Fate, chance, karma, whatever you wanna call it -- when Miss Fortune spreads her legs for you, you're already in over your head. Believe me, I know.
Bunny LaFever looked like a dame with more curves and venom than Reggie Peeler's Land O' Snakes. But she wasn't a real dame. She was a she-devil. That golden bush of hers was nothing but a welcome mat to hell.
But now I'm getting way ahead of myself. Bunny had a way of doing that to jerks like me. She twisted us inside out and turned our heads around so we couldn't think straight anymore. So lemme begin at the beginning...
Carnies got a word for a crooked game operator like me. They call me "Flattie" cuz I'll flat-out rob you and make you like it.
My name's Randy Everhard and I've got a million ways to take your money. One of my personal favorites is the "hopper shot." It's tossing softballs into toilet seats, which you've seen on every midway in your life. I could gaff the joint to make it impossible to win.
But where's the fun in that? I work it so any chucklehead can win all night long. Cuz once I've hooked a live one into thinking he can take me for a ride, that's when I nail him with the "build-up." Caught up in the excitement of winning game after game, the rube's built up to play twenty games at two bucks a pop. And the only prize he's going home with is a teddy bear that cost me three shekels per, wholesale. You do the math, Einstein.
The problem with selling three-dollar plush for forty scoots is that the build-up only pays off if you've got a steady string of suckers. And that night was turning out to be a real larry. The Laff Riot carnival was a flattie's wet dream. The grab joints and flashy rides were a front for the real action: flat stories, alibi and percentage joints, crap tables, slot machines, fortune wheels.
The show was running wide open. Everybody crooked and every joint gaffed and nobody doing a damn thing to stop it. I figured the cops were greased slicker 'n Liberace's asshole. It should've been like shooting trout in a barrel. Too bad nobody was taking my bait. I was up shit creek without a paddle to piss on.
My first goddamn night with the show, and already I was itchy for a new angle.
I can't remember which one of them I saw first: the blonde come-on dressed like she had an exhibitionist streak a mile wide or the square in the coke bottle glasses who was eyeballing her like she was nothing but something to look at. Of course, that Coppertone beauty really was something to look at. She was turning heads and raising dicks all over the place. But I didn't like him getting his eyes all over this piece of 100 percent corn-fed cocktease.
She was stacked like a double-decker Ferris wheel with nipples that could cut glass. The red double-O's stenciled on her football jersey were stretched over humongous hooters. She looked like a shooting gallery, bursting at the seams. You couldn't miss those twin titty targets. I'm talking knockers so big you could still see them when she turned around. And believe you me, she was one woman who looked as good going as she did coming.
She wore a pair of daring Daisy Dukes that were so short and tight her crotch sucked them in. The denim over her ass was thread-bare, blown out like a retread. And if that wasn't enough, she was doing a number on a grape Popsicle to make your peter wish it was frozen on a stick. That girl was one carnival ride I wanted to jump on quick, and I didn't care how many tickets it cost.
In my racket, though, business comes before pleasure. And this looked like a golden opportunity to work the key scam. It's the oldest con in the carny book.
I jumped the counter and made my way over to the chump with the steamed-up glasses. I was like, "Hot enough for ya? And I ain't talking about the weather, fella." At first he didn't buy it when I told him I was the "manager" of this fine talent. He just stood there mopping his brow with a hanky.
"I don't fuck chickens and I don't shit feathers," I said, "and I wouldn't lie about a piece of ass like that, neither." I gave myself a hard-on feeding him the fast talk: screwing her would make a man think he died and gone to heaven, where the streets are paved with solid gold snatch.
"She's a sight for sore eyes, ain't she? And if you think I'm giving you lip, you oughta see her go to town on a dick. Life-transforming, friend. Life-transforming." I pulled out an old key I kept for just such an occasion. Dangling it before his bug eyes, I spieled how it was the key to her room at some motel outside of town. "I'm talking once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, pal. She's the reason hard-ons were made."
He swallowed it all -- hook, line and sinker.
Chuckling over what he was going to tell his wife when he came home minus his paycheck, I made my way over to the sultry sex kitten. She was throwing heat like a furnace. Melting chocolate bars at twenty paces. It was too hot to fuck, but next to her, that scorcher felt like a cool, seaside breeze.
