"Looking at the map, I went to see if my neighborhood was there. There are not even streets on the images. Just a big brown field. The streets were put in about 4 years ago!"
You made the wrong selection in the year dropdown. That brown field is how your neighborhood will look in 2007.
I submitted a news story about Natalie Portman inventing a platoon of robot workers that looked like giant ants to cook her breakfast, but for some reason no-one was interested.
"Brits are ugly, and you guys finally realized it."
Cut to scene of Austin Powers, mouth wide, in a full glorious grin of ruinous teeth, ogling Heath Graham: Fancy a toooothing, baby?. When it died in Europe, it first died in England.
"The problem is that conservatives and science usually don't mix, so you won't be seeing anything like this from their side"
According to what you said, you must be a conservative, obviously. No one who knows anything about science and technology would think that it would take a scientist to market a simple TV channel filter. I bet you think that auto factory line workers and lipstick saleswomen are all scientists too!
"IF you're watching fox, its sticking your hands in your ears and going NYAAAAA when someone says something that isnt true"
Quark? Is that you? No one else I know who can put their hands in their own ears. I guess you get pretty sore when Neil Cavuto talks down your investment companies, don't you?
"I'm actually conditionally in favor of no minimum wage. That condition is that there are safety nets and support structures to provide a minimum quality of life for people working those jobs [....etc....etc....etc]"
As am I. Imagine that, one of these political discussions that actually winds down.
Where oh where is the conservative answer to this? The "RatherNot (tm)" CBS news blocker. The "Clean the Air America" radio filter. The "Ted Turnoff" CNN filter. And last but not least, the "Moving Out" web filter that blocks moveon.org.
You thought I was serious? I personally find the whole Foxblocking notion to be hilarious: it is like sticking your fingers in your ears and going NYAAAA when someone says something you do not like. It is just as mature. Only this time, you are paying for them saying it (an apt comparison: those who block Fox are paying for getting Fox already).
"Yes back on the topic, why is setting a maximum wage more ridiculous than setting a minimum wage?"
I must have neglected to place my opposition to that as well in another message.
I just saw some horrible statistic on unemployed urban youth. 60%? Higher? Too bad the minimum wage law got rid of so many starter jobs they could have been working at. That is what it does: wipes out low end jobs. So much for the teenage pump jockey. The federal government said "you can't work and earn here! no job for you!"
The minimum wage is so hard to defend when so many times it results in "you will now earn $0 instead of $9800 a year for doing this."
I do agree that one makes as much sense as the other. However, I think both make 0 sense.
With Murdoch taking over all of Tivo, we'll need a sort of different kind of Foxblocker for this. I suggest gluing a couple of cable TV jacks to either end of a wooden spool, and inserting this in your incoming co-ax cable.
"nope because the second they find out you read slashdot, they will know you are a 42 year-old virgin living in your mom's basement and you'll be inundated with Star Trek and nachos ads"
Thanks. You're a real pal. Now I know why every single page I visit contains either a flash ad with William Shatner waving Doritos, or from a company with a service that stops basement floods.
"So Western Europe is communist?...They're socialist and it's a big difference."
There is not a big difference. See again the second "S" in "U.S.S.R." However, in common usage, the term "communist" is used for the most extreme grade of socialism. Oh? Western Europe is not very socialist. Most of the economy is still controlled by the people instead of the rulers, so it is not even "half way" socialist. Despite the right-wing rhetoric in the US about "commies" running Western Europe, Western Europe is really not much different from the United States in safety nets and similar matters.
We won't even go into old pre-1989 Eastern Europe, which was much more socialist, but the safety nets were woven of barbed wire.
"But they've allowed chicken farmers to have stable prices and stay in business instead of being bought out by Tyson."
Whatever you call it, it is hard to call it socialism, since socialism exchews even small business ownership for control by the rulers instead. Michael Moore, a famous American advocate of moving toward more socialism, is on record ranting about how evil small business is and how it must be crushed.
"I'm going to make a leap here and guess you're one of those "personal liberty is paramount" kinda folks"
Sort of. I think the default should be "leave it to the people", while acknowledging that there are some things that end up best left to government elites. However, when you get right down to it, strong socialism is "personal liberty is paramount" only if the person is one of the ruling elites.
"No I agree with Madison that government exists to serve the voters it governs."
No, I agree that government exists to serve the voters it governs. Not to intervene in personal and private affairs that it has no business getting involved in.
' because the individual is more important than the group? '
The group's power must be a legitimate expression of the individuals involved in it, and there must be limits on that group's power to bully the person. Otherwise, you get fascism, where "The Group" (tm) matters most. Who should run a person's life? That person, or the government?
Back on the topic, it is ridiculous micro-management for government to set different wage scales within a private company. Let things go for their real value.
I love targetted advertising, especially if it is aimed in the opposite direction from me.
I wish I all advertising was "targetted" so I could promptly register myself as a 113 year old hermaphrodite with no money. Ethnic group? Hittite. Hobbies? Collecting dried cicadas. If you can ever find a dried cicada commercial site, feel free to place an ad link to it on any page I visit. Convicted felon, too, with no voting rights (to avoid political spam as well). Then I could sit back and watch all the spam and popups roll in: all 0 of them.
