Taking legal action to protect customers and reduce waste is anything but ridiculous. Any real country that wants to be taken seriously should do those things.

I thought they didn't pay their public servants well either. Our agencies can't get the best people specifically because they don't do that, are they any different?

"If solar is so great and cheap, why does it require so much taxpayer money to "make sense"?"

You're pretending fossils and nuclear don't get subsidies.

Pretending is fun but it doesn't move this conversation forward.

But you have no problems voting for a traitor and child rapist as long as it has a penis?

Ok coward. Pay my way including my USA former resident slave tax.

Trump is the same kind of conservative as the rest of the Republicans, i.e. not actually interested in conserving or preserving anything but his own privilege.

"No the EU should act like vassal state that it is"

The US is rapidly leaving its first world status behind. Not surprised you can't see this given where your head is stuck.

Or indeed, any time before we institute some strong controls which somehow prevent this from happening again. And good luck to us on that.

Can't trust the old stuff not to fail, can't trust the new stuff not to fail or spy on you, but I can trust my ability to replace capacitors

Fuck off, Ivan. No one debunked Trump's well-documented collusion with Russia.

I want them to keep the software working and supporting current standards. I don't want them shoehorning things into it which don't make sense. And because I actually remember what was promised when the project began, I also want it to be an extensible platform which things are added to using extensions, not to have everything shoved into it in the first place. There's a ton of stuff in Firefox which has no business being in the base install, like the stuff that used to be in the Web Developer extension. They have literally made it less modular over the years, when the premise was modularity. Defending their reneging on the basic premise is anti-user.

No, they don't, at least not in features. They could innovate in performance.

Most of us chose to use Firefox at least in part because we didn't want things that we didn't want in the browser, and they are fucking that up, and I don't care what you think about it. There's already a browser for you, it's called Chrome.

How nice for you and the other guy.

It's a collecting information about your activity service. It's not for you, it's for them.

What a surprise, modded down by someone on Slashdot for condemning a bank for willfully and deliberately doing business with child rapists.

A whole fucking lot of you need your hard disks checked.

"You, in contrast, got pushed out of your role, which doesn't sound very smart."

What's not smart is blaming victims of capitalism for being victimized.

Not random, no. Just add some latency period. That would do most of the job. Another solution is to penalize trades which are shorter than some time period. You can still make them but it will cost you. Either of these things would eliminate HFT.