I really think it is high time for the USA to turn over the job of policing the world to a democratically elected world government. It is unfair for the US taxpayers to pay so much for world security and to get all of the blame when our leaders fuck up and holy fuck do they ever fuck up. More importantly, it is unfair to the world for the US to have so much say in how the world is run. Oh dear god!. Where to start. First, how would you hold elections for a democratically elected world govt? Would nondemocratic nations get to vote? You think the tea party is bad imagine the entire 3rd world declaring the entire 1st world owes them all their money? Secondly, Unfair, who said life was ever anything approaching fair? Thirdly, if not the US then who? The Chinese? The Russians? The Indians? A bunch of bureacrats in Brussels?
Clearly, it's George Soros! My bedroom is full of puppets and chalk boards that show evidence of this. Unfortunately, the world is full of idiots who can't see the logic behind it all. I see you got a funny mod, but you instead you should have gotten an insightful, since George Soros makes his money speculating on currency, and nothing makes currencies move like some good ol' terror.
Actually, it is due to people abusing the backword type available in certain languages(cyrillic? I believe) somewhere out there is a demonstration of this little trick
They aren't going to collect. China is a sovereign nation and can as a result do whatever it wants. That trumps justice in this age.
This age? I missed that time the Senate of Rome and the Council of Carthage got together in a court preceeding overseen by the Parthians to solve their land dispute over territory that is now called Spain. Oh right, b/c that never happened, in every age force will trump justice.
What the Chinese do or do not do as punishment is irrelevant to a discussion over whether the punishment fits the crime. For example, if the Chinese are extremely unjust in applying punishment, that does not mean we are OK to be somewhat less unjust; we should be just in our punishments regardless of the actions of other nations.
Be sure to tell that to all the people who point out the US still has the death penalty and is one of the few 1st world nations to do so.
In 2005 (the last year I could easily find number for) CA received 79 cents of federal spending for every federal tax dollar paid, NY was 78 cents and Utah was $1.07. To give you some framework for those numbers, CA works out to have sent ~$286,627,000,000 to the Federal Government, and received ~$242,023,000,000 dollars worth of federal funding. A disparity of 44 billion.
Who's bailing out who exactly? Did you factor in a the work the FBI does hunting down copyright violators and the state dept to make sure hollywood can continue to enjoy their price discrimination worldwide? Crunch those numbers then get back to me.
Reader FleaPlus points out an unintended consequence: some transportation economists believe that the TSA's new invasive techniques may lead to more deaths as more people to use road transportation to avoid flying -- much more dangerous by the mile than air travel.
That's ok think about all the carbon dioxide that won't be released into the atmosphere, the little polars won't drown and the low lands won't flood. Why do you hate polar bears?
It would also be "less objectionable" if we were not exposed to significant dose of ionizing radiation. You do realize what happens when you fly in a plane at altitude, and lose that wonderful blanket of atmosphere that keeps the nasty cosmic rays from hitting the ground right?
It will one day warn of the risks of 2nd hand smoke, then next day run an article that bans on smoking are bad. If anything the Telegraaf is the Teaparty. They don't have any ideas, they just know everyone elses ideas suck. Since 90% of everything sucks nowadays, that seems to be a pretty safe bet to make.
Having recently purchased Fallout:New Vegas, and discovering Steam needed to be installed, I've yet to see the value added proposition that Steam brings to New Vegas. Did I miss the button I'm supposed to press and someone from Steam will arrive with a pizza or some other form of bribe so I'll run around proclaiming Steam the greatest thing since bread came in a slice? I only ask since I'd manage to avoid Steam for so long while still purchasing PC games.
Not sure why parent was modded a troll. The statement,"It's also a given that e-waste is currently a huge problem
does require citation. Nothing trollish about pointing that fact out.
Which group would that be? The Somalis? The Libertarian part? What? I see what you did there, you mixed your dailykos talking points w/ slashdot. There are no libertarians in Somalia worth speaking of.The big group in Somalia is the Islamic Courts Union. Do they sound like libertarians? So here's a tip, Rand Paul won, and you're going to have to get used to that fact and moveon.org with your life.
I would take it a step further. You are inherently installing malware when using jailbreak/rooting tools. The fact that you are intentionally using and benefiting from the malware doesn't mean it isn't malware.
