Let's be clear: Corporations are the aggregation of capital. Unions are the aggregation of labor. If you think one is a good thing, you have to accept the other as necessary.
In fact, as that famous socialist Abraham Lincoln said, "Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Slashdot has missed the two biggest stories in tech this week, both of which happen to be feelgood stories.
1) Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) liked an incest-porn video with his Twitter account.
2) Martin Shkreli had his $5 million bail revoked and was put in jail for shitposting. He sent out a message on Facebook offering $5000 if someone would snip a lock of Hillary Clinton's hair. The judge deemed Shkreli a "menace to society". He will sit in jail while awaiting the appeal of his conviction for securities fraud.
i think it depends on what you mean. "falling for it" in the sense that some guy is making money off it? sure, in that case i fell for it.
if you mean actually believing that hillary was on her deathbed or that bernie was really an alien, no, never fell for that. sure shared it to laugh at it however
You "fell for it" in both senses, because you amplified the message. Whether or not you believe the message was true, or whether you laughed at it simply does not matter. By amplifying the message, you you are like an asymptomatic carrier of a disease. You may not get sick from it, but many of the people who you inadvertently (or not) infected with the message by sharing it will get sick.
Not everyone has your keen intellect ganjadude. Many will take the fake stories you shared at face value.
Wasn't there a study that showed that folks that vent online were less likely to grab a semiautomatic.233 and a few banana clips and shoot up the place?
California has the most abused disability system in the continental US and still owes the federal unemployment trust fund a metric buttload of money they haven't paid back, resulting in employers paying way higher federal unemployment tax for their operations in that state - the only state still with a deficit. The lack of accountability in CA with government spending is absolutely staggering and it drives up costs for employers and employees alike.
Yes, this is a horrible place. Promise me you won't come here. Nobody should come here. kthx.
which means there are 32 states with better debt-to-GDP. California is in the bottom half, which lends statistical weight to the GP post.
No. The debt-to-GDP ratio is about 8.9%. That's pretty damn good. And with the now-balanced budget, it should go even lower.
Yes, California is a high tax state, but you get a lot for your money. I just moved here and so far, it seems like a great bargain, especially after Texas (which is called a "low-tax" state, but has ridiculous property taxes and fees to make up for the lack of state income tax). And California is in the top 10 of states re: per capital income, so it really doesn't seem more expensive to live here.
When I walk outside my house in California, I'm in California. When I walked outside my house in Texas, I was in fucking Texas. You can't put a price tag on being in a beautiful place with lovely weather.
just because people share these things, doesnt mean they fall for them.
Trump-era logic.
Yes, my friend, if you share these stories, you have fallen for them. That's the whole point of their existence - to be shared. Just because you do it, "for the lulz" doesn't mean you have somehow risen above their intended effect.
If "early stage research and development" of something costs $50M plus a few zeroes, then that "something" must be either warp drive research or the cure for death. I don't think this is it.
The F-35 "fighter" jet program will cost $1.1 trillion, and doesn't include a warp drive or immortality.
No, they need to be made an example of by two guys with a blowtorch and power tools. They need to be treated like a black man at a traffic stop.
I'm telling you, there's two ways to do this: 1) You take a few of these crooked CEOs and let Texas execute them (they enjoy that sort of thing down there), or 2) If you don't have the stomach for that, you confiscate all the companies stock. Then you let the former shareholders loose with a blowtorch and power tools. You do this once or twice and no CEO or board of directors will dare fuck around like this again.
Then you watch how fast life becomes better for most people.
Bergquist's findings confirmed that of the 150 movies surveyed, there was only a 12 percent correlation between a movie receiving a bad score and not performing well at the box office. Summer films saw even less of a correlation, with seven percent of lower-scored movies not performing at the box office.
Maybe I'm not looking at this the right way, but isn't the fact that a website is having anywhere from a 7% to 12% correlation with box office numbers kind of significant?
As someone who moved to California just a week ago, I think it's pretty cool that we have pot delivery at all. I just found out that my local dispensary will bring the herb right to your door. I haven't got my medical card yet, because I'm shy about going to a doctor and trying to say I've got some medical condition that requires pot (since I don't, really), and I'm not sure I want to smoke any at all, because it makes me kind of goofy and lazy, but it's still cool. This is a pretty wonderful place. That's how California rolls.
The assertion that Houston doesn't have zoning or has grown without planning is more legend than fact [rice.edu].
If you read the article closely, you'll see that the "de facto zoning" laws that the article talks about only apply to the downtown business district, which saw little flooding and damage.
