Reality doesn't have a liberal bias. Puh-leez! However when all the media you consume has a liberal bias and you condemn anything that doesn't agree with your worldview, you begin to get that idea. It's called "the bubble", and you're in it.
It's because waiting for the elevator takes *forever* and really disrupts you. It also feels like a waste waiting on an elevator for minutes at a time just to go up one floor.
Take the stairs, you say? Sorry, those are one-way doors. After you enter the stairwell, the door locks behind you. You can't entery any other floor. The only way out is on the first floor where an alarm will ring.
Nope. That doesn't wash. Obama and his cronies were all graduates of Columbia University in the 1980s. I leave it to you to ask what 80s Columbia graduates think should be done with the American people, or the U.S. government. Yeah, "enrich yourself" isn't on the top of the list. Mostly because those 1%-er fuckwits are already rich, including Obama.
The Nobel committee doesn't care. Hell, they thoroughly enjoy giving the middle finger to the rest of us. You didn't figure that out when Kissinger got the Prize in 1973? You surely should have gotten the message with FUCKING YASSER ARAFAT got the Prize in 1994. WTF?
The company store was outlawed by the federal judiciary more than a half century ago. I'm curious where you were educated that failed to mention this fact.
MOST people in the US have welfare backing them up. Just go apply and you get free money, housing, and healthcare, courtesy of the people who actually make money. Why would any sucker actually work, under these circumstances? You'd have to be an idiot.
Let's break this down. How the fuck, in 2013, are you comfortable using a word like "doorman" instead of "doorperson" or better a non-sexist word? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKWITS?
But Capitalism has been proven to lift millions of people out of poverty. I question what school you went to that didn't teach this plain fact.
Communism fell because it took people who were poor and made them even poorer. Quite an accomplishment, if you look at the historical circumstances. Go ahead, try to figure out a way to take a peasant whose entire worldly assets are a goat, a cow, and a couple of chickens even worse off. No, seriously. Communism figured out that problem and applied it to hundreds of millions of humans just like you.
Ah, but you were told that by the administration. And you knew it was wrong, and you reflexively opposed it. You didn't need to know what was said, it was enough to oppose what evil did.
Contrast this to 2013, when the administration tells you to shut up, and you obey. That's the difference between the two. How many of you have took to the streets about Fast and Furious, or Benghazi, or Syria, or anything that opposes your man in power?
On an intellectual level, I know that the Nobel science prizes have no relationship to the Nobel Peace Prize.
But on an emotional level, fuck the Nobels on general principles. They awarded a man a prize for no accomplishments. Anything labeled "Nobel Prize" has about as much meaning as an Emmy or an Oscar (both are insider 1%ers giving tribute to other insider 1%ers). To be quite frank, I have more respect for the Ignobel Awards or the Confucius Peace Prize.
Sorry, but that's how it is, and that's how it has to be. And don't say the Nobel committee didn't know this when it awarded the Prize to an undeserving recipient. They knew exactly what they were doing and took great delight in giving the middle finger to the rest of us.
Well, on one hand New York City really needs the money. On the other hand, these AirBNB rent-seekers are already well-off (because they [a] live in New York City and [b] could afford SO much extra space that they actually have ROOMS TO RENT) don't need any extra money. These disruptive technologies need to be shut down before they impact the bottom line.
The City of New York likes to wet its beak in everything. No matter what your racket is, as long as it's in cousin Vinny's turf then you gotta pay the man. Or else this - just like in the article - cousin Vinny makes a few connections to find out where you live. Then, you get a threat and either you pay or the enforcers show up at your door to beat some sense into you, Brooklyn-style. I (heart) NY. Why would anyone live anywhere else?
Isn't it odd how, until 2009, it was considered every citizen's sacred duty to disobey the law and trash the government? If the government did something good, it was every citizen's duty to set it on fire, just on general principles. Then suddenly it changed overnight, and anyone opposing the government was a scary weirdo. People are sternly advised to follow the law in all circumstances, and lawbreakers are our worst enemies.
I used to think the "we have always been at war with Eastasia, we have always been allied with Oceania" was the least believable, most contrived part of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four. That is, until 2009 when I experienced the flip-flop in real life.
I think you're confusing cause and effect there. It's not because these people got arrested that they have poor work prospects. It's more like that sort of behavior got them in trouble with the law in the first place.
You want to start a business and hire people with criminal records? Good luck with that one. My Dad hires people out of the halfway house because he's a cheapskate and about half of them are okay. The other half are total fuckups who stop showing up if he's lucky. If he's not lucky they steal from him, come into work drunk or on drugs, or assault the other workers.
