I don't know why that got modded up as funny, the same strategy and talking points (with the exception of promising to limit his term) worked for Obama.
I got a better one for you. How about "YOU", take the time to find candidates who resonate with "YOUR" thinking, and vote for them. I know, it makes so much more sense to vote for someone YOU DON'T WANT, than it does to "THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY" on someone you believe in. As stupid as it sounds, that is the most popular rational for not voting for Independents. It's really sad too, considering that the only people who talk about fixing problems in ways that actually work (meaning those not bound to see to the desires of monied interests, or government bureaucracy before those of their constituents) are amongst the Indies.
The $25 dollar credit thing is just a hook to get you to buy more than $25 a month worth of stuff via your cell phone. It isn't limited to $25 at all. Just imagine that you wanted to buy a ring tone or something, and you neglected to uncheck the box next to the option to sign up for 10 new ring tones a month for $5.95 (never mind that the page-scroll wasn't visible, and the box was a line or two beneath the viewable screen). Now imagine these kinds of gimmicks in the hands of a 13 year old girl, whose cell phone bill you pay...
Personally I'd prefer to get $25 off of my cell bill. I mean really, if they can afford to give you $25 a month worth of credit, why can't they afford to drop your bill by $25 a month? As it stands now, the cellular services market has too few participants, and those involved inflate their profits by colluding with one another in price-fixing schemes. The way I see it, the reason the.com bubble happened was that bandwidth providers have continuously been too slow on the draw in ratcheting down their prices as their number of customers has increased.
Don't want it. You can have it. I don't have to pay to park now, why would I want to? How are your people so dumb that it sounded like a good idea to them? If they did it here, I'd invent my own flying car, and just put the thing on hover ever time I stopped somewhere.
"Can the government do a better job? It would be hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more."
Trust in this, "if" it is possible for the government to screw it up, they will find a way to do it. The reason that the health care plan they currently have tabled will be worse is that they are addressing the issue the wrong way. The only way to make "health care" affordable is to BAN all health "insurance". It's a what the market will bare thing. An insurance company will always be able to pay a higher price for services rendered than the average person, therefore the cost of a procedure is determined by the insurance companies (rather than real "cost-based" pricing). They conflate the price of materials, and services, "then" factor in an additional cut for the hospital, and also an additional cut for themselves. I mean really, think about it, if you can make.10 off of a piece of surgical tubing and a syringe by charging.50, if your client has no choice but to pay, why not charge them $5.00 for it? Because the majority of an insurance company's clients will be healthy than sick at any one time, they will always be able to afford the higher price. In essence by allowing insurance companies into the health care market, you price the average person out of being able to afford care without having health insurance. How is turning the federal government into a health insurance provider going to fix that? Better yet, how is making me a felon for not participating in the scam that is health insurance going to improve my health?
Actually I think it means that they've managed to insert our universe into two separate universes simultaneously. One in which the object is both 'here" and "there" at the same "time".....I'd never be late for work again!
Oh give me a clone
Of my flesh and my bones
With the Y chromosome changed to X
And when we're alone
Since her mind is my own
She'll be thinking of nothing but sex
Reagan did it...actually the televangelists claimed to have "conservative", "christian-AMERICAN values". Since then, the christians have tried to get rid of knowledge that most of the founding fathers were in fact "deist free-masons". They'd also like all of us to forget the native american influence on this country's founding documents.
Lynch's Dune is one of my favorite movies. The re-make (I don't care if Herbert's kid had something to do with it) was largely a travesty borne of lame acting, and an over-reliance on digital effects. My only real complaints with the original were the miscasting of Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck, a few blocking fuck-ups, and the "weirding weapons". I can only imagine that further attempts to remake Dune would only manage to dissuade future generations from actually reading the fucking book.
I am talking about further in the future. When you have no desktops, or laptops, (or even netbooks) but rather, glorified "access portals" (no optical drive, no hard drive, no video-card, just a screen, and a few gigs of RAM) through which you'll be able access your "storage" on the "cloud", (for which you will pay money simply to access) and it will be completely useless without access.
The end goal of the "net-book"/:net-device" fad is this....they are trying to steal your right to anything you do with a computer. You write a song? No hard-drive, no personal storage, no personal storage, no proof it was ever yours! You design a new piece of software? The geek on the dark side of you desktop already has it compiled and sitting in front of several potential buyers. The fad is meant to bring about the dissolution of personal ownership (at least ownership by the unclean masses anyway) and materialism itself. Serfdom unlike any before, where a minor glitch can turn a prince to a pauper, and personal failure in EVERYTHING can not only be internally conditioned, but externally manufactured as well. In other words, 1984 is nothing compared to what they have in mind. I for one will have nothing to do with it (if I can avoid it). It might be a little harder to play computer games while in-flight, but I think I can live with that knowing that I won't have to be online just to check my available drive-storage (and paying some schmuck $29 a month for the right to access it!).