Yeah, it kinda does, unless you think DeCSS was malware. Unless you think allowing homebrew on the Wii is malware, or full screen from a memory stick on PSP to be malware. See if I use the software for my benefit and I'm not harming anyone else then it isn't malware. It's simply exploiting a fault in the code to wrest control back from the turtle necked one or the kind people of Japan.
I know don't feed the trolls, but depending on your location you were seconds away from statutory rape. And since you aren't a famous director w/ the ability to flee to France, you would go to prison. Hell you are probably going to prison for sexual assault. So I recommend jumping in a white bronco and fleeing the country or hiring zombie Johnnie Cochran. Note IANAL and this message should in no way be construed as legal advice.
Secrecy is the first step in tyranny. Complacency of the people is the second. Obfuscation by the ruling elite promulgates more of the same, ad inifitum.
Wrong, tyranny is the first step in tyranny. Secrecy is the first step in privacy. See kristallnacht and tiananmen square.
And that's been the state of their business for the best part of a decade. As an investor, it's practically everything you could ask for in a consumer goods company.
Ah, but you see Apple's meteoric rise is not due to them behaving like a consumer goods company, instead they've become a fashion house. So things shall get real interesting for the brand once Steve shuffles off this mortal coil. So like all investments based on fashion, there is some risk of the fickle mob changing their tastes.
You are trying very hard to argue that two shades of the same color are completely opposite. Not that wikipedia is that authoritative, but this seems quite well supported by citations:
Also identified is a large faction advocating minarchism, though libertarianism has also long been associated with anarchism (and sometimes is used as a synonym for such), especially outside of the United States. Anarchism remains one of the significant branches of libertarianism.
Not really, the parent uses libertarianism in the classic US sense(and how it was understood at/. before it became KosDot circa 2004)as freedom to be left alone. Unfortunately(esp. at/. and left leaning blogs), libertarianism has become conflated w/ Mad Max beyond Thunderdome anarchy. If on the other hand someone says, "Hey, unions tend to punish the hard worker and reward the average worker and that feels like socialism" someone will scream McCarthyism and promptly down mod into oblivion. It's truly sad the way liberty and libertarianism have become perjoratives
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Crazy to think Slashdot has turned into a hive of Apple fanboyism. No one would have believed you 10 years ago if you would have told them what was to come Indeed, what a long strange trip it has been since, "No wireless, less space than Nomad, lame."
I just don't understand how a movie (which I haven't seen, I guess, so I can't really judge) can be thousands of times worse than what Cuccinelli's doing. One is a bit of free speech that people are capable of ignoring if they desire. The other cannot be ignored, since it's couched in the auspices of the courts and the Office of the Attorney General - ignoring it may mean fines, contempt citations, obstruction of justice charges, etc.
What Cuccinelli's doing is thousands of times worse than the 10:10 movie.
If it is the "movie"(it was actually a commercial for a new "no pressure" campaign) I saw on youtube, then the 10:10 spots were advocating killing those who fail to conform to the forced reductions of greenhouse gases. Now if incitement to violence(actual, not couched in slang or idioms) isn't worse than a lawyer asking some questions, I'd love to know what planet you live on. But hey, only crazy right wingers are violent
If the excess capacity doesn't get eaten up, the US is going to end up with the same problems Japan had. Once that excess capacity is eaten up, the Fed can raise interest rates to put the brakes on additional expansion.
Feel free to poke holes in my logic. A crowdsourced solution is still a solution. Where to begin. 1st Japan still has problems, mostly demographic but they never recovered to pre-bust levels. Your idea of just this once rescuing every Tom, Dick, and Harry with bad mortgages creates as massive moral hazard that some fresh out of Wharton graduate will be exploiting in under 5 years to make this crash look like a church picnic. Unfortunately, their needs to be a restructuring of the economy, far too much money was being made on moving piles of money around and not making shit to fix with a simple all bad mortgage debt is forgiven solution.
Is this the same Violet Blue, that sued the pornstar of the same name for copyright infringment even though the pornstar had been using the name first?If so, boo hoo.
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Why can't we have this guy running the country, not the bozo teams we get over and over?
B/c he's crazy.
