Oh please. Do tell, where is "here" for you? What fantasyland?
"Lifeguards who can retire at 50 on 200k a year." Do tell. Pull the other one while you're at it.
Meanwhile, my grandmother worked for 40 years as a WI schoolteacher, her pension is not nearly so robust, and a good 20% of her fixed income goes to paying for her medical bills. She, a hard-working woman who gave years of her life to the education of children, is being demonized by shit-for-brains ignoramuses like yourself and corrupt stooges like Shithead Walker for "breaking the budget."
Oddly enough, the petitions in the three Democrats' cases turned out to be fraudulent - the Republicans sent in someone previously convicted of felony election fraud and had them passing around petitions claiming it was to recall a Republican state senator, to "support schools", "support Indians", or to "support Democrats", then appended the signatures to their "recall petition" to recall the Democrats instead.
Always nice to see the Greed Over People part doing what they do best: FRAUD.
Quite frankly I'm sickened that \. has started leaning so far to the left these days. People here used to understand the free market. They used to believe in competition. They used to believe in freedom.
Then the reality of what right-wingers like you actually meant by "free market", e.g. rape of the middle class for the profit of the robber barons, came to pass.
You know. The raiding of pension funds. The fucking-over of everyone's 401k and other retirement accounts, which were your "replacement" for pensions - a few assholes from Wall Street laughed their way to the bank while the grandparents of the nation got fucked in the ass, thanks the the Retardican Party.
The constant tax cuts to billionaire robber barons while constantly increasing government "fees" on everyday necessities like auto registration, to fuck the middle and lower class every step of the way.
Do I think "total socialism" is the way to go? Of course not. But the laissez-faire, "no regulation", "every man for himself" crap that you assholes push sure as fuck isn't the way to go either.
What in the fucking hell were they thinking when they put that puppet of the Koch brothers as governor?
Just like most Tea Tardier organizations, you presume too much. You ask what they were thinking, rather than asking if they have enough functioning brain cells to form a coherent thought.
Go further: there is ample evidence (100% of historical record) that a "totally free market", absent regulation, devolves into monopolist rape of the population.
You have to have regulation, or you can't have a competitive market (which is vastly different from a "free market"). Free Markets = Fuck the Consumers. Competitive Markets are what most "conservatives" think they get out of "eliminate regulation" cries... right until some asshole buys out their company and ships the factory to India, China, or somewhere similar.
Wisconsin built up a wonderful public infrastructure during the years the Democrats - and even to a lesser extent, moderate Republicans (we'll never see the likes of Tommy Thompson again sadly: the Tea Tardier fringe will make sure no sane moderate ever survives the primaries) - were running the state. Solid public utilities. Lots of PUBLIC infrastructure in the form of parks, public pools, public recreation tracks. Things that the ENTIRE public, rather than just an elite few, get to enjoy. The Milwaukee river and other river systems, troubled by decades of runoff from irresponsible asshole factories, actually were getting cleaned up.
What's been happening lately? The Republican Party's old "GOP" initials seem to stand for Greed Over People. "Tax cuts" and "tax incentives" that go to nobody but billionaire robber barons time and again. Dismantling the ability for unions to form, let alone maintain a balanced negotiating stance. They want to throw environmental regulations - you know, those things that go towards clean air, clean water, having your kids able to play in a local park that isn't a totally fucking contaminated waste dump - out the window.
The ridiculous notion spread around that people who are below, at, or barely above the poverty line should "pay their fair share" (what the fuck is "their fair share" anyways?) for things that go to the public good overall, like vaccinations. The constant push to "spread the pain" by converting public goods (like roads) into revenue streams that always, ALWAYS disproportionately affect the middle and lower class more than the higher, selling off public utilities into "private company" hands... and always, like we see with Shithead Walker in WI, coming back around as bribes and kickbacks to the involved politicians.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Meanwhile the argument from the "conservatives" or as we call them today "Tea Tardiers": why should employees be paid enough that they can get through each month covering the cost of transportation, groceries, rent, and be able to save a little towards the future? They should all be working slave wages in fenced compounds, forced to buy things back from the company store and never get out of debt like in the "good old days." Only the uber-rich should have anything nice, the rest should either work till they die or go to the debtor's prisons where they, along with all the n...err... "blacks" locked up for possession of tiny amounts of marijuana or cocaine (which were things the Founding Fathers used legally!), will be put into chain gangs till they work off their "debt to society." We just won't call it slavery.
And people wonder why I call them Tea Tardiers. When your political platform is "get that muzlim-sounding negger outta the whitey house", you have no leg to stand on.
