It's a bank scam. They want to avoid a situation like Japan or Iceland where people started to buy safes to keep cash at home because negative interest rates meant that banks were charging fees for cash deposits.
The whole banking system in Europe is corrupt. From Ambrosiano to Libor scandals, from the Swiss hoarding nazi gold to HSBC laundering drug money, from Latvian banksters to Maltese murderers, it's a huge network of thieves and common criminals. Even Wells Fargo and their fake accounts don't come close to the level of European crooks.
And the mass majority of gun violence IN THE WORLD in the last decade is mainly by white Americans
No. That award goes to MIddle Easterns, with almost 500,000 deaths in Syria alone in the last 7 years.
Close second: Latinos. Just in Mexico there was 30,000 violent deaths last year, which is twice the number of gun victims in the USA. Of course a bunch of Mexican deaths are beheadings or people burnt alive, but still. Throw in about 25,000 in Venezuela, 4,000 in Honduras, etc. and it adds up quickly to a whole lot of non-White people killing non-White people.
As for Iraq, the total death toll since 2003 is between 125,000 and 250,000 (depending who you ask). And the US military is only around 55% white, so even if only the white soldiers were guilty that's still a lot less than what has happened in many non-White countries over the same period.
I know it's easier to blame white males, but facts are not on your side.
if the killer is dead and anyone who really knew the truth of why she did what she did is dead, and whatever truth does exist is easily suppressed, that's a sort of blank check for using fear as a tool of influence.
Maybe you should start 23 youtube channels and an ugly website to share this with people so they too can fight back. And if it doesn't work, or if it doesn't quiet down the voices, I hear the NRA is offering big discounts on membership lately.
The vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not Persian or women or vegan.
Did you, by any chance, came out after the Vegas shooting to say that the vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not wealthy white males? Of course you didn't.
The headline is idiotic, not the lawsuit. The issue here is the way coffee is processed and the chemicals Starbucks and others are using in their supply chain. The sooner this poison is removed, the sooner we can get back at enjoying a cup of coffee without worrying about what other things are included in the recipe.
This is the same process that has occurred when most soft drink companies were "convinced" to stop using flame retardants (BVO) in their beverages, although it's still present in Mountain Dew and Fresca.
FYI, snowflakes and fragile egos didn't appear magically. They are a product on their environment, and as a Slashdot 6-digiters you are old enough to share part of the blame as it happened on your watch. Stop bitching and start doing something about it, such as mentoring young people at work or boycotting Google and Facebook for their roles in accelerating this self-centered trend.
While a bit groggy in my first period classes, I was always wide awake by my second class.
[...]
My point in writing this is there are more important measures to address than morning class times if we want to improve a student's scholastic success rate.
That's like saying: "I would need to lose maybe 10 pounds, and this qualifies me to decide that morbidly obese people should just stop eating junk food and get in shape instead of bitching about hormones and requesting bypass surgery."
People today would not be able to cope with what they had to.
So what? I don't think my grandfather, who had the same job his entire adult life, expected dinner to be on the table when he got home, and frequently relied on violence as an educational tool would thrive in today's world either. The only thing that doesn't seem to change is people who repeat ad nauseam that things were better in the past.
Society is evolving. For the most part, men no longer drag women by their hair to fuck them next to piles of animal bones in cold, humid caves, and I don't think we lost of lot as a species as we moved past that. Today, with some exceptions, every person has a chance to make a meaningful contribution to society, and this is a good thing if we're at a point where people think about biological clocks to optimize productivity and happiness, instead of "toughing it out" and sticking with rigid systems.
Yes, there are idiotic aspects in today's life that may be mistakenly perceived as "evolution" (such as sexist and racist hiring policies at Google under the guise of "diversity"), but challenging the practice of having rigid schedules is not one of them. It's about time that we start considering better options than 9 to 5 for everyone, and next time you're stuck in traffic at rush hour you'll probably agree.
Let's see. The situation is that he engaged twice in unprotected sex with girls that were asleep (which is essentially rape), then he ran away when he was accused rather than face these "unfair" accusations, then he hid in the embassy of a publicity-seeking diplomat, and remains there even though the rape charges in Sweden were abandoned because the prosecutor realized he would never appear in court to face the music before going past the statute of limitation.
So at this point the reasons for him to remain "protected" in that embassy are: 1) skipping bail on no longer relevant charges 2) free food and hero status 3) an alleged CIA conspiracy to send him to gitmo (or some other secret prison) because he took part in the leak of confidential documents under the obama administration
You're allowed to cream over that buffoon all you want, but please let's stop pretending that there are "facts" supporting your worshipping.
