Adoption is supposed to be in the child's best interest, while selling is is supposed to be in the buyer and seller's best interests. I will now summarize the next response, to save time.

"HUUURRRR DUUURG adoption is BAD becuz the GOVERNMENT fucks it up!"

By the time he died, Muhammad has thousands of followers and had converted most of the Arabian Peninsula to Islam. He commanded an army and waged war for years, culminating with the conquest of Mecca.

Pick up a fucking book.

Employment is not slavery.

I don't think you two are going to settle that argument any time soon.

It's used in conjunction with a form of nuclear fusion. Just an intermediate step before plugging them into the Meatrix.

We'll see who's Eyjafjallajoking when it reaches us.

You should have checked Wiktionary, not Wikipedia, duh!

It's a German given name.


Wait, what?

Are they?

You just don't get it - people talk here on Slashdot because they are tired of Wikipedia bureaucratic fights. They don't want to get involved because they've been wounded before and don't want to get shot at again.

I used to work at a soup kitchen, but I got tired of all the beaurocracy. Once I made a pot of soup that didn't meet their byzantine sanitation requirements, and they threw it out! An insult to my perfect cooking! Screw that.

Do you have a few reliable sources that describe the GNAA directly and in detail? If so, I can get the article restored for you.

This is a very popular opinion on Slashdot, but it's simply not true. Notability is determined by sources. In fact, your Pokemon example is particularly dated; in 2007 most of the Pokemon articles were deemed not notable and merged into what's now very well sourced coverage.

General comments against Wikipedia notability get modded up because most people have had something deleted. Specific comments that specify what got deleted get modded down because most of the time it wasn't actually notable at all.

I'm not all talk, though. If anyone reading this ever actually is the victim of some beaurocrat's arbitrary preferences, leave me a message and I'll make sure any article that passes the inclusion requirements gets to stay. There's a whole Article Rescue Squadron full of people who are willing to do something about the problem instead of just whining about it on Slashdot. Yeah, I get it, "I don't have the time to join a Wikipedia group, Wikipedia can go fuck itself, it's a lost cause"... but you've got plenty of time to complain about it here.

Any way of chewing gum at court is highly disrespectful.

That's better than her being late!

Yes, we are uninformed. Link/elaboration please?

Problem is you are basically tying your nation's ability to tax to a single cyclical industry (real estate) instead of the entire economy. Works great when the real estate market is hot and tax revenues crater massively when the real estate market cools off. Asset price bubbles become a HUGE problem.

The problem of real estate bubbles and cyclical prices is in part because land is taxed so little. With a land value tax (or to a lesser extent normal property taxes), people buy less property just for speculation, and buy more to do something actually productive.

It's some bizarre skull!.