If you need any more evidence that Alphabet trolls Slashdot, down voting everything that doesn't agree with their company goals, look no further than articles like this one. Everything comment even slightly critical of their new Snowflake mode, will be down-voted nigh instantly.
Quit catering to pussies. Let people block and then quit trying to censor people into being Stepford users online. If someone doesn't like something some mean person says, they can block. Otherwise stay the hell out of people's way.
Trying to cram everybody into the snowflake generation will never be easy, will never work well and will always screw someone out of an opinion.
Net Neutrality was an abomination masquerading as freedom. The government cannot do anything well or cheaply. The internet grew up and matured with out net neutrality and is better off with government sticking their fingers in it.
And if you don't know that the NRA is the premier civil rights organization today, you are simply uninformed. Learn history and why we have the 2A.
They don't need to be paid. They need to find new jobs. Become qualified or explore new opportunities, but the whole country shouldn't pay them silly amounts of money simply because a stamp-licking robot took their job.
I didn't work through college and pay off my debt so you can get a free ride. If you didn't get a degree worth more than minimum wage, you screwed up. The rest of the country doesn't need to shoulder your poor decisions.
So the take away from this is probably not going to work in SJW's favor. As a business owner, I would not hire someone whom I feel is a legal risk. Next time some SJW type comes in for an interview, that would be a GIANT RED FLAG.
And ^this^ is why American education systems are failing. Kids don't know shit about history, don't know what fascism is, don't know what what liberalism even means. Thank you for proving our point.
Don't confuse anti-US College with anti-education. The republicans simply don't believe the US colleges teach. Much like the public school systems have been failing our children, the universities in the US have gone bat-shit crazy with the liberal arts. Instead of teaching, they are indoctrinating naive young adults into a moronic social Marxist ideology: safe spaces, trigger warnings, deplatforming everyone they don't like, extreme anti-white cis male sentiment being taught in classrooms. It's not just a single instance, Missou, Yale, Evergreen and in Canada you have the BS going on with Toronto University and Jordan Peterson.
College has never been the only way to become educated. It was just the best/easiest. They no longer are.
Why build up $40k in student loans, earning a degree in XYZ Studies, to find out that you are still only qualified to work at Starbucks.
America runs on a series of checks and balances: congress can create a law and the president can sign it or override it with a veto; if the president vetoes it, then an overwhelming vote in congress can override the veto; if a bill is passed in congress and the president signs it into law then the supreme court can still strike it down if it isn't constitutional; and if all of these things fail, Americans can vote people into office whose ideas are more closely aligned with their own.
However, if the American people are denied the very knowledge that their government is acting in a way anathema to the interests of a free society, we cannot make a knowledgeable decision when we vote. The penultimate check and balance Americans have at their disposal will be based on opinions created with misinformation or no knowledge at all of what their chosen representative's are actually doing.
The American public cannot be left in the dark and still make informed decisions when we choose the people to represent us in government.
If someone wants to murder someone else, they will not be deterred by the illegality of printing a gun or the other 20 or so laws they have to break before and after the murder.
You are brainwashed if you think current Democrats are center-right. Go read what JFK proposed just 50 years ago and compare that to what Obama does today.
I always love reading Slashdot opinions on business topics. They're hilarious--people with more opinions than experience lamenting that some evil one-percenter is just screwing the poor hard working folks to get that extra nickle on their bonus. How, if they were in charge of a business, they would give lavish pay and benefits, be a champion of the little man and show those fat cats up.
But they aren't in charge of a business and never have been. The closest most people here get to owning a business is claiming the room they keep their computer in as a home office on their taxes. They have never had to hire or fire people working for them, not as some department manager firing one of his staff, but as an executive of a company having to make an existential business decision to fire an employee or jeopardize a department, layoff an entire department or risk shutting down an entire building, or close an entire plant or risk losing the company.
