The thing is, incandescent bulbs aren't going away. They have their uses. Your kid can't operate the EZ-Bake oven without one. And there are various decorative bulbs that you simply can't get in LED or if you put in compact-fluorescent, it looks like ass.
How much is standard 16ga lamp cord anyway, to a manufacturer?
A 250 foot spool of lamp wire at Home Depot is 45 bucks, or 18 cents a foot or 59 cents/M. They're not saving much by going with skinnier wire.
Dahon makes these wonderful fold-up bikes you can take on mass transit and not look like an asshole (though you will look like a bear riding a bicycle).
When you make pricing unpredictable, customers are going to stay away in droves. As will I.
"But you're taking your life in your hands by biking in Boston"
It's not any worse than say, Providence or Warwick.
You do realize that any other candidate would have nuked Trump by double digits? Yes? Bernie would have annihilated him.
Chuck Schumer was bitching some time before Nov 8 that Hillary was only single digits ahead of Trump. Her lead was literally 5 percent. Yet comments like that did not lead the Hillary campaign to change their strategy (what they called a strategy, anyway).
He was ringing the bell on the Establishment side long enough before the election that someone should have noticed. Nobody did. The odds for Hillary winning the general election were.25 to 1 *for* winning.
On the night of the election, starting at 9pm Eastern, my wife and I were at a restaurant and started watching the returns roll in. After the first hour, we turned off our phones. We knew, to our horror, that we were getting a grifter douchebag for a president.
>Wikileaks clearly hindered the Democratic candidate to the benefit of the Republican.
The DNC and Hillary hindered the Democratic Candidate to the benefit of the Republican.
1. "I'm with her" instead of "I'm with you" as a campaign slogan - it could not be more fitting a campaign slogan for Hillary.
2. I'm not Trump - a ham sandwich is not Trump. It's not some great accomplishment.
3. Castigate and insult Bernie voters *continually* as if they're not needed to win the election.
4. Not have any real platform. Asked what Hillary stands for, she said "I occupy both the center right and center left" - as if that means anything. And when she won the nomination, she stood on that stage mouthing some of the ideas Bernie had, and then got
5. Hillary ran a campaign full of rookie mistakes, and didn't learn from them.
And her campaign and the DNC are/still/ blaming everyone but themselves.
All the while the DNC has no platform that anyone can discern. Just the other day, Perez was out shaking hands with anti-choice idiots. "My" oarty stand for/nothing/.
I don't understand your comment. This wasn't something like the subprime market where bankers were taking advantage of loopholes opened up by deregulation.
The deregulation opened up the banking *environment* to abuses much like the election of Trump has encouraged every hitler-wannabe to Roman-salute in public.
Create the envelope to work in and someone is always going to color outside the lines, but not too far. Make the envelope larger, and you get a Jackson Pollock instead of a Mondrian. (not to say that Pollock sucks....) because the freedom of too little regulation means that certain things are assumed - in this case the people actually creating the accounts were just following orders instead of being criminals (they thought). If "I was following orders" wasn't a good defense (and it seems to be a good defense so far), then why say "no" to your boss who wants to color outside the lines?
>This was clearly illegal behavior, from several different angles.
I know, but see, I lived through some of this stuff up close and personal (I was involved in the RE market in RI as a land surveying technician and thus got an up-close look at this stuff - the 2007-2008 debacle was just bigger - the motivations were the same). If you thought, for certain, you were going to jail if you committed fraud, most people wouldn't. But this was a huge scale at WF, and I am/sure/ the underlings doing the book-cooking didn't think they were doing "too fraudulent."
> The CEO is using flowery language because he has too, there is on going litigation and if he comes out and says "our ass hat employees broke the law because we setup a framework that pretty much drove them to do it" then he's violating his obligation to Wells Fargo's investors are they are going to turn around and sue him for devaluing the company (forgot the legal term for it).
Fiduciary Responsibility.
The CEO is supposed to be an employee, also. Even though far too many act as sole owners. (they only are if they own >50 percent of total stock).
