Again you dodge the accusation that you are a sycophantic cowardly twat with ad hominem bullshit. You have nothing, you have some vague notion about Americans, like a presumptuous twat, you run with it. Either you are intellectually too lazy to address the accusation or incapable. I am voting the later.
By all means, keep reinforcing my accusation. Perhaps in your simple mind that will suffice, you have dispatched this cretin, and that is all fine and dandy in your fucked in the head world, where teenagers are arrested for something they rudely TWEET about some jock who didn't win his precious event. You have done your duty to defend those actions, hence you will not be in any danger of them coming for you any time today. You are a stand up kind of bloke! Everyone should buy you a drink at the pub tonight!
3 Cheers for BasilBrush, he may be a cowardly sycophantic cunt, but he stood up on the Internet to that Yank whom he wrongfully thought hasn't been outside his own country, and make a cheeky defense around that whole false "shot in the dark" premise. You made us proud, lad! Step back lads, let the ladies have a go at this real man.
So, let me get this straight, you don't address being accused of being a coward and sycophant, you just advocate I should get out more and see how life as a cowardly sycophant should be like? Are you thinking if I see your plight that I might succumb to being a cowardly sycophant as well?
Don't arch your back and hiss at me, you catty piece of work. Yours is the country arresting a rude teenager for being a rude teenager. When you start arresting fucking banksters for the LIBOR scandals, perhaps you might have some street cred, but until then, you all look like a bunch of fascist cunts. Perhaps you will arrest some old women for being grouchy about the weather while you are at it?
Wow, what a sycophantic piece of work you are. You must be British, trying to explain with some pretzel logic as to how this acceptable, that way you don't have to look at yourself for suffering this to happen. Of course, blame the kid, instead of the system. That way you can be a complete coward and sleep at night, knowing that you don't have to face the facts that your country has become another fascist regime.
Isn't it nice that bankers can get away with fucking over millions of people, yet one kid says something off color and he gets arrested. Seriously? Being that we are going to set a precedent of punishing people, that being arrested for saying something off color gets you arrested, shouldn't fucking over millions of people result in us executing the bankers in some unique primitive torturous manner?
I could feel a shift in the weather patterns in my bones from mid 70s into the 80s. Things changed, the Winters had changed, and they haven't been the same since. I used to talk about this back then, and people thought it was paranoid bullshit. If you paid attention to environmental issues, it wasn't surprising.
I've been giving this all some thought over the decades as we shift into twilight, and here are my thoughts on it all. Hydrocarbons, we are goofy when it comes to burning them for fuel. Our footprint is too big, and we don't have enough deep green foliage to do deep photosynthesis. We need to reside under the canopy of deep green if we can. If not, we build under what foliage we can find. Our thermal/heat sink footprint is too high. It's our structures and a lot of it is concrete.
We set by and watched Brazil trash the Amazon rain forest. We have patches of trash in our ocean the size of Texas. Forests of smoke stacks puke God only knows what into the sky. We burn the fuck out of hydrocarbons in about everything. Start adding it all up and it's insanity.
Political Science is an oxymoron, and insult to the term science. It should be Political Skullduggery, or something to match the true ilk of it, being an observation of the human nature at its finest and worst at the same time.
You are right, I was a wee kid, being born mid 60s. By the time I started thinking about things other than candy, G.I. Joes, bikes and not getting my ass beat for mischief, it was prime Cold War time. I remember flipping Nixon the bird on our black and white TV and almost getting spanked for it. Almost.
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama. I've been paying attention to them all. In my opinion the black guy is the least fuck up of all of them. Every last one of them did some good things, and some pretty bad things. But these last 12 years or so, things have really went down the shitter. I blame Bush. I can't believe we haven't strung that fucker up from a windmill in Texas.
We have another shitstorm coming from Afghanistan, that hospital thing is going to go Pompeii on us. That's the greatest recruiting information for our enemies that I have ever seen. It makes that prison ordeal a few years ago look like a garden party. People are going to be pissed off on a whole new level of pissed off like we have never seen. Fuck, forget armed revolt, the rest of the world just might bump the entire lot of us off after this one.
Yeah, well, we don't have a Ghandi. Our "spiritual leaders" are part of the problem, they have sold out. All of them seem to be whores of Babylon. I don't see us having the backbone for a nano-second to do that. Come to think about it, we might be getting what we deserve.
I'm not so optimistic anymore about our own soldiers firing on us. I followed OWS closely, mostly to see what kind of reaction our officials would take, and they didn't fail to disappoint me. When I see pictures of civilians peacefully protesting and getting manhandled, shot in the face with tear gas, etc by a heavy handed militant police force, my gut and heart just sinks. When NYPD and it's fucked in head mayor shoved journalists out of the way, contained them and arrested them, I knew we were and still are seriously fucked.
The whole "I don't agree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it." mantra has become a fucking joke after that. The media proved itself to be easily manipulated and a tool for propaganda against the movement. Now you don't have to agree with the OWS people, but if you take a look at how it was handled, it was all damn wrong. Imagine if it was your axe to grind and you and your ilk got treated that way.
I would have to wonder what would happen if an armed group such as the Tea Party staged protests like OWS, but armed like they have been in a lot of their meetings.
At the risk of being waterboarded along with you in Gitmo, I will chime in on this one.