I had lunch yesterday with one of those poor souls who has a throttled "old" iPhone (because of the battery). He was looking at other people at the table, who had Google Pixels or Samsung S8s, and it was like a dog salivating in front of a juicy steak he knows he won't get.
Shitty screen, awful battery, terrible performance, bad camera, unreliable maps, no storage expansion... Someone asked him: "why are you still using an iPhone", and he replied "because of the Apple ecosystem". But you could see how he was jealous of the smooth screens and blazing fast performance on the devices other people had. We had a good laugh when he brought up the revolutionary face unlock.
Years ago Steve Jobs submitted a patent for operating system level modal ads. I don't think more needs to be said regarding how Apple considers its customers.
Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s).
Right, victims demanding justice is just sour grapes
Victim of what? Losing your elections?
Every single time it's the same world-ending drama when liberals lose. I still remember when people were talking about the "dark times" of the GWB administration, who also "stole" the presidency. When his father was elected liberals said it was because of fake information he made up about Dukakis. Jesus fucking christ it started with the very first republican President, good old Abe, which annoyed liberals enough to start a civil war. You bunch of fucktards just can't wrap your head around the fact that your candidate lost, you have to make shit up and believe in whatever conspiracy theory you can to explain it and then get violent. Over and over and over.
Grow up. You don't like him, fine, but Trump has been elected, and it's not because the KGB has infiltrated Facebook and/or brainwashed coal miners, it's simply because your candidate was a cunt that managed to antagonize enough of her own supporters that she lost to a reality tv personality.
You are not a victim of Russian hackers or of a corrupt president. You are victim of your own loser mindset that prevents you from accepting reality and from moving on when things don't go your way. Instead of spinning your wheels in a bucket of bullshit released by the Clinton campaign a year ago to distract people from reading the leaked DNC emails (which show how corrupt the mainstream media are and what a bunch of obnoxious buffoons Clinton and her entourage are), you should regroup and find a good candidate with real liberal values to beat Trump in 2020. Because guess what, as much as your deep denial won't allow you to accept it, at the moment the only reason that would make Trump not get reelected is if he himself didn't want to run. There is no opposition whatsoever.
Seriously there are days when I ask myself if this whole Russiagate is not a plant job from a clever republican election worker, it's like a keyring being shaked in front of liberal cats to make them forget about what is actually happening in the day to day administration of the country.
Anonymous, no strings attached, a clean cut transaction.
Wait are we talking about tabloids or the prostitute you just picked up?
You may be joking but there is a parallel to be made. If you pick up a prostitute on the street, as opposed to ordering one online, it is a lot more private. Same for sex toys - buy a dildo on amazon and it's attached to your name forever, but walk in a sex shop and pay cash and it's completely anonymous. That's why I don't see street prostitutes, sex shops or paper tabloids going away anytime soon.
The New York Times belong in the same checkout lane rack as the National Enquirer and those hollywood tabloids.
What because it reports actual facts and doesn't pander to your need for confirmation bias?
It panders to *your* need for confirmation bias. We can agree on that. Doesn't make it trustworthy. They don't even try to hide their bias nowadays, that's how convinced they are that their ideology is superior. What a bunch of pompous bores.
I agree with you that tabloid papers wont be lasting long though. Theyve been replaced by clickbait websites with the same gimmicky subject headings and no real content in the article itself.
There is something less invasive with tabloids; without the tracking and spyware and cryptomining ads that are bundled with clickbait, tabloids can be a harmless guilty pleasure. Anonymous, no strings attached, a clean cut transaction. I don't think they're going away anytime soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Friendly reminder that ALL Arabs and Hispanics are counted as "White"
Please forward this information to diversity@google.com so they can expand their discriminatory practices to a larger segment of the population
It's a bank scam. They want to avoid a situation like Japan or Iceland where people started to buy safes to keep cash at home because negative interest rates meant that banks were charging fees for cash deposits.
The whole banking system in Europe is corrupt. From Ambrosiano to Libor scandals, from the Swiss hoarding nazi gold to HSBC laundering drug money, from Latvian banksters to Maltese murderers, it's a huge network of thieves and common criminals. Even Wells Fargo and their fake accounts don't come close to the level of European crooks.
And the mass majority of gun violence IN THE WORLD in the last decade is mainly by white Americans
No. That award goes to MIddle Easterns, with almost 500,000 deaths in Syria alone in the last 7 years.
