Nicely written, even if I think you kinda missed your own point. I think his problem wasn't the micromanagement (FDR did that and it worked out) but the people he was micromanaging. You mention the attitude of the 3MI engineers when Carter shows up. That's where Carter crashes and burns. The micromanagement might have worked out had he come in on 8 years of Democrats, but he was the "outsider" candidate that turned the White House. Nobody was inclined to help the guy out. The micromanagement made that 10x worse. Clinton could get things done because he sent peons the entrenched old men were desensitized to. It's hard to look at things objectively when you've spent the last 6 months cursing the guy who's now standing there asking you to do something that you probably would've done anyway but it would've been YOURS damnit!
Not to let Carter completely off the hook. He didn't have the management experience he needed to recognize what his problem was. He just took the sub captain tack and tried to just smash his way through, which failed completely. He was really very good about keeping his nose out of things he knew jack shit about, but he was a complete disaster at finding out how to keep other people form getting too pissed off to do that stuff for him.
Not worst ever. Probably not even bottom 10. He wasn't great, but he didn't really actively do damage. We've had fucktards, and he wasn't a fucktard. "Critical inaction" sums him up, but at least he's not "complete psycho" like some (no, not W, he's more of a bizzaro-Carter, not a psycho. causes many of the same problems though). Carter's really much more qualified to be an ex-president than to be a president though. And he is qualified up to fuck.... up to fuck... high. Let's just define 'fuck' here as someplace really high in relation to one's body. Good.
Good point. At least have the sense to recognize the gravity of the situation and go for broke.
"No one in America voted for that cocksucking motherfucker shoving his hairy monkey-cock through our destinies, Karl 'Motherfucker' Rove."
or
"No one in America voted for Paul 'Fucking fuck fucker fucking fucks all fucking day' Wolfowitz, the man that's going to get us all fucking killed any fucking minute now, the cockfucking fuckfucker."
or
"The less than 1/2 of America that voted for that poor man George W. Bush probably were not aware that he was not going to actually perform any presidential duties during his term as president."
I though I was liberal, but I'm not!!>!!@@! HOly shit IM so shoCKEd!!11 I'm LEFTIST! OMG WHAT does leftist mean?! OMG it means I belong to the political left!! OMG what's left!? OMG it's the past participle of leave! OMG I'm not liberal, I just believe in the tennants of the past participle of leave! OMG IM SO FUCKING CONFUSED!!!!
Seriously, does anybody know where leftist came from, or what the hell the difference is between it and liberal? It doesn't help that you never can find a dictionary with an actual definition for either left-wing or right-wing. This is why I only ever use liberal and conservative. Those at least tie in to the real world on some level. And what the hell new ideas have conservatives come up with recently? "Let's keep doing this shit some more."? Nobody's come up with anything new in politics since the 1400s, for fuck's sake. All liberals have done since then is invent the Muppets and all conservatives have done is move all their angsty manifestos from paper to radio. And they both invented an assload of new words with recursive definitions.
Whoever does manage to come up with and idea they didn't steal from an 100 year old dead dictator gets my vote, but it doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon.
I think your problem is that you live where they don't have any Middle Eastern people. That's probably why it seems like everybody except them is getting stripped.
Bush and Gore are/were (Gore got his mind back after he quit running, we'll see how that works for Bush) both empty shells 90% of the time. Gore was backed up by Clinton. Bush was backed up by Karl fucking Rove, phsychopath extraordinare. Even if Gore found the same mindset as Rove, he wouldn't have the numbers around to come up with the sheer volume of insanity Bush's hangers-on spend all day coming up with.
Just as the Wright Brothers did not go from the Wright Flyer directly to a 747, or even a DC-3, we cannot expect to jump from expendable rockets immediately to large orbital RLVs.
Except suborbital rollercoasters are more like Oriville strapping Wilbur to a kite and tying it to the bumper of their pickup truck. There's no logical economic path from that to even a Wright Flyer.
Exactly, the exploration of the Americas bankrupted Europe to fuck. There was no viable business model there, even in retrospect. Nobody ever got jack from the New World. This is why we make up crap about gold/helium isotopes and trick some poor bastards into paying for the establishment of the colonies our kids are going to sieze control of and leverage into a dominant military and economic position.
That's the only problem I had with the article. It's stuck on Scott "OMG d0tted L1nez!" McCloud's attempts to peg this as a business model for newspaper comics and not anything in and of itself. I mean, outside of Calvin & Hobbes, newspaper comics suck.
If you get away from Scott "Flow Chart" McCloud's sphere of influence, you get stuff that's good and not just Ziggy with tits and crack. Exploding Dog is at least 90% absolute genius, Cat and Girl is doing quite well, Poe's... Poe, and Kung Fool's been getting way better since he quit doing it. There's a lot more of that.