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I thought we had a video of Weird Al either playing Pac-man, or doing a song about Pac-Man.
Simple reason. "They" are not the ones going crazy in the news cycle, nor are they the gatekeepers to the US government holding the populace hostage at the moment (witness the current "we'll shoot the nation in the head if we don't get our way" crap from right-wingers over the debt ceiling as the most recent example).
It's not "just political" - most of the supposed "crisis" incidents recently were deliberately engineered so that one political group or another could scream "OMG CRISIS" and get a group of sheeple following them unthinkingly.
Case in point: the US unemployment situation. Is it a coincidence that a bunch of right-wingers who are at the beck and call of the robber baron class "happen" to be screaming about the ruin that will come if we don't give their masters another set of tax breaks, while at the same time their robber baron masters took the last round of tax breaks and instead of creating jobs, just plain hoarded or wasted it? I doubt it.
Politically, the true answer usually lies in the middle, but we're stuck having to choose between laissez-faire, robber baron capitalism and near-total socialism instead of having the option of something sane. Sad, isn't it?
Also, your system has a respawn lag time of about 3 days. Not very efficient. Especially for someone who claims his boss/dad created an entire universe in less than a week.
Battery life depends on a lot of things. If it's trying to search for a wireless signal (and I've seen a couple models where you couldn't get the damn thing to stop), battery drain. If it's got a backlight, battery drain. The quicker a reader you are, the faster "e-ink" models drain.
Your battery life may not seem so happy a couple years down the road, either. Sure, it's "pretty good" right now. Remember all the early generation iPods and how fast their battery life went down from the initially-reviewed "plenty"? Same technology at work.
Like I said, for certain applications - archives of reference materials, notes, things like that where you need to have it all in one place and relatively portable - an e-reader makes a decent amount of sense. For leisure reading, it doesn't.
I just really like reading on a tablet though - so much better than having a real book.
Please, pray tell, what is "so much better" about it?
Every ebook screen I've seen, unless the book was specifically designed for it, either displays far less data per page (say, 1-2 paragraphs at most) or comes out fuzzy on the text. None of them can render illustrations worth a damn.
Battery life, from every one I've seen reviewed, is atrocious. So is page memory - I don't want to lose my place in a book just because I forgot to plug the stupid thing in to charge overnight or because I switched to a different book.
Though I don't wear glasses, we tried to give a Nook to my grandmother and she couldn't use it. She likes to read outside and has to put on her prescription sunglasses, and the Nook's "antiglare filter" means the screen is simply black when viewed through them.
For archiving things to a small space - say, carrying around your gaming book collection to a convention (old school RPGA player, I used to have to haul a ton of books with me; then I started just photocopying the one page with the content I needed on it and keeping it in the character sheaf because of airline restrictions on carry-ons and checked bags) - ebook readers and digital copy are wonderful. Your example of your notes is another great example of where something like that is actually useful.
For actual, enjoyable reading? I'd rather have a real book in my hand. It feels better.
For many books, I'm not going to read them more than once, so I'd much rather have the physical copy. I can give it to a friend when I'm done. I can loan it to someone. I can donate it to a library, or trade it in to a used book store. I can do NONE of those things with the current generation of ebooks.
I like to go camping. Good luck finding a charger for an ebook reader in the woods. Batteries for a flashlight, or a nicely bright campfire, and a real book please.
Well, "Republican" is less accurate than "corporatist", but given that Republicans are the party of tax cuts for billionaires and a fuck-the-poor, fuck-the-needy mentality, you are more or less correct anyways.
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You assume a lot in this day and age.
Oh please. Do tell, where is "here" for you? What fantasyland?
"Lifeguards who can retire at 50 on 200k a year." Do tell. Pull the other one while you're at it.
Meanwhile, my grandmother worked for 40 years as a WI schoolteacher, her pension is not nearly so robust, and a good 20% of her fixed income goes to paying for her medical bills. She, a hard-working woman who gave years of her life to the education of children, is being demonized by shit-for-brains ignoramuses like yourself and corrupt stooges like Shithead Walker for "breaking the budget."
Give me a fucking break.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you cro-magnon man... aka your average everyday Tea Tardier.
Uhm.. the Retardican plan is simpler than that.
1. Privatize everything
2. Take kickbacks from the Robber Barons you just sold everything to
3. PROFIT!
No question marks needed.
Oddly enough, the petitions in the three Democrats' cases turned out to be fraudulent - the Republicans sent in someone previously convicted of felony election fraud and had them passing around petitions claiming it was to recall a Republican state senator, to "support schools", "support Indians", or to "support Democrats", then appended the signatures to their "recall petition" to recall the Democrats instead.
