The best legal stock scam is to be a stockbroker. They serve no useful purpose, like much of the complicated financial scaffolding propping up late era consumer capitalism.
What people didn't predict was that we would clog up those pipes with advertising
That is a symptom of why the internet is not the great life-changer that everyone here seems to think. The fuckers with the money are still in control.
I can remember working on a project for a design company in the mid 80s when the only mobile phones (in the UK at least) were those big military style ones like a couple of bricks. One of the lead designers said to me that the only reason they were as big and clunky as that was that the yuppies using them loved the pseudo-military look. They were working on alternative phones about the size of an old Motorola Razr flip phone even then.
Very few got the internet, or the pervalence of pocket computing and connectivity that we take for granted 20 years later.
That's because the internet and pocket computing have made little difference to how people live their lives. I know this is heresy on slashdot, but the fact remains that being poor and having a crappy smartphone still means you're poor. Their has been no increase in equitable power and wealth distribution due to the internet. We've just got some new toys. Anyone looking into the future isn't going to be that interested in how much shiny there might be.
I seem to remember that this contraption was used in the John Wayne film "The Green Berets", and since it was way before special effects, I suspect it was really a person being snatched off the ground.
Yes, because obviously they couldn't have used a dummy.
Why would I believe it existed just because I saw it in a movie? i can't say I gave it a lot of thought, but I generally don't go "Gosh, I saw it in a james Bond movie, it must exist in real lifte."
I fail to see how a person unwilling to *read* has anything to do with a person unwilling to *write* correctly. Perhaps you are aneural? Look it up, it's a word.
If you are unwilling to read (that is, actual books) it is fantastically unlikely that you will be able to write properly.
He's a fighter ace and a test pilot. A trained killer, and an officer. Pleasant? If he were really in a bad mood, he'd strangle you with one quick grab and walk off. None of these guys are "pleasant". Just being able to adhere to reasonable social conventions in normal social settings is an accomplishment. The less fortunate ones are wandering the streets in a daze or locked up, and of course the least fortunate ones are dead. I wager he knows a lot of the less fortunate ones, and a lot of dead ones. Pleasant? For fucks sake... I have nothing to compare with what the military folk go through, and even I'm disgusted with you.
What a load of bollocks. Members of the armed forces are generally speaking more polite and well mannered than civilians. If you can't be pleasant when required, you're not going to make much of an officer.
Most pilots from that era (and pretty much every era) were dicks.
When you have a job where your survival depends on the competence of other people, normal social courtesies like tact, circumspection and compromise can get you killed.
If my survival depended on a team of other people, I think I'd try really, really hard not to be a dick towards them. I might express my dickishness on random strangers, small children, or whatever, but I certainly wouldn't want to piss off my team.
Having just returned from Europe to Australia, I can assure you that if I could afford it, I'd take the shortest possible flight time every time.
Well, yes, that is pretty self evident. Flying is an horrendous pain in the arse so the shorter time you have to spend on a plane the better.
If I had to fly from Europe to Austalia, I would try to break it up into a few shorter flights with some sightseeing where I stopped over. I find transatlantic (UK to North America) bad enough, I would certainly not want to fly non stop to Oz.
If I could afford both the time and the money, I would go by luxury cruise liner.
All Marx was saying was that capitalism functions by paying workers X amount in order to make a product that can be sold for Y amount, and the difference between X (plus other costs such as overheads) and Y is profit, which goes to the capitalist. There are clear arguments about his ignoring the element of risk associated with being a capitalist (since clearly not all capitalists are guaranteed to make profits), but I don't see how you can argue that this isn't how capitalism works.
The difference is that Socialists would say that it is wrong that the capitalist should keep the profit, and that it should be shared amongst all the workers since in a socialist economy the workers would own all the means of production.
If it's so foreseeable...why did everyone's retirement funds lose thousands of dollars?
Because those retirement funds were in the hands of other people without a common interest in preserving the integrity of the retirement fund. It should be painfully obvious that people, businesses, and governments treat Other Peoples' Money differently than their own.
You don't think that any of the funds that knew about this easily foreseeable financial crash thought about moving their investments around so that they could take advantage and make lots of money? (Being totally cynical, not money for their clients, but money for themselves).
I'm sure if you went through the speeches of Hitler, Mao, Stalin (or whoever your favorite hate figure is) you'd find a few things that made sense. Successful demagogues can't be 100% loony tunes, even the stupidest of mobs would see through them.
Ask yourself - why a brit in Africa could likely go blind, or worse, drinking tapwater while the locals drink it with impunity. Ask yourself why a brit (substitute any aforementioned nanny state here) spends the first week of his exotic holiday eating imodium and sitting on the shitter, if he's not careful what he eats and drinks.
But surely there hasn't been time for any evolutionary change in Western bodies? Or is it just something we acquire after we're born?
The U.S. govt. has always permitted small amounts of bone and rat feces in meat products sold. Yep, rat feces. And bone gets purposely ground up and added into hamburger meat. It's a trade-off between the convience of store bought or having to go out and kill my own food myself, then I have to spit out any errant buckshot.