But people from the East Coast are urbane, educated, and sophisticated. Surely during their lives they have encountered this phenomenon, it is very common. Such raw ignorance can only be explained by a narrowness of outlook and a poverty of experience.
"The Surprising Reason" houses don't have underground facilities? Maybe surprising to the provincial readers of The Atlantic, but obvious plain logic to everyone else. You'd think educated people would be aware of basic facts like clay soils and what they mean, but evidently that's no longer true. Saying things like "why didn't they just go to the basement, stupid Oklahomans" is like saying "idiotic famine victims, why didn't they just buy some food from the store?" Surprise, my ass.
False, false, false, wrong, wrong, wrong. I have been doing business in Asia for ten years now and have never paid a single bribe. You're a damn fool if you do because whoever you bribe will always either retire or go to jail, leaving you high and dry. The following quote is informative:
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
And then about ten minutes after that, vote for an increase in the free money. And then another increase, because after all we are in the majority now. Then democracy collapses once the masses have learned they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. Great plan you have there.
LOL. What is this, 1955? Labor unions don't exist to help workers. Labor unions exist to help labor union bosses and funnel money to one particular political party. That's it.
Maybe once upon a time, a long time ago, labor unions had a point. Not any more. They are corrupt cannot even keep their own members from deserting. Why are their members deserting? Because labor bosses don't give a shit about their members. Moreover unions are racist.
Is this some sort of performance art pretending to decry the government while simultaneously ignoring the fact that actual enforcement of existing laws would have solved the problem ages ago?
Did people who moan about Intellivision online actually play Intellivision? I get the idea it's something they read somewhere and then repeat endlessly. The controllers worked well with most of Intellivision's game library. The alternative was a joystick with a single button, which was fine for arcade games but sucked for anything with weight.
Uh, are we mis-remembering history? There were no "internment camps" during the McCarthy era.
Want some more unwanted knowledge? Turns out, the State Department really was full of Communist sympathizers. McCarthy was right. Historical fact, look it up.
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Reality doesn't have a liberal bias. Puh-leez! However when all the media you consume has a liberal bias and you condemn anything that doesn't agree with your worldview, you begin to get that idea. It's called "the bubble", and you're in it.
It's because waiting for the elevator takes *forever* and really disrupts you. It also feels like a waste waiting on an elevator for minutes at a time just to go up one floor.
Take the stairs, you say? Sorry, those are one-way doors. After you enter the stairwell, the door locks behind you. You can't entery any other floor. The only way out is on the first floor where an alarm will ring.
"Let's not go with the solution that works...let's try the one that failed repeatedly!" "OK!" You see how dumb that sounds?
Nope. That doesn't wash. Obama and his cronies were all graduates of Columbia University in the 1980s. I leave it to you to ask what 80s Columbia graduates think should be done with the American people, or the U.S. government. Yeah, "enrich yourself" isn't on the top of the list. Mostly because those 1%-er fuckwits are already rich, including Obama.
The Nobel committee doesn't care. Hell, they thoroughly enjoy giving the middle finger to the rest of us. You didn't figure that out when Kissinger got the Prize in 1973? You surely should have gotten the message with FUCKING YASSER ARAFAT got the Prize in 1994. WTF?
The company store was outlawed by the federal judiciary more than a half century ago. I'm curious where you were educated that failed to mention this fact.
MOST people in the US have welfare backing them up. Just go apply and you get free money, housing, and healthcare, courtesy of the people who actually make money. Why would any sucker actually work, under these circumstances? You'd have to be an idiot.
Excuse me, I'm not from New York City.
What's a "doorman"?
Let's break this down. How the fuck, in 2013, are you comfortable using a word like "doorman" instead of "doorperson" or better a non-sexist word? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKWITS?
But Capitalism has been proven to lift millions of people out of poverty. I question what school you went to that didn't teach this plain fact.
Communism fell because it took people who were poor and made them even poorer. Quite an accomplishment, if you look at the historical circumstances. Go ahead, try to figure out a way to take a peasant whose entire worldly assets are a goat, a cow, and a couple of chickens even worse off. No, seriously. Communism figured out that problem and applied it to hundreds of millions of humans just like you.
Ah, but you were told that by the administration. And you knew it was wrong, and you reflexively opposed it. You didn't need to know what was said, it was enough to oppose what evil did.
Contrast this to 2013, when the administration tells you to shut up, and you obey. That's the difference between the two. How many of you have took to the streets about Fast and Furious, or Benghazi, or Syria, or anything that opposes your man in power?
On an intellectual level, I know that the Nobel science prizes have no relationship to the Nobel Peace Prize.