Why the CEO is not behind bars is fucking telling, because I'm fucking/sure/ there would be evidence if someone attempted discovery. But nobody at the Justice Department is interested in discovery, because discovery is hard - it involves work.
> Chances are they'll be doing that anyway if Wells Fargo loses any of the pending cases.
Breaching fiduciary responsibility is hard to prove. If it was easy, Carly Fiorina would be a pauper.
>Tighter regulations might have led to this being caught sooner (though I don't see how) but they wouldn't have prevented it... they were breaking the law from the outset.
Tighter regulations and actual enforcement would have created an environment where people wouldn't break the envelope.
Various "free marketers" use the trope of "regulation wouldn't have stopped this anyway" as an argument against all regulation and support of lessaiz faire principles. Which is bullshit because between the Depression and the 80s, there weren't any large scale banking crises. Since the deregulation madness in the 80s, we have had the S&L crisis, RISDIC, (and possibly others I don't know of), the Dot Boom Dot Bust (because investment bankers bought into any company that had a name - fuck fundamentals) and the 2007-2008 mess.
>The sick thing is whoever is chosen to fall on their sword this time will get a mighty fine bonus.
The head of RISDIC walked free while various people with less political pull went to jail. (shit floats).
The fact that/nobody/ went to jail or is going to go to jail over the 2007-2008 nonsense tells me that you're right.
I have more respect for hookers, porn stars, strippers, etc., than anyone in the banking industry, as a result. Bankers and investment bankers (these days, they are one and the same, legally) are somewhere on the level of child molesters - except they screw *everyone* all at once.
The magic hand of the market will fix all of it./sneer
-- BMO - who has lived through two major banking crises in his lifetime (you know, the kind that people kill themselves over), and expects more, because bankers are asshats, and most investment-bankers more so.
>almost always are perennial whiners who have no interest in playing the game correctly
The rich have no interest in playing the game correctly *either* but they get a pass while the rest of us have people like you bitching at us for wanting to the rich to play by the rules *also*
Because at heart, you are just another celebrity worshiper and "temporarily embarrassed millionaire."
>students threatening to lawyer up fastest
Who the fuck do you think are the ones who do that/first/?
It's not the middle-class or working-class family based student. They can't/afford/ to waste money on a lawyer, or the time.
No, you twit, his point was that if they're going to censor non-US "fake news sites" they should censor US fake-news *also.*
But that's not going to happen, because "Official News" is what the US government wants you to believe and nothing else. There is no independent mainstream media anymore. The ones with "access" to the WH and elsewhere in DC are the ones that act as stenographers for the official party line (the party being that of the moneyed), truth be damned.
Just because other countries do it doesn't mean it's right for us to do it. And just because other countries do it, doesn't mean we/don't'/ as I will illustrate further down below.
If you defend the "purity" of the US, then you've bought into the biggest pile of bullshit going.
I wrote this the week following Easter:
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I watched a Sunday news program this Easter with The Nan (Marirose's mom). The harebrained manufacture of consent and propaganda being spewed from the Tee Vee astounded me in its transparency. I just/couldn't/ accept what they were selling because it felt like I was in a time warp being sold the same bill of goods about Saddam. And it was about going to war with/both/ Syria and North Korea.
I couldn't tell you which one it was, because I never saw the intro and my Sunday viewing habits are... scarce.
All the way from Vietnam to the present day...
"Every time we've gone to war in my lifetime, the government has lied to us" - Jimmy Dore
Jimmy Dore is my age. He's absolutely correct.
From the Gulf of Tonkin to today, it's been a lie/every time/. Without fail, it's been a lie.
Every Single Time
For my 51 years on this spinning speck of dirt in the universe, these lies have caused millions to needlessly suffer and die either directly in the case of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., (this includes the war on some drugs in Columbia and elsewhere and covert wars such as in Central America) or indirectly in the case of Cambodia and others. And absolutely nobody in the US, who has any power at all, has any negative repercussions on them for starting a war with a lie. Indeed, such people rise to the top and wear epaulets with stars on them and shiny suits or at least show up on TV as a sage and get paid to offer pro-war opinion.
