This game they play with the data has grated on my last nerve. I will be dropping my data package this month all together, and use my phone as just that, a phone. It was great in theory, but the limitations, and greed of the companies have overshadowed it, hence I am out. Frankly, I have found I don't need it. Being unplugged is liberating. I was recalling back when nobody had cell phones, we still functioned just fine. I just need to find use for my smart phone, but I can ditch it as well if it's too big of a problem to unlock and slip a new carrier's chip in. A penny phone will do just fine. I will just dig out my old Ipod and all the toys I had for it. Not to mention I will save myself some much needed money.
Nice brain there wireless data carriers. Now you don't get ANY of my money. Ha ha! Fools. If I am heading that direction, I know there are LOTS more, I run into people all the time who try data and ditch it in disgust. When a fanboy of it like me ditches it, the canary in the coal mine is toast. Good luck getting us back after this.
Here's me saying F. U. with my wallet.
My wallet: Fuck off, data carriers. Me: Hey, watch your mouth! My wallet: Sod off, I don't have a mouth. Me: How are you talking? My wallet: Out your ass, just like you. Me: That was uncalled for. My wallet: Yer mom is uncalled for, but she comes around anyway. Me: That's enough. My wallet: That's what she said. Me: Look, wallet, you need to shut up or... My wallet: Or what? You will put even less money in me? Why don't you give me to that homeless guy, I would have more cash in me. Lose some weight by the way, your fat ass has been crushing me for years now. Me: Shut up, I can always replace you. My wallet: Haha! With what money? With what wallet, that fag one your exwife got you for Christmas? Do you think she was trying to tell you something with that? Maybe hoping to inspire you to MAKE MORE MONEY, you fucking loser. Me: That was below the belt! Me and my wallet: Ha ha ha! My wallet: That was a good one, now shut the fuck up. We are cutting off these data carrier pricks. These cocksuckers charge us way too much. You can't even send pictures right with that phone because you, the phone, and the retards that work the company's help desk can't figure it out. So all of you need to fuck off and save ME money. You and your smart phone = one big retard. My smart phone: Huh, what? My wallet: Shut up and go back to sucking on that battery. Me: How about you both shut up. My smart phone: Feed me, my battery is low. My wallet: Sweet Jesus, you should have just had a baby, you would have to pamper it less. Me: Babies don't have Angry Birds. My wallet:...
1. A chiropractor has not only fixed my back once, but several times. 2. My boss was going to need knee surgery, we both worked in a construction trade. He went to one, on crutches and walked out carrying them and is still to this day working the same hard labor construction field, when the establishment "doctors" told him he needed surgery and his career was over in that field. 3. "Doctors" are like any other profession, they love to protect their own interests, and they tend to lord their precious position over us all. A field that can help people takes money out of their pockets. So it's natural that they develop a resistance to alternative treatment.
How about you not be a mental lemming and learn to question professionals like an intelligent person. Just because I am not a "doctor" doesn't mean I can't research a subject or that I can't come up with solutions to problems. Doctors are people, they are prone to apathy, jealousy, protecting their own interests, corruption just like anyone else is. Just because they have a degree doesn't make them God.
Yes, there are some bad Chiropractors, I have been to a couple of them. Some of them are down right dangerous, especially when making neck adjustments. But I I understand your psychology. You really need to feel those whom you have invested such confidences in are really up to par. Talk about placebo effect. Blind faith in doctors is folly. Obviously there are situations which you had better trust their judgement, and questioning them can cost you your life. You need to have enough of a brain to know when it's time to question things and when to shut up. If you don't have such a mind, then you should just follow the other lemmings, there is a good chance it will work out.
Seriously, don't get shitty and smug with me when you have no fucking clue what I have experienced and know, and I will not think of you as another lemming retard, deal?
Proven by who, surgeons? I have had them set my back in place after wrenching it out doing heavy lifting and falling with it. It's all about the talent of the chiropractor, some are definitely worthless. I have met one that was Spock-like, he was brilliant and had methods that were amazing. Don't hand me "placebo effect", you can't "placebo" your way out of some things and OMFGWTFBBQ pain is one of them.
If one can get past the hurdle of host rejection, this could be an amazing boon for humanity. Imagine a neurological interface with computers, or a network? New generations of smart fighter jets, weapons, an assortment of cybernetic enhancements, it's literally science fiction taking a hold of real life. Couple neurological interface with a super computer array and a vast library, and see what kind of innovations we can come up. Imagine new sensor inputs for our minds to study, imagine seeing radio waves for example. How about nanobots and genetics? We could interface with diagnostic and research nanobots who could help re-engineer our genetic codes to eliminate even aging.