An overt revolution will fail badly. They have changed vital laws that protected us from the military crushing insurrection, so that they can now use it. It used to be a civil matter that the military had no business in. But we seen violation of that law back in the Clinton administration when they rolled tanks on Waco Texas. Since they seen we are too stupid or lazy to call them on it or hold their feet to the fire, they have grown great big balls and down right changed everything. Read about "Posse Comitatus Act" to get the gist of it and it's changes.
Not to mention, I think we signed the UN Small Arms Treaty Friday, and your arms will be registered, which the next step is to take them. It's how Hitler did it, I'm sure they are apt students. So any thoughts of an armed revolt are seriously fucked, even if you did succeed, the UN would step in as well, then you would have to kill all of them as well. As soon as you start that, we will be invaded big time and have to go to some kind of scorched Earth policy to get rid of them all.
Now where are you going to recruit for that kind of madness? Surely not from the fat, retarded, undereducated, lazy sons of bitches here. Do you think this waste of god damned space xbox generation is going to get off the couch to fight for something they have no clue about? Perhaps if football or pizza was threatened they might roll over and fart, but give it up concerning anything else.
Now I have studied this subject for a while and pondered it hard. There are ways to bring about vast changes but it's still fucked. Why? We already have an army here fucking with us from the Mexican Drug lords. Their god damn gangs would run amuck, they already have their hand deep in the asses of cities like LA. We've seen how they have threatened the medical weed shops with impunity, and some speculate that they influenced LA's city counsel to shut down those shops.
We've seen evidence of South of the border intent on retaking parts of America. Sure we all like to ignore this, and we can because we have a military that would kill every last fucking one of them and dance on their graves. But if we are fighting, they will stick a knife in our collective backs. Don't shit yourself for a second that they wouldn't. They already fuck up our border patrol and the people of that region and our pussy politicians are too afraid of the Mexican vote to do a damn thing about it.
Yes, we have a corrupt, fucked in the head government, but at least it's OUR corrupt, fucked in the head government. That means that we can fix the damn thing without genocide. This requires YOU and all of your little buddies to get off your asses and get politically active. This means that you need to be active during what they call "the grass roots" and you have to drag everyone you know and some you don't, kicking and screaming to the polls. You need to apply vast amounts of social pressure on "non-voters" to do their damn civic duty. We have amazing, unprecedented communications tools to get out the word, to organize and to act politically.
It takes brains, patience and hard work. There is no "fast food fix" for this. It didn't fall apart over night, nor will it be fixed overnight either. Until we have exhausted these tools and these means of peaceful and productive means of political change, don't be an asshole. Don't worry, if it's truly fucked, it can be dropped like a house of cards. But that is one hellish nightmare that we need to avoid at all costs. Humpty Dumpty doesn't go back together again, remember that.
So do us all a favor, and park the "armed revolt" thought in the garage. Save that "pissed off-ness" to drive your fat ass off the couch to get out and vote.
They just as well, we have property tax and if you don't pay it, they take your home. I'm of the school of thought, that if you OWN something, nobody can take it away from you. I and some of my friends, when we would go to pay our taxes, we would put RENT down in the note on the check. It would make the officials pissy, but who cares?
The US government is getting really bold how it sticks it's dick in everyone, this of course will only encourage other punk assed governments such as yours to put it to you as well.
We are talking about Americans right? We have a SCOTUS that sold us all down the river to corporations with the thrice cursed Citizens United ruling. They don't even pretend anymore that our government isn't one big whore house. How do you soap box against a propaganda industry the likes the world has never seen, now with unlimited money? That isn't the worst of it all, the apathy is the killer. People don't care, or if they do, they are damn under informed, undereducated or just down right stupid. We don't give a damn, which is great news for the bad guys. Nobility of character seems dead here. Hell, the concept of it is pie in the sky silliness.
The oligarchies here have a death clutch on their position and power, you will be greasy road kill if you cross them. You climb up on a soap box, you just become a nice fat unmoving target. I personally think we are fucked, and as a foreigner, you should be concerned as well. What happens when fascist imperialists get a full head of steam? We have a fucking world war is what happens. I am wondering at what point do we surpass Nazi Germany with our shenanigans?
Blood and oil. Think of how much blood is in your gas every time you go fill up that gas guzzling SUV. Who had to die so that we can go cruising the loop? We can't keep treating people like their lives are meaningless shit to us and not have it come home and bite us hard on the ass.
You could put "Free Candy" on the side with LEDs. Also, you could put a good wifi antenna on it so when you are down by the river, you still have internet to stalk with.
All joking aside, go with a deep cycle marine battery array with it's own alternator. I worked in a surveillance van for a P.I. company back in the early 90s. That was back when video cameras were huge like boom boxes and recorded onto magnetic cassette tapes. It provided enough power to run the cameras and a little fan to blow on me while I cooked in the oven-like heat. Consider that marine tech, because I'm sure it's advanced, people far out in the water don't like to fuck around. Think about it.
Do the world a favor and keep all the distracting gizmos away from the driver seat area. We have enough retards on the road already without someone in a monster derelict van, like a douche-nozzle watching TV while driving. Both hands at 10 and 2, with eyes roving the road and mirrors please.
Christ, the fascists are hard at modding down in this one. Take note of how anything supportive of Assange gets the mod-hammer. Isn't it ironic, that America, land of the free, where freedom of the press is suppose to have it's home, are being complete draconian imperial jackasses at someone exercising a free press? This whole "sex scandal" smells so fucking trumped up it's sickening. We did the same thing to the IMF chief who was here to confirm if Ft Knox still had any gold left in it. The sex scandal playbook is sure as hell getting around with our goon-ish operatives.
