Seriously though, if you report something like this to the Police in the UK they'll look at you like you're mad, so if they won't listen to the victim, why would they listen to a victim of revenge?
I wasn't pretending that they don't influence things, at all. In fact, the fact that they are fat cats influences things for worse.
However, I did say that earth will not stop revolving without this particular bunch of pigs / cats / whatever. People shrug off arguments about this saying "they're all the same" or "all politicians / bankers / insert_position_of_power_here are selfish, lets assume for that" whilst ignoring other systems of organisation, welfare and creativity which have still not been tried properly (yes, capitalism, I'm looking at you).
The Earth will continue spinning without fat-cats like him in it.
Last I heard about the IMF, they were taking on third-world debt, which is caused by CIA coup d'etats and then blamed on "uneducated, warlike blacks" in the first place, and selling their own water to them. Or this that a different "IMF"?
You idiot, you've been trolling me since I had the balls (lol) to prove I exist and that I'm female, and you've simply decided I'm ugly so you spread lies like this every time I post.
Your only argument was that I don't have curves, but everybody else who looked at that profile can see I damn well DO have curves, and if you must know my hip-to-waist-ratio is 0.7... you can buy boobs (Pamela, I'm looking at you!) but you can't buy hips and waist, so lay this one to rest NOW.
www.tagged.com/rachelwilsonattagged, sign up and look at them al before you judge my ugly face! Feedback please, REAL guys!
That is about the most dumb capitalism-supporting comment I ever saw.
Who's to say that the only form of society with surpluses for research is yours? If we hadn't deliberately made the Russians so paranoid, spending too much on defence and not enough on the basics whilst still researching space, I'm sure they'd be a shining example by now!
As for us, I am worried about where the next meal comes from but still care about your damn space program, so we aren't that perfect either! Inequality is a product of capitalism, not the alternatives (there are many)
After being unemployed for a year, I can't afford to pay the rent for the "temporary accomodation" I'm in AND save to get a decent place. The only way out is to fraud the benefits agency, which I will not do out of principle, and due to the fact that if I get caught doing so I can go to jail.
And you know damn well the staff would report me if they thought I was working and claiming. I have to hand my key in when I leave every day, for God's sake! (oh, and yes, for you social engineers out there, the staff were dumb enough to give me someone else's key when I told them the wrong number, and they see that as a violation, not me checking security - I didn't use the key, I shouted at them for having crap security!!)
I really am in the biggest crater since Hiroshima, designed to help those who TAKE TAKE TAKE and hinder those who have given... that may not be how it was intended, but that is it's effect. Thanks for listening, now you know why I've been angrily trolling for a year or so (I've been here much longer than that, but my anger hasn't!)
But that's precisely it - if I'd spent the last ten years getting profits from my business and paying myself a "salary" instead of a wage, instead of doing what I did for the greater good, I wouldn't be where I am now.
Also, if I hadn't taken pity on my aging business partner's wishes and allowed two crooks & thugs onto my board of directors (mine was the deciding vote) I wouldn't have been bullied out of my company at all!
Fascinating!!! That's exactly what I was trying to get at, but couldn't have summarized it as succintly as you did!
Seriously, employers, banks all go on what I've done and how I've done it, and judge me "worthy", but once I'm unemployed and homeless I'm no longer "worthy" with that track record: priority does go to drug abusers, "learning difficulties" (I know loads of people with made-up problems before you start - they play doctors, psychiatrists, and benefits system), prostitutes, etc... and I am left waiting in a dangerous hostel environment, having my equipment slowly stolen (don't say "don't go out with my computer"; I game and make websites and can't have a landline here!) watching them come, stay a while and wreck themselves o drugs (being a woman I hear a new life story every day cos they all wanna tell me their stories, so don't say I don't know because I do), and they get re-housed stat.
And before anybody says "Why not find your own property?" I have no deposit and refuse to sell my few capital items that seperate me from the intellectual gutter (computers) to gain something I am supposed have a human right to (housing).