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Sure, but we have plenty of historical precedence for why only one or the other creates a very bad situation.
So basically, they're saying they were holding it wrong?
Let's be clear: Corporations are the aggregation of capital. Unions are the aggregation of labor. If you think one is a good thing, you have to accept the other as necessary.
In fact, as that famous socialist Abraham Lincoln said, "Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
One of the parasites has already disappeared:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Slashdot has missed the two biggest stories in tech this week, both of which happen to be feelgood stories.
1) Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) liked an incest-porn video with his Twitter account.
2) Martin Shkreli had his $5 million bail revoked and was put in jail for shitposting. He sent out a message on Facebook offering $5000 if someone would snip a lock of Hillary Clinton's hair. The judge deemed Shkreli a "menace to society". He will sit in jail while awaiting the appeal of his conviction for securities fraud.
You "fell for it" in both senses, because you amplified the message. Whether or not you believe the message was true, or whether you laughed at it simply does not matter. By amplifying the message, you you are like an asymptomatic carrier of a disease. You may not get sick from it, but many of the people who you inadvertently (or not) infected with the message by sharing it will get sick.
Not everyone has your keen intellect ganjadude. Many will take the fake stories you shared at face value.
Since people who "pick up a gun" are more likely to kill themselves or family members than anyone else, I don't really see the problem.
No, there was no such study.
Yes, this is a horrible place. Promise me you won't come here. Nobody should come here. kthx.
No. The debt-to-GDP ratio is about 8.9%. That's pretty damn good. And with the now-balanced budget, it should go even lower.
Yes, California is a high tax state, but you get a lot for your money. I just moved here and so far, it seems like a great bargain, especially after Texas (which is called a "low-tax" state, but has ridiculous property taxes and fees to make up for the lack of state income tax). And California is in the top 10 of states re: per capital income, so it really doesn't seem more expensive to live here.
When I walk outside my house in California, I'm in California. When I walked outside my house in Texas, I was in fucking Texas. You can't put a price tag on being in a beautiful place with lovely weather.
There are 17 states with worse debt to GDP ratios than California, including Wisconsin,
Trump-era logic.
Yes, my friend, if you share these stories, you have fallen for them. That's the whole point of their existence - to be shared. Just because you do it, "for the lulz" doesn't mean you have somehow risen above their intended effect.
The F-35 "fighter" jet program will cost $1.1 trillion, and doesn't include a warp drive or immortality.
An F-35 costs a minimum of $165 million, so that $50 mil is less than 1/3.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Bannon's going to be in a different sci-fi movie:
http://statcdn.fandango.com/MP...
They better add a few zeroes to that.
How do gay people "rub your face in it"?
In a lot of the most homophobic parts of the US, "rubbing your face in it" means, "gay people exist", so I'm wondering exactly what you mean.
No, they need to be made an example of by two guys with a blowtorch and power tools. They need to be treated like a black man at a traffic stop.
I'm telling you, there's two ways to do this: 1) You take a few of these crooked CEOs and let Texas execute them (they enjoy that sort of thing down there), or 2) If you don't have the stomach for that, you confiscate all the companies stock. Then you let the former shareholders loose with a blowtorch and power tools. You do this once or twice and no CEO or board of directors will dare fuck around like this again.
Then you watch how fast life becomes better for most people.
Maybe I'm not looking at this the right way, but isn't the fact that a website is having anywhere from a 7% to 12% correlation with box office numbers kind of significant?
My Nexus is still getting updates.
I hope you're referring to the screen on your MacBook Pro.
Who but an Apple fan would actually brag about the fact that his 1.5 year-old phone is still "working fine"?
I keep the dark chocolate covered prunes, cigarettes, and 15 year-old scotch on the other side of the house, so I have to get up once every half-hour.
By the way, if you've never tried dark chocolate covered prunes, you don't know what you're missing.
https://youtu.be/vuo8kD5zF5I
As someone who moved to California just a week ago, I think it's pretty cool that we have pot delivery at all. I just found out that my local dispensary will bring the herb right to your door. I haven't got my medical card yet, because I'm shy about going to a doctor and trying to say I've got some medical condition that requires pot (since I don't, really), and I'm not sure I want to smoke any at all, because it makes me kind of goofy and lazy, but it's still cool. This is a pretty wonderful place. That's how California rolls.
https://youtu.be/R_q6aRwoV3M
If you read the article closely, you'll see that the "de facto zoning" laws that the article talks about only apply to the downtown business district, which saw little flooding and damage.