Always nice to see the Greed Over People part doing what they do best: FRAUD.
Quite frankly I'm sickened that \. has started leaning so far to the left these days. People here used to understand the free market. They used to believe in competition. They used to believe in freedom.
Then the reality of what right-wingers like you actually meant by "free market", e.g. rape of the middle class for the profit of the robber barons, came to pass.
You know. The raiding of pension funds. The fucking-over of everyone's 401k and other retirement accounts, which were your "replacement" for pensions - a few assholes from Wall Street laughed their way to the bank while the grandparents of the nation got fucked in the ass, thanks the the Retardican Party.
The constant tax cuts to billionaire robber barons while constantly increasing government "fees" on everyday necessities like auto registration, to fuck the middle and lower class every step of the way.
Do I think "total socialism" is the way to go? Of course not. But the laissez-faire, "no regulation", "every man for himself" crap that you assholes push sure as fuck isn't the way to go either.
What in the fucking hell were they thinking when they put that puppet of the Koch brothers as governor?
Just like most Tea Tardier organizations, you presume too much. You ask what they were thinking, rather than asking if they have enough functioning brain cells to form a coherent thought.
Go further: there is ample evidence (100% of historical record) that a "totally free market", absent regulation, devolves into monopolist rape of the population.
You have to have regulation, or you can't have a competitive market (which is vastly different from a "free market"). Free Markets = Fuck the Consumers. Competitive Markets are what most "conservatives" think they get out of "eliminate regulation" cries... right until some asshole buys out their company and ships the factory to India, China, or somewhere similar.
There IS such a thing as right and wrong.
Wisconsin built up a wonderful public infrastructure during the years the Democrats - and even to a lesser extent, moderate Republicans (we'll never see the likes of Tommy Thompson again sadly: the Tea Tardier fringe will make sure no sane moderate ever survives the primaries) - were running the state. Solid public utilities. Lots of PUBLIC infrastructure in the form of parks, public pools, public recreation tracks. Things that the ENTIRE public, rather than just an elite few, get to enjoy. The Milwaukee river and other river systems, troubled by decades of runoff from irresponsible asshole factories, actually were getting cleaned up.
What's been happening lately? The Republican Party's old "GOP" initials seem to stand for Greed Over People. "Tax cuts" and "tax incentives" that go to nobody but billionaire robber barons time and again. Dismantling the ability for unions to form, let alone maintain a balanced negotiating stance. They want to throw environmental regulations - you know, those things that go towards clean air, clean water, having your kids able to play in a local park that isn't a totally fucking contaminated waste dump - out the window.
The ridiculous notion spread around that people who are below, at, or barely above the poverty line should "pay their fair share" (what the fuck is "their fair share" anyways?) for things that go to the public good overall, like vaccinations. The constant push to "spread the pain" by converting public goods (like roads) into revenue streams that always, ALWAYS disproportionately affect the middle and lower class more than the higher, selling off public utilities into "private company" hands... and always, like we see with Shithead Walker in WI, coming back around as bribes and kickbacks to the involved politicians.
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have yet to meet a Tea Tardier that functioned on the level of an adult. It starts around Sarah Palin and quickly goes downhill from there.
There's a reason even the "top 40" format radio stations don't play music newer than 10 years old any more :P
Think about it.
often referred to as "The Thinking Man's Drinking Band."
Nerds everywhere thank them for giving us intelligent music in a time when the soul of music has nearly vanished.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/tea-party-leader-melts-do_n_286933.html
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEQQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fpolitics%2F2011%2F02%2F09%2F143289%2Ftea-party-islamophobia%2F&rct=j&q=tea%20partiers%20obama%20muslim&ei=1hf2TaLBO6f00gGLpvzsDA&usg=AFQjCNHmffrP1DXzniaMkuqXqmLW6o2QdQ&cad=rja
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/odonnell-aide-obama-is-secret-muslim
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&sqi=2&ved=0CC8QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fspectrum%2F2010%2F08%2F20%2Fone-fifth-wrongly-think-obama-s-muslim.html&rct=j&q=conservative%20poll%20obama%20muslim&ei=Thj2TcbZKMLr0gGJjeGwAg&usg=AFQjCNEvsTsTQELKHv91pHTgfjEKret-Mg&cad=rja
http://mediamatters.org/research/201008190061
Now go fuck yourself.