What if obeying the US request means giving up taxes and tariffs gleaned from their sugar sales, and allowing Monsanto to contract to do all the farming? Good luck trying to keep Costa Rica as it's own entity after that happens!
I think it is because we are too busy using IP laws to break tariffs to be concerned as to whether or not Monsanto will use eco-friendly farming techniques once they have taken over. Same thing happened to Haiti a few decades ago.....And people wonder why Haitians were living in such poor homes! Kind of hard to worry about building codes after a multi-national mega-corp comes in and steals your ability to sell your crops by selling theirs at 1/100th of the price of yours.
The original problem still exists. In a word....TRUST. When what "official" versions state clearly conflicts with the report of your own senses, you KNOW not to TRUST the "official" version of events. When you experience this cognitive dissonance often enough (like oh I don't know, the eight years of bu$h perhaps) you come to know that your senses are all you can trust. When Obama's admin tells more truth than lies, we will learn to trust them. Currently he and his cabal are trying to convince us that tomorrow will be a sunny day, while we are tortured with the knowledge that it has been raining bricks and mortar for a couple of years now....and will most likely do so no matter what "his blackness" says.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? If bu$h ran the country this way, all of Obama's admin (short those who were in bu$h's admin) would be dead or in jail by now. All I know is knowing that they would never be able to get away with it federally, they are trying to bring back the Brady assualt weapons ban up here in Washington (you know, that little slippery slope Clinton tried to toboggan the country down before the LA riots put us all back into perspective?) . For all of you schmucks who voted for Obama, we were right, he is going to try to take our guns away. If they ever succeed, you will come to hate gun owners for not shooting every last one of them! They have no love for your ideals of peace and justice, only for the execution of every last visage of what made America not Mexico.
The part I don't understand is why anyone would voluntarily become a part of InfraGrad and start "sharing information" about others in the first place.
The parking! Infra-gard members have the benefit of being able to park in any "handicapped" space without displaying a placard!
"Another intra-generational gap is the iGeneration comfort in multi-tasking. Studies show that 16- to 18-year-olds perform seven tasks, on average, in their free time — like texting on the phone, sending instant messages, and checking Facebook while sitting in front of the television"
Too bad they aren't really paying attention to at least half of it.
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He's doing that one militia at a time right now.
-Oz
I don't know why that got modded up as funny, the same strategy and talking points (with the exception of promising to limit his term) worked for Obama.
-Oz
I got a better one for you. How about "YOU", take the time to find candidates who resonate with "YOUR" thinking, and vote for them. I know, it makes so much more sense to vote for someone YOU DON'T WANT, than it does to "THROW YOUR VOTE AWAY" on someone you believe in. As stupid as it sounds, that is the most popular rational for not voting for Independents. It's really sad too, considering that the only people who talk about fixing problems in ways that actually work (meaning those not bound to see to the desires of monied interests, or government bureaucracy before those of their constituents) are amongst the Indies.
-Oz
Sounds like grounds for a defamation case!
-Oz
The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
-Oz
The $25 dollar credit thing is just a hook to get you to buy more than $25 a month worth of stuff via your cell phone. It isn't limited to $25 at all. Just imagine that you wanted to buy a ring tone or something, and you neglected to uncheck the box next to the option to sign up for 10 new ring tones a month for $5.95 (never mind that the page-scroll wasn't visible, and the box was a line or two beneath the viewable screen). Now imagine these kinds of gimmicks in the hands of a 13 year old girl, whose cell phone bill you pay...
.com bubble happened was that bandwidth providers have continuously been too slow on the draw in ratcheting down their prices as their number of customers has increased.
Personally I'd prefer to get $25 off of my cell bill. I mean really, if they can afford to give you $25 a month worth of credit, why can't they afford to drop your bill by $25 a month? As it stands now, the cellular services market has too few participants, and those involved inflate their profits by colluding with one another in price-fixing schemes. The way I see it, the reason the
-Oz
Don't want it. You can have it. I don't have to pay to park now, why would I want to? How are your people so dumb that it sounded like a good idea to them? If they did it here, I'd invent my own flying car, and just put the thing on hover ever time I stopped somewhere.
-Oz
"Can the government do a better job? It would be hard to imagine how they can screw it up even more."
.10 off of a piece of surgical tubing and a syringe by charging .50, if your client has no choice but to pay, why not charge them $5.00 for it? Because the majority of an insurance company's clients will be healthy than sick at any one time, they will always be able to afford the higher price. In essence by allowing insurance companies into the health care market, you price the average person out of being able to afford care without having health insurance. How is turning the federal government into a health insurance provider going to fix that? Better yet, how is making me a felon for not participating in the scam that is health insurance going to improve my health?
Trust in this, "if" it is possible for the government to screw it up, they will find a way to do it. The reason that the health care plan they currently have tabled will be worse is that they are addressing the issue the wrong way. The only way to make "health care" affordable is to BAN all health "insurance". It's a what the market will bare thing. An insurance company will always be able to pay a higher price for services rendered than the average person, therefore the cost of a procedure is determined by the insurance companies (rather than real "cost-based" pricing). They conflate the price of materials, and services, "then" factor in an additional cut for the hospital, and also an additional cut for themselves. I mean really, think about it, if you can make
-Oz
Actually I think it means that they've managed to insert our universe into two separate universes simultaneously. One in which the object is both 'here" and "there" at the same "time".....I'd never be late for work again!