Why am I pissed off? We should be better than this shit. We shouldn't be afraid for anyone to look at our "dirty laundry" because there shouldn't be any. If someone exposes it, then we should thank them, not let the God damned goons in charge rail road them arrogantly right in front of our faces as if to say "fuck you too if you fuck with us".
I'm starting to really get the drift why the world hates Americans these days. We are one big collective of stupid, fat, pussies who let the fuckers in charge here run rampant all over the rest of the world. If we had a brain, a conscience and some balls we would be chasing these politician fucks down the street with baseball bats until we splattered every last one of their heads open. Call it the Million Man Mayhem, or Burn Wall Street instead of Occupy Wall Street. But no, that's not going to happen.
What is going to happen is when some idiot like Assange stands up to this monstrous system of imperial global corporation cocksuckers, they are going to get hounded to the ends of the Earth. All the while we will set on our stupid fat asses, watching sports, drinking beer, getting an occasional blowjob and thinking we are the epic shit of the universe. We will shuck out some kids so they can haul them off to whatever fucked in the head war they dream up, wrap our selves in the flag of past glories and pretend we are the righteous.
Pardon me all to hell for having higher expectations and aspirations for myself and my country. Hurray, we won the Best Tasting Turd contest! Give me a fucking break.
Every student needs a tablet. You can get one at Wal-Mart for 79 cents along with some pens and pencils. You can get them with "multiple subjects" meaning different sections for different classes. You don't need anything else, if it's a computer class or a class requiring them, are they not supplied already? If you need to do research are there not libraries that have rooms of them now?
If you give kids tablets they will just be on Facebook instead of paying attention to the teachers. If you are unfortunate to be in a school plagued with any variation of our neolithic industries known as sports, you will have knuckle dragging idiot jocks goofing off on them worse than they do now. Even if you write the curriculum for the tablets, there will still be chowder brains that tangent off to something else with them. The last thing this pussy boy, punk assed generation needs is more coddling and more gadgets to amuse them.
We used to teach with tablets, they were chalkboard tablets, it was back when paper was precious. We gave them all the paper they could use, and they became damn dumber than the chalk tablet kids. Now that computers are here, they are borderline retarded. Let's not push them over the edge to full retard with e-tablets.
We should be providing cellphone jammers to teachers. Kids texting constantly instead of paying attention, do you think that shit is helpful to education? Technology doesn't fix stupid, it only enhances it, just like it enhances intelligence.
What is wrong with education is not going to be fixed with some magic bullet from technology. One could speak volumes about what is wrong with it and it doesn't have one damn thing to do with what toys we give them to play with. Let me sum up the problem in one term: Idiocracy.
I don't give a shit if I install it and gold coins fall out my ass, and magic genies pop out granting wishes, they can shove any Star Wars game up their collective asses. Why for do you ask, such a hyperbole laden sentiment? Star Wars The Old Republic, is my answer. That game is the greatest sum of quirky bugs in the history of MMOs. It's got so many Easter Eggs of annoying fail it's mind numbing. It's fucking bad. It's so bad it has to be on a list of things to do if you ever come across a way to time travel.
1. Go visit Jesus and tell him to write his own book so assholes don't fuck what he's about all up. 2. Shoot Hitler in the head, repeatedly and before he matters. 3. Beat the living shit out of Lucus and tell him if he ever utters the words Ewoks, or Jar jar Biggs you will come back the previous day and kill him. Then tell him if he ever lets some assholes make a game called Star Wars The Old Republic, you will be along to kill him just before he gets laid for the first time.
After that duty, it's all gravy, have a good time with it, don't break time space and create a black hole where Earth was. Or go ahead if you really feel strongly about it needing to be a black hole. Just be aware of cocking around with time travel can result in things like Arkansaw having it's damn named changed to Arkansas as if Arkansaw and Kansas fucking merged for something, or in a worse case, a big fat black hole.
This isn't where they jumped the shark, oh hell no. This is where it was like an animated.gif of infinite shark jumping a shark jumping a shark jumping a shark....
It was the last straw on the camel's back of "Ha ha, we fucked you hard with our Star Wars lure, by painting up some shit game, hyping the living fuck out of it, then dumping it on you stupid cock suckers who can't get enough of this Star Wars horseshit."
Snarky blasphemer! You'll smoke a cock in gamer hell for such crazy talk! Guards! Seize this sarcastic shill and throw it in the pit of despair and poor latency. We shall unleash the lag monster on this putrid worm to satiate and amuse the High Dev, lest we fall to the wrath of the Nerfbat. Now begone!
What kind of bullshit straw man/red herring opening was that? Health care, Christ, you play that card? OK, fine. It's sad but irrelevant to the subject.
1. You obviously haven't purchased a video game this century. Getting a rebate from the company for a digital download is going to happen right after hell freezes over and the Devil learns to ice skate. Also, it's computer software, the bugs don't fall out of the package when you break open the plastic seal. You don't get to throw your hands up in the air and say "OH NOES MUH SOFTWARE IS BUSTED!!" You have to open it to install it and good luck with returns once the plastic is broken. Especially when the plastic isn't there and you downloaded it.
Shall we drone on? The product's defects will not all come out all at once. Not to mention this is a product that the manufacturer will come along without your permission or consent and change to your dismay and dislike. They might even break it so that you can't use it. All of this with impunity mind you. You have a time and social investment in this product now.