And before anybody else says "Just get a job" bear in mind I've been unemployed for a year, and the card-electric meter costs £20 per week and the rent is £150 per week, effectively imprisoning me until the Council decides to offer me a property not in demand (ie in a slum! I'd rather "black" moss side than "white" collyhurst, too - so don't go throwing accusations of racism around either!).
You're right about the root of all this though - the elephant in the room nobody wants to discuss - it's greed, and certainly not mine lol (I was earning £195 after tax per week at my peak, and it was ME who decided to pay ME that!).
And greed is a natural product of the capitalist system, so there's something we do agree on, after all.
Way to troll, dude. You must be the oldest troll on slashdot, speaking to me like that after a heartfelt rant about the realities of homelessness in a big city.
How is it that people who were bad at school, abused their own parents, took drugs as soon as they got the chance are more deserving than me, after I contributed to society for many years, provided volunteering and career opportunities for those less fortunate, and lived on a very basic income in order to do this?
They end up homeless because they wreck flats and steal from their neighbours, I ended up homeless because I let the wrong (bad) people onto my board at the behest of my founding partner, who has since died, and would be turning in his grave? And that all my staff, and a couple of other directors, lament my loss and have observed that the business will fail soon without me? So how is that my fault?
And before you start on about priveledge again, know this: I CAME from being homeless in the city 10 years ago and built what I had - a wonderfully satisfying and widely recognised, but not very profitable social enterprise - myself!
Just come to Manchester, England, if you'd like to see whether he's correct or not. You don't like it, because in this "everybody's equal" crap world, deciding I'm better than others is "wrong". Well, I say it's not.
I'd like you to see the smack-head mothers with 6 kids and a boyfriend in jail. I'd like you to examine the housing priorities / policies, and benefits system, that encourages drug abuse and crime in order for people to get more by doing less.
I'd like you to understand that it's not just people trolling on/. who have noticed, and do not like, the fact that housing and social assistance are allocated mainly on drug abuse and prolific breeding. It's politicians, and people who work for a living, and people who live in decent areas who do not want violent smack-head thieves on their doorstep.
Compare council estates in Chorlton (where there's a 10-year waiting list) to council estates in Collyhurst (where it's ~50% unoccupied). Just do it, just dare to go against your comfortable upbringing and "values".
This has nothing to do with race or class, it has to do with people who choose to be "scum" and know that the less they do, the more help they'll get. And then try to be me, successful career woman who ended up homeless through no fault of her own, and on the housing list AFTER smack-heads who go through flats and houses like a fat girl goes through cake.
This is not a troll, it's fact. It's my experience. I have a right to think I am better than these people, it's this fundamental fact that's being passed over by people like you, ignoring the reality on the ground. I contributed to society; I've created 15 sustainable jobs in this city, then been bitched out of my own company which I started, and I'm right behind all these self-inflicted scum on the housing list, and you think I don't have a right to think I'm better than them? Get real.
Thank you, that's interesting. I figured that it would provide a practical method for getting bulky stuff up there, since most of the fuel used in current missions is that used to break out of the gravity well.
I'm not perfect, and my post might have been a little idealistic in hindsight.
I know, duh, but I'd already pressed "submit" and the stop button didn't work in time... normally my latency sucks, but when I need high latency, well, Murphy's Law and all that...
You know what, if capitalism and greed weren't the norm, we could implement those ideas too. (except the BJ. But if you help me, I might help you...)
There really is enough material resources and labour to do those things, but at the moment they're feeding the top 1% of society instead of advancing technology. The space program hasn't evolved at all since the 80's, the zero-g science we were promised from the ISS has only just started, and we're all head-over-heels about two neverending wars that only happened due to Bush's family's greed.
The biggest problem for people like me is apathetic people like you, who lazily make sarcastic comments like this, preventing the masses from realising they CAN make a difference, and overthrowing those who shouldn't be in power, but are.
