Are you talking about God? Or Santa? Or the Easter Bunny? I don't know who this "Market" person is but he's a douche and needs to be put down. Your post is so nebulous. The market is not a person, but is ran by people. You say the market can't magically bend and let everyone be rich but you know it doesn't have to be as bad as it is. We, the people, run this market. We can make it do whatever the hell we want provided we have enough influence (ie money). The market isn't the greedy uncaring bastard you make it out to be- your boss is.
History is once again your teacher. And not olden days history but stuff from just a couple decades ago up until this very minute. Why does America have a middle class that is fairly large? Well some would say that is because once Unions forced companies to make those workers happy (cause they sure weren't doing it on their own), America in general prospered. I think that's what you 6 digit UIDs refer to as the Golden Years. Your ideal contract is a pipe dream. Let's say I didn't like the terms of my current contract because the boss said I'd have to take a 50% pay reduction. I tell him to take a hike. It would not surprise me one bit if he had a replacement for me within a week that would indeed take my job for half my pay. The lower down the chain of labor skills you go, the shorter that replacement time is. When you get down to the labor job classification, such as a factory line worker, in my town there are actually people at the temp staffing places just sitting there all day waiting for an on-call job offer. If you have a surplus of laborers waiting for anything they can get, then you actually think that management wouldn't use the proverbial whip to keep your ass moving? I know they do. My line boss at a futon factory (I lasted but one week) always ran around bitching "There's a dozen guys waiting outside the gate for your job. Perform or GTFO" That extra informative/. story about Amazon warehouse torture is also in agreement with my observations. You may be out of touch with the plight of the lower classes (and I say that with a cringe, I need a thesaurus) since I'd imagine you're firmly middle class like most of us slashdotters. They still to this day get treated as throw away items. And still to this day companies are only doing the bare minimum necessary to comply with law regarding Worker's Rights. Google's method may be nice if you're one of the lucky, but it has to be terribly expensive just for the Mt Dew budget. You have be to rolling around in stupid money before you can be so generous. Companies that are already surfing the black line would definitely not even think about such frivolous expenditures unless you're a CxO, that is. So don't look back too far at all in history and see what is coming to fruition. Now that my generation isn't really fighting for Unions, the corps are tightening the rules again. The income gap between those who have and have not is getting bigger and the wealth is stagnating at the top. Us middle class folks can't sustain this level of lifestyle with your employer constantly taking benefits away, not giving raises that at least match inflation, and yet keep raiding the company coffers for "bonuses".
HAHA! An awesome Freudian slip. I'd imagine the message you'll get is along the lines of "You gonna get raped." After that is where the massage comes in;)
In Tennessee it is different if you're poor. I was a young single parent who was jobless. I go down to the welfare office to sign up for Tenncare and my son who was 3 at the time was enrolled at once, no questions asked. I, however, was denied Tenncare. I had absolutely zero medical bills at the time. I mention that because the lady told me that if I wanted to get Tenncare, I would need to go out and rack up approximately $16k in medical bills that I couldn't pay and THEN Tenncare would take me. What the hell kind of policy is that? I wanted Tenncare so that if something bad did go down I could manage to scrape by but the State actually advocated for me to go do irresponsible and illogical things. We do take care of our kids though at least. In that regard, there are 2 separate kinds of healthcare.
I really can't help you here. You put that big word in there as a qualifier because you know it would make it practically impossible to prove. Few people here think that our military might isn't used to scare the ever loving hell out of everyone, you just can't go around saying that publicly lest you appear to be the bully that you may very well be.
I don't know what's wrong with the humor centers of my brain lately but I can't tell which one of you are joking. I thought Bill was but your comment falls into that category of sounding so insane that many would take it seriously. I'm so confused!
I have 2 reasons to play the race card here. 1) It was a one-liner AC comment. They are almost always racist, insulting, or just downright vile. I've got precedence on my side. Should the AC like to refute that claim, I'll listen. 2) We were talking about Africa and immediately we got someone who pops up and just wants us to let them die. I'm from the South. I know racism. It's like a nasty fart on the porch in August. It's always there lingering but no one will take responsibility for it. My personal experience says when people start talking like the AC did, it's inevitable that it devolves into the obvious racism you envision but didn't see. It's kind of like a Godwin rule. And finally 3) It was an AC trollin. Can't I troll back?