Because you have "skin" and an "immune system" to deal with "big" things.
If I blasted your computer into molecular bits and squished it through your skin, it'd probably give you cancer, so you should think about that when miniaturizing a computer to molecular size.
What the fuck's with this article? There's no ethics here. It's just some people worried about nanomaterials being toxic, and referencing some random article to sell their conference. This Howard guy comes in his pants over it for god knows what reason and suddenly it's on/. under... movies? Most surreal goddamn story I've ever seen.
God. What you're thinking of isn't tea, it's flavored sugar. I've had this "iced tea" of yours. Last time I ever consumed something south of D.C. without testing it on an animal first. I get a glass and like 40 extra sugar packets, but it's already sweetened to the point that the sugar is precipitating out at the bottom. I try it anyway, and my goddamn teeth taste like Pixie Stix for a month.
I swear to God, in North Carolina, you can hard-boil an egg yourself and still have it come out tasting like a fucking Jolly Rancher.
Damn right. Except naps aren't presidential. That was Reagan's gig. Clinton hardly slept at all. If you bought a night in the Lincoln bedroom, you'd have to deal with Clinton wandering around the hallways at 4 in the morning looking for someone to debate. If you woke up to go to the bathroom he'd ambush you on the way back and force you to listen to an hour of random economic data.
He's mad as hell and he's not going to take it any more! He wants the truth, but is unable to handle it! Yippie-kye-ay California! California is the man now, dawg! Gray Davis is a little short for a Governor! Mmmmmmm! Governor! Gray Davis KAAAAAAHHHHHHHNN't handle California! He knows kung-fu! California needs 1.21 GIGAWATTS!?! You can't leave California, she won't let you! We need to talk about California's flair! When somebody asks him if he is a Governor... he says YES! Gray Davis has no ticket! California is in a world of shit! He is firing a gun at his imaginary friend around 200 pounds of nitroglycerin!
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And yet somehow I don't care.
That's a title for a showtune if I've ever heard one.
Just as long as it's not this.
...HOOOOOOOO!!
Ho. Hos. He hires hos.
Nicely written, even if I think you kinda missed your own point. I think his problem wasn't the micromanagement (FDR did that and it worked out) but the people he was micromanaging. You mention the attitude of the 3MI engineers when Carter shows up. That's where Carter crashes and burns. The micromanagement might have worked out had he come in on 8 years of Democrats, but he was the "outsider" candidate that turned the White House. Nobody was inclined to help the guy out. The micromanagement made that 10x worse. Clinton could get things done because he sent peons the entrenched old men were desensitized to. It's hard to look at things objectively when you've spent the last 6 months cursing the guy who's now standing there asking you to do something that you probably would've done anyway but it would've been YOURS damnit!
... up to fuck... high. Let's just define 'fuck' here as someplace really high in relation to one's body. Good.
Not to let Carter completely off the hook. He didn't have the management experience he needed to recognize what his problem was. He just took the sub captain tack and tried to just smash his way through, which failed completely. He was really very good about keeping his nose out of things he knew jack shit about, but he was a complete disaster at finding out how to keep other people form getting too pissed off to do that stuff for him.
Not worst ever. Probably not even bottom 10. He wasn't great, but he didn't really actively do damage. We've had fucktards, and he wasn't a fucktard. "Critical inaction" sums him up, but at least he's not "complete psycho" like some (no, not W, he's more of a bizzaro-Carter, not a psycho. causes many of the same problems though). Carter's really much more qualified to be an ex-president than to be a president though. And he is qualified up to fuck.
Good point. At least have the sense to recognize the gravity of the situation and go for broke.
"No one in America voted for that cocksucking motherfucker shoving his hairy monkey-cock through our destinies, Karl 'Motherfucker' Rove."
or
"No one in America voted for Paul 'Fucking fuck fucker fucking fucks all fucking day' Wolfowitz, the man that's going to get us all fucking killed any fucking minute now, the cockfucking fuckfucker."
or
"The less than 1/2 of America that voted for that poor man George W. Bush probably were not aware that he was not going to actually perform any presidential duties during his term as president."
OMG really!11!??
I though I was liberal, but I'm not!!>!!@@! HOly shit IM so shoCKEd!!11 I'm LEFTIST! OMG WHAT does leftist mean?! OMG it means I belong to the political left!! OMG what's left!? OMG it's the past participle of leave! OMG I'm not liberal, I just believe in the tennants of the past participle of leave! OMG IM SO FUCKING CONFUSED!!!!
Seriously, does anybody know where leftist came from, or what the hell the difference is between it and liberal? It doesn't help that you never can find a dictionary with an actual definition for either left-wing or right-wing. This is why I only ever use liberal and conservative. Those at least tie in to the real world on some level. And what the hell new ideas have conservatives come up with recently? "Let's keep doing this shit some more."? Nobody's come up with anything new in politics since the 1400s, for fuck's sake. All liberals have done since then is invent the Muppets and all conservatives have done is move all their angsty manifestos from paper to radio. And they both invented an assload of new words with recursive definitions.
