a cranky neighbour USA which autotakes the right to force sanctions on Cuba just because it is so full of evil commies
Do you know WHY those sanctions exist? It's not because Cuba is full of evil commies. It's because when the evil commies took over Cuba they "nationalized" (i.e. stole) billions of dollars worth of property owned by American companies and individuals.
There's even a Wikipedia article that explains it all. I won't put a link here because I don't want to enable your intellectual laziness.
Unless the Greek government offers these people a change to live a decent life what do you think will happen?
You may not be aware of this, but usually a government is financed by the taxes paid by the citizens, not the other way around. Boy you must suck at Simcity.
What is even worse is when the experiment fails but the perpetrator keeps making things worse, then he gets hailed as a savior by phony liberals. Like FDR.
How many failed capitalist experiments are we going to be subjected to before corporations are no longer people, and the fruits of labor are distributed much more equitably here in the US? What is so much better about CEOs making 500 times as much as their office workers, than having some kind of rational basis for compensating workers, when it is the workers who are doing all the work? I am very tired of the failed, trickle-down capitalist experiments in the US and Europe, and will be very interested to see how much better Greece does when they don't tow the austerity line (austerity for the workers, or course, not the wealthy).
Somehow I suspect that if you were offered a CEO position that pays 500x more than the office workers, your position would change. There's something about wealth redistribution that is significantly more attractive when you're on the receiving end, or at least on the sidelines.
Care to explain why Cuba is a failure when health care and education are on a much higher level (and much cheaper) than in the USA albeit being under a boycott and other sanctions from the USA the last 70 years?
I don't know, why don't we ask the hundred of thousands of Cubans who fled that paradise and decided to live in Miami instead? Just to be fair and balanced we could also get the opinion of Americans who fled the USA and went to live in Cuba (if you can find one that's not a wanted felon).
I'm pretty sure that if I had to create hundreds of lines of credit, buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Apple products and then sell all this stuff one iPhone at a time on Craigslist I'd end up making less than minimum wage. What a fucking lousy scheme, it's almost as tedious as stealing from park meters or vending machines.
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Those are the kids that can't even hold a job, even as they struggle with trying to go to school. My homeschooled kid always has a story to tell us about "properly socialized" kids at college and work.
Don't worry though, one of these days, he will have no choice but to hire a "properly socialized" kid because homeschooled kids are in demand. There is a reason colleges put homeschooled kids at the top for admittance. So keep up with "picking on" homeschools. It is really all you got.
First, this is hilarious. Your writing is confusing and you can't format paragraphs for shit, and I'm guessing that you can't tell since you were probably home-schooled yourself.
Second, I almost replied that I'm too old to pick on home-schooled kids but after thinking about it I realized that if I had a home-schooled coworker I'd probably make fun of him in front of senior managers and/or cute reception girls (and they would laugh).
The takeaway from this is not that I'm a bully, but rather that the stink of home-schooling is a life sentence. It's too late for you and your kid, you will always have that Bates Motel taint floating above your head, but maybe you could spare this social awkwardness to the next generation.
Of the H-1B petitions approved in FY 2012, 64 percent reported that the beneficiary was born in India. The second most prevalent country of birth of H-1B beneficiaries was the People’s Republic of China, representing 8 percent of all beneficiaries.
You mean those same people who set up the rules for 401(k) plans that prohibit shorting stocks, often times forbiding holding cash, and forcing all trades at the END of a day?
If you invest for your pension, the time of day where trades occur should not matter. Hell, the month should not matter. Unless you gamble your pension away by trying to beat the market on short term positions, which is like using your paycheck to buy lottery tickets and hoping to win big before the rent is due.
Mutual funds usually have a flat, low fee. It's with the hedge funds that things are crazy. Like taking half the profit plus 3% of the capital. It's a fee structure similar to those used in hip hop record labels or strippers bars...
Your kid needs to be properly socialized in a structured environment.
There are many opportunities for socializing outside of school. They can play with neighborhood kids after school, or join a group activity like boy scouts or girl scouts. When my son was in cub scouts, several boys in his pack were home schooled. They were just normal boys that fit in with no problem.