So to sum it up we have 2 weapons we use in the fight against Trolls: Precedence, Inference, and an almost fanatical use of Hyperbole. No wait. Amongst our weaponry are such elements as Precedence, Inference,...I'll come back in
I don't search much and it's been awhile since I fired up XP. Could you elaborate on what you mean regarding the "non-retarded" search function? As I recall it had a pop out side bar with Clippy reincarnated as a dog. It asked you dumb things and had the options in the list that were useless so you always had to click the Advanced Search link. I can't even remember what W2K looks like anymore so I've no idea what its search did.
I know this is just some good old fashion racist bullshit but I just had to respond because I've heard this kind of rant many times. I also have a history of feeding those poor starving trolls of any nationality. It takes less than a penny a day! I know stupidity and racism go hand in hand but I'm going to analyze your argument for our readership. Please follow along:
If we just let all the Africans starve, maybe they wouldn't keep having hundreds of kids they don't have food and water for.
This is blaringly obviously NOT EFFECTIVE. Those people are so poor that fucking is about the only thing they can do. It is free and because they have little education, they evidently can't figure out that is what gets you pregnant until it's too late. I'm middle aged, so my history on the plight of Africa doesn't go back very far, but I recall the plight of Africa gaining mainstream attention probably around the mid 80s with that whole Sally Struthers campaign. Since that time a lot of charity and aid has been sent and I think overall analysis concludes that their situation has been getting better- at least Jimmy Carter thinks so. Well what did we do before we starting sending all this aid? I'm guessing we used your proposed method which was ignore them, let them fend for themselves, and if they die, they die. Firstly that proposal is morally reprehensible to me. I don't just let people die if I can help them. But morals aside, just ignoring the situation made the problem worse. With nothing better to do they just keep pumping kids out regardless of if they can feed them or not. It has been shown historically time and time again when a nation becomes wealthy, birthrates plummet and mortality increases. Being a callous bastard as you propose would get us nowhere. The person you replied to had a better solution though I can't tell if they were joking or not (my sarcasm meter is on the fritz).
I think he's too busy designing ultra-thin condoms for Africa
THIS is a much better solution! If the desired outcome is to reduce the number of children who will die of starvation or disease, and because of political reasons just throwing food and vaccines at them isn't working, then the next best approach is preventing the pregnancies in the first place. A condom is a fine way to do this. Throw a good helping of Nature's best medicine -education- on top of that and progress will be made. It actually can be a win-win for all concerned. We stop the suffering of others (especially the children!), we reduce or eliminate the problem of having kids one cannot support, overall health and quality of life will go up, and to appease you racist fuckers there will be fewer brown people around since instead of having 20 kids they only have 2 or 3. You can have a heart full of hate or a heart full of love and nothing I wrote above sounds bad. It's good for everyone.
I will also point out that the solution to your problem, the hateful racism eating away at your being, is also EXACTLY the same! Contraceptives and education. We reduce the chances for you to spread your malformed genes and with education, you can stop fearing the unknown and passing that message onto the kids you do have. A WIN-WIN AGAIN!
Hey! I am claiming prior art again! Someone modded me redundant and I'll have you know I specifically read every single post available (it was under 50 replies) when I posted that. MY post was the frosty piss of iocane powder jokes! I'm not the redundant one:P
I wasn't sure you were serious because that response is pretty much directly opposite of everything you usually post. When did you stop being a super conservative libertarian? When did you start questioning the word of The Paul? When did you start thinking the TSA & NSA were useful? And most importantly, when did you start accepting that terrorism was a valid excuse for depriving us of our rights?
Oh man! I got trolled hardcore and fell for it. Bravo. *golfclap*
A flat place does not exist in the ATL. As a matter of fact, right at the outside edge of the downtown area (everything inside the I285 loop), they have their own mini-Mt Rushmore.
Dude, if they haven't dismantled the TSA, which visibly annoys people day in and day out, by now what even gave you a glimmer of hope it would happen this time? There have been so many opportunities to break up the TSA, repeal the Patriot Act, and all of the other nonsense that's been going but it seems the only person who gave a shit all of these years was Ron Paul. You see how well that went over. The only way you'll see the NSA or TSA dismantled will be when it becomes profitable for those who pay Congress' bills.
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Are you talking about God? Or Santa? Or the Easter Bunny? I don't know who this "Market" person is but he's a douche and needs to be put down. Your post is so nebulous. The market is not a person, but is ran by people. You say the market can't magically bend and let everyone be rich but you know it doesn't have to be as bad as it is. We, the people, run this market. We can make it do whatever the hell we want provided we have enough influence (ie money). The market isn't the greedy uncaring bastard you make it out to be- your boss is.