Military inspired innovations aren't anything new. We are communicating via the Internet which was in part started by a US DoD project. One could argue all technology is military based from the philosophical stand point, but why digress.
What I fail to comprehend, at least feign to fail to comprehend is why not allow Palestinians to be part of the UN. Why? This forces them into a statehood with consequences for their actions. It would force elements like Hamas to conform or frankly to be killed/imprisoned as criminals, instead of being part of some chaotic rogue element that can slink back into the wood work. It would open the door for the UN to put the hammer to unruly elements such as again Hamas because the legitimate leadership of the Palestinians is weak.
Two reasons why I think this is opposed. One it means the US welfare check would diminish or stop altogether if there is UN enforced and supervised peace. War is a profitable thing, we should know, we have more than our fair share of war profiteers here. Our warmongers and your warmongers have been in bed together for a LONG TIME. Now of course this has been necessary due to the nature of how the "homeland" has been returned to, taking it by force has been problematic. I think God knew this and is why he told you guys not to do that, but who's listening to God these days, we sure as hell aren't here, so who are we to complain?
Secondly, the UN is a tricky thing and if you have too many enemies, allowing the Palestinians in could mean trouble if they are just going to be dicks about everything, and rabble rouse with a new forum to exploit. If that is the case, fuck 'em. But if they are earnestly trying to just survive and be peaceful neighbors and not get the shit kicked out of them, it would be great to help them out. Especially if you can bump off those that refuse to evolve and just want to be militant punks about everything, via sanctioned UN actions.
Why bitch about this? It's not antisemitism; we are going broke. And as we are going broke, we are starting to turn into the modern Nazis here. Except instead of putting Jews in concentration camps, it will be minorities, the poor, the disabled, illegal aliens, etc. Multinational corporations have raped the ecology of the American ecology. Frankly put, the foundation of America, the American worker has been reamed in the butt by opportunistic trade policies that have been implemented so that said multinational corporations can exploit super cheap foreign labor and dump the products on our markets.
We are taking a nose dive because this kind of thinking is unsustainable unless we just fully evolve into fascism, and we are goosestepping our way there quickly. Being a friend, I am advising to invest in peace with your neighbors. It would help to disarm the hawks and let us focus on sound economic policies that will make it difficult for us to turn into a full blown fascist war machine which the entire world would just fucking hate. I can understand reaching out to Europe because we seem a bit flaky at the moment. Obama may seem like a punk, but he's got his hands full with keeping the 4th Reich from happening during or after his watch.
Lets face it we have the world problems we have for two reasons. One we will suck dick for oil. We have propped up dickheads to keep the oil flowing and we haven't cared what they do to the populations just as long as the oil has flowed. We have created fat cats who lord over their extremely poor populations and they have come to resent the shit out of our supporting them. We have propagated the hell out of the region with weapons, but who hasn't?
Secondly we have backed you guys unquestioningly. We have gave money and weapons to you for decades now, not giving one shit what you do with it as long as you don't start WW3. Yes, you took the land by force. There was some fucked up shit that has happened to the Palestinians, and that is why they are so burning pissed off. We understand, we though had enough sense to kill off the indigenous peopl
I blame parents, because frankly they have no clue, they have been spoon fed reptile brain tripe about how capitalism is their God and proceed to bang their heads against a wall waiting for that "lottery ticket" of sorts to project them to their place in the circle of idols. Hence the values they impart unto their children are lacking because they frankly are lacking any good ones to pass along to them. We are vastly outnumber, and unless we work together as a nation, with goals and utilize all of our assets in concert, we will pass like a shooting star.
Your libertarian outlook is one of a long gone era of frontier-ism. This is a modern world, a smaller world, with limited resources. The days of robber barons setting on top of the heap have to end, lest they will be setting on a heap of burnt trash. If you haven't noticed, China has put the major hammer to us with Capitalism, oh the irony and karma. It seems that we haven't learned the object lesson that "business is war" or "trade is war". We have let our officials whore themselves out to out of control multinational corporations, whom have become the real power on this planet outside of some elements like China, and even that is questionable.
