That college grad working the counter at McD's is counted in that 96.2% of the employed in your area, even though he should be making more money doing something in his field.
Maybe if he did something useful with his four years, instead of lit-crit or queer studies, he'd have a real job.
I have an Apple sticker on my SUV. I voted for Bush twice and would do so again. I had clunky late-80's style horn rim glasses until my wife made me get metrosexual titanium wire rims a couple of years ago. Most of what resides on my iPod is 70's/80's rock and bluegrass. I read alternative news, it's true, but on instapundit.com and freerepublic.com. I don't think that is what you had in mind.
Artists, fashion mavens, leftists, and other creative personalities
Speak for yourself, bud. I'm as right-wing and left-brain as they come. I heap scorn on "creative" people every day. Art is shit, I always say. Yet I wouldn't give up my Mac for anything.
people refuse to act in their own best interest. . . people vote for the candidate with name brand shoes rather than a candidate with a track record of acting to benefit society. . . my knee jerk reaction is to enact laws to protect those who are too simple to act in their own self interest. . . a tool for whichever group can instill the most fear
Let me clue you in on a secret, smarty-pants. People don't like being told they are simpletons and tools. Until the would-be philosopher-kings on the Left learn this lesson well, they will be stuck on the margins of political power, and nobody will benefit from their radiant cosmic enlightenment.
William F. Buckley once said he would rather be governed by a hundred people picked at random from the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard. Posts like yours make me agree with him.
Millions of dollars have been spent trying to relocate and recover the nerve gas but most has yet to be found and the drums should start rusting through most any time now.
Pooh. What a waste of money. Tell you what, if you could dilute all the nerve gas ever made in just one cubic mile of water, I'd happily drink a glass full.
The dose makes the poison. I don't care what it is, if it's surrounded by enough water, it's harmless. This is also why any terrorist attempts to poison our water supplies are doomed to failure. You could put a truck load of any poison in the average municipal reservoir, and not reach a lethal dose to those drinking the water.
The problem with buying "new and improved" is the revelation that all along you'd been using "old and inverior".
No no no. You obviously don't understand marketing speak. If something is "new and improved", it means the old one was "original", "classic", or "tried-and true".
If folks find this unacceptable, let them start their own companies. The fact is, any increase in salaries must be matched by an increase in productivity in order to be sustainable. I dare say that IT has added precious little to most companies' bottom lines in recent years. We have crossed into the realm of counterproductivity, when systems that should be used for work-related functions are used instead for running office football pools, surfing for porn, checking one's auctions on eBay, or reading Slashdot. Moreover, the task of ferreting out wasted time on computers, and punishing it in a HR-approved manner, is more than the company can hope to save in increased productivity. There are many jobs that could be made more productive by returning to pencil-and-paper, or at least mainframe computing.
You can get exactly the right freaky-geeky musical ambience for Halloween from the seminal German electronic music group Kraftwerk. Try to get the tunes "Kometenmelodie 1" and "Mittelnacht" from their "Autobahn" album.
Funny, I'm American and I find the current administration an insult to the American people.
Well, I felt insulted every day of the Clinton administration, so I guess that makes us square. But Clinton was no fascist, and neither is Bush. For you to argue otherwise is a gross display of your own ignorance and hysterical partisan shrillness, not to mention an insult to the memory of the victims of real fascism.
A new President will be sworn in a little more than three years from now, and he might even be a Democrat. You can bank on that. I'm a Bush man through and through, but I'd be out there with you on the barricades if he dared to try to cling to power after January 2009. Give your political opponents at least that much credit.
this could just be the ace in the hole to retain power and finally transform us into the facist state they have been laying the groundwork for for years.
Sure it will. Just like the crazies on the far right used to say about Clinton. It was crap then, and it's crap now when you say it. Not just crap, but an insult to the American people.
I was gonna respond to your last comment right now, but then I remembered you just said the best ski season of your whole life was spent on Arizona hills.
It was Arizona's best ski season ever, not my own. The best skiing I have ever had has been in Colorado and Utah.
The only time I've ever skied in Canada was at Mont Tremblant, and it was Eastern average, which is to say, pretty shitty for anyone who has ever spent a day out West.
Only americans would moderate the truth as 'Troll' or 'Flamebait' " -Anonymous
Oh yes. No doubt it's only the American leftists who mod me down around here when I post a factual post in defense of the Bush Administration, or expressing my well-founded skepticism about some facet of the global warming debate or the benefits to be had from diversity. I'm sure no enlightened European leftist would ever do such a crass and intolerant thing.
In a press release they call for the immediate increase of teachers and advanced research and development, citing that 'in 2001 U.S. industry spent more on tort litigation than on research and development.'
That doesn't surprise me, but it should be a clue to all decent and sensible people that things have to change radically. Let's push for the kind of tort reform that will put 90% of the filthy blood-sucking pirates out of business.