Really? I just pull the arrow out. (unless it passed right through).
You must be Herne the mighty motherfucking Hunter if you can fire an arrow all the way through a cow.
It is bland, with hardly any taste. I prefer fish that actually tastes like, you know, fish.
Fish either tastes vaguely of sea water and piss (sea fish) or strongly of dirty rivers (river fish). Apart from the fact that no one minds killing fish but a lot of people get upset about killing lambs etc, there is no reason on god's earth ever to eat fish unless you're starving to death and there are no vegetables to hand.
Fish is generally eaten by people who don't really like eating at all. The only exceptions I can think of are: (1) tasty smoked kippers which taste of smoke and a bit of fish and (2) fish 'n' chips but that's because of the delicious nutritious batter.
If you've eaten any meat, you've eaten something fed by crap.
If you've eaten any plant, you've eaten something fed by crap.
City people are, for the most part, complete idiots in regards to food and become panic stricken when they accidentally become exposed to reality.
Yeah, that's what farmers said before the fucking BSE problems a few years ago. Ooh arr, we know best, you city folks don't understand our country ways, of course it's all right for cows to eat their relatives' ground up internal organs.
I wondered when someone was going to mention this. I expect the response will be "duh, we're talking about fish and pig shit, so it's totally different from cows and sheep bits and sort-of-prawns can't get BSE anyway n00b"
I mean this is clearly a long shot, but bear with me: they go off quickly when you haven't got a fridge and you live in the desert, which led to some random goat herder getting a dose of Dagon's revenge.
I am possibly being thick here, but what exposure to sea food would desert dwellers get anyway?
Isn't it a bit like a Nepalese religion prohibiting coconuts and bananas?
You seem to be missing the point that honey is a food for the bees themselves, unlike penguin puke or whatever. The fact that they make it by regurgitating nectar doesn't make it the same as the fish waste vomited up by an ill Tux. Unless you're some sort of extreme emotophobe, the mechanics of how it's made are irrelevant.
If cow crap happened to end up being sweet and delicious and edible by humans, I'd eat it quite happily, it's hardly more unnatural than killing and setting fire to the cow is it?
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The best legal stock scam is to be a stockbroker. They serve no useful purpose, like much of the complicated financial scaffolding propping up late era consumer capitalism.
What people didn't predict was that we would clog up those pipes with advertising
That is a symptom of why the internet is not the great life-changer that everyone here seems to think. The fuckers with the money are still in control.
I can remember working on a project for a design company in the mid 80s when the only mobile phones (in the UK at least) were those big military style ones like a couple of bricks. One of the lead designers said to me that the only reason they were as big and clunky as that was that the yuppies using them loved the pseudo-military look. They were working on alternative phones about the size of an old Motorola Razr flip phone even then.
Very few got the internet, or the pervalence of pocket computing and connectivity that we take for granted 20 years later.
That's because the internet and pocket computing have made little difference to how people live their lives. I know this is heresy on slashdot, but the fact remains that being poor and having a crappy smartphone still means you're poor. Their has been no increase in equitable power and wealth distribution due to the internet. We've just got some new toys. Anyone looking into the future isn't going to be that interested in how much shiny there might be.
Congratulations, you are the 100th person to make exactly the same post in this thread, so you get a special bumper sticker.
I seem to remember that this contraption was used in the John Wayne film "The Green Berets", and since it was way before special effects, I suspect it was really a person being snatched off the ground.
Yes, because obviously they couldn't have used a dummy.
Why would I believe it existed just because I saw it in a movie? i can't say I gave it a lot of thought, but I generally don't go "Gosh, I saw it in a james Bond movie, it must exist in real lifte."
You know your trouble? You're just too cynical.
I fail to see how a person unwilling to *read* has anything to do with a person unwilling to *write* correctly. Perhaps you are aneural? Look it up, it's a word.
If you are unwilling to read (that is, actual books) it is fantastically unlikely that you will be able to write properly.
Yeager isn't a very pleasant person.
He's a fighter ace and a test pilot. A trained killer, and an officer. Pleasant? If he were really in a bad mood, he'd strangle you with one quick grab and walk off. None of these guys are "pleasant". Just being able to adhere to reasonable social conventions in normal social settings is an accomplishment. The less fortunate ones are wandering the streets in a daze or locked up, and of course the least fortunate ones are dead. I wager he knows a lot of the less fortunate ones, and a lot of dead ones. Pleasant? For fucks sake... I have nothing to compare with what the military folk go through, and even I'm disgusted with you.
What a load of bollocks. Members of the armed forces are generally speaking more polite and well mannered than civilians. If you can't be pleasant when required, you're not going to make much of an officer.
Most pilots from that era (and pretty much every era) were dicks.
When you have a job where your survival depends on the competence of other people, normal social courtesies like tact, circumspection and compromise can get you killed.
If my survival depended on a team of other people, I think I'd try really, really hard not to be a dick towards them. I might express my dickishness on random strangers, small children, or whatever, but I certainly wouldn't want to piss off my team.
Having just returned from Europe to Australia, I can assure you that if I could afford it, I'd take the shortest possible flight time every time.
