In the 2010 US national elections there were roughly 90,000,000 votes cast. Thus you had a 1/90,000,000 overall 'affect'. Of course that is further dilluted by your affecting only the politics your state sent to Washington.
Goldman Sachs has a market cap of about 52 billion with a share price of $102. So for $500 you could have the same 'affect' on GS as you do on goverment.
In either case you could work to organize others. The Tea Party affected the government and the Sudan Divestment people are doing a good job on companies. That latter example is a good one for a 'control some shares and organize' model.
You and I both know that isn't how moderation works here, but if some people find totally uninformed rambling to be interesting I guess they are free to moderate accordingly.
Slashdot overall actually has about every opinion possible. Some of the most loved (ie - highly moderated) opinions turn out to be as wrong as they could possibly be.
Consider this gem, particularly "If Apple enters that market with a phone, they're fucked". Fucked with finding warehouse space to store pallets of money, as it turns out.
Though there were plenty of opinions contrary to that one the groupthink doesn't often push them to the top.
Or, if you're not an insurrerable dickhead control freak, stop giving a shit about what other people do with their time when it has no impact on you apart from your inability to prevent yourself from paying attention to it.
If a person can't leave off buying a smartphone + voice and data and texting plan, with 0 degrees of separation between the seller and the stock market, it causes me to question their level of commitment and true understanding of what you describe as "everyone is connected to Wall Street". You'd have to win a contest to get a phone with fewer people between you and an actual 1%er.
If this movement could more accurately focus on chrony capitalism versus capitalism, the duality wouldn't sting as much. But a lot of people just want an excuse to set something on fire and I don't blame them.
A fair portion of what I do for a living involves photographing things in what most people would consider 'conflict zones'.
The reality is that opportunities to photograph anything a news agency would consider interesting in relation to any conflict are few and far between. More often than not it is just not possible to move fast enough, even by helicopter, to get to the fighting while it is still going on unless you are riding along with whomever starts it. Most of it starts fast and ends fast.
You think one day you are sitting in the drive thru at Burger King and some signal goes out and you head into the woods with your SKS to live born again hard.
I know that not to be the way things will go, and I know that you don't know.
I've seen Marine artillery shell a city, and I've seen a team of 6 guys with rifles do their thing with gloves off, against a foe far harder than you and your weekend buddies can fathom. I know how it ended and how it will end again. I still regularly shoot against the best of you and I know your poor form.
Now would be a good time to pretend you were being metaphorical.
None of you people are going to rise up and do anything of the sort, not least because you can't. To people who don't know the history behind the quote it looks tough printed on a T shirt, but we all know that is just tough talk.
And the larger point here is that class warfare has no end because someone always has more than the next guy.
I have a hard time feeling bad for a guy who buys a car that no one has ever tried to conceal will work with only the dealer's pump, then gets mad that it works with only the dealer's pump.
In your analogy, why do people want to buy these cars 'in droves'?
He would no doubt describe my choosing an Apple product over...well I can't think of any real FOSS smartphones that exist...as sleepwalking. That is a tenent of people like Stallman, they always think they know what I need better than I do.
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The same way you affect the government?
In the 2010 US national elections there were roughly 90,000,000 votes cast. Thus you had a 1/90,000,000 overall 'affect'. Of course that is further dilluted by your affecting only the politics your state sent to Washington.
Goldman Sachs has a market cap of about 52 billion with a share price of $102. So for $500 you could have the same 'affect' on GS as you do on goverment.
In either case you could work to organize others. The Tea Party affected the government and the Sudan Divestment people are doing a good job on companies. That latter example is a good one for a 'control some shares and organize' model.
You and I both know that isn't how moderation works here, but if some people find totally uninformed rambling to be interesting I guess they are free to moderate accordingly.
Slashdot overall actually has about every opinion possible. Some of the most loved (ie - highly moderated) opinions turn out to be as wrong as they could possibly be.
Consider this gem, particularly "If Apple enters that market with a phone, they're fucked". Fucked with finding warehouse space to store pallets of money, as it turns out.
Though there were plenty of opinions contrary to that one the groupthink doesn't often push them to the top.
Or, if you are an Apple IP attorney, proof positive that the other models were not designed to avoid infringing Apple's patents.
Or, if you're not an insurrerable dickhead control freak, stop giving a shit about what other people do with their time when it has no impact on you apart from your inability to prevent yourself from paying attention to it.
I hope you don't get sent to mod prison for this.
With that UID you've waited a long time for a sand worm story, and you should be given the latitude to have fun with it.
Tell yourself whatever you must to get what you want.
But we are talking about a smartphone.
If a person can't leave off buying a smartphone + voice and data and texting plan, with 0 degrees of separation between the seller and the stock market, it causes me to question their level of commitment and true understanding of what you describe as "everyone is connected to Wall Street". You'd have to win a contest to get a phone with fewer people between you and an actual 1%er.
If this movement could more accurately focus on chrony capitalism versus capitalism, the duality wouldn't sting as much. But a lot of people just want an excuse to set something on fire and I don't blame them.
Exactly.
Because GOOG, SSNLF, 2498.TW, and T are unconnected in any way to Wall Street.
During the election bias of that sort seemed to be a selling point.
It seems to be functioning quite well right now.
It wasn't until I read your comment that I realized the guy you replied to was describing the bad guys.
I thought he meant the police.
A fair portion of what I do for a living involves photographing things in what most people would consider 'conflict zones'.
The reality is that opportunities to photograph anything a news agency would consider interesting in relation to any conflict are few and far between. More often than not it is just not possible to move fast enough, even by helicopter, to get to the fighting while it is still going on unless you are riding along with whomever starts it. Most of it starts fast and ends fast.
You think one day you are sitting in the drive thru at Burger King and some signal goes out and you head into the woods with your SKS to live born again hard.
I know that not to be the way things will go, and I know that you don't know.
So this.
Wen Ho Lee.
Of course I'm not a 1%er. I don't know about favorite, but I was a pretty good whore for a time.
Feel free to further thrill me with your trick shooting exploits, like that is even half the entrance fee.
I've seen Marine artillery shell a city, and I've seen a team of 6 guys with rifles do their thing with gloves off, against a foe far harder than you and your weekend buddies can fathom. I know how it ended and how it will end again. I still regularly shoot against the best of you and I know your poor form. Now would be a good time to pretend you were being metaphorical.
None of you people are going to rise up and do anything of the sort, not least because you can't. To people who don't know the history behind the quote it looks tough printed on a T shirt, but we all know that is just tough talk.
And the larger point here is that class warfare has no end because someone always has more than the next guy.
I'd have skipped the derp part but you rang the bell with that one.
We'd still have scratch offs though, right?
No, there is a global conspiracy to keep the knolwdge of grammar and spelling in the hands of the Chosen 1%.
I have a hard time feeling bad for a guy who buys a car that no one has ever tried to conceal will work with only the dealer's pump, then gets mad that it works with only the dealer's pump.
In your analogy, why do people want to buy these cars 'in droves'?
He would no doubt describe my choosing an Apple product over...well I can't think of any real FOSS smartphones that exist...as sleepwalking. That is a tenent of people like Stallman, they always think they know what I need better than I do.
So he is pro-slavery?