Some rich people drive crappy old Honda Civics.

Citation?

and bitcoin does poke north of 100k each

*teehee*

I can get you a good deal on some beanie babies.

Boy there must be a lot of drug addicts that shop at Dell, TigerDirect, and Overstock.

Not to mention the ones working there.

Hey, I have a question about FPGA. I know almost nothing about them.

Can they be re-configured once the blocks are programmed? I don't know anything about processor design, but I'm curious if FPGAs are the kind of thing you configure once for a particular application and then that's it or if they can be reconfigured again later for another application.

See, I told you I don't know anything about these things. If it's a really stupid question, I'm apologize. I read a blurb about FPGA and was wondering.

They very much do. Some 60% of the workforce works for corporations, most of them large. What do you think happens to their job if that corporation isn't profitable?

That's not exactly what I said.

Workers don't necessarily do better because a company's profits went from 30% to 60%. Not any more, at least.

We now have data on NAFTA, CAFTA and other "free trade" agreements. They all resulted in an upward redistribution of wealth.

A German wouldn't have made this mistake!

...and lived.

Wait, there are updates for Windows?

Uh-oh.

And now, 25 years later, we've got nerdy hipsters with bad tattoos and goatees clogging up coffee shops with their Macbooks, using up bandwidth downloading Apple updates, nursing small lattes for six hours while they tweet about their miserable lives.

At least now we know who to blame.

That weird ass passive aggressive ad hominem above is your usual response.

"Passive aggressive"? If the aggression in my post is coming across as passive, then I'm not communicating well.

I pay attention to posters' names too, and I've been following your posts, and I'm starting to think that you may have multiple personality disorder.

In 1987, the average time-served for 2nd degree murder in Florida was 6.8 years [state.fl.us]. That is more than five, but that is the average, so many murders served less time.

Do you know how to read a graph?

If you look at the page you link to, you will see that the 6,8 year average for second degree murder was twenty years ago. The average by 2003 climbed to 21,6 years and the average murderer close to 27 years.

Now, since your original statement was in the present tense I'm still going to have to go ahead and call bullshit. The average SECOND DEGREE murder convictee will spend 21.6 years in the joint as of 2003, and the sentences were on the rise at that time. With all the mandatory sentencing laws going around, I will bet you that the average is higher today, ten years later.

Also, remember we're talking about Florida. If you're white and you kill a black guy in Florida, and you pay a $25 fine and get two tickets to a Marlins game and a coupon for more ammo.

So, there's still no indication that "many murderer spend less than 5 years in jail". You wanna hit up the Google and take another shot at it? I've got nothing to do tonight.

The policy manual where I work spells out all kinds of things

And all to shield the company from liability.

It must be understood that these "policies" prohibiting already illegal activity are not for the benefit of the employees, but for the benefit of shareholders and management. If they thought it would boost he bottom line to have rampant sexual harassment, they'd be spiking the water cooler with viagra and giving roofies to the receptionist.

Here's one:

That's an interesting definition of "many". Two examples. One of them "potential". And one in, wait for it...Portugal. Those add up to a very damning indictment of the US justice system.

"They're legion, I tell you, just so...many murderers getting out in less than five years!"

And wait a minute...what's this? Why wouldn't you count the nine months awaiting trail against your sentence? So, when I add all those up, and carry the one, and multiply by a million, I get a grand total of ZERO EXAMPLES OF MURDERERS GETTING OUT IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS.

So, by my reckoning, that means you and your buddy ShanghaiBill are a little bit full of shit on this one, pal. Not many, not one. Not. Any.

Many murderers spend less than 5 years in jail.

I'm going to have to go ahead and ask for a citation on that one, bro.

I'm pretty sure this new crater is just Nikola Tesla playing with his time machine again. After what he did to Tunguska, you'd think Russia would just ask him nicely to stay away or do his experiments in Canada or something.

Hell, he could do them in Alberta and nobody would notice if the whole province was sent 50 years back in time. Except the hockey players wouldn't be wearing helmets. They'd notice that right away.