"I just made you twenty bucks, and all you had to do was stand here looking gorgeous, Gorgeous." She didn't say anything, just looked me up and down and blinked those big baby blues. The sheen of sweat on her face glowed under the neon lights. She'd sucked all the flavor out of the end of the Popsicle, so the tip was white.
I fished out a crisp, new bill and passed it over. She let it rest in the palm of her hand as she stared at it, confused. She tried giving it back to me, but I stopped her. "See that guy over there?" I asked, stepping aside to give her a glimpse. "He just paid me a lot of money to sleep with you."
He what?" she goes, insulted. She threw down what was left of her Popsicle and took a step closer. Her eyes burned like a butane flame. Like most women, she looked better when she was steamed. But I didn't want her making a scene. She was liable to blow the act.
"Don't get yer panties in a bunch," I said, shutting her cakehole with my hand. I told her about the con and then nervously took my hand away. I was sure she was gonna blow up again. But she kept quiet. I told her we had to scram and didn't give her a chance to say no. I just put my arm around her waist and steered her toward the exit gates. I gave Pops a back-handed wave as we booked outta there double-time.
My dick is long and my cons are short. Cop and blow, that's my motto -- take the money and run. Otherwise things got a way of getting ugly.
Two minutes later, we were hauling ass down the highway in my supercharged Chevy Menace. It was an acid green two-door with cheetah seat covers, four on the floor and dual exhaust. Twin cams and 440 horses under the hood.
"Say," I said, "what's your name, anyway?"
I was hoping to get to know every inch of her better. She smelled like coconut oil. Her tanned skin gave off heat like asphalt that'd been baking in the sun all day.
"Bunny," she goes. "Bunny LaFever." She was a real piece, too. I couldn't wait to do all sorts of dirty things to her. "How much you take him for?" she asked. "Two-fifty." In actuality I scored three-fifty. But if there's one thing I know about women, it's never tell them exactly how much money you've got.
Back at my room at the God bless America Truckstop Motel, she showed me that that sweet and innocent show was just a put-on. I was glad, though. I prefer a girl with some experience under her belt.
Before I knew it, she was all over me like stink on shit. Purple from the Popsicle, her tongue sprung to the back of my throat and then snaked all over the inside of my mouth like she was mining the gold fillings out of my teeth. Despite all the tongue wrasslin,' her hands were nowhere near where I wanted them to be.
My dick had been so hard for so long I thought it would blast off like a rocket, but she kept her distance. The teasing was cute at first but enough was enough. I grabbed her hands and planted them on the tent pole in my pants.
She pulled away and took a few steps back.
"You trying to insult me? You think you can have this body for free?" Bunny squeezed her 'lopes together, serving them up for my hungry eyes: "These tits alone cost five bucks to look at."
I chuckled nervously. "C'mon," I go, "quit screwing around."
"I'm totally serious. Five bucks or I'm gone."
I started laughing for real, digging the little swindler. What else could I do but pay up? She had me right were she wanted me.
This was one of those times in a man's life when he knows his dick's doing the brainwork but he doesn't care. Whatever the dick wants, the dick gets. That right there's the whole story of my life.
I plucked a five-spot from my wallet and waved it like a flag of surrender. She just looked at it. "I don't want your money now," she goes. "Pay me later."
"Whatever you say." And I just eased back on the bed to enjoy the show.
She peeled off her T-shirt and out bounced those giant, all-natural juggs. She had razor sharp tan lines from the sling of a skimpy bikini top. You could tell from her nips that the air-conditioning was on full-blast.
Bunny danced around the room, wiggling and shaking everything her momma gave her. I looked her up and down until I could've guessed her weight. She had all the right parts in all the right places and then some.
She neared the bed and leaned over me to let those massive, all-American melons swing inches above my face. "Wanna taste them?" she goes. As if she had to ask.
I lifted my head to suck the tantalizing titties into my mouth, but she snatched them away.
"Five bucks," she goes.
"All right, five bucks."
"Five bucks each, big spender."
"You got it."
"Pay me later," she cooed, and moved closer to bury me beneath her treasure chest. "Mmm," she purred, "you suck real good."
"Damn straight," I mumbled. "You're getting my money's worth."
She only laughed as her fingers spider-walked down to my crotch and unzipped my fly. "You'd like a tit-fuck, wouldn't you?"
It wasn't a question. It was a statement of fact. Some girls are mind readers, but Bunny LaFever was the first dick reader I ever had the pleasure to meet.
"Twenty bucks," she barked.