The "invisible hand of capitalism" in this case is doing a prostate examine on you. You get to buy a shiny new exciting product, drive it off the show room floor hopefully and get it down the road a few mile and it blows the hell up. Or you get a product and it does work without you getting it fixed and it's brand new.
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Yes, I believe in capitalism. I just believe in an honest version of it. I don't believe in "fuck everyone over for the bottom line" version or any of it's sick in the head cousins. It's not a fucking religion, it's not in the Constitution, and Jesus didn't preach it in the Bible.
Indeed, they should test their damn games. SWTOR has some of the worse issues I have ever encountered from an MMO. It's so sloppy and I am so pissed at the hype. What burns me is the computer game industry is monstrous in scope and size, yet there isn't an iota of gamer rights advocacy at all. If any other industry foisted off such shoddy, broken on purchase products, they would be rotting in prison. Can you imagine how things would be if the other industries had such slacker, shitty standards?
Consumers rule and they need to get their collective shit together and start cracking whips.
It's an amazing episode of complete lack of morals, ethics, and empathy what we are seeing. There is a serious psychosis becoming prevalent in our society, it's a sick mentality that starts at the top and infects all the way to the bottom. When you observe this type of behavior in any species, they will turn on themselves in a flash of teeth and claws.
Yet again I say to good people, read up on fascism and it's history. Contrast and compare it with our current events and political clime. If for some reason you think it's a wonderful idea, ponder how it turned out for the Germans when they tried it. After reading some of these heartless, brutal comments, I have to wonder how far we are from our own camps?
If you are going to end welfare, apply that same cold Darwinian logic to all forms of welfare. Start with all the foreign, corporate and "tax breaks", that is where the real money is. You will find that austerity is not only immoral, but pretty stupid. You can't wring blood out of a turnip. Meaning there isn't that much to wring out of the poor if you liquidated all of their belongings, and took every penny they had.
Of course it's the path of least resistance for the weak to attempt first. After all if you try to take that big fat hunk of free money away from foreign entities, corporations and the rich, they can bring down a hammer on your head. So this is how cockroach-like political operators these days are thinking. It's a serious leadership crisis, we simply have none. We have political prostitutes who jump to the whims of special interests. It's all one big whore house, and it obviously comes with whorehouse morals, ethics and a lack of insight to be anything other than being just a whore house.
It's a nasty human nature that people get tired and pissy they like to slap around literally or figuratively those that they look down upon, or feel that they are "better than". Or they look to find someone who is in a shittier position in life so that they can verify their own life, knowing it's shitty too, "but I'm better than THAT guy!" It's a pecking order, the big apes beat on smaller ones, and they pass it on to the even smaller ones. Fear binds the chain together, sadly and it also drives the rage.
There are wonderful solutions that don't fuck anyone over and it progresses everyone in a wonderful positive direction. There are solutions for our problems that we would all embrace, fly our flag high, and dance around it singing our national anthem until we fall on our faces. We don't see this because we have a damn whorehouse instead of a houses of congress. This whorehouse serves up a giant shit sandwich for us all to take a bite out of. Everyone will get their turn, don't kid yourself. No matter what side of the fence you are on, you had better pay attention to details when it comes to what any of these politicians are doing and hold them accountable.
Now that would be entirely too logical. But while we have whore politicians who will dance for whatever jackass pays them the most, they will make laws that burn us. We are to blame partially. We don't hold politicians accountable for their betrayals. They should be terrified to cross us. They should ponder that big fat bribe as a death sentence. We also need to get rid of legal bribery, the whole process of lobbyists needs run down and beat out of our system with extreme prejudice.
When you look at this issue it's just systematic of larger issues that plague us. Until we the people get back our government from big money, they will continue to bend us over and jam whatever they wish up there. It's problematic, because asking the current power holders in government to fix this is like asking the fox to fix the hen house.
Here is something to consider, they could tap into this and make money instead of whining about it. They are missing out on fortunes by not adapting to the times and technology. So it makes me wonder, are they just damn stupid or are they just an excuse to try to clamp down on the Internet by the powers that be because they are frightened of it? It's probably both, come to think about it.
Politicians didn't give a rat's fat ass about this until the "Arab Spring" that materialized out of Internet social networks. Then factor how the London riots were guided by the tech as well, and you get paranoid "powers that be" that are afraid we will collectively snap out of this dream world they have fabricated for us and come howling in one giant unstoppable mob for their heads on sticks. OWS was looking scary to them, and if the media didn't get on it's job of either completely ignoring it and covering it up or smearing it into oblivion, they were going to have to do something drastic to avoid mass revolution via the Internet.
But thankfully for them, the movement has been contained. The American public has proven apathetic to it's citizens exercising Constitutional rights being beat down and gassed by thug military forces aka the police. OWS members have been successfully painted as filthy dirty hippies instead of modern patriots, they are now on the proper watch lists and the steam is out of the movement.
They can now go back to letting the Internet function and use it to spy on us via social networks. They get to have their cake and eat it too.
That explains volumes, no? It's not hard to impress upon dolts in office who can't set up their own email with scary stories of "cyber criminals, terrorists and warfare". Lion, tigers, and bears! OH MY! For the children!!! Release the Kraken!
Silly rabbit, Tricks are for kids! It's all about control, the entertainment industry are just retards who pay the bribes to get them to do what they want to do to begin with and to have an excuse. It's incumbent upon us now to fight back and shove it all up their asses.
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Again you dodge the accusation that you are a sycophantic cowardly twat with ad hominem bullshit. You have nothing, you have some vague notion about Americans, like a presumptuous twat, you run with it. Either you are intellectually too lazy to address the accusation or incapable. I am voting the later.
