Why are the "99%" crowd (is that still around) so obsessed with money?
I don't care if companies become rich, or people earn lots of money - that's not the problem. The problem is when these people influence government - who in turn makes the rules for the population.
I'd rather have a flat tax, than all the system at the moment: "Voters - We need to think about the environment. That is why we're giving subsidies to green industry." (By green industry they mean their friends who'll build windfarms in silly places with coal backups, and get paid for it.) "Voters - Intellectual property rights are an important building block of America, and protect innovation." (Letting media lobbyists right the rules, in exchange for much needed publicity.) "Voters - We need to go to war in a foreign land to protect our Freedom." (And their good mates will be getting the contract.) "Voters - We need to protect the economy." (Prints more money, essentially taking it from every American, and gives it to banks which have already ripped people off - largely because the government made it difficult for banks to say no to a stupidly unaffordable mortgage.)
At the moment many rich celebrities don't pay tax as they have a couple of trees on their property so get farm rebates. Businesses declare 0 income and pay no tax. A flat tax is preferential to this. Money isn't important - power is. That's what we need to wrestle back off the corporations.
The way to fix this is to stop the government controlling this type of thing, and then, no matter how much money a company earns, they won't be able to write the rules. Now I'm not saying no government control - it's important - but not as much as we've allowed at the moment.
From the sounds of things RP is the only one talking about this. Everyone else just waves their red or blue flag, thanks God, and does more of the same.
Friends/family: "How's Boston going for you? How's Bean Town?"
Phil M: "Well, I've got a rheumatology exam, and I pulled a black 9mm Luger pistol, not far inside the door. Began to bind her hands with white plastic flexcuffs, but before I could complete this, she fought back. In our subsequent struggle I hit her in the skull with my gun, causing injuries I'd describe as serious but not fatal. I then shot her three times. One bullet lodged in her hip, while two bullets went straight through her, piercing her heart and lung. It's also quite cold here at the moment."
Friends/family: "Really? I heard that it sometimes rains in Boston? I got an oncology exam coming up myself."
Why can't people on this site realise that there are burglars, muggers, rapists and murderers in this world - they're not all framed by the cops and courts. Nearly all of them did the crime.
Not if your friend essentially releases that information (by committing crimes, then committing suicide). You've got to chose your friends well - even your Facebook friends.
I've got a screenshot of Clayton Weatherston's Facebook main page. He's a narcissistic economics tutor who stabbed his girlfriend to death and her mother tried to get into the room - on his birthday.
The year afterwards, there were still people wishing him happy birthday, oblivious to the fact that this guy was in police custody awaiting trial for a very well publicised and terrible murder. That's what Facebook friends are like.
There were two med students I knew who still had him friended - they didn't even know how they knew him. They were clueless that their name was associated with one of the most hated people in NZ.
Why would you throw your vote away voting for anyone else?
I'm not from the States, so don't know much about the candidates, but even though he might have some silly beliefs regarding certain things (but then all of your candidates essentially have to be Christian), he at least seems to want less government control.
You've got one party full of fundamentalist Christians wanting to control how other people live their lives. On the other side you've got a bunch of pretend-Christians, who'll let media companies get whatever they want, maintain wars, spend money bailing out big-business, and doing the same as a other team except spending more money in the process.
If I only had the choice between those two, I'd vote Dems (because they seem slightly less religious). But I'd vote for a third party.
It may seem like a wasted vote, but the real wasted votes are for the Democrats or Republicans - doesn't matter which you chose, it's a waste.
Driftwood has important ecological importance: "In estuaries, drift logs serve many purposes: as perching spots for eagles, herons and other birds; as attachment sites for fish eggs; as nurseries for spruce seedlings; as cover for salmon and steelhead smolts as they adapt to seawater prior to entering the open ocean. Wood-boring gribbles and shipworms munch on driftwood, and their fecal pellets become food for certain worms, snails and other bottom-dwelling invertebrates, in the estuary as well as at sea. In the open ocean, drifting logs provide food and habitat for species ranging from tiny ocean striders (insects) to schools of tuna."
I hope you shame all the hippies you know who are destroying these habitats to make dream catchers.
Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA
"15 plus" games can't be used by 15, 16 and 17 year olds? Fuck Aussie, most of you (who aren't on slashdot) lose your virginity age 14. What's with the think of the children brigade?