I was like, "A bargain at twice the price. Pay you later?"
"That's right, bright boy."
We switched places on the bed so that she was on her back. I kicked off my shoes and pulled down my pants and underwear. This dick of mine's got its own zip code and time zone.
When she gripped the shaft, her fingers didn't reach all the way around. She was like, "Lucky for you I'm still in my size-is-everything phase."
"Me, too," I said, dropping to my knees to straddle her. My hard-on slipped between her cleavage like a hot dog in its steamed bun. She pressed them together to make the sandwich good and tight as I began my strokes.
I humped her hooters harder to push my dick closer to her succulent mouth. She stuck out her pink tongue and tickled the tip. Back and forth it fluttered over the head.
"There's a freebie," she giggled. "But I won't take one in the mouth for less than twenty."
"How much to swallow?"
She had to think that one over. "Thirty," she answered. "And that's only cuz I like you."
I dismounted and stood beside the bed. She sat on the edge of the mattress to let her mouth get better acquainted with my cock. Her tongue twirled over my shaft until it looked like a monument of polished marble.
She blew me good and slow, repeatedly bringing me to the edge of orgasm and then stopping until the urge melted away.
The build-up felt so good it hurt. I never begged anyone for anything before. But tortured by her talented tongue, I was actually begging for mercy.
After some more tongue lashing, she finally let me fill her mouth. She swallowed, too, and it felt like my whole body was sliding down with it.
Because all the good game developers are working their asses of at their jobs, making money! They don't give a rat's ass about your open-source fantasies!
And what is this ? Some sort of idiotic causation-free philosophy applied to a real life situation? Uh.. yeah the US has to EVENTUALLY loose it's superiority, yup, because uh "What goes up must come down".. or tell me please what your brilliant logic behind it is ?
All economists (even the warped, dogmatic ayn rand zealots) agree with the fact that economies go through boom and bust cycles. Yes, its inevitable. Yes, what goes up must come down. That is supported empirically (history) and theoretically (economics).
But there are causes, and considering that America gets further from capitalism every year, the correlation and obviousness of the cause could hardly be more apparent.
It sickens me that you attribute all the virtues of society to capitalism, when that's most definitely not the case. You never move beyond dogma-spouting; you just keep boasting that America has a strong economy (a temporary condition) and that other, more liberal countries are doing a little worse. Honestly, I don't think I've seen you write a single fact, ever.
Anyway, back to the point. Are you going to try and pretend that global corporations aren't exploiting impoverished third world countries? I'm not saying that corporations are inherently evil, or that we should slay CEOs. I'm just saying that they need to clean up their act a little. The incessant quest for more production and more profit has made the American people (both rich and poor) rather oblivious to our actions abroad. Get it in you.
Acceptance of the GPL is optional by end users. There is no requirement that someone you distribute GPL'd code to accepts the GPL.
Fine. So, as an end user, I can download Linux, fuck around with the source, only release the binary, and claim that I never accepted the GPL? If one isn't required to accept the GPL, then the license is legally impotent.
Or is there a distinction between end users and developers? Open-source seems to blur that distinction a little. If I distribute changes to GPL software on my home network, am I considered a developer? What if I give the changes to my co-workers?
well, I don't know if it'll be China, but its gotta be someone.
1. Potential for a MASSIVE consumer market. Imagine if every little chink became a consumer. I mean, what is that, a billion people? Of course this isn't necessarily for the exclusive benefit of china, but combined with (2) it is..
2. Government that distrusts foreigners and seeks to promote internal industry. This sounds a bit sophomoric, but the Chinese government has always been distrustful of foreigners. The Chinese hate the fact that their economy is dependent upon trade with the US, and would rather do everything domestically.
3. Sheer manpower. The new global economy is based on information, not resources. I mean, once the common chink learns how to program, that's a TON of competition for American programmers. I can't find the article right now, but the entire asian subcontinent is promoting IT education (mostly China and India, though)
4. Chinese people are poor and oppressed. They won't really give a fuck about they're human rights, and they probably won't fight for good wages. They're ripe for the exploiting by burgeoning Chinese corporations.
5. Chinese people work hard. They're good at math and shit. Americans don't work hard, and we still make the most amount of money. Incongruities like this historically balance themselves out.
Fuck, I'm too lazy to get articles. There are plenty..