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I saw that too, and figured that Frank Gehry had some major new projects I had not heard about yet.
We'll map your country, but then we'll have to bomb you.
You made the wrong selection in the year dropdown. That brown field is how your neighborhood will look in 2007.
I submitted a news story about Natalie Portman inventing a platoon of robot workers that looked like giant ants to cook her breakfast, but for some reason no-one was interested.
"In Korea, only old people build robots."
North Korea built a humanoid automaton last year. Seen here, it is somewhat more lifelike than the South Korean effort.
But is it tall enough to meet Korea's pressing need for a mecha to finally stop those frequent Yongary attacks?
Hello, Newman.... You're just waiting for Kramer to come down from sunbathing on the roof, aren't you?
Wasn't that the movie with Jennifer Beals?
Cut to scene of Austin Powers, mouth wide, in a full glorious grin of ruinous teeth, ogling Heath Graham: Fancy a toooothing, baby?. When it died in Europe, it first died in England.
Toothing quickly fell out of favor because too many took the term literally, resulting in incisor wounds to sensitive genital-area skin. ouch!.
According to what you said, you must be a conservative, obviously. No one who knows anything about science and technology would think that it would take a scientist to market a simple TV channel filter. I bet you think that auto factory line workers and lipstick saleswomen are all scientists too!
The other poster was also intelligent enough not to flame about sentence structure while misspelling "sentence."
Quark? Is that you? No one else I know who can put their hands in their own ears. I guess you get pretty sore when Neil Cavuto talks down your investment companies, don't you?
As am I. Imagine that, one of these political discussions that actually winds down.
I love the smell of self-immolating grammar nazis in the morning.
Where oh where is the conservative answer to this? The "RatherNot (tm)" CBS news blocker. The "Clean the Air America" radio filter. The "Ted Turnoff" CNN filter. And last but not least, the "Moving Out" web filter that blocks moveon.org.
You thought I was serious? I personally find the whole Foxblocking notion to be hilarious: it is like sticking your fingers in your ears and going NYAAAA when someone says something you do not like. It is just as mature. Only this time, you are paying for them saying it (an apt comparison: those who block Fox are paying for getting Fox already).
I must have neglected to place my opposition to that as well in another message.
I just saw some horrible statistic on unemployed urban youth. 60%? Higher? Too bad the minimum wage law got rid of so many starter jobs they could have been working at. That is what it does: wipes out low end jobs. So much for the teenage pump jockey. The federal government said "you can't work and earn here! no job for you!"
The minimum wage is so hard to defend when so many times it results in "you will now earn $0 instead of $9800 a year for doing this."
I do agree that one makes as much sense as the other. However, I think both make 0 sense.
With Murdoch taking over all of Tivo, we'll need a sort of different kind of Foxblocker for this. I suggest gluing a couple of cable TV jacks to either end of a wooden spool, and inserting this in your incoming co-ax cable.
Thanks. You're a real pal. Now I know why every single page I visit contains either a flash ad with William Shatner waving Doritos, or from a company with a service that stops basement floods.
There is not a big difference. See again the second "S" in "U.S.S.R." However, in common usage, the term "communist" is used for the most extreme grade of socialism. Oh? Western Europe is not very socialist. Most of the economy is still controlled by the people instead of the rulers, so it is not even "half way" socialist. Despite the right-wing rhetoric in the US about "commies" running Western Europe, Western Europe is really not much different from the United States in safety nets and similar matters. We won't even go into old pre-1989 Eastern Europe, which was much more socialist, but the safety nets were woven of barbed wire.
"But they've allowed chicken farmers to have stable prices and stay in business instead of being bought out by Tyson." Whatever you call it, it is hard to call it socialism, since socialism exchews even small business ownership for control by the rulers instead. Michael Moore, a famous American advocate of moving toward more socialism, is on record ranting about how evil small business is and how it must be crushed.
"I'm going to make a leap here and guess you're one of those "personal liberty is paramount" kinda folks"
Sort of. I think the default should be "leave it to the people", while acknowledging that there are some things that end up best left to government elites. However, when you get right down to it, strong socialism is "personal liberty is paramount" only if the person is one of the ruling elites.
"No I agree with Madison that government exists to serve the voters it governs."
No, I agree that government exists to serve the voters it governs. Not to intervene in personal and private affairs that it has no business getting involved in.
' because the individual is more important than the group? '
The group's power must be a legitimate expression of the individuals involved in it, and there must be limits on that group's power to bully the person. Otherwise, you get fascism, where "The Group" (tm) matters most. Who should run a person's life? That person, or the government?
Back on the topic, it is ridiculous micro-management for government to set different wage scales within a private company. Let things go for their real value.
I wish I all advertising was "targetted" so I could promptly register myself as a 113 year old hermaphrodite with no money. Ethnic group? Hittite. Hobbies? Collecting dried cicadas. If you can ever find a dried cicada commercial site, feel free to place an ad link to it on any page I visit. Convicted felon, too, with no voting rights (to avoid political spam as well). Then I could sit back and watch all the spam and popups roll in: all 0 of them.
Am I giving in to "Godwin's Law" if I do as much as accurately quote the parent?
It totally ignores the browser setting that says "don't play sounds".
Since I do not read that Load Star Runner or whatever it is called comic strip, I have little use for flash animations.