So then what did you and your generation do to contribute to a bright future of scientific advancement and sustainable retirement plans that you wanted? You kicked the can down to my generation from what we can see.
You're welcome.
"......same as it ever was....same as it ever was....same as it ever was...."
Let's face it, this is something that should be fixed by professionals employed by the FTC because that is the job they are tasked to perform. This cute little bounty program is a clever way of crowd sourcing the benefits of this skill set without the costs of hiring anyone. MAKE 'EM PAY! Not everything involving human labor should be done on the cheap just because employee costs are high. People cost money, and this tactic wont work forever.... I hope.
It happens. A lot, apparently. Its certainly not your fault or a reflection on your intellect that human beings with worthwhile ideas and commentary are not always absolutely perfect typists or rhetoricians. That being said, I wish that the grammar Nazis would take a break until a better way to correct that outcome is implemented. I don't mind the typos nearly as much as the predictable response it brings from anonymous knee jerks. I'll give a benefit of the doubt to the known respondents, and not assume they are just trolling.
Its amazing how being at a certain age and place and social consciousness that a common experience and thinking is shared. We all knew that things would always change in time, but its strange to look back and see how that all played out in the aftermath... In some ways, we didn't have a clue, but in terms of the results that we just KNEW would result from three decades of "trickle down" economics and other forms of short sighted policy enacted by people are no longer alive: Here we are! Right where we knew we would be. I was born in Rochester, New York - home of Kodak, but I never thought I or Paul Simon would outlive that company's prosperity or exemplary ethics. It certainly could have survived in all of its glory if it had continued to care about people more then about shareholder profits, plain and simple. That's how George Eastman would have wanted it.
It was at that moment that America died for me. Things would never get better than those two seconds. It was all down hill from there.
Americas not dead yet, my friend, but I do understand exactly how you are feeling about all of the lost ground. We remember our losses more profoundly then our gains. Its human nature, I guess, just like the rest of the experience.
It's a $1.37 billion dollar boost to the economy! You can't just print money for banksters without spreading it around a little bit!
When the money gets stolen, its insured by the government that just prints some more, and paper grows on trees!
Finally we have found a growth industry with real American entrepreneurship that is compatible with current fiscal policy. We can re-hypothecate futures on funny money stolen by criminals that aren't bank executives! Its a new system of cheques and balances in a brave new kleptocracy!
American cretins. You can't even write 'they' properly.
And you get REALLY confused when you have to write 'they're', 'their' or 'there'. How the hell is your country still standing?
We stand on our feet, silly.
It's harder to do that while your head is up your ass.
Your obsessing on typos, homophones, homonyms during a Slashdot banter about Brazil nuts and asteroids is either an emotional disorder or you are from the Land of Trolls that can't walk and talk at the same time.
Hurling vituperative disparagements in grammatically correct English has nothing to do with this story and discussion so please take your meds.
.
Are we supposed to believe that people who sell their children can be generalized as especially evil if they are gamers, addicts, or Chinese? I mean what does that really have to do with it ? There are no good reasons for baby selling - its just bad for any reason. I bet these gamey baby sellers had a lot of other characteristics that were even more illuminating: like perhaps they were nuts or they had a spectrum disorder, or they were evil. Maybe they sucked at games and hate Chinese food. Somehow this headline smacks of "yellow" journalism. We always need to remind the west how shifty the majority population behaves. We believe in democracy as long as we out number them, but they don't get a vote if they are gonna sell babies for angry birds. Should we feel a bit superior because our gamers never have sex and therefore can't sell their children? Or perhaps that our baby sellers do it for better addictions, more cash, or porn? Somehow the story strikes me as a bad slant on China (sic)...I mean everyone knows you keep the boys and sell the girls to desperate rich middle aged infertile Americans that will divorce before the child hits puberty.
Didn't Apple go through this exact same issue with the iPhone app store a few years ago, and they fixed it?
Yes, your absolutely right.
A pattern is beginning to emerge where the enforcement of laws has transformed into the institutionalized funding of government with punitive measures that neither protect the consumer nor discourage future violation of ethics and common decency. Is this regulatory befuddlement really working for Americans if the evil corporate behavior is not deterred? I am glad some folks are paying attention and remember the relevant recent events so that we may become angry villagers and start chopping off heads.
I rather enjoy being close to the biggest frog in the pond, even if the pond is just Pedersons Puddle. It has its advantages.