I really think it is high time for the USA to turn over the job of policing the world to a democratically elected world government. It is unfair for the US taxpayers to pay so much for world security and to get all of the blame when our leaders fuck up and holy fuck do they ever fuck up. More importantly, it is unfair to the world for the US to have so much say in how the world is run.
Oh dear god!. Where to start. First, how would you hold elections for a democratically elected world govt? Would nondemocratic nations get to vote? You think the tea party is bad imagine the entire 3rd world declaring the entire 1st world owes them all their money? Secondly, Unfair, who said life was ever anything approaching fair? Thirdly, if not the US then who? The Chinese? The Russians? The Indians? A bunch of bureacrats in Brussels?
Clearly, it's George Soros! My bedroom is full of puppets and chalk boards that show evidence of this. Unfortunately, the world is full of idiots who can't see the logic behind it all.
I see you got a funny mod, but you instead you should have gotten an insightful, since George Soros makes his money speculating on currency, and nothing makes currencies move like some good ol' terror.
Actually, it is due to people abusing the backword type available in certain languages(cyrillic? I believe) somewhere out there is a demonstration of this little trick
They aren't going to collect. China is a sovereign nation and can as a result do whatever it wants. That trumps justice in this age.
This age? I missed that time the Senate of Rome and the Council of Carthage got together in a court preceeding overseen by the Parthians to solve their land dispute over territory that is now called Spain. Oh right, b/c that never happened, in every age force will trump justice.
What the Chinese do or do not do as punishment is irrelevant to a discussion over whether the punishment fits the crime. For example, if the Chinese are extremely unjust in applying punishment, that does not mean we are OK to be somewhat less unjust; we should be just in our punishments regardless of the actions of other nations.
Be sure to tell that to all the people who point out the US still has the death penalty and is one of the few 1st world nations to do so.
In 2005 (the last year I could easily find number for) CA received 79 cents of federal spending for every federal tax dollar paid, NY was 78 cents and Utah was $1.07. To give you some framework for those numbers, CA works out to have sent ~$286,627,000,000 to the Federal Government, and received ~$242,023,000,000 dollars worth of federal funding. A disparity of 44 billion. Who's bailing out who exactly?
Did you factor in a the work the FBI does hunting down copyright violators and the state dept to make sure hollywood can continue to enjoy their price discrimination worldwide? Crunch those numbers then get back to me.
Reader FleaPlus points out an unintended consequence: some transportation economists believe that the TSA's new invasive techniques may lead to more deaths as more people to use road transportation to avoid flying -- much more dangerous by the mile than air travel.
That's ok think about all the carbon dioxide that won't be released into the atmosphere, the little polars won't drown and the low lands won't flood. Why do you hate polar bears?
It would also be "less objectionable" if we were not exposed to significant dose of ionizing radiation.
You do realize what happens when you fly in a plane at altitude, and lose that wonderful blanket of atmosphere that keeps the nasty cosmic rays from hitting the ground right?
It will one day warn of the risks of 2nd hand smoke, then next day run an article that bans on smoking are bad. If anything the Telegraaf is the Teaparty. They don't have any ideas, they just know everyone elses ideas suck.
Since 90% of everything sucks nowadays, that seems to be a pretty safe bet to make.
Having recently purchased Fallout:New Vegas, and discovering Steam needed to be installed, I've yet to see the value added proposition that Steam brings to New Vegas. Did I miss the button I'm supposed to press and someone from Steam will arrive with a pizza or some other form of bribe so I'll run around proclaiming Steam the greatest thing since bread came in a slice? I only ask since I'd manage to avoid Steam for so long while still purchasing PC games.
Not sure why parent was modded a troll. The statement,"It's also a given that e-waste is currently a huge problem
does require citation. Nothing trollish about pointing that fact out.
Somewhere out there is a woman who loves you for who you are
Yes, she's called your mother. Oh, you meant someone not related?
Which group would that be? The Somalis? The Libertarian part? What? .The big group in Somalia is the Islamic Courts Union. Do they sound like libertarians? So here's a tip, Rand Paul won, and you're going to have to get used to that fact and moveon.org with your life.
I see what you did there, you mixed your dailykos talking points w/ slashdot. There are no libertarians in Somalia worth speaking of
Reaper was terrible.
No, it had a few weak episodes, but was generally funny and could be clever at times. The guy playing the devil was great.
