What I love about this is that the kid they're trying to paint as some psycho gangsta didn't have a gun.
Even here in the UK a moderately serious gang member would likely be armed with a knife at least and not have to rely on hitting someone's head against the road, I can't believe in the US it's harder to find a weapon.
"Stand your ground" is a very reasonable doctrine, it simply allows self-defense without retreating first.
Yeah, it's just an extension of the old rugby tactic of getting your retaliation in first, i.e. before the opponents have had a chance to actually hurt any of your team first.
Although at least on the rugby pitch you're restricted to boots, heads and fists, not fucking guns.
You mean the one that *was* him, and only showed up in rightwing blogs and news. Because the media had a narrative to carry? Just like the GP said. How funny that is huh. So, has the grand parts of the media let you in on about his use of codeine, dxm, and various rounds of theft yet? Or are you still waiting for them to tell you.
I wasn't aware that, even in the US, the fact that a black shooting victim may have been a petty thief and minor drug user was a recognised defence in a murder trial.
There have been at least 2 witnesses come forward and said they saw martin bashing Zimmerman's head against the ground, and the video the police took clearly shows blood and torn skin on the BACK of Zimmerman's head.
Getting some minor injuries does not justify you shooting someone dead. Only a cunt takes a gun to a fist fight.
The only good thing about Stockton is that it's not quite as bad as Middlesbrogh, which is not saying a lot as drowning yourself in a slurry tank is not as bad as living in Middlesbrough.
I'm amazed any engineer would work there when he could get a relatively cushy job being a bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan, where at least it doesn't rain all the time.
Looking ahead, at some point, we're going to hit "peak online advertising", where total spend on online advertising stops growing.
Yes, and at some point Apple will run out of customers prepared to pay five hundred quid for an upgraded phone, but people have been saying that for a while now too.
Apparently, Google can't keep it's own financial report private. Could our data be protected... Not that others are any better...
Financial reports that are to be released to the public aren't supposed to be private. If capitalism worked properly it would make no difference whether they were released 3 hours early or not.
Some analyst somewhere just got canned. Hard core canned to like "You don't even get to keep the stuff on your desk GTFO"... like thrown from a window canned.
No, it waasn't one guy leaking the information by mistake, it was their financial publishers somehow misunderstanding when the results were to be published, which is just a giant cock-up for both companies.
I phoned my grandmother and told her not to panic, and to put $10,000 in Apple stock.
That's a really heartwarming anecdote about how those who start out rich (whose granny has $10,000 in their account just waiting to be spent?) find it easy to get even richer despite economic circumstances.
Why is it so difficult for you to do what I do and actually check the source of things you read?
I'm from the UK, so if I click a link to Unknownnewssource.com I will have a quick shufty around to see where it's based (most likely the US, but of course that's no guarantee), before I start fuming about the ignorant bastards missing out the "u" in "colour" or something. If you click on Unknownnewssource.co.uk or Unknownnewssource.co.au it should be immediately obvious where it's from.
Break out some cards and chips play a card game like poker. Give one player 10X as many chips as everyone else. Unless they're a complete idiot, they will always end up with all the money in the end.
And that is why there should be 100% death duties/inheritance tax.
Heck yes it does: It makes targeted advertising using the information provided by their users.
The "actually make something" part was to exclude companies like Goldman Sachs and AIG, which make nothing and make their money by shuffling around the ownership of what was made.
Advertising is one of the most pointless wastes of time on the planet. It creates nothing except jobs for people in advertising. Apart from companies who manufacture torture devices, I can't think of many more sociopathic enterprises.
If I can't build a factory using my own money, I tend to think that perhaps I shouldn't build a factory.
So who would ever have enough of their own money to build something like a semiconductor manufacturing facility? Or a nuclear power station?
Personally, I'd be quite happy to have all such large scale businesses owned by the people/government and small entrepreneurs allowed to operate up to the limit of what they can self-finance, but I doubt most of the capitalist cheerleaders on slashdot would agree.
Perhaps they'll make themselves feel better by beating each other up at the next roundball meet.
You're the ones who took the children's game of rounders and turned it into baseball, possibly the most tedious sport on the planet, with the obvious exceptions of American "football"(rugby with body armour, you wusses) and basketball (netball).
I'd rather own a company that acquired 10 billion dollars in assets and made 1 billion dollars in profit than one that made 2 billion dollars in profit and acquired no assets
That's why you're not the CEO or CFO of a large corporation.
The difference here could be that RIMs products have always been shitty.
No, the Blackberry was the best product in its field (portable business email in particular) for quite a while.
Google should at least keep going steadily.
Google's core money making business is advertising. When the economy isn't doing so well, of course advertising companies won't either. The results shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.
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What I love about this is that the kid they're trying to paint as some psycho gangsta didn't have a gun.
Even here in the UK a moderately serious gang member would likely be armed with a knife at least and not have to rely on hitting someone's head against the road, I can't believe in the US it's harder to find a weapon.
"Stand your ground" is a very reasonable doctrine, it simply allows self-defense without retreating first.
Yeah, it's just an extension of the old rugby tactic of getting your retaliation in first, i.e. before the opponents have had a chance to actually hurt any of your team first.
Although at least on the rugby pitch you're restricted to boots, heads and fists, not fucking guns.
You mean the one that *was* him, and only showed up in rightwing blogs and news. Because the media had a narrative to carry? Just like the GP said. How funny that is huh. So, has the grand parts of the media let you in on about his use of codeine, dxm, and various rounds of theft yet? Or are you still waiting for them to tell you.
