Ever see that episode of the Sopranos, where the gambling addict owes money to the mob and can't pay? So they take over his business and run it into the ground, borrowing money they have no intention of repaying, so they can recoup the loss and leave him in the hole. That's what this is like. The deficit has reached a record level and they keep charging more and more extravagant purchases. They even started a war as a corporate welfare project. We have the mob answering the phone.
How does this address the deficiencies of the opposition? The poster has already pointed out that he doesn't care for the Bush policies, but at least has the intellectual honestly to acknowledge that his opposition party doesn't bring any alternatives to the table. All you do is switch "Bush = Hitler" with "Bush = Mob". Go educate yourself in Macroeconomics already.
While I expect to see this degree of stupidity in Slashdot, it distrubs me that it got moderated so high.
Isn't that what happened in the last presidential election? As a Democrat, I'm not bitter about it. The bottom line is that FL was a statistical tie; the margin of victory was smaller than the margin of error for ballot tallying. Nobody really knows what the intent of the electorate was with sufficient precision to state with true confidence who "actually won". Both parties were playing games with recount methods to try the skew the results in their favor. The irony is that subsequent analysis suggests that both parties were wrong about which method would have supported their candidate best.
Wow, someone actually gets it right!
In addendum to point 1:
Where are all the political bitchers NOW that were crying about how unfair the electoral college is? Where is the push for change? It's nowhere, because it was partisan bullshit, not "true reformers".
Check out MIT's study on error rates concerning voting machines - the optical ballot tops out over the purely electronic "touch screens".
Preach it. I wonder how much of it is Woo's fault. Hollywood has a way of taking all that is creative from an individual artist and sucking out all the originality of same, in the name of the profit-making formulas. Go watch "Hard Boiled", then compare it to anything he's done in the last several years since he's come to the US. It seems like the "John Woo flavor" has been lost in Hollywood's "cup of tea"...
Was Taco wrong in posting? Well, from the horses mouth:
(This has no relevance, but I'm abusing Slashdot
unless abuse has a become a good thing, that settles that.
As for the rest:
to say that I think Bush is a rotten candidate, and while I don't like Gore, I would vote for a inanimate carbon rod for president before I would vote for GWB).
Wit (or lack thereof) aside, a BRIEF why might actually have been productive here instead of mindless candidate bashing.
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Ever see that episode of the Sopranos, where the gambling addict owes money to the mob and can't pay? So they take over his business and run it into the ground, borrowing money they have no intention of repaying, so they can recoup the loss and leave him in the hole. That's what this is like. The deficit has reached a record level and they keep charging more and more extravagant purchases. They even started a war as a corporate welfare project. We have the mob answering the phone.
How does this address the deficiencies of the opposition? The poster has already pointed out that he doesn't care for the Bush policies, but at least has the intellectual honestly to acknowledge that his opposition party doesn't bring any alternatives to the table. All you do is switch "Bush = Hitler" with "Bush = Mob". Go educate yourself in Macroeconomics already.
While I expect to see this degree of stupidity in Slashdot, it distrubs me that it got moderated so high.
Wow, someone actually gets it right!
In addendum to point 1:
Where are all the political bitchers NOW that were crying about how unfair the electoral college is? Where is the push for change? It's nowhere, because it was partisan bullshit, not "true reformers".
Check out MIT's study on error rates concerning voting machines - the optical ballot tops out over the purely electronic "touch screens".
This has GOT to be a bluff - they just keep upping the ante.
Some pretty good links concerning the state of digisubs and a recent conflict between a fansubbing group and Urban Vision:
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http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial.php?i
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial.php?i
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/editorial.php?i
I don't understand why ATI is considered an "underdog" these days.
Preach it. I wonder how much of it is Woo's fault. Hollywood has a way of taking all that is creative from an individual artist and sucking out all the originality of same, in the name of the profit-making formulas. Go watch "Hard Boiled", then compare it to anything he's done in the last several years since he's come to the US. It seems like the "John Woo flavor" has been lost in Hollywood's "cup of tea"...
Was Taco wrong in posting? Well, from the horses mouth:
(This has no relevance, but I'm abusing Slashdot
unless abuse has a become a good thing, that settles that.
As for the rest:
to say that I think Bush is a rotten candidate, and while I don't like Gore, I would vote for a inanimate carbon rod for president before I would vote for GWB).
Wit (or lack thereof) aside, a BRIEF why might actually have been productive here instead of mindless candidate bashing.