She was raped and stoned to death after she said this retort, then her sons were killed and daughters taken as wives for the killers. But the joke isn't funny when that piece of realism is added on.
Despite all my efforts, in 8 years of English classes, I was never even able to get a single teacher or professor to explain to me how he knew there were hidden meanings behind the text that was assigned.
They usually don't know (unless the writer has explicitly stated he wrote about a certain theme), they're talking about meanings that many others see in the texts. It's not unlike science - fundamentalist Christians are saying the same things as you: "Despite 8 years of science class I've never been able to get a single teacher to explain how he knew God doesn't exist."
English doesn't rely on calculating G with spinning weights or comparing changes in DNA over time, but it uses known symbolism, common themes in storytelling, and knowledge of culture and society to infer what a writer may have been implying with his work.
Good on you. I recently got Starcraft 2. You don't actually need to be logged in to player single player (you can play as a guest) but you need need a connection to play under your account and get achievements, and more importantly to play against other people.
I knew this when my girlfriend bought me it for Valentines Day. And I accept it. If I didn't have internet I wouldn't have let her buy it.
Oh, you mean like we could already feed, clothe and shelter every single being on this planet.... we just don't.
We can't do that. There'll always be more people to feed and clothe, and our money will run out.
But this professor is being a dickhead. He's predicting things at a time he'll be dead, (which he does for publicity) but he does nothing to actually progress this happening. That's why people think academics are out-of-touch and a waste of taxpayer money.
I'd mod you up if I could. It's always good to see interesting angles about religion.
I always see a lot of good that comes from humanity, and I see a lot of bad that comes from chance (which a Christian might call God).
God gives us disease: other humans research ways to fix it and spend time fixing it for us. God causes earthquakes: humanity forms groups to save the trapped. God causes floods: humans arrange safe accommodation.
Personally I have a lot of faith in humanity. It seems to have overcome a lot of hardship that God cruelly forces on us.
Sorry about late reply. The difference between wages and homeless begging is that (in developed countries) most homeless are there because of substance abuse.
I have to agree with what you've said, but it's not just bagging Christians that is the problem.
Often in Slashdot there are people knowledgeable about certain branches of science. They can often provide insight that hits the sweet spot between the pop-science ad-filled blog that stories link to and the original uninterpretable specialist and dry journal article. That's what I come here for.
Generally, the first 40 comments are people trying to make obvious jokes or trolling, followed by 20 or so dickheads like you and me complaining about the jokes. Fortunately reading the story late in the piece gets the few interesting comments up-rated - which is why I keep coming back.
Anyway, speaking of Christians and exoplanets: Giordano Bruno, one of the first people recorded as speculating that other stars might have planets, was executed by The Catholic Church in 1600.
Giving homeless people cash is enabling them to use more drugs and alcohol. It's a small amount of money for you to feel good about yourself, but to them it's another nail in the coffin. Stop giving them money.
In the late 80s, I bought the Life Science Library and Nature Library published in the 1960s. It was actually in a school garage sale, and my mum and I were on the book table. I initially just wanted to buy a few that interested me (Minerals I think was one of them), but ended up buying every book I could find (wasn't the whole range), giving myself a bulk discount. (I probably only paid about $5 for them all!) I guess I was about 9-10.
I read from those books every single night before bed. I learned an incredible amount despite them being out-of-date. (Some of the books talked about the possibility of man on the moon and JFK being alive.) I remember copying a picture of "the cell" for high school biology. The cells had "mortise and tenon" junctions holding them together.
But still, I had way above average knowledge of every scientific fact required in science classes as a 13 and 14 year old. Plus the articles on The Mind (and I think most of the volumes) had tonnes of famous artworks included, so I learned some of the humanities which I wouldn't have otherwise looked at. I still have these books at my parents' home. I owe them my career and much of my intellect.
Maybe nowadays kids go to bed with a tablet and read Wikipedia or HowItWorks. But there's so much distraction on the internet. After looking at the topless African women, I'd be able to read about Matter, Energy or The Earth. I think as a kid nowadays I'd be stuck on 4chan or something.
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Are you that AC? How do you know what he was saying?
Why are the "99%" crowd (is that still around) so obsessed with money?
I don't care if companies become rich, or people earn lots of money - that's not the problem. The problem is when these people influence government - who in turn makes the rules for the population.
I'd rather have a flat tax, than all the system at the moment:
"Voters - We need to think about the environment. That is why we're giving subsidies to green industry." (By green industry they mean their friends who'll build windfarms in silly places with coal backups, and get paid for it.)
