If it gets hotter, it's Global Warming. If it gets colder, it's Climate Change. If it's the same - well, where is weather the same all the time? Nowhere. What we have here is the best of all worlds - to quote the Arab sheik arms dealer in Chevy Chase's 1983 comedy 'Deal of the Century' - "Whoever wins, we win. Whoever loses...we win." Ain't it sweet being on the right side of every argument?
You should have gone on welfare instead. You make more money, and don't have to work. It's nobody's fault but your own you have some sort of bizarre self-sacrificing gene that requires you to do stupid things and complain about it afterwards. There is no glory in work, you're just a tool of the capitalist bankers. Sit back and relax, enjoy wealth redistribution instead.
From a societal standpoint, it's not good to have elderly around, draining resources and hogging housing. In the UK recently, the elderly are "selfishly" (not my words, the government's) continuing to occupy family homes judged to be too large for them. There has been a drive to confiscate old people's houses as they have too many bedrooms, and multiple families could be housed in the same place. It's only the old people's selfishness that makes them want to live in such extravagant surroundings. The government pays fair market price for the dwelling, evicts the occupant into more suitably sized housing, and society benefits. The elderly consume fantastically large amounts of healthcare to allow them to live to such an advanced age. The best thing for society as a whole is for people to pass on just after they cease contributing taxes to the system. That way, much money is saved on pensions, social welfare, hospital care, and so on. In fact, in many cases, euthanasia is a preferable solution to old age, as is done routinely in The Netherlands.
Given all this, why is increasing longevity a good thing? How does it help society? Taxes cannot be paid by people who don't work.
Before you click that "-1 Troll" button, think about it for a moment. Attempt to formulate a thinking response. This isn't a troll, this is how many rational, educated people in government think about the elderly problem. Let's have some real discussion instead of burying real-world opinions with which we disagree.
Ah, the No True Scotsman theory to the rescue again. Where would socialists be without it?
What does USSR mean? DPRK? What would be the reaction of socialists from a socialist state if you called them not true socialists? Hint: it involves a windowless cell with a bucket for a toilet. Much violence was ladled on socialists who were the wrong kind of socialist. Orders from Moscow Centre, comrade...
"The City" implies that everyone who's anyone should know which city it is. Using the definite article "the" implies that there is only one city...only one that matters, anyway. It's localist and does indeed smell of condescension. "What, you don't know! Surely you are a hick from the sticks."
Also growing in popularity is "answer this marketing survey before you get more than one paragraph of the content". It's only one question now, but as it grows in popularity there will be more questions. Ultimately you'll have to fill out an entire multi-page survey before being allowed to access content. This will be linked to your real name and Facebook account, of course.
Why would anyone reject socialism? It's not like 100 million people died in the 20th century due to it or anything. Heck, look at all the successful socialist countries! It reads like a who's who of greatness: Soviet Union, Cambodia, North Korea, Albania, the list goes on. What could be wrong with a country that imprisons people for making profit, or disagreeing with the proletariat?
The facts. By now, most people interested in the case are
familiar with the basic facts: On March 1, 1990, the Secret
Service, in an early-morning raid, searched the offices of Steve
Jackson Games. The agents kept the employees out of the offices
until the afternoon, and took the company's BBS -- called
"Illuminati" -- along with an employee's work computer, other
computer equipment, and hundreds and hundreds of floppy disks.
They took all the recent versions of a soon-to-be-published game
book, "GURPS Cyberpunk," including big parts of the draft which
were publicly available on Illuminati.
On March 2, Steve Jackson tried to get copies of the seized
files back from the Secret Service. He was treated badly, and
given only a handful of files from one office computer. He was not
allowed to touch the Illuminati computer, or copy any of its files.
Steve Jackson Games took a nosedive, and barely avoided going
out of business. According to Jackson, eight employees lost their
jobs on account of the Secret Service raid, and the company lost
many thousands of dollars in sales.
Are you kidding? The Simpsons mocked this using their squarest character precisely because it is so incredibly lame.
Principal Skinner: Oh, licking envelopes can be fun! All you have to do is make a game
of it.
Bart: What kind of game?
Principal Skinner: Well, for example, you could see how many you could lick in an hour,
then try to break that record.
Bart: Sounds like a pretty crappy game to me.
I suppose most kids today have never watched the first few seasons of The Simpsons and hence are unaware of this. A pity.