By all means, keep reinforcing my accusation. Perhaps in your simple mind that will suffice, you have dispatched this cretin, and that is all fine and dandy in your fucked in the head world, where teenagers are arrested for something they rudely TWEET about some jock who didn't win his precious event. You have done your duty to defend those actions, hence you will not be in any danger of them coming for you any time today. You are a stand up kind of bloke! Everyone should buy you a drink at the pub tonight!
3 Cheers for BasilBrush, he may be a cowardly sycophantic cunt, but he stood up on the Internet to that Yank whom he wrongfully thought hasn't been outside his own country, and make a cheeky defense around that whole false "shot in the dark" premise. You made us proud, lad! Step back lads, let the ladies have a go at this real man.
So, let me get this straight, you don't address being accused of being a coward and sycophant, you just advocate I should get out more and see how life as a cowardly sycophant should be like? Are you thinking if I see your plight that I might succumb to being a cowardly sycophant as well?
Don't arch your back and hiss at me, you catty piece of work. Yours is the country arresting a rude teenager for being a rude teenager. When you start arresting fucking banksters for the LIBOR scandals, perhaps you might have some street cred, but until then, you all look like a bunch of fascist cunts. Perhaps you will arrest some old women for being grouchy about the weather while you are at it?
Wow, what a sycophantic piece of work you are. You must be British, trying to explain with some pretzel logic as to how this acceptable, that way you don't have to look at yourself for suffering this to happen. Of course, blame the kid, instead of the system. That way you can be a complete coward and sleep at night, knowing that you don't have to face the facts that your country has become another fascist regime.
Isn't it nice that bankers can get away with fucking over millions of people, yet one kid says something off color and he gets arrested. Seriously? Being that we are going to set a precedent of punishing people, that being arrested for saying something off color gets you arrested, shouldn't fucking over millions of people result in us executing the bankers in some unique primitive torturous manner?
I could feel a shift in the weather patterns in my bones from mid 70s into the 80s. Things changed, the Winters had changed, and they haven't been the same since. I used to talk about this back then, and people thought it was paranoid bullshit. If you paid attention to environmental issues, it wasn't surprising.
I've been giving this all some thought over the decades as we shift into twilight, and here are my thoughts on it all. Hydrocarbons, we are goofy when it comes to burning them for fuel. Our footprint is too big, and we don't have enough deep green foliage to do deep photosynthesis. We need to reside under the canopy of deep green if we can. If not, we build under what foliage we can find. Our thermal/heat sink footprint is too high. It's our structures and a lot of it is concrete.
We set by and watched Brazil trash the Amazon rain forest. We have patches of trash in our ocean the size of Texas. Forests of smoke stacks puke God only knows what into the sky. We burn the fuck out of hydrocarbons in about everything. Start adding it all up and it's insanity.
Too big to fail. Does that work with ecosystems?
Political Science is an oxymoron, and insult to the term science. It should be Political Skullduggery, or something to match the true ilk of it, being an observation of the human nature at its finest and worst at the same time.
You are right, I was a wee kid, being born mid 60s. By the time I started thinking about things other than candy, G.I. Joes, bikes and not getting my ass beat for mischief, it was prime Cold War time. I remember flipping Nixon the bird on our black and white TV and almost getting spanked for it. Almost.
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama. I've been paying attention to them all. In my opinion the black guy is the least fuck up of all of them. Every last one of them did some good things, and some pretty bad things. But these last 12 years or so, things have really went down the shitter. I blame Bush. I can't believe we haven't strung that fucker up from a windmill in Texas.
We have another shitstorm coming from Afghanistan, that hospital thing is going to go Pompeii on us. That's the greatest recruiting information for our enemies that I have ever seen. It makes that prison ordeal a few years ago look like a garden party. People are going to be pissed off on a whole new level of pissed off like we have never seen. Fuck, forget armed revolt, the rest of the world just might bump the entire lot of us off after this one.
Yeah, well, we don't have a Ghandi. Our "spiritual leaders" are part of the problem, they have sold out. All of them seem to be whores of Babylon. I don't see us having the backbone for a nano-second to do that. Come to think about it, we might be getting what we deserve.
I'm not so optimistic anymore about our own soldiers firing on us. I followed OWS closely, mostly to see what kind of reaction our officials would take, and they didn't fail to disappoint me. When I see pictures of civilians peacefully protesting and getting manhandled, shot in the face with tear gas, etc by a heavy handed militant police force, my gut and heart just sinks. When NYPD and it's fucked in head mayor shoved journalists out of the way, contained them and arrested them, I knew we were and still are seriously fucked.
The whole "I don't agree with what you say, but defend to the death your right to say it." mantra has become a fucking joke after that. The media proved itself to be easily manipulated and a tool for propaganda against the movement. Now you don't have to agree with the OWS people, but if you take a look at how it was handled, it was all damn wrong. Imagine if it was your axe to grind and you and your ilk got treated that way.
I would have to wonder what would happen if an armed group such as the Tea Party staged protests like OWS, but armed like they have been in a lot of their meetings.
At the risk of being waterboarded along with you in Gitmo, I will chime in on this one.
An overt revolution will fail badly. They have changed vital laws that protected us from the military crushing insurrection, so that they can now use it. It used to be a civil matter that the military had no business in. But we seen violation of that law back in the Clinton administration when they rolled tanks on Waco Texas. Since they seen we are too stupid or lazy to call them on it or hold their feet to the fire, they have grown great big balls and down right changed everything. Read about "Posse Comitatus Act" to get the gist of it and it's changes.