Well, yes, that is pretty self evident. Flying is an horrendous pain in the arse so the shorter time you have to spend on a plane the better.
If I had to fly from Europe to Austalia, I would try to break it up into a few shorter flights with some sightseeing where I stopped over. I find transatlantic (UK to North America) bad enough, I would certainly not want to fly non stop to Oz.
If I could afford both the time and the money, I would go by luxury cruise liner.
All Marx was saying was that capitalism functions by paying workers X amount in order to make a product that can be sold for Y amount, and the difference between X (plus other costs such as overheads) and Y is profit, which goes to the capitalist. There are clear arguments about his ignoring the element of risk associated with being a capitalist (since clearly not all capitalists are guaranteed to make profits), but I don't see how you can argue that this isn't how capitalism works.
The difference is that Socialists would say that it is wrong that the capitalist should keep the profit, and that it should be shared amongst all the workers since in a socialist economy the workers would own all the means of production.
If it's so foreseeable...why did everyone's retirement funds lose thousands of dollars?
Because those retirement funds were in the hands of other people without a common interest in preserving the integrity of the retirement fund. It should be painfully obvious that people, businesses, and governments treat Other Peoples' Money differently than their own.
You don't think that any of the funds that knew about this easily foreseeable financial crash thought about moving their investments around so that they could take advantage and make lots of money? (Being totally cynical, not money for their clients, but money for themselves).
I'm sure if you went through the speeches of Hitler, Mao, Stalin (or whoever your favorite hate figure is) you'd find a few things that made sense. Successful demagogues can't be 100% loony tunes, even the stupidest of mobs would see through them.
Heck, alcohol is basically the waste product of yeast cells digesting sugars.
God, I love yeast and their funny little appetites.
I won't eat seafood. I refuse to eat anything that swims in it's own bathroom.
I refuse to eat seafood because it's either tasteless overpriced rubbery crap or tasteless overpriced snotty crap. But each to his own.
Ask yourself - why a brit in Africa could likely go blind, or worse, drinking tapwater while the locals drink it with impunity. Ask yourself why a brit (substitute any aforementioned nanny state here) spends the first week of his exotic holiday eating imodium and sitting on the shitter, if he's not careful what he eats and drinks.
But surely there hasn't been time for any evolutionary change in Western bodies? Or is it just something we acquire after we're born?
The U.S. govt. has always permitted small amounts of bone and rat feces in meat products sold. Yep, rat feces. And bone gets purposely ground up and added into hamburger meat. It's a trade-off between the convience of store bought or having to go out and kill my own food myself, then I have to spit out any errant buckshot.
Really? I just pull the arrow out. (unless it passed right through).
You must be Herne the mighty motherfucking Hunter if you can fire an arrow all the way through a cow.
It is bland, with hardly any taste. I prefer fish that actually tastes like, you know, fish.
Fish either tastes vaguely of sea water and piss (sea fish) or strongly of dirty rivers (river fish). Apart from the fact that no one minds killing fish but a lot of people get upset about killing lambs etc, there is no reason on god's earth ever to eat fish unless you're starving to death and there are no vegetables to hand.
Fish is generally eaten by people who don't really like eating at all. The only exceptions I can think of are: (1) tasty smoked kippers which taste of smoke and a bit of fish and (2) fish 'n' chips but that's because of the delicious nutritious batter.
If you've eaten any meat, you've eaten something fed by crap. If you've eaten any plant, you've eaten something fed by crap.
City people are, for the most part, complete idiots in regards to food and become panic stricken when they accidentally become exposed to reality.
Yeah, that's what farmers said before the fucking BSE problems a few years ago. Ooh arr, we know best, you city folks don't understand our country ways, of course it's all right for cows to eat their relatives' ground up internal organs.
I wondered when someone was going to mention this. I expect the response will be "duh, we're talking about fish and pig shit, so it's totally different from cows and sheep bits and sort-of-prawns can't get BSE anyway n00b"
I mean this is clearly a long shot, but bear with me: they go off quickly when you haven't got a fridge and you live in the desert, which led to some random goat herder getting a dose of Dagon's revenge.
I am possibly being thick here, but what exposure to sea food would desert dwellers get anyway?
Isn't it a bit like a Nepalese religion prohibiting coconuts and bananas?
What is manure [wikipedia.org]? It's animal shit that we use to fertilize land on which we grow plants to eat. That has been done for ages.
Yes, as an addition to soil. We don't grow food plants directly in animal shit as a rule.
You seem to be missing the point that honey is a food for the bees themselves, unlike penguin puke or whatever. The fact that they make it by regurgitating nectar doesn't make it the same as the fish waste vomited up by an ill Tux. Unless you're some sort of extreme emotophobe, the mechanics of how it's made are irrelevant.
If cow crap happened to end up being sweet and delicious and edible by humans, I'd eat it quite happily, it's hardly more unnatural than killing and setting fire to the cow is it?
Ever think about what ALL fish swim in?
That's why, like WC Fields, I don't drink water. Nobody ever got e.coli poisoning from whisky.