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http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154114/crab-makeover

No. It's the customers who are skinflints. You have to inflate the price of your products

Zombie Lie. All prices are already set to maximize revenue. If a company will make money from a price increase, they'll go right ahead raise them. What, you actually think businesses sit around with their old prices until it's time to "pass along a cost of living increase", when they could have been making that much more money the whole time?

You have to inflate the price of your products if you are paying high salaries. If you do that, companies from other countries will beat you on price.

Funny how this never applies to the executive level. That software developer, the one that's written two books for O'Reilly, that has 15 years experience, two masters degrees and 8 languages under his belt should just take one for the team and accept a salary of $60,000 a year. Because otherwise, the CEO might have to skimp on the executive hooker budget, or settle for a Gulfstream 3 instead of a Gulfstream 4.

Google must have hired Eric Cartman

If Cartman won't go to San Francisco without a heavy duty diving suit on, there must be a reason. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155206/god-help-cartman DAMN DIRTY HIPPIES!!!

The Brown Note, anyone?

There are people worth more than 21 million on Youtube in theoretical dollars. Maybe one of them can just buy Office from MS outright.

That sounds extremely familiar

Boy have I got a solution for you!

I thought South Park already covered this idea or at least the idea of getting whacked every time you start a game. Doesn't seem like it deterred them. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e08-make-love-not-warcraft

Could help take care of the smug problem that quite a few high millage car drivers have.

By the time we get to this levels of mass hysteria will be already too late... ok, already is anyway.

Pretending we're gay might seem like a good idea...

Everybody back to the pile! ( http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s08e06-goobacks )

The easiest way to understand agnosticism is to watch the South Park episode:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/402318/a-strict-agnostic-household
Aahhh, SP, relevant as hell...

But did he succeed in raising the bar?

Obligatory.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103420/japanese-charm

Yes. The "brown noise" was the subject of a South Park episode. Here's a relevant clip.

I think a lot if it has to do with the dearth of good music coming out today...actually since the 90's I'd say.

You're Getting Old

You guys are nuts, clearly this was the work of the notorious "Some Puerto Rican Guy".

There was a South Park episode about this, A nightmare on face time

A Nightmare on Facetime
Unfortunately, you can't (legally) watch it yet.

Unfortunately, unless he's in a rural area, he's pretty much screwed. He can try to follow the model Family Video uses, since they all seem to be successful around here for some reason, but other than that either get out or get screwed.

This is what will happen to you:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e12-a-nightmare-on-face-time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Face_Time
http://eztv.it/ep/38966/south-park-s16e12-hdtv-x264-asap/

Please end it now. There's no need for horse carriages, oil lamps or business models based on imaginary property anymore.
Your equivalent in the new world is iTunes (well, not really, since they still cling to a impossible business model), Kickstarter.com (a more sane path) and The Pirate Bay. So if you want to live on, you have to re-invent yourself from the deepest depths of your philosophy.
You certainly have my support.

I see you and whoever modded my comment as flamebait have never watched South Park.

So to be as explicit as it can get: those against hemp are idiots; those who believe the "war on drugs" is about drugs are really idiots (or haven't really given much thought to the subject); those who defend it as police are the fucking worst evil scumbags there are, but hey! that's your only option on every election!

Is my point clear now? Now to make my previous reference clear: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s02e04-ikes-wee-wee

That kid is Eric Cartman (audio is NSFW).

Drug the poor things until they comply.

I think Trey Parker and Matt Stone are on to something with the South Park drug free treatment

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s10e02-smug-alert

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360436/were-sorry

And the motorcycles.

It's all about our narcissistic society. "Hey look at me! I'm special!"

Yep. South Park did an episode on it, and nailed it as usual.

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You're assuming that the shit in our nest doesn't have a purpose.

Think back to the Chinese purge of sparrows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign). Sparrows were pollution. Something to be rid of. Of course, after decimating (or more) the population, it turns out that it was the Sparrows keeping insects in check, and BAM, welcome to famine city.

CO2 (our shit in this case), feeds plants, keeps the next ice age at bay, and a dearth of it could slap us into iceball earth territory.