"US To Release International Cyber Strategy" - don't people get busted for releasing US strategies? Isn't that what all the fuss about Wikipedia is for?
So now they're just saving the leakers some (jail?) time, or does this mean something else?
The only thing you've got wrong is the netbooks; we only need recycled 286 laptops running DamnSmallLinux and a bunch of A/D and D/A convertors to control the vehicle!;-P
Slashdot, where the trolls are insightful and the mods are fucking trolls!
Since when is this offtopic???? It's right on-topic, what with this being the last shuttle flight and all!! First, we design a replacement we can all use (ie internationally), and so on until Star Trek.
Now I know I'm definitely being modded down by people who have a personal problem with me. WELL FUCK YOU. I'm not leaving. Maybe you government shills should.
I can understand that I got burnt and I deserved it for the crapflood, but never troll again?
That's like asking me to never post again, since before the crapflood most of my posts were just opinions others rated as trolls... not actual trolls...
ps... did you like my crapflood? I pwn that article, and it's gonna be archived with loads of my posts upmodded... i know, i know, what a bitch...
pps... mucho appreciated. It's nice to know someone likes me here:-)
It was called eDonkey, and I still use it's descendant, eMule (although I'm sure someone would be fast to point out that it primarily uses the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table rather than the original eDonkey network)
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Is your NIC working still? Something tells me you don't check your mail much...
You can pwn their box...
Seriously though, if you report something like this to the Police in the UK they'll look at you like you're mad, so if they won't listen to the victim, why would they listen to a victim of revenge?
I wasn't pretending that they don't influence things, at all. In fact, the fact that they are fat cats influences things for worse.
However, I did say that earth will not stop revolving without this particular bunch of pigs / cats / whatever. People shrug off arguments about this saying "they're all the same" or "all politicians / bankers / insert_position_of_power_here are selfish, lets assume for that" whilst ignoring other systems of organisation, welfare and creativity which have still not been tried properly (yes, capitalism, I'm looking at you).
The Earth will continue spinning without fat-cats like him in it.
Last I heard about the IMF, they were taking on third-world debt, which is caused by CIA coup d'etats and then blamed on "uneducated, warlike blacks" in the first place, and selling their own water to them. Or this that a different "IMF"?
Just tried it, no reply... seems that a link from a /. article was enough to put this out of action. Shame. Poor little machine.
You idiot, you've been trolling me since I had the balls (lol) to prove I exist and that I'm female, and you've simply decided I'm ugly so you spread lies like this every time I post.
Your only argument was that I don't have curves, but everybody else who looked at that profile can see I damn well DO have curves, and if you must know my hip-to-waist-ratio is 0.7... you can buy boobs (Pamela, I'm looking at you!) but you can't buy hips and waist, so lay this one to rest NOW.
www.tagged.com/rachelwilsonattagged, sign up and look at them al before you judge my ugly face! Feedback please, REAL guys!
That is about the most dumb capitalism-supporting comment I ever saw.
Who's to say that the only form of society with surpluses for research is yours? If we hadn't deliberately made the Russians so paranoid, spending too much on defence and not enough on the basics whilst still researching space, I'm sure they'd be a shining example by now!
As for us, I am worried about where the next meal comes from but still care about your damn space program, so we aren't that perfect either! Inequality is a product of capitalism, not the alternatives (there are many)
After being unemployed for a year, I can't afford to pay the rent for the "temporary accomodation" I'm in AND save to get a decent place. The only way out is to fraud the benefits agency, which I will not do out of principle, and due to the fact that if I get caught doing so I can go to jail.
And you know damn well the staff would report me if they thought I was working and claiming. I have to hand my key in when I leave every day, for God's sake! (oh, and yes, for you social engineers out there, the staff were dumb enough to give me someone else's key when I told them the wrong number, and they see that as a violation, not me checking security - I didn't use the key, I shouted at them for having crap security!!)
