Yes, if you were a rich investor, then maybe you could afford to buy enough stock in Compaq to survive on dividends after they stomp your ass to the gutter.
MSNBC did a bit on the Forbes list of Richest Douchebags in the Galaxy(TM) to pay tribute to their glorious leader, and introduced it with almost exactly that. "Sure was a great year to be rich, eh, Pat? Hahaha!" That's some sad shit.
Anybody remember when the news guys weren't rich? Back before Reagan? They'd sit around at shitty desks in tweed jackets like high school teachers or something, talking about gas prices or whatever and they'd almost grimace a little whenever they had to talk about politicians. They'd talk about the weather, and worry about what it would do to the commute instead of what it'll do to the vacation they're taking to Tahiti and then France next week. And they never had their LA correspondent on to talk about the $10,000 fucking dress she bought to go to the Academy Awards that weekend. They never shuttled the anchor for the morning news around the world to places where no news has happened in half a century to sit on a beach and read cue cards, and if they did, they sure as hell wouldn't send him to a billionare's private island on a $2,000,000 sailboat as the grand finale. And most of all, you had to know some basic fucking civics and maybe enough science to know that the Flinstones isn't actually historically accurate before they let you on.
And godamnit we used to laugh at women with the horrible misfortune to be named Barbie, and then maybe drive them to the courthouse to pick up the forms to change it, not let them guest-host a fucking news show!
Why do you care about this "potential" our protectionist trade barriers are sapping? Just asking. It seems to me it makes fuck-all difference to your fat ass what the GNP is.
But at the same time you know that enjoying Colgate toothpaste does not mean a Colgate toothbrush is likely to be any better than the store brand toothbrush unless you've tried it. The brand is irrelevant, you're buying based on experience, not branding. If you cared about branding, you'd consider switching to Honda toothpaste if it were available.
I know I would, if only out of curiosity. That's the strength of the brand. Honda could start making almost anything I use and I'd probably at least buy one of whatever it is for the hell of it. I wouldn't do that with some struggling M&P company that just got Pathmark to start carrying their whateveritis.
I've never read this No Logo book, though, so I don't know what it says.
Goddamn, U think you just accidentally deciphered a "what the fuck is she talking about?" conversation I had like 6 exes back. I was trying to get her to play Mario Kart or something, and she started complaining about how video games were hard. I said something stupid about having to play a little and then you'll get good, and then she said "no, no, I mean, why do they make it so you loose if you're not any good?" Then I probably said "bitch, you be trippin'" and then she probably kicked me in the nuts and went home, but now I think I get it!
You have a few text games (usually recent ones that aren't commercial, I can't think of a name, but I know I remember playing one with a mansion and some french guys that I never finished) that aren't puzzles or anything. You don't pick the wrong road and get eaten by a monkey plant or anything, you just participate in a story. You can die, but it's not like you have to keep replaying over and over to find the one way out that doesn't have a dragon hiding in it. More role playing, less game.
Now, I hate RPGs, in general, but I liked Knights of the Old Republic. I played through once, being evil as possible, and then I went back and played through as good as possible. Then I wanted to go back and do a few things differently, but I actually didn't want to do all the shooting and light-sabreing. I just wanted to go around being a Jedi and meddling in galactic intrigue. And just now I realized I probably would've bought the game (in retrospect anyway) if it had just been the talking and the picking where to go next with the battle money spent on more depth.
It's like one of the movies only you can make your Jedi force-choke the bajesus out of the annoying computer-generated locals whenever you want! That's where you need to go. I bet there are a lot of people who just hate having to do the "storming the building over and over until you don't die" thing that makes finally beating it more fun for me. No puzzles, no gratuitous item-hunting, just a branching storyline you get to move around in.
Of course, I'll start making fun of this genre the moment it appears, just like with RPGs, but I bet it'd make some money.
It's politically correct because not all interactive fiction games are adventues, hence not calling it a text adventure when it's a mystery story, or perhaps a bodice-ripping romance, if anybody's done one of those, which I strongly believe they should, and if they have then they probably didn't like people calling it an adventure. So, replacing the stereotype with a generally descriptive name is politically correct.
W is the richest Bush, pretty much solely from the 15 million he made selling the Texas Rangers. Daddy Bush is in the single-digit millions somewhere. Prescott, W's grandfather, was an investment banker/millionare, but not all that impressive as far as war profiteers go. He supposedly was the one who stole Geronimo's skull for Skull & Bones. (without a skull, it's a kinda shitty secret club) The great-grandpappy Samuel was in charge of buying guns for the army during WWI and maybe-kinda Remmington used him to overcharge the army like drunken sailors.