Heck, even literal *shit* is important :) - http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103963/the-circle-of-poo

One being's shit is another being's fertilizer.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/387409/slash-is-everywhere

Historically that's been "stuff that matters" with a technical leaning. Or, I dunno, stuff that actually matters.

Fighting over Romney and Obama is like fighting over who gets to lick the toilet seat. No matter what, someone is going to wind up with a turd in their mouth. South Park's Douche And Turd episode is completely spot on.

If you support either one of these idiots, you literally are a large part of the problem with this country.

And ninety-seven percent said, "Who the hell is MOOP?"

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/154153/metallica-joins-the-strike

Perhaps you didn't get the reference: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103414/drugs-are-bad

1) The "Bush Tax Cut" which ensured the US federal government had insufficient taxes to do their job, combined with the trillions spent on overseas wars.

Passed by Both Houses of Congress based on what was thought to be good information at the time.

2) Governments that preceded him being unwilling to regulate the financial sector, resulting in the meltdowns in 2008. (I blame Clinton here too - His presidency is largely to blame for the subprime mortgage mess.)

It's good you mention Bill Clinton's administration on this.

3) An obstinate congress which blocks anything, regardless of whether or not it is good for the country.

Oh Like when Obama's Administration with a Democratic House and Senate majorities failed to pass budgets?

Look, this is Slashdot and Politics aside there's a ton of blame for the mess we have. As Will Rodgers once said "If you find yourself in a hole the first thing you do is stop digging."

The fundamental problems with our government are created by the people who vote for these idiots over and over again. From the people who vote for corrupt politicians to those who vote for people with IQs less than the McDonalds dollar menu prices.

Speaking from direct experience, the leadership we have is no better than what you find in an episode of "The Office", what should we expect? It doesn't matter, Democrat or Republican and there is the problem, there's only two degrees of separation between them. Close your eyes and you get the same turd sandwich, it's all shit just go ahead and take a bite. Both parties have rigged the political processes, the election laws and created a million barriers for qualified people to run for office. What ever happened to write-in candidates? That's a whole other discussion.

Back in Feb. 2009 I flew from DC to RDU and sat behind two congressmen. One was so myopic that even with glasses he had to keep the paper an inch off of his nose. When they boarded they were high-fiving each other saying "We passed it" referring to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). During the flight they kept passing pieces of paper back and forth, you couldn't help but overhear occasionally even on a noisy plane. One quip was disturbing "I didn't know that was in there" referring to the ARRA
legislation.

So, two congressmen who voted yes on a bill that became law and they didn't read it. Two votes making decisions for you and I. I can't fault their political views or party affiliations but I can fault them for not at least reading the damn legislation that they were voting on. It sounds like they should be part of a human centipad.

True leadership means making the decisions that are best, not politically expedient and not all of them will be popular. Doing your best also means researching the problem and understanding what you're trying to solve. Unfortunately nowadays everybody in this country has the attention span of a 4 year old and now we have an entire generation of adults who grew up not paying attention, barely passed their courses in College and now are running things.

Nobody can fault somebody for serving in public office, but it would be nice if there was at least some brighter individuals who would run. Yeah, you'd get rocks thrown at you but at least you'd be doing the country's business rather than trying to

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s12e08-the-china-probrem

Yes, let us trust some random person on the internet who claims to have stumbled on CP from some random website to tell us all about how each and every child felt, and that yes, they were ALL kidnapped. Surely none of them were ever molested by a friend of the family, a family member, or the parents themselves. Let us further trust his "gut" to tell us what statistics doesn't (indeed, his gut tells us the polar opposite of what statistics tells us). Yes, let us trust this random person who claims that there is some gigantic industry that makes billions, no TRILLIONS of dollars an hour abducting children and raping them SOMEWHERE.

Surprise, surprise that this same idiot claims to have "worked with law enforcement on CP issues". Yes, he must know what he is talking about!

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s06e11-child-abduction-is-not-funny

You can't please all of the people. (Well, you can. Offer legal downloads for free, but I doubt that will happen.)