But on an emotional level, fuck the Nobels on general principles. They awarded a man a prize for no accomplishments. Anything labeled "Nobel Prize" has about as much meaning as an Emmy or an Oscar (both are insider 1%ers giving tribute to other insider 1%ers). To be quite frank, I have more respect for the Ignobel Awards or the Confucius Peace Prize.
Sorry, but that's how it is, and that's how it has to be. And don't say the Nobel committee didn't know this when it awarded the Prize to an undeserving recipient. They knew exactly what they were doing and took great delight in giving the middle finger to the rest of us.
Well, on one hand New York City really needs the money. On the other hand, these AirBNB rent-seekers are already well-off (because they [a] live in New York City and [b] could afford SO much extra space that they actually have ROOMS TO RENT) don't need any extra money. These disruptive technologies need to be shut down before they impact the bottom line.
The City of New York likes to wet its beak in everything. No matter what your racket is, as long as it's in cousin Vinny's turf then you gotta pay the man. Or else this - just like in the article - cousin Vinny makes a few connections to find out where you live. Then, you get a threat and either you pay or the enforcers show up at your door to beat some sense into you, Brooklyn-style. I (heart) NY. Why would anyone live anywhere else?
Isn't it odd how, until 2009, it was considered every citizen's sacred duty to disobey the law and trash the government? If the government did something good, it was every citizen's duty to set it on fire, just on general principles. Then suddenly it changed overnight, and anyone opposing the government was a scary weirdo. People are sternly advised to follow the law in all circumstances, and lawbreakers are our worst enemies.
I used to think the "we have always been at war with Eastasia, we have always been allied with Oceania" was the least believable, most contrived part of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four. That is, until 2009 when I experienced the flip-flop in real life.
I think you're confusing cause and effect there. It's not because these people got arrested that they have poor work prospects. It's more like that sort of behavior got them in trouble with the law in the first place.
You want to start a business and hire people with criminal records? Good luck with that one. My Dad hires people out of the halfway house because he's a cheapskate and about half of them are okay. The other half are total fuckups who stop showing up if he's lucky. If he's not lucky they steal from him, come into work drunk or on drugs, or assault the other workers.
But people from the East Coast are urbane, educated, and sophisticated. Surely during their lives they have encountered this phenomenon, it is very common. Such raw ignorance can only be explained by a narrowness of outlook and a poverty of experience.
"The Surprising Reason" houses don't have underground facilities? Maybe surprising to the provincial readers of The Atlantic, but obvious plain logic to everyone else. You'd think educated people would be aware of basic facts like clay soils and what they mean, but evidently that's no longer true. Saying things like "why didn't they just go to the basement, stupid Oklahomans" is like saying "idiotic famine victims, why didn't they just buy some food from the store?" Surprise, my ass.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I learned that minorities deserve special rights to protect them from the majority. When did this change?
False, false, false, wrong, wrong, wrong. I have been doing business in Asia for ten years now and have never paid a single bribe. You're a damn fool if you do because whoever you bribe will always either retire or go to jail, leaving you high and dry. The following quote is informative:
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
Well, seeing that the U.S. media is totally in the bag for Obama, it's not too much of a surprise.
Seymour Hersh himself - a man who would know and who spent his entire life rooting out government crimes - just said in The Guardian: "There are some people - the New York Times still has investigative journalists but they do much more of carrying water for the president than I ever thought they would ... it's like you don't dare be an outsider any more."
Show us the way. Oh, you won't be doing that? My, my.
And then about ten minutes after that, vote for an increase in the free money. And then another increase, because after all we are in the majority now. Then democracy collapses once the masses have learned they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. Great plan you have there.
LOL. What is this, 1955? Labor unions don't exist to help workers. Labor unions exist to help labor union bosses and funnel money to one particular political party. That's it.
Maybe once upon a time, a long time ago, labor unions had a point. Not any more. They are corrupt cannot even keep their own members from deserting. Why are their members deserting? Because labor bosses don't give a shit about their members. Moreover unions are racist.
The cure you propose is worse than the disease.
Is this some sort of performance art pretending to decry the government while simultaneously ignoring the fact that actual enforcement of existing laws would have solved the problem ages ago?
Did people who moan about Intellivision online actually play Intellivision? I get the idea it's something they read somewhere and then repeat endlessly. The controllers worked well with most of Intellivision's game library. The alternative was a joystick with a single button, which was fine for arcade games but sucked for anything with weight.
Oh, puh-LEEZ! On Slashdot, no less! The Internet and the World Wide Web are NOT the same thing! That's just embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for you.
Uh, are we mis-remembering history? There were no "internment camps" during the McCarthy era.
Want some more unwanted knowledge? Turns out, the State Department really was full of Communist sympathizers. McCarthy was right. Historical fact, look it up.