None of them founded the CIA, George H.W. just got appointed head of the CIA for awhile.
No. In California necrophilia is, under "Robyn's Law", which only passed May of last year, but in most states it isn't, except as a public health violation, same as a mortuary dumping bodies in the dumpster or something, which can get you prison time of a couple years anyway, and probably will if the violation is fucking bodies. Same thing with cannibalism, though I can't find any specific laws outlawing it.
What is illegal in the US is assisted suicide, and endangering the public health. So the German guy who ate his buddy is a murderer and a public health risk here, but if he just stuck with hacking off bits and eating them, leaving the guy still alive at the end, he would only be a public health risk, and get maybe 3 years. They might also be able to get him on practicing medicine without a liscence if they were creative.
"Officer! Officer! Anthony Hopkins is eating somebody in that alley over there!" "Yeah, you actually see the eating?" "He bit off his nose!" "Well, look, you can't be looking at that kind of thing on the internet." "But..." "Oh, sure, I bet you think this was "different" or something. You nasty fuck."
This is the very reason that there was such an opposition to the Bill of Rights component of the US constitution when it first was suggested. The architects of the main body of the constitution were concerned that the Bill of Rights would be misinterpreted just as you've done.
Thomas Jefferson and others argued that making a list of things the government especially couldn't do looked a lot like a list of things that the people could do, something which quite justifiably horrified them. Others argued that they didn't really know about any of this fancy "law" stuff but that they wanted someone to write down that they were allowed to go to church and shoot critters. And there you have the constitution.
Jefferson was obviously dead right, of course, since he was a fucking genius, so now we have to run around euthanizing people who pratter on about how there's no right to privacy and speech doesn't mean video games for the good of the Republic.
And we only blow up your tanks because we're all so fucking high man, really. I mean, shit, the clouds are fucking all over up here. They're cows, cows. Cows are gonna kill me. THE BISEXUALS ARE GONNA KILL ME!!!
The Holocaust is not unique nor extrodinary. The same thing would not be impossible, or even that unlikely if a charismatic, young, power-obsessed fanatic tried to take over a public building to protest the degredation of "traditional values" here, even today. Look at the blind following Roy Moore got for dumping some cheap corporate art in a lobby somewhere, and he's ugly, a mediocre speaker at best, and the police never even shot any of his followers or put him in jail.
Look, just fuse together Roy Moore, Che Guevera, Kevin Mitnick, L. Ron Hubbard, the guys from Queer Eye, Martin Sheen, and Fred Phelps, send them back to the Great Depression, and have them run for president on the platform of "Kill the Lawyers, Take Their Money". What do you think's going to happen?
That's the strength of fascism, it's not political, it's social and artistic. It's a near-foolproof method of gaining power in a free society, and it just so happens that it appeals to, and works best for, vapid power-fetishists who often happen to be prone to bouts of genocidal mania once they get to the top. The most stunning thing about the Holocaust is that they managed to pull it off before the whole mangled system collapsed in on itself.
You catch this from the summary in the article too? Just from the awkward names and the space refugees I was thinking it sounded a lot like an L. Ron story. That and the way they had a booth guy willing to pump out a 10 minute spiel about blue aliens to everybody who walks by. Only Scientologists command that kind of attention span.
That's what therapy is. It's not about making you happier, it's about making you function properly. You can be all touchy-feely and come to terms with things, but your insurance will only pay to have someone kick you in the balls over and over until you promise to stop crying in your cubicle at work.
The dentist I used to go to had the little CD/tape/radio boom box right there in the room. You could bring in whatever you wanted if he was going to do something that would take awhile.
Then they switched insurance companies on me and now I have to go to this 90 year old guy who's a half-hour away and keeps stabbing holes in my cheek with the tooth-buffer thing.
He's a commercial product, why would he look like that? He's your plastic pal who's fun to be with, not your frightening industrial assasin-droid you're afraid to be left alone with.
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Yes, if you were a rich investor, then maybe you could afford to buy enough stock in Compaq to survive on dividends after they stomp your ass to the gutter.
MSNBC did a bit on the Forbes list of Richest Douchebags in the Galaxy(TM) to pay tribute to their glorious leader, and introduced it with almost exactly that. "Sure was a great year to be rich, eh, Pat? Hahaha!" That's some sad shit.