Well to shine a different light on this thing, I have to say that as kids we were picking on home-schooled weirdos a lot. They were definitely in the top targets:
Home-schooled kids were hilarious. I remember how easy it was to scare them by asking them if they wanted to buy drugs. Even the special kids waiting for the short bus knew better.
We home-schooled our children. One already has her baccalaureate degree and will soon pursue her masters; while her sister, is married with three kids, pursuing her baccalaureate transitioning to her dream, a Nursing degree.
I don't want to brag, but if I was to home-school my kid I would not give him a mere masters, I'd give him a kick-ass diploma, like a PhD in Awesomeness. And I'd take it away if he doesn't eat his vegetables.
I would mod this up if I wasn't boycotting the mod system.
About 15-20 years ago, a gig in the US was a great opportunity for a Canadian IT worker. Now the big US companies bring in cheap Indian and Chinese workers, and it's the few American IT workers who find a gig in Canada that are lucky.
I'm not saying that Indian or Chinese workers are less qualified (it doesn't take a PhD to figure out how to configure Exchange anyways) but the fact is that money is bleeding out of the country instead of pouring in.
No, you are the one who doesn't understand. The "Wall Street People" are not the evil characters portrayed by the pot smokers of OWS; they are not simple crooks that steal money from widows and dentists. Most of those people are actually working for large investment firms, pension funds, mutual funds and other institutions where YOUR money is pooled. They are the ones pulling the levers and snorting coke on their way to work, but the juice comes from YOUR wallet, and the profits go back to YOUR wallet as well.
So YOU are the 1%. That is, unless you're a broke-ass idiot or a mattress investor, in which case you can go smoke pot with the OWS people.
If you have a 401(k) or any kind of mutual fund investment, you are part of Wall Street. That's how the system works, it's not spinning in a vacuum. That 6% return you got last year did not fall from the sky, it ended up in your pockets because institutional shareholders put pressure on companies like IBM to help the stock price and/or pay more dividends.
There has been one study about the benefits of a "healthy diet" (low fat, lots of fruits & veggies, etc) on women. The findings did not match the prevalent dogma in the scientific community so it has been mostly ignored.
A growing body of evidence has been pointing to its inadequacy for weight loss or prevention of heart disease and several cancers. The final nail in the coffin comes from an eight-year trial that included almost 49,000 women. [...] The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed no benefits for a low-fat diet. Women assigned to this eating strategy did not appear to gain protection against breast cancer, colorectal cancer, or cardiovascular disease. And after eight years, their weights were generally the same as those of women following their usual diets.
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a cranky neighbour USA which autotakes the right to force sanctions on Cuba just because it is so full of evil commies
Do you know WHY those sanctions exist? It's not because Cuba is full of evil commies. It's because when the evil commies took over Cuba they "nationalized" (i.e. stole) billions of dollars worth of property owned by American companies and individuals.
There's even a Wikipedia article that explains it all. I won't put a link here because I don't want to enable your intellectual laziness.
I was about to ask "how do you know he's white"? then I noticed his username starts with Yoda.
Electricity was not metered in our dorms. A lot of us joked about electroplating.
Guess what would have happened if people had abused the system? Yep, metered electricity, because the college had no access to bailout money.
It's a whole different situation when you get to pay your shit with someone else's Mastercard.
The money saved from not paying interested will be used to restructure the internal economy and to help pursuit the real tax evaders/dodgers.
Also don't forget the electricity bill.
Unless the Greek government offers these people a change to live a decent life what do you think will happen?
You may not be aware of this, but usually a government is financed by the taxes paid by the citizens, not the other way around. Boy you must suck at Simcity.
What is even worse is when the experiment fails but the perpetrator keeps making things worse, then he gets hailed as a savior by phony liberals. Like FDR.