Whoever does manage to come up with and idea they didn't steal from an 100 year old dead dictator gets my vote, but it doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon.
I think your problem is that you live where they don't have any Middle Eastern people. That's probably why it seems like everybody except them is getting stripped.
Yes. ...
Yes.
Bush and Gore are/were (Gore got his mind back after he quit running, we'll see how that works for Bush) both empty shells 90% of the time. Gore was backed up by Clinton. Bush was backed up by Karl fucking Rove, phsychopath extraordinare. Even if Gore found the same mindset as Rove, he wouldn't have the numbers around to come up with the sheer volume of insanity Bush's hangers-on spend all day coming up with.
Hope you're a quick one, I think John Carmack's gets you about 3 minutes up there.
About what I thought.
Just as the Wright Brothers did not go from the Wright Flyer directly to a 747, or even a DC-3, we cannot expect to jump from expendable rockets immediately to large orbital RLVs.
Except suborbital rollercoasters are more like Oriville strapping Wilbur to a kite and tying it to the bumper of their pickup truck. There's no logical economic path from that to even a Wright Flyer.
Exactly, the exploration of the Americas bankrupted Europe to fuck. There was no viable business model there, even in retrospect. Nobody ever got jack from the New World. This is why we make up crap about gold/helium isotopes and trick some poor bastards into paying for the establishment of the colonies our kids are going to sieze control of and leverage into a dominant military and economic position.
That's the only problem I had with the article. It's stuck on Scott "OMG d0tted L1nez!" McCloud's attempts to peg this as a business model for newspaper comics and not anything in and of itself. I mean, outside of Calvin & Hobbes, newspaper comics suck.
If you get away from Scott "Flow Chart" McCloud's sphere of influence, you get stuff that's good and not just Ziggy with tits and crack. Exploding Dog is at least 90% absolute genius, Cat and Girl is doing quite well, Poe's... Poe, and Kung Fool's been getting way better since he quit doing it. There's a lot more of that.
Probably right before we hear about the French nano-commandos nano-limpet mining them in some poor bastard's kidney. Ouch.
Because you have "skin" and an "immune system" to deal with "big" things.
If I blasted your computer into molecular bits and squished it through your skin, it'd probably give you cancer, so you should think about that when miniaturizing a computer to molecular size.
What the fuck's with this article? There's no ethics here. It's just some people worried about nanomaterials being toxic, and referencing some random article to sell their conference. This Howard guy comes in his pants over it for god knows what reason and suddenly it's on /. under... movies? Most surreal goddamn story I've ever seen.
God. What you're thinking of isn't tea, it's flavored sugar. I've had this "iced tea" of yours. Last time I ever consumed something south of D.C. without testing it on an animal first. I get a glass and like 40 extra sugar packets, but it's already sweetened to the point that the sugar is precipitating out at the bottom. I try it anyway, and my goddamn teeth taste like Pixie Stix for a month.
I swear to God, in North Carolina, you can hard-boil an egg yourself and still have it come out tasting like a fucking Jolly Rancher.
The coolest toon voice ever.
Clearly somebody's never bothered to consider just how badly Wally Gator could kick Soundwave's ass.
And we're not even gonna bring up Snagglepuss. That motherfucker knows kung-fu.
Send them a card with a 20 in it?
Damn right. Except naps aren't presidential. That was Reagan's gig. Clinton hardly slept at all. If you bought a night in the Lincoln bedroom, you'd have to deal with Clinton wandering around the hallways at 4 in the morning looking for someone to debate. If you woke up to go to the bathroom he'd ambush you on the way back and force you to listen to an hour of random economic data.
Since I kinda get the sense everybody only knows this format from that Penny Arcade, possibly the second funniest front page ever.
I wouldn't join. All SCO's money will be in some Indonesian whorehouse by the time you manage to get a judgement.
No you fool! You'll kill us all!
He's mad as hell and he's not going to take it any more! He wants the truth, but is unable to handle it! Yippie-kye-ay California! California is the man now, dawg! Gray Davis is a little short for a Governor! Mmmmmmm! Governor! Gray Davis KAAAAAAHHHHHHHNN't handle California! He knows kung-fu! California needs 1.21 GIGAWATTS!?! You can't leave California, she won't let you! We need to talk about California's flair! When somebody asks him if he is a Governor... he says YES! Gray Davis has no ticket! California is in a world of shit! He is firing a gun at his imaginary friend around 200 pounds of nitroglycerin!
Maybe you'll help to sculpt one.
Somehow, I doubt it.