Actually low commodity prices often have a negative impact on the economy. It is not just the rich oil traders that are hurt but the workers in the oil fields, the people in the towns that sell stuff to the oil field works.
That's the neo-liberal hogwash. Oil field economies are almost always in boom or bust cycles. Prices are prices. Most of the country is not an oil field and if you find retired people with their money in oil stocks, please give them a dope slap for me.
If what you say is so, then high gas prices should mean a booming economy and we know that's not true.
Were you asleep for the last two months when the rapid drop in oil prices was threatening to drive us back into another recession?
That was all horseshit. Low oil prices never created a threat of recession. Except maybe a recession in the trading accounts of oil speculators and energy companies.
For everyone else, it was stimulative to the economy to have oil prices low.
How much in tax dollars is being spent to make this happen? More or less, all of that solar (and wind) power is being funded with tax dollars in one form or another. Either with direct rebates, or via tax credits...
Perhaps, if you consider the civilized Eastern Cities, where most of the population was located. But the comment was regarding the "western frontier", where essentially everybody not living in a town would have a weapon, and many of those who were living in a town would as well.
Yes, they would have "a weapon".
Today, the number of guns in the US is equal to the number of men, women and children in the US. The people who own guns own a bunch of guns and there's no way there was a 1:1 ratio between the number of people in the "western frontier" and the number of guns. Think about it. Women and children were unlikely to own guns. They might have access to a family gun, but it's doubtful that a frontier family of a husband, wife and six children would own eight guns. The expense would have been too great. The majority of those people, remember, were sod-busters. The one long-gun inside the front door would have been the extent of their weaponry.
That's a reloader. I was talking about hand-loading, on a single-station press, which is the only way I know to do it.
I've found that at the right gun shop, I can find ammo better than what I can load myself with the old gear. I'm more interesting in shooting sports than I am in all the gun trappings and shooter drag. I've qualified sharpshooter and marksman, though I doubt I could still do it today.
I send my musical instruments to qualified technicians, my car to a mechanic, and I buy my ammo by the box.
I NEVER log in to YouTube - don't even have an account, except perhaps insofar as I have a Gmail account, (which I never use), because of Android. And I DO see the error message. It DOESN'T last the length of an ad - it lasts for a second or two. I'm running both Flashblock and Adblock Edge - Adblock for obvious reasons, and Flashblock because I often have multiple YouTube tabs open and only want one to play at a time. And I have a Greasemonkey script that automatically turns off Autoplay.
I've seen the behavior you describe, but usually only in Firefox. But the "fast forward, then reload original video" technique avoids the error in all situations as far as I can tell. My Firefox has the same setup as yours and instead of the "snow" error, I get a new multi-second delay in the video starting.
"We've been studying primes for a long time, and no one spotted this before," said Andrew Granville, a number theorist at the University of Montreal and University College London. "It's crazy."
I imagine the number theorist in a shower cap screaming "it's crazy as hell!".
As someone who doesn't have a youtube account, I still see the error
Yes, but not until you've watched a bunch of videos with blocked ads. And are you sure you're not logged into Google, maybe for gmail or something? And if you stay off YouTube for a few days, you will find the error has gone away, logged in or not. I don't know how long you have go without a blocked ad to have the error disappear.
It appears that this error may be YouTube's way of punishing people who watch a lot of videos with blocked ads. I don't know exactly what the threshold is, but there definitely seems to be a threshold.
Oh, for some reason, the error doesn't seem to occur when advancing through playlists, either.
It doesn't matter which adblocker you use or which browser you use. I've been following this story closely, and this is what I've learned:
Whether or not you get this error (which lasts as long as an advertisement, by the way) depends on how many ads your YouTube account has blocked recently. For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error. If you switch to a Google (or YouTube) account that you haven't used in a while, you won't get the error. And if a couple of days later you log back in with the original account, you won't get the error. But if you watch a bunch of videos with ads that get blocked, the error will start again.
And yes, it doesn't matter which adblocking software you use. uBlock users are reporting the error as well. YouTube support has basically said, "This is happening because of something we did, but it wasn't intentional. And since it wasn't intentional, we're not going to do anything about it, so you'll have to contact your adblocker's support."
If I want to post about you on Facebook, I'm gonna go ahead and post about you on Facebook. I brought you into this world and by god I will take you out again.
The liquor stores and gas stations I go to all have security cameras out the ass, so that wouldn't seem to help much.
If you think about it a second, you'll see why having a security camera at the point of sale does not tell you who is using a phone. Is there a law against me buying a burner phone and giving it to someone else?