Anybody remember when the news guys weren't rich? Back before Reagan? They'd sit around at shitty desks in tweed jackets like high school teachers or something, talking about gas prices or whatever and they'd almost grimace a little whenever they had to talk about politicians. They'd talk about the weather, and worry about what it would do to the commute instead of what it'll do to the vacation they're taking to Tahiti and then France next week. And they never had their LA correspondent on to talk about the $10,000 fucking dress she bought to go to the Academy Awards that weekend. They never shuttled the anchor for the morning news around the world to places where no news has happened in half a century to sit on a beach and read cue cards, and if they did, they sure as hell wouldn't send him to a billionare's private island on a $2,000,000 sailboat as the grand finale. And most of all, you had to know some basic fucking civics and maybe enough science to know that the Flinstones isn't actually historically accurate before they let you on.
And godamnit we used to laugh at women with the horrible misfortune to be named Barbie, and then maybe drive them to the courthouse to pick up the forms to change it, not let them guest-host a fucking news show!
Why do you care about this "potential" our protectionist trade barriers are sapping? Just asking. It seems to me it makes fuck-all difference to your fat ass what the GNP is.
But at the same time you know that enjoying Colgate toothpaste does not mean a Colgate toothbrush is likely to be any better than the store brand toothbrush unless you've tried it. The brand is irrelevant, you're buying based on experience, not branding. If you cared about branding, you'd consider switching to Honda toothpaste if it were available.
I know I would, if only out of curiosity. That's the strength of the brand. Honda could start making almost anything I use and I'd probably at least buy one of whatever it is for the hell of it. I wouldn't do that with some struggling M&P company that just got Pathmark to start carrying their whateveritis.
I've never read this No Logo book, though, so I don't know what it says.
Hey, did you guys hear that DX2 wasn't very good? I had no fucking idea!
Goddamn, U think you just accidentally deciphered a "what the fuck is she talking about?" conversation I had like 6 exes back. I was trying to get her to play Mario Kart or something, and she started complaining about how video games were hard. I said something stupid about having to play a little and then you'll get good, and then she said "no, no, I mean, why do they make it so you loose if you're not any good?" Then I probably said "bitch, you be trippin'" and then she probably kicked me in the nuts and went home, but now I think I get it!
You have a few text games (usually recent ones that aren't commercial, I can't think of a name, but I know I remember playing one with a mansion and some french guys that I never finished) that aren't puzzles or anything. You don't pick the wrong road and get eaten by a monkey plant or anything, you just participate in a story. You can die, but it's not like you have to keep replaying over and over to find the one way out that doesn't have a dragon hiding in it. More role playing, less game.
Now, I hate RPGs, in general, but I liked Knights of the Old Republic. I played through once, being evil as possible, and then I went back and played through as good as possible. Then I wanted to go back and do a few things differently, but I actually didn't want to do all the shooting and light-sabreing. I just wanted to go around being a Jedi and meddling in galactic intrigue. And just now I realized I probably would've bought the game (in retrospect anyway) if it had just been the talking and the picking where to go next with the battle money spent on more depth.
It's like one of the movies only you can make your Jedi force-choke the bajesus out of the annoying computer-generated locals whenever you want! That's where you need to go. I bet there are a lot of people who just hate having to do the "storming the building over and over until you don't die" thing that makes finally beating it more fun for me. No puzzles, no gratuitous item-hunting, just a branching storyline you get to move around in.
Of course, I'll start making fun of this genre the moment it appears, just like with RPGs, but I bet it'd make some money.
It's politically correct because not all interactive fiction games are adventues, hence not calling it a text adventure when it's a mystery story, or perhaps a bodice-ripping romance, if anybody's done one of those, which I strongly believe they should, and if they have then they probably didn't like people calling it an adventure. So, replacing the stereotype with a generally descriptive name is politically correct.
W is the richest Bush, pretty much solely from the 15 million he made selling the Texas Rangers. Daddy Bush is in the single-digit millions somewhere. Prescott, W's grandfather, was an investment banker/millionare, but not all that impressive as far as war profiteers go. He supposedly was the one who stole Geronimo's skull for Skull & Bones. (without a skull, it's a kinda shitty secret club) The great-grandpappy Samuel was in charge of buying guns for the army during WWI and maybe-kinda Remmington used him to overcharge the army like drunken sailors.