-Oz
I think it scans a little better this way.
Oh give me a clone
Of my flesh and my bones
With the Y chromosome changed to X
And when we're alone
Since her mind is my own
She'll be thinking of nothing but sex
-Oz
Or maybe an Orange!!!
-Oz
But would you be a "real" you? Would you know the difference? And would it even really matter?
-Oz
-Oz
Reagan did it...actually the televangelists claimed to have "conservative", "christian-AMERICAN values". Since then, the christians have tried to get rid of knowledge that most of the founding fathers were in fact "deist free-masons". They'd also like all of us to forget the native american influence on this country's founding documents.
-Oz
It's a movie called "Gamer"
-Oz
Lynch's Dune is one of my favorite movies. The re-make (I don't care if Herbert's kid had something to do with it) was largely a travesty borne of lame acting, and an over-reliance on digital effects. My only real complaints with the original were the miscasting of Patrick Stewart as Gurney Halleck, a few blocking fuck-ups, and the "weirding weapons". I can only imagine that further attempts to remake Dune would only manage to dissuade future generations from actually reading the fucking book.
-Oz
I am talking about further in the future. When you have no desktops, or laptops, (or even netbooks) but rather, glorified "access portals" (no optical drive, no hard drive, no video-card, just a screen, and a few gigs of RAM) through which you'll be able access your "storage" on the "cloud", (for which you will pay money simply to access) and it will be completely useless without access.
-Oz
The end goal of the "net-book"/ :net-device" fad is this....they are trying to steal your right to anything you do with a computer. You write a song? No hard-drive, no personal storage, no personal storage, no proof it was ever yours! You design a new piece of software? The geek on the dark side of you desktop already has it compiled and sitting in front of several potential buyers. The fad is meant to bring about the dissolution of personal ownership (at least ownership by the unclean masses anyway) and materialism itself. Serfdom unlike any before, where a minor glitch can turn a prince to a pauper, and personal failure in EVERYTHING can not only be internally conditioned, but externally manufactured as well. In other words, 1984 is nothing compared to what they have in mind. I for one will have nothing to do with it (if I can avoid it). It might be a little harder to play computer games while in-flight, but I think I can live with that knowing that I won't have to be online just to check my available drive-storage (and paying some schmuck $29 a month for the right to access it!).
-Oz
What if obeying the US request means giving up taxes and tariffs gleaned from their sugar sales, and allowing Monsanto to contract to do all the farming? Good luck trying to keep Costa Rica as it's own entity after that happens!
-Oz
I think it is because we are too busy using IP laws to break tariffs to be concerned as to whether or not Monsanto will use eco-friendly farming techniques once they have taken over. Same thing happened to Haiti a few decades ago.....And people wonder why Haitians were living in such poor homes! Kind of hard to worry about building codes after a multi-national mega-corp comes in and steals your ability to sell your crops by selling theirs at 1/100th of the price of yours.
-Oz
The original problem still exists. In a word....TRUST. When what "official" versions state clearly conflicts with the report of your own senses, you KNOW not to TRUST the "official" version of events. When you experience this cognitive dissonance often enough (like oh I don't know, the eight years of bu$h perhaps) you come to know that your senses are all you can trust. When Obama's admin tells more truth than lies, we will learn to trust them. Currently he and his cabal are trying to convince us that tomorrow will be a sunny day, while we are tortured with the knowledge that it has been raining bricks and mortar for a couple of years now....and will most likely do so no matter what "his blackness" says.
-Oz
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? If bu$h ran the country this way, all of Obama's admin (short those who were in bu$h's admin) would be dead or in jail by now. All I know is knowing that they would never be able to get away with it federally, they are trying to bring back the Brady assualt weapons ban up here in Washington (you know, that little slippery slope Clinton tried to toboggan the country down before the LA riots put us all back into perspective?) . For all of you schmucks who voted for Obama, we were right, he is going to try to take our guns away. If they ever succeed, you will come to hate gun owners for not shooting every last one of them! They have no love for your ideals of peace and justice, only for the execution of every last visage of what made America not Mexico.
-Oz
Cool, maybe the mosquitoes will quit eating me alive every summer!
-Oz
The part I don't understand is why anyone would voluntarily become a part of InfraGrad and start "sharing information" about others in the first place.
The parking! Infra-gard members have the benefit of being able to park in any "handicapped" space without displaying a placard!
-Oz
"Another intra-generational gap is the iGeneration comfort in multi-tasking. Studies show that 16- to 18-year-olds perform seven tasks, on average, in their free time — like texting on the phone, sending instant messages, and checking Facebook while sitting in front of the television"
Too bad they aren't really paying attention to at least half of it.
-Oz