For me, the basic problem is one of size.

Ordinarily, in a properly functioning Capitalist system, failing companies would be allowed to fail.
This either solves the oversupply problem (so that...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/)
The Blues Brothers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/)
Pale Rider (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089767/)
Terminator 2:...

I don't know and I don't care (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/5413090/European-elections-2009-No-wonder-voters-cant-be-bothered.html)

Wusses!

You were all to ready to exploit the cheap overseas labour so long as the economic pendulum was swinging in your direction. Now that it's turned, you want to get off the ride?
This...

> suppose there were another planet similar to earth in composition, temperature, and atmosphere.
The atmosphere of primordial earth was not one you could live in.
There was no free oxygen, and a...

http://www.sockandawe.com/

Or Psychopath?
10078

Lots more here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5278200/Sign-language-week-48.html

Made me laugh, in the midst of despair with all the greedy trough...

> This poll will close on 17th Sep 2010 at 16:22
Expecting something to happen then?

> Massive solar flare to blow off earth's atmosphere
Hasn't happened in 3+Bn years, so it seems unlikely to...

I thought jelo-C (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O) was a new programming language in a variety of fruity flavours ;)

Thanks to this muppet, all the programming forums have been trashed for the evening until a mod shows up and deleted all that crap.

:@ :@ :@ :@

> Your home planet is: Silbob Silbob
Howdy neighbour :)

More "The UK is just a shit-house"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7819230.stm

Not forgetting that the UK has the widest deployment of security cameras in the world. You'd think the crime...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece

In more bone-headed moves, I see that the proposal for "saving" the US car industry is for merging 3 into 2.

The problem with lumbering dinosaurs is that they're neither reactive, nor competitive....

To do is to be - Descartes
To be is to do - Voltaire
Do be do be do - Frank Sinatra
Yaba daba doo - Fred Flintstone

Or for C programmers
#define QUESTION 2B || !2B

Pah, a mere lightweight compared to Gv (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governmentium)

It's that Y2K feeling all over again.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7660409.stm

Personally, I think one extra digit is a little optimistic.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

Here be a FAQ for ye all.

Q: What's your favourite data structure?
arrrray's me hearty!

Q: Which virus scanner do you use?
Avast!, and ye be...

> If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the scumbags he gives it to.
Indeed, when was the last time you saw a poor and destitute religious leader?

Sure, most of them will...

Some of the stuff on those 419 busting sites is hilarious!

That reminds me, I was selling some stuff online recently.
I only got two hits, both scammers.

So I told both of them to contact me...

> Keeping all the weeds out of my lawn and garden.
Easy, you just need a system built using Windows CE, Windows ME and Windows NT :icon_cheesygrin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7423948.stm
There wouldn't be any need for "concern" if it were real, and not just a bunch of hooey to seperate the gullible from their money.

Strange, they...

Many different kinds of ways of appearing to win an argument without actually doing so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

Designer (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread124478.html) Elephant (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread104338.html) thinks (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread83726.html) "eat...

Evolution is a fact and a theory
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

Also, the "how life got started" is a completely different question to evolution, which describes what...

> It's in the bible
Ah yes, just like The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, it "contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate".

Oh well, one down, thousands to go...

There should be a mandatory option on the ballot which reads something like this:
"I assert my right to vote, but I cannot at this time support any of the candidates listed".

Too often, the...

> As you have got 1700+ posts , You can rent a link in your signature
> and earn $10-$20 per month per link in your signature.
Wow, so the 20K+ posts I've got scattered between my 3 favourite...

> if each of us had planted our own vegetation and food in general and then trade
1. Unless you're already a farmer, or rich enough to own a house with a substantial garden, then very few people...

Don't tell me we have to wait until 2012 before people stop posting to this thread ;)

The avalanche has already begun, it is too late for the pebbles to vote - kosh

Truth is a 3-edged sword - kosh

Some people are like blisters, they show up when the work is done.

When all is...

My "instinct" is that most drugs should be legal.
In tandem with that, there should be some meaningful (and enforced) laws regarding their abuse. In particular, the penalty for killing someone...

Some people might like the equality, but not the sum...

#include <stdio.h>

int sum ( const char *p ) {
int result = 0;
while ( *p ) {
result += ( *p++ - 'A' + 1 ) * 9;
}...