The reason why they're smiling so much when you give them your 'imperialist' dollars is because they Have To. Anybody who would break the illusion might just have their families on the blacklist.
Think about what you're describing as positive points... None of those things are impossible without communism. In other words, you don't have to give up everything you have, your rights, your freedom, just to have good education and healthcare.
How do you think things got the way they are in Cuba? Do you think it was a Food Not Bombs commie-punk circle jerk which magically made the country fall into ruin?
They took everything by force, not by a peaceful decision to march along with Marxism. Communism was forced upon the Cuban people, and nobody with any sense should see that as a good way to political change.
It is not pointless. We should not be supporting a system which traps and enslaves people, with no hope of ever improving their lives other than what the holy State will provide (or allow) for them, let alone openly torture, murder and imprison its political opponents.
Think about how life would be in any 'free' nation if the kind of restrictions that exist for Cubans were to be enacted in your country? Communism is not a panacea or a paradise - it is a pit.
The US isn't perfect, but Castro's policies towards the Cuban people are much, much worse.
BTW, Cuba is 90 miles from Florida, hardly "a thousand".
I suppose it means nothing to you in your smug, patrician outlook that the tourist destination you go to is built on the backs of the bruised. People like you make me sick. You're guiltless as long as you can have a good time, just like those you would seek to demonize.
What a bunch of horseshit. So Cuba really has become a workers' paradise under Cuba? Everyone is doing just great down there, aren't they. If you think it's such a desirable situation, head down there yourself and see if you can get past the carefully controlled tourist traps and look at the utter poverty and squalor people are forced into.
You're yet another trendy propagandist for a violent scheme which has tortured, murdered and enslaved thousands of people. I don't agree with what Fox News generally has to say, but if they're telling the truth people about the Cuban people and the suffering they have endured under Castro, more power to them.
Castro gave everything to the people, did he? How utterly ridiculous. Do you think it's effective or even reasonable for everyone to just split everything they have with everyone else in an entire nation?? It's absurd. When Castro took over, the wealthy had other people jammed into their homes (if they were allowed to remain in them themselves) and literally were stripped of any valuables they had. Would you find it acceptable if armed men came to your home and demanded the contents? To have it stripped to the bare walls for the good of the state? Think... You don't have a choice in the matter, other than give up everything you've ever worked for, or be shot.
The question is, where did the valuables end up? The answer: the communist elites.
No man is free from the will to power, not even communist worker 'heroes' like Che and Castro. (Let no one forget, Che was a hired goon, a paid mercenary from Argentina, eventually betrayed by Castro himself.) Cuba had a very strong economy before Castro seized power. There was a time when US dollars and Cuban dollars were freely interchanged. Only *after* Castro took over did the economy falter. Before you blame the US embargo for this, consider that every other country in the world has normal relations with Cuba.
It's not the United States' fault that Castro's communist scheme has failed.
No Cuban-American worth a damn who has knowledge of what's going on down there is looking to get soft and hope for tourist trips. People who support Castro and his violent thugs are most likely very ignorant of the realities of the communist methods of enforcement.
Oh those silly Florida 'fanatics'. I guess you would feel a little fanatical too, if your family had been tortured, oppressed and murdered by a troupe of bandits.
Maybe not, maybe you would just join the elites with plenty of ingratiating brown nosing and act like nothing was amiss, hoping to avoid the wrong kind of attention. You know, the kind of attention that neighborhood commitees which spy on how much food you have on your plate might bring.
When I worked for a large aerospace contractor here in the U.S., our workstations also locked after 5min and this was required by federal law due to the potentially classified nature of the work.
This never bothered me much as I was usually pretty busy. I believe it's these same set of regulations (can't remember the TLA ATM) which requires a key combination of some kind to be used to bring up the login prompt - on Windows, Ctrl-Alt-Del of course. If we had someone around with a rig like you describe to stop the 5min lock they would have been in some deep trouble!:]
An NES _is_ a vintage computer. It runs the same processor as an Apple IIe, an obvious vintage machine. The freakin' thing was released in 1984, after all. I used these machines when they were new as a kid, and I would certainly say they're vintage. Clothes, footwear, accessories and other items from the same era could be called vintage as well.