That's exactly what South Park did (well, it's a stream instead of a download, but close enough). Guess how much piracy they get?

Speaking of Adm Sandler... A.W.E.S.O.M-O quotes ( link to that southpark episode )

Producer: Watch this. A.W.E.S.O.M-O, given the current trends of the movie going public, can you come up with an idea for a movie that will break $100 million box office?
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: [Cartman]Um... Okay, how about this: Adam Sandler is like in love with some girl. But it turns out that the girl is actually a golden retriever or something.
Mitch: Oh! Perfect!
Executive: We'll call it "Puppy Love".
Mitch: Give us another movie idea, A.W.E.S.O.M.-O.
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: Um... How about this: Adam Sandler inherits like, a billion dollars, but first he has to become a boxer or something.
Mitch: "Punch Drunk Billionaire".
......
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: Movie idea #2,305: Adam Sandler is trapped on a deserted island and falls in love with a coconut.
Producer: Great. Great, A.W.E.S.O.M.-O. Uh, guys, take a break. I need a minute alone with A.W.E.S.O.M.-O.
Executive: Okay.
Producer: You are an incredible robot, A.W.E.S.O.M.-O. I was just wondering, are you by chance a *pleasure* model?
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: What?
Producer: Have you been programmed to satisfy urges of humans?
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: A.W.E.S.O.M.-O does not understand.
Producer: Let me show you what I mean.
Butters: [on the phone] Yeah, we're having a great time, Aunt Nellie. The movie studio guys are real nice.
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: Lame!
[bursts out of the board room, followed by a pants-less Producer]
A.W.E.S.O.M.-O: Not cool! Total lame!

this argument sounds good until you think about any jury in an apple case, where you likely find at least more than one computer illiterate steve jobs worshipper who will have a bias on high level subjects they don't understand. juries are picked to eliminate those who display bias (or at least they're meant to be, really it's a dodgeball-team-picking session where they try to slip biased prospects past the other attorney). it doesn't always work out (rodney king, oj simpson...) but that's a flaw of the legal system and humanity in general, not specific to collecting jury pools from tech-related fields.

expert witnesses are not necessarily expert teachers. and we are still talking about concepts that even expert teachers have to spend months conveying, with piles of years of experience afterward to understand what is going on in these cases. i was a promising coder 10 years ago, but i wouldn't have had the slightest clue about the dirty details of open source licensing agreements, or the politics of who owns an API. i understand them now and i can honestly say i'm unbiased. i even program android sometimes, but i'm not in any way invested in google's success in this case. these juries just don't have enough time in the day to solve these things appropriately. you might as well be asking the jury what they feel the marital status of the number 5 is.

this is what we need:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/151555/marklar-to-marklar

But he's just asking questions!

Reminds me more of the South Park Circle of Poo

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s16e01-reverse-cowgirl

When the TSA becomes in charge of restrooms...

Considering that the Chinese have said that SpaceX is flying at a price point cheaper than they can provide launch services, I'm sort of curious who this "cheap knockoff" might be? The Mexican Space Agency?

Probably. Did you ever see the documentary about it?

I can see it must be hard, lacking an obvious way to get the pronunciation of _Mis_ter _Sci_entist across correctly in plaintext, and get the sheer contempt across properly. Here's a nice vid you might want to link to in future http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103850/look-retards

"We've been given the right to choose between a douche and a turd."

Can't help ya with the first two, but here ya go. Kind of odd though. New episodes go up like a day after they air on Comedy Central, then after a couple of days, are pulled, before going back up weeks later. But as a bonus, it's uncensored.

South Park nails it, as usual.

Dude, you are like...such a drag man. What a downer.

A bigger downer than chemotherapy or time in a mental institution?

Which are the biggest boobs?

Picnics with friends, rock climbing, hiking, parachuting, white-water rafting, a good book - plenty of other things to do.

It doesn't matter how open-minded you are, or how pure the LSD, you still can't fly. Step off the ledge without a rope and you're going to die.

The Toilet Safety Administration [TSA] completely disagrees with you. Security is a serious matter.

No, they just want more money. Now they want the Internet money. Or the strike shall continue.