I really am in the biggest crater since Hiroshima, designed to help those who TAKE TAKE TAKE and hinder those who have given... that may not be how it was intended, but that is it's effect. Thanks for listening, now you know why I've been angrily trolling for a year or so (I've been here much longer than that, but my anger hasn't!)
You're a therapeutic outlet, /. !
But that's precisely it - if I'd spent the last ten years getting profits from my business and paying myself a "salary" instead of a wage, instead of doing what I did for the greater good, I wouldn't be where I am now.
Also, if I hadn't taken pity on my aging business partner's wishes and allowed two crooks & thugs onto my board of directors (mine was the deciding vote) I wouldn't have been bullied out of my company at all!
Fascinating!!! That's exactly what I was trying to get at, but couldn't have summarized it as succintly as you did!
Seriously, employers, banks all go on what I've done and how I've done it, and judge me "worthy", but once I'm unemployed and homeless I'm no longer "worthy" with that track record: priority does go to drug abusers, "learning difficulties" (I know loads of people with made-up problems before you start - they play doctors, psychiatrists, and benefits system), prostitutes, etc... and I am left waiting in a dangerous hostel environment, having my equipment slowly stolen (don't say "don't go out with my computer"; I game and make websites and can't have a landline here!) watching them come, stay a while and wreck themselves o drugs (being a woman I hear a new life story every day cos they all wanna tell me their stories, so don't say I don't know because I do), and they get re-housed stat.
And before anybody says "Why not find your own property?" I have no deposit and refuse to sell my few capital items that seperate me from the intellectual gutter (computers) to gain something I am supposed have a human right to (housing).
And before anybody else says "Just get a job" bear in mind I've been unemployed for a year, and the card-electric meter costs £20 per week and the rent is £150 per week, effectively imprisoning me until the Council decides to offer me a property not in demand (ie in a slum! I'd rather "black" moss side than "white" collyhurst, too - so don't go throwing accusations of racism around either!).
You're right about the root of all this though - the elephant in the room nobody wants to discuss - it's greed, and certainly not mine lol (I was earning £195 after tax per week at my peak, and it was ME who decided to pay ME that!).
And greed is a natural product of the capitalist system, so there's something we do agree on, after all.
Way to troll, dude. You must be the oldest troll on slashdot, speaking to me like that after a heartfelt rant about the realities of homelessness in a big city.
How is it that people who were bad at school, abused their own parents, took drugs as soon as they got the chance are more deserving than me, after I contributed to society for many years, provided volunteering and career opportunities for those less fortunate, and lived on a very basic income in order to do this?
They end up homeless because they wreck flats and steal from their neighbours, I ended up homeless because I let the wrong (bad) people onto my board at the behest of my founding partner, who has since died, and would be turning in his grave? And that all my staff, and a couple of other directors, lament my loss and have observed that the business will fail soon without me? So how is that my fault?
And before you start on about priveledge again, know this: I CAME from being homeless in the city 10 years ago and built what I had - a wonderfully satisfying and widely recognised, but not very profitable social enterprise - myself!
I'm going to go out a limb here...
Just come to Manchester, England, if you'd like to see whether he's correct or not. You don't like it, because in this "everybody's equal" crap world, deciding I'm better than others is "wrong". Well, I say it's not.
I'd like you to see the smack-head mothers with 6 kids and a boyfriend in jail. I'd like you to examine the housing priorities / policies, and benefits system, that encourages drug abuse and crime in order for people to get more by doing less.
I'd like you to understand that it's not just people trolling on /. who have noticed, and do not like, the fact that housing and social assistance are allocated mainly on drug abuse and prolific breeding. It's politicians, and people who work for a living, and people who live in decent areas who do not want violent smack-head thieves on their doorstep.
Compare council estates in Chorlton (where there's a 10-year waiting list) to council estates in Collyhurst (where it's ~50% unoccupied). Just do it, just dare to go against your comfortable upbringing and "values".