Quit apologizing for this asshole. NOBODY should come anywhere even CLOSE to suggesting we change the way of free speech. Give me Liberty, or give me Death...
People like you are ever-so-ready to make excuses or fritter and mince away at the freedom bashing and scare mongering from conservative talking heads so long as they think it suits their tax reduction goals.
I don't care what the supposed danger is - our country has seen much worse than Islamic terrorists and we didn't have to change the fucking Constitution for it!
I agree with you 100%. My own experience is from being a longtime Gran Turismo player on PS1 and PS2. GT 3 A-Spec was the very best IMO. I finally got around to buying GT 4 recently and I was seriously underwhelmed. The game is OK and all, but it just doesn't have the same fun factor as the previous installment, and the map/menu screen is total crap.
This kind of system deserves to fail. If someone buys a game, it should be well stocked with options Automatically. If anything, they should be offering FREE (as in beer) downloads for extra cars or tracks, and maybe offering some user-designed material.
I almost think you are trolling. Do you really mean that someone buying a used vinyl LP is stealing? My family has been in the reselling (consignment) business for years, selling clothes, jewelry, furniture and other items which include... PAINTINGS AND MUSICAL RECORDINGS! Holy Shit! If only we had known we were thieves all this time!
You're totally out of line without any hope for redemption. Your ideas are completely foolish and anti-consumer. I would wager you must be very wealthy to think this way, probably since a coddled, spoiled upbringing.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with selling used goods. Under your 'logic', selling antiques would also be construed as theft, since they unarguably have artistic merit to them, especially when compared with modern products.
Some items are not easily accessible in the hypercorporate millieu you inhabit - vintage items, specialty items, etc. This seems to go without saying. To pick an easy example, your musical tastes must not go back very far in time to be able to understand that you can't get the original 1967 LP version of The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request" with the psychedelic-style lens impressed over the front of the jacket (look it up).
As for helping to contribute to the artistic process, that's a nearly random factor anyway, and money isn't necessarily going to make it any better (surprise!). For major-label acts (music, games, whatever), they have a lot of money backing them up anyway and they either sink or swim, but if they got that far in the first place they are likely to continue swimming. In regards to independent labels with lesser known artists, they are within a fine margin of either making commercially viable output or more unique output. The choice is up to them, and if they're just in it for the money they'll get what they deserve, good or bad. If they strive mainly for artistic satisfaction, then they can hardly fail. If someone resells one of their works, then maybe they just didn't dig their non-corporate more-unique brand of output, or maybe they just plain sucked.
Again, I think you must be trolling. I wish I had mod points to mod you as such! Either that, or you are utterly delusional and in need of a strong slap of practical reality to your ridiculous visage.
For those who are not familiar with coral reefs and may go for a casual snorkel or swim sometime, please do not physically touch the coral itself as this kills it. Because of this, federal law requires swimmers to wear flotation jackets when nearby to avoid contact.
It takes 30,000 years to grow 1 cubic inch of coral, and the mistreatment of the reefs around Florida (1960s dynamite fishing, jewelry harvesting, etc.) has made it so that the reef off of the Florida Keys is the last living coral reef in the region.
This is exactly the sort of behavior which keeps me from buying any kind of Apple hardware whatsoever, and I am betting I am not alone in this sentiment.
They want to come across as cool, modern, fun, etc. but then they're suing the pants off people left and right for really minor 'infractions'.
Apple, wake up! People don't want to give their money to assholes!
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The reason why they're smiling so much when you give them your 'imperialist' dollars is because they Have To. Anybody who would break the illusion might just have their families on the blacklist.
Think about what you're describing as positive points... None of those things are impossible without communism. In other words, you don't have to give up everything you have, your rights, your freedom, just to have good education and healthcare.
How do you think things got the way they are in Cuba? Do you think it was a Food Not Bombs commie-punk circle jerk which magically made the country fall into ruin?
They took everything by force, not by a peaceful decision to march along with Marxism. Communism was forced upon the Cuban people, and nobody with any sense should see that as a good way to political change.