Not to mention, I think we signed the UN Small Arms Treaty Friday, and your arms will be registered, which the next step is to take them. It's how Hitler did it, I'm sure they are apt students. So any thoughts of an armed revolt are seriously fucked, even if you did succeed, the UN would step in as well, then you would have to kill all of them as well. As soon as you start that, we will be invaded big time and have to go to some kind of scorched Earth policy to get rid of them all.
Now where are you going to recruit for that kind of madness? Surely not from the fat, retarded, undereducated, lazy sons of bitches here. Do you think this waste of god damned space xbox generation is going to get off the couch to fight for something they have no clue about? Perhaps if football or pizza was threatened they might roll over and fart, but give it up concerning anything else.
Now I have studied this subject for a while and pondered it hard. There are ways to bring about vast changes but it's still fucked. Why? We already have an army here fucking with us from the Mexican Drug lords. Their god damn gangs would run amuck, they already have their hand deep in the asses of cities like LA. We've seen how they have threatened the medical weed shops with impunity, and some speculate that they influenced LA's city counsel to shut down those shops.
We've seen evidence of South of the border intent on retaking parts of America. Sure we all like to ignore this, and we can because we have a military that would kill every last fucking one of them and dance on their graves. But if we are fighting, they will stick a knife in our collective backs. Don't shit yourself for a second that they wouldn't. They already fuck up our border patrol and the people of that region and our pussy politicians are too afraid of the Mexican vote to do a damn thing about it.
Yes, we have a corrupt, fucked in the head government, but at least it's OUR corrupt, fucked in the head government. That means that we can fix the damn thing without genocide. This requires YOU and all of your little buddies to get off your asses and get politically active. This means that you need to be active during what they call "the grass roots" and you have to drag everyone you know and some you don't, kicking and screaming to the polls. You need to apply vast amounts of social pressure on "non-voters" to do their damn civic duty. We have amazing, unprecedented communications tools to get out the word, to organize and to act politically.
It takes brains, patience and hard work. There is no "fast food fix" for this. It didn't fall apart over night, nor will it be fixed overnight either. Until we have exhausted these tools and these means of peaceful and productive means of political change, don't be an asshole. Don't worry, if it's truly fucked, it can be dropped like a house of cards. But that is one hellish nightmare that we need to avoid at all costs. Humpty Dumpty doesn't go back together again, remember that.
So do us all a favor, and park the "armed revolt" thought in the garage. Save that "pissed off-ness" to drive your fat ass off the couch to get out and vote.
They just as well, we have property tax and if you don't pay it, they take your home. I'm of the school of thought, that if you OWN something, nobody can take it away from you. I and some of my friends, when we would go to pay our taxes, we would put RENT down in the note on the check. It would make the officials pissy, but who cares?
The US government is getting really bold how it sticks it's dick in everyone, this of course will only encourage other punk assed governments such as yours to put it to you as well.
Oh snap! Rotten Apple, that is their new name for me.
Ah, a Frenchman. 8D
We are talking about Americans right? We have a SCOTUS that sold us all down the river to corporations with the thrice cursed Citizens United ruling. They don't even pretend anymore that our government isn't one big whore house. How do you soap box against a propaganda industry the likes the world has never seen, now with unlimited money? That isn't the worst of it all, the apathy is the killer. People don't care, or if they do, they are damn under informed, undereducated or just down right stupid. We don't give a damn, which is great news for the bad guys. Nobility of character seems dead here. Hell, the concept of it is pie in the sky silliness.
The oligarchies here have a death clutch on their position and power, you will be greasy road kill if you cross them. You climb up on a soap box, you just become a nice fat unmoving target. I personally think we are fucked, and as a foreigner, you should be concerned as well. What happens when fascist imperialists get a full head of steam? We have a fucking world war is what happens. I am wondering at what point do we surpass Nazi Germany with our shenanigans?
Blood and oil. Think of how much blood is in your gas every time you go fill up that gas guzzling SUV. Who had to die so that we can go cruising the loop? We can't keep treating people like their lives are meaningless shit to us and not have it come home and bite us hard on the ass.
You could put "Free Candy" on the side with LEDs. Also, you could put a good wifi antenna on it so when you are down by the river, you still have internet to stalk with.
All joking aside, go with a deep cycle marine battery array with it's own alternator. I worked in a surveillance van for a P.I. company back in the early 90s. That was back when video cameras were huge like boom boxes and recorded onto magnetic cassette tapes. It provided enough power to run the cameras and a little fan to blow on me while I cooked in the oven-like heat. Consider that marine tech, because I'm sure it's advanced, people far out in the water don't like to fuck around. Think about it.
Do the world a favor and keep all the distracting gizmos away from the driver seat area. We have enough retards on the road already without someone in a monster derelict van, like a douche-nozzle watching TV while driving. Both hands at 10 and 2, with eyes roving the road and mirrors please.
Christ, the fascists are hard at modding down in this one. Take note of how anything supportive of Assange gets the mod-hammer. Isn't it ironic, that America, land of the free, where freedom of the press is suppose to have it's home, are being complete draconian imperial jackasses at someone exercising a free press? This whole "sex scandal" smells so fucking trumped up it's sickening. We did the same thing to the IMF chief who was here to confirm if Ft Knox still had any gold left in it. The sex scandal playbook is sure as hell getting around with our goon-ish operatives.