Having to make decisions based not on fanciful ideals they once had a really good gut feeling about, but actual deadlines, cash flow statements, unpaid client bills, rent and mortgage changes, supplier price fluctuations, insurance costs, tax liabilities, regulation compliance and fickle state and federal legislatures who love to pass feel-good laws, changes one's ideas of business. The chief executive of Titan made a decision based on over two-decades of executive business experience. He was an engineer before that, so he can't be too stupid. I wager he knows his industry better than anyone on Slashdot and his company better than everyone on Slashdot combined. And yet, as always, Mountain Dew slurping, mouse jocky experts come out of the woodwork to criticize him because he's a successful businessman making successful business decisions.
Yes, you may never have run so much as a lemonade stand, but I'm sure you can run circles around a guy with 23 years of experience running a $1.2 billion company.
On 9/11 I lived in suburb of Denver,CO. I had no ties to New York or Washington DC. However, I did have a good friend and co-worker from my department visiting New York. She went to a training seminar and was on the 106th floor of Tower 1 when the plane hit. My boss, who used to live in New York said she lost 7 close friends that she knew of; her husband lost a lot more. My aunt lived through the LA riots with nothing more than a broken windshield and shaken nerves. I had several friends from high school living in New Orleans when Katrina hit, though luckily none of them were hurt. I've lived in the Denver area for 15 years and I had dozens of coworkers with children in Columbine High School the day that place became famous and I currently live 5 miles from the theater in Aurora, CO where a recent mass murder took place.
Believing you cannot be affected simply because you are not currently an obvious target always seemed childishly naive to me. The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared". I cannot think of any way one's life could be bettered by doing otherwise.
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Sony was entrusted with something they needed to keep secure. They failed. If I give money to a bank and some guy is able to take that money by kicking in the back door, then yes, the robber should go to jail, but the bank deserves blame too for not sufficiently securing what they were entrusted with.
nip
A regulation soccer field is 100x70 yards or 91440x64008mm. That's a total of 5852891520mm^2. The soccer fields FTA are 4.65mm^2 (including the goals, they aren't rectangular). They are 1/1,258,686,348 the size of a regular soccer field. Nano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-) means 1 billionth. These soccer fields are slightly less than 1 billionth the size of a normal soccer field and are therefore "Nano-Soccer Fields".
I'm astonished by how much BS surrounds this topic. For some reason, people here adamantly refuse to believe the Democrats are blocking the permanent ban. I looked around and easily found quite a bit of information about this bill and the two Senate bills (S.156 and S.2128) on the same topic. I understand people not knowing or caring about politics; it's a fairly complex subject. But when people try to root for their party with BS, I really have to wonder about their motives and intelligence. It's like arguing whether 2+2=4 with some guy holding a calculator. Look the information up!
There are two Senate bills that deal with making this ban permanent. S.2128 was sponsored by a Republican and has 8 Republican co-sponsors and NO Democrats. S.156 was sponsored by a Democrat and has 20 Republican co-sponsors and 3 Democrat co-sponsors. This isn't a close or ambiguous call, it's a landslide: Making the moratorium on Internet access taxes permanent is a Republican issue. They sponsor and co-sponsor these bills by more than a 5-1 margin.
No, that's the best I could do with about 5 minutes of searching on Google. If you have issues with those sources, please provide links that contend differently.
The Democrats are in control of the Senate and House. They are the ones that set the day-to-day agenda, have majorities on subcommittees and can block voting on bills. The Republicans can only block a vote by filibustering. Read the following articles and you will see exactly why I blame the Democrats for blocking the bill: Because the Democrats are blocking the bill. It isn't up for debate; it is a verifiable fact.
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Apparently you need to refresh the page. Look at all the comments that have already been zeroed. Notice anything?
Disagreeing with someone isn't Trolling.
If you need any more evidence that Alphabet trolls Slashdot, down voting everything that doesn't agree with their company goals, look no further than articles like this one. Everything comment even slightly critical of their new Snowflake mode, will be down-voted nigh instantly.
...you don't know politics. I suspect the costs to soar even higher than this estimate and will take 3x as long.