It is not pointless. We should not be supporting a system which traps and enslaves people, with no hope of ever improving their lives other than what the holy State will provide (or allow) for them, let alone openly torture, murder and imprison its political opponents.
Think about how life would be in any 'free' nation if the kind of restrictions that exist for Cubans were to be enacted in your country? Communism is not a panacea or a paradise - it is a pit.
The US isn't perfect, but Castro's policies towards the Cuban people are much, much worse.
BTW, Cuba is 90 miles from Florida, hardly "a thousand".
I suppose it means nothing to you in your smug, patrician outlook that the tourist destination you go to is built on the backs of the bruised. People like you make me sick. You're guiltless as long as you can have a good time, just like those you would seek to demonize.
What a bunch of horseshit. So Cuba really has become a workers' paradise under Cuba? Everyone is doing just great down there, aren't they. If you think it's such a desirable situation, head down there yourself and see if you can get past the carefully controlled tourist traps and look at the utter poverty and squalor people are forced into.
You're yet another trendy propagandist for a violent scheme which has tortured, murdered and enslaved thousands of people. I don't agree with what Fox News generally has to say, but if they're telling the truth people about the Cuban people and the suffering they have endured under Castro, more power to them.
Castro gave everything to the people, did he? How utterly ridiculous. Do you think it's effective or even reasonable for everyone to just split everything they have with everyone else in an entire nation?? It's absurd. When Castro took over, the wealthy had other people jammed into their homes (if they were allowed to remain in them themselves) and literally were stripped of any valuables they had. Would you find it acceptable if armed men came to your home and demanded the contents? To have it stripped to the bare walls for the good of the state?
Think... You don't have a choice in the matter, other than give up everything you've ever worked for, or be shot.
The question is, where did the valuables end up? The answer: the communist elites.
No man is free from the will to power, not even communist worker 'heroes' like Che and Castro. (Let no one forget, Che was a hired goon, a paid mercenary from Argentina, eventually betrayed by Castro himself.) Cuba had a very strong economy before Castro seized power. There was a time when US dollars and Cuban dollars were freely interchanged. Only *after* Castro took over did the economy falter. Before you blame the US embargo for this, consider that every other country in the world has normal relations with Cuba.
It's not the United States' fault that Castro's communist scheme has failed.
No Cuban-American worth a damn who has knowledge of what's going on down there is looking to get soft and hope for tourist trips. People who support Castro and his violent thugs are most likely very ignorant of the realities of the communist methods of enforcement.
Oh those silly Florida 'fanatics'. I guess you would feel a little fanatical too, if your family had been tortured, oppressed and murdered by a troupe of bandits.
Maybe not, maybe you would just join the elites with plenty of ingratiating brown nosing and act like nothing was amiss, hoping to avoid the wrong kind of attention. You know, the kind of attention that neighborhood commitees which spy on how much food you have on your plate might bring.
... and neither do brutal, authoritarian Communist dictatorships.
Viva Cuba Libre!
who cares about your lyrics site anyway!
When I worked for a large aerospace contractor here in the U.S., our workstations also locked after 5min and this was required by federal law due to the potentially classified nature of the work.
:]
This never bothered me much as I was usually pretty busy. I believe it's these same set of regulations (can't remember the TLA ATM) which requires a key combination of some kind to be used to bring up the login prompt - on Windows, Ctrl-Alt-Del of course. If we had someone around with a rig like you describe to stop the 5min lock they would have been in some deep trouble!
wow, that SPARC shown in the picture was fully equipped with a vampire clamp and BNC/10Base2 adaptor.
wewt!
An NES _is_ a vintage computer. It runs the same processor as an Apple IIe, an obvious vintage machine. The freakin' thing was released in 1984, after all. I used these machines when they were new as a kid, and I would certainly say they're vintage. Clothes, footwear, accessories and other items from the same era could be called vintage as well.
Good point. With the new Opera for Wii this would make some interesting competition for Xbox Live and PS3 Linux.