Cheers, Gene
Its a great career and life which unfolds for some folks, in your place and time: post world war II America. For my father, who was born in 1939, the concept of a lifelong career that would sustain a wife and family, comfortably, was real. It was possible, and with very little threat or fear of unemployment or poverty around the corner. Flash forward a generation to the sixties: my kindergarten, graduating high school during Ronald Reagan and what followed: it took me until the end of the cold war to finally realize that success for me would not likely look like my Dad's scenario. There was no longer a company that valued a lifelong employee and their dependents. Human Resources became liabilities that corporations must limit to minimize exposure and maximize profit. The longer they stay, the more they cost, and increase company risk to the competition, trade disclosure, higher premiums, bigger pensions, organized labor, higher safety standards, all things human and wasteful. Why implement the peter principle when cheaper outsourcing and globalized labor exist. A few years later, my slightly younger siblings, who don't remember Nixon or Apollo or life before divorce - were better equipped to succeed by today's standards: The willingness work any place the job takes you, or just jump ship with better offers, always looking for something next, Moving to the other gig as soon as a current project gets on track. Its never good to straggle behind the herd of stampeding upward mobility into uncertain future - This beats certain failure, atrophy or irrelevance. Its not like the good old days when government jobs were second rate to the private sector, and job security was a given. No skill set is indispensable. Now there is no job security, social security, no pension, no savings accrue, no interest compounds, money is simply printed like paper grows on trees and assets are rehypothecated like the population doubles again and again. I guess what I am saying is that it seems to be a function of place and time, a sign of the times, to a certain degree. I realize its a somewhat self deluding hindsight, but its just how I rationalized the experience of a shifting ideal in a moving target called life in America. I feel much more like a sign of the past now that I am a underemployed deadbeat waiting for entitlements to pay me like a fast food worker while Obama care cures me of my old age and despair. I prefer your story more, but I'm grateful to be here, even if I'm not entitled to make it to 80 with any marketable skills. Anyway, good for you. Its always good to see people in sync with reality. Its an impressive skill, surfing a wave, it keeps you moving forward as long as you can balance yourself with the forces of nature. Perhaps I'll feel that way again, non-employed, without a need to work for money or to be valued in social currency. A new social currency is my ticket to a higher self worth and value to society. Letting bottom line economics dictate human value is unfortunate, but its a choice not a paradigm for human existence. The currency we all spend and can never hoard is time. Its much more scarce than wealth, our choices, or the possibilities.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I read that in a EULA somewhere....
So then what did you and your generation do to contribute to a bright future of scientific advancement and sustainable retirement plans that you wanted? You kicked the can down to my generation from what we can see.
You're welcome.
....same as it ever was ....same as it ever was ...."
"......same as it ever was
Let's face it, this is something that should be fixed by professionals employed by the FTC because that is the job they are tasked to perform. This cute little bounty program is a clever way of crowd sourcing the benefits of this skill set without the costs of hiring anyone. MAKE 'EM PAY! Not everything involving human labor should be done on the cheap just because employee costs are high. People cost money, and this tactic wont work forever.... I hope.
It happens. A lot, apparently. Its certainly not your fault or a reflection on your intellect that human beings with worthwhile ideas and commentary are not always absolutely perfect typists or rhetoricians. That being said, I wish that the grammar Nazis would take a break until a better way to correct that outcome is implemented. I don't mind the typos nearly as much as the predictable response it brings from anonymous knee jerks. I'll give a benefit of the doubt to the known respondents, and not assume they are just trolling.
Its amazing how being at a certain age and place and social consciousness that a common experience and thinking is shared. We all knew that things would always change in time, but its strange to look back and see how that all played out in the aftermath... In some ways, we didn't have a clue, but in terms of the results that we just KNEW would result from three decades of "trickle down" economics and other forms of short sighted policy enacted by people are no longer alive: Here we are! Right where we knew we would be. I was born in Rochester, New York - home of Kodak, but I never thought I or Paul Simon would outlive that company's prosperity or exemplary ethics. It certainly could have survived in all of its glory if it had continued to care about people more then about shareholder profits, plain and simple. That's how George Eastman would have wanted it.
It was at that moment that America died for me. Things would never get better than those two seconds. It was all down hill from there.
Americas not dead yet, my friend, but I do understand exactly how you are feeling about all of the lost ground. We remember our losses more profoundly then our gains. Its human nature, I guess, just like the rest of the experience.
It's* the Yeti it's = it is Learn this.
Your rite. I cun't tipe gooder for ewe.
Best partners in crime since Genesis and Original Sin
It's a $1.37 billion dollar boost to the economy! You can't just print money for banksters without spreading it around a little bit!
When the money gets stolen, its insured by the government that just prints some more, and paper grows on trees!
Finally we have found a growth industry with real American entrepreneurship that is compatible with current fiscal policy. We can re-hypothecate futures on funny money stolen by criminals that aren't bank executives! Its a new system of cheques and balances in a brave new kleptocracy!
Eureka!
Its not often that Time Warner looks good next to another corporation.
After sharing headlines with AOL, Comcast, and now Rupert Murdoch they may have run out of worse alternatives...
Explosive frackulence
I just love the sound of that.
Oink
Its the Yeti !
...and clearly they are American. I wonder if they'll settle out of court with a few kilos?
That's always worked in the past with U.S. deal makers...
American cretins. You can't even write 'they' properly.
And you get REALLY confused when you have to write 'they're', 'their' or 'there'. How the hell is your country still standing?
We stand on our feet, silly.
It's harder to do that while your head is up your ass.