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That's the neo-liberal hogwash. Oil field economies are almost always in boom or bust cycles. Prices are prices. Most of the country is not an oil field and if you find retired people with their money in oil stocks, please give them a dope slap for me.
If what you say is so, then high gas prices should mean a booming economy and we know that's not true.
That's like saying, "There can't be global warming, because it's cold outside today!"
So, what you're saying is, the fact that gas prices are lower today is PROOF that Obama's been trying to raise gas prices?
I'm surprised you have the brains to draw breath.
Just in case some Slashdot editor with a fourth grade education notices this headline and fixes it, I want to preserve it for all time. Here it is:
Yes, someone actually made that headline.
I've taught English, and the title sentence makes me want to go to Vegas, shoot heroin, have sex with nasty hookers and then drown in a swimming pool.
My life has been for naught.
That was all horseshit. Low oil prices never created a threat of recession. Except maybe a recession in the trading accounts of oil speculators and energy companies.
For everyone else, it was stimulative to the economy to have oil prices low.
Gas prices are lower today than they were during the Bush Administration.
You stupid sonofabitch.
You dumb shit.
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Yes, they would have "a weapon".
Today, the number of guns in the US is equal to the number of men, women and children in the US. The people who own guns own a bunch of guns and there's no way there was a 1:1 ratio between the number of people in the "western frontier" and the number of guns. Think about it. Women and children were unlikely to own guns. They might have access to a family gun, but it's doubtful that a frontier family of a husband, wife and six children would own eight guns. The expense would have been too great. The majority of those people, remember, were sod-busters. The one long-gun inside the front door would have been the extent of their weaponry.
That's a reloader. I was talking about hand-loading, on a single-station press, which is the only way I know to do it.
I've found that at the right gun shop, I can find ammo better than what I can load myself with the old gear. I'm more interesting in shooting sports than I am in all the gun trappings and shooter drag. I've qualified sharpshooter and marksman, though I doubt I could still do it today.
I send my musical instruments to qualified technicians, my car to a mechanic, and I buy my ammo by the box.
I understand. That's why I specified handload.
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I've seen the behavior you describe, but usually only in Firefox. But the "fast forward, then reload original video" technique avoids the error in all situations as far as I can tell. My Firefox has the same setup as yours and instead of the "snow" error, I get a new multi-second delay in the video starting.
Donald Trump has announced that he's going to make Open Source great again by putting the "SS" back in "OSS".
I imagine the number theorist in a shower cap screaming "it's crazy as hell!".
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When I'm president, we're only gonna have elegant, classy science. Science Americans can be proud of, alright?
Yes, but not until you've watched a bunch of videos with blocked ads. And are you sure you're not logged into Google, maybe for gmail or something? And if you stay off YouTube for a few days, you will find the error has gone away, logged in or not. I don't know how long you have go without a blocked ad to have the error disappear.
It appears that this error may be YouTube's way of punishing people who watch a lot of videos with blocked ads. I don't know exactly what the threshold is, but there definitely seems to be a threshold.
Oh, for some reason, the error doesn't seem to occur when advancing through playlists, either.
It doesn't matter which adblocker you use or which browser you use. I've been following this story closely, and this is what I've learned:
Whether or not you get this error (which lasts as long as an advertisement, by the way) depends on how many ads your YouTube account has blocked recently. For example, if you log out of your YouTube account you won't get the error. If you switch to a Google (or YouTube) account that you haven't used in a while, you won't get the error. And if a couple of days later you log back in with the original account, you won't get the error. But if you watch a bunch of videos with ads that get blocked, the error will start again.
And yes, it doesn't matter which adblocking software you use. uBlock users are reporting the error as well. YouTube support has basically said, "This is happening because of something we did, but it wasn't intentional. And since it wasn't intentional, we're not going to do anything about it, so you'll have to contact your adblocker's support."
Yet strangely, all Swedes are named, "Sven".
If I want to post about you on Facebook, I'm gonna go ahead and post about you on Facebook. I brought you into this world and by god I will take you out again.
And stop eating all the cereal.
Only a small percentage of gun owners have the patience to hand-load. I've done it, and it's slow going.
There were far fewer guns per capita in the 1800s than today.
If you think about it a second, you'll see why having a security camera at the point of sale does not tell you who is using a phone. Is there a law against me buying a burner phone and giving it to someone else?
Because corporations do most of the data collection.
Maybe it's time for government to protect citizens and regulate corporations instead of the other way around.