Do you have a wildly popular show on A&E called Duck Dynasty? I swear I have heard these words before....
History is once again your teacher. And not olden days history but stuff from just a couple decades ago up until this very minute. Why does America have a middle class that is fairly large? Well some would say that is because once Unions forced companies to make those workers happy (cause they sure weren't doing it on their own), America in general prospered. I think that's what you 6 digit UIDs refer to as the Golden Years. Your ideal contract is a pipe dream. Let's say I didn't like the terms of my current contract because the boss said I'd have to take a 50% pay reduction. I tell him to take a hike. It would not surprise me one bit if he had a replacement for me within a week that would indeed take my job for half my pay. The lower down the chain of labor skills you go, the shorter that replacement time is. When you get down to the labor job classification, such as a factory line worker, in my town there are actually people at the temp staffing places just sitting there all day waiting for an on-call job offer. If you have a surplus of laborers waiting for anything they can get, then you actually think that management wouldn't use the proverbial whip to keep your ass moving? I know they do. My line boss at a futon factory (I lasted but one week) always ran around bitching "There's a dozen guys waiting outside the gate for your job. Perform or GTFO" That extra informative /. story about Amazon warehouse torture is also in agreement with my observations. You may be out of touch with the plight of the lower classes (and I say that with a cringe, I need a thesaurus) since I'd imagine you're firmly middle class like most of us slashdotters. They still to this day get treated as throw away items. And still to this day companies are only doing the bare minimum necessary to comply with law regarding Worker's Rights. Google's method may be nice if you're one of the lucky, but it has to be terribly expensive just for the Mt Dew budget. You have be to rolling around in stupid money before you can be so generous. Companies that are already surfing the black line would definitely not even think about such frivolous expenditures unless you're a CxO, that is. So don't look back too far at all in history and see what is coming to fruition. Now that my generation isn't really fighting for Unions, the corps are tightening the rules again. The income gap between those who have and have not is getting bigger and the wealth is stagnating at the top. Us middle class folks can't sustain this level of lifestyle with your employer constantly taking benefits away, not giving raises that at least match inflation, and yet keep raiding the company coffers for "bonuses".
HAHA! An awesome Freudian slip. I'd imagine the message you'll get is along the lines of "You gonna get raped." After that is where the massage comes in ;)
Since when did We The People start holding the purse strings? Did you sleep through the whole 99% movement?
In Tennessee it is different if you're poor. I was a young single parent who was jobless. I go down to the welfare office to sign up for Tenncare and my son who was 3 at the time was enrolled at once, no questions asked. I, however, was denied Tenncare. I had absolutely zero medical bills at the time. I mention that because the lady told me that if I wanted to get Tenncare, I would need to go out and rack up approximately $16k in medical bills that I couldn't pay and THEN Tenncare would take me. What the hell kind of policy is that? I wanted Tenncare so that if something bad did go down I could manage to scrape by but the State actually advocated for me to go do irresponsible and illogical things. We do take care of our kids though at least. In that regard, there are 2 separate kinds of healthcare.
Speak softly and carry a big stick- Teddy THE ORIGNAL BADASS Roosevelt
Mutually Assured Destruction perhaps?
I really can't help you here. You put that big word in there as a qualifier because you know it would make it practically impossible to prove. Few people here think that our military might isn't used to scare the ever loving hell out of everyone, you just can't go around saying that publicly lest you appear to be the bully that you may very well be.
0-5? Pshhhh! No we aren't. To my knowledge, we haven't technically been in a war since 2 Sept 45 so how could we have lost 5?
And we all know technically correct is the best kind of correct. Stay classy AC's!
Because you just used the excuse "We've always done it this way so it's ok"?
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn?
"may come close" I like it! Gave me a chuckle.
No I don't know the difference. Educate me. Experience tells me that if humans can do it, then we will do it. At least once.
I don't know what's wrong with the humor centers of my brain lately but I can't tell which one of you are joking. I thought Bill was but your comment falls into that category of sounding so insane that many would take it seriously. I'm so confused!
I have 2 reasons to play the race card here. 1) It was a one-liner AC comment. They are almost always racist, insulting, or just downright vile. I've got precedence on my side. Should the AC like to refute that claim, I'll listen. 2) We were talking about Africa and immediately we got someone who pops up and just wants us to let them die. I'm from the South. I know racism. It's like a nasty fart on the porch in August. It's always there lingering but no one will take responsibility for it. My personal experience says when people start talking like the AC did, it's inevitable that it devolves into the obvious racism you envision but didn't see. It's kind of like a Godwin rule. And finally 3) It was an AC trollin. Can't I troll back?
