Count me in! Manchester's a fucking shithole. It couldn't have been any worse before the bomb, and frankly taking down most of the city centre could only improve it now.
What the fuck makes you think a fission reactor isn't safe?
It's less dangerous than the gas fucking fire. Less likely to kill you, less likely to kill the neighbours, less likely to destroy the building, less likely to poison the dog down the street.
Make it a _big_ fission reactor and sure, there are some additional complications, but fission reactions aren't inherently dangerous, especially at low scale.
Don't believe me? Buy a geiger counter and promise to stab yourself every time it goes 'click' inside your house.
Money laundering is used to invent a paper trail for money you already have, to justify your possession of that money. You cannot fake a lottery-winning paper trail.
Without hitting the Google search the other respondent has linked, money laundering via lottery would be a case of buying a lot of tickets, then when challenged regarding your income point at all the winning tickets.
"I bought one, and spent the winnings on these 30, which all won so I bought these 540, and hey, those won too!"
No need to mention the 8000 losing tickets, and meanwhile you've turned $20k of dirty money into $8k of legitimate lottery winnings, after tax.
Obviously that's a basic principle, and rather more subtlety and a few losing tickets will make it less.. suspicious.
I'm going to try and clear my mortgage in the next three years. I may succeed, I may end up buying a BMW instead. I may lose my job and have to increase the mortgage for a while to afford to live.
Clearing the mortgage will reduce my monthly 'fixed' costs by around a quarter. That's it. I wont become rich, I wont have a massive amount of disposable income, I wont be able to stop working (hell, I wont be able to drop to four days a week).
I may be able to start saving far more in a pension fund for retirement, but frankly I'm more likely to spend it all on flying lessons and start saving up to buy a biplane. You don't need a pension if you've managed to kill yourself before you're fifty.
A million would make a massive difference, but full ownership of the property I live in? Pretty irrelevant.
Picard's Star Trek post-dated Douglas Adams' take on the replicating tea machine, which was a sadly far more likely outcome than the Star Trek ideal.
A far more interesting exploration of replicating technology within the home was in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Although aspects of the exploration within that book went somewhat esoteric it did at least give a hard sci-fi contemplation of the impact of the technology, instead of using it as the background to space opera.
It seems that no one took Google seriously when they labeled Google+ as a beta project. The thing is still under construction and people are complaining that it doesn't work perfectly. Gee, I wonder why.
Maybe it's because the beta service is leading to non-beta services being withdrawn, broken and otherwise fucked up.
Shit, if you can't sandbox your beta then it isn't a beta, it's a badly written live release. And yes, people will complain about that.
Feed in your tweet. Press 'Girl-ify'. Hey presto, all your macho male grunting is converted to fluffy, girly, gender-skewed language.
Ok, lets give that a go:
omg! Feed in your tweet. Press'Girl-ify':) Hey presto, all your "macho" male *grunting* (lol) is converted to fluffy, girly <3 gender-skewed language. yay!
Hmm. Making your sub-140 char message girlified takes it over the 140 char twitter limit. Next piece of research: Do women use more emoticons and throwaway expressions of emotion because they had less to say in the first place and needed to use up the spare characters?
wtf? Either fondle a girl, or watch a movie. I'm a man, I can't focus on both at once.
Cuddling with a pretty girl while watching a movie on the other hand.. that just improves both.
Sex: It's only part of a relationship.
Anyway, we're both assuming peragrin has amorous intentions towards this pretty girl. He might well have no such intent. Hell, it might be his daughter - every father I know cuddles his daughter while watching TV/films, and most of them wouldn't call her anything other than 'pretty' while she's listening.
if he doesn't want to make an exception for a good-size order
The comedy is that $300 is about median for the items he sells, and most of the stuff cheaper than that you'd buy ten at a time anyway. I'd guess his average order isn't far from the price I would've been paying, and many items hit four digits.
Paypal gives him convenience and remarkably little else - his skill is clearly in making stuff and not the business side of is business:)
Indeed. I already have a LinkedIn page, I use my real name there and that's my professional online presence.