As for why they're a threat to the US: Ever since Mao's time, Chinese-American relations have been shit. Taiwain is a touchy issue. So is communism; I mean, we're not exactly having a red scare, but capitalist-communist tension is always a tinderbox).
Civilians being killed by a bomb from a plane that misses its target and people flying planes into a pair of 110 story skyscrapers are not even REMOTELY equivocal.
Unfortunately, capitalist societies are INDEED chock-full with exploitaitive and abusive corporations, and, worst of all, rhetoric-spouting zealots who justify themselves not with correct philosophy but with the economic superiority of the nation they belong to. You probably think I'm a stupid liberal asshole, and you're probably going to stop reading here, press the reply button, and vomit up some more rhetoric to make yourself feel better (it certainly isn't convincing anyone around you). But before you issue yet another Ayn-Rand-knee-jerk-capitalist reaction, take a moment and try to figure out WHY you're angry. I'm not a psychotherapist, but I'd bet its because you've stumbled upon an unpleasant thought that you (and most other Americans) would rather ignore.
What is that thought? It's uneasiness for the future - I'm talking about the decline of America. I'm not saying that America is going to be transformed into a shithole overnight. I'm just saying that it is inevitable that America eventually lose its hegemony. And, judging by the state of world economics, it looks like China is going to be the country that displaces America - a country, that, by coincidence, is communist.
Many foolish capitalists will associate an American economic decline with the death or failure of capitalism, and many foolish liberals will see it as the triumph of communism/etc.
[hmm, fuck. I just lost interest in this post]
So what's the lesson in all this? Capitalism is a fine philosophical and political model, but its certainly not a guarantee of success (economic or otherwise). And just because people are more liberal than you want them to be doesn't mean that they are foolish or lazy.
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Exactly when did I tell you to look at anything? Time to get your ass pounded by violent rapists, NaveWeiss.
I never told you to look at it. I didn't even include a damn href. I just said it was there.
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Fate, chance, karma, whatever you wanna call it -- when Miss Fortune spreads her legs for you, you're already in over your head. Believe me, I know.
...
Bunny LaFever looked like a dame with more curves and venom than Reggie Peeler's Land O' Snakes. But she wasn't a real dame. She was a she-devil. That golden bush of hers was nothing but a welcome mat to hell.
But now I'm getting way ahead of myself. Bunny had a way of doing that to jerks like me. She twisted us inside out and turned our heads around so we couldn't think straight anymore. So lemme begin at the beginning
Carnies got a word for a crooked game operator like me. They call me "Flattie" cuz I'll flat-out rob you and make you like it.
My name's Randy Everhard and I've got a million ways to take your money. One of my personal favorites is the "hopper shot." It's tossing softballs into toilet seats, which you've seen on every midway in your life. I could gaff the joint to make it impossible to win.
But where's the fun in that? I work it so any chucklehead can win all night long. Cuz once I've hooked a live one into thinking he can take me for a ride, that's when I nail him with the "build-up." Caught up in the excitement of winning game after game, the rube's built up to play twenty games at two bucks a pop. And the only prize he's going home with is a teddy bear that cost me three shekels per, wholesale. You do the math, Einstein.
The problem with selling three-dollar plush for forty scoots is that the build-up only pays off if you've got a steady string of suckers. And that night was turning out to be a real larry. The Laff Riot carnival was a flattie's wet dream. The grab joints and flashy rides were a front for the real action: flat stories, alibi and percentage joints, crap tables, slot machines, fortune wheels.
The show was running wide open. Everybody crooked and every joint gaffed and nobody doing a damn thing to stop it. I figured the cops were greased slicker 'n Liberace's asshole. It should've been like shooting trout in a barrel. Too bad nobody was taking my bait. I was up shit creek without a paddle to piss on.
My first goddamn night with the show, and already I was itchy for a new angle.
I can't remember which one of them I saw first: the blonde come-on dressed like she had an exhibitionist streak a mile wide or the square in the coke bottle glasses who was eyeballing her like she was nothing but something to look at. Of course, that Coppertone beauty really was something to look at. She was turning heads and raising dicks all over the place. But I didn't like him getting his eyes all over this piece of 100 percent corn-fed cocktease.
She was stacked like a double-decker Ferris wheel with nipples that could cut glass. The red double-O's stenciled on her football jersey were stretched over humongous hooters. She looked like a shooting gallery, bursting at the seams. You couldn't miss those twin titty targets. I'm talking knockers so big you could still see them when she turned around. And believe you me, she was one woman who looked as good going as she did coming.
