I guess it depends how you hunt. After all, golf is cheap too if you own your own land -- a few bucks on balls and used clubs at a flea market, dig a hole, stand 300 yards away, and hit the ball. If you go to a country club and buy the latest titanium golf clubs and rent a golf cart, it's not cheap at all.
Hunting the expensive way...
Hunting license: 2 or 3 hundred dollars if you go out of state. What state has these orchard licenses? Texas? (300) Hunting gear: warm weather clothes (500), camping gear (500), trailer (10000), topo maps (50), gps equipment(500), knives (200), backpacking gear (300), etc. Travel expenses: Live in Florida? Want to hunt in Minnesota? Don't have time to drive 2000 miles? Plane tickets aren't cheap, and the airlines probably charge extra to put guns in your checked luggage. (1000) Guns: Spend as much as you want. Some cost thousands of dollars. (5000) Meat processing: What if you don't know anyone? (500) Bullets: Ok, you're right, those are cheap. (5)Until that guy that proposed the $5,000 bullet tax gets elected to office, that is. Target practice: Discharging a firearm in city limits is usually illegal. If this is an issue, prepare to spend money at the shooting range. (100)
There, I got it up to $18,955. Hunting's as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be:)
Hunting is really just a form of recreation these days, at least anywhere in the US. By the time you get done paying for hunting licenses (not cheap, especially for out of state, and you have to pay the license fee whether or not you shoot anything), hunting gear, travel expenses, guns, insurance, meat processing (again not cheap, and sometimes the processors steal the meat), bullets, target practice, gun maintenance, and so on and so on, it would have been a lot cheaper to just drive to Costco and buy meat in bulk. Even if the nearest Costco is 150 miles away. Or if you really want to lower your food expenses, eat less meat and substitute other things which tend to be less expensive for the same amount of food. Hunting is an expensive sport, in the same category as golf or skiing.
At first, I read this and thought to myself, "these people have got to be insane, charging people to post comments." Then it occured to me that if Slashdot were to implement this, you would see a remarkable improvement in the quality of comments posted to the site.
Here's how it goes. Right now, anyone with an IP address can post a comment to Slashdot. Therefore you get a lot of trolls, people with agendas, poorly thought out comments, first posts, and so on. The moderation system tries to deal with this stuff but to no avail. There has to be a better way.
However, an annual fee will not do the trick. There needs to be a per-comment fee, say 25 cents. That way, the only comments you would see would be the ones the submi[tt]er cared enough about to pay 25 cents to get it posted. And when you think about it, 25 cents isn't much -- perhaps enough gas to drive 2 miles.
I mean really, do you want to waste your time reading a comment that the original author cared about so little it wasn't even worth 25 cents to them to put it up? This simple fee would ensure that only quality comments get posted to Slashdot. No more First Posts. No more GNAA. No more mindless Microsoft shills. In general, no more worthless comments. Only comments worth at least 25 cents. If you're posting from work, your boss probably paid you more to write the comment than what you paid to post it to the site. It's not asking a whole lot.
You'd think there would be some way to catch this with data mining, kind of like when you get a phone call from the credit card company if their computers find a pattern that looks like your card has been stolen or something. Like if a store usually orders 10 cases of SPAM a week, and one day places an order for 20,000 cases out of the middle of nowhere, they could check with the store and ask them if they really meant to order all that SPAM.
You're forgetting something... this is America. We spend five minutes driving around the parking lot hunting for the closest possible parking space which will save us one minute of walking. Then when we want to go to another store in the same shopping center, we drive. At the ball park, if the stadium parking lot is $20 and the lot 2 blocks away is $10, we spend the extra ten bucks. People fight for the closest parking space everywhere... even at the gym. We drive our kids to school because the news media has convinced us there's a child molestor around every corner. We use counterfeit handicapped stickers to avoid walking 100 feet. We ride the elevator to the second floor. In case everything I said is not clear, this picture just about sums up the state of fitness in America.
Also there's only 1 billion possible SSNs, and the population of the US is 300 million. So, if you pick a number at random, you have a 30% chance of picking a valid number. And since there's a pattern (as you mentioned), the real odds are actually much better. I doubt you can do much with just a number and no name or other information.
Only if it looked like it became a media debacle would they likely start acting.
TONIGHT on Eyewitness News 11... Did you know that FOREIGN SHIPS are anchoring just three miles off shore, without having to comply with any U.S. laws? They can ignore basic health and environmental laws. The people on board these ships don't have to go through customs or get a visa. These ships are never inspected for narcotics or other contraband. No one we spoke to has any idea what goes on on board these ships. And believe it or not, the Coast Guard says there's nothing they can do about it. COULD OSAMA BIN LADEN BE BUILDING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION JUST THREE MILES FROM YOUR FAMILY'S NEIGHBORHOOD ON THE COAST? FIND OUT TONIGHT ON EYEWITNESS NEWS 11.
Didn't these people ever stop and think about how suspicious it will look when Intel sees the "property of Massachusetts Institute of Technology libraries" stamp? Talk about dumb criminals.