I really don't want to link non-professional social networking to that. My google accounts are not in my real name, and if I had a Google+ account that too would not be in my real name.
Names are arbitrary anyway. Maybe I should change my name by deed poll to 'Cederic', sign up to G+ then change it back a few minutes later. All legal, all legit - but somehow, just not signing up feels rather easier.
Still, not accepting PayPal at all would be financial suicide. I'd lose 95% of my sales (assuming I can't afford a merchant account, which I can't), an no amount of other third-party options provided could make up for that.
If I were a merchant I'd have to seriously consider accepting paypal payments. I'd still really try and avoid it.
For £20/month you can get a major UK bank to do the card payments on your behalf, including the cost of 350 transactions a month. For someone selling items at £0.20-£2 that's probably not great; for someone selling a dozen £300 items a month that feels reasonable. I'm sure the US has similar opportunities.
I'd have been willing to walk into a bank, take a transaction charge and either send an International Money Order or a initiate a SWIFT payment. I do it from time to time for other things; it's a hassle, but it's possible. In the UK I can do a direct electronic transfer for free.
I engaged in an email conversation with the vendor to find out what he accepted.
His choice.
Note that $425 purchases are not what I'd call a small purchase. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone taking those sums to accept more reliable payment mechanisms than paypal.
Last night I explicitly chose not to buy something online because the vendor only accepted PayPal payments.
He lost a $425 sale, I lost the chance to buy an item I wanted. PayPal lost credibility with the vendor; they had none with me from the outset.
I agree that they're in a largely monopoly position. I hate that but it doesn't make me play with them. Fuck 'em, and their obnoxious anti-consumerist scams.
You've correlating financial success with political success. That's an unsurprising correlation, but doesn't address the point you were specifically responding to: It shouldn't be a causation.
Right now it's both.
The vote of a poor person should be equally valid as the vote of a rich person, and by 'vote' I mean "ability to influence the outcome of an election".
That's idealistic and pragmatically impossible, but the closer it's possible, the more democratic the election.
(Whether elections should be democratic is a very different argument. Poor people are on average less intelligent, and I don't want policy dictated by stupid people. I'm also uncomfortable with excluding stupid people from the responsibility of participating in society. This is an internal conflict I haven't yet resolved).
My circle of online gaming friends is very distinct from my circle of close friends who are not part of my online community who barely overlap with Slashdot and none of that has any relationship to the people in the dance scene that I engage with online or indeed to the people I work with.
Maybe you want all of those people to know everything there is about you. I don't. I'm not you. I'm not like you. I'm not even me, I'm a subset of me that I choose to share with different groups of people. Only my lovers get to see the whole me.
Because I'm sure he wouldn't see his own career as a failure, especially since he's probably too busy counting all of his money to care about what others think.
Where I come from people value more than just money.
The fact is that there are so many mouths to feed. I wish I could bring you over here so you can see for yourself.
So grow some fucking food. Teach people to use birth control. Educate your women (and yes, that's scientifically demonstrated to reduce birth rates and improve quality of life). Emigrate. Build an industry that can generate the export funds needed to buy food from elsewhere.
There's a fuck of a lot that can be done, wherever you are, that doesn't involve overfishing. This includes letting nature take its course: overpopulation leads to starvation and death. Don't expect me to cry about it, life's too fucking short.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not exactly new or difficult:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/99/05/20/1320256/Students-Build-Reactor-For-Scavenger-Hunt
(which you're surely one of the few people on here that can remember being originally posted)
Count me in! Manchester's a fucking shithole. It couldn't have been any worse before the bomb, and frankly taking down most of the city centre could only improve it now.
What the fuck makes you think a fission reactor isn't safe?
It's less dangerous than the gas fucking fire. Less likely to kill you, less likely to kill the neighbours, less likely to destroy the building, less likely to poison the dog down the street.
Make it a _big_ fission reactor and sure, there are some additional complications, but fission reactions aren't inherently dangerous, especially at low scale.
