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Comment: So nice to see validation... (Score 3, Insightful) 136

I have always though that Hollywood executives were completely Idiotic Morons with an IQ around 85.

And this guy has proven it without a shadow of a doubt.

Please hollywood, keep hiring and showcasing complete idiots like this guy. It means you will not see the end coming and will stand there off guard and blindsided when the bitter end whips and smacks them in the face.

Comment: Re:depressing .. (Score 1) 119

Economic fundamentalism. Refusal to believe government can do anything right, simultaneously believing that business and markets can solve all problems for ever-growing profit. Non-profit operation by government vs. profit model. Without brakes put on by regulation, we are being drained by vampire gods of finance. That giant sucking sound your hear is our money going up and out, not stopping to build or fix anything before it disappears into the Caymans.
Example: Social Security administion costs are something like 1-3% of yearly intake. 401Ks and IRAs demand something like 5-10%. The difference? Sheer profit.

Profits that used to go to the customer in the form of investment in the business and better service and product, or dividends on company shares. That money is now taken out of the company and invested or hoarded elsewhere, anywhere but the company that made it. Conglomerates that buy power companies and cut maintenance drastically, boosting profit and stock price, until the blackouts predictably come. Private investors buying British Rail lines and immediately cutting maintenance costs, and soon came the derailments. There are no consequences for refusing to invest profits, and infinite wealth to be made anywhere but the business itself.

In the 70s, corporations moved from the dividend model, in which they paid shareholders part of the profits, to the new model in which they move the profits out of the company, to the joy of Wall Street which rewards them with higher stock prices. To keep the new model going, they don't require investment in infrastructure; they simply need to keep up the game of musical chairs, prompting people to buy stock on the sole hope that the price will eternally go up - which it can't - and pump all the profits into their own pockets and the accounts of Wall Street financiers. It's a scam, and we've lost our industries, can't build internet infrastructure, and are watching bubble after bubble swell and burst. Tax laws did most of this; they de-regged and sweetened disinvestment in plant on the say-so of the finance lords.

Change the tax laws, drag the money back from overseas, change the stock market model back to dividend payout instead of casino gambling. In short, stablize the financial model and kick out the silver-tongued thieves who built this up for the last 40 years. Mandate that corporations invest in their own businesses, rather than buy others. Mandate that, once and for all, they are creatures of the government, licensed and regulated, and exist for the purpose of employing the people of the nation which granted them the privilege of their sheltered existences. Oh, and nationalize the oil companies, as Norway did. Create a state bank for each state, as North Dakota did. Kick banks out of the stock market and derivatives, and mandate they do their damned jobs, which are to distribute the free money we give them from the Fed, not to make infinitely growing profit. In short, kick out the lying greedy sacks, and go back to 1965's model, when we could actually DO anything. Government didn't do this, the Chicago School of economics did. And oh yes, get rid of the voting computers and go back to hand counts, as Canada does, or you won't be able to vote up the sun rising in the east. No use wanting to change if the voting system is completely owned by the bastards who are destroying your economy. Without the ability to vote, your are playing with mud while the bosses laugh at you. If they aren't altering elections wholesale, they are surely doing it retail. And the future is not today; election alteration will be as common as slapping a bribe on a table used to be.

Comment: Why I don't believe the poll (Score 5, Funny) 913

As an American, I prefer to ignore your statistic for so many of us being creationists, and I am not interested in your so-called evidence that the figure is correct. The number just feels wrong, therefore it must be a lie. My gut tells me there aren't nearly that many creationists around here, because neither I nor the people I know, are anything like that!

Furthermore, I don't understand how many people could be creationists, so that's another argument that not nearly many of them could be.

Finally, your poll is biased and invalid, because .. because .. I want it to be.

Education

In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins 913

Posted by Soulskill
from the you-ess-ay!-you-ess-ay! dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The latest Gallup poll is out, and it finds that 46% of Americans hold the view that God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. According to Gallup, the percentage who hold this view has remained unchanged since 1982, when they first started asking the question. Roughly 33% of Americans believe in divinely guided evolution, and 15% believe that humans evolved without any supernatural help."

Comment: Most everyone is lying. (Score 3, Insightful) 145

by Lumpy (#40182069) Attached to: I typically interact with X-many OSes per day:

Do you drive a car? that's another OS.
Phone? Another OS.
How about your TV? That runs Linux. (Yes it really does, look at your manual.)

If you are a windows user, that is 4 for every person that owns a car and a LCD or Plasma TV.

I ride a Motorcycle and have 3 cars, so I interact with 7 Operating Systems every day.

Oops, forgot that the Copier here at work Runs QNX, That's 8.

Comment: So glad..... (Score 4, Insightful) 318

That you Canadians are doing what the United States is telling you to do.

Good lap dog!

And yes, I am trying to enrage you, why are you people not fighting the corruption that is bleeding over the border from our country? The more you just let this stuff happen, the more they will try and roll over you.

Canada

Canadian Copyright Board To Charge For Music At Weddings, Parades 318

Posted by Soulskill
from the what-about-hockey-playoff-games-oh-wait dept.
silentbrad writes "The CBC reports, 'Money can't buy love — but if you want some great tunes playing at your wedding, it's going to cost you. The Copyright Board of Canada has certified new tariffs that apply to recorded music used at live events including conventions, karaoke bars, ice shows, fairs and, yes, weddings. The fees will be collected by a not-for-profit called Re:Sound. While the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (otherwise known as SOCAN) already collects money from many of these events for the songwriters, Re:Sound will represent the record labels and performers who contributed to the music. .. For weddings, receptions, conventions, assemblies and fashion shows, the fee is $9.25 per day if fewer than 100 people are present and goes up to $39.33 for crowds of more than 500 people. If there's dancing, the fees double. Karaoke bars will pay between $86.06 and $124 annually depending on how many days per week they permit the amateur crooning. And parades, meanwhile, will be charged $4.39 for each float with recorded music participating in the parade, subject to a minimum fee of $32.55 per day.'"

Comment: Re:Why not hardware manufacturers? (Score 1) 759

by Sloppy (#40181317) Attached to: Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

retailers such as PC World and Comet will be expected to say things like "this computer is better than that one because it is Windows 8 certified".

The heart of the issue is: "expected by who?" Evidence (it was lame but at least I cited something; what have you got?) suggests it's not the people who buy the computers.

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