Just imagine how much cash we'd have for research if we would have forced the banks to do the same thing that GM was forced to do.
Declare bankruptcy, wipe out shareholders, and trim bond holders. Those are the people that invested in risky behavior and they should have paid the price.
The swedes did it and they recovered from their banking crisis.
I'd settle for more than
It doesn't matter if you know where the crimes will be occurring in a city like Detroit or Flint. You don't have enough cops to cover those areas, let alone the larger city. Less than 1 cop per 1,000 doesn't cut it in crime areas, which is what we have in the crappy parts of Michigan.
I couldn't agree more with strength_of_10_men. I love roundabouts when they are done right. The one near my house has saved me days in travel time in the two years I've been in the area.
The worst part of the example he cites above as being a fucked up roundabout was that it was the first one installed in the area, located next to a giant shopping center. So everyone's first encounter with a roundabout was pretty terrible.
You might have time to feed the trolls (the guy who wrote the article) and investigate every little thing they say, but I don't.
Hmm, the american thinker article seems pretty trollish, utilizing descriptions that I would generally find in political hate speech, blaming environmentalists for the flooding. The articles point isn't to find root cause, but to spread hate at environmental groups.
A quick google search reveals that the american thinker is indeed a conservative online magazine. I would hope that folks realize there is a war of information out there between extremes of the political spectrum and that we are better off not spreading those words of hate. The extremists are always going to be looking to enlist you in their war, by claiming the other side is outrageous.
Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
This reminds me of what the church used to do, which was sell indulgences to the rich so they didn't have to pray or spend as much time earning forgiveness. Everyone else had to pay the full penance. It was one of the reasons Martin Luther started the protestant revolution.
Except this time it's not the church, but some business selling forgiveness in the eyes of the public. Who knows what the money is actually used for.
I'm in the same boat. Cable comes out to a little over $100 a month for me.$40 for internet, $60 for hd cable + a dvr. If I drop the TV option, internet goes up to $60 or more. So cable is $40 more a month than internet alone. It's worth it for me to see college football, hockey and the occasional baseball game + all our shows are recorded. If more sports were broadcast over the air, I probably would try and ditch it.
Honestly I think they nailed the pricing model to get keep me hooked.
Internet & HD cable with ridiculous number of channels & DVR
$100
Internet
$60
Internet & basic cable
$60
Internet basic cable & DVR
$80
Internet HD cable with ridiculous number of channels & DVR
$100
At least I've got the option of two providers here. I have to call up and threaten to switch every few months.
Coverage for 98% of the US is different than coverage for 98% of Americans.
I'm thankful that at least someone else actually understood what actually happened. I completely agree with tzhuge's assessment.
This whole thread further's my belief in the slashdot rule. 1 out of every 10 people that comment read the actual article linked in a slashdot summary. 1 out of those 10 people have something interesting to say. So you end up with 1 out of 100 comments being useful.
The slashdot rule also shapes my opinion that google might have done this simply to put Bing in a negative light. Don't rush to judge folks, you are being used in a proxy war between companies.
Actually the "free market" is what caused the rolling blackouts and super high price spikes in California. You paid what the highest generation plant cost. So they shut down enough capacity so that they had to rely on very expensive plants. The energy guys wrote the legislation that put it into place, don't you think that it would rig it in their favor?
Often times when people advocate for a free market, what ends up happening is the market is not free, it's actually tilted towards someone or someone rigging the system.
More than once I've had to side step quickly to avoid a Prius in a store parking lot - I'm used to audio cues of my environment, and they just weren't paying attention while backing out.
I call bullshit on this.
I call bullshit on you calling bullshit. You try walking around a hippy college town grocery store parking lot. Odds are you will have to roll to dodge a hybrid car or two. If the car is making noise, you get a bonus to your dodge. That bonus is the difference between taking no damage or 6d6 and having to make a health roll to stay out of the hospital.
The post office is going to lose money because unlike UPS, they can't raise rates. They have to visit everyone's house 6 days a week.
It's actually a very very efficient organization. It's the constraints put upon it that make it so that it loses money. Congress won't allow this cost saving, Congress won't allow to cut service. Congress won't allow it to raise rates.
If you know anyone that's a postal carrier, you know it's a stressful job. Hence the term, going postal.
The only useful post in this whole slew of comments.
I find it hilarious that so many comments are all like, "ONLY IN AMERICA. OUR COUNTRY IS RETARDED, THIS IS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LEGAL SYSTEM, etc"
They are complaining about ignorance or perceived stupidity in society, only to be revealing their own lack of understanding of the situation. Of course I'm complaining about their own ignorance probably reveals my own. All this ignorance and complaining will probably create some sort of infinite loop or black hole where no sane discussion can escape. Ah slashdot.
Funny that I saw this article earlier today.
"CHILDREN have grown too big for their school chairs, a survey of 750 schools revealed.
Teachers said "desk and chair sizes were often inappropriate".
It is understood the NSW Education Department has been taking orders for custom-sized chairs.
Paediatric dietician Susie Burrell said children who were overweight often didn't carry obvious fat but instead looked older than their age."
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