The American legal system is a f**king disgrace. No, scratch that, it's a positive menace to the American way of life. We have turned into a nation of paranoid, selfish sissies, thanks to the pond scum of the trial bar. And the defense attorneys are no better; they don't want the gravy train to end either. I want to annihilate them. I want their children to starve and their wives to go barefoot. I want to cut their dirty greedy balls off with a rusty butter knife.
Most of all, I want to sweep away a thousand years of arcane gibberish and oppression of the common man, tear the legal system into itty bitty pieces, and rebuild it from the ground up according to principles of logic and common sense and brevity. The greedy vermin of the Bar have been a plague on humanity since the time of the Pharisees, and it has to stop NOW.
Still, global warming is not a plus for me. The ski season is getting shorter:-(
Well, down here in Arizona, we just had the best ski season of my whole life. It shat snow from October to May, a total of 459 inches for the year last season, and they've already had their first snowfall of the 2005-06 season. Our drought has finally broken.
If this be global warming, give me more, please. Selkirks be damned.
Canada considers the Artic to be an internal water way and as such maintains dominion over all shipping in the area.
Big deal. I could as easily and justly consider the moon and all the stars to be my own personal property.
Unless Canada can think of a legitimate reason why 600 years of seafaring tradition should be abandoned, they should shut up. Their writ does not extend more than three miles off shore, same as ours. The Law of the Sea, both formal and informal, has long recognized that navigable deep water "belongs" to anyone and everyone.
Moreover, Canada is always first in line to bitch about American exceptionalism and our contempt for international law. I'd say they should practice what they preach, but instead I'll note that all nations, at all times, have no more morals or ethics than my little fingernail. Nations always do what is in their own self-interest, and nothing but what is in their own self-interest.
And right now, with the USSR defeated and America pretty much doing what it pleases in the world, it is in the interest of many Lilliputian nations to band together to tie down Gulliver. The goals and moral sensibilities of many do-gooding leftists happen to coincide with the internationalist, anti-American platitudes currently being mouthed by the ruling elites in places like Canada and France, but the Left shouldn't delude itself that the Canadian or French governments would behave much better than the American government if their roles were reversed. Politicians are the same everywhere, and so are voters.
. . . not literally, but in the memory of those who were there for the porn revolution.
I will never forget the night I went to a friend's party and he had a tape of "Deep Throat" in his dad's new $750 VCR. We had never seen anything remotely like it; in fact, I knew hardly anyone who even had a VCR. Everyone was watching, including the girls. I remember going to a couple of "porno parties" later that year and watching "Debbie Does Dallas" while seated between two gorgeous, totally enthralled cheerleaders. Debauchery ensued; a night for the record books indeed.
Ah, for the good old days when porn was new and exciting and respectable, not pathetic and sweaty and solitary. You young slashdotters have no idea what I'm talking about...
This is just a case of politically-connected buggy whip makers getting their pals in government to outlaw those newfangled horseless carriages. Economists have a word for it: "rent-seeking".
All failures of the capitalist system are caused by the involvement of too much government. We need to hack government at all levels into tiny, powerless bits.
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Maybe if he did something useful with his four years, instead of lit-crit or queer studies, he'd have a real job.
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The MO backups from the Sun workstations where I work have been found, through bitter experience, to have about a 5% failure rate.
They suck shit.
Hard disks and more hard disks are the way to go.
-ccm
I have an Apple sticker on my SUV. I voted for Bush twice and would do so again. I had clunky late-80's style horn rim glasses until my wife made me get metrosexual titanium wire rims a couple of years ago. Most of what resides on my iPod is 70's/80's rock and bluegrass. I read alternative news, it's true, but on instapundit.com and freerepublic.com. I don't think that is what you had in mind.
Some clique, eh?
Speak for yourself, bud. I'm as right-wing and left-brain as they come. I heap scorn on "creative" people every day. Art is shit, I always say. Yet I wouldn't give up my Mac for anything.
-ccm
Let me clue you in on a secret, smarty-pants. People don't like being told they are simpletons and tools. Until the would-be philosopher-kings on the Left learn this lesson well, they will be stuck on the margins of political power, and nobody will benefit from their radiant cosmic enlightenment.
William F. Buckley once said he would rather be governed by a hundred people picked at random from the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard. Posts like yours make me agree with him.
-ccm
Pooh. What a waste of money. Tell you what, if you could dilute all the nerve gas ever made in just one cubic mile of water, I'd happily drink a glass full.
The dose makes the poison. I don't care what it is, if it's surrounded by enough water, it's harmless. This is also why any terrorist attempts to poison our water supplies are doomed to failure. You could put a truck load of any poison in the average municipal reservoir, and not reach a lethal dose to those drinking the water.
-ccm
They do a lot of things in Canada that should be regarded with horrified disgust by men who are free.
Y'all are subjects, not citizens. Chattel. Cogs in the Good Government machine.