I would take it a step further. You are inherently installing malware when using jailbreak/rooting tools. The fact that you are intentionally using and benefiting from the malware doesn't mean it isn't malware.
Yeah, it kinda does, unless you think DeCSS was malware. Unless you think allowing homebrew on the Wii is malware, or full screen from a memory stick on PSP to be malware. See if I use the software for my benefit and I'm not harming anyone else then it isn't malware. It's simply exploiting a fault in the code to wrest control back from the turtle necked one or the kind people of Japan.
I know don't feed the trolls, but depending on your location you were seconds away from statutory rape. And since you aren't a famous director w/ the ability to flee to France, you would go to prison. Hell you are probably going to prison for sexual assault. So I recommend jumping in a white bronco and fleeing the country or hiring zombie Johnnie Cochran. Note IANAL and this message should in no way be construed as legal advice.
Secrecy is the first step in tyranny. Complacency of the people is the second. Obfuscation by the ruling elite promulgates more of the same, ad inifitum.
Wrong, tyranny is the first step in tyranny. Secrecy is the first step in privacy. See kristallnacht and tiananmen square.
And that's been the state of their business for the best part of a decade. As an investor, it's practically everything you could ask for in a consumer goods company.
Ah, but you see Apple's meteoric rise is not due to them behaving like a consumer goods company, instead they've become a fashion house. So things shall get real interesting for the brand once Steve shuffles off this mortal coil. So like all investments based on fashion, there is some risk of the fickle mob changing their tastes.
You are trying very hard to argue that two shades of the same color are completely opposite. Not that wikipedia is that authoritative, but this seems quite well supported by citations:
Also identified is a large faction advocating minarchism, though libertarianism has also long been associated with anarchism (and sometimes is used as a synonym for such), especially outside of the United States. Anarchism remains one of the significant branches of libertarianism.
/. before it became KosDot circa 2004)as freedom to be left alone. Unfortunately(esp. at /. and left leaning blogs), libertarianism has become conflated w/ Mad Max beyond Thunderdome anarchy. If on the other hand someone says, "Hey, unions tend to punish the hard worker and reward the average worker and that feels like socialism" someone will scream McCarthyism and promptly down mod into oblivion. It's truly sad the way liberty and libertarianism have become perjoratives
Not really, the parent uses libertarianism in the classic US sense(and how it was understood at
Crazy to think Slashdot has turned into a hive of Apple fanboyism. No one would have believed you 10 years ago if you would have told them what was to come
Indeed, what a long strange trip it has been since, "No wireless, less space than Nomad, lame."
Don't make things that are exposed to shocks, scratches and scrapes out of glass! Use diamondoid materials instead.
I just don't understand how a movie (which I haven't seen, I guess, so I can't really judge) can be thousands of times worse than what Cuccinelli's doing. One is a bit of free speech that people are capable of ignoring if they desire. The other cannot be ignored, since it's couched in the auspices of the courts and the Office of the Attorney General - ignoring it may mean fines, contempt citations, obstruction of justice charges, etc.
What Cuccinelli's doing is thousands of times worse than the 10:10 movie.
If it is the "movie"(it was actually a commercial for a new "no pressure" campaign) I saw on youtube, then the 10:10 spots were advocating killing those who fail to conform to the forced reductions of greenhouse gases. Now if incitement to violence(actual, not couched in slang or idioms) isn't worse than a lawyer asking some questions, I'd love to know what planet you live on. But hey, only crazy right wingers are violent
If the excess capacity doesn't get eaten up, the US is going to end up with the same problems Japan had. Once that excess capacity is eaten up, the Fed can raise interest rates to put the brakes on additional expansion. Feel free to poke holes in my logic. A crowdsourced solution is still a solution.
Where to begin. 1st Japan still has problems, mostly demographic but they never recovered to pre-bust levels. Your idea of just this once rescuing every Tom, Dick, and Harry with bad mortgages creates as massive moral hazard that some fresh out of Wharton graduate will be exploiting in under 5 years to make this crash look like a church picnic. Unfortunately, their needs to be a restructuring of the economy, far too much money was being made on moving piles of money around and not making shit to fix with a simple all bad mortgage debt is forgiven solution.
Is this the same Violet Blue, that sued the pornstar of the same name for copyright infringment even though the pornstar had been using the name first?If so, boo hoo.