Don't believe me? Buy a geiger counter and promise to stab yourself every time it goes 'click' inside your house.
When you buy stock, you could end up owning nothing. Companies can fail.
Happened to a few banks recently..
Money laundering is used to invent a paper trail for money you already have, to justify your possession of that money. You cannot fake a lottery-winning paper trail.
Without hitting the Google search the other respondent has linked, money laundering via lottery would be a case of buying a lot of tickets, then when challenged regarding your income point at all the winning tickets.
"I bought one, and spent the winnings on these 30, which all won so I bought these 540, and hey, those won too!"
No need to mention the 8000 losing tickets, and meanwhile you've turned $20k of dirty money into $8k of legitimate lottery winnings, after tax.
Obviously that's a basic principle, and rather more subtlety and a few losing tickets will make it less.. suspicious.
I'm going to try and clear my mortgage in the next three years. I may succeed, I may end up buying a BMW instead. I may lose my job and have to increase the mortgage for a while to afford to live.
Clearing the mortgage will reduce my monthly 'fixed' costs by around a quarter. That's it. I wont become rich, I wont have a massive amount of disposable income, I wont be able to stop working (hell, I wont be able to drop to four days a week).
I may be able to start saving far more in a pension fund for retirement, but frankly I'm more likely to spend it all on flying lessons and start saving up to buy a biplane. You don't need a pension if you've managed to kill yourself before you're fifty.
A million would make a massive difference, but full ownership of the property I live in? Pretty irrelevant.
Picard's Star Trek post-dated Douglas Adams' take on the replicating tea machine, which was a sadly far more likely outcome than the Star Trek ideal.
A far more interesting exploration of replicating technology within the home was in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Although aspects of the exploration within that book went somewhat esoteric it did at least give a hard sci-fi contemplation of the impact of the technology, instead of using it as the background to space opera.
It seems that no one took Google seriously when they labeled Google+ as a beta project. The thing is still under construction and people are complaining that it doesn't work perfectly. Gee, I wonder why.
Maybe it's because the beta service is leading to non-beta services being withdrawn, broken and otherwise fucked up.
Shit, if you can't sandbox your beta then it isn't a beta, it's a badly written live release. And yes, people will complain about that.
I'd agree. A woman wouldn't say they write differently, she'd say they are better at articulating themselves or are more expressive.
Men are happy to acknowledge that there is a difference and move on.
mmm, faggots. Damn you, you've made me hungry.
http://www.tesco.com/superstore/xpi/5/xpi50150805.htm
maybe some spotted dick for pudding too:
http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=262754870
Feed in your tweet. Press 'Girl-ify'. Hey presto, all your macho male grunting is converted to fluffy, girly, gender-skewed language.
Ok, lets give that a go:
omg! Feed in your tweet. Press'Girl-ify' :) Hey presto, all your "macho" male *grunting* (lol) is converted to fluffy, girly <3 gender-skewed language. yay!
Hmm. Making your sub-140 char message girlified takes it over the 140 char twitter limit. Next piece of research: Do women use more emoticons and throwaway expressions of emotion because they had less to say in the first place and needed to use up the spare characters?
Indeed. Binary gender fields should be banned.
wtf? Either fondle a girl, or watch a movie. I'm a man, I can't focus on both at once.
Cuddling with a pretty girl while watching a movie on the other hand.. that just improves both.
Sex: It's only part of a relationship.
Anyway, we're both assuming peragrin has amorous intentions towards this pretty girl. He might well have no such intent. Hell, it might be his daughter - every father I know cuddles his daughter while watching TV/films, and most of them wouldn't call her anything other than 'pretty' while she's listening.
if he doesn't want to make an exception for a good-size order
The comedy is that $300 is about median for the items he sells, and most of the stuff cheaper than that you'd buy ten at a time anyway. I'd guess his average order isn't far from the price I would've been paying, and many items hit four digits.
Paypal gives him convenience and remarkably little else - his skill is clearly in making stuff and not the business side of is business :)
Indeed. I already have a LinkedIn page, I use my real name there and that's my professional online presence.