Meanwhile the argument from the "conservatives" or as we call them today "Tea Tardiers": why should employees be paid enough that they can get through each month covering the cost of transportation, groceries, rent, and be able to save a little towards the future? They should all be working slave wages in fenced compounds, forced to buy things back from the company store and never get out of debt like in the "good old days." Only the uber-rich should have anything nice, the rest should either work till they die or go to the debtor's prisons where they, along with all the n...err... "blacks" locked up for possession of tiny amounts of marijuana or cocaine (which were things the Founding Fathers used legally!), will be put into chain gangs till they work off their "debt to society." We just won't call it slavery.
And people wonder why I call them Tea Tardiers. When your political platform is "get that muzlim-sounding negger outta the whitey house", you have no leg to stand on.
I thought we had a video of Weird Al either playing Pac-man, or doing a song about Pac-Man.
Damnit Slashdot. You got my hopes up.
I could have taken you seriously, but then you mentioned the racist, genocidal murderer-types at Al-Jizzbags
Simple reason. "They" are not the ones going crazy in the news cycle, nor are they the gatekeepers to the US government holding the populace hostage at the moment (witness the current "we'll shoot the nation in the head if we don't get our way" crap from right-wingers over the debt ceiling as the most recent example).
It's not "just political" - most of the supposed "crisis" incidents recently were deliberately engineered so that one political group or another could scream "OMG CRISIS" and get a group of sheeple following them unthinkingly.
Case in point: the US unemployment situation. Is it a coincidence that a bunch of right-wingers who are at the beck and call of the robber baron class "happen" to be screaming about the ruin that will come if we don't give their masters another set of tax breaks, while at the same time their robber baron masters took the last round of tax breaks and instead of creating jobs, just plain hoarded or wasted it? I doubt it.
Politically, the true answer usually lies in the middle, but we're stuck having to choose between laissez-faire, robber baron capitalism and near-total socialism instead of having the option of something sane. Sad, isn't it?
Yeah. Packet loss is a bitch huh?
Sorry, but we have prior art. See also Respawn.
Also, your system has a respawn lag time of about 3 days. Not very efficient. Especially for someone who claims his boss/dad created an entire universe in less than a week.
Battery life depends on a lot of things. If it's trying to search for a wireless signal (and I've seen a couple models where you couldn't get the damn thing to stop), battery drain. If it's got a backlight, battery drain. The quicker a reader you are, the faster "e-ink" models drain.
Your battery life may not seem so happy a couple years down the road, either. Sure, it's "pretty good" right now. Remember all the early generation iPods and how fast their battery life went down from the initially-reviewed "plenty"? Same technology at work.
Like I said, for certain applications - archives of reference materials, notes, things like that where you need to have it all in one place and relatively portable - an e-reader makes a decent amount of sense. For leisure reading, it doesn't.
Right to Read
This is highly relevant to your proposed system, yes?
I just really like reading on a tablet though - so much better than having a real book.
Please, pray tell, what is "so much better" about it?
Every ebook screen I've seen, unless the book was specifically designed for it, either displays far less data per page (say, 1-2 paragraphs at most) or comes out fuzzy on the text. None of them can render illustrations worth a damn.
Battery life, from every one I've seen reviewed, is atrocious. So is page memory - I don't want to lose my place in a book just because I forgot to plug the stupid thing in to charge overnight or because I switched to a different book.
Though I don't wear glasses, we tried to give a Nook to my grandmother and she couldn't use it. She likes to read outside and has to put on her prescription sunglasses, and the Nook's "antiglare filter" means the screen is simply black when viewed through them.
So what do you find "better" about a tablet?
For archiving things to a small space - say, carrying around your gaming book collection to a convention (old school RPGA player, I used to have to haul a ton of books with me; then I started just photocopying the one page with the content I needed on it and keeping it in the character sheaf because of airline restrictions on carry-ons and checked bags) - ebook readers and digital copy are wonderful. Your example of your notes is another great example of where something like that is actually useful.
For actual, enjoyable reading? I'd rather have a real book in my hand. It feels better.
For many books, I'm not going to read them more than once, so I'd much rather have the physical copy. I can give it to a friend when I'm done. I can loan it to someone. I can donate it to a library, or trade it in to a used book store. I can do NONE of those things with the current generation of ebooks.
I like to go camping. Good luck finding a charger for an ebook reader in the woods. Batteries for a flashlight, or a nicely bright campfire, and a real book please.
Well, "Republican" is less accurate than "corporatist", but given that Republicans are the party of tax cuts for billionaires and a fuck-the-poor, fuck-the-needy mentality, you are more or less correct anyways.