The entire history of the US from the end of WWII to today is the history of manufactured consent for war through the media. Had Herr Goebbels lived to see it instead of taking cyanide, he would have been proud.
"Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious In history's great dark hall of fame All our greatest killers were industrious At least the ones that we all know by name
But you can reach the top of your profession If you become the leader of the land For murder is the sport of the elected And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand"
-- The Police "Murder by Numbers"
When I leave this vale of tears or shuffle off this mortal coil, the number of middle fingers I will have to give will be counted in/sagans/.
Fuck you, you fucking fucks.
---end paste---
I was corrected later that the use of media to manufacture consent for war in the US was/at least/ as old as the Spanish American War.
Slashdot Mirror
"it was someone using an IP from Russia"...
If you look at the actual public evidence, that's all we've got.
Shit coming from an IP in Russia, which could have been at the end of 7 PROXIES. Or TOR. Or whatever.
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Did Theovon fuck his hamster last week?
I'm only asking questions here.
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But trademarks are only valid within the industry the company does business in.
PayPal is a money transfer agent. They don't sell music.
Pandora sells music. They are not a money transfer agent.
Monster Cable cannot go after (legally) Monster Indoor Golf. They did and lost.
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The thing is, incandescent bulbs aren't going away. They have their uses. Your kid can't operate the EZ-Bake oven without one. And there are various decorative bulbs that you simply can't get in LED or if you put in compact-fluorescent, it looks like ass.
How much is standard 16ga lamp cord anyway, to a manufacturer?
A 250 foot spool of lamp wire at Home Depot is 45 bucks, or 18 cents a foot or 59 cents/M. They're not saving much by going with skinnier wire.
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BMO
>IKEA reduced their Tertial work lamp to 13 watts, down from 250 watts.
And it accepts "normal" sized bulbs?
This sounds like a plague of house fires.
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BMO
The LCD that replaced it when the plasma got smashed?
The plasma has been drinking
Not me, not me, not me, not me, not me
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Then foe me, and never see my posts again.
Thanks.
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Nah, you'd be blamed as one of the people who took votes away from Hillary.
Trust me on this.
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Dahon makes these wonderful fold-up bikes you can take on mass transit and not look like an asshole (though you will look like a bear riding a bicycle).
When you make pricing unpredictable, customers are going to stay away in droves. As will I.
"But you're taking your life in your hands by biking in Boston"
It's not any worse than say, Providence or Warwick.
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BMO
You do realize that any other candidate would have nuked Trump by double digits? Yes? Bernie would have annihilated him.
Chuck Schumer was bitching some time before Nov 8 that Hillary was only single digits ahead of Trump. Her lead was literally 5 percent. Yet comments like that did not lead the Hillary campaign to change their strategy (what they called a strategy, anyway).
He was ringing the bell on the Establishment side long enough before the election that someone should have noticed. Nobody did. The odds for Hillary winning the general election were .25 to 1 *for* winning.
On the night of the election, starting at 9pm Eastern, my wife and I were at a restaurant and started watching the returns roll in. After the first hour, we turned off our phones. We knew, to our horror, that we were getting a grifter douchebag for a president.
And it was entirely preventable.
Stop excusing Hillary's god-awful campaign.
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#4 was incomplete and the last sentence typoed "party"
I'm slipping.
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>Wikileaks clearly hindered the Democratic candidate to the benefit of the Republican.
The DNC and Hillary hindered the Democratic Candidate to the benefit of the Republican.
1. "I'm with her" instead of "I'm with you" as a campaign slogan - it could not be more fitting a campaign slogan for Hillary.
2. I'm not Trump - a ham sandwich is not Trump. It's not some great accomplishment.
3. Castigate and insult Bernie voters *continually* as if they're not needed to win the election.
4. Not have any real platform. Asked what Hillary stands for, she said "I occupy both the center right and center left" - as if that means anything. And when she won the nomination, she stood on that stage mouthing some of the ideas Bernie had, and then got
5. Hillary ran a campaign full of rookie mistakes, and didn't learn from them.
And her campaign and the DNC are /still/ blaming everyone but themselves.
