Adam503

Braiiiiins, of course. Jeez.

Too much travel done by car in the US.

Sidewalk cafes in Europe thrive off foot traffic to and mass transit and bicycles.

All those cars require all the parking lots. Parking decks are too expensive for every little cafe to build. So the businesses group to pool the parking cost. A strip mall.

You want a cafes scene? Get rid of most the cars.

Hodor.

The only means by which corruption can fought and reduced all involve bureaucracy by definition.

If a person were getting 10x the amount a person gets on unemployment + food stamps, you might be able to call that basic income.

Please show us all how a person living in a US city could survive on food stamps, ethana.

There is no way to reduce corruption in society without regulations and bureaucracy.

I agree.

Unemployment runs no lower that 70% among disabled people in the best of times.

Anyone that is not literally perfect (beautiful, slim, brilliant, healthy, emotionally well centered) faces huge obstacles from the powers that be in our society.

We know all about Hacker News "not that dificult"

I smell a simple 26 step process that can't legally be done in some parts of the Middle East and N. Korea, a few assembler and brainf*ck scripts, and a little simple arc-welding.

To see how incorrect that statement is, look at every other democracy in the world. Only two two-party democracies. Every other democratic country but like Jamaica is 3 parties or greater.

Now we know J. Edgar Hoover was tracking homosexuals to get phone numbers for cute boys.

Michael Hayden was NSA director from 1999 to 2005. Michael Hayden literally was being paid a big salary to stop 9/11 from happening. How'd that go for him? Not so good.

Look at ALL THE TOOLS we now know the NSA Director really had at his disposal to prevent a foreign terrorist from hitting the US on 9/11. Micheal Hayden name's should down in along side infamous names like the Admiral who commanded the Pacific Fleet the day of Pearl Harbor.

Michael Hayden is the textbook definition of "the man who can't find his ass with two hands and an assmap." Hayden's picture should appear next to it in Famous Quotation books.

Wrong. Making a claim in a courtroom and telling truth has not got one thing to do with each other.

Chevron has the unmitigated gall here to claim the $18.2 Billion settlement against Chevron in Uruguay was the product of FRAUD. Chevron is claiming they did nothing wrong in Uruguay and they should be allowed to look look through 9 years of e-mail of activists to get the chance to try to dig up something up

You forgot Swartz being threatened with months of non-stop prison rape.

Aaron Swartz was not a very big guy at all. Aaron Swartz would have been raped within moments of walking in a Federal Prison. Aaron Swartz prison stay would have been 6 months of non-stop prison rape.

Impending prison rape is exactly the sort of thing reasonable people commit suicide about. All the time.

Most of the Open Source/Free Software is far more concerned that new Linux releases can install with no problems in a used computer some low-income person volunteers to help rebuild someplace like Free Geek...

"The Adoption Program

Free Geek receives donated used computers from the public and Build volunteers refurbish them with care. These computers are then “adopted out” to volunteers in exchange for 24 hours of volunteerism to our Adoption volunteers.

Volunteers in the Adoption Program

    disassemble computers for recycling
    help receive computer equipment from donors
    test basic computer components
    help keep our facility clean

Adoption volunteers disassembling computers When you complete your 24 hours of volunteer service, you’ll sign up for a basic class on how to use your computer. At the conclusion of the class, you’ll take your new-to-you computer home. Adoption volunteers must take the class in order to receive tech support. You can learn more about What You Get with your adopted computer.

It the Adoption Program sounds perfect for you, here’s how you can Get Started.

Volunteers can receive one computer per year.

http://www.freegeek.org/volunteer/adoption-program/

There were 15 different Federal Intelligence agency just in the DC White Pages! You think all the employees of 15 different Federal Intelligence agencies (that they admit to, or all the private subcontractors like BLACKWATER) take no secret actions?

All those reflexively flinging "conspiracy theory" labels are just sheep in deep, deep denial.

Bankers have more power and influence in Switzerland than in the US. UBS handed Phil Gramm a vice chair position. They've bought into Casino Capitalism hook, line, and sinker.

My Grandfather was big vitamin advocate. He was already 95 when an old girlfriend got Carpal Tunnel and he said to tell her to take a B-complex vitamin for it. I passed that advice on. In two weeks she was pain free. Gave the same advice to a professional guitarist friend a couple of months later. He was pain free in a week.

One of the B vitamins (honestly can't remember which B vitamin, though) is responsible for holding moisture in certaining tissues, including the tissues that line that tunnel. The tissues need fluid to protect the nerves in that tunnel from getting irritated and swollen.

Try taking that B vitamin complex for a couple of weeks. See if it helps.

Stop listening to Barack Obama talk. Obama talks likes FDR, but Obama's actions have way way to the right. Obama's not way right like Cheney but he is closing in on Reagan. Obama invaded more countries than Reagan, Reagan cut taxes more than Obama. Obama has kept extending Dubya tax cuts. Obama and Mittens borrowed ObamaCare from Bob Dole. Reagan never executed American citizens without trial. Actually, Obama's a bit right of Reagan now.

How about... Oregon5330.Stanford.edu

;-)

I don't think that's true.

Ubuntu does manage to install itself on pretty much almost any desktop.

That's quite an accomplishment. Remember the Debian install horror stories? That's pretty much history now.

The ubuntu orange and purple makes NASCAR race days look tasteful and understated though. I spend my release days at the Kubuntu table now.

Sorry, but students that get admitted to Columbia aren't real tough to motivate.

Sal Khan has already had millions of every kind of everyday students young and old chose to set aside their video games and sat down and work their math at KhanAcademy.org. Some nuns are starting sainthood talk for Sal at some Catholic schools.