I wasn't aware that, even in the US, the fact that a black shooting victim may have been a petty thief and minor drug user was a recognised defence in a murder trial.
No death is tragic, you sniveling, sheltered fuck. People and ALL living creature die all of the time. It's part of life, so grow up and accept it.
Dying before your time is due is tragic, fuckwit.
Just because everyone dies in the end doesn't mean that murder is OK.
There have been at least 2 witnesses come forward and said they saw martin bashing Zimmerman's head against the ground, and the video the police took clearly shows blood and torn skin on the BACK of Zimmerman's head.
Getting some minor injuries does not justify you shooting someone dead. Only a cunt takes a gun to a fist fight.
Windows is used heavily in their schools. But, the cool kids (in the older classes mostly) use Apple laptops now, btw.
Do yur kids a favour and teach them that being cool by following along with everyone else's choice of shiny gadgets is actually completely uncool.
What is the point? If you're too blind to read fucking traffic signs, how about not driving?
Surely the Abrahamic religions would say that you cannot hope to fully understand God?
The only good thing about Stockton is that it's not quite as bad as Middlesbrogh, which is not saying a lot as drowning yourself in a slurry tank is not as bad as living in Middlesbrough.
I'm amazed any engineer would work there when he could get a relatively cushy job being a bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan, where at least it doesn't rain all the time.
Looking ahead, at some point, we're going to hit "peak online advertising", where total spend on online advertising stops growing.
Yes, and at some point Apple will run out of customers prepared to pay five hundred quid for an upgraded phone, but people have been saying that for a while now too.
Apparently, Google can't keep it's own financial report private. Could our data be protected... Not that others are any better...
Financial reports that are to be released to the public aren't supposed to be private. If capitalism worked properly it would make no difference whether they were released 3 hours early or not.
I'd get some professional investment advice if I were you.
Hint: "put all your eggs in one basket" is unlikely to be the executive summary of their report.
Some analyst somewhere just got canned. Hard core canned to like "You don't even get to keep the stuff on your desk GTFO"... like thrown from a window canned.
No, it waasn't one guy leaking the information by mistake, it was their financial publishers somehow misunderstanding when the results were to be published, which is just a giant cock-up for both companies.
I phoned my grandmother and told her not to panic, and to put $10,000 in Apple stock.
That's a really heartwarming anecdote about how those who start out rich (whose granny has $10,000 in their account just waiting to be spent?) find it easy to get even richer despite economic circumstances.
Why is it so difficult for you to do what I do and actually check the source of things you read?
I'm from the UK, so if I click a link to Unknownnewssource.com I will have a quick shufty around to see where it's based (most likely the US, but of course that's no guarantee), before I start fuming about the ignorant bastards missing out the "u" in "colour" or something. If you click on Unknownnewssource.co.uk or Unknownnewssource.co.au it should be immediately obvious where it's from.
I could give two shits about 'finalise' v 'finalize', potato/potahto or other musket v. rifle instances.
I agree 100%, except for "I could give two shits". It makes no sense! It ought to be "I couldn't give..."
Okay, done with my daily pissing-into-the-wind ritual.
Cheers
It's a version of saying "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" i.e. laziness.
Break out some cards and chips play a card game like poker. Give one player 10X as many chips as everyone else. Unless they're a complete idiot, they will always end up with all the money in the end.
And that is why there should be 100% death duties/inheritance tax.
If you can pick who's going to grow a lot, and who's done growing, then you will do just fine in the stock market.
Well, yes. That's like saying that if you can always predict the winners in a horse race you'll do just fine as a professional horse race gambler.
Heck yes it does: It makes targeted advertising using the information provided by their users.
The "actually make something" part was to exclude companies like Goldman Sachs and AIG, which make nothing and make their money by shuffling around the ownership of what was made.
Advertising is one of the most pointless wastes of time on the planet. It creates nothing except jobs for people in advertising. Apart from companies who manufacture torture devices, I can't think of many more sociopathic enterprises.
If I can't build a factory using my own money, I tend to think that perhaps I shouldn't build a factory.
So who would ever have enough of their own money to build something like a semiconductor manufacturing facility? Or a nuclear power station?
Personally, I'd be quite happy to have all such large scale businesses owned by the people/government and small entrepreneurs allowed to operate up to the limit of what they can self-finance, but I doubt most of the capitalist cheerleaders on slashdot would agree.
You have some other way of generating capital on a grand scale? Love 'em or hate 'em, if we didn't have stock markets, we would have to invent them.
Or we could just get rid of capitalism.
Perhaps they'll make themselves feel better by beating each other up at the next roundball meet.
You're the ones who took the children's game of rounders and turned it into baseball, possibly the most tedious sport on the planet, with the obvious exceptions of American "football"(rugby with body armour, you wusses) and basketball (netball).
The Z/S is an American/British English thing.
You say potatoe, I say potato.
I'd rather own a company that acquired 10 billion dollars in assets and made 1 billion dollars in profit than one that made 2 billion dollars in profit and acquired no assets
That's why you're not the CEO or CFO of a large corporation.
The difference here could be that RIMs products have always been shitty.
No, the Blackberry was the best product in its field (portable business email in particular) for quite a while.
Google should at least keep going steadily.
Google's core money making business is advertising. When the economy isn't doing so well, of course advertising companies won't either. The results shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.