"Voters - Intellectual property rights are an important building block of America, and protect innovation." (Letting media lobbyists right the rules, in exchange for much needed publicity.)
"Voters - We need to go to war in a foreign land to protect our Freedom." (And their good mates will be getting the contract.)
"Voters - We need to protect the economy." (Prints more money, essentially taking it from every American, and gives it to banks which have already ripped people off - largely because the government made it difficult for banks to say no to a stupidly unaffordable mortgage.)
At the moment many rich celebrities don't pay tax as they have a couple of trees on their property so get farm rebates. Businesses declare 0 income and pay no tax. A flat tax is preferential to this. Money isn't important - power is. That's what we need to wrestle back off the corporations.
The way to fix this is to stop the government controlling this type of thing, and then, no matter how much money a company earns, they won't be able to write the rules. Now I'm not saying no government control - it's important - but not as much as we've allowed at the moment.
From the sounds of things RP is the only one talking about this. Everyone else just waves their red or blue flag, thanks God, and does more of the same.
Friends/family:
"How's Boston going for you? How's Bean Town?"
Phil M:
"Well, I've got a rheumatology exam, and I pulled a black 9mm Luger pistol, not far inside the door. Began to bind her hands with white plastic flexcuffs, but before I could complete this, she fought back. In our subsequent struggle I hit her in the skull with my gun, causing injuries I'd describe as serious but not fatal. I then shot her three times. One bullet lodged in her hip, while two bullets went straight through her, piercing her heart and lung. It's also quite cold here at the moment."
Friends/family:
"Really? I heard that it sometimes rains in Boston? I got an oncology exam coming up myself."
Phil M:
"Lol, sometimes. About 55 here I think."
Are you saying this guy was framed?
Why can't people on this site realise that there are burglars, muggers, rapists and murderers in this world - they're not all framed by the cops and courts. Nearly all of them did the crime.
Very true. I wish people would stop believing that a court's decision is always correct. People escape conviction all the time.
Not if your friend essentially releases that information (by committing crimes, then committing suicide). You've got to chose your friends well - even your Facebook friends.
I've got a screenshot of Clayton Weatherston's Facebook main page. He's a narcissistic economics tutor who stabbed his girlfriend to death and her mother tried to get into the room - on his birthday.
The year afterwards, there were still people wishing him happy birthday, oblivious to the fact that this guy was in police custody awaiting trial for a very well publicised and terrible murder. That's what Facebook friends are like.
There were two med students I knew who still had him friended - they didn't even know how they knew him. They were clueless that their name was associated with one of the most hated people in NZ.
Why would you throw your vote away voting for anyone else?
I'm not from the States, so don't know much about the candidates, but even though he might have some silly beliefs regarding certain things (but then all of your candidates essentially have to be Christian), he at least seems to want less government control.
As a non-American, I always wonder how I'd vote.
You've got one party full of fundamentalist Christians wanting to control how other people live their lives. On the other side you've got a bunch of pretend-Christians, who'll let media companies get whatever they want, maintain wars, spend money bailing out big-business, and doing the same as a other team except spending more money in the process.
If I only had the choice between those two, I'd vote Dems (because they seem slightly less religious). But I'd vote for a third party.
It may seem like a wasted vote, but the real wasted votes are for the Democrats or Republicans - doesn't matter which you chose, it's a waste.
Driftwood has important ecological importance:
"In estuaries, drift logs serve many purposes: as perching spots for eagles, herons and other birds; as attachment sites for fish eggs; as nurseries for spruce seedlings; as cover for salmon and steelhead smolts as they adapt to seawater prior to entering the open ocean. Wood-boring gribbles and shipworms munch on driftwood, and their fecal pellets become food for certain worms, snails and other bottom-dwelling invertebrates, in the estuary as well as at sea. In the open ocean, drifting logs provide food and habitat for species ranging from tiny ocean striders (insects) to schools of tuna."
I hope you shame all the hippies you know who are destroying these habitats to make dream catchers.
Bill Introduced To Ban Sale of MA15+ Games To Anyone Under 18 in SA
"15 plus" games can't be used by 15, 16 and 17 year olds? Fuck Aussie, most of you (who aren't on slashdot) lose your virginity age 14. What's with the think of the children brigade?