You have been rendered obsolete, American worker. All you are good for now is to wring the last of your countries wealth out of you, so that more of your land can just be bought out from under you with your own money. Please keep cutting the throats of your own people in order to keep your head above water, that is just less that China has to evict when at last you default. Those at the top will just skip off to their luxurious retreats; you don't think gold is at a all time high for willy-nilly reasons do you?
So by all means, keep bitching about education programs, it makes it easier to dominate dumb fucks if they are kept ignorant. I hate to break it to this forum, but just because you post here doesn't make you a genius. Most of you don't even have an original thought, when it comes to these national issues. Factor this, at least they bought IPads, and kept the money here SOMEWHAT in America with Apple. Of course the object lesson of this; tending to the ecology of one's national economy is lost on this generation. It will serve as a cautionary tale for other countries of course, but frankly I am pissed I am going down with the ship with a collective bunch of retards led down the path to destruction by their own greed, played by the Pied Piper of Corporate Greed and the back up band, Government Lackeys.
Take your heads out of the sand, this is the era of "Slash, burn, and liquidate" in American business. They start at the bottom and work their way up. The canary in the coal mine isn't just dead, the damn thing has rotted to bones in it's cage. We've lost something, besides our minds; we have lost an identity as a nation. We aren't a people, we are a collective of fuckers trying to get theirs. That doesn't cut it in the modern world. People need to stop sucking the propaganda tit and look around at the world and get an objective bearing on just how low we have sank. Once it sinks in how fucked we are, we need to examine why. Why is because we have some faulty thinking. Why do we have faulty thinking? Garbage in, garbage out. Figure out what the garbage is and who's shoveling it in your trough. First clue, follow the money.
It's a new age, American children need to hit the ground running out of the womb in order to compete versus the vast numbers in China and India. We have to build better everything, and that includes kids. Now if only we are smart enough not to hold these kids back as they blossom and grow under the tutelage of our machine friends. Get with the times Grandpa.
If there is anything to autopsy it will be interesting to see if it was a medical condition that caused him to crash. Chances are it was mechanical. He's a pilot, meaning he's probably been one all of his life and is (was) in better condition at 80ish that most of us here posting. They only put the really fit one in those planes because ones like the Mustang were hard to fly. It's something about the mad amount of engine power wanting to turn the entire plane a certain direction.
Also this was a race, air shows put on dangerous stunts to "WOW" the crowd, low flybys and things like that. This was a race, meaning it has a "race track" and should by all means be a degree safer to spectate than an air show. It was probably one of those freaky things of things and people all being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't think it was evil or someone should be to blame, it's just sad and tragic.
I don't read things unless it interests me, and if it interests me I have an opinion. When I have an opinion, good or bad, I want to express it. That is the beauty of forums, nobody is talking over you, or slapping you upside of the head to shut you up. Hire kids and put them in charge while they know it all, I say. Indians have all the fun, the chief has to fret and worry.
Can we opt out of them? They pile up if I don't use them it seems. I hate to mod unless it's really, really over the top AND off topic. And I don't want to go on a modding spree where I just spew them out at some poor thread, nor do I want to be letting my own bias take over and start modding. I just ignore them anymore and if I got them I will use them, sparingly. The last 20 or so just expired. You would think they wouldn't give me anymore being I don't spend them. Of course you get the various really cool posts that need a mod up, but they tend to already be modded, so why pile on?
It's a good system, don't get me wrong. I am just an Indian, not a chief.
If you knew what was in our meat, how it was handled, you would run screaming from it. I prefer wild game, it's untouched by all of the antibiotics and steroids and God only knows what else. But not everyone can hunt, be picky about your meat, look for free range meat. Cutting down on meat isn't a bad idea. I had stomach problems for a long time in my 30s. I was eating antacids constantly. I then went full vegan for a year and my stomach problems all cleared up. I could drink pecante sauce (hot sauce), the hot kind out of the jar like it was a drink at the end of that year. If I would look at anything spicy, the sight alone would send my stomach acids churning like a volcano, before that. Now and then I have to cut out the black pepper out of my diet or my asshole will murder me. Seriously, if you have irritable bowels that burn and keep burning, cut out the black pepper.
Chiropractics work great. I worked when I was younger as a carpet layer. And I would wreck my back lifting big rolls of carpet. My boss was also a layer and his knees were killing him. The doctors wanted to do surgery on his knees. He instead went to a talented chiropractor and walked out of the office with his crutches over his shoulders instead of on them. I went when my back got wrecked, and it fixed me right up. It's all about talent with those guys, you have to find the right one. Some are worthless and a waste of time and money.
