I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
Do it the same way that people fed up with mainstream music and movies have - look at smaller leagues, different games, etc.
If I liked baseball, I'd go see my local team which is just across town. Basketball? College games. Or you can watch something that's not really looked at all that often (at least in America) such as rugby or Irish hurling.
A friend of mine USED to watch the Baltimore Ravens (in fact, the buddy whose website I write on and is linked below) - now he watches rugby. He got sick of the NFL's bullshit (especially with the lockout) and now it's a non-issue because he doesn't watch that stuff anymore.
will eventually tinkle down upon myself.
I think I saw a video like that on Dailymotion a week or so ago...
Instead of attempting to name and shame companies, perhaps instead we should try to find a mega-corp that actually does fairly and honestly pay its full tax bill. How about a bit of positive reporting?
My only guess at such a company would be Chik-Fil-A since they close on Sundays despite the obviously lost business. I have a difficult time thinking of any other companies that would lose money solely on moral grounds like that.
To be honest I'm not entirely sure if "mega-corp" and "plays by the rules" would ever go hand-in-hand, now would they? If you read anything about nearly any big company you hear about how they got their hands dirty squashing the competition and skirting every rule they can. Look at Microsoft with their EEE philosophy.
If Apple went and did that and then gave these workers the opportunity to work and live somewhere that looks more like Cupertino than a favela, then maybe they wouldn't get so much shit over their products.
As someone who grew up with a LOT of Brazilian ex-patriates, it's true. I never heard the end of how lucky I was to be able to get an N.E.S. game for "only" $60-70 from Toys 'R' Us.
Very interesting. Thanks for the insight!
This is largely due to my ignorance of how space travel actually works, but why can't you descend gradually (or more gradually than we already do)? Wouldn't that reduce the overall maximum heat that the craft is exposed to?
Trust is earned and reciprocal. Faith is one-way and expected of you.
No thanks, I'll take something that can be tested over something that can't any day of the week.
Except, apparently, being humble. d=
Oh come on. Magic is all about weird clothes, secret societies, strange languages, darkened catacombs, and a system of mystical thinking that has little bearing on logic. IT is nothing like th-
Mother of god.
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen Roberts
Excuse me, I believe it's "Wuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuuuuuuuuuuuh".
Nitrogen is a bit on the inert side to be useful as life's energy source.
Well, the vast majority of Americans are a bit on the inert side too but we seem to manage just fine.
A friend of mine is writing a book, and I suggested he shake things up a little bit and include multiple "forewords" as well as a "backword". Some poor bastard will get stuck with the last page.
...he liked my idea so much, he gave me the backword.
Happiness is twin floppies.
