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And the democratic process means politicians never get away with corruption. Individual malfeasance usually can't be gotten away with, over the long haul, but collective corruption can, easily.

The sound of each minute flipping by, in the dead of night when you can't sleep.

I had one like this as a kid.

"The door is ajar."

Or car alarms that bark orders at you.

Now we have to listen to a lame digital impersonation of one.

(I guess thank goodness there are no mock autowinder sounds.)

That reminds me, I don't think I've heard the sound of curb feelers since the 70's or so.

Probably because before we in the U.S. drove big-ass boats that you sit high in, we used to drive big-ass boats that you sat lower in.

Mentally s/scientists/cops and reread that. Or replace with "journalists" or "politicians". Everything's been corrupted.

When I was 19 there were songs from the Scorpion's Love At First Sting album in the regular hourly or whatever rotation of songs on Top 40 stations then. It's a trip to think about something along the lines of Rock You Like A Hurricane being played there now.

Because
[x] Fox News
[x] the Wall Street Journal
[x] Wealthy interests
[x] Koch Industries
[x] Right-wing elected officials
[x] well-funded
[x] climate change denialism
[x] deniers-for-hire

I don't get it, if you're willing to use Chrome, you don't care about your privacy, yet you want to use SSL.

I HTTP browse Slashdot's D2 discussion system with FF ESR 31.3.0 for Windows these days, and the only problem I've been experiencing is being on an occasional page here where some resource was getting loaded every 5 seconds, like clockwork. And on my iDiot device the non-mobile version of this site doesn't come up at all anymore, just a continuous rapid reloading. There's so much third-party shit on web sites nowadays it's a wonder they function even part of the time.

"Very mature, well-oiled capitalist machine" conveys Walmart-like acumen, not simply a lack of incompetence.

Also, the political Left has made "capitalist" a dirty word, in modern America at least, so, given the source (NYT) and destination (Slashdot), what I did think about is that it wasn't sensationalist just for click-baiting, for also for Progressive-frothing, in the hopes of sparking your average "Isn't capitalism always criminal anyways?" type discussions. It did afterall go from a sentence in a phone conversation to being selected for the article to being selected for the summary to being selected for the front page.

No, silly, in communist countries the ransom note always reads "If you ever want to see Jane again, you'll gather together the sum of 800 USD and distribute it to each according to his needs"!

But seriously, I like how TFA even arrived at that sensational characterization, in which apparently all your organization needs to do to be a "very mature, well-oiled capitalist machine" is to come up with a brand name and try some pricing.

I'm where I should be, all the time.

And when I'm not, I'm on Slashdot.

In my case, the doctor's office I'm leaving has already called in the prescription, or it's a 90-day jobber that auto-refills, and it's ready by the time I get there, but it's a variably long line to wait in to sign for it/pay for it/take possession of it.

Now that you mention it, if the drug store was smart, they'd allow you to take a number when you arrive, and then you could go shopping in the store while waiting for them to announce "now serving number so-and-so" over the PA system. I might have to be somewhere soon, and if my time is spent standing in line instead of shopping, I might have to pick up other items somewhere else later.

Mostly for the reason I wrote about, to avoid (some) discrimination in hiring. Someone may receive your resume and decide to look you up, and then decide to throw it in the trash because you're transgendered and they don't like that, or because you wrote in favor of legalizing marijuana and they don't like that stance.

Now you may say well I wouldn't want to work for someone who'd discriminate against me that way. And that's fine, for you. For me, I would work for someone who'd discriminate against Conservatives, if they were otherwise good enough bosses and the work was interesting enough and the pay was good.

I want to have maximal opportunities and also at the same time have maximal free speech, and ensuring that anything even possibly remotely controversial goes under a pseudonym instead of linkable to my true identity provides that.