Funny story - I was in Austin at HoHoCon (I forget) somewhere around '93-'95. This was when the Radio Shack PRO-43 scanner could easily be modified to listen in on 800MHz cell phone transmissions . Well, there were a couple of guys from Motorola security there dressed up with earpieces, looking like SS agents. Later, in the rooms, we were listening to my PRO-43 on an external speaker, drifting from conversation to conversation. Side note: I really miss listening in - it was fascinating, boring, and disturbing to see what people really said. Anyway, we lucked out and got one of the Motorola guys' conversations, talking to someone back at base. He said he had seen us around with our little scanners, and didn't trust this transmission. "Hell, they're probably listening in right now," he said. We all busted out laughing..."Yeah...we are!" Good times.
No, there were plenty of British who wanted peace instead of a war with no end in sight. There had been a fight on the Continent, the British lost, it was all fair and square. Had the British not been led by one of history's greatest warmongers, Winston Churchill, peace would have broken out all over Europe in 1940. Plus, the bankers made a tidy profit from the war - the same bankers that OWS demonstrates against today. Nice failure to understand history beyond the "accepted narrative" of WWII though.
If the Kyoto Treaty had been ratified by the U.S. Senate, the American economy would have been devastated to an extent to make the crash of 2008 look like a mild recession.
A nation of braless women sounds nice, but the reality is that without the brassiere, women's boobs would sag and the nipples would point at the ground by the age of 21. Ever seen those National Geographic photos of African tribesladies wearing their topless tribal costumes? Yeah, like that. The bra is a wonderful invention - if you like perky boobies.
You don't have to write =Smidge= at the end of your posts. That's what your signature file is for. Put it there, and it need not clutter the discussion with noise. We can already see your username. Thanks!
Nope! Not so. Start looking around. You'll see it's true. Start watching MSNBC on a regular basis. And seriously, have some original ideas instead of parroting.
I was referring to the standard media practice of never identifying D political affiliation and always identifying R political affiliation. I suppose you missed that. It's not expected that anyone would know this except you...you obviously know a lot about the man whereas the average person does not.
Isn't it Slashdot dogma to spit on stupid people and wish for them to destroy themselves with their stupidity? What about the hatred of jocks? (Cue Jon Katz' Hellmouth series)
"I am a geek, and very proud of it. I have been beaten, spit on, pushed, jeered at. Food is sometimes thrown at and on me while teachers pretend not to see, people trip me. Jocks knock me down in the hallway. They steal my notes, call me a geek and a fag and a freak, tear up my books, have pissed in my locker twice. They cut my shirt and ripped it. They wait for me in the boy's room and beat me up. I have to wait an hour to leave school to make sure they're gone. Mostly, I honestly think, this is because I'm smarter than they are, and they hate that."
"The really amazing thing is, they are the most popular people in school, while everybody thinks I'm a freak. The teachers slobber all over them. Mostly, the other kids laugh, or walk away and pretend not to see it. The whole school cheers when they play sports. Sometimes, I want very much to kill them. Sometimes, I picture how I'd do it. Wouldn't you?
Why should we be sad that jocks are getting their comeuppance? Hoist by their own petard, even? No revenge is necessary, just let them hang by their own hook. Sweet justice for geeks! Who sees a problem with this? How EXACTLY is this a "step in the wrong direction" per the title of your post? Stupid people getting what they deserve!
Just ignore it. It's a national sport of liberals to invent the most odious strawmen and tell conservatives, "This is what you think!" Seriously, once you become aware of it, you start noticing it everywhere.
Are you AWARE of the low social status of welders? Beer-swilling, wife-beating racists, the lot of them. Have you ever been around welders? You have to realize the disdain that people who work with their hands are held in by intellectuals. It's no joke, and it's not without reason.
There is plenty of welfare and food stamps to go around. Why work a shit job when you can sit at home and make more money, especially when you have a dependent child and can get Section 8 housing? Why would anyone deprive her child like that?
Oh, fuck that noise. Apple makes luxury products, they can afford fancy packaging. Any product that sells on price gets whatever packaging the factory can make that won't damage the product during transit, and whatever is cheap. A lot of times that unfortunately means the clamshell packaging. I work with goddamn Chinese factories, I know this. Apparently you don't. "Out of the box experience" what the fuck?!? You exist at such a high, luxury level of consumerism that you have no idea why anyone would do anything differently, eh? When you have fucking 50%+ margins like Apple does, you can do things like make the packaging nice-nice.
People care about the product. If you're so far gone that you fetishize the packaging...well dude you're way out there. Honestly, I envy you and wish that I had more money than brains. Unfortunately, I'm on the short side of that ratio.
