Good eye, those sights are both "Part of HighGear Media" according to the banner. HighGear appears to be "a vertical publishing company publishing more premium automotive content than anyone in the world through websites targeting key buyer and vehicle segments." according to their website. They have a "network of 100 plus owned and operated automotive websites, anchored by the TheCarConnection.com, currently reaches nearly 3 million in-market car shoppers a month. High Gear Media is building some of the fatest growing automotive destinations on the Web."
Fatest growing destinations on the web?
The amount of market blather on that site made my brain hurt. This whole thing smacks of SCO linkery-dickery. I guess I went down the wrong damn rabbit hole suggesting Toyota might be behind this.
Why do I get a feeling this submission only made it because it mentions Tesla?
Because you haven't considered the possibility that Toyota might invent a mascot know as 'thecarchick' (oooh! A GIRL who like cars!) and use that mascot to submit stories to news aggregation sites for free publicity? I mean, if you're going to go down the rabbit hole, go all the way down.
How is asking a question or raising a question "begging?" I say the new meaning is at least as much a colloquialism as the old.
But I do like your prescriptivist descriptivism. "The people have spoken, the language is now immutably thus, and if argue otherwise, you are the one who is using language incorrectly.
Sorry, but you have to pick one viewpoint. Either language changes according to use, in which case, it can change back if enough people point out that a current usage is damn stupid. Or, language is fixed with one correct usage. You seem to be arguing that there is one official 'correct' language, and that is whatever the majority currently says it is.
Why do you persist in lying about what socialism is?
Money is the 'product of your body?!?' You crap money? Amazing. Money is a social construct, meaningless without social agreement. The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability, it is an emergent phenomenon enabled by the agreement of a society to honor money. Without society, money is meaningless.
In a true socialist state, no one can force anyone to do anything, unlike a capitalist state, where those with capital control and dominate those without. If you are poor, and lack education (something capitalist overlords work to ensure, so you will be a more malleable slave) then you are a slave. Kiss masters ass or die of starvation, and master will work to ensure that any attempt by the peasants to band together to protect their interests and provide for themselves is derided as "socialism." Indeed, mutual benefit societies (A.K.A "The State") are inherently evil, and ruthless selfishness is a virtue.
Trolled? Is that his excuse for being an idiot? c64_love wasn't doing this to troll anyone. He's not that clever. This was, I am quite sure, a funny joke in his mind.
Saying "Whoosh" doesn't make it an actual joke, and it certainly doesn't make it any funnier.
It does not follow the meme, first off. Take something in America, reverse it in a funny way, and attribute it to 'Soviet Russia.' c64love's post does not do that. It is nonsensical.
This wasn't a joke, it was an asshole saying "socialism sucks" just because this happens to take place in Russia,and not because it has anything to do with socialism.
By implying that Windows has undergone a ground up rewrite wile Linux has not, you imply that you already know the answer to your own question, which means your question is not at all earnest.
Did you miss the part where it says the dude is a Microsoft employee? He's a capitalist, not a socialist. Not that the facts have ever stopped you from making cracks about your imaginary version of socialism.
Whenever you post, I am reminded of the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where Brian is imprisoned with the upside-down old man. You know, the one who keep vociferously defending the Romans? "A fair days work, for a fair days PAY!!!" Your attacks against anyone who questions the powerful aren't nearly as humorous, though. You are the upside down slave, angrily defending his tormentors rather than admit that he's been screwed over by total assholes all his life. You are certainly not a Roman. Your covetous worship of power is entirely transparent. You hold total contempt for the average person, and see them as rightful prey for the powerful. In your world view, anyone dumb enough to be fooled by con artists and charlatans deserves their fate, and the con artists are doing us all a social-darwinist favor by preying on the stupid. Or at least, that is how it appears.
Sadly, this is in no way news to me. Being a hippie kid, I wasraised with the belief that the American military industrial complex is at least one major root of evil in the world.
I thought it was silly of Conway to use that ad, too. Lots of us did foolish things in college. The woman in question was weirded out by the whole thing, but never thought it was anything more than a harmless prank. But it illustrates Paul's mindset: infringing on other people's liberty for shits and giggles is perfectly okay. You and I may have done some wacky thing in college, but I will hazard a guess that even 'prank' kidnapping of women was not one of them.
You could look up Harlan County on wikipedia. Company thugs killed a bunch of miners trying to unionize. More than once, if I recall.
