the New York Times article itself contains a factual error -- it describes Jack Shafer as one of Wonkette's detractors, but in the article they refer to he admits to reading her site twelve times a day and enjoying it.
The predominant politics on Slashdot are clearly, at least to anyone who's actually paying attention, libertarian. Socially very liberal in the "government shouldn't interfere with us in any way" manner, and economically very conservative in the "government shouldn't interfere with us in any way" manner.
So how come every time a story gets posted about a major corporation -- any corporation, not just MS and SCO -- it's followed by a bunch of people screaming about the evils of capitalism?
Face it,/. is filled with wingnuts of every persuasion.
While this may be true some places, it is not in the cities that I have lived in. I have found real estate prices to actually be higher in suburbia (DC for a good example),
You have to compare like to like though. There aren't many DC neighborhoods with crimerates comparable to the neighborhood where I live, and those that do -- Georgetown and Adams-Morgan/Dupont Circle -- are much more expensive -- and of course you need a car to live in Georgetown since it's not part of the WMATA network. Not to mention that most of the houses in DC are smaller than the ones in new developments in northern Virginia.
It's a mistake to treat the House of Saud as a single rational actor. It's a huge family that's best compared to the Mafia at the height of its power, or the power players of Renaissance Italy. There are some factions that are genuinely pro-Western, and others that just pretend to be while financing fundamentalism.
Actually, there is a fairly universal concept of "right" and "wrong" with respect to human society.
You mean like how the Romans believed the head of a household had total power over his family and could kill his children if they displeased him or cost too much money?
Suburban blocks are sometimes one mile long, and the distance between shopping centers can be up to 10 miles.
What sort of bass-ackwards suburbs are you living in. In Northern Virginia, the distance between shopping centers is usually about the width of the road that runs between them.
So why not live in a community that is close to both work and things like grocery stores, restraunts, and other entertainment centers? Then you could walk everywhere . . . like in a city perhpas?
Because, even with the cost of a car, insurance, and gas, life is cheaper in suburbia.
just because you don't expect to be recorded when I call your friends, doesn't mean they aren't recording you.
And in the state I live, it's against the law.
To quote nirvana: just because your paranoid doesn't mean their not after you...
Nirvana never wrote anything that original. I can point you to a Tom Clancy book from the '80s that contains that same line, and I doubt Clancy made it up himself.
Phone conversations come back to haunt everyone these days, ask scott peterson.
Do you not understand the difference between wire-taps performed by the police after obtaining a warrant and those performed by Joe Random Citizen on Jane Stochastic Citizen?
Do you not understand the difference between private messages and public forums? Just because I'm going to be recorded if I call a radio show doesn't mean I expect to be recorded when I call my friends.
Unless you manually clean them (Or have your browser set to automatically clean them), the cookie actually expires on Jan. 17, 2038.
If you know what you're doing, you have complete control over everything your computer sends to the network, including cookies. It's extremely trivial to set them to expire early, or, for the more intrusive cookies, to return quotes from "Full Metal Jacket".
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It seems to be a reprint from The Independent (original URL is on the Rense page), a slightly more mainstream source.
For exceptionally small values of "mainstream". In terms of accuracy I'd put them in the same league as the New York Post but with the opposite political slant.
It's funny but unfortunately true. My father does this for a living, and part of his job is dealing with ijits who send classified reports to their Hotmail accounts so they can work on them at home. (If you knew the ranks of some of the guys who do that, you'd be building a bomb shelter right now.)
Not neccessarily a time limit, but it does come with interest. You essentially borrow the stock from guy 1, then sell it to guy 2 at the price you bought it for. Now you have a lot of money in your pocket, but you owe guy 1 all that stock (currently the value of your money). He charges you interest on that,
And to make it more complicated, you're supposed to (I'm not sure if it's just standard practice or an FEC rule) keep the money in escrow -- but you can put it somewhere where it'll draw interest and counterbalance at least some of what you owe the original owner. Also, if the price goes down, you can remove some money from escrow, but if it goes up you have to put some of your own into the account.
And this is why most small investors don't short stocks (if they even know what it is).
What we need is a MMO Peace sim for the Neo-Con so-called think tanks (think? tanks!).
Please, if you're going to use a damn word, learn what it means. Neocons are former leftists (real leftists like Trotskyites, not Democrats) who've concluded that the spread of democracy around the world is in the best interests of mankind and the United States (and specifically the Republican party) is the best vehicle for that.
Irving Kristol was a neocon. Wolfowitz and Perle are. Christopher Hitchens is pretty close to being one. George Orwell would probably be an honorary member if he were still alive. But Rumsfeld isn't. Condoleeza Rice -- nope. George Bush -- not even close.
So please stop using the word as a catch-all for any Republican you disagree with on foreign policy.
Being better at killing means better at killing the right people while leaving everyone else alive. This is generally a good thing.
except using humans as energy generators is a really good idea when you don't have much choices as how to produce energy. Humans do a remarkable job at converting complex fuels (e.g., food) into usable energy.