She wore a pair of daring Daisy Dukes that were so short and tight her crotch sucked them in. The denim over her ass was thread-bare, blown out like a retread. And if that wasn't enough, she was doing a number on a grape Popsicle to make your peter wish it was frozen on a stick. That girl was one carnival ride I wanted to jump on quick, and I didn't care how many tickets it cost.
In my racket, though, business comes before pleasure. And this looked like a golden opportunity to work the key scam. It's the oldest con in the carny book.
I jumped the counter and made my way over to the chump with the steamed-up glasses. I was like, "Hot enough for ya? And I ain't talking about the weather, fella." At first he didn't buy it when I told him I was the "manager" of this fine talent. He just stood there mopping his brow with a hanky.
"I don't fuck chickens and I don't shit feathers," I said, "and I wouldn't lie about a piece of ass like that, neither." I gave myself a hard-on feeding him the fast talk: screwing her would make a man think he died and gone to heaven, where the streets are paved with solid gold snatch.
"She's a sight for sore eyes, ain't she? And if you think I'm giving you lip, you oughta see her go to town on a dick. Life-transforming, friend. Life-transforming." I pulled out an old key I kept for just such an occasion. Dangling it before his bug eyes, I spieled how it was the key to her room at some motel outside of town. "I'm talking once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, pal. She's the reason hard-ons were made."
He swallowed it all -- hook, line and sinker.
Chuckling over what he was going to tell his wife when he came home minus his paycheck, I made my way over to the sultry sex kitten. She was throwing heat like a furnace. Melting chocolate bars at twenty paces. It was too hot to fuck, but next to her, that scorcher felt like a cool, seaside breeze.
"I just made you twenty bucks, and all you had to do was stand here looking gorgeous, Gorgeous." She didn't say anything, just looked me up and down and blinked those big baby blues. The sheen of sweat on her face glowed under the neon lights. She'd sucked all the flavor out of the end of the Popsicle, so the tip was white.
I fished out a crisp, new bill and passed it over. She let it rest in the palm of her hand as she stared at it, confused. She tried giving it back to me, but I stopped her. "See that guy over there?" I asked, stepping aside to give her a glimpse. "He just paid me a lot of money to sleep with you."
He what?" she goes, insulted. She threw down what was left of her Popsicle and took a step closer. Her eyes burned like a butane flame. Like most women, she looked better when she was steamed. But I didn't want her making a scene. She was liable to blow the act.
"Don't get yer panties in a bunch," I said, shutting her cakehole with my hand. I told her about the con and then nervously took my hand away. I was sure she was gonna blow up again. But she kept quiet. I told her we had to scram and didn't give her a chance to say no. I just put my arm around her waist and steered her toward the exit gates. I gave Pops a back-handed wave as we booked outta there double-time.
My dick is long and my cons are short. Cop and blow, that's my motto -- take the money and run. Otherwise things got a way of getting ugly.
Two minutes later, we were hauling ass down the highway in my supercharged Chevy Menace. It was an acid green two-door with cheetah seat covers, four on the floor and dual exhaust. Twin cams and 440 horses under the hood.
"Say," I said, "what's your name, anyway?"
I was hoping to get to know every inch of her better. She smelled like coconut oil. Her tanned skin gave off heat like asphalt that'd been baking in the sun all day.
"Bunny," she goes. "Bunny LaFever." She was a real piece, too. I couldn't wait to do all sorts of dirty things to her. "How much you take him for?" she asked. "Two-fifty." In actuality I scored three-fifty. But if there's one thing I know about women, it's never tell them exactly how much money you've got.
Back at my room at the God bless America Truckstop Motel, she showed me that that sweet and innocent show was just a put-on. I was glad, though. I prefer a girl with some experience under her belt.
Before I knew it, she was all over me like stink on shit. Purple from the Popsicle, her tongue sprung to the back of my throat and then snaked all over the inside of my mouth like she was mining the gold fillings out of my teeth. Despite all the tongue wrasslin,' her hands were nowhere near where I wanted them to be.
My dick had been so hard for so long I thought it would blast off like a rocket, but she kept her distance. The teasing was cute at first but enough was enough. I grabbed her hands and planted them on the tent pole in my pants.
She pulled away and took a few steps back.
"You trying to insult me? You think you can have this body for free?" Bunny squeezed her 'lopes together, serving them up for my hungry eyes: "These tits alone cost five bucks to look at."