Nope, we control the White House and the Senate and most of the far right teabagger loonies lost big time. Just think, if it hadn't been for the teabaggers, I might actually have something to be butthurt over.
Who believes that? Government is there to stop people who believe that. The ones who want to get rid of government do not want government interfering with their ability to dominate and control others. Government is just a group of people, banding together to protect their interest. Some people do not want anyone protecting the weak, because they feel the weak are their rightful prey.
How are Obama's ideas socialist? What exactly is socialist about them? How are they different from medicare and medicaid, which already exist?
Where in the Constitution does it prohibit things like medicare and medicaid, and how come those things exist if they are unconstitutional? How come, if they are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has not struck them down, like it has with i>every other unconstitutional law?
Finally, where did you study constitutional law? I'd like to know so I can be sure not to send my kids there.
No, Paul admitted it was true. This all came out months before Conway put those ads up. Paul called Conway out for "questioning his religion." He did not deny the charges, he denied the appropriateness of bringing them up. Conway rebutted that he wasn't questioning Paul's religion, he was questioning his judgment, a valid concern.
This has been backed up by the woman he kidnapped as well, and some of Paul's buddies on the swim team.
Lots of successful and long lasting communes in the US. And 'cooperatives' are a form of resource pooling, as are things like credit unions, that have a long and successful history. You can even do it on a large scale, as the Spanish have done in Mondragon, turning a minority Basque subsistence farming region into an industrial powerhouse in under fifty years.
Having everyone taken care of is a positive externality. It adds to everyone's wealth, and reduces crime and social instability for everyone, even those who refuse to pay. While I don't condone the idea of forcing anyone to help, I do support the idea of withdrawal of rewards, such as the opportunity to trade with or purchase land from a given society. Don't want to help take care of people? Okay, then you can't live with us, and you can't trade with us, and we want nothing to do with you, good luck, ta-ta, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
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Good eye, those sights are both "Part of HighGear Media" according to the banner. HighGear appears to be "a vertical publishing company publishing more premium automotive content than anyone in the world through websites targeting key buyer and vehicle segments." according to their website. They have a "network of 100 plus owned and operated automotive websites, anchored by the TheCarConnection.com, currently reaches nearly 3 million in-market car shoppers a month. High Gear Media is building some of the fatest growing automotive destinations on the Web."
Fatest growing destinations on the web?
The amount of market blather on that site made my brain hurt. This whole thing smacks of SCO linkery-dickery. I guess I went down the wrong damn rabbit hole suggesting Toyota might be behind this.
Why do I get a feeling this submission only made it because it mentions Tesla?
Because you haven't considered the possibility that Toyota might invent a mascot know as 'thecarchick' (oooh! A GIRL who like cars!) and use that mascot to submit stories to news aggregation sites for free publicity? I mean, if you're going to go down the rabbit hole, go all the way down.
How is asking a question or raising a question "begging?" I say the new meaning is at least as much a colloquialism as the old.
But I do like your prescriptivist descriptivism. "The people have spoken, the language is now immutably thus, and if argue otherwise, you are the one who is using language incorrectly.
Sorry, but you have to pick one viewpoint. Either language changes according to use, in which case, it can change back if enough people point out that a current usage is damn stupid. Or, language is fixed with one correct usage. You seem to be arguing that there is one official 'correct' language, and that is whatever the majority currently says it is.
Then it wasn't an earnest question, was it? And as a rhetorical question, it was misleading.
Why do you persist in lying about what socialism is?
Money is the 'product of your body?!?' You crap money? Amazing. Money is a social construct, meaningless without social agreement. The ability to amass and preserve a surplus is not an individual ability, it is an emergent phenomenon enabled by the agreement of a society to honor money. Without society, money is meaningless.
In a true socialist state, no one can force anyone to do anything, unlike a capitalist state, where those with capital control and dominate those without. If you are poor, and lack education (something capitalist overlords work to ensure, so you will be a more malleable slave) then you are a slave. Kiss masters ass or die of starvation, and master will work to ensure that any attempt by the peasants to band together to protect their interests and provide for themselves is derided as "socialism." Indeed, mutual benefit societies (A.K.A "The State") are inherently evil, and ruthless selfishness is a virtue.
Trolled? Is that his excuse for being an idiot? c64_love wasn't doing this to troll anyone. He's not that clever. This was, I am quite sure, a funny joke in his mind.
My god, someone actually knows that that phrase does not mean "raising the question."