An MD is a gateway doctor. You discuss problems with them and they help you get to specialists. If you get an idiot one, or one who is getting kickbacks to write scrips, you are going to get loaded up on on prescriptions that you probably don't need. Also, be a participant in your own health care. Be informed, monitor your own BP and blood sugars, take care of your body at least as good as you do your car. Research any drug you are prescribed and test for potential organ damage. I was taking a prescription once that would have wrecked my liver if I hadn't had my liver checked. It was starting to damage it when I went and got tested, thankfully I caught it and changed to something else for my ailment.
Lastly, talk extensively with your doctor. Communicate with him, don't just set there and think he is a mind reader or omnipotent. Make a list if you have to, or take your spouse with you if you can stand them being in the room with you while talking to a doctor. If they care an iota about you, there is a chance they will remember or notice something that you fail to.
I find it cathartic myself, honestly. I am happy there is some place to go blow off some steam, as in a video game. I have some hellish days in life that nobody should endure. So nothing like firing up a wonderfully violent game, and blowing the living shit out of everything that moves to relieve some stress. Breaking rules and being a complete dick in a game sure beats snapping and climbing a clock-tower, trust me, I have worked out the logistics of it all in my head; it's not worth the burning in hell or the trouble, not to mention you never come back from something like that.
The ones that worry me, are the quiet ones that try to live some prim and proper, perfect life. When that doesn't work out, and they snap, they haven't properly explored their own mental boundaries, hence they are prone to go way too damn far and end up making the news. If you don't let a little "naughtiness" out now and then, the damn fills up and breaks if it rains too much.
As for kids, they shouldn't be that cynical, they aren't that old yet, unless they live in some hellish environment. Normal kids, if there are such a thing, should be engaged in something more positive. It's a matter of parenting, guiding and nurturing your kids so they grow up to be better people. Now if you are a shitty parent, and don't give a damn enough to be involved in crafting your kid's life, then you should piss off and not blame the world or games or whatever if your kid turns out to be a fuck up.
It's all about the greed. But technology is a genie that is out of the bottle and so much is changing. A friend of mine and I debate this a LOT; he's on the side of the MAFIAA and laughs about the teen girl who gets burned for downloading some MP3s. I tell him then that every library should be closed then because they violate copyrights as well. He doesn't like that. I say, think about it, what is the difference? When someone checks out a book, that author isn't getting any money from it. And they have records and movies you can check out, why not close them for the producers of said records, books and movies not making any money?
He thinks musicians are getting burned by the evil downloaders. I tell him they are like someone who builds a piece of furniture and puts it out on the curb, then complains it gets stolen. If they are going to make criminals out of teenage girls, then shouldn't THEY be outlawed for the good of everyone? He wants to get rich someday as a musician. I tell him to evolve with the times and the technology. The genie isn't going back in the bottle. I am sure the Stage Coach Company feels burned by the railroad and the invention of cars, and it's too bad. This is like the Stage Coach Company people trying to sue to keep trains and cars from taking their business. They are a past era, they are toast. The world has changed and if they are too dumb to change with it, they need to suck it.
I think they should digitize every book ever made and have it in a giant database. What a wonderful research tool that would be! But we aren't evolved enough to think like that. We are still in some reptile brained greed mode still. The simple logic of the classic line of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one" are still beyond us.
It looked cheesy, the first one was fun though. I loved how people whined about it. Yet these same people will be glued to the TV to watch some real life violence happen in the news. The Supreme Pizza Court ruled that it's all protected speech, so why hasn't someone broke out of their chicken suits and made something off the charts violent?
I want a Potato Gun like Baby/bomb launcher; FOOOOMP!!! WAAAAAaaaaaaaa..........KABOOOM! Stick a Planned Parenthood sticker on the side of it.
GTA was very entertaining though. Did anyone seriously play the story line? I didn't, I just went on rampages and jumped stuff, crashed vehicles, etc, etc. Nothing like carjacking a moped.
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Oh, you beat me to it. When I read the title that was the first thing that came to my mind.
"So you follow politics?"
"Yes! Puppet shows have become elaborate these days, huh?"