In the past, I have noticed people such as the GNAA posting comments into blogs. These comments will contain Javascript that will do something nasty, normally redirecting the page to goat.cx or Last Measure. This makes it easy to disguise goat.cx links in Slashdot comments or, occasionally, redirect a blog linked to in a +5 comment or even the story itself to goat.cx.
So my question is, could this sort of Javascript exploit be used to spread trojans/malware via other people's blogs using the comments section?
Not feeling the pain of paying taxes... true. This is why the Republicans want to do away with all tax withholding and move tax day from April 15 to the first Monday in November.
Apparently federal laws are written by people from Major League Baseball:
"This copyrighted telecast is presented by the authority of the Seattle Mariners and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and the accounts and descriptions of this game cannot be disseminated without the express written consent of the Seattle Mariners."
The Mariners scored three runs in the fourth inning today in their game against the Texas Rangers.
Did I just violate someone's copyright? Will this post have to be deleted like the Scientology post?
Oh and the phone just rang. It was a wrong number. Someone looking for Bill.
This is really scary. What if Al Qaeda were to get a hold of this technology? Could they use it to achieve their ultimate mission of destroying Western civilization? Sure, they'd take themselves out too, but there would be 72 virgins waiting for them in heaven, just like there were for the 9/11 hijackers.
That giant sucking sound you hear is all the air being let out of the housing bubble. $2,100 for 172 square feet? Why not just buy four of these, for less than the cost of a year's rent, rather than paying $400,000+ for a tiny 688 ft2 condo?
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I guess it depends how you hunt. After all, golf is cheap too if you own your own land -- a few bucks on balls and used clubs at a flea market, dig a hole, stand 300 yards away, and hit the ball. If you go to a country club and buy the latest titanium golf clubs and rent a golf cart, it's not cheap at all.
:)
Hunting the expensive way...
Hunting license: 2 or 3 hundred dollars if you go out of state. What state has these orchard licenses? Texas? (300)
Hunting gear: warm weather clothes (500), camping gear (500), trailer (10000), topo maps (50), gps equipment(500), knives (200), backpacking gear (300), etc.
Travel expenses: Live in Florida? Want to hunt in Minnesota? Don't have time to drive 2000 miles? Plane tickets aren't cheap, and the airlines probably charge extra to put guns in your checked luggage. (1000)
Guns: Spend as much as you want. Some cost thousands of dollars. (5000)
Meat processing: What if you don't know anyone? (500)
Bullets: Ok, you're right, those are cheap. (5)Until that guy that proposed the $5,000 bullet tax gets elected to office, that is.
Target practice: Discharging a firearm in city limits is usually illegal. If this is an issue, prepare to spend money at the shooting range. (100)
There, I got it up to $18,955. Hunting's as cheap or as expensive as you want it to be
Hunting is really just a form of recreation these days, at least anywhere in the US. By the time you get done paying for hunting licenses (not cheap, especially for out of state, and you have to pay the license fee whether or not you shoot anything), hunting gear, travel expenses, guns, insurance, meat processing (again not cheap, and sometimes the processors steal the meat), bullets, target practice, gun maintenance, and so on and so on, it would have been a lot cheaper to just drive to Costco and buy meat in bulk. Even if the nearest Costco is 150 miles away. Or if you really want to lower your food expenses, eat less meat and substitute other things which tend to be less expensive for the same amount of food. Hunting is an expensive sport, in the same category as golf or skiing.
and given the huge trade deficit, probably consumes something like 30% of all goods.
At first, I read this and thought to myself, "these people have got to be insane, charging people to post comments." Then it occured to me that if Slashdot were to implement this, you would see a remarkable improvement in the quality of comments posted to the site.
Here's how it goes. Right now, anyone with an IP address can post a comment to Slashdot. Therefore you get a lot of trolls, people with agendas, poorly thought out comments, first posts, and so on. The moderation system tries to deal with this stuff but to no avail. There has to be a better way.
However, an annual fee will not do the trick. There needs to be a per-comment fee, say 25 cents. That way, the only comments you would see would be the ones the submi[tt]er cared enough about to pay 25 cents to get it posted. And when you think about it, 25 cents isn't much -- perhaps enough gas to drive 2 miles.
I mean really, do you want to waste your time reading a comment that the original author cared about so little it wasn't even worth 25 cents to them to put it up? This simple fee would ensure that only quality comments get posted to Slashdot. No more First Posts. No more GNAA. No more mindless Microsoft shills. In general, no more worthless comments. Only comments worth at least 25 cents. If you're posting from work, your boss probably paid you more to write the comment than what you paid to post it to the site. It's not asking a whole lot.
If you ever start an online poker site and use the decimal expansion of pi as your random number generator, could you please send me the URL?
Or better yet, submit it as a Slashdot story. Then we'll all have plenty of money for buying Slashdot subscriptions.
First On Race Day
to make a pit stop.