Saying "Whoosh" doesn't make it an actual joke, and it certainly doesn't make it any funnier.
It does not follow the meme, first off. Take something in America, reverse it in a funny way, and attribute it to 'Soviet Russia.' c64love's post does not do that. It is nonsensical.
This wasn't a joke, it was an asshole saying "socialism sucks" just because this happens to take place in Russia,and not because it has anything to do with socialism.
By implying that Windows has undergone a ground up rewrite wile Linux has not, you imply that you already know the answer to your own question, which means your question is not at all earnest.
Did you miss the part where it says the dude is a Microsoft employee? He's a capitalist, not a socialist. Not that the facts have ever stopped you from making cracks about your imaginary version of socialism.
Whenever you post, I am reminded of the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian where Brian is imprisoned with the upside-down old man. You know, the one who keep vociferously defending the Romans? "A fair days work, for a fair days PAY!!!" Your attacks against anyone who questions the powerful aren't nearly as humorous, though. You are the upside down slave, angrily defending his tormentors rather than admit that he's been screwed over by total assholes all his life. You are certainly not a Roman. Your covetous worship of power is entirely transparent. You hold total contempt for the average person, and see them as rightful prey for the powerful. In your world view, anyone dumb enough to be fooled by con artists and charlatans deserves their fate, and the con artists are doing us all a social-darwinist favor by preying on the stupid. Or at least, that is how it appears.
Sadly, this is in no way news to me. Being a hippie kid, I wasraised with the belief that the American military industrial complex is at least one major root of evil in the world.
Paul admitted it happened. The woman in question has come forward to talk about it, she says it happened. Still want to deny it?
In libertopia, government's only function is to protect the property of the rich from the poor.
I thought it was silly of Conway to use that ad, too. Lots of us did foolish things in college. The woman in question was weirded out by the whole thing, but never thought it was anything more than a harmless prank. But it illustrates Paul's mindset: infringing on other people's liberty for shits and giggles is perfectly okay. You and I may have done some wacky thing in college, but I will hazard a guess that even 'prank' kidnapping of women was not one of them.
You could look up Harlan County on wikipedia. Company thugs killed a bunch of miners trying to unionize. More than once, if I recall.
Nope, we control the White House and the Senate and most of the far right teabagger loonies lost big time. Just think, if it hadn't been for the teabaggers, I might actually have something to be butthurt over.
Who believes that? Government is there to stop people who believe that. The ones who want to get rid of government do not want government interfering with their ability to dominate and control others. Government is just a group of people, banding together to protect their interest. Some people do not want anyone protecting the weak, because they feel the weak are their rightful prey.
How are Obama's ideas socialist? What exactly is socialist about them? How are they different from medicare and medicaid, which already exist?
Where in the Constitution does it prohibit things like medicare and medicaid, and how come those things exist if they are unconstitutional? How come, if they are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has not struck them down, like it has with i>every other unconstitutional law?
Finally, where did you study constitutional law? I'd like to know so I can be sure not to send my kids there.
No, Paul admitted it was true. This all came out months before Conway put those ads up. Paul called Conway out for "questioning his religion." He did not deny the charges, he denied the appropriateness of bringing them up. Conway rebutted that he wasn't questioning Paul's religion, he was questioning his judgment, a valid concern.
This has been backed up by the woman he kidnapped as well, and some of Paul's buddies on the swim team.
Lots of successful and long lasting communes in the US. And 'cooperatives' are a form of resource pooling, as are things like credit unions, that have a long and successful history. You can even do it on a large scale, as the Spanish have done in Mondragon, turning a minority Basque subsistence farming region into an industrial powerhouse in under fifty years.
Having everyone taken care of is a positive externality. It adds to everyone's wealth, and reduces crime and social instability for everyone, even those who refuse to pay. While I don't condone the idea of forcing anyone to help, I do support the idea of withdrawal of rewards, such as the opportunity to trade with or purchase land from a given society. Don't want to help take care of people? Okay, then you can't live with us, and you can't trade with us, and we want nothing to do with you, good luck, ta-ta, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
Would you like a tissue?
For what? Your mom says she likes cream pies.
You know what is childish? Thinking that the mainstream political philosophy is "I'm with the government and I want to hurt someone."
The guy he was running against? No, Jack Conway is a corporate tool.
Show me where Paul denies it. Go on. Ought to be easy to find, right?
Give me a break. He flat out admitted it was all true.