This game they play with the data has grated on my last nerve. I will be dropping my data package this month all together, and use my phone as just that, a phone. It was great in theory, but the limitations, and greed of the companies have overshadowed it, hence I am out. Frankly, I have found I don't need it. Being unplugged is liberating. I was recalling back when nobody had cell phones, we still functioned just fine. I just need to find use for my smart phone, but I can ditch it as well if it's too big of a problem to unlock and slip a new carrier's chip in. A penny phone will do just fine. I will just dig out my old Ipod and all the toys I had for it. Not to mention I will save myself some much needed money.
Nice brain there wireless data carriers. Now you don't get ANY of my money. Ha ha! Fools. If I am heading that direction, I know there are LOTS more, I run into people all the time who try data and ditch it in disgust. When a fanboy of it like me ditches it, the canary in the coal mine is toast. Good luck getting us back after this.
Here's me saying F. U. with my wallet.
My wallet: Fuck off, data carriers.
Me: Hey, watch your mouth!
My wallet: Sod off, I don't have a mouth.
Me: How are you talking?
My wallet: Out your ass, just like you.
Me: That was uncalled for.
My wallet: Yer mom is uncalled for, but she comes around anyway.
Me: That's enough.
My wallet: That's what she said.
Me: Look, wallet, you need to shut up or...
My wallet: Or what? You will put even less money in me? Why don't you give me to that homeless guy, I would have more cash in me. Lose some weight by the way, your fat ass has been crushing me for years now.
Me: Shut up, I can always replace you.
My wallet: Haha! With what money? With what wallet, that fag one your exwife got you for Christmas? Do you think she was trying to tell you something with that? Maybe hoping to inspire you to MAKE MORE MONEY, you fucking loser.
Me: That was below the belt!
Me and my wallet: Ha ha ha!
My wallet: That was a good one, now shut the fuck up. We are cutting off these data carrier pricks. These cocksuckers charge us way too much. You can't even send pictures right with that phone because you, the phone, and the retards that work the company's help desk can't figure it out. So all of you need to fuck off and save ME money. You and your smart phone = one big retard.
My smart phone: Huh, what?
My wallet: Shut up and go back to sucking on that battery.
Me: How about you both shut up.
My smart phone: Feed me, my battery is low.
My wallet: Sweet Jesus, you should have just had a baby, you would have to pamper it less.
Me: Babies don't have Angry Birds.
My wallet:...
Get one for your wife. It sounds like a good trade.
More review.
1. A chiropractor has not only fixed my back once, but several times.
2. My boss was going to need knee surgery, we both worked in a construction trade. He went to one, on crutches and walked out carrying them and is still to this day working the same hard labor construction field, when the establishment "doctors" told him he needed surgery and his career was over in that field.
3. "Doctors" are like any other profession, they love to protect their own interests, and they tend to lord their precious position over us all. A field that can help people takes money out of their pockets. So it's natural that they develop a resistance to alternative treatment.
How about you not be a mental lemming and learn to question professionals like an intelligent person. Just because I am not a "doctor" doesn't mean I can't research a subject or that I can't come up with solutions to problems. Doctors are people, they are prone to apathy, jealousy, protecting their own interests, corruption just like anyone else is. Just because they have a degree doesn't make them God.
Yes, there are some bad Chiropractors, I have been to a couple of them. Some of them are down right dangerous, especially when making neck adjustments. But I I understand your psychology. You really need to feel those whom you have invested such confidences in are really up to par. Talk about placebo effect. Blind faith in doctors is folly. Obviously there are situations which you had better trust their judgement, and questioning them can cost you your life. You need to have enough of a brain to know when it's time to question things and when to shut up. If you don't have such a mind, then you should just follow the other lemmings, there is a good chance it will work out.
Seriously, don't get shitty and smug with me when you have no fucking clue what I have experienced and know, and I will not think of you as another lemming retard, deal?
Proven by who, surgeons? I have had them set my back in place after wrenching it out doing heavy lifting and falling with it. It's all about the talent of the chiropractor, some are definitely worthless. I have met one that was Spock-like, he was brilliant and had methods that were amazing. Don't hand me "placebo effect", you can't "placebo" your way out of some things and OMFGWTFBBQ pain is one of them.
If one can get past the hurdle of host rejection, this could be an amazing boon for humanity. Imagine a neurological interface with computers, or a network? New generations of smart fighter jets, weapons, an assortment of cybernetic enhancements, it's literally science fiction taking a hold of real life. Couple neurological interface with a super computer array and a vast library, and see what kind of innovations we can come up. Imagine new sensor inputs for our minds to study, imagine seeing radio waves for example. How about nanobots and genetics? We could interface with diagnostic and research nanobots who could help re-engineer our genetic codes to eliminate even aging.