How many failed capitalist experiments are we going to be subjected to before corporations are no longer people, and the fruits of labor are distributed much more equitably here in the US? What is so much better about CEOs making 500 times as much as their office workers, than having some kind of rational basis for compensating workers, when it is the workers who are doing all the work? I am very tired of the failed, trickle-down capitalist experiments in the US and Europe, and will be very interested to see how much better Greece does when they don't tow the austerity line (austerity for the workers, or course, not the wealthy).
Somehow I suspect that if you were offered a CEO position that pays 500x more than the office workers, your position would change. There's something about wealth redistribution that is significantly more attractive when you're on the receiving end, or at least on the sidelines.
Care to explain why Cuba is a failure when health care and education are on a much higher level (and much cheaper) than in the USA albeit being under a boycott and other sanctions from the USA the last 70 years?
I don't know, why don't we ask the hundred of thousands of Cubans who fled that paradise and decided to live in Miami instead? Just to be fair and balanced we could also get the opinion of Americans who fled the USA and went to live in Cuba (if you can find one that's not a wanted felon).
Why don't you explain the alleged pyramid scheme involved in this situation? Or does your expertise in this matter stops at making vague statements?
I'm pretty sure that if I had to create hundreds of lines of credit, buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Apple products and then sell all this stuff one iPhone at a time on Craigslist I'd end up making less than minimum wage. What a fucking lousy scheme, it's almost as tedious as stealing from park meters or vending machines.
that they are less-often corrected?
If you've noticed that, it means that you often read those articles more than once. That's not how Slashdot is supposed to work.
Here is a tutorial:
1) Have a quick look at the new articles. If you manage to read an entire title, click on it, otherwise scroll.
2) Check if the submitter is Bennett. If it's the case, go back to #1.
3) Read the first 2 lines of the summary, and if those contain hyperlinks, move your mouse over the first one to see if it's a reputable domain (but don't click - the idea is just to see if the story is bullshit). If there are many hyperlinks in the first two lines, especially if there is a series of 1-word hyperlinks, go back to #1. In any event don't read more than 2 lines.
4) If there are 10 comments or less, post a Frist! comment. If there are more than 10 but less than 50 comments, post a comment without reading the existing ones. If there are 50 comments or more, find the first 5 Interesting and try to find a weakness in the comment (that's your best way to a 5 Insightful). Don't worry if you don't know the details of what is in the article (or even in the summary), most people don't read those either, and those who do will provide you with the tldr version at some point if you're terribly wrong.
5) If you are bored, scroll to 2/3 of the page and find the first -1 Flamebait. Odds are that it's one of the most interesting comments in the page.
6) If you are still bored and there's nothing left but yro or "answers your questions" stories on the homepage, pick any article, remove the moderation filters and try to find those long rambling homophobic/racist erotica comments, or why not treat yourself to a full read of one of the posts from Mr Hosts file.
There you go. There's plenty to do on Slashdot besides keeping statistics about how often typos are fixed.
I don't know why "Shell" is in only 11th place. It's such a powerful language, it has the whole shebang.
Those are the kids that can't even hold a job, even as they struggle with trying to go to school.
My homeschooled kid always has a story to tell us about "properly socialized" kids at college and work.
Don't worry though, one of these days, he will have no choice but to hire a "properly socialized" kid because homeschooled kids are in demand.
There is a reason colleges put homeschooled kids at the top for admittance.
So keep up with "picking on" homeschools.
It is really all you got.
First, this is hilarious. Your writing is confusing and you can't format paragraphs for shit, and I'm guessing that you can't tell since you were probably home-schooled yourself.
Second, I almost replied that I'm too old to pick on home-schooled kids but after thinking about it I realized that if I had a home-schooled coworker I'd probably make fun of him in front of senior managers and/or cute reception girls (and they would laugh).
The takeaway from this is not that I'm a bully, but rather that the stink of home-schooling is a life sentence. It's too late for you and your kid, you will always have that Bates Motel taint floating above your head, but maybe you could spare this social awkwardness to the next generation.
Yep.