All the while the DNC has no platform that anyone can discern. Just the other day, Perez was out shaking hands with anti-choice idiots. "My" oarty stand for /nothing/.
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Aw shit...
I got Poe's Lawed.
Oh well, fuckit.
The main point still stands.
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Meanwhile you have the productive employees at the office
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
Ha.
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My dad and his best friend jumped off the barn with umbrellas because of Mary Poppins.
I'm sure the ancient Greeks were aghast at all the kids lookin' at their moms in a new way after an enactment of Oedipus Rex.
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BMO
Seems like a questionable use of resources to nab a busboy.
It's more expensive and dangerous to go after members of MS13, instead of Jose Busboy.
But hey, the CIA needs MS13, so I guess they're just fine.
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015...
Gotta fund the unofficial wars /somehow/.
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" FBI and ICE agents in Michigan used a Stingray device to ensnare a restaurant worker from El Salvador in March. "
Clearly he was a threat to all of the patrons of that restaurant by not having the proper paperwork.[sneer]
It's obvious that ICE and the FBI are going after the low-hanging fruit to look "productive" instead of "protecting us"
I feel so protected because they're going after Jose or Josephine immigrant that poses no threat to anyone.
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> I don't know what kind of music she makes ... nor do I care.
I'm going to inform you anyway.
If you want a Top40 reference, she is the lead singer of the Dresden Dolls.
>don't know who Dresden Dolls are
Unless you listen to only jazz and classical, I can't believe you got through the Oughts without hearing them.
Coin Operated Boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But then maybe you prefer something older:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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>misuse trope
I meant canard.
Mea culpa (and the Manhattan in my hand).
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The deregulation opened up the banking *environment* to abuses much like the election of Trump has encouraged every hitler-wannabe to Roman-salute in public.
Create the envelope to work in and someone is always going to color outside the lines, but not too far. Make the envelope larger, and you get a Jackson Pollock instead of a Mondrian. (not to say that Pollock sucks....) because the freedom of too little regulation means that certain things are assumed - in this case the people actually creating the accounts were just following orders instead of being criminals (they thought). If "I was following orders" wasn't a good defense (and it seems to be a good defense so far), then why say "no" to your boss who wants to color outside the lines?
>This was clearly illegal behavior, from several different angles.
I know, but see, I lived through some of this stuff up close and personal (I was involved in the RE market in RI as a land surveying technician and thus got an up-close look at this stuff - the 2007-2008 debacle was just bigger - the motivations were the same). If you thought, for certain, you were going to jail if you committed fraud, most people wouldn't. But this was a huge scale at WF, and I am /sure/ the underlings doing the book-cooking didn't think they were doing "too fraudulent."
> The CEO is using flowery language because he has too, there is on going litigation and if he comes out and says "our ass hat employees broke the law because we setup a framework that pretty much drove them to do it" then he's violating his obligation to Wells Fargo's investors are they are going to turn around and sue him for devaluing the company (forgot the legal term for it).
Fiduciary Responsibility.
The CEO is supposed to be an employee, also. Even though far too many act as sole owners. (they only are if they own >50 percent of total stock).
Why the CEO is not behind bars is fucking telling, because I'm fucking /sure/ there would be evidence if someone attempted discovery. But nobody at the Justice Department is interested in discovery, because discovery is hard - it involves work.
> Chances are they'll be doing that anyway if Wells Fargo loses any of the pending cases.
Breaching fiduciary responsibility is hard to prove. If it was easy, Carly Fiorina would be a pauper.
>Tighter regulations might have led to this being caught sooner (though I don't see how) but they wouldn't have prevented it... they were breaking the law from the outset.
Tighter regulations and actual enforcement would have created an environment where people wouldn't break the envelope.