I chuckled nervously. "C'mon," I go, "quit screwing around."
"I'm totally serious. Five bucks or I'm gone."
I started laughing for real, digging the little swindler. What else could I do but pay up? She had me right were she wanted me.
This was one of those times in a man's life when he knows his dick's doing the brainwork but he doesn't care. Whatever the dick wants, the dick gets. That right there's the whole story of my life.
I plucked a five-spot from my wallet and waved it like a flag of surrender. She just looked at it. "I don't want your money now," she goes. "Pay me later."
"Whatever you say." And I just eased back on the bed to enjoy the show.
She peeled off her T-shirt and out bounced those giant, all-natural juggs. She had razor sharp tan lines from the sling of a skimpy bikini top. You could tell from her nips that the air-conditioning was on full-blast.
Bunny danced around the room, wiggling and shaking everything her momma gave her. I looked her up and down until I could've guessed her weight. She had all the right parts in all the right places and then some.
She neared the bed and leaned over me to let those massive, all-American melons swing inches above my face. "Wanna taste them?" she goes. As if she had to ask.
I lifted my head to suck the tantalizing titties into my mouth, but she snatched them away.
"Five bucks," she goes.
"All right, five bucks."
"Five bucks each, big spender."
"You got it."
"Pay me later," she cooed, and moved closer to bury me beneath her treasure chest. "Mmm," she purred, "you suck real good."
"Damn straight," I mumbled. "You're getting my money's worth."
She only laughed as her fingers spider-walked down to my crotch and unzipped my fly. "You'd like a tit-fuck, wouldn't you?"
It wasn't a question. It was a statement of fact. Some girls are mind readers, but Bunny LaFever was the first dick reader I ever had the pleasure to meet.
"Twenty bucks," she barked.
I was like, "A bargain at twice the price. Pay you later?"
"That's right, bright boy."
We switched places on the bed so that she was on her back. I kicked off my shoes and pulled down my pants and underwear. This dick of mine's got its own zip code and time zone.
When she gripped the shaft, her fingers didn't reach all the way around. She was like, "Lucky for you I'm still in my size-is-everything phase."
"Me, too," I said, dropping to my knees to straddle her. My hard-on slipped between her cleavage like a hot dog in its steamed bun. She pressed them together to make the sandwich good and tight as I began my strokes.
I humped her hooters harder to push my dick closer to her succulent mouth. She stuck out her pink tongue and tickled the tip. Back and forth it fluttered over the head.
"There's a freebie," she giggled. "But I won't take one in the mouth for less than twenty."
"How much to swallow?"
She had to think that one over. "Thirty," she answered. "And that's only cuz I like you."
I dismounted and stood beside the bed. She sat on the edge of the mattress to let her mouth get better acquainted with my cock. Her tongue twirled over my shaft until it looked like a monument of polished marble.
She blew me good and slow, repeatedly bringing me to the edge of orgasm and then stopping until the urge melted away.
The build-up felt so good it hurt. I never begged anyone for anything before. But tortured by her talented tongue, I was actually begging for mercy.
After some more tongue lashing, she finally let me fill her mouth. She swallowed, too, and it felt like my whole body was sliding down with it.
Heisenberg pondering
Somebody comes up with an equation
Werner looks like fool.
The Downward Spiral
It's the funniest shit I've ever heard.
Because all the good game developers are working their asses of at their jobs, making money! They don't give a rat's ass about your open-source fantasies!
if (is_gov_program)
{
actual_cost = estimated_cost ^ 4;
casualties_due_to_mechanical_failure = 18;
}
/* also, citizens != population */
assemble more negro insults
And what is this ? Some sort of idiotic causation-free philosophy applied to a real life situation? Uh.. yeah the US has to EVENTUALLY loose it's superiority, yup, because uh "What goes up must come down".. or tell me please what your brilliant logic behind it is ?
All economists (even the warped, dogmatic ayn rand zealots) agree with the fact that economies go through boom and bust cycles. Yes, its inevitable. Yes, what goes up must come down. That is supported empirically (history) and theoretically (economics).
But there are causes, and considering that America gets further from capitalism every year, the correlation and obviousness of the cause could hardly be more apparent.
It sickens me that you attribute all the virtues of society to capitalism, when that's most definitely not the case. You never move beyond dogma-spouting; you just keep boasting that America has a strong economy (a temporary condition) and that other, more liberal countries are doing a little worse. Honestly, I don't think I've seen you write a single fact, ever.