Your obsessing on typos, homophones, homonyms during a Slashdot banter about Brazil nuts and asteroids is either an emotional disorder or you are from the Land of Trolls that can't walk and talk at the same time.
Hurling vituperative disparagements in grammatically correct English has nothing to do with this story and discussion so please take your meds. .
Now it doesn't mean it IS a Yeti. It doesn't mean it's even our kind of Yeti.
What d'ya mean? Every Yeti is our kind of Yeti. Perhaps the Higgs Boson just needs to leave giant footprints in the snow.
Where Google can wear their ass hats and kiss mine goodbye.
Are we supposed to believe that people who sell their children can be generalized as especially evil if they are gamers, addicts, or Chinese? I mean what does that really have to do with it ? There are no good reasons for baby selling - its just bad for any reason. I bet these gamey baby sellers had a lot of other characteristics that were even more illuminating: like perhaps they were nuts or they had a spectrum disorder, or they were evil. Maybe they sucked at games and hate Chinese food. Somehow this headline smacks of "yellow" journalism. We always need to remind the west how shifty the majority population behaves. We believe in democracy as long as we out number them, but they don't get a vote if they are gonna sell babies for angry birds. Should we feel a bit superior because our gamers never have sex and therefore can't sell their children? Or perhaps that our baby sellers do it for better addictions, more cash, or porn? Somehow the story strikes me as a bad slant on China (sic) ...I mean everyone knows you keep the boys and sell the girls to desperate rich middle aged infertile Americans that will divorce before the child hits puberty.
These fast radio flashes could just as easily turn out to be something entirely unpredicted.
Music for Airports? Bowie? Art Bell?
Didn't Apple go through this exact same issue with the iPhone app store a few years ago, and they fixed it?
Yes, your absolutely right.
A pattern is beginning to emerge where the enforcement of laws has transformed into the institutionalized funding of government with punitive measures that neither protect the consumer nor discourage future violation of ethics and common decency. Is this regulatory befuddlement really working for Americans if the evil corporate behavior is not deterred? I am glad some folks are paying attention and remember the relevant recent events so that we may become angry villagers and start chopping off heads.
Anyone got any ideas where I'm doing it wrong?
You actually attempted to read it.
I rather enjoy being close to the biggest frog in the pond, even if the pond is just Pedersons Puddle. It has its advantages.
Cheers, Gene
Its a great career and life which unfolds for some folks, in your place and time: post world war II America. For my father, who was born in 1939, the concept of a lifelong career that would sustain a wife and family, comfortably, was real. It was possible, and with very little threat or fear of unemployment or poverty around the corner. Flash forward a generation to the sixties: my kindergarten, graduating high school during Ronald Reagan and what followed: it took me until the end of the cold war to finally realize that success for me would not likely look like my Dad's scenario. There was no longer a company that valued a lifelong employee and their dependents. Human Resources became liabilities that corporations must limit to minimize exposure and maximize profit. The longer they stay, the more they cost, and increase company risk to the competition, trade disclosure, higher premiums, bigger pensions, organized labor, higher safety standards, all things human and wasteful. Why implement the peter principle when cheaper outsourcing and globalized labor exist. A few years later, my slightly younger siblings, who don't remember Nixon or Apollo or life before divorce - were better equipped to succeed by today's standards: The willingness work any place the job takes you, or just jump ship with better offers, always looking for something next, Moving to the other gig as soon as a current project gets on track. Its never good to straggle behind the herd of stampeding upward mobility into uncertain future - This beats certain failure, atrophy or irrelevance. Its not like the good old days when government jobs were second rate to the private sector, and job security was a given. No skill set is indispensable. Now there is no job security, social security, no pension, no savings accrue, no interest compounds, money is simply printed like paper grows on trees and assets are rehypothecated like the population doubles again and again. I guess what I am saying is that it seems to be a function of place and time, a sign of the times, to a certain degree. I realize its a somewhat self deluding hindsight, but its just how I rationalized the experience of a shifting ideal in a moving target called life in America. I feel much more like a sign of the past now that I am a underemployed deadbeat waiting for entitlements to pay me like a fast food worker while Obama care cures me of my old age and despair. I prefer your story more, but I'm grateful to be here, even if I'm not entitled to make it to 80 with any marketable skills. Anyway, good for you. Its always good to see people in sync with reality. Its an impressive skill, surfing a wave, it keeps you moving forward as long as you can balance yourself with the forces of nature. Perhaps I'll feel that way again, non-employed, without a need to work for money or to be valued in social currency. A new social currency is my ticket to a higher self worth and value to society. Letting bottom line economics dictate human value is unfortunate, but its a choice not a paradigm for human existence. The currency we all spend and can never hoard is time. Its much more scarce than wealth, our choices, or the possibilities.
From the constituency who agree prisons trump paper from Politicians
A beige hermaphroditic dwarf with a Mohawk and a love for Polka and yodeling with vegan nudists on double shifts..
Meanwhile, vegged out Neanderthal "Stone-agers" were confused by yucky veggies and just ate their poop.
The original "Hole Foods" was born.
Oops... I meant croquet.