Military inspired innovations aren't anything new. We are communicating via the Internet which was in part started by a US DoD project. One could argue all technology is military based from the philosophical stand point, but why digress.
What I fail to comprehend, at least feign to fail to comprehend is why not allow Palestinians to be part of the UN. Why? This forces them into a statehood with consequences for their actions. It would force elements like Hamas to conform or frankly to be killed/imprisoned as criminals, instead of being part of some chaotic rogue element that can slink back into the wood work. It would open the door for the UN to put the hammer to unruly elements such as again Hamas because the legitimate leadership of the Palestinians is weak.
Two reasons why I think this is opposed. One it means the US welfare check would diminish or stop altogether if there is UN enforced and supervised peace. War is a profitable thing, we should know, we have more than our fair share of war profiteers here. Our warmongers and your warmongers have been in bed together for a LONG TIME. Now of course this has been necessary due to the nature of how the "homeland" has been returned to, taking it by force has been problematic. I think God knew this and is why he told you guys not to do that, but who's listening to God these days, we sure as hell aren't here, so who are we to complain?
Secondly, the UN is a tricky thing and if you have too many enemies, allowing the Palestinians in could mean trouble if they are just going to be dicks about everything, and rabble rouse with a new forum to exploit. If that is the case, fuck 'em. But if they are earnestly trying to just survive and be peaceful neighbors and not get the shit kicked out of them, it would be great to help them out. Especially if you can bump off those that refuse to evolve and just want to be militant punks about everything, via sanctioned UN actions.
Why bitch about this? It's not antisemitism; we are going broke. And as we are going broke, we are starting to turn into the modern Nazis here. Except instead of putting Jews in concentration camps, it will be minorities, the poor, the disabled, illegal aliens, etc. Multinational corporations have raped the ecology of the American ecology. Frankly put, the foundation of America, the American worker has been reamed in the butt by opportunistic trade policies that have been implemented so that said multinational corporations can exploit super cheap foreign labor and dump the products on our markets.
We are taking a nose dive because this kind of thinking is unsustainable unless we just fully evolve into fascism, and we are goosestepping our way there quickly. Being a friend, I am advising to invest in peace with your neighbors. It would help to disarm the hawks and let us focus on sound economic policies that will make it difficult for us to turn into a full blown fascist war machine which the entire world would just fucking hate. I can understand reaching out to Europe because we seem a bit flaky at the moment. Obama may seem like a punk, but he's got his hands full with keeping the 4th Reich from happening during or after his watch.
Lets face it we have the world problems we have for two reasons. One we will suck dick for oil. We have propped up dickheads to keep the oil flowing and we haven't cared what they do to the populations just as long as the oil has flowed. We have created fat cats who lord over their extremely poor populations and they have come to resent the shit out of our supporting them. We have propagated the hell out of the region with weapons, but who hasn't?
Secondly we have backed you guys unquestioningly. We have gave money and weapons to you for decades now, not giving one shit what you do with it as long as you don't start WW3. Yes, you took the land by force. There was some fucked up shit that has happened to the Palestinians, and that is why they are so burning pissed off. We understand, we though had enough sense to kill off the indigenous peopl
I blame parents, because frankly they have no clue, they have been spoon fed reptile brain tripe about how capitalism is their God and proceed to bang their heads against a wall waiting for that "lottery ticket" of sorts to project them to their place in the circle of idols. Hence the values they impart unto their children are lacking because they frankly are lacking any good ones to pass along to them. We are vastly outnumber, and unless we work together as a nation, with goals and utilize all of our assets in concert, we will pass like a shooting star.
Your libertarian outlook is one of a long gone era of frontier-ism. This is a modern world, a smaller world, with limited resources. The days of robber barons setting on top of the heap have to end, lest they will be setting on a heap of burnt trash. If you haven't noticed, China has put the major hammer to us with Capitalism, oh the irony and karma. It seems that we haven't learned the object lesson that "business is war" or "trade is war". We have let our officials whore themselves out to out of control multinational corporations, whom have become the real power on this planet outside of some elements like China, and even that is questionable.
You have been rendered obsolete, American worker. All you are good for now is to wring the last of your countries wealth out of you, so that more of your land can just be bought out from under you with your own money. Please keep cutting the throats of your own people in order to keep your head above water, that is just less that China has to evict when at last you default. Those at the top will just skip off to their luxurious retreats; you don't think gold is at a all time high for willy-nilly reasons do you?