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If it gets hotter, it's Global Warming. If it gets colder, it's Climate Change. If it's the same - well, where is weather the same all the time? Nowhere. What we have here is the best of all worlds - to quote the Arab sheik arms dealer in Chevy Chase's 1983 comedy 'Deal of the Century' - "Whoever wins, we win. Whoever loses...we win." Ain't it sweet being on the right side of every argument?
You should have gone on welfare instead. You make more money, and don't have to work. It's nobody's fault but your own you have some sort of bizarre self-sacrificing gene that requires you to do stupid things and complain about it afterwards. There is no glory in work, you're just a tool of the capitalist bankers. Sit back and relax, enjoy wealth redistribution instead.
So, the answer is...jingoism and nationalistic dick-waving? And racism, in case of the Swedes?
From a societal standpoint, it's not good to have elderly around, draining resources and hogging housing. In the UK recently, the elderly are "selfishly" (not my words, the government's) continuing to occupy family homes judged to be too large for them. There has been a drive to confiscate old people's houses as they have too many bedrooms, and multiple families could be housed in the same place. It's only the old people's selfishness that makes them want to live in such extravagant surroundings. The government pays fair market price for the dwelling, evicts the occupant into more suitably sized housing, and society benefits. The elderly consume fantastically large amounts of healthcare to allow them to live to such an advanced age. The best thing for society as a whole is for people to pass on just after they cease contributing taxes to the system. That way, much money is saved on pensions, social welfare, hospital care, and so on. In fact, in many cases, euthanasia is a preferable solution to old age, as is done routinely in The Netherlands.
Given all this, why is increasing longevity a good thing? How does it help society? Taxes cannot be paid by people who don't work.
Before you click that "-1 Troll" button, think about it for a moment. Attempt to formulate a thinking response. This isn't a troll, this is how many rational, educated people in government think about the elderly problem. Let's have some real discussion instead of burying real-world opinions with which we disagree.
What does USSR mean? DPRK? What would be the reaction of socialists from a socialist state if you called them not true socialists? Hint: it involves a windowless cell with a bucket for a toilet. Much violence was ladled on socialists who were the wrong kind of socialist. Orders from Moscow Centre, comrade...
"The City" implies that everyone who's anyone should know which city it is. Using the definite article "the" implies that there is only one city...only one that matters, anyway. It's localist and does indeed smell of condescension. "What, you don't know! Surely you are a hick from the sticks."
Reading comprehension problem? I asked why anyone would reject socialism, and got no answer.
Google's unobtrusive text ads are out. Solution: really big ads that get in your face before you can get to the content. These sorts of ads have become much more popular recently and I can only conclude it's because they work.
Also growing in popularity is "answer this marketing survey before you get more than one paragraph of the content". It's only one question now, but as it grows in popularity there will be more questions. Ultimately you'll have to fill out an entire multi-page survey before being allowed to access content. This will be linked to your real name and Facebook account, of course.
Why would anyone reject socialism? It's not like 100 million people died in the 20th century due to it or anything. Heck, look at all the successful socialist countries! It reads like a who's who of greatness: Soviet Union, Cambodia, North Korea, Albania, the list goes on. What could be wrong with a country that imprisons people for making profit, or disagreeing with the proletariat?
SS = secret service. The guys who protect the President and raided Steve Jackson Games' and took down Illuminati BBS. The case was famous among the BBS community in Texas at the time. An excerpt from the above:
The facts. By now, most people interested in the case are familiar with the basic facts: On March 1, 1990, the Secret Service, in an early-morning raid, searched the offices of Steve Jackson Games. The agents kept the employees out of the offices until the afternoon, and took the company's BBS -- called "Illuminati" -- along with an employee's work computer, other computer equipment, and hundreds and hundreds of floppy disks. They took all the recent versions of a soon-to-be-published game book, "GURPS Cyberpunk," including big parts of the draft which were publicly available on Illuminati.
On March 2, Steve Jackson tried to get copies of the seized files back from the Secret Service. He was treated badly, and given only a handful of files from one office computer. He was not allowed to touch the Illuminati computer, or copy any of its files.
Steve Jackson Games took a nosedive, and barely avoided going out of business. According to Jackson, eight employees lost their jobs on account of the Secret Service raid, and the company lost many thousands of dollars in sales.
Are you kidding? The Simpsons mocked this using their squarest character precisely because it is so incredibly lame.
Principal Skinner: Oh, licking envelopes can be fun! All you have to do is make a game of it.
Bart: What kind of game?
Principal Skinner: Well, for example, you could see how many you could lick in an hour, then try to break that record.