Quit apologizing for this asshole. NOBODY should come anywhere even CLOSE to suggesting we change the way of free speech. Give me Liberty, or give me Death ...
People like you are ever-so-ready to make excuses or fritter and mince away at the freedom bashing and scare mongering from conservative talking heads so long as they think it suits their tax reduction goals.
I don't care what the supposed danger is - our country has seen much worse than Islamic terrorists and we didn't have to change the fucking Constitution for it!
GRR!
Oh yeah.... 20lb bags of weed = DANGER! DANGER!
ROFL
I agree with you 100%. My own experience is from being a longtime Gran Turismo player on PS1 and PS2. GT 3 A-Spec was the very best IMO. I finally got around to buying GT 4 recently and I was seriously underwhelmed. The game is OK and all, but it just doesn't have the same fun factor as the previous installment, and the map/menu screen is total crap.
This kind of system deserves to fail. If someone buys a game, it should be well stocked with options Automatically. If anything, they should be offering FREE (as in beer) downloads for extra cars or tracks, and maybe offering some user-designed material.
hahaha. I just saw this and laughed my ass off. thanks!!
Hear, hear! They also need to quit telling people what substances they can put INTO their bodies, be it glass, latex, or THC!
ahem...
hm, looks like you also messed up on CTRL :/
I have to agree. I have never thought GC graphics were not good enough, etc. Paper Mario looks so perfectly smooth, it's like reading a comic.
I almost think you are trolling. Do you really mean that someone buying a used vinyl LP is stealing? My family has been in the reselling (consignment) business for years, selling clothes, jewelry, furniture and other items which include... PAINTINGS AND MUSICAL RECORDINGS! Holy Shit! If only we had known we were thieves all this time!
You're totally out of line without any hope for redemption. Your ideas are completely foolish and anti-consumer. I would wager you must be very wealthy to think this way, probably since a coddled, spoiled upbringing.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with selling used goods. Under your 'logic', selling antiques would also be construed as theft, since they unarguably have artistic merit to them, especially when compared with modern products.
Some items are not easily accessible in the hypercorporate millieu you inhabit - vintage items, specialty items, etc. This seems to go without saying. To pick an easy example, your musical tastes must not go back very far in time to be able to understand that you can't get the original 1967 LP version of The Rolling Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request" with the psychedelic-style lens impressed over the front of the jacket (look it up).
As for helping to contribute to the artistic process, that's a nearly random factor anyway, and money isn't necessarily going to make it any better (surprise!). For major-label acts (music, games, whatever), they have a lot of money backing them up anyway and they either sink or swim, but if they got that far in the first place they are likely to continue swimming. In regards to independent labels with lesser known artists, they are within a fine margin of either making commercially viable output or more unique output. The choice is up to them, and if they're just in it for the money they'll get what they deserve, good or bad. If they strive mainly for artistic satisfaction, then they can hardly fail. If someone resells one of their works, then maybe they just didn't dig their non-corporate more-unique brand of output, or maybe they just plain sucked.
Again, I think you must be trolling. I wish I had mod points to mod you as such! Either that, or you are utterly delusional and in need of a strong slap of practical reality to your ridiculous visage.
>> We will welcome you into the ranks of rational consumers.
WOW!! I just can't wait to join that elite club.
You pathetic tool.
For those who are not familiar with coral reefs and may go for a casual snorkel or swim sometime, please do not physically touch the coral itself as this kills it. Because of this, federal law requires swimmers to wear flotation jackets when nearby to avoid contact.
It takes 30,000 years to grow 1 cubic inch of coral, and the mistreatment of the reefs around Florida (1960s dynamite fishing, jewelry harvesting, etc.) has made it so that the reef off of the Florida Keys is the last living coral reef in the region.
This is exactly the sort of behavior which keeps me from buying any kind of Apple hardware whatsoever, and I am betting I am not alone in this sentiment.
They want to come across as cool, modern, fun, etc. but then they're suing the pants off people left and right for really minor 'infractions'.
Apple, wake up! People don't want to give their money to assholes!
who shat in your cheerios???
your name must be sarcasm as well... bush and cheney quite obviously can't be trusted to do the right thing either!