None of them founded the CIA, George H.W. just got appointed head of the CIA for awhile.
cannibalism and necrophilia were sort of ILLEGAL
No. In California necrophilia is, under "Robyn's Law", which only passed May of last year, but in most states it isn't, except as a public health violation, same as a mortuary dumping bodies in the dumpster or something, which can get you prison time of a couple years anyway, and probably will if the violation is fucking bodies. Same thing with cannibalism, though I can't find any specific laws outlawing it.
What is illegal in the US is assisted suicide, and endangering the public health. So the German guy who ate his buddy is a murderer and a public health risk here, but if he just stuck with hacking off bits and eating them, leaving the guy still alive at the end, he would only be a public health risk, and get maybe 3 years. They might also be able to get him on practicing medicine without a liscence if they were creative.
"Officer! Officer! Anthony Hopkins is eating somebody in that alley over there!"
"Yeah, you actually see the eating?"
"He bit off his nose!"
"Well, look, you can't be looking at that kind of thing on the internet."
"But..."
"Oh, sure, I bet you think this was "different" or something. You nasty fuck."
This is the very reason that there was such an opposition to the Bill of Rights component of the US constitution when it first was suggested. The architects of the main body of the constitution were concerned that the Bill of Rights would be misinterpreted just as you've done.
Thomas Jefferson and others argued that making a list of things the government especially couldn't do looked a lot like a list of things that the people could do, something which quite justifiably horrified them. Others argued that they didn't really know about any of this fancy "law" stuff but that they wanted someone to write down that they were allowed to go to church and shoot critters. And there you have the constitution.
Jefferson was obviously dead right, of course, since he was a fucking genius, so now we have to run around euthanizing people who pratter on about how there's no right to privacy and speech doesn't mean video games for the good of the Republic.
And we only blow up your tanks because we're all so fucking high man, really. I mean, shit, the clouds are fucking all over up here. They're cows, cows. Cows are gonna kill me. THE BISEXUALS ARE GONNA KILL ME!!!
Except for Louisiana, which uses French common law.
In soviet russia, secret arrest is documented!
Naval base is city!
Media coverups make headlines!
The Holocaust is not unique nor extrodinary. The same thing would not be impossible, or even that unlikely if a charismatic, young, power-obsessed fanatic tried to take over a public building to protest the degredation of "traditional values" here, even today. Look at the blind following Roy Moore got for dumping some cheap corporate art in a lobby somewhere, and he's ugly, a mediocre speaker at best, and the police never even shot any of his followers or put him in jail.
Look, just fuse together Roy Moore, Che Guevera, Kevin Mitnick, L. Ron Hubbard, the guys from Queer Eye, Martin Sheen, and Fred Phelps, send them back to the Great Depression, and have them run for president on the platform of "Kill the Lawyers, Take Their Money". What do you think's going to happen?
That's the strength of fascism, it's not political, it's social and artistic. It's a near-foolproof method of gaining power in a free society, and it just so happens that it appeals to, and works best for, vapid power-fetishists who often happen to be prone to bouts of genocidal mania once they get to the top. The most stunning thing about the Holocaust is that they managed to pull it off before the whole mangled system collapsed in on itself.
It also lets hire bounty hunters.
Now that's informative.
You catch this from the summary in the article too? Just from the awkward names and the space refugees I was thinking it sounded a lot like an L. Ron story. That and the way they had a booth guy willing to pump out a 10 minute spiel about blue aliens to everybody who walks by. Only Scientologists command that kind of attention span.
No, Clockwork Orange had all that elegant Kubrick style. This looks like Microsoft Paint shit all over my Metroid cartridge.
That's what therapy is. It's not about making you happier, it's about making you function properly. You can be all touchy-feely and come to terms with things, but your insurance will only pay to have someone kick you in the balls over and over until you promise to stop crying in your cubicle at work.
Bitch.
The dentist I used to go to had the little CD/tape/radio boom box right there in the room. You could bring in whatever you wanted if he was going to do something that would take awhile.
Then they switched insurance companies on me and now I have to go to this 90 year old guy who's a half-hour away and keeps stabbing holes in my cheek with the tooth-buffer thing.
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There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap...
Thank God you finally figured that one out.
He's a commercial product, why would he look like that? He's your plastic pal who's fun to be with, not your frightening industrial assasin-droid you're afraid to be left alone with.
...twice Arthur's age.
Which of these looks more like the kind of product that would actually be marketed as "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with?"