They don't see people as people, they see them as unharvested dollar signs.

This chapter is far more coherent, and infinitely more entertaining, than most of Donald Trumps bumbling blatherskite speeches.

Pretty much. Any private citizen does this to another citizen its extortion, blackmail, doxxing, etc. But CNN gets to do it? Bullshit.

I find the content of the video and the opinions obviously held by its creator abhorrent and objectionable, but the ability to express ones ideas without fear is supposed to be one of the cornerstones of civilization. This kind of intimidation is bullshit when a private citizen does it, and it's even more bullshit when a corporate entity puts the weight of their assets behind it.

Whats that saying? I disagree to no ends with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it?

This country needs to be reminded that if you let them come for the dregs, the low lifes, the jerkwads who nobody likes, they start working their way up the ladder until they come for you next.

That's nothing. Wait until artificial intelligence grants these sex robots sentience, and the robots themselves start demanding to have their robot-robot and robot-human marriages recognized.

Those people who bash homosexuality, transgenderism, etc, will probably have a collective head-splosion.

Just rip out the antenna so it can't try to get on your wifi or cellular networks. Bam, good old fashioned dumb appliance that will simply do what it was originally designed for instead of trying to integrate a billion little web marketing doodads on to a screen that shouldn't be there in the first place.

No need to dump that metal into the economy. Use that metal to expand the colony by building habitats with it in the asteroid belt. Haul some of it to mars, or Jupiter, or Saturn. It's value wouldn't be in the material itself, but the fact that its stored in a low gravity environment and easily transported to mars and the outer solar system for use in construction of initial orbital infrastructure before large scale mining of local moons can commence.

Did you even read what I said, or are you intentionally cherry picking? If you do the speed limit in places where everyone drives above it, you become a road hazard. So in order to drive safely in those areas, you need to be going about as fast as everyone else.

A big issue to that is that in order to be safe, you need to be going with the flow of traffic. In certain parts of the country that speed is usually well above the listed limit. I remember driving through Atlanta one time doing 85 just to keep up with traffic and avoid getting run off the road. A cop passed me in the lane to my left and didn't give a crap. That's just how people drive there.

Further there was a famous incident where a group of students in Georgia showed what happens if every lane had someone doing exactly the limit in them, namely a traffic jam. Go find it, it's worth a watch just for laughs.

Speak for yourself. As someone who absolutely can not stand the bitterness in coffee, 6 spoons of sugar is close to the minimum for it to be palatable to me.

....all I can say is this is one of the best fucking ideas I have ever seen.

Stamping a mandatory 3 day delay before final vote to give the public a chance to examine a bills contents and know what their elected officials are voting for is a real no-brainer. Last minute shenanigans cause untold numbers of legislative headaches for regular people. In fact that's typically how all the questionable crap bought and paid for by corporations make it into the shit that comes out of Congress: a last second rider attached to legislation that is absolutely must-pass.

With a mandatory 72 hour delay between finalizing the bill and allowing a legislative body to vote for it, it gives the public a chance to go over the fine print and get some kind of effective backlash going that could potentially get rid of that last minute gotcha crap people like to stick in there.

Following the money doesn't mean jack if it's a good idea. Good ideas can actually come from either side of the isle when someone has a rational thought. And yeah, I admit this might be and probably is an attempt to hamstring a Democrat led body by a Republican with a vendetta, but I will take a right thing for the wrong reason any day over a wrong thing for the wrong reason, which is what legislative bodies nationwide tend to do these days.

The legislative process was actually designed to be a bit slow for precisely this reason, so that people could speak up about things as congress or a state legislature is thinking of passing crap. This delay gives them that ability by taking away the ability to pull legislative fast ones.

This amendment should be rolled out in every state and territory, and then somehow forced down Congress's throat.

1. Mr. Shkreli, how do you ethically justify to yourself a greater than 5000% price hike on medicines that are literally saving peoples lives?

2. To Slashdot's editors: how do you ethically justify giving this scumbag free screen time like this?

Wikipedia is only so entertaining if you are stranded somewhere with no other way to pass the time.

Now, if they give us a torrent of the complete TVTropes site....

And I do so every spring. I am naturally noctournal, so my opinion on Daylight Saving Time is why the hell do I want to save daylight? More like Moonlight Wasting Time for me.

A gene that makes me see things negatively? This explains SO MUCH. Please tell me they are working on a way to toggle it off. Just once I'd like to not instinctively see the negative in everything.