Close second: Latinos. Just in Mexico there was 30,000 violent deaths last year, which is twice the number of gun victims in the USA. Of course a bunch of Mexican deaths are beheadings or people burnt alive, but still. Throw in about 25,000 in Venezuela, 4,000 in Honduras, etc. and it adds up quickly to a whole lot of non-White people killing non-White people.
As for Iraq, the total death toll since 2003 is between 125,000 and 250,000 (depending who you ask). And the US military is only around 55% white, so even if only the white soldiers were guilty that's still a lot less than what has happened in many non-White countries over the same period.
I know it's easier to blame white males, but facts are not on your side.
I guess this means systemd has finally reached Russia. Time to sell my gazprom stock.
if the killer is dead and anyone who really knew the truth of why she did what she did is dead, and whatever truth does exist is easily suppressed, that's a sort of blank check for using fear as a tool of influence.
Maybe you should start 23 youtube channels and an ugly website to share this with people so they too can fight back. And if it doesn't work, or if it doesn't quiet down the voices, I hear the NRA is offering big discounts on membership lately.
she was clearly in the batshit crazy group.
You mean that she was "neurodivergent". Your neurotypicalness reeks of white privilege.
The vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not Persian or women or vegan.
Did you, by any chance, came out after the Vegas shooting to say that the vast, vast majority of perpetrators of gun violence in this country are not wealthy white males? Of course you didn't.
Spin it any way you want, you're a phony.
The headline is idiotic, not the lawsuit. The issue here is the way coffee is processed and the chemicals Starbucks and others are using in their supply chain. The sooner this poison is removed, the sooner we can get back at enjoying a cup of coffee without worrying about what other things are included in the recipe.
This is the same process that has occurred when most soft drink companies were "convinced" to stop using flame retardants (BVO) in their beverages, although it's still present in Mountain Dew and Fresca.
FYI, snowflakes and fragile egos didn't appear magically. They are a product on their environment, and as a Slashdot 6-digiters you are old enough to share part of the blame as it happened on your watch. Stop bitching and start doing something about it, such as mentoring young people at work or boycotting Google and Facebook for their roles in accelerating this self-centered trend.
While a bit groggy in my first period classes, I was always wide awake by my second class.
[...]
My point in writing this is there are more important measures to address than morning class times if we want to improve a student's scholastic success rate.
That's like saying: "I would need to lose maybe 10 pounds, and this qualifies me to decide that morbidly obese people should just stop eating junk food and get in shape instead of bitching about hormones and requesting bypass surgery."
People today would not be able to cope with what they had to.
So what? I don't think my grandfather, who had the same job his entire adult life, expected dinner to be on the table when he got home, and frequently relied on violence as an educational tool would thrive in today's world either. The only thing that doesn't seem to change is people who repeat ad nauseam that things were better in the past.
Society is evolving. For the most part, men no longer drag women by their hair to fuck them next to piles of animal bones in cold, humid caves, and I don't think we lost of lot as a species as we moved past that. Today, with some exceptions, every person has a chance to make a meaningful contribution to society, and this is a good thing if we're at a point where people think about biological clocks to optimize productivity and happiness, instead of "toughing it out" and sticking with rigid systems.
Yes, there are idiotic aspects in today's life that may be mistakenly perceived as "evolution" (such as sexist and racist hiring policies at Google under the guise of "diversity"), but challenging the practice of having rigid schedules is not one of them. It's about time that we start considering better options than 9 to 5 for everyone, and next time you're stuck in traffic at rush hour you'll probably agree.
Let's see. The situation is that he engaged twice in unprotected sex with girls that were asleep (which is essentially rape), then he ran away when he was accused rather than face these "unfair" accusations, then he hid in the embassy of a publicity-seeking diplomat, and remains there even though the rape charges in Sweden were abandoned because the prosecutor realized he would never appear in court to face the music before going past the statute of limitation.
So at this point the reasons for him to remain "protected" in that embassy are:
1) skipping bail on no longer relevant charges
2) free food and hero status
3) an alleged CIA conspiracy to send him to gitmo (or some other secret prison) because he took part in the leak of confidential documents under the obama administration
You're allowed to cream over that buffoon all you want, but please let's stop pretending that there are "facts" supporting your worshipping.
It would require a good antivirus
I wonder if they get diplomatic net neutrality
Yes, being waterboarded at Gitmo and then executed for "treason" is how people embrace life. Bold words, AC.