This has nothing to do with race or class, it has to do with people who choose to be "scum" and know that the less they do, the more help they'll get. And then try to be me, successful career woman who ended up homeless through no fault of her own, and on the housing list AFTER smack-heads who go through flats and houses like a fat girl goes through cake.
This is not a troll, it's fact. It's my experience. I have a right to think I am better than these people, it's this fundamental fact that's being passed over by people like you, ignoring the reality on the ground. I contributed to society; I've created 15 sustainable jobs in this city, then been bitched out of my own company which I started, and I'm right behind all these self-inflicted scum on the housing list, and you think I don't have a right to think I'm better than them? Get real.
"cost $40 million each"
Duh, you thicko! Don't you know how inflated stuff sold to NASA and military has been? It's even joked about in films - try Independence Day for size!
We need to change the system we operate the world under, and then we can have the progress we want. Thanks, gov't shill! x
Thank you, that's interesting. I figured that it would provide a practical method for getting bulky stuff up there, since most of the fuel used in current missions is that used to break out of the gravity well.
I'm not perfect, and my post might have been a little idealistic in hindsight.
I know, duh, but I'd already pressed "submit" and the stop button didn't work in time... normally my latency sucks, but when I need high latency, well, Murphy's Law and all that...
You know what, if capitalism and greed weren't the norm, we could implement those ideas too. (except the BJ. But if you help me, I might help you...)
There really is enough material resources and labour to do those things, but at the moment they're feeding the top 1% of society instead of advancing technology. The space program hasn't evolved at all since the 80's, the zero-g science we were promised from the ISS has only just started, and we're all head-over-heels about two neverending wars that only happened due to Bush's family's greed.
The biggest problem for people like me is apathetic people like you, who lazily make sarcastic comments like this, preventing the masses from realising they CAN make a difference, and overthrowing those who shouldn't be in power, but are.
"US To Release International Cyber Strategy" - don't people get busted for releasing US strategies? Isn't that what all the fuss about Wikipedia is for?
So now they're just saving the leakers some (jail?) time, or does this mean something else?
Now that's what I call offtopic... lol
How did you know where I was going with this?
The only thing you've got wrong is the netbooks; we only need recycled 286 laptops running DamnSmallLinux and a bunch of A/D and D/A convertors to control the vehicle! ;-P
+10000 Insightful.
The mods HAVE worked themselves out, and my original post is now at +4, but I've been punished for my rant!
Thanks. And sorry, everyone.
Slashdot, where the trolls are insightful and the mods are fucking trolls!
Since when is this offtopic???? It's right on-topic, what with this being the last shuttle flight and all!! First, we design a replacement we can all use (ie internationally), and so on until Star Trek.
Now I know I'm definitely being modded down by people who have a personal problem with me. WELL FUCK YOU. I'm not leaving. Maybe you government shills should.
Let's design an open-source reusable spacecraft which can reach orbit.
Second...
Let's implement the space elevator, allowing materials and people to get to orbit cheaply.
Third...
Build a spacecraft on an unprecedented scale, in-orbit, using the space elevator. Use that to expand physics research and propulsion systems.
Fourth...
Star Trek...
And you all thought that was gonna say "Post". Haha.
Oh, never troll again? :-(
I can understand that I got burnt and I deserved it for the crapflood, but never troll again?
That's like asking me to never post again, since before the crapflood most of my posts were just opinions others rated as trolls... not actual trolls...
ps... did you like my crapflood? I pwn that article, and it's gonna be archived with loads of my posts upmodded... i know, i know, what a bitch...
pps... mucho appreciated. It's nice to know someone likes me here :-)
Yes, I know.
It was called eDonkey, and I still use it's descendant, eMule (although I'm sure someone would be fast to point out that it primarily uses the Kademlia Distributed Hash Table rather than the original eDonkey network)