New York: Shady character standing in front of the Apple Store selling weed
Amsterdam: Shady character standing in front of the coffee shop selling imported iPods
If we can make computers out of bacteria, we can probably make them out of viruses too.
And that virus computer at some point could be made to run Windows...
And if they build this computer in Moscow we'll be able to say...
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, Windows runs on viruses!
You'd think there would be some way to catch this with data mining, kind of like when you get a phone call from the credit card company if their computers find a pattern that looks like your card has been stolen or something. Like if a store usually orders 10 cases of SPAM a week, and one day places an order for 20,000 cases out of the middle of nowhere, they could check with the store and ask them if they really meant to order all that SPAM.
A gambling company convinces more states to legalize gambling.
A private prison company promotes getting "tough on crime."
Alcohol and cigarette companies might oppose marijuana legalization to limit the competition.
A gun company might support weakening the gun control laws.
Gay porn producers might promote tolerance of gay people.
Divorce lawyers might bash gays so they will be pressured into doomed marriages to opposite-sex spouses.
The National Association of Realtors promotes the "American value of homeownership."
Wine distributors convince Congress that the world will fall apart if wineries can ship their own wine across state lines.
You're forgetting something... this is America. We spend five minutes driving around the parking lot hunting for the closest possible parking space which will save us one minute of walking. Then when we want to go to another store in the same shopping center, we drive. At the ball park, if the stadium parking lot is $20 and the lot 2 blocks away is $10, we spend the extra ten bucks. People fight for the closest parking space everywhere... even at the gym. We drive our kids to school because the news media has convinced us there's a child molestor around every corner. We use counterfeit handicapped stickers to avoid walking 100 feet. We ride the elevator to the second floor. In case everything I said is not clear, this picture just about sums up the state of fitness in America.
Also there's only 1 billion possible SSNs, and the population of the US is 300 million. So, if you pick a number at random, you have a 30% chance of picking a valid number. And since there's a pattern (as you mentioned), the real odds are actually much better. I doubt you can do much with just a number and no name or other information.
Only if it looked like it became a media debacle would they likely start acting.
TONIGHT on Eyewitness News 11... Did you know that FOREIGN SHIPS are anchoring just three miles off shore, without having to comply with any U.S. laws? They can ignore basic health and environmental laws. The people on board these ships don't have to go through customs or get a visa. These ships are never inspected for narcotics or other contraband. No one we spoke to has any idea what goes on on board these ships. And believe it or not, the Coast Guard says there's nothing they can do about it. COULD OSAMA BIN LADEN BE BUILDING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION JUST THREE MILES FROM YOUR FAMILY'S NEIGHBORHOOD ON THE COAST? FIND OUT TONIGHT ON EYEWITNESS NEWS 11.
Didn't these people ever stop and think about how suspicious it will look when Intel sees the "property of Massachusetts Institute of Technology libraries" stamp? Talk about dumb criminals.
In the past, I have noticed people such as the GNAA posting comments into blogs. These comments will contain Javascript that will do something nasty, normally redirecting the page to goat.cx or Last Measure. This makes it easy to disguise goat.cx links in Slashdot comments or, occasionally, redirect a blog linked to in a +5 comment or even the story itself to goat.cx.
So my question is, could this sort of Javascript exploit be used to spread trojans/malware via other people's blogs using the comments section?
Not feeling the pain of paying taxes... true. This is why the Republicans want to do away with all tax withholding and move tax day from April 15 to the first Monday in November.
They have Whataburgers all over the place in Texas and in many other red states.
Apparently federal laws are written by people from Major League Baseball:
"This copyrighted telecast is presented by the authority of the Seattle Mariners and may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form and the accounts and descriptions of this game cannot be disseminated without the express written consent of the Seattle Mariners."
The Mariners scored three runs in the fourth inning today in their game against the Texas Rangers.
Did I just violate someone's copyright? Will this post have to be deleted like the Scientology post?
Oh and the phone just rang. It was a wrong number. Someone looking for Bill.
Also, I can't believe nobody's mentioned what has to be the biggest use of dollar coins around: casino slot machines.
Where??? All the dollar slot machines in Vegas use $1 casino chips, not dollar coins.
Or worse, "Last Measure." Do mobile phones typically support Javascript?
L ast_Measure
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shock_sites#
fifty percent of the time an IRS employee is on the computer they are playing games, shopping online or gambling."
Are these IRS employees paying the full amount of the tax due on their gambling winnings? It is considered income, after all.
This is really scary. What if Al Qaeda were to get a hold of this technology? Could they use it to achieve their ultimate mission of destroying Western civilization? Sure, they'd take themselves out too, but there would be 72 virgins waiting for them in heaven, just like there were for the 9/11 hijackers.
My address clearly contains the word "Apt", as in APARTMENT. This does not stop me from getting junk (snail) mail offers to refinance my mortgage.
That giant sucking sound you hear is all the air being let out of the housing bubble. $2,100 for 172 square feet? Why not just buy four of these, for less than the cost of a year's rent, rather than paying $400,000+ for a tiny 688 ft2 condo?
This isn't hard at all.
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