So by all means, keep bitching about education programs, it makes it easier to dominate dumb fucks if they are kept ignorant. I hate to break it to this forum, but just because you post here doesn't make you a genius. Most of you don't even have an original thought, when it comes to these national issues. Factor this, at least they bought IPads, and kept the money here SOMEWHAT in America with Apple. Of course the object lesson of this; tending to the ecology of one's national economy is lost on this generation. It will serve as a cautionary tale for other countries of course, but frankly I am pissed I am going down with the ship with a collective bunch of retards led down the path to destruction by their own greed, played by the Pied Piper of Corporate Greed and the back up band, Government Lackeys.
Take your heads out of the sand, this is the era of "Slash, burn, and liquidate" in American business. They start at the bottom and work their way up. The canary in the coal mine isn't just dead, the damn thing has rotted to bones in it's cage. We've lost something, besides our minds; we have lost an identity as a nation. We aren't a people, we are a collective of fuckers trying to get theirs. That doesn't cut it in the modern world. People need to stop sucking the propaganda tit and look around at the world and get an objective bearing on just how low we have sank. Once it sinks in how fucked we are, we need to examine why. Why is because we have some faulty thinking. Why do we have faulty thinking? Garbage in, garbage out. Figure out what the garbage is and who's shoveling it in your trough. First clue, follow the money.
It's a new age, American children need to hit the ground running out of the womb in order to compete versus the vast numbers in China and India. We have to build better everything, and that includes kids. Now if only we are smart enough not to hold these kids back as they blossom and grow under the tutelage of our machine friends. Get with the times Grandpa.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
I would wager it was mechanical failure; I have a gut feeling it was.
They have to understand how physics works first before you can ruin it, right?
If there is anything to autopsy it will be interesting to see if it was a medical condition that caused him to crash. Chances are it was mechanical. He's a pilot, meaning he's probably been one all of his life and is (was) in better condition at 80ish that most of us here posting. They only put the really fit one in those planes because ones like the Mustang were hard to fly. It's something about the mad amount of engine power wanting to turn the entire plane a certain direction.
Also this was a race, air shows put on dangerous stunts to "WOW" the crowd, low flybys and things like that. This was a race, meaning it has a "race track" and should by all means be a degree safer to spectate than an air show. It was probably one of those freaky things of things and people all being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't think it was evil or someone should be to blame, it's just sad and tragic.
I don't read things unless it interests me, and if it interests me I have an opinion. When I have an opinion, good or bad, I want to express it. That is the beauty of forums, nobody is talking over you, or slapping you upside of the head to shut you up. Hire kids and put them in charge while they know it all, I say. Indians have all the fun, the chief has to fret and worry.
Can we opt out of them? They pile up if I don't use them it seems. I hate to mod unless it's really, really over the top AND off topic. And I don't want to go on a modding spree where I just spew them out at some poor thread, nor do I want to be letting my own bias take over and start modding. I just ignore them anymore and if I got them I will use them, sparingly. The last 20 or so just expired. You would think they wouldn't give me anymore being I don't spend them. Of course you get the various really cool posts that need a mod up, but they tend to already be modded, so why pile on?
It's a good system, don't get me wrong. I am just an Indian, not a chief.
If you knew what was in our meat, how it was handled, you would run screaming from it. I prefer wild game, it's untouched by all of the antibiotics and steroids and God only knows what else. But not everyone can hunt, be picky about your meat, look for free range meat. Cutting down on meat isn't a bad idea. I had stomach problems for a long time in my 30s. I was eating antacids constantly. I then went full vegan for a year and my stomach problems all cleared up. I could drink pecante sauce (hot sauce), the hot kind out of the jar like it was a drink at the end of that year. If I would look at anything spicy, the sight alone would send my stomach acids churning like a volcano, before that. Now and then I have to cut out the black pepper out of my diet or my asshole will murder me. Seriously, if you have irritable bowels that burn and keep burning, cut out the black pepper.
Chiropractics work great. I worked when I was younger as a carpet layer. And I would wreck my back lifting big rolls of carpet. My boss was also a layer and his knees were killing him. The doctors wanted to do surgery on his knees. He instead went to a talented chiropractor and walked out of the office with his crutches over his shoulders instead of on them. I went when my back got wrecked, and it fixed me right up. It's all about talent with those guys, you have to find the right one. Some are worthless and a waste of time and money.