Why am I pissed off? We should be better than this shit. We shouldn't be afraid for anyone to look at our "dirty laundry" because there shouldn't be any. If someone exposes it, then we should thank them, not let the God damned goons in charge rail road them arrogantly right in front of our faces as if to say "fuck you too if you fuck with us".
I'm starting to really get the drift why the world hates Americans these days. We are one big collective of stupid, fat, pussies who let the fuckers in charge here run rampant all over the rest of the world. If we had a brain, a conscience and some balls we would be chasing these politician fucks down the street with baseball bats until we splattered every last one of their heads open. Call it the Million Man Mayhem, or Burn Wall Street instead of Occupy Wall Street. But no, that's not going to happen.
What is going to happen is when some idiot like Assange stands up to this monstrous system of imperial global corporation cocksuckers, they are going to get hounded to the ends of the Earth. All the while we will set on our stupid fat asses, watching sports, drinking beer, getting an occasional blowjob and thinking we are the epic shit of the universe. We will shuck out some kids so they can haul them off to whatever fucked in the head war they dream up, wrap our selves in the flag of past glories and pretend we are the righteous.
Pardon me all to hell for having higher expectations and aspirations for myself and my country. Hurray, we won the Best Tasting Turd contest! Give me a fucking break.
It will not pass if we start putting all their heads on spikes.
Every student needs a tablet. You can get one at Wal-Mart for 79 cents along with some pens and pencils. You can get them with "multiple subjects" meaning different sections for different classes. You don't need anything else, if it's a computer class or a class requiring them, are they not supplied already? If you need to do research are there not libraries that have rooms of them now?
If you give kids tablets they will just be on Facebook instead of paying attention to the teachers. If you are unfortunate to be in a school plagued with any variation of our neolithic industries known as sports, you will have knuckle dragging idiot jocks goofing off on them worse than they do now. Even if you write the curriculum for the tablets, there will still be chowder brains that tangent off to something else with them. The last thing this pussy boy, punk assed generation needs is more coddling and more gadgets to amuse them.
We used to teach with tablets, they were chalkboard tablets, it was back when paper was precious. We gave them all the paper they could use, and they became damn dumber than the chalk tablet kids. Now that computers are here, they are borderline retarded. Let's not push them over the edge to full retard with e-tablets.
We should be providing cellphone jammers to teachers. Kids texting constantly instead of paying attention, do you think that shit is helpful to education? Technology doesn't fix stupid, it only enhances it, just like it enhances intelligence.
What is wrong with education is not going to be fixed with some magic bullet from technology. One could speak volumes about what is wrong with it and it doesn't have one damn thing to do with what toys we give them to play with. Let me sum up the problem in one term: Idiocracy.
I don't give a shit if I install it and gold coins fall out my ass, and magic genies pop out granting wishes, they can shove any Star Wars game up their collective asses. Why for do you ask, such a hyperbole laden sentiment? Star Wars The Old Republic, is my answer. That game is the greatest sum of quirky bugs in the history of MMOs. It's got so many Easter Eggs of annoying fail it's mind numbing. It's fucking bad. It's so bad it has to be on a list of things to do if you ever come across a way to time travel.
1. Go visit Jesus and tell him to write his own book so assholes don't fuck what he's about all up.
2. Shoot Hitler in the head, repeatedly and before he matters.
3. Beat the living shit out of Lucus and tell him if he ever utters the words Ewoks, or Jar jar Biggs you will come back the previous day and kill him. Then tell him if he ever lets some assholes make a game called Star Wars The Old Republic, you will be along to kill him just before he gets laid for the first time.
After that duty, it's all gravy, have a good time with it, don't break time space and create a black hole where Earth was. Or go ahead if you really feel strongly about it needing to be a black hole. Just be aware of cocking around with time travel can result in things like Arkansaw having it's damn named changed to Arkansas as if Arkansaw and Kansas fucking merged for something, or in a worse case, a big fat black hole.
This isn't where they jumped the shark, oh hell no. This is where it was like an animated .gif of infinite shark jumping a shark jumping a shark jumping a shark....
It was the last straw on the camel's back of "Ha ha, we fucked you hard with our Star Wars lure, by painting up some shit game, hyping the living fuck out of it, then dumping it on you stupid cock suckers who can't get enough of this Star Wars horseshit."
Not no; it's fuck no.
Snarky blasphemer! You'll smoke a cock in gamer hell for such crazy talk! Guards! Seize this sarcastic shill and throw it in the pit of despair and poor latency. We shall unleash the lag monster on this putrid worm to satiate and amuse the High Dev, lest we fall to the wrath of the Nerfbat. Now begone!
What kind of bullshit straw man/red herring opening was that? Health care, Christ, you play that card? OK, fine. It's sad but irrelevant to the subject.
1. You obviously haven't purchased a video game this century. Getting a rebate from the company for a digital download is going to happen right after hell freezes over and the Devil learns to ice skate. Also, it's computer software, the bugs don't fall out of the package when you break open the plastic seal. You don't get to throw your hands up in the air and say "OH NOES MUH SOFTWARE IS BUSTED!!" You have to open it to install it and good luck with returns once the plastic is broken. Especially when the plastic isn't there and you downloaded it.
Shall we drone on? The product's defects will not all come out all at once. Not to mention this is a product that the manufacturer will come along without your permission or consent and change to your dismay and dislike. They might even break it so that you can't use it. All of this with impunity mind you. You have a time and social investment in this product now.