Bart: Sounds like a pretty crappy game to me.
I suppose most kids today have never watched the first few seasons of The Simpsons and hence are unaware of this. A pity.
Funny story - I was in Austin at HoHoCon (I forget) somewhere around '93-'95. This was when the Radio Shack PRO-43 scanner could easily be modified to listen in on 800MHz cell phone transmissions . Well, there were a couple of guys from Motorola security there dressed up with earpieces, looking like SS agents. Later, in the rooms, we were listening to my PRO-43 on an external speaker, drifting from conversation to conversation. Side note: I really miss listening in - it was fascinating, boring, and disturbing to see what people really said. Anyway, we lucked out and got one of the Motorola guys' conversations, talking to someone back at base. He said he had seen us around with our little scanners, and didn't trust this transmission. "Hell, they're probably listening in right now," he said. We all busted out laughing..."Yeah...we are!" Good times.
No, there were plenty of British who wanted peace instead of a war with no end in sight. There had been a fight on the Continent, the British lost, it was all fair and square. Had the British not been led by one of history's greatest warmongers, Winston Churchill, peace would have broken out all over Europe in 1940. Plus, the bankers made a tidy profit from the war - the same bankers that OWS demonstrates against today. Nice failure to understand history beyond the "accepted narrative" of WWII though.
If the Kyoto Treaty had been ratified by the U.S. Senate, the American economy would have been devastated to an extent to make the crash of 2008 look like a mild recession.
A nation of braless women sounds nice, but the reality is that without the brassiere, women's boobs would sag and the nipples would point at the ground by the age of 21. Ever seen those National Geographic photos of African tribesladies wearing their topless tribal costumes? Yeah, like that. The bra is a wonderful invention - if you like perky boobies.
You don't have to write =Smidge= at the end of your posts. That's what your signature file is for. Put it there, and it need not clutter the discussion with noise. We can already see your username. Thanks!
It's socially acceptable to hate rednecks, conservatives, and people who work with their hands for a living. Didn't you get the memo?
Nope! Not so. Start looking around. You'll see it's true. Start watching MSNBC on a regular basis. And seriously, have some original ideas instead of parroting.
Whoever got the idea that you should suck snake POISON out of a wound and then SWALLOW IT? What the hell? Whores don't even swallow.
I was referring to the standard media practice of never identifying D political affiliation and always identifying R political affiliation. I suppose you missed that. It's not expected that anyone would know this except you...you obviously know a lot about the man whereas the average person does not.
Isn't it Slashdot dogma to spit on stupid people and wish for them to destroy themselves with their stupidity? What about the hatred of jocks? (Cue Jon Katz' Hellmouth series)
"I am a geek, and very proud of it. I have been beaten, spit on, pushed, jeered at. Food is sometimes thrown at and on me while teachers pretend not to see, people trip me. Jocks knock me down in the hallway. They steal my notes, call me a geek and a fag and a freak, tear up my books, have pissed in my locker twice. They cut my shirt and ripped it. They wait for me in the boy's room and beat me up. I have to wait an hour to leave school to make sure they're gone. Mostly, I honestly think, this is because I'm smarter than they are, and they hate that."
"The really amazing thing is, they are the most popular people in school, while everybody thinks I'm a freak. The teachers slobber all over them. Mostly, the other kids laugh, or walk away and pretend not to see it. The whole school cheers when they play sports. Sometimes, I want very much to kill them. Sometimes, I picture how I'd do it. Wouldn't you?
Why should we be sad that jocks are getting their comeuppance? Hoist by their own petard, even? No revenge is necessary, just let them hang by their own hook. Sweet justice for geeks! Who sees a problem with this? How EXACTLY is this a "step in the wrong direction" per the title of your post? Stupid people getting what they deserve!
Just ignore it. It's a national sport of liberals to invent the most odious strawmen and tell conservatives, "This is what you think!" Seriously, once you become aware of it, you start noticing it everywhere.
Are you AWARE of the low social status of welders? Beer-swilling, wife-beating racists, the lot of them. Have you ever been around welders? You have to realize the disdain that people who work with their hands are held in by intellectuals. It's no joke, and it's not without reason.
There is plenty of welfare and food stamps to go around. Why work a shit job when you can sit at home and make more money, especially when you have a dependent child and can get Section 8 housing? Why would anyone deprive her child like that?
People care about the product. If you're so far gone that you fetishize the packaging...well dude you're way out there. Honestly, I envy you and wish that I had more money than brains. Unfortunately, I'm on the short side of that ratio.