Of the H-1B petitions approved in FY 2012, 64 percent reported that the beneficiary was born in India. The second most prevalent country of birth of H-1B beneficiaries was the People’s Republic of China, representing 8 percent of all beneficiaries.
http://www.uscis.gov/sites/def...
You mean those same people who set up the rules for 401(k) plans that prohibit shorting stocks, often times forbiding holding cash, and forcing all trades at the END of a day?
If you invest for your pension, the time of day where trades occur should not matter. Hell, the month should not matter. Unless you gamble your pension away by trying to beat the market on short term positions, which is like using your paycheck to buy lottery tickets and hoping to win big before the rent is due.
Mutual funds usually have a flat, low fee. It's with the hedge funds that things are crazy. Like taking half the profit plus 3% of the capital. It's a fee structure similar to those used in hip hop record labels or strippers bars...
I have only a few years left to match a certain movie title and every reason to think I will.
Is the movie "Ernest Goes To Splash Mountain"? If that's the case I hope this deam will come true for you, Ernest.
some girl I didn't even know decided to kick me in the nuts
Happened to me all the time until I figured out that they were not playing hard to get when they were saying "no"
Being socialized and being social are two different things.
Your kid needs to be properly socialized in a structured environment.
There are many opportunities for socializing outside of school. They can play with neighborhood kids after school, or join a group activity like boy scouts or girl scouts. When my son was in cub scouts, several boys in his pack were home schooled. They were just normal boys that fit in with no problem.
Well to shine a different light on this thing, I have to say that as kids we were picking on home-schooled weirdos a lot. They were definitely in the top targets:
1) Snitches and teacher's pets
2) Junior crossing guard
3) Home-schooled kids
Home-schooled kids were hilarious. I remember how easy it was to scare them by asking them if they wanted to buy drugs. Even the special kids waiting for the short bus knew better.
We home-schooled our children. One already has her baccalaureate degree and will soon pursue her masters; while her sister, is married with three kids, pursuing her baccalaureate transitioning to her dream, a Nursing degree.
I don't want to brag, but if I was to home-school my kid I would not give him a mere masters, I'd give him a kick-ass diploma, like a PhD in Awesomeness. And I'd take it away if he doesn't eat his vegetables.
I would mod this up if I wasn't boycotting the mod system.
About 15-20 years ago, a gig in the US was a great opportunity for a Canadian IT worker. Now the big US companies bring in cheap Indian and Chinese workers, and it's the few American IT workers who find a gig in Canada that are lucky.
I'm not saying that Indian or Chinese workers are less qualified (it doesn't take a PhD to figure out how to configure Exchange anyways) but the fact is that money is bleeding out of the country instead of pouring in.
No, you are the one who doesn't understand. The "Wall Street People" are not the evil characters portrayed by the pot smokers of OWS; they are not simple crooks that steal money from widows and dentists. Most of those people are actually working for large investment firms, pension funds, mutual funds and other institutions where YOUR money is pooled. They are the ones pulling the levers and snorting coke on their way to work, but the juice comes from YOUR wallet, and the profits go back to YOUR wallet as well.
So YOU are the 1%. That is, unless you're a broke-ass idiot or a mattress investor, in which case you can go smoke pot with the OWS people.
If you have a 401(k) or any kind of mutual fund investment, you are part of Wall Street. That's how the system works, it's not spinning in a vacuum. That 6% return you got last year did not fall from the sky, it ended up in your pockets because institutional shareholders put pressure on companies like IBM to help the stock price and/or pay more dividends.
There has been one study about the benefits of a "healthy diet" (low fat, lots of fruits & veggies, etc) on women. The findings did not match the prevalent dogma in the scientific community so it has been mostly ignored.
A growing body of evidence has been pointing to its inadequacy for weight loss or prevention of heart disease and several cancers. The final nail in the coffin comes from an eight-year trial that included almost 49,000 women.
[...]
The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed no benefits for a low-fat diet. Women assigned to this eating strategy did not appear to gain protection against breast cancer, colorectal cancer, or cardiovascular disease. And after eight years, their weights were generally the same as those of women following their usual diets.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nu...