Various "free marketers" use the trope of "regulation wouldn't have stopped this anyway" as an argument against all regulation and support of lessaiz faire principles. Which is bullshit because between the Depression and the 80s, there weren't any large scale banking crises. Since the deregulation madness in the 80s, we have had the S&L crisis, RISDIC, (and possibly others I don't know of), the Dot Boom Dot Bust (because investment bankers bought into any company that had a name - fuck fundamentals) and the 2007-2008 mess.
Gordon Gekko was supposed to be a villain.
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>The sick thing is whoever is chosen to fall on their sword this time will get a mighty fine bonus.
The head of RISDIC walked free while various people with less political pull went to jail. (shit floats).
The fact that /nobody/ went to jail or is going to go to jail over the 2007-2008 nonsense tells me that you're right.
I have more respect for hookers, porn stars, strippers, etc., than anyone in the banking industry, as a result. Bankers and investment bankers (these days, they are one and the same, legally) are somewhere on the level of child molesters - except they screw *everyone* all at once.
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The magic hand of the market will fix all of it. /sneer
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BMO - who has lived through two major banking crises in his lifetime (you know, the kind that people kill themselves over), and expects more, because bankers are asshats, and most investment-bankers more so.
>almost always are perennial whiners who have no interest in playing the game correctly
The rich have no interest in playing the game correctly *either* but they get a pass while the rest of us have people like you bitching at us for wanting to the rich to play by the rules *also*
Because at heart, you are just another celebrity worshiper and "temporarily embarrassed millionaire."
>students threatening to lawyer up fastest
Who the fuck do you think are the ones who do that /first/?
It's not the middle-class or working-class family based student. They can't /afford/ to waste money on a lawyer, or the time.
How about you have a nice big cup o' STFU?
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No, you twit, his point was that if they're going to censor non-US "fake news sites" they should censor US fake-news *also.*
But that's not going to happen, because "Official News" is what the US government wants you to believe and nothing else. There is no independent mainstream media anymore. The ones with "access" to the WH and elsewhere in DC are the ones that act as stenographers for the official party line (the party being that of the moneyed), truth be damned.
Just because other countries do it doesn't mean it's right for us to do it. And just because other countries do it, doesn't mean we /don't'/ as I will illustrate further down below.
If you defend the "purity" of the US, then you've bought into the biggest pile of bullshit going.
I wrote this the week following Easter:
---begin paste ---
I watched a Sunday news program this Easter with The Nan (Marirose's mom). The harebrained manufacture of consent and propaganda being spewed from the Tee Vee astounded me in its transparency. I just /couldn't/ accept what they were selling because it felt like I was in a time warp being sold the same bill of goods about Saddam. And it was about going to war with /both/ Syria and North Korea.
I couldn't tell you which one it was, because I never saw the intro and my Sunday viewing habits are... scarce.
All the way from Vietnam to the present day...
"Every time we've gone to war in my lifetime, the government has lied to us" - Jimmy Dore
Jimmy Dore is my age. He's absolutely correct.
From the Gulf of Tonkin to today, it's been a lie /every time/. Without fail, it's been a lie.
Every
Single
Time
For my 51 years on this spinning speck of dirt in the universe, these lies have caused millions to needlessly suffer and die either directly in the case of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., (this includes the war on some drugs in Columbia and elsewhere and covert wars such as in Central America) or indirectly in the case of Cambodia and others. And absolutely nobody in the US, who has any power at all, has any negative repercussions on them for starting a war with a lie. Indeed, such people rise to the top and wear epaulets with stars on them and shiny suits or at least show up on TV as a sage and get paid to offer pro-war opinion.
The entire history of the US from the end of WWII to today is the history of manufactured consent for war through the media. Had Herr Goebbels lived to see it instead of taking cyanide, he would have been proud.
"Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name
But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand"
-- The Police "Murder by Numbers"
When I leave this vale of tears or shuffle off this mortal coil, the number of middle fingers I will have to give will be counted in /sagans/.
Fuck you, you fucking fucks.
---end paste---
I was corrected later that the use of media to manufacture consent for war in the US was /at least/ as old as the Spanish American War.
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BMO
You don't need a drug addict.
You just need a guy with a red stapler.
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BMO