What the inequality of wealth brings is inequality of power. Those at the top of the food chain can make and enforce decisions that benefit them financially.
The reason some people have influence over government is not that they are wealthy, its because some people in government are for sale.
The solution to that is not to create more government, you fucking retards.
Yes, clearly the solution is to get rid of all governmental checks and balances, however inadequate, as once they are free from constraints, the wealthy only ever act for the public good.
If you do own stock, go to a shareholders meeting and present your case for why the CEO should be compensated less.
Good luck with that. As long as a CEO is managing the company adequately (i.e. causing the stock price to go up), the large institutional investors who form the overwhelming majority of shareholders don't care what they earn.
If nobody drops cigarette butts or other trash, would the crows attack humans to obtain said items?
Has a crow ever snatched a french fry out of your mouth? Then unless the food pellets they'd be trading them for are laced with cocaine, I'm going to say NO.
They should use seagulls instead. They'd happily take something out of your mouth that wasn't superglued there.
Wait.....What? Dumbass me read cows rather than crows.
Christ, I'm fucking worthless some days.
It seems like half of slashdot read it as cows, which is proof (if it were needed) that there aren't many country-dwellers here. The idea that you could train a cow to do anything other than eat grass and shit is laughable.
Curiously absent from this thread is any outrage from the likes of Amimojo, PopeRatzo and Serviscope that Elon is selling out to a mysoginistic, anti-LGBTQ empire. Try to be consistent guys.
Yes, none of them have chipped in to say they don't like Hitler either, so they're literally Nazis.
Think about it... Saudi fund investing in Tesla. Oil wealth investing in disruptive technology that can potentially obviate the need for petroleum fuels.
If this happens, they'll deep-six that company because it's a threat to their cash cow.
But Tesla's not like the now legendary everlasting-lightbulb guy. There are plenty of other people making electric vehicles, he doesn't have some magic secret.
More than this. The publisher sells to a distributor and then the distributor sells to individual stores. The publisher often isn't the one pressing the discs themselves, so they're probably buying the discs from the manufacturer.
So, by the time it's sold at retail, it's likely been sold from the manufacturer to the publisher, from the publisher to the distributor, from the distributor to the store and then finally sold to a customer. That's 4 sales just to get to retail. Then, if it doesn't get sold at retail, another retailer will likely buy it as a bulk lot and then onsell it again.
This reminds me of the scene in 'Through A Scanner Darkly' where they can't understand why a bicycle is described as having 18 gears and not 9.
Also, MMO's are fun. What's your issue with them? For them amount of time subscribers spend playing them, they provide pretty good value for money even with a monthly subscription.
You can't download a pirate copy and 'try it out' for a couple of years.
When I buy something online and the seller tries to slip me an obviously "refurbished" thing, I'll complain with the seller and not the manufacturer.
Depending on what you buy, you may have the expectation of a manufacturer's warranty.
If I bought, say, a new/boxed smartphone from someone on ebay and it exploded when I plugged a charger in, I would certainly expect the manufacturer to replace it or refund me, not the seller. But the problem would be if the seller had actually opened the phone and done some sort of bodge job on the electronics that caused the problem and voided the warranty.
Well, if you're out in the woods with no internet connection, no mobile coverage but have two copper wires connected to a telephone exchange, fax can be your saviour.
The advantage of facebook is that you can join local groups, so you can restrict your buying/selling to stuff you can actually collect from someone and view before you buy. This is a massive advantage over eBay for things like secondhand clothing.
You don't need a rogue wave to explain why a limping, overloaded, structurally unsound ship sank.
But apart from the fact that it was limping, overloaded and structurally unsound, what other explanation for the sinking, that doesn't involve mysterious alien forces, have you got?
> there's nothing to be done UNTIL the crime is COMMITTED.
If they could predict which block was likely to have a spike in crime 3 or 4 days in advance, that would be enough time to finish their donuts an drive a patrol car over there, potentially preventing the crime. If the presence of the patrol car didn't determine the criminal, the cops could actually catch a bad guy in the act for once, rather than taking a report the next day. I know, that's funny. They'll still just be taking reports after the fact.
I believe the libertarians here would consider this illegal state intervention in the individual's right to commit a crime. Or something.
It's not about whether it's a good report or a bad report. It's about whether it's a better or worse report than people are expecting.
That's a point worth repeating.
As I understand, the problem was that the CFO used the term "decelerate" to refer to Facebook's slowing growth, and this rang alarm bells, presumably among people who think that a decrease in the rate of increase of subscribers is somehow the same thing as an actual decrease in the number of subscribers.
Tech stocks seem generally to be based on the idea that you have to have a continuous upward curve on the rate of increase of sales/subscribers/profit/whatever. So if you double your income one year, then 'only' increase it by 60% the next year and 40% the year after, this is some sort of disaster.
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'Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it' (Goebbels).
What the inequality of wealth brings is inequality of power. Those at the top of the food chain can make and enforce decisions that benefit them financially.
The reason some people have influence over government is not that they are wealthy, its because some people in government are for sale. The solution to that is not to create more government, you fucking retards.
Yes, clearly the solution is to get rid of all governmental checks and balances, however inadequate, as once they are free from constraints, the wealthy only ever act for the public good.
If you do own stock, go to a shareholders meeting and present your case for why the CEO should be compensated less.