Anyway, back to the point. Are you going to try and pretend that global corporations aren't exploiting impoverished third world countries? I'm not saying that corporations are inherently evil, or that we should slay CEOs. I'm just saying that they need to clean up their act a little. The incessant quest for more production and more profit has made the American people (both rich and poor) rather oblivious to our actions abroad. Get it in you.
they already did, dumb shit.
It's rather pointless to publish and copyleft a method of obfuscation, isn't it?
Excellent troll, sir. May I suggest a crouton?
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I come, Graymalkin!
Paddock calls
anon.
Acceptance of the GPL is optional by end users. There is no requirement that someone you distribute GPL'd code to accepts the GPL.
Fine. So, as an end user, I can download Linux, fuck around with the source, only release the binary, and claim that I never accepted the GPL? If one isn't required to accept the GPL, then the license is legally impotent.
Or is there a distinction between end users and developers? Open-source seems to blur that distinction a little. If I distribute changes to GPL software on my home network, am I considered a developer? What if I give the changes to my co-workers?
Things to do:
1. Hire violent men to fist parasite.
2. Burn objectivist agitprop.
AIDS....so LUXURIOUS....
fuck you and your rotten.com ass.
better a pedant than an imbecile.
well, I don't know if it'll be China, but its gotta be someone.
1. Potential for a MASSIVE consumer market. Imagine if every little chink became a consumer. I mean, what is that, a billion people? Of course this isn't necessarily for the exclusive benefit of china, but combined with (2) it is..
2. Government that distrusts foreigners and seeks to promote internal industry. This sounds a bit sophomoric, but the Chinese government has always been distrustful of foreigners. The Chinese hate the fact that their economy is dependent upon trade with the US, and would rather do everything domestically.
3. Sheer manpower. The new global economy is based on information, not resources. I mean, once the common chink learns how to program, that's a TON of competition for American programmers. I can't find the article right now, but the entire asian subcontinent is promoting IT education (mostly China and India, though)
4. Chinese people are poor and oppressed. They won't really give a fuck about they're human rights, and they probably won't fight for good wages. They're ripe for the exploiting by burgeoning Chinese corporations.
5. Chinese people work hard. They're good at math and shit. Americans don't work hard, and we still make the most amount of money. Incongruities like this historically balance themselves out.
6. Current events: Japanese are exporting industries to China, which is rapidly building its infrastructure.
Fuck, I'm too lazy to get articles. There are plenty..
As for why they're a threat to the US: Ever since Mao's time, Chinese-American relations have been shit. Taiwain is a touchy issue. So is communism; I mean, we're not exactly having a red scare, but capitalist-communist tension is always a tinderbox).
Civilians being killed by a bomb from a plane that misses its target and people flying planes into a pair of 110 story skyscrapers are not even REMOTELY equivocal.
Yeah, I'd say both are pretty direct actions.
Unfortunately, capitalist societies are INDEED chock-full with exploitaitive and abusive corporations, and, worst of all, rhetoric-spouting zealots who justify themselves not with correct philosophy but with the economic superiority of the nation they belong to. You probably think I'm a stupid liberal asshole, and you're probably going to stop reading here, press the reply button, and vomit up some more rhetoric to make yourself feel better (it certainly isn't convincing anyone around you). But before you issue yet another Ayn-Rand-knee-jerk-capitalist reaction, take a moment and try to figure out WHY you're angry. I'm not a psychotherapist, but I'd bet its because you've stumbled upon an unpleasant thought that you (and most other Americans) would rather ignore.
What is that thought? It's uneasiness for the future - I'm talking about the decline of America. I'm not saying that America is going to be transformed into a shithole overnight. I'm just saying that it is inevitable that America eventually lose its hegemony. And, judging by the state of world economics, it looks like China is going to be the country that displaces America - a country, that, by coincidence, is communist.
Many foolish capitalists will associate an American economic decline with the death or failure of capitalism, and many foolish liberals will see it as the triumph of communism/etc.
[hmm, fuck. I just lost interest in this post]
So what's the lesson in all this? Capitalism is a fine philosophical and political model, but its certainly not a guarantee of success (economic or otherwise). And just because people are more liberal than you want them to be doesn't mean that they are foolish or lazy.
you post WAY too fucking much.
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