I really don't want to link non-professional social networking to that. My google accounts are not in my real name, and if I had a Google+ account that too would not be in my real name.
Names are arbitrary anyway. Maybe I should change my name by deed poll to 'Cederic', sign up to G+ then change it back a few minutes later. All legal, all legit - but somehow, just not signing up feels rather easier.
Still, not accepting PayPal at all would be financial suicide. I'd lose 95% of my sales (assuming I can't afford a merchant account, which I can't), an no amount of other third-party options provided could make up for that.
If I were a merchant I'd have to seriously consider accepting paypal payments. I'd still really try and avoid it.
For £20/month you can get a major UK bank to do the card payments on your behalf, including the cost of 350 transactions a month. For someone selling items at £0.20-£2 that's probably not great; for someone selling a dozen £300 items a month that feels reasonable. I'm sure the US has similar opportunities.
I'd have been willing to walk into a bank, take a transaction charge and either send an International Money Order or a initiate a SWIFT payment. I do it from time to time for other things; it's a hassle, but it's possible. In the UK I can do a direct electronic transfer for free.
Oh well, his choice.
I engaged in an email conversation with the vendor to find out what he accepted.
His choice.
Note that $425 purchases are not what I'd call a small purchase. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone taking those sums to accept more reliable payment mechanisms than paypal.
Last night I explicitly chose not to buy something online because the vendor only accepted PayPal payments.
He lost a $425 sale, I lost the chance to buy an item I wanted. PayPal lost credibility with the vendor; they had none with me from the outset.
I agree that they're in a largely monopoly position. I hate that but it doesn't make me play with them. Fuck 'em, and their obnoxious anti-consumerist scams.
I did too, until I reached the 'FUCKTARD' comment.
I think had he used 'fuckwit' he'd have kept my respect.
You've correlating financial success with political success. That's an unsurprising correlation, but doesn't address the point you were specifically responding to: It shouldn't be a causation.
Right now it's both.
The vote of a poor person should be equally valid as the vote of a rich person, and by 'vote' I mean "ability to influence the outcome of an election".
That's idealistic and pragmatically impossible, but the closer it's possible, the more democratic the election.
(Whether elections should be democratic is a very different argument. Poor people are on average less intelligent, and I don't want policy dictated by stupid people. I'm also uncomfortable with excluding stupid people from the responsibility of participating in society. This is an internal conflict I haven't yet resolved).
I like keeping different things separate.
My circle of online gaming friends is very distinct from my circle of close friends who are not part of my online community who barely overlap with Slashdot and none of that has any relationship to the people in the dance scene that I engage with online or indeed to the people I work with.
Maybe you want all of those people to know everything there is about you. I don't. I'm not you. I'm not like you. I'm not even me, I'm a subset of me that I choose to share with different groups of people. Only my lovers get to see the whole me.
Whoa! Differentiate between early and late Cameron please.
The Terminator and T2 were excellent films. Aliens is close to being perfect.
I'll concede that he hasn't maintained that level, but he has demonstrated a level of vision, technical skill and artistry far beyond Lucas.
Because I'm sure he wouldn't see his own career as a failure, especially since he's probably too busy counting all of his money to care about what others think.
Where I come from people value more than just money.
(I don't come from America)
The fact is that there are so many mouths to feed. I wish I could bring you over here so you can see for yourself.
So grow some fucking food.
Teach people to use birth control.
Educate your women (and yes, that's scientifically demonstrated to reduce birth rates and improve quality of life).
Emigrate.
Build an industry that can generate the export funds needed to buy food from elsewhere.
There's a fuck of a lot that can be done, wherever you are, that doesn't involve overfishing. This includes letting nature take its course: overpopulation leads to starvation and death. Don't expect me to cry about it, life's too fucking short.
How the hell do you expect to feed 7*10^9 people?
Sustainable food production might be a useful start. Current intensive ocean fishing is not sustainable.
NOT sustainable.
7*10^9 people wont last long on the 5 fish that are left, unless you have a handy stock of Jesus types.