Key Word: Food
Without the sun, there is no food unless machines produce it. And the Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that the amount of energy they expend in creating the food will be greater than the energy stored in the food; and the energy stored in the food will be greater than the energy put out by the human body. Even if they pumped all the energy back into making more food, the system would quickly run down to zero. And if they had another power source that didn't require them to manufacture fuel (nuclear generators, hydrocarbon burners) then keeping humans alive would be an energy sink.
I must confess that when I visited my American colleagues I was, to put it mildly, nonplussed by their relaxed attitude to actually doing any f'ing work at all while at the office.
Yes, only Americans behave like that. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant didn't base The Office on any personal experiences. Nope, no one but Americans and Gervais would think to put a cow-orker's stapler in Jello.
I believe the Ford quote is actually, "You can write this shit, George, but no one can say it."
She reportedly did give Lucas a hard time over the quality of his writing while filming Episode II. Rumor is he wanted to replace her with Kiera Knightley (who, if you recall, played Amidala's double in Episode I) but she was unavailable.
This woman sounds like a capital... (insert word that I don't want to say). People should always try to be as accurate as they can be, and the fact that she doesn't care astounds me.
Have you actually looked at her site? It's filled with articles speculating on John Kerry's penis size and whether GWB is a friend of Dorothy. Anyone who takes it as more than satire and gossip is on crack.
Slashdot does not produce or report news. So, just as the editorial section of a newspaper, by default, gets to say whatever the editor wants to say, regardless of fact or spin
So if some op-ed writer starts making up facts to support his argument, you're down with that?
The funny part is that the New York Times article itself contains a factual error -- it describes Jack Shafer as one of Wonkette's detractors, but in the article they refer to he admits to reading her site twelve times a day and enjoying it.
The predominant politics on Slashdot are clearly, at least to anyone who's actually paying attention, libertarian. Socially very liberal in the "government shouldn't interfere with us in any way" manner, and economically very conservative in the "government shouldn't interfere with us in any way" manner.
/. is filled with wingnuts of every persuasion.
So how come every time a story gets posted about a major corporation -- any corporation, not just MS and SCO -- it's followed by a bunch of people screaming about the evils of capitalism?
Face it,
While this may be true some places, it is not in the cities that I have lived in. I have found real estate prices to actually be higher in suburbia (DC for a good example),
You have to compare like to like though. There aren't many DC neighborhoods with crimerates comparable to the neighborhood where I live, and those that do -- Georgetown and Adams-Morgan/Dupont Circle -- are much more expensive -- and of course you need a car to live in Georgetown since it's not part of the WMATA network. Not to mention that most of the houses in DC are smaller than the ones in new developments in northern Virginia.
It's a mistake to treat the House of Saud as a single rational actor. It's a huge family that's best compared to the Mafia at the height of its power, or the power players of Renaissance Italy. There are some factions that are genuinely pro-Western, and others that just pretend to be while financing fundamentalism.
Well, technically, you're imposing your value on them that censorship is a bad thing and should not be practiced.
Mmm, ethical solipsism. It's like 10th Grade all over again.
Actually, there is a fairly universal concept of "right" and "wrong" with respect to human society.
You mean like how the Romans believed the head of a household had total power over his family and could kill his children if they displeased him or cost too much money?
How big is this campus anyway?
It's disparigingly referred to as Southern Virginia Community College.
Suburban blocks are sometimes one mile long, and the distance between shopping centers can be up to 10 miles.
What sort of bass-ackwards suburbs are you living in. In Northern Virginia, the distance between shopping centers is usually about the width of the road that runs between them.
What money you save on lower taxes and cheaper house, you more than pay double on gas and car.
You're obviously living in some fantasy world where American cities have good mass transit.
So why not live in a community that is close to both work and things like grocery stores, restraunts, and other entertainment centers? Then you could walk everywhere . . . like in a city perhpas?
Because, even with the cost of a car, insurance, and gas, life is cheaper in suburbia.
just because you don't expect to be recorded when I call your friends, doesn't mean they aren't recording you.
And in the state I live, it's against the law.
To quote nirvana: just because your paranoid doesn't mean their not after you...
Nirvana never wrote anything that original. I can point you to a Tom Clancy book from the '80s that contains that same line, and I doubt Clancy made it up himself.
Phone conversations come back to haunt everyone these days, ask scott peterson.
Do you not understand the difference between wire-taps performed by the police after obtaining a warrant and those performed by Joe Random Citizen on Jane Stochastic Citizen?
I say there's a 10:1 chance that Google blocks attachments. For me, that means that GMail is essentially a glorified, logged IM.
What IM system are you using? ICQ and Jabber allow file transfers.
Do you not understand the difference between private messages and public forums? Just because I'm going to be recorded if I call a radio show doesn't mean I expect to be recorded when I call my friends.
Unless you manually clean them (Or have your browser set to automatically clean them), the cookie actually expires on Jan. 17, 2038.
If you know what you're doing, you have complete control over everything your computer sends to the network, including cookies. It's extremely trivial to set them to expire early, or, for the more intrusive cookies, to return quotes from "Full Metal Jacket".