You normally sound like a rational guy, so as much as I feel like you're trolling me, you probably just completely misunderstood my post. "Boo F-ing Hoo" does indicate a lack of caring. For what? A monopolistic rent-seeker getting burned by their own SOP. *That is the entirety of the post.* There is no commentary, real or imagined, about my position on anything else. Which does not mean I don't have one, just that it was not part of this discussion. Until you manufactured a supposed position for me then accused me of shitposting based on that.
Cooking, swimming, map reading and navigating were all considered mandatory life skills in our house. You don't have to do them all every day, but you have to know how. My children learned to use a Tomas Brothers map in L.A.. Before they were old enough to drive I made them navigate.
Apologies for the re-post, I forgot I had not logged in this morning:
Well, I did find your post amusing. Mine was limited pointing out the irony of a monopolistic rent-seeker bitching about the very practice that is their bread and butter. You assert that I have no position on rent seeking; then you counter your own unfounded assertion with another - that I am "fine with it as long as it injures someone or something that you don't like." I will skip the long and obvious rant about why I think rent-seeking is bad, because it has been articulated far better by others. I can, definitively, say both of your unfounded assumptions about me are quite wrong.
Way to be part of the problem...
I have to say this caught me off guard as I was unaware of a single thing I might say in a Slashdot post that would change the terrible behavior of both tech companies, and large carriers. You seem to have a pretty good idea what that post would be. I look forward to reading your world-changing post.
Maybe a little history lesson would be helpful for the simpletons like you. Irrespective of party, every administration and pretty much every country has back-channel communications with their enemies. About every decade or so WWIII is temporarily averted by them. Judge them by how they are used, not their existence. Two that come to mind are Carter during the Iran situation and the Kennedys during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I am sure the history buffs here can name many more instances, so I leave it to Slashdot.
The pit bulls are a good thing, so is the chain. The pit bulls running into the chain is an important event - sad the political pit bulls have no chain. that spells disaster for the innocent public that needs the chain...
Really - So without regard to political party - you maintain that anyone from any other country in the world has a right to live in the U.S., but U.S. citizens have no right to live in any other country? That is the current actual standard...
Does anyone remember the movie "Brainstorm" (1983)? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... It was about a direct way to record and replay experiences to and from the brain with sensory input and everything else as a real memory. There was a scene where the executive is replaying a scene of a romp with two hookers. it was clear the dopamine (or whatever) addled high had completely broken him. As a 16 year old with a mattress full of Playboys, my first thought was "That's scary, not really sure I want that." I am not particularly perceptive, but it scared me a little...
Growing up I always wanted to be an astronaut, watched it all on TV. This accident happened the day after I was born. Although I didn't learn about it until years later reading about the space program on my own, I always felt strangely connected to the accident after that. I took that same tour with my wife in 2007; it is an in depth tour you book by special request. You would think the people on the tour would be really interested and respectful. It was heartbreaking when only about 8 people got off the bus at complex 34...
This would likely hold for video as well, and many ISPs are also content provider/owners. I am sure they are glad music is doing the heavy lifting for them, this round...
We already paid for this through tax breaks to the providers. I have a choice to have or not have a connection, one DSL provider (Frontier), 3Mb is top tier, is really 1.5 at best and I have seen it as low as ~386k at peak times. It is infuriating. Sadly, there is a waiting list for that crappy service because they are the only provider and won't even expand the COs for new customers. Spectrum just strung all new lines along the main road, 400 yards away. And there is an older service line that passes from there to less that 100' of my house. But the new cable is for 'infrastructure or some such because they service no one in my vast rural service area; even thought the coax service line is strung through more than half of the community. it is abandoned and rots in place, and we all get shit service. They already paid out the "tax breaks" as dividends...
I always thought it would be cool if people could submit their personal photos of a place/time/angle and have those incorporated into street view. I think it would be super cool to see the same street corner (neighborhood, house you grew up in) through a timeline...
"But on Monday it admitted that electricity consumers would be forced to pay a portion of the clean up costs through higher electricity bills." Which is exactly what would have happened before the accident if the company had not been externalizing it's costs. I am no fan of corporate welfare, and I am smart enough to know I am below average IQ for a 6 digit Slashdot user. But - They could "pay now or pay later." The argument could be made the plant would not have been built because of the costs. But these costs would never have been forecast, because the event was not forecast. Just $.02
Without regard to the rest of your comment - US universities, and specifically California schools (like Berkeley) go out of their way to take foreign students before US kids because tuition is so much higher for them. Follow the money.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
This is crap. ISIL, or whomever, "hacks" a site and discloses information on 800 americans - not worthy of an investigation. But if an American security researcher did it they would do hard time...