She was raped and stoned to death after she said this retort, then her sons were killed and daughters taken as wives for the killers. But the joke isn't funny when that piece of realism is added on.
To the people modding the AC down - the parent comment looks like a joke to me.
Despite all my efforts, in 8 years of English classes, I was never even able to get a single teacher or professor to explain to me how he knew there were hidden meanings behind the text that was assigned.
They usually don't know (unless the writer has explicitly stated he wrote about a certain theme), they're talking about meanings that many others see in the texts. It's not unlike science - fundamentalist Christians are saying the same things as you: "Despite 8 years of science class I've never been able to get a single teacher to explain how he knew God doesn't exist."
English doesn't rely on calculating G with spinning weights or comparing changes in DNA over time, but it uses known symbolism, common themes in storytelling, and knowledge of culture and society to infer what a writer may have been implying with his work.
You are a loser.
Good on you.
I recently got Starcraft 2. You don't actually need to be logged in to player single player (you can play as a guest) but you need need a connection to play under your account and get achievements, and more importantly to play against other people.
I knew this when my girlfriend bought me it for Valentines Day. And I accept it. If I didn't have internet I wouldn't have let her buy it.
Oh, you mean like we could already feed, clothe and shelter every single being on this planet.... we just don't.
We can't do that. There'll always be more people to feed and clothe, and our money will run out.
But this professor is being a dickhead. He's predicting things at a time he'll be dead, (which he does for publicity) but he does nothing to actually progress this happening. That's why people think academics are out-of-touch and a waste of taxpayer money.
I'd mod you up if I could. It's always good to see interesting angles about religion.
I always see a lot of good that comes from humanity, and I see a lot of bad that comes from chance (which a Christian might call God).
God gives us disease: other humans research ways to fix it and spend time fixing it for us. God causes earthquakes: humanity forms groups to save the trapped. God causes floods: humans arrange safe accommodation.
Personally I have a lot of faith in humanity. It seems to have overcome a lot of hardship that God cruelly forces on us.
Sorry about late reply. The difference between wages and homeless begging is that (in developed countries) most homeless are there because of substance abuse.
I have to agree with what you've said, but it's not just bagging Christians that is the problem.
Often in Slashdot there are people knowledgeable about certain branches of science. They can often provide insight that hits the sweet spot between the pop-science ad-filled blog that stories link to and the original uninterpretable specialist and dry journal article. That's what I come here for.
Generally, the first 40 comments are people trying to make obvious jokes or trolling, followed by 20 or so dickheads like you and me complaining about the jokes. Fortunately reading the story late in the piece gets the few interesting comments up-rated - which is why I keep coming back.
Anyway, speaking of Christians and exoplanets: Giordano Bruno, one of the first people recorded as speculating that other stars might have planets, was executed by The Catholic Church in 1600.
Giving homeless people cash is enabling them to use more drugs and alcohol. It's a small amount of money for you to feel good about yourself, but to them it's another nail in the coffin. Stop giving them money.
In the late 80s, I bought the Life Science Library and Nature Library published in the 1960s. It was actually in a school garage sale, and my mum and I were on the book table. I initially just wanted to buy a few that interested me (Minerals I think was one of them), but ended up buying every book I could find (wasn't the whole range), giving myself a bulk discount. (I probably only paid about $5 for them all!) I guess I was about 9-10.
I read from those books every single night before bed. I learned an incredible amount despite them being out-of-date. (Some of the books talked about the possibility of man on the moon and JFK being alive.) I remember copying a picture of "the cell" for high school biology. The cells had "mortise and tenon" junctions holding them together.
But still, I had way above average knowledge of every scientific fact required in science classes as a 13 and 14 year old. Plus the articles on The Mind (and I think most of the volumes) had tonnes of famous artworks included, so I learned some of the humanities which I wouldn't have otherwise looked at. I still have these books at my parents' home. I owe them my career and much of my intellect.
Maybe nowadays kids go to bed with a tablet and read Wikipedia or HowItWorks. But there's so much distraction on the internet. After looking at the topless African women, I'd be able to read about Matter, Energy or The Earth. I think as a kid nowadays I'd be stuck on 4chan or something.
It's here:
http://au.pc.ign.com/objects/003/003880.html
And it's not very good.
Oh no, someone who might be trying to make money! What a bad thing to do! He must be stopped immediately.
Good on him for opening up the code base.
First world problems.
The world is not a terrible place. The world is a wonderful place.
"I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world"