Quit catering to pussies. Let people block and then quit trying to censor people into being Stepford users online. If someone doesn't like something some mean person says, they can block. Otherwise stay the hell out of people's way. Trying to cram everybody into the snowflake generation will never be easy, will never work well and will always screw someone out of an opinion.
Net Neutrality was an abomination masquerading as freedom. The government cannot do anything well or cheaply. The internet grew up and matured with out net neutrality and is better off with government sticking their fingers in it. And if you don't know that the NRA is the premier civil rights organization today, you are simply uninformed. Learn history and why we have the 2A.
They don't need to be paid. They need to find new jobs. Become qualified or explore new opportunities, but the whole country shouldn't pay them silly amounts of money simply because a stamp-licking robot took their job.
I didn't work through college and pay off my debt so you can get a free ride. If you didn't get a degree worth more than minimum wage, you screwed up. The rest of the country doesn't need to shoulder your poor decisions.
So the take away from this is probably not going to work in SJW's favor. As a business owner, I would not hire someone whom I feel is a legal risk. Next time some SJW type comes in for an interview, that would be a GIANT RED FLAG.
Essentially, the Obama administration was using the DOJ and FBI to aid HRC to win the election.
And ^this^ is why American education systems are failing. Kids don't know shit about history, don't know what fascism is, don't know what what liberalism even means. Thank you for proving our point.
Don't confuse anti-US College with anti-education. The republicans simply don't believe the US colleges teach. Much like the public school systems have been failing our children, the universities in the US have gone bat-shit crazy with the liberal arts. Instead of teaching, they are indoctrinating naive young adults into a moronic social Marxist ideology: safe spaces, trigger warnings, deplatforming everyone they don't like, extreme anti-white cis male sentiment being taught in classrooms. It's not just a single instance, Missou, Yale, Evergreen and in Canada you have the BS going on with Toronto University and Jordan Peterson.
College has never been the only way to become educated. It was just the best/easiest. They no longer are.
Why build up $40k in student loans, earning a degree in XYZ Studies, to find out that you are still only qualified to work at Starbucks.
America runs on a series of checks and balances: congress can create a law and the president can sign it or override it with a veto; if the president vetoes it, then an overwhelming vote in congress can override the veto; if a bill is passed in congress and the president signs it into law then the supreme court can still strike it down if it isn't constitutional; and if all of these things fail, Americans can vote people into office whose ideas are more closely aligned with their own.
However, if the American people are denied the very knowledge that their government is acting in a way anathema to the interests of a free society, we cannot make a knowledgeable decision when we vote. The penultimate check and balance Americans have at their disposal will be based on opinions created with misinformation or no knowledge at all of what their chosen representative's are actually doing.
The American public cannot be left in the dark and still make informed decisions when we choose the people to represent us in government.
If someone wants to murder someone else, they will not be deterred by the illegality of printing a gun or the other 20 or so laws they have to break before and after the murder.
You are brainwashed if you think current Democrats are center-right. Go read what JFK proposed just 50 years ago and compare that to what Obama does today.
I always love reading Slashdot opinions on business topics. They're hilarious--people with more opinions than experience lamenting that some evil one-percenter is just screwing the poor hard working folks to get that extra nickle on their bonus. How, if they were in charge of a business, they would give lavish pay and benefits, be a champion of the little man and show those fat cats up.
But they aren't in charge of a business and never have been. The closest most people here get to owning a business is claiming the room they keep their computer in as a home office on their taxes. They have never had to hire or fire people working for them, not as some department manager firing one of his staff, but as an executive of a company having to make an existential business decision to fire an employee or jeopardize a department, layoff an entire department or risk shutting down an entire building, or close an entire plant or risk losing the company.
