The aqueduct.

which is the narrative. Their Narrative was that unless you are part of the 1%, they aren't going to take your money, because you don't have any (the 1% has all the money). Whether you agree with the narrative or not, it was an effective one.

Cricket sold me the phone for $400, and is about $15/mo cheaper than any provider (even with my work discount). Also, I don't have to worry about my kid running up a huge bandwidth bill. The service tends to be faster too, but that's just my area.

when we're told from day one as children that America is the greatest country on Earth? It was mostly young people that aren't as jaded as you and I, and You're taught to believe that we're all basically Americans and in the end we'd come together, work together and prosper together. I seriously doubt they were expecting to have counter terrorism groups hand them their asses. That's the sort of thing that happens in Syria, not America...

he's mentally ill. OWS was just the thing he latched onto. There would have been something else. Also, the FBI wasn't watching guys like him, it was watching the leaders of the movement in an obvious effort to shut it down.

OWS had one unforgivable sin: it offered a working and likable alternative narrative. Right now the only narrative in American society is that if you work hard and play by the rules you'll succeed, and if you didn't it's your own damn fault and you're a bad person. It's prosperity gospel by any other name. OWS and the 'We are the 99%' was catchy, simple and made sense. It was a movement that had a real chance, which is why we're even talking about it, and also why it was crushed relentlessly.

In short, you didn't think speech was really free, did you?

and almost everyone I've ever talked to says unless you can already pass compilers in your sleep, you're not going to make it. Start with a years worth of Discrete Math texts and if you can follow that no problem you can make it through years 1 and 2. That said, you can get all the course work from MIT, learn it, and then go get the degree as a formality. It's still hard. There's a lot to do.

this is a scary time. They just massively cut funding to chicken inspectors. If I remember right you get something like 3 seconds to decide if a chicken is fit to eat or not.

1. Madoff ripped off rich people, nobody cared until he then.

2. Sex scandals don't count. They make such great news that everyone gets taken down by them.

3. It's a gov't agency. The rest of us are busy complaining about how private companies get away with murder (HSBC anyone?)

4. And the fine was still significantly less than the profits from the price fixing.

5. See above.

6. See above.

There's a phrase I don't hear often enough: Corporate Death Penalty.

If they're spending their all their time covering their asses instead of doing their jobs there's a reason, and it's because someone's out to get them. At least in the States the powers that be are doing a major push to put working class Americans at the throats of gov't workers that happen to still make a living wage. It's classic divide and conquer tactics. They do the same thing with race baiting.

The key to keeping the poor down is to keep pointing at someone else as the problem. The problem isn't that the rich have 80% of everything, it's those darn Bureaucrats/Unions/Negroes holdin' you back.

Put another way: A Bureaucrat, a Union guy and a Rich man are setting at a table with 10 apples. The Rich Man pulls 8 apples off the table, turns to the Union guy and says "Hey, that guy's gonna steal your apple".

The 3000HD and 4000HD integrated chips are about as good as what you get on a modern console (e.g. on par with a GT 240 with DDR5). That more or less solves the 'I bought a computer and can't play games' problem.

my Droid runs any app I want after checking 1 box, works with any bluetooth device I throw at it (gamepads, mice, keyboard) and has an SD card slot for storage. My only complaint is app devs that are too lazy to give me the option to install to SD (come on guys, it's 1 frickin' line in your manifest)!

is to survive Microsoft moving in on their territory. The Windows 8 App store is a scary thing...

the USSR was not, was never, and probably never will be a socialist country. It was and is a dictatorship that happens to use socialist rhetoric. China also falls into this. I think the best description for both is 'Kleptocracy', government run by thieves stealing for themselves. For a real socialist country see Canada and Germany.

While I'm on the subject, if socialism means nobody will work if they don't have to how come Mitt Romney still has a job?

after a lifetime of getting my ass kicked here I don't have enough to offer true socialist country (they do still have immigration standards). My education was pretty low quality (meant to keep me off the streets while I was young and potentially violent), my falling wages have left me in debt up to my ears with virtually no assets. The one asset I had (a house) is now worthless since I'm stuck moving every few years to go where the work is.

If you look at where creativity and innovation is coming from it's almost exclusively socialist countries. In reality You need a strong safe net to take those risks. The Mitt Romney's of the world never take risks. They're fathers and mothers and buddies shield them from all that.

at any rate I second the sentiment. It's not a War if there is no organized opposition. A few terrorists / Bunch 'o guys with guns != an armed force / Military.