-ccm
No no no. You obviously don't understand marketing speak. If something is "new and improved", it means the old one was "original", "classic", or "tried-and true".
-ccm
-ccm
Texas passed significant medical malpractice reform recently, and malpractice insurance rates are falling significantly.
-ccm
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be on iTunes.
-ccm
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Except for the tiny little problem that it is a body of fresh water well above sea level, therefore not under the jurisdiction of the Law of the Sea.
-ccm
Well, I felt insulted every day of the Clinton administration, so I guess that makes us square. But Clinton was no fascist, and neither is Bush. For you to argue otherwise is a gross display of your own ignorance and hysterical partisan shrillness, not to mention an insult to the memory of the victims of real fascism.
A new President will be sworn in a little more than three years from now, and he might even be a Democrat. You can bank on that. I'm a Bush man through and through, but I'd be out there with you on the barricades if he dared to try to cling to power after January 2009. Give your political opponents at least that much credit.
-ccm
Sure it will. Just like the crazies on the far right used to say about Clinton. It was crap then, and it's crap now when you say it. Not just crap, but an insult to the American people.
-ccm
It was Arizona's best ski season ever, not my own. The best skiing I have ever had has been in Colorado and Utah.
The only time I've ever skied in Canada was at Mont Tremblant, and it was Eastern average, which is to say, pretty shitty for anyone who has ever spent a day out West.
-ccm
Oh yes. No doubt it's only the American leftists who mod me down around here when I post a factual post in defense of the Bush Administration, or expressing my well-founded skepticism about some facet of the global warming debate or the benefits to be had from diversity. I'm sure no enlightened European leftist would ever do such a crass and intolerant thing.
--ccm
Sure does. Proudly and unapologetically. Get used to it.
-ccm
That doesn't surprise me, but it should be a clue to all decent and sensible people that things have to change radically. Let's push for the kind of tort reform that will put 90% of the filthy blood-sucking pirates out of business.
The American legal system is a f**king disgrace. No, scratch that, it's a positive menace to the American way of life. We have turned into a nation of paranoid, selfish sissies, thanks to the pond scum of the trial bar. And the defense attorneys are no better; they don't want the gravy train to end either. I want to annihilate them. I want their children to starve and their wives to go barefoot. I want to cut their dirty greedy balls off with a rusty butter knife.
Most of all, I want to sweep away a thousand years of arcane gibberish and oppression of the common man, tear the legal system into itty bitty pieces, and rebuild it from the ground up according to principles of logic and common sense and brevity. The greedy vermin of the Bar have been a plague on humanity since the time of the Pharisees, and it has to stop NOW.
-ccm
You first. If it's such a good idea, what are you waiting for?
-ccm
Well, down here in Arizona, we just had the best ski season of my whole life. It shat snow from October to May, a total of 459 inches for the year last season, and they've already had their first snowfall of the 2005-06 season. Our drought has finally broken.
If this be global warming, give me more, please. Selkirks be damned.
-ccm
This can't be right. George Bush wasn't even born then. How could there possibly have been hurricanes, or any other evil or dangerous thing?
Oh! I see: Halliburton Co., founded 1919. That explains it.
-ccm
Big deal. I could as easily and justly consider the moon and all the stars to be my own personal property.
Unless Canada can think of a legitimate reason why 600 years of seafaring tradition should be abandoned, they should shut up. Their writ does not extend more than three miles off shore, same as ours. The Law of the Sea, both formal and informal, has long recognized that navigable deep water "belongs" to anyone and everyone.
Moreover, Canada is always first in line to bitch about American exceptionalism and our contempt for international law. I'd say they should practice what they preach, but instead I'll note that all nations, at all times, have no more morals or ethics than my little fingernail. Nations always do what is in their own self-interest, and nothing but what is in their own self-interest.
And right now, with the USSR defeated and America pretty much doing what it pleases in the world, it is in the interest of many Lilliputian nations to band together to tie down Gulliver. The goals and moral sensibilities of many do-gooding leftists happen to coincide with the internationalist, anti-American platitudes currently being mouthed by the ruling elites in places like Canada and France, but the Left shouldn't delude itself that the Canadian or French governments would behave much better than the American government if their roles were reversed. Politicians are the same everywhere, and so are voters.
-ccm
I will never forget the night I went to a friend's party and he had a tape of "Deep Throat" in his dad's new $750 VCR. We had never seen anything remotely like it; in fact, I knew hardly anyone who even had a VCR. Everyone was watching, including the girls. I remember going to a couple of "porno parties" later that year and watching "Debbie Does Dallas" while seated between two gorgeous, totally enthralled cheerleaders. Debauchery ensued; a night for the record books indeed.
Ah, for the good old days when porn was new and exciting and respectable, not pathetic and sweaty and solitary. You young slashdotters have no idea what I'm talking about...
-ccm
All failures of the capitalist system are caused by the involvement of too much government. We need to hack government at all levels into tiny, powerless bits.
-ccm