This is the most retarded comment I've read today, and yet I just spent the last half hour on 4chan.
I had lunch yesterday with one of those poor souls who has a throttled "old" iPhone (because of the battery). He was looking at other people at the table, who had Google Pixels or Samsung S8s, and it was like a dog salivating in front of a juicy steak he knows he won't get.
Shitty screen, awful battery, terrible performance, bad camera, unreliable maps, no storage expansion... Someone asked him: "why are you still using an iPhone", and he replied "because of the Apple ecosystem". But you could see how he was jealous of the smooth screens and blazing fast performance on the devices other people had. We had a good laugh when he brought up the revolutionary face unlock.
What a bunch of sad fucks.
Years ago Steve Jobs submitted a patent for operating system level modal ads. I don't think more needs to be said regarding how Apple considers its customers.
Among other disclosures, an operating system presents one or more advertisements to a user and disables one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented. At the end of the advertisement, the operating system again enables the function(s).
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi...
The real title should be "Apple Trains Beauhd To Put Apple Propaganda in More Slashdot Stories"
Many of those tweets are about politics but without a clear purpose:
"How fucked up our country will be if Hillary wins in 2016 and Trump wins in 2020
Or vise versa"
What's the angle there? Sow the seeds of common sense?
Right, victims demanding justice is just sour grapes
Victim of what? Losing your elections?
Every single time it's the same world-ending drama when liberals lose. I still remember when people were talking about the "dark times" of the GWB administration, who also "stole" the presidency. When his father was elected liberals said it was because of fake information he made up about Dukakis. Jesus fucking christ it started with the very first republican President, good old Abe, which annoyed liberals enough to start a civil war. You bunch of fucktards just can't wrap your head around the fact that your candidate lost, you have to make shit up and believe in whatever conspiracy theory you can to explain it and then get violent. Over and over and over.
Grow up. You don't like him, fine, but Trump has been elected, and it's not because the KGB has infiltrated Facebook and/or brainwashed coal miners, it's simply because your candidate was a cunt that managed to antagonize enough of her own supporters that she lost to a reality tv personality.
You are not a victim of Russian hackers or of a corrupt president. You are victim of your own loser mindset that prevents you from accepting reality and from moving on when things don't go your way. Instead of spinning your wheels in a bucket of bullshit released by the Clinton campaign a year ago to distract people from reading the leaked DNC emails (which show how corrupt the mainstream media are and what a bunch of obnoxious buffoons Clinton and her entourage are), you should regroup and find a good candidate with real liberal values to beat Trump in 2020. Because guess what, as much as your deep denial won't allow you to accept it, at the moment the only reason that would make Trump not get reelected is if he himself didn't want to run. There is no opposition whatsoever.
Seriously there are days when I ask myself if this whole Russiagate is not a plant job from a clever republican election worker, it's like a keyring being shaked in front of liberal cats to make them forget about what is actually happening in the day to day administration of the country.
Mueller is a liberal, doing his job because he is butthurt that Trump won... After Trump appointed him.
People in the office are looking at me because I LOL'ed.
I'm not saying Mueller has a sour grape mindset, I'm saying you do.
Anonymous, no strings attached, a clean cut transaction.
Wait are we talking about tabloids or the prostitute you just picked up?
You may be joking but there is a parallel to be made. If you pick up a prostitute on the street, as opposed to ordering one online, it is a lot more private. Same for sex toys - buy a dildo on amazon and it's attached to your name forever, but walk in a sex shop and pay cash and it's completely anonymous. That's why I don't see street prostitutes, sex shops or paper tabloids going away anytime soon.
The New York Times belong in the same checkout lane rack as the National Enquirer and those hollywood tabloids.
What because it reports actual facts and doesn't pander to your need for confirmation bias?
It panders to *your* need for confirmation bias. We can agree on that. Doesn't make it trustworthy. They don't even try to hide their bias nowadays, that's how convinced they are that their ideology is superior. What a bunch of pompous bores.
It doesn't matter how many times you call it fake news, Mueller is not going to stop investigating.
That pretty much sums up the liberal sour grape mindset.
I agree with you that tabloid papers wont be lasting long though. Theyve been replaced by clickbait websites with the same gimmicky subject headings and no real content in the article itself.
There is something less invasive with tabloids; without the tracking and spyware and cryptomining ads that are bundled with clickbait, tabloids can be a harmless guilty pleasure. Anonymous, no strings attached, a clean cut transaction. I don't think they're going away anytime soon.