So to sum it up we have 2 weapons we use in the fight against Trolls: Precedence, Inference, and an almost fanatical use of Hyperbole. No wait. Amongst our weaponry are such elements as Precedence, Inference,...I'll come back in
:D
Sounds like the plot for a new reality TV show: Rascals of Redmond TONIGHT on A&E!
I don't search much and it's been awhile since I fired up XP. Could you elaborate on what you mean regarding the "non-retarded" search function? As I recall it had a pop out side bar with Clippy reincarnated as a dog. It asked you dumb things and had the options in the list that were useless so you always had to click the Advanced Search link. I can't even remember what W2K looks like anymore so I've no idea what its search did.
This is blaringly obviously NOT EFFECTIVE. Those people are so poor that fucking is about the only thing they can do. It is free and because they have little education, they evidently can't figure out that is what gets you pregnant until it's too late. I'm middle aged, so my history on the plight of Africa doesn't go back very far, but I recall the plight of Africa gaining mainstream attention probably around the mid 80s with that whole Sally Struthers campaign. Since that time a lot of charity and aid has been sent and I think overall analysis concludes that their situation has been getting better- at least Jimmy Carter thinks so. Well what did we do before we starting sending all this aid? I'm guessing we used your proposed method which was ignore them, let them fend for themselves, and if they die, they die. Firstly that proposal is morally reprehensible to me. I don't just let people die if I can help them. But morals aside, just ignoring the situation made the problem worse. With nothing better to do they just keep pumping kids out regardless of if they can feed them or not. It has been shown historically time and time again when a nation becomes wealthy, birthrates plummet and mortality increases. Being a callous bastard as you propose would get us nowhere. The person you replied to had a better solution though I can't tell if they were joking or not (my sarcasm meter is on the fritz).
THIS is a much better solution! If the desired outcome is to reduce the number of children who will die of starvation or disease, and because of political reasons just throwing food and vaccines at them isn't working, then the next best approach is preventing the pregnancies in the first place. A condom is a fine way to do this. Throw a good helping of Nature's best medicine -education- on top of that and progress will be made. It actually can be a win-win for all concerned. We stop the suffering of others (especially the children!), we reduce or eliminate the problem of having kids one cannot support, overall health and quality of life will go up, and to appease you racist fuckers there will be fewer brown people around since instead of having 20 kids they only have 2 or 3. You can have a heart full of hate or a heart full of love and nothing I wrote above sounds bad. It's good for everyone.
I will also point out that the solution to your problem, the hateful racism eating away at your being, is also EXACTLY the same! Contraceptives and education. We reduce the chances for you to spread your malformed genes and with education, you can stop fearing the unknown and passing that message onto the kids you do have. A WIN-WIN AGAIN!
Hey! I am claiming prior art again! Someone modded me redundant and I'll have you know I specifically read every single post available (it was under 50 replies) when I posted that. MY post was the frosty piss of iocane powder jokes! I'm not the redundant one :P
He's future proofing obviously. The OCR software will be ready and waiting when Google Glass goes live! BWAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA! *ahem* excuse me :D
I wasn't sure you were serious because that response is pretty much directly opposite of everything you usually post. When did you stop being a super conservative libertarian? When did you start questioning the word of The Paul? When did you start thinking the TSA & NSA were useful? And most importantly, when did you start accepting that terrorism was a valid excuse for depriving us of our rights?
Oh man! I got trolled hardcore and fell for it. Bravo. *golfclap*
Not sure if serious........
I claim prior art! I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder.
A flat place does not exist in the ATL. As a matter of fact, right at the outside edge of the downtown area (everything inside the I285 loop), they have their own mini-Mt Rushmore.
Hey I'm just glad we dodged that whole Mayan Universe-destroying Calendar thing. That one had me on the edge of my seat for a whole year!
Dude, if they haven't dismantled the TSA, which visibly annoys people day in and day out, by now what even gave you a glimmer of hope it would happen this time? There have been so many opportunities to break up the TSA, repeal the Patriot Act, and all of the other nonsense that's been going but it seems the only person who gave a shit all of these years was Ron Paul. You see how well that went over. The only way you'll see the NSA or TSA dismantled will be when it becomes profitable for those who pay Congress' bills.