Good luck with that. As long as a CEO is managing the company adequately (i.e. causing the stock price to go up), the large institutional investors who form the overwhelming majority of shareholders don't care what they earn.
Don't bother responding to the apostrophe Nazi; it just encourages him.
Surely you should have used a colon rather than a semi-colon there?
Because what you submit in response to the request needs to be true, or it's perjury / violation of a court order?
So it's not a "request" in any normal sense of the word then is it?
What possible reason does a POLICE body camera have to connect to the internet??
Well, so it can download security updates of course.
If nobody drops cigarette butts or other trash, would the crows attack humans to obtain said items?
Has a crow ever snatched a french fry out of your mouth? Then unless the food pellets they'd be trading them for are laced with cocaine, I'm going to say NO.
They should use seagulls instead. They'd happily take something out of your mouth that wasn't superglued there.
Wait .....What? Dumbass me read cows rather than crows.
Christ, I'm fucking worthless some days.
It seems like half of slashdot read it as cows, which is proof (if it were needed) that there aren't many country-dwellers here. The idea that you could train a cow to do anything other than eat grass and shit is laughable.
Curiously absent from this thread is any outrage from the likes of Amimojo, PopeRatzo and Serviscope that Elon is selling out to a mysoginistic, anti-LGBTQ empire. Try to be consistent guys.
Yes, none of them have chipped in to say they don't like Hitler either, so they're literally Nazis.
Think about it... Saudi fund investing in Tesla. Oil wealth investing in disruptive technology that can potentially obviate the need for petroleum fuels. If this happens, they'll deep-six that company because it's a threat to their cash cow.
But Tesla's not like the now legendary everlasting-lightbulb guy. There are plenty of other people making electric vehicles, he doesn't have some magic secret.
the "$420" buyout price
Found the pothead. It would explain a lot.
he was criticised by some fucking jerk, he got angry and responded inappropriately
This 'fucking jerk' being the (genuinely) heroic cave rescuer that Musk called pedo guy?
Classy.
Please, this time, no "at night" joke. Ah, too late.
I bet you're the sort of person who complains about Uranus...
More than this. The publisher sells to a distributor and then the distributor sells to individual stores. The publisher often isn't the one pressing the discs themselves, so they're probably buying the discs from the manufacturer. So, by the time it's sold at retail, it's likely been sold from the manufacturer to the publisher, from the publisher to the distributor, from the distributor to the store and then finally sold to a customer. That's 4 sales just to get to retail. Then, if it doesn't get sold at retail, another retailer will likely buy it as a bulk lot and then onsell it again.
This reminds me of the scene in 'Through A Scanner Darkly' where they can't understand why a bicycle is described as having 18 gears and not 9.
Also, MMO's are fun. What's your issue with them? For them amount of time subscribers spend playing them, they provide pretty good value for money even with a monthly subscription.
You can't download a pirate copy and 'try it out' for a couple of years.
I doubt that.
When I buy something online and the seller tries to slip me an obviously "refurbished" thing, I'll complain with the seller and not the manufacturer.
Depending on what you buy, you may have the expectation of a manufacturer's warranty.
If I bought, say, a new/boxed smartphone from someone on ebay and it exploded when I plugged a charger in, I would certainly expect the manufacturer to replace it or refund me, not the seller. But the problem would be if the seller had actually opened the phone and done some sort of bodge job on the electronics that caused the problem and voided the warranty.
Well, if you're out in the woods with no internet connection, no mobile coverage but have two copper wires connected to a telephone exchange, fax can be your saviour.
You can fax for an Uber to come and save you?
According to the missus.
Flood it with seawater, and everything electronic inside is toast.
Similarly, most land-based server installations are susceptible to a simple H-bomb attack.
You don't need a rogue wave to explain why a limping, overloaded, structurally unsound ship sank.
But apart from the fact that it was limping, overloaded and structurally unsound, what other explanation for the sinking, that doesn't involve mysterious alien forces, have you got?
tablets are the clear winner for comfortable casual use on beds, couches, etc.
AKA 'watching porn'.
> there's nothing to be done UNTIL the crime is COMMITTED.
If they could predict which block was likely to have a spike in crime 3 or 4 days in advance, that would be enough time to finish their donuts an drive a patrol car over there, potentially preventing the crime. If the presence of the patrol car didn't determine the criminal, the cops could actually catch a bad guy in the act for once, rather than taking a report the next day. I know, that's funny. They'll still just be taking reports after the fact.
I believe the libertarians here would consider this illegal state intervention in the individual's right to commit a crime. Or something.
It's not about whether it's a good report or a bad report. It's about whether it's a better or worse report than people are expecting.
That's a point worth repeating.
As I understand, the problem was that the CFO used the term "decelerate" to refer to Facebook's slowing growth, and this rang alarm bells, presumably among people who think that a decrease in the rate of increase of subscribers is somehow the same thing as an actual decrease in the number of subscribers.
Tech stocks seem generally to be based on the idea that you have to have a continuous upward curve on the rate of increase of sales/subscribers/profit/whatever. So if you double your income one year, then 'only' increase it by 60% the next year and 40% the year after, this is some sort of disaster.
We used to not be able to say things against kings and barons. Now we cannot say things against corporations or Jews.
Cool, Borat's posting on slashdot again.
It would definitely be an improvement the human doctor who rammed his fist in my rear to check my prostate at my last exam.
Must have seemed odd when you'd only gone in with a slight ear infection.