Having to make decisions based not on fanciful ideals they once had a really good gut feeling about, but actual deadlines, cash flow statements, unpaid client bills, rent and mortgage changes, supplier price fluctuations, insurance costs, tax liabilities, regulation compliance and fickle state and federal legislatures who love to pass feel-good laws, changes one's ideas of business. The chief executive of Titan made a decision based on over two-decades of executive business experience. He was an engineer before that, so he can't be too stupid. I wager he knows his industry better than anyone on Slashdot and his company better than everyone on Slashdot combined. And yet, as always, Mountain Dew slurping, mouse jocky experts come out of the woodwork to criticize him because he's a successful businessman making successful business decisions.
Yes, you may never have run so much as a lemonade stand, but I'm sure you can run circles around a guy with 23 years of experience running a $1.2 billion company.
On 9/11 I lived in suburb of Denver,CO. I had no ties to New York or Washington DC. However, I did have a good friend and co-worker from my department visiting New York. She went to a training seminar and was on the 106th floor of Tower 1 when the plane hit. My boss, who used to live in New York said she lost 7 close friends that she knew of; her husband lost a lot more. My aunt lived through the LA riots with nothing more than a broken windshield and shaken nerves. I had several friends from high school living in New Orleans when Katrina hit, though luckily none of them were hurt. I've lived in the Denver area for 15 years and I had dozens of coworkers with children in Columbine High School the day that place became famous and I currently live 5 miles from the theater in Aurora, CO where a recent mass murder took place. Believing you cannot be affected simply because you are not currently an obvious target always seemed childishly naive to me. The Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared". I cannot think of any way one's life could be bettered by doing otherwise. nip
Sony was entrusted with something they needed to keep secure. They failed. If I give money to a bank and some guy is able to take that money by kicking in the back door, then yes, the robber should go to jail, but the bank deserves blame too for not sufficiently securing what they were entrusted with. nip
A regulation soccer field is 100x70 yards or 91440x64008mm. That's a total of 5852891520mm^2. The soccer fields FTA are 4.65mm^2 (including the goals, they aren't rectangular). They are 1/1,258,686,348 the size of a regular soccer field. Nano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-) means 1 billionth. These soccer fields are slightly less than 1 billionth the size of a normal soccer field and are therefore "Nano-Soccer Fields".
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Buy $348 Billion more in cell phone services and try it again.
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I'm astonished by how much BS surrounds this topic. For some reason, people here adamantly refuse to believe the Democrats are blocking the permanent ban. I looked around and easily found quite a bit of information about this bill and the two Senate bills (S.156 and S.2128) on the same topic. I understand people not knowing or caring about politics; it's a fairly complex subject. But when people try to root for their party with BS, I really have to wonder about their motives and intelligence. It's like arguing whether 2+2=4 with some guy holding a calculator. Look the information up!
There are two Senate bills that deal with making this ban permanent. S.2128 was sponsored by a Republican and has 8 Republican co-sponsors and NO Democrats. S.156 was sponsored by a Democrat and has 20 Republican co-sponsors and 3 Democrat co-sponsors. This isn't a close or ambiguous call, it's a landslide: Making the moratorium on Internet access taxes permanent is a Republican issue. They sponsor and co-sponsor these bills by more than a 5-1 margin.
No, that's the best I could do with about 5 minutes of searching on Google. If you have issues with those sources, please provide links that contend differently.
The Democrats are in control of the Senate and House. They are the ones that set the day-to-day agenda, have majorities on subcommittees and can block voting on bills. The Republicans can only block a vote by filibustering. Read the following articles and you will see exactly why I blame the Democrats for blocking the bill: Because the Democrats are blocking the bill. It isn't up for debate; it is a verifiable fact.
http://www.user-groups.net/safenet/internet_tax.html [user-groups.net] http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/014895.php [captainsquartersblog.com] http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002605139.html [cq.com] http://www.congress.org/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=10412161 [congress.org]
http://www.user-groups.net/safenet/internet_tax.html http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/014895.php http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002605139.html http://www.congress.org/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=10412161 Even if you RTFA you can tell it's the Democrats that are blocking. 'The Senate, which must act next on the legislation, has "in many ways made it clear that a permanent moratorium would be dead on arrival,"' The Democrats hold the House and the Senate.