The "invisible hand of capitalism" in this case is doing a prostate examine on you. You get to buy a shiny new exciting product, drive it off the show room floor hopefully and get it down the road a few mile and it blows the hell up. Or you get a product and it does work without you getting it fixed and it's brand new.
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Yes, I believe in capitalism. I just believe in an honest version of it. I don't believe in "fuck everyone over for the bottom line" version or any of it's sick in the head cousins. It's not a fucking religion, it's not in the Constitution, and Jesus didn't preach it in the Bible.
Indeed, they should test their damn games. SWTOR has some of the worse issues I have ever encountered from an MMO. It's so sloppy and I am so pissed at the hype. What burns me is the computer game industry is monstrous in scope and size, yet there isn't an iota of gamer rights advocacy at all. If any other industry foisted off such shoddy, broken on purchase products, they would be rotting in prison. Can you imagine how things would be if the other industries had such slacker, shitty standards?
Consumers rule and they need to get their collective shit together and start cracking whips.
It's an amazing episode of complete lack of morals, ethics, and empathy what we are seeing. There is a serious psychosis becoming prevalent in our society, it's a sick mentality that starts at the top and infects all the way to the bottom. When you observe this type of behavior in any species, they will turn on themselves in a flash of teeth and claws.
Yet again I say to good people, read up on fascism and it's history. Contrast and compare it with our current events and political clime. If for some reason you think it's a wonderful idea, ponder how it turned out for the Germans when they tried it. After reading some of these heartless, brutal comments, I have to wonder how far we are from our own camps?
If you are going to end welfare, apply that same cold Darwinian logic to all forms of welfare. Start with all the foreign, corporate and "tax breaks", that is where the real money is. You will find that austerity is not only immoral, but pretty stupid. You can't wring blood out of a turnip. Meaning there isn't that much to wring out of the poor if you liquidated all of their belongings, and took every penny they had.
Of course it's the path of least resistance for the weak to attempt first. After all if you try to take that big fat hunk of free money away from foreign entities, corporations and the rich, they can bring down a hammer on your head. So this is how cockroach-like political operators these days are thinking. It's a serious leadership crisis, we simply have none. We have political prostitutes who jump to the whims of special interests. It's all one big whore house, and it obviously comes with whorehouse morals, ethics and a lack of insight to be anything other than being just a whore house.
It's a nasty human nature that people get tired and pissy they like to slap around literally or figuratively those that they look down upon, or feel that they are "better than". Or they look to find someone who is in a shittier position in life so that they can verify their own life, knowing it's shitty too, "but I'm better than THAT guy!" It's a pecking order, the big apes beat on smaller ones, and they pass it on to the even smaller ones. Fear binds the chain together, sadly and it also drives the rage.
There are wonderful solutions that don't fuck anyone over and it progresses everyone in a wonderful positive direction. There are solutions for our problems that we would all embrace, fly our flag high, and dance around it singing our national anthem until we fall on our faces. We don't see this because we have a damn whorehouse instead of a houses of congress. This whorehouse serves up a giant shit sandwich for us all to take a bite out of. Everyone will get their turn, don't kid yourself. No matter what side of the fence you are on, you had better pay attention to details when it comes to what any of these politicians are doing and hold them accountable.
Now that would be entirely too logical. But while we have whore politicians who will dance for whatever jackass pays them the most, they will make laws that burn us. We are to blame partially. We don't hold politicians accountable for their betrayals. They should be terrified to cross us. They should ponder that big fat bribe as a death sentence. We also need to get rid of legal bribery, the whole process of lobbyists needs run down and beat out of our system with extreme prejudice.
When you look at this issue it's just systematic of larger issues that plague us. Until we the people get back our government from big money, they will continue to bend us over and jam whatever they wish up there. It's problematic, because asking the current power holders in government to fix this is like asking the fox to fix the hen house.
Here is something to consider, they could tap into this and make money instead of whining about it. They are missing out on fortunes by not adapting to the times and technology. So it makes me wonder, are they just damn stupid or are they just an excuse to try to clamp down on the Internet by the powers that be because they are frightened of it? It's probably both, come to think about it.
Politicians didn't give a rat's fat ass about this until the "Arab Spring" that materialized out of Internet social networks. Then factor how the London riots were guided by the tech as well, and you get paranoid "powers that be" that are afraid we will collectively snap out of this dream world they have fabricated for us and come howling in one giant unstoppable mob for their heads on sticks. OWS was looking scary to them, and if the media didn't get on it's job of either completely ignoring it and covering it up or smearing it into oblivion, they were going to have to do something drastic to avoid mass revolution via the Internet.
But thankfully for them, the movement has been contained. The American public has proven apathetic to it's citizens exercising Constitutional rights being beat down and gassed by thug military forces aka the police. OWS members have been successfully painted as filthy dirty hippies instead of modern patriots, they are now on the proper watch lists and the steam is out of the movement.
They can now go back to letting the Internet function and use it to spy on us via social networks. They get to have their cake and eat it too.
That explains volumes, no? It's not hard to impress upon dolts in office who can't set up their own email with scary stories of "cyber criminals, terrorists and warfare". Lion, tigers, and bears! OH MY! For the children!!! Release the Kraken!
Silly rabbit, Tricks are for kids! It's all about control, the entertainment industry are just retards who pay the bribes to get them to do what they want to do to begin with and to have an excuse. It's incumbent upon us now to fight back and shove it all up their asses.