Nuclear industry: "We swear we're telling the truth this time about thorium. Honest."

Too bad the nuclear industry has lied so many times about risks about real current nuclear technology risks and real current costs nobody can trust whether what they are saying might be really true or not about future technology.

How many weeks/months was the nuclear industry lying about everything single thing it said about Fukushima?

At the NSA reading our e-mail.

I can tell you one thing, the answer is NOT increasing tuition and cutting financial aid. 100% certain increasing tuition and cutting student financial aid is the wrong answer.

Looks like you didn't check your talking points, once again.

"So who is John S Theon?

John Theon was not Hansen's supervisor.

The usual denialists (e.g. The Register) are excited because some guy they never heard of before has joined Inhofe's merry band, writing:

    "I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those

M. J. Murphy has some information about Theon. It seems that Inhofe's claim that Theon was Hansen's supervisor is completely untrue:

        Theon wrote to the Minority Office at the

    Read the last bit closely. Being "in effect" Hansen's

Gavin Schmidt writes:

    Dr. Theon appears to have RETIRED from NASA in 1994, 

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/01/so_who_is_john_s_the...

Got anyone that isn't so old one suspects they'll say anything to keep from having to go back to the nursing home alone.

The primary guy the oil companies use to claim the science on global warming isn't settled is a geologist who has taken money to testify as a expert in courtrooms for both cases related to global warming and a court case about Intelligent Design/evolution. He doesn't believe in evolution either. Surprise!

Did you even read your own link?

"...Mr Justice Burton said he had NO COMPLAINT about Gore's CENTRAL THESIS that climate change was happening and was being driven by emissions from humans."

Again... What part of "ALL Nobel Prize winning scientists agree global warming is threat to humanity." do you not understand?

EVERY single Nobel Prize winning scientist has TURNED DOWN the big money the oil companies would have paid any/every them to lie and re-state the oil companies global warming talking points.

Every single one of them has agreed and stuck with the evidence showing global warming is a serious threat to mankind.

That's what we're cutting Social Security and Medicare for... so some Goldman-Sachs or UBS investment banker can guzzle $1000 bottles of wine and vomit them back up again.

Here's one investment banker's first hand version of what investment banking really has become...

"...My first job out of Cornell was on the trading floor at UBS. So when news would hit the wire about an American company closing a domestic factory, I felt a good deal of conflict as I watched the company’s stock price go up as a result. Those sorts of factory closings had ruined my neighbourhood, my city, and many of the people I’d grown up with. I was not alone in this feeling, but there were not many of us, either. One of my British friends from the training programme, who later became a currency trader, once told me: “I mean Christ, mate, every time they close a factory in Wales the goddamn market goes up. The whole system’s a little fucked, don’t you think?” And of course it was. The question was how to deal with it.

The easiest thing was buy into the system, convince ourselves that there was no other way to live. A few semesters worth of economics classes certainly helped; the in-house economics classes taught by the bank helped even more. The financial markets operate on the principle that, at our core, we’re all basically shit: selfish, self-interested creatures. There’s a whole branch of economics devoted to proving that if you help someone, say, run in front of a speeding train to push another person out of the way, you are actually acting out of self-interest, not altruism; that what most of us would consider humankind’s cardinal virtues - love, honor, compassion - do not actually exist.

The idea that we’re nothing more than selfish animals is an attractive philosophy to a person pulling down a few million dollars a year. It is a philosophy that negates guilt. The guilty feeling a normal person gets while visiting a Third World country is the same feeling a senior investment banker gets when they see a working class neighborhood in Birmingham or Philadelphia. When your paycheck could cover the salaries of a few hundred nurses or teachers, you need some explanation for why that’s okay. The only one that really works is that life is a pure meritocracy. That whether rich or poor, we’re all getting what we deserve.

The fact is, I became pretty good at making this argument myself. Until a roommate of mine, a guy named Mark Brewin, asked me: “So is that really what you want to be? A selfish animal?” “It’s not like we have a choice,” I said. “No,” he said. “You always have a choice. It’s just easier to pretend that you don’t.” Ouch. The strangest thing was, this thing I’d wanted for so long, this chance to become wealthy, was causing me more internal conflict than anything I’d ever done. I began writing a second novel, about a kid from the provinces who comes to Wall Street and is both drawn in and horrified by the culture of excess.

I understood it well. I put on 45 pounds in my first year at the bank, and, as you might guess, it was not from eating McDonalds. Occasionally I ate stuff like sushi, but mostly it was steak. We went to the good places like Sparks, Peter Luger’s, and the Strip House. We tended to look down on chains like Morton’s and Ruth’s Chris-they were for car dealers or stock brokers, not traders. Regardless of where we ate, we ate in quantity. My standard strategy was to order half a dozen appetisers, plus a steak and lobster, plus a few desserts and much wine as I could drink, as long it was under a few hundred dollars a bottle. Followed by a digestif, typically a 30-year-old port. There’s not any way to justify this except to say I was trying to catch up to my colleagues. We would treat those restaurants like Roman vomitoriums. And it wasn’t the food so much as the wine. Being a junior employee, I couldn’t really order bottles that cost more than a few hundred dollars, but the senior guys could get nicer stuff - Opus One, Chateau Latour. As long as we were out with a client, the bank paid. I remember being stunned the first time I saw a dinner bill for ten grand. But that was just the beginning.

What it boiled down to was austerity for everyone else and rampant consumption for ourselves. I never saw anyone literally set fire to money, but I did drink most of a bottle of 1983 Margaux ($2,000)...."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-ex...