Joel Arvidsson: A man about to be sued for libel.
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Amazon puts the _shipping_ weight of a camera at one pound.
A soccer mom will make her car more inefficient every time she orders McDonalds for the whole family.
They make some awesome hardware, but their attempts at DRM made me never want to risk my hard earned cash on them again.
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We have Dragonball Z because 15 (25) year old punks don't realize that they're going to die some day...
And with that, I'm going to stop scanning HN.
My dad pointed out "Your family's wellbeing includes their morale."
Either way, only Ryan (and possibly his accountant [probably his wife]) can make that call.
It's one thing if the money is borrowed from a friend or family member (as a charity or with extremely below market interest rates). But the 2.43 trillion dollars of debt that you cite is almost entirely with institutions which make a profit off of debt. [not bashing creditors]
I'm kind of new-ish to HN, so I was wondering how you guys lean (if at all).
Also, it bothers me that there is usually no competition amongst utility providers. Where I live, we have one choice for electricity (short of generating your own), one choice for sewage (there _are_ other options, such as personal sewage systems), and one choice for garbage removal.
I think that if we could find ways to create more options, we could create a better situation for the folks in referenced in the article (and elsewhere).
Also, how do you guys define troll?
I grew up in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas. We had a well, no central heat-and-air, and a septic system in our back yard. This worked just fine. We had the same quality of life (aside from freezing in the cold winters) that everyone in large cities had.
The difference is that we owned the equipment to take care of ourselves, instead of the local government.
Am I the only one here that believes that running water is a luxury, not a right?
I've been in some pretty shitty situations myself, though none as tough as this. That much I freely admit. But the overall tone of the article seems to be one of horror that people might not have a ceramic toilet which flushes the waste away to a sewage treatment plant. Also, an attitude of "This is a first world country; this shouldn't be happening to anyone". (Yes, I noticed the sidebar on "corruption")
Does everybody else think that running water/sewage is a right?
Not all homeless men would do the same thing... some of them would spend it trying to create a better tomorrow, but many would spend it (for a myriad of reasons) on "right now". I believe that this fact would continue to influence us even if we all "lived like the 1%".
In essence, the presence of speculators exacerbates the price hikes that normally come of a volatile market. This turns the whole market into one giant feedback loop.
(this is all assuming that I understand correctly, of course)
I actually thought about it long and hard. I've never felt distracted by calling my mom whilendriving home... anymore than anything else.
More importantly: If this holds true across the studies that will doubtless follow, will there be a move to remove such statutes from the books?