An MD is a gateway doctor. You discuss problems with them and they help you get to specialists. If you get an idiot one, or one who is getting kickbacks to write scrips, you are going to get loaded up on on prescriptions that you probably don't need. Also, be a participant in your own health care. Be informed, monitor your own BP and blood sugars, take care of your body at least as good as you do your car. Research any drug you are prescribed and test for potential organ damage. I was taking a prescription once that would have wrecked my liver if I hadn't had my liver checked. It was starting to damage it when I went and got tested, thankfully I caught it and changed to something else for my ailment.
Lastly, talk extensively with your doctor. Communicate with him, don't just set there and think he is a mind reader or omnipotent. Make a list if you have to, or take your spouse with you if you can stand them being in the room with you while talking to a doctor. If they care an iota about you, there is a chance they will remember or notice something that you fail to.
A Monty Python skit jumped in my head when I read that.
I find it cathartic myself, honestly. I am happy there is some place to go blow off some steam, as in a video game. I have some hellish days in life that nobody should endure. So nothing like firing up a wonderfully violent game, and blowing the living shit out of everything that moves to relieve some stress. Breaking rules and being a complete dick in a game sure beats snapping and climbing a clock-tower, trust me, I have worked out the logistics of it all in my head; it's not worth the burning in hell or the trouble, not to mention you never come back from something like that.
The ones that worry me, are the quiet ones that try to live some prim and proper, perfect life. When that doesn't work out, and they snap, they haven't properly explored their own mental boundaries, hence they are prone to go way too damn far and end up making the news. If you don't let a little "naughtiness" out now and then, the damn fills up and breaks if it rains too much.
As for kids, they shouldn't be that cynical, they aren't that old yet, unless they live in some hellish environment. Normal kids, if there are such a thing, should be engaged in something more positive. It's a matter of parenting, guiding and nurturing your kids so they grow up to be better people. Now if you are a shitty parent, and don't give a damn enough to be involved in crafting your kid's life, then you should piss off and not blame the world or games or whatever if your kid turns out to be a fuck up.
It's all about the greed. But technology is a genie that is out of the bottle and so much is changing. A friend of mine and I debate this a LOT; he's on the side of the MAFIAA and laughs about the teen girl who gets burned for downloading some MP3s. I tell him then that every library should be closed then because they violate copyrights as well. He doesn't like that. I say, think about it, what is the difference? When someone checks out a book, that author isn't getting any money from it. And they have records and movies you can check out, why not close them for the producers of said records, books and movies not making any money?
He thinks musicians are getting burned by the evil downloaders. I tell him they are like someone who builds a piece of furniture and puts it out on the curb, then complains it gets stolen. If they are going to make criminals out of teenage girls, then shouldn't THEY be outlawed for the good of everyone? He wants to get rich someday as a musician. I tell him to evolve with the times and the technology. The genie isn't going back in the bottle. I am sure the Stage Coach Company feels burned by the railroad and the invention of cars, and it's too bad. This is like the Stage Coach Company people trying to sue to keep trains and cars from taking their business. They are a past era, they are toast. The world has changed and if they are too dumb to change with it, they need to suck it.
I think they should digitize every book ever made and have it in a giant database. What a wonderful research tool that would be! But we aren't evolved enough to think like that. We are still in some reptile brained greed mode still. The simple logic of the classic line of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one" are still beyond us.
Hmm....a "certain type of person?" Are you judging yourself or others by how you play a video game?
It looked cheesy, the first one was fun though. I loved how people whined about it. Yet these same people will be glued to the TV to watch some real life violence happen in the news. The Supreme Pizza Court ruled that it's all protected speech, so why hasn't someone broke out of their chicken suits and made something off the charts violent?
I want a Potato Gun like Baby/bomb launcher; FOOOOMP!!! WAAAAAaaaaaaaa..........KABOOOM! Stick a Planned Parenthood sticker on the side of it.
Suggestions? Requests? Shall we brainstorm?
GTA was very entertaining though. Did anyone seriously play the story line? I didn't, I just went on rampages and jumped stuff, crashed vehicles, etc, etc. Nothing like carjacking a moped.
Reality is for those who can't handle gaming.
Consider how Wal-Mart would probably boycott them as well. You can't be boycotted by the god of retail.
And it's sinful, don't forget.
Good points, I am just frustrated, and that doesn't make for good suggestions.