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You normally sound like a rational guy, so as much as I feel like you're trolling me, you probably just completely misunderstood my post. "Boo F-ing Hoo" does indicate a lack of caring. For what? A monopolistic rent-seeker getting burned by their own SOP. *That is the entirety of the post.* There is no commentary, real or imagined, about my position on anything else. Which does not mean I don't have one, just that it was not part of this discussion. Until you manufactured a supposed position for me then accused me of shitposting based on that.
Cooking, swimming, map reading and navigating were all considered mandatory life skills in our house. You don't have to do them all every day, but you have to know how. My children learned to use a Tomas Brothers map in L.A.. Before they were old enough to drive I made them navigate.
I have to say this caught me off guard as I was unaware of a single thing I might say in a Slashdot post that would change the terrible behavior of both tech companies, and large carriers. You seem to have a pretty good idea what that post would be. I look forward to reading your world-changing post.
Notorious rent-seeker complains about high rent...
The size of the Bull...
Maybe a little history lesson would be helpful for the simpletons like you. Irrespective of party, every administration and pretty much every country has back-channel communications with their enemies. About every decade or so WWIII is temporarily averted by them. Judge them by how they are used, not their existence. Two that come to mind are Carter during the Iran situation and the Kennedys during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I am sure the history buffs here can name many more instances, so I leave it to Slashdot.
The pit bulls are a good thing, so is the chain. The pit bulls running into the chain is an important event - sad the political pit bulls have no chain. that spells disaster for the innocent public that needs the chain...
Really - So without regard to political party - you maintain that anyone from any other country in the world has a right to live in the U.S., but U.S. citizens have no right to live in any other country? That is the current actual standard...
I *think* that scene was Cliff Robertson. Didn't see this until I had posted, but that kind of sacred the shit out of me...
Does anyone remember the movie "Brainstorm" (1983)? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00... It was about a direct way to record and replay experiences to and from the brain with sensory input and everything else as a real memory. There was a scene where the executive is replaying a scene of a romp with two hookers. it was clear the dopamine (or whatever) addled high had completely broken him. As a 16 year old with a mattress full of Playboys, my first thought was "That's scary, not really sure I want that." I am not particularly perceptive, but it scared me a little...
Robin Hood? These are both better - Rabbit Hood: http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... Robin Hood Daffy: https://www.dailymotion.com/vi...
It has to be based on what the actual worker meat receives after the contract company skim...
Growing up I always wanted to be an astronaut, watched it all on TV. This accident happened the day after I was born. Although I didn't learn about it until years later reading about the space program on my own, I always felt strangely connected to the accident after that. I took that same tour with my wife in 2007; it is an in depth tour you book by special request. You would think the people on the tour would be really interested and respectful. It was heartbreaking when only about 8 people got off the bus at complex 34...
can't believe you guys missed it...
This would likely hold for video as well, and many ISPs are also content provider/owners. I am sure they are glad music is doing the heavy lifting for them, this round...
We already paid for this through tax breaks to the providers. I have a choice to have or not have a connection, one DSL provider (Frontier), 3Mb is top tier, is really 1.5 at best and I have seen it as low as ~386k at peak times. It is infuriating. Sadly, there is a waiting list for that crappy service because they are the only provider and won't even expand the COs for new customers. Spectrum just strung all new lines along the main road, 400 yards away. And there is an older service line that passes from there to less that 100' of my house. But the new cable is for 'infrastructure or some such because they service no one in my vast rural service area; even thought the coax service line is strung through more than half of the community. it is abandoned and rots in place, and we all get shit service. They already paid out the "tax breaks" as dividends...
I always thought it would be cool if people could submit their personal photos of a place/time/angle and have those incorporated into street view. I think it would be super cool to see the same street corner (neighborhood, house you grew up in) through a timeline...
Damn it, point being consumers would have had to pay more for the electricity either way...
"But on Monday it admitted that electricity consumers would be forced to pay a portion of the clean up costs through higher electricity bills." Which is exactly what would have happened before the accident if the company had not been externalizing it's costs. I am no fan of corporate welfare, and I am smart enough to know I am below average IQ for a 6 digit Slashdot user. But - They could "pay now or pay later." The argument could be made the plant would not have been built because of the costs. But these costs would never have been forecast, because the event was not forecast. Just $.02
Without regard to the rest of your comment - US universities, and specifically California schools (like Berkeley) go out of their way to take foreign students before US kids because tuition is so much higher for them. Follow the money. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07...
"It will also mark the end of the one-year free Windows 10 update offer" So, now they'll bill you after forcing the upgrade?
I think Sean Connery actually owns that particular pronunciation...
This is crap. ISIL, or whomever, "hacks" a site and discloses information on 800 americans - not worthy of an investigation. But if an American security researcher did it they would do hard time...
I 'bout spit out my drink... I hope this isn't a whoosh, but I think that makes it the Alabama of the Mid-West.
Sumdumass rightfully calls out what from this day forward will be known as "the straw-penis" argument!